skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
interacting with people in person doesn't remove the context problem

the context in which you interact with someone changes how you know that person

the same person (everyone, you included) will seem like a different person based on whether they are interacting with a collegue, a supervisor, an underling, an employee at McDonalds, a waiter at a fancy restaurant, an old friend, a stranger, a child, a parent etc. etc.

alot of the people you view favorably, you probably do so because the context of your relationship is mutual respect, those people probably have relationships that aren't in those context, and the people in them probably have quite different views of those people.

if "knowing" a person is actually possible, it might be easier to do so from the prospective of 100 years of distance and a biography than from the extreme closeup of personal interaction
People are naturally manipulative, especially in relationships, and people naturally play mind-games without necessarily knowing they are.

A quarrel ending in a door-slam can have damaging effects on the psyche, as a common example that most of you have experienced. It can make it difficult to concentrate.

This just seems to me to be a typical negotiation tool during a relationship gone wrong, trying to prevent further emotional distress. Nothing to see here.
Um, no. C is a perfectly valid language and some of the best, most robust systems in the world are written in it (Linux, Git, etc.) Some languages are even built to run atop C (Cython.) Even the JVM deals with pointers, memory allocation issues, and such so you don't have to but it's still there!

So using a higher level or "safer" language isn't going to stop these kinds of problems.
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That's because it's named "MetroRail", not "Red Line". It stops right behind my office. If it stopped anywhere close to home, I'd ride it all the time.
Why you should define the scope of customer service
I'm getting a 404. Looks like this has been removed?
It appears your computer doesn't support CSS3 3D Transforms...
What if you were to get paid in something really non-traditional, like goats.

i.e. - I build a fence for a farmer, and he gives me 7 goats.

What do I owe the IRS?
It honestly is amazing.

I'm a front end dev, and have worked on some big and gorgeous sites, but damn... I've been working on startups for a couple of years and feel like the web has moved massively in that time... who ever is making this stuff is amazing (although I assume this isn't a single man effort)

Who else is feeling inadequate ;)
Again the important difference between what a law is INTENDED to be and how it actually USED. And while I see at least some truth in the very basic idea of the leistungsschutzrecht, I also see the potential of using it ways that are very different from the basic idea of helping content creators, especially since it's the very same people who now support that law that used to support ACTA et al..

For me this law is there to protect printed newspapers from the evil internet thing (including small web-only publishers and bloggers). That it's supported by all big german media and publishing houses isn't a coincidence. But in the end it won't help them, since from my point of view the print crisis in Germany is to no small also caused by poor journalism and an unability to create new revenue streams as it is by the "internet" per se.

A further risk, and you can actually call me a little bit of a tin foil hat if you want, you ahve a nice little law in place that can actually be used to suppres inconvinient information. Add all the other laws already in place that are used to hunt movie pirates and file sharers and the Stasi or Gestapo would have cut their right arm of to have equal opportunities to isurvaill and influence the public.

And the forth power in a democracry, the press, is actually promoting things like that just because they are to lacy and stupid to protect their bottom line in a different way.

Do I mean to support Google? No, because Google can also be pretty harsh when profits are concerned but for now Google is the lesser evil. Maybe in 10 years from now there wil be initiatives targeting Google inspired legislations who nows. But right now, the leistungsschutzrecht is like burning down the house in order to prevent from being maybe flooded some day. And not liking the guy who want's to do something about it isn't, IMHO, a good reason to just stand by and watch it happen.
My bad, it's just 404'ing from mobile
the train only services downtown and north, meaning anyone south of the river is boned for rapid transit into the city...

I didn't mention it by name, but there it is in my post.
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Before you panic: the backdoor only has existed for a few hours in their latest.zip yesterday

You're not affected if:

- you checked Piwik out of their sourcecode repository
- installed / upgraded Piwik before Nov 26th

Check if your piwik/core/Loader.php has some base64-encoded additions at the end of the file

If not, your installation is clean :)
At first, I didn't feel so bad about the police actions described in this article. I've had a phone stolen right in front of me in broad daylight, and it sure would have been nice if the cops had nailed the guy. However, tracking calls would have never led to the guy who stole my phone. I presume my thief had the phone flashed within minutes.

Wouldn't it make more sense to track device stolen S/N or MEIDs, like they do in Europe? I guess that would involve some sort of scary IT investment.
it does not say what the inserted code does, could somebody be so nice? thanks!
Is C bound by Zen?
Wow, this is truly an eye opener. Not as fast as I would like to see (running chrome on MBP 15 retina), but it's so beautiful.
>However, you legally cannot make a tangible duplication (burn another CD).

