skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
unlike Chemists who can't bundle up their lab into a little transportable box, Computer Scientists can

This is often a good thing for scientific progress in chemistry, though. Independent reproduction in independent labs gives a lot more confidence in results than shipping the exact same lab around would. A lot of interesting results come up due to issues in replication, which you wouldn't find if you just literally reran the identical experiment on the identical equipment.

That said, being able to look at and experiment with someone's original apparatus is better than nothing.
Yes, if you have nothing of interest for the NSA. Otherwise almost every encryption could be subverted with an access to the servers and soldering gun - you just touch the body of the guy that has knowledge of the keys on the (im)proper places with it.
Oh neat, I've got one of these!

But I've got DD-WRT on there, so I'm... good to go?

uPNP has been a no-go security wise for a while now though, hasn't it?
I would not want to work in an environment where mistakes are punished by a shouting tyrant. Even if I know I should not make those mistakes.

It does not matter that he does this to people he knows well and perhaps can even handle this kind of verbal abuse. He does this publicly to the entire world which is not acceptable in my book.
I spent a lot of time as a hobbyist using Reason. I found it super fun to play with, but I ran into two problems:

1. I almost never actually finished anything in it. That's a problem for me in general, but Reason exacerbates it. There are so many knobs to tweak, that I often ended up mired in the minutia of tweaking sounds. I found it hard to stay high level and focus on the music.

2. Compared to, say whaling on a real guitar or keyboard, I found Reason sounded very "dry" out of the box. To get something that didn't sound cheap or reedy, I had to do a lot of set-up: make a synth or two, wire them through a few effects and EQ, tweak everything, add some reverb, tweak some more. I felt like I wanted to decorate a cake, but Reason forced me to go out and thresh some wheat first. This level of control is really powerful if you're into sound design, but made it hard for me to make songs and music.

Of course, your mileage may vary. As far as fun toy to play with, though, Reason is a blast. I spent many a happy hour tweaking and playing with little loops.
I've thought about that, but mosquito's are small and hard to detect. You'd need quite a high resolution camera (or realistically two, to compensate for the parallax between the camera and the laser) combined with some serious software to spot mosquitos at the other end of the room.
These guys do it.

https://www.gobbler.com/
If they violated a core principle of yours? Sure thing! :)
AI has been saying things like this since it was founded.

1957 "there are now in the world machines that think, that learn, that create"

1961 "The processes of thinking can no longer be regarded as completely mysterious" in regards to the early General Problem Solver.

...

The list goes on and on.

This isn't to say that AI research isn't important, wonderful, creates enormous value to society (relational databases anyone) and has inherent value in the quest for knowledge, but such absurd claims have hurt AI more than helped it (note that absurd claims in physics have not had the same negative effect). See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_winter
The reality is that most people (probably even including you) cannot do this 100%.

All people definitely can do this. They just choose not to.

I won't say that I always do, but I try to keep it mind. Its a lesson I really try to internalize.

Try this thought experiment. Let's say I show up at your office with a duffel bag filled with $1M cash ... and I said to you, snowwrestler 'I'm now going to make a bunch of nasty and insulting comments to you ... if you can laugh it off with a smile you get this giant bag of cash', I suspect you could find it in you to absolutely ignore everything I said and happily focus on the giant bag of cash sitting in front of you.
The US wants him in custody, and they think he's a criminal. I don't credit the administration for a devious plot here.

The political staff may be agonizing over talking points, but the real chess game is about catching the king. I don't think Obama and Putin were chatting about smearing Snowden, but rather about what the US will give Russia if Snowden is sent home, or prevented from going to South America.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosquito_laser

Oddly enough, Intellectual Ventures invented this.
> I stopped attending classes during high school

You got away with that? Count yourself extremely lucky.
>You're shedding your DNA everywhere you go. It's not hard to collect a sample.

Interestingly, 23andme addresses this by requiring a quite large saliva sample. The theory being that with such a large sample required you will not be able to gather enough spit from someone surreptitiously to get their genetic profile.

It took me about 10 minutes to generate enough spit to put into the test tube to reach it to the marked fill level. It took longer because you're not allowed to drink anything for a period of time before you collect the sample.
If you want flat use Ableton Live. They've been flat since before flat was cool, and it's a much better DAW IMO.
IV did develop this... http://intellectualventureslab.com/?page_id=563
yeah, that's the problem of mint. They don't support dist-upgrade so, when they release a new version, you are supposed to reinstall the full os or try yourself a dist-upgrade changing manually all the repos and being careful with confilcts (and there will be often).

In my opinion that is a nonsense
The entire US Department of the Interior (~71k employees) switched to gmail this year. It seems to have gone pretty well. The most common complaint I've heard is that gmail doesn't support the custom smiley faces that Lotus did.

