skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, that's true. I wonder if that's an artifact of the sites used by populations in different countries. A U.S. site would bias towards U.S. users which is not entirely dominated by Android devices.
This is not correct. You're thinking of Apple's "warrant canary", which covered only Section 215 of the USA PATRIOT Act, "Access to records and other items under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act", aka mass FISA requests.

Apple almost certainly has received many NSLs, which is why they can only disclose "1000-2000 account information requests" for the first half of 2013 in their transparency report. That number combines law enforcement and national security order requests in order to keep vague the exact number of the latter. If you take a look at that transparency report[1], you can see they come as close as you can to confirming that they have received NSLs when (so far) you can of course not confirm that you've ever received NSLs.

[1] https://www.apple.com/pr/pdf/131105reportongovinforequests3....
One important fact that seems to be getting ignored with payment fees is that credit cards have much higher fees than debit/ATM cards.

If bitcoin intends to be a cash-like currency, the more apt fee comparison would be swiping ATM cards, which are much closer to 1% (rather than credit card fees of 2.5%+).
Hi. I'm a hp warranty victim; an so's old laptop had 3 year next business day support. On three occasions those lying sacks of shit made us mail it to them for a week at a time. Don't believe it; your "next day" warranty is just a donation of beer money for hp execs.
Wow. For me, the big takeaway from this review are the benchmarks showing the iMac and MBPs beating out the Mac Pro. That shows that this machine is really for niche markets like professional video editing. Makes you wonder why Apple even bothers.
If I knew how to make ChromeOs talk to my wifi printer (Lexmark s605, which does not seem to support CloudPrint) I'd free my mom from the "burden" that is her Acer AspireOne (too cramped, too slow) right now.
It didn't happen, so all it takes is your imagination! :-)
There's a simple reason they charge whatever they want and generally can't even be bothered to disclose those prices ahead of time: because they can.

To critics of the ACA, the relevant question is, who or what is in an effective position to put downward pricing pressure on hospitals? Because to date, it has clearly not been individuals or insurance companies.
It is too commonplace to be ironic. Incumbents in all industries (auto and utilities immediately spring to mind) have their lobbyists pass laws and regulations making it nigh impossible for new players (like they were themselves) to break into the market.
You do need to mold someone from adolescence in order for them to be a founder or a hacker in their late teens and early 20's.

PG is in the business of spending very small amounts of money on in the slim hope that a few of them will be wildly successful and return hundreds of times on that original investment in a relatively short time frame. He invests in people who move to the valley and live huddled together on peanuts and ramen. Those young people are a very small and specific subset of all people who can be founders or hackers.

But Otherwise I agree with you entirely.
Everyone seems to forget that there are explicit solutions for the N queens problem.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eight_queens_puzzle#Explicit_so...
The analogy doesn't work perfectly because there is usually no cost to withdrawing and depositing cash from an ATM. And when there is a fee, it tends to be fixed as opposed to percentage-based. These may very well be solveable problems, but there's definitely a bit of work to do to make bitcoins function like pocket cash.
Did you not consider hiring a lawyer? I know they cost money, but this sounds like it was a major investment of time for you. If you want it to ever be a successful business, you'd eventually have to put money into it. How did you pay for hosting?
That's great and all, but I'm still confused why I would want one over a traditional laptop (or ultrabook) with OS X, Windows, or Linux unless it's purely to save money on a less expensive Chromebook model.
"Do you think Madonna uploaded those videos?

I'm not asking "is it mathematically possible?" I'm asking "do you really think Madonna, or Madonna's agent, uploaded that video?""

Isn't that what record companies do these days? I thought that was the idea behind the Vevo stuff. Between that and Youtube's audio fingerprinting, it seems reasonable to assume that if a pop star's song is on youtube, it is because their record company put it there.
Putting emotional reactions aside for a moment, I think the real point is that unbiased behavior is quite difficult to achieve and requires discipline. If you're not doing anything systematic to root out bias and just relying on good intentions, it won't be enough. Yes, having a variety of interviewers helps somewhat, but people can be biased in similar ways - it is possible for women to be unconsciously biased against other women, for example.

