skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've never been to burning man. It does seem weird that in order to be "radically included" you have to travel to a specific place on earth at a specific time and do a bunch of stuff. I feel jealous when people talk about how its a spiritual experience. I find it hard to believe that it can be so transformative yet so short, relatively speaking- but I don't dismiss it instantly. Is it kind of like some of the more interesting/fun oriented frisbee tournaments? The only people I know that have gone are not inclusive people, they are competitive about being hip. The whole thing is a bizarre mystery to me. It does seem interesting though.
Part of the problem is how badly it has been planned and managed from the very beginning.

How fast is the actual rollout?

We don't know. Commercial-in-confidence. And NBNCo say they don't keep figures down to the street level anyhow (which begs the question of which basis they are using to pay contractors).

How much has already been borrowed? We don't know. Commercial-in-confidence.

How much has been spent? We don't know. Commercial-in-confidence.

Insofar as we have to dig up half the flaming countryside, FTTP is probably worth it on a long-term basis.
But that doesn't excuse the project from normal project management requirements.

And it shouldn't be excused from being transparent to the Parliament and public. The abuse of commercial-in-confidence for companies completely owned by the government is a backdoor for politicians of all stripes to avoid budgetary accountability while still leaving states and the commonwealth on the hook for debts incurred.

Where was the proper front end cost/benefit analysis? There wasn't one. Where was the 3-5 years of planning, surveying and preparation? There wasn't any. Where is the proper contract management? Oh, I guess we'll let NBNCo contract it to Telstra who will contract it to an engineering firm who will contract it to that bloke who has a van and who used to work for Optus.

Ends are important. But for the amount of money spent, so are the bloody means.
In Australia, Indians are discriminated against in tech, whereas Chinese aren't.

I wrote a long comment speculating why this could be, but I don't have enough evidence to support my ideas.

I think it comes down to reputation. In SV, Indian developers have a very, very good reputation which is made very visible by some stars in the programming and VC fields.

I suspect the lack of those visible success stories affects other ethnic groups negatively.
No. (per Betteridge's law of headlines)
There's a significant difference between reinforcing a barrier by focusing on it too hard, and acknowledging that there are barriers that can't necessarily be overcome by self confidence.

Self confidence won't prevent you from being treated like a sex object by your peers at conferences. It won't do anything to resolve the issue that women are judged more heavily on past accomplishments where men are judged for their potential. It's great that confidence has worked for you, but this is a dangerous message to spread to the people erecting the barriers to begin with.
I don't understand why so much hate for the library. For me, this is a very ruby way to tackle regular expression problem that newbie like me have.

Not that I'm saying that newbie shouldn't learn regex. But any level of abstraction would be great. Rails abstract the complexity of web development. Hexpress abstract the complexity of regex. Both are win in my book.
Rupie's dad was briefly the Australian Director General for Information during WWII but apparently nobody could stand him. Our answer to Goebbels. They don't fall far from the tree.
The challenge is to correctly identify the deserving candidates. You can fake remorse.

And there also is the other side. The lives that were lost and the lives that got shattered for no mistake of theirs. Not everyone has a large heart. Its difficult for some to see one of your close relation's killer walking free.
> Chloe, you will never get funded and may never get another job if you share this.

Really? People said this? After reading this, I'd totally want to fund you, even more, because you have conviction and are clearly not afraid of speaking what you think in the face of what might be an unpopular opinion. Of course, I have no money, so my opinion doesn't count for much.
Extremely poor survey design.

Imagine asking people if they would like to see TV without advertisements. Answer would be yes. Ask people if they would pay $50 per month to see TV without advertisements. Answer would be no for many/most people.

This is Polling 101.

Big chunks of the web operate on the implicit tradeoff that you give information about yourself to drive advertisements in return for free content/functionality.

Pew was one of the weakest political polls last cycle. This article demonstrates that they are really no longer a good source of information on any topic.
For a game example, google "starforce breaking dvd drives". The irony(?) here being that an on-disc copy protection mechanism breaks your disc reader and makes it impossible to play the game you bought.
If these are their evidence:

> 86% of internet users have taken steps online to remove or mask their digital footprints—ranging from clearing cookies to encrypting their email

> 55% of internet users have taken steps to avoid observation by specific people, organizations, or the government

...then this really sounds more like "most internet users would like to be anonymous when looking at porn online." You don't clear your cookies, or encrypt your email, to be anonymous; you do these to prevent people who already know who you are from finding out what you were doing.
I had the same feeling the first time I went. Seeing the amazing costumes people had spent hours putting together made me want to develop my own style and kicked my creativity into high gear. Sure, strangeness is encouraged, but since most people take that in a personal direction I don't think of it as another type of conformity.
Ah. I'd say don't that this fud could be allowed to run its course for a little while. The tuna could use some time to recover.
Yes. Low-latency networks can allow you to perform timing analysis.
>> Greenspan is not alone in his thinking that STEM worker salaries should look a lot more like non-STEM worker salaries. In March, over “100 executives" [wrote an open letter begging Obama to increase the number of H1-B visas]

Perhaps, as STEM workers, we should suggest that executive salaries should look a lot more like non-executive salaries?

