skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Before I reply, I will give some back story: I lived with my mother and sister in the UK and wasn't working, my skills with the Spanish language were poor to say the least and finding a job was proving near impossible.

I moved back to the UK to widen my prospects and it worked to be honest, even without a college degree I managed to find work, I did look in Spain, don't get me wrong, but there was nothing which resonated with me and I became disillusioned with the country and the idea of living there.

I did consider moving back to live with my mother, but the harder my situation became, the more focused I became on succeeding, if I moved back I would have given up a big part of me, my drive and passion for my work and my love for my girlfriend, there was no tangential course which I could myself being willing to give those up.

As for your last statement, I couldn't agree more, the lower you sink, the more scope there is for climbing. Every time I get kicked down, I feel more empowered, safe in the knowledge that I've been through worse things and I always found a way to make them better.

Of course, I couldn't have done it without the support of my friends or girlfriend, I can't thank them enough for the help I've had.
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I would rather not disclose to the owner that I have any interest in the domain. I feel that then they will definitely extend the domain. I assume only somebody who wants to use the domain or sell it to me would use a professional domain drop service. I doubt anybody will have an interest in using this random name. And as long as nobody knows which name I am interested in, I wonder what the chances are that someone would try to snatch it away to sell it to me.
This is excellent advice. The question is: what should people do to acquire career capital fast? Work hard at their assigned stuff, or invest in self-directed labor?

I think there's something to be said for the zigzag strategy. Take finance jobs to improve comp, and more typical tech jobs to improve autonomy and technical knowledge. No tech company will match a $250,000 hedge fund salary, but most will compensate "out of kind" with a higher title and more authority. Then you do something awesome at your tech job and become qualified for a better finance job.

The other advantage of zigzagging is that you can overstate how politically successful you are, because you're moving into a context where people don't know how to evaluate your signals. If you claim you were at level X in finance when you were actually X - 2, other finance people will be able to tell based on what you actually did and how much you know about the industry. If you zigzag a bit, you have more control over your story. But I think there must be limits to the efficacy of zigzagging, because lateral movement without progress becomes damaging after a while.
PhatnomJS and Buster really seem to be the cool kids. I hope to see more tests of front-end code integrated in Jenkins & similar ones soon.
From a Bayesian perspective, it is unlikely that the broadcasting of V conveyed any nontrivial hints, given that the authority in this country has little known records for releasing a signal through CCTV-6(, the Movie Channel of CCTV,) before any changes in ideology, since the first day CCTV-6 began broadcasting.

If a critique essay to this movie appeared in one of the newspapers with official backgrounds, it would be a totally different story.
What exactly is the relevant law here.

Trademarks are (as I understand it) a way to stop other from trading as you in some way. You can't pretend to be facebook, affiliated with facebook or use a name/symbol that makes it easy to get confused.

OTOH, if your product relates to another (Companion to "Fundamentals Of Microbiology by James O'Leary" by Timothy Goldman), is that not allowed? Companies can be called "Help with Windows" can't they?

What are the actual rules?
The stranger, Santa and the Grog. A tiny minigame for christmas we built w/ JS.
Guys like these maybe :
http://blogs.sfweekly.com/thesnitch/2012/10/facebook_bobbi_d...
Donating stock is not that uncommon, the receiver can choose to sell, hold, or some combination. I'm not an accountant but he should be able to write off the taxes for the market value of the stock at the time of the donation? "Many people" may think the stock is overvalued, but the open market is valuing it at it's current price, so that's what it's worth right now.
When I was in China I noticed that English language versions Orwell's 1984 and Animal Farm were freely available in bookstores. The educated elite seems to be allowed to read or watch things that the Chinese government would surpress from getting into the hands of the masses.
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It's fascinating how many comments here seem almost offended that someone had the affrontary to dislike a technical improvement on artistic grounds.
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Let's get something straight -- God does justice. God has seen fit to give you fingerprints. Grace. You are entitled to surendipity God has gifted you with, but it is not your right to fuck with my operating system.

