skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What's interesting though is that events like this are in fact an advertisement for TV itself and a show of value which keep people needing to have TV access. So even if they don't run advertising they also might need to do (to keep their license at least the broadcast networks) a certain amount of public good.

So they build good will as the place to go when some major event has happened and you are looking for every morsel of information or discussion about it.
That would be particularly interesting in segments where either the standard is 60-100h/wk (games), or where 3 day/week people actually would be more useful (certain kinds of consulting or incident response? I don't know)
I've spent some time reading about bitcoin.

It's not widely publicized that it's a distributed transaction ledger that uses proof of work to distribute trust in a mutual distrustful network.

But even if it was ... when I pay you in bitcoins, it's not too far from the situation in his analogy! Sure, the ledger is updated, but no one knows who I am and who you are, so we may as well have been in a dark alley. The analogy breaks down only in that the dollars can be counterfeited or printed by governments, whereas bitcoins cannot (at least, it's not feasible to do so).

But as far as anonymously exchanging money without recourse, it's actually a pretty apt analogy. It's a bit like off-the-record messaging. You can see that a transaction has taken place, you can even see how much money has been transferred, but you don't know who the parties were. (That last part is not strictly true yet.)
Late 90's is being gracious to a language that smells like an ALGOL and Pascal cross-over.

Leaves me to wonder why some of these people bothered with C to begin with and didn't just use Pascal. Momentum in the Unix world maybe?
1,2 and 4 but "Significantly more money" and competent recruiters mostly. Nothing turns me off to a perspective employer like having to tell their recruter to re-read the email I just sent back to them.
He was probably quoting a whole series of time intervals in milliseconds: "if the valve doesn't open within 200 milliseconds or the air is being overcooled by more than two degrees after 900 000 milliseconds".
I think the concept is brilliant, but how does it scale out? So, they implement this at major airport and then what? The whole model is predicated on the fact that you know your car is being unused because you are physically incapable of accessing it.

So let's think of scenarios - you park your car for the day for work so you rent it out. What happens when there is a emergency, or you need to pop out for a quick errand? What happens when the person returning it shows up late? The reason you buy a car is for the convenience to be able to transport yourself from A to B, at any point that you need to. I just see so few scenarios, except for traveling out of your home location, that could warrant this model scaling out to other scenarios. The number of airports is very static too.

Personally, I would much rather see good public transport take off in over congested cities like SFO, NYC, etc. I see a business model like this as fixing the wrong problem.

Assuming they reduce all of the liabilities (which is 100x harder to do with mechanical items as opposed to an apartment/house) then I definitely see this taking off. On the flip side, I suspect margins will forever be razor thin in order to be competitive and the growth will halt when no new scenarios beyond airport parking can be found.
Highlights is pretty bad too.
Well, I only have one real datapoint, but I took a look at a laptop a grandmother type had brought to them for help but probably didn't do a very good job explaining what was wrong. It sounded like her email had stopped going in or out, but I had to prompt her a bit. I can't remember precisely what the services rendered were but it came to something close to 200, they sold her a new AV despite her current subscription, av added a toolbar, installed some kind of system cleaner that deleted temp files and browser caches and such once a day, charged her for a "full tuneup" which was nearly half the cost and seemed like maybe a defrag, and $25 to fix her outlook - seems like she had managed to switch to a new blank profile so no mail, no settings, so they switched her back.

I mean, I guess they did fix her problem and I doubt youd have much trouble with them if you have a basic clue, but the people who need that service the most are the exact same ones that have no way to tell if they really do need this thing they're telling you is critical.

Plus I've seen enough online discussion about what techs employer unknown find on hard drives and how much their boss or 4chan enjoyed it to suspect that line of business may not have the strongest of ethical cultures.
I rest my case.

You do realize that, without reaching out to me, and other fair minded, humanitarian and inclusionary men, you will never succeed, right?
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I wonder how these pitches are reviewed and accepted.

It's well possible for an unconscious bias to seep in and taint your perception of someone's work.

It brings to mind things like this: http://www.aas.org/cswa/status/1999/JANUARY1999/BehindTheSce...

Then again, with the kind of heat conference heads have on them now, I bet they ARE doing something like this, if not actively making quotas.
Boston Marathon Explosions the Work of Amateur Terrorists, Says Expert
The three bombings at the Boston Marathon were likely the work of amateur terrorists, says Max Abrahms, terrorism expert and fellow at John Hopkins.
A new word for "enemy combatant", you mean, right? i.e. "Terrorists"
I think the difference is there isn't only a single route for people to evac the mall. It would be insane to have an area where there's several bombings in a large area, with one gateway out, and to then encourage everyone to bunch up at the gateway.
Yes. From what I can tell there are several funnels that can get you speaker gigs. The most common is probably when your company arranges it or at least puts some weight behind your application and sends you to do a presentation explicitly as an employee of that company. That's what "worked" for me, and I see it often at tech conferences.

