skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've had reasonable success answering this question by saying something along the lines of "I'd have to consider the full offer, salary, benefits, etc."

If pressed, have a number ready, that's somewhat higher than what you think is realistic. Unless you are so far out of the ballpark that you look ridiculous, a high initial salary demand is not going to knock you out of consideration if you're an otherwise good candidate.
Washington datacenter is Softlayer. They peer with US-East-1. Latency tends to be < 1ms.

SG datacenter is also Softlayer. While I don't think they peer directly with AP-Southeast-1, latency in SG tends to be 2-8ms (you know, it's a super small country with only a few carriers). From within SG, latency to any SG location will be 50x-100x better than US-East.

The only location that's really off is Ireland -> France..which can explain some, but not other (most) cases.
Listen, pine is not elm, ok?
I think its important to remember that this is a WSJ interview meant to not to befriend industry leaders but to grill them on investors behalf. If you watch previous ATD interviews with Steve Jobs even, you see some of the same attitude from Kara, and Walt.

If you go back far enough in ATD, you can see Walt mocking Steve Jobs before he had completed their comeback. Mocking Steve's demo of iTunes. Which saved the company.

I think the worst you can say about this interview was, Tim Cook is not as disarming (and in some cases dishonest) as Steve Jobs was.

And it was boring to see WSJ tech reporters try and call him on the carpet to expose a vision, just to please the stock market.

We all were left unsatisfied by the excersis, but ATD shouldnt call itself a tech event, if its really just a second rate version of an investor conference call.
Hey, I'm the author. I'd love to hear your feedback.
I actually forgot until recently that C in high school (self-taught) was not the first exposure I had to programming. It was HyperCard! Granted, about five years ago I actually found the original Mac I'd had and discovered I was a truly, truly awful programmer in my first few months, but it did bring back a lot of welcome nostalgia.
In fairness the example was followed up with:

"Maybe you don’t need to be this extreme, but your thumbnail should be interesting..."

I do agree with about everything else in the article, it is just the reinforcement of behavior that is a personal pet peeve of mine got a knee jerk reaction. I think "thumbnail fixing" is the 3rd largest problem on Video Sharing websites behind Youtube's comment threads (#2, I had to squeeze that pet peeve in).

Now, when it comes to a provocative thumbnail that is relevant to the video...great advice.

Edit: By "I agree" I mean I feel comfortable taking your advice. Good read.
That's just what they wanted you to think :)
This is the Daily Mail re-hashing a BBC article, but the BBC article kind of missed the point. That article hit the front page of HN about a week ago. Daily Mail's article was just amazingly shallow with no new information.

Original paper:

http://www.cell.com/current-biology/retrieve/pii/S0960982213...

Some non-paywalled info:

http://www.bcs.rochester.edu/courses/crsinf/151/13_CenterSur...
As far as I know, they were the first to do many innovative things, like drag and drop to attach files!

The interesting truth is that Zenter was the first. I know because they demoed it to me in 2007 shortly before Google acquired them.
There are a few children who are being raised bilingually with Lojban as a mother tongue so the original purpose may end up being fulfilled. It'll be interesting to see how they turn out.

xu baupli la .lojban. .i mi nintadni
How is that a genome? And, I'm not going to connect with Facebook.
I see people often saying to vote with your wallet and then go illegally download whatever movie, TV show, videogame or piece of software—which I find kind of funny. Why don't people vote with their time? Don't watch something, for example.

I suppose the main thing I find funny is how outrageous people become when something isn't provided which seems trivial to life. I live in Australia where it seems we are one of the nations the pirates the most. People here, and elsewhere, act as if having a TV show is a basic human right and necessity. Who cares if you can't watch a TV show? I think both sides are in the wrong. Another thing with the horse-riders yelling at some large fat cats is that they often pretend to speak for the masses; the non-hackers, -geeks, or whatever labels are necessary to delineate these two groups. They say they would buy everything if it was available in a way that jives with them and postulate that the masses will run out and buy everything.. and maybe they will, but as one of the 'computer guys' when most people ask about how to use torrents and you ask them why they want to know usually they just want to get something without paying for it. This goes back to Napster too.

