skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That'd be the president of the company (we're a small mechanical engineering firm), and he's even worse. He vetoed the request from my boss to upgrade to MS Office 2013. We're on a mix of XP/2003 right now, and Excel+Word are the lifeblood of our work.
>Jobs' scare tactic was that Amazon would eventually take a larger commission.

And how's that a "scare tactic"? Sounds like something entirely reasonable for the publishers to consider.
The specs line up perfectly with the EX 4 from Hetzner: http://www.hetzner.de/en/hosting/produkte_rootserver/ex4
I rather like having a modest collection of hardware that I can call my own. That aside though, is it possible to get a dedicated server with SSD-like disk IO and 8-16 GB of memory for ~75 dollars a month? I admit that I only have experience with Rackspace, and that a few years ago, but it seemed like the pricing was more than twice that.
> The US police is VERY militarized in Urban areas.

U.S. urban areas are very militarized. London, a city of 8 million people, had 100 murders last year. Over the last 20 years, the number broke 200 only once, in 2003. Chicago, a city of only 2.7 million people, had 532 last year. And this is way down from the peak. Murders in U.S. cities peaked in the early 1990's. L.A. county had 2,589 murders at its peak in 1993. New York peaked at 2,245 murders in 1990.
I think you're right this will be a mixed blessing. There will be companies desperate to raise money, and when a "million bucks of funding" is at stake some companies will spend a lot of time and energy creating noise and spam. In fact you might find that the companies who are making great progress spend less time promoting themselves, because they're busy kicking ass. (We've already seen behaviors similar to that at Wefunder.)

My hope is that the noise most people hear will be like my experience with Kickstarter: I only hear about the projects that are up-and-coming and have merit.
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Yes, either the slides are wrong, and they don't mean "direct access" the way we're thinking about it, and they may be referring to those "lock boxes" or those "secure FTP" connections that the companies use to send them the requested data - or they've managed to hack these companies somehow, and they just aren't aware of it. This is assuming the companies didn't allow them to put backdoors on their servers.

Either way, the tapping of cables is bad enough.
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I'm not sure how people are just now realizing that Orson Scott Card is a terrible person.

Orson Scott Card Has Always Been an Asshat (2005): http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2005/5/28/22428/7034

ender and hitler: sympathy for the superman (20 years later) (2007): http://peachfront.diaryland.com/enderhitlte.html

Creating the Innocent Killer: Ender's Game, Intention, and Morality (2004): http://www4.ncsu.edu/~tenshi/Killer_000.htm
Given how the situation is playing out in Egypt, I'd say this assessment is spot-on.
I remember a few years ago or so Google was saying China hacked into the access meant for law enforcement.

This might be what the slides meant. And the NSA has already lied under oath to congress. Maybe even twice.
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Not saying anything would say a lot. It would be enough to affect consumer confidence in that products are not being accessed by the NSA.
disarm them. Reply to their tweet/post saying you feel sorry they had to work so late, hopefully it will calm down for them soon. When it does they should join you for the exciting/fun/relaxing `insert activity` you're doing right now while they're at work.
Once again, I suggest everyone interested read James Bamford's book Shadow Factory.

All these revelations regarding call metadata, PRISM collection (albeit under a different codename at the time), modern fiber taps, and even more are covered.

You'll learn about how they shave fiber optic cables in order to intercept traffic and not be detected. You'll find out about the various facilities already reported, along with others like the NSA Georgia facility. You'll find out exactly where on what beach these fiber lines run in and out of. It's a very well-researched book.

You'll learn a lot more than what's been verified with these leaks.

http://www.amazon.com/The-Shadow-Factory-Eavesdropping-Ameri...
"Elbowfish, a game studio in Portland Oregon whose projects feature renderings from local artists, want to create a whole series of “meaningful games,” or “fun games that make you think.” Elbowfish is working with PandaGM, who manufactured Pandemic, among others. This is a huge vote in their favor.

The premise of Antimatter Matters seems simple: players try to build an atom by amassing the correct elementary particles. I’ve always wanted to do that! As expected, there are challenges, including antimatter collisions, cosmic radiation, solar flares, and the one I most look forward to, “quantum entanglement.”

The game takes place in the near(ish) future, in a space laboratory orbiting Earth. Players race to become the first human to successfully construct matter from particles, including quarks. Elbowfish describes Antimatter Matters as “set-collection and pattern-building” game that “balances deliberate strategic choices, surprising interactions with other players and the unpredictable nature of the universe.” This game sounds better and better!

Unlike Risk, an average game takes about 45 minutes to play, and in one of its most exciting features, the game can be played competitively or cooperatively. Antimatter Matters, then, would be suitable not just for vacations, but also for classrooms.

