skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If the bank sees you carrying in a body to put in the vault, I would expect them to call the authorities. However, if the bank guarantees privacy of what they store in the bank, I don't expect them to be looking inside anybody's safe deposit box to see what is inside. It doesn't matter if it is money, personal documents, blackmail material, jewelry (stolen or purchased) or even body parts.

Investigating the contents of each safety deposit box, or even having the ability to do so is outside the scope of what a bank vault services are sold to do.

A bank vault, like encryption, sells protection. It is for all intents and purposes neutral. It can be used for good and can be used for bad. 95% of the time a bank vault or encryption is either being used for an ethically neutral or at worst ethically ambiguous use.

When any technology or product is used for bad it is a social failure. Crime will always exist. The quantity of crime committed can be mitigated by sound long-term policies that treat those causes that are statistically most likely to contribute to crime occurring in the first place.
Wait, what? Pay Cloudflare $20 a month to avoid a $100/year SSL certificate?
X-org -version on Kubuntu 11.10 says 1.10.4 and the bug seems to have been introduced in 1.11

So yet to get the killer feature.
God is just.

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I saw a crazy story on Everest bodies. Lots of operating system projects abandoned. Most people don't survive being crazy with God and stuff.

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I'm not an investor, but I've had a parallel experience having been involved with roughly 150 tech contracts in my career.

A strong predictor for mediocrity is when communication is troubled. If we're unable to have two-way conversations with all project stakeholders, it's almost a guarantee that we'll end up delivering something that has less value than it could, at a higher cost than was possible, and that nobody is thrilled with.
Thanks for the information.
1. I have only seen part 1. I am going to watch the 2nd part soon.
2. I am afraid to watch too many tutorials at a time. It will be hard for me to assimilate all. But I will keep it in my inventory and watch it.

Yes, I have read PG's article about Schlep business and it is a really eye opener for me.

Regarding Bootcamp-
I am waiting to see those bootcamper's feedback regarding the bootcamp.If it is highly successful then it is worth every penny and your time. Is not it?

Hackthons- I have no ideas about Hackathons in bay areas. But I will look for it and start attending it.

Yes I have few product ideas for biotech and pharma industry but I do not have enough cash to hire a good programmer. And also I have no clues where and how to find a good programmer.
I cound not find your email on your profile. Please shoot me an email. Would like to talk to you more.
Honestly I think this same observation is true of engineers (good ones you can give them the direction and they'll go work out how to solve whatever problem they're having, the bad ones will look at you blankly and you end up doing the work yourself).

And then, as someone who has been a founder, an engineer and a corporate worker in enterprise during my career to date, I realized that this is also true of people in big companies.

I guess in startup world the stakes are greater (your company will fail vs you won't get promoted or make bonus) but this is no different to middle managers who reach a glass ceiling.

The bottom line is this: if you identify with the negative character trait PG identifies, you need to snap out of it anyway regardless of whether you're being bold and doing a startup or whether you want to play it safe and take a corporate job.
An intellectual argument about morals requires a basis upon which to argue.

There are psychology researchers doing work in this area: http://www.yourmorals.org/aboutus.php

Is it moral to wear shoes into a Indian temple? How do you argue that without going circular?
It bothers me to hear this, because I know that I tend to fall on the "hard to talk to" side. I used to be really bad at this kind of resourcefulness, and I would have a hard time "chasing down" those various implications. I like to think that I'm better now.

I think that, as with many areas, deliberate practice has helped.
You need your own lawyer.

Best advice, from bhousel.

Gather up everything and anything that relates to the project. E-mail, text messages, project files. Take it to a lawyer.

FWIW (plus IANAL, etc.) people who make repeated threats tend not to act on those threats; they're bullies. That doesn't mean you shouldn't get a lawyer, but I think of you show that you are willing to fight fire with fire (e.g. show that you have legal representation) your so-called friend might STFU.

While you're at it, see if there's a case to sue your friend for more money.
I don't remember catholic church standing loudly against Mussolini or Hitler, neither russian orthodox church standing against Stalin. They were too busy fearing for their lives.
Keep in mind that you have to pay $20 / month to get host name SSL on Heroku even with your own cert, so from that standpoint this is a "good deal". However, one problem I've noticed with this approach is that in the cert Cloudflare uses you can see the 10 or do other domains that share the cert. I'm sure the average customer won't check, but having my cert also be valid for "cheaptoys.com" just felt wrong. Also, doesn't this mean the data is being unencrypted by CF then rencrypted and sent to Heroku? So CF can potentially see the contents of the transmission?
Organizations can be complicated things, so I'm guessing there is some history behind the wall. I think the first step is thinking about (and hopefully understanding) why the gap is there. What do you think the reasons for the wall are?
If you are interested, check out the comparision of Inkling Textbook vs. Apple Textbook http://youtubedoubler.com/?video1=http://www.youtube.com/wat...
Base64-encoded images can't be cached, either.
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> There is no such a thing as killing a person if he/she disgraced Islam.

https://www.google.com/#q=prophet%20ordered%20killing%20for%...
How To Be a Better Activist
I was inquiring more about the backend js use in node and mongo.

