skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exactly.

There are some types of people who like it when you dig into their Facebook profile to find out who their favorite band is. But there are just as many people who will find it creepy that you stalked them online, or who will get outright angry because they expect separation between their job and their hobby. My hunch is that more of the first type become managers and more of the second type become makers, although I don't have any data to back it up.

Likewise, there are some types of people who obsess over doing memorable (but otherwise not particularly valuable) things for the sake of memorability, whereas for others, the first day is just another fucking day and nothing would be more memorable than actually writing a beautiful piece of code and seeing it in production. I'm guessing that the first type of people are responsible for most of those corporate picnics that result in severely interrupted coding sessions.

If you're the first type and you like to work with the same type of people and you want to make it a company tradition, by all means do so. It's your company after all. But please don't make it a surprise. Be very upfront about your "traditions" when you interview candidates, so that the other half of the human population will know well to stay away from your company.

Disclaimer: Of course I'm exaggerating. Still, work != party.
The briefly mention it in the parent article and found electric vehicles to be more efficient. Then they throw in lithium battery production which is probably the least efficient step of the electric vehicle ecosystem. Why not throw in oil pipeline construction impact vs electric grid construction or waste by-products of a coal plant or wind farm vs a crude oil refinery?
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combo of a lot of things, yelp's UI always seems 2 years old, feels bloated, and generally takes me longer to do anything. I use yelp on the web, foursquare on the go.
Hell, if I mention anything that is public domain, I should automatically get copyright over it. When I read my kids a bedtime story from Grimm or Aesop, I should start getting royalties from every other parent in the world.
I wrote an article to go with my thoughts on this:

http://idiallo.com/blog/2013/04/how-much-does-your-idea-cost
10-20%? That's way out of line for venture debt. The upside in venture debt is usually from warrants, not interest rates, though Silver Lake is different / closer to PE.
This is basically true, actually. It'll either work or it won't, and you're just out of the bandwidth if it fails verification. At the absolute worst, you won't be able to accept any blocks from the network as a whole if it's fake, because the hashes won't line up. IIRC the official client (and most others) also include a hard-coded hash part way through the chain to help ensure you're on the correct one up to that point.

That's of course assuming there isn't some exploit in your client, due to e.g. unsafe reading of the file that could allow it to execute arbitrary code hidden in the blockchain file.
Disclaimer: I'm working in the US on a H1B visa, but I'm paid above average by a respectable company and don't feel discriminated by it.

"underpaid" is relative. Borders and visas are artificial constraints. If there was an open global market for labour, and complete freedom of movement for individuals (and why shouldn't there be?) - would it still be "underpaid"? or would it be market adjustment for a more liquid supply?

I think it's closer to the truth to say that those of us who work in the developed, relatively protectionist world are actually overpaid, and that our draw in the zygote or visa lotteries plays a big part in that.

Still, rather than being protectionist or even exploitative - as the fwd.us statements hint at ("Comprehensive immigration reform that allows for the hiring of the best and brightest." - http://www.fwd.us/about_us), wouldn't it be great if capitalists and humanitarians alike could rally around something more like "We support comprehensive immigration reform that allows global movement and equal opportunity for all, regardless of accidents of birth"?
I think kiip, not foursquare would be able to conquer offline commerce.
In this specific case, I think raising the awareness of the danger of insecure and omipresent webcams and microphones is a lesser evil than the violation of privacy of this (effectively anonymous) family in Iran. A few relatively innocuous cases like this 'going viral' may be better than letting the truly bad guys keep their playground full of perpetually ignorant users.
More likely they'll have you wrap it in aluminum foil.
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It was discovered during a college survey that hacker news is, quote, "Just like Reddit, except if everyone had a job." The real question of the day is if this what standard does Reddit have, and if this is a positive or negative experience. The researchers have promised to dig into this issue further.
This is likely an advertisement. But from what I can tell on their website they do have an application for iPhone/iPad.
For me, Yelp has been completely ruined by what amounts to YouTube comments.

"The server was totally rude. She put lemon in my diet coke when I asked TWICE not to do that. It was the worst experience of my life."

Foursquare seems to have less batshit insane people on it. They actually do helpful things like post the wireless password.
"Remember Facebook Places or Gowalla? Nope. You have to believe that if software is eating the world, then there will be software that does for online foot traffic what Google does to drive online drive."

So there's three examples of companies that have tried to do this, two of them were outright failures and one is still of questionable prospects, and the takeaway is "you have to believe"?

