skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Poaching is frowned upon in every industry by the companies who want to exploit people without worrying about competition.

FTFY. Labor is a market exactly like any other. If I buy Chevrolet for years and then suddenly switch to Ford because they offer a better deal was I "poached"? Such a nonsensical concept.

If you don't want people "poaching" your talent, pay them better. If you can't afford to then that's just the market efficiently allocating resources.
What does data from a million football (soccer) games tell us?
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MegaCracker
Cherry-picked trials are empirically worthless - they are not better than no trials at all. Since drug companies need to submit drug trials to get through approval, it is hard to see how the result of such a rule could worsen the evidence we get.
Hi! Just a friendly suggestion, please correct the spelling of "conquer" on your page as it's spelled wrongly as "conquare"...that might leave a bad impression on your users. Otherwise, great job!
I guess it is the right time for such a review of how they work as they are on an early stage of deployment. They will benefit greatly security-wise from it.
All these issues can be fixed in a completely transparent way for the end user. And they should be.

That said, I think many of us have been missing the point with this site. The cryptography they provide allows for plausible deniability. No more, no less. They are perfectly able to view the contents of your uploads, and they never denied that. If you want truly private and secure files, then encrypt them yourself prior to uploading them.

The scope of this particular flaw (which, again, can be fixed transparently) is that you don't only need to trust Mega, you need to trust their CDNs as well. Neither of these levels of trust is enough if you truly are concerned about the privacy of your files.

It can only be considered a flaw in the first place because Mega claims to be the only party you need to trust and attempted to provide a means to ensure that. It just so happens that version 0 of this implementation does not work.

Then, fail0verflow goes ahead and say that since they have made this mistake they don't understand cryptography and should not be trusted to store your stuff. I'm sorry but that's bollocks. This system is big enough so absolutely anyone can make a stupid mistake or 2. Cryptography is just one element. A red herring IMO, being completely honest. If you are storing sensitive data don't let them do all the work and encrypt it yourself. Or just don't upload it to the cloud at all.

Absolutely everybody makes stupid mistakes and a single stupid mistake does not prove anything. I'd ask them to come down from their high horse because breaking a system is a lot less work than creating one. Especially when working under tight deadlines.
It is an option for the OP, he just likes github more :O. But you guys sure have pair programming down :P
>very well possible he knew that Palm was actively poaching

Which isn't illegal, immoral or wrong in any way.

>and blatantly disregarding existing NDAs

Do you mean NDA here or non-compete clauses? NDAs should certainly be adhered to but non-compete clauses should be illegal and certainly never enforced.
How Facebook Graph Search Can Descend Into Creepiness
I've used Win8 since the launch now (before I was using CentOS) and just yesterday I installed a Win7 VM because I needed to test a few things and Win7 felt like something from the last century. Everybody should upgrade to Win8. It's my favorite version.

So you see, we can play the i-like-this-so-should-you game until our Sun explodes. We won't have accomplished much though.
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Octawave - 14 000 requests per sec and avarage time per request at 0.07 s.
You might well lose touch with a geographically diverse crowd of people. FB and the like keep people involved in the minutiae of each others lives and very much help keep real friendships alive.

Of course FB is trying to destroy this as much as possible by controlling what you see of what people post. Trying to decide what's important to me is another facet of the 'dumb' algorithms the OP complains about.
Thanks mate! We've missed that one. Correction on the way :) Cheers!
Most of these vulnerabilities are break outs of the security manager. A lot of other VMs do not have security managers ("think of eval").
What should Facebook do?

Censor itself in Iran?
Glad to help! Cheers!
I think he's confusing the key-derivation function this article talks about for your "master key" with the MAC-in-JS this particular thread is discussing.
I guess that depends.

I'm 33, married, two kids.

I have never used Facebook but I do feel 'out of the loop.' especially since the baby arrived - I don't hear about things 'through the grapevine' and subsequently seldom find myself with many social options on the days that I have free.

