skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't read it that way. The Internet most certainly has enabled new kinds of competition in the news business. And some of them don't cost much money. For example... people posting crap they see on Twitter. I don't think there was any ill intent in that comment. I read it as a simple fact that they are competing with other news entities with little or no operating costs.
While i agree going silent was probably a stupid idea, on the flipside i wouldnt have heard about it otherwise.
A new building can cause a CEO to take his eye off the ball and can contribute to changing the company's culture. It resonated with me because I've seen it happen time and again.

It doesn't mean it will always happen. But I'd wager those company's who successfully moved into a new building spent considerable time focused on having it not happen to them.
If OSH really becomes a significant paradigm then we can finally start enjoying reasonably designed CPUs, with a better base abstraction layer.

Maybe not everyone's cup of tea, but with the war on general purpose computing well under way that's something that I'd be very interested in.
Running Ubuntu was never hip to begin with. Arch is where it is at.
Bezos was probably feeling a bit left out of the 'Seattle Philanthropic Billionaire Boys Club.'

Although, to his credit, he and his wife did kick in $2.5mm to the Washington state marriage equality referendum last November: http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2012/07/27/jeff-be...
I think that is what http://www.newsvine.com/ set out to be in the beginning - the curation and verification of submitted content - I haven't thought about it in years though and a quick look at the home page shows that it still isn't very popular and seems pretty partisan.

But I agree, finding a way to crowdsource all three points of journalism without it becoming a mob (see reddit after the boston bombing) sounds like exactly the sort of newsource I would be interested in.
I think this is a great use of technology that can change the lives of its users forever. You can't get more disruptive then this.

I really hope it succeeds as I've become really worried about the number of suicidal posts I've seen on HackerNews lately. I've noticed on 3 separate occasions in the last month alone posts from severely depressed hackers usually titled something along the lines of 'want to give up'.

While I think its great that hackers can come together to support each other, I'm guessing most of us are not trained psychologists.
Super caps aren't right for homes. A home's power draw is relatively even (and so is solar charging), a super cap is for when the power draw or charge is very fast and very short.
Honestly, if the failures are on par with or better than Fukushima I'm really not worried.
“A book is a sneeze”
I've always understood Buffett's purchases to be meant to reinforce local papers against consolidation.
The religion inside the company (not my personal view, but what you'll get if you talk to an upper-echelon manager) is that:

- stack ranking leads to competition leads to everyone doing their best,

- at the end of the day you have to offer differentiated rewards to your team, and it's better to offer more rewards to those who earned them (vs. just blanketing everyone with the same rewards)--stack ranking just makes this explicit, and

- it puts pressure on bottom performers to leave the company or find a team that's a better match.

That said, I recently left Microsoft (after 8 years in the Office org, probably near OP), and stack ranking was one of the reasons. For me the toughest part of it was that I felt there was no part of my compensation that was tied to the overall product my team produced--we could have produced a gorgeously engineered, ground-breaking product or a buggy piece of bloatware no customer wanted; it really didn't matter from a review perspective.

Stack ranking is also generally despised by the rank-and-file, often because they are sure it's the reason they haven't had a meteoric rise despite their obvious superiority over everyone else. Folks who have "made it" to the upper echelon often mysteriously acquire the stack ranking religion.
You're comparing apples and oranges. I'm talking about American history here.
This is awesome! How did you shoot this?
+1

For cooking, grape seed is the best. I've worked in alot of top restaurants, for cooking they use grape seed exclusively.

Extra virgin olive oil should only be used when you want the specific flavour it provides (ie. drizzled on things like pizza, pasta, bread, etc...).
I strongly disagree. If you're a new developer looking to work on something, anything, completely indiscriminately then you're probably not ready to work on anything. The time required to contribute even on minimal issues is not insignificant. It requires learning at the very least what the project is, does, and moreover should do.

