skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This doesn't make any sense since the founders of the company getting acquihired stand to gain a considerable amount of money from the acquisition. They'll still end up getting paid more than existing employees. In fact, they may get a "signing bonus" which exceeds the entire lifetime earnings of the existing employees.

Besides, very few companies are transparent with salaries. If yours is not, that means that salary negotiation is not always fair to existing employees and they don't want you to know that. (It could also mean salary negotiation is unfair to the new hire as well.)
Do you mean, "Let's not pay taxes" as a revolutionary tactic? Would that really work in the world of complex financial instruments, deficit spending, international aid, etc?

The implicit violence argument behind taxes never held a lot of water with me. I pay taxes because I like interstates, Pell grants, enforcement of certain federal regulations (environmental, labor, etc), among other things.
How does this solve the issue with intercepting SSL traffic? Without "content" there isn't much to go on in deciding how you could use the packets?
Thunderbolt is just pci-express in new clothes, so yes, it does.
That line caught me off guard. In New Jersey they do charge sales tax. All contractors (plumbers, remodelers, electricians)are required to charge and file sales tax on services that are done as maintenance.

There is something called "exempt capital improvements" and they do not get taxed. Basically, new kitchen remodel doesn't get taxed, but fixing a broken faucet does. Repair a cracked bathtub? Taxed. Rip it out and remodel the bathroom? No tax.
Suddenly that advice from Paul Graham about "do things that don't scale" make even more sense.

If you want a space and its profits all to yourself, pick something that has a high barrier to entry, and isn't easily scalable. The more something takes time, effort, money, skill, talent, and endurance the less competitors you'll have.
Lots of stuff wrong with what you've written:

* I made an analogy, of course it isn't a virus - it's information that would have the possibility to wreak havoc if in the wrong hands.

* Nothing has happened to Snowden yet other than being made an enemy of the state. The fact that he is alive is somewhat of a testament to how much he hasn't released.

* Nothing of the sort, don't twist my words. Computers are notoriously hard to localize when connected to any network at all, local included. The CIA hacked the firmware of Iranian centrifuges through a massive widespread worm on _all_ computers that were later connected to the nuclear facilities network. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuxnet)

* Your location data is a tiny bit of the information that is stored. Phone records, internet usage by downloads and web sites visited, text messages, etc.. are all being logged by the NSA.

* It's a work of excessive circumstance, it serves to show an extreme -- give you what would result once steps cross bounds, and don't recede.
Ask HN: What conferences are you attending this winter?
Is there a conference you're anticipating in between SEP-DEC 2013?
Big deal, it's not really in use. If you really want to stick it to the US refuse to allow the TSA access to your passenger data. Refuse to give the IRS financial information. Toss out the entire US military from their bases. Then maybe I will think there is real outrage.
I have no doubt that this will spread. I'm almost surprised that it hasn't taken off before now. But as for the people of Mass., they won't be rolling over and "giving". It is money that will be taken. That's one of the big differences between a tax, and government "revenue", and the way a business makes its money.
It is not! Works on Linux, Mac and Windows.
I've looked at six or seven different companies named Rockwell from a Google search, help me out here. edit: I guess Google Images would be a natural idea: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rockwell_International
It's for me to decide if I think the government is "taking care that the laws are faithfully executed", as the Constitution requires of the Executive Branch. Been a lot of questions about that these days.
from the blog post: "You can also attach binary assets (such as compiled executables, minified scripts, documentation) to a release. Once published, the release details and assets are available to anyone that can view the repository."
There are some social residence programs that place minorities/lower-class folks in areas with good schools, high average incomes, etc. If I recall correctly (I heard it on NPR a few months ago) the program had varying degrees of success -- some folks just couldn't fit in and opted to go back previous inner-city residences, while some actually saw measurable improvement in quality of life: children doing better in school, improved outlook and satisfaction.

You probably saw the research results of the crack baby studies -- as it turned out poverty plays an incredibly big role in how children grow up [1]. So I really think this is something we need to continue experimenting with. Sadly, these residency programs cost a lot and most communities are unwilling to fund it. So really the first step is convincing people the reality of these things -- e.g., my neighbor, an incredibly smart biomedical engineer, calls advocates of these programs "troublemakers" who want to "bring socialism" into this country.

[1]: http://www.csmonitor.com/The-Culture/Family/2013/0725/Crack-...
Yep, they have said this countless times.

While I am absolutely an advocate of OSS and I do wish Tarn would go for it, the basic thing is that they dont want to and they love what they do, so deal with it, it's their game.
Move. Now. The more people leave the state and/or refuse to provide services to people there the less money they get. Sure it's not a easy thing to do at all but the only way politicians get a message if it there is a high price attached.
Why do all the American states have different taxes?

