skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Facebook is a top tier company; they don't pay people attention, much less real money, without a track record of like Harvard or Stanford already.
Whatever language he was going to send it in was not going to get parsed anyways since he barely communicated any relevant information in his emails.

The Facebook employee who replied to the email handled it very poorly, but the guy who found this bug also handled it very poorly by not actually sending any details about what he did.
It wasn't: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenn_Greenwald#Personal_life
There would need to be a hyperloop wiki to list concerns of various technological areas.
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I'm not British but I lived in London for two years and I believe this is the way the British say "significant other." Its pretty forward thinking actually, because they use it for all of the options and therefore take the stigma out of same-sex couples using it to refer to themselves.
Braces for the down votes but.....
a) He was his partner but he was also acting as a paid employee of the Guardian correct? I read they paid his flight at the very least.
b) Assumption by said governments would be "He's traveling from Germany from Laura Poitras back to Greenwald in Brazil. He's very likely carrying highly sensitive documentation from Snowden"
c) The governments still believe that is highly classified, stolen documentation. So they pull him aside to see if they can intercept it. It's not clear if they have or not - we do know they took a lot of his equipment.

Now I'm not supporting what happened. I'm just trying to point out that there might be a logic to it and it's not the one that's making the rounds much of today "Oh they just targeted my boyfriend to bully/humiliate us" It sounds like to the government's he was a paid willing member potentially carrying what they believe to be stolen sensitive material and they intercepted him to get it back.

Just like many other efforts in this saga the outcome is another huge PR coup for Snowden/Greenwald and yet more political pressure and controls will be brought to bare on government secrecy.

EDIT: I'd point people to this new comment further down. Fascinating but not surprising: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6239847
No, we're good friends... We've been more focused on just getting going. Admittedly stupid on my part, but if anything does go sour, I own all the code and all tech stuff is in my name.
How would that logic lead to detention under an anti-terrorism law?
I can understand FB. They are trying to enforce some (reasonable) guidelines around white hat disclosure, namely, don't mess user data!

I think they should be a little lenient in this case since it seems like he messed with only Zuckerberg's account, and because of the PR around it.
I don't think it's true that most programmers can't write pure functional code; I think it is more the case that that most programming languages don't provide good support -- particularly constructs that make the distinction between pure and impure code clear -- for programmers who wish to write pure functional code or at least to cleanly segregate pure and impure code.
'slipping past pylons' during expansion would be a pretty terrible solution though. Can you imagine how hard it would be to keep it straight and level, to the tolerances required, while not even being able to fix it to the pylons? To say nothing of the fact that some of those precast tubes are going to be precast straight, and others precast curved. They're not interchangeable.
Hi Kilian, Thanks for clarifying this! Good to hear
http://www.snopes.com/science/stats/terrorist.asp
If you believe that speculative bubbles constitute value, sure...
Not the OP, but I self-host. I do have a Google account, I don't like using it for SSO. I don't use many Google properties nowadays -- Maps seems to be the biggie.
No, this team will never come close to achieving this (1000x faster with 10000x less power).

They could accomplish great things, they could open the door to new techniques that may achieve this decades from now, but that's different.

Also, you said you could see several orders of magnitude improvement, even that is less than their claim.

Also you mention GPU vs CPU, which as far as I'm aware doesn't meet the standard either.

But seriously, while I'd agree any magnitude of breakthrough is possible, I also think it's unhealthy to encourage people to make extremely unlikely claims just to get a decent research grant.
I'm talking about /r/0x10c
Yeah, we're an LLC at this point. He incorporated before I joined.
I had the pleasure of being a full time game server admin for about 4 years, running servers for Australia's biggest ISP. I still have the mental scars of dealing with game server software. The company I worked for built a wonderful tool for managing the servers called gamecreate: http://www.gamecreate.com/

There's no way I could have single handedly managed the 500+ game server instances with out something like that.

As an aside, if you've never had to deal with any of the CoD series servers count yourself very lucky. I think it was still a requirement for CoD3 that the windows dedicated server required directx installed..... just so it could show the splash screen.
The Facebook team should have taken better care of this, but the guy should have used one of the test accounts, or created a test account to demonstrate this, rather than fuck with someone else's private Facebook account.

Very bad form.
I generally read "plans to leave [acquired company] alone" as saying the acquirer isn't killing off the products of the company they bought.

Of course, with any acquisition, changes happen eventually. This isn't like Yahoo buying a company for patents or talent and quickly shuttering the product, or HP/Oracle buying a company and killing it under the burden of largecorp bureaucracy. We're talking about a pretty small company, buying another startup.

