skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was consolidating the idea of hiring either a full-fledged company/agency or a freelancer/freelancers, as option (2). The ELance /oDesk route is somewhat risky if you don't have prior connections with one or more people you know you can trust.

If you're really interested in subbing it out, ping me directly, I may be able to help you find somebody.
We actually took legal advice on this at one point, and the bottom line was that we could well have a claim against the reseller (as they were the other party in the actual sale contract) if something unfortunate happened, but that's only worth anything if the reseller themselves is still around. Our major concern here is that software we've paid for that might otherwise be useful indefinitely could be rendered useless because some external system ceased to be available.

This being the case, relying on the ability to sue anyone and get meaningful compensation after the fact seems unwise. Clearly some sort of legal obligation for those selling the software to make arrangements in advance to unlock everything if they go under would be a much more useful guarantee for customers. It would suffice to have a version of the software sold that is identical except for removing all copy protection logic, and require that this be provided to a third party escrow service to be released automatically in the even that the software developer or their agent/successor is no longer providing the necessary services to support that copy protection system.
> force backdoors

unlikely

> they are legally bound to publicly lie about it

source?
That mindset could justify any arbitrary barrier to y combinator, but I don't see pg instituting a mandatory cliff dive as part of the application even though startup founders need to be able to show courage and deal with unexpected and crazy obstacles.
No. 8, the invisible skyscraper. Why oh why?
The only possible reasonable response to this well-meaning comment is to point out that you spell it "faddish".
I don't think the issue is Steam deleting the game so much, since this game had always on DRM and the servers were going down. It makes sense to delete the game rather than dleaving an inoperable game around. The issue is more the always on DRM and the idea that people pay for a game upfront that requires the servers to be running.

It would make more sense if a game that you buy will always run to some extent without servers, or else, if servers are required, then don't charge upfront, and pay for the game with subscriptions that can maintain the servers.
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Many vendors do this covertly through HP (with ZDI) and other intermediaries. The problem is the government will always pay more, or even offer to let you sell it back to the vendor and buy it from you (in the case of things that are difficult to field upgrade like routers).

The people cranking out high volumes of exploits for the customer are sitting on huge multi-year contracts worth tens if not hundreds of millions of dollars. They don't want to go play in some utopian regulated marketplace, they just want to make money and protect America.
1. Do more freelancing.

2. Actually start going to the gym and continue bouldering.

3. Release my SaaS (again). First release completely borked because I was reliant on a mate doing the work he said he would. He half arsed it and stuff broke. I learnt to check everything!

4. See more of the world. Last year I travelled to Jamaica and Antigua through my employer :)
What signal is that? That you're the kind of person who takes vacation? How is that "in bad taste"? This is the opening stage of a negotiation leading to a legally binding contract; to not ask about vacation seems odd. It's a significant part of the deal. I'm not here to beg them to please please grant me the privilege of working for them.

I wouldn't want to work for an employer who wouldn't hire someone because they like to take vacation, so if this question will act as a filter for me to weed out the bad employers, I'll always ask it (and indeed, I do always ask, and for the last few jobs I've also asked about their policy on additional unpaid vacation; my current employer gave me an extra two weeks unpaid each year).
Yeah, I personally find the first example makes code a lot cleaner.
I thought I was arguing from environment, and not biology. I thought that was clear when I said "environment plays a significant role here."

Does "environment" mean "nature" to you between "nature/nurture"?

Granted, I'm making big assumptions, but they don't have anything to do with biology.
Are you saying any part of my comment was make-believe? If so please let me know which part, instead of struggling with a straw man of your own invention.

Of course it costs money, and that money comes from taxes and borrowing as does the money for the MOD, MOE, and all other state funded services.
Thank you for that, really. It's bad enough I have the opinion that goes against the grain and it's an uphill battle, and then you come along and softball a dumbass comment like that. And now that you've left it in close proximity to me, it's fairly easy for most people to draw the conclusion that HN is a cesspool and the opinions are automatically undermined. You're a real peach for that.

See, when they talk about dicks who have dicks, they're talking about you. You are illustrating exactly what they (and I) are so fed up with. Now the rest of us look bad because you had to piss your tripe in the comments.

I'm done with this account and I've said what I mean to say.
editors should be required to provide a patch so that the solo part of the game can still be played after the editor consider that the game is no longer and decides to shut down the server.
You describe exactly the use case for which my product Epiphany Eyewear is specialized.

Epiphany records wide-angle HD video (like a GoPro), has a full hour of battery life, and looks & feels like designer eyewear which hold your prescription. Please check it out, I put practically every waking hour of my life into manufacturing this:

http://epiphanyeyewear.com

We are now shipping consumer units, with approximate a 5-week backlog on orders placed right now.
You "can't imagine"? When posting that, did you yet do the research and determine whether or not Paul Graham threw Jessica Lessin under the bus... common when one feels personally attacked and doesn't think as critically as they should?

