skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> “everyone was stupid but me,” “no one wanted to hear the truth,” etc.

I feel bad now. Even though I would never talk like this I can't help but feel this way sometimes at my current job. I feel like I am genuinely asked to do retarded shit sometimes, and no one else seems to mind.
Xbox One vs. PS4: Microsoft More Profit Per Console
You seem to be the only person in this thread who has grasped this idea; though instinctively to me it feels another formalism like LC is the wrong way to go.
Bitcoin's rise in value will reflect the same curve that rise of information has taken:

http://peculium.net/2013/04/08/bitcoin-is-a-bubble-only-if-y...

Straight up is also a curve.
What about surveillance by Google itself? What we should be asking ourself is how do we improve https://duckduckgo.com ? or something similar.
Interesting but I wonder how accurate it really is. Two (at a minimum) of the metrics in their average can't really be used to measure popularity (of use):

- Number of mentions of the system on websites

- General interest in the system

There are two different problems with these metrics:

- Both will include people who have negative opinions of the system. There's no effective way to separate out the people who are discussing their distaste for a system (remember comcastsucks.com?).

- Both are subject to misrepresentation caused by external factors such as the quality of the system's documentation, use of forums for support and how consistent the system is in general. Some systems require much more research to be run in a stable fashion.

I've used Oracle, PostgreSQL and CouchDB extensively and MySQL plus a couple other to a (much) lesser extent and I get the sense that the rankings are in the right order (I have no idea about MSSQL) but I doubt that the scale is so logarithmic.
Debugging severe memory corruption or memory leaks is annoying, and can occasionally take a lot of time, but it's not necessarily that bad. Here are some pointers that may be helpful.

Tools: valgrind and gdb are obvious. But don't forget your compiler! Crank up the warnings, and look through LLVM-clang's -fsanitize=<foo> and warning options. (Also, if you're already on OpenBSD, check out the "S" flag to malloc; if you're on Solaris, check out, well, the blog post.) Finally, Boehm's conservative garbage collector has a "find memory leaks" mode, which looks useful for those cases where you can't get valgrind working. If all else fails, shovel through the memory dump looking for repeated patterns.

Testing: try to reproduce the problem; the first iteration may look something like "it runs out of memory after 36 hours". Then simplify: for instance, the author of the article could have asked "does this still happen if the server closes the connection immediately, without sending any data" and would have found the bug very quickly. (Of course, you're likely to ask a lot of wrong questions before hitting on the right one; experience and a full knowledge of the system you're working on is useful but not sufficient.) Questions like "does this happen more quickly if we ping 100 times per second instead of once every ten minutes" are often useful as well. (Finally, just printing memory usage every N seconds is helpul.)

Coding: be careful when writing code. The usual ways of improving code quality (e.g. code reviews) work to reduce memory leaks, too. Try to run a multiple-hour soak test every so often during development (preferably on a CI server); it's a lot easier to debug "hey, we suddenly run out of memory after yesterday's commits" than "well, something goes wrong in production". If you're doing new development, consider alternatives to malloc() - arena/pool allocation (e.g. libtalloc) is convenient and very fast if your memory use is tree-like (e.g. a connections owns a request owns some memory to sort the data before returning it). In C, goto a single chunk of cleanup-and-return code rather than duplicating the cleanup at every place where you exit from the function.
The meaning in modern English is not the same as the Latin. It is well explained at your link!

To be clear, it does not simply mean 'thus' when it is used in English text.
Redundant information. I already knew I was an asshole.

#winning
I really like it so far, I actually had an idea that was very very similar concept but mine would have also included the ability to journal about your travels/destinations and journal entries would be tagged/associated with different albums, places etc.