I think the phase of "what should I work on?" is a fledging phase of developer development that one quickly overcomes and then becomes burdened by the vast opportunities that exist. I think erecting a sign/button/webpage that says, WORK ON $THIS, will do nothing to help it because the would-be contributor may have no interest in the project. Also, it may inhibit the formation of their taste. One must develop enough of an interest in and taste for software that they want to change some aspect of it; that's when an opportunity to contribute something valuable presents itself: "This would be better if..."
Isn't this practically the plot of The Conversation?
I think the support on this community is actually a huge strength. People in general really try to help people when they post about feeling depressed or suicidal. It is always great to read an update post several months later when the person is through it and doing better. Our site can further help by taking things a step further.
I liked this parting jab:

> subject to the mysteries of UEFI boots and the lunacy of diffuse BIOS variations that make installation of non-Windows operating systems on modern notebooks a travesty
Techstars Picks 11 Startups for 2013 Class in Seattle
The average for the bay area is somewhere around 94 USD... Based on an infographic I read 2 years ago.
I cook in grapeseed, but use olive oil for every raw application.
Seriously... I am curious as to what alternative the author proposes? Pack people in even tighter? Never grow your workforce? Make people work from home?

This sounds like a someone saying "At lunch I ate too much food and now I feel sick. No one should ever eat food!"
The only thing I saw in that video was a car driving past and then exploding. Could you really make out a collision with a tree? Maybe I need to have my eyes examined.
hogwash with a lot of open pools and estimated numbers. what exactly is the point of this article even existing?
It means that the quoted person doesn't think human beings are smart.
Murdoch was a major force in getting Gough Whitlam (of the Australian Labor Party) elected which was probably his first major step into the political scene. He was also a major force behind the election of Malcolm Frazer (of the Australian Liberal Party) a few years later. Just because he elects leaders from the left or the right does not mean he isn't influencing them. Murdoch has long had a hand in picking the government of the day. Why he picks one leader or another is less of an issue than the fact he is picking leaders.
> That said, avoiding libraries (especially avoiding templates and just using void*-like stuff) does keep binaries/libs smaller, but I'll gladly make the computer work slightly harder considering that the result is the same speed (C++ is often faster than C, in practice).

This should not be an issue with modern C++ compilers. If two template instantiations generate the same or similar code, they will be merged and useless code is removed by dead code elimination.

> The downside I care about is compilation speed. Simple C projects compile/link faster than modern C++ ones, even though the code for the same functionality is far more brittle, unsafe, and opaque

At the same time, a lot of potential for optimization is lost by barricading everything between translation units and/or behind opaque pointers.
While yes, LTO is supposed to help there, all those memory accesses make it infinitely harder for the compiler to prove trivial properties about the data flow. See also this recent presentation by someone who has a lot more experience than me with writing compiler backends: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eR34r7HOU14
I tried sum in GHC and it ate up my 16 gigs of ram and then crashed. I'm a noob so maybe I did something wrong, but my code was:

main = do
putStrLn $ show $ sum [1..1000000000]
I was about to buy PCI a few days ago, but was worried that the information may be out of date, considering it was published six years ago. Do you think most of the material is still pertinent?
It baffles me that people expect to buy "extra virgin olive oil" in canola- oil- sized- jugs and expect it to have huge flavor; I get that it's frustrating that the "extra virgin" label has been diluted to meaninglessness, but really, just treat cheap extra virgin oil as if it was "pure olive oil" (saute with it, for instance) and seek out specific oils you really like.

Serious good olive oils all taste very different, so the whole idea of them being interchangeably good is a bit weird.
Take your pay cut (as a percentage, negative) and add 2/3 times your equity value at-current-valuation, divided by the vesting period, as a percentage of market salary.

For example, if market is $125k, and you're making $100k + 0.2% of a company worth $100M, that's:

Equity is worth 200k over 4 years, or 50k/year. (40% of market salary.)

-20 (paycut) + 40 = 20

Here's how you evaluate it.

