skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think that could make sense in the long term, but with YC companies on demo day, I'm not sure it does. Most of these companies appear to have <1000 followers on the services you're measuring. If Likes and Followers cost a dollar each, then it wouldn't be too expensive to buy a spot at the top of your list in this case.

It's interesting that the company at the bottom of your list (Reebee) has 3x the Twitter followers and 6x the FB followers that the company at the top of the list (OneMonthRails) has. If Reebee started out (i.e., when you started tracking them) with a couple hundred followers on each of these services and OneMonthRails started out with none, then Reebee had the deck stacked against them, needing to add 100x+ the number of followers added by companies that began with no traction, during a limited time frame.
That is frequently wrong.
From the Instacart CEO: "We don’t have to build warehouses, lease a fleet of trucks or manage perishable inventory, which substantially reduces our operational cost."

If they guarantee delivery in 2 hours and they don't have these costs, they're paying someone else who has these costs, right? How can they really be a competitor to Amazon, then? I have to think that Amazon is operating on such razor-thin margins precisely because they think they can do a much better job than using someone else.
That's PRISM, one of tens of programs that exist. Look up XKEYSCORE, for an example that does include mirroring "all" internet traffic. Pot and kettle; make sure you read everything, and don't get caught in their "Oh no we shut down that specific program a long time ago!" plausible deniability schemes that neglect to mention the 7 other programs they run that do the same thing.

I think it's unlikely that the NSA is actually storing all photo's uploaded to Facebook long-term, of course.
Boost.Asio has an implementation of cooperative multitasking via (hacked, really, really ugly) coroutines.
Gazelle survey on potential iPhone upgrades
I read the question as it is, "engineer", there is no "software", only "engineer".
The Orwell fork n' continuation has a much better press.
It's totally plausible. Rewriting C++ code in C usually makes it better. Similarly, rewriting C code in C++ usually makes it better.
Interesting idea. Instead of a VM though, what about a small, low-power box that you plug into your home network that handles secure communication transparently to the user? I'm thinking something like AdTrap (http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/600284081/adtrap-the-int...) but for email or other sorts of communication.
The exception being vitamin D, which you need to get either through ~15 minutes of direct sunlight, or a vitamin.
I am quite positive many of these are more myths like many that Google busted.

[1] https://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20130620142512-3...
The new laws (I don't know how far they went?) that would declare bloggers "not the press" and under which bloggers lose even now debatable protection, together with the total collection of communication is really a good thing to make any blogger involved in controversies reconsider his future activity.

Still I don't believe that the NSA activity is directly what moved PJ. We know that they give tips to other agencies from time to time but it's still FBI who's in charge for the things inside of the US.

I remember that PJ already attempted to stop contributing directly to Groklaw. Now she really "closes the shop."
I'm sad that that's the way things are. I think that once someone has paid their debt to society through the justice system, that this should be acceptable to society.
Damn. I know that, it just typed itself. Muphry's Law strikes again, sort of.
This isn't an issue of expansive bureaucracy. In fact, it's the opposite. The lack of controls on the executive, and the national security apparatus in particular. There's nothing about this case that goes beyond 1 or 2 agencies that have existed for decades and do a lot of legitimately useful things. They just need to stop issuing blanket warrants. That's it.
+1s and Google+ posts are two separate things.

A Google+ post passes SEO benefits (through linking) independent of the number of +1s it has. So although Google doesn't use +1s directly, it does use the link signals found naturally in the Google+ post itself. Because these link signals are by design blocked by Facebook and Twitter, this makes Google+ a superior platform from an SEO perspective.
"weyr" is so a word, as most SF fen of the last half-century can tell you.
I do get your reference. I was a java developer since 1996. 2000 was 13 years ago and ruby is far older than Java was then, so hardly a valid comparison.

I am a ruby developer and ruby is dog slow.
Testing assumptions about news and news business models at seattle.io
Yeah, I just picked Go because it's one I know well and it's a 5 second solution that handles the question as asked. It would be just as easy to do in ruby for example, with EM::Queue.

I actually intended this as a way to "assign work" rather than having the servers pull. Each goroutine "owns" a server and forwards all requests to it, but it's just part of the one load balancer process, and the load balancer does nothing but balance.

IMO, defeating the purpose of a question is how you solve problems in real life.

Now if you wanted a harder question, you could follow that with: OK, that solution will give the servers time to do their thing, but there's no guarantee it won't just end up dumping all the load on a few servers, straining infrastructure and under-using the other machines, because there's no guarantee Go's scheduler is fair. So please develop two competing solutions. First, a fair scheduler that spreads the load evenly. Second, as an alternative, an unfair scheduler that always fills 100% of the time on the first machine before moving on to the second, and so on, and reports how many machines it's using so we can take the others out of the pool and repurpose them.
And it is taxed even if it's off record; not declaring the income and successfully keeping it off record doesn't mean "not taxable", it means "tax fraud".

