skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Repeating my comment:

An intentionally introduced vulnerability can be considered a backdoor, even if it's not a matter of saying "open sesame" to open the so-called backdoor.

So yes, it's pretty much a matter of intent.
>Trying something totally new requires some courage and stepping out of comfort zone, probably a lot, and that explains it

I think you are on to something here. People want to do the safe, easy, and known thing. I cannot imagine most people, when finding out a poor employee was hired would blame the interviewer or the interview system. They assume that those are fine, because "Joel, Yegge, Google... everybody does them" and so they become a mental blind spot. The focus falls on the bad employee, "wow, he seemed so good, he must be a con artist or something".

>And they still get a lot of top quality candidates, so why bother?

This, I do not believe. By definition, most developers are not "top quality", rather just fit in just well enough to stay out of the "fire zone". From what I have seen, unless by "top quality" you mean "best development value for your buck", most developers at most shops are far below "top quality". Most are either overly conservative or overly aggressive, and have skills just barely good enough to do their job, which is good, because if they were truly the "top quality" they would tire quickly of your work and leave. The only way someone gets to be even close to "top quality" is by constantly doing new things, constantly pushing themselves, constantly getting better. Those traits _sound_ good till you consider what then will happen when they master the job you want them to do and get bored. That is what I mean by "best development value for your buck". Chances are, most development shops want most developers to be just barely good enough to get the work done in an arbitrary time with an arbitrary level of quality. Like the old joke goes, anyone coding slower/poorer/less than me is "a lazy idiot!", and anyone coding faster/better than me is "an architecture astronaut stuck up jerk!". Hiring becomes, "are you within an acceptably narrow band of skill that will all share?"

So, companies get what they hire for. Chances are, they get mediocre programmers, because that is what they actually _need_. They don't need language-writing, development world colossi striding about their office, designing new paradigms for their slightly altered CRUD app. Most companies wouldn't know what to do with such developers if they had them. Heck, even Google apparently didn't know what to do with Guido. Instead most companies need someone happy sitting down to add a new field to this page, or make this checkbox work on this popup, or fix this bug that only shows up in IE7. Someone for whom that is just challenging enough to be interesting, but not impossible. Apparently, programmer quizzo is the cheapest/safest way to ascertain that.
> > you need 1 Estimote beacon for every 100 square meters.

> More like 314 square meters.

But you can't pack circles tightly -- you have to use hexagonal cells.
started developping apps for mobile in 2009. at that time, i aimed for ios development and blackberry. it took me 2 months to get my first app on ios, and i thought "ok, now let's start learning about blackberry".

So, i downloaded their doc. iirc, they had three ways to develop apps. one was using web technology, and you couldn't do much. then they had two different sets of java apis : an old, discontinued one, with which you seemed to be able to have things work, and a new one, soon to be released, and undocumented.

so i installed their sdk, on my mac, and tried to run a "hello world". but their sdk required windows, because the simulator didn't exist on mac. i had just bought and dual-boot installed a windows 7. but the sdk was just for xp, so i had to run an XP vm inside my windows.
then i launched eclipse, to launch the simulator, to launch the Java program that was supposed to run my hello world.

i never was patient enough for that hello world to show.

then i said " well...let's get back to that once a customer ask for a blackberry development".

and guess what, that customer never came.
And if Samsung unilaterally ends their relationship with Apple it sets a dangerous precedent. If you knew that your trading partner would end their sale of products to you because you had a (valid or invalid) suit against one division of their business or had a product suite that competed with one of their division's product suites, would you want to do business with them or would you find someone that can actually play well with others?
No, that's an argument against patents functioning well to achieve disclosure. The purpose of patents is clear: To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts and requires no debate nor arguments.
Around 2008 the Secretary of the Air Force and Chief of Staff were fired due to a massive screw-up regarding the transport and handling of our nukes [1].

The summary that I got from the situation was that a plane heading through the heartland of America accidentally transported a nuke, when instead they thought it was just some other type of bomb which basically means a nuke was accidentally transported across the US without anyone controlling the shipment or noticing until much later.