What's interesting, at least on this thread, is that people aren't analyzing the raw transcript for themselves: (http://jessicalessin.com/2013/12/31/on-the-information-and-h...) Or did I miss someone doing that, under the weight of all the fluffy, useless rhetoric?

One poster's brief, lucid point about journalistic practices is buried by lots of useless rhetoric. (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6989348)

Everyone should know this is true here even on technical topics. People commonly point out a lack of critical thinking on HN, weak at discussing tradeoffs.

Reading the raw transcript, seems to me Paul's comment about "these women" doesn't show him in a better light. But even if you disagree, doing the analysis is important, rather than echo Michael Arrington's and Paul Graham's rhetoric.
I don't come to HN to see blatantly obvious sexism. I come to HN to avoid it. Please stop.
It's not so simple as "few developers care enough". Do you seriously think that there are a signficant number of game developers who just turn around and say "fuck them, they're only our customers anyway"?

It generally comes down to restrictions placed by the publisher. Due to agreements with the publisher[1], the developing company can't just release a patch to disable DRM whenever they want - they are contractually obligated to not release anything without publisher approval. And publishers are very, very reluctant to approve disabling DRM.

[1] Source: contacts and contract work in the industry, and got to deal with the second-hand effects of publisher restrictions myself.
Strong lesson from 2013.
"tales" might be what you were looking for. They could be either true, embellished, or not true but a great tale.
It might be interesting to see the same chart, but just for the subset of people getting STEM degrees. (Science, tech, engineering, and math.)
>Can you provide examples of where this is true? I ask because you seem to think that the US is the only market where subsidised phones exist. I know for a fact that in the UK and France mobile contracts work in a similar way. I'd go as far as suggesting that most, if not all European networks operate in this manner.

That is incorrect.

It is similar to the US in the UK, but not at all elsewhere. There are some contract deals in EU that go along with a carrier locked phone (like in the US), but most are not. The unlocked phone is the mainstream case.

Here is a relevant article with the different practices:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIM_lock
So here's a question, If google made google glass look just like a prescription glass, would it be for the better or worse?
So its not a ridiculous expectation, since it had to be explicitly included in the contract.
Yes, I think he doesn't know that, and the way the comment was written seems to make that the obvious reading. What makes you so certain he does?
I keep a library of cracks for games that I own on Steam, it's one way to ensure I have access to what I bought.

It's looking like it will be needed for lots of GFWL games now, too.
The author says it is the format what makes you an asshole. It is not.

If I go with my reflex pointing to people in the beach people will get angry at me. As simple as people is there to relax, not to have to defend themselves.

People is doing top less in the beach and people could see it at the moment. It is a completely different thing that someone will store the date, the place, the people in the pictures and have millions of people look at them on the Internet.

I got to watch a woman, a sports teacher fired from a Catholic school because she made top less 8 years ago!! and one of his students got a picture from an ex- boyfriend asshole and soon all the school had the pictures. Half of the parents supported her, over a quarter were outraged.

People say stupid things all the time, when there is friends, I don't want my conversations recorded without my permission and having someone remind me constantly : you say this and that while drinking beer with the football team.

The same way Paul Graham was sold by a private conversation made into an interview by a son of a b*ch. When you are talking to someone else you are not talking to millions of people.
We don't know that, we also don't know whether Google or Microsoft or any of the other phone or phone OS vendors 'let' the NSA do any of this. Even if the NSA had inside help, it may have been via individual Apple (Google, MS, etc) employees without Apple's knowledge, or ex-Apple engineers contracted by the NSA. In fact the later would be a much more useful approach for the NSA since it would minimize the number of people who knew it was going on and could therefore leak about it or interfere with the capability.
As you observe yourself, PG's credibility didn't work in this case; I'm not sure it ever does.

For example, how does the non-credibility of the press work? We all know from experience that the actual business of the press in general is to produce catchy headlines based on a forced interpretation of the "facts" (or based on no facts at all).

And yet, we're always ready to trust an article and get all upset as if the press was doing its theoretical job of uncovering some hidden truth (last sentence of PG's post: "even now I'm still fooled occasionally.")

Why is that? Why does the press still have any credibility left?
The article claims incorrectly that the game had 18 single-player missions. The FAQ linked from the article is for the game "Order of War". "Order of War: Challenge" is a completely separate, multi-player-only game that had its servers shut down and was removed from Steam. The original "Order of War" is still available (http://store.steampowered.com/app/34600/).