If you manage to hide that income for some time but it comes to light a few years later - BAM, you owe the back taxes in triple+interest.
Not all libertarians advocate anything resembling a "police state enforcing a total ordering of property and any contract that can be conceived of."
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The difference is that we don't erect fences to keep the government out of our yards, because the government is supposed to be us and the government is not supposed to be trespassing. This, as opposed to bad guys who break the law.

In other words, the government is supposed to enforce the law when someone hops your fence. But where do you go for justice when the government is the one hopping your fence?

This is not being pedantic. I believe it is the wrong posture to advocate for a technology-based response. We should not be building fences against our government. It implies that a continuing adversarial relationship between the people and our government is on some level acceptable. And, it sends the message that whatever the government can access is fair game.

Instead, we should demand that the government be brought back into the will of the people and Constitutional principles by law. And it should be backed by not only true whistleblower protection, but obligation for fear of conviction by complicity.
The "Filter this crap" button on Hulu
Dear Hulu,
It is quite simple...
- I don't want to see any Korean dramas. Ever, never. Where is the negative filter??? AKA the "Don't show this crap" button. In a google search you can do that with a minus sign.
- Your staffs "top picks" suck. Fire the staff.
- An episode should only show up once in the "most popular this week" stream. Here is what you need to do: 1) sort the episodes by view count 2) display the results. Each episode should have one entry, period.
- Hulu should be a huge time sink for millions of people, but Hulu plus is the dumbest thing ever. Who wants to pay to see advertisers. The first time I saw Alec Baldwin and those Capital one barbarian morons I cringed and it was over. But every 4 minutes the same crap!! The best thing about your ads is the option to watch a long trailer. I can read a different tab while it plays and then I have a blissful uninterrupted viewing.
- No GOT. Unacceptable. Call HBO and hammer out a deal. Seriously, do this before the next season.
- Comcast and Time Warner are harming your business. their computer-fu is weak and the throttling speeds is slowing your s@#t down. The only solution is to click the little gear on the bottom right and make set quality (AKA user experience) to "medium". It is like setting the amplifier to 6 when it goes up to 11.
- Over the last year I have cut down the time I spend on Hulu from 4-5 hours a day (8 at my worst) to 1-2 a week. There are just too many quasi-legal alternatives out there to deal with your weak ass stuff.
Make life easier dammit!
Most code don't need __setattr__ level of magic https://github.com/lihaoyi/macropy (search for "Levels of Magic")
Do you mean you are willing to trade risk for freedom? As in accept some risk for more freedom?
You're missing the point. The fact is, even if you decide to not use any online accounts, host your own email, run your own server and VPN, etc. profiles of you are being created of you anyway AS IF you had an account! These are called "shadow profiles".. Facebook is the easiest example because it's already been demonstrated to do this. I'm sure most other online services work similarly.

https://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook-security/important-m...
Amazon does things this way (the hiring team does the interviewing) but there are some major drawbacks to it as well. If your team is grossly shorthanded (say, 30% of seats open), you have your team doing a ton of interviews rather than covering for the headcount shortage, which means you're even more underwater or behind schedule. (And you might have to screen dozens of candidates to fill a seat.) Also, there's a strong incentive to just "fill the seat" so they can stop interviewing people, which Amazon does try to avoid by having at least one "bar raiser" on the interview circuit who is from another team.

At a broader level, the problem with this is that the delays inherent in doing a lot of hiring and relocating people means that you can't have teams doing their own hiring and then waiting for people to arrive and come on-line - there need to be candidates in the pipeline before the exact seats open up. Otherwise you're talking about a 3-6 month delay from when a seat opens to when there's an engineer sitting in it, which sucks.
Bradley Manning To Be Sentenced Wednesday
Because of your current job you are not up to date with latest stuff.
Popular (and not so popular) Indian E-commerce websites with XSS vulnerabilities
Getty Announces New Program Lifting Restrictions on Use of Digital Images
It's not a completely logic-motivated decision, but that does not make it any less valid. Having your sense of privacy and safety breached is incredibly disturbing on an emotional level. I've been robbed, you end up feeling rightly violated at a very base level and left with a general disgust for everything and anyone involved.
Seems like you should be comfortable sharing disappointment with your SO. I'd be careful about getting in the practice of hiding things from them.
Not only that, but speech recognition search is quite good enough to find e.g. "My Little Pony".
Getting Yourself Into the Gold Rush of App Stores
This appears to me to be an interesting approach. You should write a longer blog post about it.
Unpack "approval" for me?

