skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Immediately after start, the Trojan checks if it does not run in a virtualized environment

What would be the performance implications of running everything under a virtual machine on a very light host OS? The idea had not previously occurred to me, but it seems like there would be a ton of advantages to that, including increased security.

I know that some compatibility issues will vary depending on VM software, but from a pure performance perspective, what kind of loss are we looking at?
True hacking.
The standard job search sites have them as well. I get lots of recruiter emails about them, especially if you're interested in full time remote work.
Isn't 50% just like flipping a coin?
Forget making perfect sense, what sense does this layout make at all?

I expect columns to have similar properties. Why are <span> and <script> in the same column?

What property is increasing as I go left to right and top to bottom?

Why are some columns taller than others?
The official USPS policy is that such mail is just thrown in the trash:

http://pe.usps.com/text/csr/PS-086.htm

Here is some other coverage:

http://consumerist.com/2007/11/01/update-taping-pre-paid-bus...

http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/566/can-i-mail-a-br...
Unrelated to the OP, but I thought "Oh like Olin College." It was an engineering college founded in 1997 that had free tuition until recently. (It still is half price.) It attracts the best and brightest. Great school.
This is how direct mail companies acquire the bricks their offices are made out of.
You have to have a Technet (soon to be removed) or MSDN subscription to get early access to Windows 8.1 RTM ISOs.

We are MSDN subscribers... I updated this fact in my comment.

Also, these top customers needs to be updated because they have million of customers that use our components.
Ideal use for soundboard apps.
If the postage was pre-paid, why would post office mail a letter that exceeded the postage already paid?
Every call becomes a mini timeshare
That's not entirely true, at least in the United States. That's part of the purpose of the 2nd amendment. We cede some of our rights to use force to the government, but things like Castle Doctrine and the 2nd amendment mean we also retain those rights in specific circumstances.

Another aspect of the 2nd amendment people often overlook (particularly gun control advocates) was that it was originally intended as a check to the power of the army. The idea being that should the government ever try to use the military to suppress the public, that an armed public would be able to fight back and presumably being bigger than the military, win. That theory has been greatly eroded in the last 70 years or so by the increasingly large gap between the weapons the military has access to and what the public has access to. Back when the constitution was drafted a rifle was a rifle was a rifle, and 200 soldiers versus 1000 citizens all armed with rifles, the citizens would likely win. These days with the military having tanks and jets and nightvision and all manner of other advanced weapons (including the much debated fully automatic rifles) means that your average group of citizens wouldn't stand a chance against the military in serious armed conflict.
I deliberately, and almost ruthlessly enough, limit my LinkedIn connections to people I've worked with closely enough to evaluate each other. I really want it to be a career resource. The set of endorsements under the system as currently implemented, bears little correspondence with what those people would say about me if you asked them. This makes the data, and LinkedIn itself, less useful.
There was a point in time when it took longer to load a fresh copy of the project I was working on in IntelliJ than it did to update, build from source, and launch Emacs. That said more about the project I was working on than IntelliJ, but still.
Yeah, it's one thing to charge companies for phone calls when they were going to call you anyways, it's another thing to suggest to a company that you're interested in a bulk order, and then charge them to send you the information that you requested. That's sounds more just like theft.
What they ought to do is to give a different notation for being endorsed by someone else with the same skill.
If you haven't attended a Startup Weekend, you must!
Actually launch a business:
Over 36% of Startup Weekend startups are still going strong after 3 months. Roughly 80% of participants plan on continuing working with their team or startup after the weekend.
Tin Can is currently an experimental project. The login is currently using personatest, which is running an older version. I'm not too sure what the status is (I'm a friend of the author) right now with integrating this into persona.
About one Internet generation ago a paper sci fi (real scifi, not like TV "sy fy") publisher called Baen had the same exact business model except with cdroms.

It worked. I hear it worked very profitably.