By adding in journaling you provide users the ability to tell more of a story and remembering the story is one of the main reasons someone would use this service over FB or flickr. Like antoinec said, you should either do away with the small thumbnails in between the large photos or if you adopted the journaling concept, have a two options for that intermediate view, See Photos or See Journal entries (possibly with photos embedded). Best of luck!
> Ask about the skills they admire and the skills they wish they had more of. A–holes usually are not very introspective

I hate when amateurs try to psychoanalyze other people, or put any sort of faith in their theories. Reading people is hard.
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Would it be so vulgar and inappropriate to spell out "asshole" in the title? I find this "a-hole" masquerade just silly.
Initially this is depressing until you see where he is going. I think Oculus and VR in general will change the gaming industry.
“Multics Emacs proved to be a great success — programming new editing commands was so convenient that even the secretaries in his office started learning how to use it. They used a manual someone had written which showed how to extend Emacs, but didn't say it was a programming. So the secretaries, who believed they couldn't do programming, weren't scared off. They read the manual, discovered they could do useful things and they learned to program.” — http://www.gnu.org/gnu/rms-lisp.html

You also assume that programmability implies complexity, which is the argument I tried to refute …
And the third can be a real strain on the wrist.
That doesn't mean you are an asshole. I could be the smartest (I don't think calling people stupid is a good way of putting it) person in the company/department and you could be in a position that requires you to do pointless stuff that your skill level is much higher than.

I would suggest that if you feel this way for more than a couple of months then perhaps you should look at finding another place to work. Being smart doesn't make you an asshole. Just don't bad mouth your previous colleagues.

If someone I interview is to say that they "grew beyond the technical capabilities of the role and the company was unable to support further growth of my skill set due to the direction the business was going" then I am cool with that. It happens. Hell it SHOULD happen. You should out grow your old position if you want to move up. It is all in the way you not only say it but how you BELIEVE it too. If you just say something like the sentence I wrote above but really believe that you are some "rock star" and everyone else is an idiot then I am probably gonna pick up on it even if you phrase it in a nicer way.
Strict transport security (http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_Strict_Transport_Securit...) is an attempt to prevent exactly this. However assuming that the user is always on a MITM'd connection, a preloaded list in the browser becomes necessary.
The rise of Neomorons.
People that don't know anything about monarchy, want to be a new aristocracy.
Following that advice will create a bland company of mediocre people. But hey, no a-holes! </sarcasm> :-)

To me the evidence to how misguided this advice is, is that the author first assumes people are assholes (so it's a quality of the person), but in the last section they assume that it is useful to give "stern feedback" so people can correct their behavior... so people behave as assholes and are free to change if they choose.

Which brings me to the other point. What if these people were the most important contributors in the past jobs? What if theirs skills are more important than the rest? Should they describe themselves as simply "part of a team"? That would be completely hypocritical.

Equally, all the markers they give are completely unqualified by ifs and caveats, and as such are very misguided.

Here's how you don't hire an asshole. imo:

* You use your own empathy to understand if you can work with this person, if they fit culturally

* You look for lack of empathy in the candidate because that's the sure sign of a person that will break your culture eventually

(I would not hire someone with a similar blog post)
how legit is this?
because I'd love to buy me some bitcoins right now
Surprised to see some techcrunch article that appears to be more substantive than just another rewritten fluff piece. But it seems to pushing very much the narrative towards the "racists" angle.
It's OK to feel that way, just don't say it in an interview.

I have had people in interviews confess to me that they are (1) subordinate to their spouse, (2) very concerned about personal safety in a big city, and (3) afraid of scorpions. These are OK things for those people to feel, but to bring them up in an interview does not improve their chances.
Starts well, then perhaps facing a looming deadline, concludes, actually they're just racists, the end. Weak article about an interesting subculture.
So your definition of irony is "an event which shares a trait with another event"?
Nobody knows the future. Especially not people speculating on a cryptocurrency that's breaking new ground.

