skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's funny how people think that source code is a company's most valuable asset.

Realistically, what is someone going to do with the Facebook source code? Put up a Facebook clone? First, they need the infrastructure set up that can actually host the code. Then they need to figure out how to deploy it. I bet there are enough gotchas in that process to make it nearly impossible to do without having a few people from the company there to help.

So if they do get it running, what then? You have a social networking site that can scale to hundreds of millions of users, but you have NO users. It isn't any better than Facebook, so why would anyone join?
Then is it considered counterproductive or rude for an employee to always have his or her headphones on? Or do you have something like an in office chat room that everyone is expected to respond to?
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It seems fast enough to use on mozilla-central (the Firefox repo), which is huge.

I can't find some files, though. If I type :

ctrp+p, mediaelement, it should find content/html/content/src/nsHTMLMediaElement.cpp, and it does not. I tried to set the maximum depth, but it didn't work. In fact, it does not match content/html/content files.

Another thing that I find annoying, is that when I remove multiple characters, it does its matching thing again, and because I type the backspace pretty fast, it kind of locks up for a second or so.

Anyway, other the couple quirks mentionned, excellent plugin, works out of the box.
Personal Security at Social ID
FYI, SpiderOak has always supported zero knowledge encryption, and recently launched an enterprise product. https://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9226176/SpiderOak_la...
Does B&N really have those resources though? At their current burn-rate, Microsoft gave B&N a few quarters of extra runway. It's not clear that the underlying fundamentals have changed all that much though.
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Got a letter from them and said i qualified to receive 2 complimentary tickets. So i called them out of curiosity and to my surprise they give me the tickets.
I have this installed as it comes with Janus (https://github.com/carlhuda/janus), and it's excellent. I tried to get Command-T to work in the past and failed, but this works with no problems, and is incredibly useful.
Cadillac To Release Self-Driving Cars By 2015
Sketch: New Vector Graphics App Competes with Adobe Illustrator for $49
There have been enough stories about how Facebook and Google are misusing our information so they had to put a misleading spin on this story. I can only imagine that Facebook's source code changes frequently, so what is stole rapidly depreciates in value anyway.
One thing I've never heard a neuroscientist answer (although I have asked at least a dozen) is how to distinguish between the expression of consciousness and the generation of consciousness (i.e. the difference between a light bulb and an electrical generator). It's interesting to consider this question when we include the fact that the brain can't really operate without good blood flow into the brain. When blood flow is blocked the function of the brain (as well as the expression of consciousness) are blocked.
It's time there is an honest discussion internationally about the biggest shame of western capitalism, tax shelters. It's not just big tech, it's everywhere. What benefit does the world earn from this global sneaking around?
The article's gist is that there is the "right"* thing to do and the pragmatic thing, something I've seen discussed on HN before [1]. The pragmatic thing is recognising that there's juicier fruit on lower branches, i.e. personal income and consumption, in terms of cost of securing the tax income and risk of adverse effects/the taxee wiggling out.

*I believe value destruction is unethical, sourcing my sense of ethics from the perspective of global long-run production. A company moving assets from the inefficient US government to its private, profitable book is thus good to me. This isn't to start a philosophical flame war on this but to point out that you can't assume this behaviour automatically falls into the "legal, but shitty" area for everyone.

[1] http://www.marco.org/2012/02/25/right-vs-pragmatic
"Grump developer reading hacker news sorely wants to make bullshit article headlines a thing of the past."
Bringing Open Education to the Mainstream
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Personally, I've noticed people vacillate between hating their jobs and liking their jobs just fine, despite no real change in day-to-day management, policy, recognition, etc.