See also: http://hotpads.com, http://agentfolio.com, http://mortech.com which were all acquired within the last year by Zillow. a few "a Zillow business" logos here and there, but if you were a customer of those companies before the acquisition, you would probably say Zillow has left them alone.

disclosure: i have no insider info
On touch screens it usually disappears?
haha this is glorious!
transcript of the daily news briefing: http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2013/08/19/transcript-white-ho...
The thing is: It doesn't matter at all. And it shouldn't. It will probably be used to create distraction etc. again.
The point of testing in a real browser is to test in a real browser because your users use a real browser. Testing in a headless browser is faster, but proves nothing.
In this context they talk about monitoring and enforcing companies' use of bitcoins within legal system.

As `mrb said here, it is not very clear since it explicitly is dealing with bitcoin exchanges: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6238754
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It's a huge stretch of that law but not particularly new. Al Capone was finally put in jail for violations of the taxation code! It shows how creative people get when they want to get go after someone. The logic would be Snowden releases documentation that exposes methods used by the NSA to protect people from terrorism. So stopping that release reduces the chance of a terrorism attack. That would be how the mindset goes from folks who were behind targeting this detainment.
Instagram likes worth more than stolen credit cards
s/someone in the British government/the NSA/ ?
"they should be a little lenient in this case since it seems like he messed with only Zuckerberg's account"

No, he posted to another persons account first (that was his initial bug report). Then he posted again to Zuckerberg's account when they ignored him.

Also, it's too late to prevent the bad PR.. paying him now will only tell every other hacker that they can do whatever they want to facebook accounts/users, as long as they embarrass facebook with it afterward.
I am not sure why everyone thinks this has anything to do with bullying and intimidation. Greenwald implicated his partner by saying he had considered sending STOLEN documents to him in a previous interview. Of course British authorities would detain someone who might have stolen property with national security implications.
404 link is quite the coincidence.
I really don't think that's an fair allegation to just throw out there. Care to back that up with some evidence?
I haven't studied this in detail, but my understanding is that dark energy (whether from a cosmological constant or other sources) does not violate the "null energy condition" (roughly speaking, the condition that a light ray would never "see" a negative energy density). I don't recall exactly which energy conditions the Alcubierre drive violates, but my impression was generally "all of them". (His paper explicitly talks about violating the weak, dominant, and strong energy conditions, but doesn't mention null one way or the other.) There are quantum effects that seem to violate some of these, but my impression has been that the known examples do not violate them when averaged along an allowed trajectory in the spacetime, which the Alcubierre solution would.

That's getting near the boundaries of my technical knowledge of the subject, though, so I won't argue further. It would be awesome if this could work out, but as I've said elsewhere there are multiple Nobel-worthy steps between what we know today and actually creating any sort of warp bubble in the lab. If I were White, I'd be publishing my solutions to those first!
It's disgusting to you, not to many others (like myself). I even like the low-sodium version (having low standards can be very useful).
"The modding community is HUGE"

This makes the pocket and xbox edition experience quite a bit different from the PC/servers version.

My experience was I made a lair basically tunneling out an entire 100x50 ish island, built a tower going up until I was bored and a spiral staircase from top down to bedrock, then dug what amounts to a giant multi-lobed endless loop subway just above sea level around the map (probably about 4 minutes, yes that is indeed a lot of mined/smelted iron, and gold/redstone to boost my cart up to speed) diverted into optimized partially-automated chicken production, then got kinda bored. I think I got about a hundred hours of fun out of it, which, for what it costs, is an excellent rate of return.

It reminds me of an old saying about "second life" from about a decade ago, where if you can't be entranced by it for at least a dozen hours, there's probably something wrong with you, but much after a hundred hours or so, its kind of boring.

A third comparison of about equal depth and entertainment was playing Eve:Online also about a decade or so ago without joining any social groups (which was impossible because I was scavenging random hours here and there, and clans wanted dedicated scheduled mining/raiding nights and such)

All three share the characteristic that its hard to go beyond a hundred or so hours without the community, although if the community drags you in, then you're stuck in there forever.

There's probably a startup lesson in here that if you want more than 100 hours of engagement, its going to come from the community, not the programmers / artists / suits.
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Exactly. A step-by-step with screenshots doesn't require translation. I've worked with a lot of brilliant programmers with very poor English, and they communicate effectively by sticking to hard technical data.
Why does it run closed? It doesn't have to.
Apparently the reason for this is the "Software shall be used for good" clause in the license, but I believe IBM obtained a special exemption that it may be used for evil as well.

Surely, the PHP folks can acquire a similar variation?
I have an exam in this subject tomorrow, I just watched this really good explanation of the pumping lemma by Shai Simonson yesterday.

