skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"What the earliest utopians—Montaigne, Thomas More, Tommaso Campanella—understood was that they fought not for a place but for a new set of ideas through which to recognize what would count as Real: Equality, not hierarchical authority. Individual dignity, not slavish subservience. Our preeminent problem is that we recognize the Real in what is most deadly: a culture of duty to legalities that are, finally, cruel and destructive. We need to work inventively—as Christ did, as Thoreau did—in the spirit of disobedience for the purpose of refusing the social order into which we happen to have been born and putting in its place a culture of life-giving things." ~ Michel de Montaigne
This seems like BS to me. I can't imagine myself ever accepting an unpaid internship (or any kind of unpaid work. That doesn't mean I wouldn't do charity work, but I'm not accepting a job for nothing). If there are idiots out there who like to work for free, let them.

Also, this is a non-profit, so "volunteering" is just fine. Granted the posting sounds a lot more like a job than charity work, but hey, if they can find people going for it then more power to them.
I am absolutely overflowing with computer science PhDs from IBM, CA, and academia. I would give away 10 pompous entitled know-it-all Computer Science PhD types for just one single self-taught know-it-all. Maybe the real problem is that your over-achieving self-taught know-it-all types are unchallenged and agitated by your basic curriculum. Maybe the education system in this country is so abysmally broken, that professors waste their time criticizing talented students on the Internet, while those talented students sit unchallenged in boring basic classes they should not have to take in the first place.
Sea mines and stealth torpedos are still hard to defend against with anything besides a very thick hull. At that point it is a battleship.
As lp251 says, the determinant method is not a good idea.

Checking the condition number of the covariance matrix of the LS estimates (X'X)^{-1} is the way R does it.
Done: http://www.sideprojectors.com/project/project/70

Although I'm a bit wary about selling it, because it's the kind of project that could easily be used for spammy purposes…
I do the same, but somewhat differently. The primary reason is that I only accept connections to people I have personally met and interacted with. (The few exceptions to that rule are people whom I've had extensive online dealings with.) The network information tells me who is likely to know more, and more importantly, could probably help to skirt the "Great Wall of HR" by introducing me personally with the people doing the actual hiring. Outside LinkedIn.

When someone in my personal network pings the hiring manager and asks if they can connect me with them, I'm already ahead of the rest. Even if the response is to send the application in through the regular channels, the hiring manager now knows to expect my application. And perhaps most importantly, they know that I have been already vetted for fit and sanity by a person in their personal network. I can refer to that link in the application cover, and help it stand out even further.

The in-system introductions at LinkedIn I consider worthless. Use those, and you get flagged as someone just clicking buttons.

Networking is crucial on any creative field. But if you're willing to artificially "enhance" your network, you're just devalueing that very network - and by extension, yourself. The only things that really matter are the personal connections. They are the ones that can help you - and the ones that you are willing to help yourself.
Bradley Manning 'sorry' for hurting US at Wikileaks trial
University of Washington harnesses RF and TV waves for battery-free devices
New technology inspires shark deterrent wetsuits
And if newspaper ads were free, Craigslist wouldn't be where it is today.

With ifs and buts we can change the world :)
The Official Sun/Oracle JDK SecureRandom class already pulls from /dev/random. The Android class does not.
Doesn't sound like, but (probably) is.
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html

"If a program released under the GPL uses plug-ins, what are the requirements for the licenses of a plug-in? (#GPLAndPlugins)
It depends on how the program invokes its plug-ins. If the program uses fork and exec to invoke plug-ins, then the plug-ins are separate programs, so the license for the main program makes no requirements for them.

If the program dynamically links plug-ins, and they make function calls to each other and share data structures, we believe they form a single program, which must be treated as an extension of both the main program and the plug-ins. This means the plug-ins must be released under the GPL or a GPL-compatible free software license, and that the terms of the GPL must be followed when those plug-ins are distributed.

If the program dynamically links plug-ins, but the communication between them is limited to invoking the ‘main’ function of the plug-in with some options and waiting for it to return, that is a borderline case."

http://www.blender.org/education-help/faq/gpl-for-artists/#c...

"Can I sell plug-ins for Blender?

Yes you can, but only if you provide the plug-in and the sources to your clients under the GNU GPL license. The client then benefits from all rights the GPL offers; free to use it, or even distribute it when they wish.

