skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think that I'm just in denial about how stupid people can be. It just boggles my mind. Al Qaeda almost immediately took credit, the government almost immediately verified that it was Osama Bin Laden, and there are lots of other reasons why it's pretty unlikely.

I could understand if average Americans thought that Saddam might have some minor relationship with Al Qaeda, but even that's a stretch. Saddam was barely a Muslim, let alone an extremist. As long as you didn't live in Fallujah, Iraq used to be one of the more religiously tolerant countries. The only reason the Iraqi flag had "Allahu Akbar" on it is because he wanted to gain the sympathy from his neighbors during the Gulf War.

I guess I'm just disappointed.
It also depends on the amount of revenue you can generate if you hire a professional and get on with your work.

If we assume that the professional's fee is constant (doesn't depend on your income), then someone with very high income can waste only minutes on the task before it would have been cheaper to hire a professional, whereas someone with low income can devote a few hours to learning how to do it themselves and still make up for lost earnings by avoiding the cost of hiring a professional.
This looks fantastic. It sounds like it uses a similar setup as Lastpass, but with a service for startups to manage accounts. They should offer a free tier for end users to store and manage passwords ala Lastpass, and then keep the team focused features as a premium upgrade.
> If he offered me $100 I would probably walk away.

Why? Do you really consider it worth $100 to you just to prevent someone else from getting $9900, or do you just value $100 so little that you are willing to round it down to $0?

I can imagine real-world scenarios in which I might spend $100 worth of my time to try to address a problem, especially if I think that problem might affect others. (Scenarios involving an actual $100 seem even less likely, but plausible for a sufficiently egregious wrong.)

However, as a game, I'd call it free money no matter the amount; neither player did anything in particular to earn the money other than taking their time to play the game, and I don't see it as even slightly unfair of the first player to offer less money to the second, so I don't see any value in "punishing" the first player. The first player happened to get the better opportunity, and the second player gets to choose between having something or having nothing. In the game version, I'd place zero value on how much the first player gets.

Now, if I thought I could bluff the first player via advance communication into believing that I'd reject the offer if less than a certain amount, I'd certainly do it; however, if they called the bluff, I'll take what I can get.
Wow, that kinda sucks. Do you mean computer-related contracting or in general?

Over here in the good-ol UK I set my rate (which the customer knows about) and my agent tries to get as much on top as they can, but AFAICT (and I have relatives who are agents) the split is usually around 80-20. Which is still a lot of cash just for fixing me up with work...
Here is Joel's article when SO launched: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2008/09/15.html

I believe he also primed the pumps a couple of monthes in advance with Codinghorror, I was reading both at that time.
I personally like the fact that you don't need to have your arms lifted out in front of you for many different types of actions. (And if you want to should it feel more natural, you have that option)
I would actually recommend Wiki (specifically wikimedia) software for this doing this.

It can act very much like a blog, but also brings along features of many Knowledgebases, like versioning of information. Sometimes problems evolve, and being able to keep track of that is beneficial.
I think person in Aaron's position most definitely would have been impacted by the conviction — a stayed sentence or probation could have included prohibitions on certain work or activities, and it would have made political relationships difficult with policymakers. If there was any amount of a wildcard in the sentencing prospects, it's a bigger deal than just "three months."
>>>> Men often times are taken seriously just because they are men

That doesn't sound right. Given that pretty much everybody in certain fields are men, that would imply anybody there is taken seriously. But it seems to be obviously wrong - no one would just accept just any guy coming from the street as a master in any domain just because he's male. If somebody pretends to be a serious practitioner of the field, he would never be accepted as such without demonstrating some proof. I can come in and say, e.g., "I am a seasoned game developer", but people would immediately as "nice, which games did you develop?", not say "are you male? oh, then we believe you".

>>>> how their male counterparts are always praised by their peers and superiors for minor accomplishments

Being praised for minor accomplishments does not actually mean one is taken seriously - children are often praised for the smallest of accomplishments, but treating one like a child is exactly the opposite of taking seriously.
Just because the weakness hasn't been exploited doesn't mean it isn't there.
You can set it to encrypt everything, including open tabs. Since it's encrypted locally, the sync server can't see anything.
Perhaps I am being too literal here. But plenty of men are men, and yet are not taken seriously. So merely being a man does not mean you are taken seriously. In other words, no, men are not taken seriously "just because they are men".
As much as I like the article it really left thinking that there is much left to investigate.

Does the relative dollar amount vs the absolute dollar amount affect the ultimatum game?

How does differing income levels affect the results.

