skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is the 0-day Scene, those groups which are pretty much closed/private (to name some, CORE, BliZZARD, EMBRACE, HERiTAGE, SSG, DiGERATi..), these are invitation only. And the Web scene groups like FFF, TSRh, RES, who often offer to solve some keygenme/crackme for newcomers to be accepted.
I worked in the business trading interest rate products before deciding to return to school. I still miss the game a lot and waste way too much time trying to supplement my PhD stipend trading stocks, equity options, and futures.

Mr. Smith's editorial describes a lot of the reasons I left when paired with the dire outlook for the business now and back then. As others sort of noted, much of the business changed simply from the sources of profits. OTC (Over the Counter, i.e, non exchange traded) derivatives dealing and proprietary trading started driving all revenue. From a cursory glance OTC derivatives create a zero sum game with the client. The bank takes one side, the client takes the other. Yes, on a large enough scale things should balance out, and perhaps no moral hazards will develop, but at the most fundamental level the client or the dealer wins.

This opens the door to a very unique class of businesses including casinos, some annuity providers, buyers' agents in real estate where the provider has a strong conflict of interest with their client. Previously banks did not have these conflicts, or the divisons with these conflicts were not the dominant earners. Well maybe M&A advisors on the buyers' side had an issue, but that was generally less lucrative to advising the seller or on a hot IPO.

The question becomes, is this a Goldman problem, or a banking industry problem? I am studying for the CFA, simply because the information is fresh in my head, and I may need it some day. CFA ethics clearly states that one must always put the client's interests ahead of the firm. I remain foreign to the sort of magic that allows for this, while allowing one to operate as a derivatives dealer and stay solvent.

Simultaneous, Mr. Smith forgets about the sort of horrible clients these banks must deal with on a daily basis. Remember that the best guys at these firms are the ones that get spots at hedge funds, asset managers, and sovereign wealth funds. They know how to screw a counter-party better than anyone. Anyone who has ever sat on a fixed income trading desk knows how viciously PIMCO swings around their size to trade through the market. Every junior trader has gotten crossed by a non-repetent small hedge fund. I doubt the clients ever thought Goldman or any other bank was their friend. To assume that a bank would help a client when there is blood in the water is lunacy.

You can probably tell I still have a lot of unresolved issues about exactly what is right here. I have major issues with conflicts of interests. If I ever return to finance, I will stay on the buy side. At least that way my interests and the client's are fully aligned. I deliver higher returns and get paid more.
No he's not. The patent move isn't the only reason to frown on Yahoo employees. The company has been moving sideways for quite some time which is when good employees tend to leave for better opportunities.
As much as I enjoy what Netflix does, I wish they'd improve the raw speed of the Android app. Its often faster for me to do queue manipulation through the Netflix website on Firefox Mobile.
Btw, remember to check out our in-browser editor. It lets you run arbitrary Python code with live data on the fly.

Click "fork script" on any script page, e.g. here https://bitdeli.com/scripts/94/convert-bart-xml-to-json

I (Ville, one of the founders of Bitdeli) am happy to answer any questions here.
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I think being paid there is more chance that they would be acquired for their product and not just the team. There is still no guarantee of course.
I hope you will reconsider that belief about overpopulation, because its completely incorrect and racially and/or class based. Do the Greeks have 40% (or anyway a very high number, don't know for sure) unemployment because they are overpopulated? What about Somalia, is that country overpopulated?

The United States uses more oil than the other 3 or 4 top countries combined. The reason there is so much suffering is because resources are not only distributed incredibly unfairly, but actually many countries and groups are deliberately repressed.
would be nice to see more visualizations
Can a Startup Renaissance Fix Young America?
On the other hand, I'd be more likely to hire someone who quit Yahoo because of the patent issue.
Using humorous examples generally increases understanding. See http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/20151750?uid=3739560&#... (or your local psych textbooks :p)
You may check this out: http://www.linkedin.com/search/fpsearch?keywords=Yahoo&c...
Have you looked at the list of top 10 movies from last year?

Besides, it's only a knock-off if you were exposed to the original.
For the record, Forbes just published a great article on the topic with a few interesting facts: http://www.forbes.com/sites/kirstenbischoff/2012/03/14/stran...
Pretty much everyone is missing that the patent situation isn't the only reason an employer might frown on Yahoo employees. The company has been moving sideways (at best) for quite some time and better employees tend to leave in those circumstances. The patent move was just the final straw.
Why so sad? There are a lot of good tech companies to work at and Yahoo's current business model isn't bad for it at all, I think.
Great post, I've been looking to work with CV and was plannin g on using OpenCV with a python interface, but after your post I think I'll start with SimpleCV. as you said if the only limitation is speed, then I can port it to pure C for OpenCV.

You might want to change the videos on the Demos page as youtube is saying the uploader has closed their account.