Below 0: Fucking awful. They don't respect you. Leave.
0 to 25: Mediocre, not interesting. OK for an otherwise attractive job.
25 to 60: Substantial but probably not life-changing equity. Typical for good contributors.
60 to 200: Real equity. They want you. They care if you work there.
200+: Founder-level.
They deserve credit, they DID publish one of the first stories about it. The editorials page has been really shitty about the whole subject but in their defense it was already a cesspool before Snowden's NSA leaks.
Are you in Australia right now ? There is a world of difference between what News Corp, Faifax, AFR etc papers have done in the past and what happened with the Daily Telegraph yesterday.

http://mumbrella.com.au/stephen-conroy-an-apology-171009
I'm usually at the North campus in one of those nobody-has-an-office spaces, but I spent a few days working with the Milo guys out of their space in the "Milo House" and that was awesome. The cramped quarters had a startup-y feel to them that was great.
Absurdly low for Atlanta, Austin, Boston, Denver, Raleigh-Durham, Seattle, Orlando, Tampa.

Most CS programs have exit salaries above $60k.
If you're cooking with it, it doesn't much matter. Heat very rapidly destroys the flavor of good olive oil.

Personally: stories like this should read as good news; they mean you have a lot to gain for dorking around with new oils.
He meant minutes. 45min.
Eh, kinda. Newsvine was a mix of syndicated news and user-produced articles (think bleacher report for news without paying the writers). It went to hell when MSNBC.com bought it in 2007.

The problem with Reddit is upvotes encourage sensationalism (that's what Reddit is, after all), but there's no feature to reign it in or induce some sanity. That's why having a fact check built in is critical.
It would be irrelevant, anyway. The G10 Act (which provides the statutory authority for the BND to collect the data) does not differentiate between citizens and foreigners.

Also, even assuming that sharing the metadata would be legal according to §7a of the G10 Act [1] (which would already stretching the intent of the law quite a bit), any such sharing would have to be documented and listed in the annual report of the parliamentary commission. Curiously, between 2009-2011, no data was supposedly shared with foreign agencies according to what the parliamentary commission reported.

Not that it would surprise anybody to catch the BND (yet again) with its hands in the cookie jar ...

[1] http://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/g10_2001/__7a.html
This is how the cheap guys do it:

Dell Vostro 3750 (Laptop) + Samsung SyncMaster P2770

Dell Dimension E510 (Desktop) + Dell 22" Monitor

Tie the 2 computers together w/ Mouse Without Borders for 3 Monitor Setup

Logitech Wireless Mouse

Logitech Keyboard

Sony MDR-V6 Studio Headphones

Seagate 4TB External Drive

Seagate 1TB External Drive

Ikea Office Table (like a Galant w/ wood top)

ITALMODERN Bradley High Back Bungie Office Chair (highly recommended)

Old Table found on the street to my left
I learned Linux through Ubuntu, and I'm thinking of trying Debian. I want my daily desktop work to be on a distro that has a good parallel server distro. I don't administer servers every day, so it really helps if I can use a server that is closely tied with my laptop's distro.
In my experience the bottom line is that you need good people around you in order to succeed. It doesn't matter if that's a co-founder, a CEO, developers, etc.. If you don't have good people around you helping you in your journey of success you won't have any.

For example, in my first startup I had a very good co-founder but we were both very young and inexperienced. We didn't hire the right people to surround us and help us in our journey. As a consequence we had a great run but were out maneuvered by other companies. In the startup I'm doing now, I started with great co-founders and we then proceeded to hire more great people to surround us. We haven't completed our journey yet but the driving force in the company now is not only me (the other co-founder left to pursue other interests) but many others that share my passion and goals.

Take your time and look for people that share your vision and passion. These people are out there it just takes time. And remember, no one can do it by themselves.

If you never read it, by a copy of Good To Great (http://www.amazon.com/Good-Great-Companies-Leap-Others/dp/00...). There's a whole chapter devoted to how great companies need great entourages.
I'm not qualified to discuss the main point, but enough to separate chaff from wheat in this case.

The article is about quantum cryptography. The author gives credit card processing as a layman example of encrypted communication, and states, erroneously, that the connection process is slow because of the SSL handshake.

