skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think there is a lack of distinction over exploiting to obtain data or exploiting data obtained. In the web-server case I would argue access was allowed unfettered but authorization for the data was not. This is how more than a few cases have gone down. Gotchas don't really cut it in court.

Edit: My original comment further up in this thread hinted at this difference and how lawyers seem to be trying to shift the line so unwanted access by a user is treated the same as exploitation of the data within even if the data was not exploited upon.
For U.S. households, the 4th quintile tops out around $100,000.

$200,000 is in the top 5%.

For individuals, $100,000 is in the top 10%.
It's a long-term concern. One way to gauge it is that many researchers working seriously on post-quantum cryptography are far more seriously engaged in pre-quantum work like secure elliptic curve.
Ask HN: How can I promote my startup?
Hi everybody,
I was working more than year on fitness web app where You can track your diet and workouts easily.

I tried ask FB pages (nobody replied), share app on Google+ and Twitter. I made a video on YouTube too: http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cl_H-ZNGZyA&feature=g-high-esi (where can I share it?)

I still try and try but it is still bad. Can you help me please? Where can I write About my startup?

Thanks to everyone
But integrating that kind of smart device control into iOS and OSX is the kind of crazy shit I expect from Apple.

Well it's the kind of stuff I want to expect from Apple...
I think Stallman is being reasonable here.
Nice try. The author tries to give the credit to unions. The author forgets to note that the steel industry was in a 100-year long boom in the United States. We were making the majority of steel used in the world.

He also uses the year 1965. Just a few years later in the 1970's the steel industry in this country started to take a huge dive. Why? They priced themselves out of the market. Steel was cheaper everywhere else.

One look at this graph tells a grim story. Imagine if it went back to the 1900's instead of just 1980.

http://www.marketsize.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Ir...

Can you imagine what the air quality, or lack of was like back then?

Now, just multiply the loss of the steel industry with all of the others that we've lost over the years, like the auto industry. It's easy to see where the jobs went. The rest of the world simply caught up.
AKA, if there is somethign which is not absolutely necessary, and might be detrimental, these authors would say to avoid it entirely.

That seems to be a bit of a strawman based on an exaggeration of the quoted passage in the parent comment.
Because you have a Pi available. Maybe you've moved onto other tiny computers (like Beagle Bone) or you just have one spare.
What? What about the studies that show that reading Arabic literally uses different parts of your brain than when reading other languages, or even the evidence presented in the article?

Even intuitively, it would make sense that different languages/cultures might distinguish or understand different concepts differently...since this is HN, imagine asking a trial of 100 people who have programmed in nothing but COBOL their whole life to explain monads or continuations intuitively, and how they'd use them in practice, compared to a trial of 100 who understood Scheme and Haskell. I think the results would be pretty obvious. Why would structures and concepts in human language be any different?

I really don't understand the political posturing behind denying linguistic relativism (not that you're necessarily doing that, of course).

src: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-11181457
Do you refer to yourself as skilled at opening unlocked doors? :)
You should have been looking elsewhere. We have a similar situation in Washington with our Blue Cross provider, who is on the exchange, but our Blue Shield provider is not on the exchange and has a much more complete network.

The only compelling reason to use the exchanges is if you qualify for subsidies.
Bitcoin Is an Expensive Way to Pay for Stuff
Men and time--It has haunted me for years. It might explain
my hobby with horology? I know there's a fine line between
living every day as your last, and indigent, but we drop
so easily. The worst thing a teacher ever said was, "Electricians collect 5 retirement checks after they
retire." Their wives collect 1/2 of the rest for years.
I think about that statement everyday. I think lack
of true hobbies might account for some of the early deaths?
I never found the real answer. I don't want to know. Hay Mark, if you read this--you were the best teacher I had. I hope you are doing well.
Plans for 'cycle utopia' above London's rail lines
Usually they don't have the lawyers that The Atlantic probably has. You can get away with a lot under the guise of journalism (and you should be able to).
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/how-the-nsa-spies-...
Mark Baker's _The Atoms of Language_ and Steven Pinker's _The Language Instinct_ talk about the evidence against linguistic relativism. There is also a debate between Mark Baker (I believe) and some psychologist published online, but I couldn't find the link. I don't know of any other popular literature on the topic.
Can't believe what I'm reading here.. And I thought slavery was over.
I'd like to buy the book, but is it really necessary to enter my email and password, twice each, then give my address, all to give you money through PayPal?
Sorry if you don't believe me. I have done this, and I will do this again. If a company expects me to put in extra effort at busy times of the year, it is only fair that they are OK with me doing a 30 hour work week some weeks to take care of issues that came up while I was working that 80 hours.

