skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>>> The opposite of regulatory capture is not no regulation, it is public education and engagement and power.

And unicorns. Most of all the unicorns, being the most real part of the deal. At least until people realize that regulatory capture is not some excess of the regulation, it is a direct and inevitable consequence of it. There's no people that can understand the industry enough to regulate it but the people of the industry. There's no people that are motivated enough and having enough concentrated resources but the people of the industry. Thinking that you can beat a team of industry experts knowing everything about their industry and already having majority of regulatory body composed of their former coworkers by chanting "power to the people" and "public education" is beyond naive. Of course, if you're lucky, you can align your interest with a competing group and suppress opposing group's interests for a time. But that would not give you any power - it would just redistribute the power between the two groups. As long as you agree that the power should belong to the regulatory bodies, you would have them to be controlled by major industry players, partially or completely. You can say feel-good things like "public education" all day long, but you'd have to wake up and face the reality one day - and the reality is that regulatory capture is an inevitable consequence of powerful regulation in a big industry.
If bribery is the way business is done in China, .. then the anti-bribery regulations serve only to hamstring US businesses.

No, they do not "serve only to hamstring US business."

They exist to prevent private parties from undermining ("with corrupt intent") foreign policy as dictated by the executive branch, and by congress.

They may (or may not) "hamstring" overseas business practice, as a side effect. But it is only through very muddled thinking that you can take the view that is the "only", or the most significant effect of anti-bribery statutes.
This is the company that shamed its own customers by calling them "dinosaurs" for not upgrading to new versions of Office. In a multi-million dollar advertising campaign.

When it comes to their marketing, absolutely nothing surprises me any more.
No, they weren't relying on statistics.

In the old days, a simple note or declarative statement to the effect that the terrorist had a bomb and would set it off would have been enough to get the pilots to open a locked and secured door.

We required the certitude that opening the door was worse than leaving the door locked and risking the chance that the terrorist may be telling the truth.
Drone testing to come to 6 states
So what?

OP said he made 30 apps this year. Which he did. Who cares how he made them.

If he had hired someone out to make them, people would be fawning over him, telling him he's a business tycoon.

I don't understand why you're so quick to try to shit on what he's doing, because you think you could do it in some arguably more "pure" manner, or whatever term you might use.
I just found this recent thread on this topic, specifically related to Google penalties on domains that expired.

http://www.seroundtable.com/google-old-penalties-expired-dom...

It seems like old bad links can hurt an expired domains rankings.
The firm behind Healthcare.gov had top-notch credentials -- and it didn't help
Edit: Apologies, the same link has been posted above, we posted at approximately the same time, I'm leaving this here to avoid a [deleted].

http://googleblog.blogspot.co.uk/2011/02/microsofts-bing-use...
Microsoft is Getting Serious About a Strange New Operating System
Anyone who has the guts to take down an armed intruder to save anonymous people from becoming victims of a terrorist plot has my undying appreciation. But, you have to be crazed to do that. There is such a thing as good-crazy. We call it courage. I guess I wasn't clear on that. My bad.
In fairness the OP seems to share your opinion, in a previous posting he said "I know that my apps are not that good"[0].

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6864667
The PreCheck program isn't just a fee; it's a rather thorough background check. And being approved for it doesn't actually guarantee lower scrutiny, as PreCheck'd travelers remain eligible for the random high-security selection.
I always feel like the oddball, but I don't mind the current state of our airport security. Given the option of two flights, one with security and the other without, I'm taking the flight with security precautions... Irrational or not.
I thought this was gonna be an article about making your laptop look like it belonged to a 14yr old girl and therefore uninteresting to the NSA.
Anybody know why %G was used instead of %Y?
Thanks, Captain Obvious. Now that we've established that the campaign is childish, can we move on to the question of whether it's working? I viewed the "Mac vs. PC" Apple ads to be a bit childish (and it's almost all Macs and iOS at our house), but folks seemed to like them. Can the same be said for "Scroogled"? Of the one or two I've seen, I think I'd go out of my way to avoid the MSFT product out of spite. But that's just me. Maybe my judgement of what people like is as poor as it was for the Apple campaign.
Hey, I'm around your age and very impressed with what you're doing.

It's neat that you've released so many apps this year. As others have noted, it looks like you're using some form of game creation engine to make these quickly. I'd encourage you to try to move away from that and learn what's actually happening behind the scenes. Doing this will allow you to make more complex and impressive games in the future. It'll also serve as a tremendous learning experience.

Also, it's really neat that you're young and doing incredible things, but I'd warn against relying on your age to impress people. Try to make things that are impressive regardless of who made them.