You might, for instance, find that simply sanitizing user input isn't enough when you're using the same interpreted language at multiple stages. If an attacker could cause the right front end code to be executed on the app server, or backend code to be executed in the database you could potentially compromise a lot.
Said video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCkI5I8vsBg
I think that's a really interesting point and, to some extent, it's an argument that extends back to the idea of representation in a republic in general. You can either think of your representative as functioning as your agent in all matters--that is, someone to parrot your views on everything and, inasmuch as your representative votes differently than you do, that is bad; or you can think your representative as your trustee--that is, someone who you empower with the ability to make decisions on your behalf, but you may not care about, or be aware of, many issues that the representative makes decisions on. If you favor the agentic model, you probably care more about your individual desires and goals being met, whereas in the trustee model, you probably care more about the "greater good" or "national interest" and so on being met, and so care less if your individual preferences are supplanted for the greater good.

If you adopt a trusteeship model, you would argue that your elected representative can (and actually, should) make decisions based on what he or she thinks is best for the world/community as a whole, including decisions about the internet. That person would not be beholden to any "special interests" (as in, whatever people in the constituency might care about like roads or etc.) but would be beholden to whatever he or she thought most important--so, presuming you elected someone with whom you agreed generally, and who implicitly adopted this way of thinking about their role in government, you would probably be "fairly" represented. If you adopt an agentic model, then likely the interests that are most important to the majority of people who elected that official will get priority. Since you may have nothing in common with those people except that you live in the same area, you would probably argue that you’re not being fairly represented, since those people likely do not represent your views.
Introducing the Incline of Death: Why Users Don't Adopt Your Product
failures of large banks can be most devastating in small communities where all other banks have been subsumed

Citation needed. Isn't the FDIC's insurance enough to cover most of these people? The risk is not in the bank failing; it's in the bank succeeding. If a bank is the only bank in the market, customers have no recourse when the bank lowers their interest rates on savings accounts or adds random $5 debit card use fees. That's the risk in one bank becoming too big.
At high school they finally found the money to replace the history textbooks once the books were the same age as the students studying them (the actual physical textbooks were at least 8 years old when I was a freshmen in HS).
Biotech and Pharma market is with log of $$$. But there are too many regulations and it takes lot of time and resources to develop a product that a cucstomer can use. You just can nt develop a drug,diagnostic or an instrument and then ship it to market without IP, product validation and Govt approval. However there are small niche product that someone can develop and test it on market.
Thanks Chrise for the input
Correct. Also it is interesting how I get downvoted for stating a fact.
This effect goes both ways; resourceful people should be wary of people who are hard to listen to. I feel like when I'm speaking to someone on the same wavelength about a specific topic it's quite easy to take shortcuts through a lot of the conversation with a simple nod and a word.

The opposite type of conversation feels like you're walking through a swamp with no end. You know exactly where they're going with their point many sentences before they reach it, however they continue to drag out the thought.
What happens if everybody eats mince pie on Christmas? Life goes on as usual.

What happens if nobody pays for a copy of Windows 8? There won't be a Windows 9.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_rider_problem
The TriDUG crowd is headed to Mellow Mushroom in Durham after the meetup. I should be in attendance.
I'll agree with you there. It also helps a lot when outsourcing developers if you know code yourself, since you can keep an eye on what they are doing and spot bad coders before the project spirals into oblivion.

Luckily, coding may be hard but it is also eminently accessible. One of my big gripes with biology has always been the lack of "community help". In biology, if you need help with something, you A) ask around the lab/department B) find papers, email the authors, pray they answer or C) perform ritual sacrifice and pray to the elder gods.