The inbox size vastly increased (500MB => 30GB) which makes the record keeping much easier, just never delete anything. Before we had to empty our mail into offline archives.

Everyone still uses office for word processing and spreadsheets. The online storage is nice for sharing files though.
Not personally, but heard this a few days ago:
http://www.blubrry.com/theeconomist/1795098/kal-kal-kallaugh...
File permissions aren't nearly enough here. He had access to their network systems, so you'd need encryption in transit as well, and a thousand other safeguards at both the software and hardware level.

Not to mention, Snowden was an offensive cybersecurity researcher. He knew the NSA's safeguards in and out, and thus was intimately familiar with their weaknesses. He could most likely plant malware wherever he wanted. If you think security at that level is as trivial as file permissions, you haven't thought through the problem realistically.

This is all of course, speculation. My main point is that, regardless of the reasoning or other theoretical designs, current NSA systems do not appear to have fine grained unbreakable access control.
> I don't even know why the state would need to go through 23andme.

Need, maybe not - but it's infinitely easier to send a single letter to a single company than to follow 100,000 individuals around, establish their identity and then pick up their cigarette butts.

Same deal with the phone metadata collection. You want to know if Joe Badguy is up to something, keeping poor company or hanging around the bad part of town? Much easier to pull up his cell phone and credit card data than to put a watch on him.
Probably this one:

http://newbornbloodspot.screening.nhs.uk/

Mind you - it looks like a pretty sensible project, but I can see how people might have privacy concerns about it.
I have no academic credentials to discredit her writing, and I probably won't read it because I'm not a misguided MRA, but my bullshit alarms are ringing wildly from having read the synopsis. The whole thing seems to be based around a preconceived notion of what a 'boy' should be, and that's flawed in itself.
That's very true. Thank you for that well reasoned response. I suppose Ubuntu as a "brand" is getting more and more inseparable form Unity from the user perspective, which is unfortunate, since there are so many flavors to choose from.

Side note: Edubuntu with KDE was installed recently on a friend who runs a daycare. It was very well received by both children and staff.
I've tried this and it didn't work for me at all. Mosquitos love my wife, so she rubbed the dryer sheet on her exposed skin. Result: completely covered in mosquito bites.
Design solves problems. That's it.

Projecting these terms and trends only serves to handicap those who choose to emulate over develop a grasp on the fundamentals of problem solving.
Thanks! Looks promising, I'll need to give it a try.
They raised $1bn because they had 30+ exits with large returns, $2.5 billion annual revenue, and over 1000 employees to help realize this. The pitch deck is irrelevant and won't help you make your pitch.
Good question. History (IBM) suggests that they can probably muddle through.

IBM just laid off over 3,000 people last month. To quote pg, "Consulting is where product companies go to die. IBM is the most famous example." http://paulgraham.com/startupfunding.html

Will google apps stay cheap if googles golden goose (advertising) declines?

No.

Nothing lasts forever. No matter how much we want to think that major corporations are permanent institutions, they have a lifecycle, and when they lose control of their market they may continue along for quite a while in a zombie-like state, but eventually they will wither away and die. Someone outside of Google will eventually figure out a better way to do online advertising, and Google will find itself in the position that Microsoft is in today.

Microsoft is trying really hard to get a new lease on life through a product pivot, but I'm just not sure it's even possible at this point. Their products are generally more expensive and not convincingly better than the competition's.
Something to consider as well: if Russian or Chinese intelligence agencies image those laptops and it does not cost lives, but causes the failure of many ongoing operations, is he still a coward?
That's what errbit is for. You only have to use the Airbrake libraries for reporting the errors, and errbit hosted locally collects/notifies/displays them.

If you already integrated with Airbrake, you just have to reconfigure the host it reports to, to your own errbit server and it'll swap everything over from deploy tracking to error reporting.

Errbit is an active project, https://github.com/errbit/errbit, and error reporting libraries don't tend to need a lot of maintenance.
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In what way did cheese1756 badmouth Reddit?
This was told to me in my first year in school. When in doubt ask seniors and not sophomores.
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Indeed it indicates that the bikes are about 40 years old - and that they were not a new idea at the time, and references the Long John Bikes from 1920s in the 4th paragraph. http://www.google.com/search?q=long+john+bike

http://www.christianiabikes.com indicates 30 years for this particular iteration.
This is really a question for stack-exchange. Try sending from webmail client perhaps?
This looks great. The pitch correction tools are gonna make it a lot easier for that pop singers to sound great even if they aren't. I also REALLY like the iPad remote feature.
Just for fun, here's some graphs. (http://imgur.com/a/dlhna)

PS: Thanks mods, for editing the URL!
Seriously, what does this have to do with HN?

