skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not at all - Pathable is an entirely different kind of product.

Pathable offer a platform for running a social network at an individual conference.

Our product provides tools for companies that speak at and sponsor many different events - a branded site for promoting the events they are involved with and internal tools for planning and coordinating their event marketing strategy.

Take a look at http://events.heroku.com/ for example, or check out our explanatory slide deck here: http://www.slideshare.net/lanyrd/lanyrd-pro
PCI-DSS compliant 3-D Secure open-source bare-minimum isolated component
Rupert Sheldrake - The Science Delusion
Ask HN: What are some great startup engineering blogs?
Side note, anyone remember Google Wave?
"Basically all their mixtapes are promotion for the live events."

I think that is a great model, personally. I want artists to not care about getting rich off of downloads. I think it's great when artists ranging from Deadmau5, Lil Wayne or Wiz Khalifa, release mixtapes for free. That seems to be the "artist" mentality, fuck getting paid; I'm doing this (making music) because I love doing this. It shows passion, commitment to their craft, and a true level of artistry. You could even argue the same thing for developers who release their apps for free because they want everyone to enjoy it regardless of price.

I obviously want artists to make as much money as possible, so releasing great mixtapes does make me, personally, want to go see their concerts. It seems to be a great way to market yourself and with labels taking so much from artists anyway, the place where most new artists make money is touring and live shows. I don't want to go to a concert wear essentially the artist is just playing their latest CD to a crowd of people.
Do you have kids?

Having a 4-year-old in the office all day while people are working is negligent child care, except in cases of temporary emergency.

Dogs can nap on the floor for 8 hours and be happy and not bother anyone.
Here's an interview on the banning controversy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAuxXvNVhgA
Free pdf Books on Machine/Statistical Learning
Elements of Statistical Learning
http://www-stat.stanford.edu/~tibs/ElemStatLearn/

Gaussian Processing for Machine Learning
http://www.gaussianprocess.org/gpml/

Bayesian Reasoning and Machine Learning
http://web4.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/D.Barber/pmwiki/pmwiki.php?n=Brml.Online

Convex Optimization
http://www.stanford.edu/~boyd/cvxbook/
I think it's an honest view into his mindset and the mindset of a lot of other people. They view these people as non-conformists and don't see a difference between choosing not to attend college and not being able to afford[1] attending college

[1]: Afford in time, energy, money or other resource, not strictly money.
One big difference that Amazon has with other companies that try and lock people in with virtual currencies - Amazon already has more credit cards on file from customers that trust the service and willingly shop from there than just about any other company in the world.

So I'm sure there's a reason for this, but just because of the sheer number of credit cards they already have on file I'm having a hard time seeing a real rational for this move.

Are they really trying to effectively trick gamers from buying useless game add-ons by divorcing that from its actual monetary cost? Are they betting that heavy hitters on Farmville type games will make this worth their while? That's the only reason I can kind of come up with. If this is the real motive, I'm a bit disappointed because I expect more from Amazon.
For that matter, is someone who went to trade school or got an apprenticeship or went into a manufacturing job a nonconformist?

Equally laughable is the idea that "going to college signals conformity to organizations that want you to be a conformist in order to work there".

Right, that's exactly what going to, say, Deep Springs, or St. John's, say, signals. I signalled conformity by going to a school with a rep for weirdos and grinds, and concentrating in something widely agreed not to have much direct relationship to the business world (and which has an observable correlation with disputatiousness and disrespect for ipsedixitry)---of course!

It's true that going to college is the default option for people in the middle class or above (or who wish to join the middle class or above), but it's simply fallacious to conclude that if you don't go to college you don't go out of nonconformity. Your action doesn't conform, but that doesn't in any deep sense make you a nonconformist. (The person who decides to raise an unexpected child might well be very much a conformist.)

Caplan strikes me as one of those people who can't distinguish between the novel or unusual and the praiseworthy.
Moral of the story: Don't be honest about your opinions on twitter. Just parrot whatever your current employer wants people to think all of their employees believe.
"What happened to the FDA's mission to protect the consumer? Why aren't rice imports tested for heavy metals?"

'FDA spokesman Noah Bartolucci told BBC News that the "FDA plans to review the new research on lead levels in imported rice released today".'

Seems like they're just laggy... is there requirement in law to test one gram of every Xth ton of imported food?
"System designated ranking" - you lost me there bud.

I'm sure your HR department, and therefor - you - are ignoring some outstanding candidates.

It's cool though, we'll hire them.
Do they send all their employees home at 5:30?