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Thanks a lot Tyrant - I just looked through my old posts on here and saw I posted that I will be alone for Christmas, I just wanted to say that I now won't be. I managed to collect a small group of like minded people for this Christmas and I truly can't wait to properly celebrate the first major holiday since moving back to the UK with them.

As for my being a good person, I don't entirely agree, we all make stupid mistakes and do bad things in our life (unless of course you live the life of a saint) but it is our actions when we have the chance to do good which define this. Come back in a couple of years once I've helped a few more people and we will see if I consider myself a good person yet!
Do you use a Mac? I run Linux on a shipped-with-Windows laptop and I can relate to the author. I welcome the larger conversation.
"Trademarks are (as I understand it) a way to stop other from trading as you in some way."

In the same way as patents are a way to encourage innovation. In the hands of corporate lawyers both turn into means to turn others' lives harder.
I develop a Greasemonkey/Tampermonkey script that adds features to the Facebook Comments Moderation Tool (http://mattbusse.com/fcm-enhance/).

I have not heard a peep from Facebook about it, although StatCounter tells me that at least someone there has seen it.
It's unfortunate there is not a 2D HFR version; I'd like to sample future technology without present anti-features.
Is the Imax version of the hobbit also 48FPS? Aslo How do I know beforehand which theaters have 48?
Shouldn't those other 20 developers using FB in their chrome extension on the chrome web store also get the same lawsuit? I feel like this developer might be singled out, since it directly reduces facebook's profits by removing sponsored stories, ads, etc.
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This guy clearly was on FB's radar for a while, considering the previous dispute about the extension name. His post is so abrasive, I guess the relationship had never been particularly good.
Maybe I'm just slow, but what was the bug in that code?
It doesn't matter, you are just burning more calories in the digestion process but it's still an in vs out operation.

We are not perfect machines, but we are very efficient.
I like the comments on that page. Various users complaining how evil and vile they find Facebook. I take it they are annoyed because they use Facebook and want to do client-side parsing.

Why not, y'know, just not use Facebook? Are we complicating this issue just to have a discussion? The solution is really simple, yet there seems to be tunnel vision when it comes to thinking of it.
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> Personally, I can't see how anything that replicates reality better can be intrinsically bad.

Simple. People don't watch movies for reality.

Just like how people prefer photos with bokeh in shots where in real life it would never appear.
It is clear what he is referring to: it doesn't make the argument any better; his entire document, including the section regarding the prior and current dispute over trademarks, would be drastically improved by the removal of the paragraph where he complains about Facebook not having "a worldwide claim on the 2 consecutive letters FB" and how his usage is actually "short for Fluff Busting"; it demonstrates a severe misunderstanding of how trademarks work. :(
True, but having calorie counters on the menu helps. People doesn't realize a frappuccino has 600 cals
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I'm getting a bit miffed at the comments talking about this being a "PR move" or helpful for a "tax break". Did I read this wrong or did it not say 500. MILLION. dollars?

The cynicism must be pretty darn strong to try and explain that away by anything other than Zuck wanting to do some good with his shares and money. We should be applauding it, not over-analyzing it for how it benefits him.
1000km/s on the energy-limited Orion would be hard to slow down using aerobraking without potentially disrupting the planet below, and reverse slingshots would probably occur too fast to do anything more than staying in-system for a few weeks...
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I don't think that they were claiming that it was illegal to do that. They claim that extension breaks their ToS, which is a private contract.
This is great... from a managers point of view. A manager that sees an employee as an easy replaceable part in a machine. A manager that is totally oblivious to an employees workload and the time-cost accompanied with offloading all of one's knowledge into a format that is easy to transfer and teach.
Technical founders have nothing to lose
I guess he must have tried to mount NTFS partitions with some buggy filesystem driver, like the notorious default-but-deprecated kernel NTFS module.

Either that or he's just confusing MBR and MFT. His English is dubious at various stages, so it might as well be. Still, not a HN-worthy post, I wonder how it managed to hit the front-page -- everyone on holiday already?
Can't you just turn around midway and start throwing bombs out in front of your path of travel to slow down?
Not sure how helpful your comment is either. It would be like saying how evil and vile you find the US government, and your response would be to tell them to move to another country.
Facebook interoperates very poorly with other systems, and there are a lot of people who are using Facebook as their primary communication tool. If you don't use Facebook -- I, for example, don't use Facebook -- you are forced to keep reminding certain people that you exist and that you can be contacted by email / IM / phone / etc.
The problem is not restricted to banking.

