skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IANAL, but the above citation says AND, implying that it may be legal to take the photo or recording, if you don't also distribute it, or to distribute it, if you don't also create it- so you would have to do both. I may be completely wrong with this interpretation though, and the wording is too vague.
If you consider nicknames sensitive you are gonna have to mention that, because a lot of people wouldn't.
Some sophisticated SEO link spam for 'pay day loans'

Out of curiosity, I looked up that particular pay day loan site's backlink profile. They went from having zero websites linking to them to around 250,000 in the matter of a few hours. All of the links had anchor text with some variation of 'payday loans' or 'payday loans UK'

Here's a screenshot of their backlink increase: http://i.imgur.com/Qo20DkL.png

Doesn't look like they are ranking on page 1 yet for any of those terms, which is good. Hopefully Google is on to them.
Building a Better Bitcoin
Another way to say this is that the process of becoming a billionaire selects for intelligence, but it actually seems to select strongly against a great technical training and nerdy dreams. (Maybe I'm wrong about that?)

Would be really interesting to know how many billionaires have STEM PhD's after controlling for their general intelligence.
The Linux Foundation unifies Software-Defined Networking powers
I don't think you could double the amount of bitcoins overnight. And even if you could I doubt that it would lead to rapid inflation. Rather gradual as additional bitcoins spread throughout the economy.
Relevant information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vienna_Convention_on_Road_Traff...

List of participating countries: http://treaties.un.org/pages/ViewDetailsIII.aspx?&src=TR...

Notable missing countries: China, USA
Secrets From Facebook's Mobile UX Testing Team
Setting it up as a competition is a neat idea. Although every job application is basically a competition!
That announcement should have clarified whether the communication they sent to Hetzner explicitly requested confidentiality. If not, the incident is as much Efnets's fuckup as Hetzner's. Why did it even need to contain such sensitive personal information about the sysop in the first place?
In the UK they are both; the back of the 'near' traffic lights for you act as the 'far' traffic lights for the opposite drivers, and vice-versa. This allows you both to see the lights at the junction, and to see them easier on approach, even if the junction is at the top of a hill/etc.
Yeah, I don't recall Mitnick participating in extortion either. This author is a piece of work.
What did the Google guys do for Glass or driverless cars other than bankroll them?
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But, relationships are very personal and private. It is very difficult to know enough details about the people involved and their relationship with one another to draw any real conclusions from the simple failure of a relationship.
It's odd they have a secure version of nytimes.com at all. They have separate subdomains like myaccount.nytimes.com that are secure, and the links back to the homepage are all explicitly http.
God forbid we should mildly redesign the irc semantics so that splits don't allow you to take over channels or collide clients off.

I mean it's only been a big enough problem for 20 years now that you can't even host an ircd on most standard hosting contracts.
There's always been more than one "...billionaires doing really cool sci-fi sh!#", we just only have enough attention span to collectively idolize one at a time.
Totally agreed. TiVo and the like are a partial fix, but I know >0 people recently who have totally nuked their cable subscriptions and gone 100% Netflix/iTunes/torrents (the latter of which is worth a whole conversation in and of itself). The only reason I even bother with a cable sub these days is access to live news (MSNBC, etc.) and the increasingly minuscule amount of content I can't get online.

Cable's days are numbered. It may be a big number since there a ways to go before streaming adoption really picks up, but they are numbered nonetheless.
By the way, unfortunately HN doesn't do Markdown. Links should just be links, no separate display text.
Hetzner, as a hosting provider, would likely be well aware of the workings of IRC networks, so I doubt that.
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In Github Task List flavored markdown and MIT Licensed; so easy to fork & personalise for your next trip
*it's almost impossible to transfer teams before you've spent at least 1.5 years on that team.*

At least you admit to that problem. Yes, that is correct.

Actually, I've seen two people transfer teams in their first couple of months because they were unhappy with their job, and it was not a big deal at all (find potential new job, talk to new team, talk to manager, notify HR, done).

I think the 1.5 years is the time you're expected to stay on a project because below that you might end up being more effort than gain to the team, but as long as you don't make a habit out of job hopping across the company, it's not an issue.
True, but they are not always so much easier to see if you are in the first car. Also, if you need three lights instead of one, I think that is a sure sign that the design is broken.
Good point. It turns out that the quad core benchmarks on 32bit which I linked to are already using Go 1.1beta, so any speed gains for Go 1.1 are already factored in:

http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u32q/benchmark.php?t...

The 64 bit quad core benchmark is using go 1.0.3:

http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64q/benchmark.php?t...
We're lamenting the fact that billionaires are not like cartoon characters?

This is ridiculous. Bill Gates is creating real impact to people's lives with his money and charity, and the author just dismisses that as being not cool enough.