There is precisely nothing in here to do with software or computer science, startup culture, civil liberties (which is naturally relevant to the internet), mathematics, problem solving, or design.
A preventive measure by the C-level management will yield results: a person working overtime, must take a documented approval from the PM. The incentive bonus for the PM must be negatively linked to the number of overtime hours spent by the team members.
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Try out netminds:
http://netminds.com/
An arbitrary solution to an arbitrary problem, neither interesting or innovative.
The fact that the Marshmallow Test predicts life quality doesn't mean that genetics do not. The marshmallow test may (or may not) simply reflect underlying traits that are genetically determined.
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The problem is that some of MS products have really nonsense license costs.
I just say: MSQL server.
Even though it's not its highlight feature, New Relic. Its panoply of other amazing features make it well worth it.
Somebody tell Nathan Myhrvold so he can come in and sue everybody in this thread for reading about his intellectual property.
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Publicity and visibility will be your biggest challenge. There's a reason Charles Dickens was on an American reading tour in 1867-1868: visibility and publicity.

Here's an example of a graphic novel self published, initial print run crowd funded.
A Possibly useful example.

Jason Brubaker developed a following for years by blog, showing the actual pages and process for creating his intended book. Then he took his community to kickstarter to fund the initial print run, and initial orders too, and initial publicity beyond his blog (aside from guest posts at other comic author blogs). He's done a second one book the same way, too.

The book: reMind

His fundraising story:
"Grassroots Funding with Kickstarter.com"
http://www.remindblog.com/2010/10/14/grassroots-funding-with...
That depends of what you want. Here we have a seafile server for internal use, you can't do that with dropbox.
A better example for duck typing would be something like:

var my_func(var int_or_string, var int_or_obj) {
...
return int_or_string_result;
}

Simplifies certain operations, complicates debugging. Great for small scripts though.
Is this "revelation" really that interesting? Everyone knows that Microsoft can't fight anyone based on price. Every salesperson in the same situation knows that the only way to fight low price is by selling based on perceived value. "Oracle is expensive, but if you compare its value, it's much cheaper." BMW can't compete vs a Hyundai based on price, they need to compete based on perceived value. For me Hyundai is more than adequate, because I only look at my car as a way to transport myself, not as a status symbol or an extension of my being. For those that do, good for them, and they will find value in a BMW.

Same goes for MSFT vs Linux or GOOG, etc. There's nothing new here.
I second the recommendation for Nathan Barry's book Authority.
One should never work for any management that values hours spent rather than value created. But then, it also translates to work visibly.
I like this video called "Bloopers" featuring some of the successful bot's older family members. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7eUvuruw7E
I doubt that Richard Green had any malicious intentions in his comments; it was probably an innocent mistake. If you look at the literal meaning of what he wrote, you can see that he probably wanted to highlight the diversity. But I don't think you can deny that the wording he chose has unfortunate connotations and I think it's worth pointing that out because those connotations, while subtle and subjective, are real and they can be harmful. I think at the very least we can agree that they have harmed the image of evvnt, which is the opposite of what he intended.

No one is suggesting that women don't like to work together. It's that we don't want to work in a place where the men subconsciously think of us as a temptation, a reward, a decoration, or a commodity. That's the impression that Green's post gives, even though I'm sure that's not what he intended. Does that make sense? I can try to explain better if you have questions.
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This; they could have showed a picture of a cat with that sentence you wrote and been able to raise the same amount.
So basically she implies he is a racist? Is not this even worse abuse than initial Linus rant?
Mosquitoes in the US used to be mostly Aedes, but now there are a lot of Culex, which fly twice as fast (120cm/s, or about 2.7 mph) and are better hunters. The Aedes come into a room, find a wall, and eventually eat, while Culex go straight for the bite. Both of them tend to fly upwind toward meals. I wonder whether fans blow the close mosquitoes away but draw lots more to the area, in search of that good human-food smell the fan disperses.
AT&T Next allows yearly phone upgrades.
> Other examples of tech stacks that are very stable are C, C++, and Fortran.

On the scale of a few years, yes. Assuming you don't depend on external libraries at all.

But I've worked on recompiling more than enough C code in the 15-20 year range or older that contained sufficient assumptions - some valid then, some that just happened to work then - that are no longer valid on most common architectures.

If you care about recomputability for <5 years, you can probably get away with "just" shipping a bundle with the code and any library dependencies. If you care about anything more than that, you're on shaky ground very quickly.

On the other hand, we have javascript emulators for a bunch of 30+ year old architectures. As it happens, it is becoming increasingly clear that targeting hardware stacks is far more stable than trying to re-assemble a software stack.
That website looks like it was designed right around Windows 3.11's release. Yikes.
we'll have to agree to disagree. The fundamental claim that I simply don't accept is that people can't handle words. I disagree. People have the capacity to handle anything that is said to them.