Fair comment: I own bitcoins and plan to keep them for quite a while yet.
I think i agree with you.
Here is my analysis:

Time: 17:30 - 1738

roughly 5pm europe time, past the 9-5 general business hours . If all the parties or just the reciepients are based in europe, between legal and illegal.. I would tap this as illegal. It just doesn't make sense.. for someone doing a legal transfer of this size, after business hours, unless.. senders were based in US.

Going through the direct senders (1 step back), the time with least 1k BTC+ transactions was 0200, 0400, 0500.. while with most big transactions were made around 1300, 1500, 2100 .. suggesting that these transaction were roughly either made from US to Europe, if of legal nature.. or within europe.. suggesting something shady. Very very crudely speaking.

Yeah, everything is possible, and the above is not necessarily true, but it appears so, at least to me.

Amount: 194k bitcoins

Multiple connected accounts who sent to the above address seems to have had 220k+ in total recieved and looking at denomination, it didn't seem like lot of normal people were involved. Besides, with this kind of money involved it is wise to have 10 or less people involved who are highly trusted. This appear so also, with how countable no of bitcoin addresses were used to say "bounce" the trace of that money. Skill wise, these are not normal people.. but given HOW this ended up in public domain, they could have done slightly better.

I get the feeling you get from govt hired people doing such things, no offense.. but somewhere below the elite, but above the average joe. It is also possible that a bigger or equal (more likely) sum was also transferred elsewhere.

Movement seem to have stopped.. due to attention it has already garnered or is it the actual resting place? If it would be illegal, one would have had no problem keeping it in multiple bitcoin wallets in smaller amounts. But if it is someone, with legal force on side.. say govt agency, it would not have problem leaving the bitcoins in such limelight, for a long time, as long as they believe that bitcoin is actually 100% and not 99.9999999% impregnable.

Motive, as discussed slightly above, can be mainly either "convenience of centrality" > or > "hiding a bigger sum" .. well I at least won't be putting my money in BTC for my own reasons. I got that feeling today to use it.. but I resisted.

BTC is genuine, but the currently it seems like a pyramid fraud system which is perfectly legal strictly speaking. More people putting in money in BTC system.. already rich getting richer.. tickle down effect :? Well 150 million.. has really left a lot of questions .. or its nature, motive, ownership, moral, etc. Who would answer? No one.. ironically.. thats a big problem as well a big benefit of BTC. I'm sorry.. lot of things I said above are based on feelings, but to tell you the truth, before today, BTC was in a nutshell somewhat easy to understand.. but 150 million.. is a figure that can give any guy a lot of different vibes, speculative as well as wild goose chase type.
It's pure speculation if not wishful thinking by someone who likely has a lot of BTC they'd like to see continue to rise.

No one can, with any certainty, predict the future like this article claims to be able to do.
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As a PhD, I get the thought. But then I have to wonder: why stop there?

There are a lot of lazy and functionally useless PhDs out there.
Hiring primer:

1. Hire based on ability, experience, and if the candidate has a good attitude and approach.
2. Hire based on company and team fit - this does not mean six of the exact same profile (i.e 3.25 years J2SE developer from a tech background), but instead look to build a well-rounded team with a variety of backgrounds and approaches to tackling the project. But they should all be able to sing the same song, even if in different keys, it is no good where each sings a good but unique and competing song.
3. Do not discriminate, especially in a so-called "positive" way. It is just bad policy.
4. If you say your company will provide training, make sure you do.
5. Avoid bell-curve based staff evaluation schemes.
6. No point number six, the first five should be enough!
> By the theory of SSL, an 'attacker' is not supposed to have control over a 'trusted' CA, so SSL is 'supposed to' protect against this.

Every major government has a CA cert in your browser. SSL was obviously designed to be subverted in exactly this way. You won't even get a warning. Google pins their own certs in their own browser, but Moxy's Convergene.io or something like TACK would need to be implemented by Google and Mozilla for you to have a fighting chance.
Simple. Take them out to dinner and see how they treat the servers
Calling Ison the comet of the century is not very helpful, it creates great expectations for a comet which so far has been very disappointing. So far it has been very underwhelming vs. earlier predictions. Hopefully on the other side of the sun it will do something great, if it survives, but I don't think very many astronomers think that's terribly likely.
I find myself downright inspired as a family man.
I have been tracking this story for six months.

