skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, because the value consultant charges more but also provides more. In addition to understanding the technical aspects, he also understands the business aspects and can speak the client's language (business goals) freeing the client from having to micro manage or go deep into the weeds of the tech nitty-gritty. Best of all, the value driven consultant knows what's truly important and can intelligently focus his technical efforts on those areas which provide the biggest payoff.

As others have stated elsewhere in this thread: there are people who are willing to pay you a lot of money so you can free up their time and let them focus on activities that generate a boatload more money than $10K. These are the people who will happily choose the $20K offer, and these are the people you want to work with.
I did basically the same thing, but took three tennis balls, put them in a tube sock, and safety-pinned it to the back of a T-shirt. I found loose T-shirts didn't work quite as well as one that's a little tight.
Report outlines ’5 biggest problems facing Apple’
I hope nobody is surprised to find that B&N's management is not incompetent and has made the correct decision: B&N can't become a viable player in e-books and e-book reading devices, much less media and media playback devices in the broader sense, which is likely required for success.

Bookstores will continue to decline, but there is a place for the last man standing. College bookstores are dominated by B&N and focusing on where you are winning is a good decision.

At best, Microsoft could buy Nook and the B&N e-book infrastructure and turn it into a software component for Windows 8 devices. At worst, it's doomed to not become viable.

If Nook does become viable it will do so mostly outside the US.
Except this story wasn't about finding the influencers - if the healthier families were influential, there wouldn't have been much need for the outside intervention. To take your analogy, this would be more like modeling your system around the most successful practices at your implementation site as opposed to designing a system and forcing compliance.
Absolute power corrupts absolutely. I know some very well versed and honest developers who have had the opportunity to work more and more from home. It's amazing how a little extra freedom can change people's accountability.

That is not to say remote working is something to be looked down upon (quite the opposite in my opinion), but productivity comes down to the individual worker in a remote situation, not the management team behind them.

I believe Yahoo was justified in their decision to reign in the slack due to this idea.
The wildcard fix is annoying when you have everything on SSL but don't want to handle a wildcard cert[1]. When someone typos https://foo.example.com I'd like the UX to be a browser's "could not connect to server" error, not "this site is untrusted, run away as fast as you can".

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[1] IMO, the use of wildcard certs is a dangerous practice[2] made obsolete by SNI.

[2] If the cert gets stolen from one server, the thief can impersonate any server on that domain.
Just tried Linux32 download and it seems to be working :-)
I'm one of the developers of threaded HTML parsing in WebKit. Threaded HTML parsing is only enabled in Chromium (for now). We're still working through the kinks. :)
Five Mompreneurs Say You Can Do It All
I keep a tab open with this image

http://media.tumblr.com/c8a33a98917d46ca8d3220183dfd6e5e/tum...

because I know I'll click on it accidentally a few times a day.

I do it to remind me that there are more important things than whatever fire I'm currently fighting, and also simply because it makes me happy.
"1996" - It's a shame that Google Groups Usenet search is so broken at the moment. This is the kind of thing that a good Usenet search would be useful for.
I am not so sure. You are right about the beach, but honestly, how frequent is this case? Many people read at home most of the time. I myself actually own Kindle, and there is nothing fundamentally wrong with the device, but I am not still sure if I'll buy next generation if it wears down. The advantages of e-ink are still not that substantial, and I find myself read more often on iPhone or iPad. In the future, I find it more probable to own something like iPad mini or a very big smartphone, and not owning e-ink reader. For the rare occasion when I am on the beach, there is still printed stuff available.

To sum it up, IMHO the biggest problem with e-ink readers is that the advantage of e-ink don't outweigh the inconvenience to having another device. (unless the e-ink technology will substantially improve).
Japan is also one of the few countries that signed ACTA.
I recently had nightmare of a interview experience with AirBnb. They asked me take 2 days off from work and fly all the way to SFO after I wasted couple of hours doing their online coding puzzle.
The first interviewer asked me a string matching question, and insisted that I code up his brute force solution with terrible insert complicity and second interviewer asked me to code up a binary search tree( he had no clue if what a symetric binary tree was when i asked him if it has to be symmetric). After which the recruiter asked me leave saying the interview was not going well.
I am yet to hear back from them about the $1200 i spent on the whole ordeal.

Only interview there if you are ready to waste 3 days of your life and ~$1400 and think Justin Biber jokes are funny ( really? ).

Edit: Anyone know what I can do about recouping the money I spent, I sent all the receipts and filled out their candidate reimbursement form. They wont respond to my email.
I'm CEO bitch.
I think that's the point that BetaKit was trying to make with WePay's focus on service providers and small businesses.

Any idea what the size of this market is? Also, I did some research on WePay, and apparently they are a YC S09 company.
I disagree, it's not like it can be negative. There's only a chance for a positive...
There are better options than LRU which gets too easily flushed.

