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> This seems a little harsh or judgemental.

It wasn't. My statement was prefaced with "If that's the case..."

> Big Co's don't care about your 10pc better product, because it may be 10% of a cost center that is maybe 15% of revenues. That makes it a 1.5% margin business for them, which is literally not material.

You're missing the point: you realistically aren't going to know what product to build, or be able to assess its value before you build it, if you have no domain expertise.

An entrepreneur with domain expertise is far less likely to build a product that doesn't create enough value to be viable than an outsider who doesn't understand the businesses he's targeting. In other words, the entrepreneur who actually understands what he's doing because he understands the industry probably isn't going to build a 10% better product that is 10% of a cost center that is associated with just 15% of revenues.
What proportion of the world was literate a thousand years ago?
Almost true like "God Angrily Clarifies 'Don't Kill' Rule"? http://www.theonion.com/articles/god-angrily-clarifies-dont-...
> In practice, as soon as you get power, you have very little incentive to serve those who elected you and all the incentives in the world to make money from special interest groups.

Special interest groups are citizens teaming up to push their agenda, those are people who elected you. Special interest groups are not inherently bad nor are they automatically against the will of the electorate. Many are actually representing the electorate.

> Instead, think about this: why do you need some people sitting in a pathetic building ruling over you? Why do you think society cannot do without them and what is it that only governments can do, but people and companies can't?

There you go again treating government and people as if they're different things. You're presenting a false choice, it's not government rule vs freedom from it, it's government rule vs local warlord rule. Power abhors a vacuum and government is our solution to that problem, it's how we live civilly together. It's not nor will it ever be perfect as no human system is, but it's vastly preferable to the alternative.

The idea that people can live peacefully without a form of government is just silly, someone has to enforce rule of law and it can't be someone's private security force or the guy with the most goons wins every time. Either the people choose a government or someone will choose one for them, or decide to rule himself.
Sounds like the author wants it to be defined more by the verbs it can be an object of than its looks.

I haven't read the article fully yet, but this seems reasonable to me.
Ha! Yeps! Touché
Excellent work!

Our solution was to email daily commit logs at 12AM to the team. The logs are parsed and beautified so they're easier to read, like a report. This only works for the programmers, your solution makes more sense for other departments.
Certainly an intersting clip, but not an instance of prisoner's dilemma: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Balls#Split_or_Steal.3F

And it's a completely ridiculous claim that it's "everything you need to know about strategy"...
I think http://ia.net/blog/the-web-is-all-about-typography-period is still percolating through.
This technique is often used as a puzzle in ARGs[1]. It reminds me especially of I Love Bees[2]. Bits of plaintext data were added to jpgs on a supposedly-corrupted website[3], which then had to be combined in the correct order. As well as fitting the theme of the game, it's a good puzzle since the corruption gives a huge visual clue to investigate the image and it's relatively easy for anyone to load it up in notepad and find the 'hidden' data.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternate_reality_game

[2] http://www.wonderweasels.org/apiary/guide.htm

[3] http://www.wonderweasels.org/apiary/guide1b.htm#killer
No reason cards couldn't have URIs (IMO they must have them). That doesn't stop pages aggregating them.
I just watched the TV report. It's interesting. The slides mention as targets: Petrobrás, French diplomacy, SWIFT and Google. Everything pointed towards MITM attacks against VPNs and SSL. There was no reference to what data was stolen.

The NSA actually called the program and said that none of their spying was used to give unfair advantages to American companies but they wouldn't comment further.

There were slides showing that they perform MITM against Google, as well as a slide that listed diplomatic and economic espionage as NSA goals.
Deere's recent patent filings point to a totally autonomous managed fleet of farm equipment. They've had a long standing relationship with NREC out of CMU to develop autonomous and semi-autonomous systems.

In terms of accuracy, here's a metric to think about: due to fewer overlaps and misses, yields were up 7.6% and cost savings were up 6.8% - and this was with just recent tech advances.
here I was thinking that the NSA's surveillance resources were supposed to be used to gather intelligence on foreign threats

I'm noticing a pattern of you being outraged about discovering your own misconceptions to be ill-founded. The NSA just gathers foreign intelligence. Military and terroristic threats are the most important source of foreign intelligence, but we have a vested interest in knowing What's Going On. As does everyone else, of course - it's a two way street.
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Just post a few samples of your work. Maybe build a simple application and link to it, link to your blog, link to github.

Just something that proves you know what you're doing.

