skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oliver Reed on How to Play a Bad Guy [video]
It's also funny how all these "anonymous government sources" suddenly became available when the subject was about someone else.
In particular, domestic surveillance is a completely different beast vis-a-vis foreign surveillance: spying outside one's own state comes with it the almost total absence of state's monopoly on force (and, furthermore, the protection of the government in the state being spied upon).

Omniscience without omnipotence is tolerable, as is omnipotence without omniscience. The real trouble happens when you've got both.
He is right.

Rails was part of the old paradigm where a webapp runs on the server and sends HTML pages to the client.

The new paradigm, which I would not call single page architecture for historical reasons, sends the app to the client in when they open a page, and then runs on the client and only calls back to the server to get/post data. And maybe load some additional code blocks. These apps are built in Javascript with underscore, backbone, angular, ember and related tools. They are also typically MVVM or MV(something other than C).
The next time there's a question about misogyny in the tech community, I'm going to link to this comment.
If future iterations of Glass are able to incorporate existing dash functions, thus making them safer to access by not having to take one's eyes off the road, then the benefits are obvious.
Phones (and virtually any other electronic product) contain dozens of licensed technologies including ARM, Wi-Fi, 3G/4G, etc. Do you object to those as well, or just codecs?
I hope no one interpreted my statements to suggest that anything you said was wrong. Just trying to fill in details.

I merely want to avoid prematurely narrowing the range of functions that are possible. If we, for the moment, think of the neural computation of a single neuron as a neural network, then the spike/no-spike decision would be in the last layer and a whole host of linear/non-linear (some not necessarily boolean) functions could be implemented by the dendrites. And some single neuron processing we already know behaves in a non-boolean manner.

Be aware, just because arbitrarily powerful logic could be constructed solely out of boolean components (I don't even know if this is true. Isn't this kinda what is going on in an FPGA?) doesn't mean that neural hardware is purposed the same way. They may very well may be analog, at least for some computations.

And to speak to your second paragraph, I should declare my personal biases. As a dendritic physiologist, I wasn't much interested in whole-cell firing characteristics, but in the dendrite's sub-threshold behavior.

How do a smattering of synaptic inputs, each with varying strengths, interact within the complex electrophysiological scaffolding provided by a branched dendrite layered with non-uniform, non-linear ion channel distributions?

So my perspective is somewhat inverted: To me, neuron firing is the implementation detail! <smilie face>
OK, thanks ! I'll refresh the landing page and add a launchrock.

Its "newrelic for the soul"

or maybe "your own personal planantir" ;)
Popsicles were boring and stupid, so he broke the rules and did something better. Attitudes like that and skipping school to pull gadgets apart are why he's working his dream job.
When people say "epic", I hear "doubleplusgood". When I'm a bad mood I can't even stand "awesome"... it's used way to often, and rarely for things that inspire awe even in the speaker.
Definitely looks that way. I've seen a similar strategy used on Youtube for a while now.
Every state privileges its own citizens. There are good reasons for doing so that have nothing to do with bigotry or exceptionalism.
I'm thinking the next big step is to build ASIC's with hierarchical memory sub-systems that can quickly load and execute either x86 or ARM instructions, kind of like binary run-times implemented in hardware, and then boot operating systems on them so that programs don't have to worry about the physical memory address layout or disk file-systems, and then finally run a compiled version of the JVM that includes hot-spot. Then we would all be able to run Java, and it would be pretty fast, probably faster than any other implementation, and totally capable of integrating with the entire Java ecosystem.
No, but it probably triggers another flag on your dossier
I couldn't read it at all. Need to modify the stylesheet.
When sending us a CV, please include the candidate's salary expectations and availability

This kind of thing is only fair if the company specifies a salary range in advance. At least OP's company is practicing what they preach.

http://lists.lrug.org/pipermail/chat-lrug.org/2013-January/0...
I feel like this notice is out of touch with reality. First of all-- what hustling recruiter is going to take their time to read this notice, and remember that X company has those conditions?