Donors to the Kickstarter campaign get a variety of awards (including the game itself) depending on their pledge amounts. The campaign ends in a few days and is still about $10,000 short of its $33,000 goal. If the goal is met, rewards will be delivered by the end of this year, and you know what that means — Antimatter Matters for Christmas! Nothing like a little quantum physics to spread yule-time cheer and to make those quarrels between relatives even more entertaining."
The data is as accurate as Crunchbase is. And I suspect that all companies listed were once startups.
Folders? Pretty please....
But I am not giving them useful information, nor am I paying for those services.
I think that might have been intentional :)
Heaven forbid that the peasants should get to decide what to do with their money.
I use Arq as well. Easily one of the best backup options for Macs.
> I believe lifting this ban increases the noise significantly without much boost to the signal.

I think you are correct but only if you consider everything in aggregate.

There will be channels set up that will significantly boost the signal to noise ratio that could not exist under current rules. Channels like crowdfunding sites that /will/ collect information that the SEC might not require but will be useful for potential investors.

I, for one, will be seeking out these channels and vetting them for myself and will recommend the same to anyone who asks.

There is going to be turbulence while people find the balance but I still think this will be an overall win.
It's great to see that more people are waking up to the fact that working hard != progress. You can work hard, spin your wheels and not actually make progress towards your long or short term goals.
We need to be aware of the opportunity cost of everything we do, especially time spent working. Most salaried employees realize that they're trading time for money; a mindset that leads them down a path to being less efficient with their time, the companies value of them and team progress.
I have a team mate that bucks this trend. When he hits his goals for the week/sprint/deadline, he takes time off. Over the years, he's gotten quicker & more efficient. Now, he regularly hits his goals early and takes more & more time off, while still earning the same salary.

Of all the places I've lived, San Francisco is the closest to a meritocracy I've seen. At least people here are more open to idea of reward structures based on results rather than proxies. But, even here the mindset exists.

I don't blame the companies or hiring practices as much as I blame bad management. Building a culture of efficiency over emotional commitment is important. People need to be better at setting achievable goals and tracking their progress towards them.

There are companies out there that have seen the light. Pivotal Labs has a great culture based on a simple idea - be highly efficient and engaged from 9am to 5pm. Then, go out in the world and live your life.
The real problem is IDEs; the JVM is also a resource hog; however, you can run lots of server software on small hardware; heck, my RaspberryPi runs mysql, postgresql and apache (and PHP), plus a django app, and has only 256MB RAM; it's not blazingly fast, and you wouldn't use this in production, but for development ...
imho that irritates me more than the mac one since it's information and the mac one is a product review so the scrolling kind of gives you a way to get a feel for the product. Although it does have a working scroll bar which the mac one lack.

On any of these how the hell am I supposed to navigate to a specific topic? or link any one to a specific point. The mac one does have tiny dots on the side. I think many people wouldn't even notice them.

The entire scroll hack just seems like a gimmicky, non-intuitive, time consuming alternative to using a slider to forward though a animation/video or some kind of navigation buttons with an animated transition. Or just play a regular movie/animation.
I still prefer local storage and self-hosted storage, but what I'd like is a good plugin for Lightroom to manage cloud storage and multiple, versioned USB drives (or network locations) for images, from within the Lightroom interface.

(for local storage, once you go beyond individual USB drives, I'd go with a Synology 1813+ NAS ($999 chassis, 8-bay) or an Areca ARC-8050 thunderbolt raid ($1499, 8-bay).)
> I have a deep and abiding faith in the masses of ordinary people.

Why? Didn't a mass of ordinary people once support Hitler? Didn't a mass of ordinary American people once own slaves? Don't a mass of ordinary American people now become riled upon like monkeys over the words 'socialism' and 'Muslims'? Isn't there another rising tide of racism towards black youth (because of the social unrest in their communities -- with the flash mobs and all: http://www.jsonline.com/news/milwaukee/112807564.html?page=1

I think you're also underestimating the gov't's ability to shape public opinion, subtly through both propaganda and surveillance. Hollywood has been in bed with American gov't for a long long time as was pointed out by another user:

"The major exception here is the Department of Defense, which has an ‘open’ but barely publicized relationship with Tinsel Town, whereby, in exchange for advice, men and invaluable equipment, such as aircraft carriers and helicopters, the Pentagon routinely demands flattering script alterations."

http://www.globalresearch.ca/lights-camera-covert-action-the... http://original.antiwar.com/sean-a-mcelwee/2013/04/28/propag...

Do you recall any big American movie in the last decade (or even more) that painted America's military in a non-positive light? I don't.