>> And those [immigrant] workers would compete with high-income people, driving more income equality.

Really, Greenspan? You're going to paint STEM workers the posterboys for income inequality? Not your banking brethren making 5X, 10X, 50X the average STEM salary? It's a cheap, transparent ploy by those at the top to increase corporate profits at the expense of the workers and the middle class.
Less talked about employee qualities: Defining things
If a man treats me as a sex object in a professional setting, I will correct him to his face, consequences be damned because I am confident to know there will be another opportunity. So while I understand your objection to my focus on confidence, I object to your lack of how much push any one individual can have in this world. I am supporting maximizing human potential and you are confusing that with worrying about what is easy. I am focused on what is possible. You are spreading fear and that is the most dangerous pill anyone can swallow because it paralyzes.
You can guarantee a genetically normal (there must be a better description) foetus will get injected if a treatment like this came to exist, so this is a good question.
San Francisco Mayor Announces Entrepreneur Program
9 to 6. I'd rather work 9 to 4 and enjoy the evening a bit more.
https://inputs.io/

http://bitpay.com/

http://bitmerch.com/

http://coinbase.com/

http://fasterco.in/

http://bitstamp.net/

https://localbitcoins.com/

https://campbx.com/
Is watchers (with an s) a typo?
None - I use only disk based encryption - I hate the idea of someone that steals my 30 kilogram rig will have access to my information.
Surely you mean 299 000 000 meters/ second ?
Want a really easy and unobtrusive way to use encryption?

OTR for IM. The plugin for pidgin makes it silly easy, just install and forget. Everyone you chat with that also has it installed will result in an encrypted conversation. Anyone else and it works normally. http://www.cypherpunks.ca/otr/
Elon Musk Using Leap Motion For Rocket Design
Yes, but the electric field that forms as a circuit closes travels at the speed of light.
I think there are a few benefits.

First and foremost, schemas are simple, minimal, easy to read and write, and gracefully extend Clojure's existing type hints. This means that (in my biased opinion) they are significantly better for documentation, which was the primary motivation for developing them.

Second, schemas are data, so it's easy to do more with them beyond documentation. Runtime data validation is one such use, but we can also easily do things like generate core.typed annotations, generate model classes for clients, generate test data, and so on.
- GPG on GMail (Mailvelope Chrome extension) - only for important mails and obviously, only with people who have it on the other end

- Truecrypt (always had it)

- Boxcryptor on Google Drive for all important docs

- Paid VPN

- TOR (if you think this is for encrypted comms, you're wrong)

- Keepass for password storage (key file in boxcryptor)

So on and so forth
Now there's an interesting thought. Environmental-disaster/health-scare hoaxes, to give certain targeted wild ecosystems a chance to heal. If the environmental movement ever gets a covert operations agency, maybe that's what we'll see. (Or are already seeing?)
> Likewise, tech companies are definitely not interested in paying higher wages

Most tech companies understand that the best engineers are 10x better than the average, but you rarely have to pay them 10x the salary. Most are happy to pay the higher wages if it means they are winning the 10x guys.

If the argument is all about the average -> poor engineer, I don't know that I entirely disagree
It's cute that the income inequality Alan Greenspan is worried about threatening capitalism is between regular engineers and everyone else, instead of between executives\owners and everyone else. Explains why I see so many documentaries about STEM workers and their lavish 2 bedroom homes they own after 20 years.
Funnily enough it's almost the opposite in the rest of the USA. Indians in general have a very bad rep in tech because of the cheap offshore tech companies and the tons of low wage H1B tech workers that certain headhunting shops flock around. I've certainly seen some very senior and talented Indians in Tech, but you're more likely to run into the untalented hacks than one of the relatively rare talented ones. I've very rarely met an Indian programmer that wasn't either very good or very bad. To a certain extent you get the same thing no matter the race, but the strange duality of Indians (they're almost all either really really good or really really bad) makes it particularly stand out in their case.
Actually zmmmmm is correct about the speeds. The drift velocity of electrons in a conductor is quite low. Somewhere around 1 meter per second (its been a long time since my physics degree so it may not be exactly 1ms-1).

