skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
FWIW, some folks may have employment contracts with $dayjob which give that company intellectual property claims on all technical work by employees whether done on or off the job. The extent of those claims obviously depends on the contract itself, and enforceability varies by jurisdiction. (California is better on this than most US States, but even there, employers with a will may have enough wiggle room to make trouble for an employee with a side project that's taking off.)

So, if you're actually trying the "ignorance is bliss" strategy for managing $dayjob relation, then consulting a lawyer up front could save you an awful lot of trouble later.
Any ideas on what the issue is/was?
You don't even need to get to the expense of drug trials. It's simply nonsensical to proceed from a premise that costs in drug development are something you can divvy-up on a strictly per-product basis. Any given drug is the result of a broad research program that has a few hits and many failures. Everything is heavily cross-subsidized, and that's pretty much the only way to run a modern pharmaceutical company given the nature of drug development.

At the end of the day, Roche (the parent company of Genentech), has revenues and profits quite similar to Google. They're profitable, but not ridiculously so.
And yet, without fail, we elect one of two sides of the same coin every 2 years locally, and every 4 years federally, despite people like me telling everyone who will listen that it's a terrible idea, and that doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results is moronic.

A smart sheep is still a sheep. That term doesn't imply stupidity, or lack of intelligence, only ease of manipulating.
Snowden revealed wrongdoing by people that the general public does not feel much of any sort of connection or loyalty to.

'The military', rather than 'the NSA' (both DoD, yes, but still rather distinct in the eyes of the public), is something that the American public has become convinced absolutely must be supported no matter their political stance or position on war. Support for the military must be unwavering, even if you support nothing that the military actually does. Anything short of that is un-American, therefore Manning is un-American.
How Apple’s Lightning-Plug Guru Reinvented Square’s Card Reader
Before Apple's iPad, there was the Intel IPAD. Seriously.
Most investors, IMO, are not great evaluators of founders (e.g., are easily fooled by elite credentials)

The theory is that if someone doesn't have elite credentials, he doesn't have the hustle to stitch a business together amid adversity. I'd generally agree that it's much harder to launch a successful business than it is to get into Stanford. The latter is not at all hard if you (or, more accurately, your parents) know how to go about it.

Two fallacies are that (1) people who didn't go to Stanford couldn't get in, as if everyone wanted to go there at 17, and (2) that "hustle" at 17 correlates significantly to hustle at 25 or 38.

VCs come from a socioeconomic milieu in which it's normal for kids of average intelligence to attend Stanford or Harvard, because of all the connections they can pull, so their assumptions are valid where they live. The mistake they make is that they assume that (no Stanford => not founder material) to be true for the other 99.9% of the population.
Well, the obvious problem is you're proposing a self-destructive currency. Do you really want to opt into a currency system which will inherently lose value? and be non-anonymous to boot? You're building in a tax & welfare system ... creating a government, in an intention to topple governments.

I'll pass. I like my cash anonymous & stable. If you want part of mine, earn it by trading something I value.
No, it's not just a matter of terminal configuration. Terminfo can't describe all the keystrokes that some terminal emulators can generate.

The easiest way of fixing it is a couple of small patches to the broken Ubuntu terminfo entries, and some functions in .emacs to handle everything else.
> The idea that you can datamine everything running over the internet is a fool's errand and this errand is costing us billions in wasted tax dollars and millions of instances of violated human rights.

Agreed.

> Terrorism is the root password to everything.

Terrorism is pretty scary stuff, it's intended to be scary. No way are people in government singing hallelujah everytime innocent people are killed, look we can fund more nefarious shit! They're honestly trying to do the right thing and simply went overboard with collecting too much data.
Internet horror stories: How ISPs screwed over users
IIRC, less than 5% of juniors (3rd-years) in my class got internship offers at Google, and Google goes out of its way to fly recruiters to the University of Waterloo every four months. There were basically only two or three kids that got offers as freshmen (1st-years) / sophomores (2nd-years).

