skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>*They're not. They're offering them a decent job for a decent wage knowing that these people are totally unskilled.

That was neither a decent job, nor a decent wage. It was just a job and a wage they were forced to do in order to feed themselves, and under very bad conditions.

If a "totally unskilled" jobless person comes to me for money, I can offer him the chance dance, call me "master" and crawl at my feet and then give him $10.

Something which he might be forced to accept (hunger trumps pride).

That doesn't make my offer "decent" -- even if nobody else was willing to give him $10 anyway.
Snapchat is a frivolous, silly app mainly used for sexting. I agree that there is something in combing asynchrony and ephemerality, but come on. Nothing run by the likes of Evan Spiegel is going to threaten Facebook. He's not in the same class as Mark Zuckerberg or Bill Gates. He's not even in the same class as me. He's a rich kid and a lottery winner and should have sold at $3 billion and let someone else run it.

Now, what's going to beat Facebook and LinkedIn and much else in the long run-- and by "long" I mean 2020-25 is something I call "quality social". Facebook provides "social" and there is no meaningful filter on quality. That's not a knock on Facebook; that's not its job. People can fill your feed with junk. Of your 400 "friends", 390 are really acquaintances. I have the most respect for what Meetup is doing ("use the Internet to get off the Internet") but the problem of providing a quality social experience over the Internet is an unsolved one. (Meetup just helps people plan offline experiences.) I think that it will start with multiplayer games. Board games are great at alleviating social awkwardness that forms when people are new to each other or haven't kept in touch for a while. It goes beyond games, though; really, the problem is how to allow people to have meaningful and social experiences in such a way that they can be online, offline, or mixed (i.e. a game where some people are physically in the same place and some are not, or a game that persists as their locations change). Maybe we should try this out, do an Ambition tournament some time in 2014. Anyway, there are a lot of unknown variables-- especially around mobile devices-- but Quality Social is where the future (of social/consumer web) is coming from.
Read and implement papers is extremely good advice. It also applies even if you have a degree. I have a BA in math but in the last 6 years have found myself in positions that usually require a phd. And that is not an option with a family and no university nearby. The ability to read academic papers and understand them and turn them into something useful is very valuable.

One thing I would add is to learn how to write, as tptacek obviously has. And like the reading material, not internet comments or blog posts. Learn to write real technical reports and proposals. Many engineers, in particular software people can't write worth a lick.
>As your Facebook network becomes saturated, it can feel very public. It puts the focus on managing your image, rather than truly bonding with people. Young startups like Snapchat are providing shelter from the institution of Facebook by serving as a place where you can express yourself comfortably. A place where you don’t feel like your every move is being watched.

This is something I will likely never understand. Why do people have so much trouble with being themselves? This isn't a Facebook problem, this is a society problem. Facebook just exposed it.

Instead of talking about the end of the FB era and making new social networks, we should talk about making people more comfortable with being themselves. The first step is to stop spending so much time judging everyone.
Qualcomm Insider: Apple 64-Bit Chip `Hit Us in the Gut'
As an Ex BT person I could see this coming a mile off with Bruces principled stand it could realistically only end this way.

And techcruch guys "ouster" are we channeling variety now!!!
> Salesforce is a great example of a company that's widely successfully and their products are critical in enterprise, but I've never personally heard an Enterprise consumer say "Oh I love the Salesforce software." By contrast, I've heard people rave about apps like Pinterest, Instagram and Snapchat even though none of them are profitable businesses.

I think there is a certain inevitability to these things when you compare software that people are required to use as part of their job, and software they choose to use in their spare time.

It strikes me as a vicious cycle. People don't enjoy using enterprise software, so developers don't enjoy making it.

The incentives are all wrong, the purchasing decisions are made by the wrong people, for the wrong reasons, and it's near impossible to avoid locking yourself into a particular solution or provider. Welcome to enterprise software.
yes... I mean, I'm paying $5 for my VPS, so the same amount for a blog seems "too much".

And yes: those who are looking for a free blog would choice WP or some static system on GitHub.

$1/month would be interesting for me (and even more if I can pay with bitcoin), but I don't know anything about marketing :P
There's been a lot of movement in the legal community (well, outside of FedGov) for rethinking Smith v. Maryland. This may give SCOTUS an opportunity. I doubt they'd go as far as today's opinion, but there's plenty of scholarship to say that Smith is outdated.

Compare to the decades of legal scholarship that eventually culminated in the Second Amendment being reinstated, kind of, by SCOTUS in the Heller and McDonald cases. What, it actually means the government can't ban guns? Gasp!
Yes, that's true. It's not particularly secure. I don't think many people are going to try and gain brute force to a random photo album, especially considering 80% are blank with people just trying out the site..
I have a little more time now, so;

Predecessor to the NSA-

Despite the American Black Chamber's initial success, however, it was shut down in 1929 by U.S. Secretary of State Henry L. Stimson, who defended his decision by stating that "Gentlemen do not read each other's mail"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Security_Agency#Black_...

