skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, but you're forgetting that this is a business where pretty much the only reason you're there and successful is because you're either enormously ego or money driven. Otherwise you just wouldn't last. Lots of people don't last very long regardless.

Someone who will work 100+ hours a week -- despite being able to make $200K at a regular 40 hour a week job -- is not the kind of person who "takes a break" because they have a little cushion in the bank. These are incredibly hard core people who spend every minute of their day figuring out how to be just a little bit more successful than they are right now. Their goals are to make millions per year.

I've worked with people who were worth more than $2B and up and would pretty much cut your heart out with a spoon if it meant an extra $100 in their pocket. As another banker pointed out, that's part of why they're worth $2B, and we're not.
I thought this seemed familiar..

http://status.linode.com/2012/03/manager-security-incident.h...
It's good that Linode is taking security seriously, but the pessimist in me wonders; if all it takes to get a password reset site-wide is an attack on a single user, wouldn't that open up a whole new, rather aggravating attack aimed solely at making users fed up with having their password reset all the time?
Since now (April 2013), Mou (http://mouapp.com) has successfully evolved from a software (Markdown editor) into a physical entity (Tablet Stand) - MouStand (http://moustand.com).
When the entire mainstream media portrays a complex and controversial issue as entirely one sided, this gives you confidence?
What do you mean by "the history backed by the most computing power wins"? Doesn't each transaction need to be verified by at least 6 miners?

Are you saying that each transaction that is verified has many miners competing to verify it and the one with the most gpu power wins the race? And if so, does that mean that the gpu that won the race an then say it is verified even if to say it is an incorrect transaction would be the truth?

If instead you are merely referring to the 50%> effect, the solution to that is way easier than the potential for abuse intrinsic if the statement quoted above is correct, i.e. simply have more miners.
It involves compiling native code and its easier to do with a shell script?
Kaggle is pretty important. But concentrating only on accuracy tuning (ignoring data collection, data curation, and interviewing stakeholders to find real business needs) in machine learning is like celebrating only (premature) optimization in software engineering.

But don't get me wrong, lots of top notch results in the contests. It is just that it is testing only one facet of what is needed in a data scientist.
I'm listening to Pandora right now (I even pay for it!), does it not count?
Yup. And eventually it ends in tears, because they fail to hit their ridiculous return targets and the pension ends up massively underfunded. But of course at that point, the politicians are either gone, or just blame the fund for failing to hit targets.
Best practices for building a bidirectional web applications?
I'm building a site that needs to communicate bidirectionally with both an iPhone client as well as a browser client.

Previously I've used RabbitMQ to do Comet style stuff. Ideally I'd like to use WebSockets, but as far as I can tell there isn't a backwards compatibility lib that will fall back to using Comet.

What's the "state of the art" as it were?
This is a nice message, and I know what you're trying to get at, but this is really just a great example of survivorship bias (history being written by the victors).
PACE Anti-Piracy, I think it's got a virus built-in
I admin computers, and I have been finding this thing all over my network, not just here at work but at home, and on friends computers... So WTF is it and where is it coming from, and why??? Linux Anyone???

Look in your C:\users\<username>\AppData\Roaming or type in %appdata% into Exploder/Winsdows Explorer, see if you see the folder "PACE Anti-Piracy".
A hell of a lot more, when it's someone you know personally. That's why they want the Google+ info - so they can show you what people you know thought of something.
I disagree with Android part. Other companies do not "contribute" to android. They put stuff on top of Android. It's not good for Google. They can use all Google work without giving a dime to Google(Amazon, Barnes & Noble and even Samsung).

I think Google will scape form this Android situation with just not working on Android anymore. They can easily make a lightweight Linux that runs Webkit on top it (Chrome OS mobile?) and make a pure web app ecosystem and discontinue Android development. This will KILL Amazon and other abusers.
http://socket.io/ has a pretty impressive list of fallback technologies, but it ties you to Node.js on the server.
It is over the phone transaction, seller was missing a digit each time and was not able to process. I trusted my credit card than Paypal, credit card helped me with a issue earlier.

But again, this is not about trust. Its about the eBay customer service response/arrogance.
>A caller should dial a number and then push “send.” That way, the mobile caller would be less rushed;

Makes sense. I hate landlines for this reason.
Depends if you talk about the present or about one or two decades ahead. Some day, probably less than 20 years from now, most people will have a practical desktop factory that will make lots of useful things for them.

