skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can get a work visa (similar to US green card) if you can find a job that pays more then 46000 Euro/Year. That is the typical IT starting salary for companies like SAP or Microsoft Germany - if you are good ;)
"But meetings now are only 50 minutes long, because Page decreed that there must be time for bathroom breaks between them."

Kudos to Larry.

Why is this not best practice everywhere? I've had to pad my schedule in some organizations to prevent back-to-back meetings because the campus spanned several buildings and transit time itself between meetings added 5-10min, leave alone bathroom breaks or even updating documentation/deliverables.
I admire the absolute hell out of Valve and have for a long time. Gabe Newell is, for my money, the biggest mensch in tech. Let's take a moment and look at how this was handled:

The message communicates exactly what happened in clear terms that don't try to cover anyone's ass. They explain which data was compromised and the potential implications. No double-talk. This could be an email you got from a friend or colleague.

The message conveys Valve's hope that the credit cards are secure but makes clear that users should be nonetheless vigilant about watching for suspicious activity. Just in case.

The message is signed by the head honcho of the company. Not some communications or PR weasel. It's in your inbox, not on some obscure blog.

Finally, it closes with:

"I am truly sorry this happened, and I apologize for the inconvenience."

Accepting responsibility, acknowledging that it's a fuckup, and showing some empathy for the fact that this completely sucks for their customers.

Sony, Adobe and their ilk could learn a lot from this company.
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For the last 7 years or so of making payments online I've had an iron clad rule which I have yet to break: only use one time credit card numbers with a low spending limit which are provided on demand by my bank. It's a service tailored specifically for working around the problem of having your CC details stored indefinitely on poorly secured databases of every two-bit company out there.

And with each major (and minor) data breach I'm more happy I use it.
Here's the thing though, these are people who are engaged in a publicly regulated service. All the data about the legal actions are filed in public courts. States individually maintain their own databases of this information.

The only thing the federal government is doing is aggregating the data into a single source.

Every single step involved here is public, but for whatever reason the federal government is trying to claim that this data isn't to be used for public purposes. What right do doctors in these instances have to privacy in their public practice?
I've seen a handful of companies with employees who couldn't get the idea that practices that are appropriate for Microsoft aren't appropriate for small startups.

That said, I would take an ex-Microsoft over ex-Boeing or ex-Washington Mutual anyday.
Well, don't you sound bitter and boring.
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I could be missing something obvious here, but bcrypt, although mentioning the word "crypt" and using cryptography, is only a hashing algorithm. [1]

I believe the point of storing CC data would be to retrieve it (impossible, typically, by the nature of hashing) to enable the user to purchase goods using this information stored without having to fetch their CC details.

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bcrypt

Edit: Ah. I seem to have correlated your note with the latter part of your sentence.
IANAL but I'd be thinking breach of contract regarding the stock compensation would be the cause, not the termination. With luck you could be free of that corporation and still keep unvested stock :-D
Agreed. Assumed this was going to be a story of data loss, and how they have good backups and managed to restore with no problems. This is unfortunately much graver.
Will check it out for sure. Your MVC framework rocks!
Encrypt everything. Not much money required.
Facebook had great engagement early on because all the early users were in the same social circles. Wouldn't surprise me at all that 1000 users at the same college as me would result in more usage as opposed to 40 million users scattered across the world.
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Wow, talk about history illiteracy. The EU was founded 1958. The Schengen Agreement is one of the CORE achievements of it (as is the Euro).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_European_Union
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Feedback I didn't find in the comments: when you blur the field without actually picking something from the list, it resets even if there is only one option. Examples:

Type: united states

Leave the field, it works

Type: united states of america

Leave the field, it resets
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I would add that "cheap" usually extends to some parts of the former West, namely Kreuzberg (quite a few startup/tech meetups there), Neukölln, and Wedding (not my personal favourite but definitely cheap), all of those used to be "in the shadow of the wall".

When we had a larger apartment and were trying to find people to rent one of the rooms for a few months, wg-gesucht.de was very useful, though that was a few years ago.
I think it was meant sarcastically.
So far we are looking at

14% can sell data

66% do not sell data

20% sell only when they go bankrupt or get acquired

We view people trying to beat the system as a way to improve it.
Which peaceful protest are you referring to?