The other way would be if you personally know some movers and shakers. I think that's also quite common. From time to time it's so obvious you're going to see speakers talking about projects or subjects that couldn't possibly have gotten up there on their own merits. They're not terrible, but they're sure not doing stuff that's significantly cooler than what most other people in the community do.

The third option is that you're so well known in your community that you technically don't need corporate sponsorship or personal connections, but those probably go together anyway more often than not.

Everybody else is going to have a bad time. Im uncertain if this is a bad thing per se, but it's also easy to see how that precludes the participation of a lot of people who could make a nice contribution. But if speaking is what you absolutely want to do, you could conceivably work your way up from smaller to ever-bigger conferences.
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I tried to bring my 95' Camry with broken door handles, windows that don't go down, oil leak, and no paint on the hood to rent with FlightCar ... but it didn't qualify. Not surprisingly, they have quality standards :-p
I second your post here-- I am currently idled through the end of summer by choice (we're moving and then traveling), but it's not a big deal-- I live in the sticks, but I do drive into Austin, TX pretty frequently. There are indeed a lot of opportunities, but you do have to focus on business development as part of what you're doing; while I don't have a lot of specific offers on my plate for the fall, I'm not worried about finding fun, interesting development projects.
I have mixed feelings about that. On the one hand, you're right that people should be made distinctly aware when something is being censored. On the other hand, you have to be careful not to convey the sense that the user is in the wrong or frighten anyone into self-censorship by giving the impression that the user could be sold out to an oppressive regime by the service provider.
I've found that when there is some sort of disaster that hurts people and there's nothing I can do directly to fix things, it makes me feel better to at least go and help someone. I went to Watsi and funded a bunch of treatments after the Sandy Hook shootings too. It compensates in some way for random acts of violence to commit random acts of kindness.
Hi Res video of the explosion: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=046MuD1pYJg
Probably best to let the dust settle and watch for offical reporting on where to donate. Fraudsters can spring up quickly.
Already used by LiveJournal in Russia:

Example:
http://drugoi.livejournal.com/3712998.html (slightly NSFW) — if you visit this URL from Russian IP address, you'll see something like this: https://www.evernote.com/shard/s72/sh/6e76310b-daec-454c-a66...

Allegedly, this page and photos are used to propagandize suicide.
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Lol, because of your "field"
I wasn't being sarcastic. That was my point: houses are a durable good, which means they're not an investment at all and shouldn't be treated as such.
Aren't the miners in effect middlemen who take about 2% of the bitcoin economy?

http://techcrunch.com/2013/04/13/the-cost-of-a-bitcoin/

back of the envelope calculation: $2B market cap in its heyday a few months ago, and the $150k x 365 = $57M a year in "fees" which is about 2.8% of the entire bitcoin economy

remember, the banks also spend the fees back into the economy, such as paying their employees :)
Odd that you mention Enniskillen, where they murdered 10 civilians, one police and no military personnel and injured 63 more and issued no warning. "Aimed at a patrol of troops" is a lie.

Take this Provo crap off to some other website.
You can always start with smaller local events. In southern California we have the SoCal Code Camp which let me speak with no experience. There's also user groups. Build up a bit of a resume and a name for yourself, then go to the big shows.
Having my own startup as well, it's hard for me to imagine #1 really working out in any meaningful way since you'd be coming from the outside. In order for the work to really be interesting to me, I would still have to be able to be the primary decision maker and it's rare (at best) that someone from outside the organization would be put in that position.

M&A only really makes sense to me in the #2 case, where the merger actually better enables us to deliver our product. I certainly think there are cases where acquisition can be a boon to your users, we just don't hear about them as much.

For money to be a motivating factor, though, it would have to be enough to ensure that I could fulfill our promise to our users and also bankroll working on one of the problems from #1 :)
Do male speakers tend to get a lot of weird stalkers after they do a conference? Honest question.
Does someone now what programming language and framework they use? Still Python+Django? PyPy?
Modularity has several drawbacks. You need a connector on the host and a connector on the addon. This means you have added cost; not just component cost but in circuit board design. There are more solder connections, and thus more places for the gadget to fail. You've also made the device bigger and heavier.

In theory PCs are modular and upgradable. Except everything obsoletes every few years. Even things which sort of are the same (RAM) have changing features. (See, for example, DDR 2 vs DDR 3)

Baffling pop at America there. Many of these devices are designed outside the US, made outside the US, and sold outside the US.

Semi-disposable hardware is not merely a US problem.