The current chatter and inclinations are that things have improved due to more rigorous checks and inspections. For me this is very believable due to the amount of news that is made when one of the nuke squadrons fail a regular inspection due to minor mistakes [2].

[1] http://www.airforcetimes.com/article/20080605/NEWS/806050301...

[2] http://www.airforcetimes.com/article/20130819/NEWS/308190013...
There have been a few bombs lost overtime according the the Wikipedia page, usually as the result of plane mechanical issues.
He likely means Nortel, especially in the sense of it being the Canadian tech darling that fritters away its business into irrelevancy.
Snowden obviously has that key as well.
Samsung does not need Apple. Apple probably doesn't need Samsung either, but they've chosen to need them for this processor.
Gruber reported the speculation as just that - speculation. He didn't write crazy opinions about how 'Samsung was doomed' or how 'Samsung's CEO should step down' etc. etc.

His swift acknowledgement of when he was wrong was entirely appropriate.

The people who be calls out with 'claim chowder' make ludicrous assertions, and never acknowledge they were wrong.

Very different.
If you recall, a lambda is just an anonymous function which javascript already has.

//an example of a self-executing anonymous function

(function(x) { return x * x; } (3)); //returns 9

arrow functions are a bit different in that:

* It has Lexical this (normally fixed in usual functions via closure or .bind())

* this cannot be redefined

* arrow functions cannot be used as a constructor

* arrow functions are always anonymous

See also: http://wiki.ecmascript.org/doku.php?id=harmony:arrow_functio...
Or maybe it just isn't better? Or maybe it isn't better enough for people to endure the complete lack of platform ecosystem.

Ecosystem is everything. Android overcame that (remember when few of the top tier apps or services like Netflix were available on Android?) largely via the pull of Google services, getting enough inertia that the apps came. Blackberry...it wasn't and isn't going to happen. It just isn't worth it for makers.

Blackberry can't just make a device that is as good as the competitors, it has to be significantly better. They didn't do that.
Say Goodbye to Meyers-Briggs, the Fad That Won't Die
Nearly $5k is 'affordable'?
Inventory kills hardware companies.
Search and edit rake command for Jekyll
If you look at his other posts for the day they're all short statements. Maybe he's just in a particularly non-verbose mood.
301 redirect links to new permalink structure with Jekyll
continual sense of anger that person A is getting away with cheating and I want to cheat too but can't because of condition Y

How exactly are you arriving at your minor premise here? My reading is that other people want to compete, but are unable to do so effectively because of (alleged) cheating.
> Don't get me wrong, the Java version of it is going to be better than any other Java web framework you ever encountered most likely (especially if everything else one tried was based in part on J2EE/JSP since Play has none of those and no XML bs config).

It doesn't sound like you're really familiar with other Java frameworks. While I'm not really a fan of it, Ninja (as just one example) has none of that, and also doesn't have the torture chamber that is Play's (non-standard, custom, even more undocumented) flavor of sbt--easily the worst not-Maven Maven tool I have had the displeasure of working with.

I want to like Play because I love a ton of what they do, but just having to deal with sbt and the non-standard, doesn't-play-nice build system that they enforce has driven me away from it.
I'm on a Pentium-powered Dell, and it works great! HyperThreading FTW!
They use it as a litmus test for people that are too easily offended.
It shouldn't aim to be Wordpress, because it won't be easily deployable on shared hosting. If you look at how Tumblr is commonly used to power blogs, I think this could be similar, but obviously more fragmented unless there's one big host that becomes the de facto standard.
Mapping, modeling, and indexing a cell's structure is a very different problem than indexing hyperlink structure on the internet.

A wholesale computational model of the cell is an incredibly ambitious task to achieve via a broad, unfocused approach to building a chem-concentration database.

The main issue they would face is in your bullet #1: What is your "Pagerank" for cell structure and chem-concentration analysis, what/who do you put your weight behind?

How do you merge these data sets? This research is distributed in labs all over the planet with different quality standards, research objectives, lab conditions, data hygiene, statistical significance, etc.

