skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not about breaking rules or laws, it's about taking advantage of people. Uber is loved here because they made a great product in the face of awful laws that protect out-dated but entrenched business models.
There wasn't any. Did you not read my post? I was trying to point out that you can't just make baseless claims like that.
Another tiny detail: He is Donald Knuth.
If I just saw that page id have no idea what it was. I mean its enticing in a mysterious 'i have no idea what this is' way. Im not sure if people actively looking for something like a memory box would get it though.
Obama didn't have to wait for congress in the case of Libya, he already had their support.
Of course, none of that happened. Although President Obama could have reined in the surveillance state, as we all know, he did not.

On the NSA, Obama has made the opposite calculation.

Seems like it does to me.
Should middle-class Americans invest in startups?
> Wait, so you fire half of your staff and they're happier afterwords? Again, I have to question whether it's the employees' fault or the company's fault. If half of your staff is leaving to places where they're happier, what does that say about the company?

I agree with a lot of what you've said, but that bit struck me as unfair. It's natural for employees to be fired, and for those fired employees to reflect on the past in order to find jobs that make them happier -- what a depressing world it would be if that weren't the case! -- so I'm not sure I'd conclude that their personal growth necessarily implies a systemic problem in the company (especially at n=6). And it's entirely possible that someone might get fired from a different company and end up happier at the OP's company, no?
An invalid cert could indicate a MITM attack. Even if you're not sending anything down, who knows what they're sending back?
Business advice from Carlos Santana
I don't think that should be controversial. The key is figuring out what you want from your employees and verify that you're getting that. That saves you from having to guess as to whether or not they're working out. You shouldn't have to resort to tactics like trumping up vague charges.
"surely the person being fired would have felt the lack of fit and would have themselves been looking for another job"

Some people go to work to work, not to hang out with friends. They might not consider it to be such a terrible thing that their coworkers don't want to hang out with them, as long as they can communicate well enough to get their work done.

Also, if you have a mortgage and a family to support, you may be less likely to leave a well-paying job just because the culture is suboptimal.
We have "shitstorms" here in the USA as well, for what it's worth.

Popsci doesn't have control over whether their readership can filter through the comments well. As for doing the filtering on the behalf of said readership... it appears they've decided they either don't have the ability, don't have the time, or simply don't see enough value in putting up with wading through shitstorms for every single article. Even if you have enough self mastery to avoid letting it influence you in the slightest, that's not a free effort. And for every person who learns the skill, another is born who has not yet learned it, and may never master it: I wouldn't cast it as a "solvable problem" at a public-at-large scale.

The goal of trolls is to rile you up, not to get you to close your comments section. Stopping unmoderated comments is less "letting them win" and more "not playing their game on their terms". It is less "giving up" and more "picking their battles". They're still planning to engage with their community through occasional comments sections, and through other forms of social media. They'll still have to deal with trolls there. Just, hopefully, less frequently, in venues where they're more easily comabtable or less toxic.
recipient had forwarded email to google, by setting their MX record to google's server.
What is the Web's carbon footprint?
Size Matters: Fishing is not a Euphamism
Honestly, I can barely read the text over that background, and while I know it's standard practice, i really don't like the "we're not giving you any detail until you give us an email or social media account" model of launching stuff.

In my personal case you'd have to go with a little less sizzle and a little more steak because i've already got facebook, twitter, linkedin, google+ (ugh) so I wouldn't even think of signing up until I saw something more concrete, like a demo account or something, to show me what this offers me if anything that I don't already have.

Also a nice link to some terms of service would be... nice.
"When [Title III of the JOBS Act is] approved by the Securities and Exchange Commission (expected in 2014), it will allow anyone to invest. Startups will be able to crowdfund their ventures like an art project on Kickstarter - $5 at a time - if they feel inclined."
One suggestion was that the court was the least busy federal court around (all the other federal courts were swamped with drug cases). So patent cases started appearing there. Once the judges in the area became so-called "experts" on it, more and more companies started to file their cases there.

NPR (well, technically This American Life) did a special on it a couple years ago[0]. It's fun to listen to. It may not tell the whole story, but it at least paints a decent picture.

[0] http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/441/w...
Australia was a penal colony... Botany Bay was a penal colony...

I'm confused by your asking to stop spreading ... truths? Sure, people don't mention that America was also a penal colony, but that doesn't mean Australia wasn't, too.

