skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wha? Y Combinator and random Silicon Valley angels are somehow responsible for something big banks did over forty years ago? Before many of them were even born?

"Sometimes the kafkatrap is presented in less direct forms. A common variant, which I’ll call the Model C, is to assert something like this: “Even if you do not feel yourself to be guilty of {sin,racism,sexism, homophobia,oppression…}, you are guilty because you have benefited from the {sinful,racist,sexist,homophobic,oppressive,…} behavior of others in the system.” The aim of the Model C is to induce the subject to self-condemnation not on the basis of anything the individual subject has actually done, but on the basis of choices by others which the subject typically had no power to affect. The subject must at all costs be prevented from noticing that it is not ultimately possible to be responsible for the behavior of other free human beings." - http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=2122

I'm sorry to hear you got rejected from YC, but:

- there's a good bit of randomness in the process; no one could possibly have a 95% chance of getting an interview, even if they were young Elon Musk;

- as pg and co. will be the first to tell you, they make mistakes and don't fund promising groups all the time;

- simply getting a degree from any school (even Harvard) isn't a strong predictor of whether someone has all the skills to succeed at a startup (http://paulgraham.com/colleges.html), because colleges and YC are looking for somewhat different types of skillsets
How plagiarized art sells for millions
Notice the pattern to all of these - the hacks are only discovered after the cards have already been charged and the card companies piece together where the possible source could have been by looking at common purchases.

That is the state of security at the moment, not only is it easy to hack into sites, but it is easy to cover you tracks and not be discovered.

Vendors have resorted to trawling the carding forums and buying up dumps to figure out who has been hacked.

I can't remember the industry ever being so imbalanced towards the black hats.
Disagree, with an if/else: When the site is a set of links aggregated (Twitter, FB, Hacker News) I would prefer that the link open a new tab.

When it's a blog or a news site or anything else, the link should just be a link.
Presumably those people who've developed the kaiser system have come to a different conclusion than you. It may be the case that there is no scenario in which "Excrutiating Chest Pain + Numb Left Arm" is urgent when you have a full return to red on when pressing your fingernail (blood pressure check?)

Also, presumably, if I was having any shortness of breath, it could be determined just by talking to me. They may have also taken my age into account (32) and decided that 32 year olds don't have heart attacks in the way I was describing.

I came in for a checkup a week later, and all was well (except for a RSI issue that was contributing to the completely numb left arm)
Something completely unstated here is the practical demands required of startup employees and founders and entry level tech workers. Most of those demands conflict with someone who has kids and other responsibilities, such as long and odd hours with a high pace. Statistically older people will come with more baggage and are much less willing to put up with harsh and in some cases ridiculous work schedules that are required of interns and new hires.

This is the same for any high competition job and I think Wall Street is a perfect example for this because it is very similar in practice.

There are way more parallels between Wall Street and Silicon Valley than I think either group would care to admit.
The virtual reality camera the Oculus Rift was waiting for
I have a VW with xenon projectors and the self-leveling feature should ensure this doesn't happen, but occasionally people do flash me. I assume their eyes are dilated from the weed.
Marco is right that the argument should have ended long ago. But he's 180 degress wrong about how it should have ended, at least based on the usability testing I have done or overseen.

A link in the middle of a sentence interrupts any mental session in progress. The 7th word in his post is a link...does he really think that anyone intends to click that click and never return to his site? To at least finish the sentence?

I guarantee that if he sat and watched 100 of his readers click that link, all 100 would use a contextual menu (e.g. right click) or chord (Ctrl-click) to open that link in a new window.

I could understand the argument against target=_blank back in the good ol' days of IE6 on XP, when browsers were not tabbed and OS's were not good at managing tons of windows. Back then creating new windows all over the place was annoying.

Those days are gone. With tabs and window management UI (like Expose), it is now no trouble at all for anyone to manage dozens of open web sessions at once. Adding one more is far more lightweight than whisking your readers away suddenly in the middle of a sentence.
Bitcoin ATM from Lamassu
After these commands I don't think learning a ton of more commands makes you better at working a computer. After this, sitting down to actually setup a working Unix box and then hardening it will teach you a crazy number of commands and things. More importantly it'll teach what all those little processes and services do on the computer.

However, I will say that learning how to effectively use grep and sed are probably the only big omissions from my list. But, those are outside the scope of this little book given those commands have whole books devoted to them.
Awesome, thanks for sharing.

