skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I recall Reed Hoffman writing in his book to have plan a, plan b, and plan z, where plan z is your absolute fall back plan when the shit hits the fan. (Tis could be hunkering down in your parents' basement while you look for a new job)

If you don't have a plan z that prevents you from being out on the streets, then you really shouldn't be taking outsized risks (though there are plenty who have defied the odds before)
Interesting. Even compared to the hallowed Thinkpad?
I wonder if there people hiring from the flood of PhDs coming out of the educational system.
This year’s CES will feature a scavenger hunt based around Apple’s iBeacon technology. What if you could win the hunt, without ever having to go to CES?
I mostly live in C++ land and the story is different there. The standard library implementations are a place of magick, mystery, and obscure defect reports. They provide plenty of insight what can go wrong if you are writing a generic library and how difficult correctly programming with templates actually is, but all the technicalities of the language make it hard to see the algorithms. They are definitely worth reading, but only if you have mastered a large amount of C++.

Not to mention the horrible naming conventions (leading double underscores everywhere).

I often think about a C++ standard library written for educational purposes with proper naming, focus on readability instead of optimization, and maybe multiple possible implementations of certain specs.
In the context of NSA specifically, not really; the algorithm is meant to be secure for all uses except against NSA. I've noted before that I disagree with NSA's actions here but this isn't a case of them shipping crypto with a backdoor that anyone could target (contrary to the claim of the top comment from your link, only NSA could break the crypto in Dual EC DRBG).
I don't know why you are posting this on HN. Anyway you have several options:

1. Go to the vendor you bought it through

2. Go to your credit card company

3. Look up the consumer protection laws of your country and use them
thanks for the corrections
Get a team of volunteers that are passionate like you are.
I'll add another Toshiba support horror-story. It's why I haven't even looked at Toshiba products in 2-3 years:

My work laptop (supplied by employer) was a Toshiba and had a 1-year warranty. After about 10-11 months of using it, the DVD drive stopped working. Toshiba's warranty support was typical ship-to-depot, so IT pulled the drive and sent the laptop off for repairs. I wouldn't ordinarily care about a laptop our for repair, but IT supplied me with a temporary machine that was at least a generation back (ie: slow and heavy).

IT got a message that except that my machine had been received at the depot but heard nothing else for weeks and weeks after. By the time I'd bugged a tech at my company enough to contact them the warranty had lapsed ... and Toshiba refused to service the machine.

Toshiba refused to service it for several more weeks. I finally took over contacting support from the IT tech, and got the machine serviced after a half-dozen (long hold-time) calls. But for the amount of time the IT dept & me spent getting an optical drive fixed our company could have paid for two new machines.
I feel like you could create a Pebble watch face that did this...
The goal is to have an answer on record.
Only the life is unfair and the distribution of power is completely asymmetric here. You may actually need a positive reference about you and the company usually don't care what you say. You also don't have any way to verify and prosecute a company, if your former boss actually makes a negative comment about you (think a start-up, an immature founder gradually turning into a complete ass-hole under the pressure of real life and when feeling that you are deserting, when you decide to leave).
I built exactly that device, but as an ankle bracelet. I also used GPS so you could have it continuously point you to a specific location. It was for a college project and I never took it past prototype so you had to carry around a breadboard and an Arduino.

It was interesting to wear and after some time it started to feel like a "sixth sense".
I think there is a generation who simply care not of privacy.
Fun fact: you are asking the wrong branch of the government.

The Secret Service will happily tell you about security features of currency, and behind closed doors help you build methods to detect counterfeits if you have a reasonable justification.

http://www.secretservice.gov/know_your_money.shtml
You're right, my explanation is actually wrong. The idea is right, but the recursive knowledge is not gained incrementally the way I described but rather all at once at the end when they wake up on the nth day and see that everyone is still alive.

Each one reasons (recursively) that if their eyes are brown then, given that common knowledge of the existence of blue-eyed people has been established, the remaining n-1 blue-eyed people will realize their eyes are blue (and kill themselves) on the n-1'th day. Since this doesn't happen, their eyes must be blue.
It would work! A cr2032 is a super common "coin cell" battery that we use for all kinds of stuff.

The "problem" with this is how long it will run for. A watch battery, or a coin cell doesn't have much current capacity.
Currently I am taking designs from a media company and have to turn their PSDs into real code.

Is the process easier in Illustrator-- Design to HTML/CSS? Or does it to build the UI elements easier?
Python 3 meets my needs just fine.

However, I do tend to live in the future.
Yup, that's the case in both Argentina and Brazil too. But then, customer service sucks pretty much at every level. In the US you can buy a product from Walmart, use it for a couple weeks and if you aren't happy with it just return/exchange it (and yes, you get your money back, not some store credit.) Coming from Argentina, I was amazed the first time it worked and felt like I was ripping someone off. After a while I got used to the idea that that is how customer service should work.
I probably need to build a quantum shor computer so the brightest minds can get back to engineering optimizations and efficiencies for our very finite lives so we can all experience rich non-Internet lives again.