This isn't so much directed at you, jobu, these thoughts just came to mind again after looking at the image you posted. I do agree with what's presented in the image in that it is a horrible user-experience.
Beautifully said.

(And you're 100% spot on with kids. You're simply never ready, yet it's still amazing.)
One thing to keep in mind, specifically about positions in academic institutions, but perhaps others: you have to get what you can get on your way in. Once hired, you will not get more than cost-of-living raises (if that) with perhaps a percent or two leeway for performance. The only way to get a real raise in these organizations is to get promoted to a new position, which is why they are constantly doing internal reorgs and creating new titles and reporting lines for the same bunch of people.
The post, and the one it comments on [1], bothers me for a few of reasons.

One: As an MS in CS holder I certainly worry that my degree is perceived as worth less, if not outright worthless. I worked very hard for it and am proud of my accomplishment. It represents a great deal of sacrifice. It also represents the 30 credits of undergraduate coursework and six credits of graduate coursework I completed before entering a graduate program. Of course, Ms. Lerner would see the MS on my résumé and throw it in the rubbish pile.

Two: According to Prof. Regehr's second point, training in public speaking and writing is an important aspect of a research-oriented master's program. I already had a B.A. in Journalism so I was pretty well covered on both of those points. And, since I was working full-time, with a child on the way, I was plenty mature. A coursework-oriented degree is what I wanted.

Three: I violently object to the denigration of MSCS holders based on the limited experience of a recruiter. Maybe Ms. Lerner is unable to attract more qualified candidates, and so she's extrapolated too liberally. Her arrogance is what I find most offensive.

[1] http://www.forbes.com/sites/quora/2013/05/09/how-different-i...
Except that working at a no-name software shop will pay significantly better, and then you can take your SF developer experience to middle America and get decent paying corporate job and a McMansion.
Netflix actually already "works" in Linux, or at least did back when I last looked it up, and most probably their CDM would as well. I'm of course speaking of using wine. (Having not actually tested the solution, I cannot verify it nor tell about its shortcomings.)

Or perhaps they would rely on secure/trusted path this time. I doubt that - the hardware simply isn't there for their customers.

Anyhow, I certainly wouldn't want W3C to endorse any type of DRM, or have them make it easier to abuse DRM. It's a good thing that Flash and Silverlight are restricted to PCs. It's a good thing that plugins annoy people; it makes them less desirable. We really shouldn't be building a new framework for plugins on all platforms.

Furthermore, I'd like to assure everyone reading this that DRM-free media is (still) thriving on the Internet. It's unfortunate that some people fail to play along; this only means that money doesn't go to the right people even if it's their media that's being exchanged.
Time to repost the awesome Nanex analysis of the IPO.

"How HFT Caused the Opening Delay, and Later Benefited at the Retail Customer's Expense"

http://www.nanex.net/aqck/3099.html

And a great quote from the update posted within:

"This also brings another example of the dangers of placing a blind, mindless emphasis on speed above everything else. Algos reacting to prices created by other algos reacting to prices created by still other algos. Somewhere along the way, it has to start with a price based on economic reality. But the algos at the bottom of the intelligence chain can't waste precious milliseconds for that. They are built to simply react faster than the other guys algos. Why? Because the other guy figured out how to go faster! We don't need this in our markets. We need more intelligence."
He said they weren't religious about not supporting their software on multiple platforms. If that were true, iTunes would be on Android.

How does that follow? I think it's a rather strong signal that they're going to do it. Let's not forget that following his announcement that he wasn't "religious" about hoarding cash, a dividend program was announced. Let's not also forget that once upon a time they ported iTunes to a dominant Windows with incredible success.