Now its time to experiment
To me it has almost nothing to do with "making it one character shorter," it's about making it easier to see fundamental relationships intuitively. It's not a notational improvement as much as a model improvement.

It's sort of like how angles can be measured using degrees or radians, but the derivative of sine is cosine only when using radians. It's not the notation of radians that is better, it's the model.
Lots of comments about how this is unfair.

Sure. But could it work?
> Go's lack of generics isn't buying the language anything from an implementation standpoint.

But it does buy us a lot from a code complexity standpoint. C++ templates and Java's generics have a horrific effect on readability and comprehensibility, two of Go's primary goals. Generics are hard. If/when we do them, we'll get them right.
Hackers of the World, Unite
Because Apple sells products.

Google sells YOUR personal information that you do NOT want to share to advertisers.

Big difference.
Does this still exist? What an absolutely horrifying bug.

Do you know where in the source this is?
I cannot speak for the FBI as I know little about them. But I have worked closely its equivalent in my country (Brazil). And one notorious fact that I learned is that the technical expertise of these guys is way behind what the public expects of them. People expect federal police and government investigation to be up to date with the newest technologies and hacker practices. They picture hollywoodian CIA command centrals with magical hackers that can do anything they want by typing a few matrix-like code on a command shell.

But in reality, technical government agents have very little incentive to do their job well done. They just wanna get over it and go back home. As a result you have highly untrained personnel, who doesn't keep up with latest technology and will do the bare minimum to just not get fired. Their methods are always amateurish and easy to avoid if you're actually trying.

I'd imagine the US is a bit better than my country in this regard. But I'd doubt that by much. I'm still sure that their technical skills are light years behind what the public perception is.
Thanks - we will be adding more examples in the near future.

Creating a visualization with Bitdeli is not hard at all if you know JavaScript and little Python - see a tutorial here: http://blog.bitdeli.com/2012/03/14/how-to-visualize-geograph...
This is probably a very naive question but can't any of these measures be easily bypassed by running the observed software in a VM like KVM and just attaching a debugger like GDB directly to the VM?
we would, if management does not show tight schedules up our dev bottoms.
Please keep your flame wars to yourselves. You are just hurting your own case here.
Site owners can't prevent their data from going through a proxy. If they don't provide an API the service is going to look backward, and be less useful in the future. This type of system is inevitably coming because there's no way a human can possibly keep up with the number of new content services that are coming out.
Poor decision.
Free Indie Games not on TIGS / Indiegames: Guru-Guru Neko [Yoshio Ishii]
Can we just get rid of him? Set him on a proverbial iceberg and let him chart his own course?

As a spokesperson he has an obligation to present himself in a manner that's representative of the movement itself, not of himself.

I don't care how busy you are, you can make time to learn how to interact with people better. You can't know how to write a compiler and not be able to figure out simple human interaction. It's obviously a case of priorities and not caring.
Ed Catmull of Pixar on why successful companies fail (VIDEO 2007)
I wouldn't say it's dead, there are many shareware software out there. For example, Topic-Starter's PVS-Studio aka PVS-Studio.v4.56.Incl.Keygen-NOY ;)
"Walking into YC with a nice haircut, suit and the ability to sell yourself doesn't fit the idea most people here have about entrepreneurship."

I walked into YC looking like an unshaven hobo with a stupid linux t-shirt, and nappy unkept hair. The rest of my team was only slightly less homely. After being accepted into YC, I'm proud to say that I wash my hair but I haven't adopted a suit yet...
That's not true at all. In the few cases where dynamic linking is involved, it works just as you'd expect it to be.
While I hadn't ever heard of Yammer, just one look at the home page makes it seem as though it's a Facebook rip-off (no other way to really say it) just for use in a corporate setting.

Seems as though he's just a little worried that if Facebook bows to the patents his company will be next on Yahoo's hit list.
Canada relaxes rules on foreign ownership of wireless companies
Why I am Leaving the Empire by Darth Vader
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The correct Classical plural of radius is indeed radii. As a Latinist, I'd accept radiuses as perhaps even better. Insisting on Classical inflection has a certain element of snobbery to it, IMO.
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In my own experience with Arch, things offered through AUR (while convenient) seem to cause more problems than that which is in core, extra, community, multilib, etc... In other words, things which pacman handles.

So using AUR introduces a bit of maintenance overhead in the sense that I spend more time reading the comments, checking the number of votes for an item, researching the dependencies that arise, etc. But I'm also happy AUR is there to supplement what is in the supported repos. That said, I've definitely had some MAJOR problems that I've had to work through using AUR packages.

I would say that your statement about putting in the time up front to learn how the system works in order to do relatively less system administration in the long run applies more to Gentoo than to Arch. I was a Gentoo user for several years before switching to Arch, and once you get all your configuration files set up on Gentoo, the system is rock solid. The only drawback is that you're compiling nearly everything from source based on your specific system configuration through make.conf and such, updates can take a while. However, the internal consistency and dependency resolution of emerge seems far, far better than pacman in my experience.

