skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree. You asked "How do you get work done in meetings" and implied it was impossible. I argue that just because there is no work accomplished in your meetings or most meetings doesn't mean that no work can be done in meetings. No one anywhere is suggesting that valuable work is accomplished in all meetings. But when you suggest that no work is accomplished in any meeting, you're wrong.

I'm sorry you've had such a bad experience with meetings; it must be common or the stereotype wouldn't exist. My workplace is different. Since my most valuable work is accomplished in meetings, I wish I could be in meetings all of the time. The only reason I can't is because we frequently need long breaks to implement the work we did in the meetings. In fact, coding is a much heavier cost than meetings; unnecessary coding is much worse than unnecessary meetings and you want to avoid unnecessary coding at all costs (even though it's usually still quite fun). Just because you develop software doesn't mean you should spend as much time as possible writing code. Just because you produce code at work doesn't mean you're only working when you're coding.
It's awesome to see companies that came out of the startup scene in Cincinnati doing so well.
its a recursion! the forum points back to here
> Everything below the big tree line in the middle of the picture is Microsoft's campus. Note that it's not even the whole thing. The campus is huge and extends outside of the picture in every direction but north.

Thanks for the background! Where did you get this information (it sounds like you're already intimately familiar with it)? The caption on the image certainly doesn't convey it. IMO one shouldn't have to go to the comments section of an unrelated news site to learn the significance of a photo on your website.

I wouldn't be railing against it if it actually contributed to the article as supporting evidence (e.g. visual aide), such as if it was implemented with some sort of informational overlay, or if it was presented as a flat map (like the default Google Maps view) with labelled structures, zones, etc.

But it's not; it's just a photo lacking context.
So... you're saying that a tech startup does not have to contend with existing infrastructures? Do I have that correct?
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How many campuses have you seen, that are covered in that much concrete?

While greenery is great, I'd rather be able to walk to a proper park than have it in the form of a glorified berm between parking lots.
This is fun!
I took the boys average weight data given in [1]

months from conception,	average weight (kilos)

(9,	3.25)

(15,	7.5)

(21,	9.97)

(33,	12.88)

(45,	14.97)

(69,	18.97)

and saw that it really looks like a logarithmic function. So, fitted y to log(x), got y~7.4685*log(x)-13, with R^2=0.9965 (thank you R!). Extrapolated back, and found that at conception, the fetus weighs -inf kilos. Not surprising result, I must say. However, I was surprised to find that only after five months of gestation, the embryo reaches the critical mass of 0 kilos.
Science!

[1] http://www.buzzle.com/articles/average-weight-for-children-b...
Yes, the free parking is the big appeal for users, not the money they could make if their car is rented out.
Generally these days they are, but the problem is the money is removed is from your account by the time the charge appears, (at least a period of time), whereas on a credit card you have 30 days to review charges. This could cause overdrafts, etc. depending on timing and amount. Those too can generally be reversed, but the whole thing becomes more of a headache. I never use debit cards for any kind of recurring charges, and I avoid using them online in general.
There's baseless speculation and then there's I have some information speculation. I'm operating on heuristics which rely on information that is handily available. Yes, in the end you're right, I'm just speculating. But hey, it's better to err on the side of caution.
I have two accounts with them, one for my day job and one through my LLC. Right now neither card is showing unusual charges.

My day job had some Google Apps account compromises last month, and this is making me paranoid that the database that contained hashed/salted passwords for our Intranet hosted on Linode was the culprit. The time frame doesn't seem to line up, but we didn't see any evidence of phishing or compromised desktops being involved.

(Don't want to spread fear - I haven't been able to find any evidence our Linodes were compromised either.)

I'm normally huge a Linode evangelist, but I'm severely disappointed with the lack of transparency on this. I'm debating right now whether to rebuild all our nodes from scratch as I'm not sure they can be trusted.
A search on flightcar shows results allowing 90 miles/day. At $28/day ($10+$18 in parking savings), thats $.31/mile. At $18/day ($10+$8 parking) thats $.20/mile. This is probably the worst case. Most people wont drive 90 miles everyday.

The federal reimbursment rate is $.55/mile. You have to pull gas reimbursment out of that because like normal rental cars (I assume) flightcar renters pay for their own gas.

A conservative estimate based on 20 miles/gallon and $4/gallon is $.20/mile in gas cost. Each mile the renter drives using your vehicle thus costs you $.35 in wear and tear and depreciation.

An alternative data point would be car lease mileage overage fees. They are commonly $.15-$.25/mile and are supposed to represent the extra depreciation of the vehicle.