Here in Australia we have 10% GST (Goods and services tax). So wherever you're from in the country you can expect both goods and services to be priced the same. So much simpler for the average consumer!
> it's now time for all able-minded hackers to build tools for personal liberty and spread them far and wide

A friendly reminder: As a start, pick your favorite: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darknet_%28file_sharing%29

Besides that, I'd say the biggest challenge will be to get our society running exclusively on open hardware.
People mod every popular closed source game. That isn't a reason to open source it in itself.
Very few skills are obtainable from the unavailable.
It seems like end to end encryption is the only way to go. It makes the UX not as convenient, but convenience is the carrot that has led us to this dismal point.
There's also the dynamic of feeling the need to do more, having learned from previous mistakes.

My employer's first hit game was shipped in 5 weeks by one full-time programmer and one full-time artist. It took three years to become what it is now.

Now, when we start a new game, we worry about over-the-air downloads and updates. We think about monetization. We work with testing partners. We need privacy policies. We need Facebook integration. We need localization (English, French, Chinese-Simplified, Chinese-Traditional, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish). And on and on ...

None of this is explained by a growing team, nor by outsiders brining in their biases. Instead, we feel we need to do more to avoid the mistakes we made in the past.

Is this a maladaptive, or is it a realization of the scope of the problems we're trying to solve?

No one dies if we ship a brutal crash and data corruption bug. I love rapid prototyping, but I think new-space is realizing that rapid development means $100M, not $10M invested.
There are federal judges who do not use email. They have their secretaries print out their emails, handwrite their responses, and then their secretaries type them up.
We have HP contracted support at work (formerly EDS). We call them alternatively Helpless People, Hopeless People or High-Priced People.
Interesting how thorough the app is. I suppose that'll set it apart from the simpler ovulation trackers.

What a huge mine of private data, however!
Can you imagine how it would feel to have someone else find a record of your sexual activity, including positions and count of female orgasms?
I really dislike it how 'big data' is increasingly mentioned left and right these days, even when the application context doesn't call for it. Perhaphs the reporter should've sticked with the safe option of what the app creator(s) used instead, 'data science' or data analysis.
Oh no, I wasn't weighing in to the argument in that respect!

I was merely pointing out that "going to a disgusting bathroom" is far from the only concealment option.
This is America, where even people who pay a next-to-nothing tax rate on high incomes complain about supposedly high tax rates.
I think you still can but via the G+ application. It's a shame they butchered such an amazing feature just to try and get a few more people using G+.
This is far too oversimplified to be the third comment I read in this thread, sorry.
Certainly agreed. I was only using that example as a reason why one might not "feel quite good in Russia".
In Australia it's 10% with no tips. Wages are considerably higher (so is cost of living however.)
It seems that Germans are actually interested in privacy. I was really surprised to see a program on a very popular German TV channel last week where email/message encryption was explained using very simple diagrams, from the user's side. It wasn't a how-to - they didn't say "google gpg, click here, click there". But just seeing a 30+ minute report about public-key cryptography at a reasonable time (I think it was around 2100), on a national TV - that's a serious step in the right direction.
I bought a 70$ tablet just as my hitchhiker's guide. Put wikipedia en, fr and es on a SD card plus various other smaller wikis. I recommend http://aarddict.org/ as FOSS win/Linux/Android/etc reader.

The only problem is that images need massive space. I hope some technological advances will enable us to include all of them in wiki dumps soon.
ITAR is a perpetual concern for people working in that field. It leads to a lot of grim jokes, but also, presumably, a lot of self-censorship.
Well, the H-1B law does identify "college" as being a normal requirement. "Kid" would be age discrimination an a job req, of course.
There are as many tax systems as there are tax jurisdictions.

And this is one of the main problems. Not only are governments (local, state, federal) trying to find creative ways to siphon money from the private sector, but the inherent nature of software services make this impossible to manage or track.

What's wrong with allowing a company to charge $1 for their software, then $100k for customization? Yes, it's a sales tax loophole, but how would this be different from a custom electronics or plumbing supply company from charging $1 for the parts and $100k for labor?

I don't know that a gross receipts tax is the answer, or what is. MA is free to do what they want, I'm just worried that this will spill over to IL, who is much more in debt.
I go with ack-Hire because Acui-hire sounds too much like they're being hired from the sea.
Hah. Remember when the Germans installed rootkits just a blink ago? http://www.ccc.de/en/updates/2011/staatstrojaner
If that weren't the case they could just mine with them on their own.
Not forcing judges to be "eternal students" is like giving people democracy but closing all schools and media outlets.
Is there a reason this story was removed from the front page?
Codeivate: Socially Tracking Coding Statistics in Real Time
I don't want to sound overly negative, but attempting to support every useful combination of hardware and drivers, particularly in any kind of supported, certified configuration, ultimately leads back to the same result: just running a real OS.

