skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When debating social justice issues, it is wise to bear in mind that deconstructing one particular thesis in a vacuum offers little more than intellectual showboating; much of the social justice narrative describes small and seemingly-trivial barriers cumulatively forming concrete obstacles. For a better metaphor, Marilyn Frye writes in The Politics of Reality:

"Cages. Consider a birdcage. If you look very closely at just one wire in the cage, you cannot see the other wires. If your conception of what is before you is determined by this myopic focus, you could look at that one wire, up and down the length of it, and be unable to see why a bird would not just fly around the wire any time it wanted to go somewhere. Furthermore, even if, one day at a time, you myopically inspected each wire, you still could not see why a bird would have trouble going past the wires to get anywhere. There is no physical property of any one wire, nothing that the closest scrutiny could discover, that will reveal how a bird could be inhibited or harmed by it except in the most accidental way. It is only when you step back, stop looking at the wires one by one, microscopically, and take a macroscopic view of the whole cage, that you can see why the bird does not go anywhere; and then you will see it in a moment. It will require no great subtlety of mental powers. It is perfectly obvious that the bird is surrounded by a network of systematically related barriers, no one of which would be the least hindrance to its flight, but which, by their relations to each other, are as confining as the solid walls of a dungeon."

This myopic focus seems to be more common on technology forums than elsewhere. I am interested as to why this is the case. Probably, a technical education lends itself well to analyzing the validity of individual details but not reasoning at a structural level.
It doesn't make sense to me then why over 2/3rds of the trials this study looked at were excluded because they registered >1 month after enrollment started. Have they all found exceptions to, or ways to work around, the above restrictions?
Also, Berlin is international enough that you'll get by quite nicely without speaking German.
Ha! Oracle and donate - this is an oxymoron. Just like Steve Jobs, Larry doesn't believe in giving away stuff for free. He's one of the greediest people I know.
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Good because fewer smart people will be going to Wall Street where they will be tempted to think they can outsmart the market with elaborate financial engineering that crashes the market.

Good because brilliant engineering types who would have been "Quants" on Wall Street will go and be actual brilliant engineers.

Possibly bad because these Harvard MBAs (and their ilk) haven't magically become passionate about technology. They are simply following the money. So, we'll have more of "that kind" of people in tech.

Not to say there are no talented, technically savvy elite MBAs who do care about tech. I know some of them. But plenty more may just be mercenary types, going where the money goes.
This is pretty cool. An NBA player who gets how relevant and essential code is in terms of how the world functions. He is able to express this and reach an audience that might not otherwise be exposed to its importance.
I wasn't saying that such a phone had no use. I said it wouldn't replace high density screens for anyone.
Most importantly (imo) Berlin is a European capital with fun stuff to do and very affordable rent and cost of living.

The location is also decent as it is attractive for many eastern Europeans who tend to be well trained and not hyperexpensive.
probably wondering how long until the bitcoin economy is stable enough for him to spend any of his fortune without it immediately collapsing after all he is said to have a truly massive share of the bitcoins produced setting in his wallet.
Exactly? Are you really saying that you couldn't tell the difference between Mark Zuckerberg and a homeless man if you ran into them on the street?
damn, India and china are ineligible for this lottery. Major talent working in US are from these two countries.
Relevant blog post by Yahoo! from earlier this month:

http://yahoodevelopers.tumblr.com/post/62953984019/so-im-the...
Parents and siblings. And that actually brings up an entirely other privilege I had at that time. When I first got my job at the movie theater, I was asked by nearly every floor employee how many kids I had. I was one of only a handful who were yet to have children, despite all of us being ~18-26. I can't guess how restricted I would have been in my mobility if I had children to think of at that time.
Seconded. I use this along with NoScript, SelfDestructingCookies, and Adblock Edge (an ABP fork without any "acceptable ads" feature).

A lot of the time it's a big pain to get it working right (say, to watch a video on a news site), but that's simply the price I have to pay in today's web to retain at least a bit of privacy and security.

If anyone wants to make a neat extension, it seems like all these extensions could be combined into one with a slightly better user interface. If you want to make it really spiffy, the black/white listing for these could be shared in a distributed hash table with some sort of voting/trust mechanism.
The challenge here is not data transfer, but interacting with the underlying filesystem well -- handling, say, one user saving a file while another is moving it into a subdirectory, or programs that save files by deleting and rewriting them (or writing a temporary file and then moving it), or similar. That's the real strength of Dropbox.
No. I just think it's posturing on his part. He's pretending to be something he's not, so that people see the friendly brogrammer instead of the ambitious "They trust me — dumb fucks" CEO who disregards privacy.
My guess is that they just happened to be incorporating at the right time, tech companies already in existence when .com registrations were introduced that needed to do networking probably had Arpanet addresses and waited a while to switch over.
I really apologize for a very cursory read on my part, but I'm guessing it is in the same manner that CORS uploads to S3 is handled: http://aws.amazon.com/articles/1434/

There seems to be more details here: http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2013/05/aws-iam-now-supports-amaz...

