skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would not go so far as to say that 3D hardware support in linux is "excellent". Probably as good as on Mac, true, but far from excellent. Basically if you want high end graphics on Linux you need to use an Nvidia card and their closed drivers. This closes of a section of the linux community right away. Intel and AMD have open source drivers but AMDs are terrible (no power management, buggy) and Intel still does not approach the performance of Nvidia for 3D gaming. The Nvidia drivers are good, but always lag behind their Windows cousins. Things are improving, but "excellent" is not the word I would use.
If you lose your email as a user, you may be compromised (same thing that happens now). The provider's user management system stays as it was.
Dash may be a better fit for this type of work.

http://kapeli.com/dash
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Do you talk like this in real life to people? If I told you about an app I was making, you would tell me its garbage, then brag about what you built?

Unless you've actually been in my environment and used my app that we've been developing straight for the past year, kindly fuck off.
Hey dexen, I'm the author of the post, yes I've reported the issue before to the internal team in charge of the blogging platform. I'll report it again. I've also been lobbying to move our technical blog to a different technology (I'd love a statically generated solution). Hopefully soon(tm).
Yes please. Plus, I've been integrating this everywhere and it takes all of five minutes (which is two hours less than traditional account workflows).
I have heard many people express this sentiment - our own attitude has changed since the tragedy, and thus we would never let a small group of people muscle their way to the cockpit as they did then.

That said, whenever I read accounts of the actual attack [1] they seem well planned - several "muscle men" clearing the way, using pepper sprays, etc. That is, it is not obvious to me that a group of people would be able to overcome that level of coordination and brute force. What piece am I missing?

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_11_attacks#Events
That, and the refresh rates are still way too slow.
> "you are in fact judging this case emotionally, not reasonably."

That's a pretty bold assumption. And it happens to be wrong in this case.

I'm not focused on the 25 years, but rather on the equivalence between the sentences. If a law were to be proposed, that the sentence for prosecutorial misconduct be comparable to the sentences so wrongfully achieved, it would have my vote regardless of the emotional context.
In most parts of the US it costs less than a tenth of a cent to charge an iPhone. I think it would be extremely rare that any business or organization would choose saving the minuscule cost of electricity over allowing people who need a charge to take one, so in practice it doesn't seem unreasonable to assume it's okay in most situations.
> I'm curious what the user base of gaming focused users in for linux world wide. Linux tends to attract developers rather than users who spend a great deal of money on their gaming hobby. Perhaps I am wrong.

I'd wager a good portion of Linux devs are gamers, and likely just dual-boot, have a console, an iPad, etc... Seeing as how the barrier to using Linux is lower than either Windows or OSX, it doesn't really matter how many users currently use it, as much as how many will in the future...

> Don't get me wrong, I'd love this to work, but it seems like a bit of a stretch to say it will work better than a platform that is already successful at getting people to spend money on games (see Mac App Store, iOS).

As we like to say in trading, past performance doesn't guarantee future results... In any case, if you look at something like Humble Bundle, Linux total revenue almost always beats OSX revenue in Humble Bundle sales...

> This coming from the guy who just told someone their problem is that they are running Linux Mint...

Isn't it though? If a program works on every single other distro...
Why? If my webserver goes down, I can move the hoster, reboot the server or otherwise fix the problem.

If my webserver or worse, my domain, ends up on a spam blacklist, either due to moronic/malicious users flagging my mails as spam or due to automatic triggering running amok, then I have no way of ever getting my sign-in working again except of praying that the blacklist manager(s) will unblock me. Which rarely happens.
It's been a long time since I've done work in infosec related things, so I apologize if I'm way behind on...things.

I remember in school a million years ago we discussed an algorithm of the following type for sending short covert messages.

1. Negotiate cipher/mapping for where to look for hidden information
2. A wants to send B message "Let's get drinks @ 9 @ Bill's" -- instead of inserting this into some random file, he instead maps to the cipher/mapping area and then iteratively searches for images/texts that are closest possible matches in those bits to his message.
3. Ideally, given access to enough cover files and a short enough message, he has an EXACT match. A sends B picture of puppies with NO bit twiddling. B knows to meet at the pub.
Start with a $100 mil.
1 Put $$$ in savings account with at least 2% interest
2 Wait
...
4 Profit!
Not a fan of the name. Bankers are only a small portion of finance folks, and I don't want my boss to see me browsing a site with connotations that I'm "bored". Why not just "Finance News"?

Great execution though. I wanted to do something like this, but now I'm glad I didn't because you've done a bang-up job. As a finance person I will definitely contribute.
But...how do you get to your e-mail?
Gabe was the 271st employee at Microsoft[0] and "was the producer on the first three releases of Windows"[1], so I suppose that, even if he hasn't contributed to the very same code as Bill Gates did, there must be an earlier employee who has. I don't estimate his Gates code number to be more than 2.