There is zero precedent for this one way or the other, but the only people who seem to agree with the author on this extreme point of view are the RIAA. And even they say it's ok if you buy those royalty-paid Audio CD-Rs. Everyone else seems to agree that making a copy of a CD for personal use a blindingly obvious case of fair use.
Ask HN: What do you think about stock option loan programs?
I am an early employee at a late-stage, privately-owned start-up. I am considering leaving the company, but I have a lot of stock options, most of which are vested, and it would cost me an amount in the low six figures to exercise them and pay the necessary taxes.

The stock options are potentially very valuable, but I am not in a position to take on that kind of risk.

I recently read about this new program from SharesPost that provides loans to start-up employees to exercise their options:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/tomiogeron/2012/10/15/sharespost-launches-lending-for-startup-stock-options/

It all makes sense, and is the best answer I have ever seen to the "I am leaving my start-up, should I exercise my options?" question that pops up on this site from time to time. Honestly, it sounds too good to be true. I am looking for the catch.

If you have experience with or insight into the above program or others like it, I would love to hear from you. Thank you!
Page is down. Here is a formatted copy: https://gist.github.com/4154289
The world also has over 1 Billion cars, individual transport changed everything and is a massive worldwide industry, does that mean everyone has to understand how they work ? No i dont think so, and that can be said about alot of other technological advances that are part of our professional and private lives today.

In the first DotCom boom every John Doe who could write some HTML got a job as a programmer and everyone studied IT in that time to make the big bucks. With the current shortage in the US i bet the scenario is likely going in the same direction and in a few years they end up like all the unemployed lawyers today.

Of course its not bad to expose kids to programming, but i argue that its not very useful because you need years of experience to make anything useful and that point is only reached by people that have the passion for it anyway.
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How to handle software for small business employees in an App Store world?
That's detailed in a post on their forums here: http://forum.piwik.org/read.php?2,97666
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Is your "complete system data from multiple platforms" from JS apps?

Let's also not confuse "a sufficiently smart compiler..." with real-world observed performance :)

BTW data layout transformations like compressed fields would also be useful on 32-bit. The vast majority of object graphs would be happy with 16 or even 8-bit identifiers, not to mention JS numbers which are all 64-bit floats even on 32-bit platforms.
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Sorry if I'm breaking your bubble, but Linux and git are not "the best and most robust systems in the world". If they were, the state of the art of safe and reliable software systems would be quite pitiful.

edit: that doesn't detract your point however that C is used nowadays on "robust systems"... in terms of popular robust kernels though you'll want to look at something like L4 or QNX Neutrino. There's a kernel that is actually formally verified (seL4) that was first written in Haskell, then verified, then translated to C (for speed).
> - Say one partner has some assets that they developed, by themselves, that can help the startup - but is hesitant to include it (out of concern that the other partner will be gaining financially from this asset without much contribution). Is that a deal breaker?

I dealt with this (my partner was the one who had developed the assets). For the most part, it's something that can be worked around. We both costed out the library, had our friends look at it and tell us what they thought it was worth, and then we rolled that into my partner's equity share based on a 200k valuation. It wound up being a ~6% difference between our equity shares.
she was diagnosed with a psychological disorder, but treatment is blocked by her family

Sounds familiar. I wonder if her family would rethink their position when they had to suffer her.

Just a little fact: unless you divorce soon, you'll develop some mental symptons yourself, if you hadn't already. And don't be fooled: you're not making any favor to your children staying.

If I can be of any help, my email is in my profile.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but the purpose of this isn't necessarily to be useable but rather attention grabbing.
It looks really impressive and I realize this is a creative showpiece, but is anyone else getting tired of all this "swiping" being forced upon users who aren't even using touchscreens? Between this and Microsoft's Metro swipes, it's getting a little ridiculous. I really hope this doesn't become an even bigger trend because it's horrible for usability.
The irony is too thick to read through.
No (although that's how this guy solved this system).
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"...even motioncaptured movements seem unnatural and give no illusion of life."

I often agree with this. When digging deeper into the details of why this is the case, it's often because the motion captured data is played back on a model of different proportions than the actor. I think I first noticed this when a magazine article did a writeup on The Polar Express movie. There's a photo of Tom Hanks in a mocap suit beside a rendering of the train conductor in the same pose. The conductor's proportions were completely different from the real Mr. Hanks. I've also noticed this problem when ballet is mocapped and applied to computer models.

