skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the article "Talent acquisitions" http://www.marco.org/2012/07/20/talent-acquisitions Marco criticized Pulp, Wallet, Sparrow and he wrote:

Instapaper has had multiple similar inquiries from large companies over the last few years. We’ve never gotten very far in talks because I don’t want Instapaper to shut down, I don’t want to move my family across the country, and they didn’t want to pay enough — for them, they’ll pay a premium to hire me, but they won’t pay much for a service they’ll shut down immediately and an app they’ll throw away.

I was only able to reject those offers because Instapaper is a healthy business, and the life that Instapaper provides for me and my family is better than what the big companies offered."

If you want to keep the software and services around that you enjoy, do what you can to make their businesses successful enough that it’s more attractive to keep running them than to be hired by a big tech company.

So it's not a "Talent acquisition", but how could we still keep the software and services around that us enjoy in the future?
It's perfectly useful as comparison of browser-based Box2d ports, and how they perform relative to the original C library.
I can understand there being an issue for being overly muscular, but I also don't think that being overly muscular equals being good looking. This is probably a very common mistake that men make when pursuing better looks.
RTE is leading to more and more illiteracy. RTE is a ploy to shut down private schools aimed at poor students and ensure the total government control on primary education.
> Words don't mean what ever we want, but their meaning does change and evolve over time to reflect current society.

This is true, but there is some matter of consensus for language shift. Furthermore, if the meaning of words shift, laws become invalid rather than simply applying themselves overbroadly. A law containing the word A meaning B does not suddenly include C, D, and E because society moves on.

This is obvious in any other setting.
> One of the major reasons breast cancer prognosis is so good is because it's often caught early.

Actually, the OP ("Our Feel-Good War on Breast Cancer") argued the very opposite.
Is there ever a chance to not require aufs? I'd like to use docker on Fedora and maybe even CentOS for fun (managing various containers for some open sauce stuff I maintain), but would prefer to do it without needing aufs.
Ah, yes, the classic: "If you're telling the truth… and you meet this new criteria I just added in order to exclude you… your story still doesn't mean anything."

What's traction, exactly? No really - exactly?

My story isn't rare at all. You talk to groups of people who are bootstrapping products -- not social startups, products -- and you will find many with similar stories. Because bootstrapping often means you have to do other work and things can't always balance perfectly.

The rest of the people with these stories simply don't bother posting on HN because nobody believes them, anyway. HN is fed too steady a diet of "startup" stories to understand that not all things are equivalent to a free bookmarking tool.
If there's any kind of proposal or law that favors the rich, the super rich or the ultra rich, Greg Mankiw will be in favor of it.

He's a morally and intellectually bankrupt academic. He's currently defending Reinhart and Rogoff, for instance.
I thought that was the definition of hacker?

I feel like hacker is a subset of good programmer.
I can relate.. I also have a chronic illness, with the gloriously vague name of fibromyalgia. I have had doctors tell me there was nothing wrong with me, accuse me of being a drug addict, lazy, etc etc. What fun. Have spent since 2008 doing my own research (with generous amounts of help from my wife and friends). I have discovered that I am in a club that I don't want to be in, the chronic pain and fatigue club.

I have to plan what days I exert myself on, because I know that the next few days will be spent in bed, unable to move. Gives me plenty of time to think, haha. "you should exercise more" is the least helpful advice, which I get all the time. People mean well, but they don't understand. It gives me an opportunity to reflect on when I do the same to others, when I mean well but don't understand.
Kind of misleading headline since he was missing(and possibly dead) since before the bombings.
What I'd really prefer is using LEDs to do novel kinds of lighting fixtures, not just replace edison-screw-base incandescents. I want a glowing uniform ceiling square, wall square, undercounter wide strip, etc.
>You know who had a say in tall people having "advantages"? Everyone who gives them said advantage. Tax them.

Ok... so the next step is how do you measure in a consistent and non-gamifiable way who is giving these advantages?