The NSA's core goal is the global monitoring, collection, decoding, translation and analysis of information and data for foreign intelligence and counterintelligence purposes. Achieving these things runs afoul of at least some people's ethical systems. For example, how does someone with an unshakeable belief in the sanctity of life work to bring in a double-agent (traitor) to his country (who will be executed) without facing some ethical dilemmas?
Not if they have to pay it themselves
No, 90ms including in transit, so 20ms in svr processing time.
Go watch one of those helicopter/drone/warthog strike video and listen to the guys talk. There is no compassion, no remorse, nothing. They are kids playing a video game, chuckles and trash talk included. If they could teabag them, they would.
Why feminists avoid live debating their delusional views
Most likely.

http://www.spreeder.com/ says:
"To train to read faster, you must first find your base rate. Your base rate is the speed that you can read a passage of text with full comprehension. We've defaulted to 300 wpm, showing one word at a time, which is about the average that works best for our users. Now, read that passage using spreeder at that base rate."

I wouldn't be surprised if Medium is calculating read time the same way. It's just aesthetically pleasing and somewhat useful.
Ha yes, I was too lazy to put in 2013 and then change it in a month :)
I am in a reeducation camp. All news is for me.

God says...
you're_no_fun zoot Dad rocket_science other white_trash
Catastrophic_Success Enough could_it_be___Satan theres_no_place_like_home
na_na pow
I agree that some bugs require a great deal of creativity to track down (maybe even writing a new debugging tool), but in my experience, most bugs are caused by a minor oversight and can be found by straightforward techniques like examining logs, or examining program state in the debugger where a segfault occurs, or running a few experiments to do a "differential diagnosis" (it happens when I do A and B, but not when I do C, so the bug must be here). These are things that I can still do when I don't have the mental energy to synthesize new code designs.
I remember getting a Firefox polo a while back (9 years ago?). Must've been the reward for a donation. Still makes an impact - people keep asking what I did to get it.
I don't think Terry is applicable. Terry has to do with stopping a person based on some suspicion that that person might be committing a crime. You're quite right to point out that the suspicion required is minimal, and that it's easy to manipulate. However, the type of search that can be conducted through a Terry stop is limited to fairly strict justifications--the officers can really only conduct searches to protect themselves (i.e. to see if you have a weapon) or evidence (to prevent you from destroying it).

But what's going on here is massive, indiscriminate collection of information on people whom the government has no reason whatsoever to suspect of any crime. Not only that, the officer safety and evidence preservation justifications don't apply either. NSA surveillance isn't really comparable to conducting a Terry stop on the entire nation.
It would an interesting experiment to compare the reactions to this article to the ones it would have gotten had it been written by a man.
I'm surprised. After all the user rights and privacy issues pouring in this year - Google is most trusted. Perhaps, it's the lesser of evil.

If I were to choose from the list, it would be one single company - Mozilla.
> Further, this means that code that was once GPL or public domain could be reverted back to private ownership by the author or his heirs after 35 years.

That's true (and without the 35 year limitation) just based on the fact that gratuitous licenses are revocable at will, terminations rights aren't even necessary to it.

The effect of revocation might be mitigated to some extent by promissory estoppel, but -- despite the fact that some people have asserted that that completely neutralizes the risk -- I've seen no substantial case law that is directly on point or even closely analogous that supports the idea that it would completely negate the effect of revocation.
There is going to be one, it was one of the condition the socialist had before entering in a government with Merkel.
Galen Framework: Automated Testing of Responsive Design
http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/perspective.png
One Small Part of a Pretty Great Life
You're right. I'm just publicly griping.
> the slaves weren't on constant strike either.

Nor were they free to leave. The situations are not comparable.
The statute says that any agreement to grant a license which is made before the date of termination is invalid. That would certainly include an optional license.

It was a common thing before '76, and the current statute is quite clear-- you can't sign anything that would give this right up before it happens.
We have those laws in the US too, and I'm sure Europe has its fair share of developers trying to cover up archeological finds to avoid derailing a development project.
203b1, allowing derivative works to continue to be used after the termination, seems to reduce the impact this would have on GPLed software.

Has anyone written about the possible interactions with copyright termination of permissive and copyleft licenses?
All you really said is that you were comfortable with things the way they are.

