skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am a developer, in Mexico. I have to jump through hurdles to pay some sites (Browserstack, dnsimple). I want to give you my money and even though I loathe PayPal it's the only solution that always works.
I'll take the generic form letter over just never speaking to me again.
Vodafone (UK) are awesome within Europe - when I am abroad I pay £2.50/day to use my normal price plan abroad (so I still get unlimited minutes/texts, and 6GB data, for no cost other than that daily fee). For calling European numbers they aren't quite as good, but for £5/month the prices drop from £1/min to between 5p and 20p/min depending on the type of number I'm calling.

Outside Europe they're still awful though, something like £1.50/min to call to America/Asia from UK, and same for both placing and receiving calls when in those continents.

Last time I was in America I picked up a cheap phone at a supermarket that gave me 1c/min phonecalls to anywhere in the US or even abroad - including calling UK mobile phones. That saved me a lot of money.
You seem to have some special hatred towards Microsoft (looking at your twitter stream). But considering you work in devops, I'd understand why ;)
i would go with Zynga.

i was employee 7, lived many scumbagggeries during my tenure and am aware of many more after my departure. not much to add to what you'll find online, excpet that it might not have been the right thing or the right ways or for the right reasons but we worked our asses off building that POS, Pincus as much or more than anyone. the first year was a blast and i met tons of really, really good people that I'm still close with.

your experience won't be like that. but you'll be in SF. the start-up thing ain't for everyone (if you're interested based on how much money you think you'll have in your bank account after a few years, you probably did your math wrong), but if you want to make a go at it, i would get to SF. Zynga will probably suck, but you'll meet people there and in town and you'll get to experience first-hand the shit-show / circle-jerk / world-changing whirlwind that is "The Valley".

you don't have to. anyone can build anything anywhere. but i would.
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I think that it's far more universal problem:

http://www2.psych.ubc.ca/~henrich/pdfs/Weird_People_BBS_fina...
Upvoted comment for making me feel just a little bit smarter.
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Obligatory xkcd: http://xkcd.com/139/
I think if it were a web based solution your argument wouldn't be as sound.. MS server licensing isn't really so bad if you aren't also doing larger deployments of SQL and/or Exchange.

As it is, have you checked into porting your software to Mono (assuming it's .Net based), which may or may not work for what you have... if it's COM or ATL based, you're really SOL. That said, if you're mostly winforms, and don't have too many dependencies on third party gui controls, you have a shot there.

That would really lower your costs... and as you mention, a web based solution could make a lot more sense, if you can support that model, depending on your software.
I honestly assumed that it was an article about who CNN owes money.
Email him.
In an interview i have never had a problem saying that I don't know something or that I do know about something but can't recall the specific answer.

I normally try and turn that scenario into a quick discussion where I hopefully let the interviewer display their vast knowledge and insight. Assuming the question is relevant I am always geniuenly interested in finding out about something I don't know. Seeing that I am not being paid to take the interview I feel it is only fair that I get something out of it.
Nice try. His time is far too important to deal with you lowly people
Suppose to ensure anonymity, let's call a hypothetical anonymous, encrypted mixnet overlay service : Cone of Silence.

CoS has two types of N nodes: relays R and clients C (Csrc wants to send packets to Cdst).

Every nodes, N, talks to each other at constant rate B. Directional asymmetric rates are allowed. If there is nothing to send, a packet containing the output of a CSPRNG must be sent to meet B, which will be dropped by the other node. Every link in each direction maintains B.

C must use at least 1 node to talk to each other. Direct C-C traffic and network loops are expressly forbidden.

C must agree to encrypt the contents of their opaque application payload, P, amongst themselves.

R informs Csrc of the list keys (k0, k1, .. kn) to recursively encrypt P with, resulting in payload to send, M = E(kn,..E(k1,E(k0,P))).

Keys must never be reused except given the same Csrc to Cdest, but only for a maximum time and number of bytes.

M is decrypted by each node and forwarded on to the neighbor if it is a valid packet.

N must never know the complete path a beyond the neighbor node with which to send a packet and the specified path nodes.

N must be assumed to be hostile.

--

The reason for russian dolls encryption per link is to prevent correlation analysis.

Lots of unanswered Q's:

- Node discovery / reachability

- Node impersonation (remember tcp connection hijacking?)

- Hostile nodes (relays and clients), especially hostile relays that prefer to connect to each other. Perhaps clients (Csrc and Cdest) each specify a small # of nodes that a path must traverse. Periodically check with each specified node with a challenge to verify path integrity? (There must be a better way to ensure path integrity using crypto without backchannels to specified nodes.)

- (D|)DoS - limits for all operations. Exponential backoff.

- Crypto specifics, key scheduling, rotation, minimum&maximum rekey rate.