If you can't answer that, it won't be a good tax.
We had some experience with it but indirectly. EALx is a bureaucratic joke, but I see FIPS 140-2 more emphasized.

The higher the level of the customer (the more authority they have) the more flexible they are. Some lower level labs don't really have much of a choice but accept a standard boiler plate set of certification stamps.
Most cheap switches these days will let you do port mirroring - that is, taking one or more ports, and "mirroring" the data into another "Mirror Port" (which you can then run wireshark against)
The Amazing Life of Sean Smith, the Masterful Eve Gamer Slain in Libya
Before CFAA, computer crimes were charged under wire fraud statutes. But to prove wire fraud you have to establish the elements of a fraud, which include deliberate intent to secure some kind of gain from your deception.
Are street lights the biggest contributor to light pollution?
Just did on the REST API suggestion! I noticed you mentioned a half-baked proof of concept, if you decide to publish the branch I wouldn't mind hacking on it. :-)
That's very cool! Congratulations :-)
> Well, if what you do virtually on line can be considered on a par with what you do physically

But it isn't. That's why e.g. the CFAA is separate from plain old criminal trespass.

> Words don't mean what ever we want, but their meaning does change and evolve over time to reflect current society.

Sure words evolve, but some words are more amenable to evolution than others. "Quartering soldiers" is a very specific term, referencing a very specific grievance that the colonists had with the British. It has nothing to do with spying--the grievance was about being forced to "quarter" (literally, to furnish with lodging) soldiers and bear the expense of doing so.
Exactly! Get your humour off my porch!
Why is he oblivious to her emotions
Sure, but it's enough to make me avoid Ubuntu all together on principle.
"If you can make a girl laugh, you can make her do anything"

Old quote I got from a girl waaay back. I'd say it's pretty true and reflects the sentiment in your post.
Ruby can use braces instead of end, both are valid.
FIPS 140-2 is very narrowly constrained and the parts that aren't crypto-related are the same kind of boilerplate make-work that EAL2/EAL3 is. But also bear in mind that you can pull a list of EAL4+ products right now, and quickly see how many of them have had ridiculous vulnerabilities.
If you are a Linux console lover like me, I have a tool I've been working on for a while: Termbeamer (termbeamer.com). The win over screen/tmux is that it is much easier to set up (especially if you are behind NAT or a firewall).
Barnes & Noble's Common Sense Suggestions to the FTC and DOJ on Patent Trolls
Yes, as a matter of fact I read it in it's entirety. Did you read the article?
Losing all that stuff must've been a great blow to his school.

</tiredargument>
Actually, Docker is like a manager of FreeBSD jails :-) LXC is like FreeBSD jailing.
I don't get why you have to post a link without the affiliate code.
Couldn't agree more. Actual personality and personability go much further than looks. It's just important to have that confidence and ease about you. Which, granted, may be hard if one's grown up thinking they are ugly. But once you get the tricks of smiling, reading others, and conveying a positive personality, the world opens up. Big time.
Maybe we should just create an official internet register of Saints.

And no, Saint Ignucius is not allowed on it.
Do you remember the Ecomom story yesterday, where the VP of Sales had no responsibility for ensuring profits were realized, only for ensuring that revenue was high?

That's the kind of problem that CISPA proponents are trying to solve with regard to "cyberspace security". It's not supposed to be another way for the government to obtain information on people or threat groups, for the exact reasons you listed. It's supposed to be a way for the private sector and government to cooperate on network defense, sharing information as necessary to provide a coordinated defense in response, investigate attackers, etc.

Government can't do it alone as the private sector controls the networks and has a lot of the needed expertise. The private sector can't do it alone as they have no legal authority, which is quite deliberately retained with the government (especially in light of what happened to Sunil Tripathi).

