skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nice side project, but it seems there are a lot of duplicate profiles, just to name a few:

a search of "Albert Einstein" returned 3

Niels Bohr: 4

Stephen Hawking: 3

Richard Feynman: 2

Lennard Jones: 2

linus pauling: 2
It pains me to admit this, but your self-righteous indignation is justified. Like I said, I just hope something positive comes out of this and the increased awareness leads to him being found, or better: him deciding it's time to go home to such an amazing group of people who clearly love him very much.
"Typical HN Top-poster - up in arms about one point they care about, misses entire point of article."

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4780475
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At least from a developer's point of view there's not much Linux visible in Android.

IMHO, the Android APIs feel like Symbian rewritten in Java... I get the impression that Google has spent five years rushing to add new components to accomodate everything under the sun with no vision of how the stuff fits together, and meanwhile vendors do their own thing that is slightly incompatible with the core. Of course Symbian was worse in every respect, but the end product is worryingly similar.
Yes, as opposed to a non-malicious one.

The best example off the top of my head was a D-Link firmware update which added an NTP server operated by a third party for "public use." This wound up increasing the NTP server's traffic by 90% and costing them over $8K/year in additional bandwidth fees. See [1].

Then you have so called "slashdotting." Or linking to a small web-site with an interesting story and overloading it with legitimate traffic until it goes down. See [2].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTP_server_misuse_and_abuse#D-L...

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slashdot_effect
Can we stop comparing talking about people in photos as a witchhunt?
Some of the best advice I've ever had was, "when you start at a company, it's tempting to try and work your arse off to prove how worthy you are. Don't - you're not proving anything, you're just establishing precedent. Instead, quickly determine what the absolute minimum you can get away with is and do slightly above that. Then work harder for the month before review time so you can justify a raise. The extra effort will be noticed now, but if you'd worked your arse off then that would just be normal behaviour."
before name appeared on police scanner

Is there a recording of this? Because it sounds a lot like it never happened.
It's much closer to a desktop linux distro - it still uses glibc afaik, and other more "standard" linux bits (eg pulse audio and dbus and x11 and rpm and gstreamer etc - see here for more info: https://wiki.merproject.org/wiki/Architecture - Sailfish is based on Mer, so the architecture should be fairly similar)
Android has way more bits that have been made explicitly for it - many of which were made to BSD license-able (or so I've read) :-)
If the U.S. national debt was a mortgage, it would be a mortgage with a term that spans centuries with payments that don't even cover the interest.

"Getting a mortgage of 3 or 4 times one's yearly income..."
One of lessons of the last ten years is that people, businesses, and governments can very easily get loans they have no ability to repay. And too often, the borrowers have to default. This is bad for the borrower.
This is the second major flub this year. Azure's cert expired in prod not many weeks ago.
Does that include Taiwan which is a country but we aren't allowed to mention it?
It's a basic statement of fact. They look similar to me. I don't know where statistics come into that in your mind.
Do the same experiment with television and we I will take you a little bit more seriously.
Austerity is something the government should be practicing in the good times, instead of blowing everything on profligate rubbish. That way when the downturn comes, you're not already saddled with masses of debt and a vast public system that depends upon it.

IMHO, of course, I am am not an economist. Not that they seem to agree on much either.
Don't forget the X09v3 alternate subject names.

https://bing.com/

Subject: CN=* .bing.com

X509v3 Subject Alternative Name: DNS:ieonline.microsoft.com, DNS:* .bing.com, DNS:* .windowssearch.com

--

https://www.bing.com/

Subject: C=US, O=Akamai Technologies, Inc., CN=a248.e.akamai.net

X509v3 Subject Alternative Name: DNS:a248.e.akamai.net, DNS:* .akamaihd.net, DNS:* .akamaihd-staging.net
Wow, that's the first time I've ever seen a 0-word article get the TL;DR treatment.
comment of the day!
I couldn't find something on google, so I decided to give it a try. Can't hurt. I wanted to find out if anyone has done a study on language confusion(the effect where Russians have a hard time getting good at Polish because they confuse Polish words with Russian ones). Still can't find it ;)
While there's been plenty of Google Glass fearmongering posted...this reeks of the modern "link-bait" trend of online monetization. If you want to make a quick buck in 2013 then the answer has always been to make the internet hate you.
I read the article twice and nowhere did the author say anything about asking her son something like: "Hey, did you do that?", nor is the former girlfriend's opinion mentioned.