- Packet particulars (packet size tradeoff: overhead vs. latency), transport/s (TCP sounds easiest), reconnection.

- Multipath? Just say no (at least initially).

- How is this better than tor? (Statistical analysis may prove if a host belongs to CoS, but not to whom. Tor may not be sufficiently mixed under "capture everything".)

- Node identifier? 384-bits is plenty.
I've written a lot of C# and Java (and others of course). It's really not an issue. If you're doing something expensive in a property getter or setter you're doing it wrong. If the function call doesn't get inlined and becomes a bottleneck in some tight loop you can just change it. Anecdotally, I have yet to see this occur in practice.

Also, as the guy below me pointed out, by convention you know that Foo is a property.
> Asperger's wasn't "removed" from the DSM-IV, as you claim

First, I never said any such thing. Asperger's was removed from DSM-5, not DSM-IV.

Second, Asperger's was removed from the current DSM, i.e. DSM-5. It was removed because, as one of the voting committee members said, "it's not a evidence-based term."

Asperger's wasn't "folded into" anything. It was recognized as a condition that was so vaguely defined that it could mean anything or nothing. What was folded in the the autism spectrum are those individuals who actually want continued treatment for something less romantic and more stigmatizing.

It wasn't Asperger's that was folded into the autism spectrum, it was those people who, after losing the chance to have a mental illness diagnosis in common with Bill Gates and Albert Einstein, still plan to have anything to do with psychiatry or psychology.
How so? C# is a standardized language.
The only problem is, that the server can see all messages. OTR solves this problem, but who use it?
OTR would even solve the e-mail issue.
Cool but it can't handle traffic like JSFiddle (the originator of all code playgrounds) can.
BDD testing for golang: Ginkgo and Gomega
An experimental Debian X32 port is currently being built[0], already covering about 79% of the whole packages archive[1].

[0] http://www.debian-ports.org/

[1] http://buildd.debian-ports.org/stats/x32.txt
roostrap. A java and Spring based framework that runs beautifully on AppEngine along with Twitter Bootstrap 3 for the UI.

Ticks the following with ease.

[x] UI
[x] API/Code generation
[x] Scalability
[x] Libraries and support
[x] Free to host MVP

Project: http://bhagyas.github.io/roostrap
Sample/Demo : http://roostrap.appspot.com/
You might be able to curl the page.
Just like with music, people prefer just the right amount of cognitive dissonance - noone likes to be told exactly what they already know, and hardly anyone likes to hear something that's completely the opposite of what they already knew/thought.

In music, just a little bit of (harmonic) dissonance catches the listener's attention, but too much gives you a headache. Funny how that metaphor carries over so well, haven't thought of it before.
Monthly data from the treasury:
http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/ti...

Foreign net purchases of US long-term debt:
http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/ti...

More info:
http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/ti...

Debt held by public is $11.918T.

China owns 10.7% of all treasury debt, Japan 9.5%, and all foreigners hold 46.9%. I imagine we're making the world a little nervous right now.
Javascript? Really?

"Thought leaders" are hopefully just using the best language suited for the job. It often comes down to what kind of code you are writing and what it needs to run on.
What is a "Minimum Viable Product"?
Two can play that game,

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-57423754-94/java-creator-ja...

<quote>
In his testimony last week, Schwartz explained his "grit our teeth" strategy after Android had its public debut as an incompatible variant of Sun's Java. "We saw a handset bypass our brand and licensing restrictions...we decided to grit our teeth and support it so anyone supporting it would see us as part of the value chain," he said. Apparently, continuing to seek a way to work with Google -- to turn lemons into lemonade, as Gosling wrote -- was preferable to engaging in a costly lawsuit.
</quote>
If I understand correctly, there is a key in the DHT that is effectively a list of pointers to all your mail?
If so, an attacker could control your inbox by starting a bunch of nodes around that key, couldn't they?

To disable a persons mail, you would start up some altered nodes around the address space you want to attack, have them respond normally until you control enough or all of the nodes covering the target address.
Then flip a switch that makes them all start saying that inbox is empty. Then start backing off your nodes, and replacement regular nodes would replicate your altered state.

Would this be possible? Or am I missing something?
Perhaps a pre-cooked auto-reply could fix that? Hey, it can even be automated; a filter/answering bot for developers with public profiles ;) Showing only heartwarming and applifting fun-mail and stowing everything else into spam with an auto-reply suggesting a post to an appropriate mailing list.
> Should we stop believing Malcolm Gladwell?

As long as people think believing stands higher than understanding, people like Gladwell will find a wide audience.
Mega-SERP: A Visual Guide to Google
Waytogo is now way better
Again, Microsoft never brought any advances to those industries. They provided a platform (closely identical to those offered by numerous alternatives) on which the real software that made these advancements was hosted on. Your argument is the same as saying that Ford is responsible for nuclear power because their trucks deliver the fuel to the plants. If there was no Ford, then Toyota trucks could deliver the same fuel with no noticeable differences to anyone or the industry. Same for Windows and plant controller software that runs on it.

