skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ubuntuforums.org compromised
Just got this email

"""
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You are receiving this message because you have an account registered with this
address on ubuntuforums.org.

The Ubuntu forums software was compromised by an external attacker. As a
result, the attacker has gained access to read your username, email address and
an encrypted copy of your password from the forum database.

If you have used this password and email address to authenticate at any other
website, you are urged to reset the password on those accounts immediately as
the attacker may be able to use the compromised personal information to access
these other accounts. It is important to have a distinct password for different
accounts.

The ubuntuforums.org website is currently offline and we are working to restore
this service. Please take the time to change your ubuntuforums.org account
password when service is restored.

We apologize for any inconvenience to the Ubuntu community, thank you for your
understanding.

The Canonical Sysadmins.
"""
Nothing much. No new base model for a year, and a rumoured Retina mini around the corner made people wait out.

Now, here's a better question: what the Heck Happened to good journalism?
I tend to agree; I wouldn't start a business at least solely with my most intelligent acquaintances. I'd start a business with people who are intelligent enough, social, motivated, and perhaps slightly dysfunctional and have something to prove. If you're a HN reader type, you don't need another you in order to start a successful business, you need a !you.
Yep. Got this from a live blog that Greenwald tweeted a little while ago.

"Federal migration service has not issued documents allowing Edward Snowden to leave the airport yet, there was a misinformation today in the media, said Kucherena."

http://english.ruvr.ru/2013_07_24/Edward-Snowden-leaves-Sher...
Given that breasts are primarily for small children to drink from, to suggest it is damaging for small children to see them isn't just controversial, it is the height of bewildering and crazy idiocy from someone who must be so unconnected with reality that if they ever accidentally encountered a rational train of thought, they'd probably try to throw themselves under it.

And it wasn't rage, it was accuracy.
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Ractive.js has some things in common with Facebook React, if you guys are interested in declarative DOM, react merits close study. React diverges from Ractive (and other databinding "things") by removing almost all mutation of models from the programming model, which removes a lot of complexity and is a pretty big deal.

http://facebook.github.io/react/

edit: upon closer study, Ractive seems to be more similar to React than I first thought.
You're talking about logical possibilities -- yes it is logically possible that someone could be called smart when their best quality is actually tap dancing. Author is talking about why people introduce you as the smart guy, and not the friendly guy or the guy who gets shit done. Because they are speaking a code, of sorts, in that they are attempting to portray you in a positive light but your intelligence is actually not a highly-valued trait.

If, when asked "what did you think of that woman you saw last night?" your response is that she has a nice personality then yes, people will assume she is homely. If you were excited about her looks, your answer (it's assumed) would've been about how attractive she is. Maybe you meant to describe her personality irrespective of her looks, but that's not how people will interpret your message.

Communicating is about talking to people in a way that they understand you. So you could sit there cross-armed and insistent that you are not insinuating anything against her looks, as there is no logical interpretation of your statement which requires that conclusion. But, then, you would probably be the person this post is most for.
I looked at the site but didn't see any examples of your work. Where can I find your portfolio?
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>> healthy majority of Keynesians

I don't disagree with the general text of your post, but this is really, really school dependent. I would actually bet it's easier to find non-Keynesian professors.

Kenynesian theory is also a pretty "pro-market" approach when compared to some theories that exist outside the US. Government intervention is generally supposed to be limited to periods of recession.
Ya, I think that's actually the mark of a great manager... making sure he's got fodder for the inevitable wood chipper so to speak.
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I'm speaking based on the premise of the article: "To clarify, I don’t mean people don’t value intelligence. They don’t value when it’s their most important value."

The author's argument is that people in business don't value an IQ score in the abstract. But they do value qualities like "gets things done" which are often result of 1) figuring out someone's problem; and 2) applying intelligence to solve that problem. In dating, being "interesting" is often the result of 1) figuring out what makes someone tick; and 2) applying intelligence to impress that person on their own terms.
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That URL is SO depressing...

It could almost be the masterpiece of a tumblr blog on top technology companies using crapware for themselves.
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Legit! Great stuff!!
I, personally find content on Twitter, something I'm able to skip over pretty quickly as compared to Facebook where social context is key. Negativity, hence, doesn't really matter, does it?
Same thing happened to me. I couldn't even look up reviews of pubs.

