skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because he's clearly not very experienced in this. Apparently his video (when it was up) had confidential information shown in it: https://twitter.com/ibrahimbalic/status/359347248473190402. Who the hell flouts confidential information in a public fashion? There's a interview with him with English subtitles here: http://video.ntvmsnbc.com/applei-sarsan-turk-yazilimci-ntvms..., where he says some interesting things near the end. It looks like he used a struts2 vulnerability, HN had a discussion about this 2 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6080620, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6082599. He basically did what Weeve did, except Weeve is in confinement now.
Yeah, but the reason its the hedonic treadmill is because when you ask people of any income bracket if they have enough money, they almost all say that they need 15-20% more.

High income doesn't always imply high net worth. In 2011, fewer than 1.1% of households had over $5 million in assets. Given that at least 98.9% of households don't actually have enough money to provide moderately high current income indefinitely, everyone thinking they need 15-20% more is more of an indication of a failure in planning and basic financial literacy, not an indicator that they don't actually need more money. I think I need $10-20 million, indexed in real terms, assuming I don't step up my quality of life expectations, which is more than 20% beyond what I have today.

Think of it this way, you're walking down the street in San Francisco, and you get attacked by a hobo (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/11/naked-subway-man-vi...), which causes brain damage, leaving you unable to work in your current profession. How many years until you have to make a serious quality of life reduction?

The whole hedonic treadmill is kind of like saying that even the people with the most food today, think they will likely need more food in the future, which isn't really shocking.
I don't really have a fool proof way yet. I do approve all the job postings before they go out. I think it might be hard to profile job posters because a lot of them are probably going to be first time posters.
(most frequently) Nature.com, Sciencemag.org, Ars Technica, AnandTech (least frequently)
Have you come across http://tosdr.org/ yet? Not precisely what you're talking about, but it does seem they take it into account in their ratings
Nope, it is a Very Good idea to charge to join a job site. That allows to avoid sinking in a flood of spam applications from people from ugg... 'low-cost destinations' which kills most job sites. I'd even charge more, when the customer will see a site where they don't have to look through endless and endless pages of outright spam, they will flock in.

After all, there is too much free stuff on the internet now. With current bandwidth and server costs, a few bucks can go a long way, and if that makes a huge added value by itself, why not?
Unnecessary use of literally. Unnecessary italics.
The point is that the _aim_ is to ship a high-sec device. Normal-spec devices will be available from other sources.

We don't know what the final spec of the Edge will be, and the CPU hasn't been chosen. However, it will be able to use parts that are available for a small production run (40k) but not a large one (4 million etc).
I really considered having a summary of each job free members see and then one paid members see. I may go back to that.
I created a video to help explain what I made:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMs-4lPhJl0

Thanks
This time they're completely changing the architecture, though, but Nvidia is also known for huge delays, so not sure how that will work out for them. I think Kepler was already supposed to be in Tegra 4. And now they only get one extra year to port Maxwell to Tegra 6, after they put Kepler in Tegra 5.

So I'm a little skeptical, too - but maybe not so much on the performance side (as they say, it's hugely scalable, and has OpenGL API support that is simply unmatchable by the competition over the next few years), but about power consumption.

They say it's very efficient and uses very little power, but lately Nvidia's focus has been too much on performance, and too little on power consumption. Here's a tip for you Nvidia: If your chip can't be put in a phone, don't call it a "mobile" chip.

I think that's how all mobile chip makers should think. Because at least then, they can make a very efficient chip that helps a phone last for 2 days, and for tablets they just scale up from that and overclock it or add more cores. But if they do it the other way around, they'll get greedy and want to put too much performance in it, and force OEM's to use bigger and bigger batteries (which adds to the cost, and so on). Or it forces the chip makers to fork the chip line, into a lower-end more efficient one, and a higher-end more performance oriented one, like it happened to both Nvidia and ARM.

Another tip for Nvidia: When in doubt, use the smaller process node. They failed to do that with Tegra 3, when everyone else moved early to 28/32nm, and they paid a huge price for it in the market, in both lost branding and lost customers. So next time, choose the smaller process node, even if it's more expensive. It will be worth it, because both OEM's and customers will be asking for it. So what I'm saying is Tegra 5 needs to be 20nm next year, not 28nm.
Fashion can be copied, as far as I understand it. Planet Money did an entire show on it, "Stealing Our Way to a T-Shirt": http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2011/01/26/130838159/the-tues...

And they link to a law paper, "The Piracy Paradox: Innovation and Intellectual Property in Fashion Design" (http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=878401) by Kal Raustiala and Christopher Jon Sprigman that says: "Yet a significant empirical anomaly exists: the global fashion industry, which produces a huge variety of creative goods without strong IP protection. Copying is rampant as the orthodox account would predict."