Only if the plug-in doesn't work within Blender as "acting as a single program" (like using fork or pipe; by only transferring data and not using each others program code) you have the full freedom to license the plug-in as you wish."
Cisco's fiscal year starts towards the end of July. So we're already in FY14.
Larry Ellison is ROFLing right now.
Yeah......that looks like an easy fix o_O
alternately, Sheldon and his theremin :-)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPL8u8gJL0A
Great idea and marketing, but I just wish they'd chosen Go - I would have bought one in a second. Correct me if I'm wrong, but the lack of sane, static typing in JS just seems crazy to me when you come to writing low level code.
Daniel Dennett on the Dignity and Art-Science of Making Mistakes
You need to find the carrier first, ocean is a huge place. If you found and got close you do not need to coordinate single sub will do the job. But getting that sub there is non-trivial. You could ambush the carrier as it transits a straight but that will only work as open strike at the start of the war
And now we simply wait for cell carriers/handset manufacturers to push out updates for all the handsets in the field.
His lightweight fighter isn't so light

The F16 is around 27,000 lbs (air-to-air loaded)[1], the F15 (which was developed around the same time)is 48,000 pounds[2]

The F16 did develop a pretty decent ground attack capability but it does have a pretty good air-to-air record too: eg, the Israelis used it against the Syrians in the early 80s, the Turks and Greeks used them against each other in non-shooting dogfights[3])

The AF and Navy/USMC need a plane for dropping bombs. They keep hacking fighters to do that. But they're more right than Boyd was.

Meh.. I'm not sure this is a simple right/wrong thing. There have been very limited wars where airforces have been reasonably closely matched since the F16 entered service. In the mid 70s (after Vietnam & the Yom Kippur war in the Middle East) no one predicted that at all. It was only the Yom Kippur war that made planners see what a threat SAMs were on the battlefield (they had been fairly ineffective against fighters during Vietnam)

When one side has air supremacy, then yes - they will use that as much as possible. It's been that way since WW1

[1] http://www.f-16.net/f-16_versions_article9.html

[2] http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blF_15_Eagle.ht...

[3] http://www.f-16.net/news_article1809.html (there are other incidents too)
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Yep. Everyone who normally pretends that Android fragmentation is "not that big a deal" is going to squirm.
I'm actually shocked that someone used a zero-day Android exploit to steal $5,700 of BTC. Couldn't they have sold it for significantly more on the black market?
I have pretty much the same mentality and I Have to agree that it just works. It doesn't matter what I have on my mind before going to the gym as it is soon replaced by "I have to squat 2.5kg more than the last time?!".
This is the most elaborate troll i've ever seen. Kudos to the team for creating what is literally the physical embodiment of everything I hate about technology.
The more things change, the more things change. Javascript isn't Perl and isn't being used like Perl. For example, people aren't turning it into an hardware embedded language.
Find a project to work on and look up things on stackoverflow when you need to figure out something.
> Reduced headcount forces automation which might have been politically resisted for years

More like, "we can't afford to spend time on automation now that we lost a team member!"
Well, that's just unnecessarily offensive. I'm proficient in Python, Java, and C, and was at some point also fluent in PHP, Ruby, and Lisp. While I wouldn't particularly enjoy coding in Javascript, CoffeeScript is, to date, the best language I've worked with. I debug in JavaScript, so I'm not that far away from it.

Why is "class-based OO" necessary? There's nothing wrong with prototypal inheritance. The way modules are done in Node is pretty powerful compared to other languages I've used. The scoping rules are different, for sure, but I don't really see why you'd call them "broken". They're internally consistent and easily comprehensible.

Semicolon insertion is, admittedly a problem. The solution, of course, is to put in your own semicolons. If you do that, and use something approaching reasonable whitespace conventions, there isn't really a problem. JavaScript's `==` the like are, for sure, broken, but that's nothing a `===` can't fix. It's not like the other languages you mentioned wouldn't have issues without reasonable conventions.
It's possible that the exploit was used previously and the incident went unreported.
Bought this and activated all the steam keys. Haven't heard anything good about Origin but since I've never tried it myself I decided to give it a go. Seems to be a steam knock-off and the first thing it told me was that key redemption was currently down. Its like they only want me to use steam.
An AngularJS seed with unit, e2e testing, dep management, built-in auth and more
Interns aren't employees.
I'd wager that you know as much about javascript as you do about presenting a convincing point of view.
>I would start by examining where all the major Tor exit nodes are, since that's likely where you would hide your heavy trafficked Tor hidden service, right beside a giant exit node to blend in with the other traffic. Feds already know this, this is probably how they caught Freedom Hosting.