The problem is that any two competitors X and Y, in any field.

If X does not plan for low-probability failure and Y does, then Y will not have the additional inefficiency/overhead and so X will out-compete Y.

If the time frame for low-probability failure is long enough, and if being out-competed means the end of your business, then an efficient market means that risks which typically take longer than time T to manifest will not be handled, where T is the time for X to out-compete Y, given their advantage.
Or you could just read the laptop specs and see how they probably say "X GHz" and not "X GHz persistent load, Y GHz at peaks". Also look for things like "software has to downclock the CPU if it gets too hot". (btw, the Linux kernel does do that anyway for certain supported cpus, but this is just safety and not normal operation)
The Chinese translations are also widely available. However, I noticed that The Principles of Newspeak was removed from the Nineteen Eighty-Four, when the last time I browsed a copy of it in a bookstore.

I also bought a translated Animal Farm, with very detailed explanation that maps each paragraph to the historical counterpart in the Soviet Union, several years ago.

IMHO, people here usually take these books as some 'foreign' talks, rather than a serious argument to the reality.
TBF to Mozilla, have you tried to submit a patch to Google? I mean look at the furore that's begun over Google's recent decision to remove the ability of apps to toggle Aeroplane Mode. It blind-sighted developers and Google haven't made a single comment in the bug to justify their decision. At time goes on, there are less and less freedoms available to Android users/developers. I personally don't think Firefox OS has a chance to be a successful alternative. But their presence may encourage Google to be more open in their decision making process.
Sorry, I was only using banks as an example. My attempt to state the general case here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4942341

I think it is exactly a black swan issue. The markets punish companies which do not compete sufficiently effectively.

Companies which plan for low-probability events are less effective in the medium term than companies which don't.
The value Zuck created has nothing to do with PHP or MySpace, it is the billion people who check Facebook each month and spend tens of billions of hours on the site. The value is provided to the network of users and to advertisers who want to reach that audience.

The market shifted from radio, newspaper and television to web advertising. 20 years ago the $500M that Zuck donated would have otherwise went to an aristocratic media owning family empire. I prefer it going to somebody who has created new value and who will be putting the money to better use. Simply spending and gifting the money is a better use than hoarding it and establishing a genetic dynasty.

The argument about Facebook being a weapon against human development and integrity is the same argument that luddites (and the Amish) made against radio, television, the telephone and many other new inventions.

95% of the people that I know in my life, and 100% of the career moves I have made in my life were through people that I met online. The difference is that I was technical enough to know how to use IRC, how to use early blogs, etc. Facebook is simple and accessible, and allows the other 99% of the world population to take advantage of the same networking technology to enhance their lives.
mastery, autonomy, purpose
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I think some people take AVTizzles comment or, as I see it, flow of thought too harshly. My interpretation of his comment is that he is not giving a statement or preaching about the true way (tm) of doing things Right.

I feel that he did a honest attempt to understand why it is so that at the same time there is capable young people sleeping on the streets and capable young people donating $500 million to charity? Why this world is like that? Some people seem to get angry when someone is trying to find out the reason why as if they'd have the answers. We all know that shooting the messenger does not help. Is is some kind of self-blame in works what drives people to a sort of resentment presented in some of the replies?
Yeah, I don't think Facebook is crutching the trademark argument here at all: it is just thrown into the list of complaints to make them longer ;P. I additionally think that "F.B. Purity" could probably be defended (if not on "nominative use", then on how Facebook themselves largely prefers "f" to "FB" in their branding in addition to not capitalizing the B in general at all)... what I dislike is having that argument "they don't own the letters FB" thrown in there, as that isn't how trademark claims work. :(
I'm rounding up people to get a Game On event going in Berlin.

Get in touch with @hdragomir on twitter if you'd like to help us.
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Forgive my bluntness, but you appear to be far outside your depth here. Rather than fisk your comment, I'm going to try and explain the positions as I see them.

