skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This, from all the other YC W13 companies, was the one that made my head tilt as I thought "huh... that's a ridiculously cool idea." It has a really fun element to it as far as business ideas go.

Congrats to the founders!
chopsticks??wooww!
On Losing A Mentor
The fact of the matter is that OP shouldn't have to deal with any of that. No matter how much an inconvenience, it's still an inconvenience.
Alternatively, don't use the bricks for 20-30 years and they will fail within a dozen assemblies. Plastic loses its elasticity so the older bricks just crack when are forced to connect.

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(edit) "Plastic" = "plastic used in Lego bricks that were included in Lego Space sets sold in the early 80s in Japan."
Quite. I like the company and their servers are good - but we need a detailed response, and we need one now.
That's what Stripe do.
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Sorry but if you're going to downvote me at least do the courtesy of explaining why. I have been polite and constructive.

I thought whether you agreed with a comment or found it to your own liking was supposed to be orthogonal.
That compliance web form I absentmindedly clicked through sure had a lot of buttons.
On average I think (hope?) we do. But be careful about bringing a knife to a gun fight.
Are advertisers struggling to monetize mobile ads because they don't realize iOS is blocking their third-party cookies?
Is this why Linode doubled the RAM? To bribe us and make us stay. I'm pretty pissed off about this and will be exploring other options. I'm not pissed off they got hacked, I'm pissed off they are hiding and not being forth coming about it. A simple, "We fucked up, we are going to take steps 1, 2 3 to fix it and reduce the likely hood of this ever happening again" will make me happy. I understand that any server can be hacked. I'm stunned that they are storing CC details on the servers, there are ways to go about this without storing them if you want recurring billing.
-The author claims that criticism is misguided, because we don't know the ratio of men to women who pitched or work in the industry.

-The author doesn't seem to know either.

-Insofar as criticism of conference excluding women is uninformed, the defense that the author provides is equally uninformed.

If there are fewer women speaking, applying to speak, or in the industry as a whole, there's a reason why. It seems to me we should spend less time going back and forth with vague abstractions, and more time looking for the underlying cause. Anything else is just cheap uninformed opinion. In this case, it's probably just linkbait.
That may explains the seclist hack too...
http://seclists.org/nmap-dev/2013/q2/3
Long live shtatics!
This is fairly well known phenomena amongst professional wrestlers. There are even t-shirts made that joke about it.

Not sure the exact reason, maybe something to do with the brain turning off pleasure / pain receptors? Achieving an orgasm will sometimes just not happen unless you exert a huge amount of focus and concentration.

I had done some informal surveys with people who take the same sort of pounding on their bodies: stunt people, professional football and hockey players, UFC fighters. But none have admitted to having the same issue.
Looks like the original stats (38% of US workforce employed by large businesses, 53% by small) were pulled from Wikipedia, which then refers to SBA.gov

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_the_United_States#Em...
That is not the way to handle this issue. I've found my one problem with Linode is they are arrogant. It comes off pretty strong if you ever ask them questions in chat.
Hit The Switches - distributed feature flags
There's URLs in the leak that could never have been guessed, like http://www.linode.com/y_key_57284cb2de704e02.html (mentioned by Tomdarkness above).
I suspect that if the web were less ad-oriented, native software would experience a boon, which I think would have a number of interesting and positive effects on the developer/programmer/hacker community.
Pre-cognitive communication and data visualization (does this make sense?)
http://evolvingtrends.wordpress.com/2013/04/15/dancing-with-data/

Does this make sense to anyone other than myself?

I doubt it, but here is to giving it shot!
But you still might need to consider data residency issues and making your customers aware of where their data is being stored.
Unfortunately modularity goes against the interests of companies producing gadgets. They'd rather have you buy a full upgrade every 2 years than just change a few components once in a while.
There's also a market opportunity for "career incubators" that train people relevant skills, like that one organization in S.F. that was training Rails developers from the ground up.
^ He was surprised to see his punny domain name here in the comments.

Well done~
How to Master the Art of Networking and Build Meaningful Relationships
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the word is dystopian
Even better to use someone that isn't your payment processor, so that should you need to change payment processors you don't also have to re-acquire all the billing info from your customers. You can use Stripe today, PayPal tomorrow, and Braintree the next if that's what works best for your business.

Card vaulting as a service: https://spreedly.com/ ($10/mo for up to 5000 cards)
There's a very fine line on hiring salespeople. It is great to have super confident people. It's ruin to have bullies who over-promise to hit quotas. There is a fine line as you need the former to stay in business and grow, but the latter is a cancer.
I mean, I know all that I'm in, but I can definitely see myself missing one or two if asked on the spot to recall all of them. Phone, cable, AWS, gym, power, garbage/etc, insurance,... I'm sure there are one or two others. Even if there aren't, I'd feel compelled to go through everything to make sure there aren't more.

