skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
About this type of clauses, I've heard that "well, they are standard and are almost always ignored, as long as you don't cross the line (e.g. code for your side-projects in your day-job office)".

I know this depends on the company, but, as a general rule, are these clauses really taken so lightly?
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My dad has done a cover from the temptations and will be doing more of other artists
Interesting concept. I actually have a theory that the next stage of crypto currencies will have this "sort of thing" built in. An idea I've had recently is that I want a cryptocurrency where each user has his own blockchain. In other words, no universal ledger of all transactions on the system.

The other important concept is that (not saying I have all the answers) each person is free to spend his / her currency as they please. No "mining". But the "ledger" can be synchronized with what may resemble "FOREX markets" but the point of these markets isn't to allow you to trade other currencies on other block chains, but it's to help determine what that individual's currency is worth.

If done right, then theoretically the person(s) who are right in the middle of the bell curve have the most valuable currency, and those at least one or more standard deviations from the center have less value.

The catch is that those people who you transact business / exchange currencies with, the "currency markets" will generate the exchange rate and convert the money into your currency units.

Theoretically the "currency markets", there would be many of them, and likely there could be many within a geographic area comparable in size to a U.S. County.

Ultimately the overarching goal would be that those who spend too much or too little will ultimately pay the price with a loss in currency value.

I think one of the keys here will be to try to create a set of checks and balances to help ensure people can't just create tons of accounts, and start using them all. So perhaps a concept of "type" of transaction will be important. For example, the blockchain shows how much the individual spends on "housing", "food", etc...
Edward Snowden will never, ever, be able to return "home", he is in a foriegn country which does not welcome his native language, does not welcome his native people- and he's there for as long as the media still talk about him.

given the choice between being Ed Snowden and being Lewis Hamilton, I would choose the latter hands down, every time.
I get the impression he's a giant dick, yeah. He seems to be technically skilled and he wrote what used to be the only real web framework available for Scala, which gave him a certain amount of standing in the community (such as it was); IMO the negatives of his attitude outweigh the positives of his technical contributions and I think the community gradually came to feel the same way - at the same time, a better alternative web framework (Play, along with a number of more "microframework" type projects) was written, and Pollack had seemed to be fading from view in the last few years.
I would firstly say I don't think there are any good modern-day comparisons to Nelson Mandela, and I don't think this is a productive discussion.

However, at least Tymoshenko is a political leader who is imprisoned by her home state for her continuing expression of and leadership in opposition to unjust policy; Snowden is none of these things, and I cannot imagine him taking that role in the future.
If you saw Palantir on the list, things would be pretty amazing :)
There were reports that the funds in their U.S. providers account were seized by DHS a week or two ago.

Their U.S. provider was, according to them, Obopay/Ultralight, but Obopay/Ultralight said that Payza was lying about their relationship. I never could find a good explanation.

http://scrolldog.com/payza-under-fire-by-homeland-security-u...

This link has a lot of info, but I have no idea what is accurate.
> They will be the ones to require the cheaper alternative

They likely can't in this situation, as the cheaper alternative is off-label.
You are actually trying to bench mark asynchronous vs synchronous code - and the result is obvious. More relevant may be pitting node against vert.x for example - and node should not be faster than vert.x for most cases at least.
It's incorrect since Bitcoin usage is still high.

https://blockchain.info/charts/n-unique-addresses does not look bearish to me
very useful, I wonder how long it'll take to get shutdown.
One of the original press coverage: (~2 years ago)
"GM Bets On Cheaper Electric-Car Batteries With Envia, Invests $17 Million" http://www.greencarreports.com/news/1054345_gm-bets-on-cheap...
Prime example, I recently had someone on Twitter literally tell me that by supporting NASA I must want children to die.

https://twitter.com/NASA_SLS/status/401818661931208704

"I love space exploration, but the expenditure simply cannot be justified when kids die for lack of clean water"

"But as we're discussing children's lives only someone lacking a moral compass would consider it an issue here"
if your system doesn't encourage remixing, it's ultimately doomed to failure.

However, never forget that the market for IT can stay irrational longer than you can stay patient. Cobol is more than fifty years old. People are still emailing Word files to each other. And the post popular gaming systems are still closed consoles.
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The way you say that makes it sound like a bad thing, rather than being their obligation to society and chosen job.
Consider it as a compiler flag - a regex without capture and backtracking can be represented mathematicly as a regular expression (I.e. it can be translated into a DFA). Once a regex starts capturing, its representation requires a stack or other memory structure. Or a regex might or might not be a regular expression, strictly speaking (which isn't done all that often).
Well, if it helps, I feel like I learnt something from reading both of your thoughts on this. Thanks.
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This seems like it would have some kind of negative environmental impact (although probably minor). I can see not wanting bugs inside your home or workplace, but killing bugs randomly in nature for marketing purposes seems a bit wrong to me.