I'd like to see some sort of data rights legislation, where when I ask the phone company to please try to connect me to some other person I can expect that they are minimizing access to those details. I wouldn't even mind if my requests related to service problems meant authorizing a period of wider disclosure. That at least changes the tone of the privacy discussions (and 'trusted third parties' are a well carved out aspect of privacy).
What sort of title is "security futurologist"?
Enterprise might pay 4x more even for a product that is crappier by 10x than a consumer product but enterprise is also 100x smaller than consumer in sheer number of opportunities to make a sale.

Not to mention there are too many legalities around B2B sales some of which might threaten the very existence of your business.
This is what I assumed just wondered how they decided what the average words per minute is.
Sounds a little like 'We will learn about Martian history as we make it!' although I understand you mean that we will learn about Martian history faster once we get permanent feet on the ground.
Couch has a much shorter list of operations. Really only get, put, delete, and whatever you can cook up yourself with mapreduce. Rethink has ad-hoc live queries and joins. I don't think Rethink has a tailable update log in the way Couch does.
How did I never hear about this before?
Isn't comcast charging something like $10 for each 50 gigs over their transfer cap?

Next thing you know, the electric company will give the manufacturer of electric space heaters for poor people a grant so they can sell more and cheaper space heaters to poor people, or perhaps a for profit water company will give away free lawn watering sprinklers to poor people.
Coinpunk swoops in as a mobile Bitcoin wallet app alternative
Which php driver do you use?
> What's the legal term? I think it's "double construction"? Where the prosecution knows it's you from illegal means (wiretap/NSA spying) but by that knowledge can go back and construct the legal case in reverse.

I think the technical term is either "perjury" or "fraud on the court".

The euphemism, though, is "parallel construction".
So, this is essentially a set of themes for $250? I'm still trying to figure out what this does to be honest.
Have you ever read his articles? I think that's as apt a title as any for Mr. Schneier.
was going to say exactly this.
an awesome one
What extra percentage of taxes are you willing to pay? Assume that the everyone gets the tax hike and the money is well spent solely on this issue.
I will never understand how one million doors is easier to understand than 3. Switching doors means you get two doors out of three doors. 66% > 33%. 66/33 illustrates the benefit much better than 1 vs 2 out of a million.

I think what confuses people is that they think a random door is revealed, whereas the problem says a goat is specifically chosen before the offer to switch.
Good luck with this motto :) A penny saved is a penny earned!
The enterprise product we built cost us close to $1m in building it and around 300k per year for maintenance. [The engineering costs].

Each sale was supposed to bring in around $50k for a two yearly contract. A dedicated team of 25 people could barely make 20 sales per year. Bringing around $1m in revenue.

Remember the salaries of these 25 people ended up being the biggest cost component which made the entire business into a loss making proposition.
No, it's not. There is nothing new or innovative about Uber's business model. Nothing. It is a gypsy taxi service, and gypsy taxis have existed for as long as taxis have existed. Licensed taxi fares are uniform for very good reason: predictability and fairness. In the long run, no one wants to risk being stranded in a snowstorm just so they can pay less on a sunnier day. And in many urban environments, taxis are an integral part of the public transportation system, even though they are privately operated. In that context, it's unfair to permit the wealthy to co-opt that infrastructure for their exclusive use, simply because they can outbid their poorer neighbors.
I'm not sure anyone wants to pay journalists what a world-class cryptographer makes.
But what about robots?
The termination right, of course, is a limit on free transfer. As a result, instead of a narrow attack on the termination rights of musicians by reclassifying their works as “works-for-hire,” the text here could eliminate termination rights for everyone.

But is this bad? Yes, there's definitely a power imbalance, but if the copyright regime is simpler, with no artificial legal limitations on the lifetime of the contractual assignment, then artists can negotiate either higher prices or reversion options at time of assignment.

Speaking as an artist (with experience of starving, being ripped off by publishers, and sundry other disadvantages), simplicity has value. A 35-year termination rights period is a nice idea for a corrective but actually limits my negotiating position as the publisher is going to discount the value of the copyright assignment appropriately. The flip side of the economic imbalance between creator and publisher is that the publisher is in a much better position to realize the benefits of long-tail revenue, since publishers have expertise in marketing, analytics, revenue collection etc. that are difficult for an individual to acquire, and whose acquisition has a significant opportunity cost in terms of creative development/output. If the publisher can lose all contractual rights after 35 years then it has every economic incentive to a) maximize up-front economic gain and b) minimize long term commitment.

Also, as regards the TPP specifically, if this deal were to go through as-is then artists would be able to argue that overseas publication rights were worth more money due to the harmony of regulation, in stead of having revenue siphoned off my the bureaucracy of dealing with multiple differing copyright regimes in the signatory countries. In my view, a single licensing standard that extended from the EU (via upcoming TTIP negotiations) to much of the Pacific Rim (via TPP) would be a distinct plus for artists, since that would cover something like 70% of the global economy and would massively reduce transaction costs.
Assuming your 70ms in transit is accurate, although you have not provided details on how you measured that. 20ms svr processing time is only 50 inserts per second which is simply untenable in respect to a high performing rethink..

