skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Further, it fits with a recent fad, by "helping" you making that old-school-biological-baggage of yours fit with your fast paced modern lifestyle, a subject I really do not appreciate as the articles regarding it are, as the piece in question examplifies, usually just fluff for pageviews. "How to cook excellently in 3 min", "How to raise a family and be a CEO" etc...

We live in a day and age where in order to make ends meet, both parents need to work. Not only that, but some women actually have aspirations outside of just being a mother and they have every right to do so. If women need to make blog posts about shortcuts they've found in order to streamline their lifestyles, so be it. This woman's blog is also probably how she connects with family and friends, not a place for some random passerby to make a judgment on her life.

Moreover, pregnancy is a huge ordeal mentally, physically and emotionally. In the grand scheme of time, it's also relatively recently that we've been able to ensure you won't die from it. Some people find giving birth to be the very purpose of life, so she has every right to "glorify" it.
"What's being called 'skeuomorphic' is not at all skeuomorphic," he contends. "They're kitsch visual metaphors, but they're not the unintentional side-effects of technological evolution. In every case in the Apple UI debate, a designer is consciously responsible for the metaphor. Might be bad taste, but that's all."
Your assumption is that Google is doing this to build buzz.

They could just as well have component supply problems.
OAuth 2.0 for Windows 8 using Salesforce.com
A Tiny Base Station Makes Dumb Phones Smarter
Why the Social Networking Oligopoly Needs to be Broken Open
This makes a lot of sense. The more people use public transit (because it becomes much less painless thanks to apps like Embark), the more you reduce congestion on the road, the more fun it is to drive your BMW.

Congratulations to the team!
Asynchronous HTTP with JAX-RS 2.0
That worked for me too :). Thanks for the tip.
I'm going to take this opportunity to shamelessly plug my company, Thinglet Software. We're a mobile & web boutique based in Southern California.

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That doesn't really help as GnuPG encrypts the message contents, but doesn't hide sender and recipients. In this case they could still have figured out who sent the messages even if they didn't figure out the contents. Then you apply traffic analysis to proceed to the next step http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traffic_analysis

The only way they could have avoided detection using GnuPG is if they did something like always sending the same length message at the same time every day.
A few hundred dollars spent in conference with a lawyer who specialises in trade mark law will let you know your options. A good investment in my view... in many jurisdictions there are penalties for falsely alleging trade mark infringement.
Google's new Toronto office (pics)
Scala: Our Retrospective of the benefits/drawbacks
Gr8 intro article. Couple of tips.

You can buy stock and sell out of the money calls against them, thus reducing the overall purchase price. The stock can be called away if it rises above the strike price thereby capping the profits. However, you can always roll the options when you near the strike price and expiration. That way, you don't loose the stock when its having a great run. This also works in the specific case of sitting on FB stock from day one and being in a big hole at the moment. Keep selling out of the money calls and having them expire worthless, but keep rolling them to the next month when they get close to expiration.
He was not fired. He resigned [1].

1. http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2012/11/09/david-p...
"All we needed was an idea for a product that people were willing to pay for"

This is the difficult part, in my opinion.

Sure, "Ideas are all around us" but finding one that people will genuinely pay for, in a market big enough to be profitable yet not already saturated with high quality competitors, is very difficult.
The Truth About Motivation: What It Is and Why It Works
The "Big Here" Quiz: Do you know where you are?
The main point was the Model S could easily be just as thermodynamically efficient as the Leaf.

On a side note, I can't fit my family of 5 in a Leaf since kids have to be in a car-seat until age 8, and fitting 3 car-seats in the backseat of a Leaf is a no-go.
Accessing anything from TOR in his position would be silly, because that sort of activity is likely to be picked up on many computers he might use. Why have to explain why you're trying to hide your tracks?

I would buy a cheap tablet or an iPod touch or something, use it only at public wifi spots, only ever use it for this purpose, keep music or whatever on it as a cover, and wipe the device as frequently as possible.

Not foolproof, but reasonably practical.
I can vouch for this.

I took about a year off to explore alternative careers and personal pursuits after working at a tech firm for 3 years. I returned to the industry and was recruited within a few months back into a spinoff from my original firm.

Of course, this presupposes that you maintain your skills, and that you don't burn any bridges when you leave.
Top Army General Demoted For Spending Taxpayer Money On A Lavish Lifestyle
It's funny how almost anything that Petraeus could have done to keep this under wraps would have made it look like he was actually committing high treason and supplying national secrets to unknown foreign nationals.

Encrypted code words to burner phones, encrypted emails to unknown recipients, using non-standard apps, using non-standard phones, using multiple phones/laptops/internet connections - almost any type of non-standard communication would've looked like he was committing high treason.

