skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
hehehe, there ya go. Nice that you found me.

Of course I have a public web presence. The point is, I control it. I run a few sites including a bitcoin casino. I have clients, friends, and people who use my code. I probably write 15-20 emails a day. Yet none of it through facebook. It's not mediated. There's no extraneous information, either for me or the other party. And what you know about me by googling me is, for the most part, what I want you to know.

Including my last name and where I live. "Strike" is a pseudonym, and I haven't lived in Buenos Aires for about five years. But that level of privacy isn't available on facebook.
Ya, me too, maybe longer. If I sign in on someone else's computer, it sometimes has shown the old design recently.

It has been a gradual rollout.
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Correction: Amazon's new header.
If I were you, I would be bothered about bigger issues about joining such a company.
China arrests after kidney sold for iPad
Does MadeiraCloud let you set up anything other than EBS volumes & EC2 instances w/ firewall rules? Not sure how useful it is atm if that is all one can accomplish.
If you have a bunch of developers, yes. But the entry level filter is people who aren't yet developers, and people talking about code. I've found actual developers pretty welcoming, but I also had to skip the entire beginning of the pipeline to get to them.
> Well, I'd say a hash that has no need whatsoever to be tamper-proof (no attackers, ever) and cares only about speed is a checksum -- so maybe a terminology issue.

Cityhash, spookyhash, and murmurhash are three modern non-cryptographic hash functions which explicitly don't call themselves "checksums".

Indeed, we say "hashtable", not "checksumtable".
"Using" - more like you provide information which is the price of admission. Same as it is with any other company providing a free service. Characterizing Facebook as "evil" for this is quite silly.

And much like email, you can roll your own. It's much harder, but it's possible.
Can you post a picture with nudity in it? No? There you go.
I suspect the point of contention is lack of clarification of definitions and terms, particularly regarding 'freedom', the OP's phrase 'heinous violations of freedom', and the concept of violations of freedom in general.

I would define 'freedom' in a very narrow and non-metaphysical sense, as 'the ability to make choices free of threats of violence by others'. I derive this definition by asking the following questions: Do slaves choose where to work? Do prisoners choose what to eat? Do victims of murder choose to die? Or has someone else made the decision for them by threatening violence?

This is more or less the definition of 'freedom' by philosophers of Liberalism and more precisely http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative_liberty . Under such a definition, the concept of 'violation of freedom' is semantically linked to authority, force, and violence.

Examining Stallman's logic, one finds a variety of alternate definitions of 'freedom'. Whether these are more universally consistent definitions of 'freedom' is up for others to decide. The ongoing debate over whether it is fair to characterize the actions of Facebook and similar corporations as 'heinous violations of freedom' will remain unresolved until a definition of 'freedom' is agreed upon.
You don't have to use facebook, you want to. A product doesn't force, humans do.
Josh Linkner publicly admitted his mistake, offerend to talk it over with Chris, and even changed the text of the article, all within one hour.

Dixon is being a little harsh, I think.

http://www.philco.me/philcosblog/2012/4/6/apologizing-to-chr...
Fair enough. But that's really a problem with you, not Facebook. Which is fine - like I say, it's your choice to have Facebook or not.

But statements like "In my books Facebook should really not be in the standards" suggest that some people think the issue lives with Facebook.
Hey there - we realise that there are a lot of questions in the survey (about 30, actually), but since we investigate most of the key topics and challenges for developers today, there's a lot of ground to cover. Check out the end result from last year's survey - www.DeveloperEconomics.com (free download)
Contact your own politicians and have them put pressure on your version of what we call the "State Department" to in turn pressure the US to stop this crap. If you indeed think this particular bill is crap, of which I remain unconvinced (see my posting elsewhere in this thread on the subject).
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TIL it costs 1 Watt minimum to delete 41 exabytes in one second.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landauer's_principle

Supporting: http://www.stanford.edu/~rsasaki/AP202/YY3.pdf and https://encrypted.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&lr=&as_qdr=all&q=2.85+trillionths+Watt+%2F++1+gigabits++41+exabyte&oq=2.85+trillionths+Watt+%2F++1+gigabits++41+exabyte&aq=f&aqi=h1&aql=&gs_l=serp.12..19.10626l10626l0l12026l1l1l0l0l0l0l159l159l0j1l1l0.frgbld.