And, Australia was sort of the British replacement for their American penal colonies.
The point is that it does not make so much of a difference in visual quality but it does impact your GPU performance and your power consumption highly, so the benefit/cost ratio is very, very low.
Only chsnges things up to a constant, and not fundamentally. Read up on Kolmogorov Complexity if you are interested.
I fail to see the connection between the end of web development and using javascript to write code for hardware (something that has been done a long time ago).
I think learning Computer Security without learning some programming and systems is like majoring in mechanical engineering while trying to avoid physics - it's hard to get a deep level of understanding and you rely on generalizations and abstractions.

How can you truly understand a buffer overflow attack without having some knowledge about pointers? Kudos to taking the time to try to understand as much as you can about your field.
First of all, the US dollar is not "the world currency." You need not go further than Vancouver to find places where USD is not widely used as currency. While USD is a very strong currency, it is by no means the only currency in widespread use.

It is equally false to try to separate money from law. Currencies have their value because of the law -- because of tax laws, and debt laws, and tort laws, and all the other laws that result in people being legally obliged to make certain payments. Control of currency is important to governments in the same way that control of speed is important to someone driving a car. The control is inherent and the issue is really about not completely screwing things up.
I have issues that are similar. I am 35 and have been doing freelancing/contract work for a lot of years. So I think actually this last contract might have hired me but they used the fact that I had been freelancing and knew that I would take a contract instead against me. Not because they didn't want my help, but because they knew they didn't actually have to hire me to get me to work for them, and so wouldn't need to bother with health benefits or a hiring committee or anything.
Try adding a "wishlist" or "if I finish everything else early" section. You'd be surprised at how quickly some of those items get done when, um, procrastinating on the other tasks.
Blended Family Mating Call; Or How Do You Find a Sane Single Mom?
I think he has a point, although it's more about the semantics of the term 'information' density.

Shannon information is always measured relative to a receiving context in which it the symbols are understood, and information content is related to the inverse of the probability of observing a particular signal as assessed by the receiver. So from that perspective vinceguidry has a reasonable point.

However really the question being asked is something more like 'data density' and that is generally what people are talking about when the term 'information density' is invoked.

Edit: I see that the original article does indeed refer to Data Density, and that HN title is just wrong.
The schools are indirectly proving the old computer security saying which holds that there is no security without physical security. As soon as the school hands the iPads to the students, there is nothing the school can do to ensure they remain in control of the device.
I know what I wish I had known before taking my first CS Class.

The real money is in Management, and the girls are cuter in the business classes. (Please don't flame me I know there are plenty of cute girls in CS, there were 3 girls in my class of 600. So they were there but they were too far away to tell if they were cute)
More likely is that the company simply hasn't figured out the whole hiring and firing bit yet and is making all the wrong mistakes. And that's fine, you should expect to make a few mistakes before getting it right.

But that's the thing. You never read blog posts like these that are about "How I fired someone and then learned from that firing" or "How I saved someone from being fired by examining the results of my actions". Crap employers never seem to consider the possibility that they're doing something wrong.

So instead they make up some narcissistic BS about "cultural fit" and use it to expel people who don't conform to their narrow ideas of what their company should be.
Concernedly, Portland rents/houses have been trending upward recently, largely due to a lot of people moving here from California. It's my hope that Portland is able to maintain that balance of affordability and ambition... we'll see.

Well if we could stop telling everybody about it... ;)
Startups live or die based on their ability to quickly deliver product, and morale alone won't get your product delivered. An employee's ability to deliver results is more important than their desire to have a beer with his coworkers. I'd much sooner hire someone with competence and experience than someone who was fun to work with.
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That's great and all but Gretzky was a center and so comparing his scoring against "average NHL players" is ludicrous.

This is not to claim that Gretzky is not "The Greatest" but:
1.5x Mark Messier(center)
1.5x Gordie Howe(right wing)
1.5x Ron Francis (center)
...

When we consider p/g Gretzky has a 1.98 (great!) but the 250th on the list has .7 p/g, which is a 2.8x ratio.

10x is imo simply a silly label that doesn't actually apply IRL but is great at ego-stroking.
> We’ve let go of half a dozen employees and kept only as many

This sounds like the worst employer I've ever heard of. A 50% chance of being fired? There's no way I'd take an offer if I knew that statistic.
Ask HN: Where can I find an API for Radio?
Hi HN,

Im looking to build a simple application to allow users to stream different radio stations from around the US. Im having a difficult time finding any quality API's offering what I want. Does anyone have any suggestions of how to find quality audio streams from radio stations?
I am 36 now and have been programming professionally for six years. At 30 I was in your boat, and here is the reality, you are freakin young dude! Please don't get discouraged and don't listen to folks who say you have to be 21 to be a good programmer. In the real world all that really matters is can you get the job done and do you have a good attitude?
Well the problem of not mentioning "I think" is when you pretend that "X does not work" while 99% of your peers use it and do not seem to have a significant problem with it. Then the statement makes more sense if you phrase it "X does not work for me" or "You may like X but I don't", since it would then seem that you are a very unique person with a very unique problem.

