skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the more disturbing trend would be the personal data they post on the company site.

Name and photo? I guess that's kind of standard (even if not the best privacy-wise)...

But your personal cell number? Someone please find the companies in question so we can grab the CEO's phone number and tell him that's not okay.
60fps in Chrome on MBP 15"
$350 is almost twice the price. I agree that I would rather have the Nexus 5 (and do), but I'm really into these kinds of things. Even if you don't give a crap about phones, you can probably drop $179.
The problem with this line of reasoning is that it simply hands power to those who already have other forms of monopoly or property.

Intellectual property increases freedom by creating a form of property that individuals can create without needing to own a scarce resource. People can become property owners simply through usefully employing power of their intellects.

If you dislike this form of property, then you must articulate an alternative way to divest power from those who hold other forms of property, otherwise you are merely a defender of landowners, governments, corporate monopolists and other vested interests.
>I’m deep into my second pivot, and haven’t yet delivered an exit two years after that initial money ...

>I’m confident I will (deliver an exit) - I bust my ass every day - but I haven’t yet.

That confident are we?
>I have the opposite reaction to this posting: Penny Arcade are being abundantly clear and transparent about the requirements and drawbacks of the role.

Given what the requirements and the drawbacks are, that's just marginally better than not being clear.

To give an extreme example to make this clear, I'm not going to be lauded by putting up an ad like: "I'm a old-style racist, and want a black person to serve as my personal assistant. No salary given. Must do as told".
If I don't win (and I don't deserve to) I give all my points to Rich Hickey.
It's definitely a big step down from a Moto G though. A Moto G could have been a flagship-level phone a year and a half ago...
The purpose of borrowing from your parents is different, though. The transfer of wealth from parent to sybling via "paying for" college is (as you rightly point out) not really a loan, but a type of "grant". More specifically, its one that is both socially acceptable and tax beneficial[1].

The logic of Romney's positin on borrowing is that it is <market efficient>. That is to say, the parent has more information on the borrower than a bank, and therefore is in a better position to measure risk and avoid the typical market failures that correlate with the type of non-stochastic uncertainty that cling to first-time founders with no track record[2]. Your parents have much lower information gathering costs and monitoring costs than a bank, in other words. Also, since the return on the investment can be higher than what that money would otherwise get in a normal debt investment, the idea would be a win/win also in theory for the parents. This is, even with a true debt structure (ie, repayment with interest) which is again different from the way many parents 'pay' for college.

[1] Gifts over 10k are taxable.

[2] This is not technology risk, which is a different ball of wax. This is the risk that would keep a bank lending you money for a low-tech business, like a lemonade stand.
Salesforce was started by an Oracle VP, and Ellison was one of the early investors in it. It's not really surprising they used Oracle for some of their infrastructure.
I was thinking the same thing. They could give away three million in new prizes. It's worth the PR that it will buy. It only takes a few lost contracts for them to lose more than that in goodwill.
I see your point. We are comparing a specific sequence of bits to a physical earthly material. Not really the same thing.
I must admit I'm very confused by the "Internet of Things". It seems largely to be a ploy by big data and cloud infrastructure types to hype investment in their sectors to absorb information from dumb yet internet connected sensors, whereas what it should be is smart end devices, yet conspicuously there isn't much in the way of development in the edge devices, while the cloud services are all ready and waiting, to do . . . what exactly?

With the NSA stuff having tarnished the word "cloud" maybe the marketers are hoping Internet of Things will divert attention away from the fact that they're suggesting even more invasion of privacy.
Everybody hold tight for 1.1. I managed to get the git prompt working
https://f.cloud.github.com/assets/2674600/1549691/1e3f6c02-4...
Right, that's kind of a difference between the WalMart offer and the Penny Arcade offer. Anybody who gets the job at Penny Arcade has many other good options.
> I’m confident I will - I bust my ass every day - but I haven’t yet.

Busting your ass isn't going to make a bad idea any better. I took a look at your lobster schtick and think you need to go back to the drawing board.
I guess I never thought about it this way. The only time I ever did anything significant with my non-dominant hand was when I used to play lacrosse, and I had to shoot and throw the ball using both my left and right hands. Of course the purpose of this was trite; become harder to defend.

Anyway, using my non-dominant hand for trivial activities sounds fun. At the very least, should I lose my dominant hand in a light saber duel in the future with a man who claims to be my father, I'll know I've got an adequate backup.
Better yet - happy to meet for coffee if you're interested and in SF. Bit of background - closed business with 26 of the Fortune 100. I'm the rare sales rep who gets pull requests from customers :) Email in profile.
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> Everyone is free, or not, to go along with what they want.