Edit: To be clear, the companies where I quit when they had no empathy were body-shops.
That implied invitation gets absurd quickly in the real world, like when it accompanies access to millions of stored credit card numbers. There is information that cannot possibly come with a legitimate implied consent to access.

It's also a technical non-starter, because the HTTP status code that accompanies a response is an artifact, not a promise; the result of a SQL injection attempt could for instance very well have a 200 code on it.
Employer premiums are pre-tax. Individual premiums are not (unless you happen to be self-employed). Until that stupidity is fixed, "cash in lieu of benefits" ends up costing a lot more, because the employees have to pay taxes on that cash.
The middle ground of both the stated position and your reply is probably closer to the truth. Both sides look at the other, someone will take a note down in private, and the relationship will likely deteriorate.

If you work for a company that expects you to pull all nighters, but doesn't re-comp you for an extra hour or two for the unavoialble/banalities of random real life problems...that's a huge red flag if not an immediate need to hit the eject button. There is plenti of kubuki theatre in the workplace, but this is a point of fundamental fairness.

I know if I have people working for me like that, they are either getting the next friday off or a morning off or something else as an aknowledgement. Most jobs that require his kind of work and comittment are also (typically) cyclical, and there should be some 'slack' in the workflow that follows a big push.

So I don't think the only options here are bluster vs exploitation, and that goes for you or those that work for you. Just my $0.02.
DVCS and Git Usage in 2013
This reminds me of the time I started working on a project and one of the manager went on a vacation, leaving me with a pile load of directionless work. After he came back, I was made aware that taking a break now would be bad, so I didn't. The project went sideways, I was burnt out, somebody had to take the blame.

Taking break really is part of the job, it strikes me even more reading this article, because when you are expendable, you don't want to be burnt out as it you make easy target as a scapegoat.
Theories:

1) Assuming there's some clustering algorithm in use, it could just be some tradeoff edge case that isn't worth optimizing away.

2) It could be that one of their reviewers had an overly-aggresive and non-standard genre-tagging approach for Perry Mason and classified a bunch of shows in such a way that the source data was polluted. This could be something stupid like most other movies having many reviewers giving higher confidence, while a large number of Perry Mason shows and DVDs only had a single reviewer who was either through a bug or through overweighting, given too much influence. This seems to be the most likely cause of the bug--some skew or amplification in the source data.

3) Intentional poisoning of the results, like cartographers putting in bogus features, or data sellers seeding their data with watermarks, etc.
What does the doc say?
An additional week off is maybe 3% higher pay. If you're a little guy, it seems like you should look at offering 3-4 weeks of vacation in your base package, given the dual benefits of attracting candidates and having happier, healthier employees.

Few large companies are offering more than 2-3 weeks vacation to new hires any more. I don't think any are offering 4-6, much less "6-12".

