skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree. I think it becomes easier to self-manage when letting others in your life know about goals and deadlines. Let friends, colleagues, family members, and so on know about your decision. Make a blog or other public / external facing deadlines - this makes you accountable for actions. Collaboration is key, find a friend whose also on this endeavor - it could be someone miles away but the key is to have checkins and feel like you are responsible and accountable for something.
"Android barely beats iOS in terms of mobile web browsers that actually go online."

http://www.forbes.com/sites/ewanspence/2013/10/16/why-do-onl...

where do you get your numbers?
Depends case-to-case. It is very strong with some people. They are very intelligent, but I think they rely on their own programming too much.

I worked with someone and we needed a file storage mechanism for a startup that needed to launch yesterday. So I was pushing to put it on AWS, simple enough. The CTO thought we would be locking ourselves in (for a startup that had yet to launch, yet alone make any money) and wanted to make some extra abstraction layer and then make his own file managing API so that he could plug in his own in house datacenter storage later. Such a colossal waste of time and the startup never launched. I am sure there were other things, but I could never see eye to eye with that person. Should have used something simple like filepicker.io to launch and then looked at it later.
>Yours is probably a textbook case of someone needing a partner who has a better idea of where that line is seat of the pants wise. I've never needed that it comes naturally.

My life partner, actually, is sort of stepping into the role you describe. It's hard for me letting go, but I'm far more likely to be okay with my partner taking that role than some random sleazebag. I mean, her background is more technical than mine; which is a downside in that role (though an upside for me actually following. Like most technical people, I have a hard time accepting leaders who don't have a technical background.) but eh, hiring for that role is really hard; judging from my past, when it comes to evaluating business people? I'm worse than random.

But it's still ultimately my business, and ultimately mistakes (or unethical decisions) made by that business are still my responsibility. Perhaps I will feel differently if someday I'm no longer the majority shareholder? (my partner is vesting in over time, so I am still the majority shareholder by quite a bit..)

But it's probably good that it's her; we have a lot of shared values and cultural background, and ultimately I see her as a good person, so while she's probably not the best businessperson available, she might be the best at working with me.

>I simply weigh the downside to any decision vs. the upside. It's almost automatic. After a while your brain just works that way.

Yeah, but almost nobody weighs moral concerns as zero. I mean, for an extreme example, you wouldn't murder someone for money even if you were certain you wouldn't get caught, and wouldn't face any negative consequences save those you imposed yourself.

(I'm not claiming that 'sharp' business practices are anything like murder; I'm just pointing out that you have the same line I have, even if yours isn't quite in the same place as mine. Almost nobody does a pure cost benefit analysis with no ethical or moral overlay.)
Github for lightbeam
http://www.guns.com/2013/01/02/flare-guns-as-weapons/

Shotgun shells are mostly plastic.
James D. Watson, Francis Crick and Rosalind Franklin.
Do you want to drive your 16 year old around to school/work/sports/practice/friends/library/mall?
Study finds iPhone 5s and 5c touchscreens inaccurate
That would increase support costs even more than just maintaining AppleScript support within Pages. It's not like AppleScript support hurts casual users - it's an absolutely invisible feature.
Thomas Jefferson - Founded Republican Party, had a large influence on the US Constitution.
Adolf Hitler - Leader of Nazi party, Started WWII, Big role in the Holocaust.
I want to start a company or go freelance because I hate excel so much. My non technical co-workers insist on using it (for almost everything).

I estimate around 80% of the problems with our system come from using Excel to upload data.
The more or less raw device-to-device communication facilitated by Core Bluetooth is going to lead to some very interesting iOS applications.
Excel spreadsheets are fantastic for one-time, throwaway calculations.

If you want to save, share, or reuse anything, though, it's a one-way ticket to versioning hell, and you need to run scheduled reports off a database.

Excel gets really dangerous when people who don't know anything about databases try to use it as a database.
> I would be curious to know for which sort of accounting things Excel is ideal?