As an anecdote I blew a lot of money with them after reading the first novel or whatever. Also gained a couple new authors I still like.

There's probably a startup opportunity in other areas where "the first hit is free" works pretty well. Someone should try it with TV shows.
Actually launch a business:
Over 36% of Startup Weekend startups are still going strong after 3 months. Roughly 80% of participants plan on continuing working with their team or startup after the weekend. - Susie
Solve today's problems
"Apple kills the MAC Address" is a terrible title. It made me worried that Apple was trying to mess with the link layer.
"So would you like me to explain the benefits?"
YEP, go ahead
"Would you want me to explain who uses it?"
YEP, go ahead.
"Would you want me to charge your CC right now?"
YEP, go ahead.. Wwait... what?
> There's this new idea where you can have an operating system, run the command 'apt-get install foobar', and BAM all of a sudden foobar is installed.

Nah dude, that's never gonna fly. See, as mentioned in the top comment, no one uses and knows the OS they are developing for nowadays (though only windows users are looked down upon for some strange reason).

It is always more fun to not spend precious minutes reading about how to create an apt package, but reinvent the wheel for the hundredth time and implement another under-featured and buggy package manager in our current favorite language, and then add workaround after workaround to actually make it somewhat close feature wise to apt or rpm (i.e. usable).
One thing to consider is the passive vs the active. The people in your office don't steal your keyboard because they have no need for it and/or they don't desire it. That's because they too are given one. That's because it's a very small cost to them to acquire one. The retribution that would come from taking your keyboard is completely out of whack with the benefit of taking it whether that retribution was becoming a social outcast or having the weight of the state applied to the crime. So they're rationale actors driven by self interest vs having any respect (or not) for you. The real test is when someone (rightly or wrongly) covets what you have. Perhaps they're genuinely starving or looking to feed their family. Maybe it's a step above that and they're quite poor and they perceive you to be well off. Those are the better situations to judge whether people are then constrained/motivated by only a self respect for you and/or a fear of state repercussions.
Hah, sure! shoot me an email (username @gmail) and we can talk. It isn't cheap flying here but you can definitely crash at mine.
- Install a metal door frame and secure that with metal bolts into the wall that go about two hand lengths deep.

When I was at uni someone burgled my flat by expedient of kicking the door open - it was a thing you could see was going to happen even when you got there, the door frame had signs it had been kicked open before. That put a permanent stop to it. From what I've heard the next girl who lived there's never had any problem with people kicking the door down either.

- Spiky nasty bushes under the windows. People don't like standing in a bunch of thorny crap to try and climb in.

- Big motion sensitive lights, (make sure to stick them around the side too!) People like lurking. Make sure that they can't just go and lurk around the side of the house in the shadows.

Edit: Also, it might be worth seeing whether you can get some transparent security film to stick to your windows. It makes it more difficult to just smash the things and climb in.
fraud
noun
1. wrongful or criminal deception intended to result in financial or personal gain.
Forgive me for this but...

Now if only Emacs as an OS had a good editor.
I'll bite.

With the original story there's some feeling of comeuppance, and it's not really a huge financial burden on the company making thousands of calls a day.

In your story—illegalities aside—they're just being a complete asshole.
For some reason, everyone endorses me for SEO, when that is the really the only type of online marketing I've never done.
I'd think this is pretty straightforward.

The real business of LinkedIn is selling services to employers and space to advertisers [0].

The more data points they have on each user, the more numerous results they can return to recruiters and more specific targeting they can do with ads.

Endorsements are a way to easily, indirectly expand a user profile by turning the additions into 1-click suggestions and consents rather than requiring real action by the user.

If it were socially acceptable I expect they'd ask users to upload profile photos and estimate salaries for their connections too.