The funny thing is, mobile porn is a killer app for 3G/4G operators, having the potential to consume so much billable data.
Game dev certainly also requires a lot of high-level architecture work. Making a good modern game basically requires being world-class at everything, all at once.
The really huge question is what will the battery life be. A pocket-sized device which only has 3 hours of battery life is not going to be interesting to me.
I totally agree that wanting to make money to provide a better life for yourself and family is very laudable. However, the article didn't mention the greatest creator of wealth in the world, which is compound interest and time. You don't have to do something big to have big money. Consistently saving over decades is how most people achieve financial security. For more than just security, the standard way to get rich is to start your own business. Even a small business, if it succeeds and lasts five years, should be a cash cow for life. The richest guy I know runs a single dog kennel, for example.
If it's a limited edition, how good will device support be after a couple of years ?
I wonder what Linux distribution he used.
That's one problem. Another problem is bad estimates of how much the razors cost and/or how much profit they're actually making on the razor blades.
The morality of politicians are extremely relevant because it is another stick we can use against this. It might not have been relevant in an Oxbrige debate club but politics is war by other means and in war you shouldn't give a hoot about the truth.
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You'd need a fully fledged desktop to make it work. Is there a project like that in existence which you could just install on a random smartphone? I haven't heard of one.
You'll get sued for disclosing the data to a newspaper, not for looking at them in the hospital.
> Author Jane Austen is to feature on the next £10 note, the Bank of England says, "avoiding a long-term absence of women represented on banknotes".

The Queen is not female?
> OpenGL ES was a way to pass the buck to developers so companies could save money. Since the OpenGL fixed function pipeline could have been implemented to some degree above OpenGL ES (but never was)

Wasn't the fixed-function pipeline in OpenGL ES 1, and removed from 2.0 following the OpenGL 3.0 -> 3.1 transition?
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It's actually the opposite, Intel gives out their driver for old hardware, but for the recent GMA 500 they didn't yet do that. So you're 'almost' right with Intel[1], but how is that making my entire statement wrong? AMD and Nvidia and many other graphics hardware vendors don't open source their driver, but that is not the main problem. The problem is that they don't care for the Linux/Unix platform enough to make their drivers actually stable or good enough.

And yes, that's why I believe that there needs something to be done in order to get Graphics Hardware vendors do a better job with their linux drivers.

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphics_hardware_and_FOSS#Inte...
Well, you can easily make it a direct flight. I have no idea how much hiring a pilot and a plane capable of crossing the pacific non-stop costs, but it's probably well within his (or his supporters) means.

By complicated I mainly meant the countries he does not have to fly over.
I'd suggest you look up Russia and the length of its border on Google Maps and then think again about the feasibility of razor wire fences and mile wide minefields.
There is definitely a law of diminishing returns in a lot of cases with intelligence. People who are just that tiny bit too bright are, not to put to fine a point on it, a bit strange.

99% of anything you want to achieve in business or life you need to work through people to achieve, so people skills are just as important.
The statistics I can find suggest that as a very broad population-level trend, having high income does correlate with having high net worth (though the causation could be complex). Here's some data from the federal reserve (skip to table 5 on p. 36): http://www.federalreserve.gov/pubs/feds/2009/200913/200913pa...

The relationship seems strongest at the top: the average net worth of someone with a top-1% income is 40x the U.S. mean net worth. People with 95th-99th percentile incomes are at about 7x the mean net worth; those with 90th-95th percentile incomes are at about 2x the mean net worth; those with 50th-90th percentile incomes are at 2/3rds the mean, and those in the bottom 50% of incomes, roughly 1/20th of the mean.

So the people with really high incomes (say, $300k+) seem to, as a general trend, also have substantial wealth, whether because they accumulated it, or already had it. It would be interesting to have more fine-grained data on net-worth distributions within each of those income categories.
Very few thoughts or ideas are ultimately original :)

One thing that struck me from what you said is that its up to techs to learn to relate to the rest of the world trying to make their lives easier with tech, and for the most part, are ending up working for technology, instead of technology working for them.
I like it! Easily build a pretty page, drop in a 'lil angularJs app & go. Too bad I'm not a mac guy...
It seemed appropriate given the way you approach sex.