You would not want to run a heavily used hidden service that you want to remain hidden right beside an exit node. That would be foolish.
This is bitbucket is yet again the best!!!!!
From the US Department of Labor, an unpaid internship is legal only if all of these criteria are met (and I quote):

1. The internship, even though it includes actual operation of the facilities of the employer, is similar to training which would be given in an educational environment;

2. The internship experience is for the benefit of the intern;

3. The intern does not displace regular employees, but works under close supervision of existing staff;

4. The employer that provides the training derives no immediate advantage from the activities of the intern; and on occasion its operations may actually be impeded;

5. The intern is not necessarily entitled to a job at the conclusion of the internship; and

6. The employer and the intern understand that the intern is not entitled to wages for the time spent in the internship.

(http://www.dol.gov/whd/regs/compliance/whdfs71.htm)

Labor laws in the United States were hard won, and we should not forget this. Along with minimum wage laws, they benefit all of us who must work to maintain our lives. So expecting someone to provide you free labor with no compensation for their efforts is not only immoral, it's illegal. If you work, you deserve to get paid. If you expect someone to work for you, you should be honored to be able to pay them reasonably for their time and effort.

Why is this so difficult to understand?
My Nest is a time vampire
The slowness of C++ compilation is more complicated than you imply. Walter Bright details the causes here: http://www.drdobbs.com/228701711
MUST SEE: Spider Killing gone TERRIBLY wrong
see if any of these projects will motivate you

http://sideprojectors.com
(notably 'cperciva)

I'm confused, what's the apostrophe eliding? ;-)
But, exactly what is the risk that employees take (no sarcasm intended)? I mean, let's say an early employee takes 20% less salary than a later one for the first year or two. Additionally, take into account the fact that the company is more likely to fail at an earlier stage, and the earlier employee might need a couple of months to get a new job, I still can't see the risk of an earlier employee being a degree of magnitude higher than a later one.

Again, thanks for your time in answering such silly questions. For a kid trying to figure out those things, I'm much appreciated that.
How about returning some money to the investors?
Also a good one: Scientists grow teeth from human urine because why the hell not
http://io9.com/scientists-grow-teeth-from-human-urine-becaus...
Yup. More ways to show off.

There's a line that can be crossed if the reviewer isn't cool enough or it comes off wrong. Caveat submitter. But who's gonna worry about that? :)
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I never see big corps have unpaid interns. It's always small, scummy orgs like this one.
I quote HN usernames. It's a weird me thing that I've done ever since I saw a user named "the". If I did @cperciva that would make intuitive sense to everyone, but then it wouldn't work for people not on Twitter.
You need to put more links to your homepage near the bottom of your blog post.

"I rethought the homepage’s message from the ground up to really explain what Folyo does, instead of just projecting a nice image (compare [THE NEW HOMEPAGE] with the old homepage).

"So take a look at [the new Folyo](I'm a link!) and let me know what you think!"

Also, add:
PPPS: Perhaps a fresh design is what your startup needs. Guess where you can find new designers? [Hint: Folio](link)

Anyway, good luck with your next shot.
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Is it better than a touchpad? My iPad with touch does rotating and zooming really well.

I can see this being an awesome technology in an operating room where they don't want to touch things for sanitation reasons. I have a hard time imagining how it is useful in my day to day use of a computer.
Not free for life. The energy is stored in a battery which needs to be replaced every few years. The batteries aren't cheap either.
Runbox is based in Norway and are very privacy oriented.

https://runbox.com/why-runbox/
Which is perhaps even more frightening considering many other high security apps use these libraries.
Your third computer daughter?
Interesting none of these would apply to Congressional interns who are also unpaid, as well as those in the White House.

I wonder when the government will get around to investigating themselves?
I wonder how many other founders throw around romantic
notions of robbing a bank. I mean there's media exposure, groupies and money. See also: Stander (2003).
Yep: "I think they would have done themselves a significant favor by having a killer app ready from the outset."
For each milestone or project, the details of the deliverables are put into the system. This way, if there's ever an issue (hasn't been yet), we look at the documentation to make a decision.

Because the projects are vetted as well, this decreases the chances of this happening.
The problem with Folyo is the upfront fee. If the intended market is startups, most projects are bootstrapped. They'd kill to get a great designer, but $100 posting fee is a huge psych barrier.

IMHO, the proven formula of service providers shaving off their earning for you should work better. There are other innovations possible, like peer review for design, design critique from an expert, outsourced usability testing etc.

Its always easier to swim downstream.
They often don't for internships (vs Google), but for salaried employees they quickly surpass Google a few years out. More boutique firms and quant funds do have very high paying internships for Masters and PhDs however.
That kind of rationalization probably indicates a pretty big problem.
I don't know for sure, but these rules may be different for non-profit and governmental entities because those organizations are in a bit of a different class.
What error page?
It's a half hour. Not an hour. Furthermore, from a given location on an average freeway, what do you think the real-life time is, in heavy traffic, to get to a bathroom? Could be over a half hour, easily.

