skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And I like it's style, and Windows won't cut it, so for me the trade offs are okay :)

Hence, depends on your definition of better. Computers are trade offs. Always have been. Your choice of trade offs is not inherently better than someone else's.

(this is academic, btw, I'm not getting any of the computers in question)
Well, not entirely the same framing.

For $200k one could probably brute-force an 896-bit RSA key. ;)
This is absolutely beautiful. Great potential for a stunning screensaver.
You can either go dark (end-to-end encrypted tunnels/proxies) or you can go noisy.

There are a few programs you can download that query Google for random terms every so often (hopefully not triggering bot detection) and go on random browsing sprees from the search results.

Since you're in Austin (and reasonably close to Dallas and Houston), you can grab a VPN service (or host your own) at a local big colo nearby to hopefully minimize added latency (if you only use wireless, you already have 10-50x latency over a wired connection, so you may not notice the difference).
I believe they say "top" because they have only two alternative app stores installed on the phone. They could not install Google play.

You should be able to install more app stores, since app stores are themselves Android apps. So you could add Amazon's app store, for example.
Let's say I'm a competitor, and I find that Niel (randomly picked) is someone I want to hire. All else being equal, I offer him $100k (website says he's making $88k). He comes to his boss to say "I like it here, can you match it?"

What does his boss do? Especially, if he's valuable to the company...

What if I have a very specialized skill that doesn't fit nicely into your matrix? Let's say market pay for my skill is $200k. Do you create a new category for me? Do I get dirty looks from all of my co-workers because I have a valuable skillset that most people don't?

I'd hate it, as an employee, as a boss or as an investor. But that could just be me.
BS. Because the feminists are interested only in equality in highly paid jobs for women.
I have a question: Why would the founders take such high salaries?

Seems to go against everything I would think was important for a company that is venture-backed.
'Uber for private jets' is grounded, but CEO says he hopes to raise more money
Robo rally was invented by the legendary Richard Garfield. (His next game was Magic the Gathering). I had the good fortune to talk to him about robot turtles before it launched. He had an awesome suggestion to add sokoban style crates to the game, which turned into a stretch goal, which wound up in production. Richard is awesome.
People need to stop posting his shit here, it's basically linkbait he's using to pimp his Whisper service. He's the worst kind of troll.
Industrial, physical uses of gold account for a very small fraction of its price. Gold coins originated as IOUs of some King. Bitcoins are nothing more than decentralized IOUs for the "real money" traded at bitcoin exchanges.
I still don't get it.

If an insecure protocol with an insecure implementation can send messages that others can't read, how is it insecure?
> the cost of off-the-shelf build of similar specs

More importantly in my busy life: those same specs work well together and when I have a part failure or two I have a repair program as good as Apple's. Or if it fails completely I don't have to find similar new parts to rebuild something that my software/hardware setup is already running perfectly on.
There was a recent album release called "Because the internet". Absolutely horrific :-)

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I think what gets me about leading with "So" (more so in spoken converstaion) is that it makes the speaker sound like they're constantly, and consciously, having to reframe things in a form that the poor dummy they're speaking to will understand.

Politicians do it a lot when answering questions.

I also recognise that it's more innocently used when telling a story.
This looks like a better alternative, but unfortunately all of their code is closed source as well.

I completely understand the desire for developers to make certain applications closed source, but if your application's main selling point is user privacy and security, you really need to abandon that desire.
When "Life Hacking" Is Really White Privilege
> Why exactly I don't see any discussion about courts giving children to their fathers in 50% of cases?

Because when fathers do actually contest custody, they usually get joint or sole custody? http://www.amptoons.com/blog/files/Massachusetts_Gender_Bias... ("These trends were apparent in an earlier study of a sample of 500 Middlesex County cases filed between 1978 and 1981. Fathers had sought sole custody in about 8% of the cases. They received sole custody in 41% of those cases, and joint custody in 38%. In 5% of the cases, custody went to someone other than a parent. In instances in which fathers sought sole custody, mothers received sole custody in only 15% of the cases.").

> Why exactly my wife is so brainwashed that even when I make 5.2 times money she does, she still needs to go to work which costs us more than her paycheck once we pay for the childcare and food.