Questions: How much consumes Facebook's delete operation and when will above become a problem?
It builds easily from source. Use homebrew to get the dependencies. Or, wait a while and then do "brew install couchdb" after the homebrew build scripts are updated.
It still looks like somebody threw up design blocks and poked the pile of vomit with a stick trying to make it look nice.

It has a shit ton of random blocks that 99.99% of the visitors don't care about and will not bother to read.

The titles of blocks are different colors and sizes (right column vs main area).

There are 3 levels of navigation at the top, plus one multi-level menu on the left-hand side (which is insane too - try to figure out the order of the items).

EDIT:

I can tell you exactly how it happened. Amazon slowly matured, they experimented a bit with their landing page. Every time they want to revolutionize, the following happens.

Some clueless manager looks at the current page and gets the list of all the blocks that he/she thinks are important. If they think like they are super-smart, they will look at the CTR rates for individual links, and throw away the least important ones. Then his bosses look at the report, and shit all over it (referring to the "business needs" or some other bullshit like that), and add more stuff. So the clueless manager adds more stuff to the page and gives it to a graphic designer (and if they are smart enough, a UI-designer will be involved). So two weeks later the designer comes up with some nice-looking version of the pile of crap he was given. There are 10-15 meetings with the executives of all levels discussing it for months, including the colors of the links, and shitting all over designer's artistic decisions. All of that costing them a ton of money, by the way. So in the end they all get sick and tired of it, and end up with the piece of garbage that they hate the least.

Repeat in 2-5 years.

I've seen this at large corporations at least a couple of times.
That hit HN fast! I'm the founder of FathomDB (YC W08) & the primary author of PlatformLayer.

PlatformLayer lets you run anything as a service: MySQLaaS, RedisAAS, NginxAAS, DnsAAS etc. It's based on the code & know-how from running MySQL-as-a-service for FathomDB.

I'm planning a series of explanatory blog posts & better documentation. In the meantime, I'll hang out here to answer any questions.
This is my first exposure to gambit scheme. I just compiled this hello world (in scheme, not clojure):

(define hello-world (lambda () (display "Hello world!") (newline)))

(hello-world)

And it compiles to 5mb. Is this the standard library? Can I expect to more complicated applications to not balloon up in size?
I'd be careful about drawing any conclusions from a first, second, or even tenth impression. That unsettling feeling may just be unfamiliarity. What you really want is a sense of what it would be like after you've developed a feel for it - admittedly something of a chicken-and-egg problem.

What used to feel like "pure abstraction" to me now feels like lightweight (if dense) code whose shape is determined by the problem rather than by arbitrary constraints and noise.
There was some interesting discussion about bloggers breaking news and attribution here: http://gigaom.com/2012/02/25/is-linking-just-polite-or-is-it... (and in related twitter discussions)

I'm not entirely familiar with 'old media' practices, but I always thought if two news outlets independently confirmed a news story they didn't acknowledge whoever broke the story first. Or if another news outlet breaks a story, they independently confirm and don't give attribution, since technically, they confirmed the story, so it's 'their news.' I've only heard a news source attribute another source when news is breaking in real time (i.e. X is reporting 7 are dead at the scene). Breaking a story != confirming or actually being a journalist's source.