Current 3D printers are not revolutionizing the world yet, but the next desktop factories will.
"mainstream media" != "mainstream economists"

I'd prefer the opinions of PhD economists with a special emphasis on currency transactions over yours or anyone else's, actually.
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Listia (YC S09) is hiring web & mobile developers to build a better marketplace
Data.mtgox.com: expired TLS certificate
But that "real account" is no more than numbers and letters, i.e 1AfGbnmksjdk. Or do you mean once they transfer the sold bitcoins to a real bank account?
Spotify has a $3 billion valuation as of last November. Pandora's value seems more in flux, but is probably somewhere in the 1-2 billion range.

That doesn't seem to me like they're small fish compared to twitter. given how much valuations fluctuate (Pandora was at $4 billion as recently as 2011), I think they're all in the same bin.

After all, Twitter's valuation is based on a less certain business model than the other providers, who have successfully implemented ads and premium accounts, and have paying customers.
Other people have been uploaded it, but for the sake of completeness (edit window on parent expired):

http://www.scribd.com/doc/135665528/Homework
Where the Happiest Employees in Tech Work
NYC people watching at 780 FPS
Sorry then, went over my head!
Note that strftime does not produce unambiguous time zone names. The four-letter Australian time zones are printed with names such as EST and CST. Better use -0500, +0545 and the likes, as suggested by ISO 8601.
Seems there is only a PDF version? I'd suggest to add an epub and/or mobi version: Much easier/better to use on mobile devices and tablets. Of course, it is possible to convert a non-DRM PDF for customers, but it's a hassle. Moreover, you could think about publishing on bigger platforms (Amazon, Apple, Smashwords or even Leanpub) as well: that might increase reach. Perhaps lower the price to 9.95$ in that process - that way you'd get 70% from every sales through KDP (35% else).
Facebook Home = Trojan Horse
Kit Cambridge, "EcmaScript Next: The Subtleties of ES 6" at W3Conf 2013
A private BitTorrent tracker for music.
Just a random-lol-thought but somehow my brain floated this. Could _why = Satoshi Nakamoto?
These Startups Are Betting Everything on Bitcoin
Can you ever be 100% sure of such a thing?
This "console"... IE5 didn't even have console... and event the current one IE haves is a joke compared to firefox or chrome.
If you look in the revision history there was an IDEAS file. Someone mentioned it and got downvoted, not sure why.

Sorry, best I could do:

http://imgur.com/VgossGD
Java 101: The next generation: It's time for a change
Story of Send - Gmail
There is also TEST, but as far as I can tell, it's pretty boring and not worth posting.
I'm not sure I'd describe Linode's security stance as 'serious.'

Last I knew, they were running a seriously deprecated OS version for their hosts, and their configuration management systems left a lot to be desired in terms of security.

Perhaps more worrying is how opaque they are about everything. Nevermind the security issues, they won't even provide explanations for 'normal' service outages.
Yes, you are right. I can see how requiring your name when rating an android app or commenting on a YouTube video would drastically affect human rights activists in China. I am sorry if you are expecting a company whose business model revolves around selling user information to protect your anonymity, then you are going to have a bad time. A company like Google is going to comply to government request for information, that is why we have services, utilities, and tools that protect your anonymity online. Google is doing nothing wrong by asking for your name (they probably have it anyways). However, if they where blocking search results to prevent your anonymity, that is a different story altogether. In a case like China, it is the government that is doing the blocking and Google has no choice in the matter if they want to do business there.
Javelin Venture Partners’ Noah Doyle On The Next Innovations In Mapping And More
How and why a Java expert switched to Python
The status bar with the arrow breadcrumbs _looks like_ powerline. If you read his tmux config, he's not actually using powerline, he just duplicated the appearance.
Sure. Facebook Poke did not receive a lot of positive reviews and has faded into obscurity. Likewise when Facebook was mostly an HTLM5 app and performed poorly, there were tons of negative reviews which prompted Facebook to refactor the app.
Chinese Scammers Turn Fake iPhones Into Real Ones
A worthy article on Human Attention & Perception
Get tmux copy/paste to work with a shell script
Welp, it looks like it's time to move to Amazon EC2. It's cheaper and hasn't (to my knowledge) been hacked yet.
I have said it before: I have a hard time trusting Linode after the major March 2012 security incident (HN thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3654110 ; my comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5339799)

At the time they did not give much information. They did not do a follow up. They did not discuss plans to prevent the same type of breach. I am not surprised that today, they got breached again! sigh

And again, they are making the same mistakes. They are not giving much information. They are not going to do a follow up. Etc.
The Visa I was using for billing with Linode had an authorized "test charge" earlier this week, and I had the card number replaced. Now I see this, and it makes me wonder.
They do in movies, for dramatic effect.
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The new device is capable of achieving a net cooling power in excess of 100 watts per square meter. By comparison, today's standard 10-percent-efficient solar panels generate about the same amount of power. That means Fan's radiative cooling panels could theoretically be substituted on rooftops where existing solar panels feed electricity to air conditioning systems needed to cool the building.