To me at this point Arch is as stable as OSX, and possibly even more so. I go weeks without reboots and my computer never slows down. I do updates almost every day, and most of the time have no problems. And I really appreciate the rolling-release paradigm. In fact, I'd be willing to bet that possibly sometime in the future, OSX could potentially go that route as well. It already seems like they're headed there in some ways.
Watch how the Moon was formed
People are dying in a futile effort to stop Russell Brand taking heroin
Nubimus - A Programmatic Dialogue
That software is getting more free over time has almost nothing to do with imposing licenses like GPL and everything to do with attitude.

People want to share. People love to share. It used to be in the days before version control systems, before reliable internetworking, that sharing was hard, tedious, often impractical. The difference between open source and closed source was often a matter of proximity.

Now with tools like Github that foster community and encourage people to build things that are free and/or open there has been an explosion of open-source software.

People like RMS refuse to acknowledge or even entertain the idea that there needs to be a healthy balance between open and closed. You can be too open just as you can be too closed.

His extremist, binary position is not based in reality.
Nice, pretty solid bit of Godwin's Law trolling. I'm not interested in debating this to the level of detail that will spare me being called a nazi by someone on the internet, so suffice it to say that _any_ blacklist based on generalized attributes and affiliations will unfairly target innocents.

Companies have lots of tactics to shorten applicant stacks ("wrote a personalized cover letter", "minimum 12yrs experience HTML5", "name printed in blue"). Power to Yammer if they want to add "dates employed at yahoo" to the list - talented folks will have little trouble finding work.
Sparrow coming to iPhone
I could see this working, but my concern is with the "drone" part. When you have a few of the best and brightest they usually build off a very general idea using their own ideas ans creativity, and since there are so few they can work with each other. However, when it comes to the drones they would have to be given very detailed instructions for each step, they would need programming if you will.

If you already have an idea and want drones to do the work they would need a lot of guidance so everyone's work flows together.

Then of course the good side of having some many drones is if you do allow them to run away with their creativity; even if someone can't build upon their own idea(s) there are 49 other minds there to throw thoughts at it.

So depending on how you approach it, having 50 drones can be a very good thing or possibly a huge pain in the butt.
Having been born in Texas, I fully support this design. :D
That may be true in most cases. However I think that founders who have significant financial accounting knowledge and experience will do this because concepts like separation of duties enforce this sort of thinking.
Archos outs G10 xs tablet line, readies Transformer Prime contenders
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The biggest advantage of Tau over Pi probably lies in learning trigonometry for the first time. That's not something you can judge for yourself, as you can't learn something for the first time twice.

We should perform experiments, but I strongly suspect that using Tau (or 2Pi as if it where a single symbol) would significantly reduce confusion in the heads of the pupils. That would count as a "big advantage" in my book.

Now does Tau have an actual disadvantage besides clashing with time constants and such? If not, we should keep in mind that switching is a one-time cost while the cost of using a worse notation is unbounded (proportional to the number of uses, actually).

I have to reckon however that making an effort to switch away from Pi probably shouldn't be our first priority. I don't know Gaussian units nor Einstein notation, but if they do "really help" then we probably should take care of that first.
And worse, the whole layout is a Facebook ripoff. My girlfriend uses Yammer for work and when I took a closer look at it today it seems that most of the IU elements are 1 to 1 copies of Facebook. Pretty sad to be honest.
I would speculate that you're probably more selective about the kinds of companies you work for than a VC is in funding them.

There have been some legendary turkeys over the last ten years, but for every pets.com or hairdryersbyemail.com there's dozens of others so misguided you never heard a thing, they just went nowhere fast.
Just think about the overhead of hiring 50 drone programmers, vs hiring 5 brilliant ones.
"Taxpayers money" versus "Taxpayers retirement money" is a subtle distinction here, isn't it?
Trying different business models is a great thing. Businesses become successful in different ways. When they announced Milk they said that this would be their business model and they have stuck with it. It is going to be interesting to see how this works out in the end.
FBI actually leak Stratfor e-mails just to bust Julian Assange?
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Billboard visible only to women
HTML5 3D Tetris tutorial using Three.js
AOL Swears that AIM Won't Be Killed, But It's Already Too Late
How Google is cracking down on the "bad actors" in the AdWords ecosystem
http://www.minutefavors.com/favors/8 Is is legal to do that?
Underscore.js _.profile() method
How to get rid from carrier name on status bar of your iPhone
Peter Norvig to teach 'Design of Computer Programs' at Udacity
Honestly, I'm not sure Ubuntu even excels at that anymore.