This is good for my startup but bad for my self esteem.
Right and that is a part of the thought experiment. How would society evolve around not being able to compensate people to do those things through money? It is just a thought experiment though and I was not trying to solve any problems, I was just wondering what jobs are the most attractive once you remove money from the equation.
This is a failing of your supervisor and university if you have this experience in a UK university. I'm currently supervising PhD students at De Montfort University and we are required by the university to have AT LEAST monthly meetings with our students (usually 2-3 supervisors per student too). We support our students with seminar and theoretical workshop series, and encourage and support our particularly promising students to produce papers and submit them to conferences and journals.

There is a LOT of hand holding that goes on in our PhD programme. But your mileage may vary. I've heard that Russell Group universities can be a particularly mixed bag in this regard, but academics at other universities without such big names have more to gain by supporting our students.
Where does the argument stop? Why limit yourself to vertebrates, or even animals? Is it cruel to poison an ant nest in your yard? Is it cruel to eat wheat, cut down at the prime of its life? What about corn, which wouldn't exist without human intervention? Is sex with a flower, a plant sex organ, count as bestiality?

Humans can empathize with things which aren't humans, and with animals is relatively easy to empathize with pain. The laws are a function of, among other things, our level of empathy with a species and its use for other means. Dogs and cats, beloved by many, take a very special place in our laws, while tasty chickens are less so. Lowly wheat is neutral on the empathy scale, while most are decidedly not fond of roaches.

The balance of concerns changes over time. Should some day we be able to synthesize meat directly ("Panda meat while you wait!" "Put some tiger in your tummy today!"), then I predict there will be a larger call for "more ethical" treatment of animals currently raised for food.

The arguments against bestiality vary. Some just think it's squicky, which is likely an aspect of empathy. Others think that in human cultures, sex must be consensual (not rape), by people who can make an informed decision (not children, not unconscious), and without the taint of a power imbalance (boss/employee, teacher/student). Though even then, an adult child having sex with a parent is also squicky by many despite passing these rules.

Empathy with animals extends that view to animals, and it's hard to tell if an animal consents, and is not doing so from power imbalance.

I am not an ethicist, but I think this gives an outline of the factors by which we tend to say that sex with delicious pigs is a no-no while sex with pretty flowers is odd, but not specifically regulated.
wow, didnt know they were in trouble - they had http://atari.com/arcade (which i thought was cool).
And that's more or less the thing.

Maybe iWoz is more sympathetic towards Jobs (even if it narrates a deception of Woz by Jobs)

Because it shows Jobs getting free chips for Woz, getting deals, etc, it shows a more 'powerless' side of Jobs.
So in the mean time it's ok that this sort of tool is freely accessible to make it real easy to persecute them?
This page seems to have debug.phonegap.com script tag included, means anyone can see everyone else viewing the page (and execute javascript in their browser)... http://debug.phonegap.com/client/#ultralinx
Drug companies may exercise the right not to provide information to the NDA (or whoever), but they won't get their drugs approved.

You do not, for comparison, have the right to obtain a passport while exercising your right to silence in response to the information requests from the issuing authority.
The internet is great. It's like burying one of those time capsules full of stuff that was important to you at the time, then digging it up 20 years later and marvelling at your naivety.
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It's a real estate company because for many franchise stores, it owns the land and collects rent and franchise fee from the franchisees.

“McDonald’s real moneymaking engine was its little-known real estate business, Franchise Realty Corporation; envisioned and created by Harry Sonneborn. The obscure McDonald’s alter ego company was based on Sonneborn’s unique even lesser known financial formula.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_J._Sonneborn (First CEO)
There doesn't need to be a cashier. If there was a wall of touch screens, and all the food production was automated, you'd only need unskilled labour. Cleaners, and someone restocking the food inputs. You could have someone service the machine once a week, or in emergencies - but they already have expensive machinery running, so they probably already have the support staff infrastructure for those jobs.
Meh... It just means am even less likely to use ubuntu in the future.. I have already moved out of it, due to the amount of fixing i need to do, just to compensate for the problems introduced by apt-get update. Now it seems i'll just end up using debian or even fedora. Well, that may actually be a good result..
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I think think GP is claiming that non-compete clauses are illegal in California. I think he means that coercing them is.
"They" or "He"?
This is a great accompaniment to the image and video processing class on Coursera. Thanks.
Mega said that their system ensures privacy for your files.