In some cases, attribution is very important - like in the original post. However, I think a lot of 'new media' beef with old media practices is just a shift in ideology . Bloggers are closer to the action and transparency is more important. Old media is much more rigorous but is less transparent. I personally think the best approach is something in between the two.
Beyond the new header, the giant grid of products below still looks pretty ugly. It's probably based on sales, and it makes sense to not lose any money for looks but it's a little depressing to think that an uglier design gets more sales.
Agreed. What type of app requires you to give up your credentials to something as sensitive as your infrastructures credentials?! No fucking way. Fix this asap.

Edit: Any admin that gives these up should probably not be in the role they are. I'd fire someone over something like this. The OP commented further down that "64%" gave up their credentials. I think their bosses need to know about that or their clients should be warned.

I don't care who this guys is and how much assurance he can offer; there is no reason for this.
Oh man, it was posted one hour earlier and mine got all the votes: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3808719. I blame the new localized blogspot[.com].xx domains, I suggest that HN should special case these when looking for duplicates.
It's not 85-93% not responding, but 85-93% responding with crap that took some effort to produce. Also if you're actually interested in the position, you're going to be doing more than an hours work (if that's what you want to call it) in the interview process. Lastly, it would be work if I were tricking people into doing something I used as R&D or actual production end-product. This exercise simply establishes qualification.
Why do these "top applicants" not want to do coding pre-screens? If I do a coding pre-screen, it means I will get to work with only people who are capable of doing it. That bar may be high or low, but it is often better than a bar that does not involve any actual programming. It also means that I won't spend a huge proportion of my time with the company talking on the phone to people who can't fizzbuzz, which is a pretty good perk if you ask me.

So far, 2 of 4 companies I have applied to have had a coding pre-screen and 1 of 2 companies that I have worked for have had a coding pre-screen.
I can't imagine the casinos haven't thought of this; some reasons they might not do it:

- People already think "the longer I've played without winning, the greater the chance I'll win now, because I'm 'due'", so there's no need to actually alter the odds (which would cost money)

- Or, maybe they're just afraid that people collapsing and dying at the slot machines (of dehydration, starvation, or exhaustion) would lead to bad publicity and more stringent regulation.
Yup. We used mochijson2.
I agree with you that the students need a good course in statistics and probability. Also, anyone who bring up wave-particle duality should be shot and stripped of her physics degree.

However, that probability background is useless if they never actually calculate any probabilities. Doing angular momentum and Clesch-Gordan tables are the simplest possible quantum systems to calculate that I'm aware of. Doing an infinite square well takes too much calculus. We could always give them the wavefunction, but then they're not really learning the physics part of it and it's just an applied probability lesson. Doing Clebsh-Gordan and angular momentum calculations just requires basic algebra, but it will still give real results for honest experiments.

Of course, I'm probably biased, since a large amount of my research involves particle spin. What would you have the students calculate?
I'm not debating your position on whether or not Steve did the polyphasic sleep, but none of those links don't really have much actual evidence of him being(or specifically call him) a liar or a charlatan.
Good read, congrats and thanks for sharing! Did you guys come up with all of those resume designs yourself? Or did you have any outside help?
I suppose creating a privilege-less IAM user to test web apps is going to become as prevalent as having a throwaway junk email address.
Big Data, Small Decisions
Still no C API/Library/Tutorial. I just sent an email to the dev list, but for anyone interested: check out pouch [0], a library I wrote.

[0] https://github.com/peterldowns/pouch
This stuff fascinates me. Cryengine 3 (the engine behind Crysis 2) was already doing some lightweight photorealistic techniques like approximating light bouncing around with a technique called light propagation volumes:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPQ3BbuYVh8

But the OP's video is much more brute force from what I understand.
1W = 1J/s, so might it be more accurate to say that deleting 41 exabytes costs at least 1 Joule?

(TIL 1 exabyte = 2^30 gigabytes, but I expect I'll forget again.)
That being said, there are still mac builds in the works
"for the same reasons listed in the sleepmemo article"

Do you have a link to this article? I couldn't find it on either of those blogs.