And yes, I would like for both parties' views to be on the same page, jumping to conclusions like "bitter ex-girlfriend " does no good to anyone.
Bitcoin and the Western fast lane
Actually the warning message from chrome is pretty lengthy
No one's saying terrible circumstances don't exist. Mental illness is exasperated by terrible circumstances.
I'm starting to think that the solution is to let VC-istan rot and focus on the mid-growth space: http://michaelochurch.wordpress.com/2013/03/26/gervais-macle...

Size isn't the big issue. The reason VC-istan jobs tend to be so rotten is that the companies are red-ocean marketing experiments and technology is a sideshow. It's hard to grow at the 200%/year rate that "ooh, shiny" VCs expect without shitting all over your culture. Mid-growth (10 to 40% per year) is the future.

What's the best way to find those 20-100 person mid-growth startups? I'm looking for machine learning and functional programming, but I'm old enough (29) that I don't give a third of a rat's ass about "prestige" or "hipness".

Here's my observation: companies tend either to be r-strategic or K-selective (in the evolutionary biology sense). The mid-growth, quality-oriented companies are K-strategists. The get-big-or-die gambits and the MegaCorps are r-stragetists. Now, the major problem in marketing yourself to the mid-growth K-strategists is that they hire slowly, meaning that you need to be an exact match for a role they need right now. There isn't the aspirational "draw in talent and figure out what to do with it later" hiring of r-strategists. I don't think the mid-growth economy is fleshed out enough to provide the job security of VC-istan disposable-company job-hopping.
NASA and other space agencies need more funding stat! Private space exploration is fine, but there's something to be said for placing science ahead of company interests.

Slightly off topic comment, I know, but watching zero gravity videos makes me realize how awesome space truly is and how little we know about it.
It's important to keep in mind that the other party may feel superior, even though you don't feel inferior.

I can't quite see why that is important. It doesn't hurt me that the other party feels superior. Sometimes it may amuse me, though.
One way to reconcile our views on this is the hypothesis that most Australians are living beyond their means...
Chris Hadfield is becoming Internet's the most loved astronaut.
If you look at the winners of the Underhanded C Contest [1], the subtle and deniable "errors" that are hidden in innocuous looking pieces of code remind me a lot of the type of error that this spreadsheet sounds like it contains.

It's telling that now that their data is exposed as being incorrect, the original authors still are standing behind their conclusions.

[1] http://underhanded.xcott.com/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9dhO0iCLww#t=3m30s
Australian Ebay (https://www.ebay.com.au/) has had the same problem for months, although I appear to get no response for https://www.ebay.com, so I'm not sure what their policy is on SSL access to the homepage.

I expect that Microsoft will fix Bing much more quickly.
We already have the laws to handle that kind of witch hunt behavior (it's basically defamation), it's just that we need to have them enforced. Sadly, a lot of people seem to think that their responsibility for what they do stop once they're online.
Actually Sunil wasn't the main person who had been accused on Reddit
NASA TV, http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html, Lot's interesting space things there. Their youtube http://www.youtube.com/user/NASAtelevision channel is also full of fun things.
Are you saying that the system is broken because some jobs ask you to be a hard worker?

The article indicated nothing specific that the company had done wrong. It even admitted that the guy was "well treated and well paid" for his hard work - he just didn't like how he was "respected".

