skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I read the entirety in college. It was in a textbook I used to own. That in his Letter from a Birmingham Jail, which is also very much worth reading (found here: http://www.africa.upenn.edu/Articles_Gen/Letter_Birmingham.h... )
> It also provides a verified crpyto library implementation.

Verified by who?
It might not automatically make things clearer, but if it does then it is better and considering the USA is mostly English speakers it shouldn't be a problem. I can see how the language barrier can be an issue in Europe though.
Square open-sources its Vim repo, Maximum Awesome
Elon Musk's Hyperloop gets 3D-printed to scale
Why Spreedly? More on where we fit in the payment's landscape
MLK is just as useful for today's issues. This seems the same to me:

Perhaps a more tragic recognition of reality took place when it became clear to me that the war was doing far more than devastating the hopes of the poor at home. It was sending their sons and their brothers and their husbands to fight and to die in extraordinarily high proportions relative to the rest of the population. We were taking the black young men who had been crippled by our society and sending them eight thousand miles away to guarantee liberties in Southeast Asia which they had not found in southwest Georgia and East Harlem.

http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/mlkatimetobreaksile...
Google image search for atari breakout.
https://www.udemy.com/american-accent-training-for-it-profes...
Good points.

If he is the innocent party, if there is such a thing, in this love Quadrangle he might be quite bitter and seek to hurt Brin as much as possible.

http://www.smh.com.au/technology/technology-news/sergey-brin...
Thanks, Charles - for what is both an interesting take on the NSA's coming recruitment crisis and the best short range forecast of the evolution of Western culture I have yet to read.
Wow, this is actually one of the best set of slides I've seen in quite a while, as well as one of the best intro's to growth hacking I've seen. Well done!
You're saying we need more people who physically harm others?
> The Harvard study

Contrary to the headline (here and of the blog post), there is no Harvard study involved. If you can call the paper a study (which is, I think, somewhat dubious -- that implies a structured analysis or meta-analysis, which this is not) by two non-Harvard-affiliated scholars (one of which is affiliated with a right-wing think tank) published a student-run publication out of Harvard that bills itself as "the nation's leading forum for conservative and libertarian legal scholarship."
So, not hidden behind a copyright wall?
I think it's worse than belligerent. It makes both of them look bad (both Steve and Woz), to show that perceived split between them. There's what you say, and then there's what you say.

It also makes engineers look bad because it only enhances the perception that we can only handle the raw technical aspects, and that we get bitter when someone passes us because of non-technical reasons. I don't know why engineers are singled out here because I've seen it happen in all other specializations. Perhaps it's in the way we generally react?
> Here I have a problem - which job performance?

Job performance can be defined many different ways, and the most common in field studies is what is most common in the workplace: supervisory, and possibly peer, evaluations. It's not the perfect criteria, but the "perfect criteria" for many jobs exists only in the theoretical. When appropriate, "work performance" is also defined as sales numbers, widgets produced, time-to-complete, etc. It just depends on the study.

> So the test has to be matched to a position.

In many cases you're right (e.g., work samples), but not always. g-centric tests have demonstrated high validity across jobs and contexts. Tests for cultural fit (in which the desired outcome is typically workplace satisfaction and tenure) are typically validated across a wide range of jobs, and so they are applied across those jobs. Things like integrity tests and personality tests can have meaningful validity across jobs, even without seemingly job-relevant content.
Unity adds 2D game development
Hyperloop technical specs here (pdf): http://www.spacex.com/sites/spacex/files/hyperloop_alpha.pdf
Ugh. First think I clicked on there told me to prounounce it "Ennerprise" and "innegrade" :)

Seriously though, thanks. Will check it out.
The counter argument, though, is "How many people have read Lincoln's Gettysburg Address"?

Many know "Four score and seven years ago", but how many know "we can not dedicate, we can not consecrate, we can not hallow this ground"?

I think this says more about our "sound-bite" culture than how protective the family is of the audio.
I'm particularly struck by the contrast between a great city undergoing a decades-long project to raise everything above the local water level and modern-day insanity such as North Carolina making it illegal to base public policy on scientific reports about sea level rise.

One wonders if those lawmakers, teleported back to 19th-century Chicago, would deny that drainage is a problem and forbid basic public policy on any scientific report linking sewage to disease.
> Also, users can experiment with your UI/UX, so the camera example doesn't apply.

That's a pretty user-hostile stance. People have things to do, figuring out which hieroglyph on their camera app does what they want is probably low on the list. I can experiment, yes, but I'd really prefer not to.
Slightly offtopic: The whole idea of the immigration restrictions is ridiculous. There is not a single justification for it. Unless of course you believe that somehow your people deserve better than everyone else.