In addition, the "Challenge" add-on was given free to those who bought the original game.

This is a complete non-issue as far as Steam is concerned (the complaint about publishers shutting down multi-player servers is certainly valid). There is nothing that you could do with the game even if you still had it in your Steam library.
Right, your second paragraph describes the reasons why I turned my friends down. This story's depictions of this guy's conversations with his 'friends' about investing and their willingness to believe him due to external signals they didn't understand ("Mark Cuban invested!") reminded me of my own experience having those conversations.
It's not just you http://graph.Facebook.com looks down from here.
Offtopic but are there any good examples of projects using Rust?
I think the grandfather comment implied that the reseller (not the bankrupted editor) should refund the client ;)
Do you have something to say about the wisdom of placing an EMF field next to your brain, or are you just interested that no one is talking about it?
>It seems to conflate two orthogonal concepts

That is not necessarily bad. You only want to keep orthogonal concepts independent if mixing them doesn't buy you something better (in this case that would be a design that defaults toward fault tolerance).
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Don't forget the same level of intelligence and good looks
Most of the anti-Snowden stuff seems to get a fair amount of push-back. Agree with what others have said though, in choosing him as Tech Person of the Year isn't a high enough "honor".
I would pay extra for the walk-straight-on flight. Not a lot extra, mind you, but it'd be worth at least $25 to me to reduce that source of stress and uncertainty. If there were a no-checks airline I would fly that one almost exclusively.
I am a bit surprised I have heard absolutely nothing about this via. email (I'm a customer). From what I remember of the last security incident I did not get an email until way after it had become publicly known.

You guys really need to become better at communicating with your customers when I can look at the front page of HN one day and see some issue with your services, DO people commenting and no mail in my inbox.

The priority should be to alert customers there is a problem, and most importantly to fix the problem.

And sending a mail a week or a few days later is really not okay, a rapid response on your end to notify us is needed if we are going to be able to quickly take necessary precautions.
On the other hand, many others have been wired to think that number should be zero.

If someone needs me urgently for something, they can ping me in our company hipchat or use any of a number of methods to contact me by voice. Email is lowest priority.

I do get through my emails, but it's not something I allow to interrupt my day repeatedly.

Since I switched over to this, the self-inflicted stress over keeping my inbox empty has gone away. ANd I still get the work done that I need to get done.
Maybe because the people who bought it early on have already played it and derived significant value from it? It doesn't seem right to me that they get all their money back when presumably most of them weren't playing it any more.

I don't agree with the kind of always-on DRM that's led to this, but I don't think full refunds for everyone is a reasonable solution either.
The Best of Python in 2013
Definitely, I'd have liked to know the opinions other HN users have on this topic.
I just went to a security conference and started asking around among friends. It's like asking around a high school who sells weed, everyone kinda knows but they don't talk about it openly.

You'll get introduced to someone who has a small security firm and from their LinkedIn page you can see they have a pretty vague but interesting past. Ask for a shit ton of money.

Did the guy spend 8 years at a british aerospace company before going into consulting? GCHQ. 5 years at the "Department of Defense"? NSA. High school drop out? Chinese or Russians.
You should get a VPN.
Sure, it will cost you a bit extra, but Netflix has absolutely no qualms accepting your non-American credit card and you'll be able to watch other region-locked content.
The VPN I use has absolutely no problems delivering HD content from Netflix and Hulu.
Aside from the total debt vs median wage issue - the chart also doesn't mention that THE recession that happened. What happens in a recession? 1) parental wages and/or job security are lower [ie, more debt needs to be taken on] 2)median wages coming out are lower. That may be partly the cause of the relationship.

Median wages dropped (starting in 2007) because of a recession, and we are still in the adjustment process of that (ex. on the wage side). We notice that post popping of the 2001-2002 bubble, the median wages actually increased into 2007.

I don't have all the facts, but the chart is misleading.
It doesn't give you everything on the same screen but if you can't live without the automated filtering of a tabbed inbox, try the "Quick links" Gmail lab rather than multiple inboxes for fast access to Needs Action / Awating Reply (essentially you can save searches to the stars which appear as a set of links below your categories on the left).
Glass is amazing, but it's not for everyday wear, like a watch, because you look like a tool. That said, there are a few very niche applications for it that I can't wait to try: deep sea fishing, for one. Our boat is fairly customized and teched out. Walking around on the boat and having the data overlayed infront of you would be awesome. Maybe hooking up the coms is also possible, I'd like to stream the video feed of the cameras in the lures too.
In the end, there will be no winners in the feminist or forced approach to trying to increase the number of women programmers. It's a lose-lose situation.
Differences in userbases are definitely part of it.e.g. Ruby is very often used in the whole devops space - where constant forward-change is usual, because of the mindset of "never being done".