Check out CLOCK-Pro and LIRS.
The fast path is much faster and handles the common case. The complex path is, well, complex, but it's the "all sing, all dance" path that handles all the difficult cases.
I think in terms of the kind of job position they could get going into a Microsoft after their startup, they ended up about the same as if they had been at Microsoft the whole time.

So it wasn't wasted time in that respect, and they'll be bringing in unique and different skills that they probably wouldn't have developed had they been at MS the whole time.

But...there's things like the lower pay they probably had while doing their business, and the intensity of running a failing business is very very hard mentally and physically.

Near the end, one of the guys shut down...hard...now that he's moved on he's recovering. But I think that kind of experience trails along with you for a long while.
I'd like to start by saying that I do agree with you that some basic rules about the relationship between employer and employee reach the level of "moral imperative" and should be codified in law. "At will" employment is a big part of this (if you don't like it, you leave), but I certainly do agree that there should be some legally enforced rules around this.

So the only real disagreement we have is where to draw the line. Do you really put the right to telecommute on the same moral level as having a place to pee or time off to go to the bathroom?
really interesting - had no idea so many of these companies started as side projects. also cool to see that many of the ideas derived from a need. sounds like a great way to start a side project is by working on something that you personally have a need for.
Reading the article, it sounds like "its cool because now you only have to 'dev for webkit' and forget the rest".

Makes me uncomfortable.
"I don't know about you, but i give everyone the benefit of doubt and unless someone violates this trust, i'd think most people do too."

True.. and I used to trust registrars to manage my DNS.. but over the years, this is at least the 3rd or 4th time this has happened with a registrar I am on (yes, I have domains at name.com).

Since I don't have time to interrogate every registrars DNS server when I sign up, I just assume it's useless these days. + I end up having to pay for a DNS service anyway, to avoid the bad registrars DNS.. so it's easier to use a single DNS service for all of the domains.
The first-to-file provisions (among others) don't actually go into effect until March 16th of this year. (The 16th being a Saturday, filings will have to be in by the 15th to be considered under first-to-invent.)
Show HN: Mailbox app like minimal status bar
This is what happened. For example, I previously gave Name.com the benefit of the doubt and sent them an email asking them to fix the issue. They did not, so now I mention this every time I see their service mentioned. They are scum just like GoDaddy but on a lower scale.
The 1st example is better

(Yes, if len returns 0 it's evaluated as false, just tested this)

But for the 2nd I would prefer

if not len(request.pipeline):
Manpower is an issue, but we've gotten a lot of requests for Ruby in the future. When and where Ruby support will come is still unknown, but do know that we hear you! :)
How NASA Scientists Are Turning L.A. Into One Big Climate-Change Lab
I think that's very dependent on the person and how they internalized the experience. One of them I know thinks that it was wasted years off of his life. Another feels like they learned more in those years than they did in the rest of their career combined, and it's armed them to be more effective in future endeavors.
Bradley Manning enters guilty pleas in WikiLeaks case
But then the patent expiration clock starts now, rather than from 1996? That seems so wrong. That would mean the patent backlog is actually working for the trolls.
Cordova is awesome! Have you used it to create something? How was it?
Self-Encrypting USB Hard Drives for all Operating Systems [video]
They did - http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getAllAnswers.do?referen...
> David Sacks spun it out as a separate company, and it was recently acquired by Microsoft for $1.2 billion.

It a perfect example of executions and networking/inside deals. Yammer has always been violating on multiple Facebook patents and one would think that once Y became a heavyweight someone at FB legal dept would have pursued the suit. But they hadn't. Only later on to be bought by MS, which has its own stake in Facebook. Rest assured, had you pull the "Yammer startup", you would have been bombed with cease & desist letters from FB until you bleed the last drop of sweat.
Ubuntu Rolling Release Proposal
Just start with the Claims and go from there. You must literally infringe every single word (that's why patent Claims seem so awkwardly worded).

Simply not do ANY ONE OF THE following:

> "series of episodes"

So a single episode and you may avoid infringement

> "performing, from time to time, one of a sequence of update operations"

So eliminate periodic operations, or sequence of updates and you may avoid infringement

> "each of said update operations comprising: downloading via the Internet the current version of a compilation file identified by a predetermined known URL"

So either don't identify using known URL (admittedly not likely but worth mentioning), avoid what they defined "compilation file" to be, or even avoid "predetermined" and you may avoid infringement

> ", and storing attribute data contained in said current version of said compilation file in said digital memory, said attribute data describing one or more episodes in a series of episodes"

Now it starts sounding like "compilation file" is more than just a mp3 file. So the first support I find (CTRL-F is your friend) related is:

> "The download compilation file 145, though represented as a single file in FIG. 1, preferably takes the form of one or more subscriber and session specific files which contain the identification of separately stored sharable files. By way of example, the recommended order and the identification of the program files making up an individual playback session are stored in a session schedule file (to be described in detail in connection with FIG. 5) which contains program identifiers of the program segments to be played during an upcoming session. The player 103 downloads the session schedule file and then issues download requests for those identified program segment files which are not already available in the player's local storage unit 107."

