skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know if I'm late on this or not. Anyway, you may want to go to Thailand for some time. Live on tourist Visa, renew them in neighbouring countries while enjoying time off. You could easily spend about a year without running into any Visa problem and work remotely for the Australian company. There are a couple of startups there (http://playbasis.com for example) and many startup guys spend a sizeable amount of time working from there while enjoying life. I suppose it would give you time to prepare for your next move. I can help with anything Thailand-related if you need (though I'm back in Europe now). As I see things, Europe is not the immigration heaven it used to be although there's room for skilled workers due recent policies in most countries. Either way, it won't be simple.
Counterpoint: graphing calculators are great for entry-level programming. That is how I got started.

Since graphing calculators have a privileged place in schools, kids can play games on them during class instead of pay attention. Their TI-BASIC language is trivial to pick up (and is meant to be briefly taught in classrooms) but under-powered for games. However once you get to the point where you are limited by TI-BASIC's interpretation speed, you have a good foundation from which to learn assembly language.

My first two programming languages, learned in 6th and 7th grade respectively, were TI-BASIC (83/84 series version) and Zilog Z80 assembly.

I wouldn't be where I am right now if it were not for those overpriced and simultaneously over and under-powered devices.
Yes and it's much of the same reason we like smartphones. Videos, music, and pictures! And the big screen because of poor vision and clumsy fingers. It's hard to click and browse stuff with a tiny screen.
I wrote my first code on a TI as well.
Much of Apple's metoric rise in the 2000s was from destroying everyone in mp3 players and then 2008, a thing called the iPhone. And selling lots of those.
"People will propose technical solutions, apparently oblivious to the fact that the government will simply require you not to use them (as they have in the past)."

Are we still required not to use them, like > 40 bit DES in various circumstances? In 1997 I helped a lawyer who'd previously done embedded programming apply for an export license for a piece of my company's software, in which I either degraded the use of DES or confirmed that the code already did that.

But the Cold War/Clinton anti-strong crypo regime is over. For that matter, the Cold War/Vietnam national security and more ecosystem took major, major hits in the mid-to late '70s, e.g. the Church Committee (although for all we know the most critical thing was J. Edgar Hoover dying in 1972).

Why are you not heartened by the Amash Amendment vote? Especially in how it didn't break down according to any conventional lines?
And even though you think you can type "15m" using the iPhone, as per the HTML5 spec, it will validate the field and prevent you from submitting the field if the result isn't a floating point number(!).
I've often thought about "what if..." that smartphones would suck at that older phones were better at. Mostly if you couldn't see the phone (by being blinded or it's not in view).

I do notice my phone has a small 'emergency call' button on the lock screen so that's a plus. I probably wouldn't notice it in a real emergency though (I can only imagine I'd panic and forget it).
Except it's only for disabled students. Regular students get the normal exams, so it's literally "slightly Darwinian"
Yes, its dangerous. I once did a 400+k bike ride, and after ~350k (18 hours after starting) I fell asleep for just a couple of seconds. Waking up halfway across the road (middle of the night - no traffic) was quite the eye opener. Had I leaned the other way I would have ended up in the ditch.. I was very alert for the remaining few hours, and never felt the need to do another such ride.

Of course, running has less risks than biking. But still, falling while running could have real bad consequences.
Some random <$100 android device. Of course the software situation is not actually that great afaik, and the lack of hw keyboard bit sad. But you could add BT keyboard probably if you felt the need to.