Microsoft had at least one font handling bug that exposed an arbitrary kernel privilege escalation. They closed this bug by rejecting the narrow class of malformed fonts that triggered the issue (impacting a very small number fonts people actually use). From the software engineering, security, and product perspectives it was exactly the correct solution to this particular bug, because it fixed the issue and preserved compatibility in the vast majority of cases (i.e. for valid fonts).

Now, you appear to be suggesting that instead Microsoft should have somehow altered all existing software that uses GDI font rendering to address the issue. Either that, or you're suggesting that Microsoft should break all APIs that load fonts from memory (or really any path outside of a protected system directory). So, you're either advocating the herculean task of modifying all first and third party software, while still leaving a kernel vulnerability exposed to local applications. Or, you're proposing a massive API change that would break the vast majority of applications using GDI font rendering. Either of these approaches strikes me as a very, very bad idea, and not worth seriously discussing.

Of course, the thing that makes this issue so bad is that Microsoft handles fonts in the kernel. This is a legacy issue that's obviously hurting them on the stability and security front. They're trying to move people to DirectWrite, which is far saner and safer, but it's not supported on XP. And DirectWrite won't address the local escalation issue, because there's 20+ years of software using GDI font APIs that will need to be supported for the foreseeable future. While Microsoft could certainly move GDI fonts out of the kernel, I don't see them doing so. It's a tremendous amount of work and probably not justifiable from a business perspective given that DirectWrite and GPU acceleration are really are the direction everything is headed anyway.

As for your questions about Chrome, we filter fonts using our OpenType Sanitizer (OTS), and Firefox has been using uses our code since 2011. However, fonts are very complicated, and often not entirely verifiable, because their hinting languages include a turing complete VM bytecode with variable length instructions. So, there are infinite classes of malicious behavior that you can't detect without solving the halting problem. Also, any level of user-space filtering applies to only the first stage of an exploit. Once malicious code is executing in the renderer process, it can use a font vulnerability to break out of the sandbox by executing code at kernel privilege (and the same applies to IE or any other user-space sandbox).
On the contrary. This view assumes that replacing employees is about the hardest thing you have to do. Good people are extremely rare. So to mitigate the problem, and also to promote intellectual cross pollination within the organization, it's a very good idea to make sure everyone remembers to document what they know by default.
There's no need to assume this means extra work - it just means you divide your time differently, giving more priority to communicating what you know.
As an _employee_ I always strove to do just that - volunteer to document and spread on whatever I brought with me into the organization, and everything I picked up along the way, too. I saw this not as a chore but as a an opportunity to share, influence and also have less of a headache when the time eventually comes to move on to the next adventure.
Why have I failed?
I moved back to the UK after spending 3 years in Gibraltar, my girlfriend who lived across the border in Spain followed me. Places like Spain is where people go when they've already made it (or run away to when they've made it illegaly), it rarely the place where you make it. I found it easy to get work in London, apart from work being abundant here I also genuinely know how to work the jobs market here, and hence helped my girlfriend to land work quickly. I keep moving back to London because the exposure to culture and work experience here is second to none. However, it's a tough place. Very unforgiving, and everything apart from culture and work is a lot harder to deal with here. It was the third time I moved here and by this time I had the right connections to have somewhere reasonable to stay. Very much unlike my first time, so I can relate.
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So you really believe that the government is setting up concentration camps around the country, is going to use the military domestically to round up guns and all dissenters, and Obama is going to seize dictatorial control of the USA then hand sovereignty over to the New World Order?

Maybe we just hear different conspiracies but I'm pretty positive that the conspiracy nonsense regarding the government shouldn't be taken as "true by default".
I went to the EFF for help on a similar case once (I am the author of the old Chrome "Facebook Adblock" extension).

I went to the EFF for advice mostly, did I need to comply with the takedown? Should I be concerned that I couldn't meet all of the ridiculous demands (they wanted personally identifying information about everyone who had downloaded the extension!). EFF's response? In summary "We're not sure on this one… But can we blog about it? This may or may not cause you more problems."

I didn't hear from them again after I asked them to keep it quiet for the time being.
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