skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's in China though, due to the new laws.

Everywhere else the dive was much smaller, and it's already recovering.
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Tinkerer. (For probably 90% of situations it can be explained that simply)

"Tinkerers reversed engineered the new government X" "Tinkerers were able to crack the new Purple-ray disc standard"

I think it sounds nicer to say "hacker" than "tinkerer," but again, 90% of the time you can just replace one with the other if you need a quick way to explain it to someone.
Obviously we are limited by our predictive capacity, but I don't think "there might be bad and good uses" is really a strong argument. Like anything else, you weigh the good against the bad in making your decision.
We had a similar ritual at my school here in the USA. It was optional but many people did it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_the_Engineer
Does anyone else have a feeling that the idea that it is unacceptable to suffer soldier casualties during war is ultimately emasculating for the US army?

This is not the first time this happens in history, either. The golden age fearsome Roman Legions used the Glatius, a short, broad, and extremely lethal sword as their main service weapon. By the 3rd century A.D. the population had grown so unmanly that some young men would chop off one of their fingers just to avoid being recruited, and the Legions were increasingly composed of long conquered barbarians, who were pitted against new waves of far away barbarians.

These new Legions brought longer, thinner swords into battle. Those were great from a personal safety point of view (you could hold your foe at a longer range), but were harder to use in closed formation and ultimately less effective in the offensive. We all know how that ended for them....
This is more about responsiveness. It's not just about slow script, if you open a very large text file in a tab, the entire Firefox UI stalls. If you have some moderately heavy operation happening in a different tab, scrolling gets choppy across the board, switching tabs is janky, etc etc etc.
You can't extract intelligence from stupidity.
I'd love to nap. But no matter when, where and how I try, I feel more tired afterward. It doesn't help me. I just need a good night's sleep instead.
Could you link some? I want to read more about sleep in general. Why 20 minutes? Why not 30, or 40? I keep seeing the magical 20 everywhere.
Working in amounts doesn't tell the whole story. Volatility is easier to understand when expressed in percentages. Have a look at the charts on bitcoinwisdom.com:

http://bitcoinwisdom.com/markets/bitstamp/btcusd

Explore various intervals (time period). Even at the 1d interval, there are 15% swings. Is this bad, given the qualifier that "it is Bitcoin" after all? That depends on what you expect Bitcoin to be. If you expect to use it as a currency, then yes, it's very bad. If you earned your Bitcoins yesterday, and you have to pay a bill today, then that kind of swing is a big problem. You could end up taking a 15% haircut. If you expect to use it as a speculative investment, then you've got a lot of opportunities for trading.

Both of these are fine, but they're opposing goals. Most economists agree that you want stability in a currency; that is the currency should act as an accounting measure only. It is a means of storing value at as close to NET zero gain/loss as possible, with it's real value being the ability to transact goods indirectly.

I'm not sure what values Bitcoin endeavors to hold, but if we're using duck typing, it looks a lot more like a speculative investment than a currency.
:) Lora is a great body font. The header font is Lato[1] and the code samples are in Inconsolata[2].

[1]: http://www.google.com/fonts/specimen/Lato

[2]: http://www.google.com/fonts/specimen/Inconsolata
Yes, after all, you already could access your email via imap and do the backup by yourself.
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I too went to North Korea a little more than a year ago. All my photos are here: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10151040723772055....

Feel free to ask any questions, i answered a couple in here last time the above album was mentioned.
I've interviewed maybe 5 times in the last 2 years, and even at seemingly well-run companies I've yet to get an answer to this question. "We're a flat organization," "We don't have anything formal," "Well, we're growing, so something will open up," etc. This is one of the major reasons I'm still freelancing. No only am I earning more, but there is way more potential.
I'll have to admit that I try to get away with as little sleep as possible. It's not that I'm trying to be a hero or show that I'm macho, I'm doing the whole nights and weekends thing to work on my product because I'm driven to make it successful and it feels absurd to trade off progress for sleep.

I'm well aware of the potential consequences health and otherwise but I see it as a short term cost for a long term benefit.
I agree completely. I threw in 'legal' in the original post to head off morons chanting "so you'd work for drug dealers" etc. My only point was, to quote you, "the NSA situation ...I see it more as an issue of bounds being overstepped, the engineers working there don't strike me as empirically unethical" (well stated).

