skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I never did a whiteboard test, so I guess I don't know how I'd do, but I can't imagine that I would blow anyone away. I'd probably be asked a stupid-simple question for say, a Junior, but give an algorithm or answer that would quickly expose my inexperience, lack of ability, and lack of training / guidance.

To be clear, I wasn't exactly stating my own credentials in that post, I was simply stating that even with said credentials, there is little chance of being taken seriously. I never read Corman, but the rest is fairly accurate.
Not accessible enough: I see only the black screen on my Opera Mini.
Actors are not a good concurrency model, and neither are Erlang processes.
It's funny, I've come to think of the HN community as being the most skeptical and contrarian of all internet forums. (Jokingly, to the point that if someone posted a blog about how Hitler was evil, there would be an a reliable proportion of posters here pointing out how the citation free post was rhetorically weak and that there were some little understood benefits to the Nazi regime).

Now, this short excerpt of Assange's argument strikes me as outlandish, and there's only a couple of skeptical posts to be found!

There are a bunch of problems that I can see with it, I'll just list a few off the top of my head.

1) It's a predictive argument, which is hard (prediction). The prediction is that society will become worse because of the internet.

2) Glorification of the past: a casual consideration of societies and governments of the past highlights that they are, all of them, horrible. You don't have to go back far in US history to get to an amazingly evil government (1970s CIA activities for example)

3) The increased transparency brought on by the internet is a good thing. ,I'm glad Petraeus got his ass busted, as the phony hero creation meme has been weakened that provides cover for US misdeeds in the war theaters. Governments have been literally getting away with murder since time immemorial. There is a better chance of stopping them if there is, in general, more public, unencrypted communication (this is precisely what brought Petraeus down)

4) There is no way the public at large is going to start encrypting their communication. That kind of secrecy is just not that useful to the average citizen. It is also too complicated to understand for busy non-hackers.

5) The benefits created by network effects will be significantly diminished by introducing private encryption. One of the main uses of the internet is the creation of large scale markets. Markets are by definition public, or at least open to a group. To get efficient markets you need a sizable group. To keep access to a market private gets harder the more participants it has. Fairly determined efforts to conduct secret, anonymous actions by hacker groups like Anonymous have proved to be easily broken by law enforcement. And these are hackers!

6) Efforts at resisting tyranny can be demonized, and crushed, more readily if conducted in secret. The fact that Wikileaks acted somewhat non-anonymously to release supposedly secret data to public is what made it effective. If Assange had tried to undermine the secret making apparatus of the power structure in secret, he would have been just another terrorist (and maybe dead)

I could go on, but my point is that I think what Assange is promoting here is pointless. I can't even conceive of how private keys could be distributed to a large network without being easily compromised. I would love to hear some of you smarter folk comment on this.
Wow, that's odd. My desktop has been running the same installation since 10.04 or so and all the upgrades worked fine (apart from minor gnome-shell toolbar breakage).
Why? Because one walled garden suddenly turns into another walled garden?

There are good reasons today not to use WhatsApp.
Why (not) to relicense VLC under LGPL?
I'm afraid until most people will understand the use of cryptography, there will not be move forward.

I've spent a lot of time on ResoMail, a an easy to use open source secure alternative mail, but during beta testing it didn't show user interest, people don't understand the dangers of trusting their data to corporation and didn't use it, so now the project is on hold, now I'm looking for new opportunities to develop it.
Sorry, I was typing from my phone.

Promising to not hire someone is an ad hominem attack of itself. Really helpless and pathetic one at that.
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Also we don't even really know how AD work. It can't be serotonin (alone).
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I also think it's a good thing, that "big players" like google take a stand and say what they think. Even if they have financial interests, if Google wouldn't take a stand and rebel against such things, the internet would be much worst than it is today.
That is true. People who were able to find their way to MIT is by no means "amateurs".

The rest of us, however, might find it overwhelming, due to lack of appropriate habits and training.
But he's got a salary...
I am sure it used sth official like that. Otherwise the number of countries maybe significantly more than what it is today.
There's a really nice bit in Demarco & Lister's Peopleware where they relate an alternate reality of somebody selling the phone into an existing productive environment.

I don't have a copy to hand but it's basically "So - there's this box that makes this loud ringing noise that interrupts whatever I'm doing at the time? Are you insane!?"
One thing I've found somewhat odd is how seriously people take the timeline on coursera courses. To me one of the biggest weaknesses of these courses is the hard time constraints.