Affairs are like that, huh?
Definitely vaults google to one of the best offices in Canada. The company I work at (Shopify) has got to be in the rankings as well. It's so nice to see companies investing in corporate culture and creative work spaces. We spend a huge part of our lives at the office... why not make it as enjoyable as possible?
Nexus 4 looks like a great phone - very comparable to the Galaxy S III. Since the fair price of a new or virtually new S3 on eBay is about $450, the Nexus 4 at $299 new is a steal if you don't need a microSD slot.
So do you have to be born a crypto expert then?

I get what you are saying but the idea that people should not try to learn is ridiculous. If someone is truly interested they need to be told to go ahead. Encourage caution, but not ignorance. When someone asks why ECB is bad then tell them, or tell them to go read up on it.
Not surprised to see "Datagenetics Blog" in that list. You can tell there's a lot of research and effort behind every article. It is also one of the few blogs where I'm genuinely learning something as opposed to solely getting entertained. http://datagenics.com/blog (seems to be down now)
Easy fix: Become a freelancer :-)
If you weren't interested why did you comment? Must have something that motivated you. Sounds like you have an axe to grind
Why not become a contractor and you are in control of how much you work because you really work for yourself? You might not control when you are on a project, but work hard for 3-4 months build up income, then when its done take some time off an live off what you built up. No need to leave money on the table because you don't think you need it now. Go travel, tour with your band, sit on your couch and eat cheesy poofs and pot pie, whatever. You can work as much or as little as you like.

Before you brush this off what you're talking about is a very tenuous relationship with your employer that isn't providing you any stability, AND more than likely you'll loose your benefits. Those are the same things you'd be giving up if you went freelance so there is little downside to freelance vs part time.
ACE to Evaluate Credit Equivalency for Coursera’s Online Courses
You're right, I was using the manage page to add a resource. It's working now.

You could put a duplicate of the button at the bottom of the list or just show it when there are no resources in the list.

I see that separating the profile and account setting makes sense. Maybe I was confused because I didn't expect to have as many profile settings. You could add a link between the two pages to clarify it further.

Good luck!
As a soon to be first time job hunter (beyond internships): how do I find jobs that aren't 50 hr+/wk death marches? Should I consider government? I say this because the internships I've already done I've been encouraged to work weekends.
What is a USB Port Blocker?
>So if I'm on Verizon and I buy this, what speeds should I expect?

It won't operate on Verizon's network. GSM only.
That's known as keeping the honour to yourself.

It means that you've become a liability to the organization that you serve so it is better to leave out of your own accord than to be thrown out. This is the quickest way to kill the storm. Imagine what it would have been like if this had been drawn out over many months, it's bad enough as it is.

Resigning looks so much better than being thrown out so if someone has messed up but on the whole has done an ok job (or in the case of Petraeus even a pretty good one) then giving them the option to bow out rather than to be tossed under the bus is a good thing. For everybody involved.
This phone will not work on Verizon or Sprint.
This is a wonderful essay!

I often think about how extraordinarily lucky I am to be living through this technological boom. Computation, automation and mass-communication will continue to transform human society even more for decades. High-end software development skills will become even more scarce. Immersing yourself in the boom by running a software shop with a bunch of good friends - the best of times!

Earlier tonight I was talking to someone about how odd it seems to me that software startups normally aim to operate at a loss. Perhaps I am a romantic, but I like the idea of a business making a good profit. Especially when dealing with something as lucrative as software, a business should be profitable from day one. I have always regarded David and Jason highly for having a similar attitude.
> As I thought, Google is way smarter than Apple to be prepared for high volume sales on it's platform.

Haha. You have to laugh at how ridiculous this comment is.
That is why I still love my 06 Toyota Camry They have turn dials I can switch the temperature knob just by muscle memory knowing where the position of my hand is, without every looking at the screen. Or hitting an up or down button and checking back to see if I got to the right temperature. This is definitely safety over technology for me
Ultimately all progress in human material conditions comes from "eliminating jobs". Back In The Day it took 80% of the US population just to keep everyone fed. When tractors came along most of the population went into manufacturing, and with robots people go into services. You can't have more stuff without finding ways to produce the current level of stuff with less people.
Wait, DHH races in Le Mans?
I was thinking about getting "sheeple media", dot com and trademarks but it is a bit condescending if you know what I mean.
Why Steven Sinofsky is out at Microsoft: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4780721
Elon Musk to Mitt Romney: Who's the Loser Now?
Ask HN: What where the key inventions in the history of mankind?
So far I got...

year / invention

-2000000 Stone tools

-1000000 Using fire

-6000 Metal tools

-6000 Agriculture

-4000 Writing

1550 Printing

1888 Telephones

1888 Cars

1903 Planes

1941 Penicillin

1941 First computer

1982 Homecomputers

1983 Mobile phones

1990 The internet

2001 Wikipedia

2004 Facebook

2007 Iphone
What are you talking about ? Apple allowed pre-orders for the iPhone.
I'd say it's been a long time coming!
Definitely agree. It's a great counter to the narrative that everything is getting worse (China's GDP overtaking the US, inflation, higher taxes, etc). The things that really matter to building a business are still awesome.