Starts at 3:43.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqkcpQw-78A&feature=share&lis...
Streeteasy has a terrific brand in nyc. Given that they have 1.2m monthly uniques and 7M in revenue, I'm surprised that the acquisition will not have an impact on zillow revenue projections. Guess if you do $200m in yearly revenue, an extra $7m is only a ~5% bump.
You didn't seem to grasp what nether wrote.

Contrasting normal everyday sadness versus clinical depression, requiring medication, is accurate.
Just for reference, YC invest ~$20K for ~%7 equity. So 30+35/35 doesn't seems to be so bad

http://ycombinator.com/apply.HTML

> 3. We decide who to fund after each day of interviews. Yes decisions will include the amount we'll invest and the percent of the company we'd want for it. We usually invest $11,000 + $3000n, where n is the number of participating founders, up to 3 (i.e. 2 founders get $17,000, 3 or more get $20,000), in return for between 2% and 10% of the company. The average is 7%.

Another thing. You got no pay yet. Did he get payed during this time?
This does not work like that. It is the same thing as with IE 6.

You cannot assume everyone has a mobile device with the latest Firefox or Chrome version installed.

Most people only use the system browser, which can be whatever Webkit version depending on the iOS or Android version, Bink or mobile IE.

Some people might install the mobile versions of Firefox.

So as always, one is quite constrained if the goal is to target any mobile device with the same codebase.
It actually timed a little while ago.
It's beyond me why the Hyperloop team missed the bus on the thermal expansion thing. It occurred to me immediately when I read it, and the several people I've mentioned it to since (engineers or not) have immediately realised why it won't work.
I guess that's what happens when you pull multiple all-nighters.

A tube that slides through the pylon joints won't work either. Some of the sections will be cast straight; others curved. They're not interchangeable... to say nothing of trying to keep the overall assembly true to within millimeter tolerances while taking up the slack and extra length over the 360mi length. There's another solution though.

I don't know why you're so negative in tone though. I'm doing other work on the Hyperloop, and I've found some other aspects which I think need addressing, and I absolutely plan to get in touch with the Hyperloop team and try to work with them. Why? Because I want this thing to be built, and I want it to work. I'm sure as hell not going to be able to raise funding for a fundamentally new technology and billion dollar transport project off my own bat. Musk, on the other hand, probably can.

Ease up on the scorn; these aren't a bunch of talentless hacks. Tesla and SpaceX have disrupted two transport industries. They deserve a bit of respect. Have you never made a mistake?
give the politics a rest, please
I don't think it is as cut and dry as that. The reply that 'this is not a bug' showed a lack of concern that the reporter may have been having difficulties correctly submitting information about what would be a very significant defect, if true.

A community member taking the time and interest to try and go through proper channels to submit a vulnerability should, IMO, be given more respect than was shown by FB.
If you short the market during these dips, you can make the value that is "wiped out."

What they are saying, in essence, is "this is how much money was on the table to be stolen because of that tweet."
In the UK, 'partner' is a spouse. You need to say 'business partner' if you want to avoid the confusion.
There's no excuse for not knowing the English language, first as a 21 century citizen and secondly as a web developer.
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"...some physicists have presented arguments to suggest that a theory of quantum gravity which merged the two theories would eliminate those solutions in general relativity which allow for backwards time travel (see the chronology protection conjecture), of which the Alcubierre drive is one" [emphasis added]

(wikipedia)
Why would he be reporting it to whitehat if it was expected behavior?
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This is like when Dave Chappelle walked on his show because he couldn't deal with being so successful. I honestly don't understand, but then again I've never been within 100 miles of that kind of problem.
It was tough enough to read his post to MZ wall.

Clearly there was a language gap and the original bug report suffered as a result. I don't its such a big deal overall.
> "Yes, C would be hardly mentioned here if it wasn't being developed at Bell Labs."

Fully agree, most likely if UNIX hadn't been adopted at important American universities, C wouldn't have spread as it did.
The more bits per square arcsecond, the smaller the barcode has to be, which is always better. A high density barcode which just encodes a short number can be tiny.
You're starting to see the fnords. Stop that! Look over there, a celebrity is having marital problems! A pretty young blonde woman is missing!

Journalism is always fair and balanced. They would never, ever use potentially biasing words to suggest that you favor the big corporation over the individual.
As long as we don't have a statement from either the government or Lavabit, we can only speculate. The most reasonable thing is then of course to assume the worst - complete surveillance of all customers. The rest is pretty much details.
Nope: Crockford has been asked and declined, per https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=63520#1352964601.
Lets say you can travel 10 times faster than light in a warp bubble.

You leave for alpha centauri and arrive in .437 years, you immediately return and arrive back on earth in another .437 years.

