skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks, yes, corporations do make excesses and yes, it's possible to do it responsibly.

Oh yes, most of the "personal solutions" are not really helpful (well, in a way they are, but it ends up happening over time, like using CFLs instead of incandescent lighting, etc)
Doesn't support Lotus Notes. Doh!
I believe the argument (massively simplified) goes that if the market were truly irrational someone would be able to reliably beat it and there's not much evidence that that has happened.
Immediately thought of this. I especially love how you can select the whole credit card number with Ctrl+A, even though it's spread through 4 boxes.
That's a nice position to be in. Disolve some of your shares: investors take $70 million, you take $30 million. Everyone should be very happy.

Or if you still have runway and believe in the business, keep going and raise that $100 million.

It sounds like the problem of having scaling issues: it's a problem, sure, but it means you're already a success. If you never got that $50 million to begin with because valuations weren't high, then you might be a failure now instead.
Whitey explains to a TV producer why his music isn't free
Hey jsilence, thanks for the great attitude. Which country are you based in? Is it already in our database? Let me know when you use it and I'll get you a test account :)
It seems to me the gold analogy is more applicable when storing BTC than the cash one. I might be OK storing my gold with some institutions, especially ones with a proven track record and insurance policy, but other than those few institutions, I'd probably opt for a fire proof safe (a safe rated to protect the amount of money stored).

If one were to use BTC to store vast sums of money, you can store your BTC with a traditional bank. Simply generate a wallet offline on new hardware with a relatively secure USB bootable OS, write the keys down on a piece of old fashioned paper (use carbon paper and store the copy, destroying the original) and cover with some sort of tamper proof seal. Lock inside a lead box and then put it in a safety deposit box.
When I saw it, the thing that shocked me the most was that the people around me just didn't get it. I came out of the theatre (Manns Chinese in Hollywood) dumb-founded at the snippets of conversation I heard that revealed that, honestly, kids just didn't get that the target of the satire was them.

I wasn't prepared for the enlightenment that this movie gave me. I came to realize that we were living in the exact world that the movie depicts - teenage morons controlled by masters of jingo'ism, sending their sons and daughters off to fight in totally senseless, pointless wars.

It was shocking to me that, while I was able to see that it was a political statement masquerading as sci-fi, the kids only saw it as 'dumb sci-fi'. What was going on, I wondered to myself, that there are people who really just do not get it?

That question was answered a few years afterwards, on 9/11. I'll never forget the wide-eyed enthusiasm of an 18-year old I met in the days afterwards, who was preparing his life to sign up and go to war. It reminded me precisely of that movie, and that frankly scared the hell out of me.

I'm glad that this is getting some attention now, but I fear its too late. Too many kids grew up thinking that war was good for them and good for society, and it was the only option they had for employment, after all, so why not ..
> This reminds me of the 1998 movie Enemy of the State (I know, I know its hollywood but bare with me)

All jokes aside, that is a great Tony Scotty movie and it has been acknowledged as such even by the "cocky" French cinema critics from Cahiers du Cinema.
Thank you for your advice.
The pdf version of my resume is :
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7tZUA6L0bdtSGlVQXRMYVFFdEk...

I find 4, 5 especially helpful.

For the first not-so-superficial, I know that would be helpful, but it is not urgent. I will create and manage a personal website once I start an internship.

For the second, I am kind of open to do anything depending on what position I get, but I want to focus on Java(maybe C++). Additionally, I don't think I have much time left to start learning and become good at a new language(especially web.)
There are ways to make the Internet much more secure than it is today, and implement them tomorrow, with existing protocols and encryption methods. It's just a matter of browser vendors, hosting companies and websites agreeing to do it.

That being said, I hope IETF starts working on a new highly secure Transport layer protocol to replace TCP, within the next 5 years, and I hope they use Dan Bernstein's CurveCP [1] for inspiration.

We need the Internet encrypted and secure by default, and I don't care what Google or other advertising companies have to say about it. Adapt or die. Security of the web and the protection of the human right to privacy is way, way more important in my book. If they choose to fight such a move, instead of adapting and actually supporting it, then they will have become the enemy, and they'll end up on the wrong side of history.

So IETF's goal should be to get everyone to switch to these more secure, already existing protocols, and implement them within a year, or two at most.

In the meantime work on replacing TCP within the next 5 years, and also think about ways to create a new secure-by-default and easy to implement, IP-level protocol, to be used within 10-15 years.

If we are to "take the Internet back", then it needs to stop being such an easy tool for mass surveillance, so in a way, we need to replace all of its insecure parts.