Well, let's see.

1. Preprocessing data for entry. This might be used, for example, if you want to depreciate fixed assets using a method your accounting software does not support.

2. Post-processing data. You might do this if you have a report from an accounting system but your final report needs to take into account additional factors. Some of my customers use Excel to turn trial balance data from their accounting systems into financial statements.

Another example of post-processing might be if you take aggregated sales reports from an accounting system and further process it by business folk who don't know the programming environment.

As for paper: Yes, separation of duties is a part of it but paper has an advantage that no computer system can match, namely that if you keep your books in indelible ink, then alteration of numbers is obvious on audit. This is a weak point of electronic media. You can lock it down, but it is always possible for someone to unlock it. So with comparable policies, paper wins out anti-fraud-wise.
The Retina Macbook pro 13", with the keyboard from a ThinkPad X60.

Seriously, the only thing stopping me from switching to a macbook for everything I do is the lack of an intact ins/del/home/end/pgup/pgdn block sitting above the backspace key. Every one of those keys has an equivalent, but every one requires two hands to do. Since you usually (in windows at least) chord those keys with a second hand anyway, you have to make the mother of all hand contortions to do something as simple as a ctrl+home to get to the top of a document.

It's a shame. They make such good laptops, but their keyboard scheme is just a frustration bomb.

Second place: A ThinkPad X60 with this year's CPU, memory capacity and SSD.

Third place (and thus, fallback): A ThinkPad X60 for $150 of eBay, with maxed (4gb) memory and 512gb SSD.
The egg on the police's face is nothing compared to their opportunity to scare the world with their fear-quote about "organized crime inventing the next generation of weapons with 3-d printers."

...As if 3-d printers are the next generation of weapons, and not their own government in cahoots with my own government. I'll quote Company Flow here: "It takes crazy engineering to fuck with anything from quantum physics to thought transmitters."
> That Mr Levison happened to use the same SSL certs for all paying customers isn't the fault of anyone but... him.

Name me one large company using HTTPS, with separate SSL server certs for each user.

Just one. I'll wait.
But the same you can say about many other frameworks.

Knockout got attention, but there are so many frameworks that it is not so easy to see the big advantage of one.
That's right. It's not a traditional Linux distribution for desktops. It's a Linux distribution for mobile devices.
People who changed the world can be further classified into a few categories in my opinion. Includes inventors, revolutionists, philanthropists and even dictators.

Thomas Alva Edison, Alexander Graham Bell, Bill Gates, Marie Curie, Aryabhata, Mother Teresa, Wright Brothers, Henry Ford, John Vincent Atanasoff,Gutenberg, Hitler to name a few
We believe that collaborative learning (where learners and experts share/discuss/learn together) is better than a MOOC or pinterest model for life-long learning. I gave a talk to Penn State University on this topic recently - http://coil.psu.edu/2013/09/04/recording-available-redefinin...

Please feel free to shoot any questions/ideas/suggestions to help us build a great platform for learning!

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Get a length of pipe that a shotgun shell will fit in - a slightly larger length of pipe that the smaller pipe will ride in smoothly, a cap for the larger length and a nail. Attach the nail to the cap - stick the cap onto the larger pipe. Place a shell in the smaller pipe and slide it into the larger one.

It's not hugely safe, mind - but it's doable. You can see videos on youtube of people, even kids, who've made them.

http://youtu.be/7Va87gB_4AI
Nice, down voted for speaking the truth. Let me try again with a bit more detail.

