skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I felt the same way. And then I signed up with a bogus account, and it wanted an e-mail verification.... Why make me e-mail verify?
It's always disappointing to me when I come across something that is a better version of an unfinished side project of mine.

Well done.
Wow I couldn't disagree more.

I have a rule that I'll never turn down a 30-45 minute catchup with someone who needs some advice, or wants a sounding board, or just wants to talk about something they're excited about. Life is about people, and has a funny way of turning things around so that those kinds of meetings grow into friendships, business connections, and sometimes of course - nothing at all.

Most people agree that mentor-mentee relationships benefit both parties equally well. I've definitely found this to be true. While these kinds of interactions may not be the same kind of dynamic as a long-term mentor relationship, spending a small chunk of time can also break you out of a rut or give you a new idea.

Don't discount the power of taking a few minutes out of your day to pay it forward.
Thanks a lot! Explained really well ^^
IIRC, MS scan "to:" "from:" and "subject:" but not "content" whereas Google, they claim, does scan content.
> 3. My mother has a master degree in math, she is a high school teacher. Her understanding of maths due to her degree sets her apart from the normal teachers with a educational math degree, or any other degree which was not math orientated. You can see in her yearly results she is a good math teacher. I understand this does not hold true for all people. But something that you missed in the infographic is that teachers is held in high regard, something that is lacking in my country of origin and I believe a lot of other countries.

I am not clear how taking graduate courses in Mathematics which can range anything from Measure Theory, Abstract algebra to Grad. Real Analysis helps you become a better teacher to high schoolers whose interaction with mathematics should ideally have enough coverage from the basic level.

The respect thing is not clear to me. Lawyers and Investment bankers are not respected here in the U.S., yet they flourish. Ultimately, if you are passionate about what you do, what people think of you (or not) shouldn't matter so much.

My personal hypothesis is that people in America (parents) give way too much responsibility to the school to educate their children and expect magic to happen from people who are merely paid to take care of your children. Quit having kids or take more responsibility in teaching them. My mother is a teacher too and I recall she spent more time teaching me stuff at home before I even went to kindergarten and that definitely helped keep me ahead of the curve. Sure, her ability to teach helped her a bit but surely it is not that hard as a parent to take more of an active interest in your child's education rather than flopping helplessly and whining about schools and such. /end rant
Humm ... Try another browser?
An example of one of what, open-standard data exchange protocols? There are many options at each of the OSI layers.

Why implement low-level hardware handshaking via JavaScript in the browser, if all you want to do is sync application data?
And, take heart fellow awkward nerds. I've set the bar incredibly low for social contact by using gimmicky means of reaching out to my own heros. It was the only time when I regretted that they actually read and replied to what I sent.

Just be genuine.
Awesome game! Totally with you..Launching as early as possible with a MVP simply doesnt work for games.. There are some exceptions if you target the right audience (Minecraft) but in general gamers are very unforgiving. This being a side project made by 2 people who have jobs and families i can only imagine what kind of work went into that. Great job!
I think option 4 is most accurate.

Bones and joints basically act as levers and pivots so why can't gear like body parts be found in other lifeforms.
I came across a paper on the first GPU keylogger[1] recently, which is quite clever, but maybe not sneaky enough.

Sneaky-wise, hypervisor/system management processor/other embedded stuff (SMBus, BIOS/EFI, etc) are persistent, and really quite tricky to be sure you're rid of. Disk controllers, and especially network controllers could be very effective since there are a vast number of ways of getting something down a network/into a file remotely.

Sneaky exfiltration/comms could include some of the EMI TEMPEST-style attacks if you can get close enough.
For bonus points, if you can get line-of-sight, optical TEMPEST[2] using status LEDs is just about plausible.

[1] http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~mikepo/papers/gpukeylogger.euros...