0: http://www.forbes.com/sites/tomiogeron/2013/08/01/linkedin-q...
I think the problem is that LinkedIn makes it too easy and the incentives are out of whack. LinkedIn figures out what you may be good at, and then presents it as a button to all your contacts. Brain dead simple. That's fine, but the problem is that people are incentivized to endorse you, either because they may think it's something nice they can do for you (and doesn't hurt them and takes no effort), or because they may be looking for reciprocity. It's just a terrible system.
Como Blanquear La Piel En El Hogar Con Métodos Naturales
Hay muchas personas que tienen la piel oscura y que quisieran saber como blanquear la piel. Si usted es una de esas personas sigue leyendo, porque voy a compartir algunos de los mejores consejos naturales que conozco que pueden ayudarle a aclarar su piel de forma segura en el hogar.
People do the analog with BECs. Look up BECs and, perhaps, Gauss-Laguerre beams, though there are other ways to rotate them.

Like superfluids, BECs don't rotate in the usual way. Instead, vortices are quantized and the vortices pack.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bose%E2%80%93Einstein_condensat...

See the 'vortex lattice' in this photo:

http://ucan.physics.utoronto.ca/News/report.2006-07-06.39490...
I had a summer job as a telemarketer and learned some of the inside tricks. They maintain two "call back later" lists. If no one answers the phone, the number is put on a "call back next week" list. If someone answers but says they're not interested, their number is put on a "call back in six months" list. If the person is very rude, some telemarketers would put the number on the "call back next week" list just to annoy the person. So the lesson is don't be rude.
I'm on this plan, and it's adequate but the service is pretty shoddy during parts of my commute (...no reliable 4G within a 5 min drive either side of Golden Gate Bridge?!) VZW definitely didn't have that problem.

I'm not sure if it's T-Mobile hardware or towers, but given I just use the phone to f around and am not reliant on it for work, I don't really feel it's worth trying to RMA or anything
One of my friends had everyone endorse him for "knitting" and "problem gambling"... The fact that these are even options is laughable.
In similar news, Windows XP killed system-wide administrator accounts, Linux killed process ptracing and your car brakes killed accidents.

Thankfully, the ‘inline headline’ is more descriptive.
Psychometric evaluations are not voodoo science.

Honestly, as a PhD psychologist, they are the only useful (i.e. scientific) part of psychology.

For example, see Hunter and Schmidt (1998) http://mavweb.mnsu.edu/howard/Schmidt%20and%20Hunter%201998%.... This (and if you've been around here a while, you've probably seen this) is a meta-analysis of the utility of particular selection procedures for jobs. That is psychometrics.

Unfortunately, much of the bullshit surrounding the particular psychometric tests used by HR departments has thoroughly debased a discipline that invented cross validation. Smith and Mosier, 1958 (Method 6, I believe).
I've heard HootSuite took advantage of free interns up until recently. The news of that annoyed me, since I used their services and I don't think companies should profit off the backs of students (even if the students are willing). I'll never use HootSuite again.
Another one in progress:

https://github.com/arnoo/git-deliver

http://i.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1j9n8v/gitdeliver...
Interesting! I thought Matias was using ALPS switches, rather than producing their own "ALPS-like" switches -- although that makes sense. I own a Matias Tactile Pro and liked it initially, but over the course of a few weeks I realized it made my fingertips sore in a way that I didn't remember old Apple keyboards doing (or my TRS-80 Model 4 keyboard, way back when, which turned out to use ALPS keyswitches). My favorites now seem to be Unicomp's buckling spring, although the Cherry Blue switches are a close second. (I haven't been able to try any of the other Cherry switches.)
Yes, both those challenges still exist, payments are actually even worse here than Kenya because there isn't huge adoption of any mobile money platform yet.

Both of those pretty much preclude doing anything ecommerce related
They are the Facebook "Like" button for your career, and equally valuable.
Exactly what I thought the title meant. :/
In all seriousness though, I think it's a UI change they did. It didn't seem to be this bad until lately. I've noticed whenever you login it asks you with a one click button if you want to endorse these people for these skills, randomly.

