skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a simple coding test that asks you to write s program that prints Fizz, Buzz or FizzBuzz, usually depending on the multiple of some number. I.e. multiple of 3 print fizz, multiple of 5 print buzz, multiples of both 5 and 3 print fizzbuzz. Usually it will ask you to do this for numbers from 1 to 100, or something like that.

It's basically a way to weed out people who don't know how to write any code.
Something to keep in mind - Massachusetts has gun regulation laws.
Nazi Germany.
Will Tesla seek federal help to end its war with state car dealers?
The financial industry uses a lot of Excel too.
Quick eyeball of Wikipedia suggests there are five major cables out of Australia: Telstra Endeavour, Southern Cross, AJC and Pipe Pacific.

Telstra Endeavour is currently 80Gbps with capacity to 1.28Tbps (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telstra_Endeavour)

AJC is currently 240Gbps with capacity to 1000Gbps (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia%E2%80%93Japan_Cable), and probably tons from Japan to the US.

PPC-1 can deliver up to 3Tbps (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pipe_Pacific_Cable)

SXC has 800Gbps * 2 lit, with capacity up to 6Tbps * 2 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Cross_Cable)

There's also SEA-ME-WE and probably other smaller ones, but they are the main links out of Australia.
Having the private key of a trusted root CA lets you create leaf certificates (or intermediate CAs) that your computer will trust implicitly (because the root is trusted). This would allow someone to man-in-the-middle your connection to, say, gmail (with help of your ISP) and you would not be able to easily detect it.

Gibson Research Corporation created a page that shows the real signature for some common websites (and lets you check any site you want). You can then connect to them and view the signature in your browser and compare them. This is what you would have to do to know if you were being MITMed with a "real" certificate.

https://www.grc.com/fingerprints.htm
The article has been updated to clarify that this is merely speculative:

> Authorities would not comment on whether the events were connected to Monday’s Boston Marathon bombings. At least one of the suspects in Watertown appeared to be a man in his 20s.

However, the first paragraph still says basically what it said when you posted.

> One suspect in Monday’s Boston Marathon bombings has been captured
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Wow, my hyptohesis was correct, the events were related to each other.
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> It's a somewhat common stance from people who haven't worked in consumer web before to assume that these strategies are the result of arrogant people looking down and disrespecting their user base. The reality is that no one I know assigns any value judgment to any of these observations - but we will follow where the data leads us.

You can either target the high road, and the customer base (and margins) that come with that, or target just the data while aiming only for mass appeal. I've always worked for companies that target the high, but to each their own.
Yeah, CNN and NBC were reporting that they were remote detonators. Who knows with all the misinformation floating around the media.
Might have spoken too soon...
It does matter if the bomber is found and targeted by drone strikes. That is terrorism in itself and I see it as worse than being killed or injured by a random bombing. There is no recourse and nothing a victim or their family can do. The drone strike happens and no one who sympathises can do anything to help you.
How much extra would it cost to upgrade the FTTN to FTTH afterwards? Surely it's more efficient to do it once and do it right with fibre?

And I have my doubts about the copper reaching 100Mbps.
Technically not true. They have 21 days to charge you.
It is best to never say a word. This does not mean they will not charge you, they may, but more than likely they won't.
Opticomm or something similar?
Local news says that the suspect in custody is now dead.
This is why I'm eagerly waiting for Stripe to arrive in the UK (anyone have an ETA?) For some reason every company that has a service like this seems to feel the need to make you jump through a stupid amount of hoops. That wouldn't be that bad if they were completely incompetent at it. Take PayPal: My account was limited out of the blue. I provided them with all the information they needed. 3 weeks later they asked for more. Then after providing that they reopened my account. A further month later they closed it again and started asking for the same stuff.

I understand the financial industry is extremely locked down, but I was hoping itd be a little easier to accept payments now-a-days
Any more info or word on YC S13 interview results?
I'm very excited and anxious to hear back from YC. Anyone else still waiting? And has anyone been accepted yet?
I like the initiative.
But last time I checked, having people vote for your "viability" was one of the worse ways to assure viability :).
I find it interesting that the police would rather have Tor blocked at ISP's, which is not an easy thing to do, than find how to use it effectively to police those that abuse it. https://www.torproject.org/docs/bridges

Head in the sand mentality. Well, I better get my Tor installation updated.
I feel a bit filthy now after realizing my knowledge of named functions to M-x far outnumber the keybindings I've got down pat by a 10:1 ratio.