The PR expenses (109,552.34) seem pretty high and I wonder what that line item entails. Did you guys use a PR firm or run any expensive marketing campaigns?
The problem isn't history. The problem is meaningless history. If I'm working on file X and meanwhile file Y changes on the remote repository and those have nothing to do with each other you shouldn't need to do a merge. Merges should reflect situations where related changes happen concurrently. Otherwise it's just clutter and you can no longer separate the "true" merges from the noise.
I'm surprised no one here has said it yet. But your friend is actually quite smart. While he and his wife are making 250K now, there is no guarantee they will be making this much in 10 years. My wife and I had pretty high student loans ... we are doing a somewhat decent job getting these paid off. Sadly, because of all the debt, our net worth is pretty low even though we are in our 30s. Unlike your friend who is lucky/smart enough to earn such a high salary in a place where a decent house costs 250K, my wife and I would need just under a million to get a decent house.

tldr. 250K isn't that much these days when you factor taxes, child care, housing costs and student loan replayments.
I saw two policies cited on her talk page:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:PAY

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:ADMINACCT
https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/

Makes it incredibly simple to get a good idea of how secure your config is and where compatibility problems might arise.
Dropbox is down
dropbox.com
I don't have a horse in the race but would you still call it white-knighting if the editor was male?
Unsurprisingly, none of the PRISM gang companies support this initiative.
Well the problem is how low is the other vehicle? A modern Range Rover sits much higher than an MX5.
I had no idea that Blackberries ship with a dedicated "open link in new tab" physical button.
Enjoy your day. Life is short.
Cryptocurrency exchange
You are absolutely correct, although the point still stands in the context of the discussion. They aren't making money from accepting money in exchange for GPL software (people can just grab CentOS if that's all they want), they're making money from support, services, and non-GPL software that gets bundled along with a bunch of GPL software.

The discussion is about whether someone could run a business that is every bit as financially successful as a business that sells proprietary software, by asking for money for GPL software, and not having any other sources of income. Some posters seem to think this is feasible; I would disagree.
Define doesn't censor results. They censor results by blocking content mills and related sites, for example.

http://www.technologyreview.com/view/419965/the-search-engin...

The content he’s blocking includes everything from “Made-for-Adsense” sites that offer no content at all to sites that offer only, in Weinberg’s judgment, low-quality content designed specifically to rank highly in Google’s search index.

“Usually the stuff I’m blocking is pretty straightforward, i.e. not really on the line. The few that have been somewhat on the line are usually big sites, and I’ve asked users or they have been driven by user reports followed by my subsequent investigation,” says Weinberg.
Apparently the website has been compromised: https://twitter.com/1775Sec/status/421820685766250496

The hackers are also threatening a database leak: https://twitter.com/1775Sec/status/421822727331131392

EDIT: Dropbox's statement is that it's maintainance issues: https://tech.dropbox.com/2014/01/dropbox-status-update/

EDIT2: There is a high probability that the Twitter account is faking the hack, due to the "proof" of the hack being taken from an old dump.

EDIT3: The account admits they did not hack Dropbox, just DDOSed it. https://twitter.com/1775Sec/status/421848589480910848
+1 - it will be hard to move away from emacs without org-mode
Dan, even using english as a first language - I have a difficult time articulating this subject.

1. English

English is the more topic subject dividing engineers and programmer's from reaching their potential. These are people who are already on their path and passionate about growing themselves into programmers.

Can you imagine how we can help them? Their potential if they have localized documentation?

A story of disadvantage - imagine having an issue and being powerless to articulate yourself to a predominately english-speaking world of engineers. What about their hearts, their passions?

And this is effective, safe. Helps people. Constructive. This is great news man.

Now you see where I'm going?

2. The PC troll issue

I feel tempted to blurt out every emotion. But when a particular group is mentioned - we have to make everyone happy? Why is pycon code of conduct pulled off geekfeminism.org (http://jessenoller.com/blog/2012/12/7/the-code-of-conduct). This is sensitivity not to woman, but I feel it's creating a culture of hysteria.

Truly, I do not believe woman in the first world (I'm sorry if this offends people) are at risk of rape or sexual harassment at conferences. Most conferences do not have codes of conduct that state this because it makes you ask, "Why?". Do these people ever go outside, to starbucks, etc? Do they live in a Chapel away from vulgar language and stringent political correctness? I'm deeply sorry to offend anyone here.

But how do you even get to Pycon if you're in this feminist Cabal? Do you go around in a bubble when you're outside? Especially in SF where radical free expression is so prevalent, it's amazing how the when it gets to the workplace and conferences, women (a select few), pull what we may see as a 180. Now they're ultra-chaste, "triggered"* by humor they probably laughed out at dinners before, especially in front of more confident and boastful company.

I feel I can't talk about anything. I feel it's a sand pit meant to distract and divide. I feel like I can't express myself in the most basic ways.

* Triggered means PTSD for traumatic events in their past. So now it's not a matter of political niche. Ever study cognitive-behavioral psychology? People can link a bad memory to anything!
Once again, this isn't the algorithm being inherently prejudiced. It does what it's meant to do, but it's being applied to a prejudiced and unreliable data set.