I have a hard time listening to the demonizing of the NSA engineers by people who work at Google/Yahoo/Facebook/Amazon (or would like to) who build similar technology to profile users!
Dropbox. They use stronger than usual language to assure you that nobody can ever read your data. Unless there's a "glitch" that lets anyone login with no password at all.
There is always IMAP access. I had no trouble downloading everything via IMAP every time I wanted a copy on a new machine (and a random person on the internet would expect no significant trouble when setting up a new mail client, so making this difficult seems impossible).
You're probably thinking of Isaac Asimov's story "My Son, the Physicist".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Son,_the_Physicist
It's clear that 23 thinks that the FDA is incapable of enforcing their mandate and is daring them to do something about it in the media. This is just more BS spin to try to justify their bold and reckless PR maneuvering, under the guise of super-important and helpful medical technology being held back by big bad careless government regulation. I hope 23 continues to pretend like it does nothing wrong in the boardroom, while playing the media through their Google trumpet.
People think working for Goldman Sachs is ethical. People participating in the Summer Olympics think Russia is ethical. People buying Nikes and Fuji water think they are ethical.

Where do you stop?
This was like going back in time to Soviet Russia of 1960s.
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Actually, Airbnb is quite different. Whereas a cleaning service is something you'll indefinitely need on a regular basis, most people will only stay at a particular Airbnb listing once. This makes the middleman model work for them.
Is it odd to raise $200m at a $5b valuation in September and follow it with $60m-100m at a $9b valuation a few months later?
Would you like to be able to access your mails without having to log in?
What most reporting is missing is that the early adopters are cashing out because it is now worthwhile to do so. And the prices keep jumping right back up, due to the late adopters.

Whenever you see a huge crash in a short period of time and a quick gain, expect it to recover. If you see a prolonged slow decline, it's time to abandon ship...

Oh to buy a bunch at 2009 prices...
This is called a lack of artistic integrity.

And there's nothing wrong with that, you're just excerpting yourself from responsibility, and if enough people do that engineering becomes irresponsible.

Arguably this is a problem right now.

Look, I understand your position, food has to get on the table, but: I don't respect you. I am responsible for everything I put out in the world.

You can take that as a guilt trip if you'd like, but I feel like if you're going to be bald-faced about how you put all the real responsibility on laws and those who make them, I can be blunt about how I view your attitude.

I guess everyone has to find their own relationship to the value of their work.
GnuTLS can't be a PKCS#11 provider, so no.
This wouldn't explain how Bitcoin gets into China in the first place though.
I don't know about everybody else but I don't use wiki as a verb, it's a noun in my vocabulary. I'll say "Google it" but I won't say "wiki it" or "Wikipedia it." I'll say "Check the wiki" as if every other wiki on the internet doesn't exist and Wikipedia is the wiki.
You really think that taking an oath to be morally responsible for what you create and how you create it is being a robot?

What a ridiculous thing to say.
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Also, the iPhone 4 phones don't upgrade to the latest, iOS7 on an iPhone 4 is barely usable, AND WORSE you can't downgrade. I've known people who "bricked" their phones, where it was usable but very slow and painful to even make phone calls. So is it truly a fair comparison?

Now those on Android 3.x are definitely screwed. At least the 4.x phones are getting the new apps, and new APIs.
Internet: ZOMG there's so much spam and malware being transmitted via Skype. You have to do something!

MS: We have enabled URL filtering on Skype messages.

Internet: ZOMG you're reading my private messages. You monsters!
This _could_ be another case of premature optimization, as gcc 4.9+ could automagically devirtualize non-overridden virtual functions. icc could do that for years.
Hell, a meta-analysis doesn't actually need funding, just a library card or a local university.
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I just noticed in the FAQ it states, "...several fields have been renamed of course." If I'm understanding this correctly, any real-world conclusions you draw will be completely meaningless, as we're essentially working from a mislabeled dataset.
"I haven't bothered to read the studies mentioned, so I'm going to assume they're all wrong and carry on anyway".
Here's a quick video of the buckyball.

The video is from today. The image was printed about 18 years ago :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlysJLjUZZQ
The N/2+1 is only applicable in a system featuring strong consistency and availability as soon as the majority of processes are working. This in turn requires that failover only works if we can see the majority of the replicas, so we are sure that at least one of the replicas will have a replication offset high enough to include all the writes reaching half+1 the replicas.

In this model you have a fixed number of players that is setup a-priori, and adding or removing a node requires some administration / care. In Redis instead there is no a fixed number of slaves, it is a totally dynamic concept, so it is hard to apply, when you want such a configuration you need to hard-code in your client what the N/2+1 magic number is as currently there is no way to obtain it.

Otherwise you can write it into a Redis key itself to make the process more dynamic.