It is true that SSL increases latency, but it is not the main factor, as harshreality said.

However, the example is an aside, and the error is a small aside in the aside. Not really worth discussing, and it definitely doesn't have its place at the top of the thread, where it was when I first posted. It is still currently the second comment.

Note that harshreality improved his post after the fact... or did I miss the good bits when I first read it? Hoist with my own petard? If so, sincere appologies.
Oh god, is this really happening? The US devolve more and more into a totalitarian regime, from an European viewpoint.

Makes me worried for the poor (literally) people in the US. We in Germany have at least the "Prozesskostenbeihilfe" and mandatory attorneys as soon as you're arrested.

Compared to this, US system looks like 3rd world and it's sick to see this happening.
USB Power Adapter Takeback Program
Any Desktop Environment (Gnome 3, Cinnamon, Mate, KDE, Xfce, etc.) that you can use in Mint, you can also install (directly from the package manager) on Ubuntu. So the choice of a Desktop Environment should not alone be any strong reason to switch from Ubuntu to Mint.
Seeing as I consider Qt to be a particularly badly designed C++ library, this speaks volumes about how cumbersome some C APIs are to use. Not that there is any real alternative for a cross-platform UI toolkit.
actual historical correctness

This is silly and trivial. Two reasons:

[1] The phrase is the analog of an idiom. It is shorthand for "hierarchy" and used as such. The parent is explaining its use.

[2] There are many tribal organizations. This cuts both ways. Provided there is a single one that was historically rank-hierachical, the data is not even a counterfactual.

[3] Provided [2] is ok, so is [1]. We know [2] is ok. Hence, the comment is logically ~gratuitous.

See, for example:

http://www.usingenglish.com/reference/idioms/too+many+chiefs...
I was talking about his papers actively hacking not the government.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/News_International_phone_hackin...
Same here, except I left Arch after getting tired of it breaking on upgrades all the time.
sounds freaking amazing.
It amazes you how many people don't know precisely which statements an officer makes are lies, and which actions will get them beaten or shot?

It doesn't amaze me, sadly. These are hard things to know.
it puts pressure on bottom performers to leave the company or find a team that's a better match.

Stack-ranking makes it impossible for everyone but the top 25% to transfer, though, because no one wants someone with a bad or mediocre review history.

If you need to fire people, fire them. Flushing out good people in the name of stack ranking is a pointless, morale-killing waste.
EXACTLY. He was a JOURNALIST. The point is to kill someone who might be about to disclose something you don't want disclosed, and create a chilling effect preventing others who might consider disclosing, whistleblowing, leaking, or simply reporting such things from doing so for fear they too would be murdered. This WORKS. Killing someone in secret only performs the first function. This is the essence of the idiom "killing two birds with one stone." In this case, it's killing 1,000 (or more) journalists with one rigged car.
I am convinced one of his next moves is going to be brick and mortar. He has already tested the concept of free showrooms for Amazon via the likes of Barnes & Noble, Best Buy, etc - so it's only natural to move back to the physical world.
Hell yes, I've posted about this before.

Due to issues with bootloader, I've lost my other Linux installations. And the inability for the installer to format the right hard drive even when you tell it which one to format is really a shame for the audience Mint is suppose to be for.

I mean don't get me wrong Mint is great, but the installer sucks horribly.
There is absolutely no way anybody who is serious about olive oil could mistake a serious Tuscan or Greek olive oil for Bertolli, for exactly the reason the article points out: serious olive oil has a grassy, peppery flavor that fills your throat and sinuses; it's unmistakeable, like the difference between a 3 Floyds Dreadnaught DIPA and Bud Light, and the reason Bertolli has "corrupted" extra virgin olive oil is that American consumers won't routinely buy it. I find the anecdote at the beginning of the article hard to reconcile with the rest of the piece!

