skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bill Gate's work is amazing but yet the same I wonder why is he meeting people like Amir Khan who are nothing but hypocrites. I am pretty sure Gates will figure out this on his own. :P
We far too often end up with billionaires using their money to fund an art museum or ballet for billionaires in the name of charity

You seem to imply that there's something wrong with funding art museums or ballet... The world needs beauty in it, and if people choose to support the arts in a way from which we all benefit, that's great.
Does anyone else think that Apple is pretty late in its interests for wearable technology? I mean I'd have thought that by now, Apple would have something ready.

But then again, when smartphones came out and Apple expressed interest in them, no one could thing of something as beautiful as the iPhone. So maybe it's the same thing here. Still weird to me.
I would state it a bit more eloquently and you'll probably get 110-115k.

The decision to hire is expensive, if they've already made an offer there is usually some room for negotiation either through salary or something else depending on the company (equity, time, travel).

If you were offered 100k and said that you'd love to work at the company, but would be much more comfortable at 120k they'll probably move a little bit just to close you.

Worst case is they'll get back to you and say that they're not able to move from their original offer in which case you can accept without worrying about it.
Landlords, property taxes, repair men, accountants, doormen. There's probably a few other places, utility companies occasionally.
FWIW, a member of the Drupal community has made a pretty sweet Drupal / Mozilla Persona module (http://see.drupalpersona.me/), if you run a Drupal site and don't want to store password-derived data in your database at all.
If seeing how the poorest live is the purpose of this trip, I am not quite sure I understand why meeting Aamir Khan, the Bollywood star, is a highlight of it and the only one that has a picture in the beautiful poster. What I do sense there is a little bit heroism - he feels like a superhero(and justly so). It's just interesting that every time I hear about Gate's foundation and the wonderful stuff they did, there were also some other high profile name mentioned, be it Warren Buffet or Mark Zuckerberg. Maybe it feels even better to work with other people who also has super hero power?

PS: I have nothing against that mentality. It's just that now I realized it I am more curious about it.
PayPwn: Another Two Paypal Stored XSS’s
Still not FOSS compatible as the patent grant is only for implementations of the specification. It is still a pretty generous grant without other caveats though.

The patent "racket" is the system enshrined in the current laws which I agree need fixing but our wishes for that to happen don't make it so and the patents won't disappear unless it does or until they expire.
> I think India and Africa pretty much have the same deep-rooted culture/religion problem of ignorance, corruption and generally not giving a shit about others.

>This sort of culture has been accumulated over centuries and isn't going to go away anytime soon.

I agree with the overall sentiment in your post. Some more explanation about the culture in India which is accumulated over "centuries" would be nice. Which centuries are we talking about?
Drugs 2.0: The Web Revolution That’s Changing How the World Gets High_
I posted this elsewhere, but I had the 'pleasure' of dealing with Hammond on IRC for several years before he was booted out of the network a few months prior to the Stratfor attacks.

Something to keep in mind here:

15:52 <+tylerknowsthis> r0b0t1: i'm on a stolen wifi and bandwidth isn't the greatest, but let me see what it is after compression

09:36 <+tylerknowsthis> what yall are getting at me for using stolen wifi? something all of us no doubt do on a regular basis?

11:37 <+tylerknowsthis> setient: try stolen wifi, tor, and proxy server as an exit

16:35 <+tylerknowsthis> feds climbing in your wifi, snatching your packets up

11:46 <+tylerknowsthis> and they get some kid for sniffing CCs at a wifi spot and give him 9 years in prison

Whenever his name comes up and people ask why he is in jail, I usually quip that it is because he never paid his Internet bill.
This is not a statement about the skills of other developers. This is a statement about the applicability of JavaScript to the sorts of problems people are trying to solve with it. There are a lot of nice things about JavaScript that people didn't quite understand or appreciate in the early days, but that doesn't change the fact that the HTML5 stack is deeply flawed in many ways for the needs of application developers. That shouldn't be surprising or controversial: All of these technologies were developed in a simpler time for a simpler set of problems.... and in a rush.
(I'm not a customer).