Add to this, FIG. 5 and FIG. 6, and it looks like compilation file includes one or more things like indexes, transcripts, condensed content, topic description, paragraphs, etc...
So avoiding this "compilation file" is probably their best bet - just serve straight up mp3 files and you may avoid infringement but compile mp3 into these "compilation files" and you're infringing.

What troubles me is that I'm not an expert but yet have found plenty of options for Carolla/etc to avoid this (and relatively cheaply). So who's the patent lawyer giving Carolla advice to fight this? Probably the EFF as part of their anti-patent propaganda.
Apple iOS Apps Leak More Personal Info Than Android
I think my next project may well use balanced instead of stripe. This is great stuff!
this is not strictly true, but it is a postwar convention that was popularized by Penguin books [1] and its 'composition rules' which were canonized by jan tschichold. The more common 'tradition', which Typeplate ignores, is that you indent only if you do not insert vertical space between lines. The idea being that you only need to do one visual 'thing' to make a block of text distinct from another, why do two?

the earlier tradition was that you'd add a pilcrow or some other distinctive mark at the start of a logical paragraph mid-line so that as little paper (which was either baby cow parchment or made of precious linen) was wasted on whitespace. For an example, look at a 42 line bible [2] or eric gill's book on typography [3].

[1]: http://www.thenewgraphic.com/2012/06/jan-tschichold-penguin-...
[2]: http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/exhibitions/permanent/gutenbergbib...
[3]: http://www.olivertomas.com/books/eric-gills-an-essay-on-typo...
Currently downloading at 9-10KB/s. Anyone seeding a torrent?
When you are not programming, you are still a programmer too
Even worse; their customer agreement seems to indicate that you are responsible for the content. They also refuse to turn it off if you send them an email. What a shitty little company to be inflicting this on their customers.
Chromebook Pixel doesn't really challenge Apple in this regard yet.

It's underpowered, underfeatured hardware costs equivalent to an MB Air and almost MBP-r.

It's a shot across the bow of battleship Apple, but the low-cost Chromebooks are far more of a threat to both MS and Apple.
did you not see the "compilation file" elements?
So there's lots of thing to say. Picking one I'd say have some meaningful stories to tell. Not to recite, but the interviewer will probably ask you some "situational" questions where she asks for you to demonstrate dealing with some specific type of problem in the past. So you need examples. And you won't be able to think of them on the spot. So think of them now. The format some interviewers use is STAR - Situation, Task, Action, Response. Describe what the problem was, what you had to do, what you did and how it turned out.

This is not a strategic suggestion, but a tactical suggestion. But a large number of candidates that I've interviewed don't do well at answering this type of question and it keeps me from giving them a good interview evaluation since I don't really have an answer.
I think BN made a rather large mistake in trying to sell an extremely limited amount of apps in their store. Many of the apps are available for free, but BN felt it was okay to charge.

The book situation is exactly as you say. I wonder if Amazon is losing money.
UK judge who issued ruling for Samsung against Apple hired by Samsung
What defines "rebellion"?
The website definitely could use a little more info. I had never heard of lighttable until now. Figuring out what it was and what problems it was solving took longer than it should have, imo. I don't want to watch a video. Give me a breakdown, time is precious!
I think the author is primarily correct, but what if they know they don't have the right people? What if the best way right now is to reel them in and keep a close eye on them until they can re-staff? You can't re-staff a company over night, it takes years.
Hey, this is great. I noticed that UI feature on Mailbox.app and thought it was a pretty interesting idea. Thanks!
Rallying cry for a generation. Well worth passing around as a manifesto.
If they're honest, what's to fear? I think the developers that you're talking about have shows that they're "only honest with supervision".

Companies like Automattic, 37signals, and GitHub hire "managers of one". These are that can produce great work, without having someone looking over their shoulder.

Yes: remote work isn't for everyone. That's why I think it comes down to managers empowering their people to do their best work. If a developer can be honest, and say: "You let me work remotely, but I keep getting distracted. I either need you to teach me better work-from-home-habits or I'll need to come back to the office."

That's what managers should aim for.
That is a good point. What we do is Sanger sequencing. This is sequencing of up to 500bp of DNA and not the whole genome. This type of sequencing is much more affordable.
> black themes look sort of sketchy at work

Could you explain that?
Bradley Manning pleads guilty to misusing classified data in WikiLeaks case
Wish I could give you extra upvotes!!