So its in the right neighborhood of value to the car owner but probably doesnt represent much profit and may not be worth the hassle.
Interesting reading. I have always loved music, pretty much anything. I just wonder if our genetics and DNA plays a large part in this. I often observe my little daughter's reaction to music, and its truly amazing to see how she will spontaneously smile and dance when a really good piece of music comes on. First time I really noticed big time was when the opening bars of Bruce Hornsby's "The way it is" came on the radio, she just loved it :-)

I wonder if we all get beginners templates of what we will like via our gene pool :-)
You don't only have 2 choices. People save because its a better decision than spending at that given point in time. I have a consulting company. I save all of my profits so I can start a company that could conceivably create far more value than consulting at some point in the future. Should I be forced to spend all of my money as quickly as it comes in? Would it be better if I spend that money paying people to be live human sculptures in my front yard than to save it and spend it hiring programmers to create the next great thing when the time is right?

Also comparing Bitcoin to a mature market is ridiculous. There is so much volatility due to the huge amount of uncertainty surrounding it and the huge potential upside. In 5 or 10 years it's perceived value is unlikely to have much volatility. Once we know what it works well for and what it doesn't work well for, its value will be understood and its purchasing power will be predictable. Prices in BTC will likely fluctuate very little but steadily drop due to deflationary pressures.
>Steve Roach

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They made a mistake. They'll learn from it, hopefully (among other things) by ensuring no customer credit card details ever hit their servers ever again.
The audits are toothless and ultimately the audit only happens once (if ever) and people keeping pub/secret key in the same place unprotected... well.... They're just unlikely to get security at all...
Indeed. I'm Asian. There's a lot of Asian men in tech. I don't see many Asian men on speaking panels. And I don't really care.
Fallacy of the excluded middle. Just because quotas are a wrong solution doesn't mean the problem doesn't exist.

A tech conference that ends up with 95% male speakers is Doing Something Wrong. They have no right to be "happy with their process".

One of the "correct" solutions has already been discussed in many places - use a name-blinded review process, and make sure your CFP outreach activities include women-intensive groups.
This might motivate you to keep trying: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BI23U7U2aUY
What Ira Glass says is, that you get into something because you really like it and you have good taste. But for years, or decades, you're work will not be good enough to satisfy your good taste. Eventually though, this taste is what allows you to produce high quality work. But, you have to keep trying.
The main appeal for users is actually the free parking. Long term parking at SFO is $18/day.
Soundcloud + rdio are much better than grooveshark now. I can barely use grooveshark. I think it's dying.
The service is not the problem, hiding what happened and the continued silence on these accusations is.

This is not a mistake/technical issue, it's becoming an ethics/service one.
I'm still hesitant to buy in to the idea because I'm just a fundamentally skeptical person when it comes to letting other people use very personal things like cars as opposed to apartments. Cars have a "feel" to them that many people notice is different after they get used extensively by others. But maybe that's just me.

BUT - I have to admit - there's a kernel here that think makes this different from RelayRides, etc. And that's that unlike the other companies where they "suggest" that the user return the car washed, FlightCar is actually doing the post-rental clean-up themselves, and that makes a difference. I don't like the idea of coming back to a used, possible dirty car sitting in my garage (i.e. w/ RelayRides), but if I'm coming back to a parking lot where I know the car has been professionally washed and inspected, my peace of mind is greater.

I'm still not interested in using the service, but again that's just me (I'm an anal car nerd), and that certainly doesn't mean others won't use it extensively.

Good luck guys! Love seeing awesome car-related businesses take off.
Then why not say that?
Regarding the "made a deal" assertion, I wouldn't take the IRC log hook-line-and-sinker. There's probably a mixture of truth and lies.
Obligatory obvious question: What is a 3rd party cookie?
Seems like it usually takes an event like this for a company to really crack down on their security practices. I would wager that Linode will be one of the most secure providers in the coming months. Whether or not people will trust them is another story.
Holy cow!.
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If it's not a meritocracy for the most important 18 years of a person's life, can you really call it a meritocracy?
Not exactly worthless, depending on the hack someone could still charge an awful lot to your customers and make you have a bad day.

But yes, significantly better than other situations.
Many times the user is interested in what "ad-supported small businesses" and "small publishers" (or even ad-supported big business and publishers) have to offer, so if those can't keep themselves running, there's a chance that the user will not be happy.

Besides disabling cookies doesn't mean blocking ads, so if the lack of tracking makes ads less attractive, other (possibly more intrusive) techniques must be used. I, for one, surely wouldn't want that.

That said, I think IAB has a very reasonable point there.
Nope. It's probably not the smartest thing to call your tech. Those who know what it is will know, everyone else will think MRI (magnetic).