Again, I didn't have time to read all of this and see if it is done in the same manner as has been possible with S3/CORS for the last year or so.
Which is one kind of average...
Wireshark doesn't listen on audio devices though. You have to choose an interface. There is no obvious way to capture what he claims to be seeing, and if he used wireshark or tcpdump, he would have a log. Furthermore, if you had a covert audio channel, you wouldn't encapsulate it in TCP or IP. Under close examination, these claims don't make any sense.
"you can't have more than 64,000 objects in a folder in S3 - even though S3 doesn't have folders."
Is this for real, or are these stories made up? All documentation I've read about S3 suggests that it does not have any file count limitations. The timeline of Togetherville suggests that this story took place between 2008 and 2010. Did S3 have a limit back then that they lifted?
Are these software requirements sufficient for an implementation?
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In math, most of the time, mean and average are used to mean the same thing. I will concede that yes, I did mean the mean average, or more properly, if you wish to be pedantic - the arithmetic mean average, instead of just "average".
I don't think you two are really disagreeing.

Privilege is not exclusive to straight white males, it just so happens that in this country, at this moment, straight white males enjoy an order of magnitude more of it than everyone else. It becomes convenient to point at the largest elephant in the room instead of fully qualifying the point.

But white privilege, straight privilege, and all other forms of privilege affect not just those who have it, but everyone else around them. The barrier to entry for this woman was other women in HR, of the same race - who have internalized and normalized straight/white/male/etc privilege.

Normalization is privilege. Without normalization you don't have privilege - you don't have thoughts like "that's not a black guy job", or "that guy's too fruity to interact with my clients". Privilege is the unfair treatment of people based on their deviation from a perceived norm. The perceived norm may be perceived even by people who are on the losing end of the particular proposition - whether it is their race, gender, orientation, or other.
"Embrace change" and "turn my computer into an Xbox" are two different things.
The high-dollar ones aren't necessarily better.

At a previous job we hosted with {HAL} out of Atlanta. A NOC operator there saw/heard/smelled something that indicated to him that he should hit the Big Red Switch. So he did. This removed power to every machine in that part of the DC.

After management confirmed that there was no life-threatening emergency, they started bringing everything back up. Only to have machines start going down again 20 minutes later, as their local UPSes ran out of juice. Someone had to walk around to every cage and recycle them all manually.
Why is that when the government says "But, but computer!" judges abandon common sense and case law. Even when the tables are turned there is still an amazing amount of techno-ignorance in the process. Consider the long ago (tech time anyway) prosecution of Microsoft. The idiots in charge completely ignored their success with IBM and attacked via the browser vector. Andrew Schulman at the time of pre-trial investigation had three books entitled Undocumented this that and the other thing. Each should have been a successful blueprint in terms of anti competitive behavior. Had this and the browser been part of their war chest I think the result would have been considerably stronger (i.e. the bust them apart goal would have been reached) with a appropriately more useful public result. <end_of_slightly_off_topic_rant/>
see my reply to tghw
Absolutely. Removing SPOFs and moving to a service oriented architecture has been a major focus for us over the last few months.
Oof.

Another one of these "I'm a member of special group that you can never understand. We are put down by other groups. I am going to emote a bit to make you feel guilty." I hate these things because they defy honest feedback. Instead, it's jump on the bandwagon or be called names. So I'm calling bullshit on this general type of article on HN. Having said that, I find this article as good as any of the example of the genre.

Remember, this article is about poverty. As such, it fails miserably to make its case. Yes, people buy things to socially signal. Yes, many poor people buy expensive status symbols.

But there's a lot to be said for attitude. Most of life is just showing up and having a positive attitude -- far more than what kinds of boots you're wearing or how much you spent on your coat. Yes, like most people I'll happily make spot judgments within about 5 seconds of seeing you. But those judgments are not based on fashion. They're based on hygiene, facial expression (are you happy? That makes me happy), demeanor, and body language.

A much better social signal is elimination of dialect, as the author mentions. Every culture has a "high" language and several medium or low languages. So get rid of that deep southern dialect if you want to make a good impression. Costs nothing. Instead of spending a lot on an expensive suit, pick up something wearable at the local Goodwill store. Practice entering a room, walking, sitting down, and chatting in front of a video camera.

Social signalling is just the way we're made. But it doesn't have a damned thing to do with being poor. Or rather the signal in this case is easily gamed in very cheap ways. At least for purposes of getting out of poverty. Obviously, if you're selling stocks, the game is played at a different level. But even then, there are lots of tactics that don't involve writing big checks.