When people bring up the fact that it drives down wages and residents lose as a result - why don't they also mention that residents win by getting a cheaper product or a service?

When people bring up the welfare question and the fact that foreigners might take advantage of it, why don't they think of a simple solution: not providing it?!

The US was built on the hard work of immigrants. People seem to forget this.
But isn't a better sounding boot beep also form? Isn't this really just somebody choosing form over form? Just because the engineer was an engineer doesn't make his aesthetic preference (a better-sounding boot beep) any more empirical than Jobs' aesthetic preference (no extraneous holes in the case).

Also, calling marketers 'worthless people' is a callow statement. I'm an engineer, but we build the things we make for people to use, so the people who help other people understand the value in what we make are far from worthless.
They took the piss because I bought on a low when the companies were in deep doo. Apple just started shifting Firewire Mac-only iPods and the buggy POS that was OSX 10.1 which were laughed at initially, ARM was still suffering from Intel's pull-out of the DEC purchased StrongARM product and Acorn fiasco and Raytheon was pre-911 and had fucked up several major contracts. MS was in a good position (as always) but they were riding low.

MS's business sector proposition had a reasonable position in the market. The market was fragmented to bits then as well. A lot of it was Symbian and WinCE stuff with some fallout from proprietary platforms and the POS that was J2ME.

They let that go with WP7 and to iOS a bit (c'mon it's a version 1 product) but are clawing it back now with WP8.

Not one business person I know uses Android anymore though citing it's unreliable. I see a rough distribution of 70/30 iOS/WP8 and that's falling because dropping an iPhone is an expensive problem to sort for corporate IT departments and individual users. You can afford to throw away a couple of WP8 devices a year for the same cash per user as a 4S and 4 WP8 handsets for the price of a 5.
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Stripe: Redesign status page as part of job application
Read the last paragraph. Also on their official site too; https://stripe.com/jobs#designer
I really appreciate your response to this article. I've made this argument with a lot of people that just simply refuse to believe it.

I've dug into a lot of the statistical data around gun fatilities in as many nations as possible including the United States. The biggest obstacle is that none of it is standardized. Violent crimes and gun violence is reported differently through municipalities and nations, association of criminal and non-criminal behavior is not effectively broken down. To be honest, it really makes me unsure as to how a lot of the media and political decisions are made.

For instance, nearly two thirds of all gun related deaths in the United States are suicides and gun statistics seem to typically be reported on an overall number versus a per capita basis.

Per capita, Finland has about the same number of guns as the US, approximately the same laws regarding guns and yet, their per capita homicide rate is substantially lower.
Verizon Might Buy Vodafone’s Shares and Bell Has Something to Say About It
• Bullshit jobs.
Have you seen the slides from Tim Sweeney's "Next Mainstream Programming Language: A Game Developer’s Perspective" talk? Sweeney worked on Epic Games' Unreal engine (C++) and discusses how functional programming could benefit game programmers. He doesn't mention OCaml by name, but he mentions Haskell a couple times.

http://www.st.cs.uni-saarland.de/edu/seminare/2005/advanced-...

Lambda the Ultimate has more discussion of the talk, including comments from Tim Sweeney:

http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/1277
"And it would be impossible to stop gun's from being imported from Latin American with it's renowned industrial base for manufacturing firearms."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taurus_(manufacturer)

The gun my father most recently bought is from them (a 9mm 5 round revolver, a fairly nice piece of work).
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Perhaps the key to crypto in the browser would be to implement it in extensions rather than on webpages? Extensions run in a higher level of security clearance, are sandboxed from the rest of the page, and are much more intolerant of code injection.
Metadata is actually a good example. I'd bet that everyone on that panel understands perfectly well what metadata is and is not. The relevant part of the metadata issue isn't technical, it's legal: can it be protected by the 4th amendment, when it's sitting on AT&T's servers? What sophisticated technical understanding is needed to answer this question? Indeed, arguably better technical understanding undermines the argument for protecting it. When you understand that the metadata is something that's generated by AT&T and not you or your phone, that's less of an argument for protecting it.
Wikipedia is OK, but I don't think anything can explain Groovy as well as Simon & Garfunkel:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvlW4bEjB5A
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Damn it - another unique Racket feature stops being unique.

I hoped that in 2020 Racket will be around 5th position in "the most popular language" rankings with Clojure in the first ten too. Now it looks like Clojure is taking the lead - maybe Racket2 will change this again.