[1] - http://curvecp.org/
"but I am saying the form of argument you used is ridiculous, because I can use the same argument to defend awful things."

Except you just used a straw man. Of course it's ridiculous then.

"America as it is today wouldn't exist without slavery and Native American genocide."

Of course not. But those things went away, and the USA is still there.

But you can't have the internet without equipment, without servers built by guess who? Corporations. Take that away: no internet.
I'll support the contrary viewpoint that you should limit your audience.

You can't have a new product targeting both professionals and consumers. These are very widely different markets, that buy differently, that you'll reach differently, for which you need different messaging, features etc.

For a new product, the more targeted and focused your audience, the better.

"for professionals" for example is far from targeted enough.

"for growing startups" is a more focused audience: they tend to hang out at the same place (online on forums or offline in conferences for example) they exhibit some of the same buying behaviors, they have similar needs, etc.

Not saying "growing startups" is a good target for OP's product but just using it as an illustration.
Peter Thiel gives a great rundown on the whole biz. http://blakemasters.com/post/21869934240/peter-thiels-cs183-...

Because of power law distribution,
"... the 100th employee at Google did much better than the average venture-backed CEO did in the last decade."

So even being late on a $1b+ company is better then being first on a $100m company but orders of magnitude. And it's not worth the opportunity cost of going after $100m companies.

There are, on average, four $1b companies created each year, so being even a small part of one of those may not be as crazy as it seems. http://techcrunch.com/2013/11/02/welcome-to-the-unicorn-club...
When David Lloyd created the Guy Fawkes mask, /b/ didn't even exist.

http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20120918184420/marvel_...
I don't think people got it, simply because it hit far too close to home. The message in the film and the message in the media at the time were too closely aligned.

"Would you like to know more?" was Fox News. The movie presaged an age where knowing more actually meant: "knowing only what we want you to know" ..
People who've kept their wallets in Dropbox have found them mysteriously emptied in the past, from what I recall.
Well we normally have a time in (9am) and this is usually enforced via a fingerprint scanner and a physical attendance check by one of the admin person. There are 3 checks a day: morning, lunch, and 3pm tea break. Lunch break strictly starts at 11:45am until 12:45pm and tea break starts at 3:30pm until 3:45pm, any tardiness even 1 minute late would be reprimanded by one of the senior managers. We work until 6pm, well that was the plan, but for the most part everybody stays an hour late, but the Japanese folks in the company usually stays in until 11pm. I know this for a fact because one time I came back in the office around 10pm and everybody (Japanese) was still there (we're not allowed to access the servers remotely, any critical issues should be addressed from the office).

For the most part there's no peer pressure from my colleagues (both Japanese and non-Japanese), but the pressure comes from the senior management. My probation period was extended because of me leaving on time everyday, even though all of my tasks are completed.

I left the company for a different reason though. I applied for my honeymoon leave and got rejected twice.

(This little story is by no means a representation of all Japanese companies or all Japanese, just a retelling of my experience working for a Japanese company)
I'm very hesitant to post the name of the company because most of my experience has to do with the PM, and not the company as a whole. Although I do have some issues with how this company is run in particular, I do not want to misguide people into thinking that working at this company will be an absolute nightmare.

I have seen different dynamics on other teams within the company, but it's also not the complete picture as I am not part of those teams.

Either way, (3) is a new product, essentially a startup on it's own. There are many other such projects within the company.

It is also not a game development company.
Its not always about tech
In hindsight, I should have seen it for the terrifying homogenization of fascism that is the norm today.
>Turgid dialog, horrible acting, repugnant characters and general cheesiness.

Sorry, but this is American politics today. In that sense, the movie scored big.
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Abuse of state apparatus has been a risk throughout history. The Internet has now joined the informant, undercover agent, letter, telegram, phone, microphone and video camera as technologies of surveillance. The state has had these older options available for a long, long time and democracy has survived so far. In fact, technology allows us to implement safeguards which are more infallible than a mere human. A blacklist of current and candidate politicians, for example, would be easy to implement in software. However, the main defense against abuse has always been a system of checks and balances combined with the rule of law.
CES - Samsung's Smart Window
Did I just get tricked into registering? Well it worked. To bad the the adventure didn't continue after I edited my wikipedia profile.
Or even (it is a hotel) pump water to tanks on the roof, making a small pumped storage hydroelectric system.

Would love someone to do the comparisons of cost and energy density of all 3 solutions.
I did. That quote is from step 6. Read again - everything revolves around front-end.
Sniffing unencrypted wifi packets and (apparently accidentally) storing them is just as bad as deliberately breaking into someone else's network to steal data? Come on.