There are actually similar arrangements already in place in other areas. For example disaster relief/emergency management has a lot of tie-in between Federal, state, and local governments, DoD, and NGOs such as the Red Cross, all of which have pre-planned responses to various disaster scenarios. But these can be done without changes to the law, which is at least somewhat unclear in the case of coordinated network security.

Now CISPA as it currently stands is dangerous because it still doesn't provide enough privacy protection (especially on the commercial -> government direction), but please don't act like it's just another feeder source for the FBI, as if that were the only possible motive, especially given existing issues such as the Aurora attack on Google.
> I don't think overpopulation should ever be a factor in determining if you want to have a child or not. A layperson has no responsibility nor influence in that matter - that's something for policymakers and implementers to handle.

On the contrary! Deferring to governments a responsibility for personal choices is always a dangerous mistake. Governments are supposed to reflect the values of the people. But if the people automatically defer to the government responsibility for their values, the entire system collapses.

To me, the remedy is education, and it's been demonstrated over and over again that, as a woman's educational prospects improve, so does her wish to limit her family size.

Overpopulation doesn't result from masses of people letting governments choose their values. Overpopulation results from billions of individual choices, based on rationalizations like yours. To wit:

> Also, more people isn't always a bad thing, even in an overpopulated world.

This is like arguing that, during a forest fire, more fuel isn't always a bad thing. But in point of fact, yes, it is always a bad thing.

> A well raised person can offset his impact on the world and contribute even more than they take.

Yes and every parent on this planet blithely rationalizes that his/her children will be that sort of child. And they're wrong.

It seems we all live in Lake Wobegon, where all the children are above average.

The basic logic is that, when there are too many people, who they are as individuals stops mattering. Even if we could control the outcomes and only have extraordinary, saintly children, do we really want a world filled with starving saints?
Thanks for the links. Most of the issue is identifying the cost-benefit of pursuing etc.
Narrow spectral lines means astronomers can filter the city glow somewhat easily.
I've never seen it put more bluntly and truthfully than "the original product was the business." I always find it creepy to see all these founders and investors and Y-Combinator folks patting themselves on their backs for a hefty exit. It's like saying "well done gentlemen, we fooled them all the way through." Since I have been aware of this, I have decided I don't want investors meddling around in my decisions, or if I even want a business at all. Open source projects seem like a more honest and longterm way to champion a product that I truly care about (which is not the case with most of these "startup guys".) Having a successful business seems to always devolve into just making more and more profit, and those interests permeate back into every decision. Which is why people are so worried about Parse's future with Facebook, and what's also happening to Google in ever increasing levels now with G+. I look up to Mozilla these days, hope they don't fall off the deep end with Mozilla Corp's Firefox OS.
Well, I certainly hope of all our governmental organizations the NSA is going to be the least inclined to satisfy themselves with "passing the blame to the supplier when security is inevitably compromised"
I continue to read nothing but cautious words on HN when approaching Soylent.

Let me remind you all that cautious and timid natures rarely pioneered anything throughout history.
The most popular desktop operating system on earth returns 2.5 billion hits. So what? Large numbers without basis for comparison are meaningless. I can't think how you'd get that basis here. The only thing you can really say on that basis is that less than 100% of users had no problems.

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I didn't pretend that people never needed help with Windows. I said I hadn't had any real problems with it since 98 and asked what he thought the average user needed a sysadmin for in Windows.

I can see how you'd come to the conclusion you seem to have, but I really don't appreciate being made out to be a liar. If you act on a similar assumption in a similar manner in the future then I'm going to ignore anything else you have to say.

What does seem relevant to me is that there's a dramatic difference between an operating system that even programmers get tired of trying to make do what they want and jump ship from and one that you can reasonably expect not run into significant problems with for years. If Windows were equally messed up as Linux I'd expect to run into the problems at around the same rate.

How long does it take you to run into trouble with Linux? I tried it just now, downloaded Mint and threw it in the old DVD drive - 15 minutes. Most of which were spent trying to work out how to change the primary monitor so I could get the taskbar onto the one I wanted. When I did manage to do so the graphics corrupted and the system froze irrecoverably.
Why do you people hate suits so much? What's wrong with wearing fine clothes and looking sharp?

