skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And banks don't actually keep money in big cloth bags with dollar signs on them. It's just clip art, and to say that it speaks to the mindset of a type of people you probably don't really know much about. I would hasten to say that your stereotypes are probably no more grounded in reality than those of the straw men your attacking.

>"If you look at the world around us and review the history of terrorism, most of it's been funded behind the scenes by one of the major superpowers, and you can't overlook the fact that a large portion of this has been by backed by the US."

While this assertion is not completely baseless, it's simply not correct, but is the kind of empty-headed moral equivalence that gets tossed around to unanimous approval among a certain class who consider a shibboleth of sophistication.

To wit, in the history of terrorism, we see the Irish Republican Army, The Tamil Tigers, the Red Brigade, the Weather Underground, FALN, Baader Meinhof group, the Symbionese Liberation Army, the current Chechen groups, the Hindu and Muslim groups prior to the formation of Pakistan, and frankly many more -- all without super power support. While some national actors have stepped up to support terror groups, superpower, or even great power support has been the exception rather than the rule.

During the cold war, the USSR, the US and China fought a number of proxy wars, and supported opposition groups in various national civil wars, mostly in Asia, Africa and Central America. Additionally, the CIA engaged in specific assassinations of political leaders largely in Latin America but not really what anyone would consider terrorism by the current definition. You're statement that a large portion of terrorism has been backed by the United States would require expansive definitions of 'large portion', 'terrorism' or 'backed' to be true.
Perhaps the state of tutorials and online help (stack overflow etc) are much better than in your day. I know they are compared to mine.

Perhaps she coppied the whole project and then just went back through it, changing things and if they didn't work reverted.
The defense industry has three paths to real advancement:

1) Become the rock star/golden child for a higher-up who pulls you along as they rise
2) Move from company to company every so often to get positions with higher salary grade and responsibility
3) Become the oracle of technical knowledge in some narrow but crucial specialty
Ditto on vivid nightmares, I actually posted similar before I even saw your comment.

I had to stop taking it.
Reminds me of Middleman (http://middlemanapp.com/) and of my own https://github.com/stdbrouw/draughtsman, which has sadly languished. I've found it indispensable for prototyping, not just because of the precompilation but also because it'll search for metadata on the filesystem that you can use to flesh out those prototypes with real data.
But things like "right to free expression" and "rights to a family life" are interpreted so broadly as to become a mockery.
This is enabled by a very obvious flaw in the CA infrastructure that SSL/TLS is based upon. All it takes is someone with leverage over the top level certificate authority and the DNS servers you use and there's nothing you can do to detect that's what's going on. That's a huge and very obvious flaw in the system that anyone questioning what they can trust on the internet should have spotted a mile away.
What fantasy world are you living in that non-DRM HTML 5 video is the status quo for paid content?
John McAfee: Of Course I’m a Little Crazy, Entrepreneurs Have to Be
I'd argue that what IBM did well was build a consultancy business. That is where a lot of their growth came from over the past 5 years. Their core business is being used as a cash cow and brand for their new business.
Ummm... looks like we maxed out the number of concurrent viewers (max: 50) who can see the Google Doc. We're going to move the application to our blog.
You asked me to give it to you straight.

Seems like a cool little widget, but I doubt the market for it would be big enough to be worth your time. It's a small enough of a problem that most people won't notice it, and if they do they could easily solve it themselves. People won't be looking for a solution, and it's not cool enough that people would share it just because.

As for your questions, your responses are way too long.
Who says LXC doesn't support SELinux?

https://github.com/lxc/lxc/blob/99282c429a23a2ffa699ca149bb7...

<title>SELinux context</title>
<para>
If lxc was compiled and installed with SELinux support, and the host
system has SELinux enabled, then the SELinux context under which the
container should be run can be specified in the container
configuration. The default is <command>unconfined_t</command>,
which means that lxc will not attempt to change contexts.
</para>

IBM guide for SELinux-protected containers: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-lxc-security/#N1...

Additionally, LXC is "Open" since it is GPL2, it has been around since before 2006 so it's as much a de-facto standard as you can get, it's already supported by multiple other projects and distros, and it doesn't lock you into "the Docker way" of doing things - you get to choose how you implement it. It's flexible, lightweight, simple, and stable. Docker will work for many use cases, but LXC will work for all of them. It's lynx vs wget, basically.

The libvirt-sandbox project looks like a nice way to manage sandboxed selinux-supported lxc instances that you can convert to qemu/kvm depending on your needs.
"edit: Ouch. Looking forward to that rebuttal."

Ha, ha. You must be new here.
Arethuza: Thanks for your feedback.