And yet I don't feel particularly encumbered. Call it a case of the customer only being able to think of a faster horse.
If you put your feelings on a spreadsheet and make charts out of it, you're gonna be a bad husband.
The emacs lisp tradition (or at least this is how I see it) splits functionality among files. As explained in the changes, there are files like ob-julia.el to work with the Julia programming language in Babel (literate proframming system in org) There is a file for language, for example. There's also the documentation and auxiliary files. I don't see where the problem is, org is huge but easily hackable due to this splitting
That's a nice enough idea, but how do I know I'm looking at the real grc.com? They use an SSL certificate from a US CA too.
The links in clickable form:

http://why.apps.hypeno.de

http://byte.bernsteinbear.com/why-the-lucky-stiff-is-back/
"On the loose" is a phrase I usually associate with "The killer, who gunned down 50 people on live TV is still armed and on the loose"

i.e. There is a known dangerous lunatic on the run who has immediate capacity to do more damage. Not sure it applies to someone who is just a suspect.

Unfortunate (or deliberate) phrasing?

[EDIT] Looks like I am confused as to whether the suspect was involved in a firefight or not, I thought that was related to the MIT bit.
The Fiat Emperor Has No Clothes
Maybe it's the fact that I spent my youth growing up around HAM radio and then did several years of EMS dispatching, but I much prefer listening to the scanner than the news. It can be chaotic at times, garbled at others, but if you're used to sorting it out, it's the best way to get accurate information.
Yes.

There is a serious problem with HN when stories like this get so many up-votes. This story is against the site guidelines. There isn't anything deeply interesting in the comments.
I don't believe Julian Assange's approach to Wikileaks-related issues has put him on the wrong side of the law. He is charged with rape, not with publishing what people sent him, AFAIK.
Its so unfortunate to hear things like this. I knew of a person who was so stressed out by programming in similar situations that he went through a complete career revamp. He changed to law school and went on to work in government. He seems happier.
Please link to the source for quotations like that (or cite it if it's not a webpage).
Danny Sullivan's Twitter list about Watertown
I'm not surprised. Over here in Malaysia, almost all banks still run a COBOL backend.
Isn't this ICA, independent component analysis ? This makes much more sense when trying to extract information from the combination of multiple variables independently of their unit type and scale.
This is my biggest fear for myself.
Indeed, I suspect in some cases it's advantageous to keep your head down, rather than be viewed as a challenger (and get to fight the ranking silverback).
Can you post a source please?
Christ. Got a link? What a mess.
Touché.

More accurately stated I suppose, I had previously thought I lived in a developed area.
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Sadly it is more common than people even think. Oddly enough it is always the ones that are most productive and I know from personal experience you can clear 200 tickets in a week and somebody doing the same job and paid more gets thru that in a year and you are the one being shafted as you spend your time doing the work instead of office politics.
> "One suspect in Monday’s Boston Marathon bombings has been captured, according to an official with knowledge of the investigation. Another remains on the loose in Watertown after a firefight with police."

> "an apparent carjacking led police on a wild chase into Watertown"

> "Authorities would not comment on whether the events were connected to Monday’s Boston Marathon bombings."

> "The FBI source said early Friday it is “too early to speculate” on a relation to the Marathon bombing."

Maybe I'm just terrible at reading between the lines, but this paints a fuzzy picture.

Both the headline and the opening paragraph basically state that this incident is related to the marathon bombing. However, the article then goes on to describe a carjacking as well as multiple "we-don't-know-for-sure" disclaimers.

While the presence of explosives certainly does significantly reduce the possibility of this being run of the mill urban crime, I guess I wish news outlets would temper themselves a little by not reporting speculation as fact.
Note that, for the moment, only the Globe is reporting a confirmed link to the Marathon bombing. Everyone else is saying too much chaos to know anything for sure.
Good reply.

The feet on the table did occur to me as one which I could have the wrong way around and while only "slightly wired to predict that feet are smelly or covered in dirt" may be true (seems unintuitive to me though), I think the perceived discrepancy is cultural as much as anything. I've noticed the ickyness of putting feet on tables is almost universally invisible to Americans, while in Japan it would seem completely unacceptable along with a whole host of other related customs, for example, the taking off of shoes and the special slippers to wear when you use the bathroom. Japanese ask me extensively about UK customs regarding shoes and feet, it's evidently considered a hygiene issue, much like their showering before bathing. In the UK the foot thing is probably a bit of both, varying from person to person, family to family. I was brought up such that I wouldn't ever consider putting my feet up on a table, even when completely alone in my own house. Our trains have signs telling you not to rest your feet on seats, I wonder if US trains do. What you say actually now reduces the offense that I would take if an American put their feet up in front of me. I would think "well for them this isn't considered gross, just a sign of relaxation that at worst is dominance behaviour" and I'd attempt to force myself not to be disgusted by it.
Uh, yeah. The "suspects" were throwing IEDs at the cops and spraying bullets back and forth with the police, turning Cambridge into Beirut. Read the article.
Chesterton is talking about social institutions and social change, not unconscious acts and biological evolution.