It doesn't.

Their product has two selling points.

i) 50 GB

ii) encryption

Without encryption they're going to be under very heavy disruptive scrutiny. This seems to be a product breaking flaw.
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"To clarify I think moving towards the Windows approach is precisely what Linux needs."

WT-actual-F?

A model where people are trained to download and install random unvalidated garbage from the internet and live with the ad/crap/spy/mal-ware that that entails?

Please god no.

You can, if you want, install new repos and PPAs into ubuntu and debian quite easily, and yes running a decent repo takes maintainance. It's also the reason why debian stable is rock solid.
Reminds me of https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/comp.sys...
You can connect to the phone using remote debugging with Firefox's built in Developer Tools (you are best to use the latest nightly). I think that only the debugger and Web Console are remote-able right now but that will change in the near future.

We are working hard to make it easy for you to create and debug your apps because that is a win win for everyone.
Indeed.

The thing is, the results in that screenshot don't necessarily mean gay.

Interested in might mean I'm interested in networking or meeting new people, being male or female. Interested in doesn't necessarily mean I'm interested in sticking my penis in *.

Also, all people in that screenshot are also interested in females.
While doing a PhD:

1. You are very dependent on your supervisor. Not in terms of doing your work, but in terms that s/he can make it impossible for you to get your degree

-This opens the door for abuse. If your supervisor asks you do to something, even if unrelated to your phd subject, you'll probably do it. If you supervisor is a decent person this won't happen, however if you decide to do a phd you will be in a position where this can happen.

2. It's a huge vague task and even if you are extremely successful you will have publications about it with many citations. You'll get some pats on the back, and that's it. There's no real reward. The only reward is relief when you finish.

3. If an academic career is your goal, you have to be aware that it is not very rewarding financially.

4. Apart from the personal skills that you will most definitely acquire (being able to learn more quickly and in-depth any new subject), the actual knowledge that you acquire from doing a PhD will probably not be useful outside the inevitably narrow subject your phd targets. And unless that subject has demand in the industry, you will only be able to use it in academia.

5. Writing scientific papers is not fun, the review process is not fun. I don't think I've met anyone that gets genuinely excited when they have to review or write a paper.

I could go on, but let me tell you about the positives. If you can publish, you can travel to conferences, get to know new places and meet interesting people. And that's about it.

My personal opinion now (after leaving academics) is that if you really like a subject you should pursue it on your own. The effort that you have to put in a PhD is so big that if you used it for something else, you will probably end up with something that you are really proud of. I say this because when you do research, at least in my personal opinion, you don't always feel you are doing it for yourself, you are doing it because you have to publish, because that's the nature of the game in academics, you have to publish. And, again, writing and reviewing papers is not fun.

Anyway, a couple of years ago there was an article in the economist named the "The disposable academic" that neatly describes how the system is broken:
http://www.economist.com/node/17723223
I recently finished my PhD at a Dutch university. If I had to make the choice again, I would accept it immediately. It was great to have the time to do in-depth research and to be able to try practically any crazy idea I had. I had a great and very bright supervisor, who I learnt a great deal from (and hopefully work helped him). The colleagues were great and doing inspiring things. I could practically arrive and leave at any time, as long as work was done. And I got a good salary, holiday money, a bonus (1 month extra salary) and more holiday hours than I could spend.

The only thing that was unfulfilling was writing the actual thesis. I'd rather have spent my last year publishing two or three more articles than rehashing what I had published already.

If you go for a PhD, be sure to accept a position with a proper pay, enough holidays, and a good supervisor. Having the opportunity to teach a few weeks per year is a nice bonus.
> When these stop, you're dead.

Assuming as hypothesis that cryonics or some other technology manage to preserve all the information about your mind processes and that we can reinstantiate them in a new substrate, what is exactly the difference?

Exactly what property of these processes is lost when they stop, if hypothetically cryonics stores all the information? There is nothing else!

