skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Meteor Latency Compensation - The Correct Way
Makerhaus, a community wood/metal/3dprinter shop in Seattle
I get that, but unfortunately I've seen very little correlation between performance and pay.

In fact, often the most expensive "hired guns" will perform the worth in the long term.

What I'm looking for are people who are genuinely interested in the problem space.
But is it necessary to micromanage to that level?
I mean , it's certainly preferable for your kid to study music than to do drugs but do you need to dictate the exact instrument they will play?

Or perhaps they aren't so interested in music and would prefer to use the time for some other constructive activity (say programming).
"equitable"? That's a 100% subjective term. Of course if someone else is paying it's equitable. If you're paying for someone else, it's not.
That is really the case. Under international law, all "dual citizen" means is that there are two countries whose national laws consider you a citizen. The USA used to have laws against retaining your citizenship if you took out another one, but they kept losing in the Supreme Court, so stopped trying to enforce them in 1990. (I took out Canadian citizenship less than 3 months after that policy change.)

According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Traffic_in_Arms_R... that makes me a foreign national (despite also being a US citizen) which causes ITAR to apply to me.
This will net you the most profits. You can easily corner and under-served market doing so.
Off the top of my head, I can think of several ways in which your scheme can go wrong:

- A camera in the corner of the room is vastly different in its surveillance capacities as a camera in front of your face.

- People are not used to seeing cameras in front of them at an ATM, only on the wall behind them. In fact, a camera attached to the front of an ATM could very well be part of a skimming device.

- Banks are always looking for a way to hold you responsible for their fuckups. For example, it can be more difficult to dispute a debit card transaction if your PIN was used. Your bank can and will use the photo evidence against you in the same manner, unless you can prove beyond a doubt that it wasn't you.

- ATMs are networked, but not necessarily with high-bandwidth connections.

- The "authorities" can and will archive those photos and use them for questionable purposes. You're deluding yourself if you think those photos will self-destruct.
From what I have heard they locked that down years ago. Overriding default rights to go admin was logged and if it wasn't justified, the employee who did it was fired. Later, I'm not even sure if it remained an option to manually override it, even with the oversight.
Serving coffee is an honorable vocation, and should not be used as a punishment metaphor.
The devil in me wants to see a mod for "receiver" that features these files.

http://www.wolfire.com/receiver

The source is available :) - https://github.com/David20321/7dfps
Let's install millimeter wave scanners in the ATMs as well. Maximum fraud prevention.
Encrypted Media Extension Reaches First Public Working Draft
>There are only two measures of effectiveness.

>Per capita costs and life expectancy.

This is laughably wrong. The biggest influence on life expectancy isn't the medical system at all - it's the lifestyle habits of the populace. Genetics play a big role as well.
From my experience interning twice at Google, I was very impressed by their standard for privacy and the protections they had put in place. They have teams dedicated to just researching ways to improve information security.

Two projects I found fascinating:
1) A system that analyses all attempts and actual accesses to user data by employees (this access it self was very regulated on a need-only basis), determining whether the given user that was accessed falls somewhere within the employee's likely social graph, and flagging anything suspicious to their security team. So if an employee tried to view their ex's info, or their friend's roommates info, etc. the system would auto-flag them and an investigation would likely result in that employee being immediately terminated.

2) Much of Google's data is accessible by many production services. This is a security weakness, however, there was a project to make the data layer enforce security constraints so that applications could only access data relavent to them, and additionally also enforcing security on a user-level (so an app could only access that user's data if it had an access token for that user). Mind you, this is not even limiting admin access, this is actually preventing the code from accessing the data even if the app's built-in security features fail.
A sad story. Thanks for the link.
I think he means magnetic strip + PIN, not just the magnetic strip. Still weaker than chip + PIN.
Today I learned: even allegedly smart posters on HN can be unable to understand context.
its really hard to tell without knowing about your situation.
Do you expect 40hrs(+) of work per week ?
Is there any cash involved ?

If you dont expect 50hr work weeks, and your still in an early stage where you just need one of his relationships, or to have him focus on closing a deal, you can make their options performance based. Maybe start at 0.5%

If you want them to be in the trenches with you working every day, and there is no cash involved I would do 3-5% maybe more/less i dont know if you have a cofounder, or your business model.

If there is cash involved and you can pay something like 40k a year, then start around 1%-1.5%.

100% might sound like alot to begin with, if you are successful you will need to have alot of it in reserve to hire talent, i would put aside 25% just for talent. Engineers are very difficult to find and will be offered high cash salaries as well as large equity packages.
> At the time Zimmerman said that, PGP probably wasn't on the list.

It wasn't on the list yet, proving his point about volatility.

> full force and effect of the law.

All decrees, from Hammurabi onward, have the same qualities.
“you are HN "dead". And rightly so from what it seems.”

