skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's the key step to me. Rehearse and rehearse. When you're done, rehearse again.

Seriously, it is that important. At the beginning I used to think that _"nah, I've already done the slides, I know the subject inside out, and can always improvise. It sounds more natural"_. Wrong. This way you just sound unprepared.

As you practice, the flow gets tighter, you tell the same story with fewer words, paints a more colorful story. You start to see more clearly the holes in your thought process, and even jokes become more natural.

This is particularly important when doing a group talk. When you have multiple speakers, then you definitely need to practice, because it's not just about you anymore, and the quality of the entire talk will be determined by the weakest link.

For really important talks, five is the magic number. 5 full runs start to finish, non-stop, timed with a stopwatch. A good devil's advocate as audience helps (to take notes while you're presenting), but even that is not critical, provided you rehearse enough times.
check back here in like 10 minutes or so

edit: just waiting a few more mins on the CSR stuff
The signing process doesn't, but Microsoft reserve the right to revoke the binary's hash if it's used to attack other systems. Implementations that don't verify drivers are going to be fairly easy to circumvent into use as an arbitrary bootloader for unsigned or compromised content, and if the blackhats do so then revocation is a likely outcome.

There's no explicit list of required implementation policies. People are free to implement whatever policy they want, based on their perceptions of the risk of revocation.
Google is already monitoring everything I do on the internet, why should I be more worried about the NSA doing the same?
What might the ramifications of a US/Canadian/Eurozone withdrawal from the ITU treaty be?
Well written article - it grabs your attention with a curious story and doesn't let go. In my experience quality of articles in The Atlantic is up there with The New York Times or The Economist.
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Linux can create over 250,000 threads, but that may have been on a 32-bit system. On 64-bit it should be limited only by RAM.
I don't know either, but the sharing aspect, in other words the effective use rate of physical goods, that that is going up, can only be a good thing. Optimization of utilization, I think, is good. It means that people don't necessarily have to own a whole item, but a fraction of one. That lessens impact on the environment and also allows us to dedicate resources to other things we find important.

Of course, it's not a perfect model, as evidenced by 'time share' vacation homes (i.e. there are peak demand times) but it gets better use out of things than otherwise.
thank you for the kind words for the blog!

Will take your advice and try not to post too many link. Will try to contribute more to the HN communityin other ways :-)
Yea, the big six publishers are now going to be five as Penguin and Random House are merging. Also the #7 publisher, Thomas Nelson a Christian focus publisher became part of Harper Collins one of the big six. And Simon and Schuster has several players looking to buy them, likely because their digital marketing execs have never used facebook, twitter etc.
I am from those "parts" of the world but also monitor US media. I found from experience that RT actually does a great job covering issues related to US (and other countries) but it is complete bullshit when it comes to Russia itself.

American and other news agencies (say Al Jazeera) also seem to follow the same pattern more or less.

So it helps to monitor and compare various news outlets and you can sort of see who they cover the same story and how they spin and then, well, decide for yourself if you can't independently verify the facts. If you can then you can benchmark and compare the performance/quality of each of the news sources.
"... the [MM] theorem is still taught and studied because it tells something very important. That is, capital structure matters precisely because one or more of these assumptions is violated. It tells where to look for determinants of optimal capital structure and how those factors might affect optimal capital structure"

"Miller and Modigliani (1963) and Miller (1977) addressed the issue more specifically, showing that under some conditions, the optimal capital structure can be complete debt finance due to the preferential treatment of debt relative to equity in a tax code. For example, in the U.S. interest payments on debt are excluded from corporate taxes. As a consequence, substituting debt for equity generates a surplus by reducing firm tax payments to the government."

http://www.econ.uiuc.edu/~avillami/course-files/PalgraveRev_...
i can confirm this. i have joined html5 trial but some videos still refuse to work. this extension seems to fix that.
> So the problem is, what does it mean for the public in general to care? Or rather, what is the value of truth in a world where we have no agency?

The troubling truth is that many people would be either happy (or at least accepting) if the people doing the monitoring were also making big dents in the amount of spam being sent, or catching major criminals.
It is a pain in the butt to file paperwork as an employee and do all the accounting as a business. I know of another company that got rid of vacation days for this reason, and it seems nobody regrets it.

Even though one might take comfort in a de jure number of vacation days, frankly, it seems to me that if one exists in a toxic culture when it comes to vacation no amount of policy is likely to make the situation much better. In the pathological case, it gets lost entirely from over-accrual or turned into a cash payout.

Another way to look at the vacation day policies is they are mostly a reflection of the work/vacation culture, not the cause of it. And in that respect, such a strategy makes it harder to evaluate an employer's gestalt attitude towards vacation. Too bad it comes with a bitter pill of accounting work for all involved.