Because she can do math and realizes that while child care expenses are temporary (and drop off substantially in just 5-6 years once children enter school), the lifetime impact on earnings from taking time off to raise children is substantial and permanent?
If youre interested in alternatives that are well engineered -

a) http://shopping1.hp.com/is-bin/INTERSHOP.enfinity/WFS/WW-USS...

b) http://www.dell.com/us/business/p/precision-T7600/pd

c) http://www.supermicro.com/products/nfo/superworkstation.cfm
Have you quit Google? Because sometimes it takes an HN thread, a post by a famous blogger, or even a blurb in the NYTimes before Google addresses festering customer service issues.
They've been around for almost 5 years now, so it's not too surprising. Not like they're a brand new startup.
Express is probably the most popular in terms of apps deployed, and sits on top of Connect.

Koa is likely to replace Connect [0].

[0]: https://twitter.com/tjholowaychuk/status/369868946989535232
You don't believe in social proof and a history of success?
I'm having a difficult time reconciling this article to what I actually read when I read Lean In...to the point where I don't think the author of this article has actually read the book.

It bothered me enough that I bought the Kindle edition just now so I could cite what's actually in the book (I originally read it in hard copy form.)

This quote from the book showcases the point Lean In is making:

"A few years ago, I hosted a meeting for Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner at Facebook. We invited fifteen executives from across Silicon Valley for breakfast and a discussion about the economy. Secretary Geithner arrived with four members of his staff, two senior and two more junior, and we all gathered in our one nice conference room.

After the usual milling around, I encouraged the attendees to help themselves to the buffet and take a seat. Our invited guests, mostly men, grabbed plates and food and sat down at the large conference table. Secretary Geithner’s team, all women, took their food last and sat in chairs off to the side of the room. I motioned for the women to come sit at the table, waving them over so they would feel welcomed. They demurred and remained in their seats.

The four women had every right to be at this meeting, but because of their seating choice, they seemed like spectators rather than participants. I knew I had to say something. So after the meeting, I pulled them aside to talk.

I pointed out that they should have sat at the table even without an invitation, but when publicly welcomed, they most certainly should have joined. At first, they seemed surprised, then they agreed. It was a watershed moment for me. A moment when I witnessed how an internal barrier can alter women’s behavior. A moment when I realized that in addition to facing institutional obstacles, women face a battle from within."

In reading the book, I didn't find Sandberg accusing women of not doing enough--like this article seems to imply. Rather, she's pointing out barriers to women becoming leaders--barriers that we as women are probably not even conscious of. In that way, I found the book incredibly helpful.

I should note I was predisposed to not like the book based on articles I'd read, but I am a voracious reader and I wanted to see for myself what Sandberg was saying. The book opened my eyes to small but significant behavior and language changes I could make to be taken more seriously as a leader, and in that way, I am grateful.

If the article writer hasn't read the book, I respectfully ask her to before dishing out criticism--if there is a valid point in the book that she is inclined to criticize, then I will listen with an open mind. But as it stands right now, I don't find this criticism-without-citation productive.
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Ansible releases Galaxy for community-maintained playbooks & roles
You are correct, I was being SV-centric. Edited.
If discussing salary in the workplace weren't taboo there'd be people unionizing left and right.
No, you're not ! LinkedOut has devolved into a poser community ! I can't believe it's still in business !
In 2006 I wrote about how everyone claimed Apple was so expensive, and compared it to a similar specced Lenovo T60p, guess what? The Lenovo was either more expensive or same price, depending on the MacBook version.
Companies (especially large ones) don't like it as it limits their negotiation position it can also disclose indirect discrimination e.g. "oops all the females seem to be under paid by 10/20%" which can get expensive.

And it also limits employees when they want to move as the new employer knows how much they make now.
That's fine until you take your Pro back to apple and they don't have your configuration available and you have to wait 3 weeks for a replacement (this does happen a lot with non standard apple build to order devices). Even worse with an XServe I inherited: they couldn't replace it in warranty. Ended up with a supermicro 1U with debian on it in under 24 hours from buy to install.

My HP: redundant PSU, disks, next day service for all parts or replacement unit.

No competition. I can't afford the downtime.
Top open source projects in 2013
Brad is keeping a copy of all 3rd party libraries in https://github.com/bradfitz/camlistore/tree/master/third_par...

Is this the approach you recommend? I’ve never built a large go project, so I’m eager to learn what the best practices are.
> I know a lot of devs who stick around at places because they like the people, etc, despite having had multiple offers for more money.