Where did I say anything like that?

Paraphrasing -, or quoting something that has absolutely no relation to what was really said is a pretty dishonest and low debating tactic in my book.
I don't get this desire for backwards compatibility. Why would you want to play a really old game on a shiny new console?

If you really did, then pick up a used ps3 or 360 for about £50 and get the PS4 later!
Big data approach to solar cells
I'm not sure about the storage issue. At least not in the EU, which has pretty heavy restrictions on data collection and storage.
What is the timeline for other European countries?

Personally, I am most interested in the Netherlands, since I am building e-commerce sites there. (And to persuade you: .nl might be a small market, in absolute numbers, but percentagewise it tops the European charts in online sales).
Frege can handle mutual recursion.

The only problematic point is recursion through a strict function argument, like in:

length (x:xs) = 1 + length xs
SpaceX wants more Software Engineers but can't convince many to move to LA
Algae colony: http://maximecb.github.io/Turing-Drawings/#5,4,3,3,0,0,3,3,4...

It's the only 5,4 one that I have found that doesn't immediately degenerate into noise (or some static image). It seems as though the more states and symbols you have the higher the chance of noise and strangely the greener it gets. I found this pretty interesting 20,19 one though: http://maximecb.github.io/Turing-Drawings/#20,19,10,1,3,5,14...
2. Affected configurations

OpenSSH 6.2 and OpenSSH 6.3 when built against an OpenSSL that supports AES-GCM.

What would be a good/simple way to test if your system is one of these? How can I check which ciphers my build of OpenSSL supports?

Edit: The following command returns nada on all my systems. I guess that puts me in the clear?

$ openssl --version 2>&1 | grep gcm
You can, but there's no way of finding out if it's true until you're there.
I would have probably left at "Stop fucking around and get shit done". I'm far from being a shy person and I do use the f. word quite often, but never have I insulted any of my colleagues nor would I ever think of doing so. That would be so un-professional and morally bad.
Nope. Oracle denied Harmony a TCK license, meaning they had no license to Java patents (and trademarks). IBM switched to OpenJDK because of this.
I still see the cuchar fail on Clang source 3.3, but maybe different on trunk.
I haven't consider doing so. I just looked up on Mozilla website, but they are only looking for students with web knowledge. I also visited Free Software Foundation's internship, but they only have unpaid internship. I am so desperate that I am considering this option, but my family would not be able to let me do this. Their HQ is in Boston.
Except Roth was full of shit on that.

See: http://old.ironholds.org/?p=979
Interview with Quantified Self Labs Director Ernesto Ramirez
Having read Alastair Reynold's stuff, I thought the idea of replicators was awesome. My current thinking is that 3d printers, if they master multiple materials, will kill off mundane manufacturing. I can't see it being a bad thing, albeit an industrial revolution style shift.
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The Telegraph is less serious/more ridiculous than the Daily Mail? I'm sorry but that is almost demonstrably absurd...

If you read the Telegraph and Guardian you expose yourself to a fairly broad spectrum of political views, all backed up by serious journalistic credentials. Obviously you have to be aware of prejudice - but this does not render the content worthless.

For instance - whilst the Telegraph is undoubtedly an outlet which leans towards a Tory hymn sheet it printed a large section on MP expenses, prominently, every day, for a month. Likewise the Guardian have been harsh critics of Labours handling of the Unions.
why is this [scribd] ?

The url looks like

http://harpers.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/HarpersMagazin...

does it mean this was somehow produced by scribd ?
I wonder if this is the realization of idea for creating more space in extra ordinarily expensive SF bay area. This barge can very easily serve as new office/commercial space in the city where every inch counts. A barge of this size can accommodate roughly 500 office workers as per my rough quick and dirty back of the envelop calculation. The cost of the "land" is simply the cost of the barge which is made using recycled shipping containers. I bet this would be magnitude cheaper than cost of actual land in same nearby area.
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Well it was clear from WW2 records that British were not willing to pay India even for the support India gave to them during the war. They only relented in the face of American pressure. Records also show that much of the 'development' in India such as railways was made practicable by Indian capital and labor, while the rewards of it all went directly to finance the Industrial Revolution in the west. The 'why' of this mindset of take-take only became clear to me when I followed events after the British losses of American colonies.

When any side feels the dominant emotion of 'loss', it makes it do selfish things to avoid future losses. But that extracts more losses from the other side and so the cycle can continue.

In the light of all that history, which current Indians being on the receiving side remember more than the British, any help the British give to India is at least perceived by India in a positive way.