Look, if you do not like a product then do not buy it. That is the way it works. Apple makes higher priced higher quality kit and they charge for it. If you are not willing to pay for that then buy something else. If the world agrees with you then they will start to loose sales and change the thing that bugged you. I for one have no issues paying for the level of quality and service I get from Apple. In the life time of the device I buy that extra 10% just does not really matter.
They can react quicker, but can they react correctly.
What if a cow starts ramming the side of the car? Did the programmers account for that eventuality?
The IntelliJ Scala plugin is actually very good. We didn't have any strict conventions, just code reviews and good taste. Our devs didn't have any major trouble, but your experience may be different.
That's the problem your a techie and if your founding a techie company non-MS solutions will work. But if your running a business that's not techinical think insurance agency, mortgage company, etc. You would go down to "best buy" buy a couple of windows boxes run your loan officer product on windows and try not to think about technology again. Where I work we have a product that runs java on the server but requires IE as the browser. 5 prod websphere servers 700 windows boxes for the users. On the development boxes we run tomcat but if there's a production issues they want to be able to call microsoft or IBM.Also, your going to train 700 users to use linux on the desktop. Besides can you lease linuxs boxes from Dell?
Not only are quitters a large, important subgenre, but so are people warning others not to go—like I do: http://jseliger.wordpress.com/2012/05/22/what-you-should-kno... , and like half a dozen others do in various links from that essay.

If so many people are quitting and/or warning others off the path, there may be a good reason why.

This especially stands out from the article:

Academe is a profession full of erudite free-thinkers who feel disillusioned by a toxic labor system in which criticism is not tolerated—so those who leave often relish the newfound ability to say anything they want (talking about “a friend” here). In its insularity and single-mindedness, academe is also very similar to a fundamentalist religion (or, dare I say, cult), and thus those who abdicate often feel compelled to confess.

"A fundamentalist religion:" if so, each heretic who saves someone else is doing important work. If enough people do so, the message might get out; it certainly has for law schools: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/20/business/for-lsat-sharp-dr....

Anyway, it does seem like academia has grown increasingly exploitative along many measures, especially for workers and grad students. The more people who know before they start, the better.
Until you have to cooperate on writing. Then google docs becomes massively superior.
Thanks for flagging this.

The version of the specs published to knockoutjs.com didn't match the final release. I've just updated them. Please let us know if anything is still failing, preferably at https://github.com/knockout/knockout/issues
It's correct spelling is Nikola Tesla, but yes, he is the enabler of modern society and the way we live today.
It really would be good to know definitively if this hackathon allows "mobile applications" that are web-based (not just native).
The Whiteboard Essays: How to keep your audience focused
Because your settings won't always be the same as your production machine if you run a Mac?
Also that sentence has a strong implication that new developers are smarter than the old ones. Just because they choose one technology over another. I am personally well aware of Scala features, yet I choose C#.
I love Knockout for the same reason. I can integrate it into my existing architecture very quickly, and it doesn't have any opinions on the rest of my application structure. I find myself coming back to it on almost every project, because it's so handy when I need it, and out of the way when I don't.
How are you blocking them? Sites blocked by RequestPolicy and Ghostery don't show up.
If you like frameworks that do one thing, and one thing well, then you'll like knockout. Amazing data-binding system
UK police cast doubt on 3D-printed 'gun parts'
The Oatmeal has a nice comic about him: http://theoatmeal.com/comics/tesla
Not really. The first rule of driving a car, is assume that everyone else driving a car is trying to kill you, is blind and is absolutely rubbish at driving.

If you keep that rule in mind at all times, you'll be pretty safe.

I would absolutely trust a random driver far more than a self driving car.
My money is so far on Darkleech apache module[1] as the cause. As far as I know it's still unclear how the attacker gains root access to the server to do the install.

[1]http://malwaremustdie.blogspot.com/2013/03/the-evil-came-bac...
It doesn't completely ignore the case, it just doesn't allow you to have two different files with the same case.