This isn't quite true. The electrically powered cooling system is likely driven by a heat pump with a coefficient of performance of around 3.5, meaning that it moves 3.5 times as much heat from inside to outside as it consumes electrical power.

If they can manufacture this for significantly cheaper than solar panels they might catch on, but it doesn't sound like the performance is competitive. I doubt the savings from a smaller AC system will be enough to make it viable.
Where In The World Are The 1.2M Raspberry Pi Microcomputers?
> It's good that Linode is taking security seriously

From what it seems, the only thing they take seriously is responding to incidents like these and letting customers know. If they were actually serious about security, these things wouldn't be happening. It was almost over a year ago since the last event.
I think our posts are talking past eachother as I did note the weakening currency in Cyprus and the increased acceptance of bitcoins for exchange in my response. Both of which will drive up demand for bitcoins and thus legitimately move the price, due to supply being fairly constant and predictable.

When I say "fundamentals" I am using the financial form of the word, as in the method of valuation that contrasts to "technical" analysis by trying to examine what actually comprises the price of something rather than just looking for patterns in how it behaves. A good discussion of the "fundamentals" of a normal currency can be found here (most of which don't pertain to bitcoin, but just try to think analagously): http://www.investopedia.com/articles/trading/04/031704.asp

I think you may also want to look into the "functions of money". As I was describing in my post, money doesn't serve just one purpose and while bitcoin is terrible at some of these, such as "unit of account", which all of: "predict your profits, give forecasts to investors, make long-term plans" fall under. On the other hand it actually functions fairly well as a means of exchange due to the fact that as prices fluctuate so can the value of the currency, something that physical currencies have a harder time doing. It isn't perfect and long term deals may require hedging, but as you allude to, there are ways to deal with this.

Hopefully this clarifies some of my points.

edit:some grammar
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Reminds me how there's apparently a decently-sized part of the population that doesn't intuitively know left and right. I wouldn't have believed it much if I didn't meet someone with the issue and someone else who claims their wife has it.
I think Singapore does so well because of the low taxes and because it is one of the few Asian countries in that region that isn't hampered by corruption. Europe's economies are way too diverse to group together, some of them are 'business friendly', some of them are not. The 'Celtic Tiger' was largely due to low taxes, and hasn't turned out too well (most of Europe is hurting right now), so I am not sure why we should aspire to emulate them. Regulatory policies have little to do with their success (but a lot to do with their failures, in the case of Ireland).

I think most people agree that over-regulation is a bad thing. What I take issue with is when political groups and lobbyists scream 'regulation makes us less competitive' anytime regulation is mentioned. The fact is it might increase the costs of doing business a little bit, but it also might mean that my air and water aren't horribly polluted (see Beijing air quality) or that I can count on my retirement account actually being there when I need it. I feel like one side is trying to find a good balance, while the other is being completely obstructionist. The end result is watered down regulatory policies that increase the complexity and costs of doing business, while at the same time, being completely ineffective. One major issue with this result is that this greatly benefits entrenched players, as they are already adept at navigating complex regulatory environments (which keep out new entrants) but in the end, they aren't actually affected by the regulations in any meaningful way.
Think how hard it is for visual thinkers to produce one-dimensional text of their two or multidimensional ideas. They see all the relations between things directly but it is hard to express in text. It's not always a blessing.
Linode security notice sent to customers.

https://gist.github.com/5376298
If the consequences weren't so tragic, I would laugh out loud at all this about Asperger's. Consider the following points:

1. Human evolution is still going on, and in the long term, Asperger's might represent a positive evolutionary adaptation, especially in a world increasingly dependent on technology. Only nature knows, and nature doesn't reveal her secrets willingly.

2 After a recent epidemic of overdiagnoses, psychologists are reluctantly abandoning the Asperger's diagnosis -- it's being removed from the DSM. The reason? Too many people wanted the diagnosis -- it was the first truly fashionable mental illness. After all, Isaac Newton, Albert Einstein, and Bill Gates are/were thought to have this "disease".

3. There is a positive psychological trait called "Grit":

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grit_(personality_trait)

People who have "grit" tend to focus on a few objectives, or just one, for months or years. It's a "good thing™" -- psychologists say so. But the exact same behavior can lead to an Asperger's diagnosis. Have psychologists resolved this contradiction? Not remotely.

As far as I'm concerned, and in the opinion of an increasing number of psychologists, Asperger's refers to something real, but it shouldn't have been categorized as a mental illness -- unless intelligence should also be listed.

If psychology was a science this might all be different, but there's little hope for that.