What you've written seems like a plausible approach in a pure research setting within a single lab, but if their end goal is a computational model of the cell with commercial side-effects along the way-- the best way to achieve that would be to chip away at it piecemeal. Not through an unfocused merger of cell "big data".

E.g. identify specific protein binding sites and conformations that correlate with a specific type of breast cancer, track their conformations under different conditions--- prove that your data is superior to data yielded by existing models.

Of course, you would also have to monetize somehow.

The specific thing you chose is less important than not attempting to paint the whole model at once.
If you really think Apple has contributed nothing more to the modern smartphone than 'rounded corners', this is not the appropriate place to ask this question because you risk being mistaken for someone trying to start a flamewar. I recommend quora instead.
You mean like here [1] and here [2] and here [3]?

[1] http://www.pcworld.idg.com.au/article/129305/rsa_security_so...

[2] http://satchitssecurity.typepad.com/a_page_from_satchits_sec...

[3] http://www.tgc.com/dsstar/01/0724/103320.html
Most of your list is just the fact that FreeBSD has a giant ifconfig binary instead of separate tools for different features. That's mostly a taste issue. Certainly dumping everything in the same tool is no less "confusing". I just googled the FreeBSD man page for ifconfig -- yikes!

The last bit is unfair. Yes, Linux distros have recently diverged on network device naming. But that's for a good reason: the old scheme wasn't robust against probe order, the new systemd one is, and FreeBSD's isn't either. The systemd naming (while ugly) is better, period. That's a feature for Linux, not a confusing problem with its userland.
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There is an easy way to dispel the "I have nothing to hide" fallacy. Ask them how much money they made last year, how long their penis is, and what medication they are currently on.

Then inform them that you don't have the power to imprison them but the government does.

I have successfully changed the mind of a dozen people in about 90 seconds. You have to shock people out of their stupor.
That's hardly limited to China. 'Heist movies' are a popular genre in the west, for example - see the success of the 'Ocean's 11/13/etc.' films just for starters.
Brett Slatkin gave a nice talk at this years Velocity on Perceptual Diffs and potential benefits of integration with a continuous deploy process.

http://velocityconf.com/velocity2013/public/schedule/detail/...

It doesn't look like the video is online anywhere, but the slides are available.
> The summary that I got from the situation was that a plane heading through the heartland of America accidentally transported a nuke, when instead they thought it was just some other type of bomb which basically means a nuke was accidentally transported across the US without anyone controlling the shipment or noticing until much later.

I believe the 2008 actions were fallout from the 2007 Bent Spear involving six nuclear cruise missiles on a B52 (not a single bomb), described in the Wikipedia article cited upthread [1].

[1] here again: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_military_nuclear_...
Remember when they held a public funeral for the iPhone?
You asked; we responded. "Why would anyone buy an iPhone?" - Reader Response
He has used that speculation to kind of refute other people's different speculations. So he did more than just report it... he bought into it and used it to tell other people they were wrong.
Unfortuately people are very risk averse here, and like many VCs(according to PG) they don't exactly understand the tech their investing in. I guess SV or the US in general have investor class that can take risks.

Personally for political reasons I will stay in Canada, but finding investors for my startup is going to be difficult.

Lucikly Intel will save the day for me.(fingers crossed).
11. backdoor in sshd, compliments of NSA
Then feel free to question Schneier's chops:

http://www.wired.com/politics/security/commentary/securityma...

Edit: this was in response to the deleted comment
Samsung makes the best smartphones in the world ;-)

Also http://www.samsung.com/us/computer/pcs/NP940X3G-K01US
I don't know about phones, but I know a lot of PC gamers swear by Samsung monitors. Also their SSDs are among the most popular right now.
Git has a horrendous user interface design,only mitigated by systems like github which manage to abstract much of the inconsistent logic of the interface from the user. Torvalds may well be an excellent coder but I wonder how this lack of "taste" for a better word has effected the linux project itself.
That would be interesting to read. Can you cite a specific instance?
> explain why this justifies throwing the baby (legitimate beneficiaries) out with the bathwater (fraudsters).

