skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And here we go, it only took 2 days. the story is a fabrication http://appleinsider.com/articles/13/07/27/samsung-has-not-de...

They compared estimates (made up numbers remember) but for Apple they used some calculation of net profit, for Samsung they did not. A choice quote

"In other words, in order to report that "Samsung has finally succeeded in becoming the handset industry's largest and most profitable vendor," Strategy Analytics had to compare Samsung's entire PC and device business with only half of Apple's."

So basically anti-Apple propaganda, all lies and lapped up by the fandroids.

Fascinatingly a submission reporting this story has been flagged so it can no longer be upvoted.
Looks like it's been updated now, but I can't edit my comment, alas.

As a topical comment, the research on this subject is still pretty uncertain, though with some interesting studies. A somewhat-contrary finding is that one proxy measure of altruism, probability of a dropped letter being returned, was found to be lower in poorer neighborhoods of the UK: http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjourna...

The authors of that study have a brief discussion of possible differences in the scenarios:

Our overall findings replicate and expand on previous studies using similar methodology [9], [10] but are in contrast with the findings of Piff et al [11] who find that wealthy individuals in Berkeley, U.S.A. are more likely to not give way to other cars or pedestrians, and are more likely to behave selfishly or unethically in economic games. One possible explanation for these contradictory results is that Piff et al [11] findings are likely due to individual level differences, whilst our findings may stem mainly from contextual neighbourhood effects. Therefore our results may not be in conflict, if good socio-economic conditions in an area lead to increased trust and long-term thinking, even though, within any one neighbourhood, wealthier individuals are less altruistic than poorer people. If this is the case, we would predict that the lost letters in our experiment were more likely to be returned by the poorer individuals in the area, and that the wealthy residents of Berkeley would behave even less altruistic when in a poorer neighbourhoods. These latter hypotheses have yet to be tested. Alternatively, these contradictory results may be highlighting domain specific differences of altruistic behaviour between rich and poor people; for example anti-social behaviours involving competition (such as aggressive driving or cheating in an economic game) may be more common amongst the wealthy, whereas in a non-competitive task (such as returning a lost letter) wealthy individuals behave more altruistically than poor individuals.

In this study, we have shown that individuals living in poor neighbourhoods are less altruistic than individuals living in wealthier neighbourhoods. However, we have not been able to identify the specific neighbourhood characteristic behind this, due to income being strongly correlated with other factors, such as crime. Further research should focus on attempting to disentangle these two factors, possibly by comparing equally deprived neighbourhoods with different levels of crime.
“Business destroys creativity, self-knowledge, emotional well-being, your ability to be social,” - does not seem to reconcile the partition of mental activity presented in "The Role of deliberate practice in the acquisition of expert performance" (summary: http://blog.vivekhaldar.com/post/3881908748/tldr-summary-the...) - notably, "The importance of rest" has its own section.

Productivity tools are not destructive, they are just useful in context and inefficient when mis-applied - just like any other tool.
This is great.

"Zombie processes haunting the computer"
Can anyone here comment on whether there is enough energy in the infrared spectrum to make this useful?
DH is zero-knowledge in the sense that the two peers have no knowledge of each other, and yet share a knowledge at the end.

Again, I admit my word usage is a little bit liberal, but although I haven't done serious crypto for a couple of years now, I have the strange feeling you are nitpicking. Is it just a feeling? :)

I'm referring to this paper: http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2FBF00124891

Curiously, although I've always preferred DLP-based crypto, I actually never implemented any. So I gladly admit my knowledge of DH key exchange might not be as profound as I would like it to be.
I was YC S2012. Cool.
and what year was this article written?
Studies 1 & 2 didn't examine ethical behavior by any actual determination of social class, but rather by the kind of car a person was driving.

Studies 3 & 4 were conducted entirely with undergraduate participants taking a laboratory class for course credit.

Studies 5 & 7 were done entirely online. It's not clear how participants were recruited.

Study 6 was done by recruiting volunteers through Craigslist with a "chance to win" a $50 gift card.

There's a lot more here to make me skeptical of any conclusions from this "science".

EDIT: Here are the first three tested "unethical behaviors" from study 4[1]:

1. Use office supplies, Xerox machine, and stamps for personal purposes.

2. Make personal long-distance phone calls at work.

3. Waste company time surfing on the internet, playing computer games, and socializing.

They get a little worse, but it's easy to see why some "upper class" respondents might measure as "more unethical" in this survey: Employers who predominantly hire high skill workers for high salary positions generally don't care about these behaviors and employees act and respond accordingly. Does Google consider it unethical if you photocopy a few "Lost Dog" posters?

[1] http://www.pnas.org/content/suppl/2012/02/22/1118373109.DCSu...