Honestly, I'm in favor of any modifications to winner-take-all. "None of the Above" would be a major win for the protest vote, with a huge meta-electoral effect even if it never wins. And while it would boost morale and turnout for presidential years, the real effect would be seen if we elected Congress that way as well.
I think you make good points .. and also that mattermark probably would agree.

One problem is stats like you mentioned are hard to count, as for one you may have a competitive incentive to hide them. For another, there are no easy APIs or ways of scraping that data.

What mattermark could do (and are probably doing) is learning what stats are signals of success for what types of startups. For a consumer web or mobile startup, mattermark's data is likely a very good health indicator, for a b2b thing likely not.
The problem with all of this "make the gov't own up and stop the spying" thing is you can't prove what is hidden. The NSA could make a statement tomorrow saying "ok, you win, we'll stop" without really stopping. They could even give an actual compelling argument about stopping, without really doing it. There's no way to prove they aren't doing it (though I suppose that ties into the fact that the big tech companies are also allowing them to do it).
Cool game! I hope you release for iOS, I'll buy.

Maybe an option to allow or disallow plurals/conjugation. i.e. if I have bake, bask, ask, don't make me enter bakes basks asks.
What is topcoder?
Yea, it's really annoying how libertarians always conflate the government's abuse of military and police powers with its role in moderating the excesses of capitalism. As a lefty political activist it makes it hard to form alliances on issues that we agree on.
but it might help with alzheimers http://puzzles.about.com/library/bl021108.htm
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Elance contest title disturbingly similar to Auschwitz slogan
Honest question, I'm really curious. If you're actually making $250,000 why would you want to work anywhere else?
I'd say the people that can set up and manage their own CA, and the people that need a new mail client to be able to send/receive encrypted email are non-overlapping groups.

If you're right - what does Mailpile solve ?
Thank you for this insight. Bringing up the problem as it relates to business goals is important.
That's not exactly an unbiased source.
I'm surprised there's no mention of Mint. Their blog played a big role in their pre-launch strategy.
It's isomorphic and better, because each goroutine performs a synchronous and easily understood acquire-perform-sleep looping operation with no hairy coordination. And even underneath, it's somewhat simpler, because neither Go nor the design I gave cares which of the runnable goroutines (the servers that have finished their work) takes the next request off the channel. Plus the blocking behaviour of channels gives you implicit backpressure if the requests are coming in too fast - the process putting them on the channel will stall.
He didn't try to reproduce the bug with a test account though. If he had and it hadn't worked, the fact that he then used a real account would've been acceptable.
Such putative immunity, with the due process of law, has never existed for anyone, let alone journalists, and isn't being discussed here.
There's something odd with this page that causes Safari to jam up and use 100% CPU. It shows up as "Processing Math 0%" in the lower left corner while doing this.

Is there some kind of renegade JavaScript going on here?
Sure, eventually, however I'd be just as comfortable using a plugin from, say, the EFF as I would having it built into the browser. It would be a fine stepping-stone (similar to how Google Gears contained many features which influenced HTML5)

And as I mentioned, merely having the crypto parts and key management built into the browser isn't good enough because a malicious site could still trick you into decrypting data which it could then steal, even if the keys themselves are perfectly safe.
I'm not having any of those cakes thank you very much.

Seriously, there is a bit of 'maker culture' happening round here at present. Quite nice but the 'pieces' tend to be expensive.
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I sort of put 37signals in that bucket as well even though they did a lot more consulting, their blog was pretty huge in the very small standards web community of the early Zeldman era.
True. It's not all large companies. Maybe it's more accurate to say Google does because it can.

It would be interesting to see if any of their recent VIP hires had similar headaches, or if this is just junior employees.

As I said elsewhere, this is surprising because everyone I know there is very straightforward.
This is not uncommon. I had the same experience with a certain well known communications company in SF. After a bungled interview (my fault, not theirs), the same recruiter contacts me again no less than a month later. By that point I had accepted a position elsewhere, but it was certainly a mixed signal bag.
Interesting way of posing the situation to the founder. Thanks for this.
Agreed, there's no silver bullet to self esteem. The only thing that reliably works and isn't some snake oil is, do hard things, and finish them.
Last time I was in Germany Burger King didn't take cards, only cash.
Interview with The Cell, Kickstarter for GSM data
What is going to make more money, make more impact, and make Musk iconic? Building luxury cars that go fast, look nice, and run on electricity? Or creating the entire mechanism, infrastructure, and possibility of moving humans via battery?

Ford isn't famous for making a car, and there's good reason behind comparing Musk to Ford.