For all of the courses I've taken (ML, PGM, NLP, SNA) I've followed roughly the same pattern: follow the course for 50-70% of the material doing all homeworks etc. Take what I've learned and go off do some fun projects. Once I hit a road block return to the course and finish up (usually months after the course is 'officially' done) typically forgoing the homework being I've already created 'homework' for myself.

Compared to my classroom experiences, I've found that this method greatly enhances the benefit of the materials I learn later in the course, as well as allowing me to more strongly reinforce material learned earlier. This is also something that physical classes simply cannot emulate. I do find it a little funny that I've never officially completed a coursera course, despite having covered much of the material very thoroughly. Hopefully as these courses continue we'll start to see them adopt patterns that extend beyond replicating the limitations of a physical classroom online.
The article lacks details over what type of experience the player had when playing, slightly rendering any conclusions useless until further studies.

Playing a computer game can be a spectrum of experiences, some that are very distant related to each other. For example, is the game that the person playing a single player game or multiplayer? strategy or action? The excitement level of doing some EVE trading a few hours before sleep, mining some ore in WoW, playing a tournament in starcraft, discussing politics in a facebook "game", playing a puzzle game like portal, playing an unforgiving game like nethack (and dieing), playing an fast reaction game like insert last released fps game here, are all, all, very different in the amount of excitement received.

What I would like to see, is the same study but with a game that’s basically a rather boring experience, but common with gamers. MMO Farming, practice matches vs AI, trading, windows card games and so on. That would allow us to separate the act of playing a video game, from the act of doing something exciting before sleeping.
Color E-Ink is notorious vapourware, planned for production since 2010.
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Practice in studying the most talent ones.)
I thought it was the blue light suppressing the melatonin and circadian rhythm? Isn't that kind of the premise behind f.lux?
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I think your clients will say that.
they created a political party that's won elections in multiple countries

"won elections" is a bit of a stretch. In countries with multi-seat constituancies and proportional representation, there are often minority/niche candidates.
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But I don't think there are any humans who can live free from social constructs. Living in a tribe, or under a warlord seems like the antithesis of freedom in the sense that most are discussing here.
I think it's cross-platform support plus the fact that you didn't have to sign up to create yet another account id that led to it's success. You install the app, run it and bam! Whoever's already using it is ready to talk, without having to invite/add and such stuff
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Forget about the Constitution. Rather, they should respect basic human rights and the principles of the Enlightenment. All this focus Americans put on their Constitution…

It's part of the American mythos/story/narrative, that the USA constitution/bill of rights/founding fathers were some sort of genius people who were the first to come up with this brilliant and perfect text.
How many times should you try before you give up?
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UX Strategy on the Job: An Interview with Three UX Strategists
ICQ, Yahoo and MSN messenger were the "social networks" of the late 90s early 2000s. And IRC for the nerds.
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They are sitting on at least an Exabyte. With multiple-Yottabytes of traffic.
Well spotted, that particular simple design choice seems like increase the adaption significantly.
I agree, don't read techcrunch.

Unless you're interested in startups generally.

Or if you want to learn about new companies.

But really only if you're interested in learning about hot new spaces in trends, yea then it's ok.

Or if you want to see what external thought leaders have to say, reading on the weekends is ok.

But don't read it for funding.

Unless you're looking for funding, then maybe it's ok to read it to help you narrow your investor pitch focus by seeing who is active and wear.

But certainly don't read it for product. Yeah, that'd be stupid.

Unless, and only unless, you want to see what early adopters who see more new products in a month then most people do in a year have to say about new technology, trends and spaces.

On second thought, yea read TechCrunch.

Just be a good enough entrepreneur to know that reading or not reading TechCrunch won't make or break your company, and is a really lame scapegoat.

The only thing that will make or break your company is you and your idea.
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I believe Firefox for Android does, and as far as I know so does the stock Android browser! Perhaps the pixel writing that Notch is doing is not well optimised on Android?
This post has been really inspirational for me. Thank you for sharing.