I'm a software developer, and I agree that recruiters don't add nearly as much value as they claim to. But I did a college summer internship at a recruiting firm and I understand their angle.

Not all hiring managers are honest enough not to just contact a candidate directly. The anonymous resume is not meant to be a formal application, it's meant to be a teaser to enter into a recruiting agreement and it's a way of protecting themselves.

15% is pretty low for the industry. You're just encouraging even lower quality candidate-finding with that method.

You specified how to contact them (on a job-per-job basis) but recruiters can work at a higher level than that. Sometimes a candid call about their general talent needs helps a ton. Like: You're advertising for a mid-level employee, but you'd be okay with a senior-level.

As a hiring manager, part of your job is to recruiter-wrangle. A stubborn and neckbeary document like this does not make you inviting to work with.
Even those crappy short screens: since businesses are buying them in preference to alternatives

What alternatives? There are no business laptops with full screens on the market. Lenovo offered 4:3 and 16:10 models that were otherwise comparable for a very short period of time. Buyers, from what I remember of the period, did not tend to prefer the 16:10 models. I'm not sure if anybody else had a comparable overlap. The switch from 16:10 to 16:9 was even more abrupt.
Yes you're right ,they are modular.

The change christensen refers to is the shift from companies that built whole computers, like IBM - to the IBM pc , which was an assembly of parts from different companies.

My guess is that at that time , the pc-XT came with memory chips that weren't soldered , but in sockets. At that context that didn't mean much loss of performance. That habit of pluggable memory stuck. I'm not sure you lose much performance due to it.

And if we're talking about integrated memory - intel does have caches. Probably those are the best ways to deeply integrate memory.

And regarding CPU and board: it would be quite hard to integrate chips and board. There's was one attempt i know but it failed as far as i know. It's complex and not economical, but it does offer great performance.
Xkcd: Facebook of the Dead
Nice! I'm just starting out as a softie too, also due to the economy, did you start out with the web too? What language, how long until you found the job that kickstarted your career?
In Australia cocaine's probably a cheaper habit than gaming.
Also see: Sealand and L. Ron Hubbard's SeaOrg.
RDFLib is a Python library for working with RDF
Hmm.. I just got an idea for a compromise: Put the numpad in the wasted space below the keyboard

http://imgur.com/zrZAeg4

Centered keyboard, numeric entry, everyone is happy?
Agreed. It is very hard today to find a cheap PC laptop without an accountant's keyboard. I don't even like them on desktops, a waste of space (for me).
i think the general consensus is to learn vim instead of messing with home clusters.
This is for WebRTC, which means it consists of both a decoder and an encoder. The encoder is in many ways the harder part.
Why AdTech is Back (It Never Left)
To be fair, there weren't many (any?) standardized alternatives back then. There was no particular incentive for Adobe to support, say, Red5 when there was no standard to gather around. Apple's HLS is a pretty recent attempt at moving toward a documented standard.

If you're talking about streaming .flvs off of a regular Apache setup, then it shouldn't be surprising that scrubbing and seeking are troublesome: static file servers weren't build for that use case.

What would you have preferred Adobe to have done?
You should blame them for taking the money, because they "take the money" specifically by acting in bad-faith in order to extend, extend, extend and extend the contract money flow into their coffers. That's how the system works: private, for-profit companies fuck things up, intentionally, and then because they are the experts on the system they fucked up they (practically) automatically get the (almost as lucrative) follow-on extension/"fix it" contracts. The "bad design and architecture" these for-profit companies come up with are a feature. It is intentional, and it is done intentionally because these for-profit companies aren't in the business of providing products and services for the government--they're in the business of needling more contract cash out of it.