My opinion, since I'm no CGI expert nor hobbyist, is that actual natural movement has no place in a cartoon. You'll notice that each of Pixar's worlds maintains its own naturalness - Mr. Incredible moves the right way with respect to the 3D model in his own universe as do the other characters. Although they modeled Syndrome's swagger on a Pixar employee (or at least a real human if not a fellow Pixarite), that doesn't mean they applied an actual mocap session's data to the character model. Every time I've seen anything "behind the scenes" of a Pixar film, they're animating movement 'manually' and maintaining a 'natural' feeling within the context if the current project.
Why should Google share revenue? It is a search engine following widely accepted, well defined crawling standards which preceded its existence.
Good point, but i dont agree. You learn a language to be able to communicate with people in different countries, to be able to travel the world and find your way through it. Most people dont want to pursue a career in the language they are learning.

Programming on the other hand is a niche skill which you absolutely do not need to know or master in this world. Maths, Physics, Chemistry and languages are skills that are much more important in terms of a general skill-set to master daily life than programming is.

Programming is for people that pursue a career in the IT industry or science. Is it a nice skill to have ? Sure, just like carpentry or mechanical engineering.
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Agreed - the swiping is an issue for the desktop, which still dominates consumer and pro usage.
While I'm all for measure ability on social media, this is again snake oil: oversimplification of how social media works and where it can actually benefit your business.

I think the biggest sin is the sin of omission: the only use case it caters to a direct transaction business, say, e-commerce. What about social activity for engaging with customers, say, what a local mom-pop store may want to do. What about building brand affinity, something larger brands want to do. What about giving users a forum to connect with the brand at multiple levels. How about a place where you can make accessible certain contact points, say, customer service, or simple stuff such as table bookings at a restaurant. And the above list is by no means exhaustive.

Even in the specific use case of e-commerce, it makes an over simplistic assumption of effectiveness = instant conversion. What about a guy who discovers something through the Facebook feed, does some comparison shopping, and then goes on to the site to finally buy that same product. Basically, the formula is an oversimplification of the buying process, even for the narrow scenario within which this works.
>a chocolate teapot

That sounds delicious.
Good question for The Goat Spot:

http://www.thegoatspot.net/forum/
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The problem is that nobody has been disrupting academia at all. Instead, everyone has chosen to disrupt job-training with for-profit job-training scams and to disrupt teaching with massive online video courses (which have rampant cheating and plagiarism problems).

I'd really love if someone could come up with a way to create a new form of nonprofit teaching and research institution not prone to the feudal staleness and scamming of real universities.

Mind, in a lot of places, they just call that a "publicly-funded university", and it often has no scamming problems at all. Still involves a stale institution and a stagnant job market, though.
It's their bad; phone tries to redirect to the mobile subdomain, while tablet gets the proper "mobile coming soon" placeholder.
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Nonprofit institutions are not supposed to operate so exclusively on capitalist principles.
I'm not sure why you are being downvoted, as it is still an open question whether or not safer languages make it easier to write safer programs. So your comment may be a valid one.
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I did not know this, and it makes me love steam just a little bit more.
I no longer recall whether I tried that and failed, or didn't get that far. Seems like a semi-reasonable approach if you don't need the database to be able to understand the contents of that column. But on the other hand, SQLite is working great for my needs too.
The injected code disables error logging and allows remote users to execute arbitrary code on the server by submitting the 'g' and 's' parameters as part of a GET query string. It then looks for a file called 'lic.log' and aborts if it exists. Otherwise it decodes and decompresses a CURL script embedded in base64 before generating the 'lic.log' file, which prevents it from occurring more than once.

The real mystery is how that code got onto the development server to begin with. They can fix the zip file but it won't do much good if the machine is still compromised.
What if your customers want to run on EC2 instances?
Yes, especially considering that this particular piece isn't available on touchscreens. The click-and-drag experience is even worse with a laptop trackpad.
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The problem with getting rid of tenure is that we have an up-or-out system in academia: you either rise to tenure, or you're fired. Permadoc positions would be nice, but if you eliminated tenure then academics would just become more abused, overworked corporate employees. Not because academic freedom would die, but because "if you don't publish X papers and bring in $Nx100 thousand research dollars this year, we'll get someone who will."
attacker used a security issue in a WordPress plugin we were using

I'm more interested in which WP plugin and if it was just out of date or if this is a new vulnerability.
In theory, there's nothing stopping the OS from remapping the pages of your address space to different physical RAM locations at any point during your test. So even if you have a reproducible bit error that caused the crash, there's a chance that the defect memory region is not actually touched during the memory test.