There's no new problem here.
Agreed, the state of art of most microcontroller manufacturers these days is to push out a (usually buggy) Eclipse based IDE with undocumented C libraries. They all have their quirks and issues - noone has got it right yet from the developer's point of view. This seems like a step in the right direction, albeit taking a big performance hit.
Eh, it's a better habit to be in than drinking coffee, smoking, or drinking.
That kid will be paying for their OWN Social Security. Any given retiree has already paid for theirs. That's what the lifelong taxes are for. Remember?
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I'm not sure what you mean by "shaving off their earning for you"? Do you mean taking a cut of the project budget?

I could do that, but A) it would end up being more expensive for customers (although maybe that's irrelevant if they don't perceive it that way?) and B) it would be more complex logistically.

So I will probably stick with the current model at least for now, even though I know it has its flaws.
I can't upvote this enough. I know about a lot of behavior that occurs inside and outside of private high schools that goes unchecked or loosely-punished, instead of resulting in police action at most public schools (poor or not). Nothing against the more privileged kids--I don't think a lot of the "troubling" behavior listed in the article is all that problematic (barring shoplifting and assault of course).
The developers that used this flawed API thought so too. Mea culpa.
This isn't very good, because you don't describe the reason that one would lose the three stands.
"Developers who use JCA for key generation, signing or random number generation should update their applications to explicitly initialize the PRNG with entropy from /dev/urandom or /dev/random."

Really? This is what's missing?

They build a whole infrastructure for crypto and forget to do that?
I wouldn't want to run a long-lived service which attracted serious attention on an onion routed network. You could get some initial protection by terminating the onion frontend traffic on "tamper resistant, untraceable, throwaway nodes", and then backhaul (maybe via Tor?), to other servers, etc. The frontends would be able to do some local processing to maybe break up the traffic somewhat.

All of this kind of stuff would impair site reliability. IMO, if SR went down more often, I'd have a higher opinion of the paranoid exhibited by the admins. A highly reliable underground site is usually either 1) run by people who are going to get caught or 2) run by people who are doing the catching. There's I guess 3) run by really exceptional people who are doing it as a political statement -- generally unlikely, but in this case, possible.
Why Your Australian Startup Should Bank with NAB
Ad-Free Social Platform App.net Raises Another $2.5M From Andreessen Horowitz
Nice...so can we use our own SMS gateway on top???
Awesome to see you guys finally launched this. I was another finalist in Hackagong (a local hackathon here in Wollongong, Australia) when the initial version of this was being built and I loved what I saw. I'll have to keep it in mind next time I build a cool side project. I actually worked with Vero, one of the companies mentioned in Sacha's blog post, for a short time too. It's great to see so many Australian startups showing up on HN.
Ultimately I think App.net will either have a killer app (probably from a third party) in which case people will sign up just to get that app, or it will just fail. Either way, there's no real need to market App.net itself.
Think about the man-hours of productivity saved by having the explanation right there ;)
I would hazard that you are coming to this from a relatively sedentary point of view. Often overlooked is the huge hump to get over before exercise starts showing it's benefits. It can take months if you do not have the strength it takes to work out effectively, or are performing less than optimal exercise routine, such as one focused on cardio.
> If this is true and if JS can only do floats, it would be bad news for many basic mathematical operations running on this chip

By spec, JS only has double-precision floats. However, since that means that 32-bit integers can be exactly represented, V8 optimizes to integer calculations unless actually using floats becomes necessary. I would guess that on this device floating point operations are done in software, but also that they rarely occur in practice.
There was an airburst test that battleships survived, but the nuke was way off target, even well shielded animals onboard died so if it was crewed it would have been a floating coffin and the nuke was a 20 kiloton device. One single Trident missile holds up to twelve 500 kiloton bombs.
Except if /dev/urandom is using a hardware based random number generator, then you have to trust that the hardware hasn't received some NSA alterations at some point during the design.

The NSA did design a random number generator that likely had a backdoor in it:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual_EC_DRBG#Controversy).

Here's Bruce Schneier talking about it:
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2007/12/dual_ec_drbg_...

Also it's in Windows (although it's not used by default but userspace programs could rely on it).
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2007/12/dual_ec_drbg_...

It would be possible for the NSA to go to Intel and get them to put in something in their random number generator that would let them to basically break the encryption by massively reducing the keyspace if they have the secret key.
It may not have been identified specifically as an Android exploit -- there are people (I used to be one of them, though I wouldn't have used the result to exploit wallets) who constantly run crypto attacks on transactions in the blockchain to identify weak wallet keys. The person who stole the BTC probably automated the attack, left it running against the blockchain, and never even knew what the real vulnerability was.
It's not the misleading service; it's the misleading person who misled you, in particular, that you should be disappointed in.

I wouldn't display too much animus about this. It makes you look, well, homophobic. And also like you don't have enough good sense to pre-vent people to make sure they are the gender you are seeking before meeting them, if you are so very concerned that someone might be (gasp, horrors) misleading you online.