But what happens when you close a circuit of a conductor across a potential difference is an electric field is set up surrounding the conductor. This electric field accelerates all the electrons in the conductor at once. This is why even though the drift velocity of an electron in a conductor is very low, when you switch on a light switch the bulb lights immediately.

The propagation of the electric field is at the speed of light (its electromagnetism). So "electrons" move slowly but "electricity" moves at the speed of light.

Update: found a wikipedia page on it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speed_of_electricity
It's super popular all over south-east asia. One of the reasons are the cute and fun "stickers" that can convey 80% of your daily emotions and situations. Stuck in overcrowded subway? there's a sticker for that.
Unless you count the mercury.
Facebook delays new privacy policy
You are right.
I didn't know that PDF.js in Firefox was somewhat safer, though.
rarely tor. rest on a daily basis but only for half my communication. full disc encryption on linux.
It's not working very well, if that's the case.

Maybe a new strategy is in order? They could spread documents that reveal that tuna has been involved in all major internet trolling incidents between 2010 and 2013.
You asked about "use encryption" but looks like you refer to communications only, otherwise disk encryption is missing.

I self-host my mail and use GPG eventually, and all the disks of my devices containing private information are encrypted (in case of theft).
For memory intensive tests the score is 2-3 there.
I gave it a try on my Pixel and found that the touch didn't always seem to work as expected - for instance, when I rotate the globe, it would always try to center Africa on my finger and I couldn't tap on cities. I'd prefer if the game defaulted to fullscreen and allowed me to zoom out more - I assume this is because it was originally designed for smaller screens.

Also the game was capturing the ChromeOS volume, brightness, maximize keys (probably as F1-F10 keys) and discarding them.

Past issues specific to the packaged app - great game! Very polished. I love X-Com and this is right up my alley.

As one of the few who have actually used it, can you give us your perspective on the highlights and limitations of the packaged apps API?
Only when I'm up to no good.
We need downward pressure on wages so that the executives can make more money and the corporations can profit. Clearly borders should be open to throw away any avenues to prosperity that still exist in this country still. A mix of corporate and union greed f'd up previous iterations of the middle class, clearly we should follow the same path in all cases to the benefit of the 1%. Yeah, that works.

I believe in the global economy, but I also believe that local markets have their demands and wages should be commensurate. If I were to live in San Francisco working as a full stack developer, I should expect one wage. If I was in Berlin, Stockholm, Singapore, etc. I would expect something commensurate that maintained the similar lifestyle in the community I work.

There are cultural/societal tradeoffs, but personally, I am pretty tired of the "US IT wages are too high, let's open the borders" argument. The opposite side of that argument -- corporate america promised X, but failed to deliver for aged populations, oh well...just moves along doing it's thing.

Between my age and that of my parents, there was a shift of "spend your life working for a company, you would get training to your potential, and your efforts would be reciprocated"; to today it is "fend for yourself, the contract you enter in is at will on both sides with no guarantees" with the caveat of "hopefully we are both striving for the same thing for an acceptable duration".
You can always pay for it yourself -- the questions are of course:

a) is it affordable

b) how many people will actually do so

c) would it be cheaper to do all at once?
#9, Pick a fight, is one of the best sales mindsets I've ever read. So true when you're scrapping and bootstrapping. Thank you for sharing your story! It's especially illuminating on what a successful business trajectory is away from the usual startup hype narrative. I wish more founders would tell these honest stories.
Salem youth gets a reward of Rs. 8 lakh from Facebook
Yes but on the north shore you can already get 100mb cable internet.
I'm not sure I agree that STEM workers are overpaid. I mean, I make a bit more than the customer support, PMs, and sales people in our company, but I'd rather do their jobs if the pay was equal.
Ok, to be clear, the uploading of the hard drive content is a joke. I would not suggest you actually do it for legal and ethical reasons. As for DRM, I think Total Commander is a good example of good software protection in action. When I was a kid and could not afford to buy it, I tried to crack it a few times, with no luck. Nowadays, I own a copy, but just for fun I tried to crack it a few times, for educational purposes :), and still could not. If you are interested, take a look at it, I think TC has a very non intrusive DRM that works well but is not draconian. Of course, you can still grab a stollen key for it from any torrent site, but to my knowledge at least no one has cracked it yet.
That's true, but light only travels at ~0.67c in a fibre optic cable. That's why I mentioned that fibre optic cables and copper wires are not vacuums.
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According to wikipedia, electric field propagation through unshielded copper is 0.95c to 0.97c. Electric field propagation through standard coaxial cable is 0.66c.
For some reason i found myself calculating the patterns of blue, red and black and if words like 'the' 'and' always fall on black or red highlights. I guess that slowed me down big time.
Numbers: a PHP library that easily converts numbers in various formats.
Elon Musk Demonstrates His Iron Man-Inspired 3D Modeling Setup
"We need to take it back", but what is going to happen is that a couple of Facebook groups are going to be started, a few tweets written here and there complaining about how bad it is that the naughty governments are spying on innocent citizens and then "Let's Dance" or "Friends" or "Big Bang Theory" will start and people will forget all about the NSA & co.