A radio broadcast in that time has traveled .837 light years.
As a medical student I spent my psych rotation with a psychologist that was a fan of 'evolutionary psychology'

His brief was that depression is evolutionary, and has an evolutionary function.
In his view, depression is the result of 'loosing'. His example was a certain species of insect, I forget which now, which challenges another male to a display/fight. The looser not only turns bright orange in response to the stress hormone cascade released after loosing, but also stops eating and more than 50% die from starvation before recovering.

How is this an adaptation? Well, the stress response reinforces hierarchy, and maintains group cohesion by providing a mechanism for 'shunning', both by other group members and by the individual theirselves.

He was a big fan of Robert Trivers, an evolutionary psychiatrist who has written much on 'the evolution of reciprocal altruism'.

Now the fact that depression may have a strong evolutionary cause is of course maladaptive in our modern world where we would like all people to enjoy happiness and be productive members of society.
Yep, hands up, took me a while too.

I wonder if the media and/or government(s) were bending over backwards to make damn sure no one could be accused of homophobia. Dunno about the US, but in the UK, if there were the slightest smell of homophobia, a whole new can of worms would have been opened. The gay rights folk would have, rightly IMHO, exploded, with quite a lot of public support. Oddly, I reckon if this had been some how made a gay issue, the government would have been in a lot more trouble. Last thing this UK government in particular wants is any more controversy over gay rights issues. Lining it to the spying would be both explosive, and kinda 1960's traditional!!!

Or perhaps some credit is due in that some parts of the media have simply grown up, and the gay part really is a non issue. Which would be a good thing.
If you assume your market rate, you can figure out how much money you would have drawn as a salary (since it's unpaid), and consider that as an investment. Compare that to the 80k he's put in, and maybe that will help settle the numbers.
I don't see the problem. You're just asking to pay more? If they're done in two hours, they'll either charge you less or leave, so you pay $55. In your example, that two hour cleaning is now $70. Additionally, I think you're underestimating the amount of time a good cleaning can take, even of a smaller apartment / studio.
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Hey, just a heads up -- it looks like your SSL certificate is mismatched to your domain, and chrome throws up red flags over it.
Ask HN: My Nursing Reference App is Helping Poor Clinics, Losing Money
I just wrote this Android app as a solo portfolio piece without carefully considering how to monetize it. At the time, I was more concerned with learning new APIs like Google Volley and also with creating an interesting side project to advertise my app development services.

Now, I have entire clinics in poorer countries like the Philippines and Nigeria which depend upon my free, ad-supported app.

I will soon pass a request limit and need to start paying API fees to Pearson which are quite a bit greater than my Google AdMob advertising revenue. If I do not find a way to gain more paid subscribers or earn more ad revenue, I will start losing a significant amount of money.

I want a way to keep my app alive for clinics in poor countries, but to hopefully also meet the break even point. Does anyone have any advice for a solo developer?

Thanks!

Here's the app:

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I call B.S. No way they are removing json_encode/json_decode from php. That would essentially be removing an extremely high-volume method from the php stack.
Neither of us have received any pay at this point.

Also, YC invests at that rate for companies without even an idea. We have a product launched in beta making several hundred dollars a day (inflates on weekends), with about 82 signed up clients most of which are going to start becoming more active (spending more money) as soon as we launch our iPhone app. We should be fully launching in the next month, at which point we expect to start raking in way more money.
How was it understandable? Because he looked brown enough and lived in the same apartments as the suspects?
Too bad Jusben1369 is getting downvoted. He made a point. It's also that the Terrorism Act of 2000 defines Terrorism very very broadly [1]

(b) the use or threat is designed to influence the government [or an international governmental organisation] or to intimidate the public or a section of the public, and

(c) the use or threat is made for the purpose of advancing a political, religious [, racial] or ideological cause.

It looks like the officers in London did act according to law. If that law makes sense or not is an entirely other discussion.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrorism_Act_2000
I miss doing these at http://gitready.com. For years now I've accepted suggestions but haven't written any up. If you submit a PR for a new post I'll gladly merge and publish it (after review!).

https://github.com/gitready/gitready
Because the TSC speed is never supposed to change at runtime, I would guess there is no API to notify Windows that you changed it.
Debian would not accept such an exemption unless it applied to everyone, and Crockford has refused to remove that clause in the past.
I believe negative energy has been observed in tiny amounts in the Casimir Effect, no?
I think it was done to give credence to the web-developers lack of "corporatism", to show an "underdog" narrative. Sort of like "homeless man discovers flaw in millionaire's mansion security".. he's so badass he doesn't need a home, or a job, to be good at what he does.

I think. It's gotten nearly impossible to tell w/ modern journalism.