Why? What if they're all wrong? If it's inevitable, shouldn't we have seen some evidence by this point (years down the road) that people actually want to do check-ins and the like? What if the only way to build a successful business driving offline commerce is to build something that looks nothing like any of the above?
Nobody is saying that you have to lock your self in a box and do your work.

If you need 10 hours to do something that somebody does in 6. Maybe, just maybe you should focus on your work instead of 'culture' especially if the goal of a start up to succeed.

I have never heard of a single case where something got acquired for it's culture. Have you?

But let me be clear. My point is that measuring somebody by the time they spend in the office only rewards people who sit in the office the most.

That's not really what their job is right? Because if that's the case I can hire few people to sit in the office for really cheap.
If I had bought stolen property in the UK I'd be in trouble, knowingly or not.

What's to worst they can do to these people? Remote format these devices that aren't really owned by them?

Dom could remote on to steal their bank account information and have them purchase a new macbook for him.

The publicity lets these people know they have stolen goods and they format them to protect themselves from the previous owner.
Ask HN: What is your read:saved ratio? 
I am always curious to know more about information overload [oxymoronic].
Of the articles you save in Instapaper, Readability, Read Later, starred etc...What is your read:saved ratio. I estimate mine to be 1:2 (50%).
It's a ethical question more than a legal question. Perhaps they did not buy the laptop, maybe someone else in their family did and they are merely a bystander.

* Do they have an expectation of privacy?
* Does this violate this expectation?
* As a deterrent for buying stolen property does this possible violation outweigh the benefit?

Consider a school which loans out laptops to its students but then uses the laptops to spy on the students. Or a company that backdoors its product so that when it is pirated they can spy on the users that pirated the software, perhaps uploading all their email to tumblr.

* Would such an action ever to ok?
* Where do you draw the line?
* What if you inform people that you are going to do this? How loud of a notification do you need to be justified (tiny sticker on the back of the laptop)?
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Interesting view. Ireland, Iceland, Spain, Porto, Italy, Greece and Cyprus are severely suffering. France, UK, Germany, Belgium, Netherlands, Finland, Sweden, Norway and Polland are more or less fine (even though I am not sure what the inequality among their people is...) and there are countries that never prospered much and are not going to either.

I do not really see your definition of "most".

I am a Greek living in the UK right now and I would also like to add that for my family (and almost all of my family and our friends) 2 week vacations around the world never existed.

My 5c
There's also a certain difference between jamming with a few other players, and getting a whole concert band of 40+ players to sound good together.
I was skeptical that this was done wirelessly, but after looking through the presentation I am not so sure. Can anyone more in the know weigh in? If so that's pretty scary.
I thought it was just cynical old me thinking this, in fact as soon as I saw a hyperlink to HiddenApp I had my suspicions.

However, if I were trying to sell HiddenApp I'd probably not make a point of demonstrating that even with the app sometimes your laptop ends up in Iran with no hope of recovery.

Then again, just getting people to talk about the product is good advertising for their product.
I'd be willing to give it a shot if you would like to partner up. I have reasonable (for some value) math chops. Email me at infrec.obs@gmail.com if you are interested.

Time-wise I can commit only a couple of hours a week so I don't expect much but it seems like it could be fun.
As far as I'm aware, Facebook Places still exists too.
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> I'm not old yet [only 51, software dev. since 1985]

I love your attitude! I am still half your age, but I expect to be rolling and rocking like you do when I am your age, and beyond ! :)
why would they? they'd lose sales of products that would replace stolen ones
That is sort of what Google's Niantic Labs is doing with Field Trip, though with more a discovering cool places angle than finding local businesses: http://www.fieldtripper.com/

Field Trip uses data from bunch of different sources, but also utilizes Ingress players as sort of "location scouts".

Or at least that is what it looks like, with the focus on gathering new portals at points of interest.
For some reason I find pictures of people's faces when they're using computers really off putting. Every has this hollow, empty expression, like they're looking into some void.

But these people probably didn't knowingly buy a stolen laptop. That kind of reselling happens all the time.
This isn't about embarrassing you. This is about showing that they care about you. Clearly, in your case they would prepare something to suit you - perhaps a gourmet basket sent to your house or similar, in a way that wouldn't embarrass you.
Not sure where the bug(or feature) is from your description. It could be your browser, the sublime video player, or something OS specific. If it really bothers you right now, you can just look at the page source and download the mp4 file directly, to play in perhaps another tool.

Your browser probably has some native plugin to play the video, so you can try watching the mp4 directly in that, which might identify if the full screen issue is the browser or the sublime video player part.