It's astonishing me that getting paid and treated well to work hard triggers a comment that the "system is sick".
To Microsoft : Please fix your IE debacle ( somehow!!).. Its affecting your other products.. Its reputation is becoming infectious.
Or because it is connected to the terrorist attack on monday...
How do I put it on my phone?
I haven't found the part of the police radio transcripts where he's mentioned ... was he specifically mentioned as a suspect or was his name simply mentioned on the radio (possibly because he's missing)?

While I suspect the Boston police department's number one priority is finding the marathon bombing suspects, wouldn't it be logical that their other cases would still be discussed?

EDIT: I agree with the premise of this thread ... it's interesting to watch the real-time parts of the case, but drawing conclusions should be:

a) Not be done in real-time

b) Based on known facts

c) Vetted by multiple sources
One of the goals of Pony ORM is to reduce the necessity of using the specific syntax. For example, in Pony ORM you can write:

(o for o in Order if o.date_shipped.year == 2012)

instead of something like:

.filter(extract("year", Order.date_shipped) == 2012)

The goal is to use native Python syntax wherever possible
I have only 1.5 years of work experience as software engineer. Maybe I am wrong, but aren't most of these quirks just a part of working with others? Regardless you are working for yourself, a company or organization, you have to deal with people. And people can be unethical, apathetic, incompetent, rigid, inexperienced, inappropriate. And when your company become large, it will have processes to limit your reign of power for good of the company. Every person I've worked with (mostly software guys) think they are better than others, and suffered. To me, it's more of an inability to work with others and handling situations and problems.
>The average German voter has no idea who Reinhart and Rogoff are

No average voter knows who Reinhart and Rogoff are, and no one is making any argument that they do, or that that matters.

>the actual spreadsheet errors changed their results from growth of -0.1% in high-debt countries to 0.2%; an inconsequential change.

So the 0.3% percent error was caused by incompetence at using a computer, and another 1.9% was caused by economic incompetence (equal weighting for all time periods) and deception (throwing away the first few years of data to create a convenient start date.) Is your defense that they were worse at economics than at Excel?

>the reason nobody looked too closely at the numbers is because they agree broadly with every other paper and model out there.

You've made this up. No one could reproduce their results.

Parent TL;DR: The paper didn't matter, because even though its purported evidence was wrongly conceived and badly executed, its conclusion is still right because it comports with what I have decided is common sense.
If you're feeling similarly, or have in the past, and are looking for an alternative then you might want to consider teaching.

I used to do cubicle work at a couple of tech companies and fucking hated it. I simply cannot stomach office politics, and I can't tolerate others that do the whole ladder climbing, brown nosing thing around me. The straw that broke the camel's back was when my line manager took credit for my work right in front of me without even batting an eyelid. I observed this type of sociopathic behaviour many times from many people. I literally couldn't believe how many fuck heads there are out there.

Here are some benefits that I'm enjoying as a teacher at the moment:

1. Great salary. 90k/year in Australia. I've heard that in other parts of the world it can be a low paying job.

2. Great working hours. 8:30am - 4pm. 30 mins recess, 50 mins lunch. 7 "free" (non teaching) lessons per week (this is equivalent to one day per week) There are lots of teachers that like to play the "poor me" card and tell you how they spend every night till midnight grading work. They're either liars, or are terrible at time management. I consider myself a perfectly OK teacher, and I never go past 4pm and very rarely do school work on a weekend.

3. 14 weeks of paid vacation - I just spent the last 2 weeks doing a garden renovation and got paid to do it.

4. No boss. Technically the principal is my boss, but in 3 years I have barely said more than hello to him and, I sometimes go months without seeing him. No line manager either. What I do in my class is my business. I choose the manner in which I deliver content as well as the interesting tangents that we explore.

5. No office politics bullshit. Schools have a very flat org structure. If you're not looking at advancing to the admin side of things (deputy/principal) then there is effectively no career path (I consider this a good thing).