The solution isn't bias in the other direction, but to look for ways to remove the bias. This is why in science we have things like double-blind studies, for example. In music, doing auditions behind a screen seems to have been effective.

Putting systematic measures in place against bias also tends to help with self-selection, since it assures applicants that they have a fair shot. I believe that's what the original poster was asking for. I don't know what the best solution is for something like Y Combinator, but it seems worth giving it some thought. Of course, it's not going to be so easy as performing music behind a screen.

The percentages you cite show this is a problem in many industries. I doubt that 50% is achievable, but I also don't think it's helpful to either say "these people are sexist" or "yeah, but everyone does it." Those are both examples of moralistic thinking. The solution is to move beyond that sort of thing and treat this as a problem to be solved.
I develop GPL software too. Quite a lot of it, actually. I'm not sure what you mean by "route around GPL".

I chose BSD because it will maximise usability in certain BSD licensed programming languages.

You can always fork the code, put the GPL on it and distribute it under those terms if you want.
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Agreed. However simplified variants on problems like these are actually really effective interview questions. A few years ago, I was asked to solve the N-Rook-Kings (pieces that attack like kings and rooks at the same time) problem, for 1 < N < 16, in half an hour.

The catch was that I had to only count the solutions, not find them. The very inexperienced engineer that I was, wrote a highly-optimized (bit boards) solution that could solve N=12 in 6 seconds. But I got this solution after the fact, and it took me hours to write it. A more qualified software engineer would have found a proper combinatorial solution in minutes.

In general, giving an actual NP-Complete problem in an interview question and expecting a good solution is unrealistic. However hiding an easy problem in a hard-looking one seems pretty effective.
SO makes an excellent CV, like github.
How about one example before I hire you? The US tax rate computation is based on the MIT Living Wage calculator for personal taxes, and ZenPayroll for payroll taxes.

http://livingwage.mit.edu/places/0607567000
https://zenpayroll.com/blog/the-true-cost-to-hire-an-employe...
I just stumbled on PyMySQL[0], who supports Python 3. Is there any issue with using this library, since it seems an obvious solution to this problem?

[0] https://github.com/PyMySQL/PyMySQL/
I was under the impression that section 215 was the NSL since it mentions the bit about gag orders on Wikipedia:

>The section carries a gag order stating that "No person shall disclose to any other person (other than those persons necessary to produce the tangible things under this section) that the Federal Bureau of Investigation has sought or obtained tangible things under this section"
But the fees are a lot lower and it doesn't mean that those protections can't be added back on on a different layer. You can also do a lot more with Bitcoin than with CCs.
Simple! Excellent point thanks for posting.
In general, the MacPro loses out in single-thread performance only, since Xeons are typically one architecture behind. When the Haswell based Xeons come out, Apple will refresh the Mac Pro line, and you'll get parity single-thread performance.
> I do have to say that as someone who sometimes conducts technical interviews, I'm not sure I would actually give this question to an interviewee, unless I was leaving him or her alone to work for a couple of hours, because of how long it would probably take to reach an answer

It can actually be done fairly quickly if you really only ask for 8x8 instead of a general NxN solver, and the person realizes one key thing: computers have gotten ridiculously fast, so that if you just bang out the first dumb thing that comes to mind, you can probably be done and have the answers before the people with the clever, general, efficient solutions get their solutions coded or even designed.

For instance, this brute force, ridiculously ugly, un-clever, only-works-for-8x8 solution took about 5 minutes or so to write, with half that spent deciding how to number the diagonals and looking at a couple of squares on a chessboard to see how rank/file maps to my diagonal numbering:

#include <stdio.h>

int main(void)
{
unsigned long pos;

for (pos = 0; pos <= 077777777; ++pos)
{
unsigned long tmppos = pos;
unsigned long taken = 0;
int rank;
int file;

for (file = 0; file < 8; ++file)
{
unsigned long mask;

rank = tmppos & 07;

mask = (1L << file) | /* file */
(1L << (rank + 8)) | /* rank */
(1L << (23 + file - rank)) /* diagonal */
| (1L << (45 - file - rank)); /* other diagonal */
if (taken & mask)
goto fail;
taken |= mask;
tmppos >>= 3;
}
printf("%lo\n", pos);
fail: ;
}
return 0;
}

It takes under 0.5 seconds on my 2009 Mac Pro when compiled without optimization, and about half that with optimization.