Sure, but that's not the only consideration here. Employees don't always have the option of sticking around at a company. Not all startups make it, and people are terminated or laid off from jobs they love all the time.

If and when the time comes to find another job, a public record of your previous salary may not benefit you in your negotiations with prospective employers.
They have engineers in the UK, Taiwan, Ireland and Colorado. If they all lived in SF the salaries would be above $100k.
I always laugh when I see 'PC' because I take it at is literal meaning - 'Personal Computer' - which always makes me wonder what about apple products, consoles, or even mobile phones makes them not either personal or computers. They all seem to be computers, they all seem pretty personal to me...
it sounds like you're absolutely terrible at computers
There is a chance that Github does not support data files. They recently depreciated binary files.

https://github.com/blog/1302-goodbye-uploads
Yes, there are dozens of companies who sell computers specifically designed around x where x = music recording, music production, video production, film.

http://www.visiondaw.com/productcart/pc/index.asp

http://www.adkproaudio.com/
From the article: "Going with these upgrade options, the Mac Pro with an AppleCare service plan comes to $5,148, about half the cost of the most-expensive computer you can configure. This is unquestionably an expensive workstation, though considered in the context of competing products like those from HP or Dell, you'll see that similarly specced PC workstations are in the same ballpark (though these dual-socket workstations make true apples-to-Apple comparisons more difficult, and it's harder to quantify the value of real drive bays and PCI Express slots)."

Whenever I've looked at non-cheap machines, independent of OS (I'm often flexible between macos and linux), the difference between an apple machine and something from another major vendor, for as closely-comparable machines I can find, is often a fairly small percentage. And considering the unique features of the devices -- usually better (exterior) case design, MacOS, etc., it's pretty reasonable.
For those that don't know their RFCs / compression algorithms (like me):

Original paper: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.11....

RFC: http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3284

John Graham-Cumming's amusing blog post applying the algorithm to everyone's favorite Rick Astley song: http://blog.jgc.org/2012/06/compression-of-lyrics-of-never-g...
They don't need keyloggers on every phone. Having them on a wide range of people's phones (say, people involved with various Occupy stuff) is a very real possibility.
That's fair. To clarify further, "In my experience" means "in my personal, anecdotal experience".

That's actually quite emboldening to hear. If you find the link, feel free to email me (contact info in profile) or post it here. I'd love to see it, but no pressure.
If Apple is being true to form, the Mac Pro will be competitively priced, with two important caveats:

1. No option to use non-premium components. The two most obvious examples are the fact that you can't replace the Xeon with an i7 or the FirePro with a Radeon.

2. The prices will change slowly or not at all over time. $400 for a RAM upgrade might be reasonable now, but it won't be in a years time.
Hey, I'm one of the authors.

Our process was:

* Use MITMProxy to execute a man-in-the-middle attack, which lets you see all the packets in plaintext. It's a command line app which prettifies the packets in a readable way.

* From the packets we can get a lot of info, like where the packets are going, what data the fields contain, etc.

* We can also intercept the packages and mess with the fields to see what breaks when we change things.

* From here we use smali to decompile the Android DPK. Since debugging symbols are left in, this leaves a lot of info for us to look at.

* We ctrl-F for words like "encrypt" and "secret". This leads us right to the call to util android encrypt which is encrypting the images. The argument is a hard-coded secret string that turns out to be used everywhere.

* Looking through the source where that key is used we see that it's also used to generate request tokens, which validate that a request to the API is valid.

* And so on. Eventually with some more poking around we end up with the library here.
Controversy sells. Calling out someone famous gets you noticed. Done.
This sounds like absolute hell

>Every internal email sent between any 2 people on the team has a certain list cc’ed that is accessible for everyone: For example if 2 engineers email with each other, they cc the engineers list, if it’s people on our customer support team they have a support email list cc’ed. Stripe was a great inspiration for this. (More about this)

Openness and transparency and honesty are great. But this seems like it's removing privacy, which sounds very tiring.
AND the queens name happens to be Rosie Palm
Lol :)

Anyway, this is just one config for the SteamBox. Each beta tester has a different hardware config I'm pretty sure, from real cheap, up to an absolute beast. They did that because that's the plan with the OEMs too

From my research, you'll be able to get or build an SB yourself cheaper than a next gen console with the same power at least. I'm excited by that!
Seems unwise to have a CEO co-founder be the highest salaried employee at a startup.