Then perhaps we shouldn’t tip him off? Isn’t that the whole point of hellbans: they get to spill their venom and we can just ignore them.
Speaking as someone who used to work at a company that several bootcamps had pitched for recruitment purposes, and having met several grads from bootcamps, I would say that these bootcamps are most certainly not for you. They are almost all universally geared towards beginners. In that sense these bootcamps do add a lot of value. It is really hard to teach yourself to code if you lack any foundation in coding, let alone teaching yourself X or Y technologies.

There is really nothing these bootcamps can offer you except for a boost in your motivation (such a boost is not worth $12-17k+). To give you a sense of what I mean, Dev Bootcmap, for example, spends half of its time on teaching their students Ruby and programming fundamentals, which makes sense if you've never/barely coded before, but does not make sense for someone with experience who can teach him/herself Ruby and most of its advanced concepts over a (focused) weekend. Even Hack Reactor, which bills itself as being more intensive and faster-paced, spends a lot of time on basic language/CS fundamentals.

These programs don't really improve your job prospects beyond the improvements that are due to a beginner learning new concepts, nor do they really provide any sort of networking opportunities beyond the kind of networking you can achieve by hanging out at engineering meetups once a week - the average wage at these programs is almost universally in the $85k area, which sounds like a lot but is essentially entry level for the SF area.

The same applies to most online course material out there, which is geared towards beginners.
Ask HN: Why do famous technical co-founders tend to fade away?
Bill Gates is now doing his best to eradicate diseases around the world. Before Steve Jobs died, he revolutionized mobile technology for the common people.

Now the technical co-founders. Paul Allen. Last time I heard, he's collecting rich kid toys. Steve Wozniak? I'm not sure what he's doing. Neither, I believe, seem to be working on anything technical anymore.
Really nice work! I tried a fairly complicated image and it worked quite well.

Couple bugs:
1) Chrome on Win8 consistently gives me the Network Error dialog when trying to upload
2) Was able to get it working fine on IE10, but sometimes the background still shows up in the preview, even though it is erased correctly in the download. http://i.imgur.com/fSB4n4r.jpg
It was Pacific Rim, but regardless of director (loved Pan's Labyrinth), this movie is clearly catering to the Michael Bay mindless action crowd which, while having fans of all ages, generally are targeted at teenagers. Maybe that's disputable? Personally I don't think so... Also, it's not so much that people loved the trailer, more that it was 3000 comments of people explaining how much they "just came", and not a single critical voice. I really doubt that would be the case on HN if it had been submitted/allowed here.
I was using Chrome Version 26.0.1410.65 on Mac OS X 10.7.5.

Opera 12.15 is apparently not compatible since it lacks data URLs.

Safari Version 6.0 (7536.25) freezes at the same place.

Firefox 20.0 gives me an error in a dialog box saying that it's "unable to connect to worker."
According to the article, they hacked into the prepaid card vendor's system and increased the balance.
BaaS Selection for Fun and Profit
.io domains with 3 letters remaining
The Super Mario World theme is cool, although super ironic since Objective-C/iPhone is helping to displace the Nintendo Empire.
This leads me to an interesting idea: Perhaps any use of "begging the question", correct or incorrect, leads to this.
There's always ambiguity there, unless you're so delusional as to think you knew exactly what they were thinking and meant, and the exact context.
Open Source in Enterprise
Sorry for just barfing this one out. I'm most curious about whether distinctions are made between back-end code and front end code. What type of org do you manage or work in and what are/are there policies?
I would take some courses on online marketing : how to increase conversion rate , landing pages , email marketing ...
> Because, by all accounts, it is one of the most reliable indicators that the child is going to be successful.

I don't know of any way to phrase this. What you said is profoundly stupid and factually incorrect, even if you judge success by salary alone:

http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/20/do-elite-colleg...
You make a fair point.

I have been programming for a long time now (~26 years) and I do tend to roll my eyes every time some fancy "new" language/framework/library comes out that's just a re-re-re-implementation of something 20, 30, or 40 years old.

It's simply not practical to keep rewriting large, stable applications using a completely new language and architecture for marginal benefits on an ongoing basis.

I've programmed in everything from BASIC to Pascal to C/C++ to C#, Lisp, Python, PHP, Java, Javascript, can't even rememeber what else and let's be honest -- there's no silver bullet.

They all have their strengths and weaknesses, and they all compile down to machine code.

I just have trouble understanding why people refuse to work with language or framework that's more than a year old.
The blog should include a link to the main site
http://vastrm.com rather than only to the maze
of twisty little blog links. I felt sure there
would be one somewhere, but even googling:

"vastrm.com" site:"vastrm.com/blog/" -"vastrm.com/blog"

turned up nothing. (yes, HN folk can cut a URL down,
but there likely are more, other customers out there.)
What about influencing local politics like the SF Board of Supervisors? I am curious as to the best way to influence zoning laws in San Francisco.
Sorry for just barfing this out. I'm most curious about whether distinctions are made between back end or "infrastructure" code and "application" code. What type of org do you manage or work in and what are/are there policies?
Is this (finally) our flying car?
Sorry my bad. Typing from memory on my phone.