"Still hiding the truth from the customer. Still failing to do security audits."

How do you know this?
Broadcom’s new chips bet on Bluetooth and Wi-Fi for IoT
Thanks for the link to the curriculum, I haven't looked into CS education in a long time. My observation is that CS is getting to be a huge field. There was a time when it wasn't much more than OS and compilers (I exaggerate). Now they try to cover the more recent (web apps) and more practical (database retrieval) topics that are directly applicable to new hires. I think that's fine, and your curriculum certainly looks robust (and has some very relevant new topics such as "information ethics and policies"). However, I would still expect you to be able to program after your 2 programming and web technologies classes. And those intro to programming classes are pretty light if they did not cover algorithms.

To take a recent example here on HN: did you cover big-O notation? To me that is fundamental, and the BS programs are cutting corners if they're leaving that out.
That is true. However, Gates' point is that there are health problems faced by poor folk, even in America, that no one there seems to be solving (not a pressing problem, not enough $, etc).

India is in a unique position to solve these issues, and hopefully some of those solutions can be applied to other places in the world, including America.
> So while you may feel that coffee is giving you more energy, it’s simply telling your body that your energy reserves are good to go even after they’re long gone.

I'm not an expert by any means, but this isn't quite what I learned in my undergraduate course on metabolic biochemistry. Caffeine simply encourages you to burn more energy by the mechanisms outlined by the author. However, you cannot burn energy reserves after they are gone. Where would the energy come from? You have carbohydrate reserves and you have fat reserves. Carbohydrates will go first, and once depleted caffeine will cause you to burn more fat than you normally would. The effect is somewhere around 10% for average consumption levels. When you have burned all of the usable carbohydrates and fat in your body, you start burning protein. That is called ketogenesis. It results in muscle breakdown, and the ketones produced are one of the reasons crack addicts smell kind of funny. Caffeine will not induce ketogenesis unless you are drinking way too much and not eating nearly enough. Note that there aren't super sharp transitions from carbs to fat and from fat to protein.
Most of my (and I imagine a good chunk of this site's readership) access to GMail is handled through IMAP, for one.

For two, I struggle to think of a UI cockup of an email app on the level required to drive people to switch ecosystems.
The Myth of the "A-ha" Moment
Yes, the startup I am working on is a marketplace matching buyers and sellers. buyer pays the seller service fees to my site, then the site holds the money until it's done, then site payout the seller minus the site commission. so it's similar to odesk or zaarly fee structure.

I can do it this way, or if not, have buyer pays the seller directly and then I charge seller the % monthly.

How do I payout using other alternative like wire transfer or mailed check if I use Balanced Payments?

how do I get insured to ensure I am covered for fraud or other risks? I am not familiar with these side of entrepreneurship, the legality of running an online marketplace.

Thank you for your help.
Right, but if the office has a coffeemaker and no stove, you can't do that.
I wouldn't say AWS is the only option, probably just the most popular one.

Other options might be Rackspace, Windows Azure (I think you can run Linux VMs, however I dont know how well that's working) or Google Compute Engine (rather new, so YMMV). Those are probably the biggest players in the cloud market.
Last time I was in Pune Gates arrived in Pune unannounced by a private plane and straight away drove to the red-light area (prostitution business area) to meet the social workers there. A lot of local politicians rushed to the place for photo ops. He had to virtually physically fight his way out from them.
It is facile to blame all of the developing world's problems on "the same deep-rooted culture/religion problem of ignorance, corruption, and generally not giving a shit about others." For starters, aren't there causes of ignorance, corruption, or not giving a shit about others?
Linode hasn't killed my servers, but just informed me that they'll be doing maintenance on my production box that will likely be a two-hour window, but could take up to 8 (!)