Even just dealing with all of those is going to be a pain in the ass though. I'd probably end up spending hours all together just on hold with some of those people.

Edit: Netflix. I forgot Netflix.
I think that's the joke. "Our Mission", then a whole lot of nothing. So, they have no mission.
I'm also a 29 year old childless white man working in the games industry and yes, the numbers and discussion surrounding the demographics of games workers are accurate. The problem is, it doesn't prove the premise made in the article.

The argument being made is that game are bland and homogenous because they're made by childless white men. The childless white men the article is talking about aren't actually making the decisions about anything that goes into the game. They are assembly line workers, not management. You could replace them all with an outsourced team from India or hire an all female team and the only thing that would change is the bug count and level of productivity.

The end product would remain the same because it's being driven by executives.
>>There is another side of this that the article doesn't touch on: home ownership.

Oh boy. There's so much I can say about this topic, and none of it is positive.

Basically, the way our culture mindlessly promotes home ownership is insane. Absolutely insane!

Every time I hear people complaining about "throwing away money" by renting, and how they would rather put that money into a house, I want to hold them by the shoulders and shake them violently. It's like the housing market crash did not teach anyone anything!

It comes down to this: a house is a terrible, terrible means of investment. It's a fixed asset that, contrary to popular belief, is not guaranteed to always go up in value. In addition, people don't really take into account the negatives. Primarily, a house ties you down. You have zero mobility as a labor market participant if you own a house, and this significantly reduces your leveraging power when it comes to negotiating salary. Besides that though, houses have a ton of expenses, and as fixed assets they are subject to a lot of uncontrollable risk (fire, floods, earthquakes, the neighborhood depreciating, etc.).

Instead of having that money tied down on a house, people are much better investing in the stock market, which has, over the past 100 years, gone up by 7% annually.

The only time a house makes sense is when raising kids. The stability of the environment has a lot of positive benefits for their growth. It also makes social integration easier.

/rant
There is another side of this that the article doesn't touch on: home ownership.

10+ years ago I remember reading a study in Europe that showed the rate of unemployment was directly proportional to the rate of home ownership across the entire EU with a very high correlation. Spain had the highest rate of home ownership and unemployment. Britain (then) had the lowest for both.

We push home ownership as a political agenda. While it has benefits for creating stable communities it also creates an inflexible labour market as people won't move to where the jobs are.

Beyond just the correlation with unemployment, it also results in the FIRE sector wielding far too much power over your economy and politics. When political effort goes into bolstering the stability of real-estate to keep all the homeowners afloat, that's the real-estate brokers, the landlords, the banks, and the insurance companies getting the boost.
Taiwan probes Samsung 'dirty tricks' vs HTC'
Project Gasbuggy (Nuclear fracking)
That was such a fun read. I have wondered about this but never tried it.

Strangely perhaps some Legos from my childhood still snap well (and they are like 40+ yrs old). Kinda makes you want to figure out how the formula changed over time.
"This request may not be serviced in the Roman Province of Judea due to the Lex Julia Majestatis, which disallows access to resources hosted on servers deemed to be operated by the People's Front of Judea."

Ave Caesar, moritURI te salutant
Less advertisers ? Good riddance.
We Americans suffer from flag inflation. We mostly don't even notice them anymore, so people have to put bigger and bigger flags to prove how patriotic they are. I was at a baseball game last weekend and only noticed midway through how many (and how obnoxiously prominent) the flags were. It's silly.

OTOH, many immigrants fly the flags of their home countries, I guess as a sort of badge of identity. For whatever reason, that's always seemed less ridiculous to me.
I checked mine and nothing untoward has taken place. All the same, I put it on hold. Everyone should assume their CC is compromised.
Not to mention that yes, cookies tell a website you're a repeat visitor, but that'd definitely be a first-party cookie, not a nonvisited third-party one.
The word itself is neither as basic nor well-understood as you claim. Even the very Wikipedia definition you link is too vague to be useful. To give a pertinent example, what does it mean to be treated "in a way that is worse than the way people are usually treated"? Is it necessary for someone to be treated differently from others to be treated worse, or is it possible for identical actions to be "worse" for one person than for another? If the latter case is true, then who ought to decide what constitutes "worse," and on what grounds? Is it possible for this arbiter to come to an unreasonable conclusion, and what happens then?