But hey, either way that's a popular, mainstream Lisp! That's unprecedented!
In my experience the services that trying to estimate traffic without tracking codes on the sites are very inaccurate (Compete, Alexa, SEMRush).
I don't buy that the TSA is full of loyalists. I think it is mostly people who view it as a paycheck.
This whole "controversy" is so stupid. It consists of people taking pg's words out of context and assigning the maximally stupid interpretation to them. I mean, are there any examples of successful U.S. based founders who have accents that are so heavy that you struggle to understand what they are saying? I'm genuinely curious.
I have the same question as Jochem Bökkers and Anil Namde had in the comments - why wouldn't you use both? I'm sure there's a good answer, but I don't understand.
Michael Pollan and Amy Harmon dissect a GM controversy
Had you up until Quora. I can't support their view of a closed web.
Comments re: Joint Strategic Plan for Intellectual Property Enforcement
Seems like a company should get more props for a product that doesn't actually break every exterior component within 1 year.

My N9 is well over a year old and has zero broken external parts. And of course the phone itself still works.

Given that a smartphone has virtually no moving parts inside, continued functionality absent being submerged or crushed is not a particularly noteworthy achievement.
"Integer" is neither pompous nor technical-sounding. Your entire comment is just a really arrogant way of saying "I'm a pedantic jackass".
Folklore.org is a great site, and I say this as someone who doesn't really like the recent Apple at all. The stories about the technical team, particularly those about Burrell Smith, are just great.
>This is wrong, because using both means that the web service we are using (for example) never knows our plaintext password, so they can't attack us under the assumption of password reuse, like in http://xkcd.com/792/

TLS doesn't protect you against a malicious site that is collecting passwords. Even if you were to examine the javascript code to verify that it isn't sending the plaintext[1], they could send a different chunk of code any time you access the site in the future. Either because the site is malicious -- as in the above example -- or because it has been compromised (whether that be by skiddies or three letter agencies with legal papers).

The only 'benefit' javascript crypto gives you is that it makes it easier for people to develop apps where the users data is encrypted before it is sent to the server (such that the server can never decrypt it). However doing this in a javascript web app totally negates that since the server can just send a compromised chunk of js any time it feels like. So the additional security to the user is basically zero.

If you want to seriously create a service like this don't use javascript inside the browser. Do what Tarsnap does: provide an open source native client that does not automatically update.

[1] and let's not pretend that modern javascript is at all readable, in the age of minification and asm.js
It makes him problematic if you think the charter of the panel is an adversarial interrogation of NSA. But maybe the point of the panel isn't to reassure the public, but rather to reassure Obama, who after all is the person whose opinion counts most here, that NSA's actions aren't setting him up for 2 years of constant legal headaches.
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Familiarity is "soul-crushing"? I really don't understand this sentiment, though I see such statements quite a lot. Care to explain why?
Pretty interesting to note that even the "business guy" did some coding for Apple II.

Wikipedia: "In addition to providing "adult supervision" to the younger Jobs and Wozniak, as a trained engineer Markkula also possessed technical skills. He wrote several early Apple II programs, served as a beta tester for Apple hardware and software, and Wozniak designed the Disk II floppy disk drive system after Markkula found that a checkbook-balancing program he had written loaded too slowly from a data cassette."
I read the response from Steve, and thought "Where's the context?" My mind immediately thought that the content beneath the post were user comments, so I struggled figuring out what was going on with this post.

Then I remembered: "Oh yeah, top-posting. Ugh."
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the people who help other people understand the value in what we make

I thought the discussion was about marketers.
Second this as well. In previous positions I've held, I first looked for track record, projects, or work experience that helped me gauge competency.

Grades was something I actually looked at last. Might be my hiring methodology but if you're going into an interview, be sure to try and focus on projects/work you've done to help compensate lower grades.
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http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-27/?action=preview...
It doesn't sound like they tried to kill him. They tried to prove an alignment with the communist party (and failed miserably). I can't believe the FBI honestly thought a note would drive him to suicide.
I remember watching it on some encyclopedia product that came loaded on my HP back sometime around '95. They also had presidential speeches and the Hindenburg crash among other events. I thought I was the coolest kid ever to have access to such historical information at my home; that so much data could be stored on a simple CD.
Universities should do more open source projects. How about a university that funds open source works exclusively?
On the Media did a great story on this [1]. If you've got 13 minutes to spare, they discuss the copyright issue and the actual construction and delivery of the speech itself.