So if you agree that Ford did not do the nuclear industry any favours, you must accept that Microsoft did not do the manufacturing industry any favours. Both companies simply got a nice income for providing a necessary but widely available resource. Saying Microsoft is the one bringing the advancements is just silly.
> It's about 10% slower than what could be achieved with C

What does that even mean?

Are you saying that you have a proof of the theoretically fastest C program that would implement the same functionality and it's 10% slower than that? Does the C you're comparing it against use the Disruptor pattern too? Or is this just a comparison against a naive, single-threaded C program? How does that number vary with the overall heap size of the program?

Numbers like this get thrown around that strike me as incredibly dubious.
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You should write a book about it...
From [1]:

"The Milky Way may be teeming with more than 100,000 free-flying planets for every star[...]."

"This is the finding from a study that extrapolates from observations of a dozen so-called “nomad” planets, which were detected when their gravity briefly contorted light of passing stars[...]."

Sounds a bit sensationalist to me...
Many in G.O.P. Offer Theory: Default Wouldn’t Be That Bad
It is too long an explanation for the simple fact that: "private conversations with the owner of a public project are impolite."

As a general rule, that tends to be true.

I guess he has had some relief from writing that rant but it is unnecessary: nobody should expect a private answer from a developer of a public project. Even more: there is no expectation of an answer to an email.
I don't hear senior people in all sorts of professions referencing CSI the way I hear them referencing Malcolm Gladwell.
So I think of people like Gladwell as pop-fusion artists, like say, Jamie Cullum or Michael Buble. They often get disproportionately rewarded (as compared to "real" jazz artists), but they DO do a lot for a lot of people by introducing them to something they otherwise might not have considered.
For me, that kind of comes under the category of "know how to answer the question": that is, "remember that you have produced an example, which does not constitute proof but merely evidence". You're right that it's still not easy to distinguish between "definitely yes" and "not {definitely no}", though I do still find it easier with nouns-which-I-know than made-up-words, I think. I should have put in an attempt to make the statement true - maybe "Given that all cats are cats, and some cats are cats, are all cats cats?"
Another review (of the book) at

http://www.newstatesman.com/2013/10/malcolm-gladwell-backlas...

"Gladwell is the non-fiction equivalent of Dan Brown."
MIT used Scheme as a first programming language till around 2009. It doesn't really matter if a language is "old", as long as it helps students understand what needs to be taught.
Most of the world, and even the people in the US aren't using desktop computers daily... using any tool that ties them mostly to a desktop platform, or an also-ran mobile platform is not doing them any favors.

IMHO, if the Office division were actually able to run as a separated business unit from the whims of Windows, they would be MUCH better off.

I think that as office suites go, MS Office is absolutely the best of breed. However, there isn't much of anything that it offers that gives an elementary student an advantage over a pre-configured linux convertible tablet with Libre Office.

I like windows.. it's a consistent platform that isn't subject to an incredibly fragmented desktop/application space. IMHO IIS is an incredibly good web server. VS is a great IDE, with a wonderful level of integration for devops environments.

That said, I don't feel that Windows has much of a life left in it, and that 10 years from now, it will be relegated to the same role that Solaris or AIX workstations were in the early-mid 90's, a developer platform for server deployments. There's money to be made there in the long run, sure... but if MS really wants to succeed, it needs to allow the windows core os to develop apart from the desktop, server and mobile spaces.. and for the VS and Office teams to operate apart from that. It would also do well to let competitive products rise from within. Both in terms of support, as well as vision.
This might also apply to NPR Planet Money.

Seems to plague the softer/human sciences like economics, psychology and anthropology more than physics/chemistry/maths (though these fields have there own poor journalism)
A draft for vi like interface for rappid, the modular diagram builder
That FUD is oft repeated, but frivolous lawsuits can coke regardless of what you say.
Berserker
Any "real decision-maker" who makes decisions because of pop-writers... was probably going to screw things up anyway.

Gladwell isn't dangerous, ignorance is.
Conservative economists are constantly wrong but somehow people keep believing them. Where's that runaway inflation that they've been predicting over and over again for years?

In any case, the US cannot default on its debt because it is denominated in US dollars, and we can always print more dollars. That is unless Tea Party extremists force us to jump off that cliff.
I am generally loathe to think about govt default, but sometimes I wonder if it wouldn't be bad to shed some debt-ability since people seem to abuse it. We overspend so much with so little accountability, it might be good to reign that in.

Then again, I am a little afraid of change in this respect...
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Microsoft worked very hard to earn that disrespect.
> Also, I don't think Gladwell ever completely lies.

