skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Google and Facebook want to give everyone access to the Internet because they need more raw materials. More data.
The first sentence seems basically true, but the second, and the general gist of the article, is off-base. Both companies make money, on aggregate, when there are more people using the internet. Google gets more searches, more youtube views. Facebook gets more, and more active, members. Both are monetizable eyeballs without needing any fancy data extraction.

Do we really need to posit some nefarious lust for "your data!!1" here? I don't see the need; the simpler hypothesis has enough explanatory power.
Super thanks for your help. I should have come up to check whois myself.

I called this number and left a voice mail. Hope they will process it. Going to call againg in few hours. Maybe I'll manage to talk with someone

Thank you very much.
Open house reminders, "a house just went on the market in the zip code you were looking at", etc.

It usually won't be texts to all of their clients, but to groups of 10-20 based on their tags and groupings in our system.
He calls it “homeopathic energy” and says they’ve invested around $50,000 in it so far.

Maybe it's time he gives back the $100,000 and enrolls back in college. For anyone unfamiliar why it's such a red flag that someone voluntarily associates themselves with homepathy:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homeopathy

Homeopathy is a system of alternative medicine originated in 1796 by Samuel Hahnemann, based on his doctrine of similia similibus curentur ("like cures like"), according to which a substance that causes the symptoms of a disease in healthy people will cure similar symptoms in sick people. It is widely considered a pseudoscience.

The remedies are prepared by repeatedly diluting a chosen substance in alcohol or distilled water, followed by forceful striking on an elastic body, called succussion.[7] Each dilution followed by succussion is said to increase the remedy's potency. Dilution usually continues well past the point where none of the original substance remains.

Basically, if you have a cold:

1. Start with a poison that causes cold symptoms

2. Dilute it with water

3. Repeat diluting it with water until the most sensitive scientific instruments can no longer detect the original substance

4. The water then has an "imprint" or "spirit" of the original substance which will cure the cold
Ask HN: Starting a company with limited savings
I recently left my job at a large tech company in Silicon Valley. Instead of finding another job, I want to start a company of my own.

However, thanks to a few expensive things that recently happened in my personal life, I'm not sitting on a massive savings account and only have a couple of months runway.

I've read in multiple places that a CEO should not pay himself, and if he does, he should pay himself next to nothing until the company is comfortably profitable. I cannot live on nothing and my spouse is arguing for me to get another job rather than empty our savings account.

My question:

How big a problem is this, in terms of fundraising? If I got some funding (incubator, angel) and wanted to pay myself the bare minimum to cover my rent and other costs, would this be seen as a naive or un-committed move? If I told potential investors upfront that I needed a small salary, would I be laughed out of the room?

I would obviously focus on a startup idea that could bring in revenue very early on, but as you all know, this isn't as easy as it sounds. I'm also learning about the lean startup approach to really try and get customer validation before I spend time building things.

The other options I can see are: to do some custom or contract work and turn it into a startup (the customer-funding approach), or to bring in income some other way (teaching, consulting) that complements it.

Thoughts? Thanks!
Maybe somebody can explain this better to me -- but if you freeze up in interviews, are you also going to freeze up in developer meetings? During code reviews? When you're in the room with clients?

Of course not. Interview situations are very, very different than the others. Meetings and code reviews are with co-workers, whom you know and trust. Meetings with clients could be nerve-wracking for other reasons, but they're unlikely to challenge your depth of coding knowledge.

For my own personal example, I once interviewed at a place where the interviewer wrote up some HTML on a whiteboard, and then asked me to write out the CSS next to it that would turn it into a horizontal drop down menu.

I don't work that way. I sit with my editor in one screen and a browser window in the other, and I piece together the layout as I go along. I assure you, it works just fine. But the interview situation was so far divorced from any every-day working situation that it felt very unnatural.

I opted out of returning for the second round of interviews. The next place I interviewed I sat down, in front of a computer, with the interviewer, and we talked through code as I wrote it. I took the job.
Maintenance is not a bad word
I hear what you're saying, and to a certain extent I agree. However, maybe that's the other benefit of doing these kind of pre-hiring contract jobs. They let me see what kind of an organization I would be working with.