Or, to put it another way, you can't cry foul at the government's waste of money when it is the contractors' bids and bad-faith implementation of the contracts pushing up the costs. In return for their efforts, their liaisons at the government get to keep their visibility on "important" projects high, and extend the life of their own jobs.
sure, but are you implying that taking your eyes off the road to look down is safer than having directions superimposed on the road, because you're driving and not flying?
I think we had enough punch bagging on this.
May I inquire where did you get information on 30% c? Wikipedia states 70% but provides no reference. I'm honestly curious.
I saw my first Google Glass wearer in public. It looked ridiculous to me.
Highly object-oriented code makes extensive use of memory allocation; I suspect this to be a general rule. Java almost forces you to use this style, so consequently, I expect that the GC is highly optimized for it, and GC is lazy, which cuts the cost of deallocations. I can't see any reason why manual memory management with new/delete, malloc/free, etc, couldn't be done lazy, also, but I think it usually reclaims memory eagerly, and gives a different trade-off (i.e. delete/free are implemented eagerly inside the standard library, rather than just marking the memory and returning). If you want the highest performance, you'll allocate memory in large blocks and take it out of the hands of the GC or library.

PS. I can't swear to it that you could do a decent lazy delete or free and get better performance in C or C++, but it doesn't sound absurd on its face. What the standard library could not do is run its own background thread and update memory structures asynchronously, the way some advanced GCs do. But the whole problem can be avoided by doing fewer allocations in the first place, and performance will be consistently good no matter what the platform.
I don't think there are many people who disagree with me that there's been a huge amount of unwarranted snark recently. The uProxy release for example. Don't compare that with using words like "stupid".

>no more anything where I end up putting my personal data or my clients' data anywhere but on my dedicated servers

The probability that your servers would be compromised by actual damaging threats (hackers, malware, viruses, botnets) is far higher than that of Google, so I hope if your servers get hacked, you will similarly berate yourself and not make excuses that you should have done better and spent 10x more security than you are now. How many actual penetrations have occured of Google infrastructure where thieves (not government) made off with actual information that they'd put to damaging use, vs that of other smaller hosts? Everything you do has tradeoffs.

You keep making hand wave arguments about what Google could have or should have done, again, totally points about the threat models and historical context. When this program started, by some accounts in 2007, the vast majority of Web traffic wasn't even secured by HTTPS, no one was using channel-ID or forward security, and the majority of SMTP traffic was not protected by TLS. In fact, even today, only 50% of email traffic is TLS protected. In 2007, fewer Google services were probably multi-datacenter replicated as well. Encrypting the dark fiber would have been useless back then when the front door was left unlocked.

So, let's try to imagine a hypothetical conversation of some security engineers when new data centers got set up for replication:

Engineer #1: Dude, we should encrypt traffic on our inter-DC traffic.
Engineer #2: It's a buried dark fiber.
Engineer #1: Yeah, but the NSA could dig it up and tap it.
Engineer #2: That's illegal, and besides, it's a theoretical threat. We have a bigger practical threat, right now, anyone could just tap all front-end traffic, because most incoming user traffic is not HTTPS.

Engineer #1: You're right, let's get everyone on HTTPS first. Let's upgrade browsers, and Chrome, with better cipher suites. Let's add Channel-ID. Let's try to get SMTP users to use TLS.

The point isn't about excuses, it's about understanding at each point in time, what the weakest link in the chain is. The NSA taps of your email traffic might be worrisome, but the reality is, the Russians slurping up your credit cards, passwords, and doing MITM's to install botnets have far greater, actual practical damaging effects on you and your customers.

In an ideal world, everything would be secured against all possible attacks from day one, but internet infrastructure is rarely ideal. I started on the internet in the 80s in an era with zero encryption and where many services didn't even have passwords. We have gradually made things more and more secure, but getting there is going to take time. It's unfortunate that Google's efforts to secure it's fiber didn't happen a few years earlier, but if they did happen a few years earlier, it wouldn't have a made a difference, because upstream attacks were far more effective back then.
So it turns out, you can apply the naturalistic fallacy to things that are entirely of human construction...
WUXGA? Standard? Really? I find that quite suspect.
I don't know what you mean by "makes everything too small". 1366x786 is shipped on 10" laptops just fine; saying it's needed at 15" is silly. Not to mention, Lenovo doesn't even offer many alternatives, except on the higher-end models.