[1] http://www.onthemedia.org/2012/jan/13/dr-martin-luther-king-...
Like it is that simple. There are millions of adsense accounts. You can't hand pick everyone. Penguin 2.0 was supposed to hurt spam sites and judging by the fuss it created in Blackhat SEO sites it succeeded a lot.
Good point, here is the blog post on our company blog: http://www.tintup.com/blog/improve-your-seo-how-we-increased...
Am I the only one who finds it a little creepy that they want anyone installing their browser extension to give them access to your entire browsing history?

I'd rather pay for each HowTo that I create or let them run an ad in middle of each presentation. This is seriously cool and has awesome possibilities but I'd hope they would reconsider their business model.
Relatedly, I'm looking for Javascript checksum implementations, especially sum24 or any other good 24bit hashing algorithm, and I couldn't find anything. Does anyone know of canonical hashing implementations for CRC and checksum (not crypto-level, I need short, short hashes) for JS?
Well, to some extent the systems are already written. And there will always be private companies that manage to hire top talent while still selling shady shit to govt. (palantir, anyone?).

Finally, it is absolutely the case that intelligence and morals do not go hand in hand. The history of the world is filled with counterexamples.
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I don't think the critique is whether they are a "Yes Man for Obama," but what their body of work shows about their inclinations regarding the topic at hand, that they and Obama are both pointers to the addresses of these activities and the goal is to prevent the activities from being garbage-collected. In a manner of speaking, and metaphors are lossy.
You'll be happy to know that the currently inherently ambiguous license is being reworked, to something akin to a normal open source license with the GCC runtime exception for users and the Sun's restriction on use of Java trademark, but using copyrights and not allowing the games that caused Apache's Harmony project so much grief.
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Uggh. Token middlebrow dismissal.

So, that means you disagree but can't articulate why?

If that is how you feel, just browse the internet with CSS turned off

If you had ever actually tried this, you'd know it's completely bullshit advice.

or with your own style sheet overriding the site's own style sheet.

Because the proper solution to shitty website UIs is to force everyone to jump thru hoops to fix them individually, rather than to rant at the webdevs in the hops that they think about things from the users' perspective rather than just "hey, that looks cool"?

It should be immediately apparent that links are links.

It is generally helpful if visited and non-visited links are different. For some things (say, a list of product categories) this is less important.

Fancy hover effects are annoying. They're slow, if the effect looks like replacement I need to re-read the caption to see that it's still the same, the eye-catchingness makes it impossible to look at something next to it until the animation finishes (this is especially bad for any effects set for when the hover ends).
>That sentiment divides the stories of the well-known and the truly great. Einstein prevailed by working hard, not by stealing the work of others.

Well, Poincaré might want to disagree. Well, it's not like he "stole the work of others", it's about gaining from their successes. And Einstein did that too, as any scientist did: he "stood on the shoulders of giants" (Maxwell, for one).
First one is a Photo Sphere. I knew what it was immediately, but then I know my phone comes with that feature.
> In general product management does what you might think of "brand management" and "design language"

While it's possible some product managers have done that, they don't typically get involved in minutiae like that. Product Managers at Google are more business focused, figuring out what the teams should focus on and keeping them pointed in the right direction based on the market and feedback from their customers + users.
I remember hearing the story of how the text was written and at the last minute, as copies were being made, the lawyer for King added the Circle C and copyright info. Apparently the King family has benefitted financially by that last minute addition.

Frankly, I can't imagine a better way to reward Dr. King, and his family, for such an amazing event and turning point in our history.

It's not like the money is going to AT&T or Microsoft.
That effectively makes Woz responsible for 50% of Apple's success so far.
> The point of the people railing against the phrase "intellectual property" is that the phrase is misleading

I venture you may have missed my point. The phrase isn't misleading, it's correct.

Having the word "property" in its name isn't what makes it a property right. It's a property right because it behaves as a property right (ownable, transferable, binds the world). "Replacing [the word 'property' in IP] with something more apt" is like insisting that you can't call mallards 'ducks' - they're still going to walk like a duck and quack like a duck.

When I said "Whether they should be is a different question", I meant 'should the right have this set of legal characteristics', not 'given that it has this set of characteristics, should it be called "property"'.

Whether the use of the word "steals gravitas" from physical property rights is neither here nor there. Law isn't poetry, it's programming. Renaming a class doesn't change what methods it has.
In 9th grade I memorized and delivered the I Have a Dream speech for my English Honors program. I memorized it by reading it over and over again and I also found an audio recording that I burned onto a CD and listened to 10 times every night. It took me 16 minutes to deliver the whole speech (in costume). I have no idea where I found the audio recording now, although NPR sounds right.
Thank you for your work. I greatly enjoyed using Apple Writer.