skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems he was talking in a per-month basis, even for the use of the word 'salary'. But I may be wrong.
That type of encryption was more about preventing governments from reading all your communication. There was talk about ECHELON and similar data-traffic-trawling systems.

The "risk" to the average person from those systems was very low. (Ignoring, for a moment, the jobs lost to industrial espionage.)

But we know that gathering huge data-sets is important to many companies. Sometimes those companies are lawful (Google or Facebook) but sometimes they are unlawful (Russian criminal gangs). And even if they're lawful companies they may be using the data in bad ways, or not keeping the data secure.

It is amazing to see what people give up in return for "free" smileys or animated cursors or a shitty facebook game.
Thanks for that post! I was looking for some tutorial that explains IxSet. Will try out the code.
What I meant was that since you're quitting, the company would view you as completely disloyal, and definitely not dedicated to this company. A new hire, by comparison, would be at least somewhat more loyal. That particular comment was more of a figure of speech along the lines of "If you're going to quit on me, I'm going to go out a d find someone that is more loyal"
Would you go under brain surgery to get implanted something that will be obsolete in 18 month?
Have you thought of using Twitter Bootstrap (http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/) or Zurb Foundation (http://foundation.zurb.com/) to help you out with a cleaner and easier UI?
I agree, that's exactly the point I was trying to make.

Btw, I think I fat-fingered and downvoted you, so I'll upvote another one of your comments (sorry)
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I am a graduate student in a math-heavy field, so I thought you might be interested in some feedback. Just yesterday, I was embedding LaTex-derived images into an HTML email in order to collaborate, and I thought: this is just so stupid. Your service definitely fills a need in the research community. I love it. What is the envisioned freemium model? A problem I can see is that very few users would need more than the service you are already offering.
Is there a way that we can read the letter?
I had the same thing happen to me. I realized it was because I stopped reading regularly. Before, I would used to read at least 1-2 novels (100-200 pages per book) a day. And during that time period, I had an awesome vocabulary and I could basically spell anything without having to look it up. But now I get mixed up on whether certain words have double letters or not. Now that I've stopped reading regularly due to time constraints, my writing and spelling ability has basically died.
I think it depends on the app, if it's something that's basically an extension of a social network then it makes sense to sign in with that.

Sometimes though I might want to use an app for work purposes that I don't want in any way linked to my normal persona.

Or I may want to use something which I know will in no way interest any of my friends and I don't want it posting anything for me.

Really, if I can't take the time to create a username/password for a site then I probably wasn't that interested in using it.
Could be stress/tiredness from studying for your exams? What you say sounds quite drastic though... like the result of a head injury.

On the other hand, your current state of having to struggle for every sentence is more in line with the vast majority of peoples' normal experience when it comes to writing.
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>The notion that this growth is unsustainable is scare mongering.

Exponential growth makes this statement as wrong as it can be. It may be scaremongering to say it is unsustainable in the short term, but eventually that growth will have to stop, either due to voluntary decision-making on the part of humans everywhere, or due to a scarcity of resources. Or in fact both, given that the scarcity of resources will cause people to decide on reproducing less.

Growth in general is simply not sustainable in the long term. Isaac Asimov once estimated that at "today's" rate of growth (circa 1970), Earth would become a ball of human flesh expanding at the speed of light by 5000AD. Of course its a ridiculous prediction, but it illustrates that between now and then, something must change.

Look at this chart: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/File:2nd_Order_Damping_Ratios.s...

Assuming 1 here refers to the maximum "sustainable" population, we'll either oscillate around it, overshoot and come back, or asymptotically approach zero percent growth. There is no such thing as a system with no feedback, which is allowed to grow without bound. It may seem like there are no constraints currently, but they're out there, and eventually we'll hit them.
The command is executed through the shell anyway.

ssh example.com sh would just execute "/bin/false sh", or something like that, on the distant machine.
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Just after the video, the two links you provided are mentioned.

Maybe other sources are more reputable/original, but this article sums them up nicely and in an enjoyable read, which those PDFs are not (from image quality to layout). Form indeed matters.
http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1326801/0001193125120...
> After all, Google is a company, here to make money.

Those bastards... and they force you to sign in for their email and g+ and picasa and.. oh, wait.

Maybe I'll sound like a wierdo, but you can always opt out of using google at all and block them with ghostery or hosts. Problem solved. Let's be honest with ourselves and admit that data is the currency we pay for 'free' online services, and if we don't like the service or the 'price', we can just stop using it.