What I've seen as the big parts of the puzzle are stagnant wages, longer hours and whether people perceive themselves as trapped. (higher overall unemployment ~= less chance of switching ~= less happy)
Scholars to Apply Facial Recognition Software to Unidentified Portrait Subjects
So that the methods don't need to be re-defined for every object.
Thanks for sharing, the shadow-box trick it really enhance the page. I don't know if you use it, but LiveReload (livereload.com) can help speed up the refresh page each time that you change something (html, css).
There's content on that site that no advertiser wants to be associated with, that's why.
Social gifting: the new buzzword in e-commerce
Agree, but they were also very lucky that some other team didn't come up with the idea and executed during that time.
As a pragmatist, I’m willing to assume anything that’s indistinguishable from a conscious being is indeed conscious. In other words, understanding how a robot’s brain works does not preclude said brain from harbouring true consciousness—otherwise, studying our own brains would be a kind of very slow intellectual suicide.
UCLA researchers combat global disease with a cell phone
Walking Dead Game, It's Dead Good
Bridging the Gender Gap: Why More Women Aren't Computer Scientists, Engineers
Life after the Google Penguin.
It's getting like a nightmare vision of capitalism in the 1980s. You know like Robocop or Gremlins 2 where the city sold out to corporations. Corporate interest over common sense.

We'll just have to mail DivXs to each other like we did in the late 90s when bandwith was low...
IT engineers ponder fix to dangerous Internet routing problem
Lets see: http://4chan.org

I'll let you know if I get arrested.
There seems to be a bug when in full path fuzzy mode. In the CtrlP window, hit ctrl-d (match file name only) and see if it works.
I googled but didn't find anything I understood. Can you explain without giving a course in computation theory?
DropShare: Drag and Drop file sharing
Google since they acquired Metaweb. Although they might have acquired it just for the talent.
‘Bullet time' signals to stop cyber attacks on grid
Interesting article. It does not change what I said at all.

Government cannot and should not exist in isolation of reality. In this case, a reduction in tax revenue was a result of a reality that caused catastrophic damage to the lives of millions of Americans and destroyed businesses far and wide. Not so if you were in government. In that case you got to live inside this protected environment at the expense of all of those who were suffering on the outside. Notice how the article you point to chronicles all of the efforts to raise tax revenue in a variety of creative ways.

What is conspicuous due to its absence are the cuts. No talk about cuts. Nobody in government ever gets fired or laid-off. Why?

If I have a business and times are tough I cut my spending. I might move t cut marketing. Maybe even move my operation to a cheaper location. Downsize my building. Find ways to become more efficient. And, yes, eventually, if there are not other options and sales are down, I have to lay off employees.

At the personal level, if a member of the family looses her job or is hit with a reduction in income you take the same kinds of steps to achieve fiscal balance: No more Starbucks; Cheaper (or no) satellite TV plan; No more dining out; Rent movies instead of going to the theater; more camping, less hotel vacations; etc.

This isn't an academic exercise for me. I've lived this. I've had to live through economic difficulties and have had to make the tough choice to let valuable people go in order to ensure the survival of my businesses. I've had to make serious personal adjustments in order to adapt to new economic conditions. You do what you have to do and come out the other end stronger and, what's more important, alive to continue moving forward.

There's nothing I detest more than the fact that we have allowed government to exist in nearly absolute isolation of our realities. They are supposed to work for us. The reality is that we work for them. That is fundamentally wrong.

The talk in Sacramento (and D.C.) should never be about raising revenue but rather about optimizing the available revenue and giving us the most for our money. And, yes, this should also mean adapting to economic conditions; adjusting workforce size accordingly; becoming more efficient; not entering into criminal contracts with unions; not spending more than is available --ever-- and, in general, living by the same rules everyone else has to live by.

The California problem isn't a reduction in revenue. It is the combination of that along with the inflexibility of government rules, services and systems to adapt. There's more than one variable in this equation, it can't always be "revenue, revenue, revenue".
Adoption is a loaded word that needs to be unpacked.

Adoption is not buying or selling a pet, just like adoption of a human is not buying or selling.

Rescuing a pet from a shelter, while paying for medical expenses or even rescue expenses, is not buying/selling.