Perhaps what you mean is that you can't claim that a knock-off is from one of the big names in fashion? Because it looks like people copy the designs frequently. Fashion, however, is partly about status, and people attribute status to brands. So even though if a design is similar, people may not value it as high simply because it doesn't have the "right" brand on it.
Integrating C++ with QML
> This will flood the world with startup capital, allowing more breathing room for real innovation (read: world-changing) to occur.

I wonder if this isn't over optimistic. I find it too easy to imagine that even more money would upend the productive world while frantically scrambling for the next hypersocialgamified instacandygrambook.
Sorry, but I can't agree with that attitude, at least not from a motivational perspective. With that view, why bother coming down from the trees in the first place?

The mindset you describe is good to make yourself happy, and useful in that context, but useless to make your life better (by any metric).

I believe one can be both happy and have the ambition to continually make the world a better place through one's achievements.
I strongly disagree that the "high-quality" code is high-quality. The variable names are way too long making them hard to read if you had 1000s of lines of them.
> Also won't help you get a date. The reasons are not uncorrelated.

Depends on the girl. Depends on you also. The label "Intelligent" as it applies to tech is slightly correlated with other traits like social awkwardness, spending 8 hours of your room locked in a room looking at fast moving flashing objects, inability to talk about anything else than those things. Be interesting. Highlight decorrelation. Acquire dates.

> what helps you in business is empathy: being able to assess what someone wants and being able to use the analytical skills you do have to give them that.

Oh for sure, this is true even in Academia. I was supposed to go do my PhD with a guy who was at the top of his field. Incredible mathematician/engineer. Guy was an asshole. My research advisor at that time told me straight out that he thought that would be a bad idea. Much later, I found out that every one of his students left one year after. So he spends most of his days studentless, publishing papers alone. This leads to lack of tenure: scaling of paper publishing requires additional resources.
I know bands that have "kicked" in the remainder to reach goal at the 11th hour. Probably waaaay more common than you'd imagine.
It would be fantastic if convergence devices like Ubuntu Edge could use this in both a mobile as well as a "docked" power state.

The way I'm envisioning it, the processor would detect when the device is docked in a full power desktop or notebook configuration. At that point it would switch to a higher power profile for PC gaming and work station class as computing tasks.
> I mean, if you have a keyboard & monitor handy, how hard is it to have a PC too?

> Am I missing the point entirely?

I believe one of the key points is that multiple computers suck. You have to sync/merge data, you have to sync/merge emails (unless you have your private IMAP server), you have to sync/merge chat logs, you have to upgrade software in multiple places…

I am really happy I got rid off my desktop a few years back and am now using only a notebook with a docking station at home and a phone. If I could only have a phone, that would be heaven on earth.
> every email sent through services like MailChimp

Unfortunately not all companies are as virtuous as MailChimp. What I've found is that despite unsubscribing various things happen like the unsubscribe link takes you to a 404 or 500 or the company doesn't actually unsubscribe you.

Why does it take "up to a week" for some companies to unsubscribe you anyway? Are the batch processes that long for something like unsubscribing? There should be some kind of global business rule that suppresses emails to non-subscribers instantly.
> There is pretty substancial technological gulf opening up between the "ruling class" and the "reasonably well educated folks" out there.

Pretty sure it's been there from the start. Read up on the EFF's founding.
PC's can/could via PAE. Each application could only address 4GB (of which some would need to be set aside for mapping in other stuff than application data). Don't know if 32bit ARMs support hacks like that, though.
2 years for alleged treason and endangering the lives of Americans? Some how I think not.
Dismissing Courier as monospaced font and suggesting his own: http://www.fontbureau.com/fonts/AlixFB/characters/

Look at that, the lowercase L looks like a one.
It says you can add whitelists.
Ubuntu Edge: The desktop-replacement smartphone that’s doomed to fail
I totally understand as you would need to somehow attract job postings to bring more developers to the site (or vice versa). I guess once the site picks up, and both companies and freelancers see the value, then you can come up with a way to verify jobs. Best of luck.
Based on the numbers given on that page 16% of female CS grads are black, but given the US population is only 12% black doesn't that mean that black female CS grads are over-represented compared to non-black females ?

Seems to be a pretty good indicator that it's the gender issue that needs addressing and not the racial one.
You need both to have either. If your business lacks a purpose/mission, it will probably not make that much money. And if it lacks a clear and strong desire for money, it will probably not achieve any useful purpose, or at least not on any scale.

