skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Alec MacGillis (the TNR author linked to in this blog post, http://www.newrepublic.com/article/114178/jeff-bezos-purchas...) is paid to generate controversy.

He's complaining about how the new guard isn't really serious about the news and is nouveau riche (see: "$42 million, 10,000-year clock in West Texas.").

Not that it's falsifiable, but I bet you that if MacGillis was a staffer at the Post, he'd be crowing about how this represented 'new digital synergies' (barf) just like Blodget is.

"the faster-cheaper-further mindset"

No, this would be the Sun Times firing their photographers and equipping their reporters with iPhones.

I have serious issues with Amazon, ranging from the work/life balance of their engineers (I live about 10 minutes away from their South Lake Union headquarters, and have no desire to ever work there), to the treatment of their warehouse workers, but this is just pontification for the sake of page views.
This is such a load of nonsense. Did Curie, Feynman, Einstein, Turing, Berners-Lee, and the inventors/scientists behind 99% of human history do it for the money? No. Of course not. How absurd and insulting to cheapen the wonders of their invention and minds with the banality of money.

In fact, imagine how far we'd be if great minds weren't restrained by having to pay rent, or work around mainstream stupidity, or having to use cheap equipment, or facing patents and other laws created to protect the captalists.

Just because we've never seen a working communist country, it doesn't mean it could never work - to think otherwise would be luddite and ignorant.
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Indeed. I believe it might still be possible to arp spoof, if the arp table is leaking MAC. There seem to be no more IP packets leaking in this manner, though, which was the real concern, imo. DO has probably already remedied the rest, and if not, they most likely will shortly.

All in all, a productive communication that worked out well.

Thanks, guys!
IMHO the author is too harsh on Bezos. Ok, Amazon stopped hosting wikileaks, but that's because they published classified diplomatic cables, which was probably illegal, and (only in my opinion) also controversial; i.e. it is questionable whether this served public interest, or was just an illegal act. [Now I don't say the whole wikileaks is controversial, only this specific act of publishing diplomatic cables].

If he will really stop some real investigative journalism story, which the public has the right to know, like gov corruption etc., THEN I'll be concerned. For now, let's watch what he is up to.
It may be a factor on slow improvement, but true innovation comes from the passionate minds of geniuses.
real change starts with the destruction of a massive unelected bureaucracy that has long outgrown its vestigial democratic organs
Getting into Harvard, Princeton, or
Yale as an undergraduate is just
super tough. A sufficient condition is to give the university, say,
$10 million and be sometimes awake.
Having a parent
who went can help but not necessarily
enough.
Being a straight A student
with 800s on the SATs is not sufficient.

I never got anywhere trying to get into
Princeton as an undergraduate,
with average SAT scores over 700,
but did
get accepted in the math (or statistics)
department
as a graduate student. I'd read
lots of John Tukey's work --
uniformity in topology
(in the back of Kelley's 'General Topology'),
Tukey's lemma in axiomatic set theory,
stepwise regression,
power spectral estimation (Blackman and Tukey),
the FFT (Cooley and Tukey),
and 'Exploratory Data Analysis',
had been working in applied math
and computing, wrote G. Watson,
and got accepted. I also got
accepted in the Division of Applied Math at
Brown and in Operations Research at
Cornell.
I went to Hopkins.
You're right, the above posters generalize way too much. They are either CS or Maths students and as such are already well-prepared for self-study! If you study Maths you already know what all the symbols like epsilon, e etc. mean, you can just gloss over a mathematical text and get the gist of it. Same goes for many (but not all!!!) CS-students, some unis lean a lot on algebra, some don't do much maths after the first two courses.

As such, I think it's ridiculous to go up to anyone and tell him/her to just "study by yourself", I could give a maths book to a biologist and that person would understand absolutely nothing without guidance.
I did get offered the option to only take out a $104 subsidized Stafford loan for the school year. Unfortunately, I cannot take out an alternative loan. I am a US citizen and of the people that have offered to cosign a loan for me they were rejected. So alternative loans are not an option.
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Do you think the Edge's hardware will be a major improvement over the Nexus 4?