EDIT2: Oh god. And as the link danielweber supplies below points out, study 4 wasn't even run with real participants from different classes, instead, "We adopted a paradigm used in past research to activate higher or lower social-class mindsets and examine their effects on behavior."

That a paper like this can be published (and funded by the NSF!) seems like an awful reflection of the state of the social sciences.
PBS did a piece entitled Exploring the Psychology of Wealth, 'Pernicious' Effects of Economic Inequality with Paul Piff (one of the authors of this paper) [1].

[1] http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/business/jan-june13/makingsen...
Not surprising at all. In fact, this is pseudoscience and has nothing to do with research.

There have been custom built electronics available for years, some disguised as simple mp3 players.
Here's a nice tutorial to get you started: http://dev-scene.com/NDS/Tutorials_Day_1
I'm glad someone brought this up. Someone might be able to start a successful solo business venture without any formal training. But that is very different from being an executive or having some administrative job in a medium or larger-sized company (I am assuming). The guy that started the solo business has that experience, great - but he's only got that perspective of being a business administrator. Do you need formal training to do most of the jobs that MBA's do? Maybe not - but the person who has only done that one solo business probably does not have enough perspective on that either.

In this case, I don't know if the author is only talking about building that one first app, apps in general or programming in general (probably just apps, I reckon). But if the audience is non-programmers who gets the impression that programming is just about "winging it" and that formal education is totally optional#, then it only offers a perspective from a very limited vantage point.

#this could be a valid opinion, but only really interesting to me if it came from an experienced programmer.
This came out a year or two ago and got a bunch of discussion on economics and science blogs.

Here's a pretty critical analysis. http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2012/02/how... "Several of the tests involved people being asked to imagine they were high class, not actual “high class” people themselves."
Most smart people are ambitious and they want to make a high impact on the world. Such people will always want to move on to a position where they can make important decisions about the direction of product and technology - no, we are not talking about which build system to use (gyp? cmake?) or whether the usb protocol should be text based or binary based. Whilst these are important, people want to make decisions like "should chrome os be killed and replaced with android?", "what's the next most important feature required for android?" and so on. Things that change the future of technology.

A company can provide only limited positions for such decision making. So, people move on to startups where they hope their thoughts will shape the future in a big way (future of technology or future of company). Note that this is regardless whether these people are any good at decision making outside their tech expertise. Today's low bootstrap cost startup world makes it possible for them to find out. And that's what they do.
Great attitude. That's like saying people that program in ASM on graphical displays aren't real programmers due to not using the old punchcard system. Get over yourself.
Wait what was the point of this article? Life is 100% subjective?
It seems to me that, rather than making straws and drinks that do this, it would be better to see if it could be incorporated into some kind of nail polish that, once dried, could detect this.

I suggest nail polish for two reasons. One is that it removes the need to carry specialized tools: once you've done your nails, you can test 10 drinks and leave the bottle at home. Not having to carry a tool is somewhat more convenient, but it also means the tool can't be forgotten, lost, stolen, or tampered with.

The other advantage is discretion. It's not difficult, with a setup like this, to test a drink without others knowing what you are doing. It could be argued that people shouldn't mind being tested, but from a pragmatic standpoint, the kind of person who spikes a drink is the kind of person who could very easily become dangerous if they know they're being put to the test. A discreet test, therefore, is a safer test, and since these tests are supposed to be all about safety, it follows that a discreet test is also a better test.
I don't really see the straw man here, but my larger point wasn't about this particular argument at all. Just the fickle commitment to the discussion.
This cribsheet was very handy when I was writing a Z80 emulator.

http://www.otakunozoku.com/nintendo-gameboy-cribsheet/
The rich tend to come from rich families, and it's likely that they model their ethics and behavior on their parents, who may have gotten to where they are through a disregard for ethics.
Meetup Golf - a game I play to keep myself from networking wrong
I think that looking at different parts of a system does in fact help you improve on whatever it is you are doing. Developing an understanding of any system in depth is imperative to getting better. Why would one want to study Calculus if all that person will be doing is programming? Thinking outside the box helps stretch the creative process to cover more than convention allows.
Thanks for posting that, I'm a male who has had the imposter feeling sometimes. However, I eventually realized 2 things:

(a) Learning in any area means learning, among other things, how much there is to know. This makes one feel humble (at best) - yet in reality one's own knowledge is probably way above average by the time you get to this perspective.

(b) Some people who appear competent (and in some cases think themselves competent) really aren't. Don't assume too much in either direction!
Ethical rules exist for a reason - they help people avoid major pitfalls in life with serious consequences.

People from higher social classes have a cushion that protects them from the consequences of their ethical lapses. A mistake that would consign a person of lower-class origins to a life of perpetual poverty or prison is frequently just an inconvenience to a higher-class person.