Probably worth making that point separately in a later article. Thanks for bringing it up!
On Related Note; Any news for OpenMP with LLVM?
In my own case, I'm planning on buying an iPad. I'm not though, because I don't know when the next one is coming out. The "fixed-ish" release cycle can work against you in this way - I don't know how many people are currently holding off purchase, and how much inventory they're sat on, but it wouldn't surprise me if people are now trained in to significantly more spike-based cyclic buying patterns than they've previously been.
The Challenges Of Being A Solo Developer
Oh, crap - sorry - posted the wrong link. My fault entirely - I'd done a different search in between searching for the previous submission of this, and submitting that link.

I meant this:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6089264
It's much more complicated to get to LatAm from Vladivostok than an Aeroflot flight from Moscow. I think there's simply no direct flights - it's not an airline hub.
The 2013 Lulu Entrepreneurship Games Finalists [ncsu.edu]
Microsoft is doomed, but first it’s going to make a ton of money
Well I am sure there will be a youtube tutorial about how to disable the porn filters in a couple of days after this goes into effect.
I think we focus on tech and consumers startup because of sample bias. We ourselves are techies; journalists at large are general consumers and so over-report things they are familiar with.

But most of the flows of money in the world are actually between businesses as they progressively transform products en route to the final consumer. And businesses are, in some ways, much easier to sell to.

Not an original idea. I got it from reading Hayek: http://chester.id.au/2013/01/05/on-selling-to-consumers/
Probably this in reference to the steel towers and girders upon which the cameras are mounted.
Looks like they're probably letting people through if they've entered the pledge process while there were free slots even if all were filled by the time they completed it.
Isn't it the same for every politician?
>can any one name one [...] perfect country

No.
So, anyone with less than 15-20 million in the bank is financially insecure.

Depending on your age, yes. If you are old enough you can draw down your savings, though that's a tricky game because if you live too long you run out of money. If you can't stop working and maintain a comfortable standard of living for the rest of your life, you are financially insecure.

Is it just me or is there a serious lack of perspective going on here?

There is, you should really try to figure out what you would actually need to live the rest of your life comfortably if you were unable to work. Maybe you want to live like a college student forever, in which case, you would probably need less than $10 million, but if you don't, taking 70% of your salary as an assumption, then multiplying that by 100 wouldn't be a terrible estimate.
Apple won't become cheaper.

They'll release a cheaper version for the asian market (not the richer countries).

They are coöperating with car dealers / manufacturers with car / iOS integration and they'll hope their future money comes from there (difference car and iOS price is still huge, so people would easier buy an expensive iOS device)

They'll release a new tv and new watch with again, higher margins then the rest. Some of their current customer base will still buy them.

Overall market share will drop, margins will keep steady.

In 3-4 years, apple sees that they have to release a low-budget device because their market share is insignificant and Android has a market dominance (on phones and tablets)

Their bet on full integration on the car will be wrong, because Google was 10 steps ahead in that direction (AOPK and automatic driving cars anyone ..)

PS. Bought an Android device, using Tasker and Autovoice with NFC... Beat that :)
Note that I'm working on this (slowly), and things of interest can/should be put here: https://github.com/mozilla/rust/wiki/Lib-rand
Library author here. Will try to answer any questions!

Edit: Direct link to the project homepage http://ractivejs.org
Why not, she is now a celebrity in Russia that is hosting a TV show and works as a model. As such it would seem natural to me that she is using social media.

What is surreal to me is that a spy turned into a celebrity in the first place.
Wade Not In Unknown Waters: Part Two
Why?

He is no threat to Russia or Putin what so ever. All the information he has is out or in the hands of others. On top of that, Putin is hardly likely to do anything to him apart from send him to the US as some sort of present, since the worlds media will be watching.

Seem to me a lot of this FSB ownership stuff is prejudiced (pre-judged) scare mongering, and simply designed to undermine Snowden and his actions.

I see no reason for the FSB to "control" Snowden at all. Monitor, of course, but who wouldn't? Even if the UK gave him asylum, we'd monitor his whereabouts.
I really don't think it does. I think the author rightly points out that while intelligence (as we measure it - ie an ability to solve abstract problems) is useful in particular situations (generally involving complicated technical work), it's not the limiting factor which determines success in other areas. I think the message to take away from this is that if people describe you as "intelligent", you shouldn't rest on your laurels. Intelligence is just a small part of the toolkit required to be successful in business.

The reality is that in the real world you need other skills to succeed in business. The article linked resonates with my experiences in large, engineering dominated companies. Those who rise to the top do so not because of their technical skills but because of their ability to work with people. Those with poor social skills don't move up the hierarchy. Of course technical skills remain important even up the chain - a project manager needs to be able to understand what's happening below him - but there is far less need for the ability to solve complicated or abstract problems.