We've had a couple hiccups going from Mac to Linux because of this (if you call a folder 'Assets' and there's already one called 'assets', you're going to get two distinct folders on your Linux server and scratch your head for a while until you figure out why something didn't change), but you mostly don't have to worry too much about it.
I haven't tried Idea for Scala recently (last time I tried it was much worse than Eclipse), but incremental compile in Eclipse is so fast that I basically do not notice it. Or were you talking about full compile times? These are rarely needed.
This gets sorted out in court. All that's happened here is the police have seized some things under PACE as part of an unrelated raid and put out an excitable press release.
You forgot the most important one:

"Apple removing features is what allows it to push forward so much faster than Microsoft"

In the same way that Mail.app has made CRAZY progress since RSS has been kicked out to everyone's applause... sigh
Thank you! Perhaps you could add it to the blog post? A lot of (print)designers basically never test anything. ;-)
Why didn't the White House use WordPress for healthcare.gov?
".NET stack to OSS"

This does not make any sense whatsoever since e.g. ASP.NET MVC is OSS. Why don't you say ".NET stack to JVM stack"? Because it doesn't make your choice sound intrinsically better?
Meet the Private Companies Helping Cops Spy on Protesters
Interesting website.How is it different from Pinterest or Learnist?

http://learni.st/category/featured
Things haven't changed, using Scala doesn't offer significant benefits over Java and it is just a noisy minority that pontificate over Scala and its supposed (largely academic) benefits.

This is the thing I find most annoying regarding Scala use, and people advocating its use, it just doesn't do anything that Java can't do - plus the tooling for Java is wayyy better, there is a smaller learning curve, you can hire people to work with it and you don't spend your days endlessly debating what obscure language feature that may lead to tighter code in release 2.11.B.3.48d.M1.
Wouldn't quitting actually fix the problem? The supply side of the equation is too big at the moment.
"...it demonstrates that organised(sic) crime groups are acquiring technology...to produce the next generation of weapons."

Do people really think that some relatively low resolution plastic extrusion will be used to manufacturer high tech weapons?
Yeah, I'm thinking about going down the VM route with Ubuntu Server inside Parallels. Seems a bit of a waste of computing resources though.
It's perhaps better to look at other examples such as Twitter [1] and Foursquare. The Yammer issues largely focused on extreme edge cases for performance, which have been improved in 2.10. It's not hard to write Scala code which runs at exactly the same speed as Java code, but is more expressive.

[1] http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2013/09/the-second-comi...
Is physical security that big of a problem to solve? I think the more pressing issue would be attacks through their nice data connection.
Well this is a much better description, thanks you.

Actually I like dumbed-down explanations as an introduction to something, but also I believe they should include a description like this one at the end, for the people that want to know more.

Sorry if the hacker school bashing sounded too harsh, but I believe that a little constructive criticism once in a while helps. Also, consider it a part of becoming a hacker :)
So, the "designers" don't actually design anything? They just sell stuff at parties organised by a "hostess"?

That's my read on it. I find it puzzling at the least that the article takes no issue with this at all; it wouldn't immediately occur to me that Yahoo Small Business would publish paid placement ads as articles, but this doesn't exactly scream "reporting" to me, so I have to wonder if that's close to the truth.

If they're using "designer" as part of the pitch, then it's definitely dishonest and intentionally misleading. If that's just a term a 14 year old came up with and it's only used internally, then... I guess it's just really poor word choice.

That said, I do like the fact that when she asked for a car, her parents not only told her to buy it herself, they suggested she start a business. Too bad about the... um... less intelligent decision(s).
Article sites that her father worked for Amway which makes a lot of sense, he'd have a lot of experience in getting this kind of model of business up and running.

Regardless of shady business model, it is good to see parents encouraging and backing their kids ideas for business.
Nice, everything is passing now. Thanks!
Copernicus and Columbus - both literally changed our perception of the universe and the world.
If you're a "city" person, that may be the case. But it's a terribly big generalization to make about all younger generations.

The younger generations I know can't wait to drive, and have the freedom to travel where they want to.
>> I hope the friends of the hostess, and the hostess, know that the designer didn't actually design anything, because otherwise this feels really sleazy.