HN: I don't think we should aspire to comments like the parent that are filled with vitriolic personal attacks and name calling.
Have you ever had to use this yourself? Or was this more a technical exercise?
I just get annoyed by the Drupal admin panel's absolutely boneheaded UI + missing features and slow performance - D7 was supposed to help with this, and we barely got a new admin theme. Wordpress isn't as sophisticated, but the UI is nicer and it has the basic functionality out of the box
If I got set upon by fellow employees on the way home I would not be wondering what personal characteristic led them to choose me.

How about: "Kids are frequently bullied because they are placed in an stupid environment which does not adequately protect them."
Mt. Everest - Base Jump
You do realize that the proposed HTML5 DRM specification has nothing to do with being able to view DRM-protected videos without plugins, as it's mostly centered around specifying a platform for plugins, do you?
We need to get ISM's out of Australia's Startup Space
Posthaven: URL Expansions
More of a technical exercise, but I could see it coming handy in the future.
Does the Web need HTML/JS code signing?
As pure HTML/JS web apps begin to encroach on the turf of native applications, they will inevitably face some of the same security problems that native apps once faced. One of these issues is trusted code delivery. This has traditionally been addressed with code signing, yet it is not currently possible to sign an HTML/JS single-page app in the way that an iPhone app or a browser extension can be signed. Do browsers need a new method for HTML/JS code verification?
Streaming sounds like a good idea. It's definitely on the to do list. Thanks for the international feedback! Cool to hear what's going on with the app market in China.
The True Size of Africa (2010) [pdf]
Oh you mean like when we could enable features we like and disable the ones we don't like?
You mean, the 90's!

Nowadays the corporations make all the choices for you. They know what's good for you, better than you do. Maybe.
Yes, it was a cunning plan to make $10.2 million on a total market cap of $4.45 trillion.
Digital Ocean still has a lot to prove, but in my testing, they have comparable stability, and disk, CPU, and memory are all faster. I'm not going to start recommending them or putting anything mission critical there yet, but they're the closest thing to Linode, in my mind, in terms of 1:1 setup and management.
No can do. I refuse to turn shortcuts on because there are at least 2 (and maybe more I'm not aware of) ways to send the email I'm currently drafting. Command + Enter, or hitting shift, then enter.

I've learned from past email programs that's a recipe for disaster. Turn those two off and I'd gladly use keyboard shortcuts.
Yeah, the smarter kids know that their best option is to not volunteer that kind of information, which ensures that the survey only represents the fraction of the students who are naively trusting of the school administrators.
Some of these are in fact modeled after human faces, so there's a false negative rate here.
Definitely because a bunch of people agreed to upvote it around the same time. Hopefully it'll be taken down soon.
Honestly, all you need to do to avoid bullying is have the balls to fire back at anyone who makes fun of you. If you just sit back and take it, you make yourself a target. By if you immediately fire back with a response, effectively "bullying the bully," he'll eventually stop targeting you. This is such a basic male social concept that I would expect "geeks" (btw, why even self label yourself? Seems to set yourself up for failure) of all people to understand it.

I think a lot of what people see as "bullying" is actually a just half of this male social pattern of "giving each other shit." It's just what guys do. If you can handle it and fire back, you don't call it bullying. It's only when you refuse to participate that it becomes bullying. Obviously, that line of logic has some inherent victim blaming, and I am not defending bullying at all. I think it's despicable. But at some point you just need to accept the status quo and learn to defend yourself instead of lamenting about it. And if you're truly smarter than the person bullying you, it should be no problem to come up with a quick witted response.