If you had this kind of statement in other fields, like "Gaming on Consoles is broken", no doubt you'd get tons of people saying that this is wrong, because obviously millions of people have no problem with it.

Making such absolute statements is akin to trolling.
Security never was that big a point with Chaum's e-cash either. It was anonymity. Which it's unclear if anyone values that much. Bitcoin isn't really anonymous and for all the things I hear people saying about Zerocoin, no one has bothered to integrate it.
You can find more details here: http://lincolnlabs.com/hackathons/virtual.html
School isn't in session in the summer. They run about 6 months a year.

Electric space heaters aren't particularly safe in a High School. Kids stick stuff in them they catch fire.

And this year hasn't really started yet so it is quite possible there won't be any money in it, and we'll find some new use for the CPU. Computing Prime numbers for the NSA perhaps.
Agreed. Starting with a framework first unless you truly and deeply understand the space is going to either make something that kind of solves a problem but has its own problems, period, or kind of solves a problems but has its own problems for a really long time while you slowly refine it. And the odds of dedicating yourself to solving a problem that you don't have a need to solve are low.
Maybe startups find it more difficult to fire okay-but-not-great employees just because they don't have that much resource to focus on hiring in this super competitive job market.
3 out of 600? Damn. Slim pickings, aye?
I'm not sure why Google didn't go with DLNA or Miracast, but presumably they looked at this. Second screen devices with no control on their own are a bit new, so maybe they weren't a great fit. Chromecast is built on at least some open protocols like DIAL and WebRTC, and it works with 3rd party apps, and there are broadcaster and receiver projects out there. I use [CheapCast] [1] on an old phone and it works great (for non-DRM'ed content, admittedly). Google also said they want devices like TVs and radios to include Chromecast support, I'm hoping without any licensing beyond the branding, and hopefully no fees. It certainly looks like it's heading in a pretty open direction.

Yes, I know that one guy used an undocumented API call and had his broadcast app broken, and pitched a hissy fit, but that's what happens when you do that. The API is supposed to stabilized soonish.

So I don't see your lock in claim holding much water. I think it's much, much more important to make Play content available on devices at all, than to lock out other content. When you sell digital media you generally want it to be available everywhere possible.

[1]: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=at.maui.cheapc...
I'd suggest: build more apps (or other software) that you want to see in the world, and make sure to finish some projects to your own satisfaction.
I've always felt that the 'right' solution was to emulate glibc and provide facilities for registering new format specifiers[1]. Then libraries could provide specifiers for everything that made sense and users could pick and choose.

Of course, there would be performance implications - not to mention the added complexity for implementors.

[1]http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/manual/html_node/Customizin...
The biggest suggestion I can give to students in CS is to find a focus (like this link was Security). Without that, after graduating with your Bachelor degree, you won't have a specific interest. If its academic and you're really interested in neural networks, awesome, latch onto a professor with that focus and never let go; if its more outside the box like audio manipulation (as one of my colleagues did), go crazy and join a community with that focus.

I personally went for my Master degree because I really didn't feel like I'd found a purpose to my CS degree. I KNEW programming, but had nothing driving me. After grad school and a startup, I now know my interests are embedded systems and image manipulation.
The message didn't actually contain the extra information; your stockbroker supplied that him/herself.
Because launching rockets is hard.
The fact that it is "wiretapping laws" that are relevant seems a little odd, along with the idea of Google "intercepting" emails. As far as "intercepting" goes, is there really a line between "store in a database and display on screen when a user requests it" and "analyse (without human interaction) the contents to show adverts related to it"? Both are just a computer reading and writing the content of the email.
vim works on any Linux server you need to ssh into. It will probably work for any new upcoming languages unless the programming paradigm changes drastically.
I interpret the guidelines as saying that flagging should be used primarily for abusive content, trolling, spamming, egregiously off-topic material (e.g. fall fashion tips for 2013 with no hacker angle), etc.
How can a working developer transition to security? Just apply to 'security' jobs?