A much higher percentage of seniors (4th-years) get internship/co-op offers, but it's still not huge.

From what I can tell, a lot of recruiting at Google revolves around giving the impression of fairness and due process; trying to hack around it by contacting recruiters directly on LinkedIn sounds like a good way to get black-listed. Apply through their portal at http://www.google.com/about/jobs/students/ ; consider working at other companies (e.g. Facebook) to build up your resume if you don't have prior experience; be open to working at other offices; be open to working in multiple areas of the company (for example, it's really hard to get positions in Chrome and Android unless you're Liam Mcloughlin).
Laravel seems a much better investment for you.
Or... you find players that are obsessive 1st person shooter players, you cross reference their mental health history and access to guns. That pops up Adam Lanza in Newtown. You engage him and coerce him. hmm..
He mentions "Top 0.01% founder" which is probably about one of ten people in the world.

VC culture selects for arrogance and narcissism. The few who are "top 0.01% founders" would never describe themselves as such.
http://gigaom.com/2013/12/03/court-documents-reveal-doe-back... <-- original link
Video suddenly became private?
No idea, they don't seem to have made that public. But seeing as more and more outside US processors stop catering to US businesses and customers it's not hard to see why.

Edit: Funny thing is that they didn't even bother sending an email, found about it from one of the forums i follow...
The surveillance state is already here, we have let it happen and it is unlikely to go away ever again. I think we should instead refocus the discussion. The question is not anymore how to prevent the surveillance state, but how to best live in a world like this.
It's a good question but I think Rob was trying to leave that out of scope and focus on a process that probably fits what other seed/early stage funds have either proactively created or reactively evolved. What's implied is that everything is moot unless they meet founders that they deem investable. Only then, does he spend more time researching the other stuff.
Hacking breaking news
Fun with gradient masks and the iOS 7 status bar.
Batsh: A language that compiles to Bash and Windows Batch
Here’s why volatility isn’t a big problem for Bitcoin
Deploying small changes with Laravel is very, very easy, and that's the parent post main complaint about RoR.
And thank you for the amazing go client.
Data Locality -  The CPU cache's effect on your game's performance
I find the most interesting part of this article is the co-author - Jean-Louis Gassee [1] of Apple, Be and Palm fame. Whether you view him as a success or a failure, he brings a very unique perspective to discussions of leadership and succession. It's several levels more insightful than most business blog drivel.

The idea of a stalemate is interesting. On the one hand the authors accuse the board of giving Ballmer too much of a free reign. Then they say the next candidate won't accept the position without it.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Louis_Gass%C3%A9e
Mandela was respected for what he did after being released from prison, rather than what he did before going to prison.

When oppressive and divisive regimes fall, it often happens violently and they end up being replaced by regimes that are just as bad if not worse (see: Tsarist Russia, White-majority Rhodesia, many other postcolonial states). That didn't happen in SA, and Mandela is credited with that.

If the world ends up looking way more dystopian scifi than it does at the moment, there's maybe a scenario where Snowden ends up being today's Nelson Mandela, but I wouldn't bet on it.
But it could be a good way for a case officer to keep in contact with a source none of that hanging about in parks dead letter drops and embarrassing wifi enabled rocks.

Would they have caught Anna Chapman if she had met her case handler virtually instead of a coffee shop.
> The state is in a very different (privileged) position to commercial companies and we need an additional layer of protection from the state that is not necessary with companies.

I'm definitely not disputing that. I also believe that the current state of affairs isn't OK.

What I am disputing is the notion that companies are somehow defending our privacy rights. No they're not. Microsoft, Google and Facebook not only do not battle for consumer rights, their entire damn businesses are based on eroding them as much as possible. If they could have legally collected the data NSA was collecting, they'd have done so without as much as batting an eye.

