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Much of Jacob's presentation echoes many of the articles he (and others) had published in Der Spiegel earlier that day, going into a little more into the technical aspects (to the extent they are known and/or can be inferred.) While you may skip out the talk, at least look over the articles. While Jacob's style may rub you wrong, the issues are there regardless, and impatience is hardly a justifiable excuse.

On another note, if you are aware of Jacob misleading on any matter, it would be nice pointing that out directly. He is an activist that has done everything from helping with on-the-ground infrastructure deployments in war-torn areas, working on and advocating for Tor, speaking in front of the EU council… Casting doubt on his integrity without highlighting relevant facts is a way of distracting from the actual issues under discussion.
I think the same about old people btw. we branch their value out to an old value that is not compatible with the values in our current system. Oh boi, we do that so wrong, it's laughable and very sad at the same time how our society thinks about old knowledge, old people etc.

I think HN is the community that most loudly would agree with new != better but that's exactly what we do wrong. Holy cow, I can't explain how much value we have at our disposal that we throw away + pay to keep it away comfortably. New businesses don't integrate old people, because they don't really know how to make value out of them. That's a simple equation, if you see it this way. It's not because old people cannot contribute to the development of IT, Startups and the Hacker scene. We just have no business model, not even a concept that considers these elder men and women.
Many of the companies I have interviewed with would have ended the interview if I had asked them some of these questions. These are terrific questions though. I was once asked by an interviewer where I saw myself in three years. I said, "dead." Then I said that would depend on the career trajectory of employees there. The gulp I heard in response was all that I needed to know. Life is too chaotic to predict more than six months in advance.
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14 Companies That Will Hit the Tech Zeitgeist in 2014
Please read the transcript in its entirety. Specifically the latter parts about trade agreements and bi/multilateral negotiations. Placement of liability (w.r.t. the US common law) makes reform hard to envision yes, but that is just a minor concern in the bigger picture.

The surveillance state was never intended to stop terrorism, it is the true terrorism.
This malice cannot be explained by incompetence.
I agree. With the amounts he's dealing with, a CPA is necessary.
This has always bothered me: if it's a "no-man's land", then the situation is symmetrical: they have no rights either.

Has this ever been tested in court?
How are we measuring "quality"?

Reaction from literary critics? Reaction from the target audience? Financial success?

It seems to me that by two of those standards Stephenie Meyer knocked the ball out of the park. It is not clear to me why we should care about the other standard of quality.
These would also be excellent questions to ask yourself about your current job to decide whether it's a place where you really want to be.
- Write a sci-fi book
- Start a pickled food business (kimchi)
- Double my 2013 income
>I don't have the patience to watch Appelbaum's hour long talk, but unless he has something far more impressive than these documents then he's just another activist who will willfully mislead in order to advance his cause.

The fact that you cherry picked a obvious example, and even downplayed its singificance -- plus fact that you were quick to call him an "activist" (nay, "another activist", how their pesky multitudes annoy you), tells more about you than about him or the talk.
> Why the hell should I worry about text encoding before sending a string into a TCP socket...

A string represents a snippet of human readable text and is not merely an array of bytes in a sane world. Thus is it fine & sane to have to encode a string before sticking it into a socket, as sockets are used to transfer bytes from point a to b, not text.
Unless women are actually prevented from joining the ranks, I don't see why their absence would be a problem...
That's not any more reasonable an interpretation than accusing anyone who prefers double-blind medical studies of believing that doctors can't be trusted.
We had similar problem: InstallShield is very expensive software. The company which sells it was renamed, and they changed domain name together with license activation server...

So we could no longer activate software we bought. Suggested solution was to buy new version. Pretty bad since we could not make new build without this software.

Luckily for us we had everything virtualized already (not so common a few years ago).
The advantage to filing jointly is actually when the couple makes sufficiently different income, and the penalty is actually when they are close in income.
I would like to know, how far from the market is this?
Noted how Google didn't wholesale adopt Go? And also how they started using some of it here and there (a YouTube MySQL balancer, a downloads tool) AFTER there was decent adoption of it already?

Not to mention that at the scale of Google, they can pay for the continued development of 5 or 10 languages and/or compilers to suit their needs (and, well, they do: Dart, Closure, Go, V8, their Unladden Swallow experiment etc etc), as well as train stuff to use it. And it's not like an half-competent Google employee can't learn how to "write in" Go in a week or so.

So, it's not a case like some random startup chosing to use an obscure language -- those indeed would have the problem of not finding enough hires.
A company apparently so weak financially that it couldn't even keep its office rent paid up, isn't about to be acquired for ... $100x million. It wouldn't have been difficult to properly capitalize the company to get it through an acquisition period - ie they wouldn't have run the finances to the last minute of operating cash even if an acquisition were imminent.