It does show the limitations of scientific study and how the studies themselves can be generalized or not having controlled and explored many possibilities that indeed may be factors.
It is an interesting experiment but I don't think that it necessarily implies there is a huge difference in human psychology - if you did the experiment with a poor (i.e. homeless) American, I am pretty sure they would accept any amount of money. To add to this, I think there was probably some confusion when explaining the rules of the game to the subjects.
Or possibly less; the implication I took was that they the cash jobs they took were supplemental income. The point of studying these villages is that they're economically isolated. They probably grow their own food, build their own shelters. I'd imagine they trade with the outside world -- using money earned from cash crops or working a few days here and there for a logging company or oil company -- for a small number of luxuries like metal, salt, or western clothing.

Money might be nice in such a situation, but if you're not going to starve to death or freeze to death and you don't have 300k$ in medical debt suffocating you, it might not be as valuable as a couple days extra pay is to a poverty-line worker in the US.
From my limited understanding, it's not the best idea for companies who want to keep their costs to a minimum.

There are employees who are being underpaid and don't have many metrics to look at if they want a higher salary (win for the company). Then there's also that if companies make their employee's salaries public, there will be a more aggressive and obvious effort to poach employees from competition. Potential employees will benefit off of this war, while the companies will be just trying to one-up each other.

Not to say companies don't currently poach employees from competitors, but I think making those figures public would make that much more prevalent.
Both Portal 2 and League of Legends run well on low end integrated graphics cards. The iPad may not have those particular games, but Unreal Engine 3 games are generally more demanding than Source Engine games, and there are several UE3 titles on iOS.
Obviously I am not going to link you to sites where you can watch without these issues, but the third link that comes up on Google is one of them. Visit it with Firefox with Adblock installed and you'll have no problems. This is extremely common practice.
The analogy is a very loose one: I mean more the general incentive to maximize profit to the detriment of customers, going right up to the line, but not over, where they stop paying you.
>You would need to balance the headache of implementing these regulations against the real and perceived benefits

This is why we can do this and get by because we are still a startup. :)

But yes you are absolutely right. We are currently pursuing more formal legal agreements with our partner schools, and this was a proactive move on our part when a lot of folks questioned the need for it. We belive strongly in integrity of science, it just won't be simple to shoehorn this new process into the machine that is big science today.
People have already asked about Grooveshark, but where's MOG?
Tell HN: YC companies posting jobs, make your location clear
As an engineer interested in openings with YC companies, remember to include your location. Make it very, very visible. This is the first thing most of us look at.

The pattern I have seen is that some postings don't include a location at all, or its buried in the text of the job description somewhere.

The good ones include the location in the title, or near the very top or very bottom of the description. Please don't bury it somewhere in a paragraph.

Best one I see now, at the time of this posting, is "Full stack engineer wanted in Sydney Australia". Direct and clear. Maybe I'm in Sydney or nearby (I'm not) but might be interested in going there (Kind of).

Keep up the awesome work, just make this a little easier for us!
Big +1 to Circle. Works great. Unfortunately, the way we're running our test suite (Konacha for JS front end + rspec/capybara/et al for the backend) precludes us from the "magic" parallelization, which is a bummer.
Thanks for the suggestion Jason. Our free tier actually covers up to five users, so it works great for both individuals and small teams. We knew that Meldium would be useful for large companies, but we've been surprised to learn that even very small teams love it too.
What Impostor Syndrome? We're talking about a CS freshman interviewing for their first internship. Be happy that your first internship interview had any challenging technical questions at all and stop belittling yourself. Heck, when i was a CS major in school, internships didn't even kick in until 3rd year. This has nothing to do with gender. As the top commenter says, it has everything to do with growing up.
Couldn't you just set up an account on LastPass or OneLogin and share access to that account?
Why is Chrome more secure? Did I miss a memo? I was under the impression that Firefox security issues are fixed in a pretty decent manner.
Google is making some big blunders and they are filled with some of the most technical people on earth. The open source community also is making some big blunders and most the core are technical as well.
Perhaps it would help to think of it this way: Most men are accorded a neutral rating from the get go and proving themselves puts them ahead of that. Women tend to start with a negative rating and have to work their way up to neutral. Yes, if a man screws up he can drop into the negatives. But he is much less likely to start there.
There are only two business models.  Pick one.
Shaky cams in video games can easily become a hindrance of a good experience. For example Kane and Lynch 2 was criticized for having a shaky cam that made gameplay more difficult. Its definately a balancing act to get the right amount of shake
Having built a product, I'll also add that early on it's not just about finding someone you can work well with, they also need to believe in the product and bring some level of passion for it to the table.