Tiananmen square protests (what the "Tanks" were implying) were not peaceful. They started that way, but they were not that way, when the military stepped in. There have been numerous reports that the 'trigger' moment, was a group of soldiers being isolated and threatened or attacked.

I love you are saying The US is a very free country in response to the L.A riots... the irony is not missed :D
I am unfamiliar with the verb "to bome".
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The point is, it's not about the firing.

It's about an employment contract which involved compensation while an employee was working, where the employer backed out of that later and terminated the employee to keep from paying what are effectively back wages.

I am against suing to get one's job back, esp. here. However, suing to keep the unvested stock they took when dismissing you is a bigger deal.

Here's the thing:

1) Employee is promised stock for efforts

2) Company doesn't want to pay as promised

3) Employee is fired

4) Stock not paid as promised.

I don't think the fact that this occurs in an at will state has any major impact on the analysis.
Previous discussions:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2703377

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1369195
Amen. As a former elected official, few things in government would scare me more than direct democracy subject to the whim of media campaigns and sound bytes. In my best Tommy Lee Jones voice: "A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky dangerous animals and you know it." Or maybe the line attributed to Winston Churchill: "The best argument against democracy is a 10-minute conversation with the average voter."
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Link is dead. Is this legit?
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I discovered this when I was teaching myself the Android SDK at the beginning of the year. Good show, Google.
was auto grouping based on your friends information ever really that hard. You look at your friends info.. i see they have set location as "cityxyz" put them in list "cityxyz". These friends have employer "wxy" create list "wxy" and place people in this list. I mean with the amount of structured data that people provided on Facebook.. didn't seem like it was that complicated to me.
http://rfc.zeromq.org/spec:15 documents the protocol ZeroMQ uses. The previous version of the protocol (used by 2.1.x) can be found here: http://rfc.zeromq.org/spec:13
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I agree that rents are high compared to the average earning, but different places have different costs. For instance I live near Catania (it is not really Catania but very close, where half of the people that work in Catania live, in the little towns in the Etna side), and I pay 450 euros per month for an 80 square meters house (not very big but mid-size for here), with even furnitures and so forth.

Catania is not Milano and here we are in Sicily, but on the other side this is among the most costly places in Sicily, and at 10 Km from where I live there are tens of gyms, 1 Apple Store, a few very big cinemas and plenty of commercial centers and so forth.

Btw here there are a great number of programers, surely not less programmers than in the rest of Italy in average.

So the question could be, what is blocking the south where costs are much more reasonable from entering the startups business? I guess that cultural factors have the most weight...
We build http://obaz.com with it. It makes patterns for buttons and pop-overs just dead-simple and easily customizable. Not to mention, Rails integration with http://github.com/anjlab/bootstrap-rails
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I am a Steam user, I did not receive an email.

If you are a Steam user I would recommend using the two-step verification process they have. It uses a password sent to your email to verify you when logging in using a new computer. Hopefully you're Steam and associated email passwords are not the same.

This is, of course, no replacement to changing your password - you should definitely do that - but allows us to relax a bit in case something similar happens again.
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Thanks for the feedback--I only search on property names (not descriptions or possible values), so that's why gradient doesn't work. It's a two-line change to add matching on values and descriptions, so I'll put it on the todo list of "advanced" search options.
I'd be interested to hear your success with teachers directly. My wife's a high school teacher, so I know that teachers pay out of pocket for almost everything.

Depends on how passionate the teacher is often.
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Thanks for the clarification. No offense taken. I hadn't heard that term before.
This took me a while to figure out. You have to open the Steam client, go to Settings (in Windows) or Preferences (in Mac OS X) and click the change password button in there under the Account tab.
It'd be interesting to have a browser extension based on this popping up a warning on websites with a suspicious privacy policy.
If you're having a loud fight in public that's disturbing other people, I have no sympathy for you whatsoever. This is as bad if not worse than parents that won't take their screaming kid outside. These two idiots at least could have prevented themselves from screaming in the first place, but chose not to.

They have no expectation of privacy. They should have an expectation of global shaming, it's all they deserve.
I chalk that up as a deadly blunder on Google's part.

No one forced google to just open up G+ to the entire world. I feel they botched the launch of G+ by allowing scattered masses to join instead of totally nailing smaller groups like how Facebook did.
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Browser plugin was our initial plan, but wanted to get something out there for folks to test and give feedback on without having to install something.
Or...