All they're doing in this context is trying to shift public outcry from their own dubious practices, for two reasons:

1. As people start sharing less and less personal data for fear of government surveillance, they're also sharing less and less personal data with the tech companies themselves. This means less personal data to sell and, consequently, less profits.

2. Average consumers typically don't notice how much of their data is in fact shared with the likes of Facebook and Twitter. The NSA scandal put this into a new perspective: they share enough data that even the government cares. The PR folks aren't stupid; they are predictably trying to shift public outcry towards the NSA, attempting to create the image that somehow these companies -- which otherwise deeply care for their users' privacy -- have done the best they could to protect the private data of their customers, and now need support to battle against this Bigger Enemy. Conveniently, the fact that they can still tap unlimited information for their own use is shielded away.

I'm not denying surveillance laws need to be changed, I'm simply denying the benevolent role of large corporations.
If you're on a Mac you can use KeyRemap4MacBook's vi mode in Word.

https://pqrs.org/macosx/keyremap4macbook/
> But seeing as more and more outside US processors stop catering to US businesses and customers it's not hard to see why.

Would you care to elucidate?
> Because they spend just 60 percent of their before-tax income, often setting the rest aside for retirement or investing, he says their capacity to spend more will be important to a U.S. economic recovery.

As a salaried employee at less than $100K, my tax withholding in california was 35%. Spending 60% of your before-tax income doesn't seem to leave much room for any "capacity to spend more".
That's only part of the truth, though. There has been a steady increase in battery capacity per kg, dollar and volume over many years, it just hasn't been a revolutionary process.
I reckon that there must be a lot of writers out there thinking: "Hell, it was meant to be a cautionary tale, not a creepy government manual".

Although, I do think that in essence we are seeing nothing new from governments, just new ways to perform the old tricks, with greater efficiency.

Hmmmm, now I wonder if the actual problem is efficiency. We mere humans are pitted against technology we simply have no sporting chance against.
How Content Marketing and Marketing Automation led to a $5k retainer client
How to Design Proposals to Help Grow Your Business
> This is not as silly as it appears.

Oh yes it is. This is the readily and deservedly lampoon-ready tail end of snooping on everything without know what you are looking for.
Google Open Gallery
With Laravel: php artisan generate:scaffold some_type --fields="..."

That's not one hour. That's one minute.
The United States is collapsing, and the show will take a while. I'd say sit back and enjoy, but in this show most of us die, and those who don't will wish they did.
David Pollak is the author of the lift framework. Typesafe chose Play as its web framework.
This site doesn't seem to have any problems serving better-looking APNGs for Firefox users, and plain old GIFs to all others:
http://www.rw-designer.com/cursor-set/icq-flower
Ed, you have the power of experience, and your suggestions are all good.

But I can't figure out why you even bothered to comment about her posting. If you had to "educate" every startup hipster on what is wrong with their self aggrandizing blog posts, you would never have time to produce anything. Were you afraid other founders would take her musing as "law" and ruin their lives? I think the less attention these interruptions get, the better chance they will die out of pop culture, and more production can get done. I can't believe i'm wasting my time writing this.
I like the idea, but these were the principles they were supposed to be following in the first place but weren't. What makes anyone think that any amount of laws passed will be respected?
That's fine, I'd rather another Laundry book anyway.
How did they come to choose Scalatra if nobody knows how to use Scala?
Don't be too quick about it. Once the megacorps win the war, it's interesting to see who will defend our personal liberty and privacy from them.

At least in theory I can choose not to be a customer of a "megacorp." I'm given no such choice by the government.
See also: https://github.com/prof7bit/goxtool
They are squeezing every last drop out of AdWords right now to try to make up for it. Soon they will run out of growth there, too.