I think their goal was to create more 'value' in their product but in fact made it less reliable and therefore less 'valuable'.
It seems to me that when you say that people have a natural right to profit, you actually mean a "right to exclude".

I think that's a whole nuther kettle of fish.

For one, the two are in contradiction. Suppose you believe that you have
the right to exclude, presumably you also believe that all other humans
have the same right, owing to its status as a natural right. By believing
that you can exclude, and therefore profit by way of eliminating competition,
you acknowledge that the competition can exclude you as well.

It boils down to whether or not by "profit", one implies complete domination
of a resource. I tend to think that many parties can profit, without the
necessity to exclude by brute force.

This is also the key difference between patents and copyrights. The former
demands total domination of a resource, while the latter does not.

> And I would answer, why should the tree be yours just because you got to it first?

It's a good point, but there is a difference. It is possible for two parties to arrive at the same intellectual destination without being aware of one another. The same cannot be said for two parties arriving at the same tree, at the same time, but one not being aware of the existence of the other.

I suppose you can construct an argument in which both parties lack all physical sense of awareness. :)
> Apple Kills the MAC Address

...for tracking purposes only
Uh... I see no value in this. Why not talk about a keyboard with language specific placement of letters? Who cares about a super basic and generic keyboard?
Or sell your resume as a PDF or e-book on Amazon!
It was only ever used to get around Apple removing access to the GUID anyway, so it's a win for privacy.

Also has the side effect of stopping authors from using the MAC address as the single form of authentication, which seems to happen an awful lot.
Doubly so if you are a minority in the south.

Yeah, because police targeting of minorities restricted purely to the south. 'Stop and Frisk' was all on the up-and-up, and I'm absolutely positive that the LAPD would never unfairly target minorities.

This stupid meme needs to die - this is a problem everywhere in this country, not just areas you don't live.
"Get a dozen sharp programmers together, give them all a hard problem to work on, and a bunch of them will come up with solutions that would probably be patentable, and be similar enough that the first programmer to file the patent could sue the others for patent infringement." -- John Carmack

from http://harmful.cat-v.org/software/patents/carmack
I got one endorsement for Ruby (I have it in my profile that I am learning) despite not listing it as a skill, and I'm now occasionally getting messages from recruiters.
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You might be able to keep them longer with a long recording of yourself saying "hmm... right... I see... wait could you repeat that, you cut out for a second... oh, I understand" and so on.
Yes! I have people who I've never worked with endorse me. The endorsement thing should stop.
We actually had an "endorsement war" between my coworkers last week.

Some of the results: Memes, Poetry, Salads (ten endorsements!), Tree Identification, Punk, Pickles (not to be confused with Cucumber), Shampoo, Extortion, Glitter Tattoos.
For all the people saying this should be applied to email, it already has been (sort of) with LinkedIn's InMail. Basically, premium accounts for recruiters et al. get a limited number of InMails every month. If they want more, it costs something like $10 each. The trick is that the mail doesn't count unless you actually reply to them.

The end-game is that I politely reply to every recruiter who contacts me that I'm not interested. I don't make any money, but at least there's a downside for them to spam a bunch of unrelated accounts.
Wikipedia does a better job than your corporate website
Usually it´s easier to understand what's a company all about by reading it in Wikipedia rather than in their own website.
Maybe it would be a good practice to include in your company's website a link to the Wikipedia article that talks about your company.
Usually corporate websites tend to overdo it. Either they are two crowded with information or they use "minimalistic" design that doesn't gets the point through.
The maximum angular velocity is unfortunately bounded above by the tensile strengths of materials. Steel ball bearings are the traditional rotor, and even they come apart at unsatisfying (from a relativistic perspective) rotation rates.

For this game, it's all about tensile strength. Even solid diamond, graphene, or nanowhatchmacallit won't do much better. Nanotubes are ~100x stronger than Kevlar, which will only win you a factor of 10 in rotation frequency.