Yes, the SHIELD act is treating the symptom, not the cause.
Debugging JavaScript from a remote server in remote browser with Fiddler
(Poor) local minima can be sometimes reached in back propagation due to a bad setting of the learning rate and RProp does help with that. You can also repeat the learning process using one of those algorithms many times with different initial random weights and use the results of the best attempt. I think this most often suffices in practical applications of NN for getting decent results, you are right I got some of this wrong, I basically wanted to say that backprop is no longer state of the art in training and that optimization is the relatively easy part of learning.
The problem with even decentralized things like USENET is that when so few legitimate users leverage a thing, it stands out in traffic analysis.

Google and Twitter are great precisely because so many people use it. And if the authors had the sense to keep the search terms region/topic-specific the traffic would be nearly impossible to notice or filter, without the benefit of hindsight.
Some previous discussion on this issue (almost 2 years ago):

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2443710

I'll say the same thing I said then:

As an anecdotal counterpoint, I'm an extremely happy Name.com customer. I transfered several domains to them a year or so ago from GoDaddy. They support two-factor authentication, their interface is uncluttered, I pay them less money than I paid GoDaddy, and I haven't had a single issue. I would highly recommend them to anyone looking for a registrar.

That being said, I don't use them for DNS. If this is a feature of their nameservers, I do find it strange that they don't offer a way to opt out (other than using alternative nameservers).

I am still an incredibly happy Name.com customer and would recommend them as a registrar to anyone who asks. I just would point them somewhere else for DNS hosting.
I don't really get the initial point. The browser is, for most developers, a black box. And it should probably stay that way. Ideally, it is an exchangable black box.

Still a neat article. I just find that point odd.
The impending threat of peak oil
I don't think developer time is considered overhead for a software outfit. I believe overhead is anything that does not directly contribute to the bottom line. At a software company a dev contributes to the bottom line in the form of shipping code.
That is no bad thing, because programming in Squeak absolutely blows programming in Xcode away.
Yeah I read that part, but I believe that claim comes all together. You don't simply get infringement if you happen to distribute audio files, you have to do it in the way that the entire sum of claim 31 provides.

Specifically this part is the part I don't think ACE Broadcasting Network (Adam Corolla, et al.) violates:

> and
employing one of said one or more communication interfaces to:

IANAL though, so... yeah. :-/
"Next to her office" can mean next to the large building owned by Yahoo that all employees drive to, that she also happens to reside in.

Also this article is trying to make her look bad because everyone is poo pooing that she is making everyone drive to work to turn around the company. I'll believe the daycare is only for her and her alone, while also denying anyone else the ability to use a Yahoo run daycare when I actually see it.
Incredible, and saddening to think if Watsi was any later this young human being probably wouldn't be around today.

Watsi seems to personalise charity to a level I have never seen before. It's very exciting!

Watsi looks absolutely amazing and I want them to succeed more than any other startup.
Samsung loses Japan iPhone battle
+1. Route 53 is pretty spiffy.
Hackschooling Makes Me Happy [vid]
General computation on encrypted data was discovered by a graduate student at Stanford named Craig Gentry. He now works for IBM, and has been pretty active in that field, along with a handful of other experts. It's very slow, sure, but over the past 4 years speeds have increased to the point where it is reasonable to start talking about practical applications.

It is also worth pointing out that systems supported restricted classes of functions preceded Gentry's work. If you are willing to limit yourself to NC1 functions (i.e. those that can be represented as boolean circuits with depth that is the logarithm of the input size), you can use oblivious transfer or the SYY construction (cannot recall their names off the top of my head). If you only need products in certain groups, you can use ElGamal. If you only need an XOR, you can use the Goldwasser-Micali system.

Also, there are garbled circuits, which date back to the 1980s. That is a somewhat different notion of computing on encrypted data, since it requires messages to be sent every time the computation is performed. Garbled circuits are substantially faster than FHE right now, although that may change due to FHE's low communication overhead and the rate at which FHE speeds have been improving. Also in this category are multiparty protocols that use arithmetic circuits, which have seen at least one major real-world use:

http://fc09.ifca.ai/papers/15_Secure_MPC_goes_live.pdf
It is neither interesting nor helpful to point out that the defendants of this patent troll could have avoided a lawsuit by avoiding podcasting altogether.

The described mechanism is how podcasting has worked for over a decade and it is wholly unrealistic to expect everyone to preemptively engineer around an overbroad patent that was only granted last year.
SOCCKET: The Energy-Harnessing Soccer Ball.
The SHIELD Act is not intended to fix everything broken with the system - just slice off the low-hanging fruit.

More comprehensive reform would probably include a ban on patents in software, or at least a much, much shorter patent period for software and similar domains of invention that move much more quickly than, say, pharmaceutical development and approval.
Postmodern wrote a gem to do this entirely on your own, no giving away access to your Github repositories necessary. Check out bundle-audit:

https://github.com/postmodern/bundler-audit