I am asking because I wonder why I should wait until next year for the Edge when Ubuntu Touch works just as well on a Nexus 4.
Basically nothing you said actually made a case against anything I said, or for the thesis that it is easy to self teach. Just stating this for the record.
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The problem is that capitalism only seeks to enhance the positive feedback system of inequality - having money gives you more power to make more money and thus have more power. Being poor gives you less power to make money and thus it is much harder to become richer.
this is an awesome insight. any chance you could share more of these lessons?
lol, how do you offload "having a social life"?
> and makes literally the only CDMA radio chipsets you can buy

Actually, this is not true. The CDMA/LTE Galaxy Nexus, Droid Charge, and Stratosphere (all made by Samsung) actually used VIA Telecom's CBP 7.1 baseband for EVDO/1XRTT (and a Samsung LTE radio for that). I'm not sure how/why VIA Telecom was able to license QCOM's patents covering CDMA2000, but they did.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/4465/samsung-droid-charge-revi...

To my knowledge, these are the first non-QCOM CDMA2000 phones shipped (at least in the US) since Nokia's ill-fated CDMA S30 phones made for Verizon/Sprint from ~2003-2005, the 3589i, 6235i, and maybe others. I believe TI/ST/Nokia teamed up to make that baseband, but it all ended in lawsuits from Qualcomm a few years later.

It's too bad, the 3589i was a great phone.
You should try it on mobile.

Well, I am not a designer so it took me while to get right colors, background, text sizes, layout etc. You can see my profile here. (http://premii.com).

Initial app took one Sunday. It worked on android browser and iOS. If I only had to make it work for iOS, it would ve been easy, but chrome on android took as much time as the whole app. Later found that there was a bug in chrome. They just fixed it like 2-3 weeks before.

It worked on WP8-IE10 without any special code. I didn't had WP, so I asked reddit/r/windowsphone guys and they told me it works great. Couple of redditors reported minor issues which I fixed.

I am not saying this is easy to do, and I will never advise anyone to user HTML5 if they have CPU intensive task and super complex animation/interaction. However HTML5 is the only platform that can help you develop simple app that works on all 4 mobile platforms (iOS, Android, WP8 and mobile browsers).
Normally, this would honestly be a moment when I'd question if you were trolling, maybe post the fry meme image.. but. Given the topic, I actually believe you O_O
I was actually at Pitt not CMU. I was not working when I received $16k, although I did do a work study position that year. My income to get $16k in financial aid because I had an income of zero. I had one grant in the 2011-12 year but for around $200.
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Do you have one for border-radius? Because I still can't remember the order of those..
Maybe a little out of context, but how easy is it to start talking about an idea without a working prototype? Of course it would make things easier, but maybe not always possible without a minimum funding.
At least a few :) Here is my anecdote.

One of my friends got an offer from his company to evolve his current position into a UX position. A while later, they have an actual project on which he could work as a UX designer. The only thing they ask is how fluent he is with a specific image editing software.
You read my first sentence and my last sentence in then filled in your preconceived strawman in the middle didn't you?
So basically he is saying that some parts that have been traditionally considered a part of UI design are not a part of UI design but of UX and that is why UX and UI are different.
"Boohoo, nobody takes me seriously, they all think I just make pretty dialogs."
I know that feeling but I don't think coming up with more names and vague definitions that nobody knows is going to help.
I'm not sure the market is that slim (a lot of people in my social circles are playing them these days, certainly more than 5 years ago), and these board and card games are sold at rather expensive prices (€80 for a boardgame is not rare).

That said though, when I play a boardgame, I'm just playing it on a table with some friends. I don't want the games to get any more complicated, and I certainly don't want to put on headgear or glasses and involve technology for some gimmick AR feature. You'd have to make the game concepts that require such a setup very compelling for me to consider them.
Thank you sir! I needed a good (and audible) laugh!
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How does "😊" show up in your browser? I am guessing it is the square again. I have simply lifter the unicode characters from wikipedia : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emoticons_(Unicode_block)
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The Nexus question was about permission to distribute the proprietary blobs - free software drivers (in the case of Ubuntu Edge) is a different problem.

Google could always use chips only from vendors that allow redistribution of the blobs, make it a contractual requirement when commissioning Nexus devices.
Yes it is not comparable because Wikileaks documents showed people died without any apparent reason but the States being the States is immune to crimes against humanity.

If you get bombed/terrorised that's policy changing, nation wide traumatic event and a good reason to bomb the shit out of the one attacked you. If you do the same thing to another country (read plethora of countries) then you first tag the journalist who has the balls to expose you, denounce him as a criminal and then call it incomparable to your little presidential problems.