I haven't hired developers, but I've worked with several writers. Quite a lot of the ones I've worked with didn't have previous work experience but they had sample articles uploaded for me to judge their skill and style.
Ergonomically friendly,HP monitors come with touchscreen
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Nice work! I've been tracking your product for quite a while. I've been building something similar for myself as well. It's not quite ready yet though. Congratulations on your achievement!
Interesting point, but let's not forget the fact not everyone is happy with tit jokes in public, and shit like this makes it harder for women to get interested in tech, perpetuating the 95% argument you make.

My take: TC degraded/alienated BOTH its core audience (male coders) and female audience.
its important to note that "speaking the plan9 protocol" amounts to normal file operations like read(), write(), stat() etc. This also works fine with pipes.
Hi there. I'm the Chief Executive of Freelancer.com. This article is two years old but I'm happy to answer any questions any of you might have.
Despite this clip being a classic classroom example in a game theory course, it's technically not a prisoner's dilemma, for a couple reasons. First, in the PD the players cannot communicate. The ability to communicate makes it more of a signalling game since a player can say/do something to alter the other players' beliefs about their type.

Secondly, in the PD both players have an incentive to defect from their cooperative strategy (stay silent), which results in a Nash equilibrium where both players are worse off. This is, after all, why the prisoner's dilemma is so interesting -- by playing their dominant strategies, both players end up in a worse situation.

In this clip, stealing is a weakly dominant strategy. That is, if I know the other guy is going to steal, I can't be made any better or worse by changing my choice to split or steal. If I know the other guy is splitting, then I of course would want to steal (which is why splitting is an unstable strategy).
haha I built this while trying to find a name for another project I'm working on. Didn't want to buy a domain just for this.
Hello there. I replied to your issues with Freelancer on the previous thread.
This should be pretty obvious. In basic terms, it would be extremely inefficient for the brain to store everything "directly." Meaning all memories are "reconstructions" to some extent and therefore inherently flighty given the dynamism of the brain. Said differently, it would be weird if the brain didn't take advantage of the very high-level abstractions we use in our day-to-day for the purpose of efficient memory storage.

Anecdotally, one time I re-played in my head an entire movie after I watched it (Astro Boy!) as an experimental exercise, and it was clear that as I was 'recalling' it, the line between "reconstruction" and "direct memory" was extremely blurry, and I could feel my own eagerness to fill in details that may or may not have occurred.
By telling his strategy (“100%, I’m going to steal”), the first player forced the endgame he wanted. The second player had no option other than choose split in the hope he gets something. If the first player had instead manifested his interest in splitting, the second player would have no rational reason to not choosing to steal.

It's an interesting twist on the prisoner's dilemma, and the first player played it accordingly.

Even more interesting is this other video, which shows how cooperation without punishment doesn't work:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flPaDwiqP_o#t=149
More power for each learner to shop for different schools. See

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6299910

for the longer version of this answer.
Unluckily I know little about homological algebra, algebraic topology and descriptive set theory.

But I surely have already seen papers where methods from algebraic topology are applied for pattern detection or finding whether some high-dimensional data are homeomorphic.

Also simplicial complexes (that are used in homological algebra and algebraic topology) can also come from triangulating high-dimensional point sets (for example from big data). I could well imagine that methods from homological algebra or algebraic topology could give us some insight into some properties of this data.
Technically, the 'S' stands for 'Security,' not 'Spying.'
Who cares about sexism and the exclusion of women in tech, when there is HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP IN MY SODA?! The tacos suck!

Great priorities there, hoss. </sarcasm>
Poll: Do you prefer front end or back end work?
Curious if the hacker news community is more geared towards visual front end work, or back end deep in the code kind of work. If you like both equally you can vote for both or neither.

I'm specifically defining front and back end using wikipedia:
"In computer science, the front end is responsible for collecting input in various forms from the user and processing it to conform to a specification the back end can use. The front end is an interface between the user and the back end. The front and back ends may be distributed amongst one or more systems."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Front_and_back_ends
Yes!

Grab a copy of "Proofs from the Book". It's tremendous.
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We've also been using Ansible where I work and it's great. Chef/Puppet are probably more powerful, but I also found them more complicated to setup and use.

Ansible seems to hit this sweet spot between easy of use, flexibility, and functionality that is really great for people or organizations that are managing modest numbers of servers. Cases where Chef/Puppet would be overkill.
Bitdefender has the site flagged as malicious. You might want to get that fixed.
The essential attraction of the idea of a card is that the visual representation of the card marries to the backend representation which marries to the social (shareability) representation.

Every so often someone comes out with a 'new' idea to simplify (or make redundant) the design process. Separating discrete snippets of information to be consumed or processed independently, but situated as part of a greater whole, is design. There is no magic bullet. You will still need designers.
Must every article of this nature on HN be accompanied by an idiotic comment that refutes science with anecdote?