Thanks for clearing it up!
This is an exciting time to be a developer, the services that we have access to & the tools we develop with are really state of the art and the only thing limiting what we can do in an App is our imagination.

We'd love to hear which Backends others are using and why - especially if you can shed some light on the weaknesses we've identified in the article.
PHP. Unfortunately it's earned itself a terrible reputation due to its popularity with beginners. You can start throwing tomatoes now :)
Good job. But I need to make the note that the title is confusing to NLP/ML practitioners. 'topics' usually refer to clusters as captured by so-called 'topic models' [1], the output of an unsupervised learning method, usually a variant of LDA.
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topic_model
If you learned about JSON without really knowing Javascript first, there might be confusement about what values are acceptable in object literals but not JSON.
By that definition you are not even a native American.
It's a system that manages clinical trial research data, built with PHP. Yes and yes.
This reminds me of cryptography export in the 1990s. The government's case did not hold up in court and now you can write as much as you want about cryptography.
I tried hitting it with a toughie (monochromatic, low res, lots of subtle shadows), performed amazingly well: http://i.imgur.com/mW58VC2.jpg?1
:) Been there, tried that. Did not go well.
The trailer was for Ender's Game. Considering the demographic of Reddit and the significance of that book to many in that demographic (including me), it is no surprise that the post was so popular.

I am not 17. I am 38.
Of course the short hairs here are that Cody has an FFL and they can revoke that in a heartbeat for pretty much any reason. Way back in the cypherpunk days (when 'strong' crypto was a weapon) there was a thought experiment to have someone cross into the US illegally, then tattoo on their skin the code that implemented the RSA algorithm, and then turn themselves in to be deported, thus inducing a violation by the INS. I don't think it went anywhere, the other idea was a billboard in the US with the code on it you could read while standing in Mexico (this would work for Canada as well).

But poking fun aside, much of the same issues that arose with that effort are in this new 'threat'. The key here is the 3D printer, next up they will be a restricted export item like really nice machine tools.
Music education makes you a better rounded human. IMO it should be mandatory in early development. Kids are fickle and shortsighted. Why even let them decide these kinds of things at an early age? As a grown adult a parent is obviously in a better position to choose. Expose them to music, math, programming -- all that good stuff!

Obviously you wouldn't take it to extremes and torture the kid but I have noticed a trend among Anglo parents to let their children make important decisions during their elementary years -- like what is and isn't a worthwhile pursuit. It then comes down to pure dumb luck whether the child is engaged in a worthwhile recreational activity or a dumb one.
I'm interested on the PGP stuff with Zimmerman. If I encrypt a file using PGP and send it to a friend in Europe, would this act be in violation of ITAR or AECA?

If it is a violation, then how has HTTPS not been challenged?
That would render any country with any sort of weapons/alcohol/drugs control "morally bankrupt". So either I misunderstand your comment, or you're a libertarian nutcase(1) trying to hijack this thread.

(1) for the easily insulted, i do not imply that all libertarians are nutcases, but rather that libertarian nutcases are nutcases.
Megaupload Asks Court to Dump The “Baseless” Criminal Case
Science is funded entirely by corporations? Tell me, where can I buy stock in the NSF, DARPA, NIH? Or where can I find the articles of incorporation for the MacArthur Foundation or any of the other non-profits that also fund research. Or which corporation is paying my PhD stipend --- I really ought to short their stock since they were dumb enough to hire me.
Oh, and yes, there's lots of new features being implemented constantly, so not just maintenance work.
It's almost like it's a BETA or something.
I'm really impressed by how well this conveyed such a difficult concept. Depression can be so foreign to those that have not experienced it, and the first step to helping people is understanding them.
I get "Your Browser Is Out Of Date... Terribly sorry, but your browser appears to be missing key feature(s) required to use this website: Data URL Support Please try the latest version of one of these browsers instead: Google Chrome, Firefox", however I'm using Safari 5.1: data URL support has been in Safari since 3.1 (according to http://caniuse.com/datauri).
While I feel like confluence is being overly snarky and cynical about the Thiel program, upon hitting the fact that you listed Andrew Hsu and Airy Labs among the list of accomplished Thiel Fellows it becomes immediately apparent that you really haven't actually done your homework.

At the risk of sounding like I'm attacking Andrew, he was just about the worst possible example for you to pick. His startup is and was notorious for imploding after being run into the ground with highly public mismanagement that involved interference from his family members. If I were someone who wanted to make a spurious argument attacking the Thiel Fellowship, he would be exhibit #1.