Eh, it's a social thing. This is really common among my wife and her friends (demographic: she's a 30-something dentist). They'll host parties and sell makeup, candles, handbags, etc... The hostess' or host's job is to know about the product and to have the good taste to select a nice mix of samples/demos on hand. I don't know anything about Origami Owl, but in these other niches the hostess is designing the party itself more than anything else. Everyone knows they're getting commission, discount on their own purchase, etc...
Well, technically you can now get into 10Gb for around $150 per port. http://www.amazon.com/Netgear-12-Port-ProSafe-Gigabit-Switch...
I like knockout, I'm using it on a big project at the moment. Compared to say Angular it is definitely much easier to learn.

My complaint (probably more relevant to hardwaresofton) is that I like my MVVM to have a type resolution system, ok in javascript this is hard, but if I've got one ViewModel for the NavBar, it would be nice to be able to better state the one for the MainContentArea. ko.ApplyBinding(vm, someJQuery) just doesn't strike me as elegant!
For one thing this is an unlimited supply of very good BS students from poor countries who want to get the hell out, and the time it takes to do a PhD or even a postdoc is enough time to get a real job or get married or otherwise become nationalized
There's a book on this exact subject: http://www.amazon.com/The-100-Ranking-Influential-Persons/dp...

Here is the list: http://physics.hallym.ac.kr/~physics/course/a2u/evolution/im...
You're right - 'perceived' is the operative word here. People are imagining Star Trek replicators, and that's not even close to where we're at.

The whole conversation around 3D printing reminds me a lot of personal computing in the 70s. It's a group of diehards hacking this stuff together, doing it because it's neat. There isn't a hell of a lot you can do with it yet, and no one can really predict what the future of it will be like, but everybody understands that it can be huge.
Yes.

If you have separate server certs per user (as suggested above), then you can tell which user is using the service.

If you have separate client certs per user, then you call tell which user is using the service.

The Lavabit response to the original order was not the best, IMHO. As he was in possession of the certs and private keys, he could have decrypted Snowdon's traffic himself, and handed it to the court.

Instead, he tried to hide behind a BS "it's encrypted" defence. The court called his bluff. He lost.
The real question is how much of that is actually real?

Any VC can buy 10% of a company for $10 million. Doesn't mean that it's worth $100 million.

Valuations are usually complete bullshit. I wouldn't rely on their proxy. They're just another example of the anchoring bias.
They are technologically related but you can't address them in same ethical framework.

For one thing, I think classical spying between governments is just good thing. Knowing what other sovereign actors do and think without filters removes suspicion. Government officials getting spied on just shows incompetence from those go spied and they should up their game. I think security agencies in many countries will now update their policies and get funding for doing so. It's also better understood outside intelligence communities that everyone outside Five Eye countries is considered outsider.

Also. Mass surveillance of citizens is very different from targeted surveillance of small number of suspects. Mass surveillance changes the power balance in democracy. Targeted surveillance of select number of people fits into normal intelligence work.
Well, at least they did not choose some dynamic garbage.
Alan Turing, Sigmund Freud, military innovator Jan Žižka z Trocnova a Kalicha.
In the UK we don't let a thing like "the truth" get in the way of a good story. Some bits of plastic = major news event. Manchester police should be concentrating on the real guns that are circulating in that city. Last time I was there a taxi driver told me that the police let the gangs shoot each other, and only really get involved when they turn on innocent bystanders. Sounds like they have enough to do without making problems where they don't exist.
Why is it so hard to keep your data structures immutable in C# or Java? C# (my primary language) has parallel collections as of .Net 4.0 and with .Net 4.5 you have the async keyword support on top of the TPL. Could you elaborate on the differences between Scala and C# which make Sala more preferable for you? I'm not trying to start a war on C# vs Scala, I'm genuinely interested in the differences (I enjoy learning new languages, but for the right reasons)
then again... http://theoatmeal.com/comics/columbus_day