What about birds, butterfly's, etc?
Started with writing bots for a game called Runescape. It was in Java. I had no idea what I was doing, for the most part.

Then I got an iPod and started learning/programming iOS apps in Objective-C.

Then one day I need to write some server code and came across Ruby. I really liked/enjoyed it. More than any other programming language.

And now I have to create a web front-end so I am learning Javascript. So far, it's OK.
Thanks for the blitz.io reference. I've been looking for a tool to load-test some personal projects, and others I found didn't have a satisfactory free tier.
Wow... amazing person!
But you can't get rid of the NSA when there are real threats in the world. It's just not going to happen, because there actually are real threats (the number is debatable), and the existence of more than an anomaly of threats will always be justification for NSA and their ilk.

The only way to get rid of the NSA is to get rid of the threats. The most effective long term way is to work for and achieve a much higher level of peace, tolerance and community than the world currently has.
I guess it depends on whether we think the underlying ability is a skill with long-term, differentiated levels. If so, even after factoring out reversion, we could still find that there is a consistent ranking.

For managed mutual funds, I think it's been studied that there is no ability (source: Boglehead books). So, unless things radically change, there is no signal in the noise to be found -- the rankings aren't more stable than random.

I have no idea for VC funds.
The Payza name is a bit new, it's the former AlertPay.
Pardon my cynicism but your second statement makes you sound like a shill for those same people. Making such terrible actions sound like well-intentioned 'overstepping' only excuses such horrendously insidious activity (which is deserving of nothing but the strongest criticism).
Do you really believe that "doing the right thing" is the primary goal, or the secondary? Obviously that's how it's sold to the public, but it's hard to deny that espionage isn't the real goal.
Might I remind you?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_for_the_New_American_C...
Are We Ready for the Post-Snowden Internet?
WoW might be cheap but a signal intelligence team to monitor a video game isn't.
Foxconn's newest manufacturing / assembly plant is in Dongguan and was, supposedly, built mostly to handle Apple's devices
SpaceBase (YC S12): Spatial Databases And Memory Data Grid For MMORPGs And More
> But you can't get rid of the NSA when there are real threats in the world.

Sure you can. The existence of real threats does not mean that the NSA is the only means of dealing with them, nor even that it is an effective way of dealing with them even before considering the negative impacts it has, nor, finally -- and this is the key consideration -- that it is a net positive considering the benefits it provides against the threats against the direct threat it produces to freedom.
Technology Review among all publications is the most guilty of hyping vaporware battery technology, especially, it must be said, if it is being developed by MIT people (not that Envia was). Here's the press release TR breathlessly and noncritically paraphrased in 2011. http://www.technologyreview.com/news/422627/startup-boasts-b...
And yet we have a contributor https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6870282 saying "That said, Genentech is on the wrong side of the PR angle here and unfortunately for them, some internal documents got exposed which make them seem less than angelic here. If the cost differential of producing the drugs really is small, then they don't have a strong position, because it makes them appear as if they are using one of the drugs as a profit center to fund future R&D.", which he clarifies as "they are using one of the drugs moreso than another as a profit center."

In this case an appeal to abstract fairness in pricing based on production costs. Which the author recognizes is probably not practical in the real world.

But that such a thing, "using one of the drugs as a profit center to fund future R&D", can even be thought of as a bad thing ("wrong side of the PR angle") ... well, the very much not nice part of me hopes for all these people who implicitly desire or demand the end of new drug development that karma is for real.
It was a short term prediction though. If you press play on the right side of the graph, it will update up to present.
There is a need for dynamic routing, which you're overlooking. So updating configuration files and restarting services would not work.
Good ideas, the wording is wrong though:

>> ...to call for reforms to restore the public's trust in the internet...

In Internet we trust. Abusing it is the issue to deal with.

>> ... have united to demand sweeping changes to US surveillance laws..

Of course but don't forget to add the statement about "enforcing" the [new and existing] laws.

Otherwise it'll become like a gun control game for politicians - "lets add new laws to solve the problem".
I did not know that, I'll definitely check it out.
He used haskell for some startup thing he was doing, but he didn't abandon scala or lift.
UK leaving the EU. Scotland leaving England (but presumably still a Commonwealth nation...). So take that to the extreme, with the return to city-states, Burning-Man style with citizens moving house in their shipping-container homes as their loyalties/desires change.
Am I the only one that thinks the publishers' websites are unbelievably ugly and cluttered ?
I wouldn't call this "scary." It's not tough to apply basic technical analysis to charts. It may or may not go down, but TA isn't set in stone and only works in the long run in retrospect.

See, e.g., the double top: http://www.forexhit.com/learn-forex/price-patterns.html
I think the question you should really ask here is what your friend means by "working".