(To be completely honest, I rarely write C nowadays, so although it only took a few minutes to write, the damn thing took half an hour to debug. I wrote "1 <<" instead of "1L <<" because I thought for some reason that int was 64 bit nowadays).
Yup, you nailed it.

The bigger problem with pg's statement is not the 13 year old girl claim. It's that he fully blames them and middle school curriculum while giving YC, PyCon and the startup industry a pass. His stance is we already have an open door and are self-selected, so the problem must be up the line.

You're right, he dodged the question of whether we need to be more proactive, not just open.
She single biggest disappointment of the ACA is how few people understand what could be passed in the american system of governance, which combines a huge number of veto points with the republican party that plainly couldn't give a fuck less about people unable to afford healthcare.
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I run Linux on a Macbook Pro (late 2013). It works remarkably well considering this hardware came out a few months ago. The only thing that doesn't work are the Thunderbolt ports (they work for everything except monitors, which crashes the machine after ~10 minutes).
Wooowee, did I ever strike a nerve :)
An excellent list! Love it. Did you compile it manually?
Sure. Some procedures are uneconomic, and it would be awkward to make them illegal, so there will probably always be private options. But the US approach is just grossly inefficient (I've heard it spends twice as much per capita on healthcare as comparable nations, for indistinguishable outcomes). Driving people into bankruptcy for health problems they have no control over doesn't make anyone more productive. Tying healthcare to employment makes the labour market illiquid and disadvantages everyone. And I shudder to think what life must be like for e.g. someone who wants to leave an abusive marriage but is dependent on their partner for health coverage.
Perhaps I can help you with this.

"Install Google Cloud Print on a Linux server"

this is headless mode, BTW.

https://support.google.com/a/answer/2906017?hl=en

I have a substantial server infrastructure at home, although reports all over the net indicate a rasp-pi is more than good enough to be a mere print server.

If the chromebook I wanted wasn't hopelessly sold out due to christmas demand, my wife would probably be using one right now.
I don't think you have to ask "Where'd all the rest of our clients go?" when you don't have any clients to begin with.
Everyone gets every message. There is no solution here to the data bloat problem. Other than that the project forks bitcoin to make a namecoin clone (distributed authorization), which I dont see the need for since a private key already identifies me.

The reason something like namecoin is to allow people to update their identity in the event the first identity was compromised/blocked.

Finally this was posted yesterday https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6987396
I think he is saying that a CEO can have salesmanship skills like the ones listed in order to "sell" people on the idea of working for the company, but it doesn't mean that he is also able to pick up the phone and do cold calls to sell widgets.
Nope.

One of the startups was a telecom company, the other an educational software company.

The telecom company was the one that burned through all the millions. They had an exclusive contract with one of the regional bells and were trying to make high speed internet accessible to the masses. They were banking on fiber instead of the existing DSL which ran over copper. Essentially using T1 fiber to give high speeds at the cost of copper DSL.

They thought they had a home run with a growing base of clients, and were trying to get acquired more than build the next Frontier Telecommunications.

They had a crazy story, maybe sometime I'll let the details go. That was a crazy time for sure.
It does matter. Apple could tell the truth and let the NSA take them to court. What a nightmare that would be for the NSA.
Naked links offer varying level of affordance on different platforms. I've frequently been on systems (or networks) in which following through on individual links is a pain. What's particularly annoying in this case is that Amazon's full links do include item descriptions (for books: the title) in them, though you'd have to click through to the links here, search the fucking title and then click on that link before you get what you're looking for:

http://www.amazon.com/dp/0743217349 fully expanded is:

http://www.amazon.com/Battle-Wits-Complete-Story-Codebreakin...

e12e's comment was helpful: it supported the original post and included additional information of use to others. And as it happens, Singh's The Code Book was not included in the original list. You can find it here:

http://www.amazon.com/Code-Book-Science-Secrecy-Cryptography...

munin would have performed a superior service (remember: writing is for the benefit of the reader) if he'd at least included descriptive URLs, if not the titles of the works in question.