It's funny OP uses gmail and g+ but is worried about profiling for ad personalization. Btw there is google analytics on his blog.
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I think it may be smart that AMD is focusing on easily-producible SoCs in products designed for emerging markets. Might be a better way to differentiate themselves than going head-to-head on performance.
Those links appear at the bottom of the page. So unless the author added them just now after seeing your comment... I'm glad plagiarism by itself is not a crime, there are some real witch hunters out there. (You can find a lot of them by looking up Einstein's history.) If I were Google I'd probably favor an HTML page over a PDF too when the content is more or less the same.
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Helping how? Telling her boss to share control? Telling her where to click? There was absolutely nothing Ed could have done, and it's the expectation that he can fix every little thing that is the root of these problems.
Well the whole truth includes research, mice, marketing videos, clouds, etc.

But software pretty much covers all four of the major categories to which your previous comment alludes, IMO, YMMV, etc.
!(0^(0^(0^0))) = 24 ; if you believe 0^0 is 1 that is...
Oh noes, yet another piece by a newspaper on the proper definition of the word hacker, and how Facebook knows what it really means.
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I completely agree with you, but it matters what type of data we're talking about here. Facebook scared me off a long time ago with its policies and what it knew about me, but it's a different story with Google's personalized search. I don't worry about a company knowing my browsing habits. I worry about a company losing my credit card info or leaking my SSN or deleting my emails. Compared to those things, preventing Google from guessing my demographic via search analysis is pretty much meaningless.
I don't really understand what you're saying. I gave a pretty concrete example: I have Andrew or Alice who does graphics design, Barbara or Bob who does finance, and Carol (m/f) who does the back-end coding and all operations. They're pretty young, and I can't pay them what they're worth or anything near it. Now, I get some cash into the company: how do I now pay them what they're worth? What is your suggestion?

If my company competes successfully in its niche because of the level of fit and finish, and design, should I pay Andrew/Alice proportionally more than Barbara/Bob or Carol? Now what if my company competes successfully because of the scalable infrastructure - it's really an ops company, and it's just a faster service and that's why everyone uses it. Nobody cares about design. Then suddenly does Carol deserve more money than Andrew/Alice or Barbara/Bob?
Now what if it's an excruciatingly tough market where everyone is incredibly price-sensitive. But by doing market research and have our financial acts together the best out of the companies competing in our space, we grow and prosper and persevere over them?

No. This is wrong. This leads to talented designers and finance gals and guys leaving because they're not being paid what they're worth OR appreciated. It leads to the ops company saying: "You don't get what you'd make elsewhere BECAUSE you're less important". This is the WORST POSSIBLE SOLUTION.

Of course, at an executive level you can choose to hire a BETTER designer/lead designer in one type of company, a BETTER or BETTER-CONNECTED or MORE EXPERIENCED finance gal or guy in another context, or a BETTER or MORE EXPERIENCED or whatever gal or guy for ops and back-end in a third context. You pay them more because they're WORTH more.

If you really want to go above and beyond, sure, pay them MORE than they'd get elsewhere. Show appreciation by paying or rewarding above market.

But your suggestion is right in line with command Communist economies, and goes about as far. By the way I think that's great in a small 1-5 person socialist setting (as in a family for example!). It's no way to run a company though.

*I also want to add that on the small level, "to each according to need" is also valid! If only one of the three first employees has a mortgage, then they might get a bit more to start off. This doesn't scale, and I'm telling you what needs to be done when you become an actual company with sound finances and a desire to grow, acquire and retain talent that won't be bitter.
Have you ever had the experience (usually while walking and wearing headphones) of being aware of your breathing? And suddenly breathing is tricky? You don't know if you're breathing loudly or to deeply?

All your life you've been breathing and never noticed it, and then you notice it, and how weird it is.

Do you think this may be what you're experiencing? Just increased awareness?

As an over-cautious footnote: This will probably not happen, but if you start to notice "odd" things; (people who can put thoughts in your head, or hearing voices, or whatnot) please seek psychiatric assistance. Early intervention is important. But, like I say, this is almost certainly not relevant!
>Short of passing a law that allows the actual blacklisting of websites like China and Iran, there is no legislative solution.

There's more to the internet than the web. This would break the web, but wouldn't put a dent in piracy.
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Know Labs and Udacity are the same thing.
Why should a new protocol offer the option to operate insecurely?

Nothing stops a proxy from handling SPDY, if the client trusts it to do so and doesn't mind getting MITMed.
Could it just be that your taste has become more refined? Watch this interview with Ira Glass: http://kottke.org/11/04/your-taste-is-why-your-own-work-disa...
I'd consider that a feature, not a bug. Transparent proxies considered harmful, especially when done without informing their users.