Psychological abuse is just as real to the brain as physical abuse is to the skin and muscle beneath.

a. I'm skeptical of this claim. Would like to see your source
b. Only to the extent you allow it. That's one of the defining features of being a human. I can actually say to myself 'pull it together, words are meaningless' or 'this guy is an ignorant, why would I care what he says'.
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All 11 years of my work experience thus far is in the defense industry, so keep that in mind as I state the following.

I have yet to see an instance where salary scaled 1:1 with time put in. Where I used to work, the people that busted their asses for 50+ hours week in and week out, showing they were "team players", might get a 6% raise at review time instead of a 2% raise for a strict 8-5 engineer. They might also get a few thousand in extra bonuses, if their department has funding for them. After a while they might get to the point where they were making enough extra to justify the effort, but "a while" could be 10 years or more.

Note that I am specifically avoiding any discussion of non-monetary considerations and that my analysis sounds rather mercenary. I am specifically trying to address the issue of engineers making more money for being expected to put in more effort. Discussion of the non-monetary considerations could be a lengthy tangent on its own.
Not so sure. Didn't he tell an entire company to go fuck themselves and throw them the middle finger on public video?

And as a bonus, I think it resulted in a positive outcome.

http://www.ubergizmo.com/2012/06/nvidia-addresses-linus-torv...
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Good thing I bought Logic 9 four weeks ago...
Only hike into a head wind.
Reducing The Roots of Some Evil aka remove unused CA certificates
When I was in college dorm (in China), I used to put a table lamp on the floor, turned toward my feet and legs, which was fairly effective. Mosquitoes don't like lights.
Well, with Photoshop you don't really have competition. There are a lot of players in the music editing business. Competition = lower prices.
You think that some spook is going to follow you around to collect DNA and then send it to 23aM? I think the parent commenter was probably under the impression that if the government was going to surreptitiously acquire your DNA they could probably find some testing facilities of their own.
Google TV's biggest hurdle was content companies breaking desktop video sites and demanding special treatment, effectively based on screen size.
Publicity and visibility will be your biggest challenge. There's a reason Charles Dickens was on an American reading tour in 1867-1868: visibility and publicity.

Here's an example of a graphic novel self published, initial print run crowd funded.

A possibly useful example.

Jason Brubaker developed a following for years by blog, showing the actual pages and process for creating his intended book. Then he took his community to kickstarter to fund the initial print run, and initial orders too, and initial publicity beyond his blog (aside from guest posts at other comic author blogs). He's done a second one book the same way, too.

The book: reMind

See his page on his process for more details:
http://www.remindblog.com/making-graphic-novels/

His Kickstarter order-genrating and fundraising story:
"Grassroots Funding with Kickstarter.com"
http://www.remindblog.com/2010/10/14/grassroots-funding-with...
Reminder: the real reason Snowden cannot walk out of the airport not because of some virtual passport that US "revoked". It is because there are real armed obedient guys on the border who will not let Snowden go his way.

This whole story is not about privacy, spying or politics. It is about your personal inability to choose your phone company, internet provider, or a bank without confronting armed "state" which dictates what is allowed to you. Don't like NSA spying through Verizon? Build your own phone company. Oops, there are feds with an order to "cooperate".

Guns and violence are the problem, not all these abstract things like "rights" or "privacy".
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Anytime one of these "Linus is too harsh" topics comes up, it always seems like he's completely reasonable and level headed. I'd like to see the whole thread here so we know why he accused her of playing the victim card.
Or, this will be rightly construed as an inability to get along with your colleagues and you will be fired.

"Because he's bad at his job" is not a defence for any kind of abuse.
Spend a summer up in the Yukon or Alaska if you want to see solid walls of ravenous mosquitoes.

I get bitten while riding my bike, bitten while my arm is out of the car window driving at 30km/h, and bitten through jeans. 100% DEET (you can get it in Alaska) does the trick for about 30 minutes before you have to re-apply - and it's nasty stuff.

This past weekend I was camping at a music festival and slapped my arm casually, and killed 14 mosquitoes with the one slap.....

A fan? That will do nothing.

The mosquitoes will mostly be gone in another month, then it's No CM and black fly season, until it gets below freezing in ~September.
By extension, you should avoid working for companies whose customers pay more attention to hours billed than products delivered.
I agree that there isn't anything particularly interesting in this article. However, where does it state that HN should only have articles about "software or computer science, startup culture, civil liberties (which is naturally relevant to the internet), mathematics, problem solving, or design"...?
That kind of audience is a great starting point for a Kickstarter if you're looking to raise funds. I'm currently in the process of self-publishing a technical book. My Kickstarter is wrapping up soon, and it's done really well [1].

[1] http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1223051718/practical-fla...
I can't figure out why anyone would want to go this route. Phone cost will be on top of the normal plan price and AT&T gets your old phone when you upgrade (so you can't sell it to make back some of the cost). I assume AT&T decided to offer this plan because there are people dumb enough to pay for it. It definitely was not looking out for the consumer.