Any good tech company should realize they will be disrupted sooner than they think. The lifecycle of megacorps has dramatically shortened. While Google projects confidence, I would hope their leadership is usually worried about threats from behind the scenes.
Hal Varian on how the Web challenges managers (2009)
The Guilt of Selling - My Story of Getting Acquired
Scala and Clojure are built for two different purposes, both were made with different goals and problems in mind. This type of comparison is the same as comparing two different shop tools. On one hand you have a scrollsaw and on the other you have a tabletop saw. They are for two different purposes, and you won't find many people comparing the two. Programmers need to learn this, use a language for what its good with.

Language designers should also keep it in mind when describing their language. "I made this language with these problems in mind, and these goals in mind".
Announcing PyCharm 3.0.2
Show HN: Hbizzle, HBO GO made easy
Apple to participate in Hour of Code with free intro to dev course
The way they put it on their weblog, their partners in the US stopped. It does seem to have anything to do with "[...] more outside US processors stop catering to US businesses and customers [...]".

Never heard of Payza until now. That much will affect me.
I thought a web app that lets users upload pictures was so easy there's no way you could make much money with it.
The ultimate holiday gift list for the coder
Are you writing an essay, or are you writing a report?

If it is the former, then "History of HN" and "Introduction to HN" would make terrible topics for an essay.

My understanding is that most teachers look for your ability to persuade, typically using a standard five-paragraph essay format. The key to this is selecting a good thesis. Typically, I prefer to select a thesis that reflects the opposite of my personal viewpoint (e.g. if I believe that students should spend more time on Facebook, then I typically like to write essays arguing why students should spend less time on Facebook). The reason I do this is two-fold. First, by researching the opposing opinion, it helps me formulate how I would actually argue against it if I ever needed to in a real-world situation. Second, because I believe the opposite of the thesis in my essay, I'll always remember to include remarks acknowledging the viewpoint opposite the thesis, which makes the argument more palatable for the reader. ("Oh, hey, at least he considered my side.")

In particular, facts make for a terrible thesis, because there's no reason to argue the other side. A good thesis considers an issue that can be argued both ways.
I also did a write up about the project here: http://tmd.io/journal/2013/12/08/hbizzle/

I would love to get your feedback. Thanks!
Yeah, it's bureaucracy gone wild: one criminal per fifty employees. But I guess it's even less than so in this case: no convicted criminals, so many agents that a "deconfliction group" (how many employees were in that "group"? 3-5? 10?) was needed.
The chronicle of a Wargame
This bitcoin graph has become so accurate again at the moment, it's scary
It's really the lack of prescriptions, threats, petitioning, or any other real call to action that surprises me. They could say any number of things, but instead they list some vague principles and some quotes. How about:

* we will aggressively develop and support cryptographic methods that will keep you out of peoples' business

* here are some specific legislative demands

* here's a petition users can sign

* we're making direct appeals to our users to call you all and will keep them apprised of your progress

hell, even

* here's a count of the number of people who have shared something stupid across our many social media

So many things they could be doing...
Well go ahead and enlighten us rather than trolling this thread with baseless Better Together FUD.

Edit: I just saw the full version of your comment on Stross's website:

"And post Independence disutopias I could think of a few real world nasty outcomes for that as my Red Clydeside comrade said the NAT's have a (now well disguised) nasty sectarian/racist streak."

Disclosure: I've been a SNP voter for all of my voting life (~29 years) and a card carrying member on and off during that time. I've encountered many criticisms about the SNP, some of which I agree with, others not, but that's quite a serious accusation and one I've never encountered, maybe you could cite examples of this? I've met plenty of sectarian voters who vote Scottish Labour (having campaigned for the party in Glasgow many times), but I wouldn't accuse the Scottish Labour party of having a hidden seedy sectarian underbelly.
> People have the choice to drink or smoke or get obese or even break the law and risk the consequences.

Well, if that counts, you have the choice to forge a prescription or break into a pharmacy to self-medicate.
What's the benefit over Schwab? Schwab pays back all ATM fees.
I don't sign in to Google Maps or other location-based services very often, and the accuracy of this report reflects that which is good to see.