- Unlock phone
- Code reader app shortcut is on home screen, one tap to activate
- App (Barcode Scanner/ZXing) goes directly to camera view
- Wait about a second for camera to activate (Nexus One, $200 used off-contract)
- Hold the camera still over the code and carry on with your detailed schedule

Sorry to hear iOS code readers require two taps just to get to the camera. Sounds like bad UX.
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We're a team of scientists from INRIA working on automatic community detection and we launched this experiment at the beginning of the year, already seeing great results.
Is there a Mac equivalent?
"What a terrible failure"; fascinating bit of backronyming there.
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The only problem with Condorcet methods is that people aren't used to them. Get people using them for book clubs, school boards, etc first. Only when they're comfortable with it and trust that it can provide fair results will they consider it.

To that end, I built https://modernballots.com. It's difficult to get mindshare when it comes to these kinds of things though. Electoral reform activists are fractured between their own preferred methods. Kinda keeps things from going anywhere.
Yeah. If you can speed up the MozDev reference, you've got something.

Also, needs an index for those times when I can't remember what I'm looking for.
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I haven't gotten the email either, but if the user database, including your email address and personal information has been stolen I would be _highly_ suspicious of any email I receive from Steam
Of course, the real study is not encompassed by this question. The real study checked if the answer given was different if the prior proportion of lawyers was 30% with 70% engineers or 70% lawyers and 30% engineers. The estimates people gave did not vary based on prior probability.

Now that I think about this one, I think maybe the probability really is 30%. They don't say how they selected the lawyers and engineers. Maybe they selected patent lawyers (required to have engineering degrees) and all 70 members of the Society of Women Locomotive Engineers. Maybe they selected people at random. We don't know. Since we don't know the priors, we can't apply any reasoning about any characteristics of Jack.

In fact, they didn't say how they selected Jack either. Maybe they picked him out just to humiliate quiz takers who don't know the PI is a sadist.

This is a classic case of abusing the student by proving trick questions without essential information.
How do you do that?

EDIT: Found it! https://accounts.google.com/b/0/SmsAuthConfig
I'd guess you're one of the 20somethings he's talking about, right?

As someone who lives in Berlin for more than 4 years, involved in IT, I can definitely says he is 100% right. I would say Munich is the place to if you want do to something in this industry.
One technique is to store another string (a pepper) outside of the database (assuming the salt is stored with the records) which is used along with the salt to encrypt each password. This way, if only the database is compromised, and not the config file or env variable holding the pepper you're in better shape.
I absolutely agree. I would rather be told the bad news with all the facts than a sugar-coated "oh-we-were-hacked-but-its-not-our-fault-and-you-customers-are-screwed" response.
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It would be misleading to gloss over IRV's significant failings if we're talking about criteria failure.

* 8 people vote: A, C, B
* 5 people vote: B, C, A
* 4 people vote: C, B, A

IRV eliminates C, despite the majority of voters preferring C over B (12 to 5). The order of elimination means that significant secondary preferences are often ignored.
Wow, talking about missing the boat on something so simple.
KeePassX works on OSX. https://www.keepassx.org/downloads

There's also others like 1Password that are popular on OSX.
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Without a big government, big companies in general would have (or hire) their own sticks.
"All I care about is engagement"

I am not following. So if a site has 10 or 1000 users who are all engaged (maybe a community soccer forum or something), it's a success, but if it has 40M+ with an engagement that is unknown, it's dead? I am not convinced.

IMO, you can't simply disregard user-base and growth speed. Those numbers matter.
I suspect we will come to a standstill here, we're reaching a pretty fundamental difference in opinion.

IMO what you're suggesting is a complete overreaching of privacy rights, and would make this society even more litigious and difficult to navigate than it is already.

For example, if you were any of the individuals in the background here:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/fangfangzhang/3844004957/

under your system, you're allowed to ask me to take down my vacation photos. Because you happened to be in them. Worse, if you want the law to reach far enough to ban what Mr. Boyle has done, you'd be able to sue me for taking a vacation photo and daring to post it for people to see.

And forget creating memories of events:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/david_cioni/2899941922/

This would be wildly illegal also! Not only do we have strangers identifiably in our pictures, but they are the main subject to boot! The shock! The dismay!