But in America, with no social safety net, the alternative is not pretty.

Reading about unpaid internships, Wal-mart having food drives for their employees and McDonald's recommending employees get a second job makes me sick to my stomach.

The very fact that people even take these jobs is proof they don't have another choice - what sane person would work these jobs if they had a viable alternative - any alternative.
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intriguing, please expand.
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That's a viable argument, certainly. But for the Supreme Court to read into the Constitution a right that isn't plainly in the text (as it did with the right to abortion in Roe v. Wade),[1] it's not enough to just present a viable argument. You need the weight of social and academic consensus. You need the majority of people to firmly believe that something should be a new social norm.

In this context, the social norm you're trying to establish is that internet communications are to be kept private, even sacrosanct. The idea of someone reading their e-mail should give people the same feeling as the idea of someone looking into their bathroom window.

You can't rest such a social norm on fine distinctions between the government and private companies. Ordinary people do not hold the government in a unique position of mistrust, and so are not likely to find compelling a norm that only the government must observe. As soon as you say: "well, Google can read my e-mail because I can always choose to use a different provider," you open yourself up to the counter that "well, unlike Google the government has a unique obligation to protect us from terrorists, so it needs to be able to read our e-mail too!"

When it comes to the establishment of a new social norm, it's irrelevant that people are theoretically free to choose a provider that does not violate their privacy. As long as the vast majority of the popular services leverage private data, the social norm that will emerge is that online communications are not something that should be held sacrosanct. As long as people are conditioned to accept Googles' reading their e-mails to target advertising, they will not think of e-mail as a deeply private thing that must be protected, even from the government.

[1] Whether you think Roe v. Wade was correctly decided or not, it's hard to argue that the result was plainly in the text of the Constitution. In Griswold, Justice Douglas didn't rely on "penumbras" and "emanations" despite having clear Constitutional text to hang his hat on!
Nobody's talking about looking at the code — the issue here is redistributing it on a platform outside of the author's control.
Nothing actually, but you do not have to do it yourself. There is quite a lot of configuration and so on.
But if you already have this setup, no big reason to switch.
via reductio ad absurdum, do you also think it's alright to reappropriate swaths of CSS, HTML, and images from other people's web designs?
Oh, for sure. But it's still a very capable phone - my point was more that if the price is your number one concern then there are cheaper-still options. I'm tempted to buy one just to have around as a backup / to play with Windows Phone.
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Cool game. I also had a string of very easy questions early on that almost made me leave the page, so I think calibrating the difficulty is important. Maybe even start presenting harder or easier questions based on how the user has been performing.
That's some great news, thanks a lot for the heads up and the great work you guys are doing! I'm really looking forward to what Docker and its ecosystem is becoming - I think it's already quite obvious that it will revolutionize the way people think about linux application rollout - both from the user- as well as the application developer's perspective. It might even make 2014 the year of the linux desktop ;-).
Yes, this is right. An angel or early investor should not be <expecting> any capital return until a proper exit. Especially if that "return" is coming from incremental capital being raised by the startup. Later in the game, when the business is de-risked and there is more demand for the company than shares to be sold, things may be different. This is why you see late-stage mezzainine investments that might take out early investors before an IPO. That is merely because those guys are momentum players, and the original investors' work in taking the actual risk of the business has been already done.
>This confuses me, because its as if the author tries to force his valuation of the opportunity onto all prospective applicants.

Perhaps it's rather as the author believes in an objective reality, where there is one true valuation of a thing, and he's not so much trying to "force his valuation onto all prospective applicants" as trying to "communicate the real valuation to all prospective applicants".

>He recognizes that a position at Penny Arcade has a level of cachet, but doesn't recognize that that level of cachet is transitive: if someone "can work somewhere “cool” and feel like a part of something big", then good for them.