Come on people. Get some confidence.
How would this compare to posting the hash in a public and frequently backed up way such that the date would be generally established by archives? For example, you could take out a classified ad with the hash in a newspaper, or post to Usenet so Google Groups archives it, or even submit it as a story to HN. (Or do all of the above and more at once.) Obviously, those aren't as technically sweet, but they seem workable. I'd be interested in knowing if there are more subtle tradeoffs involved.
I for one think that for each company that is fined for illegal market fixing activities, at least one person should be prosecuted and sent to jail and even more people should be banned from working in the industry. There isn't any deterrent to breaking the law for the purpose of profit.
Nearly 70% of Packed Windows System files are labeled as Malware
make it 9 seconds, that digit appeals to me
Testing in python can be fun
Play AVI Video on Apple TV - Stream/Convert AVI to Apple TV in 3 Ways
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> I can trust that the site operators won't actively attack me, but not trust that the data is unreadable by anyone.

Who would it be readable to if not the site operators?

> Mega is an example of where JS crypto might have some value.

So it might be useful to someone, somewhere as a legal subterfuge.

> For users to be charged, Mega has to not only get raided, but the feds have to keep it running long enough so users can be attacked with the malicious JS

Good to know that it's secure in the absence of an attacker.
Well we'll find out soon enough. But then again Jobs promised Facetime would be cross-platform almost 3 years ago and there's still nothing there.

Tim Cook could start by getting the Apple Store app (1) to Android and WP8. There's no reason not to and it'd be helpful for Apple's core business.

(1) https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/apple-store/id375380948?mt=8
Google Glasses (Googles) are all fun and games until some glasshole loses an eye from being punched in the face.
Hah, as I was reading your post I was thinking "they should hire this guy to fix it up". Triaging projects is definitely a valuable skill, and like any time/mission critical skill, likely to be highly paid if you can market as such.
It was also a shockingly terrible interview by Walt and Kara. I don't get why they were so desperate to get secrets out of Cook. I'm guessing they know that he would never answer questions regarding future products, so why waste everyone's time? Jobs seemed to dodge these questions by sharing his views on the future of technology. Cook always replies with the "area of great interest" line, which (paired with the "we're focused on making the best products" one) made up almost the entire hour.
That's only a problem for getting them back into the wild.

I'd suspect cloned mammoths would be a zoo feature first.
No. Web pages are sandboxed and thus have limited control to the computer and operating system compared to native apps.
Perhaps we should workd on the economic will of the people..
OECD - India has probably recently surpassed Japan to be third largest economy
"Anything you see in the news is automatically not worth being afraid of."

That's true on average, but, for example, if your child happens to live in one of the school districts that's run by irrational, power-hungry administrators, then you do have something to be afraid of.
Ok then, what should the cut off be for making it acceptable to inconvenience other humans for the sake of sustainability? How many droughts should we go through? How low and polluted should the water supply get? How shitty does life have to get for all of us before it's ok to ask everyone to make some changes that may be "inconvenient". If you don't inconvenience 314 million Americans right now in 2013, you're going to screw 500 million Americans a few decades from now, and even more a few centuries from now.

I'm not asking for eugenics and one child policies. And no I'm not in favor of bio-fuels. They've done more environmental damage than they've helped, and they mess with the pricing of the food. It's not about ideas that sound nice and make people happy, it's about solutions that actually work and are realistic. I'm asking for common sense sustainable strategies. Rethinking water rights (just because you bought some land doesn't mean you own the ground water and can pump out massive amounts of water thus lowering the water table for everyone else), ending zoning policies that favor single family homes and push out apartment complexes, stop subsidizing home ownership, expand conservation areas and create new ones, investing in a smart grid, map out and setting cyclical conservation areas that are reserved for future use, filtering storm drains, allow cities to be able to mandate mpg policies (they currently cannot).
The survey is very focused on "firsts", like, "what was your first program?". It's weird, would you ask a marathon runner what their first steps were like?

A lot of people have dabbled with code, and the first programs are always the same. If you started in the BASIC era like me, it's

10 PRINT "NEILK"
20 GOTO 10

For others it might be making a button in VB or doing some little bit of JavaScript interactivity. My point is, there's no difference between the first program of someone who gives up after thirty seconds, and the first program of someone who sticks with it for thirty years.
(Listed under second bullet point of summary on page 196 of the report)
There's an incredible difference between a trading strategy and an investing strategy.