Because their consequences are less severe, of course the upper classes feel more free to ignore ethical guidelines. The real disaster happens when the lower classes decide to emulate them and get crushed.
And I'm quite sure that the logo's in the link below are intended to be used or are IN use. So, tell me, why are these companies with many highly experienced legal advisers not fighting eachother over a logo?

http://img.ctrlv.in/img/51f6b5b849ebf.jpg
Trigger.io V2.0
But if they're really closures, how can we explain such behaviour?:

http://jsfiddle.net/9uqZg/
There are already one detox http://detox.sourceforge.net/ . It's a file name sanitizer.
I do, but if someone starts using my credit card number the bank is on the hook for whatever they spend, provided I contact the bank as soon as I know it's happening. Yeah, it's still a hassle, but it's mostly just me telling the bank "No, I didn't authorize that charge and I'm not paying for it."

This is not true when someone breaks into my account and spends my savings. Legally the bank isn't obligated to replace the money even if the problem was on their end. I understand they normally do (normally), but even if they do it can take years to get my money back.
I'm not really an expert on this, so this might be a silly question.

How is this better / different than frameworks such as Phonegap and Titanium ?
I would guess (of course this is just an observation, no real evidence) that both scenarios are plausible, and there is actually a feedback loop between them. Roughly:

Superiority complex -> unethical behavior economically -> economic superiority -> increased sense of superiority -> unethical behavior in general -> ad infinitum
When Readergeddon was occurring, my choice of a new reader came down to Old Reader and Feedly. I liked the inherent "craft" feel I got from the Old Reader, but the performance was slower than I wanted.

Kudos to the team for making it available for others to jump in and take over.
I disagree -- really good health/dental/etc. insurance + 401k matching + daycare + maternity/paternity leave + etc. can go FAR in maintaining good retention rates and/or recruiting new talent...though I don't have data off-hand to support the generality of that statement.
Very interesting.

I haven't yet tried Go, but I don't see how it could match the performance of C# API with a single function. C#'s async methods offload any IO to the process IO completion port threads, thus freeing the current thread to do more work.
Nobody could have written this better; I agree with every word of it, and note also that the "feedback loop" of people drawn to HN to discuss politics is a testable assertion, and the testing I've done has backed it up. When you see a political story on HN, click through to its submitter, and look at their history on the site. Not always, but often, the people behind these stories:

* Are relatively new to HN, and

* Participate in HN practically exclusively on political stories.

Another point I might add:

* Political stories drive low-quality sources up the front page. The people running sites like Techdirt and RT know exactly what to say to gin up pageviews, and so it's those sources you'll see anchoring political stories on HN. On controversial topics, people barely read blog posts as it is. But on political stories, not only do we have to deal with knee-jerk comments from people who haven't really read the source, but also with the fact that even reading the story carefully doesn't produce informed commentary (Techdirt, for instance, has a habit of linkjacking and editorializing stories from reported venues like Mother Jones and the Washington Post).
Even with the mil spec transmissions (which by my understanding have un-broken encryption) you could theoretically somehow block 100% data to a receiver, and forward data with timings you want. So long as you are controlling all of the information you don't need to truly understand the cypher text, you are just interfering with the latency.

However this is based on what I can remember from 12 years ago, before I'd had any formal electronics/signals education so I might have some massive miss-conceptions.
Ugh, this is nothing new and the author is relatively uninformed on VoIP in general. SIP trunks got hot in the consumer space around 2005-2006 and there are much better alternatives than the author describes as well as far superior hardware (IMHO that Cisco ATA is junk for the price).

Do your research. Use something like the PBXIAF forums and software if you want a good place to start. If you don't need 911, which all providers have to offer (paid is the Q), leverage GVoice with an Obi (someone already mentioned) if you want to get it on the cheap but have hardware you can grow into an actual PBX.

$0.02.
I stopped reading at "Potential new recruits are asked trick questions like "How many golf balls do you think will fit into a school bus?"
http://philanthropy.com/article/America-s-Generosity-Divide/...

It's actually a pretty comprehensive study, though this article doesn't cover everything discovered, it is still very much worth reading.
Pretty boring if you ask me..
Intentions are good. Wish the internet was too.
Is this symmetric or asymmetric? Seems the keys would only be sensitive if it's the former, given that there (AFAIK) isn't much difference in accuracy between the encrypted and civilian signals anymore. Although, given the very old hardware in the GPS sattelites maybe asymmetric would require too much processing power.
If wishing made it so.
When you recruit straight from universities and try to give the air of being some sort of continuation of university (all those perks that are designed to make people stay on campus as long as possible and/or make people fresh from college feel at home. It really seems like the only thing they are missing are the dorms...), then perhaps you should expect some of your employees to eventually start "graduating".
I went to a job interview last year (at a trendy SF-type start-up) during which the interviewer boasted, "We have amazing catered dinners every night at 7pm." To some, that may sound like a perk. To me, it sounded like late nights. That was actually the red-flag that convinced me I was a bad fit for their culture (despite otherwise having really complementary domain knowledge/skills).

