skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've never thought about the issue of international air travel, but yes, I agree with the court. When there's no alternative, you need due process. (Even when there is, due process is always nice to have when you declare yourself "the" democracy for others to emulate.)

As I write the reply, I am becoming even more angry that the government can restrict one's activities without any judicial oversight. It's such a simple "check and balance" to add and it's one that makes people really happy. How dumb could you be to try and take away people's rights without even implementing the simplest possible administrative hearing?
Noted, I tried to use "simple language", so it wouldn't scare off non-technical people. I think I got it way too simple. Thanks.
How would it alert you of texts?
His comment was specifically about learning how to speak a foreign language with a reasonably "native"-sounding quality — i.e. what the stumbling blocks are that lead to hard-to-understand accents (and/or difficulty understanding native accents) and how to get past them. It seems pretty relevant to me.
Woah, the brick [1] is seriously cool (no irony), I would love to try one of those out.

[1] http://www.just5.eu/brickred.php
As a founder with a very strong Latino accent, I would like to share my success with other entrepreneurs who speak English as a second language: If you want a professionally recorded voice over for your demo video, pitch, or whatever, can get one for FREE from VoiceBunny here: http://blog.voicebunny.com/2013/08/30/no-startup-left-behind...
Money quote: "Nearly all the statistical variation in performance is accounted for by literally one single programmer in a 46 year old study (n=12). This study was actually conducted to see if giving people access to computers that ran their programs immediately instead of waiting days for their code to be run on shared systems improved performance (News flash: It did)."
do mean ferrys, or much longer distances? (days/weeks). if you mean ferrys, then in Europe -- and I assume other places -- it is really quite common to travel by boat to other countries. for example from England it is common to go by boat to France/Ireland/etc. I seem to remember p&o ferries was a big company doing that.
I think their experiment may be an example of prospect theory in action. And relative utilities/loss aversion.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prospect_theory
British English : Americans :: American English : Brits
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Do you mean like this? http://www.amazon.com/Motorola-Motofone-F3-Dual-Band-1900-In...
UW EE2012 grad here.

I had pretty bad gpa, mid 70s, but I still pulled interviews from pretty big tech companies like Twitter, MS, LinkedIn etc.

"I do have a kickass portfolio which is what lands me jobs."

OP should do just fine.
> ... I believe there are patterns to success ...

Those patterns are illusions that rely entirely on hindsight. How can I be sure? If there really was a meaningful pattern to success, a computer could carry it out like a recipe, and achieve an automated success each time it was executed.

> Build something people want, have a co-founder... I don't necessarily need to learn those lessons on my own, yet understanding them gives me a vast advantage over someone who doesn't.

Really? "Build something people want" is a lesson? It's a self-evident and self-referential proposition. And the advice to have a co-founder is a silly proposition that's probably wrong more often than it's right. Bill Gates because successful only after getting rid of his co-founder. Steve Jobs because successful only after marginalizing his co-founder. Steve Zuckerberg became successful only after cheating his co-founders. Elon Musk because successful partly by avoiding the advice to have a co-founder.

You don't need the useless advice of sages, you need life experience.
If I use this, could I make something that is better than machine learning using neural networks?
Does it announce the line letter twice when the train is four cars long?
My advice would be to focus on the customer and validate. There are so many variables when it comes to big name success stories. It could almost be considered a waste of time to break it down into a success formula, there are just too many variables. The only constant is the fact that they gained traction, which means that customers wanted the product they built. So in this sense, understanding the customer (or potential customer) is one of the most important aspects of success. It is also one of the hardest things to understand/master because in many cases, even the customer does not know what they want. This is why you end up with scenarios where it appears a big success was found "by accident" or "unknowingly"
Yes. I comforted myself in saying I had come up with a creative solution for problem solving and that I was justified in rebelling against the teacher who assumed everyone was a finance major. But in essence, yeah. I cheated. And I passed.
You could also replace "Google" with any company, college, or incubator with a reputation for being difficult and you have the dilemma that plagues the current workforce. No one can determine who is "qualified", and no one is willing to train people to be "qualified".
This has been a long time coming and the pace of change over the last year (or so, not sure exactly) has been rapid. I worked on a version of an application I am working on with Ember, even moved the backend to Rails 3 to make it work better with Ember Data, but recently switched development on that app and for other projects I am working on to component.io. I like what Ember is intended to be and I think with this release and the tutorials finally catching up to changes in the API it will be a good framework for people to learn. But I find working against it's opinion of how things should work took up most of the time of working on that project. I now build things with a small abstractions that work well for me, not automatically generated routes that I had no end of trouble debugging.