In short, don't be a putz. Instead, cultivate inside of yourself something of real value, and make sure that the things that you have and do allow that to shine through.
Like $50 gift certificates sold for $80.
I'd reduce the size of the "hero banner" (is that what the large dark blue section is called?). It totally dominates the page and is hugely distracting. I'm more interested in my activity than I am in money saving tips. If that was 1/3 the size then I could warm up to it.
Oh, it didn't freeze. It just did emit click events when I put down the finger to scroll further. :)
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Article strikes me as too much rationalization and not enough reflection. To one person, a $2500 bag may signal that you're middle class. To another, it may signal you're really bad with financial decisions. I don't think that argument that it's a survival mechanism really holds as it's really speculative and not supported by any data.
Canines have lateralised brains—just like people
Dude, 40$?
Agreed. So progressively get more annoying, instead of doing the worst possible thing first.
Is it really that malicious? Of course either way the result is the same, but I seeing some corporate actions I would expect that people are simply reassigned from failing trials and there's noone left to finish. If there's no incentive to publish the result and the producer doesn't get anything from it, why would they continue? It's not even malicious or stupid - it's just business as usual.

Providing some incentive that applies even when the study is not continued would be great. But the only thing I can come up with is escrow for some sum of money until the results are sent in. But that's also an incentive for fabricating any results once it's known that the trial is going to fail.
The PC speaker does not have much of a DAC. Before the common use of ASIC chipsets, the PC speaker was connected to one of the channels of a clock divider chip. The other channel was used to drive the timer IRQ.

When a program wanted to produce a tone, the program took the input frequency of the clock divider divided by the desired frequency and programmed it into the clock divider. To control the duration of the tone, a DOS or BIOS call was available delay the program or the program could hook the timer interrupt vector. The program would then turn the speaker off or start the next tone.

Programs could also turn the output bit on and off manually. Some programs could turn the bit on and off rapidly to play arbitrary sounds. There was even a Windows driver to play sound through the PC speaker, but it disabled interrupts, causing the clock, keyboard, mouse, and network to stop while the sound was playing.
This is great. I hope the trend catches on for more conferences / events to have these books as a nice momento of the event and reminder of the key points from each speaker.
Low wage does not always imply low skill. You can find low wage employees who are extremely skilled at what they do. Their problem is that their skill, however high, is common, and so the laws of supply and demand drive their wage down.
I'm pretty sure neither of those errors are coming from signet.
I tried this recently... it works well except with the mobile integration. I then purchased a TonidoPlug and things seemed to go much more smoothly.
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No details as usual. Can i immigrate to Germany as a self-employed?
It is unfortunate that we have to spend on these useless status symbols to open doors. Ugh humans...
"Each request must be signed with your AWS credentials. ..
Our web identify federation feature to authenticate the users of your application. By incorporating WIF into your application, you can use a public identity provider (Facebook, Google, or Login with Amazon) to initiate the creation of a set of temporary security credentials."
http://media.amazonwebservices.com/blog/2013/iam_web_identit...

I rather disagree with getting your autherization tokens by the grace of Google and Facebook.

It seems simple enough to roll your own, perfect use case for App Engine actually:

(Gets temp S3keys)

User <--------------------------> Logins to your site (AppEngine)

ˇ

S3

I just wish Amazon offered better late rimiting options and intergration behind the scenes. The 'Each Request' phrasing can be misleading, you don't need to sign each request, you can give the client side app a token that will last for an hour or a week. (But its on you to refresh it when it expires and keep track of how its being used so there's no abuse)
Ah ok yeah that makes sense. Pre-generate a signed token and post it along with the form. I guess in that case you wouldn't even need the jS-SDK since you can just do a normal POST/PUT to the s3 bucket with those credentials. I guess I got excited only to realize nothing would change ;)

Thanks for your help!
For the optimist undergrad...less competition for the next-best and next-brightest to get jobs on Wall Street
An application can provide a server-side component that vends credentials to clients. Mobile applications on AWS used to do this with the Token Vending Machine[1]. I say used to because web identity federation is a much more powerful and lightweight way to vend credentials. Instead of hosting your own auth backend, you can offload that to another identity provider like Login With Amazon, Google, or Facebook.

Certainly, though, if you want total control of your own auth, you can still use the TVM or something like it to get credentials into your application. It does require that you are running a backend server though, which the client-side JS is meant to remove.

[1] http://aws.amazon.com/articles/4611615499399490
>We could, as my grandfather would say, talk like white folks. We loaned that privilege out to folks a lot.

I think that speaking well, or being articulate, is not a privilege but an ability. It is not an ability that everyone has, but it is an ability that almost anyone can acquire with practice. This is true both in verbal and digital communication.