(Bertolli-style oil is a fine thing to have in your kitchen, too; you might not want your mayonnaise to taste like strong Greek olive oil.)
Oh SAIC, I used to work there. So much for their strong sense of corporate ethics.
3-series is seen as a compact sports car here in the USA.
Not only that, the skills stuff is junk too - I have people endorsing me for skills that they have no clue of whether or not I posess them, nor how well I exercise them.
Google is trying to spread the unmodified Android UX through at least three tiers of branding: Nexus, Google Play Edition, and normal Google-logo branding, but with a greater emphasis on a standard UX.

I think they could have done better. While the UX issue is annoying, the killer issue for enterprise deployments is timeliness of security updates. They could have had a pledge with incentives that would result in update SLAs with OEMs. Then customers could count on getting updates within a certain interval.

The Google Play Editions have announced updates, right after Nexus got their's, so that's something. But even outside the Google Play store, I would like to see some kind of formal commitment from OEMs. I have been pretty happy with ASUS for updating, but their schedules seem to slip.
No I will not because I can still eat real 100% natural meat which has been dealt with properly.
Likewise, and you don't have to visit a Whole Foods like place. I get mine from a Vons / Pavillions, among the 50 other choices -- LOL.
The history of other countries usefully expands the set of experience we can collectively call upon when trying to understand how institutions of power behave and interact.

You said "state and local governments [...] most abused peoples' rights." Even though you meant in America, the more important question is in places like America.

People can move away from abusive/totalitarian local governments.
"Compensate" always seems like an odd word to use for paying someone to do what they presumably enjoy. To me "compensate" primarily means giving someone money/something in exchange for loss or inconvenience you've caused them. Is that not the meaning you're using?

Personally, I suggest "pay", as in "no system for paying artists".
Code_swarm: An experiment in organic software visualization
Amazon Founder Jeff Bezos To Buy The Washington Post
Stuart Sierra: leiningen project template reloaded
The examples have nothing in common other than that they involve countries. They're utterly ridiculous.
Bahamas , Jersey , Malta , Singapore, and other offshore jurisdiction seem to be the safest bet for hosting at the moment.
If you haven't been already, the Rails Pub Night (run by the kind folks at unspace.ca) is a great way to meet people in the Toronto startup community. Very friendly, meets at The Rhino on Queen west the 3rd Monday of every month at 7pm. I think I've met some people from Shoplocket there as well, so ask them about it!
I thought everybody knew this already. Store-bought (TJ, WF, etc.) doesn't look, taste and isn't priced anything like the real thing. If you didn't see it go in the bottle yourself, it probably has cheaper oils mixed in. Caveat emptor.
Not to be confused with the forthcoming paper from Birmingham's Flavio Garcia & Dutch researchers Baris Ege & Roel Verdult. That paper focuses on Volkswagen brands, including Porsche and Bentley. source: http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/jul/30/car-hackin...

This paper focuses on Ford and Toyota.
As someone who is doing an awful lot of work in the supply chain, I completely agree. Open and free to copy reference designs are the only reason I can get anything done without having impractically broad and deep knowledge.

Simple example -- I make LED lighting for fun and profit. I adopted the arduino platform years ago because while I could spend the time to make sure I'm laying out all the components properly (I've done boards for lots of other microcontrollers), I hadn't done USB programming before. So instead of needing to find a partner who could write me an entire bootloader system for doing USB in circuit programming, I can just copy the arduino design, add my secret sauce, and redistribute it.

Or, more recently I've been migrating to ARM. I know zilch about ARM processors, but with the mbed platform I could easily make my light into a USB MIDI device, a DMX platform, and so on. If I had to learn myself how to do all that, it would be impossibly time consuming and I'd never get anywhere.
They've probably also both been at TED
Signuino - Interactive Arduino-based Office LED Sign
In Defense of JavaScript Cryptography
They were probably smoking marijuana. Who else has a pipe? Not that it justifies the fact that the smell of marijuana is a "get out of the 4th amendment free" card, mind you.
Something similar to this stuff is possibly how Michael Hastings was assassinated in Los Angeles, June 18, 2013.

There is a current HN thread about this:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6162450