EDIT: parent must mean this:

http://www.supermemo.com/articles/polyphasic2010.htm
Well ... yeah ... you said "desktop" (as opposed to just starting "a single client", was the context). I guess you meant "existing desktop session". I don't see "existing desktop session" as the obvious alternative of "single client".
SBCL: "This implementation is not as polished and painless as you might like:

"It corrupts the current Lisp image enough that the current process needs to be killed afterwards. This can be worked around by forking another process that saves the core.

"There is absolutely no binary compatibility of core images between different runtime support programs. Even runtimes built from the same sources at different times are treated as incompatible for this purpose.

"This isn't because we like it this way, but just because there don't seem to be good quick fixes for either limitation and no one has been sufficiently motivated to do lengthy fixes."

CLISP: "Memory images are not portable across different platforms (in contrast with platform-independent #P".fas" files). They are not even portable across linking sets: image saved using the full linking set cannot be used with the base runtime:

$ clisp -K full -x '(EXT:SAVEINITMEM)'
$ clisp -K base -M lispinit.mem

base/lisp.run: initialization file `lispinit.mem' was not created by this version of CLISP runtime"

These are the sorts of perennial problems common to image-based languages, specifically those that use "undump"-ish methods to create executables.
This is more like Splenda, not sugar
I think FB was able to quantify and monetize a certain kind of social tie its founders were probably aloof from themselves - bullshit friendship. I'm guessing Zuckerberg approached this with the irony of any self-respecting geek, ensaring phonies in their own "Let's be friends" routine.

Sure, it's brilliant. But it's incredibly misanthropic, because it really thrives on the worst impulses in human nature. Underneath those phony platitudes might be genuinely caring individuals, but now thanks to Zuck, that one lie they told in college - "Let's be friends, call me" - will be etched on their facebook pages long after they're gone.
It's interesting to note that most of the Java language design was specifically targeted at the social aspect of writing software.
Google's Project Glass [0], which depicts a user entering a book store and wanting to locate the "Music section." [1]

[0] https://plus.google.com/u/0/111626127367496192147/posts

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9c6W4CCU9M4&feature=youtu...
This description is a bit confusing, so I'll assume that the protocol was this:

100 people are asked a possibly self-incriminating question - "Are you indulging in bad activity X?" They are expected to toss a coin. If the coin said tails, they are expected to give a truthful answer. If the coin said heads, they are expected to say "Yes."

Now, no single person needs to worry about self-incrimination, since they can always claim that their "Yes" answer was the result of a "heads" on the coin toss. But still, you can get an estimate of the percentage of bad activity X going on, by subtracting 50 from the number of "Yes" answers and doubling.

(This is assuming of course that the subjects believe your claim that there is no way for individuals to self-incriminate - which is certainly not a given, IMO.)
hey, congrats. That's like the perfect step by step for a launch.

Good Luck.
YC already do something similar with StartupSchool[1] and the founders do other stuff as well [2][3]. Similarly if you have any questions, most of them openly 'advertise' their emails on their blogs etc as well.

[1] http://startupschool.org/

[2] http://askolo.com/ycalumni - Additionally some YC founders and YC Partners have profiles there as well

[3] http://blog.iamexec.com/post/20415502048/rent-a-tech-company...
Are you producing the resumes manually? or do you have software that handles it?
Love the idea, and your products look amazing. I've definitely got the site bookmarked if (when?) I ever need to hit the job market again.

My only concern with these types of resumes is that I've heard stuff like this can't be read by automated resume parsers used by some companies. I don't know how true that really is, does anyone know?
Now assign to the closed-over value :)
> your friends can volunteer information about you indirectly by using "smart lists"

I didn't even know about this, but it illustrates that merely signing up exposes you to potential privacy violations. We recently became aware of how much of a liability it is for employers to look at Facebook profiles, because they may learn intimate details about a person's sexual orientation, religion, politics, etc. The only solution is to never look.