TCP/IP is the original decentralized communication system. With the exception of the Thaler, the Internet has the largest social graph.

Obfuscating communications with ever increasing orders of complexity in the quest for internet privacy is a wasteful endeavor according to Goedel's incompleteness theorem.

This is just Rado's busy beaver game by a different name. At the halt, we will have moxie talking to himself. How social is that?

We've lost two decades of PhDs to structured finance and now we look poised to lose a couple more decades worth in pursuit of Internet privacy only to realize public places are not private places.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIkoSPqjaU4
I am building out the front-end of a CRM and I have started using a lot of SVGs for smaller elements. I can't believe how amazing it is working with illustrator and SVGs. As far as actually designing a complete UI in illustrator, personally, I couldn't do this because of lack of knowledge but I can definitely see the positives.
This result of this should be interesting.
Hmm is it worth learning Sketch? I'm a photoshop die hard but wow this program looks enticing.

Do you have any good resources to learn more about how to develop with Sketch?
In what world do you live in where QR codes can't be copied?
I have actually bought many Toshibas from abroad and took them to certified Toshiba centers here in Guatemala. It seems that they recently changed which countries it covers but forgot to change the documentation on the box and the warranty card.
Hon Hai Precision Industry (Foxconn).

And then there are ODMs and OEMs: ODMs provide the designs, OEMs mostly just stuff boards.

It's common to find products of different brands that look almost identical, because the chassis are the same while the bezels are different.

Dell for example is basically just a sales force with a catalog, not much different in principle from CDW.
Hi Josh, thanks for the comment. We don't and will never do unsolicited comment/forum/blog spamming.

We weren't really going to post on HN because most of the audience will think this is SEO spam. It's not and we would never do that. We're only interested in promoting your startup to sites that are interested.

Firstly, we reject and refund low quality sites that don't meet our criteria.

Secondly, to give you a few examples, if your site has a great design, we will post to DesignerNews. If SEO is your thing, we'll make sure it gets exposure on Inbound.org. However, it starts to get more interesting when we move outside of the 'known niches'. So, if your startup/site is doing innovative things with data, we'll post to DataTau; if it's food related, we'll post to FoodNews (hypertexthero); if it's travel related, we'll post to outbounding.org.

We also promote on paid, premium sites such as betali.st, erlibird and KillerStartups.

Happy to provide more information if you like.
That depends. If the couch potato is my neighbour and takes care of my cat when I'm away, I will probably value him more.
Thinkpad was #2.
What I can figure out is why more hasn't been made of how the snapchat app doesn't delete viewed photos at all: it stores them in the phone permanently.

http://m.ksl.com/index/story/sid/25106057?mobile_direct=y

http://www.theguardian.com/media-network/partner-zone-infose...

Seems to me like a massive breach of trust which defies the entire claim of the app.
I'm with Nick. Those companies aren't trying to be frighteningly ambitious, but now I'm especially curious to discover the ones who are. Thanks for the comment!
Why would anyone pay money to get interrupted every 5 minutes? I would pay money not to get interrupted every 5 minutes.
Oh please. The only things that have changed are access to such ideas and the volume of our records. He's already corrected his position. No harm in being wrong on the internet. Politeness is more important than rightness as a rule to enforce. Rightness sorts itself out among able and interested parties.
Yes, but I suspect this particular Senator wasn't interested in privilege, but in backing the NSA into a corner. Because of course Congress is being spied on; they have phones.
Only for training purposes, with recordings promptly destroyed! See from 1995 (!):

http://articles.baltimoresun.com/1995-12-12/news/1995346001_...

FTA:

"We listened to all the calls in and out of Washington," says one former NSA linguist, recalling a class at the Warrenton Training Center, a CIA communications school on a Virginia hilltop. "We'd listen to senators, representatives, government agencies, housewives talking to their lovers."
Some of us are waiting on ICANN to process waivers so that we can opt out of certain requirements of the 2013 RAA that are contrary to our local law, but ICANN are dragging their heels on processing the waiver requests. That's especially an issue for European registrars like ourselves, as we have stricter data privacy laws than the US does.

The verification and validation requirements the LEAs pushed down our throats are still crazy, even if they're not as bad now as what they were initially looking for.
I find it very depressing that semantics and definitions of fairly common-sense words are at the center of this particular set of weaseling.
Could that mode be optional? Give the user the option protecting their contacts privacy at the cost of the large download or to trust your servers to delete the unmatched contacts.
No.