In effect if i wanted to do 10000 single writes per second typical of most interactive systems, i will need 200 nodes to pull that Off.
> I can dedicate the requisite number of hours to a course, but not in the structure a course demands.

This seems like a common situation, and I am almost surprised it is not adequately addressed yet.
A new digital signature scheme based on RSA
>Is anyone else tired of hearing about the dangers of interplanetary contamination

The risk is real - humanity is still learning to deal with it though - people overreacting & under-reacting is inevitable. Damage will be done - such is life. At this stage I think that space exploration as a whole should take priority. Perhaps we screw over a planet. So be it. Mistakes are inevitable & I can deal with that. Space exploration & humanity's long term survival being screwed with by republican vs democrats debates...that is a serious problem for me...and I'm not even an American. Humanity as a whole suffers.
You can't stop this without breaking git. There is no master repository in git, where user access can be checked. As far as a git repo is concerned, you could easily be checking in a commit Linus sent you, in which case it would be doing the exactly right thing.

If you want confirmation that a certain person has done something in git, you'll have to have them sign the commit in some fashion.

github is correcting in politely passing this off as a non-issue.
These humans that died with good teeth, weren't they mostly dead by their 30's?
That is just how git works, and there isn't really anything GitHub can do about it. Marking commits as being by the person who pushed them rather than being by the person who wrote them is the closest you could come, and that would be terrible. It's not even really fixable in a DVCS at all short of not supporting unsigned commits.
But anonymously posting secrets in the form of videos with a small caption would make the videos look rather 'not like secrets'.
I would rather prefer it as a microblogging platform than a secret sharing platform with video snippet captured while the text was being written, in the background...
Are they? How can I get at them?
Broadcast TV is free while cable channels cost money, yet both of them give you ads. A paid subscription to the New York Times or Wall Street Journal will give you more ads than my local free newspaper. The free community production of Twelfth Night in the park had less product placement than any film at the local cineplex, despite the high ticket prices.

Consumers are aware that they are ALWAYS the product. They're just upset that some people think that they need to pay for that "privilege".
It can't end soon enough.

The open internet meant that anyone with TCP/IP could see all content.

Facebook put everything behind a wall that was both effective at blocking open access and ineffective at protecting privacy.

The centralization of the internet into a handful of sites -- Twitter, Wikipedia, Facebook, and Google -- is destructive to the original mission and concept of the internet.
twiddle with the timing settings (I forget). So typing 'jk' only very quickly indeed will register as ESC.
Just like "business" skills, journalism should be something people develop on the side while still maintaining their primary work skillset (with industry-specific skills).

The big problem with journalism right now is the complete disconnect between the journalist and their understanding of the topic. Just look at every software or bitcoin article. This is largely because of the internet's turn-around speed requirements and low pay. They have no time to invest in learning about the topic.

The only way to save journalism is if we start contributing to it like we do OSS. Instead of paying people minimum wage and expecting quality results, we have people who contribute articles on the side.

But not just anybody writing (like blogging), but people who invest in learning how to write - working with full-time editors who manage the input and source writers.
The life that we have available to study on earth right now has a common ancestor. There may have been multiple abiogenesis events, but life on earth stemming from other abiogenesis events has either died out, merged so as to be functionally indistinguishable, or has not been discovered. I am unaware of anyone working in biology under other models.

I suspect, as you do, that any Martian life will likely be recognizable as "life". The long term fear is of course that either things from earth will eat all of it, or it will eat everything from earth (that's less of a concern since quarantine in that direction is pretty easy). The short term is what we really need to be concerned about though. In the short term, the concern is that Martian life will be mistaken or written off as life from Earth.

This problem is exacerbated when we consider that the life on Mars that we are looking for could be former Earth life that hitched a ride on some rocks millions or billions of years ago. If we scoop up some Martian soil and find a few rather prokaryote-ish looking things bopping around in it, then exactly what we have just found becomes very hard to determine if our spacecraft was not sterile. Did it just find an example of convergent abiogenesis and evolution? Evidence of panspermia? Or did somebody in the assembly building sneeze on the scoop?
I'm unaware of communications and technological trends falling into cycles like sartorial fashion.

You can use a 20-, 30-, or 50-year-old scarf or jacket you find in a thrift store, but not a phone or a computer. And very few people would want to.
Partners vs. Investors: Dilution ain’t your primary concern
And if some children don't want to get any education, and their parents are ok with it, or just too poor to care or deem it important?
The charges should be dropped instead.