In a fully trusted and firewalled network, installing a mail server is probably as simple as `sudo apt-get install <mail server>` and accepting whatever debconf prompts you with.

But if you want an Internet-connected system and you want to send mail to users on outlook.com and gmail.com, then it's a different beast entirely, for one simple reason: spam.

Two concerns: incoming spam, and outgoing spam. Dealing with spam is an arms race; in the 90s, a simple bayesian filter on the contents of the email (such as POPFile) would be sufficient for most users. Spammers have gotten more sophisticated, and so tuning the rules so that you're not inundated with spam takes quite a bit of time.

On the flip side, other people have pretty sophisticated email filters that look at things like email signatures (DKIM), DNS records (reverse DNS, SPF), whether you're running a server off your home ISP connection (DNSBL), and all sorts of other shenanigans. Configuring a mail server to pass all these checks is supposed to be hard enough that you'd only want to do it once -- if it wasn't, then the spammers would be able to do it quickly and users would be getting a lot more spam because every time you block one server, the spammers would just set up another one.
I couldn't reply to a post below mine, which is why I replied to my own post.
Yes, this is a substantially more detailed article than the original tech review link - it actually details what the claimed deception is.
Tech entrepreneurship is still fairly young, but in that short time, we've already invented our own unique brand of cool: young, credentialed, hot, saying the right things.
Oh wait: those are the values of society at large.
We've already abandoned all pretense of disruption. This is just the next iteration of the elite, where your value as a person hinges on how well you project your own narcissism.

I had a chronic illness in my teenage years and 20s, hit a nadir around 24, and recovered by 27-28. I'm healthy now, but didn't have the start that's "expected" of people with +4 sigma talent. It's obvious, since I'm 30 and not earth-shatteringly successful, that I have some kind of health story... but I prefer not to get into the details with people I barely know. I don't want it to be the first conversation, but in the contemporary Valley, it would be. ("If you're so smart, why aren't you rich?")

Silicon Valley used to be for weird people. It was about second chances (and third, and fourth) and outer-range creativity and acceptance of weirdness. People were too busy building for the cool-kids shit and high-school drama that dominates now. That Silicon Valley was worth defending, and protecting. This iteration, this Disney-fied new one, is worth attacking, humiliating, and bringing to its undignified end.
I stared to it for 10 minutes too! The real content is the podcast/presentation on the top right. It’s a vimeo video that has a ship and a press.
Awesome! Definitely some good and funny domain name suggestions in there.

One thing though: When searching for a word, such as "reed", it discovers domains that have two different words that spell "reed" when placed together such as "TreeDaisy.com". For the example "reed", I also get a lot of results like "AgreedSummer.com" where the word I'm searching for makes up a different, unrelated word.

Good job! I am bookmarking this site. Thank you.
Amazed by the quality of some of the names, knownhell.com for instance.

Not as amazed by others, like stepbrotherdrizzle.com.
It's somewhat scary but I also find it pretty interesting. I wish there was a simple way to plot all of my data for the entire year or even all of the data Google has. Between Google and various social networks I'm sure you could put together a pretty interesting map of someone's travels.

Logging in and going to: https://maps.google.com/locationhistory/b/0/kml?startTime=13...

Gave me all my location history for this year.
>On the other hand, it frustrates me that the tipping point for how Snowden's legacy will be viewed is action by a set of corporations, and not action by elected officials, the media, or an informed public...

Democracy is effectively dead; who could we have voted for that would not have done these things if not Obama?

The United States is an oligarchy, just as the Internet has become feudal. Sometimes we'll agree with the decisions of the oligarchs; other times we won't.

But that isn't the question. Should we live in an oligarchy?

(Personally, I'm less optimistic that this is any sort of "tipping point." Humans rarely change their minds, and Snowden became a traitorous footnote to most people a long time ago.)
I find it strange you find it so unlikely that people have that much insight into their own code. The code I work on has several instances of likely/unlikely in the main path for cases that we know happen either once, rarely, or when we are moving off the optimized path.
The truth is, there probably is a budget for this.

"At the Olympic Garden Topless Cabaret, Samantha says she lap danced with one of the terrorists. The Terrorists who hijacked a plane and crashed it are said to have stayed and played in Las Vegas."
...
"Some big-man terrorist, huh?" Samantha said this week as she took a breather from the two-dozen lap dances she bestows daily upon the lonely at the Olympic Garden Topless Cabaret. "He spent about $20 for a quick dance and didn't tip more."

http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Agents-of-terror-leave-th...
This is great. Navigating through GO's Flash UI is probably one of the most infuriating tasks I can think of.
AFAICS:

1. There's a very high regulatory burden.

2. It's practically impossible to run a payment processor in the U.S. without getting funds frozen. PayPal is as successful as it is in part because they built a giant machine-learning monstrosity to automatically detect and deal with fraud (and it's full of false positives, but they consider that just a cost of doing business on the U.S. Internet).
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I thought there was this world-wide campaign to free Mandela while he was in prison as well. Surely it couldn't be informed by what he would do in the future.
The link you quoted directly states that the quality of grain protein is relatively very poor and limited by lysine content (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protein_Digestibility_Corrected...)