And re: current surveillance, hasn't the gov't now practically established a Panopticon? http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2013/06/07/2120141/why-the-...
These come from the NSA originally - so it's probably SOP to make slight changes to every page of every document each time it is released to someone, so that they can track the exact source and path of any leaks.
First of all, you're talking about "workaholism." I'm not. I'm saying that there's nothing wrong with working extremely hard and that it doesn't imply inefficiency of less 'smart' work. Realize that there are things that are actually inherently hard and that you might, just maybe, need to work more than 35 hours a week to get them finished!

Also, the Steve Jobs quote is cute, but doesn't really address what I'm saying. Steve Jobs is purely saying that Bill Gates should have probably enjoyed his life more, but that doesn't mean he couldn't also work hard. There are actually 168 hours in a week. You can work for 60 hours and still drop acid, it turns out. You don't have to call it quits at 35 hours because you're supposedly working 'smarter' and Steve Jobs definitely didn't.
The problem is that employers actually believe you can glean something useful from a resume. In my hiring experience, the quality of a resume is very rarely correlated with the quality of the candidate.

The majority of the time candidates look much better on paper than in person. I gave up the belief long ago that resumes can be filtered meaningfully.
That would be such a wonderful world where people don't get their panties in a knot over the words used instead of the message.

Instead you seem to want a world where the message is ignored, the messenger is shot and everyone is offended because he used the word fuck.
That's a relatively recent phenomenon that comes at the tail end of something that has been happening for many decades now.
? Try clicking on the language. It says there were around 30 languages influenced by C++ and around 6 that influenced C++.
This page and video are really really good.

I'm pretty sure that more than a few people are going to watch this and choose to not quit learning how to dance, as it can be super frustrating and seemingly impossible at first.
Well -- as long as you have unexplained, undocumented "solutions" in your closed source corporate controlled democratic product, why was I worried, silly me!
I've always wanted to work on this, but didn't want to work on the stereotypical nth photo sharing/management startup, especially with other projects taking up my time.
Thanks for this! I've been looking for more to read (I just went back and re-read 1984).

... I thought one of the points of Fiber was that you couldn't tap in without disturbing the optical signal? Did I just make that up in my head?
He's autobiography on his time in the CIA, "See No Evil" is also interesting (and depressing).

edit: While we're on the subject of sci-fi and capitalism; I highly recommend Bruce Sterling's latest book, the Zenith Angle: http://www.amazon.com/The-Zenith-Angle-Bruce-Sterling/dp/034...
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The job of the US' domestic police force is to serve and protect; the job of the military is to defend the nation against foreign enemies. When police forces become militaristic, the citizens become the foreign enemy.
Exactly, one or both of these slides has been edited. I doubt that someone went back to the NSA to get "the latest version" that makes me wonder who did the editing and what was their motivation? Did the guardian change the map to make it more relevant to the "global nature" of their coverage? Did someone change it for WaPo to make it seem more credible? And the redacting part, who redacted it and why? Neither slide would have been released as part of a FOIA request it seems, so why the redactions? To make it look more "confidential" ? (there have been suggestions that redactions add 'authenticity' to purported documents from governments). Frankly it raises a lot more questions than it answers.
A lot of popular opinions are also terribly wrong. I'm referring to the fact that popular opinion should not prevent people from reading an alternate viewpoint to begin with. If all we're allowed to read and discuss are popular opinions, there's a lot of potentially valuable information we're missing. People here can read, discuss facts, debunk falsehoods and make up their own minds.
Some high-end laptops do take those issues into account.

Here's a video of a Thinkpad drinking a full glass of water while playing a video: http://youtu.be/1SWi6LlFGjk

Here's a video of a Thinkpad taking lightning bolts from a pair of Van de Graff generators for a whole minute without any problems: http://youtu.be/JXsDfuVctFk

Resistance to common household wear and tear such as spilled drinks or being struck by lightning is certainly a rare quality in a machine, but it's not unheard of.
It isn't, in some way. PowerPoint let's you "mask" images. That is, bundle the entire image in the PPT but crop and zoom it. Of course, whoever did that slide zoomed into the US. It isn't a purpose-made image, but rather, one illustrating how traffic flows to and from the U.S.

Fits perfectly with the "different software" idea. Pages, Google Docs, OpenOffice and even different versions of Office produce different results with the same PowerPoint.
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I find that having a list of technologies is useful... often people ask ask something like "do you know java?" and this makes that question easier to answer. (Because they often can't be bothered to actually read the experience section word for word.)

Or I might not take pains to find some way to mention every single technology I used in my experience. For instance there are about 17 technologies I use currently, if I were to try to name-drop every single one of them it would end up looking like a laundry list anyway, and not interesting to read. Better to focus on what you accomplished and dump the technology list into its own section, IMO.
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Wasn't that the idea behind "bitcasa" ?