I'm one of the developers on a fairly popular game in the App Store (800,000+ downloads). If you're up to it, I'd like to chat with you more about what you're doing. Shoot me an email at zach@zachlatta.com. I look forward to hearing from you!
If you want theater, you give them theater, not a prison experience.

Lets try a Hollywood analogy. The execs tell the director to make a formulaic teen comedy. How long would a film director last if he replied, F those guys I'm making a documentary about the Soviet Gulag system and they're gonna like it because its for their own good.

The discussion is being carefully controlled by those in power to make sure that no one steps out of line and considers, maybe just for an instant, that possibly there could exist a form of expensive meaningless security theater that doesn't involve brutalizing the population.

No, they're subjecting us to the TSA for a reason that isn't security theater.
The thing with your route is doing the rental business would be too stressful for me. For me, enough is being able to live off interest. Unless the bank goes bankrupt, I really don't have anything to worry about.
It's best to do all of this when you're employed and have been at a job for at least 2 years.

Focus on quality rather than quantity. Be selective. You can send out hundreds of CVs in a night, but you have a finite amount of emotional energy.

Network, but the most useful thing you'll get out of connections is information, not good-ole-boy introductions. Go to as many Meetups related to your interests as you can. (Most cities have data science meetups, Scala and Clojure and Python meetups, et al).

Limit yourself to one coding test per week. They're not hard or time-consuming but they're emotionally draining.

Get a good night's sleep before the interview. If you're unemployed, resist temptations to drink or keep an unusual schedule. You need to be "on" at 9:00 am.

Keywords in job specs don't mean a whole lot. A great HR team doesn't mean a great company, and vice versa. People on HN say, "I wouldn't want to work for a company that wrote job specs like that". Well, in reality, there are a lot of good companies out there with crummy HR. So don't get too obsessed over keywords because most of what's in a job-specs ("looking for candidate with a track record") is non-information.
ipv6 actually doubles year over year, so it's not that bad. if py3 also doubles year over year, we'll see both making an impact in 5 years or so.
>The best way is to package everything into a separate (os-level) app.

I agree with this on the premise of threats like XSS, however there is a human aspect of security which might be overlooked. The problem with apps is that everything that is a website today will become a native app tomorrow. App developers might claim that their app is more secure than using a website to do the same thing, because of the included native crypto implementation. Users might then associate any native app with having greater security than a website accessed through a browser (which may not necessarily be true.) Users might become further desensitized to installing everything from the internet as an app.

Why is this a problem? Websites normally cannot access things like your personal files, without you explicitly choosing a file from your computer using a file dialog, whereas if you run a native app with your user credentials, it is immediately able to access any file that you have permission to access, without necessarily informing you.

Perhaps OS-level security and sandboxing is going to have to improve for this sort of thing to be a good option.
I came here to say the same.

It seems that chrome books are sooo good that MS feels sooo scared that they have lost all dignity, and now spend big money in a joke that is not funny but actually quite revealing of their sad situation.
I think I'd be less bothered by the campaign if they weren't selling merchandise. For some reason, that seems to be the tipping point for me. The campaign is idiotic and now seemingly hypocritical but the attempt to market merchandise just feels weirdly desperate.
The magazine size restriction only looks reasonable if you're unfamiliar with guns and how they're used in crime. The most common criminal use of a gun consists of a few rounds, rarely exceeding the capacity of these restricted size magazines. If we move to the much more rare mass shooting, we see that magazine size doesn't really reduce the body count. In the Virginia Tech shooting, for example, the shooter killed 32 people and injured 17 more with only 10 and 15 round magazines. In exchange for this limited or non-existent benefit, you seriously inconvenience gun owners who will likely never misuse their guns.

The opposition to background checks isn't necessarily unreasonable, either. Pretty much all of the mass shootings in the US in the past 15 years have been carried out by people who would have been able to pass background checks. In the more common cases of illegal gun use, the user tends to be a felon who already got the gun through black market channels. Perhaps the benefit here is greater than the magazine capacity restrictions, but I don't know. I do know that background checks have been used to create a special tax on firearm transactions that greatly exceeds the cost of doing the checks. I also do know that these background checks have been used to create databases that were later used to confiscate firearms. Pretty much all the practical objections to background checks could be worked around if legislators wanted to. The problem seems to be that legislators who promote such bills don't seem interested in doing so.
I like to watch the Air Mozilla videos offline, so open Firefox's Web Console, play the video, then copy the webm URL from the console log. :)

For this particular video:

wget https://d3fenhwk93s16g.cloudfront.net/9r2j9t/webm.webm
Have you considered that gun ownership may contribute to suicide, by lowering the threshold of planning needed, and thus making it possible for gun owners who wouldn't commit suicide by other means?