Perhaps he recognizes that what some people perceive as "cachet" is actually BS and can be bad for them, regardless of what they believe, in the same way that a teenager wanna-be rockstar that thinks heroin is cool and an early death is "romantic" needs to be told otherwise...
Too late for that, unless they find a 3rd party judging group. There's no way people will think salesforce is being fair on the 2nd round of judging.
Yet you'll still hear many people parrot the line that SV is a "meritocracy".
Worth re-reading this Wired article from 1997 on cryptocurrencies
1) Can't Comment

2) Well, if you're no longer getting paid a salary, as far as I'm concerned its no longer a job. Its now akin to your own personal project. Most of us not born to money aren't in a position where we can quit our jobs and decide to work on our own personal projects. So really, the decision is somewhat analogous. Is it a personal project that you think it makes sense to be working on despite not getting paid? If you can't survive without getting paid, well, time to look for your new job. (in all seriousness, without knowing anything else about it, run is probably the correct option :P).
It is actually linear. a,b,c,d are the unknowns and x1 and x2 are the inputs.

A bit confusing since normally x1,x2 denote the unknowns.
Microsoft Banning Xbox One Users Over Videos and Skype Calls With Swearing
From Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_weapon

> A thermonuclear weapon weighing little more than 2,400 pounds (1,100 kg) can produce an explosive force comparable to the detonation of more than 1.2 million tons (1.1 million tonnes) of TNT

The energy/mass of this atomic bomb is 4.2 10^12 J/Kg=m^2/s^2 http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=1200000+tons+of+TNT+%28...

The energy/mass of gasoline is 4.5 10^7 J/Kg=m^2/s^2 http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=specific+combustion+hea...

So the atomic bomb is 100000 more “efficient” than gasoline.

In spite of this, I’m sure this device will “mysteriously” not work.
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The problem is that the judges didn't have time to do a background check on all the submissions. After all, UPSHOT only came under scrutiny after they had already won.
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Yes, I am working to get the Mintty working, But Mintty (like putty uses) does not work well for some of the windows optimized programs.
Sufficiently convincing parody, the internet, etc..

The salary you'd consider for a for-profit and for a mission you believed in are two different domains, though. (I speak, from the heart, as one who finds the idea of believing in money incomprehensible - I am aware that not everyone's brain has the same bug/feature.)
Sentiment analysis is becoming pretty accurate so maybe you could take into account the number of negativew/positive comments as well. Maybe that will eventually replace voting systems, who knows?
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Pardon Edward Snowden: Still no response after 5 months
https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/pardon-edward-snowden/Dp03vGYD

http://thenextweb.com/us/2013/06/22/petition-to-pardon-edward-snowden-passes-100000-signatures-forces-white-house-response/
I don't know how to check the FPS, but it looks perfectly smooth to me on a 2010-era 15" MBP.
Yes, it is trivial for a root user in an LXC container to break out. One can load a kernel module from within a container, for example. LXC containers do not provide security partitioning at all.
WebSocket - Why, what, and - can I use it?
They already have a huge advantage since they already know exactly what APIs Salesforce offers and how to use them. Most people going to the hackathon have probably never seen the Salesforce API in their life until that day. It's simply wrong to let company employees participate.
This is a mirror that was being personally maintained, its been replaced by https://github.com/mozilla/gecko-dev, the maintainer sent an email saying the mirror was shutting down and people should move to the maintained version, this caused a bunch of traffic which caused github problems and they shut it down until they could fix it / bring it back up.

Dunno if its really news?
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I think you're right but it's confusing as to what exactly is happening and the effect on devices...

https://support.t-mobile.com/thread/39361?start=0&tstart=0
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It's hard enough to find someone who can write excellent code in one language. If you can also manage servers, do DBA work, and configure firewalls/networking equipment, you are actually very valuable to the right team/client.
Yes. And of the small number of people who believe they can do that, 99% of them can not.
> He makes an explicit case for both (1) and (2). He doesn't try and merely imply (2).

You read wrong. tvladek did not say Buecheler implied anything, only that being correct about one thing does not imply being correct about another.

And if you advertised for a slave you would presumably be dealing with the owner of said slave, so if you were offering a reasonable price, then no that would not be an exploitative offer.

Khoo's job posting offers value and leaves it up to the applicant to decide if that is inline with their requirements. For some it will be a dream job. For others it will not.

Slaves do not choose to be slaves, that is part of the definition of the term. The introduction of hyperbole and apples to oranges comparisons does not further conversation.
Perhaps it's rather as the author believes in an objective reality, where there is one true valuation of a thing, and he's not so much trying to "force his valuation onto all prospective applicants" as trying to "communicate the real valuation to all prospective applications".

I strongly disagree with this, though. I'm young, but I'm confident people can have different experiences at the same position -- I have friends who would happily take a salary hit to work at startups or smaller businesses. They value the opportunities and cultures of those jobs to be worth more than the additional $X,000. That doesn't mean they disagree with a "one true valuation" -- it means their valuation has different factors and weights.
That has never happened to me. Please submit an issue.
How do I tell?