For what it's worth: Heroku is my current and has been for a couple of years, and I take vacation, and have been reminded to do so. I'd say about 25 days/annum. I've not kept count, but I can think to some of the bigger-ticket travel making up most of that, so if there is a mis-estimation it is not vast.
There's Youtube5 extension for safari.
Maybe I'm misunderstanding what you mean by 'swiping the other direction', but when I swipe from right to left on a message it displays an 'Archive' button over the message.
It's not right, but it's true. No reflow on zoom in the iOS browser or WebViews
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Because one of those has the ability to arrest you and the other doesn't?
You are. Pinch to zoom was just launched in 4.2 which I believe is only available for ICS and above.
Sorry to go off on a tangent, but,

>Not to mention that gas heaters are simply more efficient for heating to begin with.

Are you sure about that? A heat pump with a COP of, say, 2 is 300% efficient (it is said to have an Energy Factor, EF, of 3). That is, for every Joule of electrical energy supplied to the pump, 3 Joules are added to the water tank. On the other hand, the combustion products of a natural gas heater need to be exhausted outside the building. Unless they are first cooled to the temperature outside, the heater is less than 100% efficient.

Where I live, a Joule from the electric company costs about 2.5 to 3 times as much as a Joule from the gas company. A quick Google search indicates that this type of water heater typically has an EF of 2 to 2.5. The cheapest gas heater I could find on the Home Depot website was over $300 (twice your Mexican one) with an EF of 0.62. So it wouldn't surprise me if the energy cost of an electric is on par with the energy cost of a gas heater, and it would surprise me if the electric actually used more energy. I don't see how you would save thousands of dollars in energy with a gas heater: Even in the worst case (a 2 EF electric heat pump vs. a 0.62 EF gas in a location with a 3x energy cost ratio), the gas only just breaks even.
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Or the VPN-s connect to each other if it gets widespread enough and you get Overnet, where only minority of your traffic needs to go outside. And when that gets regulated there will be OverOverNet etc.
The overhead of context switching becomes pretty high. Some say that context switching has become cheap, but you still at the very least need to update the tlb, and schedule the next pthread.
Short: You are right that a stock buyback is a technique, like dividends, to return capital to existing investors. However, stock buybacks are also a technique used by firms that believe their stock is underpriced, and is likely what is happening here.

Long: To say that a firm's equity is "underpriced" is to say that the firm believes it is expensive (risk-adjusted), compared to it's debt.

This implies a two things:

* Asymmetric information - that the firm knows something the market doesn't.

* That the firm is at a sub-optimal weighted average cost of capital, and can reduce the cost of its capital by restructuring.

As found by MR Leary at Duke and cited by 600 others[1], firms resolve this situation by rebalancing their capital structure. One way to do this is to issue debt at a low interest rate to buy back the firm's "expensive" stock.

The Modigliani–Miller theorem that you reference does indeed argue that capital structures don't matter and that rebalancing shouldn't need to occur. However the theory doesn't apply in practice since it assumes the absence of asymmetric information, taxes, and the presence of an efficient market [2].

1. http://scholar.google.com/scholar?cluster=179408952930709446...

2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modigliani%E2%80%93Miller_theor...
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Where's the option for "I'm a full-stack developer who does whatever is necessary to ship the product"?

I've been doing backend algorithms for the last few weeks. Before then, it was quantitative market research. Before then was Fireworks & HTML mockups and whiteboard brainstorming. Before then was filing patents on previous work. Go back to last summer and I was a frontend dev for GFiber, largely doing someone else's mocks. Late spring was more unstructured data mining & machine-learning stuff, and early spring was more Fireworks mocks, quick HTML demos, and product brainstorming.
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I live in California. Well I'd like to develop apps/software on the side, and I was told to list things that I made as inventions.
What about support?
> PGP....which is theoretically breakable thanks to the advent of quantum computing.

This is a minor quibble with your overall point, but what I've quoted is wrong. The underlying encryption algorithms for modern PGP implementations are breakable with Shor's algorithm on a quantum computer, but not all encryption algorithms are vulnerable and a PGP implementation in the future could use such an algorithm as default instead. (For instance, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McEliece_cryptosystem)
It was implied 'link to legally copyrighted material'...
gkg.net - Reasonably priced, and they support DNSSEC.
> So the problem is, what does it mean for the public in general to care?