In programming, you have thousands of great resources all over the internet. I honestly think that everyone can learn enough programming skills to be reasonably competent if they put some effort into it. You persevered through a PhD - I think you'll be fine with programming =D
Absolutely! The post might have got some attention from Quora in that case :)
I tried the practices, and I didn't like it because they don't provide sample input, and you can't test your changes in browser. Most of my seconds are spent copying and pasting, and setting up sample input. I guess other people are more perfect typists, but I make typos and so my solutions were often wrong if I didn't test them.
Reminds me of the historic "Message to Garcia" http://www.foundationsmag.com/garcia.html

"The point I wish to make is this: McKinley gave Rowan a letter to be delivered to Garcia; Rowan took the letter and did not ask, "Where is he at?"

By the Eternal! there is a man whose form should be cast in deathless bronze and the statue placed in every college of the land. It is not book-learning young men need, nor instruction about this or that, but a stiffening of the vertebrae which will cause them to be loyal to a trust, to act promptly, concentrate their energies: do the thing—"Carry a message to Garcia."
Input elements can have :clicked states... :)
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Won the $100 :). It took me about 15 minutes start to finish. You have to do 3 practices then wait a bit before you can do the real thing.

You are given about 10 lines of code and need to change one line to make it correct. The problems are things like binary search, topological sort, shortest paths, etc.
Btw, if any HN readers want a copy, let me know your UUID (here or at vibetogether.com). Latest version also vibrates phones, so you can use it w/o an OhMiBod.
It's hard to design systems that don't keep sensitive data in readable formats. Protecting filenames could be done by encrypting with a salted hash of the user password. Doing this correctly while allowing password changes is really tricky. Can you recommend a good set of guidelines for getting it right?
I'd say he was probably going for more uniqueness factor. Lack of care of capitalization, shows just that - lack of care and possible desire to break the norms.

You would be right if his goal was to impress someone but I doubt that was intention of his blog.
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Twilio launches UK SMS at $0.04 in/out
If you know it, then that is half the battle won - as you say you've been able to work towards fixing it.

I honestly think most people like this have no idea that they are hard to talk with, or if they do they have not interest in fixing it, and just want to be left alone: The "I thought doing this job meant I didn't have to speak to people?" types.
"this is not mainly a question of high principle"

Actually, it is:
- The presumption of guilt before innocence
- Due process in law
- The assignment of police and judicial powers to the corporation
- Free speech
- etc.

I think it's disingenuous to re-label this Hollywood-backed, conservative-driven, law-making effort as "it's just about the moniez so whateva".

PS: I remember that when were supposed to hate Democrats because they were the puppets of Hollywood. Now, apparently, the puppets are on the Right? Hmm.
Extensive documentation on deploying your first rails app
This is true. Which is why I wish all of these long winded essays from The Pirate Bay and others along the lines of 'information wants to be free', really would just be replaced by 'I want what I want when I want it, and as cheap as I want it'.

Piracy by people in the US is still huge even though a lot of major content is easily available via Netflix, iTunes, Amazon et al. But that is always going to lose out when it is being given away for free somewhere else.
This article seemed to start off well, but at the end turned into a 'Git is better because tools can edit the DAG storing state. QED'.

It is possible that that is true, but I'd want a stronger backup. Making no negative comments about git at all sets off very strong alarm bells for me.
I read it as the popular internet phrase ("you fail at X") rather than an attack, so I didn't take it personally. :)

Even if it was intended as an attack, it's not the most offensive response I've received to the post by a long shot.
The MongoDB one is a real cliffhanger. What happened?
> Also, it seems like his tracks are extremely simple (though, they still somehow are fairly good).

This is very difficult. It's just as difficult as making a powerful API that's still extremely simple.
This reminded me of one of the "motivational" posters we have in my building:

*Never take down a fence before you know why it was put up in the first place."

I'm still not sure I agree with it, since it sounds like rationalization for "We've always done it this way."

EDIT: All of your responses are correct, and I appreciate knowing where the quote/paraphrase comes from. Unfortunately, the unique environment I'm in means that this paraphrase is aimed at the type of people (warehouse workers) who would most certainly read into it as a cop-out, and not the nuanced and thoughtful call to rational thinking that it is.

Oh well.
You're right. We just didn't want to spend the time planning a vacation (which had previously been a blocker to us actually going)... so we went to an all-inclusive resort that we could just push a button and book it.
My choice is limited with a physical book, too. I can't choose to redownload it if I lose it, I can't have a copy at home and at work simultaneously, and I can't watch any videos on it.
Works out to 2.6pence each. Which is exceptional for outgoing, but charging for incoming as well is a new one, we don't really do that here.
Even the latest Ubuntu (11.10) isn't affected, having xorg version 1.10.4.
Can you specify how you did deliberate practice to overcome that weakness?
As I've started my own company and am doing less coding during the day, but I still get that same thrill, but with other things...like marketing
Question: They tout MongoDB's "generally fast" read speed. Any idea what this is in relation to? In "fast", are they suggesting that it is faster than a typical RDBMS? If so, does anyone know of any supporting benchmarks or breakdowns of how they accomplish this and to what extent?