If you are not articulate, you will be at a disadvantage throughout your life. Period. The color of your skin has nothing to do with it.
Hopefully, this gets someone fired too.
The barrier to entry was knowing the set of codes, knowing how to communicate nonverbally. Knowing how to tell someone 'I belong in your group' in the way that you speak, the way you dress, the way you move. It's very difficult for people 'on the inside' to appreciate how difficult this can be.

Also, to clarify my earlier point, I would never suggest that the concept of privilege is exclusive to straight white males, and I agree that social and economic class are the basis for discrimination and exclusion. I was just trying to say:

1) Technology industries in the United States are dominated by straight white males, often with some form of class and economic privilege. By this I do not mean that there are no exceptions.

2) The posting and discussion of this blogpost on this website is reflective of (I hope) a certain self awareness surrounding race, gender, money and privilege, and the importance of considering it--not dismissing it as an irrelevance.
With regards to your female friend: I think what she meant by broke is that she isn't really broke, she just doesn't have enough money for the lifestyle she's accustomed to or desires.
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Over $30,000 raised on Indiegogo to sing in the shower
I read the headline as "alternating current" also. Usually, engineers in the United States abbreviate "air conditioning" as "A/C," where the slash, used contrary to the usual usage of slashes, distinguishes one familiar abbreviation from another. I'm surprised the Wired editor didn't catch the ambiguity.
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Ask HN: What should my CV/Resumé look like?
I'm on my penultimate semester studying CS, currently applying for graduate schemes. Had 2 rejections straight away. I thought my cv was good, but those "straight off the bat" rejections have made me very conscious about it.

What is expected out of CS Graduates these days and what should I put on my CV/Resumé?

Thanks in advance for your help.
I read the first half of this piece as a (strong) case against the administrative discretion and power of the bureaucracy. The second half seems to be a rather sad and puzzling anecdote, whose ramifications I do not fully comprehend.
Thats the way it works, usually. Lawsuits can happen, though, but I wouldn't exaggerate the risk.

Also, let me be quite open: if you hire someone for 40 hours and expect him to work more then 40 hours, don't be surprised if some come back and sue. You broke contract.
The Harvard MBA Indicator gives "long-term signals based on the relative attractiveness of Wall Street jobs. The more grads that are enticed to go there, the more bloated Wall Street becomes and the more likely the market is nearing a top. When stock markets are doing poorly, fewer grads want to enter the sector." The indicator "gave sell signals in 1987 and in 2000, which were both terrible years for the stock market."

http://www.investopedia.com/terms/h/harvardmba_indicator.asp
The ratio of plutonium needed to seed and convert thorium into fissionable uranium-233 is very high (4:5)
I love this idea.

Maybe the way around Twitter's bot policies is to use the bot as a coordination device rather than an auto-responder. How about @ing or DMing FeelBetterBot followers that person X could use a hug or helpful message?
Aside from a different start menu, Windows 8 is nothing but Windows 7 with some more fat trimmed. On the desktop, you can't easily tell them apart. Why would you describe it in such extreme terms?
Note from OP: credit to Matt Smith for the FloatLabel pattern upon which this is based. More here http://mattdsmith.com/float-label-pattern/.
The old chestnut, "Fake it till you Make it" comes to mind.

In some cases this can be helpful, ie pretending to follow the Champions League to get along with the fellows in the office, but following this as a blueprint for life can hurt much more than it helps with tons of unintended consequences(over spending, loss of your true identity, being a liar.....)
HUGE: The NSA has hacked Google’s cloud ‘Worldwide’ (Gmail, Google Docs, Maps)
I wonder if it would hold up in court. It seems like this is fair use... but of course fair use is up to the courts...
I'd blame it on HFT.
US Visa laws are certainly hard, but there is a positive side (for the US at least): only those that are highly motivated to move here make it through the process.

This really does bias the types of immigrants we get. As much as people might complain about immigrants coming in and then going on welfare, it just doesn't happen with any frequency. Instead, we get immigrants who come here and start companies at twice the rate of natural born citizens.

Our labor laws also select for people who really want to work - at least compared to our European counterparts. I don't mean to say that people who emigrate to Europe don't want to work, but the perception that you have to work longer hours in the US certainly does weed out the people who are overly concerned about working too much.

As long as we continue to have people who want to come to the US, I can't see why we'd want to make the process easier unless we can continue to keep these filters in place.
Gift certificates make sense. The buyers are people without credit cards that want to shop at those stores. They can get money into a PayPal account to buy things on eBay, but those stores don't take PayPal.
If you are a expat and want to create a startup in Berlin, how hard is it? what would you need? how hard is to get the visa?

I've seen that France was creating a "startup visa" to help foreigners founders to create companies there. Is there something similar going on on Germany?

Im realling looking over this, and was thinking about Berlin, Paris or Rio (on my own country)

Edit: I also can go for the Polish citizenship as a polish descendant and get into the EU that way as another option