The questions I asked in that last paragraph are not empty rhetoric. Their answers have major ramifications for current debates: I chose these particular questions because they basically define the different sides of the Adria Richards case. Yet each side treats its answers as self-evident and takes that self-evidence as entitlement to act unilaterally, pushing their definitions onto others rather than attempting to achieve consensus. Is it any wonder that things get so heated in such an environment? I'm no more immune to it than anyone else.
A house is a very useful durable good. Like automobiles and refrigerators.
I'm on Chrome beta (27) on Mac and I also could not get nav to the next page to work. (It does work at the bottom of the final page.) I had to edit the freaking URL by hand, on a guess that the article was truncated.
I fail to understand how blocking cookies on websites you have never visited before is harmful to "innovation", "education", "entertainment", "entrepreneurship", and "millions of consumers". Cookies exist as a mechanism for websites to store data. They're used to keep you logged into your Facebook, Google, Twitter accounts. They've have gotten bad reputation over the years due to the ability for arbitrary websites to set them as tracking information. Mozilla's decision here helps retain the original purpose of cookies. Sites you have never visited before have no business leaving session data on your computer. It is just illogical.

Additionally, blocking arbitrary cookies doesn't hinder advertising at all. Nothing in iab's entire letter even made the slightest bit of sense. The entire thing is filled with awkward phrases and confusing reasons that don't tie together. It wouldn't be a stretch to say the entire thing is written to confuse the reader. I'm disappointing this is on the front page. :(
What are they supppose to say?

Looks like someone who likes attention on some random IRC channel who is apparently a hacker may have hacked our system and we don't know who/when/where/why/how or what they may have got. Nor are we sure we were even hacked???

It takes time for people to investigate stuff. It's not just a couple hours. Also some random guys words on IRC (who could very well own INSERT RANDOM HOSTING COMPANY for all we know and looking to scare people off Linode) should be taken with a grain of salt.
I'm pretty sure that depends on who issued your card.

Visa has a zero liability program for debit card - http://usa.visa.com/personal/security/visa_security_program/...

These are the FTC's rules [1], I'm not sure if Visa or Mastercard can make them 'better' (give you a larger window). They have an interesting tidbit below their chart -

>If someone makes unauthorized transactions with your debit card number, but your card is not lost, you are not liable for those transactions if you report them within 60 days of your statement being sent to you.

Isn't it free to get a new card? That'd be the easier way than worrying.

[1] http://www.consumer.ftc.gov/articles/0213-lost-or-stolen-cre...
> I don't see Python as being cleaner than CoffeeScript. CS is very similar but with less punctuation. How do you figure that one?

It's more semantics than syntax, although CS's syntax is sufficiently complex and nonredundant that the compiler sometimes reports syntax errors in confusing places, or worse, finds a way to interpret them as something I didn't want them to mean. But syntax can suck my dick. It's nothing more than a constant factor. It's more things like:

* No iteration protocol.

* The built-in dictionary type only allows string keys.

* The built-in dictionary type has magical keys like "constructor" by default.

* [0..4] includes 4. The correct thing, [0...4], has a longer spelling.

* [0...i] has i items, except when i is negative, in which case it has -i items. (To be fair, Python has a similarly screwed-up special case in its array indexing.)

* No built-in lexicographical comparison of arbitrary sequences.

* No comparison protocol.

* String conversion of aggregates is brain-dead. '' + [0...4] == '' + [[0...4]].

* It inherits JS's incorrect closure of this; { x: (=> (=> @top)), top: 5 }.x()() isn't 5.

> using the async module? You don't always have to do continuation passing

I haven't tried using the async module, but you got my hopes up. No dice, though. All of its functions take a continuation as their last argument!

There's a lot to be said for straightforwardness, but Twisted's non-straightforwardness justifies itself by nuking boilerplate.
In tech itself, open source organizations should make a push to hire long-term unemployed developers. Promise to give them recommendations and references if they do a good job during the interim.

The downside is the long-term unemployment problem is probably not as significant in software, compared to other industries.
I believe that to be a coincidence. They have been performing upgrades for a while now. (Increased hard drive space, increased CPU, and finally increased ram.)

I think it was just an unfortunately timed third phase of their upgrade plan.
PumbleDB is the NOSQL Key-Value server for Node.js
Exactly.

By the way this is one of the things I tell people about dating as well.

You have more chance going to a bar to find a date (where some could be put off by your approach - I mean who cares you only need one person!) then you have sitting at your house expecting someone will knock on your door or come falling through the roof!

Also as is true with any situation where you are only looking for one taker (dating, jobs) as opposed to multiple takers (making sales every day of the same product (encyclopedias?)) you can afford to put much more effort in because it's not something you are going to have to repeat every day. So if it takes 4 weeks of cold calling and you get a job it's a solution to a problem.
There are many terrible reviews of Geek Squad online mostly in the form of reddit threads and the like. Like most issues related to services like this I suspect the people who have had bad experiences with Geek Squad are very loud but they aren't large enough in number to represent the average case.
I've noticed the same thing for almost every tech-related subreddit, especially /r/startups and /r/programming. A consistent 2-3 day lag.
> I don't think they mean to suggest that all users "enjoy" advertising,

I don't think so either :-) I was merely poking fun at the way they co-opted the entire Internet in an attempt to make Mozilla seem like they are on the wrong side of the issue.