Tesla makes cars and they're funded by car sales, but the fundamental game changer they bring to the table is their battery tech and the infrastructure they're building in order to make it viable. When every car is driven by batteries, Tesla will have an unbelievably huge head start in finding, moving, selling, then using the power inside of them - whether it be made by Ford, Toyota, Nissan, or anyone else.
an immediate value stored in an instruction would double performance over an l1 data cache reference... but this is stated just to mock people on this thread who want 'almost' machine level logic to match robust user land permutations.
Maybe Fully Homomorphic Encryption will help here?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homomorphic_encryption

Not sure how practical this is at the moment, or will be in the future. Hopefully an expert can weigh in ?
> three different hiring committees.

Hiring by committee :)
I've often been bemused that people will expend more effort finding ways to cheat than if they just learned the material.
Is that really so bad? The worst I've seen is "this is a picture of John"

Yes, it is - when there are a bunch of "this is a picture of John" posts mostly by identifiably pro-1st/2nd/4th/10th Amendment[1] types, facilitated by face recognition software confirming it's the same John, whereby data mining can determine that there is an un-tracked person named John who is most likely a pro-1st/2nd/4th/10th Amendment type and, because of his pointed absence from social media, likely rather hardcore about it and worth tracking with particular interest.

Tom Brown (famous tracker) tells a story of his tutor telling him "go to the grandfather tree." He scoured the woods for the curious plant, and found nothing. Standing in a clearing wondering what was meant, he realized that the space he was standing in - an unusually empty space in an otherwise dense forest - must have been created by a very large and very old tree that had subsequently fallen and rotted away, leaving a space other trees had been unable to grow in. Moral: an apparent absence can, coupled with identifiable effects, be indicative of something very interesting; to wit if there's a lot of pictures of someone but nothing from that someone he's probably hiding something.

[1] - terms for various passionately-defended civil rights here
No, any settlement would almost certainly include a mutual non-disclosure agreement and mutual non-disparagement agreement. Complaining about it here makes it more difficult to get those, though, and any settlement in general.

Moreover, that's not how it works in SV. Assuming you do good work, nobody will care if you sued Google and settled except perhaps Google. I know plenty of engineers who were fired from companies like Facebook and Twitter for perfectly legitimate reasons and are now working at similarly-awesome companies as engineers. And this is a situation where the termination was 100% warranted and broadly known in "the incestuous Valley."

I would have fired them had they done the same and I would have also hired them at another company, assuming they learned their lesson and otherwise seemed like people with integrity.
Amazon's never been about "slow and steady" growth. They've been about long-term growth at the expense of short-term profit.
I think Pure is great. I think you guys should tweak the messaging to emphasize that it's really easy to skin, much moreso than other CSS frameworks IMO. People are having a hard time differentiating it from something like Bootstrap, which tends to lead to "bootstrappy" sites.
Same exact thing here. Overall the experience was okay, but I ended up getting mixed signals at the end. Yes? No? Huh?

Was never asked about GPA. I have no idea why the "no" in committee, but I get the impression that they approve more people than they hire. Moral of the story is probably that the initial approval is not a yes but it just means you passed the technical test.

I have mixed feelings. Would have been a cool place to work, but there are lots of alternatives.
> Governments are composed of people. The people who ran the government in the 1940s no longer did by 1960s... and the people who ran the government in the 1960s no longer do today.

This is a fair point, but I also think it can be useful to consider the perspective of government as a unified, evolving entity, much like it's useful to consider a forest as more than just individual plants that grow and die and are replaced by new plants.

> As new people enter and leave government, they will be prone to repeat the mistakes of their ancestors. And it is the citizen's duty to continue to step it up and hold it in check. It takes work to keep the country together, everyone knows that fact.

I agree with this point. Perhaps the issue is why these abuses keep arising; is it just human nature, or are there institutional factors at work (factors that transcend the revolving door of individuals entering/leaving government)? I don't know the answer.

Regardless, we seem to agree that the NSA abuses are troubling and need to be pushed back on, so I suppose we're basically on the same page.

I think my disagreement was mainly with the notion that the government was continually "giving up" power in a linear, cumulative fashion. Every time one of these programs is shut down, are laws passed to ensure they can never arise again? If so, that would be reassuring.
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10.6 refers to the operating system. Chrome auto updates - I'm on version 28.0.1500.95.
find: blah<tab>-printf: unknown primary or operator

Any idea why this is happening? I'm on OS X.
In other words, normal people that use Twitter or Instagram still have no clue what App.net is and the early adopters of App.net will eventually get tired of it.
You still haven't explained why this matters. Facebook has a lot more responsibility than this developer. Get off your high horse. Even if Facebook wrote down these supposed "rules" they have no authority to enforce them (other then in relation of their supposed bounty program), so it's a moot point.