Or are they hypocritical?
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Things I use that signal the same thing that a college degree (in any subject) does: Military service, long-term contributions to an open source project (even if it's their own and no one uses it), long-term personal projects (such as restoring a car, being in a band, participating in a gaming group) and being employed at a single company for 3+ years. None of these things are easy and rosy the whole time, there's conflict, potential disillusionment, the luster wears off of them and they require real work to accomplish (you can't just kinda half-ass them). For younger developers (sub-25), a college degree (even an associates) of some sort is the most clear on paper before you've had a talk with them. However, you can easily find out if there's anything like that by asking them what they do for fun and leading into things not directly related to their potential position (I typically lead with an example of how I like to work on cars, so I buy a classic car in bad shape and fix it up over 3-4 years, sell it off, then repeat).
Are you being satirical?

https://www.google.com/search?q=valve+layoffs&;
Darwin's Missing Link
http://meow.vc approves. we want to talk to you.
Amazon emailed registered app store devs back in February.
Github has been a great boon to the D programming language community https://github.com/d-programming-language . There's been a very obvious 'before' and 'after' we moved to github.
What BC's Tech Sector Can Learn from BC's Film Industry
I don't think it really shows that. By its nature, software programmed evolution is intelligence guided evolution. Even though it's left alone, the rules built into the software already contain the seeds for the possible outcome. PLUS, a big plus, the selection rules. This is intelligent evolutive design. It's not mere evolution through random mutations and natural selection.
In every software company there is a contingent of people who work late simply because there are too many distractions occurring during the day.
Also interesting is the making of Star Guitar:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GF0-wGbRqEs
Jack Of No Trade
Bitcoin is a Ponzi Scheme
It's trivially easy to setup an email client in such a way that links are accessible via keyboard or mouse.
Bitcoin's Wild Ride Shows It's Not Real Money
Do these exist at all in tech? It is not something I have heard of, or can even imagine.
Exxon Hates Your Free Speech, Tries to Censor Satirical Ad
This is inspired by what the tech guys at Skype did. They didn't want to go through the enormous hassle of PCI-ing their entire business, so they put all the card stuff in a separate server room in a separate software component, which they made PCI-compliant, totally isolated from their main system.

If you _really_ need to deal with card numbers, then it might be a good idea to put as little code as possible in a small component which you isolate and separate from your other system components.

This code has not yet been put into production, we want to get some feedback first.

It's a bit like Spreedly, except there is only one PSP supported so far, Adyen, and the code is open-sourced, and the card numbers are encrypted with a key that is not stored in the pci-blackbox, instead it is returned to the caller, meaning there is no way to decrypt the card data if someone would hack into the pci-blackbox, except for new card numbers sniffed after the intrusion.
Mutt can render html emails via w3m or lynx. Any well-designed html email should degrade gracefully to either of those clients.
How hard do you think it would be for the US or Chinese governments to amass the computing power needed to maliciously fork the Bitcoin block chain? You are looking at what, $20 million of ASICs? $30 million? Let's be completely unrealistic and say $100 million.

That is less than a tenth of what the government spent on the NSA's new datacenter in Utah. It's pocket change, barely even a blip on the budget of the US government. It requires a very small commitment of personnel and no fieldwork at all, and no real agreement from any other countries. If we called Bitcoin a money-laundering scam, if we attacked under the guise of evidence gathering (just reversing transactions so criminals won't get paid by our cops), I doubt many countries would object even if their citizens lost money in the process.

That is just with the known, well-documented polynomial time attack on Bitcoin. Given that there is no security proof and little formal analysis of the Bitcoin protocol, and not even the kind of heuristic analysis we rely on for block ciphers and efficient hash functions, I seriously doubt that an attack would even require that much effort.
There were still boatloads of counterfeit GBA games, particularly Pokemon. If you bought any used Pokemon games, odds are very good they were counterfeit.
Thank you so much. Very interesting...and I'd also be interested in watching those videos. I'll be digging through these - https://www.google.com/search?q=linda+babcock+negotiation+vi...
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It's a marketing tool so they can give out promotional credit.

They've been doing it for years by giving out free MP3/Video credits occasionally.
Allow me to blow your mind: I have both kids (plural) and a dog (singular). If the point you haphazardly tried to make here was "it's impossible to care for a preschooler in a knowledge worker environment", I'm just going to say you're wrong.
Surely disguising your search box as the browser's search box is merely adding to the confusion?