I appreciate Google working to make this data public to the consumer so they know what they are providing and can turn on / off services as they see fit. If I had an Android device I would most likely be using Google Now a lot more and this data might be really useful.

Next, I'd like a listing of everyone that is being sold my data packaged anonymously, just so I can be aware.
Manning leaked a large swath of information indiscriminately. The material was interesting to read, but perhaps the most notable thing about it was that there were no revelations.

Snowden leaked particular information for a clear purpose. That material has changed political discourse and public perception.
ShowHN: Read Twelve Years a Slave For Free Online
Because she was a prisoner of all her wealth before becoming prime minister? \s
That's maybe a bit pessimistic. We have come a long way (NiCd 40-60 Wh/kg, NiMH 30-80 Wh/kg, LiIon 150-250 Wh/kg), we're just still a long way from fossil fuels (~12,000 Wh/kg for gasoline). I think the biggest trick is to set expectations properly and wait it out as battery technology continues to evolve.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_density
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rechargeable_battery
You assume people are easily manipulated because you fail to appreciate what they actually want. You might, say, criticize a republican for wanting smaller government but voting for republicans instead of libertarians. But when arepublican says "smaller government" they mean "a little smaller." They don't want some breathtaking departure from the status quo. They want to cut back on teachers' pensions, not get rid of the Department of Education. Similarly, you might criticize a liberal for wanting less of a security state, but again fail to appreciate that what they mean by that is a "little less."

In my experience, people are quite broadly happy with the status quo. The complain incessantly about it, but very few would change it in a really fundamental way. It's hard to look at the American government and see it as anything other than an expression of the composite of American voters: financially irresponsible baby boomers who carry with them some of the liberal leanings of being teenagers in the 1960's along with the paranoia of being young adults in the Cold War.

This drives people who actually oppose the status quo in a fundamental way absolutely crazy.
Cannabis as a 'cure' for Cerebral Palsy
I think this is mostly a reflection of tech/science reporting. Batteries are hard. They're complex with many factors into what goes into a good battery. But the moment a lab creates one with good energy density, headlines just say "Scientists create batteries 20x greater than your iPhone" without paying attention to the fact that it has 20 charging cycles before it's useless.
Sending an army where? What are you talking about?
Snowden is also not the only whistleblower. To some extent, the more-limited actions by Binney, Wiebe, and Drake were even more amazing because they were without precedent (at NSA); Snowden went far beyond them, but had their example in mind.
Batteriy and solar panel breakthroughs: stories of the week.
It says:
"It will end - rapidly - in an epic sell-off as people realise that there are no more greater fools above them"

I was impressed with his prediction of the first top and drop. But if this will play out like the chart says it will. Well... impressive.

What do you think?
There are ways of acting against it proactively without breaking any NDA's and laws.

I can't think of any. The system seems carefully rigged to neuter the checks and balances originally built into it.

What are some examples of effective legal actions against an omniscient surveillance state that, historically speaking, threatens politicians even more than it does the average citizen? Maybe I should do some more reading to understand how Hoover's FBI was finally reined in.
Getting Sweaty in 1934: Remembering the Barbour Field House
It booted but dmesg was very noisy!

It would actually run for a day or two, serving up a modest PHP load, before crapping out.
Too late. The national conversation is already insane, with a pandoras's box nature that will not be reversed. The West is fucked, and like any spoiled asshole, is going to wreak the game (life on Earth) for everyone else. God/Allah/ca$h have mercy on our stupid fucking lives.
Zurbians and Yetis a Brief History
Can you convert this doodle GIF into lossless WebM? It would be interesting to see the numbers. I assume lossy compression would look bad, probably not worth it.
I love Charles Stross but I've had a really hard time with the second person narrative in Halting State.
This Clever Bug Spray Billboard Is Actually a Giant Insect Trap
>>stego is art not science

what about "provably secure steganogrpahy"? there seems to be some papers on this. isn't is by definition science, not art?