In many other configurations, for WAIT it does not make too much sense to default to N/2+1. One can say, I've 10 replicas but I'm ok as long as the write reaches 3 replicas, as I'm confident that when the master fails one will be alive, and so forth. This will not achieve certain properties but is acceptable in many cases.
I would gladly work on "defense tech" too, as in actually defending people. But what you mean by "defense tech" is actually offense tech. Look at how these things are actually used in the world.

When an entire field needs to stand behind a euphemism in order to prevent seeming ugly, that is certainly some kind of a sign.
However, the role we claim to take on, true "selflessness" is near impossible to reach in practice. Before we are engineers we are people and have basic needs. Without whipping out my Googlefu I would wager there are certainly more cases of people blowing the whistle and seeing their way of life crumble around them than there are who get protected by law. There is massive resistance to change from those who call the shots and if you're to go against the grain you're looking to sacrifice your career, life, health, etc.. The engineer says "you need to say something or people will die" but the person says "your family needs to eat".

I blew whistles twice in about a 6-month period. First was at a good company (won't name it, you know what it is) when I had a really bad manager. (I worked with a recruiter once who knew the name and said, "I get his people all the time, he's the worst manager at <company>.") Four months later I worked at a startup where top management tried to get me to commit felony perjury. Refusing to it so cost me my job, and the CEO launched a months-long personal campaign to ruin my reputation. If he weren't basically considered a joke by everyone who actually knows him, and if I weren't above-average in terms of being articulate, I'd have been fucked.

If I were of more moderate talents (meaning IQ 130-140, so I'm talking about a level that's still quite strong) or older (meaning 45) or had kids, I would have been in a lot more danger. The percentage of people who can blow whistles and survive it is small-- maybe 1 or 2 percent. There are a lot of shady databases that some companies are now doing to make it easier to share information in appropriate ways. It started with banks and tech companies to share compensation information (because in finance, your bonus is your performance review, so people inflated their numbers) but it's also been used for blacklisting attempts.

What really surprised me out of the whistleblowing experience was not the official response. That generally came out to what I expected. But you learn quickly that most people are morally weak and will turn on you, either because they don't like your "tone" or because "you should have used proper channels". What those people don't see is that whistleblowing almost always happens when "proper channels" fail. (See: the infamous, but misunderstood "hot coffee lawsuit", wherein the plaintiff originally just asked not for a million-dollar award-- which she never received, by the way-- but to have her medical bills paid-- a reasonable request given all the circumstances.) Most people are morally vacant "slutty cheerleaders" (please see this high-school metaphor as gender neutral; sluts and cheerleaders can both be male) who ultimately side with power unless power really fucks up.

What's the best thing society can do for whistleblowers? Personally, I think blacklisting should be a jail offense with the same penalty as attempted murder, because that's what it is.
Problem Solver. In, around, over, and thru. Not being stopped in the pursuit of your goal, no matter how large or small. If there is not a tool to fix it, then make your own.
So yeah, OGL grows more useful as the PS4 grows its user base. Thanks for the info
They move their money from their bank to an exchange and then buy bitcoins. The announcement says nothing about not allowing banks to deal with bitcoin exchanges, only that banks can't deal in bitcoin directly.

This "news" (which is really just the official announcement of something announced unofficially a couple weeks ago) changes nothing whatsoever about the status quo.
" but: I don't respect you."

heh sure. whatever makes you happy.
Yet (P)NaCl can go to hell.
Brendan pls.

(I am aware that a fully sandboxed JIT is more complex to integrate than an IPC library)
For most of us, it's also write-only. (Barring observation and analysis of resulting effects.)
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They do. X == 20.
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The primary purpose of that missile guiding system is to miss civilians.

Unguided bombs are very cheap and highly effective at taking out the target.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Dresden_in_World_War...
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"Not all soldiers are killers, and to imply that they are is offensive"

- you must have missed something in basic training - why do you think soldiers carry weapons? It's not to help old ladies cross the street.

I totally understand why a nation needs a big stick to defend its interests, but please let's not delude ourselves that when we weild that stick it doesn't mean killing people.

Soldiers that are not killers are called civilians.
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If the existing implementation is perfectly good, writing your own is either pride, stupidity, or a learning exercise.

I would take for granted that the Firefox developers aren't stupid, and that they have enough interesting work to do that they aren't going to spend time on it as a learning exercise.
What is the alternative and more popular solution used now?
Trading physical goods for virtual commodities? No thank you.

The pudding of bitcoin was the promise of a new currency.
You think people in third world countries don't have cell phones and electricity, or privately run payment systems? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M-Pesa
There is no difference between a technology being used defensively or offensively. The 'self driving car' tech will feed into 'self driving tanks' tech, and vice versa. Military Satellite tech gives you the GPS and Google Maps, which will in turn be used for military purposes. A technology (including algorithms) can be used for good or ill. That is just the nature of the beast.