If you can, the gravitational waves radiated from a spinning object increase in power like frequency^4. The prize is sitting there for anyone who can do it.
And Led Zep's Rain Song.
Let me recap, because discussions become convoluted in forum format.

First ataggart makes the point that elevating patent and copyright privileges to the level of natural rights is wrong and implies (through Orwell) that confusing intellectual property rights and physical property rights leads to foolish thinking.

Then, you make the argument that it doesn't matter because, "Every legal concept is entirely the government's creation, including both physical and intellectual property...."

Then a bunch of people, myself included, disagree with that point by referencing Hobbes and Locke and providing examples of how ownership exists outside of government influence.

Now, I agree that "Natural rights are real things in as much as morals are real things." And since we are not amoral, we can presume that natural rights exist.

Remember, the original point is that labels matter here. Mislabeling things as "rights" causes people to both overvalue grants from their governments and (more importantly) to devalue natural rights as being decreed by government (which means they can be abolished or altered by the same powers).

When your "rights" are derived from government and they are taken away, you're on the losing side. When rights are inalienable and they are violated, you are being persecuted.

All that is to say, "intellectual property rights" is a dumb term.
Yes, in essence. When I refer to CATs I'm talking about measures testing g (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G_intelligence). And I know it's hard to believe, but g-centric tests like cognitive ability test do a better job than other seemingly more relevant selection measures like work sample tests and assessment centers. The benefit of work sample tests, assessment centers, integrity tests, etc. is that their validity is decent and that a significant portion is independent of g-centric measures.

Here is a good article you can read on the subject: http://www.unc.edu/~nielsen/soci708/cdocs/Schmidt_Hunter_200...
As long as he's previously disclosed the fees involved with calling him, he's within the law. If the lackey who works for the would be vendor knows nothing about the fees, that's not his problem because the company had been informed.
I actually came to ask the same question as hnncl... I thought it was something like 30% of SW teams that end up incorporating, but I can't remember where heard that figure.

Its awesome that you actually launched a business from it. Congrats!!
Right, my tooling generally builds everything from source (mostly gentoo is the target platform, though also ubuntu) and generates the deps automagically.

This is achieved by viewing 'build' and 'install' for the cloud-capable service package as two separate steps, ie. build is the 'gather all requisite goodies' step, and then a version is applied. 'Install' is where an instance is actually created on top of a target OS platform image (also versioned).

Apparently what I consider fundamental architectural issues you see as pathological cases. Your call! :)

Take for instance multiple cloud providers. Those guys are notorious for giving you a slightly different version of any OS as a stock image, and running slightly different configurations. Some of them even insert their own distro-specific repos/mirrors. In that case, you are going to see entire classes of weird and subtle bugs appear where you either:

(A) are not using the same cloud provider for test/staging/production environment. (People tend to lean on local virt for the former).

(B) try to migrate (eg. due to cloud provider failure, hacks, bandwidth or scaling issues, regulatory ingress, etc.) to another provider

That's not unrealistic, IMHO.
or else you'll soon get pain from the low travel.

Huh? I am wracking my brain trying to figure out how, biomechanically, a short keystroke can cause pain.
Spend 5 minutes setting up a caching plugin and it won't even flinch at an HN traffic spike.
Unicomp's Spacesaver M is a buckling spring keyboard with Mac keys. I like it a bit more than the Das, and it's both cheaper and seems to be built better. (It's pretty ugly, though.)
Stem cells used to create brain tissue
> The more data points they have on each user, the more numerous results they can return to recruiters and more specific targeting they can do with ads.

The thing is that endorsements at least are pretty noisy data. What's the point of shooting for quantity at the expense of quality?
And whether you can lie for them.

I took a PHP test for a recruiter once. Half the questions were "what would you get if you typed this into the intrepeter?", which you weren't allowed to do. It seemed to come down to an honesty test.
It wasn't that long ago. Those guys are probably still around.
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