http://www.pandawill.com/ippo-m8-a20-tablet-pc-8-inch-androi... just some example what you can get nowdays for 100 bucks
Congrats on having the guts to quit your job. Now get ready to climb the biggest learning curve of your life, where doubt and fear will try to get the best of you. Strap in, the adventure is about to begin.
Tales of an Ex–Microsoft Manager
Pretty accurate summary, from a manager's point of view, of how performance ranking happens at Microsoft.
Bill Gates has lost his 'appettite for destruction'. Even on exile, Steve Jobs kept building blasting technological disruptions (ie. Pixar). Bill Gates has his focus on philantropy, he's retired and won't be the captain hungry Microsoft needs.
My Japanese training is very limited (I know the hiragana alphabet, but I'm sure my pronunciation is terrible), so I won't pretend any confidence there. Of course, we both agree that English "l", English "r", and the five Japanese "ra/la" sounds (ら, り, る, れ, ろ), are all different sounds. We all know it's a bad approximation to say that "ら" is "la" or "ra", but it's the best approximation available. (I'm told that whether it's more like "la" or like "ra" depends on where you are in Japan, to some degree). Indeed, this one-to-two mapping problem is so well-known, that there are demeaning "jokes" about saying "lice" when one means "rice", and so on.

Anyway, my point was this: your description of English articulation had some minor errors in it, which I tried to improve upon.

> If I pronounce la (laa) ... in English, my tongue ... at some point touches my gums behind my bottom teeth

That may be true for you, but this is not typical. Or at least, it's not the the "L" that's doing that. If you say "raaaaaaaaa" in English, you'll find that the "aaaaa" noise puts your tongue on the bottom of your mouth just as much as it does for "laaaaaaa".

And if you put your finger on your lower gums, you can learn to say "la lee loo lay low" without your tongue ever touching your finger, much less your gums. Just like how many English speakers curl their tongue to say English "ra ree roo ray roe" but they can learn to leave the tip of their tongue down (with practice).
There's no claim that TrueCrypt was compromised.

Miranda reportedly had a password printed on a piece of paper. And a big chunk hasn't been decrypted.

More here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6303876
Would using a technology that makes a warning of surveillance unavoidable be illegal?
For Mozilla platforms, MP3 is supported on Firefox OS, some Android devices and Desktop on Windows Vista and up. Support for Windows XP is coming in Firefox 26. It is available on Linux with custom builds and should be in by default soon. For a list of supported audio and video formats in Firefox see http://bluishcoder.co.nz/2013/08/21/html-media-support-in-fi....
Thanks for the reply & good luck!
Does it hook up to the IDX?
I've experienced sleep running while in the military during training exercises. In one they kept us going for a week on minimal sleep (four hours of "rest" out of every twenty-four). On day four I fell asleep while running in formation at night and woke up 5 or so hours later as I was being roused for my guard rotation.

My "battle buddy" said I didn't behave any differently than usual, just quiet. All told, I blacked out for about a half-hour. My experience wasn't uncommon, I'd say about 10% of us experienced something similar during that particular exercise. The human body is an amazing machine.
Ah, the sort of graphs you use when you don't want to be understood.

I remember, back when I was doing some research having to explain to people what a standard deviation was and what confidence meant.

There are ways to talk to people who don't know statistics - for instance if you talk about percentages people glaze, however, if you talk about 25 people in every hundred, that's something they can tend to engage with better.... If you use a bar chart, people tend to be used to looking at those. Drop 'correlates with' and use 'relates to' - that sort of thing.

It seems silly, it's all the same stuff. But some people have addition, division and multiplication as more or less the extent of their mathematical skills - because that's all they've been called upon to use since school. There's nothing wrong with that most of the time, I mean it's entirely understandable, it just means that if you're talking to them half the job is putting it in forms that they can understand.
Dispassionate debate is a good way to find the truth, but does seem a bit odd to debate whether somebody is xenophobic when you can just go talk to them and see what they are like.

Debating theories and facts or interpretation of facts makes alot of sense for things like science experiments , it seems a bit like indirection when talking about what a certain person is like.

You can just go find out what that person is like, instead of relying on hearsay.

Regarding Slava, I wouldn't say that he is doing the name calling.
Accusing somebody of being xenophobic is much closer to name calling, I find that even the act of accusing to be pretty weak, why not just make a statement as opposed to an accusation.