I am tired of managers asking me to design mockups or create process flows in Powerpoint because they dont want to take money out of their budget. Adobe CS6 and Visio do it much better and the level of detail you can obtain is much greater.
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Amen brother - At one agency I interviewed at everyone was crammed on long tables with less than 2 foot of space per person all on laptops no docking stations all hardwood floors.

I mentioned that the layout woudl impact their productivity I got marked down as not a culture fit according to the agent.
Perhaps the better idea is to first become financially independent (see: Your Money or Your Life). Once free from having the need to work, then you really can be your own boss.
“The punishment should be the deprivation of freedom and liberty,” he says. “But once you arrive at prison—I was shocked by the psychological punishment.” This is unexpected. “You are constantly berated, degraded, demoralized,” he says. “You’re herded like cattle.”

Sounds like he's really got it rough. Where did he end up for breaking the law, in prison or something? I don't agree with the prison industrial complex and what it does to regular human beings in the name of "rehabilitation" (or profits), but complaining about being treated like a prisoner in prison is ridiculous!
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Is that really true? Why are people using Snapchat then, instead of SMS or even twitter?

It seems to me that the entire premise of Snapchat is that their users care about privacy (even if they are rather naive or uninformed about how privacy works).
Uhh duh? Can't have those closest to you acting up..
> Yet there's a huge amount of buzz around Docker and containerization in general. What am I missing?

Chef/Puppet don't solve the problem of running multiple apps with conflicting dependencies on the same machine. A docker image is kinda of like a more efficient virtual machine in that it isolates containers from each other. Maybe you're running 15 containers on one machine each running various different versions of rails, or whatever.

Chef/Puppet let you automate the setup of a machine so you can duplicate it; a docker image basically is a machine you just copy around, and like a VM, they're their own little worlds (for the most part).

That's my understanding anyway.
Startup/tech meetups in Seattle & Portland?
Hi all,

I'm flying into Seattle on the 9th and will be in-between Seattle and Portland until mid-February. Any fun startup/technology meetups or events going on? I've never been to the area for very long, so interested in checking out the startup community.
If you're asked to sign one when you're hired, the consideration is the job itself.

If you're asked to sign one when you leave, depending on your contract, any severance package might be considered consideration.
When interest rates are as low as they currently are, inflation generally outstrips gains without taking on some level of risk. If interest rates are lower, more risk must be taken on to ensure a chance at equal gains.
In no particular order:

Politics and philosophy:

Ishmael - Daniel Quinn (even though in the end, it's just a cute, in essence a softies introduction to anarchist communism)

On property - Proudhon (Meta, ye oldist anarchy)
Das Kapital (If you read Marx, also read on Marx, can't stress this enough)

Beyond good and evil (but in his thought in general) - Nietzsche (Mainly for showing there are no absolutes, moral is what we make of it, and in that moral we can excel)

And so, so many others, philosophy really adds up, just keep on reading, there's fundamental books for sure, but every publication adds up in some respect.

Sports and nutrition:

Starting Strength (for making me bad ass strong in the last couple years)

'Paleo' diet (for showing an extreme solution for a more simple problem, that actually worked and made me not fat anymore)

Some random books that made a huge impression the last years:

The Alchemist, for showing how humble you can experience the wonders of life

Siddhartha, same really.

A short summer of anarchy (biography of Durrutti, rise of
anarchism in 30s Spain, out of print)

Crime and Punishment and Karamazov (There's beauty in the darkest corners of the human spirit, and so much more)

The Prince

Butler (For using Nietzsche's deconstruction to argue against 'genetic' discrimination, controversial, but very good)

Metamorphosis - Kafka (I don't have a one liner to summarize this. Just read it, it's < 100 pages)

Funny enough, as far as Tech and Business goes, I skim books to get some details, but at the end of the day most value comes from hacking around. For both.
one of the problems there is that everything is extremely convoluted.... every single thing is a huge rat's nest of cross team dependencies. I found it an extremely frustrating environment to try and work in.
That's what people said about Asia-style free-to-play games, too: that they would never work in the West due to cultural differences. Turns out that was totally wrong.
"...rest and recuperation is an essential part of being a pro"

Couldn't have said it better myself.
How do you determine if a follower is fake or not?
I have a side project http://racemetric.com for simple athletic race registration and credit card processing (just released). It's all written in Haskell and brand new. Any ideas about how to specifically drive traffic would be extremely helpful. The idea is to accept credit card registration payments within minutes instead of having to talk to sales people, get a merchant account, build a custom web page, etc.
I've never understood why people debate this so much. It seems to me, if you think we are in a bubble and everyone else is bullish, you would bet against the market and keep quiet about it.

My only theory so far is people like Andreessen are taking the game even further- i.e. he believes we are in a bubble, bets accordingly, and publicly says we are not in a bubble to help increase his profits in some fashion.