I've been reading a lot and managed to complete a couple of those exploitation wargames and hack some web apps but am in a completely different domain.
NetBSD did this a while ago, but was better about binary compatibility and things.

http://www.netbsd.org/changes/changes-6.0.html#time_t
My point is that if an attacker controls consensus (by having many IP addresses), he can double spend by signing transactions to send coins to an address, then by spaming the network to change the consensus and re-send the same coins to another address.
Why must you compare, and get in a game of "but they're worse than the other"?

Both are bad. That said, I think the threat of civil liberties being taken away by companies like Facebook and Google is very understated and very underestimated.

And if I can give you a piece of my mind for a moment here, I am actually fine with someone sticking a hand in my rectum in isolated instances. I think I would actually be more bothered when Facebook decides to sell my private info to credit card companies and insurance companies and I end up paying more for insurance or whatever because of this.
Michigan State 1997. 3 might have been an exaggeration but not by much. The Lab instructor was female, and there were maybe 12 at the start of the semester, but a few dropped, and on any given day only 75% attendance so it sure felt like there were none.

Line Dancing Class was the opposite, 62 Girls 5 guys. Two of the guys were a couple. 1 of the guys was married to one of the girls.

I would have gone in to line dancing as a career but I don't really like the music, and I'm not sure how much money there is in it.
#5 will never go out of fashion. Lots of technology changes quickly, but being able to communicate with your peers and stakeholders (the people writing the checks) is a key skill that you will use for the rest of your life
Redshift is $0.43/TB-hour, it looks like HANA on AWS is around $59/TB-hour. You get a lot for the money (HANA software, in-memory, tons more CPU) but your workload had better really need it at that price difference!
It's a marketing slogan. Marketing slogans don't have to make sense, they just need to bait your clicks cough I mean get your attention.
We designed and coded it with embedded in mind. We both have extensive embedded experience and it was a no brainer with all that hype about "internet of things". Our stack is naturally born IPv6 and as such is a natural match for "things", so not thinking about embedding would have been clearly a mistake.
I read the UHH many years ago, and learned a lot of useful information from it. It's a wee bit dated, but still a fun read.
Except they're just removing the MDM profile, so it's not even a jailbreak.
Decentral - John McAfee's Device to Thwart the NSA
http://tunein.com/
Not even borderline! "Flamebait" was practically invented for that exact type of comment.
I experimented with event-driven scheduling for the flow-based system I developed for home automation, but in the end I took the straightforward route of scheduling everything in lockstep, based on distance from source nodes. I've considered some parallelizable hybrid approaches, but haven't got around to replacing what already works well enough.

Perhaps this book will be worth checking out to see some additional ideas on scheduling.
I can't really imagine anyone actually believing #2.
> rejecting a standard C header file because it is "ugly"

I just checked an OpenBSD machine's inttypes.h. Some of the format macros (I presume the ones present in the standard) are there. So I can't say they rejected the header.

It would probably be weird to introduce one there that isn't in the standard. OTOH %lld for long long is in the standard.
> as long as they can communicate well enough to get their work done.

This implies, though, that their lack of "fit" isn't actually a problem. Are companies really firing very productive developers who are just as technically competent as their peers (if not moreso) just because they aren't socially popular? We're not talking people who are assholes or who never shower or who have obvious and universal social issues; we're just talking people who don't happen to really hit it off, on a BFF sort of level, with their coworkers. I don't see how that practice could be sustained in the long run at all. It seems almost certain, in fact, that the company would hit a hard growth barrier rather quickly if it doesn't overcome this fairly fundamental problem.
Please stop looking for conspiracies. Things disappear off the front page all the time. Perhaps it hit the threshold for enough flags, perhaps it just aged out.

TechCrunch wrote a whole post on the shady checkout practices on Friday: http://techcrunch.com/2013/09/27/not-so-vip/
> if their personality doesn't gel

That's not the entirety of cultural fit. But that's also a good reason for getting rid of someone. Being a programmer isn't just about the code you right.

Too many people see "cultural fit" and feel it's a way for them to get shunned. I'm sorry, but if this is a continuing problem for anyone, they should look at themselves as the problem.
Exactly: Saying that the blockchain was not an intellectual breakthrough is like saying the lightbulb wasn't an intellectual breakthrough because it relied on the invention of electrical wires.
I was wondering when I was going to see one of these on this thread. Is there any way to implement it in JS so that you could have a self-updating one on future HN polls?(I know I should go look into it myself but trying to get some prepwork done and reading HN every half hour or so is procrastination enough). Also what's with the negative value on the 5th category?
Some thoughts on startup crowdfunding