[2] http://rootsecure.net/content/downloads/pdf/optical_tempest_...
I have been a juror on a criminal case that relied heavily on phone records. There was no fingerprint system involved, and yet it was clear beyond reasonable doubt that the phone belonged to the defendant.

The phone company can testify that the phone corresponds to a given cell number. Other people can testify that they spoke to the defendant on that number. No one piece of evidence exists in a vacuum; all the pieces of evidence combine to paint a picture.

Sure you could try to lie by making up stories about how the phone wasn't really yours, but it's hard to get all the other evidence to line up with a lie. This is a GOOD thing; the protection against self-incrimination isn't intended to help people get away with murder, it's intended to protect the accused from being compelled to help the government prosecute them.
> Why would comparing those two scores make any sense? The US has a good education system if you compare it to the world average. It's no surprise that people in that system would do better than wherever their ancestors are from because the US is virtually guaranteed to outperform a randomly chosen place in the world.

Because that says that Finnish-Americans do better than Finnish people in Finland?
For House of Cards, where known commodities like Kevin Spacey and David Fincher were already attached to a known story (House of Cards is a remake of a British series from the late 80s) it probably doesn't make sense to do a pilot.

It'll be interesting to see how it plays out. None of the Netflix originals so far has done a traditional "pilot" approach and, while I was there at least, there was no desire to start taking that approach.

The Netflix model is really completely different than traditional TV. Take Hemlock Grove as an example. Critically panned and considered by most people in HN circles to be a "bad" show--but (without going into detail) I can absolutely say it has been VERY successful for Netflix.
I think this idea the "Why X should/needs to buy Y" is getting tiresome. No one should/needs to buy anyone else IMHO. I think partnerships are almost always in theirs and ours best interest.
It's liberating once you realize they are actual human people who often want to help - as long as they feel that their help won't be wasted...
And, if "The Internship" is at all accurate, big tech companies are no better.
Actually, the block in question is 192.168.0.0/16. But, yes, in my experience, the router is almost always at 192.168.0.1. So, your observation about fingerprinting usefulness is correct.

However, if a rogue script can exploit an XSS vulnerability, it's likely in a lot of cases the user has not set a password on the router's LAN admin interface. So, the script can run through a short list of guesses, get lucky, and poke a hole in the user's firewall from the inside.

This vulnerability exists independent of WebRTC. WebRTC just makes it easier to scope out more unusual LAN setups, such as the article's example involving a 10.0.0.0/8 network.

Bottom line: use passwords on your LAN even if it's just you and two or three computers. And, for good measure, pick an unusual subnet out of the 10.0.0.0/8 net.
Gotta chime in here because I do this professionally.

This is why people don't like cocktails. These are seriously terrible. I wouldn't serve any of these, ever.

I don't want to be overly negative here, but no number of pull requests will fix this. Rather than try to salvage these, I will offer take out anyone who's interested and introduce you to a bunch of the top folks in the food and drink biz. There's really not a friendlier group of people, and learning about wine and spirits is a lot of fun.
5. All dichotomies are false dichotomies.

6. Creatures like this shake my faith in evolution.
Here you go: https://gist.github.com/natively/6542819
That would be the Morris-Jumel Mansion, an interesting place to visit if you like Revolutionary Era history/design.

http://www.morrisjumel.org/
It should at least ask if there are remote resources embedded. Like e-mail clients do.
the inner workings of space discovery are not the subject being discussed here. As an engineer, I'm more than mindful of the back & forth & general messiness of discovery, peer-reviews, control groups, & the like.
I'm talking about press releases & headlines targeted towards the GENERAL PUBLIC. A public that has a lot less of an appetite, patience or time to follow NASA's inner deliberations. The fact that this is the 5th or sixth time that they've heard that "Voyager has left the solar system" might leave them a little bit confused.
I suspect that managing a day job and a kid impacted the schedule quite a bit. I recall a quote from another thread, "Once you have kids you are only allowed one hobby."
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1.50$ for an entire pack of USB sticks? Where did you find such an offer? Because according to amazon, the cheapest they have are a pack of 10 USB sticks, 1GB, for 39$:

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00E3MII96/

Not exactly cheap, if you ask me. Not exactly super-expensive either, of course, but definitely not cheap. And I think the reasons the price for floppy disks doesn't seem to go down is because only certain people still use floppy disks, i.e., the need for floppy disks is nearly non-existant.
Creatures with cool adaptations strengthen my faith in evolution. It's creatures like the panda or the koala or the sloth that shake my faith in evolution.
The problem is that people that run 12 page websites are probably more likely to not keep up with upgrades, and to consequently have their sites broken, passwords gotten, etc.

The original comment is not quite right. It's not that WordPress is now a "CMS Framework" with blogging bolted onto it. It's actually the other way around: a CMS framework is bolted onto a simplistic and fairly faulty blogging platform.

If you use it as a blogging platform, or to run a mostly static site, sure it works. But try to actually build something on this "framework" and you'll run into all kinds of ugly. Things like BuddyPress, ecommerce plugins, etc. all are a mess because you can't turn a blog into a social network or an online store any easier than a Prius into an 18 wheeler.

And WP is not versatile. It's just that PHP has no rules. Anyone can do anything at any time. Don't want to wire proper plumbing into your framework to pass some variable to the right view? Just declare a global variable! Don't have access to the right set of posts? Query the database directly!

So my argument against WP is not that it's a bad blogging platform. It's that blogging is all that's it's good for, assuming you spend every minute of every day checking for security updates.
I wonder how its prevents wear? Could be something quite revolutionary there for the finding. Some sort of new organic lubricant, or something in the gears that self lubricates.
Four. A gear is just a piece of geometry that happens to be useful for a number of practical purposes. Same with rods, rings, and so on. People apply labels to it according to how they perceive it.
Slides: A very lightweight language for slideshows
Or perhaps it encourages think about alternative-alternatives. Functional programming has been presented as the alternative to OOP for a looong time now and the indications are that it just isn't to replace it ever.

OOP is a paradigm that does work for gluing huge piles of flawed-but-useful code together. And OOP indeed has lurid flaws to it on multiple levels (the ambiguity concerning what "inheritance" is supposed to mean is one of many ridiculousnesses).

Something that replaces OOP would need to have SOME winning combination of gluing hunks-of-together so you didn't have to start from scratch and being-so-powerful-but-understandable that medium skill-level programmers could replace the junk reasonably painlessly.

If we acknowledge FP isn't going to be that paradigm, then we can start searching for a different one.
Good feedback. Having less friction before asking players to commit, would surly help. Something we'll look into for the future.
I believe that MS scans for malware, but Google also scans to provide context based advertising.
Do you have this kind of ruleset codified or automated in any way? It looks like a great example of knowing your own market.
I would suggest to continue working at your current job while still working towards your career goals.

For one you can start researching companies where you see yourself working and that align with your career goals. After you have gathered a decent list of companies you are interested in, check to see if they have entry level jobs you can apply for that fit your skill set. For the jobs requiring more advanced skill sets, find out what those skills are and work at them.

There is a ton of free information available to help you move forward and advance in your career. Take online courses (coursera.org and edx.org are both great resources available for free) and read books at your local library. Continue to build the necessary skills so that when an opportunity in which you are interested in does come up, you are prepared and have the necessary skills and experience.

Hope that helps! Good luck and hope you are able to get where you want to go!
Must read piece on the matter: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-24072587
thanks! let us know if you have any suggestions, it's definitely still a work in progress.
With worker retirements looming, IT starts to prepare for a workforce exodus
> the (unaired) pilot for BBC's Sherlock is a not fantastic 60 minutes with significant pacing problems, which was subsequently reshot and turned into a well received 90 minute miniseries

Oh, that's what it was then. I downloaded the first series of Sherlock and was surprised to see the same first story twice.