In any case, what are you doing now, having left your company because of the environment that you see as plaguing software engineering? Did you change professions, start up your own company, or find a company that didn't have these issues?
they could be opening the very gates of hell in that lab
Homeopathic, indeed. http://www.unboundmedicine.com/harrietlane/ub/citation/15135... states about 2 microgram/cm^2/h absorption of caffeine.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caffeine gives about 100 milligram per cup of coffee.

Assuming 100 cm^2 exposure area, you would need a milligram per cm^2 for a "cup of coffee equivalent". That's 500 hours ("three weeks")

And that is assuming that this spray is equivalent to whatever van de Sandt er al used to get caffeine on the skin (I would guess they applied way more than a spray would apply)

On the other hand, high pressure spraying (better called jet injection; see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jet_injector) might work. I think that would require FDA approval, though.
There is a common theme but an interview and a crisis situation are not the same.

Its like attending an exam, its not the same getting work done in the real world.

>>Learning how to be interviewed is as useful a skill as learning how to code.

No, learning how to build is a useful skill. Learning how to be interviewed is mastering the art of being the best rat in the rat race.

The whole point is even if you win, you still remain a rat.
Comparing Hong Kong to the US is disingenuous because of the capital costs required to wire up each area are orders of magnitude different.

If I recall correctly, the 90s was full of companies laying down huge swaths of optic fiber in the US, waiting for consumers to pay hundreds of dollars a month for ultra-high-speed Internet. Most of them went bankrupt before people started clamoring for high speed Internet.

Even now, people still want to keep paying $40 a month, but at the same time want telcos to completely upgrade all the infra to support gigabit speeds.

In Canada, HSI access doesn't generally come to rural communities with subsidization from the government.
I feel what he did was morally correct, even though it was against the law. My only wish is that he would have been able to do this anonymously and not get caught.
Its not clear to me what basis there is for any imprisonment in any prison inside of US soil, when there is no war in US soil and all the so called foreign wars are made up bullshit.

If his offense stems from a breach of contract, then kidnapping and forced imprisonment and slavery can not be a punishment for that breach of contract except as enforced by civilian courts. He should be able to tell the mercenary group to get lost and sue him in US civilian court.

How many years do soldiers get for killing civilians in the civilian courts?

The use of military tribunals in cases of civilians was often controversial, as tribunals represented a form of justice alien to the common law, which governs criminal justice in the United States, and provides for trial by jury, the presumption of innocence, forbids secret evidence, and provides for public proceedings. Critics of the Civil War military tribunals charged that they had become a political weapon, for which the accused had no legal recourse to the regularly constituted courts, and no recourse whatsoever except through an appeal to the President. The U.S. Supreme Court agreed, and unanimously ruled that military tribunals used to try civilians in any jurisdiction where the civil courts were functioning were unconstitutional, with its decision in Ex Parte Milligan, 71 U.S. 2 (1866).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_tribunals_in_the_Unit...
> What a bunch of pedantic garbage. [ ] Any fourth grade history student would understand this. [ ] When people talk about the decline of HN, I think it's this sort of information-free, pointlessly contrary posts that they talk about.

If you have a valid point, why do you need to resort to incivility?

> The Japanese were willing to commit to total war to defend their right to massacre Chinese people; the USA took them up on the offer. The only significant debate about the A-Bomb is whether it was more or less deadly than an invasion of mainland Japan.

So you actually think that intentionally killing civilians to win a war is morally okay? I just don't hold that view.
Backing up your tweets to Camlistore with Python and Camlipy
Sources for MOOCs?
Off the top of my head: Stanford Online, Coursera, KA, Udacity, but I know there are dozens. Does anyone have advice for easy ways to parse/explore all of the different platforms?
Beware of Metaprogramming...
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Yeah, this was kind of my point about Manning, namely that justice is rather arbitrary and is transparently hypocritical at best. Nothing seriously bad happened to the people in the Collateral Murder video, for instance.
"Who's the real terrorists in 2013?"

Comfort-maximizing system-lickers.
The Coffee Withdrawal Diagnosis
Try setting your text container dimensions in em then.
A codepen demo I made to introduce Tridiv capabilities :

http://codepen.io/juliangarnier/pen/hzDAF
I never really understood how TC works. Does the TPM actually do anything on-the-fly that is noticeable? Is it used at all on any consumer devices?

Fill me in here, because I'm at a loss.

EDIT: Never mind. It seems like prior TPMs shipped with hardware, but were opt-in instead of opt-out, and now, with the W8.1 hardware spec, TPM 2.0 (which has a greater range of TC technologies) will need to be enabled as default on hardware shipped with W8.1, and there is no possible way to opt-out.