[0] http://www.giantbomb.com/gabe-newell/3040-4498/

[1] http://www.computerandvideogames.com/172835/interviews/creat...
"Send forgot password link to email account on file" is fairly common; if the user loses control of their email (e.g. to an attacker that got access to their password and then immediately changed it) then the user is already screwed in many ways. (I don't think this is ideal, but it seems to be the norm.)

Using email login links instead of passwords doesn't seem especially worse wrt. security than "industry standards".
>1) Android learns how to receive partial system updates outside of device and carrier certification processes (maintenance releases). Through the Play Store, for instance.

That's what google is doing with the Google Play Services 'super app' - it's meant to untie Android API updates from carriers. With the bonus of the app being closed source and thus not part of stock AOSP.
I find that a fairly effective login method for sites with silly password restrictions. I have noticed others mentioning it too.
Sure, and Wilmington is on I-95, a major drug trafficking corridor. Kids get caught up in gangs, and the gangs are minor or major players in that drug trade, and the gangs are a major presence in the schools.

I'd bet that ending the drug war and destroying the drug trade would have a much larger impact on test scores in the U.S. than even drastic improvements in school funding or teacher quality.
If the company sees hiring as "tying up one of their Senior Devs for a day" rather than something so important that it warrants investing serious time/resources/Devs on it, then I don't think they "really want to hire the best people" at all.

I've been asked to work on a company's live code as part of an interview process, and they paid me pro rata based on the salary for which I was applying.

Asking someone to do so unpaid for more than an hour or two just isn't reasonable.
I doubt this is going to the only case. Electric cars are going to become more and more common, and the hunt for an outlet at a parking lot is going to start mirroring how it looks at airports with smartphones.

That said, I bet there's more to the case in the OP than we're seeing. Probably they've told this man to stop before and he keeps doing it.
Does that invalidate that taking it is theft? How many of these non-thefts have to occur before the victim can claim damages?

Much financial theft is done on the order of fractions of cents, but those fractions of theft add up to real, tangible amounts. If I steal half a penny from a local shop owner, and the police don't/can't/won't stop me, then others might do the same. If 100 others do it, he's lost a nickel. If a thousand people do it, it's 5 bucks.

Where is the line before it becomes theft? Why is everybody allowed to take from this hypothetical shop owner and he has no recompense?
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Oh I forgot Gabe worked at MS, in that case, yeah, it must be pretty low. Gabe worked both at Valve and MS, and both companies have submitted code to the Linux Kernel.
Yeah I don't disagree! AND they've convinced Google to return them as the #1 result for a search on "coin" -- again for an un launched product with lots of buzz.

Makes me think Google's search algorithm is more heavily influenced by social signals than might be readily apparent.

AND an analysis by ShareThis showed only 2% of the social traffic happening on G+, which makes me wonder if Google's search results are being influenced by other social platforms.
On my mid-2012 11" MB Air, most games around the level of requirements you said tend to run maybe 3/4ths as well in OS X as in Windows 8 (Portal 2 being a concrete example). Not unplayable by any means, but the performance difference is substantial enough that it's worth my while to reboot into Windows.
Ego does not make the product better
I think the big problem with designing human systems is that as systems evolve there is a parallel unpredictable cultural evolution.
I guess the only reasonable way to design human systems is through a slow process of evolution and iterative design, at each point trying to modify rules to adapt to the culture that develops around how people use the system as it exists. When a system is fully formed, along with the system rules there are also a raft of social norms that determine how it functions within society. Moral hazards create situations where individuals are incentivised to break the social norms that align with the goals of the system. Once norms get eroded, that behaviour can become commonplace, and you end up with broken systems.
Unfortunately, the meta-systems we have in place restrict what changes are possible/incentivised. Also, people tend to have a limited imagination when it comes to solving broken systems usually wanting either a) more rules, b) harsher punishments or c) to get rid of the system entirely. So, if there's a public outcry, it's usually calling attention to a real problem, but calling for an impractical solution.

Personally I don't think the current meta-systems we have in Western capitalist democracies are optimal. I'm sure that better can be done. However, I'm also very sure that we can't do better by building on idealistic principles - because of the massive changes that would entail and the corresponding unpredictability of the results.
It's interesting that libertarians and neo-marxists basically want a really extreme change in two directions that almost never happen. The rich tend to always get richer, the government tends to always get bigger in size and scope. I guess this is kind of like the "get rid of it entirely" mentality. Perhaps it would be better to seek out changes to our current system that would allow iterations towards reducing income disparity and shrinking of the government.
I want to make an in depth tutorial from the ground up to app store about just a simple app using Phone Gap and JQM. Maybe accompanied by a web cast as well.
Good to see Evernote has caught up to the single application made by Microsoft that I completely adore: OneNote. It's in a similar boat: if you take advantage of all its features, you can basically live inside the application.