A SPDY client that trusts a particular proxy could easily allow that proxy to operate on its behalf, and SPDY would actually make that far more efficient.
This DoS would require constant poking since sshd drops all looped connections once fds are exhausted... And can be fixed via small open fd limit put on sshd.
Except that, you can't put the food back on cook's table, while nothing happens with the movie as such. They still have it.
I've switched from Google to Zoho services two years ago(I hate that "conversation view" in gmail)

Zoho Mail turned out to be an excellent webmail app. BTW, their other apps(Docs, Planner, Sheet) are definitely worth a try too.

http://www.zoho.com
Good point, I was thinking about that not long after I posted it. I think it had more to do with management shuffles than employee shuffles. Most stats I can find state it as 80-90% leaving in 6 months to 1 year which sounds right, often resuming their job hunt 90 days after receiving the counter.

Counters rarely make sense. There's probably exceptions, but I've never seen any.
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Hey! That link should let you create a beta account. We are super close to opening it up to everyone (a few weeks).

Look forward to your feedback! Version 1 is meant to help you whip up prototypes really quickly and then build off of them.
I can't tell if you're joking or not. Dyson spheres, space mining, superstructures... Currently we have sent a handful of people to a rock orbiting this planet, then gave that up because it was uninteresting. At the moment there is no incentive to send anyone to space because machines can do better that little bit of exploring that is currently being done.

I'd be surprised if in a hundred years there's enough resources or motivation to do any space exploration. To me it seems far more likely that we have spent our fortunes on earthly matters such as wars and the like.
IMO, your proposal suggested characteristics which might be troublesome within the group of stockholders of a tightly held company.

Among these are a lack of long term commitment due to the rapid vesting schedule and a questionable ability to accept the responsibilities of an employee rather than that of investor.

That's not to say that the owners of the company are beyond reproach - the offer of a low salary combined with stock in an enterprise of dubious purpose certainly raises suspicions.

However, your description of the state of affairs does not make their decision to pursue your services without great zeal unsurprising.
excellent, excellent, excellent. will absolutely be using this!
Thanks! That would be design work from Ben Sperry (http://bensperry.com/)
I found WebStorm useful too. Only problem is how slow it feels to be (after using visual studio for other development). Listing members of an object by typing a "." (dot) takes for ever. Also, it takes so much of RAM :(.
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This won't be relevant to you right now, but once you start dealing with a large code base, jsgrep is a tool that I wrote to enable easily searching and modifying certain code patterns:

https://github.com/facebook/jsgrep
There are three kinds of people:

1. Those who pay for copyable things

2. Those who don't

3. Those who pay if they can't find shared one.

The percentage of 3rd is rather misere.

One example: In my country, Windows is std de facto OS, because no one pays for it. If it weren't available, no one would use it. i.e. it is not a loss for MS. It is actually advantage, because MS can enforce govermental or commercial structures to pay for it.
yes rsync for single files is over kill
On Firefox, I use the RequestPolicy plugin: by default, it only allows requests to the current domain, so nytimes.com can't access connect.facebook.com. You can enable requests to go through, so that reddit.com can access redditstatic.com.

I think it strikes a good balance between blocking everything (a la NoScript) and total openness.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/requestpolicy...
Just possibilities, not suggestions (I've not used them myself):

* http://blog.heroku.com/archives/2011/8/25/java/

* http://aws.amazon.com/amis/6281452482352358 (saves you most of the EC2 setup work; perhaps)

* http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/java/overview.html
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You sound like a very self aware individual (hard not to be if writing is your passion).

But...I think you have to remember you're 16. Nothing you do is ever set in stone, regardless of age and everyone goes through changes. Teens go through changes that are a more volatile.

Try reframing it in your head. Personally, it seems like you're just "not into" writing right now. There's nothing wrong with that. There could be a deeper root cause, but I doubt you'll truly find it.

Keep writing (I guess you'll have to) and things may clear themselves up. Self awareness isn't always a great thing ;)
this may be of interest, I've been chatting to the author today actually.
https://db.usenix.org/events/leet10/tech/full_papers/Checkow...

The site is secure but can always do better.
This is my favourite proposed solution to the Fermi Paradox. I first came across it in Steven Baxter's novel Space -- he explores a few proposed solutions and the speed-of-light-limit-to-growth explanation is the most intriguing.
If you are seeing JSLint as a dictatorship, you are probably seeing those tools from the wrong way. Those tools helps you spot potential mistake and help your code be a little better. What they give you is advice, you will find that from time to time the advice they give you aren't that great and you are always free to ignore them in those cases.
That is a problem tbh. At the moment my number 1 objective isn't to make money but we will see what the service costs me to run. Ideas for things for premium