Constant change is a thing that doesn't get enough mindshare as well. Not training your team at handling change is probably as bad as not having programmers care about backwards compatibility.

To be quite clear: I think it is very beautiful to have 2 languages in the same space, evolving into different community directions.
Very good setup n useful...
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Founders of early stage startups (as in, not AirBnB or Square or other companies clearly in torrid scaling mode) heading to Vegas frequently on chartered planes?

Yeah that doesn't scream RED FLAG at all.

I am honestly shocked at how poorly understood early stage startups really are if this is true. Any half-decent founder knows to be frugal, treat every dollar like it's their last and loses sleep over money in the bank (God knows I do and have been for 3+ years after raising $5M+).
This is a failure of middle class.

Why people go into higher ed? Because that's how you keep in the middle class. Why do they want to be in it? Because it's either this or poverty. Why do debt rise? Because they are desperate. Why are they desperate? Because there is less and less jobs in middle class and even worse and worse condition outside. When the music stops most of young people won't have a chair to sit on. At least in the USA.
Get over yourself. When someone throws a tantrum on twitter with the regularity of clockwork, mockery is a completely valid response, and often the quickest way to get the point across. Logos, pathos, ethos. The former has no effect without the latter two to back it up.

You are dealing with a mob of righteous indignation that refuses to ever consider that they might be wrong. If you think the appropriate response is to perpetually tiptoe around them and apologize profusely, you are sorely mistaken.

They are toxic, and should be labeled as such until they themselves grow up.

The fact that all these SJWs seem to care so much about their appearance that their impeccably groomed avatars rotate faster than the seasons makes it a doubly delicious burn.
Exactly. 4 years for a psych degree and then spending the next 10 years as a receptionist is not exactly the right kind of training for it.
Finish redecorating the spare room. I started in July and there's only about 20% wall left to paint.

Alright, finish is too big for just one year. I'll cut myself a deal; at least hoover the carpet in there.
I am sorry, I dont think that makes much sense.

Apple has had remote access to the file system forever - an early use of it was to remove apps that had certain kinds of legal issues from the phones of those who had purchased it.

iCloud is simply remote file storage, and not all applications use it anyway - if the NSA wants access to my phone, achieving access to my iCloud account is a pretty poor second best.
If it was valid at the time but your concerns have since been addressed, then your complaints aren't exactly relevant to someone who's reading this now and looking for information on Python 3, right?
> "Obviously with iOS devices having ports closed and being behind NAT, the NSA can't exploit them remotely."

This is a pretty limited view of remote exploits. It could easily be a browser-based exploit for example, with the payload as part of an image served by an ad, thus not requiring any open ports.

I cannot imagine the NSA waited for iCloud to get access to iPhones.
You read the name and vote with that name, not your own... Go to next polling station and repeat with a different name.
Thanks for the clarification, yeah I totally understand. Its one of the bigger reasons its so hard to be seen on the app stores. The good comes with the bad I suppose.
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PhantomL0rd's response to being hacked and "arrested"
I think these trends are largely irrelevant to the Thiel Fellows. After all, most of them come from elite universities and could easily find a high paying job after graduating. If Thiel wants to put his money where his mouth is, he needs to find a way to solve the problem of the bottom 50% not finding a job. And I don't think that spawning more startups will help - just look around the startups you know - how many of the people there would have been unemployed if they hadn't joined a startup?
So women applying to YC is analogous to short people playing in the NBA. Where did you get your feminist card from again?

The problem with pg's statement, which I quoted directly, is that he blames 13 year old girls and middle schools and gives industry a pass. We're already non-discriminating and self-selecting. The problem is getting girls into code, and god knows how to do that.

Parents and teachers might have a response to that. Where are the female hacker role models for the 13 year old girls to look up to?

That's one of the proactive things industry can do. Shine the spotlight on positive role models. Counteract brogrammer culture at conferences and in companies, too. That requires active intervention, not just an open door policy.

And that was the whole question he was responding to -- not just whether we're actively discriminating against women, but whether there's something more proactive we should be doing.

Just pointing his finger up the line and saying "it's their fault" is kind of disappointing.
That's his chart of the year?

How about this one: http://cdn.static-economist.com/sites/default/files/imagecac...

From this article: http://www.economist.com/news/briefing/21578643-world-has-as...
I don't really register to the "you have to read all the e-mails" camp but when I send someone an e-mail expecting a reply I at least would like to be semi-sure they've had a chance to see it and it not just drowned in a mountain of unread ones requiring me to seek alternative contact methods.

Note: I don't expect e-mail to be replied to straight away just when there it time, if it's urgent I will most of the time use alternative contact methods.