People say they're uncomfortable, but if your suit is uncomfortable you've just chosen the wrong suit. Same with your shirts. And if your tie is uncomfortable, learn to tie a knot better.

People who say we should do away with the suit are arguing to do away with centuries of evolution in professional men's attire. It's like arguing that we should trash art or literature, or that we should stop using cutlery and just use our hands.
Floating 7-Foot Head Leaves Rowers Scratching Theirs
> We no longer live in a hunter-gatherer society. I have no use for bulging biceps.

Pretty bad assumption.

Exercise is important, as building muscle tissue stimulates hormone production (GH, melatonin) that affect even cognitive performance.

This guy has a pretty extreme reductionist view on things like health and nutrition. No surprise he's trying to live on a nutrient shake, after all.
Mandatory. As in a dictate under a threat, perceived or existent. How do you figure?
What Alexander Graham Bell Sounded Like
Interesting that NaCl is far closer to native performance than asm.js. Can that performance gap be closed?
come on, 1) is not a big issue... Not big enough to put it first anyway!
What about -Ofast which enables -ffast-math?
Doesn't this take the fun out of generating an [analog] video signal from a microcontroller though? Where's the cycle-counting timing goodness?

Kidding aside, this looks like a fantastic toy to play around with.
> I also don't think that being overly muscular equals being good looking

I know. I didn't imply that.
> at the individual level, a single layperson choosing not to have kids won't have any significant affect on overpopulation.

Sorry, that's irrational. The only choices are individual ones -- governments can't really control what individuals do. Look at China's failed one-child policy.

Overpopulation results from billions of people rationalizing that their individual choice can't possibly matter.

> we can't rely on individual convictions as the solution to our collective problems.

What? Did I hear you right? Don't you understand that democracy is designed to honor and respect individual choices? The collective problem of overpopulation results from many individual choices to have children.

> the majority of the solution will have to come from elsewhere.

Healthy, non-dictatorial governments wait for the people to tell them what values to reflect and enforce. By contrast, dictators rely on the kind of person who says, "Let the experts solve these problems, individuals don't count."

On the positive side, education works wonders. Many studies show that educated women have smaller families.
What If the Tsarnaevs Had Been the “Boston Shooters”?
The article is not endorsing cheating, as many commenters seem to think. It is endorsing thinking like a cheater to anticipate cheaters' attacks.
Reykjavík's radical mayor blazes a trail for the revolution in digital democracy
It says there are 27 students, three of whom opted out.
I'm not sure I'd call that "far" different, but asm.js is certainly in early stages so it probably will get faster.
C++ on the web: emscripten, nacl, flascc
We still don't. The file format in this link was also invented by Bell.
All of that may be true in various degress but damn... your biggest problems are/were clearly psychological. Keep practicing the art of not-giving-a-fuck and you'll keep getting better.

(From OP's About Page:)
>The self hatred I had for myself, brought on by body dysmorphia, worsened so much that I refused to interact with anyone other than my roomate, never went anywhere without a hat, and only went grocery shopping at 4 AM (when there was the least amount of people at Walmart) because I was horrified that people would see my face and be disgusted by me.
haven't contacted the author but he describes his supposed route. I'm trying to replicate his results and there is indeed a possible integer overflow condition but I'd be doubtful of reports of successful exploitation with systems linked with a newer version of glibc w/ heap consistency checking, stackguard &/| aslr.

http://lxr.evanmiller.org/http/source/core/ngx_log.h#L120 contains a few functions (2, 5 I've found so far) that write data in a (at a quick glance) safe fashion, I guess you might be able to give someone wierd logfiles.