That's actually simple - public should use strong encryption. That's it. I.e. those who care about such violation of civil freedoms have no other option anyway, if attempts to prevent this surveillance will continue to fail (and with the current power - they most probably will).
I believe it doesn't work for videos that have ads attached.

https://www.youtube.com/html5
Open an issue for IAM roles in the GitHub issue tracker (http://github.com/aws/aws-sdk-js/issues). It seems like we want this, so opening an issue will give us all a better way to track the feature.
Exciting to see the technology behind this field progressing so quickly but troubling considering the passwords my users likely use. Though to be completely realistic their password hashes are very likely already known.
Please port this to Firefox! The /only/ time I open up Chrome is to view a Youtube link someone sent me.
as long as they don't enforce this to search results it does not exist, but when they do that, carwoo etc. will cease to exist.
Same. If I reapply my html5 settings, it seems to work for a few videos then reverts back to flash.
I buy every new Kindle that comes out; same with my phones and most of my other devices. But I'm far and away an outlier, even within gadget geek circles. New customers are who drive the sales numbers, by and large, not people like me.
If you treat your network's users them all the same, more power to you. Running the network and deciding what goes through it is still out of their control. I don't get why you're against those that do use DPI to run their network more easily, though.
According to Mr. Binney's sworn declaration[1] in support of an EFF suit[2] against the NSA (stemming from the warrantless wiretapping/AT&T scandal,) he doesn't actually know that any of this is going on, but bases his assumptions on decade-old knowledge that it was possible.

It certainly might be the case that all net traffic is being stored by the NSA, but this man's say-so is hardly proof.

[1] https://publicintelligence.net/binney-nsa-declaration/

[2] https://www.eff.org/cases/jewel
It looks like - contrary to the article - the presenters are discussing hash functions, not encryption[1]. There is a difference[2].

That said, I'd be curious to know how long it'd take a device like this to decrypt "secure" AES256 text.

1. https://hashcat.net/p12/js-sha1exp_169.pdf

2. http://stackoverflow.com/a/4948393
Worse, they'll go public with the world's most awesome restore-from-backup service and everyone will love it, for the low price of incriminating yourself in future crimes (but you're not planning to commit any crimes anyway, right?).
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I will have this ported to every single browser in just a few minutes. Please stand by.
This. Increase the noise. Like a raspberry pi noise maker.
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> So the problem is, what does it mean for the public in general to care?

For instance many care about some "moral" or "religious" issues that have no bearing with objective reality. So a lot time, mental and emotional effort goes into those issues.

It is kind of interesting that caring about privacy in general is become weird it is almost demonized and relegated to criminal sphere by default -- terrorism, child pornography, drug dealing, piracy all those "hot" issues can be triggered in order to argue against privacy. A few fear words sprinkled here and there, a scapegoat show trial and we are not too far from just using encryption becoming illegal. By default it has become "weird" defending privacy when the opposite should be true -- it should feel "weird" defending erosion of privacy (at least in this country given its Constitutional principles).
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Nowadays changes have grown to be part of many people around the globe. The degree of technology is changing at a remarkably constant level and so folks are rushing as per its changes.
I suspect that an organization with the computational resources and mathematical clout of the NSA are going to have little trouble distinguishing between people clicking around on "J0llY R0g3rs Gu1d3 to NUKELERA WEPONS" and people creating specific, repeated trails to suspicious resources.
Related: http://www.lognormal.com/blog/2012/09/27/linux-tcpip-tuning/
I wonder what algorithm 1Password uses, and how it would fare, compared to the other options.
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“I was extremely disappointed that setting up a clustered VMware instance wouldn’t allow me to create a VM that spanned all the hosts in the cluster. E.g. if i had five VMware ESX hosts with 8 processor cores, I wanted to be able to create a single vm with 40 cores and use all nodes in the cluster,” he wrote.

Not sure why he would have thought this would be possible. This would be an extremely hard problem given the latency involved between different nodes.

Then he came across VCL, or Virtual Open Cluster... “It did just what I wanted, not with an entire OS per se, but with an entire OpenCL application. and that’s good enough for me.”

A similar (but far older) system is MPI[1], which enables parallel computation across many compute nodes for your code by providing message passing. It's kind of a pain to use in my limited experience since you have to adapt your code (it seems like VCL is transparent for OpenCL programs), but it does work. No need for OpenCL, tho of course you could always use OpenCL + MPI. A common thing I see is MPI+OpenMP (for parallel cpu computation).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Message_Passing_Interface
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0xC0000000 on Linux. Mac OS X i386 sets the boundary at 0x00000000 :) This is yet another aspect where Mac OS X made a better choice than Linux, as this gives processes 4GB of virtual memory instead of only 3GB.