Perhaps there is a better way? We won't know unless we explore the matter.

If you reduce government spending by the amount being cut and not merely shift resources, the people themselves will provide the support that the poor require and that support will exclude fraudsters to a greater degree. You're far more careful with money when you're spending or giving your own.

> SNAP (in total) is a negligible cost compared to those programs

Correct. However, I think an annual program using up $80 billion warrants discussion, no?

> if the House bill transferred the funds from SNAP to "soup kitchens". As it does not

I disagree. If my tax burden is lowered, then I can give the money to the soup kitchen.

However, if the House is simply playing games and shifting the funds elsewhere instead of giving it back, then yeah, we're on the same page.

> Entitlement programs also increase the capacity to become self-sufficient

Not sure what this means.

> a more discrete way of distributing benefits than what you experienced is what SNAP is now, since they no longer use stamps.

How so? They use specialized debit cards that identify you in the same exact way.

Distributing help discretely, in my opinion, is actually delivering food to the door. Which many charities do.

I assure you, the federal government couldn't care less how people feel or whether they are embarrassed.
Looks great - works great! Thank-you!

Notes...
To get it over the bootstrap navbar I z-indexed to a million.
The ajax calls on my site seem to happen too fast to invoke. Fast pageloads are the benefit of no traffic!
Microsoft may buy SF's secretive Osterhout in wearables bet
Is it just me or are Facebook ads pretty much like porn ads? (NSFW)
http://daringfireball.net/linked/2013/09/17/dilger-misek
Fully agreed on a most of this; when Play does something well, it does something really well. I personally just wish the build system wasn't such a mess and so antithetical to good development practices--it's extremely hard to have something like a shared domain library among multiple projects (with hot reloading, i.e. if you need to iterate on it while you develop) without making a fake Play project with a conf directory and all of that. It feels built for independent systems/applications rather than ones that play (ha) nicely with each other.

(Also, using the Flyway module has made life a lot easier. play-evolutions is a bit wonky.)
Yes. The magic, poorly-documented constants are the "public key" while the "private key" is known only to the construction's author.
Your first link didn't work for me, the link I've found:

http://www.foxnews.com/sports/2013/09/20/holloway-in-hot-wat...
Good riddance. I was a fan, until I actually had to contact their customer support.

Bought an android right after.
At that point my personal conspiracy is suggesting that tptacek has become some form of alliance officer for hn outreach efforts.
Wearable Computing Though the Ages Volume I
If you're asked a question that you can provide multiple answers for (ie. "How would you approach ...") after providing multiple options, try asking the interviewer his take on the problem. People love talking about themselves and their own opinions. The interviewer will end up liking you more without knowing why.
Business Insider, like Gawker and Valleywag, is best ignored if you want to learn anything substantive about the way the tech industry actually works, let alone learn anything about how tech actually works (God, their reviews of gadgets and descriptions of startups are horrible). Not to say that the actual events mentioned in this article didn't happen, but the linking of them into some sort of narrative about how "power really flows" at Google is specious and most obviously a not-so-subtle ploy for impressions.

tl;dr:
Google = pageviews,
sex = pageviews,
Google + sex = PAGEVIEWS
If you have a full back-up of your iPhone prior to upgrading you can do a full system restore. This is what I was referring to.
nice little game!

http://arstechnica.com

http://battlelog.battlefield.com

http://crmoto.lt

http://dirbkit.lt

http://elektromarkt.lt

http://facebook.com

http://google.com/adsense

http://h.lr.lt/tv.vlc

http://imgur.com

http://jsfiddle.net

http://kt.tele2.lt

http://lrytas.lt/tvdabar.asp

http://mail.saulis.com

http://ng/ (local dev domain)

o - nothing

http://pixelmator.com

q - nothing

http://reddit.com

s - censored for security purposes

http://translate.google.com

http://uoga:9091 - raspberry torrent interface

http://vilnius.lt

http://wolframalpha.com

http://xakep.ru

http://youtube.com

http://zingzing.co.uk
Not true, contract component manufacturing made only 7% of Samsung profits last year. The value of the Samsung branded smartphones they ship out is by far their most important financial metric.
Daytraders using etrade.com are not even competitors to large firms who spend tens of millions of dollars setting up expensive equipment inside the NYSE datacenters that operate at the millisecond level.