6. Heaps of time for side projects.

7. Varied work. No two kids are the same, no two semester are ever the same. There are always interesting things happening. Sports days, senior formal, camp etc. I recently spend a week visiting work experience kids and got to visit an army base and defence research facility.

8. Over the years it's inevitable that you will make a difference in some kid's life. Whether it's helping them through a tough emotional period or helping them make informed life and career goals.

There is no way in a million years I could go back to the regular working world. I simply could not give away the complete autonomy and excellent vacation time.

In Australia there is a post-grad degree that you can do which will give you a full teacher qualification in just 18 months. Worth seeing if your district offers similar programs.

Caveat:

1. The school you're at matters. I am at a middle class private school with great kids. I've worked at very tough schools and life sucked, however, some thrive in these conditions.

2. The subject(s) you teach matter. Language rich will entail far more reading and giving written feedback which obviously impacts on hours worked. If you stick to Maths and IT grading is far easier.
You definitely don't deserve to be downvoted. Mental illness is nothing to be ashamed about and needs to be treated seriously and head-on. Downvoting this is tantamount to stigmatization.

The worker described in the article is shockingly similar to someone I knew several years. That person had a psychotic breakdown at work and accosted our CEO (physically and verbally). He too worked long hours and was considered a productive employee. Though no one cracked the whip on him, I'm sure the stress was a trigger.

Luckily for him, he was in a good enough place to find help and take a step back to recover. Employees at my company kept in contact with him and talked with him frequently. Eventually he found another position and is thriving. I hope the worker in the article gets the same sort of support and isn't stigmatized by his actions.
At first I thought it was a joke from Google. Something like: "No you don't want to use bing, here is google."
Bitcoin, Energy, And The Future Of Money
I found South Africa to have a far easier banking system. When I first moved to the UK, I found their banking system very antiquated compared to what I was used to.

That was some time ago, so things are likely better in the UK since then. Hard to tell as I am part of the system and haven't got anything to compare it to now.
Secure Coding in C and C++: An Interview with Robert Seacord
I am not afraid of losing attention. I have a healthy respect for the very real danger that comes from negative attention. There is nothing neurotic about that. I have a medical condition which makes a normal job a big problem for me. My best bet for success is via the internet. Traffic is necessary to make money. That is a simple objective reality having nothing to do with my feelings, personal baggage, yadda.
As a cyborg (semi-mechanical computer-controlled heart) I don't like where "guilt by association" usually takes these "Stop The Identifiably Different People" memes.

Yes, the consternation has an understandable factor. It's technology whose time has come, so society must get used to it and work out suitable applicable ethics & protocols. Wasn't long ago when nobody was broadband-networked 24/7 with instant video connection and chatting with friends everywhere all the time, and the looming prospects of it happening garnered lots of "I'd never do that and would hate anyone who did", leading to some ugly incidents. A movement for responsible & considerate integration of 24/7 augmented reality into society? yes. "Stop The Cyborgs"? let's stay away from burning-at-the-stake terms, please.
Try asking on http://www.reddit.com/r/linguistics/ -- those guys are pretty sharp about this kind of thing. (Assuming that reddit isn't down due to DOS attack.)
Earlier this week it only took me less than a business day to add a custom chat window to my site using Firebase. You might consider checking that out.

It was a global chat, not one with friend lists and private messaging, but the API is pretty easy so I'm sure you could do what you want with a little work.
The only thing I let count is the mind-body-dualism.

Since our mind is basically the "physical" wiring of our braincells, the brain is more like a FPGA so the mind IS the brain.
What's shocking to me about this twisted story so far is the seeming brazenness of the suspects, robbing a 7/11, moving openly through several neighborhoods, and most crazily, one
"got back into the S.U.V., turned it toward officers and 'put the pedal to the metal.' The car 'went right through the cops, broke right through and continued west.'”
"I checked my e-mail, and saw that I had received a reply from Carmen Reinhart," he says. "She said she didn't have time to look into my query, but that here was the data, and I should feel free to publish whatever results I found."