I'm now using the wonderful http://visionmedia.github.io/page.js/ which is practically express for the browser. The data binding support was the reason I originally choose Ember, but it turned out to give me very little in how I built that app, it's not a simple CRUD so the opportunities for binding models to views is fairly small. And, in any case, attaching events to those models works just as well for me. I've actually reused some of the concepts I've learned from Ember, such as creating an app container to store global objects, and created a few simple view and container view classes based on those in component.

So again, awesome news.
All large companies have to accept that they will lose some great people and keep some bad people. If a company decided to perform an evaluation at a random point in time, I doubt stack ranking would, on average, perform much worse than any other technique.

The problem with stack ranking is the dynamics it encourages. Any set of rules is going to be gamed, so a goal for an HR policy should be to ensure that the dynamics created while gaming the system are beneficial to the company. The real damage of stack ranking happens in between ranking periods.
Fascinating views. The privacy angle is quite in line with what is already happening. With the recent Snowden affair there has been a huge brouhaha about privacy etc. but if you look at “private” information that financial and retail companies already possess you will find that people actually don’t care. As long as you get a 0.5% less on your mortgage or credit cards and some 10% discount on purchases, people are more than happy to have companies record every transaction that you make.

I’m not sure on the nanotechnology future that he has laid out though. Specifically, what is the source of energy to transform the air/water/dirt stuff into goods and what is the rational for saying that starting with water/dirt/O2 will be the cheapest route to getting whatever stuff we need. Not convinced on that front.
Would there be a way to expose the integrity of a service (actual devices connected etc), read only, to every user of a service? So that when an interception device or protocol is used, every user who cares to look (and can understand) would know about the disruption.

And then, when the government says "Stop doing that, we want to watch your users," the only way to do that and hide the watching would be to disable the system wide security view. And people make their conclusions.
Simple really:

British: http://translate.google.com/translate_tts?ie=UTF-8&q=Have%20...

American: http://translate.google.com/translate_tts?ie=UTF-8&q=Have%20...

I know they don't sound ideal, but this is the only distinction I can make via the resources I have.
A lot of people actually do use cruises as transportation when traveling, since on net it can actually be much cheaper than flying, staying in a hotel, and taking care of your own food. I doubt there are cruises you could use to travel somewhere for longer than a few days though, since docking fees make up a large portion of a cruise ship's operating cost.
Non-language factors affecting judgments of non-native English TAs
I've experienced this sort of thing first hand many years ago. After ten years running my own tech startup I decided to go get an engineering job and "depressurize". I could not land one. I did not understand what was going on until an HR person clued me in. The message was that with the Internet you can't escape your past. You can't dumb down a resume for the practical purpose of getting a job. If you've been an entrepreneur with any degree of success (or even failures) you are one search away from someone knowing as much about you as they care to.

You typically run into two scenarios. The first is a manager --your would-be boss-- who, upon seeing what you've done feels threatened. A CTO might not feel good about hiring an ex-CTO as a rank-and-file engineer. The second scenario is that of a business owner who, upon learning about your entrepreneurial experience is concerned about hiring someone who might come in, learn the business and potentially become a competitor.

Yes, there's also the concern about someone pulling anchor early to go off on their own in an unrelated direction. It costs a lot of money to bring someone onboard.

My conclusion at the time was that in this fashion entrepreneurship can be a curse. It can be nearly impossible to land a "regular" job because of it. In my case, after much frustration I decided that my only path was to run my own show again and off I went.
This is something that I encounter frequently.
Friends from high school I have on Facebook who are still in college/grad school, don't work, but spend their vacations in exotic places doing scuba diving.
Or acquaintances who are working on their stealth mode startup and complain about how hard it is, but then go spend 1 week snowboarding in Tahoe because they feel like it.

How does that work? Do those people have giant savings accounts, and am I just dumb with my money? Or do they do freelance work on the side?

I have decent savings etc., but having followed the path of college -> grad school (where I worked as a research assistant) -> startup, I have never been to Asia/South America because I either have the time but not the money, or the money but not the time. My getaway has been driving to Santa Cruz for the Sunday once every few weeks.

I feel like I'm missing out on something here- and I'm not ashamed to say that I'm a bit jealous of those people and that I wish I could do the same. Coding on a Thailand beach between a scuba diving session and an afternoon of surfing sounds pretty nice.
I would not classify movies and television content as services, but I agree that non-material goods provide real value that nano-factories cannot simply replicate. We will continue to require labor intensive services (, such as plays, restaurants, etc.), and non-exclusionary goods, (i.e. films, designs, concepts).
Yes indeed ! that's exactly what I think it is.
You are right, you have to be logged in to see the subscription page at: http://www.sayafter.me/subscriptions/subscribe.