Seriously: there are trade offs everywhere. Initially, a 2/2 split seemed good enough, it makes it easier to dicsciminate between user and kernel addresses, the difference between 2GB and 3GB is not that high (about a year in my restatement of Moore's law "a bit of address space every 18 months"), and Microsoft values backward compatibility higher than Linux does.
Passwords shouldn't be encrypted anyway. Chances are hackers will be able to obtain the key too, and then passwords are really easy to fetch.

Passwords should be hashed non-reversible (ideally using a slow hash). The original password is to no use of the application.

And sending plain-text passwords to users is even more bad[1].

[1]: http://plaintextoffenders.com/
It encrypts all your passwords using AES with a 128 bit key derived from your master password (PBKDF2) [1].

This is very different to what the article is talking about, since it encrypts your passwords, but the article talks about hashing which is one-way.

[1] http://help.agilebits.com/1Password3/agile_keychain_design.h...
They should. I agree, however effectively using encryption not as simple as it sounds (both hardware, software and user interfaces need to work together and well) for this to work. On the other side I predict using encryption is becoming strange/weird/suspicious. There is an already well designed propaganda framework to portray those who care about these issues as associated with all kinds of scary crimes.

I predict in the future after a couple of high profile scape goat cases where a famous suspected terrorist, illegal movie downloader, or say whistle blower, cannot be prosecuted because they used encryption, the use of encryption will become illegal.
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Usually it is not a problem because text-block width is a fraction of total page width. The text has around newspaper-column number of characters in a row so the zoom hides navigation and advertisement and makes the page readable.

The rest is fixed by "read later" button if content is worth it or "back" button if it is not.
Authbind looks really appropriate here.

(Hmm, did parent just edit his comment ? He didn't mention authbind when I hit reply, did he ?)

From the man page:
authbind allows a program which does not or should not run as root to bind to low-numbered ports in a controlled way.
The shared library loaded using LD_PRELOAD overrides the bind(2) system call. When a program invoked via authbind calls bind to bind a socket to a low-numbered TCP/IP port, and if the program doesn't already have an effective uid of 0, the version of bind supposed by authbind forks and executes a setuid-root helper program.

You can create configuration file like /etc/authbind/byport/port and use standard linux file permissions to allow certain non-root users to bind to ports < 1024
Market effects affect to the economic perspective, but considering the transformation of fuel to heat, gas is sure to be more efficient. Electricity used to run the heater is generated by burning something and running a turbine - a process that itself runs with around 30% efficiency. Add to that the power loss from electricity distribution. 300% efficiency on the heater isn't enough to break even so that you'd get as much heat from the same amount of gas burned locally versus in a power plant.
Feeling lucky doesn't imply you are getting any search results. You will feel lucky after you get the results, but then there is no feeling lucky button
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I first read it as "when life throws a new wench my way", and had to read it again since that would have been a clever pun.
I would've thought the same as you, but what we witnessed in the UK with sports licensing to Sky is that exclusivity deals of the major sports (Football) strengthened Sky's hand in negotiating with other content owners.

"Wouldn't you want your content to be on the platform with the biggest and best content, with the people most likely to pay for it, and being marketed by us?"

In effect Sky knew that Football acts much like an anchor investor in bringing the sheep with them.

I suspect Netflix is betting on a similar thing, if they overpay to ensure Disney exclusivity not only do they get the content, but they get a stronger hand in negotiations with other content owners.

Netflix will be looking to Disney to become the anchor in their negotiations with other content owners, and a very powerful and big anchor they are.

It lends enormous cachet to Netflix to have secured a deal with one of the most shrewd and largest content owners there is.
I wouldnt worry too much about it but if you still are, pay for an hour or two with a Lawyer. The cases where you DO NEED to talk to a Lawyer or your employer are if your current projects compete with your employers. Sometimes this is obvious, sometimes not. Employer makes accounting software and you make first person shooters - not a problem. Employer makes strategy games for the app store and you make first person shooters for the app store - might want to consult a Lawyer. As long as you are doing it on your own time, with your own equipment and it is not in your employers direct line of business - there is nothing to talk about if residing in California.

Additionally if your projects are somewhat aligned with your employers projects get them to sign something before you join - its your best time to negotiate this. Another alternative is to cross out any lines you dont like in your employee contract (although it may ruin the employment contract) - I cross out a significant amount in my employment contracts and usually dont hear much about it.
So I like this extension as I prefer html5 videos.

But here is a video that either has no html5 version, or for some reason the extension is failing to find it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uVRvilzyG4&feature=play... (a video of Kelly Clarkson singing to Star Trek stuff (that popped up in the sidebar.))

I am not sure what the appropriate behavior is -- I think if there is no html5 video, I would prefer to see the flash video, but with the extension loaded, there is just a warning that the video is restricted from playback.