How many people's rights to privacy were violated by this heinous example of blatant disregard for people's rights?!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/away_we_go/5925301750/

I could go on and be even more hyperbolic - but what you're suggesting is that any use of anybody's likeness be banned by default, and edge cases for "legitimate" use be created to skirt around the fact that this would, well, cripple just about any sense of fair use we already have. Of course, "legitimacy" would be incredibly narrowly defined. So we're going to ban all use of people's likenesses... unless it's by tourists. Or journalists. Or for the protection of private property (e.g., CCTV), or...?

IMO this would simply result in a net loss of freedom for everyone involved. To main some semblance of normality, we'd force people working in tourist-heavy areas to sign over blanket photographic rights so the tourists can continue taking snapshots without fear of legal repercussion. As opposed to right now where people still hang onto their own inalienable rights. This would probably become de rigeur for anyone with any significant facing to the public - aid workers, people marching in a parade, etc etc. So in the end instead of simply having rights, we by default just sign everything away in a tome of a contract that's hardly comprehensible to anyone so that life can, well, continue.

It's hard to imagine a worse case of regulatory over-reach.
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"...it won't be over anything related to use of likeness."

I'd I agree with you there: it's not the likeness that's the problem. It's the wide dissemination of embarrassing private information without any apparent legitimate informative purpose. Like an upskirt photo, the fact that many people in the restaurant might have the same view doesn't mean it's OK to tweet the image to the world at large.
Have you ever investigated in depth how much security one-time credit card numbers give you? I ask because my Paypal account was compromised last month. I cancelled my credit card, but Paypal was still able to refund money to my card even though the number was no longer valid. Also, I had pre-ordered but not paid for an iPod touch. When the touch shipped, my credit card was billed even though the old number had been cancelled, and the new one had not been activated yet.
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What's the license for your code? You should put one in before you accept patches. ;-)

And the UI is totally awesome.
What about inconsistent privacy policies?

For example, http://www.privacyparrot.com/privacy states that they never "share any information about you" but then has an offhand mention about the site using Google Analytics.
Simple: because everybody already has a good job. Golden handcuffs...

I used to live in Munich and now I live in Berlin. I still miss Munich. But it is easier to find people trying something new in Berlin.
Am I the only one who thinks that "Steam loses user database" isn't quite the same as "Steam database of salted data compromised"?

For a moment there I thought all my Steam purchases were, you know, lost.
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You are absolutely right, and I really appreciate this from Valve. There is only one thing that would have made it better: even more info. He says passwords were "hashed and salted." This could be anything from the naïve MD5(pass+salt) to the more secure bcrypt or PBKDF2. Now, I have every reason to believe that Valve is smart enough to not use methods like the first, but information is always welcome in a scenario like this. There should be no reason to hide your cryptography method provided that it is secure.

> Sony, Adobe and their ilk could learn a lot from this company.

And unfortunately they won’t listen…
hey zach! as a local GTUG organizer, I'm really excited by the idea of running 'Google Bootcamps' to give developers (and entrepreneurs, designers, marketers for that matter!) insight and education into Google's vast platforms and tools.. tied into this wonderful development to inspire and build amazing ideas into startups that change the world. can't wait to start! ;)
Has the site been secured yet? Would it be wise to change your password before there is confirmation that steam's site is safe? Instead I would change the password on any other accounts that use the same password as your steam account.
I am just learning some of these machine learning tools and am rapt, so forgive me for asking, but would you be able to explain a little about what you are doing?

How are you generating features? Stanford parser? Are you using logistic regression or something more advanced?

I love the idea. I am interested in applying some of these concepts myself. Do you have any ideas that you are not able to pursue yourself, that I might take a crack at?
I use splashid. Not free but it works and they have an iPhone version. I also believe an older version of keepass was ported to Mac with the name KeePassX.

Edit: typo
I totally get that people are into that, but I really don't see them very happy

Look, I know a lot of people who are not into that and have super caring relationships and as a result are unhappy. Happiness is such a tricky thing: if you really care about someone and yet a specific part of them displeases you, well, you're unhappy. This doesn't mean you shouldn't care about someone; it does mean that your arguing that caring equals happiness is still gross oversimplification.

But to be perfectly honest, I'm not sure why they bother.

You're just looking at the empty half of the glass. If I were to do the same, I would look at the constant bickering of my neighbors in their 70s and the seeming unhappiness and wonder why anyone ever bothers getting married and remaining married.
I think I would say that experiencing that sort of bar culture is part of growing up, as is rejecting it. It's like telling kids to have fun at college--but not too much fun.
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