We have a rules engine, which can be used to really fine tune when and how the feature experiments are shown.

For example, you can setup so
1. feature experiments are only shown to a customer who has logged in at at least X times.
2. You can control so they don't see an experiment after it has been seen once by them.
3. You could say that if they have seen 1 feature experiment, then they shouldn't see another 1 for X days.
4. You could also only show to X percentage of your traffic.
5. And many more rules.

I like the idea of being able to crowd source ideas. It would be a great feature for me to "kick" and see what customers say :)
#2 is misleading. Of course the FSF endorses the GPL and copyleft, but there's plenty of other free software licenses, most of them GPL-compatible, such as most of the BSD licenses.

Then for copyleft purists who insist on having specific redistribution agreements, there's plenty of alternatives there too.

As for me, I'll stick to the WTFPL.
This is awesome news, the app is really impressive
Ignore the Vitamin D supplements that the other guys are suggesting and just go into the sun for 10 to 15 minutes a day.
I think the Apple Maps situation is a little different since they actually took away the product people were previously using.
My youngest daughter is borderline ADHD, and rather than trying Ritalin we've been using Melatonin in the evenings to help ease the bedtime process. (In the hopes that more sleep will help her cope with problems focusing.)

The change has been dramatic. Previously it was a 3-4 hour battle each night for her to get ready for bed and stay in bed. Now with 3mg of Melatonin she spontaneously decides to get ready for bed herself and goes to sleep in minutes.

The most interesting thing about Melatonin isn't that it makes you drowsy or helps you sleep, it's that it increases the _desire_ for sleep. While I don't usually have trouble sleeping, it's often hard to break myself free from a computer or a device at night, and Melatonin changes this. As the author says, "It works."
I think the biggest difference is that it's open source and pushes data into the performance monitoring data stores many people already use (Graphite, OpenTSDB, etc.).
Maybe it's time to make flagging public, Quora-style?
Metacommentary:

I've taken a jaundiced view of "liberation tech" efforts in the past and this is as good an illustration as any of why. Among "amateur" libtech projects, Tor is about as good as you get --- an active community, extremely widespread use, technical people with their heads screwed on right and as much humility as you can reasonably expect of people whose projects are (candidly) intended to thwart world governments.

If Tor can't provide meaningful assurances (here, there's a subtext that Tor actually made NSA's job easier), you'd need an awfully convincing reason for how you're going to do better than they are before "liberating" the Chinese internet, especially given that it your users who assume the real risks.
One is marketing speak showing why you think users would want to give feedback and the other is actual metrics showing a pretty high success rate of getting real feedback.
> The concept of "natural rights" is motivated by protection against the government.

That's why natural rights are so difficult to defend. Their entire basis is anti-change.
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i guess it's a better name than GS-11 clock-watchers?
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Dietary supplement industry says “no” to more information for consumers (again)
One rule of thumb I've had for people is, "if you can fit it in one computer, it is definitely not big data".
IT here. We have the hardware debate with the business guys relentlessly. Understand that the business guys just see it like this: If <replacement parts> + <Tech time> is less than the cost of a new machine, then repair the old one. Additionally 'why throw out something that works?' These two thought processes lead to some harmful decisions regarding hardware. I've seen 5-7 year old machines being used by people who bring in millions.
I think C.S. Lewis had it right:

Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.
WebGL for everyone
I also quite like the point "Analytics: Cookie Leakage", like anyone that uses Tor doesn't use it in incognito mode with cookies disabled... or flushes their cookies before they use anything else...

... that either says they're stupid, or they're only after stupid terrorists... as if they're the ones they should really be concerned about.
Show HN: Parallelizing word2vec in Python
My experience with "enterprise" development ("writing reporting software", or "CRUD replacement for Excel Spreadsheet X") is that those companies don't actually pay decent salaries, even for the mundane, trivial development work required. They might "pay the mortgage" in some one-horse town in the midwest or deep south, but in places where most people live they won't.

What's more, those settings are usually filled with toxic garbage like cliques of people who've been there 5, 10, 20 years and play gossip or petty politics games, middle-managers who view their subordinates as enemies (competition) or scapegoats (when said middle-managers fail to deliver because of their own inability to lead a team), and departments who treat developers like unskilled labor or some sort of awkward add-on to the IT department. Middle- and upper-management at these places are some of the most spoiled self-entitled pricks I've ever encountered. They are also frequently the most unjustifiably arrogant, incompetent hypocrites in the organization.

Sure, somebody has to do the work in those settings. More power to the people who can. That doesn't mean they're better people (or worse) than those who can't stomach that kind of work or putting up with the spoiled-brat, unjustifiably arrogant faux-authority of petty jerk managers. It takes real maturity--not the fake, arbitrary kind you suggest in (b)--to understand that.