They would be more genuine if they wrote an open letter to the Internet instructing how to re-enable third-party cookies in Mozilla and why they are good (according to the IAB).
Within my own social network of people I personally know or have met.

- someone got killed in a horrible car accident (friend)
- two people died from cancer, leaving much grieving behind (aunt, mother of sister's friend)
- someone lost all their money in a scam (friend)
- someone got killed by a never-to-be-found hit-and-run drunk driver (friend)
- someone will beat a woman (neighbor)
- someone got be murdered (someone i've met at a bar)
- my favorite teams lost (three of them, NFL, NBA, NCAA)

All in the last 6 months, and I don't know that many people.
IMO, people just don't see the increase in performance to be worth the increase in price.

Now, something like the Sony MDR-7506 has an excellent performance-vs-price ratio, but many people want to stuff their headphones in their pocket when they aren't using them, and it is hard to find the same performance-vs-price ratio for earbuds.

Personally, I'm at roughly the same spot as you. I have a DAC and amp, and two pairs of nice Senns.
Depends on what part of the chain you are. Most gateways/processors offer some sort of token that the end user uses.

You then put your trust in the gateway/processor to store the credit card. Which I assume is most likely behind the best possible security stuff money can afford. Since that's their entire business. One screw up and their gone.
It's funny you mention automobiles, because nobody buys automobiles as a means of investment (since they lose a ton of value quickly).

As a useful durable good, sure houses have value, but renting accomplishes the same purpose (of giving you a place to live).
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Compounding this problem are the facts that in many, and I would argue, most, US cities, renting is expensive, the there is a social stigma against renters, and the rental properties available are very undesirable.
About 13 years ago, I was unemployed for about four months.

I've had a few people positively grill me about that blank despite the length of time that has passed and evidence that I didn't spend the time idle (Obtained a certification, did freelance work and eventually pivoted my career).

In each case, it was an older person who upon my asking explained that they saw any extended period of unemployment as blatant laziness.

I ended up getting those jobs, but came to learn a bit about how some people can come to think of life as so straightforward and easy.

In each case the people judging me hadn't had to look for work for at least 20 years. In one, the person judging was the son of a prior VP who was widely despised by his peers for having made a nepotistic ascent through the ranks. In another I ended up seated at a desk next to the son of the judging CTO.
It works without problems in Chromium, on that same system.
I've now heard from a number of people using Linode that have suspicious activities on the cc which they used with Linode.

I just called up my bank to tell them to 'block' it as a precaution (I will now have to give them a visit later today to get a new card). I encourage all other Linode customers to do the same, because it'll be easier to just spend half an hour doing this instead of spending hours upon hours disputing specific transactions.

Linode customer support keeps saying they have "no comment" on this issue (which I suppose does make sense -- I'm assuming they've been ordered by law enforcement persons to not share details), so as we're not being given much information to work with... just treat this as a worst-case scenario (all names, addresses, credit card numbers, etc. have been compromised). Do operate now with the assumption that all of this data has been compromised and may very well be public soon.
Ach, this is terrible. Genome size is influenced by a number of factors, including:

- Generation length (faster-reproducing organisms tend to have smaller genomes)

- Transposons (sections of DNA that use cellular machinery to copy themselves to multiple places in the genome; they're usually viruses that got incorporated into the host germline some time in the past)

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.

The worst part is that they take genome size sampled in the present day across multiple organisms, and then they assume that some of those present-day genomes represent genomes from particular points in the past. So the x-axis in the regression is basically a guess.

I'm not a statistician, but I imagine that fitting an exponential distribution can make the x-intercept sensitive to data errors.
I'd say support tickets or posting on their forum[1] may help try to get a response. But based one one of the support ticket responses posted in the comments in this HN story already, it sounds like Linode isn't allowed to release that kind of information yet. They may be waiting on the police and/or their lawyers to allow them to talk publicly about it. And if that isn't the gating factor, they are probably trying to determine what they are required and should share about the incident.

[1] http://forum.linode.com/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=9978
You should talk to your bank as it depends on the network your bank uses. Most of the time it's something like a 48 hour window to challenge charges but it's far less at some banks.
You mean to tell me evolution isn't about "progress"? ;-)
Logically, they couldn't have planned it all in such a short period of time. However if they did, from a business perspective it is very good plan. Without the upgrade, today some customers would have had two reasons to leave Linode, now they only have one.
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