I can work well with any number of people, but few understand the importance of things like audience building, using the product on a daily basis, etc., and even the ones that do might not act on that stuff. Overall passion for execution and moving the product forward are critical.

Maybe this is what you meant, but I wanted to add my 2 cents to clarify.
Choose: spend a million or more defending yourself or go to jail and be labelled a felon.

Damned if you do and damned if you don't, guilt doesn't even enter into it you lose either way.
[Most] men who feel like imposters try harder, and [most] women who feel like imposters buckle.

I don't find nearly as much support for this point of view in the paragraph.

The authors used the words "frenetically" rather than "harder" to describe the way the men work. It also suggested that women avoid risk, but not that they buckle. Too much risk aversion can be destructive, but I could also see the identified male pattern here as being very destructive to a career as well. Perhaps losing confidence, working frenetically, and using rapid change (impulsive job hopping) to escape a situation that actually doesn't need to be escaped, abandoning good relationships with people who don't think he's incompetent at all?
You may want to check out something like SQLite-Net: https://github.com/praeclarum/sqlite-net

Really easy to setup and get up and running!
You're not "trying your luck" against a 35 year sentence, not in any practical sense of the term since it's a maximum. The statutory sentence for the charges was in the couple of year range. It wouldn't have been at all surprising for him to get no jail time at all.
Something neglected in this discussion is the role of hostile interactions from others in this field. Impostor syndrome is not always something with a strictly internal origin. If people are dominating you and making you feel bad, and you become submissive, that is a pattern as old as primates and it shouldn't surprise us when it happens also when you are working with people who are extremely concerned with proving they or their clique are better than others. Which is super common in CS and a large part of why many women have a bad experience.
“Six strikes” enforcement policy debuts
"The second is a split infrastructure security system, which lets key data such as passwords be entered in by an admin and used for login purposes, but not extracted back out by rank and file users. “With this cryptography, the only thing that can come back out is the logged in account, not the credentials themselves,” Buda says."
I know, me too. Just gotta take that into account when dealing with the American public, I guess.
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I’ve used this app since it was called SteadiCam (before that name was pulled for copyright reasons, of course), and there’s really nothing else like it around—long ago I thought of applying 6-axis gyroscope readings in reverse to video, but this dev has done that and more better than I ever could. It’s a fantastic application of amazing technology and crazy math. Major kudos!
"According to HuffPo" is not a credible citation. If we're going by rumor and innuendo, what about the claims that MIT was the one pushing for jail time?
I think the word scofflaw implies repeatedly or habitually breaking the law. Perhaps breaking the law in a mocking way. I guess it just depends upon which dictionary you want to believe.
I served as an Assistant Gunner for awhile and we learned to LOVE our M60's.
It always seemed that the skinniest guys were AG's, loaded down with ammo, extra barrel, tripod, and T & E mechanism, while also having to carry an M16, and its ammo.

In all of my time in service, the only time I ever burnt my hand on a hot barrel was during OSUT, when a dickhead Drill Corporal had us all stand at attention after we'd formed up after being cleared from the firing line. It taught me a valuable lesson about how hot a weapon could get.

I have also seen an M60 barrel warp & bend after firing 1500 rounds non-stop.

As for putting the gun together incorrectly, I can see doing so in the heat of battle, or the fog (20+ hours a day on your feet, except while in the "front-lean-&-rest") of Ranger School, but have never seen such occur in normal training.

All in all, the M60 is still a venerable gun, and when proper tactics are employed (inter-locking fire) it is a more than capable weapon.

So much that, in one of my assignments, our platoon had 3 gun crews instead of the usual 2, because our PL had served multiple tours in Vietnam, and he knew the effectiveness of these guns - especially with 3 crews while doing a bounding overwatch.

"Fire a burst of six to nine."
And thus, the Government became a listening party to every data transmission that will ever exist for the next thousand years. Voice, video, conversation. The talk with your kids. Everything. We need to do something about this. The internet is the future data transfer medium. It's the substrate we will be using to think among ourselves. Our government is trying to get inside our MINDS. By becoming our mind before the neurons have a chance to join up.

I'm just doing a little startup with me and my friends, I'd like to have a website, or broadcast to everyone around the world, but I can't afford to broadcast information to all the people like the big fat-cats who have paid off the government can.

This is step 1 of 10 in turning the Global internet in a controlled apendage of the american government, to be metered, spliced, diced, fast-laned, slow-laned and policed. There will be "pay me money to use this part of the internet" signs everywhere. And the taxes will be reasonable, at first.

The government will own the internet, and you will have to pay them dearly to use it. Even when the internet is simply a data transfer between two consenting adults that stand next to eachother.