This isn't to pooh-pooh your points (a) and (c) about older workers; being an older worker (in IT terms; I'm mid-30s) I see what inexperience (which is most often associated with youth) means in terms of output, focus, and durability. But neither one fits in with your larger narrative necessarily.
Something something McCarthyism.
Resistance to DRM should be in each and every case IMHO. Why should Netflix suddenly be excluded? Renting of digital data is a stupid idea to begin with. And using DRM to enforce the renting aspect (since without it, "enforcing" it is not possible) is even more stupid and unethical at the same time.

All this comes from some paranoid and unhealthy urge of publishers to restrict copying (even legal copying).
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Ray Ozzie at least gave Microsoft Azure, which honestly if they didn't have that much at least they would be nowhere on the cloud. He was working on things like syncing files, email, office integration, etc.

Basically stuff like google docs, dropbox, heroku, etc. were all trying to be made in Microsoft's image under Ozzie and they all sort of ignored him. Now Microsoft is scrambling with SkyDrive, Office 365, Windows 8, Azure, etc.

Microsoft also pushed out J Allard who had vision to compete with iPad. His team was also responsible for Xbox and Zune. Between Xbox you get the blueprint of how to deliver services people love and evolve with over time. With Zune you got the beautiful Metro design that Microsoft finally embraced. The Zune player was pretty much the blueprint for this style and it was outstanding software for a Windows app.

Microsoft 20 years ago was about finding brilliant people and letting them build brilliant businesses under the Microsoft umbrella. At some point around 2000 the name of the game is to make all things Windows and Office and that kind of protectionism pretty much put Microsoft consistently 3-5 years behind in areas that matter like Search, Mobile, Services, Cloud Infrastructure because they couldn't see how that benefitted Windows and Office.
So... is there anything worth discussing here that has not already been discussed to death, or was this upvoted to the front page simply because it has the word "hyperloop" in it?
>Can't a song just be fun to listen to?

Amen! I'm a self proclaimed audiophile. I've dump an absurd amount of money, and even more time setting up my listening environment. I will have listening parties with other snobby audiophile types and we'll have in depth discussions about compression aggressivness, staging, balance, etc.. but even given all that, I'll still put on a Lil John album -- which is like the poster child for "dumb" music -- and rock out.

Sometimes it's OK to have a little fun while listening to music, people! Not everything needs to be deeply mindful and complex. Just pop in something that fits the moment and stirs up a little emotion.
Facebook To Construct Apartments For Its Employees
I too have ADHD. I was diagnosed with it nearly 10 years ago now. I'm not hyperactive or anything like that. I do tend to bounce from one thing to the next sometimes, and this can be problematic around bedtime.

Not only that but I take medication to treat my ADHD. This medication is a pretty low dose, but sometimes it's still going strong at 8 or 9pm, which is not good for sleep.

Melatonin has helped A LOT. I take between 1 - 3mg. It's not a drowsy feeling. I just want to sleep after taking it. Glad to see there seems to be no side effects.
No problem.

BTW One question that I think anyone considering an investment would ask is: "Do you use your own product to collect data on features for your product?". :-)
>Every empirically-based plan for business, long-term policy, etc., ever.

Sure, all business do forecasting. That's pretty simple stuff.

>if the main place you get information about "science used to predict the future of complex systems" is the mainstream commercial media

That's true, where should I be looking? Can you link to specific examples?
The limitation you're referring to is substantive, and the limitation I'm referring to is procedural. They aren't remotely the same thing. The implicit proposal you're referring to gives an unrepresentative international tribunal the power to override democratic process over a whole area of policy.
Rapid read protection in Cassandra 2.0.2
"To trick targets into visiting a FoxAcid server, the NSA relies on its secret partnerships with US telecoms companies. As part of the Turmoil system, the NSA places secret servers, codenamed Quantum, at key places on the internet backbone. This placement ensures that they can react faster than other websites can. By exploiting that speed difference, these servers can impersonate a visited website to the target before the legitimate website can respond, thereby tricking the target's browser to visit a Foxacid server.

In the academic literature, these are called "man-on-the-middle" attacks, and have been known to the commercial and academic security communities. More specifically, they are examples of "man-on-the-side" attacks."

Read more here: www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/04/tor-attacks-nsa-users-online-anonymity
Australia was not kept afloat by Asian immigration, but by digging up their land and selling pieces of it to China. 30% of Australian exports are to China. More than half of that is coal.

As for immigration, it is much easier to immigrate to the Commonwealth countries than to the United States. They all have point systems for skilled immigration.