Though I'm not sure how much of that anecdote applies to Google, it's still worth noting that not all perks are interpreted as such by employees.
I can't find the original posting of it, but there was a blog post written a couple of years ago by someone who "didn't want to spend the rest of [their] career finding new ways to get people to click ads".

I wonder if this feeling applies not just to Google Adsense/Adwords team, but ultimately to other Google products, many of which are essentially ways to get people to click ads.
Apparently, one moves up the pay ladder faster by job-hopping.
China: http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2013/07/24/the-two-faux-demo...
It's a reasonably common question and we think we have some quite good answers - you can see a summary on our homepage.

Our customers tell us they choose us vs alternatives for:
- the efficiency of our build / test cycle
- the broader API out of the box including native UI components and integrations with 3rd party SDKs like Facebook, Flurry and Parse
- the ability to push updates to the app without going through the App Store approval process using our Reload feature: https://trigger.io/reload
OP here. That looks awesome -- exactly the kind of thing I want to set up one way or another.

I also want to have a Google Voice-style online interface for voicemail, starting conference calls, etc. I think there's a lot of potential in an open-source web app that has these features and makes the SIP setup stuff a little bit easier than having to go through the general Plivo dashboard.
I've long advocated for refund clauses in royalty settlement agreements, in the eventuality that the patent is invalidated.
Hopefully the people google hire are smart enough to know that there os no such thing as loyality towards employees in business and as a direct consequence there should be none from employees toward businesses, once a better offer is availeble.
I also use voip.ms. Unfortunately their API and features have stagnated for quite a while. Even a basic feature like the ability to upload a voicemail greeting has not been implemented yet.

That being said the features they do have implemented work well and the pricing is attractive.

I can't really tell what Plivo offers other than an API to build custom solutions.
Just a unrelated side note. Why does this page need to break my browser page scrolling via space bar (in Firefox) ?
"A lack of employer loyalty is a defining feature of Generation Y."

Before attempting such overarching explanations, try simpler ones first: It's very easy to change jobs in the Valley due to (i) neutron star -like tech company density and (ii) a social graph that has an unnaturally large number of connections. Both of these stem from how the place got started. Compare the churn rates with, say, Chicago, and you'll see that they are quiet different.

The other important point that this (brain dead) article does not consider is the high rate of learning you experience at these companies. Working at a top company like Google or Facebook or like getting a MS, in perhaps half the time. If you work on the right projects and you pay attention, you can gain tremendous insider knowledge in less than a year, which increases your marketability. Then the salary/position you've been hired for may not be applicable any more.
Do you buy from or sell services to the American market, or a market that recognizes and enforces American patents?

If no, then you're probably okay. Remember "services" can mean anything including DNS, registrar services, or hosting.
Walgreens must pay woman $1.44 million over HIPAA violation
Thanks for the feedback, I had no idea anyone would be bothered by it. It seemed that leaving access to the menu that allows for readers to more quickly and easily browse the site was a positive thing.

That style of menu is all over. Is your annoyance particularly on blogs that use them, or on any site?
That's exactly my point. In the article they highlight the end result, which is frankly boring, instead of the setup, which is where they shine.

There's always a market for well done abstraction.
Put your money where your mouth is. Support a primary challenge against her. If the challenge gets any real momentum at all, she will be forced to recant and change her tone. Consider that the Tea Party actually beat several decades-long Republicans in primary challenges and that our privacy is a nearly universal concern among voters.
OK, /g/entoomen, I will keep saying what I said in one of your threads.

I feel it's strange that your IP is shared to the world together with your public key, so it is, in this sense, anti-anonymous.

You cannot even use it with Tor, because it uses UDP.
I suspect some of the adverse reactions are because of the focus on the 'jr'.

Shouldn't all members of a software development team have a primary (work) objective of delivering the project?
I want to patent The Wave. You know, when you see someone you know, and you raise your arm with your palm facing out, moving your hand in a horizontal motion. Yea, that wave. No one has patented it yet, so I'm going to claim it.
This is how Facebook can avoid imploding
Thanks, very helpful. Congratulations on shipping 2.0 !
So what if I made immutable. You can only set once and unpack to a function that can name the values. I could also drop the valueOf usage.

Does that sound saner? It is definitely simpler and a lot closer to an actual tuple implementation.

I want to turn this into a small repository so maybe I will take the little good bits and drop anything unnecessary.
Very nice. I liked the screen rotation in the death world.