Indeed, there is an example in this thread that is perhaps even more on-point than the comment to which you replied.
As others have pointed out this is not a true prisoners dilemna. Nonetheless, an interesting side-note is after saying that he was going to steal the whole time, he had to choose split (under the assumption that he is acting as a team player). This is because it would be inefficient if the other player chose steal simply out of spite/distrust and the team walks away with nothing.
Wow, thank you. I hope it is true to the original.
He clearly grew up. He's dead on now about how absurd the non aggression principle is and dead on about everything he just said to you. If you were wise, you'd listen.
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You can. But I shudder to imagine one file containing everything you just said.

Look on my works ye mighty and despair (i know I have): https://gist.github.com/kennethrapp/0ebbd15b509d8f18b095
Everybody is a potential terrorist.

:)
If Google kills off FeedBurner, these apps could take its place
Yes, but how did you become CTO. I'd like to hear that. It's all well and good once you're there.
We have been interacting with objects longer than we have been interacting with words for sure, but the words are more expressive. Think about a simple contact information "card" if you will. It's much easier for your brain to parse that tapping on the "call" button will call the phone number, or that that the message button will compose a new message. When there are that many different verbs as options, translating them into object manipulation is just too much. Think about what it would be like if you had to swipe to call but tap to email and twist to send a text message.
Interacting with a verb is easier in the long run.
Please take this as constructive: I pay for your system for a team of about 10 people. It works and it's been useful to us - but as soon as I get some free time I'm very likely going to roll my own, because I slightly resent the $5 per user per month price-tag for such a simple service; I think it's pretty expensive for the features compared to other single-purpose cloud tools.

I'm not asking for more features, because I like the fact it does one thing and does it well. I reckon it's probably a fair price around $1-$2 per user per month. I can't help but think you'd get more revenue overall with a lower price-tag.
And like vim, you will probably never use, nor need, all the shortcuts available. I use about a dozen keys in mutt, some of which are custom binding I use to send messages to separate maildir in one keystroke.

All my emails get into my Inbox (except for bugzilla stuff). I go through my Inbox several times a day, and as I read messages, I press 'o', 'n', 'e', or 'a' to send the message in one of the four folders I mostly use. For the rest, I sort it manually using the 's' key.
This way, my Inbox is always empty. Or if it's not, I know it's a message I need to get back to later on. There's usually no more than a handful of those.

Granted, you can do that with any mail client. But mutt is particularly well suited for the job.
107 year old vs SWAT
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And you can just hear the guys in the upper levels saying "Aw, they're trying to do it by the book... how cute!"
It appears the guy has never heard of Mountain Dew.
The East German dissident Wolf Biermann characterized late Soviet practices as Stalinism with computers - while under Stalin you would get a bullet hole in your head, in later Socialism you would get a hole in your punch card (to mark you as a politically unreliable)

http://www.spiegel.de/spiegel/print/d-41843129.html

Now we all have our punch cards back ;-) I still wonder how it all came about: is it just as a preparation for possible future crisis ? are the rulers feeling really that insecure ? is it a real or an imaginary threat ? Isn't it that any power is always trying to extend its reach ? Many questions here.
You missed the sarcasm ;)

I know full well that the NSA does more than gather intelligence on foreign threats. The link in my post is about the allegations of industrial espionage that surfaced in the 90s.

This is not just about the US wanting to know what's going on. This is about the US engaging in the sort of behavior that we have rebuked China over -- state-sponsored industrial espionage. It is an abuse of power, regardless of what "everyone else" is doing.

As for my own misconceptions, I assume you are referring to the notion that I and many others had that the NSA would not go as far as to actively sabotage civilian cryptography. I was not alone in believing that. It was common to dismiss such allegations as far-out conspiracy theories until the day the story broke. You can look at the archives of sci.crypt and the cryptography mailing list if you do not believe me. As I said before, nobody expected the NSA to share its cryptanalysis techniques. Nobody expected the NSA to alert us to weaknesses in publicly designed ciphers or cryptosystems. It was widely assumed that the NSA would watch us fumble about and try to find exploitable weaknesses in our systems, not that they would be part of a vast conspiracy to introduce such weaknesses. Plenty of people thought that the NSA was trying to balance its signals intelligence mission with its duty to protect our own communication from foreign interception. There is nothing wrong with being outraged to discover that there is no real attempt to strike such a balance and that the crypto wars are not over by any stretch.
>I'm skeptical of the "lien holder gets the equity" claim because it doesn't work that way outside of DC or in foreclosure generally, so I'd be very surprised it it wasn't a misunderstanding on the part of the author.