The only good thing is that Apple is showing them up, so they're finally responding in kind, rather than racing to the bottom against Dell and HP.

As far as vertical space, which you argue as a positive of the 6-row layout, is negated by the fact they switched to a less vertical screen, and hence, keyboard.

Edit: As far as Lenovo doesn't know what they're doing... do a screw count on modern designs. Look at how much work is involved replacing the most common part (fan) - you've got to take _everything_ out. I've no reason to believe the high-level technical decisions are being made more intelligently than the obvious lack in quality at the low-level.
Terms seem pretty fair. Any recruiter that can live by those, is being unreasonable.

The startup I joined, Hired, just started offering 1% per month instead of 15% upfront. It better ties our output (you having an employee that is successful) to our fee, which I think is a win for all.

Should make it a little easier on startups where there isn't cash flow and other tech companies that just don't do contingency fees.

Just went live today - http://www.forbes.com/sites/jjcolao/2013/10/30/hired-com-has...
I've said this before: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4195909

and I'll say it again: if you want to do something, do it.

A great story I heard recently:

A old comedian is talking to a younger, struggling, perhaps up-and-coming comedian. The young comedian is frustrated because he isn't finding the work that he wants (writing), and is bitter about "the business".

The old comedian asks

"So, lets say some famous person wants to hire you for $10,000 a week to just write funny tweets for them. Do you think you'd be able to do it? Come up with something really funny for them every day to post to twitter?"

"For $10,000 a week?"

"Yeah"

"Yeah, sure, for that much money I'm sure I could write something funny for them every day."

"Well then why won't you do it for yourself?"

It is so, so true. I know so many programmers and designers who insist that they want to work either in tech, or in design, yet if you ask them what they're working on, they respond that nobody has hired them yet.

--

The story was on this episode: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWH-8v_x68Y

Of the Joe Rogan podcast.
That could well be a religions/cultural difference. I would not be surprised if mostly-white parts of the US with poor sex education have higher rates of unplanned births (than Europe), rather than abortions.
Pure genius, and funny too! I couldn't resist posting that link on facebook.
I think the only good news about HealhCare.gov is going to come from The Onion at this point.
> Non-Newtonian locomotion is the only viable form of manned Interstellar travel.

Well, sure, in that actual travel is non-newtonian, since relativity is a thing, and a thing that's likely to be significant in any attempt at interstellar travel.

(Though it seems like many responses took "Non-Newtonian" to mean "Non-Einsteinian".)
Part of me thinks QE isn't really about the data transfer itself ... assuming you are asking because of what you read in the last paragraph @ http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/169874-ntt-entangle-photo... ... it's clear that we are looking more at FTL binary communication than what we are used to (in my opinion). Still interesting times ahead.
I blogged about this very problem the other day.

http://spoiledtechie.com/post/2013/10/23/What-Scares-Me-abou...

If you think the UI is designed badly, just imagine how bad the backend is...
Do it in polar coordinates...
I think the biggest barrier to entry of any new and secure email protocol will be GMail. GMail (and similar services) are what most people seem to use at this point.

And GMail won't update to 3.0 in any meaningful way, no matter what, since they want to be able to mine the data in your email, so they will still be storing it on their servers "in the clear." Which means the next time NSA hacks their servers, they'll still be able to read all the email.

Best case is that email 3.0 will interoperate with 1.0, or GMail at least accepts 3.0, if only to unencrypt it on their servers. Short of that, it would take a compelling use case to convince people to leave GMail, so we'd be right back to where we are with email 2.0: No critical mass of adoption, meaning 98% of the email you receive and write is unencrypted.
XSSaaS: XSS as a Service
It's very common for designers to showcase their skills by publishing a redesign of a famous brand or product.