I think a good guideline for choosing an acronym is how many hits it already has on google. MRI: 73,800,000
>The "true" list at the end, like a Hollywood ending, was probably not necessary.

I sometimes think that, being of an inherently analytical bent, engineers tend to underestimate the inability of others to add facts and observations together into a coherent truth.

As I read the original list, although I saw it clearly for what it was, I felt my blood pressure rise. It fairly accurately describes the apparent attitudes of some senior managers I have suffered over the years.
> Genome size isn't anything like a direct measure of "complexity" or "development"; some plants have genome sizes that are orders of magnitude larger than the human genome.

What makes you think those plants aren't more genetically complex and developed than we are? A lot of our complexity is non-genetic.

> I'm not a statistician, but I imagine that fitting an exponential distribution can make the x-intercept sensitive to data errors.

You mean exponential growth, not an exponential distribution, and exponential growth never hits the x-axis.
yeah, and the performance is still on par with the Java code, so whoever submitted that SBCL optimized code to be showed alongside the Java and Scala examples ended up proving how well engineered the JVM is, compared to state of the art CL compilers, or maybe how efficent JIT can be in general :) ...though I'd love to see an ABCL example for comparison
In the real world our time matters, sadly wasting it is not something you can sue over.
I am an ex-customer of Linode and I'm still worried about this incident - Do they still store your card after you've quit the service? This is terrible :(
Isn't that just adding one more point of failure? I don't trust myself, I barely trust Stripe or Paypal, and I've not even heard of spreedly.
hellcow,

Would it be possible to map something larger than a room? I want to map a small courtyard in a park near my house
I'll take the money and work on my side projects. I do like to see them enforce it. If my side project is destructive and a crime are they likewise responsible?
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I just requested a new CC. Can never be too safe. Not sure I'm going to stick with Linode now... sucks because they seemed to be doing so many things right.
[Warning: imperfect analogy follows.] It's one thing if Linode is like someone who gets drunk and crashes their vehicle. That's 100% their fault and they've burned any goodwill. In this case, however, Linode is like someone who was carjacked. Perhaps Linode shouldn't have been driving that type of vehicle in an area known to have people attempting to carjack every single vehicle that drives by. Perhaps they should have installed thicker bullet-proof glass. Or even have taken measures not to trust any locks that the manufacturer insists are secure but have zero-day exploits. Regardless, Linode is still the victim of unscrupulous criminals. Maybe they could and should have done more but the bigger question is now that they've been carjacked, what are they doing to ensure that the carjackers haven't installed anything malicious that still remains in the vehicle?
They don't, protections are exactly the same.
I don't think they allow paypal as a payment method
If the information he offered is accurate (e.g. the public and private keys were stored together on the webserver), that wouldn't take a long time to confirm.
No. Customer sends Stripe their CC number, via AJAX in the browser. Acme, Inc. never has it even transiently. Stripe return a token to the browser, which is sent in a POST to Acme, Inc., then they verify it server side with a private API key.

Edit: yes Stripe has your number, but since their sole business is about securing that information, they probably do a better job of it than your typical online merchant.
Due process could be instated at the current location, or the detainees could be moved to another location and be treated exactly the same. The location is not the problem.
"I'm sure many people in 1491 thought that the Earth was flat, too."

You could look it up...
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An interesting side effect of this third-party cookie policy is that the online advertising industry will probably consolidate to the big name players like Google, Facebook, and Yahoo that have popular destination websites. So more personal information will be held in fewer hands. I hope it is easier for regulators to watch a few big players. Also, the big players (excluding Facebook?) are probably more well-behaved than the shady small-time ad networks.
Why? It is a major waste of time to insert it into all the places that I have used it and should it be abused, then I just dispute the charges.
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Awesome, I have noticed that this is the key. When it comes to doing something, most of us have the ability to focus once we know what needs to be doen and exactly how it needs to be done. The problem usually stems when we have to make choices on what to do and how, then we are paralyzed by all the possible choices. Love your answer.
this def. hit home with me.
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You misunderstand; it's not that we can't afford it, it's that you have to go through congress to get it in the first place.
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What? There's more than just one page?

I know MS is a favorite target, but this honestly looks like it was designed by an intern.