It's possible to immigrate into the United States by making a $500,000 investment. But that policy really only captures the upper middle class looking for a backup plan.
https://github.com/adunkman/connect-assets seems pretty close?
No and yes. ( It is just a copy of the Hyperloop pdf )
>From a quick look this one seems more plausible than the absurd PRISM presentation.

Are you suggesting that the leaked PRISM presentations are not authentic?
"Yes, the problem: the only way the content owners will stream tonights game to my computer is if it is protected somehow."

No, the problem is that they think they reserve the right to control what your hardware displays.
I'd think it would be because "right person, right time" would be what everyone else would be saying, while "1K times and have gotten a 60% feedback rate" are hard numbers with 60% being extremely high for this type of thing. If you're pitching to someone who understands how high 60% is, it has more impact than the story.

I think for a general investor or layman, the story would be more compelling because it lays out why it is high (and that it is high for the industry). YC would be in the more technical group and would already know this, so just giving them the 60% is more likely to get their attention.
Why do you need a throwaway account to admit you work on porn? I worked for www.porn.com and proud of that.
Live streaming sports are actually a perfect case for non-DRM web video. Video takes time to pirate; it has to be captured, transcoded, and distributed. So the pirated version will most likely come out after the end of the broadcast. If the rights really are worth so much less after the event, then the pirated version appearing afterward won't affect the rights value very much at all.
Back then, when they were the age 10gen/MongoDB is now, nobody valued those companies at (the appropriately adjusted equivalent of) 1.2 billion, because there was no clue they would be the winners.

All investors then were just overly cautious? Or perhaps there are now others ways to make money off of a company, not tied to the companies actual success and the value it adds to the economy?
While I have three Apple products within arm's reach of me, including the one I'm using to type this post, none of them is "perfect!"
Ditto for me as well.
Also reminds me somewhat of Mixture (http://mixture.io/). Not open-source, but aiming to solve similar problems.
Austenallred: Thanks for giving to me straight.

I think this seems like an "easy" thing to build in-house, but we believe getting this right will take a ton of time, which companies could put towards doing what they do best.

Here is what we have:
1. The rules engine, to track visitors and fine control who see's feature experiments and how often.
2. An analytics suite, to capture all data and show it in a form which is digestible and allows a PM to take action
3. Making overlays work cross browser and device.
4. Solution which requires absolutely no-code to get feedback on existing features. A gui where PM's can visually find features on their website, tap on them and configure them to ask for feedback.
I wonder if this notion that Apple needs to "get" web services to survive will really matter in the long run? It's the conventional wisdom, just like that they "lost" the PC wars even though they've been the most profitable PC maker for a decade now. There haven't been many web services that have lasted for a decade or more in a dominant position.

Might Apple's best long term strategy to...

1. Support/innovate the heck out of browser/web connectivity software

2. Push the boundaries of input devices and make the best hardware

3. Secure content deals with popular artists

4. Continue to expand their retail/service footprint

5. Let the various waves of social networks rise and fall, but make money on every device sold?

Even the Android hegemon, which supposedly poses an existential threat, could easily fracture if Samsung decides to go their own way.

Apple's position would be better with a firm control of key web services, but I'm not sure it's a requirement.
MongoDB accounted for ~90% of my startup's downtime in its first year of existence. We switched away to MYSQL and suddenly scalability concerns retreated into the future.
2011 , kept the product up and running at my own expense for the next year, joined a big corp starting of 2013.
>I'd argue that Apple is first & foremost a hardware company

I would argue that Apple is primarily a software company. Sure, they do offer nice, polished hardware touches like Retina display, TouchID, unibody aluminum enclosures, but the actual components are the same as commodity PC hardware. Further, companies like Samsung are making phone with bigger screens and (ostensibly) faster processors. What people are paying a premium for is the Experience (well, and the Brand) - in OS X, things "just work," and the OS is generally more stable and user friendly than Windows. Similarly with iOS, at least before iOS7, the design choices that were made by Ive and Co allowed the mass market to intuitively use a smartphone.
Multi-factor Authentication-as-a-Service
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What if we could find a way to crowd-source things to help all of humanity. :P
Here's the link on our blog in case the Google Doc doesn't work: http://startupsthehardway.tumblr.com/post/63091956854/featur...
> But an anonymous free-for-all exchange being a natural right? We aren't born anonymous. In the "state of nature," without government, we are in no way anonymous.

No one's ever been 100% anonymous in the physical world before, but by the same token the government can't watch 100% of what 100% of all the people do in the physical world either.

On the Internet apparently the only way to make sure you can be anonymous _ever_ is to make it so you're anonymous _always_.