I agree with Slava's statement, if anyone would make the statement that YC/PG is xenophobic after having met them I would say that is pretty laughable.
I don't need to debate this, it's merely my opinion based on factual experience.
(also, opinions don't need to be correct, they are just opinions. Facts on the other hand can be incorrect or correct)

If you think otherwise without meeting YC/PG, then you are making an opinion without any experience.
(a situation you can correct)

As an aside, you don't even need to walk on eggshells around PG.
You can just ask him if he is a xenophobe, he will answer no.
Interesting. This is actually close to the original idea of hypertext (Ted Nelson's vision: "documents - side by side"). I would really turn down the tone. Let the reader decide how important he thinks the idea is.
> If you look at the GDP to national debt map on wikipedia you will notice, that most (if not all) first world countries, the beacons of human rights and democracy, owe more that they can produce in the foreseeable future.

The highest debt:GDP ratio on the list under either measure is Japan's under the CIA measure, at a little over 200% of GDP. That's not more than it can produce in the forseeable future (its a little more than it produces in two years.)

It may be more than they can are likely to pay off in the forseeable future, but then, that's a completely different story.

> It is not the tax money they are spending.

That's not a question that is addressed by debt:GDP ratio, its a question that is addressed by deficit:budget ratio, which is a very different beast.
It is easier to lug a graphing calculator around than a laptop, particularly in schools. I spent countless hours programming on my calculator while sitting in cars, hiding in the back pews at church, inside of tents during camping trips, sitting in the back row of classrooms,...

It was something I could do that caught my attention while forced to be someplace I had no interest in being. I don't think web development gets you that.
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sudo offers updated binaries for OS X 10.5 and up so you don't have to wait for Apple: http://www.sudo.ws/sudo/download.html#binary

If you don't trust the binaries, I found it easy to update the vulnerable sudo v1.7.0 on my OS X 10.6 machine by building from source and overwriting the one supplied by Apple:

0) Backup /usr/bin/sudo (temporarily; you'll want to delete the old sudo after verifying the new one works), and backup /etc/sudoers just to be safe

1) Download the source for sudo v1.7.10p7 linked on sudo's homepage: http://www.sudo.ws

2) Untar, ungzip, go to resulting source directory

3) Run configure, telling it to overwrite the vulnerable sudo

configure --prefix=/usr/bin

4) Compile

make

5) Install

sudo make install

6) Delete the old sudo you backed up in (0)

See also the sudo installation notes here: http://www.sudo.ws/sudo/install.html
Oh, HN's definitely not even close to objective when discussing the merits of PG's statements, but in a way that's beside the point. So long as HN comments represent the subjective viewpoints of the kinds of people that can affect PG - startup founders and employees, venture capitalists, etc - they're a good demonstration of why PG will have no problems making these kinds of statements. I suspect HN is probably a good representation of their viewpoints, at least on this topic.

He's getting some slight blowback from the press, but sadly they have a short attention span.
Dean has a background in marketing - and has been a very good self-promoter.

His athletic accomplishments are pretty awesome but you're right - Jurek and others make up the elite of the sport.
Fair enough, thanks.

English is not my native language, but I should've paid more attention.

I fixed the most obvious mistakes and I'll try to find a native speaker to do a real rewrite.
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I know that feel, bro. ENT > =!
Furthermore, GP assumes that having a famous famous or well-loved organization is the only measure of a good leader. I don't think I agree. There are some great leaders/tech minds that run great businesses that people don't know about. Focusing on popularity is a cardinal sin to me at least.
That's pretty much what I was thinking. The product page for this phone on the Nokia website says it can be used as a 3.5G modem, but it doesn't say whether this is as a wifi access point or over bluetooth. I'm guessing the latter.

In any case, I am seriously considering ditching my smartphone, and switching to a combination of a feature phone like the 515 and a 7" tablet (New Nexus 7). That, for me, sounds like a killer combo.
Change the question: What percentage of 35,000 cryptographers are willing to give up their jobs, families, homes, friends, lovers, and children to stand up for their ideals regarding the ethics behind code breaking.