I'm happy to shake my fist at the yanks - they use / waste an enormous amount of energy and should really start to focus on efficiency.
I am in the greater Boston area (outside of the city itself). Cell service has been on and off but ok overall.
They're based out of New Jersey, actually.
One additional negative to home ownership is transaction costs. Real Estate agents, laywers, lenders, title companies all get you comin' and goin'. They love churn!

I like redfin.com as a market changer in this space. Check them out!
What leverages up can (and will) leverage down. The problem with the housing collapse was that people with low or zero down-payment mortgages found that the property value fell, wiping out their entire stake (if they had any at all). More skin in the game should (though there's some research suggesting otherwise) make the market more stable by reducing the ability to speculate. This is a lesson that goes back to the crash of 1929 and the Dutch tulip bubble.

The mortgage deduction is priced into your home (as are low interest rates). Absent the deduction, real estate prices will fall. As interest rates rise, housing prices will also tend to soften.

What inflation giveth, it also taketh away: your mortgage costs are reduced, but so is the appreciation of your house.
Very cool, I thought pinterest came out of nowhere and is now everywhere, but i didn't realize how fast they did it and how large they've grown.

thanks for posting!
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Interview with Joe Robinson: A life dedicated to skunk works projects
Sort of. I have a friend on the conference / book circuit and he gets a lot of weird email and social media comments and questions.
I think finding a critical balance what to test and what to skip is often overlooked.
Care to comment on your experience with larger code bases? The content of your post seems short-sighted, and there's an exponential function of complexity increase as LOC and developer headcount both go up.

You're right people pay for features, but lagging a little at the beginning to establish good TDD culture pays off in spades later on. Shipping product is something you have to do continuously, and you arguably create more value as time goes on, so ensuring you can continue to ship product in a timely manner is a great thing for organizations.
Stalking proper happens to both men and women, and is done by both men and women.

I suspect you mean something other than stalking. I guess, but I have nothing to support this, that the answer is "Women probably have more men acting weird and creepy after the woman has spoken at a conference".
From Valve's Steam stats Linux has been between 2-2.5% in its first opening few months where as OSX is only 3.5%. If a Mac port is assumed, one might wonder if that should be extended to Linux. and it's not impossible we'll see Linux over take Mac on Steam this year as it stabilizes, gets more games and more people sign up.
am i the only one who found this exciting? sure, the tone and content are puff-piecey, but reading between the lines they are doing some genuinely interesting things with data acquisition and centralised control, and proving that it works on a largish scale, with measurable (not to mention large!) savings in terms of money and energy.
After seeing your original post here, I also asked for clarification, and received a similar reply from support:

The Lish password is set to a random string by default, however we would still recommend resetting this password even if you had not set one manually previously.

I had expected that if the password was not set, then password auth was disabled. I've told them that's what I want and have asked when it will be implemented.
They didn't need the "Technically" before.
An ex-colleague of mine used to put it well in saying: "It's best to be pragmatic rather than dogmatic while testing and pair programming."
I think if your intention is to encrypt your video content then you really have no business being on the web in the first place. Just build a native app and do whatever you want, and stop trying to bend open standards to be compatible with your business.
Get halfway through a project, realize you have to make a big change, then make it. Without tests i'll guarantee you'll watch your stability plummet. With tests, you might just go home at 5 pm. Alternatively don't make the change, and deal with a problem in your design. I've seen it more than a few times to have become convinced that there's a lot of value when striving to cover as much of your code as you can.
Sam Parnia – the man who could bring you back from the dead
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2013/apr/06/sam-parnia-res...

Related to death.
I think this is one of those things where utilitarianism can appear tasteless. If something like this dissuades someone from spending ten minutes creating another "pray for boston" twitter graphic in favor of learning about a service where someone can directly contribute to saving a life, then which ten minutes has a higher probability of leading to assistance in saving a life? But on the other hand, it looks like changing the subject when we all should be demonstratively supportive of Boston because something horrible happened and that's what we're supposed to do when something horrible happens.
The fastest PHP framework.
Hell, I'd work for free AND learn Java for a green card.
I use a strongly typed functional language, so I don't need to write tests. If my code compiles, it's correct.
As far as working remotely: SSH sucks to use over the Atlantic. It's very very slow and the delay makes it no fun. Not sure if that was part of what you wanted to know.
I can't give you much idea about taxes since it's the other way around for me.
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What exactly is Netflix trying to prevent by using DRM? It seems like people are happy to pay for a Netflix subscription, even more if they could stream on Linux.
Except the problem with the latter is the racist implication that someone named Hussein isn't qualified to run the country. So the analogous troll would be to point out that the guys who run Magic the Gathering Exchange play magic the gathering or are on Wow or some other negative nerdy stereotype

On the other hand, the claim that a website originally built as a trading card platform probably is not something you want being a critical currency exchange for your bitcoin economy is certainly one worth considering. When was the last time you heard of someone successfully inducing panic by DDOSing a real currency exchange? Or the last time a currency exchange was hacked? These are real problems. They apply to other exchanges too, but I think point out its Magic the Gathering Exchange is at least starting point to cause people to ask questions. And its a lot shorter than this paragraph.
That's not why the people of Twitter are upset. Everyone wants to see money given for relief. All of my Facebook/Twitter friends are asking for people to donate.