Just out of curiosity, how old were you when you took up calculus, and did you go back to college full time?
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I'm pretty sure unless you are a VC, angel or incubator your space is not "startup scene".
Can you please elaborate on Tor exit nodes vulnerability? As far as I know they can read your passwords if you're not using secure connection, but how can it compromise your identity? I'm assuming the new account was created for an anonymous blog post.
There is nothing inherently wrong with reading TC - if nothing else, it gives you a better feeling what your vision/goal might be. With that said, what you need NOT to do is follow it blindly. Use it for what it is: a news medium;
Sorry. I live in Argentina and blogspot adds the ".ar" automatically to the UREL, but I didn't see it before submitting.
I've been meaning to stop reading TC, but the question is what do I replace it with? Already read th Verge, Ars Technica...found that TechDirty covers a lot about what I'm concerned with
> Really helpless and pathetic one at that

I don't say things like this. This is level DH0 (see http://www.paulgraham.com/disagree.html). If you keep posting these sorts of comments, then you don't belong on HN because you can't formulate a coherent argument against my points. Other people can -- just look at some of the other replies I've gotten. For some reason, you seem unable to do so.

In fact, I just looked through your comment history. It's amazing how many of your posts are gray, indicating that you have negative points. There are a lot of guides on the internet for coming up with better arguments (with more etiquette as well). Immature arguments belong on places like Reddit or 4chan. Hacker News holds itself to higher standards, so hopefully I can get you to reach these as well. If you need some tips on good debate skills, I will be glad to share them with you.
Better yet, read only posts that are useful to you. Often thought leaders, IE Mark Suster, would release some tips on TC and reading them can help you become more successful. New companies may also have services that can give you an advantage.
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if the line "Don't be evil, but create what is good and fair." implies that the code should not be used for creating malicious things, than this is not a free license. See also problems with JSON license: http://tanguy.ortolo.eu/blog/article46/json-license
An easy way is to read history, and see what things were like. It's amazing how many things that seem common sense and accepted now are from the enlightenment.

* Democracy. That one's obvious. Universal adult sufferage regardless of sex, race, creed, property ownership. We all know about "women getting the vote", but men without property used to not have the vote, catholics/prodestants/muslims/jews (delete as appropriate) used to not have the vote. Race based voting restrictions are similarly common. Some countries allow restricting voting based on criminal record (USA) other's done (most of europe), some countries prevent current criminals being elected (UK did this after some IRA terrorists were getting elected).

* Inherent rights. Who gives you your human rights? The Crown/State? So can they take them away? Does everyone have rights? Or just people/men of the right colour/creed/aristocracy? Does everyone have the same rights? No. We view that everyone has rights all the time that cannot be taken away.

* Rule of law. You/anyone should be able to know what the law is. The crown/state cannot just make up a vague law that only they can interpret. Laws cannot apply retroactively. The law should apply to everyone. It should be wrong if a certain law doesn't apply to the local lord, but it does apply to you.

* Fair trials. It's wrong that the crown/state alone gets to decide guilt/innocence, there should be an independent trial. You are allowed to argue your case. You are allowed appeal. The jury cannot be punished for how they decide your trial. You should be presumed innocent. You cannot be locked up unless you have been tried.

* Constitutionalism. There should be a document that overrides the crown/state and defined how the state works. It should list what powers the state/crown has. The King/state is not allowed to just do whatever it feels like. (Fun fact: Nazi Germany, the USSR and the USA have/had constitutions. The UK doesn't really. :P )
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Somehow I am afraid that this sets the stage for an endless discussion about the "hidden" ycombinator acceptance criteria. I am already looking forward to the "how I uncovered x of pg's criteria" posts.

Implying that there are secret rules to "a game" make it a highly attractive subject to try to discover these.
I'm Irish so I guess we just understand that you just forget what you know about how things are pronounced in English and go from there.

You could try http://www.forvo.com/languages/ga/
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My idea was that public key cryptography should be done under the hood, so I created a easy to use ResoMail, but people still were not interested (or I was a bad marketer).
I found one of the articles this one links to to be very insightful - http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2003/11/19/facemash-creato...

> Mark E. Zuckerberg ’06 said he was accused of breaching security, violating copyrights and violating individual privacy by creating the website

> The charges were based on a complaint from the computer services department over his unauthorized use of on-line facebook photographs, he said.

> “Issues about violating people’s privacy don’t seem to be surmountable,” he wrote at that point. “I’m not willing to risk insulting anyone.”
Will ISPs be forced to disallow all encrypted traffic? That would be disastrous.

It's already possible to connect to a website over https (with a self-signed cert you've obtained through a second channel) and be pretty much certain no one is snooping. The target you're connecting to doesn't have to be obvious either.
The article body doesn't support the headline.

A more appropriate title would be the second last line of the post:

> It’s good to have context but becoming obsessed and consumed with what TC and other startup blogs and websites report on is problematic.