I will change it to be available for anonymous visitors. Thanks!
Human smuggling and trafficking on boats is common enough, much easier than on planes.
Latency to Syria and Tor direct users in Greece
What I've heard from friends who've worked in congressmans' offices is that the staffers will take all incoming communications - phone calls, letters, e-mails - and then divide them up into either "PRO" or "CON" piles for each bill that's up for a vote. They will then provide a report to the congressman, who combines the data of constituent feelings with his own personal beliefs, political compromises he brokers, and information from lobbyists in deciding how to vote. I've heard the rule of thumb is that for each person who writes in, roughly 10 other constituents feel the same way.

So yes, on an individual level, your vote is worthless. However, in the aggregate, constituent feedback counts for a lot, possibly the biggest single input. And so once you accept that you as an individual are insignificant in the grand scheme of themes, you can actually accomplish a lot by minimizing the personal effort you expend on writing your congressperson and instead getting lots of other people to vote the same way you do.

This suggests an interesting hack. Create a really simple mobile app that lets you subscribe to all upcoming legislation on issues you care about. It'd be structured like a news app or RSS reader, where you can flick it open whenever you have a spare moment and read the latest upcoming issues. And then let you easily indicate your position - perhaps swiping right means "Aye" and swiping left means "Nay". A swipe automatically sends a canned form letter to your congressman indicating your support or opposition for the legislation.

Basically, you're leveraging technology to enable direct democracy. Create a direct information line between constituent and congressperson, where the constituents have all the information available to them that congresspeople do, and can vote just as easily.
Communication needs to be decentralised...
I actually talked to some Firefox Devs at the State of the Browser conference. Unfortunately they said that speech input for Firefox will not be available unless Google decides to open source their speech recognition technology or give away licenses to their software.
My understanding is they do support 3G but don't use the GSM standards for 3G networking to do it, they run IP directly over the air interface with a more direct protocol.
Mailelf will certainly work with your existing accounts. That is the primary goal so that people don't have to change email or providers. We want normal people to be able to easily use this application (which happens to have some server features). We would like to ultimately provide MTA features. However, if you know what you are doing you can already run exim or postfix as your own MTA.

The initial Mailelf app will act as a MUA (client) and take care of handling key exchanges and securing messages between other Mailelf users and existing PGP setups (existing asymmetric cryptography).

Enigmail is a great way to get stated using PGP, but it is still too high of a barrier for most people who want something more simple.
Forcing telemarketers to pay by using a premium number
Directly connecting users from Greece - The Tor Project

https://metrics.torproject.org/users.html?graph=direct-users...

"What’s Next For Syria’s Internet" - Renesys

http://www.renesys.com/2013/08/whats-next-for-syrias-interne...
Inline CSS fonts
I simply do not understand what kind of threat a person can pose, that makes it impossible for them to safely board an aircraft - after an 'enhanced' search. What harm could they possibly cause on a plane, that they couldn't on a train, a bus, or a movie theater?

The existence of this Kafka-esque list is mind-boggling.
I watched your intro video and have 2 points to comment on

* "Can I have a spaghetti" isn't the right way to say it. Drop the "a"

* Have a native english speaker read it out, not a computer generated voice (if that isn't already the plan)
I opened both links it two separate tabs (almost) at the same time and suddenly my office was flooded with a chorus of nice people hoping I'm having a good day.

You made my day, Sr.

Edit: Grammar.
Yeah well retail companies won't just throw you in jail if you disagree with their new "marketing" campaign. There's quite a difference between a company you willingly give information to and a government trying to find out who are possible dissidents and how those dissidents could unseat those in power.
Relativity was taught in Physics 3 when I was an undergraduate (Computer Science Student). However, no mention of that particular thought experiment was used in reference. If there's something to complain about, it's the source for the article, but not the scenario/thought experiment itself.

Wikipedia has a great explanation of it though: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ladder_paradox
Are these numbers before, or after taxes?
I'm guessing a reco fail raises flags -- so if you try to cheat the system, it just escalates than instance to an outsourced turk somewhere..
Justice Department talks with Microsoft and Google stall
Good point. It's a personal trip and I'll be paying people back, let's just say that.
If you choose your employees at random from the pool of applicants, and the applicants' abilities are normally distributed, then you're right that the employees' performance will be normally distributed. But I would expect any tech firm's hiring criteria to have at least some correlation with employees' performance, which means their performance will be biased towards the high end of the curve.

So no, the skill of the engineers probably shouldn't follow a normal distribution.
> Have you read PG's essays? They are the closest thing you can get to a guideline to success.