Now, this may not be such a huge problem in practice because the OS is unlikely to move pages around unless it's forced to swap. But that depends on details of the OS paging algorithm and your server load.
His point about logging registers and stack is interesting. Many years ago I worked on some software that ran on Windows NT 4.0 and we had a weird crash from a customer who sent in a screen shot of a GPF like this: http://pisoft.ru/verstak/insider/cwfgpf1.gif

From it I was able to figure out what was wrong with the C++ program. Notice that the GPF lists the instructions at CS:EIP (the instruction pointer of the running program) and so it was possible by generating assembler output from the C++ program to identify the function/method being executed. From the registers it was possible to identify that one of the parameters was a null pointer (something like ECX being 00000000) and from that information work back up the code to figure out under what conditions that pointer could be null.

Just from that screenshot the bug was identified and fixed.
In many places states are just another donor to their public universities, budget-wise.
I wish they could develop a ebook publish platform with this technology. Handily beats Amazon's cloud reader.
Does Amazon or other provider offers this warranty, I mean, ECC servers (or something similar?)
'does that mean everyone has to understand how they work ?'

A little bit, yes, enough to get them maintained, keep them road safe, put the right fuel in, yup.

'i argue that its not very useful because you need years of experience to make anything useful and that point is only reached by people that have the passion for it anyway.'

How does someone know if they're interested of passionate about something if they're never exposed to it?

How do you know to embark on the path leading to years of experience unless you have an intro to it?

This is not about getting every moron into the profession, it's about giving people a start who otherwise might never know that programming is a thing, especially as more and more computing devices are geared to straight consumption.
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Exactly. There are countries (Ukraine, Belarus) where PayPal does not allow to withdraw funds (due to stupid local tax code and government regulation of foreign currency) but BitCoins are transferrable freely.

Actually the whole story is not about taxation. Local government wants to control and supervise all people's money. For example, for each incoming payment (wire transfer) they require a piece of paper with ink seal of the sender, date, amount, and account numbers of both parties. If any of these attributes does not match bank transaction data, then you've got a fine. Every local law in this area is made in such way that local workforce is isolated from global market, underpayed, underemployed and kept politically loyal.

So, bitcoins are a like breath of fresh air here. They bypass traditional banking system, controlled by corrupt local authorities.
I often find that when people discuss studies they rarely get beyond the abstract (and sometimes not even past the title!)

Just to get you started and maybe entice you to read the paper, the abstract says: "We observe interesting data patterns. For example, we find that when there is no explicit statement that wages are negotiable, men are more likely to negotiate than women. However, when we explicitly mention the possibility that wages are negotiable, this difference
disappears, and even tends to reverse. In terms of sorting, we find that men in contrast to women prefer job environments where the ‘rules of wage determination’ are ambiguous. This leads to the gender gap being much more pronounced in jobs that leave negotiation of wage ambiguous."

One interesting result that's not in the abstract: even when the wage was explicitly negotiable, only about 25% of people bothered to negotiate! (This is for an "administrative assistant" style job.)
I have personally used gondolas which fit far more than 6 people, so your max throughput is actually quite high.
A question arrising from this is, is this database of cell phone records also provided to any federal agencies, FBI, etc? My guess would be that it is, or is easily available to them on request.
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I dare not try and reexplain the discussion in this bug report as my understanding feels insufficient, but the entire discussion at http://code.google.com/p/v8/issues/detail?id=761#c14 (note, I've linked to the 14th commment in the discussion, but there's more interesting stuff above) talks about it. At the core is a distinction between v8's internal representation of strings and it's API vs. what a browser engine which embeds v8 might do.
Their campaign should be called "Defend our profit margins", Google is no better than the publishers pushing in favor of this legislation, their interest just accidentally happen to coincide with ours.

So is your argument that it's not in the public's best interest to oppose this legislation, thus why they shouldn't use the slogan "Defend Your Net"?
Unless the contract explicitly states that it is work for hire, it isn't.

I will add that as layers get added to the contract relations - subcontractors used by the contractor, sub-subcontractors by the subcontractor, etc. - the exposure grows.

This sort of issue is largely addressed within my industry via standard contracts developed over the course of 100 years. However, they only go a few layers deep because this is sufficient given the economics.

On the other hand, the economics of software development are such that even a tiny piece of code might be deemed to contribute several million dollars of value.
s/not every/almost no

:)
There are any number of commercial copyright infringements that are protected by fair use under US law. However, there's a Sixth Circuit case from 2005 that bears on sampling in particular, essentially eliminating the de minimis defense for sampling: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridgeport_Music,_Inc._v._Dimen...
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NASA's not sharing a 'historic' find on Mars... yet
being developped using PhoneGap, it would be nice to have some feedback on how easy the porting from iOs was, and what kind of tools / js framework they used !