Don't blame the algorithm for the fallacies of the people using it. The only fault in your scenario is the PEBCAK.
You mention this, but a smart self-dimming rear view mirror can't help at all against the incredible brightness of oncoming headlights. I have been literally blinded while going over CA highway 17 at night (don't let the "highway" designation fool you; it's a twisty mountain road abutted by cliffs), an obvious safety issue.

I don't understand why it's legal to have headlights so bright. Manufacturers say having headlights brighter than everyone else makes you safer because you stand out. By the point where no one can even see, any putative safety benefit has been lost. Headlight brightness seems like a close analog of overfishing to me. :/
how are these not real conditions?
Although AWS are continually cutting costs so probably worth sitting out and focussing on cost reduction elsewhere and growth.
At Garmin, they pull in non-interviewers that have interview training (for legal reasons, don't want to ask the wrong questions like do they have kids, etc.) to eat lunch with candidates. There's no pressure on the candidate, and no pressure from HR for any kind of report, unless the candidate does something weird that would indicate they're not a fit for the company.

When I did lunches, I would make it clear that they could ask any type of questions or just hang out.
What amazes me is that in this whole conversation no one even mentions the differences between men and women, as these differences were shaped by evolutionary forces. In all our attempts to make women and men "equal", not just in this country, but across the world, women and men still go into different professions and do have different interests, and are good in their gender-specific things. There is a reason for that: men and women are different.

Surely, there will be women in tech and men in nursing. But the differences are there and they go back hundreds of millions of years, and they've been shaped by real evolutionary forces, and they play out every day in myriads of ways.

For all the scorn that Harvard University President Lawrence Summers got in 2005 for bringing out these issues, he was coming from a serious scientifically-based view on differences of sexes.

For those who want to understand how evolution shaped women and men, I recommend to start with Dawkins' books (The Greatest Show on Earth, The Blind Watchmaker, The Selfish Gene), and then to read "The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature" by Matt Ridley, and "The Mating Mind: How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Nature" by Geoffrey Miller.

And, hey, I am talking to the audience here, since it is mostly composed of men (there is a reason for it): understanding the evolution of sex will make you better at picking up women!
Domain Specific Languages in Lisp, developing an example
Similar to my experience interviewing for an SRE position at Google Dublin. 3 phone interviews (one with HR, two with engineers) and 5 on-site interviews, 45min each. Took them quite some time to tell me I wasn't getting an offer.
His obstinance aside, here is a better graph of the value of college diplomas:

http://i.imgur.com/s3GqHl2.png
I find this somewhat naive. If DDG was ever something they wanted to track or aren't currently tracking in some way, they can. I mean lavabit and silent circle were forced to either comply or shut down.
> search "Chinese" on Google

I get a bunch of stuff about restaurants in small-town Missouri, which is somewhat reassuring, since I live nowhere near there, then actual information about the Chinese language. Awful.
At my current company the old timers consider themselves to be rockstars, and they've written the biggest pile of crap I've seen yet. There are two we (the newer guys) have decided should never be allowed to code again, and tell mgmt this.
That wouldn't work. (Would his friends steal it? Do his friends gossip to the local car thieves?) Something like this though:

http://www.break.com/video/ugc/chamelion-xle-383947
It is not totally nonsense but the use of the benign sign = associating the analytic continuation of a series where it converges to a place where it does not without huge warning is not very rigorous.
> "Americans are moving far less often than in the past, and when they do migrate it is typically no longer from places with low wages to places with higher wages"

Might have something to do with the aging population and baby boomers retiring. When you stop working, you no longer need to migrate to where the jobs are. Surprised the article didn't mention this.
With our team, we also found shared folders performance to be too low. Our Python framework/app is very read-heavy and stat() a lot of files (the Python module loading system isn't your friend)

We ended up using the synchronization feature in PyCharm to continually rsync files from native FS into the VirtualBox instance. Huge perf improvement but a little more cumbersome for the developers. But so far it has been working good, PyCharm's sync feature does what it is supposed to.
And when the grow up you switch from your girlfriend to her little sister, because she is the same but better.
Yeah, thankfully I have a dimming rear-view mirror.
An actually useful graph that basically refutes that idiotic Zerohedge one;

http://i.imgur.com/s3GqHl2.png
Process videos in browser using FFmpeg compiled to JavaScript (56 days ago) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6739582
You could argue that Aereo's copying of the received signal to an output stream is also unlicensed duplication.
In rough order of difficulty/startup cost:

- AWS reserved instances (doesn't help with storage costs though)

- dedicated servers at e.g. SoftLayer

- colocation
Or your twice-rejected friend put code on the board that was going to be shared in a WTF manner.