The government then took a large step to becoming a God, omnipresent. Privacy? Out the fucking window. Kthx
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A felony conviction didn't prevent Rick Scott from being elected governor of Florida.
Bingo. I think it's high time we outlawed the plea bargain entirely. If it's important enough to the public good that someone be locked in a cage for years or even decades, it deserves the cost of giving the accused their day in court, every time, no matter what.
I guess I'll have to check it out, though anything so involved might be too time intensive for me.
We think of Meldium as a tool for sharing accounts, not for just sharing passwords. While there are a lot of password managers out there, none of them are built for teams first. Meldium's browser extension makes passwords go away completely - they are never echoed or revealed to your teammates. We wanted to build a product that has geek-level security but also fantastic UX for end users of any technical sophistication.
There was a link to his profile in the flippa listing: http://blaster.fm/joshsharp/posts/
How does it actually work? How can it fill out a password form field for me, but make it so I can't find out the password?

Can't I just sniff what my browser sends to the server?

I'm suspicious.

This is a real problem though.

PS: You might want to reconsider that name. Meldium, to me at least, just looks like someone typoed when trying to type Medium.
I haven't found the Flippa community to be overly drawn to custom tech (i.e. not wordpress, etc.) unless there is already a large audience for the site. I think the HN crowd needs a Flippa equivalent for abandoned projects.

I am happy to donate the domain startuptrader.com to the effort :)
This has not hurt the population yet, but the one child policy will certainly wreak havoc the country if it is maintained for too long.

When it will be removed (it will have to), I wonder which group will take the most advantage of it and grow faster - the "non religious by western standard" or the various ethnic groups - say in the XianJiang.

Also, the fact that an authoritarian communist country where atheism is promoted still couldn't remove the religious allegiances is interesting. The former USSR tried the same - and failed.
Hey, I'm the other founder at Circle.

So the entire backend is clojure. For the devops stuff, we use pallet [1], a clojure library similar to puppet or chef, and stevedore, a clojure DSL for writing bash. We actually have zero bash in the source tree!

The web UI is a fat javascript client using knockout and HAMLcoffee, so the web server only serves a JSON API, all HTML rendering is done client-side.

[1] palletops.com
> If Microsoft's vision of everyone needing a computer is correct, the Surface pro will destroy the laptop. But if Apple's vision of a "post-PC" world is correct, the vast majority of the tablet market will be just tablets, and the iPad will continue to thrive.

That's the reason why MS should be willing to spend a boat-load of money on backing the Surface - if they can't create a post-PC world ruled by x86 devices, they are in serious trouble.
>"People are not “plug and play,” as he puts it, and you cannot expect to drop a Western court system or form of government into another culture and expect it to work as it does back home"

This conclusion comes a decade or more too late, I suppose, to affect U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East for the better. After doing my undergradate work in Near Eastern Culture (or, rather, about 3 credits in) it became apparent that the 'Western ideal' of justice does not translate whole-sale; that certain adaptations are necesssary to improve the human rights situation, as is a great deal of 'soul searching' to determine precisely what would constitute 'improvement.'
Definitely true if the only use case is for spontaneous activities. We're targeting the stuff that falls in-between spur of the moment activities and major planned events. These are the things that make up the bulk of most people's social lives (at least, for those of us no longer in our tweens)... things like getting a group of friends together for dinner, a movie, or whatever.

These are the activities that most people tend to fall back on email, texting, and phone calls to coordinate, which becomes a pain when more than two people are involved.

Instead of "Anyone up for dinner tonight?", imagine broadcasting to your friends "Let's do dinner this weekend". For me, there's rarely a destination determined up front. There's usually a bunch of back and forth with everyone before a place is agreed upon. It's during this period that targeted advertising could work really well, because something as simple as a "Get a free appetizer with your meal" offer could easily sway the decision towards a particular restaurant.
Similar products have existed for a long time, but mostly "in the lab." Nonetheless, it is cool, although I suspect there would be a lot of accidental gesturing -- there are many ways to prevent accidental gestures, but all at the expense of usability.
Thats ok re the downvote, I know it was pretty on the nose. Post still stands though, kind of interested to see what Joel has to say.
Thanks!

We have a couple ideas on how to make non-magic parallelization easier to set up. Expect to see that in the next few weeks.
Interesting article, thanks for sharing.

In particular I liked the numerous little tidbits such as Even subtle exposure to drawings resembling eyes encourages good behaviour towards strangers.

Perhaps changing the title to something more grabbing might help to generate interest, eg. "Hacking Society: Religion and Surveillance".
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