More likely is that Mills saw the writing on the wall, that his opportunity with MotionLoft was crashing and burning, and he chose to go out with a fraudulent bang.
Peter Thiel’s Graph of the Year
I guess a better way to put it is that Snowden released the tech story of the year. But the story of releasing a story is a story of journalism and politics, not itself technical.

Maybe if we had a figurehead in the NSA to point to who approved PRISM et al., it would make sense to call them the "tech person of the year", because of their being in the tech story of the year.
Why not apply to YC? Worst case, you'll spend a couple of hours answering questions on the application, then get a rejection email. On the bright side, simply answering the questions can help hone your idea and execution. If you do get an interview, great! Then you have an opportunity to meet some YC partners, applicants, and alumni. If you're turned down at that point, feedback from the partners will be personalized, and you'll have gained experience interacting with investors. If things go well and you get an offer, then you can accept or refuse based on the information gleaned from the whole process.

If you're unsure about applying, I recommend doing so. No matter what happens, you stand to benefit.
cool stuff. to be honest i only "read" a fraction of my email.
most of the automatic stuff gets filtered into different "newsletter" labels and i never mark them read - would also feel weird doing it because i actually never read them
I know it's crazy, but I've always thought the easiest way to rehabilitate this guy would be to hire him to do the job he's so obsessed with(if he's capable).
Working with a team for the first time, I learned about #4.
> Don't rewrite code without consultation.
I would get anxious that others weren't pulling their weight and make significant changes, thinking that I was doing the team a favor. It really came off as controlling, disrespectful, and arrogant. They were doing their part, so I was actually creating more work for them. We later agreed to ask each other about their respective code before making changes, and never act before doing so.
1. Yep. A stable C++ ABI is hard, and limiting, and in a practical sense, C++ has never had one. You simply can't do something like return a `vector<int>` from a function and have it work reliably across different dylib versions. Your options here are "distribute the source" (Microsoft with MFC) or "don't use C++" (Apple with ObjC).

2. Right, they don't matter yet, because Go has pivoted to target servers instead of end user software. ABI compatibility is a first world programming problem: "we are so mature that we care about applications that have already been distributed to end users running correctly against later versions of libraries that will also be distributed to end users." Go isn't there yet, but it can cross that bridge when it reaches it.

3. Aw hell naw. If my end users have to recompile my software after reinstalling anything, then I've failed as an engineer.
Amazing :-)
I had a simple question unrelated to post - how is it that there is no ad shown to you on gmail ? Are you using any extension to remove ads ?
Because "profitable" is a better proxy for "successful" than "positive cash flow."
India's Surveillance State
I disagree - I was a B6700 hack, loved the machine - but code for it was just so non-portable because the machine model was just so non-standard - remember this is a machine (B5000 et al) that depended on the compiler creating correct and sane code not just for system security but system integrity - only 'root' could write compilers and one bad instruction would take the entire system down - it was fragile.

Microprocessors when they first came out were also feeling their way into architecture, Intel sort of headed down the Burroughs tagged capability architecture route - 286 segments, the 960, the 432 et al

But in the long term the PDP11/Vax were more the machines that people loved and their simple memory model (a simple array of bytes) and generic identical registers allowed portable languages and operating systems to flourish - prior to this operating systems were designed for particular hardware platforms - Burroughs MCP was never going to run on any other machine. People forget that the idea of a portable operating system in a time where operating systems were written and were the closed property of hardware manufacturers was a pretty radical idea at the time.

RISC, where simple was beautiful, loved the simple memory/execution models, Unix having grown up on PDP11s and Vaxen was the same.

Intel's through this was bit of a weird duck - they tried everything and failed at many of them - the CISCiest thing imaginable (the 432 a true capability machine) and the 960/860 (both kind of RISCy) all appeared at about the same time - but the 'x86 architecture has walked a pretty magically fine line - in a time of VAX derived CISCy architectures (68k 32k etc) they had a relatively simple memory addressing model (no indirect stuff) and a pretty simply instruction set - in retrospect much more RISCY than it's contemporaries, though missing the generic register file, the 386 eventually adopted the simple linear memory model and tried to forget about all that silly segment stuff and the 64-bit instruction set has moved to a RISCy world - I used to really hate the x86, especially when I wrote compilers, but in retrospect it's mellowed

The thing that microprocessors and the architectural trends they adopted have really done is they've taken us from a proprietary world where nothing was portable, where once you'd bought a system you were a captive customer - to a marketplace with competitive manufacturing and happier consumers
it's amazing you have to scroll down this far to find someone actually thinking critically about the issue at hand rather than saying "they edited out the word 'these'! that's not how journalism works!". yes, they edited the quote. no, the original was not really much less sexist.
While I certainly hope that all females who are qualified and interested find a welcoming home in computing, I am aware that there is social science research suggesting differences in the average cognitive abilities between men and women in some subdomains. This is not saying that only men can program, only that the proportions of the sexes that make good programmers may be different. Think of shifting of the mean of a normal distribution, like this[1].