Success is measured in a lot of ways, and this is just applied to business. In other areas (perhaps academia, large companies which value techical work, open source projects) intelligence correlates more directly with success.
Absolutely. I think a lot of what we're seeing here is largely the result of process reduction. That's not to say that improved design isn't at play as well, but the sub-30nm processes seem to have been a threshold for "desktop-performance" processing at size and power levels which can be truly mobile. Further, graphics processors always benefit tremendously from process reduction because they're essentially just very large arrays of very simple processors.

On the power front, smaller process means less energy needed to switch transistors. To illustrate the point, I was working with some 22nm NAND flash at my last job. In order to better understand the the characteristics of the chip's raw bit errors (errors before error correction is applied) we had a lengthy conversation with one of Micron's engineers. It turns out that in a 22nm NAND chip, the difference between a set and an unset bit is approximately the charge equivalent of 8 electrons.
Is there anything we can practically do to support this guy? I think he gets a lot of stuff right and I want to show my support. But I have no idea how to do that other than posting a comment on HN. Probably not what he had intended.
Being In The Minority Can Cost You And Your Company
I think the appeal of making Mars trips one-way comes from the romanticization of the early American settlements and not primarily from technical concerns. From a technical perspective, having return capabilities adds complication in the short run, but it also solves a lot of problems (technical, administrative, logistical, and psychological).

Total colony failure is a real danger for Mars colonization, as it was for historical settlers. If our first Mars colony is a total loss, you can bet there won't be another one. If Martian settlers had space faring capabilities they could avert this scenario and potentially even return to Earth if things got out of control.

Establishing back-and-forth routes, both slow robotic ones, as well as the occasional human shuttle, means Mars will be a real extension of Earth instead of a stagnant, extreme colony. It means there will be pressure for technological advancement in this area which wouldn't be necessary if we had just a big one-way rocket. Without this pressure, spaceship design and propulsion won't get a significant boost.

If we choose to put this one-way barrier up, let's not kid ourselves, it will be because it's dramatic and romantic. In the short term, this decision will put human lives in danger. It will stifle innovation by willfully ignoring a big tech application. Over the long term, if the colony survives, it will lead to a technologically superior Mars that has no meaningful ties to Earth - and with that, potentially, war.

Having a two-way system in place will most likely finally commoditize space travel and in one fell swoop will eliminate all the problems I talked about.

> Perhaps it is the idea of people dying in space and the publicity from that that worries those in charge.

Humans will die "in space" anyway. If we choose to venture out into the solar system, people are going to die out there. As I said, a one-way transport system combined with a loss of the first colony will result in a lot of deaths and it will result in a total cancellation of any further colonization efforts.

Making transports one-way is a choice, not a necessity. I would argue it's an illogical one with very impractical consequences.
This article is conflating "calling someone smart" and "implying the person has bad social skills".

If you have good social skills, they'll be evident as soon as you are introduced to someone, no matter how you are initially described. Look that person in the eye & shake their hand (or do whatever culture dictates you do). That's more of an impression than what someone else says.

Even if the way you are described is what sticks out most, and your intelligence is stronger than your social skills or experience, that does not imply (and I really don't think most infer) that you have "negative" social skills. You could have "good" social skills (or experience) that is just outweighed by "excellent" intelligence, or even neutral social skills.

A sample comparison: When you say someone has a nice personality, is does not mean they're also ugly.
Denmark has a similar filter (except less effective, it relies on corporation by the DNS providers so all you have to do is use googles DNS) the list itself is secret but it was leaked to wikileaks. On it was several CP sites that were hosted in europe and were shutdown within days, as well as a ton of gay porn and a Duch truck rental company.

The official response? We will consider adding wikileaks to the list of banned sites, for some reason this was never accepted.
That could be done via 3rd party like Ukraine without direct involvement or even awareness of Russian government.
Don't be at all put off by the opening statement.

Most definitely worth reading even if you end up disagreeing with some of it.
You're assuming the money is invested only as cash in the bank. It's quite possible to make considerably above inflation with other investments, and anyone with that amount of money is very likely to have a range of investment types.
This is the first time I've gotten a youtube comment on HN.

fuckwit?
Strollers and stupidity.
Yes, it is. But the difference is this is with your facebook friends so that you can actually find out who likes you back in real life.
Reminiscing.
But nobody is suggesting that. It'd be an additional $605. You didn't feel that the 625/830 price of the phone was worth it to you. The people who did already chose to donate for the "goodwill funding of the project" -- with $625+.
> If your chip can't be put in a phone, don't call it a "mobile" chip.

I think this is a case of semantic collision. For quite a long time "mobile graphics" meant "laptop graphics."
Maybe, but as long as one kid knows how to get around it the rest will ask him.
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