That person's equity position is probably at least an order of magnitude higher than the other employees. As an investor or employee, I'd find this alarming.

http://techcrunch.com/2008/09/08/peter-thiel-best-predictor-...

Call me old fashioned, but I think co-founders should be paid living expenses + 25%, even in a series-A funded startup.
You can save a lot of money if you are willing to believe that an i7 is the same as a Xeon and a Radeon is the same as a FirePro. Depending on your line of work, that may be true.
Pythonic Bayesian Belief Network Framework
"All else being equal" is a huge assumption. Will your company offer the same environment, flexibility, openness, remote work? You should first assume that Buffer keeps their employees very happy to be able to openly publish their salaries.
Oh come on, this argument can maybe be made for the entry-level iMac, which is a decent price for the components, but not for a 10k machine.
Especially when you can get a fancy workstation from HP or Dell and never have to worry about building anything. You'll also need to spring for Applecare if you want to do an apples-to-apples comparison here.
>instead of just taking it to the Applestore for a fix.

Last time a imac broke at work a few years ago (before we phased them out), we were told Apple refused to accept it if we mailed it in and have to physically lug it to the store. HP and Dell send a guy over or send a box for 2 day replacement. That imac repair took almost two weeks.
Because the contest eliminates many vulnerabilities that exist in the real world.

The contest framework is identical to Telegram’s (no MITM perspective, no known plaintext, no chosen plaintext, no chosen ciphertext, no tampering, no replay access, etc)
Yep, the new Mac Pro is going to be a pain for IT support to move to another desk or office with all its bits hanging off it.

That is, of course, if the new Mac Pro ever makes it into the enterprise given Apple's track record in that area. I always what happened to the IT manager who convinced their boss to invest heavily in a few XServes... :-)
Update on Bittorrent chat
Nope. On Cryptsy it has a 24 hour, 2900 BTC trading volume so far.
Whats to stop Telegram tampering with the messages and just displaying random bytes in the 'output'? This would make it impossible to crack. You cant test the security of a system without 1 - full access to the system or 2 - complete trust in the people controlling the system (which we dont have)
Seconded. My experience with HP workstations is incredibly great. They are well built, greatly engineered and reasonably priced. HP's refurb sales provide even better pricing. Check them out.
Can we just sticky this to the top of all posts with question marks so that we don't have to have it reposted every. single. time. ?
Not so sure I bet most (85-90%) UK medium to large companies have share save schemes which are v popular - share options in large companies can be quite lucrative.
Equity is still off the table.
I don't actually think that's true. At least, not within the time limits they defined.

The $75k 896bit RSA factoring prize went unclaimed for 20 years, for instance.
I think this was a more fun compression of that song: http://blog.jgc.org/2012/06/animated-solution-never-gonna-gi...
There could be a slightly brighter side to it, if you consider the additional security to be a good thing.
I wonder in five years looking back whether Buffer getting hacked or their 'transparency' will have hurt them more. I am betting the latter.

Do they really think they can ban private emails between engineers? it would have been much easier to simply load eavesdropping software on their computer if management doesn't trust them.

I really like Buffer but I'm a little worried about them.
The defer_javascript filter is amazing on some pages and completely breaks others. It's frustrating because it has so much potential, but it's too dangerous for us to turn on by default. If it looks good on your site in testing, though, it's probably fine.

The basic problem is that javascript expects to run at a certain time and at a certain point in the page so we have to do all sorts of crazy things in the background to make that appear to be the case when it isn't. This fixes many of the pages (document.write works) but there are enough ways for javascript to be introspective that we can't catch everything.
To add on top of that, who says that this kind of transparency breeds trust? Transparency is great in some areas, terrible in others. Take away bathroom stalls to find an area where this isn't as true (extreme example).

I trust co-workers when they do what they say they will, when they are respectful & smart, when they show up on time, when they tell me when I screwed up in a nice way, etc. I could care less what they make--to me it would be a distraction.
The article was also about "Lean in culture". I'm sorry, but that's different from the book. The book has spurned something completely ridiculous. It's the reason why, when I wanted to take a break from work for a while, my colleagues said to me, "But you've got to lean in!" That's so obnoxious.
This. See my comments for another bad XServe experience.