- unlimited private projects / free accounts only have public projects like cloud9
- multiple compilers
- unlimited collaborators per project
- background compile looking for errors
- git pull access

any other ideas are welcome.
Second jshint. I use syntactic vim plugin, could never go without it anymore. http://stackoverflow.com/a/5893447. Also node-dev https://github.com/fgnass/node-dev

Oh also: python -mjson.tool is great for formatting json on the command line. Like: curl -XGET http://example.com/API | python -mjson.tool
On the todo list, thanks.
I am not a doctor but... Cognitive issues could be stress/burnout related. Environment can also play a big part in cognitive issues. Mold illness causes cognitive/psychological issues and patients often describe the feeling as a "brain-fog". There is a relatively simple online test for mold issues found here http://www.survivingmold.com/diagnosis.
He/She (there's no author name) has added them after seeing this comment - I had the tab open for an hour now and there's no attribution there: http://d.pr/6mlz (in case you're wondering about the bizarre colorful thing, it's YouTube! It's blocked in Iran and instead of the video, they display garbage links to government websites)
> “The sad truth is that in many parts of the country, if you want to join forces with your neighbours and do something good, and you look around for an organisation that will help you do that, that’s the churches.” Matt Elder, for example, used to go on mission trips to help build houses for poor people in Mexico

This is a shame. There are other schemes, such as "shoe box gifts" which tend to be run by churches too.

It seems there's a gap in humanitarian working for rationalist, evidence based, atheist, projects that use best quality engineering and so on.
It would be great if they can coordinate their classes with Coursera. I signed up for algo-class.org, but now I see that Udacity will also have similar class.

Edit: I completed ML (Coursera) and AI Intro (Udacity) classes and I have to admit that execution of Coursera was way better. Not sure how things will be for algo classes.
What about developers that left the company after developing the game, like the Diablo teams?
I had nothing listed under the demographics, which baffles me because I use chrome, always logged in search, gmail, g+, picasa, etc
Very quite odd that they don't profile me.
With that said, I obviously do not care if they know all this information about me. So the article is true in this case as I do not browse that way (too inconvenient)
<meta> Short of snark and obvious trolling, worrying about downvotes is counter-productive. Some people may downvote posts such as your jewel comment due to the potential for sidetracking the discussion into something generally outside the interests of HN. On the other hand, such a post may trigger an "I never thought of it that way before" reaction.
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"The notion that this growth is unsustainable is scare mongering" AND "if we can just keep the resources needed to support that growth flowing." Sustainability relies on the current technology, natural cycles, and resources (i.e., natural limits). There is no IF.
You forgot 4. Those who want to pay, but will pirate if there's no option to pay.
Me too.

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alias cookies="/usr/bin/chromium --user-data-dir=$HOME/.chromium/cookies"
alias nocookies="/usr/bin/chromium --user-data-dir=$HOME/.chromium/nocookies --incognito"
alias chromium='echo "cookies or nocookies?"'
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Yes, but you can buy a lot of other really excellent experiences with millions of dollars.
I know of one place in Australia they tried to mine, but it was blocked on grounds that it was a part of a UNESCO site, the Great Barrier Reef; Whitehaven beach. Can't remember where I read this, it was 10+ years ago. The beach is 98% silica.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitehaven_beach
I am absolutely not sure what to make of this. A lot of those companies have sad histories (Looking Glass especially) and went bankrupt or were closed, but rarely because of piracy. Some examples:

- Ion Storm built Daikatana (Romero, *, you know the history) and Deus Ex 2, 2 huge time- and moneysinks that are widely regarded as failures. Add Anachronox, which was mediocre at best.

- Ensemble Studios was closed by Microsoft with no specific reason, most likely due to a shift of focus, after multiple really successful releases, piracy or not. Also, Halo Wars didn't get a lot of praise.

- Core Design is praised for Tomb Raider I and hated for running the series into the ground release by release. This ended in Angel of Darkness, which was bundled with some ATI graphics boards (9800) on which it didn't run (!). I still have an unplayed but not untouched version of this.

- Kaos Studios made Frontline and Homefront which were... ehm... yes. Okayish at best.

I could go on. Games is a tough market. Production costs are high and failures are costly. Companies surviving more than 10 years in the gaming market are great. So whats the point of this post? Should we start paying rent to developers that worked on games for dying companies? Should sales of these games be stopped because the money goes to whatever publisher that still puts these games out on the shelves? And whats the thing with piracy again?
Filter being your conscious mind.

Sometimes when I read or write, it's with a voice I haven't heard before. It doesn't sound authentic to me. That's my mind being loud, and it acts as a dirty filter that inhibits pure words from flowing freely.
The links were added recently :)

And it's not really witch hunting - I'm merely pointing out that it's bad form for someone to plagiarise and not attribute the source.

Still not a fan of word-for-word copying, but at least links have been added :)