But that would have made the post a whole lot less interesting and click-worthy.
quanticle: If Bitcoin survives the present crisis in Iran, surely it will gain credibility in the minds of Iranians as a medium of exchange and store of value that can survive crises. That's undeniable.

Next time there's a crisis, or even risk of crisis, more Iranians will turn to Bitcoin, just as they will turn to gold, silver, and the US dollar. Their thinking will be, "well, if it survived the last crisis, it will probably survive this new crisis too."

As a decentralized virtual asset, Bitcoin not only can survive financial crises, collapsed economies, toppled governments, and military conflicts; it's also SUPERIOR to the alternatives - easier to subdivide, recombine, store, secure, and transport than precious metals and hard currencies. One cannot encrypt an ounce of gold or upload silver to a remote server, let alone hide a dollar inside a jpeg file!

Over the coming years and decades, if Bitcoin successfully survives crisis after crisis, nothing prevents it from eventually gaining as much credibility in the public's mind as, say, gold.
Playing an hour or so of WOW helps me sleep better. This way, I remain in a relaxed/bored gaming mode when I hit the pillow. Otherwise, I would start thinking about work instead and become wild awake.
You don't even need to pick modern things like air travel.

The US consitution & bill of rights were fine with the slavery, racial segration, denying women the vote, denying men without property the right to vote, legal sexism, etc.

You're right that it's all about how it was interpreted.
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Fifteen years ago, people would have found this interesting.
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Weird that nobody realizes that the constitution does say that the government not only has the right to violate any (other) law to violate the constitution, but actually has the duty to do so.

To protect the constitution (and it's application within it's jurisdiction), the president (ie. the government) has the right AND the duty to violate ANY American law except clause 1 and 2 of the constitution. To put it plainly : the ONLY thing the president cannot do to defend the constitution is to mess with elections. That's it. It also states that the president is the person making the assessment if an action is necessary (and thus, not the courts, though of course, the president can be removed from office for making a decision that either congress or the courts think was not reasonable. That does not change the fact that the president cannot be punished for implementing that action. The maximum penalty for any crime for the president is impeachment, unless this is specifically extended by congress).

This is because article 2 of the constitution overrides every other law in the US, except article 1, including all following articles and amendments.

If you think this sequence is by accident, you should talk to a lawyer about things like this. Sequence in laws, and the principle that earlier rules override later ones is extremely well established technique of law.

What everybody seems to think these laws state, that you have extensive rights without any qualifications whatsoever, is just plainly not true. If you are a danger to the application of the US constitution within US borders, the president is not bound to any standard, nor does he have to respect any form of human rights in his attempts to stop you from doing so.

If you think it is better in European states, think again. Specifically, read what the Dutch monarch is allowed to do (e.g. she can have someone killed - both her and the actual murderer go free, she can confiscate any amount of property - with no legal recourse for anyone, etc.). Similar things are true for other Euro countries.
You know, people keep repeating this assumption that the NSA stores every post that people make online. Maybe someone should do a quick back of the envelope calculation to see how feasible that actually is?

Think of Google. The have downloaded and stored lots of the internet. How else can they search it?

So if we know at some level that it's possible, could the NSA do it?`
Hacker News, what have you done to this guy?

sown - quit. Not everything is possible. Stop beating your head against a wall and try and enjoy your damn life
If you pick the home::1 contract, it's not tied to any time of the day. "No units or time periods - usage is any time of day or night."

I work from home a lot too and have a wife and three children on the end of the line as well.

If everyone switched to much smaller ISPs and they were numerous, it would be hard to police.
There's no need for snark, it adds nothing to the conversation and makes you seem like a bit of a dick.

There's a load of interesting stuff happening in Perl, I don't use the language myself but I'm interested in what they're up to.
I think one of the problems startups need to realize is just how humble the ideas actually are. When a company offers to buy you for 100 million, 200 million, w.e., you should take it.

The chance of usurping Facebook is small. If Facebook is offering a substantial payout, you'd be a fool to risk years of financial security in the name of making something huge. If this were the cure to cancer, then yes there is a moral battle to fight. But if this is something as small as a messenger app, just be happy for the founders.
I am happy with the decision.

Having a lot of startups in every batch reduces the focus of YC partners In these situations, even startups with a very good potential (like Airbnb & Dropbox) won't be able to achieve much.

YC can increase the number of partners, advisors, mentors or cycles per year (instead of diluting their time over a lot of startups).
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