Also, presumably it isn't always identical to the browser search box - you're going to have trouble with all combinations of browsers and colour schemes and skins etc.
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My app is a 5 starts app, it never moves in the stupid rank (always around 300) cause I refuse to pay 5K-10K to scammers that put a tiny icon in their f* ads network.
I advertised with AppGratis for free in 3 occasions, got almost a million downloads total and many more 5 starts reviews..first overall place in many countries, fourth in my category in USA..that saved my app, three months after last time still feeling the effect (but also as now back to the invisible part of the rank)
Bitcoin Isn't a Currency. It's a Dotcom Stock.
Author here, good question. We see that tech internships are much more likely to be paid, in large part because technology companies recognize the tremendous value of internship programs for fueling their new grad hiring.
As someone who goes to a state university in the silicon valley, none of my peers have received any unpaid internships. The lowest paying internships that I have heard of are $25/hour.
It was my impression that young professional women actually made more money than young men. Ah, found the article I was thinking of: http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,2015274,00....

"median full-time salaries of young women are 8% higher than those of the guys in their peer group"

Their peer group being under 30, childless, unmarried, metropolitan. These are probably strongly skewing caveats but sounds exactly like the market that internmatch targets.
Because this would be a lie. We don't try to fool our users by sending them fake personal emails - who would believe that CEO actually emails every new user? But we want to show that there is a really small team behind the product, and you can get in touch with anyone just by replying to email. Every reply goes directly to the person who wrote email, not a support inbox.
As MtGox trading remains suspended, bitcoin price falls from $160 to $60
I read "Amazing Coins Launching"

Sorry this comment adds no value ;-)
I have really mixed feelings about this. As the founder of a self-funded, bootstrapping startup, every dollar that we spend is coming out of my $dayjob salary, which really limits what we can spend on paying other people. Even paying minimum wage is probably not a realistic option.

And, I think an unpaid internship can be a win-win for both parties in at least some situations.

And, as a libertarian, I reject the notion that the govt. has any business interfering in private contractual arrangements that don't involve the use of force or fraud.

So, would we offer and engage in an unpaid internship at Fogbeam Labs? Well... I don't know. As I said, I don't think they should be prohibited, but the idea also leaves something of a sour taste in my mouth.

We've been talking to some intern candidates over the past couple of weeks, and the idea we've been batting around is to offer a fixed sum stipend, on the order of a few thousand dollars, as compensation for a 6-8 week internship, where the intern would be asked to contribute around 20 hours / week.

8 * 20 = 160 hours, and at $10.00 / hour, you'd be looking at $1600 dollars. The number we have in mind is higher than that, so I guess we actually are talking about paying more than minimum wage. We could only afford to take on one intern at that rate though, but that's probably OK... I doubt the founders have the bandwidth to manage more than one intern anyway.
My Startup Failed. Fuck.
And let me guess, a letter with a sketch embedded, or perhaps some calligraphy or flourishes isn't really a letter, right?
Because drugs are physical items that must be exchanged in person or sent across distances. For bitcoin transactions, literally all you need is two people on the planet with computers that are connected to each other on a network.
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Interesting utility, and kudos for making it OSS!
Something I couldn't help but notice is that it is very similar to a short film which played at TIFF 2011 called "Coorow-Latham Road" by Blake Williams, a 20 minute video work which played in the Wavelengths experimental section of the festival.

A short clip of the video is available here:
http://vimeo.com/26850823

Amusingly, the artist has created another version of the video, now that hyperlapse is available:
https://vimeo.com/63778677

The original film, Coorow-Latham Road, is edited and manipulated from screenshots of a Google street view road trip along the length of a road in rural Australia. The camera rotates 180 degrees from forward to backward along the 20 minute trip.

This may be a case where art inspires software, which is an interesting phenomenon in itself, or maybe it's a freak coincidence!
Kinda impressive how many zealots, near-luddites HN has - I think some of the opinions on this topic are more passionate than OS or editor wars.
But I wonder if there is some kind of minimum amount of mining required to verify X number of transactions. If there are many transactions, but few miners, then would transactions begin taking too long to become verified?
Google has overstayed the web's welcome.

What started out as a quirky, innovative company that bucked all of the suit-and-tie trends (see Microsoft, HP, even Apple in some regards) of Silicon Valley, has now turned into a monstrous calamity with no regard for its users. Up until 2009, it was breezy and beautiful, but right now, at this moment, it's a different story altogether.

Don't be evil? Pfeh. The only thing left of Google that they haven't managed to screw up or cause outrage over is search. The only thing they can't afford to change, for fear people will stop using it.

This harkens back far before Google, far before any company dared invest in the Internet. This type of corporate mentality is one we see often, but tend to forget quickly. Apple did it in the 1990s. Microsoft is doing it now; look at Windows 8.

Any corporation that strays too far from its roots with fail. Not in a fiscal sense, but in an ethical sense, and that's the worst type of failure there is. Do I hope they get their shit together and start being Google again? Of course. They could start by fixing YouTube, exhuming Google Reader, and rethinking the decision to end iGoogle.