His principle doesn't apply at all here. He's asserting that every long-standing social institution very likely came to exist to serve some purpose, so if one says we should scrap institution X because it's useless, it's likely one is wrong. This has nothing to do with man's biological evolution. In fact we have a myriad of "bad features" (congenital diseases, disabilities, cancer) that have survived evolution.
It may be titled as such, but according to the article, he is not a marathon bombing suspect.

The article says, "Authorities would not comment on whether the events were connected to Monday’s Boston Marathon bombings" and "The FBI source said early Friday it is 'too early to speculate' on a relation to the Marathon bombing."
Wrong.

Neural networks are affinity invariant. You can rotate, skew, translate the input data however you want, the optimum stays the same. Same for SVMs.
MIT police officer killed during chase with alleged Marathon bombers
Well, you are watching.
Part 2:
http://www.dadhacker.com/blog/?p=1000
I'm starting to think I'd like to work for BigCo. Not to stay--but because it's very hard to be both an employee of a startup, while also bootstrapping your own startup. BigCo + bootstrapping seems much simpler.

But as far as I'm aware, from most BigCos' perspectives, I'm unemployable; autodidact [no CS degree] + living in Canada. So, I guess it's back to looking for a job at another startup while trying to eek out time on my own...
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Then there's also this in the same article:

> One suspect in Monday’s Boston Marathon bombings has been captured,
> according to an official with knowledge of the investigation.

So, who knows, really.
Nah, I think it's constant over time. Most people here are pretty goal-oriented.

Thank God for Reddit. If Reddit didn't exist as a contrast, this site would go down the drain.
Who cares it a fucking blog
Seriously, I can't help but think they are just trying to get clicks with this sensationalism. This article is a mess.
Secret I ofund out myself is do not mix what you like to do with what you are paid to do. If you like your job fine, but remember you are paid the same. Many many companies will not reward that extra mile and many performance reviews are completely insulting as everybody gets the same % in so many companies and the variation between poor peope and good is probably an extra .5% pay rise.

So unless you are working for yourself, then work to rule will keep you sane. Use your hindsight to plan holidays, if managment don't listern in a timely manner about a potentual problem then just plan that week off down the line and let them suffer - sadly it is the only way you can stay sane and they can pay for there mistakes. Its hard out there, don't make it harder on yourself.
This is the best I can find on short notice: https://twitter.com/7News/status/325134814200082432

But it doesn't jive with other images I've seen, where they had the man on the ground with guns pointed at him. So I'm doubting the veracity at this point.

Edit: It appears that the picture I saw was of someone who turned out to not be a suspect. Which would explain my confusion.
Your job is to produce surplus value for your employer in exchange for reduced risk and possibly to specialize into work you find interesting. (Machine Learning doesn't happen without division of labor.)

You do not owe your employer your sanity or anything above and beyond what's reasonable. (As decided by your personal satisfaction and the standards/mores of your culture.)

If you're seeking to put more into the pot so you can extract more later, save money and stash it in a mutual fund or start hustling for yourself. Employers are perfectly happy to ignore you for decades on end, if they even keep you around that long.

Don't pretend value will present itself to you just because you're putting in the hours. Like thinking you'll get a date just because you're a good person.

Edit:

Don't let employers/management guilt you into working more hours than they deserve from you.
Then choose the impotent veto and stand on the side of justice. I don't see that as a problem.
While O haven't played their games in particular, it is my experience that this business model (while apparently very profitable) produces horrible games.

The games will try hard to create an addiction, so the player keeps on playing, while making the actual gameplay as boring as possible to make the players buy gems/berries/coins to bypass the actual gameplay.

I have played some games like this, and I noticed how i would keep on playing the same boring parts (with some fun threwn in occasionally to keep m interest up) over and over in the hope of finally getting to the fun part. But it never came. It made me feel exploited and violated.
Ruby Epub parser library
Not to mention that games are very short-lived and there's an element to luck. What happens if they don't manage to regularly write another winner? Goldman Sachs will be there as long as corporations need financial services.
My understanding is that copper will be replaced with FTTP when it wears out. That spreads the cost over time while bringing forward the 25Mbps minimum service level forward by a few years.

There's no doubt that FTTP is the ultimate long term solution. But that doesn't mean it has to happen first.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/19/watertown-police-ch...
Given I can go to the masses of media over reporting this stuff, why is it here.
Call me a cynic, but I'm hardly surprised when cop killers don't exactly survive until trial.
Or, you know, a software engineer. Good software engineers, after all, value things like low coupling; composability is like a stronger version of low coupling. (That is, composable things are not tightly coupled but decoupled things are not necessarily composable.)
You could maybe add some gamification features to this service, for example check what http://feedbackroulette.com/ does. Nice start!
One other thing might be that outhouses were an American innovation[1], imported to other parts of the world later; and thus, of all rural-living subcultures (which are the usual source for a culture's hygenic mores/superstitions, being the most affected by them), rural Americans have had the longest to adapt to not worrying about getting shite on their feet. :)

[1] http://www.radiolab.org/2009/sep/07/sculptors-of-monumental-...
> The fun part is watching people actually try to control their body language in reality. You can try, but if you aren't feeling what that "power pose" is broadcasting, you'll just look like an idiot to anyone even remotely paying attention.