Any decent technical interviewer knows to let certain things slide and to grind out details in the interesting areas. I've interviewed enough people to assure that I don't give two shits what code was there two seconds after I saw it unless it's WTF-worthy. In those cases, you have earned a place in my heart.
BWK Podcast: Episode 40
Apparently as a Wikimedia foundation member, you have a lower bar when it comes to getting your own page?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Stierch

From the Affiliations section:

Ada Initiative – Advisor

American Alliance of Museums – Member

Archives of American Art – Wikipedian in Residence

Museum Computer Network – Member

Open Knowledge Foundation – OpenGLAM Coordinator

Smithsonian Institution Archives – Wikipedian in Residence

Wikimedia Foundation – Community Fellow

World Digital Library at the Library of Congress –

Wikipedian in Residence

Her life and advocacy sound fulfilling and good hearted, but nothing seems to meet the (admittedly inconsistent) standard of inclusion of living persons in WP.
Interesting fact: http://duck.com redirects to Google.com
Series A investors make very few investments that are time consuming and capital consuming. Often, a specific partner will make just 1 investment per year, and stick with that company for 7+ years. They'll also allocate ~$15m in capital to it (the $5m for the Everpix raise, plus another $10m for follow-on investments in future rounds). So they're not willing to take risks like this, it doesn't make sense with the model.
By recording from one link layer and transmitting on another they have to be doing at least one operation that can be considered rebroadcasting. Like if I was on two phones relaying messages from one person to another.
There could be plenty of reasons no offer was received... some of those could be that no offer was sent, impolitely or not.
This benchmark is bogus because the iozone -I flag is missing. -I uses O_DIRECT to avoid the page cache.

Due to page cache usage it's hard to say what this benchmark is comparing. The I/O pattern seen by the actual disk, shared folder, or NFS may be different between benchmark runs. It all depends on amount of RAM available, state of cache, readahead, write-behind, etc.

Please rerun the benchmark with -I to get an apples-to-apples comparison.
Thats not gone happen because of goverment regulations.
Having a firewall + not loading trojans gets you 99.9% of the way to security.

The problems are that normally people (A) don't want to deal with the hassle of a firewall, and (B) don't like to be cautious about opening attachments (C) People don't like to be restrained about what they click on, and finally (D) People tend to browse with all sorts of plugins loaded (not to mention Javascript being almost universally loaded).

For those people, yes, they will need to have a lot more handholding by their operating system vendor.

For somebody running a Windows XP system that doesn't have to do any of those (Cash Register, Kiosk, Office Machine) - they are fine, can be locked down, and can probably run Windows XP for the next 20 years without concern.
with all the lamenting about how hard running a consumer photo service is, I wonder how imgur does it. their traffic must be insane, and they have no subscribers, so how come they can do it and these relatively upmarket services can't?
> I believe you are incorrect that it is disabled by default

No, it is disabled by default, I go through a few Macs and turning on right click (and inverting that 'natural scroll') is the first thing I do.
Get sick of the comments about being blinded. Wusses this is entire emotion and subjective. Go to a country where everyone uses the brights always like the DR and realiZe no one is blinding you you are just a crybaby.
Well, do you have any revenue now? The 3rd year revenue target sounds great, but right now my impression is that you hold 4% of nothing or very little. Maybe you are getting edged out over dilution, but are youg etting edged out for 4%? It's not clear. I think you might want to rewrite this in paragraphs instead of bullet points; I appreciate that your two partners seem to cooperating to edge you out after taking possession of your idea, but it's still a bit vague and I can't figure out how well grounded your complaint is.

If you have social connection to lawyers, exercise them - many lawyers will give you a half hour consultation for free, and if you have a decent case that is worth fighting they'll take it on contingency. If you have a decent case that's not worth fighting then they may be able to advise you on how to either protect your interest in the business, or negotiate a buyout of your equity on your behalf. Presumably your erstwhile partners are gambling on the fact that the value of your equity is less than the cost of defending it at present...but again I can't really guess what's going on from this telegraphic description.

Also, take the weekend to evaluate whether you are a) being paranoid, b) overstimating the NPV of tis idea and c) whether you could call their bluff and set up in competition - an obvious breach of contract, but if you get to market first, something that can be written off as a business cost. If you are getting shafted, then playing hardball is a perfectly valid strategy, ethically speaking.

Not a lawyer, and again this is very handwavey because your description leaves so much to the imagination.
Is there any reason why these stores need to store the full magnetic stipe details of the card in the first place?
I am sure the people who did this must be "very proud" of themselves but there can be no justification for hacking something as innocuous as Dropbox.
It was only a matter of time. So many people use DB. Still, I'll keep supporting them.
They say they're doing it in honor of Aaron Swartz[0]. (It's the eve of his death).

[0]: https://twitter.com/1775Sec/status/421831664239509504
yep. and the culture of internet snark and bullying certainly isn't helping this problem.