-> https://www.bitcasa.com/
In general, perhaps not. But my mom is one of the least technically-savvy people I know (superceded by my grandmother), and she uses it. Mainly because she for some reason figured it was more convenient to share posts with a "Family" circle than it was to write e-mails cc'ed to all her kids. And my mom never did get around to Facebook.

Anecdote, I know... but hey, it's an existence proof, at least.
Also listed would be years of experience, in the first iteration. In a later one, I'd want to replace that with some way of evaluating directly a person's general skill level on a scale like this: http://michaelochurch.wordpress.com/2013/04/22/gervais-macle... That would take a long time to figure out, though: how to evaluate programmers in the general case.

3 points of Machine Learning with 20+ years of experience (or 2.0 level skill) is different from 3 points from a fresh college student. The first means he's probably an expert; the second means he specialized in it while in school.

Resumes have two purposes. One is to give a list of topics one is willing to discuss in the interview. The second is to project social status (i.e. lie). So you have a mix of self-evaluations and lies on a resume. The latter don't have signal, but the former do. The reason for the 10-point allocation is that self-evaluation has a great deal of signal if a person is expected to trade off one claim against another ("i.e. I know Java but I'm really good at Python" vs. "yeah, I'm an expert in all languages").
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I'm glad to hear you're up and running and funded Kyle. I was a bit wary to donate (though I did), as I feared that the idea wouldn't get going. But it's an important thing. There needs to be a place where people (youngsters) can just play with HTML.

I hope that the focus continues to be on providing a space for people to create their first website. I think there's pressure to make this more about providing a safe uncensored haven for free speech, but geocities was great because it gave people a way into website design. You don't need SSL. You just need a place for uploading and creating web pages.

You don't need a Terms of Service.

Anyway - personal visions vary, and it's probably best not to focus on the tiny areas where we may disagree. Good luck with this. I really mean that.
So perhaps Google⊉ might have been a more accurate name?
As I just pointed out, whether a theory is effective or not is irrelevant, the question is whether it is true or not. So I reinterpreted the original point so it actually made sense, and rightly so.

You are not only confused about that, but you're also incredibly arrogant (in that you think you discern dishonest motives with such sparse evidence).
There is a tendency for people that are less skilled to pad their resume a bit to try and give the appearance of being more rounded and knowledgeable. This backfires for a couple reasons. The first reason is that it is fairly well-known and accepted now that people who list too much are usually trying to compensate, and are stigmatized. The second reason is that these candidates, if chosen, may be asked about the technology in an interview and will not be able to answer tech questions about the technology.

I would think that those in the know will limit the amount of technologies they list based on the job spec and their experience level. It isn't really useful to list something that you read one article about.
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The peasants still don't get to decide: if they're not accredited investors, they cannot invest. This to prevent exploitation of unsophisticated investors. During the Great Depression, many small time investors, including many blue collar workers, lost their entire investment portfolio due to the lack of security and oversight in the investment world.
Please don't implement this design.

Current one is thousand times better. Minimalistic is more natural for this kind of sites.
1) Prioritize my happiness. That will make me care and will get more productivity out of me, ultimately.

2) Let me estimate my own work. Make it somewhat flexible (within reason). Don't tie me to point systems or other work estimation methodologies; they are all worse than an intelligent human knowing what you're up to and many kinds of "work" are not accounted for in such systems (assisting coworkers, mentoring, researching etc.)

3) Don't block Internet sites. Trust me to use what is available to me to DO my job instead of DODGE my job.

4) 12-2pm is lunch AND outdoors/physical exercise time. No exceptions. Work hours are 9am-noon and 2pm-5pm. Get your things done and focus and then get the heck out and enjoy your life. If you finish early, leave early. Just be here more or less on time at 9am.
Yes, but if you're using short tags, things can be better ;)

<? if($foo) { ?>
<b><?= $bar ?></b>
<? } ?>

True, it's not as nice as a templating language, but then again, it doesn't have the aforementioned limitations either. Inlining views is a choice, it tend to avoid this. Just because templating engines prevent this pattern doesn't mean you'll be forced to use it in plain PHP.

Re-interpreting templates is also an interesting case. Of course, native templates will pretty much always be faster so the need to cache isn't as pressing. But still, with the built-in output buffer functions it's easy to do something like

do_some_caching(function() {
include('sometemplate');
});
Okay, thanks for the teenage-level politics. What do you suggest as an actual alternative? How do you personally know those alternatives are safer or more secure? How would you construct a recommendation for a small or medium company that relies on Skype/MS Office/Google to use alternatives and how would you train non-tech savvy employees? With what time and money?

That's why people are downvoting you. Not because they disagree but because your comment provides no actual information.
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