The article describes a scientific (?) experiment that goes counter that intuition.
my experience is that places that have the 10+ hour days are the ones where they think that only "slackers" would ask about the work schedule.

Places with sane hours think it's a reasonable question.
There's nothing amazing about Linode's pricing and absolutely not worth the security risk and lack of transparency.
OP here. I'm deleting this as there are very few sources. Please repost if you find more. Sorry about this, folks.
There's also Convergence, in which multiple independent notaries vouch for a certificate's authenticity. Here's a good summary - http://security.stackexchange.com/questions/5967/convergence...
Employers, even the good ones, will put as much work on your plate as you can handle and then keep going. Systematically a workplace just isn't set up to help an employee handle stress, or even pay attention to an employee's stress level. They'll ask you to work overtime even if it is obviously killing you because that's just how the typical work environment is structured. Even moving higher up in the food chain, to be a producer or manager, doesn't change this.

You need only observe how many workplaces will let employees who are obviously sick with a cold/flu come in and work to understand how poorly most workplaces respond to an employee in trouble: They will not send someone home who is actively exposing coworkers to infectious diseases, so do you think they're going to notice if you're risking your health with stress? Sadly not.

So, as an employee, it's up to you: Pay attention to your stress level. If you aren't sleeping well, do something about it. If the stress is making you gain weight, do something about it. If you're having serious, serious problems, do something about it. You can't count on your employer to support you if shit hits the fan - even if it's their fault - because 99% of them won't. You have to be proactive.

You won't get promotions or raises for managing your own stress level and working reasonable hours, but you won't get promotions or raises for literally killing yourself either. So play it safe.
> What's the difference between "shacking up" and getting married? Other than a piece of paper.

There are legal and, for people who care, religious differences.
Their support is terrible when you have a real problem and non existent during an incident.
This is the implicit weakness of the SSL system. The question is always "how do I know I can trust those people?"
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Thank you Bemmu for writing about your experience, I'm going to relocate from Italy to Luxembourg within a couple of months (I'll join my wife that is working there) and I still don't know what I'll do. My initial thoughts were working remotely for my current employer but recently the sh hit the fan and it's closing so I'll be soon unemployed, expat and with almost non-existant knowledge of the local language (i've just started studying french from the very basis)

I'm still deciding what to do: start looking for a job, do a startup project, or maybe just come back to studying something (in university or by myself) while learning french..
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> let them suffer

I agree to that. If management doesn't feel pain of its mistakes it does not have an incentive to improve.
Yep, despite the HN guidelines noting that stories about crime are off topic and "If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic." But, really, if people are voting these stories up, it's democracy in action, off topic or not. It's also ok to flag them as per guidelines.
> But that's largely due to the fact that the powerful won't generally expend their resources on issues they don't care about.

Explaining why something isn't true doesn't suddenly make it true. Yes. Powerful people know better than to constantly dominate. That's why the popular psychological pseudoscience of "alpha behavior" is smoke and bullshit.

High-power behavior? Having the self-assurance to exhibit low-power behavior when they feel like it. Low-power behavior? Attempting to exhibit high-power behavior when they don't have what it takes to back it up.

See how this gets circular and pointless very, very fast?
I'll be the dick that suggests not using org mode for class notes; I typed up my lecture notes in it 4 years ago (for the class I teach) and there have been several backwards incompatible changes to org mode that required a few hours of debugging to get indenting, etc. to work correctly with my old files (yes, in a plain text outline).

Now, these are huge files, so my use case is pushing it, but you'll want to be able to use and modify your lecture notes for years, so I'd suggest something lighter weight like a plain markdown file.

Whatever you do, take care of version control and backup.
Yeah, it certainly looks that way. I guess we'll know for certain in the morning, but I have no problem admitting being incorrect now :)
When fighting the institutions that write these charges, you are implicitly a target. Wouldn't be the first time someone was put in jail for the wrong crime. (I'm not convinced he's innocent but I have no problem believing the charges are made up)
Parenj: new Lisp dialect for the JVM
Ah, I hadn't realised that. So it's a stock standard re-announcement.
yes, but M-x letter letter TAB can work pretty well and is easy to get down pat.
Explosives Detonated in Massachusetts Standoff
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People who critisize OOP for its bad applications have mostly not understood it.
What makes you think we need to check 7 billion pictures?

You have lots of other information, so you don't need to check every human on the planet.