If they were a guideline to success, he would practice them instead of writing about them, and he would be richer than Bill Gates. There are no guidelines to success.

Success isn't about guidelines, it's about a mixture of chance and a prepared mind. And you prepare your mind by gathering life experience.

> His essays on wealth and startup ideas are absolutely true.

Whoever "PG" is (you don't say), his advice is either useless or is based on a success that owes more to chance than to a winning system.

Do you really think top business executives make 100 million dollars a year by applying deterministic success recipes they read in a book?

> I don't think you understand what I'm asking for.

No, believe me, as a successful programmer (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Writer), I can tell you that it is you who don't understand what you're asking for.
To be honest, I don't think these are worse than smoking at all. They sound more like phases in a normal person's life.
It is important to realize that the purpose of the list is not really threat mitigation.
Yeah the video does not have correct grammar in some sentences.

Actual human speech is on the roadmap but not until I fix the main issue, which is finding a repeatable marketing/sales cycle. Open to suggestions though!
Don't be jealous. Soon you will be 45 with no debt, able to retire but working because you enjoy it and able to do anything you want any time you want without any real worry. Many of those friends will be 45, in debt to their eyes, or bankrupted at least once, and talking about lucky you are to be able to just up and go on a 10 day fishing trip to Alaska simply because you wanted to.

They won't, however, understand that they could have had exactly the same life if they had chosen to delay the 'fun' just a few years. Guess how I know ;)
I haven't paid a cent for my iPhones and I got all of them at launch. All were free on contract, and the 4 was actually free - as in I could have gotten the same contract without the phone and paid the same amount per month.
You're a designer. Designers solve problems by trade. Find a problem to solve. Someone will hire you to solve it for them. If you're unable to deliver, they'll fire you, but that's another story . . .
Craig Zucker: What Happens When a Man Takes on the Feds
The C column comes from the rotary dial pattern -
but only VI-C mimics the counter-clockwise number
layout of the rotary dial (the dial was pulled clockwise
and rotated counter-clockwise to make the on/off-hook
clicks to dial.)

Were these C/circle layouts early skeuomorphics,
or included as several 'duck' alternatives?
(included but intended to be rejected).

II-A and VI-B appear to be the same layout, but one has a "significantly
shorter keying time" and the other is "significantly more preferred"
Honest error in duplication, or pushing a desired result?
Is there any evidence this actually works? You're motivating your product by saying it helps you keep your job if you have a thick accent. Does your product work? How does it compare to competitors? Adding this information would improve credibility.
I wonder if the licenses allow doing this.
"Repetition makes the master". I'd suggest you tweak the UX so I need to repeat each word / phrase a couple of times before passing to the next level.

Speaking of which... you could gamify this in like 200 different ways.
He may soon be incorrect about them not being interested in the content of your calls, only "who you speak to". Before long, always-used speech recognition will be plausible, if it isn't already. Yes, imperfect, but more information than just who you're speaking to.
Burke's naivete about the externalities of an out-of-control surveillance apparatus are appalling: ignoring the fact that innocent people do get swept up for happening to match criteria of a secret scoring algorithm is just burying one's head in the sand. Instead, he alludes to a simplistic perspective that the world is a happy-clappy paradise where innocent people have "nothing to hide," and by virtual of volume of communication, shouldn't worry.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6304729

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4453659
And how fast you're moving? Or is that a non-factor?
Additionally, he's going from a booming industry to a hand-to-mouth industry where the top producers at a firm are often making four figure salaries.

What's more, the design industry runs on freelancing. Consequently, direct-to-fulltime positions rarely open up for non-management positions, since most design firms have a cadre of long term contractors already waiting to make the jump. My wife was laid off from a design firm, and had 2 interviews in a year for full time positions. The rest of the time, she contracted. I had 3 interviews last week, and 2 this week and 3 more next week, with several companies in the wings.

At the same time, since it's a freelance industry, there are always people trying to farm out contract opportunities, which suggests that the author isn't interested in finding paying work, just in finding a paycheck.

Finally, even more than in software, you are your portfolio. It's really almost anyone cares about. If the author can't find >any< work, he should look there first.

Finally, I call bullshit on 'any good employee will leave'. It's a very design culture thing to think that professional relationships are inherently competitive rather than cooperative in nature.
Great timing. Haven't tried out the product but on top of this a faster way to improve could be to just engage in conversations daily with a lot of native english speakers.
It's cool you believe in your product and its potential. At a first glance, I'm really interested in trying it out, but yeah "This is gonna change the world" kind of mantra really isn't what I need to see from and center. I don't know who you are, so unfortunately it comes off as pitchy. Tell me how this will help me convey and consume content.

Why will it change my world?