Comets are notoriously fickle, and many astronomers are doubtful about ISON living up to its billing, but here's hoping ISON lives up to its "Comet of the Century" billing. Would make for an awesome display. Perhaps even daylight visible. Way cool.
"Trusting your instincts" is a double edge sword.

I don't consider myself to have an extensive experience with a broad range of people. So trusting my instincts would not have been a good measuring stick whether I am interviewing an a-hole or a team-player.
Wow, I like this a lot thanks. Something to add to my "file"
The second word is invisible to fools.
“To an observer from the medieval or Renaissance world of monarchies and empires, the stability of democracies would seem utterly supernatural,” he wrote. “Imagine telling Queen Elizabeth I – whom as we saw above suffered six rebellions just in her family’s two generations of rule up to that point – that Britain has been three hundred years without a non-colonial-related civil war. She would think either that you were putting her on, or that God Himself had sent a host of angels to personally maintain order.”

Ergo why the elite love democracies - they hold the power and keys while the people think they're the ones in control.

Privatize the gains, publicize the losses.

Divide and conquer the people through the illusory red team versus blue team paradigm, all the while everyone is robbed blind with nary a hope for real change.
The article just supposes that Bitcoin is the next big thing and then it portrays where we might be in terms of adoption if indeed the supposition is right.

But I would rather want to know why people are adopting Bitcoin and what they are exchanging it for. That way I could truely understand the Bitcoin economy and whether it is actually the next big thing or not.

I don't want to be a harsh critic but I always get my hopes up for nothing with these kind of articles.
It's actually a 'summation'. The context is far stronger than a simple re-wording (or paraphrase in the ordinary sense). I agree it begs for a deeper review of the original source. The lead in reads: Written as an agency mission statement with broad goals, the five-page document said that...

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/summation
Never happened.

http://www.snopes.com/business/genius/where.asp

That page does suggest a possible origin for the (equally apocryphal) Picasso fable, though, in a quote from James McNeill Whistler.
Do you think the price of bitcoins will rise over the next x years? What value of money y could you lose and be able to shrug it off?

Buy $y of bitcoins, and write yourself a guarantee that you'll sell it in today + x years.

Value for me a while ago of y was $1,500 and x was five years, and I buy $150 a month every month on the same day, with a get-out clause at a specific valuation.
The article asserts this:

"All technologies eventually become outdated"

There are easy counterexamples:

* Wheels

* Fire

* Knives

These are technologies that predate written records (did I mention writing as another example?) yet they all remain use and are actually fundamental in our daily lives. I am not going to claim that fiat currency will be so enduring, but I see no reason to assume that it will be replaced by anything short of a post-scarcity age.
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A.C.L.U. lawsuit finally exposes the NSA's data sweep to opposing argument
Re: "[ ] The most significant program written in your language isn't even its own compiler"

There's a great quote by someone which Googling can't find, that goes along the lines of: "a language whose own compiler isn't written in itself is beneath contempt."
The Diamond Age was a documentary?
Neomorons are a more apt name.
A Bayesian Model for an Increasing Function (using Stan)
On the we vs I point, there is a class of interview where you get marked down for using we instead of emphasizing your own contribution. I'm thinking of the competency based interview that is typical of internal positions and promotion boards in big companies. If someone has been through a lot of them, they may be inclined to emphasize their own contribution over the team. The feedback I got on my first failed promotion interview mentioned too much we and not enough I!
soo, who is your admired leaders?
ok,just kidding but do not say that in a interview.
Someone said that current BTC is more like to target of speculation/venture rather than a device for exchange because it's too unstable.