Last time that'll happen for a while.
Sounds like something you could license to companies to use as a lead generation tool - like HubSpot's Marketing Grader http://marketing.grader.com/
I took the "malicious" as being "severe" so didn't really find the wording redundant.
And in end...it was exactly who they thought it was.
The first employees do not take nearly as much as risk as founders. Yeah you might lose your job if the company fails, but at least you were hired and got a salary from day one, you didn't have to work for a year or more on no salary and not knowing whether you would be able to raise money to even hire that first employee.

The one thing You Truly Cannot Afford at work is low social status.

If you're a founder, raise a seed round, but fail, you can still say, "People gave me $1 million to follow my dreams, bitch", and explain your failure as the sudden entrance of a massive competitor (e.g. Google) into your space. People will understand and not see it is your fault. The social status that comes with having raised money (other people thought you were impressive) moves you along to a job as a Lead SWE, Product Manager, or real executive.

The company failing isn't the worst thing that can happen to you as a startup employee. If you get fired after 3 months with no severance and no reference, you are fucked because no one wants to hire someone who got fired from a dogshit startup. You are actually better off making the company fail (if you can) at that point.
Ask HN: How to assemble a Development Team to build-out my (SaaS) project?
I have my big idea, but I need help. I'm a decent coder, I coded my company's web-based accounting system & HR management platform...but it took me three years to complete. My big idea would be 2-3 times the size of that system and consist of several sub-systems. I've modeled the system structure, I know I need help to roll it out with any speed. I looked into applying to YC, but I'm a single founder & I'm a father in Florida with a 2 month old and a 2 year old, I can't move to the Bay Area for any significant amount of time.

I've hired freelancers over the years, never with great results (which is why I started learning to code in the first place). I figure I need a team of 2 to 4 developers and an experienced project manager. I don't have the deepest pockets. Which leads me to my questions:

- How do I build a development team?

- What are my expected personnel costs? Are there good developers to be had on a per project pay basis (assuming yes, where do I find them)?

- What would be an appealing pay offer/scheme(s) for good developers?

BTW - PHP is the language I know best and my current system is built on Joomla.
Thanks. My past has a variety of influences, including abuse and medical impairment. I have addressed quite a lot of my personal issues. Getting this back to the topic of body language, for me, I think eye contact was a big factor. I wrote about that here:

http://www.novemberwest.com/blog/2011/07/17/an-invisible-shi...
I can't comment on the whole situation, since I live outside of the USA, but I can give you some advice about Problem #1.

There are great books by David Burns: "Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy" and "When Panic Attacks". Both are available at amazon kindle: http://amzn.com/0380810336 and http://amzn.com/076792083X
The "Feeling Good" book is focused primarily on depression issues and "When Panic Attacs" (as its name suggest) on various anxiety disorder. I suggest to read them both. They are really helpful, but not just because of their content(which is good), but because they present of number techniques from Cognitive-Behavioural Therapy, which you can apply on yourself. But please note that reading the book and using these methodics is order of magnitude more effective than just reading the book and internalizing its contents.

Also, can you please elaborate on your issue with finding a therapist? Can you just go to a therapy session? Or you can't because you have to overcome strong anxiety first? If you are able to come and see a therapist(being able to manage your anxiety if you have any), then find a good CBT therapist and do come see her of him. Therapists are trained to deal with people who have all sorts of issues, even such serious as yours.
Well, it doesn't seems that "rough" to me, because content of GROUP BY and HAVING sections is determined automatically and there is no need to manually join tables
12 miles of Cat5 cable is $10,000.

Cheaper than moving.

:-P
Processors, issuers, and banks don't do fraud management for the merchant by default (though some banks may do it for the card holder). They _can_ do _some_ fraud management for merchants, but it costs an arm-and-a-leg.