I thought about a more polite way of phrasing it, but nothing else seemed quite as succinct and to the point.
Whenever you're launching a product in a market that a lot of other people have already entered, you need to explain how you are different.

Perhaps you could data mine the popularity of skills - or locations - on both the supply and demand side and do something with that. For one, it would tell developers what skills are in high demand, and perhaps something could be done about that. That would set your service apart from the rest, just as an example.
You definitely can sell solutions around saving costs, but you can also sell solutions designed to cut opportunity costs. There often isn't a technical distinction here, but the psychological difference can be huge and the value of cutting opportunity costs can be much higher than the value of reducing labor costs.

For example, some businesses are at capacity because they have some bottleneck that they can't break through with their existing processes. Often you can create software that helps them eliminate some of their bottlenecks and thereby make it possible for them to capture money that they know they have been leaving on the table. They'll value this much higher than a product that would just save them money on labor costs in my experience. And if you can figure out a way to tie the cost of your product directly to their profit, you'll create a feedback loop that will be very valuable to both you and your customers.
Think Osama bin Laden granting asylum to Snowden in some remote Taliban camp.

Strange, I am Russian and have been living in Russia for 5 years now (and before that for 20 years in the UK and Holland). And I cannot agree with your Taliban analogy even remotely. Actually, life in Russia today in some ways feels more free than in Europe. For example you don't need to be politically correct (self-censoring) when expressing your private or political views. And one can still (for now) smoke in pubs here ;)
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To me, this isn't so much the problem as the realities of producing a phone with a Bill of Materials like the one they're intending.

I can't imagine that spec sheet, at the end of 2013/beginning of 2014, is going to be cheap. They'd be hard pressed to manufacture this phone at all, let alone with sapphire screens and such.

Think of it this way, Samsung won't even broker a discussion about RAM unless you order >100k units. If they sold 32M of phones at $600, that's about 53k handsets, which is about half of an initial production run for any serious manufacturer.

I'm bearish, but I'd be thrilled if we had another competitor against iOS and Android. Blackberry and WP8 are not real contenders, Canonical could easily get the 3rd slot.
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Nice strawman there, dude
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Not sure. The wikipedia article is quite interesting.. (1) At least when I was a kid, in Germany, it was very common culture to go swimming in the lake without clothes, and with the whole family. (There was a section on that lake where you had to wear bathing clothes. It was nearly empty.)

(1)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naturism (also contains pictures of naked people, Sherlock)

edit: Reading on in the German article.. it states that the market for nudist holidays in Germany is estimated to be around 10 million people, 1/8th of the population. Also, Germany seems to be the most relaxed of the Western countries in this issue. The history is quite interesting.
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It's clearly possible that in the future, consumers might purchase 3D models to download and print any regular household item, fixing or spare part on-demand.

Would you buy a print-your-own ink cartridge kit if we made one and if it was cheaper than buying a ready-made cartridge?
Also won't help you get a date. The reasons are not uncorrelated.

Well, yes and no. High cognitive ability is correlated with an ability to deconstruct the input-output responses of females.

However, it's also correlated with referring to "flirting with girls" by such absurd phrases as "deconstruct the input-output responses of females".

The trouble is that demonstrating social intelligence in real life requires a lot of dealing with ambiguity, situations where there is no one right answer, frustration, blurred lines, rejection, and other stuff that male geeks tend not to handle as well as the average male who doesn't overthink stuff as much.
I definitely don't have this problem, but if I did, I'm pretty sure it would help me identify the kinda of people I'd want in my life.
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I could run it directly out of a ramdisk, or maybe transfer it to an embedded processor that can run it directly off the flash chip without even a processor cache. There's a whole variety of ridiculous things I could do to avoid the ridiculous restriction.

In practice I would trust fair use and try to use such as a defense if sued.
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Definitely. Ractive has superficial similarities to Angular (e.g. Mustache templates) but is probably closer to React in concept. Poking under the hood of React is high on my todo list.