So I suspect that in a perfect world with no discrimination the proportion of sexes in each field of work will not be equal, and this is important to keep in mind in industry self-flagellation sessions. Our industry is educated enough to buy heavily into feminism, but nature has a way of confounding all breeds of egalitarians.

The progressive explanation for these differences is that they are all culturally determined. I am not convinced that is a parsimonious explanation of the data. I suppose this makes me evil.

For what it's worth, there's also well documented cognitive differences in human subpopulations. Progressives also believe that these differences are all due to culture. I'm not convinced that human groups which evolved apart for 80,000 years in differing circumstances should be exactly equal in all ways modulo culture. Again, I'm evil. But also remember the overlapping bell curves. That's what I'm arguing the global distribution of talents in human subgroups looks like.

I haven't been to /pol or /r/mra much, but I suspect that they do deal in some suppressed truths in addition to a lot of adolescent noise and filth, if only because the forbidden truths are juicier.

[1] https://controls.engin.umich.edu/wiki/images/2/25/Overlap.gi...
This is a case of fraud and theft. I don't get why your takeaway is that it's somehow unsafe, as a founder, to take legitimate investments from friends. Were you planning on ignoring your company bylaws, pumping money into a secret account, not papering the investments, and hiring an R&B star to serenade you? Because otherwise I think you'd be OK.

A good reason not to take money is you'll probably fail, lose your friends' money, weaken friendships, and feel like a douche. I don't think there is much legal risk if you aren't totally nutso, and the board approved the investments.
Neat hack, I've got something similar setup!

Just as an editing comment: You'll want to change "loose" to "lose" in the article. It's an easy one to mess up!
Facebook isn’t going anywhere so get used to it
Definitely. I noticed quite a few that would be totally unsuitable to ask in, say, a first interview. For instance, asking about the vacation policy early on is in bad taste and sends a signal you don't want to be sending.
I'm not a lawyer but I heard if you say "You don't have permission to record me." they're legally obligated to delete the video.
I enjoy using Mailbox to the point that I rarely use desktop Gmail anymore -- a keyboard on my iPad helps. It's also easy enough to implement the filtered inbox views mentioned in the article for Mailbox folders, allowing the same sorting functionality on mobile (unlike the star-based solution).
>Well sure, but largely because the standardized tests are all biased against women and/or minorities

I can't tell whether or not you are being sarcastic.
Did you even read the article? The game was to become literally unplayable because its developers (Square Enix) decided to pull the plug on the DRM and multiplayer servers instead of handing out a DRM-disabling patch.
Last year's thread:

1. Continue on the path of graduating cum laude -- √

2. Publish three academic papers -- due to an error on my side, this only became two :-(

3. Get a job -- √

4. Start a side project which actually has a chance of making some money -- well, this never happened...

5. Find the woman of my dreams -- thought I had found her, got rejected for a superficial reason, called her out on it, rejected her, met her again months later but felt I was too busy doing 1 & 2 to invest time in her. She's got a boyfriend now.

===============================

============This Year=============

1. Graduate before september so I can start my PhD position.

2. Date more.

3. Move to a better place.

Should be doable, no?
Kimchi is great :-)
looks like my email flow except i'm using a fat client and no gmail. (thunderbird in my case).

i never understood people not doing "zero" inbox and not sorting mail automatically. they're always complaining. email never took me much time and i get about 1K a day. Obviously I don't read 1k a day. Nobody does.

in my case starring = queued for later replies, probably evening or next morning = todo list, or whatever you wanna call it.

inbox = disruptive messages, rare.

some mailboxes = phone alert on new mail (super important stuff, rare)

other mailboxes = sorted archives, stuff i may peruse when it comes in if ive some time/interest.

works fine.
Yeah, that's my position. I use OSX at work and Arch at home; and while I love Linux, it is quite messy. (Which works to its advantage in many ways- it wouldn't be that powerful and flexible if it weren't)
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>I remember Larry also saying(On a youtube video, may be at the O'reilly conference) that he has been working on Perl 6 since 1987. That's how he wishes to describe it.

That's all well, but he announced it circa 2000. I don't care how he feels about it or how long he hacked it alone, I care since when the language was expected.

>Even beyond that those are not "features to be". They are already available for use http://perl6.org/compilers/features

Therefore I'm not sure what you've been reading, or if you are even reading them. Because if you would- you would know, Rakudo covers much of the Perl 6 specification.