And your attitude could use considerable improvement.
This seems more like an argument that SO's "meritocracy" isn't perfect, not that it's poorly implemented. Having two accounts is an edge case.
Very nicely done: reporting this as abuse to the companies offering these affiliate programs seems quite appropriate, and it sounds like they reacted appropriately. One person complaining to an ISP is noise; one person making an abuse report is all it takes to get that ISP banned from the affiliate program.
> Health insurance is not health, and absolutely everyone who buys health insurance gets exactly what they pay for: insurance.

Part of his point is that people often pay for health "insurance" and don't receive the insurance they thought they were paying for (their "insurance" provider drops them the moment they get sick).

You can blame people for not being able to understand the plans they are buying (dozens of pages of dense, industry-specific terminology) but you might as well blame the sky for being blue.

One of the things the ACA does is make it easy to compare plans so that insurance companies actually have to compete against one another.

> If you want a thing, you should buy that thing.

There are two problems health insurance solves that make direct purchase of health care a complete non-starter.

* 1: Most people have insufficient cappitalization to accept the heavily skewed risk profile.

* 2: If you purchase emergency care at the point of provision, you are either forced to accept the terms "offered" by an effective monopoly (if you are conscious) or you are forced to pay whatever the "care" provider wants after the fact (if you are not conscious).
Not sure what you mean by one state being more or less homogeneous than another. The entities who would be receiving healthcare are 100% human, by population, regardless of state.

Are you working from a different definition of homogeneous?
easyDNS.

Yes, I'm biased, but still. We're less money, anycast deployed (Zerigo until now is/was not), zonefile importer, REST API, full integration to Amazon Route 53 via easyRoute53, etc etc.

Prices starting at $149/year for 10 domains.

Add failover / host monitoring: $299/year, 10 domains
also the constant use of "the proposed method/approach/technique/algorithm/etc"
No, the modern NSL was defined in section 505 of the USA PATRIOT Act, though it modifies statutes going back many decades. It was section 505, though, that let the FBI go hog-wild with them.
Or we could believe their statement about fighting the order. So much speculation and no facts.
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Specifically on the processor it may be cheaper to get the base and replace it immediately for £1800 [1] than to buy the top of the line than to pay Apple the £2800 extra it seems to ask for what appears to be the same processor (cache, speed at least). And you might be able to sell the original.

[1] http://www.scan.co.uk/products/intel-xeon-e5-2697-v2-s-2011-...
This programming problem was what actually got me interested in compilers in the first place.

When I was 16 and learning how to program in Java, there was an online competition for high schoolers, and this was one of the introductory programming questions. Your program had to execute in under a time limit (5 seconds, N=13), and I had come up with the best solution I could and was still at 7 seconds. It took me the rest of the month spending hours a day reading on speed optimizations in order to cut down every unnecessary instruction, and remove every intermediate variable. Eventually, the program executed in 4.9 seconds.

While quite interesting, the problem only took an afternoon to implement the algorithm. What differentiated my chops from my competitors was that I could improve my program beyond the first implementation.
FYI, When someone says "Windows" they generally are talking about a PC desktop. Not a phone version.

I am guessing that you probably already know this, but want to push any angle for a rebuttal.

I am referring to Windows 8 specifically (yes the PC version) because this is the version that Steam was vying as evil.
I wrote a book on Cordova CLI (a niche within an niche): https://leanpub.com/developingwithcordovacli/ (Cordova is the open source version of PhoneGap, which lets you build mobile apps with js/html/css).

It was an ebook, written with Leanpub (very cool publishing platform for ebooks.