FWIW, it works sensibly on windows. It seems strange that Macs have such a problem with multiple monitors. My colleagues are always wasting 10-15min of every meeting trying to figure out how to attach the projector, or use the screen sharing tools(adobe connect) to share the right monitor.
Kiip from Brian Wong, right? I think it's a big part, but Brian has different/yet just as big ambitions.
Sounds like a cool idea. Best of luck with it!
I believe they do have a very clear path from all that I've seen.
Hah, so eventually only a few people like central power figures in the bitcoin community will be running with the full blockchain eh? Probably my favorite thing about bitcoin is how, despite its explicit goals, the more adoption it sees the more it looks like it will turn into the same old thing we already have.
I'm using Undercover and it actually has a mode like this, it's called Plan B, and when activated it shows a simulated screen with an error as if something went wrong. What happens next is uncertain though, supposedly the owner should bring it to an Apple Store and they should detect it was stolen.
If the mission and market make sense, then you bet on the leader.

It's not about checkins, it's about being driven to new great places that will delight you in the real world. Foursquare is the leader in that. Google:online traffic :: Foursquare:offline traffic.
>YellowPages, the original driver of traffic for offline commerce, is estimated to do 22 billion in revenue in 2015. Think on that for a second. 2015. Yellow Pages. Still going to do 22 billion in revenue

The difference is all listings in Yellow Pages are paid - FourSquare allows businesses to be listed for free. At the end of the day businesses must make money, not rely on outside financial injections.

I think FourSquare is in a unique position to create a new feature that could significantly drive traffic, create closer relationships with businesses and generate serious revenue - I have one in mind so I think lack of innovation is the problem.
My guess is a lawyer would say: "it depends". On a lot of things like: What country/jurisdiction the (owner, theft, purchaser, end user, prosecution or lawsuit) was in, what harm the user suffered, intent of the various parties, and so on.
This is stellar marketing. What this says is "we can find your mac or iphone, even if it shows up on the other side of the planet"
Then just cutting a paper in half will do.
Geocities "existed" for a while too.
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If you want to take a closer (and, yes, mathematical) look at this idea, check out the lecture notes [0] from the MIT course Great Ideas in Theoretical Computer Science.

Sections 4 and 5 of the introductory notes [1] give the classic example of using prime factorization to verify bets in a game of "flipping a coin over the telephone". Much of the rest of the course develops the major ideas underlying this example (computational complexity, cryptography) and shows you other things you can do with them (machine learning).

0. http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-comput...

1. http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-comput... [PDF]
I certainly agree that current copyright law does definitely have some big problems. Even the US Register of Copyrights Maria Pallante says so http://www.copyright.gov/regstat/2013/regstat03202013.html

With all its problems, however, the answer is not to violate copyright law, but instead to get involved in reforming copyright legislation through law-abiding acts. There are lots of ways to do that.

Here are two big ones: (1) get yourself an intellectual property attorney's education in copyright law for free from Harvard Law School's CopyrightX MOOC at http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/people/tfisher/CopyrightX_Homep... and (2) follow the StackExchange community proposal called CopyrightX at http://goo.gl/5YDHa where if enough people get involved by asking good questions and researching the answers, we can raise global awareness about exactly what ways copyright laws are now working against their original goals. In Everything Is A Remix, Kirby Ferguson's closing words were: "The common good is a meme that was overwhelmed by intellectual property. It needs to spread again. If the meme prospers, our laws, our norms, our society, they all transform. That's social evolution and it's not up to governments or corporations or lawyers… it's up to us."

But it's up to us to do this in a manner that respects and honors existing law.

Different from Syria, people are not being killed by the thousands in the Copyright Wars, so civil disobedience is not the best way to fight back against the institutions that currently control copyright laws.

The best way to fight back is to educate ourselves and others so that the common good returns to the forefront of copyright law in the minds of everyone affected by copyright law. When enough people are aware of what copyright law was originally intended to accomplish, then the laws will necessarily change in the truly democratic nations.

Learn more at http://copyrightx.org and http://copyrightactof1790.wordpress.com and by following me on Twitter https://twitter.com/StackCopyrightX and there is a TED conversation at http://www.ted.com/conversations/17388/imagine_a_charter_nat... too.
→ ./dsmos
Segmentation fault: 11

On Mountain Lion.
Meh, everyone puts their whole life online nowadays (the kids call it lifecasting). What else are you going to do if your laptop gets stolen anyway?
No, you are picking and choosing my words, what I actually said was: "being bright AND choosing where you make your career carefully"
My more memorable first days of work consisted of walking into a relaxing setting, sitting through new hire orientation where I learned everything about the company spoken by the heads of every department, being served free food all day and receiving a gift bag of chachkies at the end of it all. That process always made me feel like royalty: a few days of interacting with senior management (and other new hires) and being served free food.
Yep, but I think that's due to the print nature.