Or the kids have to be picked up from soccer practice or there's a PTA meeting where important things like next weekend's bake-sale have to be discussed.

In a few weeks the one-sided war with another CIA-engineered enemy in Syria will start up and the propaganda has swayed the populace to the camp of needing surveillance on everyone in the name of keeping the country safe from the naughty "terrorists" from Syria, who are about to invade the US by magically flying their troops over an ocean.

The article, written by an intelligent person, is nothing else than naive dreaming. The author, as much as I enjoy Bruce's security writings, forgets that although he may be surrounded by a bunch of smart people with similar ideas, the US/UK/Germany/etc are filled by normal people with normal IQs and normal children and normal mortgages. Going farther, Africa and China are filled by people who live on a handful of dollars each day and care only about feeding and clothing themselves for the day. Good luck getting _them_ on the anti-surveillance bandwagon.
Both sides of this conversation are so compelling, I can't really disagree with either. This clarifies why Political Correctness is both sickening and necessary.
Err, that would be censorship which is against the project's goals.
> If lowering the cumulative exposure to radiation is the goal, there's probably more to be gained by not walking around with a mobile phone glued to your ear than skipping a meal of tuna.

Thats the only reference they make to phones in the whole article, i really wonder who picks those headlines ?

Besides, the Banana theory is total nonsense. Our body needs the potassium found in bananas to work. The electrical signals that power your heart are only possible because of potassium and calcium. If your potassium is too low/high, your heart can get arrhythmias, you might even die. Nothing to worry about though, as the body manages a constant postassium level in the blood, but still, without foods containing it we couldnt survive.
The principle behind the Betteridge's law of headlines is sound. It's definitely reasonable to exercise skepticism when a journalist is unable to support a claim with evidence. However, it's absurd to suggest that a failure to find evidence means that any assertion made by the piece is bogus.

If a journalist publishes a story titled "Do police investigate crime?", the answer is obviously wouldn't be "no."

I don't think mentioning the law itself adds much to the conversation—certainly not the "can be answered by the word no" part.
Thank you. This is good.

Every generation there's a set of young people who discover "self-confidence is enough" and "discrimination is over." Over twenty or thirty years some groups of them realize that this is not true.

As you say above, the technique of not looking at gender and looking for what I personally can improve or do differently is the rational and utilitarian course of action. It is, after all, the only thing I can do as an individual. But there are those situations that keep coming up now and then that don't have a solution -- for me. For other people, there is a solution. For me, it becomes clear that I simply need to go elsewhere.

Fine. I can be as flexible as I need to be. But when it's, say, meeting with a venture capitalist and I'm always not quite what they're looking for, or if it's meeting with my grad school advisor and always being too talkative and emotional, or etc. -- and nothing I do changes this! -- and I have to work around venture capitalists/advisors/etc... it really slows me down, because I also have to work around the same sh*t that everyone else does.
That's a fair line of thought that doesn't require tin foil.
Yes, god forbid that Telstra would actually have to work a bit for its bread.
So basically, Greenspan and other companies think that us STEM folks are beneath lawyers, doctors, and most people in the financial industry? That we should be "put in our place"?

Anyone who knows anything about the H1B rules knows it's all a bunch of hogwash that there is a "skills gap". The corporations simply want higher profits. It's just simply a known fact. Better profits for the promise of a green card.

Let's see the companies prove that there truly is a skills gap. Instead of paying the 'prevailing wage', H1B workers should get the _top_ pay for non H1B engineers in the company + 20% or at that the 90% mark of engineers + 20%, which ever one is greater. Then I say, please open up as many H1Bs as possible. I'll tell you one thing, H1Bs applied for will go towards near zero...