You can certainly work towards what you see as the overreach of American militarism. It is a political/economic problem which needs a political/economic solution. Your (not) working on cryptanalysis algorithms has nothing to do with it.
I can see this as being great for inexperienced founders looking at getting funding for their first stab at being an entrepreneur. However, any founders that are talented and have worked as an engineer at at least one moderately or highly successful company should be able to raise money on much better terms. Giving up 15% for $150k seems pretty steep, especially when the investor in question is spread so thin. Money and maybe occasional introductions are going to be pretty much the only forms of involvement that the investor could realistically invest in you.
> some sites have functionality that cannot be easily (or quickly) reproduced without JS

Having such extra functionality doesn't mean I should need JS at all to view the text content of an article.
Sorry to be a jerk but does it annoy anyone how often conversations about the military/soldiers go through the perfunctory "I respect your service blah blah blah..."?

The term "military service" itself irks me to no end. It's not service, it's a government job. No one thanks DMV employees for their "service".
Something like this:
http://www.zdnet.com/skype-ditched-peer-to-peer-supernodes-f...
How to build a good robot, you mean.

If you want to be a robot, you need a lot of practice. Walking that way is surprisingly hard.
congrats on the launch! and to think this was the original intro to the company and product: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4727245
Heh. Nothing left to say now, really. Cheers.
OK, my archive is being collected as of now. It was so easy, with a direct link to the takeout, with Gmail preselected, and a one click operation - I almost wonder what the catch is :)

I suspect it might have been a bit of a battle to push this through the top management. Anyhow, whoever did this - thank you.
8+ hour sleeps every night is probably the single life rule I strictly abide by. Wake up not groggy, but refreshed, ready. Entire day you're just a power house.
I know. My point was that the fact that John Carmack was the one who said this suggests that he still finds it useful for himself, even though he is an experienced programmer. That is not conclusive proof, of course, just something to think about.

My take is that experience only lowers the value of SO for the particular platform(s) you have experience in. I've found SO very valuable in the last couple of years even though I'm (in general) not a newbie anymore, because I've had to build software for many different platforms like ruby, mac cocoa, ios cocoa, and windows (C#/WPF and C++).
On one hand, it makes little sense to continue paying a middle man for a repeating service like home cleaning. On the other, there's some value in having a diversity of vetted providers and the easy ability to switch. $38m sounds like a lot, though, at this juncture. The novelty wears off pretty quickly.
Abandoning online multiplayer completely.
Its a little odd that its a smaller round, but other than that, it just seems to indicate rapid growth, which usually needs financing i.e. "growth capital."
Their next project, now in closed alpha, aims "to bring them all and in the darkness bind them"; the preliminary logo is O-shaped.

Whether they buy a tower for their office remains to be seen.

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People who can just get shit done. The guy or gal you bring an idea to and they say, "Hmm - let me think about it for a while." The next time you talk, they completely have mapped out the starter solution using interesting models.
Interesting how the wiki version of the "Obligation of the Engineer"^1 seems to speak toward being a good steward of technology, humanity and public resources where the oath the OP quotes is more focused on delivering a good product and being obligated to do so by your pay.

1: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_the_Engineer
I'm in my early 30s now, and I've noticed among my friends that the folks who aren't regularly getting enough sleep have seemed to prematurely aged. It's not one big noticeable thing, but it's lots of little things, like how good their skin looks, how much gray they have, what there energy level is.

Don't ask for sources, because I don't have any, this is just an anecdote and a hunch. :)

I'm in the fortunate position now of being able to set my own work schedule. I almost never use an alarm clock, but I still get up around 8am, which is my personal indicator that I'm sleeping enough. I've also found that I have no problem working 12 or 14 hour days, much more than your average worker, but when I do so, I never take the time away from sleeping, but other activities instead.
Well, just because I can say what I want today, doesn't mean the same will be true tomorrow. We're already past the point that people are beginning to self-censor out of fear of the surveillance state. We already have indefinite detentions, torture, secret laws with secret interpretations, and state-sanctioned kidnappings.

Looking across the pond at England, they went from filtering the internet to block child porn, to filtering the internet to block extremists in less than one year. You have UK law enforcement harassing and intimidating legitimate journalism about the out of control surveillance state.

Maybe none of that is alarming to you, and maybe you don't think any of those things are along the road that leads to an authoritarian state, but I and many others feel differently. Either way, just because my perception of events is different that yours doesn't make my perception a lie.
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GPU Processing has become very popular in mining xCoins. Can GPU be used in the web for other use cases? Any examples?