The rest of your post is merely a long list of people all in the process of "starting" something - but not actually having accomplished anything of particular note. It is easy to "start" a company, or a fund, or an organization. It is much harder to actually achieve anything with that. And despite what TechCrunch/other mdia may wish for you to believe, raising funding, giving talks, and winning random competitions are hardly accomplishments.

Now, I don't think the Thiel Fellowship is a bad thing. If I was younger than 20 I would very much be interested in applying for the program. The fact that most Thiel Fellows have not accomplished anything of great external significance has so much less to do with the program and the fellows themselves, and so much more to do with how damn hard it is to start a successful company / solve a big hairy problem. It's not something you do in two years. It's a process and I think the Thiel Fellowship was only ever meant as an experience in independent learning/self-starting for the fellows.

I have no doubt that every Thiel Fellow has learned a lot in his/her experience, but I think it is unwise to tout many of the people in your list as having made concrete achievements.
I definitely trust that graph, and if the good people at Yahoo Finance can put it together for their piece, surely Fortune magazine has the wherewithal.

There's no need to "calculate the proportion of citizens doing so."
As the article reports, "From 2009 to 2011, the number of expatriates,
or those who renounced their U.S. citizenship, doubled to 1,781."
The number of US citizens did not double in two years.

The point I took the most offense to was the article providing 3 data points about migration and calling that a trend -- especially since the period in question is directly on the tail end of a massive global recession and they ignore a more recent data point (year 2012) which contradicts their story. I took a few minutes and put together a chart with a simple linear regression:

http://i.imgur.com/ieCTHrk.png

Including all the available data really changes the story don't you think?

And just for the fun of it, taking the proportion (which should control for population growth) actually weakens the correlation even further:

http://i.imgur.com/C9rdDHx.png
Didn't Nathan Marz debunk the CAP theorem just last year? http://nathanmarz.com/blog/how-to-beat-the-cap-theorem.html
Wow. You must have missed the part where I said everything :)

Here's a quote from Niklas himself: "there is absolutely no good reason to create a calculator with CSS only, I just did it for the kicks."

The project was posted deliberately as a joke and I was commenting on that. The submitter was saying "Look how awfully this can be done LOL" and I responded by appreciating that it was indeed awful. The meaning is clear and it's not a hurtful message just because it includes the word "awful" twice. You must consider the content of the message and not just judge it because a negative word is used.

"That is not constructive feedback" you say. You're right, it isn't. And that's fine because the project wasn't posted to receive constructive feedback. The author is never going to touch that project ever again. It's a joke. What am I gonna say, "You might want to increase the contrast of the buttons in your completely-ridiculous-project-you-built-just-for-laughs before you throw it away"? The author doesn't care and nobody cares.

I know you're not gonna agree. You've clearly made up your mind already. You've even done what very few sensible people would and admitted it yourself. Whatever. I just want everyone else to understand that I'm not a bad guy.

I'm not a bad guy.
You plainly don't know what "defines" means.
The term is a "time bank". A web search for that will turn up plenty.

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

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time-based_currency
GIMP already has a feature like this: http://docs.gimp.org/en/gimp-tool-foreground-select.html
> Whatever I create or modify is my right to distribute as I see fit, regardless of what I created. Period. There's an absolute for you.

This is a silly thing to say. Especially in a thread about weapons. Especially to say so in an "absolute" way.

You absolutely don't have the right to distribute chemical, biological, nuclear, or even some conventional weapons. Nor should you. I'm drawn to this extreme list because of your "absolute" assertion.
What do paywalls possible have to do with the reproducibility of results? Anyone who has access to a lab capable of even attempting to reproduce such research is either 1) at an institution that has access to those journals or 2) can use google to find the papers anyway. Hopefully both.

The fact that tax-payer funded research is put behind paywalls is a travesty , but it seems wrong to claim it actually hinders researchers from doing anything given.
> If anything it's a pathological development among certain first-generation Asian immigrants

I was thinking this throughout your comment. I've also observed that it's a trait much stronger among first generation families or those closer to them (second generation instead of fifth, for instance).

I grew up as the children of Chinese immigrants and spent a year in college studying abroad in Beijing. I expected to see a city of 20 million high-achievers. I was in for quite a surprise. The people I met there were more like the non-Asians I knew in America than the Asians I knew.

I have no idea what specifically about immigration causes this behavior, or if it's just correlation. It could simply be the case that people prone to extreme "life optimization" are more okay with the emotional upheaval of moving to another country.
Thanks, that was a good example indeed! Improving the memory traffic was actually really important because the real-life application has N=20M+, up to 200M. Around 85M calculations per seconds is pretty impressive I have to say and the example really helps to understand how to write efficient Numba code.
What impresses me most about this is just how incredibly well it was orchestrated, especially considering the number of moving parts and participants. Some top-notch project management there.