What's less common is for one of these projects to become widely exposed and get recognition. The main reason is that a redesign is usually received with a lot of criticism ("He doesn't know what he's talking about" or "It's not that simple to launch a redesign in a big company" or "It looks good but it's unusable" or even "I could do better").

Such designers usually end up forgotten as quickly as they got famous, for good or bad reasons.

So, I'm quite pleased to see one of these unexpected talents hit the spotlight. Having a post dedicated to you published on the Microsoft website is far from being insignificant, on both sides. The designer gains exposure and confidence, and Microsoft proves its desire to remain innovative and open to new ideas (and criticism).

Will this spawn an era of similar projects to be published by young designers? Maybe it won't, maybe it already has. For example, a designer published a concept for the IMDb iOS7 app [1]. It looks good actually.

What's in for the designer? He has fun, he may get exposure, and it can land him a job.

What's in for the companies being rebranded? It's free publicity and free work, but it's based upon criticism.

I can't tell if such a redesign trend is viable in the long term. It's like those marketplaces where companies launch a $50 offer for their logo. Tons of designers will participate but only one will eventually be picked. It's hundreds of work hours wasted. And what about professional designers who have a hard time finding clients and need to compete with those ridiculous prices?

I'm thinking about designers at Microsoft, IMDB, or American Airlines, how they end up looking with all these projects.

A young designer publishing a rebranding concept on his blog may think it's benign, and actually a good way to get exposure, but it can harm the market and his fellow designers as well.

If you focus on the big picture, it's a worldwide competition that can only lead to a global increase in quality. Maybe that's what the internet, or should I say the web, is about. Having a unified pool of talent that will value your skills regardless of your origin, age, or experience. I'm a designer myself, and I find it both amazing and terrifying.

[1] http://www.behance.net/gallery/IMDb-The-New-iOS-7-App/107118...
As a European, something called "Lincoln mail" would give me a bit of a rash...
We can blame the programmers, but who is ultimately responsible. The Whitehouse is the executive branch; they are paid to execute and ultimately this is entirely their responsibility. They are the project managers of this entire mess. Now imagine those same people deciding your medical treatment. It's just sheer incompetence disguised as politics. Of course a more subversive view would suggest that this was engineered in order to pave the way for single payer. The Soviets built better cars than the US government builds websites.
It also highlights that the privacy and security were not as important to management as launching the app on a fixed deadline.
What makes me downright angry is the vehemence with which Google's Chief Legal officer David Drummond denounces siphoning Google's own data. Secretly take our users' personal data, that's okay, but secretly take our data, which we make our billions off of, now that is unamerican. Class, man. Real class.
Yeah you're right, it will probably terrify them - I have tried though, play with the spiders, pick them up and put them outside, doesn't seem to help
Future iterations of Glass are still exactly that- in the future.
Also, let's not forget about the fact that all those controls are /tactile/, which means they can be operated without moving your eyes at ll.
I can go into large detail why calling it incredibly painful and unpleasant is nothing but hyperbole though. Have you tried building a to-do MVC app, at least?
>source code exposed shouldn't in and of itself pose a security risk

It shouldn't, but it's easier to find and form exploits for services if you can inspect the code, versus having to poke around on the live site.
I had a feeling that was going on--to bad. For years, I
wanted cams on every Cruiser. They are cheap, but so
few police departments utilize the technology. I can
honestly say that I have been pulled over in Marin County
so many times, just because the vechicle I was driving
stood out(was old), or I was driving past 10 p.m. on a fri- sat. night. I can't imagine what immigrants have to go through.

I've even considered installing cams on my current vechicle.
Now might be a good time for circleci customers to pick up a code analysis tool such as brakeman and look for obvious security holes in their apps. If the attackers have hundreds or thousands of web apps' source code, I'd expect them to start trawling for vulnerabilities with automated tools.
Sesame uses a CR1620 battery.
i see a huge difference between location based chat and subject based chat.