And please, PLEASE, reinvent that horrid thing called Google+. Even the name sucks.
We have had unpaid interns before, as have a lot of companies I know. The difference is you can't find CODERS to be unpaid interns. Every person whose trying to break in to marketing, social media and PR etc., we have no real use for them right now.

I wouldn't be hiring a PR or Marketing person otherwise, it isn't necessary. Numerous times friends of friends have asked for an internship, I've said we aren't ready to hire in that position yet, and they have offered to work for free, for experience, or for college credit.

The better way of alleviating this is to have a skillset that not everyone else has, that any college graduate can't duplicate.
There's a large difference between regulating/controlling the currency and regulating exchanges.

You don't have to have the former to have the latter.
I think disguising your search box is only going to be more confusing. Giving the user a clear and obvious search box is a better design, IMHO.
If I was consistently working late due to this reason, my employer would have a problem as working late is not in the company culture.

I can understand someone doing this out of personal preference, but is working late considered the norm and is expected by the employer?
Replying to myself... For anyone interested, here are two screenshots showing the Mathematical Operators blocks of Liberation Mono and Droid Sans Mono in the current Debian Sid:

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/390716/20130412-003357-d...

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/390716/20130412-003523-d...
Author here - The unique requirements at many Silicon Valley companies for rapidly scaling teams require robust, well paid, competitive internship programs. The famous perks at Google, Facebook, etc. definitely extend to internship programs for good reason. We don't know the exact numbers, but somewhere around 50% of all internships in the US are unpaid.
It's not bad as a model of evolution. In real world evolution the rules are defined (physics, chemistry) that contain the seeds for the possible outcome. The selection is merely: who survives to procreate. These sorts of models have to establish some arbitrary criteria that permits culling, but that's no different than someone in CFD modeling thousands or tens of thousands of atoms and molecules as a single entity and then continuing the model with thousands or millions of those entities. It's still a valid, demonstrative model.
here are a couple papers.

http://ftp.iza.org/dp6580.pdf

http://www.economics.uci.edu/files/economics/docs/micro/f07/...
I might have not fully understood the inner workings of the classifier, but wouldn't it be interesting to allow it to learn/calibrate from user input? Basically, is there any way to apply supervised learning to your classifier?
Droid Sans Mono's 0 and O look too similar. Which makes it useless as a programming font.
I love Pulse. They built a great app and I'm really happy for them, so this isn't a critique, but were they really worth 90M? I get that most of it was in stock, but damn.

I guess it was more of a team/userbase acquisition, similar to the Dropbox/Mailbox deal. Either way, congrats guys!
The 2011 video I referenced in my other comment was taken along Coorow-Latham road, in WA, with the same camera motions... Perhaps this one was also taken there?
Author here - good point about bandwidth. We typically see that companies that can't afford to pay "x" interns typically don't have bandwidth to manage "x" interns.
The only other option is, as another commenter mentioned, a buffer overflow, or similar, that would allow the ACARS receiver to load a program in the FMS. In normal operation, FMS programs are not controllable remotely.

This is the clear implication in the article - compromising the ACARS receiver, then using that access to further compromise another element like the FMS. The article states that the pilot can regain control by disconnecting the AP.
Democracy and Greece. Indymedia shutdown.
Interesting take. It sounds like they've sniffed out a few features that will go from pipeline to production quickly (fingers crossed).
See this short video about new tool for infographics PixCone
It's definitely not just a 'payments system'. It's also not well fit to the traditional idea of a 'commodity'.

I was emphasizing that it has some aspects of shareholder equity. Indeed, the keys which hold balances can be used to do things like weighted stakeholder votes: see the ideas for bitcoin-related [proof-of-stake] systems, or [bitcoin colored coins] for stockholder-of-record mechanisms embedded in the blockchain.

Whether this 'speculative equity' aspect actually subverts bitcoin's potential use as a payment system, or instead complements it by creating a community-spirit and aligned-incentives for growth, is something that time will tell.

But trying to shoehorn Bitcoin into any of the traditional categories -- currency, commodity, payment system, cash, unit of account, equity, etc -- risks overlooking how strange and capable it might be. Bitcoin laughs at the old definitions, and extends out orthogonally into utility dimensions that were previously hard to even see.
perhaps he meant the industry in general (of listing merchants) rather than the Yellow Pages company specifically.
Yes, and from what I understand some people have made Bitcoin competitors that tend to grow.

They haven't taken off, because 1) we already have a crypto-currency, and 2) they don't have the "get rich quick with this new currency" because they aren't deflationary so they don't attract the speculators.

Some people will say "we need the speculators in order to start the market," but the speculators have ruined the ability to use Bitcoin as a currency. Just because the light is better over there instead of here where you lost your keys doesn't mean you should look over there.
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