Not very excited about Linode these days.
I have absolutely no doubt that humans could effectively eliminate a wild dinosaur population in short order. Think of the trophy mounts!
Seems a child of php and angular...
How can PayPal let this kind of thing go un-noticed? Do they not do code review? Have security guidelines!? It's crazy.
Hah, yes "eating the mic" is a common error. Welcome to the wonderful world of audio production :P

Though, to be fair, the audio tech should have turned the gain down on your mic - it's a common error that's easy to compensate for.
I think this is an interesting idea, but wouldn't it come off a bit preachy? Like "I haven't even worked for your company one day and I already know a better strategic direction to take it. Your management is useless. Hire me."

Maybe I don't have a good enough imagination on what to analyze, though.
Why N2O? Is this erLanG on Laughing Gas?
What I meant was that when designing rules for bankruptcy etc., but also for how education is funded and other things, society has high level goals which are guided by morality.

My point was that when society considers what it's goals are, it should never be a goal that a person should be able to do things that "give their life meaning" when they can't afford them, because ultimately it is a person's own responsibility how they manage their money.

So my post was aimed at people who thought "isn't it horrible that this woman can't do what she wants in life simply because she can't afford it"
OP here. Little harsh.. laughably wrong?

I did point out that we've seen this same behavior with EC2 instances (1) before. So there's a tiny bit of evidence to suggest it might not be such a joke.

Maybe this is what's lame, but I just don't think you are right about AWS vs non-AWS locations. Amazon's stance on this does make it clear that you aren't necessarily going to get the most optimal route (2) , true. But latency within Singapore tends to be measured in single digit ms (it's 710 KM2). What you are suggesting (if I understand correctly) is that a Singaporean's latency to US-East-1 can be faster than his or her latency to US-Southeast-1. I took some of those IPs, pinged them from EC2 instances in those regions and it's the same result.

I agree GeoIP is a best-guess effort, especially with public dns. But if nothing else, the analysis merely confirms that.

(1) https://forums.aws.amazon.com/message.jspa?messageID=384090

(2) https://forums.aws.amazon.com/message.jspa?messageID=330523#...
LED projector lamp for bicycles shows potholes
My EC2 hosts have had horrid uptimes. From the big event in VA last year or so to a bunch of random events. Support was useless as well.

My Linodes are rock solid. Yeah Linode got hit by a cold fusion vulnerability and had the bitcoin issue, but for company as old as it is, that's still a good track record imho.

Meanwhile we're leaving EC2. Don't need it really and certainly don't need the headaches. The CPU on those things are pretty weak as well.
Replace "private citizen" with "human being" and see if this criticism still makes sense.
I completely agree that we need beauty -- I love the concept of funding the arts, but there have to be priorities and we should not rely on the rich to make decisions like this in the name of charity.

I quoted it lower in the thread, but I LOVE the poem by Gil Scott-Heron "Whitey on the moon" --

"A rat done bit my sister Nell, with Whitey on the moon"
I've never had my linode machines taken offline, but I've received many "Instance scheduled for retirement" messages from AWS.
I see. Thank you for your input. Yes, currently I am starting it on my own and of course, I prefer to use an end to end solution rather than build it myself.

Can you recommend someone who has done the hard work? Is it Balance Payments as ig1 said?

Thanks.
Well I'm looking at the front page story, "A Conversation with Lee Smolin." It leads with a monologue from Smolin followed by a response from Arnold Trehub, followed by a response from Sean Carroll, followed by an entry from Lee Smolin responding to Carroll's response. Bruce Sterling enters the conversation to express sympathy with ideas Smolin as raised then Trehub comes back with another response and finally Amanda Gefter gives a reply to Smolin.

This event is put under the site's conversations section, and a quick perusal of this section reveals tons of similar conversations with multiple contributors all responding to each other, and they've been doing this for years.
According to the email (emphasis mine):

> This unauthorized access was made via third-party software installed on the Drupal.org server infrastructure, and was not the result of a vulnerability within the Drupal software itself.