A shame that hardware manufacturers are just Microsoft lackeys.
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I get your point but these are peoples lives, you have HAVE to side on caution. Getting people killed just because we believe, that the government MIGHT be lieing with no proof the other way, isn't good enough. That's more blood that we as American people don't need.
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Anybody can point to this outcome and say, "this is unjust/immoral," military or not. In order to say "this outcome is illegal/improper procedure" you have to have some domain knowledge.
Just replying to state my shock at how many people are defending poor interview performance.

If you freeze up during interviews because it's "high stress" then maybe you need to practice going on more interviews until it doesn't bug you any more.

When you're a developer -- especially at a senior level -- you need to be able to work well under stress. Hell -- you need to be able to do that for nearly any job in the world.
I don't know...seems far fetched. You should be able to sniff that out when talking with the dev about their code.

And if someone at oDesk or Elance does that nice of a job you should just hire them.
I just have looked up on www.xoticpc.com for a Thinkpad X1 Carbon and there is NO possibility to get it without Windows. So at least for them it is not true.
I don't think that Manning deserves to go to jail.This sentence must be for the ones that allowed one ordinary soldier to access thausands ot highly classified documents.
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Also, the name of the rat is:

Adrian Lamo

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrian_Lamo
Thank your for making a proper AngularJS directive and not just some shim-wrapper for an existing JQuery component. I wish this was more the standard than the exception with AngularJS components. Let's move foward!
Nice result. As others have pointed out its not a record or anything, but it is a solid indication that graphene transistors are, in fact, credible. An example of a not really credible transistor are the various organic ones, they have frequency limits in the high kHz to single digit MHz.

But workable graphene transistors gets us one step closer to an all carbon device. Using diamond as a substrate for heat removal, Graphene-on-Diamond (oh snap, those would be GoD devices) could provide for an interesting replacement for more exotic silicon processes. (one could argue that an all carbon process is more exotic still if one chose to).

The benefits over silicon would be faster operation at an equivalent temperature, and the ability to operate at a higher temperature. Pretty much all silicon products melt at a junction temperature around 175 degrees C but carbon based devices should be able to continue to operate well into a few hundred degrees C if I am reading the papers correctly.

Should be an interesting decade.
This looks great, and I've been wanting to start blogging for a while now. I hesitated on the $29, even though it is not much because, why pay for something I possibly will not use (e.g. I never get around to writing anything more than a few, if any, posts).

But then I realized (a) I would not be charged until receiving an invite, and (b) if I've put money down for this, that alone puts some pressure on forcing myself to write.

So I've signed up.
You have a pretty low opinion of our field if you think everything that you need to know about our field can be googled in 20-30 seconds. I'm not arguing about minutia questions, but if you can't be bothered to understand how and why to optimize a database or the difference between TCP and UDP (really?) and that's what the job requires, then I don't want to hire you.
Heroku or other PaaS will crash out if you're relying on the free service and get any kind of spike.

Seriously, $29/year is nothing if you're an active blogger. It's a small fraction of most professionals' hourly rate. If you're spending any significant time writing, I'd be much more concerned about many other factors than forking out $29/year. If anything, I'd worry if it's too low, ie will it be reliable enough?

Additionally, even if you know how to install blogging software (which most writers don't of course), you'll probably underestimate the effort and you'll need to keep it updated with security patches at the least.
Truthfully, I'm not certain I'd trust someone who can go through an interview without freezing up or having any similar problems. Confidence is a valuable thing, but only in moderation.
They mistakenly sold books the publishers hadn't licensed, then refunded the customers and removed the books from their Kindles.
I disagree. I've been in those "4AM" situations before and handled them well.

I can't interview to save my life.

These are two completely different mindsets.
Yes, the ideal ("most legible") width for a column of text is ~60 characters, no question.

We can reasonably question what makes a good line length as well.

You have to define what you’re trying to achieve first. For example, a line length that is subjectively pleasing to readers in a certain context might not be the same as a line length that optimizes measured reading speed or retention.

Once you’ve done that, differences start to emerge. During research studies, readers have often preferred shorter line lengths (typically around 40-50 characters) over longer ones (say 60+). However, in terms of reading speed, lines as long as 100 or so characters have sometimes resulted in better measured performance. Please note that I’m oversimplifying horribly here, both ignoring established confounding factors like font and line spacing, and ignoring context such as screen vs. print or paged vs. scrolling presentation.