I agree. The author suggests the owner owned the home free and clear, which I do not think is true. As you noted judicial foreclosures do not occur overnight, a free and clear owner of a $197k house would have plenty of time to: 1. take out a mortgage/HELOC for the $500-$5k tax lien, or 2. more extremely sell the home, pay the lien and walk away with the equity ($192k) before the filing of the foreclosure. Further, there is no judge that would not give such a defendant the time to pursue those options even during the proceeding if in fact the defendant owned the property free and clear.

>Not only did he lose his $197,000 house, but he also was stripped of the equity because tax lien purchasers are entitled to everything, trumping even mortgage companies.

This is from the article, and I think this is where the author could have been a little more forthright, by saying under such foreclosure and subsequent auctions the proceeds go 1st to any government liens, 2nd to mortgage holders based on superiority, and 3rd the remaining equity goes to the owner. Of course other lien holders could be shuffled into the equation (such as construction liens or HOA liens).
I don't get what's there to apologize for. Both projects were funny. One of them was distasteful. That's all.
"a new risk to health" -- They are actually a newly identified risk. They are not new. Usual sloppy writing that you find in newspapers, I suppose.
I've used a few Parsec-based parser combinators and now I'd never go back to a parser generator.

It might be a little slower at runtime, but the ability to see everything in your chosen language is worth it in my opinion.
Where are you getting those numbers from? Surely such improvements would be fairly isolated to an acre or two, rather than hundreds of acres. Those numbers (6.8% and 7.6%) aren't in the article.
WordPress as an App Platform?
My family run John Deeres with Starfire and greenstar. With our neighbours we have several RTK stations to get centimetre accuracy.

When we got our first auto-steer in 2001 it changed my school holidays.. Instead of having to drive mind numbingly slowly I was able to read books, and then progressively shift onto movies etc with the first video iPods etc. awesome.
Huge increases in productivity and reduced inputs.

On the other hand, our neighbours who have often got seasonal workers to drive tractors have lost several tractors due to the workers not paying attention and running into power poles etc.

I have heard that the biggest obstacle to self driving machines has been the legal implications of having a tractor with no driver. It would be great to overcome this but there's still a way to go because at the moment no system I have seen can handle obstacles, specially if they haven't been programmed in (at the moment you can place a mark near trees, and it will beep when you near the end of your run to alert you to turn around) - also each implement requires very précise monitoring that may change markedly in the same field depending on the conditions in terms of ground speed, implement height and a host of other factors.

Awesome technology
Definitely constructive, thanks for this.
I must be missing something, but how does one bootstrap an enclave securely? A malicious VM can emulate the new SGX mode, but lift the restriction of not being able to access the enclave's memory.
What the hell are you talking about, of course ethics factors into it!

We, as a society, tolerate espionage so long as it is a necessary evil. One of the terms in the assessment of "necessary evil" is the ethics of what they are doing, the other term is how necessary it is. If your evil:necessary ratio goes to high then it program stops being something that any reasonable person can support. As an extreme example to demonstrate the point, if the CIA were installing cameras in the showers of randomly chosen UK citizens, that would be wildly unethical and have next to no benefit, thus making it wildly unacceptable.

You can't just dismiss ethical criticism of a spy agency by saying "well they operate illegally anyway". Excluding the ethical term would be giving them a license to do anything they please.
Also, if the government makes the 'homeless' drive to specific places out in the desert or something, that's better than the current situation where you're exposed to other homeless and dangerous people.

But what if they're driving all of the homeless people out to the same spot in the desert? Cars, sure, are better than nothing but better still are cars the government can't use to expel or trap undesirables.

I'm sorry, but the idea of self-driving cars just creep me out.
I used to mostly code parsers by hand for many of the same reasons, for years -- this article gives a nice rundown -- but the repetitive code really does kind of annoy, and I've found something else that works for me. Going over the listed problems:

Lexing and context: PEGs don't need a separate scanner; the option of calling an arbitrary function to parse a part usually suffices for unusual context needs.

Shift/reduce and grammar conflicts: PEG again sidesteps the problem, at the cost of sometimes resolving ambiguity in an unexpected way.

Syntax tree: Call semantic actions instead. For example: https://github.com/darius/peglet/blob/master/examples/regex....

Mixed code: Semantic actions are denoted by function names instead of inline code. I've used the same grammar in different languages.

Other limitations: Given a small parsing library -- like one or two pages of non-golfed code -- it's more thinkable to hack it to address whatever particular problem comes up.

So most often these days I use https://github.com/darius/peglet when I have a parsing problem. It's definitely not for coding gcc with.