More importantly, it reads like a jewelry advertorial in an in-flight magazine.
There's always going to be single points of failure, but which is more likely: you want or have to change payment processors (you've been terminated, your fees have gone up, you want to switch to a lower cost provider) or you want to change flat-rate vaulting services? Plus, Spreedly will give you your data if you leave, whereas there is no way to get stored billing info out of most payment processors.
I'm really disappointed that the (clickbait?) tagline is about "disposable" hardware, when one might more positively look at the implications and impact of ubiqitous computing (sans disposable hardware). A $600 tablet device is a far different beast from a $60 or even a $6 tablet device. For example, how can a device improve when it's cheap for its sensors and UI to extend throughout a building (e.g. the Nest)?

A $600 mobile device is expensive enough that it's still "personal computing". The cheaper devices start to become "user interface of our environment".

Also, RIP Mark Weiser[1]. It's too bad he didn't live to see all this stuff coming to fruition.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Weiser
One thing that puzzles me is that rising house prices are treated as inherently good, and falling house prices are seen as inherently bad. But for most things, it's the exact opposite - rising prices are bad.

Is this just because newspaper articles are biased towards the perspective of real estate agents and homeowners? Or are high house prices good because houses are investments? Would cheap 3-d printed houses (hypothetically) make the country better off or worse off economically?
How common is this sort of stuff?
A cookie that is sent from a domain via a page hosted on a different domain.
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You should learn how to write and stop wasting everyone's time withs idiotic comments that look like they were written by a middle schooler.
Sigh, really? Ok, you typed your credit card number into a web browser at some point. If your sole reason for doing so was "I absolutely trust the people on the other end of this socket not to do what 99% of all people handling credit card data do whether they pretend otherwise or not", instead of something like "hmm that reminds me, I haven't scanned last month's statement yet", then the problem lies squarely with you, the uninformed consumer.

I will happily dismiss this breach, not because they didn't make some amateur crypto mistake, or because they weren't using freaking ColdFusion, or because they were storing data in some nice compartmentalized form, I reject because this happens every single day and has done for decades, and there is an entire sub-industry built around its after-effects. If you don't understand this you shouldn't own a credit card.

If you type a credit card number in online not expecting to recuperate any damage caused from your card company, call them up now for clarification or cancel the damn card. That's equivalent to stuffing cash in an envelope and posting it to Nigeria because some prince promises he'll keep it in a safe for you. It's 90% the reason you should be using credit cards in the first place. Think.

Linode should not be rubbished here. They've got one of the largest VPS installs around, so they most likely know their shit. They make an ultra-common CC mistake that has happened daily for almost 20 years now, by companies large and small, got pwned due to a bug in someone else's software, and you think I'm going to play along with the righteous indignation bullshit here? GTFO.

Let he without sin cast the first stone. Despite 20+ years' experience I still cannot cast that first stone. I make bullshit mistakes like this every day, and despite your grandiose delusions you probably do too.

As for whiners complaining about their data suddenly being insecure, well, data security 101: you're making the same bullshit mistake Linode are making, and despite that you're complaining about it. If you care about data security in the "cloud", hosting it on a freaking VPS is not the way to do things.
I'd rather be naked and unemployed than even have a boss's boss's boss.
The same is possible with a credit card - you can have your card maxed, get nailed with overage charges, declined transactions, etc. It's still a headache, but when I've had it happen to me I think I had the money restored within a few minutes of making the call.
Breivik was a zionist nut job, there are many others out there that fit that classification, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_Defense_League.

Similarly, Tim McVeigh was a militia nut job, there are many others like him out there, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aryan_Republican_Army

However, these are white people, so when they blow something up they are just "one lone crazy person".

When 19 brown people bring down a couple of trade towers, suddenly it becomes "totally different"?

To be consistent with your logic, the Clinton administration should have carpet bombed Elohim City and suspended human rights in Oklahoma, including keeping innocent people locked up without trial, until they got every last Klan nut/ Church nut/Gun nut out there.
People on Twitter, which of course is full of speculation, hint that it may be an attack.
I'd say..how about a directory of sorts, for people who've got ideas, and are looking for feedback, or other people to help build it?
Just a thought from the top of my head.
They did.

> We are unable to release any additional details regarding this incident at this time, as there is an ongoing investigation.
Do you think a name blinded review process would yield a different result? I've never run a tech conference but it would not surprise me if ~95% of submitted technical talks were from men.

If you name-blind the review process you would still expect to get 95% men unless there is a higher % of women submitting talks and being rejected because they are women.

The quoted article suggests doing the opposite of name-blinding and actively looking for female talks in the pile.
http://open.spotify.com/user/573v3n/playlist/4Fd7kTb26UIs7GY...
Oh, I really do believe you're correct - there's too much of a system in place which needs to justify itself and the people who put it in to place. I think you're very right with the 'many masters', I just wish we didn't have to be so cynical to be able to spot these sorts of things.