Buying a pet from a pet store or mill is buying/selling.

It's important to distinguish adoption of an orphan pet/human (where the only payment is for care expenses) to adoption of a pet/human that was created/capture expressly for sale.

Breeding is a hazy middle ground, which I suppose is what you first had in mind with "adoption"
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I'm absolutely flabbergasted by the quality of writing. Speechless.
Honestly I'd love to hate Big Corp for doing this. But this really is one of those "Don't Hate The Player - Hate the Game" kind of scenarios.

I may run a tiny LLC but I damn well try to get my tax burden down as low as possible too. I can't really fault the Apple's and Chevron's of the World for doing the same.

If we want substantive change in the tax system we should be shaming those in our Government who bend backwards to serve corporate interests.
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If you're on Ubuntu and do not want to build vim with Ruby support, but still want to use Command-T for some reason, install vim-nox.

That being said, ctrlp is less of a headache since it's pure vimscript like the headline says.
This "dropoff" coincides with a change in management philosophy in favor of "lean" organizations where a manager might have 12 to 20 reports instead of 3 to 5. No one can manage 20 people decently.

This "lean" model has a number of results, but chief among them is that managerial accountability is only upward. With this model, even a terrible manager will have 2 or 3 loyal reports who do good work, clean up the messes, and pick up the slack. Usually, these are the 2-3 who are established enough to know the ropes and be effective, and who are holding on because they hope to outlive the bad manager.

Fundamentally, the problem is a system where decent managers are overburdened, bad managers aren't caught out, and almost all companies are poorly managed in general. The smart people figure this out and jump ship as soon as they figure out they're not going anywhere.
Moore's law is a relationship between transistor count and cost.

The physical limits of the universe govern transistor density.

Cost may continue to drop in the face of increasing tranistor count for some years: dies will have to get bigger, but yields on big dies have a lot of improvement left. We may see chips get cheaper and cheaper even if the feature size never drops.
I just overheard Wincent say that Command-T was always written in C because previous Ruby plugins that attempted to accomplish the same thing was too slow. Command-T was written to be instant.
What's the easiest way to install this? I have pathogen if that makes any difference...
As e-book war rages, Microsoft invests in Barnes & Nobles
Oh, well. Oh. OK. So...... yeah, that'll be nice.

I am actually sure that most of the Heavy Metal bands he played would gladly hand over rights to the music and artwork. They should talk to Napalm Death.
Why do you assume that consciousness is unlikely to be created accidentally?

It already happened once, with humans.
As a quick and dirty test I tried running both Command-T and Ctrl-P against a directory tree containing some 26,000 XML files. Command-T takes roughly 10-15 seconds to become responsive. Ctrl-P chokes and requires a Vim restart after invoking it against this directory.
Analogies to infinity don't.
The Travelling Salesman Problem as Art
"This tries to find visually distinct colors that humans will be able to distinguish."

Which are also vomitously ugly. There's a reason graphic designers don't rely purely on algorithms to select their palettes for them.
How is it unethical for companies to legally pay low taxes? First, realize that a company's tax isn't money growing on trees. Companies pay these taxes by decreasing profits for shareholders, decreasing wages for employees, or increasing the prices of goods and services to consumers (and usually all three). Someone is hurt by collecting these taxes. The idea that government can then go on to spend this money in a way that is more beneficial to society than the cost imposed underlies the assumption that it somehow a good idea to take from some to benefit others.

Most people believe that the State must collect some taxes from its subjects, but is this corporate income tax the best method? Increasing the cost of goods essentially taxes consumers in a regressive manner, irrespective of their ability to bear these increased costs. Lowering wages of company employees discourages work and lowers the income taxes collected by the government on these reduced wages. Finally, reducing the profits of shareholders reduces the taxes that would have been collected on dividends and capital gains when the shares are sold; more significantly, reducing the value of investing in companies discourages the creation of wealth and jobs for all of us by reducing the incentives to start and invest in companies.