It's not as simple of a relationship as you make it out to be.
Link to the talk, for convenience: http://youtu.be/Ss_RWctTARU

Fun watch indeed!
this is a list of facebook's engineers' favorite hacks to make facebook work better, not a list hosted on facebook.com of various hacks.

with that said, I'm assuming you don't care about what facebook does with its website and app.
It's interesting that privacy enabled many previous, successful movements like civil rights.
It would probably be more effective to spend that money on preventing deaths from heart disease or cancer. Who gives a shit about "terrorism" except that it causes loss of life and economic disruption. The two things I mentioned cause much greater, measurable, and more disruptive loss of life than terrorism ever will. In fact the thing that is supposed to prevent terrorism, the TSA and its practices, is much more disruptive than the almost immeasurable increase in aircraft crime that would result. Based on how much there was before the TSA.
The cloud in 2013: Expanding the possibilities
It may actually prevent tampering if the tampering is supposed to remain undetected.
Great. I hope Microsoft goes after Google even more. SkyDrive blows away GDrive. Windows tablets are coming into their own right, while Android is pretty much "meh" these days. Google flails away aimlessly with their chromeOS strategy, all the while doing lots of evil (with Eric Schmidt on the board still how can it not).
There will be, but the conference only concluded today, so it may take some time to be post-processed.
Great point. Not sure this isn't a technology solution though that could be automated by fast computers with automated sensors.
Not really. Godwin's law itself is just an observation on the nature of online conversations. (And arguably commentary on the popularity of fallacious reductio ad hitlerum style arguments)

Godwin's Law has become some sort of notion of mentioning Hitler being a "forfeit" of sorts. The reason this has become popular is because low barrier-to-entry comment sniping is great fun and this version of Godwin's Law makes it child's play. However it is nothing to be respected.

There is a line of reasoning that states that comparisons to Hitler are damaging to society because they necessarily "cheapen" the memory of what the Nazis were and did. I might concede that this is true in extreme cases ("You won't let me go to the dance with Jimmy? You are literally Hitler!" may qualify. Certainly that is at least obnoxious and fallacious) but I do not accept that line of argument across the board. Nobody is going to walk away from the above comment thinking that the Holocaust was not as bad as they originally thought.

Another, weaker, argument given in support of Godwin's Law is that comparisons to Hitler are inappropriate wherever and whenever the subject is less extreme or serious than the Holocaust. I submit that refusing to compare things to Hitler unless they are demonstrably already as bad as Hitler cripples our ability to learn useful lessons from that dark period in history. If we wait until a situation is as bad as the situation in 1930s Germany, then we have waited to the point that rhetoric alone is no longer of use. Comparisons to that era in German history are therefore only useful in situations that are not as dire.
The most time consuming screening, my experience, is in the UK. Flight screening on the Continent is perhaps a touch quicker than in the States, but same ballpark.
Then you should say that instead of your 404 page :P
Exactly. Let's compare apples and oranges and make outrageous points that don't even matter. My guess is that's what good marketing is.
Still, misleading title.
Better yet, now is the time to create your own reusable Illustrator and Photoshop components, and write games that build them in to enable users to customize and create their own content. Oh, and 3D Studio Max, too. Not 100% of the features and complexity, just the 50% that you need 95% of the time. The same way many games and other apps use built-inn text editors to enable users to write their own text, instead of saying "oh just use Word for that".
Somewhat annoying article. First half is complete BS. For first timers it is about willpower. For most people who have never given a serious go at getting into shape it will be one of the hardest things they ever attempt. It's all about consistency. If they don't understand that and start to miss sessions after the first week and give up by March, well, sorry, but the fault is with them. People need to realize they're not going to magically drop 5 pounds after the first week by going to the gym 3 times and walking on the treadmill (which people could easily think after seeing the hordes of dieting supplement ads and other BS). What the author fails to mention about the "positive feedback look" is that one is not going to see any kind of reward unless they've been thoroughly consistent in their efforts and they are honest with themselves about said efforts. It's as simple as that.

However, the top skills they mention are spot-on. Verse yourself in them (especially self-compassion) and you will see results and feel better.
I've been using it primarily for a little bit of systems programming and writing internal utilities at work.
For anyone here who has not yet read Eliezer Yudkowsky's "You Only Live Twice", please do so:

http://lesswrong.com/lw/wq/you_only_live_twice/

Pertains to Cryonics, which is our best bet for immortality until we solve the aging issue (i.e., we hopefully stay cryopreserved until immortality is achieved.) At least with SENS/The Methuselah Foundation/Calico now getting attention and a bit of funding, there's hope here. One day, perhaps governments will consider aging "force" or "harm" and do the number one job government should do: protecting people from it (by funding research to prevent it.)
Even worse, "search engine" in that sentence was a link. Hovering over it shows it's one of those cheesy keyword ads. Ugh.
Is This The Future Of Mobile Marketing And Mobile Advertising?
Off topic but: This is what happens when you support a volatile and people (terrorists) they come back and bite you too.
Agreed, should be titled something like "Use glitter nail polish to detect if your laptop has been tampered with"
To try balancing the discussion a bit:

On the upside, due to the $8M contract, lots of people were able to work and earn a living. The story also mentions how the team had a great time, and probably lots of useful connections between people were made, and tacit knowledge exchanged. Neither of those is traditionally accounted for by the engineering mindset.
EDIT: Holy smokes. I wasn't trying to be inflammatory. Sorry. I was only saying not to trust that this is an absolute guarantee that your laptop hasn't been tampered with.

Even the top comment is misleading -- "this doesn't prevent tampering, it just makes it obvious to you, as the laptop owner, that your machine has been tampered with. Still useful, but then what are you supposed to do about it?"

This method provides no guarantee of detecting tampering. It provides a guarantee that if an adversary is dumb and unaware of this method, then they may break the seal and get themselves caught. But it's a bad idea to be confident that the seal itself is evidence you haven't been tampered with.

Would anyone please explain which ideas are mistaken and why?
Could you please elaborate on "and surprisingly it needs to be intrinsically worthless"?
Our company moved from CentOS to Gentoo and we were able to drop support for 2.6. We're now (mostly) 3-compatible and are rolling out our first 3.3-based production server. We've definitely been lucky, I wish the transition had been easier for everyone.
So once Lindberg crossed the atlantic, that was it? Been there, done that, no need to ever make a nonstop flight across the atlantic again?
If Microsoft products are truly better than Google/Apple, they should move the conversation to those products, rather than discussing their competitors. I hear more about Chromebooks from this campaign than I do from Google's own ads.
My below argument still applies.

If we take a "gun ownership"->"suicide" relationship for granted, we cannot assume that this particular gun owner is at risk for suicide. If there is a trend, then we can talk about the trend and populations. However talking about individuals requires more care.
Thanks. Hmm. So you are saying that the Baumeister study doesn't apply because if we believe we power through we can? I feel awfully tinker bell about the issue now :-)

Quoting a comment found in the post you linked that led me to Wired : http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/10/mf-willpower/

"Some of his further studies have suggested that willpower is fueled by glucose—which helps explain why our determination crumbles when we try to lose weight. When we don’t eat, our glucose drops, and our willpower along with it. “We call it the dieter’s catch-22: In order to not eat, you need willpower. But in order to have willpower you need to eat,” says John Tierney, coauthor with Baumeister of Willpower: Rediscovering the Greatest Human Strength."
Interesting use case.
To put it another way... if you can't win your argument without going Godwin, maybe your position isn't very strong. Leading with Godwin is the sign of a very weak argument, or a very weak arguer.
How many users do you need to prove a concept?
I am working on a newfangled messaging app and am curious how many users I need before I can consider my concept proven?

I think this information would be helpful to other HN members as well!
I wish Bing got its results from Google. It seems to be the unchangeable default on my Lumia, and it's shockingly unbelievably terrible.
Security checks shouldn't have been the factor causing the change. Ransom payout avoidance and police tactics would have been the deciding factor.

In the old days, once didn't actually require a weapon to hijack a plane. Merely the claim of possessing a weapon was sufficient.
Personally I would prefer flying without any security checks.
I am going to die one day; statistical chances are high that will not be due to a terrorist attack.

In fact I flew from South Africa to Europe 4 or 5 years back (in a large Airbus). No metal detector, no scanners, no taking-shoes-or-belt-of, just the quick scan of the carry on. Took 2 minutes, and I did not feel unsafe in any way.

911 cannot be repeated (as pointed out many times before). The TSA checks are a theater and everybody knows it.
Developer Bootcamps: Where do they fit when pursuing a web development career?
That's a stretch, and there's no mention of that in the article.
Fine, so you have found a language you prefer to Python. Go use it. Never mind about PyPy, which gives you compiled execution speeds, never mind about the fact that Python 3 fully supports NumPy, SciPy, matplotlib and much of the infrastructure you claim to need. If threading is your preferred solution to concurrent programming and it's working for you then there's no real problem, is there? I'm sorry Python doesn't work for you, but fortunately there's a rich toolset available of which Python is only a part. It's fine for many tasks, but it's by no means your only option. Isn't open source wonderful?
Well, i mean, there were backwards incompat changes in ruby 2.0, which I think is after he said there woudln't be. They were fairly minor and easily dealt with, but there was certainly some software that had to be adjusted for ruby 2.0 from 1.9.3.

https://gist.github.com/nathany/6046171