I find it regrettable that Snowden sought asylum. If he had stayed in the united states, faced trial by jury, and won his freedom, it would have set a precedent for other whistleblowers to follow. His asylum will make whistleblowers think they have to give up everything to expose the government's crimes. The precedent he set is almost as bad as if he had stayed in the united states and been found guilty of capital treason.
Nice non sequitur. Go back to reddit, kid(s).
No security that needs time should be based on an insecure clock. Is there any kind of network "verified time" facility using PKC?
You see a lot of articles with Dean in them that make him out to be some sort of human anomaly. In all fairness, he's had some great achievements, but he's far from an elite ultramarathoner. Most people can run the distances that he does with the right training. If there was a real "ultramarathon man" it's probably Yiannis Kouros. He holds almost every record over 24 hours. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yiannis_Kouros
You appear to delight in tearing down my suggestion with your multiple comments, and in knocking PG - whilst on PG's site.

The biggest successes are in tech are from highly regarded, but less socially polished, techies (classic nerds), not manager types people which you appear to be pushing for (witness Balmer or Whitman).
The word "steaming" does not appear in the original article -- that is a hyperbolic invention of the article's submitter The word "boiling" does appear in the article. But the water is neither boiling nor steaming.

The Fukushima situation is very serious, but spreading baseless rumors out of ignorance is not constructive.
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2011/04/secret-f...
Oh of course, I see what you mean, thanks for the explanation.
Sheryl Sandberg please! She has clearly earned her shot at the big leagues.
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If a mathematical breakthrough in factoring is discovered, rending RSA ineffective, would that end secure communications, or are there other methods that would remain untouched?
Totally agree. I've been at demo days and I just tune out the foreigners who I can't understand. It's hard enough having to listen to 40+ startups in a day, and try to understand what someone is doing, why they are doing it, and how it can make money, throw in a thick accent and you are likely to give your brain a rest and just tune out. I notice that these founders are the ones with no one visiting their demo table, etc.
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Well,

The thing is that (at least several kinds of) neural networks and support vector machines are equivalent in their operations. SVMs themselves seem to be something like a general form of binary regression (a clever way to separate two complex sets with a complex curve on a high-dimensional space). So the choice of neural network or support vector machine or some other statistical device seems like it comes down to which problem is easier to formulate how, which tricks are available for what problem, etc.

For example: http://blenny.ncl.ac.uk/peter.andras/PAnpl2002.pdf (that's what I google just now, think there are results on "deep" networks also).
Oh, it completely does. My niece this year is required to have a laptop for school. She has to have a PC with her. Now, she has no interest or aptitude for programming, but if any of her classmates do, they can easily fire up a web browser and get to hacking, even without an Internet connection.
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And how did they do that?

Buzz, created by Steve Jobs, much of it from his pioneer status from the 80s. They had a built-in market to whom they can sell high-priced items (Apple fanboys) where they recoup costs. Then, after that, they make profits from non-fanboys. (They don't like to talk about this, but that's how they internally plan it).
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A very old school surveying teacher (head of department as it happens) wasn't entirely convinced about calculators in the late eighties. I showed him how to get an extra decimal place of seconds of arc by subtracting the whole number of degrees.

The real sticking point was getting a real arctan2 function (returning the angle in the range [0,360]). He really liked some BBC Basic programs I hacked up. Fun times.
> The cold truth about learning another language is that you will not learn much when you are not living in a community(country) that speaks that language.