If you are on an investment timescale then really you should care less about HFT and trading. What is the brain if not an 'algo'?

Most of the people who complain about 'algo' are traders who are now obsolete, because computers can perform their 'technical analysis' faster and with less emotion, than a human can. They claim they offer 'intelligence' but don't offer much evidence that they actually do so.
India, Pessimism, Chailatte... jolly good combination. Spineless, apathy, unfeeling....it is like filling the keyword quota for a job description.

As if Bill Gates is there to fix all of your ruses with India. How about letting him do what he is there to achieve, follow his progress, build upon it and do something even better by involving next generation. Or another option is, sit and critique without adding any value? There are lessons to be learnt in any venture, and this will be no different. Relying upon Bill Gates and a time span of even 10 years to solve all those problems you listed? We are not helping the man who made computers ubiquitous and helped eradicate polio in India. Besides, Bill Gates will be heard by the people in upper echelons and young generation and Aamir Khan will help tap the mass population. I wish them luck, I will be following this social initiative closely. More power to them.
How coincident. Not 5 mins ago I was reimplementing trusted timestamping for a document to be opened 3 months in the future.

Yours is infinitely cooler tho
Nice work; I'm glad this exists. (There have been a few others... see for example the [bitnotar] project.)

Some miners don't like such 'dust' (abandoned micro amounts) living eternally in their shared datastructure. Their displeasure means it's possible some future pruning-rules would discard these from the well-replicated eternally 'live' set of recorded values. Still, there might be enough 'orthodox' non-discarding operators, or historic archives, that such blockchain deletionism wouldn't harm the usefulness of these timestamps.

For greater efficiency you could batch together multiple timestamp requests into a hash tree, and just insert the root into the blockchain – giving each individual document submitted a 'ticket' of the other hashes that can be combined with theirs to anchor their hash in the blockchain. (They'd then have to retain that for full proof-of-existence in the future.)

If you're willing to rely on full historic archives of the blockchain, rather than 'live' balances, for future verification, you can avoid destroying balances (and creating 'dust'), at the expense of a bit more state, delay and transaction fees. You mix the (root/document) hash with some salt, to create a real private key. Send any amount to the corresponding public key. Then, empty that balance to another address. Finally, reveal the salt and (root/document) hash to the world/your-users. They can then use the historic record (but not live balances) to show that their hash existed at the time of the fill/empty transactions... but no BTC is permanently abandoned.
It should be noted that ReelSurfer links tend to be upvoted rather highly. Make of that what you will.

https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=njoglekar
Really? Wordpress uses md5 by default, which though it's salted and hashed several times it's still far less effective than the phpass in use on drupal.org and the derivative in use on D7. http://codex.wordpress.org/Resetting_Your_Password scared me when it suggested that you reset your admin password by just using an md5 generator and doesn't tell you to change your password AGAIN once you've reset it with a single md5. This scares me too: http://codex.wordpress.org/Updating_WordPress#Automatic_Upda... auto update requires web-write to your whole site. No wonder it's such an attractive target to build a super-botnet: http://technorati.com/technology/it/article/wordpress-under-...
Are you really letting people pay with PayPal to send BitCoins to an arbitrary address?

If it's just 1 satoshi for $3 you might be fine (if PayPal doesn't notice), but don't even think of doing that with a more reasonable ratio, since you'll get raped by people cashing out stolen paypal or credit cards using it.

In general, I don't see why you are putting the hash in the address, rather than putting it in a comment in the transaction script, and sending BitCoin back to yourself (or perhaps doing a 0-ouput fee-only transaction, but not sure if that's accepted by clients).
I'd recommend just about anything by Jerry Weinberg, starting with "Becoming a Technical Leader". "How Software is Built" and "Why Software Gets in Trouble" are also great, as are much of the rest of his opus, but I'm one of those folks who really resonates with his perspective.