Instead of applauding responsible and charitable behavior, we want them to be playboy types?
Sounds like AI and maybe machine learning. Once we get to that point though, why do we need a person telling the bog what to do?
Does this depend on proprietary server tech hosted by Firebase?
What do you think happens when an IRC op gets his name passed to that kiddie? Many IRCd gets hit with 50Gbit/s all the time because of kiddie targeting operators that make such decisions.
> A space company? There are several of those.. Jeff Bezos (worth 23b) has Blue Orgin

I think most people would agree that Bezos is a runner up, but how many is several? I can think of him and Richard Branson (Virgin Galactic). And neither of them seems to have made it their mission in life rather than just a billionaire's hobby.
I disagree. The initial release of Yeoman with it's "opinionated workflow" (as they had coined it) cornered you into some dead ends, Yeoman 1.0 does not and is highly extensible.

Yeoman no longer attempts to be a wrapper for things like Bower and Grunt but rather concedes their usefulness while keeping them separate. Use it how you see fit.

What is great about Yeoman is it really gets you thinking about your end-to-end process for front end application and asset development and provides you some great avenues to pursue in both tooling and workflow. From asset creation, unit/end-to-end testing and build process it's rather complete in concept.

Is Yeoman for everyone? That's entirely up to the developer. Anyone worth his/her weight will certainly be pursuing these concepts in their own workflow whether with Yeoman or without.

"Once people reach a certain level of competence it's going to be quicker and/or easier to set things up themselves."
Could you be a bit more specific as to what they will outgrow? Evolve maybe, but I personally will only shelf my usage of Bower and Grunt tooling if something makes more sense in my workflow.
Pedestrians have the fear of being run over. I don't think cars have to worry about the same from pedestrians. Actually, that's also the reason the laws tend to favour the pedestrians in all situations, even when they are to blame.
Access can do this too.
I'm pretty sure the generations in development have video cameras and microphones (to allow you to cough wave your hands or speak to change channels, of course). That same platform also has ISM radios in monitoring mode so that they can see what devices are present and obtain rough positioning data. So they'll know when you get home based on your phone mac appearing, and how many people are on the couch and who they are.

here is the video recognition stb patent application that includes a number of eye openers:

http://www.freepatentsonline.com/20130042270.pdf
Back of the Envelope Calculations [pdf]
Whilst I know the point of this article isn't to say Ireland has terrible road systems compared to the US, I found it amusing that coming from Ireland to the US for a brief trip, I felt the systems there were absolutely crazy.

Now, clearly neither country is perfect, nor are they flawless but the interesting takehome is when put in a pressured situation, how important it is to reduce the cognitive load so you can focus on what's really important e.g. I need to stop or, do I turn here?
Thanks, the 32 bit results on quad core are Go 1.1 beta:

http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u32q/benchmark.php?t...
True, but couldn't Bill Gates be a counterexample?
> The street signs are in weird spots, or are non existent. Often times they were located after an intersection. Traffic lights were conflicting, there would be a red light on top and a green arrow pointing forward on bottom. We didn’t understand any of the icons. We were always a little nervous pulling up to an intersection and we were out of our comfort zone. There were cues on what to do, but they were never clear and obvious until it was much too late. We missed turns, exits and ran a few lights along the way but we made it through.

Sounds like Texas.
Is that relevant?

The link I've posted is the press release announcing him joining the company.

If he decides to pick up from a point where progress has been made, that's just less time wasted reinventing the wheel.
Probably a conscious decision on his part, especially considering he named his company after Nikola Tesla:

http://i.imgur.com/c51LLjM.png
HireArt seems like such a neat idea so I went through the registration process and said Business Development is an area I am interested in for fun, and I was taken to a page where it tells me that I will now "be asked four questions about Biz Dev And Sales. Some require a short video response, and others text."

I'm guessing the point of something like this is so that people aren't preparing for the normal, mundane questions that typically come up in job interviews but I do think it would be nice if there were a bit more details, especially considering 'some [questions] require a short video response'. I'm currently sitting in bed and my voice probably still sounds like I just woke up so a video response from me would not be very attractive to employers.

Questions like "Do I only get one chance to respond to the questions? Or can I have multiple video responses?" should be at least addressed at this point so people like me aren't going in blind and have potentially-awful videos. There is no need to prep anyone on the question material, just some basic info.

Again, great idea...just thought I'd give some feedback...Cheers!
Here's an example - When I set up a new rails app there is a variety of stuff that I go and change immediately. Part of this has to do with the fact that I use jruby exclusively. I have a hand full of my own initializers I add to almost every rails app. Change some default config options. Delete some of the default tests that they give you. Delete some default fixtures.

A similar story could be applied to any of the technologies that Yeoman attempts to wrangle.

Yes I am quite aware that I could write my own generator to do all this for me. That is not the point.