Google is a mix of paid and free.
BitCoin, the Internet's answer to "Capture the Flag" now with scoring in dollars.
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buy rat poison and swallow it, you'll have access to all facebook accounts.
An additional point: contrary to a lot of orthodox left-wing views, it is possible for major enterprises, especially public or nonprofit ones like government agencies and universities, to run like something other than a capitalist business. A good summary of the 30-year ideological project known as neoliberalism is, "The project to make everything run like a capitalist business, whether that works well or not."
If you look at the hardware specs that's what you expect. People claiming more are not usually measuring the whole problem

http://www.hpcwire.com/hpcwire/2011-12-13/ten_ways_to_fool_t...
Working a lot (>60 hours per week) is necessary, but alone insufficient, to result in 'startup success,' I think.

Plus, sitting at a desk typing away for extended periods of time is actually pretty easy -- what's harder is making sure quality stuff is being generated for that entire time.
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Because if it was password protected the thief would just reformat the laptop and there's no chance of recovery. Allowing them to use the PC allows the software to phone home.

The "similar service" is really only the Find My Mac thing. These apps usually include taking screenshots, taking webcam pictures, simulating error screens, keyloggers, etc..
Should Google and Facebook employees pay taxes on all that free food?
Next release name: "' && rm -rf /"
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Ah, yes of course a mtgox balance would be at risk as well. I'd definitely check to see if my wallet had not been ripped as well.
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alt + f (found that in the keyboard shortcuts from right clicking on the video) should maximize the video in the browser window.
Ask HN: Receive push alerts on airplane wifi without payment?
After reaching crushing altitude on a Southwest flight today, I opened my iPad and noticed that I had left the wifi on AND had received a number of push alerts in the previous few minutes. I was not able to surf or read email as I had not paid for the wifi service. How did the alerts get through? Do they circumvent the proxy somehow?
I have absolutely no problem doing whatever I like to hardware that is stolen from me. However, mere spying doesn't get the message across.

I'd prefer to brick the unit. A nice fast erasure of the firmware would be good, though reflashing the unit to display an "I'm stolen" message would be better. You could even request payment for an unlock ("This is stolen, but you can buy it from me.")
I'm using Windows 8 and Windows 2012 Server for desktop operating and I couldn't disagree more.

What's the problem? Is the new start menu really that scary? I spend more time tweaking a new Windows 7 installation than I ever will on Windows 8.
That font inspector looks awesome. I've wanted exactly this several times before.

It's often surprisingly difficult to pin down exactly what font the browser chooses. You can look at the CSS font declaration (which is often hard enough to find in complex CSS), but what if the browser didn't go with the first option?
Just send an email to this woman---she might send your mac back!
My wife just told me that Iranians, like the ones in this case, don't like to use stolen things.
ripples are made by opencoin. opencoin are mtgox ppl. they will manipulate the market at their own interest, just like they did with BTc
Black market resellers not understanding the goods they are selling is not entirely surprising.

But that's one of the things that makes me think this could be marketing, not reality.
That just means that GitHub were much quicker to find a profitable business model than Twitter, though. :)
Yep, it's to expensive. We were invited to participate and decided it simply didn't provide the value. Especially starting focusing on tech conferences, which are Lanyrd's core, each company which could pay for pro could also just code up their own page to do the same thing. It's a shame as I like lanyrd and want it to stick around.
The suffering countries, though numerous, are small - the core countries are doing well and have the majority of EU population.
Contrary to common belief (common meme?) a lot of H1B employees are not underpaid. Particularly at large companies like Facebook and Google.

Weird consulting shops in New Jersey, on the other hand...
I do like the idea of the "discuss this post on Hacker News" links you see sometimes. Because some articles are worth discussing, but usually not on some random blog - the point is the audience wants to discuss the article with each other. A blog's audience can be huge or tiny and there is no way to know if the effort of posting a comment is going to be worth it unless you are quite familiar with the blog already, and commenting on a remote site allows you to much more effectively monitor responses and engage with a familiar audience.
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The Yahoo of the 1990's made sense. Myspace made sense.

First-mover advantage is not a guarantee in the tech world.
Most people don't object to providing their identity, but those who do are silenced if there is no anonymous option. It's not worth silencing them, IMO.
This could become very interesting. I wonder if Zuckerberg will have the strength of character to keep his own corporate interests removed from his politcal group.