But I thought the first version was vastly superior to the second one; it had much less money, which, in my opinion, allowed it to be more intense and more "real".

Whatever you think, it's most interesting to watch both!
Maybe it doesn't. The last paragraph of the article implies that wear eventually would compromise the gears, but that the insect molting and replacing the old gears with new ones (frequently?) prevents it from being a problem.
When you choose to be the CEO of a company and you hire employees, you're no longer just working for yourself. How a CEO spends his time means everything to the company and its employees.

I don't know how you would you feel if you worked at the OP's startup, but I would have a problem with the notion that the person ultimately responsible for making payroll found it worthwhile and enjoyable to spend 45-plus minutes defending his views on startups and arguing with a person who wanted him to sign an NDA about an unrelated business idea.

It's not the 45-plus minutes, it's how he chose to spend them.
The evidence used to prove when you bought the phone would also likely be used to demonstrate that you own the phone. I don't think the fact that your fingerprint unlocks the phone found in your pocket at the time of arrest is likely to be the jury's determining factor in deciding whether that phone belongs to you.
Unix 'find' date example for the occasional user
A question for the physicists or people that know about the subject: does plasma affect circuits? I read somewhere that alpha particles do affect them. I'm just curious. It might well be a stupid question. Pardon for my ignorance.
Question: Is it worth asking for email address as a field on the join form? I was suprised to see this on one group and wondered if meetup.com kept email addresses from organizers. This would make life tough in cases like the following:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4754269 (Hacker News Meetup Cologne Hostile Takeover)
sounds like grad school....
I think the keys are to develop habits around working full-out during the day, planning well, not allowing yourself to inflict a culture that relies constantly on heroics for success, and taking responsibility for when things don't go as planned. That's hard to do, and requires true leadership. I've been on both sides (success and failure) in that area. Good luck!
It's Ghostery, it killed it somehow. Not sure if it's the site's fault or Ghostery's?
The sloth's evolutionary advantage is that they are so fucking cool.
The challenge for Pandora's new CEO
I found it amusing that to view the 1 second video at the end I had to watch a 30 second advert first
5) Organic creatures have mechanical systems as part of their physiology. "Mechanical" doesn't mean "made of metal", it means "uses movement and friction to achieve some effect". Some mechanical devices, such as levers and swivels, are seen frequently in the animal kingdom; others, such as gears, pulleys, and wheels, are almost never seen in nature. Discovering one of this latter category is a fascinating find.
The guy says that he wasn't doing any work. He was just a warm body.

Why do you care? In particular, why do you care enough to force the employer and the employee into a different understanding?

People do all kinds of things that I don't want for myself. I wouldn't want to be a boxer since I don't like having people punch me in the face repeatedly.

Doesn't mean I would want to forbid others from being boxers.

Let people have their freedom and stop trying to control everyone else's lives and choices.
Risk of shock/electrocution (pity we don't have pictures of my electrician grandfather's blackened arms) and/or falls. Physical problems from extended time in awkward positions. Boiling hot or ice cold attics. Dead animals or worse in walls and crawlspaces. God knows what in the insulation you're elbow-deep in. Every small-business problem you've ever heard of, plus coordination with other contractors who lie to each other every bit as much as they do to their customers. And you can top it off with inspectors who don't actually have the first fucking clue what code is, or think it's both a minimum and a maximum (12 gauge on a 15-amp circuit? NOPE! That's not code, you've gotta use that little 14 gauge crap instead!).
5. The concepts of "organic" and "mechanical" are purely human inventions used to conveniently categorize the world, and there is no reason the world has to obey our desire to fit neatly into categories we devise. Any discussion of the meaning of "mechanical" and "organic" is a discussion of language, not of anything outside humanity.
it just worked for me. I sent an e-mail from my gmail address via outlook.com to a separate address and it came through almost instantly.
Have you checked your settings? They made the switch a while back to using Gmail's SMTP servers for those accounts.
MapPLUTO's footprints aren't for the buildings, but rather the boundaries of the property. It's a big shapefile for each borough. Totally worth exploring. It's got an insanely detailed metadata breakdown that explains a ton of the eccentricities.