Basically I assume some commentators don't know what they are talking about, and the rest (the ones who know what they are talking about) actively give bad advice on purpose, so I do my best to ignore all this stuff. If we know the speaker is either stupid or malicious, best not to listen.
There's an ankle version of that that you can buy as a kit: http://sensebridge.net/projects/northpaw/

(It does look kind of bulky though.)
Docker author here.

I have met with the lmctfy team, they are indeed awesome and doing very cool work, in particular around providing a higher-level and more ops-friendly interface to cgroups for resource limitations, one that emphasizes application profiles and SLAs over tweaking dozens of individual knobs.

I really want to make this available as a docker backend, and they seemed to like the idea - something was said about Go bindings possibly coming soon :)
Completely agreed. I wrote an article about precisely this: http://blog.samiurr.com/snapchat-another-example-of-the-hubr...
Lawyer talk and double speak.

Bill Clinton got away with the Monica comment about sex and so will the next bunch about something different.
Nicely done ! Especially when you did not use a framework for PHP/JS.
> He didn't say everyone was responsible.

Didn't say it directly, but follow the logic.

If the prosecutors are now responsible for only proferring charges on suspects who won't kill themselves then it obviously follows that we need to ensure that no one appoints prosecutors who would do this (it's life and death after all!).

So now the person appointing the prosecutor potentially has blood on their hands. Likewise for the person appointing the person appointing the prosecutor. And God only forbid the population as a whole votes for someone in this chain, could you live with yourself if you had voted for the person who appointed Ortiz or Heymann?

That is insanity and I refuse to go down that path.

Instead point your finger at the person (or even persons) responsible, but don't act like simply being a big mean jerk is by itself tantamount to putting a noose around a man's neck. If that were really the case the vast majority of humanity would at some point be liable for manslaughter or attempted manslaughter.
I've got a Toshiba Satellite 320CDT (Pentium 233MMX, 96 MB RAM) from 1998 that still runs -- I installed Debian Wheezy on it last November. Toshiba went through a really bad spell a few years later, but now their machines don't seem much less reliable than HP or Dell's consumer laptops.
Sounds like Amazon sold you a product which was incorrectly described with regards warranty. It should be between Amazon and Toshiba to resolve this imho.
San Francisco hedge fund hiring a Bitcoin trader
"Shivering unisex" must have done well in A/B testing.
This is brilliant. This is how we'll get legislation passed reigning in the NSA. Elected officials will wake up and ask "Wait, you mean they're spying on ME?!"
I agree it's great, but the summary serves just as well! http://sameffect.com/how-to-win-friends-and-influence-people...
> I've had far more than two and I don't by any means consider myself depressed.

That's actually the point... it is depression that kills, not merely subjecting someone to a "dark moment" in their life. We wouldn't have blamed Alexis and the rest of Team Reddit if Aaron had killed himself after being fired, we would have blamed his depression.
> the treasury department won't tell you what security measures are on the bill, nor when they change them

Here are a few Treasury Department webpages telling you what security measures are on the bill, and they publish a press release with a new interactive site when they change them:

http://www.newmoney.gov/newmoney/flash/interactive100/index....

http://www.newmoney.gov/uscurrency/redesigned100.htm

http://www.moneyfactory.gov/anticounterfeiting/securityfeatu...
This is a good question about the macro US economy. In general I agree with GP.

Fact:
The Fed has injected large amounts of cash into the asset markets using http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantitative_easing . I've never added up the cash as a percentage of GDP or one of the Ms, but it always seemed significant (i.e. 5-10% of GDP, but this is debatable). I should caveat by saying that this cash never entered general circulation, which has meant treating it as part of the monetary supply is tricky.

Now, based on this fact of Fed intervention there are a few opinions:

1. While the Fed directly isn't buying equities (i.e. stocks, but this is as far as we know), its presence means that all the other cash holders have to seek out other investments to get inflation-beating rates of returns. There isn't hard data to support this, but it is the conventional wisdom of both people in the game and macro economists.

2. The magnitude of the impact on the asset markets is up for debate. I've seen numbers as low as -5% and has high as 60% of last year's stock market returns can be attributed to the Fed intervention. Some of the difficulty is that there was large federal fiscal stimulus impacting during this time, and counter-intuitively there is some argument that the Fed neutralized the fiscal stimulus to hold inflation rates constant. The important part is that there was a stock market surge, and it is not a result of retail investors pouring in money: It is a result of institutions balancing away from bonds to stocks (this is what the GP means by "supply-side"). It's just not clear if the institutions did it because they have confidence in the economy or if they were "forced" by the Fed. The "why" is opinion, and many people believe the fed is the "why."

3. On the micro side, seeing 20-something kids get 150k budgets to screw around for a year is maddening. "It's ok, VCs play the numbers game... we just need one tulip to pay 100x." There is too much money chasing "talent" right now, and should the correction to the asset market happen this year (as I predict from the fed's cessation) then we will see the startup bubble unwind.