However, there's a perceived conflict of interest in promoting one of your own portfolio companies as opposed to neutral charity institutions such as the Red Cross.
Maybe something is wrong, but I wouldn't blindly assume it's discrimination (especially since the results are the same if women do the hiring).

I wish somebody woyuld at least look into possible reasons. Personally I suspect the elephant in the room is motherhood. If there is an x% chance for the recipient of your grant to quit the profession after a couple of years, it lowers the value of your investment quite a bit.
:( Anybody knows who's behind this?
The worst thing about the interventions into the labor market is that they prevent people from being hired.

It would be far better to hand aid to the working poor directly than to have a minimum wage or impose regulations that make hiring the working poor more expensive.

Many people seem to think making the employers pay somehow reduces their profits with no other ill effects. But in reality, it is also likely make prices go up. OR the take home pay of workers go down or rise more slowly.

Just because these effects don't happen immediately doesn't mean they don't eventually happen or that they don't accumulate. And just because you don't understand how artificial prices interfere with supply and demand doesn't mean the effects aren't real.

If you are one of the least productive laborers, your labor may not be worth the minimum wage to anybody. You're completely shut out. Good luck finding a place to live under the nearest bridge.
Is that his real name ? normally, they even hide their names due to secrecy issues involved in skunk works projects.
Watsi is not a portfolio company. They're a nonprofit we donated money to, not a company we invested in.
I thought it was a pretty wel known response that people under duress or stress fallback to their normal behaviour, as if nothing happened.
You assert Breivik was a single crazy but you ignore the fact that his kahanist buddies in outfits like the JDL are well funded organized groups.

You also ignore that in terms of the domestic terror threat, according to the FBI organized jewish loons are a larger threat than yemeni moslem loons - and that jewish loons aren't being locked up indefinitely

http://forums.anandtech.com/archive/index.php/t-2135229.html

You also ignore that when the US was in a similar situation, during the McVeigh episode, the US did not respond towards the militiamen by locking them up without trial. They used normal law enforcement procedures. And McVeigh was not a lone wolf. That lot are organized and well funded

But if you didn't ignore these parallels, you'd be forced to see that there is an alternative called "the rule of law". And you wouldn't like that. You prefer the policy "lock up the towelheads and throw away the key".

And you call me a hatemonger.
Poe's law applies here.
"Not every attempt to address security and terrorism can be deemed "rights-contracting.""

Of course; only those that restrict our rights should be so labeled. That, unfortunately, is what the majority of attempts to address security concerns do.

"The other stuff in AEDPA doesn't contract any rights, just addresses particular kinds of crimes."

That is a tautology: take away the things that are bad, and you are left with something good. Ignore the sections that reduce, restrict, or eliminate our rights, and every knee-jerk reaction just addresses particular kinds of crimes (whether or not they do so in an effective way is another story).

"The only thing that arguably contracts rights are the habeas portion, and that's more appropriately seen as improving habeas procedures rather than contracting rights."

More appropriate according to you perhaps, and perhaps the right wing politicians who passed and signed the bill, but it is hard to say that we are "improving" civil rights by restricting them. Restricting habeas corpus is not an "improvement," it is a restriction on civil rights -- or alternatively, a contraction of our rights.

The entire argument for restricting habeas corpus in this manner was this: people facing the death penalty might try to avoid being executed by exhaustively testing every technical detail of their case in court. That does not sound like a bad thing to me, it sounds like people are making use of their rights in a life or death situation. Far too many innocent people have been executed to claim that there are too many ways for death row inmates to stave off their executions.

AEDPA was drafted by the kind of people who think The Ox-Bow Incident is a how-to manual on law enforcement. It is the mindset that sees a man like McVeigh challenging his execution and says, "How dare he! We are supposed to kill him, because he is GUILTY!" That is not how America is supposed to work. The criminal justice system in this country is meant to ensure that innocent people are not imprisoned or killed even if it means allowing guilty people to walk free and even if it means using tax dollars to pay for guilty people to challenge their conviction.
Did you have similar problems recruiting make execs? If not, do you have any idea why the difference?
US House to vote on CISPA this week