True, but we need to ask what we mean by "lie". Blatant lying is easy to detect and uncover. Cherry-picking facts to make a point contradicted by reality, by science, is a sneakier kind of lying, a kind meant to appeal to the superficially educated, the sort of people for whom the title of the article asks a reasonable question -- should we "believe him"?

Educated people don't need to believe anyone -- they will instead accept a responsibility to gather facts, evidence, for themselves.
3D Printer Bot Creates Perfect Replicas of Classic Paintings
If you get one of the Blackberry UMA models or a T-Mobile branded phone with 'Wifi calling', those phones will work over Wifi anywhere in the world, at no extra cost.

In other words, you can make and receive voice calls on your regular number, and the same for SMS via WLAN.
all well and good, for a lot of people i know the more immediate concerns are the basic trilogies of diet/exercise/rest, and learning the tiger parent things your whole life (math, programming, foreign languages, musical instruments). These things work because they require sustained effort/concentration, adn dealing with frustration and plateaus

http://www.sott.net/articles/show/216086-Mental-muscle-six-w...

(the 6 things above: bright light, tDCS, food, exercise, playing music, meditation
"One student, for example, majored in finance and accounting but has been assigned to a job that entails glueing together parts of Sony’s Playstation 4...."

Am I the only one who thinks that sounds great? Why shouldn't finance an accounting guys get some insights into the working conditions of people "below" them?
Nobel Prize in Literature 2013: the runners and riders
TL;DR Yes.
Except that is not how liabilities work. On an account ledger there is no column liabilities.

Because of political posturing the whole meaning of liabilities has been distorted
Could you elaborate a bit about his 'court tangle'? I'm reading 'Bad Science' which also talks about Homeopathy and it basically says homeopathy is relying on the Placebo effect, the attention patients receive and the probability a lot of people will resort to homeopathy when it's really, really bad. That's usually the point when it starts getting better. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bad_Science_(book)
> Is he much worse than CSI?

People who accept CSI confuse fantasy and reality. People who accept Gladwell confuse a contrived reality with a real one. I think the risk posed by the latter category is greater than the former, because the latter are more difficult to separate from their superficial grasp of reality.
Yes, if you tend to be wrong a lot, it is in your interest to say less.
Consider yourself lucky. It is currently impossible to flip a switch in the brain and get gratification from knowing. For those who do not enjoy understanding the inner workings the textbook aproach will never work.
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Zboards do this. In practice, I found the pressure pads extremely clunky. They were very sensitive to foot positioning, and rather all or nothing on the acceleration.

http://www.zboardshop.com/
Named arguments are very descriptive and intuitive. And yes, Xcode auto-complete is awesome.
I don't understand how people can go on pointing at the suicides when it is well known that suicide rates are lower at Foxconn than the average Chinese suicide rates?
This is very good but just a different way of saying what coffeemug suggested, i.e. no details except that "we don't want to hire you" (as opposed to meric's idea of giving specifics.)

I also think the generic approach is best; in my experience also, giving specifics can open up a can of worms.
Which is harder: to make people like Gladwell scientifically sound or to make the scientifically sound more entertaining?

While I strongly agree that he does himself, and those curious about science, a great disservice by what one might label as intellectual laziness and sloppiness, there is a need to make science and interesting ideas more available to the public. So while the criticism of Gladwell's cherry-picking and rough treatment of the truth appears to be valid, we should ask ourselves "what have I done to make ideas more accessible to others"?

I think this is why we love people like Carl Sagan. He made science accessible. He showed a whole generation of kids that science is cool and interesting and beautiful. Without (to my knowledge) compromising scientific integrity.
It's like Daniel Dennett's deepities, just a little less shallow, to cater for the intellectually self-absorbed. (
 Look at my mice bite-size analysis! 
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Duck Duck Go has become habitual for me, and it works great 99% of the time.
Zomerhuis met zwembad
... until they graduate and get high paying jobs in finance. Is it really so bad to have to work "student jobs"?
http://www.cnn.com/2012/11/14/opinion/china-challenges-one-c...

Since reproduction is limited by the female population in humans, any gender imbalance in favor of men is effectively surplus.
For some context, Daniel Stenberg is the lead developer in the widely used curl and libcurl OSS. He is extremely responsive on the mailing lists and will often provide detailed answers to difficult questions.
The chances are incredibly small.
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Interesting. I've been having this issue with SnapChat recently. It no longer remembers my login. I assumed it was just an issue with the app and not something bigger.
The "ceremony" you're talking about has nothing to do with the language itself and everything to do with the community. You can write Java and not use the factory pattern, you know.

Hell, Scala is one INSANELY complicated language. It's got about every feature under the sun. Java is simple and to the point...unless you really want to use spring or something of the sort.

Anyway, you've got a really contorted view of Java, and you are conflating some fundamental things.
Is forth considered to be in the same niche?