I've been over every file that referenced by ngx_http_request_t http://lxr.evanmiller.org/http/ident?i=ngx_http_request_t looking for buffers, directly or indirectly using a value derived from a ngx_http_request->count (not -> main -> count), and although the bug condition he describes is possibly real, I'd love to see an RCE proof of concept from the author.
Show HN: For Twitter lovers - AirTweet
Congrats for sticking with your startup idea even though lots of people probably told you "Another social network?!" : )

Here's a feature I'd love to see.. A way to ask a question and let people answer it. Results could be ranked in term of "top mentor", or other people could vote on it.

The idea is that it's hard to filter through lots of mentors.. trying to find one that match your needs, then go after him/her, etc. Something way more organic would be me asking a question and people interested in my problems could help me solve it. And, as you help others, you get a better karma too.. which put your questions in front of mentor with good karma..

Personally, I'd love to see a feed with lots of various startup questions from all kind of entrepreneurs.. be able to see what famous founders are asking. Could be anything really. From "Which is the best landing page?" to "Anyone knowing a good UX in <city>".

Anyhow, congrats again on the launch, hit me up if you want to chat about it.
Logical fallacy. You've built a strawman, based your argument off it, and then contradicted yourself.
What the heck is this doing on the front page?

"Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. [...] If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic."
"They only difference here is that the internet has rendered the head smacking part obsolete for IP, so people can skip straight to taking the stuff."

No. The internet has rendered the "taking your stuff" part obsolete. When you "take my stuff" I no longer have "my stuff". However when you "copy my bits" I still have "my bits". It is the essential difference between Property and Intellectual not-actually-Property.
Yahoo Mail for Android doesn't disappoint (pictures)
A case against using protobuf for transport in REST Services
Seems to me like current and near-future levels are the only thing really worth discussing at this point, since predicting future demand for lithium seems ridiculously challenging. On the one hand, if electric cars actually take off (a big if), it seems at this point like lithium ion will be the most likely energy storage mechanism, so you could see a huge ramp-up in demand. On the other, if supercapacitor technology delivers on the promise some think it now has, it (or some other as-yet-unidentified energy storage or production technology) could pull the bottom out from under the lithium ion battery market. The outcome of each of those could shift future demand by a couple of orders of magnitude in either direction vs. current demand.

But probably not for at least a decade or so. So we may as well talk about this in today's terms.
Actually, I was talking about the difference between rational, principled opposition and irrational, apocalyptic doomsaying. The groups I gave were meant to be examples, not comprehensive enumerations of every possible belief. Based on your reply, I'd consider you part of the first group - you've articulated a reasonable position that's based on your own beliefs and principles, and I can respect that even if I don't agree with it.

It wasn't my intention to offend by excluding or ignoring anyone, and I'm sorry if my post came off that way.
28 days ago I said :
Expect Parse to be bought soon.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5454779
Is there any more to this "move" than any of their previous moves, including:

* Sealand - proposed only (2007)
* Netherlands - hosting (2009?)
* Sweden - domain only? (Feb 2012)
* North Korea - elaborate hoax (Mar 2013)
* Greenland - domain only, quickly switched back (Apr 2013)
A guy I knew did too well on his aptitude test to become a tram driver here in Melbourne. The problem as seen by the recruiters is that in being too bright, he's likely to get bored sooner and leave. Sure, he himself might absolutely love the job and stay for decades, but the recruiters are playing the numbers game here - tram drivers are not a keystone position - and they find that there's more churn with really bright people.
I sent this around. This has always been one of my biggest issues with ssrs.
> Great, take smart people out of the gene pool.

That's a common misconception about genetics. In fact, the children of a very smart person tend to regress toward the mean (just as the children of a very dumb person). So a smart person choosing not to have children doesn't typically produce the outcome you think it does.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regression_toward_the_mean

Also, your view overlooks the power of ideas, and the degree to which a person can choose to focus on ideas instead of children.

Here's an example -- do you know the names of Einstein's children? I do -- they're special relativity, general relativity, and the photoelectric effect. They look great together in family pictures.