I think his premise is that people are mad because they can't compete because they don't have the resources (money) to do so. If they were able to execute trades as fast as the big guys, they would be perfectly fine with the practice continuing. Since they don't have the cash to compete they are upset because they see someone else making money where they cannot.
Since, you can specify a specific slice of the page to monitor, it's likely diffing screenshots.
Well, that explains why Michael Jordan was such a freak of nature.
giant?

Freebsd 9.1 RELEASE:
260k	/sbin/ifconfig

My Arch box:
76K	/usr/bin/ifconfig

I have to use linux for work, but he's right, keeping everything in ifconfig is much more close to the old school "unix" way than "lets play 20 commands" that seems to be present in most linux mindsets.
Travel to US? Oh man, you don't value your freedom and privacy enough.
It's not a surprise, it's a story angle. Sex sells, attracts pageviews. The writer knows this, we know this, and he will write using this narrative, and we will read it anyway.
Richard Feynman on scientific integrity (1974)
Nerd's law: A commenter C declares that concepts X and Y are completely different. Because parent commenter P failed to make this point, P is intellectually inferior to C. Hence C > P for all X and Y.
This is a cool idea. I wasn't aware that airbnb or flipkey had a public api for this sort of thing. The results are returned very quickly! Nice job.
Here's mine, from six years ago:

http://www.chrisfinke.com/2007/01/20/the-a-to-z-of-me/
The only lines are in the conscience of the sovereign majority.
If that is reason to avoid it, you should avoid this one too
http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.co...
I'm not specifically supporting Texas's implementation of tort reform.
Dang- their kickstarter video was so incredible that all I wanted was for this project to work. The letter they have does nothing to acknowledge the let down of the people, and didn't take responsibility... both parts of legitimate apologies.
> Yeah, we have historically low tax rates for the modern era.

This is false. The charts frequently used to support this all conveniently exclude the 19th century.

Yeah, after socialism became a fad, we began to tax the living daylights out of anything that moved and had money. Go back to the 19th century and you'll see a different story.
Haha what? Not only is there no way of knowing that, but it's not even relevant.
Cmd.fm
To me, agility has connotations with being quick (reflexes) and adaptable. It's probably from the RPG's that I've played.
Ole Roemer, a Danish astronomer, proved suspicions of many such as Empedocles (490-435 B.C.) that light has a speed. 1676. C/o Speed of Light: Case History. http://www.is.wayne.edu/MNISSANI/A&S/light.htm Ug easy sensationalism via namedropping.

Now, in another 50 years, I look forward to fingerprint analysis of a scale 1/1000th as fine: we caught you obeying the the speed of light, but you forgot to compensate for relativistic drift in X fashion. GUILTY!
Too much politics, not enough sex.
#perfmatters LIVE at SFHTML5
That's a good thought. I don't think I felt/acted very hostile or fearful during the interview, but it's probably worth reconsidering..
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> Perhaps there is a better way?

Perhaps there is. Perhaps isn't a reason to cut funding to what we have.

> We won't know unless we explore the matter.

This is not "exploring the matter".

> If you reduce government spending by the amount being cut and not merely shift resources, the people themselves will provide the support that the poor require

There is no evidence at all to support this claim, and it doesn't even make a lot of sense. We're now supposed to have faith in the invisible hand of the market for charity?

> However, I think an annual program using up $80 billion warrants discussion, no?

There's a pretty big difference between "discussion" and "cutting half the funding". There may certainly be legitimate things to discuss about it, but I haven't yet seen anything even resembling an argument based on anything but magic fraud-resistant charity pixies for cutting the funding being a good idea.