I don't dispute that man can live on rice protein alone. But, this decision clearly doesn't have any foundation in good nutrition.
To anyone deciding between Scala and Clojure:

If you want a simple and concise syntax, hate long compile times, don't mind polish notation, want purer functional programming, don't need an IDE, and prefer dynamic typing, Clojure might be your cup of tea.

If you like using an IDE, autocompletion, refactoring and almost 1:1 Java interoperability, want a statically typed language with both functional programming and OO and still be able to do things you can't do in Java (like duck typing, "pimp my library", and dynamic method names), need a language that has high adoption chances in both Startups and Enterprise Java shops - and don't mind LONG COMPILATION TIMES, (and fine with never really fully understanding CanBuildFrom) Scala might be your better choice.

If you didn't choose Scala ONLY because of long compilation times, make sure to give Kotlin a look.
If you didn't choose Clojure because it's dynamically typed or because (not (like you polish_notation)) then try Haskell
That's a pretty silly idea. Google doesn't sell your data to anyone. It's their most valuable asset!
> Leverage your existing web based PHP skills to write all types of software. CLI scripts, desktop software, network servers and more - this book will give you the tools, techniques and background necessary to write just about any type of software you can think of, using the PHP you know.

Do you remember the beautiful age of 4G languages?

Back then, there were a lot of people who thought hey, the biggest problem with programming is languages. All we need to make programming simpler, more reliable and more productive are proper, simple languages that are easy to learn and therefore, easy to program in.

The idea eventually died because people finally understood that what you need in order to build good programs are programming skills, not language skills.

If "your existing web based PHP skills" are programming skills and you want to develop desktop programs, then by all means go ahead, either in PHP or in anything else. If they aren't, you'll end up writing applications that are just as bad as the web applications you wrote.
Nah. Some of them get comfortable financially after they ship their game, but almost none of them were wealthy while making the game. It's common for devs to live in their parent's basement during that time, or off of money that they saved in jobs for the years or decades prior.
> Mandela was respected for what he did after being released from prison, rather than what he did before going to prison.

He can be respected for both. Many of us do respect him for the totality of what he was, not just what he was later in life.
I wholeheartedly agree. I don’t mean to suggest an ignorance is bliss approach, only that if you employer does not have a need to know, you don’t need to go parading around that your employment there has an expiration date of your side project’s profitability.

As for those types of contracts assigning tech IP to $dayjob, that’s what I was alluding to. If you have one of those, unfortunately you cannot start a business without risking $dayjob wanting a piece (or all of it). Regardless of how often they stand up in court or are even tentatively enforced, I wouldn’t want to risk it.
Somebody called it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6005447
Flagged for being a potty mouth.
i'm sure they are very grateful for all the attention and paper sales he has provided them...

maybe they could dump out all the revelations in one go instead of drip feeding us? or just make the information public?

although to be fair - he has certainly shaped the year's news stories for a good reason. he has enlightened many who were previously naive.
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Sol Trader now accepts Bitcoin AND Litecoin
Another shill company designed fail.

Meanwhile the real breakthroughs wither on the vine (e.g. http://gizmodo.com/this-graphene-coated-silicon-power-cell-s...)
Airbnb creates the painpoint of a hotel business being created in our apartment builds - our homes that we live in - against our will (and against the law, the lease we signed, and the lease the offender signed), with all of the noise, sanitation, safety, and privacy issues that go along with it. It's a destructive practice that comes at the expense of the folks who actually live here.
Yeah, the last thing we need is another manual for how governments should control the society in the future, as if 1984 wasn't enough. My guess is the people in NSA are already thinking about how to implement a Minority Report-like pre-crime system, that can be shared with all government agencies.
The more I think about it, the more I want government to step in and nationalise/regulate internet service, like they did with electricity.

Internet access has become commoditized enough that there isn't much innovation in it's distribution, and it is so necessary for modern businesses that it makes economic sense.
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One of the great stories of the political landscape today is the... impedance mismatch, for lack of a better word... between technology enabling ever more decentralized control (and for "control", read "government"), and the fact that everywhere you look, centralized governments are expanding their power.

It's one of those thing we're all too close to see clearly, and I do not exempt myself from that problem, but I suspect in a hundred years it'll be one of the "big stories" told about this time period.
The responsive site is pretty nice imo, the link in the repo description is wrong:
http://www.theguardian.com/uk?view=mobile