I agree that what Yeoman aims to do could be useful for some. I am just pointing out that most people I work with have outgrown boilerplate solutions, as have I. I think many people will have a similar experience.
This "Magellanic view" of programming language exploration doesn't seem quite right. Programming language design is mostly not about finding virgin territory by inventing brand new ideas (which was admittedly easier in the era when high-level languages were brand new – i.e. in the 1950s). Rather, it's mostly about finding unexplored folds hidden nearby in the vast, combinatorial manifold of ways to combine existing ideas in a single, coherent language. In my experience, people who have spent a lot of time designing languages are the most sympathetic to people trying new permutations – precisely because they are so painfully aware of all the awful compromises they were forced to make in their own designs and their understanding that much better ways of combining those features might be so tantalizingly close.

Scala is a great example: the innovation of the language is not so much in new language features, but rather in its ingenious combination of so many powerful features into a single, coherent system. Of course, some may argue that Scala has too many features (I'm a bit terrified of it), but it's indisputable that putting all those pieces together in a way that works is tour de force of language design.
There is also Ubuntu Core [0] (my install uses 140MB on disk, 25MB RAM). It has no installer, so you have to do everything yourself — from partitioning to boot loader installation.

[0] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Core
Yes, it is true. At least I tried one job ad and clicked on it with different devices and different IP:s. Still nothing. I know that they job that I applied for is very popular (not the link the the comment). So my clicks would count til at least 20 and from different devices 10. My friends have clicked as well, but it´s stuck on 8. And I buy the once a day update, but it has been weeks :)
> Why would an IRC op want to keep his/her nickname from becoming public?

That isn't what they said.

> On IRC, even IP addresses are public.

This may still be true on efnet. It has ceased to be true on many IRC networks. And even where it is, VPNs, shell accounts, tor, and similar methods are readily available to make the IP address worthless.

> Hetzners reaction seems entirely reasonable to me

Please tell us where you work so we can all be certain never to report any sort of abuse to your employer non-anonymously.
You can buy an ideologue, that's no problem. You can't buy a successful ideologue.
The NSA has nothing to do with the FBI.
I think the reason Musk gets so much attention is: 1) Tesla and SpaceX are both successful and in the news; 2) he doesn't just bankroll the projects, he's on the ground executing them while advocating for them zealously in the press.

It's the same reason why Bill Gates has gotten such attention for his philanthropic work. He lends something which is in a way more valuable than his money: his personal time and ability to execute.
This sentiment, exactly - although I will say our family lives are probably pretty rare. My father was/is a successful lawyer and my mom had her own thing going for quite some time as a painter so I rarely ever "saw them". Whenever it was important though they were there, present, non-judgemental, and loving.

He does have too much hero worship going on - the example in the article of Bill Gates proves this. Bill is maintaining a healthy family life (as far as one can tell that doesn't know him or his family) and he's doing "sci-fi s$#t" (thorium reactors? curing malaria? MICROSOFT!?!).

Judging billionaires is silly - if the OP thinks there needs to be more Elon Musks in the world then he should be working on it. I personally don't think we need more of any person in the world; they are all fitting in precisely where they should be.
First of all, Krugman is a hack. Regardless of which system of economics you subscribe to.

Second, and more importantly, the idea that deflation is a bad thing because it encourages saving (derisively called hoarding) is not at all accepted by Austrian economics.

Rather, saving is actually a Good Thing because savings is the source of investment.
> But, relationships are very personal and private.

I'm not going to disagree on this being a private issue, but if we're talking about why billionaires do not share Elon Musk's personality, doesn't it make perfect sense to discuss things like this?
Misconduct by authorities does not change the clear criminal culpability of Mitnick.
It's called "cognitive drift" and it's was a critical concern when I was working on medical imaging applications, there have been a number of studies on it including this google match http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23189449

This is one of the main reasons I find unit testing productive. You can eliminate cognitive drift triggering startup delays in your unit testing framework easier than in your application.
I appreciate your desire to get an accurate analysis of his predictions; however, I'm recalling from memory the sequence of events that happened and I don't currently have the time to research all of these things for you.

Perhaps I shouldn't have said anything in the first place if I can't take the time to piece together the sequence of events from all of the articles, emails, and forum discussions that I had during the three year time period that I followed his blog. I realize that the sequence of events is critical to my endorsement of Karl's ability; as such, I apologize if I unintentionally misled people to perceive him as an authority based off of a faulty recollection of events from my memory.

Edit: I just realized that this post might sound very snarky, but I really don't mean it that way at all. I should have contributed something better in my initial post.
Plenty of people prioritize work over family. It's non-trivial, but it's only a (very small) part of the answer to this question.
Sure, but the OP's point is that there are over a thousand billionaires in the world. It's not the fact that outliers exist, it's that fact that among people with a billion dollars, most don't seem to care about this type of greatness.