I don't care much about many traits you have just displayed arrogance, ignorance and indifference being the leading ones but such ugly patriotism is perhaps the worst of all and is the leading cause of where we are now as a world.

I know this is the kind of comment that will get downvoted and considering the general climate of HN it should be downvoted but some people really deserve such harsh comments because their claims written in nice and harmless language is plain offensive to all the people US decided to fuck up in their history (and that's lots and lots of people all around the world).
A graduate school will be eager to
forgive the first two years in
a community college given what
else I assumed: A four year
college for the last two years,
glowing recommendations from professors,
and excellent GRE scores.

That a guy started at a community
college and ended up with excellent
GRE scores is an impressive 'trajectory',
and mostly good graduate schools will
be sufficiently impressed. The graduate
schools are hungry for highly motivated,
good students and will want to grab
what I described.
True, and if the work is "great enough", then it will shine and be recognized (e.g. virally, through being discovered through sharing links or github or similar). Not everyone can do this, of course.
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> When you have children, you can have exactly one hobby. Anything else is an exercise in futility, self-deception, and ineffectiveness. Cooking healthy food is a hobby. Exercising is a hobby. Maintaining a website is a hobby. Writing a blog is a hobby. Bringing work home is a hobby. You have time to do exactly one thing after your kids go to sleep, if you want to do it well. The pointless waste of time had to go.

21 century, the first world, and yet raising children is an almost insurmountable task. No wonder fertility rates in the West are so low.
Or there's https://news.ycombinator.com/over?points=100 although it's a poor substitue for hckrnews it's better than the home page if you can't access hckrnews because "The category of Hacking has been blocked by your System Administrator".
Maybe next year they can increase the screen to 6" or even 7" by cutting down on those big bezels, and maybe making the top cover a bit bigger.

The resolution can stay the same, since for that kind of screen it should be enough for now, and as a gamer you'd rather take advantage of the extra graphics. I'm also more interested in the mobile Kepler GPU that they should have next year. If they could drop the price down to at least $250 that would be better ($200 would be the sweet spot in a world where people are barely interested in consoles anymore, but I know that won't be possible even next year).
Yes, it's funny, you would think end-to-end encryption would satisfy most concerns, but it does not. I don't know if that is because people don't trust / understand it, or whether it's legal (maybe you still go to the same prison if your patient data was stolen encrypted as if it was stolen unencrypted). It may be logistical (how do you keep track of the keys, what do you do if the encryption system you used later becomes compromised, or a rogue employee makes off with the keys, etc.). In any case, encrypting the data is not seen as a silver bullet to resolve the risks posed by cloud computing, and certainly nobody at all is proposing to shove data up to the cloud unencrypted - so that itself is not the issue anyway.
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Neither of you understands what's going on here. It has nothing to do with Tegra 4 in regards to streaming. It has to do with Nvidia's PC GPU's and their streaming software. That's why it wouldn't work with AMD's chips - because you need Nvidia's software that's only available for Nvidia's GPU's.
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My guess is that they're a) using cheap SSD's, and b) charging at or below cost now so that when a price drop hits in a year or so's time they'll be instantly, hugely profitable.
You first, and I'll read your "about"
and write you. For now I'm trying to
remain anonymous on HN. I may
not be able to help you much in
academics since I quit being a
college prof long ago and am
now a solo founder of an information
technology startup.
No offence but why would I put my data on US hosted servers?

Privacy violations would make liable under the local (a western european country) Data Protection act

no thanks
I think what killed Slashdot was the devolution of commenting to karma-racing with predictable "funny" responses. So-called obligatory "That's no moon..." jokes and so on.

The absence of that was certainly what I found so refreshing when I first discovered Hacker News.
For starters it doesn't come with a mid-range 2012 chip (Tegra 3), but one that is high-end and competitive this year (Tegra 4), with the exception of the lack of OpenGL ES 3.0 support.

#2 It doesn't have a horrible controller like OUYA, but actually a pretty good one.

#3 It's portable since it has a screen.

As for the game controller+tablet, first you'd need a Tegra 4 tablet to match its performance, which costs $500 or so, which may be worth it since it's a tablet, and you're getting more out of it, but you won't be getting to play Steam games on your TV with it.