We're incredibly lucky to live in this time and build stuff with minimal hassle.
first the trampire, now betraeus lol
You'd probably study the factor and how to address it. But you wouldn't set targets for individuals who share the factor collectively.
I sometimes wonder if this is here to stay, and indeed may even expand to other fields; or whether it's a transient phase, and in the future, people without lots to spend on capital won't be able to build businesses. I think the first is correct, but who knows. A serious think about the question and the economics behind it would be fun to read.
The trouble is, it's not something that's immediately spellable (from memory) by someone who hasn't read the book, which limits your potential customers and probably your word of mouth. It would suck if people went to tweet about you and misspelled your URL or name.
I'm the exact same type of person.

Edit:

But this doesn't mean I push what works for me onto the people I work with. It works for me, so I do it. What also works for me is when I feel like not working I leave. When you put in lots of hours, you tend to get those types of freedoms; which I enjoy greatly.
I think the blog is actually http://www.datagenetics.com/blog.html -- I made the same mistake while compiling this post :)

EDIT: Looks like I lost my fix in the post as well. Fixed. Thanks everyone.
Do SSDs improve performance with PostgreSQL if most of your data fits in ram?

I guess it depends on the type of workload (reads vs writes).
Support = USP
Yes, a Porsche GT3 - number 37 of course!

http://37racing.com/about
They're relevant because security is social as well as technical. If you want the systems that your friends or relatives use to be more secure, then you can't just dismiss someone who may be implementing those systems. Okay, fine, if they're just insulting you, keep moving.

I responded to dignify it because I thought that in spite of the invective, there's a valid point about whether the article is helpful to the people it's meant to reach. The title is needlessly insulting to the reader. The tl;dr is pretty useless. You don't learn to do things right by cargo culting a mantra that you don't understand. The content of the tl;dr should be the block quote starting under "That said, what modes should you be using?"

Yes, you're right, this is actually pretty irrelevant to the content of the article and the question of whether a particular system is secure. I think it connects to a larger issue about security education that's lurking out there, though, and the article is clearly meant to educate.
So it's a populist note on which to leave. Message to underlings: "prepare to be disappointed with current leadership"
Looks like it only alternates between the two states (flashing and not flashing), so if the page is opened as a new tab (i.e. not focused to begin with) then the flashing occurs when the tab is not focused.
The best thing Petraeus and Broadwell could have done was to either split up with their respective spouses and join each other openly or to forget about the whole thing.
Socrates: a simple, clean, markdown editor
Zynga CFO David Wehner Defects to Facebook
Railroads & Freight Shipping (by sea) are probably key ones to include.
But it's not the mid-90s anymore. This thread is about the right strategy for 2012-2013.
Meetings.io acquired by Jive 7 months after launch
RabbitMQ has some pretty serious limitations related to it being implemented on Erlang that keep it pretty strictly in the realm of being a message queue rather than a generic queue.

CouchDB is more C++ than Erlang these days, bad example. It hasn't been mostly Erlang for a really long time. Erlang basically only does the clustering behavior, which is something Zookeeper et al. do already.

Riak is the only solid example out of those you listed, and its known for having poor raw performance, excellent availability, easy clustering, and awful usability.
Fun trivia: EVE Online's lore is moving in this direction. And by "moving", I mean "going all in".
Shoemaker-Levy: 1st observable collision of extraterrestrial bodies
How many employees can this new office accommodate?
That was a Google+ Number not a Face Book Number.

Yes if you are Google and you keep track of all of these things you can quite accurately translate those metrics into potential sales.

Especially when you can build Plus Ones profiles for every phone every made then correlate that to actual sales figures. It's not 100% accurate but it's certainly accurate enough not to go out of stock in 1 hour.

Its Google entire business model last time I checked.
Details on Android 4.2
> I can log in to any bank and it'll tell me within a few moments of when a charge was made.

No you can't; that's exactly the issue. Most people don't know the difference between an authorization and a charge. What you see on online banking as "pending charges" or "holds" are authorizations. No money has moved hands -- your bank balance has not gone down, the merchant's bank balance has not gone up, there's not even an in-flight ACH somewhere yet to be processed.

Literally all these entries on your online banking represent is a message of intent from the merchant to charge that much to your card in the near future. Even your bank does not yet know if the merchant actually captured the funds and they'll be settled (the money will move) soon or if they only performed the authorization. They could void the authorization or let it expire itself without ever charging the card.