There is ostensibly an argument to the effect of "well if they can't secure their infrastructure, maybe I can't trust them to secure the product code", but the Drupal infrastructure team is separate from the core maintainers and contributors. Your choice of CMS/CMF would've had precious little to do with this compromise.
Considering that coffee and beer are both 90+% water, I'd say that you're not getting the most bang for your buck!
Because we are in that remaining 10%, as are all of the species we rely on for food. Most people have an interest in the continuation of humanity, at least in theory.
Yes, but it's still better than when I went to school. Back then, they took 100% of your parents' savings and all available income, too, but also saddled you with debt while doing it.

I'm firmly of the belief that for the top-tier schools they'd do better just having no tuition and making quarterly reminders of the value of their education, counting on getting it on the flipside from alumni donors down the road.
I would support you but I'm really not optimistic.
I've had some creative sessions w/ moderate Yerba mate consumption and haven't experienced the health issues some say it has.
or he might be a complete fraud and not even be a passable biologist

He's genuinely one of the top researchers in the field (see: cloned dog).
Some google targets would revolve around amsat phase 4 p4 phase IV.

P4 is a little ambitious so it oscillates over the decades between active and shelved. About two cycles ago it led to phase 3 rev D P3D or whatever aka AO-40 which launched a bit more than a decade ago.

As far as kickstarters go, the AO-40 launch would be kinda ambitious, I guess just the launch alone was five million or so. The boost engine blew up, screwing up the orbit and destroying some uplinks/downlinks, then years later further related failures blew out the DC power bus, and that was it.

Now build like 3 of them and launch them and you're almost guaranteed that at least 2 would work... Just bad luck for AO-40.

There has sporadically been talk of a P5 which would be an interplanetary payload.

I've watched this stuff from the outside for a couple decades, being all volunteer its very cat-herding.

One thing I miss (dating myself pretty severely) is the Russian HF band satellites, requiring no fancy hardware on the ground and no ground computer support. I used to listen to RS-10 morse code telemetry on ten meters using basically normal ham radio shortwave gear, then there was a complicated little decode algorithm to convert raw data into actual data.

Another thing I miss is there are/used to be FM voice "easy sats" requiring pretty basic VHF/UHF FM gear. Very popular. Need more of those. I believe there's only one working ezsat in orbit right now and the hope is the FOX-1 project will deliver another working one later this year.

I also miss the high altitude / 12 hour pass Molinya orbit sats. Thus requiring fancy gear, but the highly elliptical orbits meant you could talk for hours instead of 10 minutes horizon to horizon.

So there's a lot of stuff to google for.

Ham radio is a fun, big hobby. Life's too short to actually do or try everything possible even in just the narrow confines of satellite operation, much less everything else.
> This is a scientific question, to the extent it can be answered and we should probably be unsatisfied with what appears to be obvious.

That seems absolutely fair enough :-)

> The research, as I understand it, just doesn't bear out your observation.

The question is, does it contradict it, or does it just say nothing about it?

If the research suggests that all people have essentially the same level of ability to learn all tasks (given enough application), I'd be surprised. We know for a fact, for example, that IQ is quite highly heritable. Whatever you think about IQ as a means for measuring 'intelligence', that certainly suggests a genetic difference in the way people's brains work. That could at a minimum affect people's ability to quickly pick up (and thus enjoy enough to keep going with) new tasks, and at a maximum affect their ability to perform the task at all.

Now, obviously I don't know for sure the answer to these questions :-). The little research I've read in the past suggests that IQ is correlated with a base ability to perform a given task at all, but once you have that base level practise/application becomes the most important factor.