Its news to me.
I'm building my first app. It's very easy to get started.

here is better summary of what's in it for developers
http://sportology.us/2012/01/cbs-sports-offers-fantasy-platf...
Actually, those have been great (and thank you for making them)! We had an outage during beta because somebody forgot to wrap an array comprehension assignment (CoffeeScript) and we didn't test right. Backbone has been really good, and while we had some complaints, I think many have been resolved in more recent versions - we're on something ancient.
You say that like it's a problem.

Look at it this way: Does Ubuntu or OS X suffer from being pirated? Not really. Windows needs to figure this out for themselves.
slock does not appear to be vulnerable.
Show HN: A Twitter bot that tweets posts that make it to the number 1 spot.
Steve Jobs' School House Dream Comes To Fruition But Not Big News For Stock
This was probably true of parchment, too.

Doesn't anyone remember a decade ago when most people "couldn't read" things on screen, so they'd print out every doc? These days it's relatively rare. Humans usually adapt and move forward faster than we expect we will.
"he evil done by the U.S. government doesn't excuse evil in other places."

Hm, yet it seems evil done in other places does excuse US evil.
Author's (maybe intentional?) misspelling of Latvia to "Lativa" makes me cringe, badly.
That model uses an incorrect mapping between beliefs and actions to correct for the 'incorrect' beliefs. As long as the internal model map's correctly to the external world it's correct. It's logically the equivalent of someone acting normal for fear the invisible elephants who secretly run things will eat them.
This isn't cheap, it is easy though. SSL certs now days can be found for free from StartSSL and for around 10 bucks a year on places like Namecheap.
what if it was a picture of a catalog? The file was called cat.jpg so they said it was a picture of a cat. Maybe it was a catalog. They still said it was a picture of a cat.
Good idea. Check out the video here: http://blog.quixey.com/2011/10/03/quixey-challenge/
Reminds me of an anecdote about Tim Cook:

In a meeting convened to tackle a problem in China,
he had said: "This is really bad someone should be in
China driving this." Thirty-minutes in the meeting he
chided Sabih Khan, the then operations executive,
saying "Why are you still here?". Khan responded by
immediately booking a ticket to China, sans a change
of clothes.

http://www.theverge.com/2011/08/24/tim-cook-apples-ceo/
Form letter template for acquired startups
Anyone else get turned off by these bold statements such as: "Interviews with the people who build the Internet"?
I don't know if you believe in the 'Myers Briggs' stuff (I do to an extent) - but one of the most valuable tools with it (which isn't often mentioned) is to look out for any of your types switching from one to the other.

If this is happening it means you are under stress, and once you can spot it and do something about it, it's really powerful.
Hmm...not sure about the conclusion from the data here.

Maybe they lacked "resourcefullness" (noticed by a difficulty in closing) because their startup wasn't so hot...maybe they were hard to talk to because, again, their startup wasn't so great and they didn't want to talk about it.

It's the old "basketball players are tall because they are good at basketball" thinking...

Look deeper, I suggest the cause-effect be inverted.
I know there are multiple HN twitter bots around already, but I have yet to find one that does not swarm my twitter inbox. This bot will only tweet links that make it to number 1 (approx 4-5 tweets per day).
We worked around the bug (which only happened when we were doing REALLLY long queries when we disconnected a client) and moved to Linux, where the bug does not exist. Awesome sysadmin Tim GDB'd into Mongo and figured out that it was an issue with SpiderMonkey, fixed in later versions.
:checked pseudo-selector.
It's called "Will"

Schopenhauer and Nietzsche figured this out a long time ago.
All true. My point was that you might discover a painpoint or opportunity not pharma or R&D related, but relating to logistics, human resources, supply chain, marketing, etc.
I think you raise some valid history, but all of those things were mass produced items replacing hand-made items. This is a mass-produced, commercial product being replaced with an electronic product. Is there much of an art to lose? We're not losing the visual design component.
Time may be running out for leap second
Conditional stylesheets vs CSS hacks
Fair assessment. This is where my bias towards git shows through. I use git and understand what it's capable of and why mercurial does it differently. The opposite isn't true.

If you give me some examples, I can probably roll them into a followup post later on.