Patently false, as evidenced by the countless numbers of second language English speakers who have never been to an English-speaking country for more than some vacations (if even that).
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Symmetric encryption algorithms such as AES would not be compromised by any advances in factoring or quantum computation. I don't know of any asymmetric algorithms that are immune - but my knowledge of that domain is limited.
It won't get you quite the same power as a proper RPN scientific, but Cabamap is great: http://www.ticalc.org/archives/files/fileinfo/323/32326.html

"Cabamap is a flash application for the 83+/SE that performs arbitrary-precision integer calculations. Simply stated, it can do things like calculate the exact value of 2000! or 2^1024. It uses RPN (Reverse Polish Notation) as the user interface, and is intended as a complete system for long integer calculations. The only limit is available memory (roughly 24000 digits)."
Free pro voices for founders with accents
Until they are going to be bankers for a tech entrepreneur's M+A deal or IPO. Then we'll see how much they need to know tech ;) The meek shall inherit the earth in some ways was foretelling the rise of the technologists - disclaimer, I am not religious and mean it in it's literal sense.
Dumb phone and feature phone have always been synonymous to me. That's a common theme in this thread. I don't think you can reasonably speak in absolutes on this.
I thought that Snowden's whole point was that, "cutting out some red tape to chase down terrorists" could also enable bad actors in the agency to do bad things.
> New Google Play policy requires opt-in dialog to show ads

That is false, and anyone who wants to understand the actual policy will have to read the article -- the submitter's title is wrong.

Google suggests and recommends an opt-in / opt-out dialog, but it's optional.
I would much rather speak with a foreign accent rather than with something like a New England accent.
I didn't say if you care enough that it becomes easy.

To truly achieve something difficult (such as leaving a high paying career to focus on your hobby + family) you usually need to really want to do it and have a good plan on how to do it. You need both. Motivation + Perspiration.

I practice what I preach and am currently bootstrapping my own startup. I was able to move to Germany though where I don't have to pay an exorbitant amount for health care for me, my wife, or my daughter (who has a medical condition and would probably have bankrupted us had we stayed in the US). I readily admit that doing this type of thing in the US is infinitely harder because of health care.
http://www.chipworks.com/
It sucks that googling for something counts as cheating, when really it's a skill that applies to about 90% of real life :-)
You appear to delight in tearing down my suggestion with your multiple comments

Microsoft has 8329956402 shares outstanding. Do you honestly believe that MSFT stock price can rise to value in the trillions, making the MSFT market cap ten sextillion dollars?

knocking PG - whilst on PG's site.

First, I wasn't knocking pg, I was asking a question. Second, when did use of his site constitute a requirement to idolize him?

The biggest successes are in tech from...

Ah, the ol' "techies can do everyone elses job better than them" trope. Yes, we are so awesome! Why should you have a dentist give you a root canal, when you could have a classic nerd do it instead!
Alright, all great things for a startup guy but I don't think they're the qualities required for the CEO of a multibillion sprawling company. They have no need to popularise or use lisp, no need to sell companies and I'm not convinced this is bigger than eg /r/technology? Not that that's a bad thing, but it's a bold claim to say this is the biggest tech news forum.

Way more importantly though, PG hasn't turned creating startups into an assembly line. The closest thing to an assembly line he's got is converting strong founders into startups, and still the majority 'fail'. For him to continue that at Microsoft, Microsoft would need to attract strong founders consistently and there's no reason to suspect they can. My suspicion is Microsoft has about as many billion-dollar units as PG has billion-dollar investments, so the actual value is unclear.

Don't get me wrong, PG has a proven history in startups, technology, investments, he writes well, he seems incredibly smart.. but I don't think he nor Microsoft think he has the qualities of a Microsoft CEO.
The wording makes it unclear. Early in the first paragraph it uses the word "must", then says:

"Further, you should ask for user consent and provide options for managing ads or opt-out. Here are some guidelines"

The words "should" and "guidelines" make me unsure, but I can't tell if their loose meaning it intended, or just word choice.
Your accent is moderately strong, but as long as the room isn't noisy, I haven't had any trouble understanding you.

If anything, you just need to project your voice better and speak louder. :)
It's no more derogatory than dumb terminal.