As to the extent of the monetary help - its effect is limited by the ability of the recipient to absorb it. For analogy, YC reduced the investment into each startup down from $150k as it made things worse, not better.
Startup's Craigslist ad for engineer makes me want to quit my high-paying job
Don't hide, you're beautiful.
There was a comment on this page that just disappeared when I tried to reply to it - not [deleted], just gone. id=6695365. And nothing obviously trollish about it to merit deleting. Database problem?
What was so honorable about his intentions? From what I read about the plot, they were essentially replacing an oppressor for another.
This guy will try to get Google Glass every day till the new year comes
Ink... a web design framework, developed in Portugal and available for a year now. http://ink.sapo.pt

It's very naughty, what you're doing.
MySpace sold in 2005 for $580MM. In 2007 they had $550MM in revenue, and in 2008, $900MM.

I know you were being snarky, but those numbers are pretty solid. Probably not the best counterexample.

Snapchat has the same demographic, but it's now much larger and their users are spending way more time in the app.

"Toys are not really as innocent as they look. Toys and games are preludes to serious ideas.”
Another bug:

Click on security code question mark, then change type of the card - two "cards" appear for a second on the right than the old one disappears.
That's why i like C; you never bitch about such things, you just do your own list;

In C++ you are supposed to reuse standard abstractions; So you can
- do your own std::list; (still have to copy iterators and everything into it;-)
- do your own wrapper around std::list that exposes a weaker interface,
- make your own list and everybody start to bitch that you are reinventing the wheel.
Sorry if I offend anyone, but I would be ruthless: warning probably before taking any action. Money is a limited resource and you need to spend it building something cool: both product as employees. Remember if you're getting drain out, the rest of the employees are or some of them will be in the same situation.

Paying someone to drain you off is not what anyone would want nor the nod-like person. One thing is having someone who may play devil's advocate and a totally different story is having someone who has an attitude and manners problem.
Ernest Stunhinger's letter to a nun in Africa
When will the Bitcoin bubble burst?
Hey, I’m the developer of jQuery Credit Card Validator. Thanks for using it!

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haha, i was just working on emails, and now i see this framework. May be it will save me some effort. WOrth checking out.
> Can someone explain why a fund cannot be structured to make wins at the $100m level as opposed to the $1b level?

There are plenty, they are called "Angel Investors" and they look for 5x - 10x return (or less, or more, depending on what kind of person they are).
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Knowing that the movie was coming prompted me to read the book first, having seen it discussed fondly.

I enjoyed the book, but was surprised by its unfashionable celebration of martial values: in particular a viewpoint about the necessity and inevitability of war. They couldn't possibly get that into a modern mass-market sci-fi action flick, I thought.

But Verhoeven did! And he managed to work in overlapping layers of both respect and criticism for the militaristic source material. He makes the jingoism and quasi-fascism alternately seem attractive, clownish, revolting, and necessary.

Preserving some of the book's rhetorical case for warmaking, even though Verhoeven also simultaneously mocks that case, is a subversive achievement as interesting, and in a way as faithful to the book's ideas, as a film featuring more of the "super suits" and infantry-tactics would have been.
Hmmm. There are music & video search tabs in my (12.04) dock that do seem to search out online. The music purchase links go to http://one.ubuntu.com though. The video searches seem to go to BBC iPlayer & YouTube.

Your settings tweaks don't work on 12.04 - any idea how I would go about disabling this?

(The settings schema "com.canonical.Unity.Lenses" doesn't exist on my system.)
The 2013 Kernel Summit
SmoothVideo Project - motion estimated frame interpolation in real-time
So, this is like InK, the responsive framework from SAPO launched over an year ago http://ink.sapo.pt/, for E-mail... with the same name... and the same grid concept. Neat.
While we are playing cat-and-mouse with our own government, why don't we also make the NSA's activities illegal and/or enforce existing laws which already state as much?

Articles like these presume that it is OK for the government to access whatever it can technically get its hands on, in spite of Constitutional constraints and laws that do or should state otherwise.
Those are still virtual, just no one else is on your box.
Note that testing/jessie and sid are vulnerable. Not that anybody should run a server with testing, but still :)
You probably weren't the first, and that's why they are not responding - I would expect they are already speaking to someone...
I find it hard to see them as a threat to industrial manufacturing. Is there anything that a 3D printer can produce for cheaper and/or creating less pollution, if we account for the shipping of raw materials to a person's house and give any value to his or her time assembling things?
Because maybe I've already got $1000 invested in games I'd like to keep playing?

Well, I understand the clean break was necessary .. since their architecture strategy sort of requires it .. but its still a nuisance that we're confronted with yet more consumerist ideals being marketed as 'features'.