More on this topic: http://arachnoid.com/building_science
I'd imagine a strong imagination is great for the concept and design parts of engineering, but not entirely necessary if you're just building to a spec.
I'm glad people improve on others work. Sad if they are jerks about it, but there I'd no shame in standing in the shoulders of others.
Divinity: Original Sin Kickstarter a success, Mac and Linux versions confirmed
irrelevant argument at best
wow, the article is not that interesting.

but go there and after the page is loaded, click "back"

it jumps you to an extra page searching google for "playstation 4" or something. this is a new low of advertising that i had never found before
I did quite a while ago, but was ignored probably because of the quality of the pull. Since then, I had decided to tackle it again, and I have opened an issue as opposed to a pull request.

https://github.com/maker/ratchet/issues/175
Funny, I just came across this, written in 1993:

> "Oracle Corporation has taken a public stand against the patentability of software and has forsworn use of its own patents except to counter-sue in infringement claims."

(http://www.fourmilab.ch/autofile/www/chapter2_105.html)

Does anyone know the history of Oracle's position on software patents?
Why do you think in both cases this was the result of some sort of mistake on Linode's part, versus an oversight on the part of the target?

That is, you use the expression 'they {linode} got breached', versus the more correct 'they {the customers} got breached'. How do you know that in both cases this was the case?
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Interesting that such structures don't exist in nature yet? You'd imagine they could be useful in some desert organisms for example? Maybe they'd cool too much during the night.
Maybe add console.assert to that list:

console.assert(str.length === 10, "String is not 10 characters long!");

and console.group/groupEnd

console.group("sums");
console.log(1 + 1);
console.log(2 - 3);
console.groupEnd();
I'd also think that HN users would understand what these permissions mean and be careful when giving away that much power.
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Usually you don't get a really high salary until you've worked a few years in the field. That's the trap, you think "I'll work there a few years and save up", but then after a few years you get to the point where your salary is really going up and it's hard to leave when you start making real money...
Hey everyone. I made the site http://www.redditunes.com. I'll be honest, there are some major flaws but you should check it out sometime if you want to try something different!
I do something similar for logging my node apps... in .Net I use reflection for essentially the same.
I'm only casually watching the Mt Gox ticker, but there is an awful lot of buying whenever it gets to ~$70-$75.
It's probably false that "there does not exist a customer of EC2 that has been hacked", and that should be pretty obvious. Furthermore it's false for essentially all nontrivial, large services.
Prepare now to survive the end of Windows XP
I don't believe the Ivey league recruiting has as much to do with intelligence as it does marketable pedigree. There are much more effective filters if you want to select for intelligence and drive.
ctrl + shift + j in chrome for windows (or simply F12)
If it was one customer's fault, why reset all Linode users' passwords?
It has been intermittently amazing to me that I not only get by but am even considered intelligent without what seems (to me) an absolute gift and superpower that most people possess.

The rest of the time it's just obvious that there are tradeoffs, or that it's behaviorally insignificant unless one is off the chart positive on some modality. Would still give anything to picture though.
> The emotion behind rationality is humility.

That's beautiful. May I quote you?
Why is it acceptable for native apps to have sound effects?
There seems to be a double standard in software development on the topic of sound effects. Native applications (twitter app, operating systems, etc) have sound effects. Web applications do not. Any ideas why this split in ux has occurred? Is this still a hold over from the 90's websites that abused sound effects?
That's what this seems to be, I've even noticed that the first ring may even sound a bit different from subsequent rings.

I think the first layer ring is the actual call setup being attempted across the cellular network. Once the receiving phone is located and receives the signal that a call is incoming, you begin to hear the second layer ring.
One could say the same thing about the Amazon experience, or the ROM community with projects like MIUI. As far as I'm concerned it's healthy for the mobile eco system and in essence is exactly why the Android OS was built the way it was.
The lack of transparency from them makes it impossible to know one way or the other.

The xen security issue is another example of this kind of opaqueness.
People may be different, but within a given pension system, the various accounts are usually not.
But isn't that an "interesting" choice? They could have just kept the extra permissions tied to the Home app.

The current way, even non-Home users are giving a lot more unnecessary permissions to the FB app. And FB isn't the most trustworthy company to give unnecessary extra permissions.
I highly recommend looking at signed distance maps for text rendering. Relatively easy to implement and gives very good
results even when drastically scaling the text to different sizes.

Potentially useful links:

http://www.valvesoftware.com/publications/2007/SIGGRAPH2007_...

http://www.gamedev.net/topic/491938-signed-distance-bitmap-f...

https://github.com/OpenGLInsights/OpenGLInsightsCode/tree/ma...
But here, it's not a customer that was hacked. It was linode that was hacked, and used to access a specific customer's data.
Probably not. I do think that an effort can be made to follow the trail (logs, etc), and come to the best guess possible. I'm not saying they haven't done this, though.