With respect to sticking with something, if natural talent isn't a thing that exists, inherent desire to stick with something becomes the new natural talent - after all, if someone finds programming fascinating it's always going to be vastly easier/more likely for them to put in their 10,000 hours than someone who has no such inclination.
I second that.. It's a way for students from overseas to get settled in the Land of Opportunities
I don't see the database support, what do they propose from that point of view?
As you say, Apple has a history of do it late but do it right. Whether they can do it right under Cook's leadership is an entirely different question however.
I get Facebook. But why is Amazon not trustworthy?
The author should credit The Oatmeal for that awesome caffeine picture.
I was married when I started my computer science degree. My wife let me get through my first year and then told me I had to get a job. So I did all of my studies on Lynda, focussing only on practical subjects like PHP and AJAX. Even though I started in 2010 and dropped out at the beginning of 2011, I just got offered my first $100k job. Tell me, if I was able to accomplish all of that at home, then why would I pay tens of thousands of dollars to attend a University where I am considered a Junior when I leave and join the industry? It just doesn't make sense.
Early Tumblr Employee Explains The Inconvenience Of Being Fabulously Rich
FWIW, my experience (knowing a bunch of ex-Yahoos who are now at Google) is that Yahoo doesn't actually have a shortage of superstar developers, and in fact has quite a bit of very solid engineering talent locked up there. They have a shortage of qualified managers, and so many of those developers are working on projects that will never launch or are largely inconsequential or are beset by political problems. In that light acquihires are an attempt to bring in whole teams with a track record of shipping, to change the culture to one where launching is expected and not an anomaly requiring superhuman effort.
Ember.js Getting Started Guide
"Pre-process" isn't quite accurate. To me that implies processing before serving, but it appears JSX is processed in the browser by a transpiler weighing in at 300k (uncompressed). http://fb.me/JSXTransformer-0.3.0.js
Right; according to HTP (http://straylig.ht/zines/HTP5/0x02_Linode.txt), it sounds like Linode were willing to delay notifying their customers of a serious incident in exchange for a promise from the attackers that the data would be destroyed -- the supposedly totally secure data, according to a later blog post from Linode.

The takeaway is that now, while I don't know if I can trust other VPS providers or not, I know I can't trust Linode. (Hell, to some extent, I trust HTP more than Linode now -- I haven't seen a dump of the Linode data on pastebin or a .ru forum yet.)

How a business handles disclosure of a compromise is as important to me as the fact that they were compromised. Notably, this is the second time they screwed up disclosure, after being raked over the coals for it the first time. I was willing to let the first one slide since Linode is so awesome in every other regard, and hope that they would handle the next incident more gracefully. Unfortunately, they didn't.
This American Life did a story on the idea and backlash:
http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/483/s...
What's up with HN lately? It seems like being contrary to contrarian is the new thing these days.

Bill Gates is someone I admired at first, because he built something huge from humble beginnings. Then I reviled him for the damage I saw him cause to the industry. Then I admired him again for the global effect he managed. He is a single person trying to do the best he knows how for humanity at large.

If anyone thinks resources would better be spent in, say, LA, please earn huge loads of cash and make it happen. Much to your chagrin it might benefit someone in India as well.

Bill Gates seems genuinely concerned with elevating the level of humanity as a whole, and if you oppose that? Is this a zero sum game? No, it's not.
This stuff is really cool, and really frightening. The genie is already out of the bottle.
Question. How cat focus help in creativity? If you want to make new connections in brain -> creativity -> isn't that opposite of focusing? Hmmm,

Sorry on bad english, 4 beers + not primary language :-)
>Just make the function take two arguments. And then use currying.

Isn't that what I said?
I live in a city, and I hate driving in the suburbs. No one pays attention, uses blinkers, or is careful to not cut people off.
Activist? That's total BS. All he did was publish the personal information, including credit card details, of innocent victims such as myself. I really have no sympathy for him.
Ketosis is an alternative method of using fats for energy in the absence of normal process using glucose. The presence of ketones on your breath makes a "fruity" smell that can range from minor to fairly unpleasant. It may make your mouth taste "metallic".

When your body is breaking down protein for energy, you will smell like ammonia, which is significantly different smelling than ketones like acetone.
No, we don't have enough good JS libraries yet. We have enough bad ones.
Yeah, I'm not sure how I feel about that. Something like Ploymer[1], where you define the new tags (and their templates) separately from the JavaScript code that powers them, makes a bit more sense to me.

[1] http://www.polymer-project.org/