You can look at CoreOS the same way as the Xen hypervisor and VMWare ESX: the more flexible these became (new hardware drivers, supported configurations, etc. etc) the more they began to look like general purpose operating systems. At which point, why not start with one? (Kvm followed the same logic)

I'd much rather see the guts of CoreOS available as e.g. a RHEL or Debian package. As it stands, throwing away 20 years of distribution experience just to avoid installing a few files on my server seems far from worth it.
This is actually quite sad considering Yahoo has an excellent research division in Barcelona in information retrieval. Maybe they should start funding them more instead of letting them fund themselves with huge european projects.
FBI-Seized Forgeries Get a Gallery Retrospective
Update - looks like they've since removed the image that showed the actress, to numerous comments on the blog asking them about it...I wonder if they'll end up deleting my comment, or the comments about the actress photo and removal as well? :/
The name of the country is United States of America.

So it was formed that way - each of the original 13 states got together to form a more perfect union. But each of the 13 states retained some autonomy including ability to levy tax within the state for various means or purposes.

Been that way ever since.

Can't see a national tax - our culture would not allow it.
I don't know how much rational arguments enter into it.

The U.S. State Department has consistently avoided going to court on ITAR questions, because some of its pronouncements seem clearly unconstitutional. They'll never let it be tested, though.

There was a case where a civilian IMU, or some-such was used in a civilian aircraft and then later used in a military missile. Because of the missile use, it fell under ITAR and the U.S. aerospace firm that was using it in the civilian vehicle was fined. This seems like a retro-active law which is unconstitutional. It was easier for the firm to just pay the fine, rather than litigate.

I'm lazy, and this is anecdotal, but this story seems to be well known in new-space circles.
> at least now society in general has taken the red pill

No, this echochamber has been forced to take the red pill. "Society in general" most definitely has not, if you take 'general' to mean 'majority'.
Types of Web Traffic and where you can get them
Dwarf Fortress is completely free (gratis) to play. The developers make money via donations, which I expect would only increase if the game were open source.
except the TPM is explicitly designed to resist this kind of attack and be tamper-evident / tamper-proof, it's security hardware. so if someone can successfully attack the TPM, you are having a very big problem and will not go to security today.
Stars of the Lid - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MaSi7Gut7xM , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=et_lDyRymrw , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OycCEDxQFoA

Tim Hecker - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jXbnydhNjU
It's too bad there are huge areas of the U.S. where there is no protest occurring within 600 to 1000 miles.
They also lost some people to some kind of test accident. I'm not saying this to point fingers, but to remind people that in aerospace, you're not dealing with. "Oops, I ran the wrong build configuration. I guess I'll just restart."
I'm not sure Minecraft's all that relevant a comparison - it's little more than a glorified Lego set. It's easy to have an accessible UI when you don't have to interface with much more than "Point at something", "Hit something" and "Place something". You might as well compare it with FarmVille - after all, it's a hell of a lot "bigger".
Do those other things include Farm Bill, foreign wars, Gitmo, interntional aid to all the various regimes that receive it...?
honestly, who cares about that data?
We're not talking fire-and-forget software here so that's a very long delay to catch up to.

On one hand, I'm glad this isn't going into obscurity (hopefully). I don't like to see projects fade and die out completely simply due to neglect. On the other, I can't see how this will become relevant anytime soon for any new project or even existing one. For that matter, I'm seeing fewer instances where Apache itself is still relevant in new projects these days.

From simple file serving to complex web apps, Nginx has pretty much taken over by and large, so unless Apache can show how it can remain competitive when the smaller upstart stays lean and fast, it's stuck right out of the gate.

I think it may be time Apache itself branches out to a leaner version (with the kitchen sink build available separately) that's as bare-bones as possible with basic functionality that can still be easily extended by modules later.

Of course, it's always good to have other options available. Homogeneity is rather boring.

For now the main goal is to re-establish the community...

This will be an interesting challenge in an of itself. I'm curious to see how this will pan out and I wish him the best of luck.
How site speed affects bounce rate
Can't get more low-tech and high impact than Legos. Not specific models, the big buckets of random pieces.
Meanwhile, in Switzerland, the progress of the "fight" against trojans to be installed by the government couldn't even keep up with the speed of a snake:

http://buepf.ch/

(If you know people who live there, forward this petition!)
Thank you. I re-listened... it sounds like he is saying, "series production". I've corrected.
Nice burn on Gentoo. I've had the job of supporting Gentoo on a PaaS and have deployed it many places happily.