When I switched my parents over to Linux, I installed Mint, not Ubuntu. This was well before the Unity debacle, but even besides that, I'm glad I did. Mint looked familiar to them (coming from Windows), and while it may be heavily bloated from a software perspective (the stuff that makes Arch users cringe, since they ship everything by default to maximize configuration-free compatibility), it feels very lightweight from a user perspective - like what Windows might be like if they stripped out all of the stuff that people really don't care about.
Why Joint Decision Making Exacerbates Rejection of Outside Information
They absolutely can be. At the time this article was written (2008), VMs weren't as in vogue as they are today, VM-attached debugging wasn't as mature, and the leading "ring-0" / above-the-kernel debugger (SoftICE) had just been discontinued.

Today, there are a host of new measures designed to thwart in-VM debugging, but the playing field differs substantially from the one present when this article was written, and your observation is a good one.
Years ago, when computers were more crash-prone and and autosave wasn't yet a feature in MS Word, I ran a keylogger on my own computer for just this reason. On several occasions, it saved me from having to rewrite multiple pages of school assignments I would have otherwise lost due to crashes.
I don't normally give to charity, but this is totally awesome.
Why do you think that having your own Wordpress stand-alone blog is such a problem?
I was really wondering what kept you motivated throughout the project before you demonstrated your early fascination with data.

Did you find yourself trying new paths simply to get a better picture or is this movement all natural?
The comparison made and context is ridiculous. Why not make it "funnier" then? "If my employer got into the business of raping children then...or "If my employer walked into a high school and..." The point being made by the OP is pretty obvious and doesn't require humor to increase understanding.

Humor might enhance learning of a harder to grasp concept. If done appropriately.
Isn't the “natural” choice to have the direction moving charged particles to be the same as a moving charge? In everyday life it is electrons, not protons that move. When we say "charge is moving from high voltage to low voltage" we are actually saying "electron particles are moving from a position of low voltage to high voltage"--the exact opposite. How is that natural?

Even if that weren't the case, it's still a matter of opinion. Minus signs show up in a number of pretty unnatural positions as a result of the negative electric charge. The convention in Physics is that minus signs convey semantic information (reversal in direction, slowing down, etc.). The negative electric charge upsets this convention, resulting in un-semantic minus signs.
Love it - seriously awesome way to use crowdtilt
its still open, and works on my droid, but considering that there are so many handsets that are not updated, im sure this one would still work on most phones. I haven't looked through the code to pinpoint it.
The TC story says 'visible only to women.' did they edit the title, or did you? If the latter, why?
Note the instructions. It's just capturing the video stream via analog source, as far as I can tell.

I believe your comment's parent was referring to their over-the-air stream DRM (i.e. the stream to the dish receiver), which hasn't been publicly broken.
It's just that most of the curves have remained flat. Look on job boards, language rankings, github stats, or even the Scala reddit, which is a ghost town.

Taken in isolation, these numbers don't mean much but when you start putting all the evidence together, it's hard to make a case that Scala is growing at all.
I started out accepting credit cards, then added PayPal. Sales increased 6%. Granted, this was back in about 2006, but there are some people who won't buy unless they can use PayPal (and US Postal Service).
What a pig. Jump when I say or I might not hire you.
Name dropping. Now, what could go wrong with Silicon Valley
That would be "datascience", lower case.
No, it isn't legal. He is just being a troll for Yahoo decreasing the value of his prized facebook shares.
One of my friends Dad immigrated here after WWII from Germany and he was HY (forced) and he got his citizenship. From his decription, it only triggers a check against of list of people the US would like to have a "deeper conversation" with.
did I miss something? can we stream netflix movies to android devices finally?
Actually chainsaws are pretty efficient.

I say there is no way more "carbon" is used shipping a few thousand books than powering the entire internet.
I won't hire any one who ever worked at Yammer :)
I'm neither a Google employee, nor can I speak for the team that runs Google's public DNS servers, but I'd be surprised if that team didn't consider "using Google's DNS servers [causes] the Internet [to get] a lot slower" to be a major bug. 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 are supposed to be anycast addresses which route to the closest server to your location. [0]

[0] https://code.google.com/speed/public-dns/faq.html#anycast
It's not only his statement that is ridiculous. Have you see his photo? Admittedly, it is unlikely he had any control over the choice of snap that went with this story, but who approved such a insincere photo on behalf of his company?
Apple 'iPad Mini' is planned, Samsung official tells Korea Times
The comment I was responding to is the one that brought up how FSF is beneficial for a "democratic society", not me.
Looks interesting.

Seems to me that the functions are pretty minimal right now. Would be nice to see the complex functions getting mapped on the gestures. Otherwise, it is a great step towards minimalism.

Also, looks like the UI was inspired from Metro somewhere in the thought process of the app. Everything is flat with no gloss anywhere.

Let's see if this can start a trend towards this kind of apps.