That is: it's easy to imagine a world where half of the billionaires are doing outlandish things, and the outliers are (say) the guys who are putting men on Mars at a reasonable price. Why isn't the world like that?
LISPs allow features to be added. The under-the-hood concepts are very simple.

It may be an error to see programming languages as technologically similar to computer hardware. But there's no Moore's Law of programming languages. It's hard to say that there are widely accepted analogs 45nm and 90nm fabrication.

Instead, computer programming languages are like other languages. They are more or less appropriate for a particular task in a particular context. Clojure isn't objectively a more advanced LISP. However, it is more appropriate for concurrency. Particularly in a Java dominated context.

Clojure primarily seeks to solve a different set of problems than Common Lisp. The C Programming Language is tailored for a different set of problems than ALGOL 68 or Fortran. Perl a different set than C. And so it goes.

Languages are abandoned because they lack expressiveness relevant to the goals of the programmer not because a new language ships with 16GB and 5ghz.
Exactly. If efnet has problems with giving the names of their "operators" they should send such requests as "securitymanager@efnet" or whatever. Efnet can become the target (it is supposedly target anyway) but no real names in efnet must be "leaked" by email forwarding. If you don't "have the time" or common sense to protect yourself why do you expect more from others?
Is this site live with traceback enabled?
Many countries in Europe have them on both sides. Not having the one on the near side is my biggest problem when driving in the US, it has happened that I have to slam down on the brakes because I'm already 10 meters away from the intersection when I see the red light.

In any case, placing them only on the near side is often intentional, as it forces drivers to stop far away from the intersection itself. This leaves space for pedestrians, and provides drivers from the other directions with more space to look around. It also creates a buffer where cars can move into when an emergency vehicle needs to pass the queues.
No, most marketing people would rather not involve anyone else in their decisions. And as we're using comedians as our oracles, check out what Bill Hicks had to say about people in marketing and advertising. It may surprise you, but that is far from an uncommon sentiment. Marketing is, in too many cases, indistinguishable from manipulation, and IMO, worthy of contempt.
Go does has known issues and does poorly on 32-bit x86, but that is OK, no one uses it :)-
The author's argument is a classic literature criticism / philosophy argument and I'm kicking myself trying to remember which specific person/theory from philosophy / lit crit he is more or less paraphrasing.

Note that I'm not by any means accusing the original author of plagiarism or of trying to pull off a stunt. Convergent evolution makes perfect sense. Although comp sci languages are a bit more rigid than other human languages, trying to express creative / complicated stuff in a human created language is an old, heavily discussed problem, even if the original author doesn't know it. Does this go all the way back to Plato? I can't remember its just too early in the morning.

The bright side is "we" as a species have been churning out new lit more or less continuously for a couple millenia, so even if lit production dies off at some point in the future (and I don't think it will) that means that in computer languages we "only" have a couple more millenia of productive programming left.
Tutorial: Introduction to unit testing
Long-distance 3D laser camera unveiled by Edinburgh team
Of course. It was worth reading just for this gem:

> Bitcoin’s programming ensures there can never be more than 21m coins in existence. Part of the “bubble” effect, no doubt, is linked to a realisation that we are quickly approaching that limit. According to the latest data from Bitcoin charts, for example, there are currently 10,986,175 bitcoins in issuance. Yes, we still have some room to go, but given exponential dynamics, the fact that we’ve reached the “half-way point” in supply is no doubt meaningful.
Ahh, gotcha. Thanks for clarifying.

Do you really think there are a bunch of Elon Musk's out there who, say, just aren't doing as much self-promotion?
We're only just at the point where doing crazy-fun science fiction stuff is possible.

One reason is that people in the past just didn't have that kind of money. The very wealthy today are a lot richer than the very wealthy of the past century.

Another reason is legalistic and infrastructure and technical stuff. There are laws governing every aspect of this stuff, and to get involved takes considerable planning and etc.

Finally, the tech just wasn't available in the past. It's much easier to build a few schools and pay for opera than it is to set up a rocket company.

I guess it's interesting to know what those billionaires are doing with their money. Maybe it's not liquid? Maybe they're happily oppressing a nation. Maybe they're building shape-shifting buildings.
like i always said,
you can change the world,
and you dont need 10, 100, 1000 or a million people to change it.
You just need one person to change the world
There is in fact a SWE 1 title, but it's reserved for interns.
I love when products go deep for their core users. This is one of the best ideas and executions I've seen among any of the companies trying to create marketplaces for digital goods.
Yeah, the flexibility is huge. I actually think the cycle of guys in the trenches building an excel workflow, then having developers come in later and create a "real" db backed app as a replacement is not terrible.

It's similar to an anecdote I read from Larry Wall. At some brand new university, they did not make any paths through the quads. Instead they just waited a year, and paved over the dirt paths that had naturally formed.