This was a few years ago now, and I've moved to Mac, Linux and iOS, so alas, I use iClouds Reminders and Notes app for everything now.
There's also a lot of what seems to be really casual/accidental accusations of racism in contexts where it clearly doesn't exist (i.e. recognizing and accounting for racial differences isn't racist). That different racial groups score differently on IQ tests, for example, is a fact that can be stated without any judgement of value, or, indeed, without any attempt to explain its causes (which are numerous, I'm sure.)
As a power user, it's easier for me to invoke my password manager than it is to open up my mail client and copy/paste in a one-time key.
The fix will be available in the next nightly build: http://confluence.jetbrains.com/display/SCA/Play+2.0+plugin+...
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For anyone who doesn't already know or wouldn't be willing to spend the $100 for Global Entry + PreCheck

These programs are the ultimate sign of just how pointless airport security is. There is simply no way that $100 is even remotely enough money to cover an investigation of any effectiveness whatsoever. It's probably just enough to cover the cost of checking the same lists the TSA already checks on every ticket booked and then adding you to the list of people who get to skip security most of the time.

Those programs are just a way for the TSA to co-opt the ire of the kind of rich and powerful people who might have the political influence to reform the agency. 10 to 1 every member of congress has signed up for Pre-Check. If you believe that the TSA is defending against a real threat, these programs, by their very existence, create a giant gaping hole in the TSA's security. The only reason it hasn't been used to perpetrate an attack is because there is effectively no risk in the first place.
I would love to see your codebase while interviewing. There's no faster way of seeing if you're a competent bunch to work with. Also no faster way of detecting interpersonal and "soft" dysfunctions in your group.
I appreciate your thoughts but I have to disagree with your concern - headlines have evolved over the years because writers have figured out what is more effective. Users have limited attention and especially with something as important as these roles, it is my responsibility to make the article as enticing as possible to read.

Headlines offer a promise to the reader and it is the writers job to then deliver on that promise. I believe I do so in the post itself. If you disagree, that's fine, but I don't consider the title link bait, because that suggests that the actual content failed to deliver on the promise.
Unfortunately, I think part of the reason your idea was rejected was that it's just a bad idea.

The thing is, you -- non-collegiate, over 35 -- are nonetheless capable of doing enough research yourself to determine if an idea is very good. One thing to consider is the cross-sectional area of the funnel -- the size of the mouth. Another is a relation mentioned here: the power available (dF/dT) in wind is proportional to v^3. You can look up "power available in wind" here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind_power

You'll be able to test your idea by considering a few scenarios, like "how does the force on the funnel (~area v^2) relate to the power generated (~area v^3) and is this practical?" and "Where would wind farms most likely be located, based on power availability (remote high-wind areas)?".

I say this not [primarily] as a criticism, but to hopefully recommend to people that they can use simple math to test their ideas using pubically available information. It helps you form ideas with a closer relationship to reality. Doing research can be good for you, and elementary physics shouldn't be daunting, especially if you're taking things as far as applying for angel funding. Having a broader knowledge base doesn't hurt for coming up with ideas, either.
It's also worth noting that anyone attempting to use a plane as a missile against a particular target is fighting the clock. It would take some time for the hijackers to breach the cockpit (whatever the method), and in that time it is highly probable that military jets have been scrambled and are inbound.
Here's the article describing how the simulator was built: http://lab.la-grange.ca/en/building-jsorrery-a-javascript-we...
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I know. I think my answer was simplistic. I said I'd never heard of Ben, but I was actually primed by reading this article right before stumbling upon the debacle:
http://venturebeat.com/2013/09/18/can-this-startup-steal-nod...

Having only ever had positive experiences with Isaacs in non-node-core capacities, I suppose I immediately jumped on "their side". So I guess I came to the conversation on biased terms.

Could it be that he's just not someone to be a project lead? Someone can be a prolific contributor (and a good person -- not demonizing him), but still not be the right folks to lead a project, right?
Seems like they didn't even bother to proof read the job listings. The job listing says the positions "promotion potential" is for a GS-15 and lists the salary range as 123k - 155k. But then down in the "Qualification Required" section it talks about GS-14. The GS-14 salary range goes from 105k - 133k. So either the repeated GS-14 use is a typo or they are listing the wrong potential starting salary number.