So I guess it depends how much of a Steam player you are, too.
Ask the same questions similarly of a hetero couple and a white male property owner, and consider the meaningfulness of their opinions.
I started to write a response, but it grew too long, so I wrote this blog post instead: http://tech.bluesmoon.info/2013/08/dont-guess-at-timezones-i...

tl;dr: the timezone you use depends not just on the user and their environment, but also the event and its duration.
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When I see the name of "John Carmack", it means to me "deep optimization". I still remember of this trick http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_inverse_square_root.

I heard that Oculus Rift had some minor delay issues. With Carmack as C.T.O., I do believe that everything will be solved pretty quick.

Kudos, Oculus!
In case anyone is wondering, the site he is referring to is: http://www.wordchamp.com/lingua2/Home.do

Articles like this scare me. I've been working for 8 months full time now on a bootstrapped website for learning vocabulary via reading (http://readlang.com). I've been advised a few times that it's extremely hard to make money with this kind of site but for now I'm ploughing ahead anyway. Reading this gives me pause for thought but as long as I've getting good feedback I'm happy to keep going and see where it might lead.

Even in the worst case though, I hope that I wouldn't ever need to shut down the site, and that it could at least pay for it's hosting costs and be automated to keep running with minimal maintenance.
Sorry for sounding like a blatant marketing. But we just launched http://sideprojectors.com where you can find someone else to take over your project. Hopefully we can help your project from being killed.
I was addressing the money issue
and tacitly assuming that they
could do the work. For just a
Bachelor's and then just a Master's
in engineering, they have a good
chance of being able to judge
correctly if they can do the work.
Bad Cert? You attempted to reach filipmolcan.com, but instead you actually reached a server identifying itself as *.sqsp.com.
Some companies might move away from cloud solution and buy VPS or physical servers in co-location facilities.

However, companies like RackSpace, Amazon and Heroku doesn't really have that much to fear, they simply don't have European competitors. I might be wrong, but I struggle to even find a good European replacement for Gmail ( even though I'm willing to pay ).

I don't really trust UK companies either, so the "best" solution I found so far are companies like Hetzner. It's not really the same as Rackspace, Amazon or Heroku, maybe there's a marked for a OpenStack provider in Europe?
I would encourage you to start charging customers or to find another monetisation strategy for it, unless youre getting mmassive traction you arent a aquisition target and if its nice but free then it may never make money.
I don't follow John Carmack closely, but I remember him telling in an interview that his wife took care of their newborn child for the most part so he could sleep 8 hours a night, which he needed to be able to work.

Not saying that his accomplishments aren't impressive, but being John Carmack probably helps doing the things John Carmack does.
You're able to infer the answer to all those questions.
Stratasys just bought Makerbot?

Well competition is out the window but at least I know which stock to buy now
True, though as the good old magic 8 ball says, all signs point to bad. Bezos simply seems like someone that favors comfort over freedom, but then again I won't judge actions that haven't yet happened.
It's not that weird if you're the SOC vendor. After all, if you withhold the blobs, then whenever people want a newer operating system, they have to buy a new device. The last thing someone like Qualcomm want is for you to be able to run Android 5 on your 2 year old device. They like the current throwaway model just fine, thanks.
They wouldn't necessarily even need to do that. With a camera just below the counter, and a little practice, they could capture the front and back of the card easily without appearing to do anything unusual. That would contain all the information they need to make a copy.
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I guess even Bezos didn't realize they're disrupting them, since the book on disruption - Innovator's Dilemma - was written a few years later (although Peter Drucker's "Innovation and Entrepreneurship" book had roughly the same concepts in it, and was written decades earlier).
Taking an entire article and expressing it as "boohoo" is not a good way to have a meaningful discussion.
Essentially this gives the possibility to use context managers programmatically at runtime, which is quite awesome indeed!
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To our customers from Russia we did issue certificates with Cyrillic support. It is the second most popular language at the Copyrightys.com
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behind pay wall...
Basically you would just reimplement malloc on the MMU level.
The court did hold the agreement valid when the bank sued him, so the bank will have to pay up as per the terms of the contract.
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> Alec MacGillis is paid to generate controversy. ... and is nouveau riche

Yeah, that's nice. But is he wrong?

IMHO he brings to the table a very relevant point that others have not.
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Trello (www.trello.com) is a great tool for organizing projects, tasks and people. I wanted to know what are your usage scenarios. Do you have board for every project, maybe a board for personal and a board for business. Would be great to hear about some use cases, since it seems much more useful than how I use it right now.