In a half-arsed form and with 1/100 the community of Perl doing anything with them. And still not all of them.

Personally I stopped caring somewhere around 2006. And I've read all of Larry's "apocalypses" back when they used to be on Oreillynet, as well as followed the internal implementation politics for a few years.

>By the way. Rust is still not complete. The wikipedia article says, work started in 2006- Which makes it 8 years and still incomplete.

No, it says that it started as a "part-time side project in 2006". That could be 2 weeks total spend in those years writing a list of desired features in a napkin and getting a hello world compiled for all I know.

I only care about the time since the project was publicly announced and the community started working on it.
Who does the telcos' "differentiating" their internet services help, other than the shareholders of the telcos? That bit of rent seeking behavior would have large negative impacts on everyone else.

Why should we let telcos begin charging for no commensurate improvement in their end of the bargain after they've been granted local monopolies across the country? Internet service looks like a utility, quacks like a utility, it should be treated like a utility.
And all these are all very similar to Google's Chrome V8 and Mozilla's SpiderMonkey. Although both had incremental done already, for Ruby that is scheduled for v2.2.

Now just when will Ruby get a Method or Tracing JIT?
There's a pretty decent system. Self hosted game servers, and a patch to disable the DRM once the official servers go belly under. Unfortunately few developers care enough about their users to do such.
Report: NSA Intercepts PC Deliveries, Pays Cybercriminals to Spy on Americans
Sorry, thought that was clear. If you remove an edge and find the cost doesn't change, don't put the edge back - carry on with the smaller graph.
The article seems a bit sarcastic, but let's not forget that the discount is a full 12.5% discount.

You guys have it pretty damn good, $7-8 for unlimited streaming would be amazing. Here in Australia we have nothing comparable to Netflix. The closest thing is Quickflix - it's twice the price and doesn't have anything you actually want to watch.
One might not get an honest answer to some of them at any stage of an interview. The question on turnover might be directed to the person responsible for four resignations in the space of two months. But it certainly is a good idea to have these questions in mind, even if you don't ask the ones you would like to ask, since you just might be able to infer the answers from the responses to the questions that you do ask.
Fantastic ! That's how you build trust. Congrats.
https://github.com/rectangletangle/nlplib

"What is your project"
A bunch of tools for natural language processing, with an emphasis on code composability.

"How has the decision to use Python 3 affected the project?"
Because my project has an entirely new code base, it made sense to aim for longevity by using the most recent version of the language. It seems like a lot of the FUD around 3 has been about third-party library support. However, I've found that everything I really needed was readily available for 3. Though there're probably some specific usecases that 3 just doesn't quite cover yet. Seeing as most of the major third-party libraries have made the switch, I think that it will take major Linux distros shipping 3 as the default for it really to catch on.

Print being a function, has been a nice addition seeing as it's handy to pass it as a logging callback; it can also now be used within a lambda. There's a bunch of nifty new syntactic sugar like extended iterable unpacking, which make life just a little bit easier. The more generalized comprehension syntax is nice, seeing as it's an extremely powerful way to make sets, dicts, or whatever. The cleanup done to the standard library, specifically urllib has been nice. I haven't found a good use for the new function annotation syntax; however, I'm sure someone will come up with a neat way to utilize it. Subgenerators for recursive flattening are nice, as well as the generator syntax as a whole.
Nitpicking, but I wouldn't consider the people they are saving to be anonymous, but strangers. Maybe in the defender's eyes they are just fellow Americans.
I think people do not mind the device itself. For example bluetooth handsfree is kind of similar, it can do even do recording, but most people do not mind it.

I think problem is usability. It is not possible to have conversation and use this device at the same time.
I don't understand why people are constantly acting like they are required to read email. I currently have over nine-thousand unread emails in my gmail. And look! Nothing bad happened! That's getting things done. Things that aren't email.
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My favorite response to the "where do you see yourself in X years" question is "CTO". Its a joke masquerading as ambition.
The media has amazing power to manipulate stories and fabricate what will be taken as facts by the masses. This power is almost impossible to counter. They have molded public opinion, destroyed people and manipulated elections at nearly every level.

When I was a kid I was told a story as a means to communicate the gravity of telling lies. A lie, as the story goes, is like ripping open a feather pillow atop a mountain. Feathers fly everywhere. To undo a lie you have to collect every single feather, a task monumentally more difficult than telling the lie.

The Internet multiplies the power of the lie at every level. From a simple comments to blog posts to more established media outlets. Since the feathers can't be collected the damage can be extensive, permanent and even outlive the victim. Given this it would almost seem that the law needs to develop beyond liebel and slander (which I think might not be up to the task).