So, while the old rules of thumb like “two alphabets” seem to be reasonable starting points, we shouldn’t assume that they are optimal in all cases.
Many people, me included, experience something called "interview anxiety". It is only ever present during interviews. It may not be rational, but it's how our minds work.

It's easier to understand if you think of it like a phobia - someone may be irrationally scared of spiders, but that doesn't mean that they are going to be scared of heights, clowns, dogs, and snakes too.
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So a Kozmo.com that held out longer?
> That's not the point

I fail to see how it could be anything else. You previously stated:

> it offers visibility on app list and when I have a few free moments, I look at my phone apps and I say "Great, let's see what's new on HN"

I do not know about you — hence the interrogative — but I can (and do) put bookmarks on my home screens, right next to applications and thus with the exact same visibility.
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Neither is webkit. There are many things it doesn't do.

And it has lots of proprietary extensions.

How is it different?
Chinese Telecom Leverages Firefox for Image of Privacy
The article seems a bit hyperbolic with captions like this one:

...are building a new kind of computer operating system

That's more than exaggerating slightly. If they were talking about a completely new OS architecture, I might accept that statement.

So much fluff here and so little technical detail.
Actually, not just a botched trip, but any trip. Don't do it.
Ahh, ok your assuming nutrients all need to hit exactly 100% each day to be heathy. The reality is perfection changes with age, Heath issues, pregnancy, sun exposure, body weight, and a host of other issues. However, close enough is plenty to stay in good heath. So, while there is no diet that works equally well for a nursing mother and a sedendary accountant both can stay heathy eating just rice and a multivitamin or enshure and some empty cal.
Right, because helping "Internet activists" to access Google, FB and Twitter totally had nothing to do with securing the NSA's power to spy on those countries.
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I did the same thing, and I really love Pelican. Silvrback does about 80% of what I need for http://steveasleep.com/ but that's more like 100% for most people.

To me it's actually easier to write a post in Vim and then 'make gh-pages' to push it to the internet. But I don't count that against this service at all.

The main reason I won't be using this service is that I pop out more open source projects than blog posts, and my site is more about project commentary than blogging, so the "post" format doesn't really work for me.
What You Need to Know on New Details of NSA Spying
KariosDB (https://github.com/proofpoint/kairosdb) is a time-series database for Casssandra. It's an OpenTSDB (http://opentsdb.net) rewrite that supports sub-second precision.
It was confusing for me because it's using English words, but reading the code is the opposite of how you'd say it in English. I wouldn't ask/think "text myVariable is" (some languages would, I know), which is how "a.text(myVariable).is()" reads. Rather, I would say, "is myVariable text", which would correspond to "is(myVariable).text()", which reads that way in English (I know, a bias).
Just have found another article that might give some more details. It is again a German article, so I hope that German speaking community will step in again (the last Google translation was really bad) and provide its interpretation.

The article is an interview of Professor Dr. Rüdiger Weis, who is a cryptology expert:

https://netzpolitik.org/2013/interview-trusted-computing-sti...
Same thing.

I got an open ended problem that would take a measure of forever to solve: Specifically to write a program (in your favorite language!) that would do natural language processing and discern emotions and feelings about subjects from text. We were supposed to include our own lexical parser.

The author's strategy scales poorly with complex and interlocking problems. Where it is more important to show potential ability to solve the problem (puzzles), holistic understanding (talkin' about it), or prioir experience (specific questions about libraries).

This guy should address his core problem (stage anxiety?) instead of advocating a solution that is only tenable in a limited number of cases and represents far too much commitment from the participants.
>in fact, they told him no bug was reported, so we could technically reach the conclusion that no "rules" were broken.

Err, how do you come to that conclusion? It is against FB's ToS to knowingly muck with userdata that isn't yours or that you don't have permission to access. It doesn't matter what you're doing, knowingly messing with user data is against the ToS.

And while yes, the FB staff member could have responded better I'm not terribly surprised or upset with how they did respond. Most of the text of the email was describing the author's lack of job. The "report" was simply a link with no real information. When sifting through bug reports, this one exudes "this isn't an actual bug"
There's also SilverStripe, a pretty well known CMS.

http://www.silverstripe.com/
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