I didn't investigate other distribution platforms; I'm just using leanpub--they take care of all kinds of things (refunds, shopping carts, distributing updates to the ebook if/when I publish them) that I didn't want to. They have a pretty nice royalty structure, but you then have to do the marketing yourself.

I created a couple of graphics myself. I think they add something to technical books.

Income: I think I have made 250 bucks since October. Fun to make some money, but obviously not paying the bills.

One thing I didn't see you mention is: how do you market the book? This is a very important thing to think about. Far more important, in my opinion, than the questions you asked.
If someone hacks your netbanking details and sends the money before you realize it the bank most certainly not cover your losses. Debit card fraud transactions have a very short window to report. It's a good thing that you have a 4 digit pin because 4 digits is secure

Bitcoin allows a merchant to recognizing a transaction without considering fraud/KYC. I've sold items on a forum with an escrow moderator and paid 0% in fees. You just cant do that with paypal.
Trying to get paid to work on diversity in tech? Read this.
You have a personal bias towards hard science. Many, many people; linguists, anthropologists, historians, socialists, academics, for example; would consider what you call entertainment, their scientific research.
How I'd approach it by hand, demonstrated on a 4x4 grid (other
than 1x1, smallest grid with a solution).

I'll go column by column, noting symmetry that also means I only
need to check half the rows for the first queen, and with
symmetry and the squares she eliminates I'll have fewer options
to consider on each subsequent column.

+---+---+---+---+
| Q | X | X | X |
+---+---+---+---+
| | X | | |
+---+---+---+---+
| | | X | |
+---+---+---+---+
| | | | X |
+---+---+---+---+

First queen placed, add the second we only have two options so
I'll try the top one.

+---+---+---+---+
| Q | X | X | X |
+---+---+---+---+
| | X | X | |
+---+---+---+---+
| | Q | X | X |
+---+---+---+---+
| | | X | X |
+---+---+---+---+

Oops, gotta move the second queen:

+---+---+---+---+
| Q | X | X | X |
+---+---+---+---+
| | X | Q | X |
+---+---+---+---+
| | | X | X |
+---+---+---+---+
| | Q | X | X |
+---+---+---+---+

Uh oh, can't place the 4th. Moving the first queen since we've
exhausted all placements of the 3rd and 2nd queen with the 1st in
the upper corner.

+---+---+---+---+
| | X | | |
+---+---+---+---+
| Q | X | X | X |
+---+---+---+---+
| | X | | |
+---+---+---+---+
| | | X | |
+---+---+---+---+

+---+---+---+---+
| | X | Q | X |
+---+---+---+---+
| Q | X | X | X |
+---+---+---+---+
| | X | X | Q |
+---+---+---+---+
| | Q | X | X |
+---+---+---+---+

I placed the remainder at once because there was only one legal
placement in each column.

Extending this approach to 8x8 isn't difficult if the challenge is merely to find a solution.

EDIT: I found it in 3 attempts on the 8x8. Going to the column with the most constraints (fewest options) to minimize my branching.
Give me a break.

Here is a scenario for you. What if you were hit by a drunk driver on your way into work on Friday morning and end up in an extended hospital stay with multiple surgeries? The bill could rack up to several hundred thousand dollars. You get all of your medical bills and you think everything is just fine, your insurance will take care of it. Then, your insurance company sends you a letter that says you missed one of the dozens of questions during the course of filling out your policy and they cancel it on you. Now, you can either pay those bills (haha, unlikely), settle them (killing your credit), or declare bankruptcy (killing your credit). Now, you cannot finance shit. House, car, credit cards. You are essentially fucked, through no fault of your own.

Your argument is unbelievably ignorant.
Oh, Lord, not this shit.
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Without Linux, Android would have used something else; likely BSD. iOS is a variant of BSD as well, albeit with a different kernel core.
Anything is plausible when there are no facts to show right? We have a document from 2007 and Apples denial. That is it.
I remember reading an article about this phenomenon, and arguing from that "plagiarism" as a concept will eat the "copyright" concept. unfortunately i cannot find it right now.
he also has enough research experience that it's not taken as unprofessional
Watch pg write an essay in real time