If you think it is unethical to pay few taxes (and realize that for the reasons in the previous paragraph all other countries of the world tax their companies at lower rates than the USA), then you must believe that it is somehow more ethical to pay higher taxes (than is actually owed). If this is so, why aren't you sending in double what you owe in taxes? By your own statements aren't you acting unethically?
What are you talking about? A desktop today has no problem playing two dozen low-bitrate mp3s from disk, streaming a dozen movie trailers from youtube at 240p, playing WoW, and talking on Skype at the same time.

Now if you try to do that with only itunes or windows media player or equivalent "monolithic" player, you'll probably run into some slowdown, but only because those are designed to maximize the experience for one single piece of media at a time. Something like media player classic would do it in a heartbeat though.
I genuinely have no clue what your question means and entails (as a neuroscientist with a reasonable undergraduate career in anglo-american philosophy). Can you elaborate?
When Zappos was sold to Amazon and Mint was sold to Intuit, I had the same pathetic angst as when I started hearing Nirvana and Pearl Jam on commercial radio.

I liked those guys before everyone else did!
That's not true. Conspiracies and cohorts and partnerships are aggregations of people.

Corporations are legal entities owned and managed by people.

(LLPs are a weird in-between thing.)
Is exploiting tax loopholes really unethical?

Some would argue that the government is the biggest waste of money there is. I'm not saying that's my belief, but let's entertain that thought for a minute. If you believe that the government wastes most, say 95%, of its money on stupid things that should never receive a dollar from anyone (like the war in Iraq, to pick a random one), and you believe that you personally can do more with that money in terms of "making the world a better place", then it follows that paying as little tax as possible is the ethical choice.

Let's take an example: Bill Gates. Bill Gates is currently the second richest man on earth, according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forbes_list_of_billionaires . Did he use all those tax schemes on his way there? You bet your bottom dollar he did. Now he's using this money directly to solve problems like curing Africa of Malaria. Do you think he's using that money more efficiently than a government programme would? I'd bet on that too.

Would the world be better off if the US government had $20b more and Bill Gates had $20b less? I don't think so. I think Bill Gates can use the money much more intelligently than the US government ever could.

So, is it unethical to pour less money into the pointless furnace of wasteful government?

I'm not saying this point of view is the only point of view out there. But to declare tax avoidance outright "unethical" is a failure in perspective.
This is a very good intro to JS OO. Keep up the good work.
I'm launching a product shortly that offers exactly this feature to Dropbox (or Google Drive, SkyDrive, ...). It's a native OSX and Windows app that keeps the keys on the users' computer and transparently encrypts and decrypts files before they're sent to your cloud storage provider.

The product is in beta right now but I'd love some more people to try it out. If you sign up at http://safeboxapp.com, you'll get a download link to try it out.
Related:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3881315

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3878730
What do you feel should be cut in government? Where do you feel that money is being misappropriated?
I think that the younger the child, the more likely they are to see a robot as a toy. Children assign properties of intelligence and feelings to toys, without necessarily believing them to be sentient or human-like. I don't think it's so much that 9-year-olds think slavery is OK, it's that they think of it as a toy ownership issue, not a human rights issue.
The media like stereotypes. This is one of the newest, it'll be gone soon to be replaced by something equally banal.
It feels more like one side of an IM conversation than an essay, what with the missing periods and stilted

spacing
Hulu to Change Model of Free Streaming
Also, it can sort by MRU and switch mode (Ctrl-B/F) while its window is shown. And mark multiple files.
Go huddle!
Not in this instance, as the court case wasn't in the US, but in London.

In the UK the Crown Prosecution Service decides whether to prosecute, and that involves 'any views expressed by the victim' [1]. If the victim has withdrawn their complaint, then the CPS will decide whether prosecuting is in 'the public interest'.

1) http://www.cps.gov.uk/victims_witnesses/reporting_a_crime/de...
You can write your browser automation tests in JavaScript. See WebDriverJS, Jelly, or PhantomJS.