I think that we have an intuition of having some kind of "ineffable essence", but that's an illusion.

(I could accept that current cryonics is insufficient and that some information is lost in the process, but that is a completely different argument.)
They don't say exactly that.

They claim to be able to read your files.

The difference between their claims and the actual system after this flaw is this:

CDNs can also potentially read your files if they are malicious and actively try (which would be a breach of their contract I assume).

Doesn't change a thing for me to be honest. I don't trust Mega and all their employees, or whoever breaks into their facilities, to have my bank accounts logins and passwords in plain text. I trust them to keep my kindle purchased books with me not being liable of being "broadcasting them" as they are reasonably protecting them.

Obviously it's a flaw and they should fix it. But it's not a doom and gloom, "their whole system is a farce" kind of flaw.
How is it different when one can be perfectly healthy without eating animals ?
Some find pleasure in raping cows, others in eating them. Is it a debate on whether it's more desirable to be killed than raped ?
> who in their right mind would leave Apple and join Palm, of all places?

If I'm remembering right, Palm basically had a standing offer to double the salary of anyone who worked on the iPhone at that point in time. That looked pretty attractive to some people.
Oh man. ZETA must be, er, spitting feathers...
A PhD isn't about critique. It's about:

A) finding a grant-buzzword-friendly research direction
(Green ICT social networking for wireless sensor motes anyone?)

B) politicking to get as many publications squeezed out from one's meagre results as possible (Buddy, submit to the special edition of this journal because I'M the guest editor)

If the advisor doesn't TEACH the student how to navigate the bullshit, the student is hosed.

PhDs aren't for everyone
...I bet including many of the people who actually do them.
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I never archive on my personal Gmail account. Right now I have ~16K read emails, completely unstructured. But it doesn't matter too much because emails I get there rarely need responding to, and I normally get around 5-6 emails a day to that address so I can read them all easily.

My work account however is organised into folders, I normally just leave items as unread until I've replied or am finished with them, then they're archived into folders.
I think the issues when watching YT maybe be due to YT still using Flash by default unless you opt-in for HTML5 at http://youtube.com/html5 ? I could be mistaken there, but it seems like the embeds show HTML5 by default but the main site still doesn't.

Anyways I'm super glad you like it, please give me a holler (contact info in profile) if you have any feedback or annoying issues.
Can someone confirm that Desktop search is actually "slowing" as stated twice in this article?

In the first instance CPC is dropping because the CPC on mobile is lower and mobile is growing faster than desktop, but that doesn't give any info about whether or not desktop is growing in absolute terms.

In the second case desktop search is making up less of the total because mobile is growing faster, but again that doesn't mean desktop search is not growing.

For all we know given the info in this article desktop search could be growing at an ever accelerating pace, but just not keeping up with mobile.

To give a parallel this is as silly as saying iOS is "slowing" because it's not growing as fast as Android (even the much maligned Blackberry only actually dropped in number of users very recently, up until that point they were just being vastly outpaced in growth rate by rivals.)
Sure, but A and D are the particularly embarrassing ones.
Please let me download it without giving you my mail address :/ If you don't spam me, you don't need it..
Yup, that's possible. Adding authentication adds a ton of cool stuff I could do, but it also makes the app significantly more complicated and I'm not sure yet if I'm willing to go there. I'll think about it.

Pull requests are always welcome though! :)
Exactly. It's much easier to update the javascript code that does the checks to use sha256 hashes than it is to update the bootloader/bootrom of the Nintendo Wii.
>And we should appreciate, rather than chastise, the tools which make us realise that there are things we need to improve in the world.

What? Of course we all want the world to be a better place, but Facebook has no right to put people's lives in danger to try and force the issue. If they're so worried about making the world a better place they should do it themselves, not just open the flood gates on their users.
Awesome, thanks! Let me know if anything bugs you about it.
Living in 400 square feet might just work
I can't believe he had the nerve to go on the record after being specifically told what he was planning was illegal once again on public record and then re-iterate his original threat. So not only the no hire thing, but basically extortion to get Palm to comply?

Any last shred of respect I had for the guy just evaporated.