He also said, if you want speculative investment, do whatever on BTC. But if you want a real money for value exchange, BTC is not yet for that.

I think that sounds reasonable.
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Have you enabled the GC? Some default configs disable the PHP GC because it's SOP to run temp startups (eg mod_php) or restart them on a regular basis (like you).
How did I not know this was a thing?
Doesn't work on mobile and the year is 2013. Fail.
fire superseded by central heating and electric fires

knives superseded by guns (weapons) and fork (cutlery).

I'll give you the wheel only because I'm still waiting for my hovercar
How does bundler do its magic?
"Where did this money come from?"

I guess, not from you. Is that the reason to question it?

"Was tax paid?"

What makes you think that this money supposed to be taxed?
Yeah, this ain't so good.

First, "asshole" and "people who don't collaborate well" are not the same. "Assholes" are people who piss other people off. "People who don't collaborate well" can be any number of things. Mostly shy folks, in my experience.

Second, pissing people off isn't that bad of a trait -- as long as you are a friendly person and mean well. People will forgive a plethora of communication faults if you put their interests first and genuinely care about them. So what you're really wanting to avoid is "selfish assholes"

Finally, there's a tremendous danger in avoiding conflict in companies. Healthy conflict is a good thing, and over time we tend to want to hire people that mostly agree with us and are always on our side. This is a terrible thing to have, because it limits your creative potential. Give me a mixed team of radically different personality types and political leanings, all willing to push and be gruff with each other, yet all in good sport. We call this "passionate opinions, lightly held"

So no, the goal here isn't just to identify douchebags and keep them from the room. The goal is to maximize the mental diversity while maintaining civility and a family-like atmosphere. Much tougher.
That's human biodiversity advocates.
You're not on LessWrong? They're a plague there. (Though note in the comments where Eliezer specifically disclaims neoreaction.)
No salt.. It's sad that we now have to salute something like that after the Adpbe breach. Decent hashing and salting should be something standard, normal, not worthy of praise.
Wtf is the internet?
Photographer wins $1.2M from companies that took pics off Twitter
Some consider it profanity. It doesn't bother me reading a post with a few s' or f' words. I myself tend when the point I'm making calls for it to write a few.

However, some really go over the top and it becomes irritating to read either both ways whether it's spelled out or masqueraded. So I guess it's a personal preference.
You might be interested in the post we wrote about the Github MITM attack in China: https://en.greatfire.org/blog/2013/jan/china-github-and-man-...
When people say that freedom and democracy are incompatible, I wonder what it is they are wanting to do.
If Gmail didn't work 9% of the time, nobody would use it.
Do you believe they're not? It may not be the primary motive, but from all I've read, most are indeed racist and would not deny it.
Napster Documentarian's Next Project: The Untold Story of Bitcoin
"Ironically" is a word that you see and hear frequently in everyday english. I think its interesting how varied people's concept of irony is for such a common word. From what I can tell most people's definition is something between "serendipity's evil twin" and "partially related." It seems in this case OP thinks the definition is the latter. I think that sooner or later "ironically" is going to have the same fate as "randomly," ("It is so random we ran into you, we were just talking about you.) which I think has zero meaning in conversational english.

To be honest i think most people's definition of irony is largely shaped by Alanis Morissette's terribly misinformed but catchy song and the hipster d-bag that says he has an "ironic mustache."

I think it is the evolution of language that is interesting? It seems like we have a case of the more a word is used the definition becomes less concise until it carries no meaning. There has to be some linguistic jargon for this type of situation.
Even if you're not that interested in neoreactionary stuff, reading the linked anti-reactionary FAQ by Scott Alexander [1] is quite interesting. Fair warning though - it's huge.

[1] http://slatestarcodex.com/2013/10/20/the-anti-reactionary-fa...
I thought the recent rule changes allowed this now... isn't this what Angel List is essentially doing?
1M queries of what? Group by, 50 table joins or simple select count(*)?