(nod to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect)
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Today's the day I learn that FF doesn't have event.toElement. Fixed.
Comparing C++ compilers on Windows
Just came back from a go meetup where I met the developer of martini actually, I think it's a really well thought-out framework :)
Good thing I learned about this in 15-122 freshman year
This rhetorical style reads terribly.

Since not everyone is objectivist, the first is sort of contradictory.

The second point is lost on comparing the job to illicit drugs. This is more like comparing it to an intern where you may not get as high of a salary as you could possibly demand, but you will get to work with people you likely view as celebrities. Would be closer to a roadie position with a very established band. Probably not the most lucrative position ever, but is it really comparable to heroin?
Background check? They don't need to do background checks on a coworker. I'm sure the judges knew exactly which team members worked at Salesforce. One of the team members worked at Salesforce for 9 years, which is probably a longer tenure than all the judges combined.
TinyPNG combines lossy and lossless compression algorithms. Optipng and pngcrush are lossless only. The difference in file size can be huge.
What was it then?
The issue of the article the OP was a response to is that the traffic they are expecting is too big for the disk nginx is running on to handle the log files.

Your solution works for centralising the log, but it doesn't solve the local i/o issue as the file is still being written (which was the problem of the original article).
What is described is something toward the top end of basic competence. The only reason someone would think this is crazy is if they have been hanging around bad engineers and / or administrators. That said, most engineers / administrators are pretty mediocre, especially these days now that so many more people are doing it. So.

I mean, if "managing office firewalls" is on someone's list of things that are impressive, maybe that person does not have a clear view of the problem space.

But I should not even be giving the article so much attention as this. It's clear the author is confused. At first he talks about how rare and crazy it is to find someone who can do this, but then, contradictorily, he laments that PA will get tons of applicants who can do the job. Well, guy, which is it? They can't both be true.

All that is going on here is that someone had a negative reaction to the job posting and is trying to express and rationalize their reaction, regardless of how that rationalization really matches up to reality. Happens all the time, why am I even replying?
s/philosophy/affliction
"Coding ethics" stop buffer overflows too, right? ;-)
The author's second article also contains information on how Python deals with circular references (a tracking garbage collector very similar to mark-and-sweep).

http://patshaughnessy.net/2013/10/30/generational-gc-in-pyth...

It's also worth noting that you don't always need to deal with circular references in the case of short running programs. Additionally you can eliminate the possibility of ever creating a circular reference by using an immutable language.
SassyStudio, provides much needed support for SCSS in Visual Studio.

https://github.com/darrenkopp/sassystudio

Currently it supports compiling css (via libsass), syntax highlighting, outlining, and intellisense.
U.S. Census Bureau’s dwellr app
There's a difference between being able to do 4 jobs well, and being able to do 4 jobs well at the same time. I can design and code, but I rarely attempt to do both on the same day, because context switching is hard work.
I've always suggested this as well. But the truth is, almost everyone is too lazy and doesn't have enough financial discipline to do this.

FWIW I've been bootstrapping my startup for the past year and we're finally making a profit.
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> The question is not whether they were notified or not. The question is whether you believe that you yourself, as a taxpayer who funds the FDA, have the right to order people what to spend their money on and how to live their lives.

If I didn't believe that, I couldn't believe in the existence of government at all, which is nothing but a means by which the people whom the government works for direct the people who are subject to it (largely overlapping sets) what to spend their money on and how to live their lives.

So, yes, I'll agree that that question -- which is equivalent to "do you believe government should exist at all" -- is a threshold question here. But I don't really think its the interesting question here.

> Why should it be in your power to take away someone else's freedom in the name of safety this person might not even want?

The only "freedom" even arguably being denied here is 23andMe's freedom to market their product with particular claims. The issue is not whether they can sell the product, but the manner in which they are marketing it.
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brianwski from Backblaze here again - this reminds me to check once again on this info. We heard a rumor that the number of drives might be lower because we only buy the largest and most expensive drive. The 10,000 number might be a rule of thumb for a retailer like Radio Shack that stocks a blend of different drive sizes.

With all that said, EVERY MONTH we bid 20 different suppliers against each other and choose the lowest price. For goodness sake, anybody on earth who wants free money just has to undercut the other suppliers by 1 penny and you'll win our business. Always open to new suppliers, please, take our money!!