Sadly one of the dumbest arguments ever that will blacken the Linux horizon for decades, big dick syndrome over what Linux distro you run.
This is going on in all of our countries, not just the US. There was a student riot here when they jacked the tuition 300% and now the police demand cameras everywhere, hidden SIM card kill switches that wipe the entire phone rendering it a brick so they can prevent organizing during social unrest (they shopped this as anti theft measures, but of course only the authorities have control of the kill switch and you have to report your lost phone), special tags on vehicles to trace them at all times, drones, and ISP level spying because you have nothing to worry about if you're not a criminal right? My country is contracting the exact same intel corps the US is contracting which are run by ex CIA managers. My country is leasing the exact same software that uses previously unknown exploits to backdoor all our communications that the US is using like FinFisher/FinSpy and VUPEN. It's a giant festering dystopian industry straight out of 1984 with tentacles across the globe.

They are showing up to campuses here and offering huge salaries for "data analyst" positions. They are not even trying to hide the fact anymore that you will be spying on your own neighbors while developing these databases. They used to pretend it was to prevent terrorism and crime now it's blatent shredding of the bill of rights/constitution and developers are signing up in droves because they're the ones paying the most money and nobody else here is hiring. My country's version of CENTCOM is all over political commentary, newspaper articles and radio stations denouncing all detractors of this new fascist order. The politicians use this feedback as "proof" of positive feedback on their new rights slashing spy programs. The privacy watchdog in charge of the spy agency in my country was promptly sacked as soon as they took office. They now operate in total secrecy.

This isn't sustainable. Eventually all of us will rise up and cast off the 20th century dictator leftovers destroying our countries, starting wars, watching us through our smart TVs, creating food shortages, pumping up armnaments and fear.... It's only a matter of time the question is how far will they go and get away with this until we burn it all to the ground.

A century from now all of our descendents will study this period as the 21st century dark ages and those kids will wonder how anybody survived the great oppression.
One thing that's not clear is how Asseta is better than DoveBid or Equipnet.

Similarly, it's not that clear how DoveBid is better than plain old eBay. DoveBid does a lot of liquidation sales of equipment that eventually ends up on eBay. It would be better for buyers if one or the other middlemen were cut out.
Adam Langley: Playing with the Certificate Transparency pilot log
Look, I am not disputing that ADHD is a very real thing.

What I am being sarcastic about, is this completely unrelated thing that people on the internet do, this game of "Guess the mental illness", which usually isn't very helpful.
Yeah. Some amateur rocketeers used to deride Elon Musk for spending more than $100M, claiming he was "old space", not "new space". But maybe, that's just the scale of the problem.

I suppose progress depends on the unreasonable man, and all that, but if you're too unreasonable, you just hamstring yourself.
http://wesawit.com/app/event/5179d0638022f
Well, I would say that rationality and constitutionality are two unrelated issues. It seems quite probable that it is unconstitutional.

The general idea of restricting rocket technology as long as there are "baddies" that still don't have it seems reasonable enough though.
Just A Human Touch
Hacking Team Caught Taking Over Decoy Water Plant
What valuation did those underwater employees get?
I've being mostly uninterested in playing dwarf fortress until fortress mode sees improvement. However I've being watching its progress with gusto. Toady is focused on the simulation aspect of the game. The generated story. Right now, that has no value, presumably it will later.

If DF were to be open sourced, the first thing I would do is attempt to contribute to cleaning up fortress mode. I suspect many developers would do this as well. So as a long long long time observer of this game, I can understand the lament that it's not open source and I sympathize. These sore spots likely won't see improvement. But...

All the reasons I normally advocate for freely open source software just arn't here!

Toady is clearly not doing anything malicious with his program. He also has no intention of restricting his program in the future, anyone can use it. He's trying to make the best software he can, for the user. Dwarf fortress isn't doing dirty things behind the scenes, and Toady has more than earned my trust. Versions have being ported to multiple OS's, and it's clear he's going to work on it for a long time. Open source isn't needed here, it would only get in the way of what he's trying to achieve. I'm willing to wait until I'm a much older person to see the masterpiece he creates.
I don't get the British reference?
My aim was not to devalue the suffering of people who have ADHD. My aim was to make fun of armchair internet psychiatrists.
Simple question, but if there is no package management, how do you install basic programs? Download binaries for everything?
Religious people, for one.
Everyone Dresses the Same... (referring to the earlier incarnation).
I think they are on to something - this part for me stood out (quote from Max Levchin)

"Anything that can be measured, you record—and
it’s applied to things like managing your weight,
or deciding how likely you are to dope in the Tour
de France. But with infertility? You get a Xerox
from the 1960s.”
> technical knowledge is the opposite. Cold, hard, objective.

Life isn't that black or white. Companies run on soft games, the world, your product succeeds not because of "cold, hard, objective" amazing technical design but due to soft irrational people. I'd argue that there are enough people in tech well versed in the soft game for money to be made.
Reminded you of an almost-3-years-old HN comment by some other dude? Color me impressed!
except for the people who work under him and make less money. Those don't count as real people though.
How about providing a npm module(binary) as well. So we can use it like this.

`mean create myapp`