Likewise, the only way to adequately protect your privacy is to never sign up on Facebook. BTW, this takes care of the employer problem, too.
Something interesting I think the article did not mention is that given the difference between the two sets of experiments, where you roll once vs you roll 3 times.

As a participant I'd feel more inclined to lie about my first roll if I rolled a higher number in my second or third attempt.

I'd be very interested in the results if n was not 76 but instead 7600.
I had the same reaction. Fully agree with both you and the OP.
I think you underestimate the effect of peer pressure. It is likely to be one of the most strongest pressures of all for a social beeing such as humans.
The "Business Week" story about brogrammers which sparked a lot of the recent conversation talks about brogrammers programming with one hand while doing pushups with the other.

That's just laughable.
Steve, I think the idea is terrific and am a fan of yours. I'm a recruiter, but I'm very pro any solution that cuts the amount of noise in this industry. I recently posted about this problem here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3771806

That said, what incentive do recruiters have to email you and justify their existence when there are no constraints on posting a job?
Thats a great connection you've made between seemingly disconnected & distant disciplines. If we figure out the actual biological and chemical processes involved in a human body while it is indulging in synthesizing an 'original sin', that would be a big win in terms expanding our species' knowledge-base.

I'm sure there's research out there that explains at least fews bits of it through experiments where they monitor bodily processes when a person is lying. There are some common methods like the lie-detector and GSR methods, but apart from those external monitoring methods, probably also some molecular/cellular-level observations have been made.
That dumping an image lets one quit the image dumped, that images are bound to certain versions of the runtime, etc. are inconvenient for users of images. It is a non-issue for creating an executable.
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The point is that they have no business seeing it in the first place, not so much that they have your password (which is just the icing on the crap cake)
It's for large buildings like airports or malls. You save a few minutes by not having to find a map kiosk.

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/11/new-frontier-for-goog...
I see his role a bit different - RMS stance on software freedom should be understood as a constitution. Setting in stone the ground rules that can then be amended, but not overturned.

Sure - current generations deal with a different reality compared to when he started out, but there is still paramount value in having his philosophy at heart. He may be old fashioned when it comes to new technology and he sure is quirky in a way that drives away some people, but all that doesn't stop people from interpreting what he has done and applying it to the world today.

I think the real problem is that you put RMS on a pedestal that he doesn't belong on. He is not the root node for what happens in Free Software today and I'm sure that the examples you cited weren't really that much about him, or even about the GPL3.

He has a very distinct, central viewpoint: freedom - and the link you quoted shows that you simply have a differing opinion about where to start thinking about software. You start with the user expecting features, RMS starts with the user deserving freedom. Both viewpoints have value, but RMS represents a constant that shouldn't be messed with and does not necessarily get in the way of your objective.

It is much more sensible to respect his service and do your best to live up to the standard he has set than to deconstruct his persona based on it being somewhat anachronistic. In my opinion, the best progress is made in dialog with our history, not in annoyed, knee-jerk revolt against it.
There is surely even more to be said for making it a little easier for people anywhere in the world to give you money.
Silly money isn't a good recruiting tactic in my experience (from the original dot com boom days - which was the only time I ever had silly money available :-):

* It motivates B and C players more. So you get a lot more chaff to filter out in your application process. You also get many more D players (the ones who are knowingly incompetent and are actively trying to deceive you into recruiting them).

* The major motivation of A players usually isn't money (once you reach the "fair wage" stage). So you don't attract that many extra A players.

* Some of the A players who do get tempted by the extra cash discover that it's not quite as wonderful as they expect and leave for more interesting work. Wasting large chunks of your time and money.

* It may turn some A players off. There's a unwritten rule that you get more cash to make up for dull work. So offering silly money implies to some that the work is going to be exceptionally uninteresting.

The absolute best way I know to recruit A players is:

0) Understand the role that needs filling and the kind of person that needs to fill it

1) Have a really interesting job

2) Know how to access the A players

(I'm amazed at the number of organisations I come across that skip step 0...)