I'm interested to know what you mean by 'removing almost all mutation of models'?
Our generation also works with companies that deal out untold amounts of abuse. Microsoft, Apple, Sun, Amazon; all have numerous stories of abuse by leadership and down the pipe. People suck it up and deal or they leave.
I gave up on this article half-way through. Author's use of grammar is shocking.
If you can't stop working and maintain a comfortable standard of living for the rest of your life, you are financially insecure.

So if you are 25 years old and cannot retire today and never work a day for the rest of your life, you are financially insecure?
I can't trust anyone who spells 'purpose' as 'porpoise' even if English isn't his first language.
It sounds like you're pretty confused about most people's reasons for caring about money. Making sure you have enough money to not need to worry about money is pretty much the entire goal for most people
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Apple is clearly the wrong choice, then. Go with a vendor that allows people to own their own equipment, and not one that installs a data collection interface on it.

>sync protocol that leaks

Que? The sync protocol had better be open, or it's worthless.
Because people found that it has something insightful to add to the conversation? Even as a wrong opinion to be corrected with their comments.

Now why does your content-free comment deserves to be here?
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I have screens at home, and I have computers at home, but I'd be happy to get one of these so I can do stuff in the garden, or at a coffee shop, and then carry on at home.

Some people just want a tiny computer for a bit of email, a bit of social media and some cat videos, with the occasional office document creation and reading.

BYOD could really use something like this.
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Why assume he's being irresponsible ? People generally have more knowledge about themselves than a random observer on the web.
So, this is ... "porn theater"?

Gosh, can't understand how an MP and member of his community could possibly be in favor of that.
It's a great talk, and I wish I'd seen it. I found myself nodding quite a lot, despite not being a designer (though I used to play one before I got in to tech/code). And in many ways he's right.

But I did find myself questioning the premise towards the end. Why do we want to save "the web" in the form it was? Apps, etc. are different. Certainly they raise the barriers between the average user and creation in the way that the web traditionally didn't.

But to do well on the web these days - is that really as easy it was anyway? The standards are more complex. If you want to stand out in a real way that's probably going to take something like an App's worth of effort.

So do we want to encourage the web - a small and quite specific (and, perhaps, time-bound) layer? Or do we want to be focusing on the internet? Because that's doing great. I hear it's huge. And all of these apps - well, they use the internet, just maybe not the web.

I don't know what the next 20 years will look like (I do remember what things looked like from about '96 onwards, when I first started dabbling) but I think we should stand a little further back than trying to maintain something because "it was great". Maybe it was, but maybe it's not the right answer for the future.

EDIT: (To reply to some of the comments/downvotes)

I wasn't suggesting a world of Apps. I was suggesting a world of "other" approaches. The internet is also open and standards based. There are many standards which don't sit on top of HTTP. What I meant to point out is that the internet is not the web - and perhaps a new world of standards between connected devices, physical things, etc. will be a much richer place than a document-centric world. It's merely an idea, not a statement against openness.
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In my view, none of the Operating Systems available on current phones are suitable for the kind of desktop work I do. This is an actual Linux based phone, not just a Linux kernel with a VM that runs some phone apps. As a Linux hacker I feel like I could do quite a lot with this phone.
If you want to support him personally, he has a book on typography also currently at the top of HN, which includes a page with products he offers (fonts, and books) and his email for the various money-sending platforms.

If you mean supporting his cause... yeah, I don't know. I'm not on the W3C board either.

http://practicaltypography.com/how-to-pay-for-this-book.html
> "Microsoft is doomed, but first it’s going to make a ton of money" ...

... by milking the trapped, a.k.a. raising the price of client access licenses here and there - which incidentally explains why it still looks like a profitable company on the enterprise side of the equation.
47 minutes old and it's already filling with spam. Of the seven gigs listed thus far, two are recruiter spam, and two are full time jobs (though at least seemingly from real companies).

I think you're about to learn what happens if you don't charge companies to post job listings.
Or to give it a slightly less linkbaity headline:

"Microsoft's current strategy and product range has a limited lifespan, but it's so cash rich it could just buy it's way into growth markets"

So, really, it's not doomed or dissimilar to most other mature large companies.
While it is almost always nicer to have videos attached to slideshows, I am quite sure we would miss out on plenty of excellent content if this idea was implemented. After all, you only see so many videoless slideshows here because your peers have found, enjoyed, submitted and up voted them...