* http://code.google.com/p/selenium/wiki/WebDriverJs

* http://jelly.io

* http://phantomjs.org/
A raspberry pi with the appropriate programs installed might be a good choice. Its what I plan on giving my nephew when its more avialable.
I hadn't thought about the fragmentation angle here. That's downright fiendish. Good old Microsoft.
I like in my Chrome how the box generation keeps going on while the tab is blurred/deselected, but simulation is halted... then, when focusing back on the tab, a bunch of on-the-same-spot generated boxes get simulated again and explode in all directions.
The very idea that "true art" cannot be made for hire is largely (though not exclusively) a product of 19th century romanticism. This isn't limited to music. Pick any famous piece by Raphael, Michelangelo, Bernini, Rembrandt... Chances are it was made for hire. Literature has more exceptions, like Shakespeare writing for a playing company of which he was part owner.

It would be really interesting to explore how making art for hire, which used to be the norm for centuries, came to be looked down upon in the last century and a half. Probably a lot of economic factors worked together to produce that effect.
Gmail recommends (or requires) SSL for both IMAP[1] and POP[2].

[1] http://support.google.com/mail/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answe...
[2] https://support.google.com/mail/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answ...
This page could really use some explanatory text. I have no idea what it does, so I'm hesitant to click "Login with twitter"
KISS is not a magic formula, though. The precursor to SOAP was XML-RPC which is very simple. So simple it didn't allow time zones in datetimes, and didn't support characters beyond ASCII in strings. There was no way to extend XML-RPC to support unicode or unambigous datetimes. This basically killed XML-RPC for most of the world. JSON already have problems because there is no datetime format. People need datetimes, so several incompatible hacks have been designed to represent datetimes as strings. There is no way to extend JSON to support proper datetimes.

The complexities in SOAP are there because someone need it. Someone already have invented a schema language for JSON: http://json-schema.org/. If every feature from the SOAP stack is reinvented for JSON, JSON will end up as complex as SOAP. Then someone else will surely invent yet a new standard (web-sexprs?) and claim it saves us from the needless complexity of the JSON-stack.

The bottom line: Some systems have simple needs, some systems have complex needs. Making a format layered and extensible (like the SOAP-stack) introduces additional complexity. But a non-extensible format requires complex hacks if your needs grows beyond what the format were design for. There is no perfect one-size-fits-all data format.
Off the top of my head:

* Million dollar Vegas conferences? (Recent GSA scandal)
* Guantanamo Bay
* Unnecessary military bases all over the world

Give me a day and access to the books for any branch of government and I would bet my life savings on being able to find hundreds of thousands of wasted dollars, if not millions.
The blurb that sparked the article:

> We are not our brains. We are "conscious agents"... It's
> very good news that you are not your brain, because when
> your mind finds its true power, the result is healing,
> inspiration, insight, self-awareness, discovery,
> curiosity, and quantum leaps in personal growth. The
> brain is totally incapable of such things. After all, if
> it is a hard-wired machine, there is no room for sudden
> leaps and renewed inspiration...

Not to slight the blog response under discussion, but the quoted paragraph betrays such deep ignorance of basic neurobiology that any reaction seems like a waste of time. It's quite literally a (neuro-)philosophical equivalent of "Lots of spinach, ergo sum".
If you're rolling your own you still need to solve the problem of key management, which is not mentioned in the article. Simply storing they key next to data will accomplish nothing. For that I would recommend one of few approaches:

1. Using iOS keychain. The nice thing about it is that it's transparent to the user and easy to explain - "we store it he same way Mail app stores your email password".

2. Asking the user to enter a pass phrase and use it as an encryption key. The key here is to resist the urge to hash the phrase to turn it into a key, and instead use a well known key derivation function for the same purpose.
I'm not sure you're right to single out corporations here. It seems like all the Real People I know who are aware of simple things they could do to pay less in taxes end up doing them as well.
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