As for the dates, most are guesses. If you plot the dates, you see they're overwhelmingly years that end in 0.
Using big data to prevent home renovation nightmares
Cool! You guys have an email I can reach out to? Might take us a bit to get some more game time under our belts. :)
While I can't be certain, I believe it might not handle wear very well based on the article.

Near the end they mention that it molts several times growing new, larger versions of the gears. When its an adult, it actually loses these gears entirely.

Their theory is that when the insect is fully grown is gets rid of the gears since it can no longer molt and thus replace them if they become damaged.
The point is for a kid without a computer to get access to programming. Not for a kid, who already has a computer, to get access to a virtual computer to program on.
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He should scare you. He has one talk where he asks for volunteers from the audience to try to punch him. The ways that he proceeds to immobilize them relate to the various points he's making in his talk.

He's also the only person that I can think of who would seek to explain the concept of elementary particles being made of quarks using Mars bars as analogies. Right down to the fact that the sum of 3 of the masses of the small Mars bars slightly exceeds the mass of the large one - that right there is the binding energy!

For those who have not experienced him, Damian is hard to explain. For those who have experienced him, the full mind-bending reality is hard to remember. He's the only person about whom I say that if he's giving a presentation you go, just because it is Damian. Even if you don't know the topic. Even if you hate the topic. Even if you're bored by the topic. It is Damian. Go.
They both provide access for the NSA anyway, don't they?
+1. Just did that in SF with http://twitter.com/healthhackerssf and already seeing plenty of interest
You're entirely missing the point. The only difference between DSD and CD is the waveform. There are no other factors in the decision of sound quality. Someone claiming that DSD is better does so not because of artist choice, or headphone fit, or lacquered-wood smell. They are claiming that the waveform is more pleasing in some manner. So to test this you must isolate the waveform in an otherwise-ideal environment.

Nobody objects to a person preferring a specific device because of other senses. But it's provable whether DSD itself is playing a role in the experience.
Wouldn't you need them for different purposes? A double for loop would go over a 2 dimensional array while a single for loop cannot.
Oh, and FTR, Excel gives a warning before opening the file. So they at least have thought through this vector (if you want to call it that).
Awesome article Matt! I found the same to be similar when writing Founders (an eBook with ~20 entrepreneurs @ http://founders.cc).

Pretty much everyone in this industry is willing to help out if you reach out to them.
> a few years down the line it's mandatory

That's just FUD. And saying baseless things like "that's never how it works", that's just fearmongering, not contributing to the conversation. It doesn't even make sense.

There are millions (hundreds of thousands? you get my point) of fingerprint readers out there. Suddenly Apple builds one in, an additional feature, and people start inventing conspiracy theories. People are completely confusing real issues (recent NSA disclosures) with totally imaginary ones. It's getting tiring.
In Montreal a shot tower was kept when converting an old industrial complex to high-end residential units. Result is pretty good and made me learn about shot towers before reading it here:
http://goo.gl/maps/WJZPj
NSA surveillance review panel did not discuss changes, attendees say
Isn't the measure of all that what the free exchange of labor for pay or a career is all about?
And what's the limit for such innovation? can microprocessors be developed naturally?
That building was actually built in 1719. Which is probably why they picked arbitrary dates vs using 3rd party input. If they see 1900 then the construction date is old and probably unknown which is good enough.

DeLancey built the current building as a house in 1719. The small yellow bricks used in its construction were imported from the Dutch Republic and the sizable mansion ranked highly in the province for its quality.[7] His heirs sold the building in 1762 to Samuel Fraunces who converted the home into the popular tavern, first named the Queen's Head.
The U.S. installed 832 MW of solar PV in Q2 2013