You might be thinking hey, minor issue. It's not here is why. This is emblematic of the kinds of things you can expect as a matter of routine if you were to take this job. A million minor issues from typos and comical misunderstandings in important communications to your email frequently breaking for unexplained reasons to being forced to use shitty government software to do tasks like filling in your time card that waste hours of your life each month. Just because the word presidential is in the job title isn't going to change the reality of how the government works.
For those that are interested, I got the ball rolling with email-based logins by building http://swiftlogin.com. I was glad to see the idea improved by Mozilla later that year and all the growth since then.
I think Evernote is most important as a showcase of how much we have transcended file systems. Mobile devices have abandoned them, and through cross-platform apps like Evernote, this notion finds its way back to the desktop.

Back in the day, we'd just make folders on hard disk for "thought projects", adding text files, bookmark files (!), photos, possibly word documents. For ordering, there are file name conventions, and the Mac OS finder still supports colored files.

I think Evernote shows what any modern File Manager should do for it to be useful. Instead they are being stripped down until everybody thinks they are useless. Their benefit is easily overlooked -- files are yours, easy to sync, easy to back up, restore, pass on and copy, with no walled garden anywhere.

There are so many different use cases for file managers, yet most modern ones don't go beyond basic folder maintenance and retreiving downloaded files from an unmaintained folder.
Well that's a non sequitur. We're talking about a standard NEMA 5-15 receptacle, which have seen wide use for decades. In the parking context, they're often used in cold climates to ensure that the vehicle will start sometime before spring. Now you show us a picture of one of these new EV doodads that might not even have a standard plug. What is that supposed to mean? The creation of a new technology doesn't change the implicit understanding that millions of people have about really old technology. However, it might mean that managers of public spaces who have their drawers on a bit too tight, ought to buy either a sign or some padlocks.
I'd be moderately annoyed if one of my guests plugged in their car during dinner without ever asking or telling me about it. I'd be super pissed if some stranger did so, which seems like the more apt comparison here.

Every charging station I've ever seen has been clearly marked as being for public use. They have a distinctive look and there's distinctive signage that says "charging station" or similar.
Additionally AMZN transactions actually involve money changing hands at the time of the txn.
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I think working on software at SpaceX would be seriously cool, but for unrelated reasons now's not a good time for me to pursue such a dream. I do want to make a move to something like spaceflight eventually - sort of a childhood dream of mine. If I may ask, are there any open-source projects or other technologies you would recommend for someone to work on if they wanted to prepare for such a career a few years from now? Currently I work primarily with with distributed systems / Linux distributions if that affects your suggestions at all... I've heard from some other friends that Ada is a must-have and that Matlab's Simulink is the future - but they do government work exclusively, so I'm not sure how it compares to a "space startup" like you.
Yeah, I did expect to see some telemetry. At least, the orbital parameters.

SpaceX should just provide an API for that, we'll build the rest ;)
> A whole lot of real-life stuff is either parallel or does not need heavy computing. This is why people started building massively parallel computers well before the last 6 years[0].

Exactly. A lot of the GPGPU pitch is easily refuted with some hindsight.
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How is GMAT going to monetize the easy score verification? And is that effort going to be worth the additional revenue? I can't imagine there is a big market for GMAT score reporting outside of b-school apps. I think most employers just accept self reporting or a copy of the score report in pdf.
But this isn't an employer-employee relationship. It's a prospective employer-employee relationship.

During the first interview would you consider paying for the time of the person interviewing you? My day rate to customers is £1000 and while I'm interviewing you I can't be doing that work so let's call it £125 an hour to read your CV, answer any questions you may have about the role and so on.

Yes they potentially want you to work there, but you presumably also are interested in working there. If that's the case why is your time valuable but theirs not?

And if you're not interested then why are you interviewing at all?

Quick edit: I think I've been slightly misunderstood. I'm not suggesting that the candidate should pay anyone anything, just drawing a (possibly bad) parallel.

A good interview is a chance for a candidate to see if it's a good job - that's worth investing time in. The organisation get to see if the candidate might be a good employee - that's worth investing time in. But both are making an investment and both are getting something out of it. To me it already looks like an equitable deal, I don't see why introducing money is helpful, particularly in a lopsided way.

As to why the actual code base and an actual problem - because it's the best test for both sides. What does a candidate learn more from, the actual code base and a real world change or a OSS project? I'd suggest that he's at least as likely to learn something material about the company and the product as they are to get usable code out of the candidate.
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I feel like a lot of this trendy stuff comes out because it demos very well. The designer shows it off in a controlled setting, everyone's wowed and impressed and glad they hired a "good" designer, and nobody bothers to check whether it's actually useful at all. Someone should've pointed out the website is there to sell the product, not to showcase the FE guys's skills.
Titanium tries to do that, with extremely variable results.