Hence the comment -- even if Google only performs an authorization, it looks to the customer like they paid, and the bank won't tell the customer otherwise. That makes using authorizations to hold preorders untenable from a customer service standpoint even if it were technically possible, which it really isn't due to the short period authorizations are valid outside the hotel, travel and rental industries.
You make phone calls, right?
The iPhone? Seriously? On the same list as agriculture and fire?
Going back to the OP, does Akka provide that depth or not? Akka is a LOT more than just Actor-based concurrency.
I think this is the problem that the "Lean Startup" methodologies aim to solve, enabling you to cheaply and quickly test out ideas in order to find the one that will satisfy the criteria you listed.
bsl performance benchmarks against alternatives?
Speech and non-verbal linguistic communication.
FTA:

>If you work in the computer industry and do not fall into any of the exemption categories: administrative, professional, executive or the computer software exemption, you may be entitled to overtime pay.

Generally non-exempt employees are entitled to overtime and exempt are not. I believe most software/IT professionals hired full time in CA are exempt employees.
>High-end software development skills will become even more scarce.

It's not obvious to me. Can you explain your reasoning?
I was talking about this very topic with a friend of mine recently.

He works in advertising and felt moderately disingenuous about advising young people to go into a traditional ad agency.

There has never been a better, more stable time to start a business for most of the people in the western world. The internet has absolutely equalised just about every market you can think of. Fixed costs are a thing of the past; seed capital is plentiful (although there are the same number of top and second tier VCs, in Europe at least); being young is no longer a barrier to entry but a competitive advantage; there have been enough radically disruptive technologies in the last 30 years that it's pretty easy to convince seed investors to jump on board; we're living in a period where a lot of the world that was in poverty in the last four or five decades is coming out of poverty; middle classes are expanding all over the planet; with accessible languages like Rails and accessible architecture like Heroku it's a piece of piss to build and deploy a prototype…

The list goes on and on for me. The major barrier to entry for creating things rather than working in corporations is the type of personality people have. I see two types of people coming out of universities in Europe: people who see problems and bitch, and people who see problems and have solutions to them. (As an aside, I follow the hashtag #firstworldproblem on Twitter because first world problems are very often the basis of a great product or service.)

If you're a smart person working in a 9-5 then you're missing the biggest opportunity to do something fantastic, whether successful or not, that there has ever been. Forget the industrial revolution, or the early days of the internet. Now is the time to be building cool shit and telling people about it.

Rare for me to agree with DHH but on this topic I really do.
I've know a couple of people who did this, at even smaller increments that this... Worked 6-9 months, then took a similar amount of time off (to travel, pursue acting or some other endeavor, etc). If I had my twenties back, I'd give this a shot.. though I suspect I'd end up spending the 'off' time accidentally building a software company. Whoops.
From the article:

> There are lots of ways to combine options for different stock outlooks. Here are some common ones, not accounting for option cost.

He does mention it, but it's not very prominent. I also agree that not including the cost of opening the position in the payoff chart is misleading (and unconventional).
Predicting market demand is Google's entire business model.
Wow...so to insure working across all carriers, they cut out two very large carriers? This doesn't make sense to me.
>There are 8600 likes on google+ for the Nexus 4. If you are very generous you could say that would translate to 860,000 purchases.

Are you serious ? Tell me you're not this stupid.
Tax-wise it would be better to work less hours (20hr weeks for 2 years puts you in a lower bracket than 40hr weeks for one year).

Focus-wise maybe not.
Theory: Data scientist is a contraction, not a description

viz > Data_Analyst + Computer_Scientist ~= Data_Scientist
Two HUGE lessons learned from SF/SV
Samsung Bets on Flexible Displays
Have you considered using a name of a beach from Maine? Maybe a beach from your area, or just something with a good name.
Facebook ‘all’ link reveals feed without filters
Obama: Fix broken government by crowdsourcing it to America's hackers
The Norwegian fund also has a investment horizon better measured in centuries, not years, so it can afford to to wait out the huge stock market fluctuations in the expectation of that average return. A mere human, on the other hand...
I put iphone there as a short form of "mobile internet".
No. I've never seen anyone criticize someone for working with and asking about questions about developing attacks on crypto. It's only when people "Show HN" their latest tool for protecting dissidents from foreign governments, or protecting financial transactions, that people catch flack for going the DIY route.
Lets agree to disagree. Clearly your experience and views differ from mine. I'll give up and believe that all MBAs love the red carpet, join startups simply to "strategize" in their $900 chairs, and sing the Kumbaya while developers do the grunt work. This back and forth is a total waste of everyone's time.
Proposed Internet bills... thoughts?
Love how clean this app is.
exactly, being human is eminently forgivable, but being a total idiot about keeping it even slightly covert is reprehensible for anyone with his experience.
I would suspect that speech can hardly be given an invention date. As it gradually evolved. Did apes speak already?
That's so awesome. TIL.
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