For longer tenured employees, getting an extra week off after 3 or 5 years is equivalent to a 1-2% raise each year. If a business can't support that, something's wrong.
Agreed! It is next to impossible to understand soviet Russia without knowing what is covered in that book. It completely changed my view of the whole Bolshevik experiment, especially Stalin's role. What had been a mystery to me became much clearer.
If you want bananas in Australia - tough luck, mate.
I got mine in today, and hardware scaling seems to work just fine.
I came here to say this. My father provided me with a printed copy of this book and a few locks from the garage and I learnt a lot. A very rewarding experience for a young mind.
Zip 101 - An Archive Walkthrough
If your employer decides to obsessively focus on HR policies and petty accounting of time rather than simply getting shit done, that sounds like a great reason to quit. Particularly if the accounting is one-sided as justrudd described ("expected that we (employees) put in a little extra effort when at the end of a project or the end of the fiscal month or whatever").

I have quit a job due exactly to an obsessive focus on HR nonsense.

I did, however, wait a week to cool off just to convince myself I wasn't behaving rashly. Not as cool sounding, but whatever. I don't regret the decision.
It's falls somewhere around psycholinguistics or cognitive sciences if you squint hard enough while looking at it, so then it becomes interesting.

Once someone feels they've mastered the hard sciences, the squishy sciences often become new, seductive mistresses.
Absolutely. I'm much more selective in where I work now so I've not had to do this for the past decade. But the first decade I was working, I was drawn to money figures without paying a lot of attention to the work environment.

With that said, I would still walk out on an abusive employer...
The point of ownership is to have the greatest certainty of access. Lots and lots of relevant, deal-breaking factors are totally missing from the post.
Giving employees less vacation is just the same as underpaying them, except it's even worse for morale and turnover. If a business can't afford to pay it's employees a reasonable market rate, it either needs to hire more junior folks or start charging more.
Smaller companies would fold, larger companies would pay more in the short term, and become much more capital efficient in the long-term. When the minimum wage increases, the ROI of replacing people with machines changes, and yields higher R per I.

If just the "companies that can bear it" bear it, you'll get less of those stores, as the expected profit yield per store decreases. Less stores is less competition, which will yield higher prices.
How does that really work? Like, the company I work for gives 10 paid days off, plus 10 national holidays, plus a couple of days of sick leave, which gives 20 days off a year (honestly, it's a more than that, but that's what it says in the handbook). Is that similar to the EU, or is it 20 paid days off plus holidays, plus some sick leave, or is it just 20 paid days a year plus some sick leave?
MinHash - estimating the similarity of two populations
We didn't track vacations at my last company, because we agreed with the Netflix principle of hiring the right employees and giving them a lot of freedom, including allowing them to take whatever vacation days they needed, whenever they needed it.

There were worries initially by some about employees abusing this policy, but that has not happened once in the 6+ years we've been around. However as we've grown, I strongly suspect that the opposite is happening, i.e. employees are not taking as much vacation as (I feel) they should, perhaps due to the feelings of guilt mentioned in the article. This sucks because, unlike jobs where vacation days are tracked, we can't even compensate them for any unused days.

So over time I've come to believe that unlimited vacations days is something that sounds good in theory but not so much in practice, especially as a company scales. I would instead recommend the traditional model of tracking vacation days, but with a very liberal number of days (vs. the typical measly 10 days a year or whatever).
I wish people could make requests for supporting information like the grandparent post did without getting this kind of snarky reply. Sometimes questions are just questions, not attacks.
What would you use as an RSA replacement? Beyond that, is there a technique that's still relatively simple like RSA (humor me) but impervious to publicly-known quantum attack vectors like Shor's algo?
There is no rule breaking going on here.

Where I've been handed a formal policy document at a tech employer, it's always said something along the lines of "Hours are X to Y or as your manager directs". The latter part of that means in effect "this is between you and your manager unless you can't work it out".

If you can't work it out, best to go elsewhere, because that's a toxic culture for a tech company.
I feel it says something fairly sad about the state of the industry when "Agency" themes are some of the most popular website themes out there.

Sort of the (sad) opposite of demonstrating your craft in your own tools: http://www.finewoodworking.com/woodworking-plans/article/the...
CoinYe West is the newest Bitcoin, destroyed in one day
Building a Mesh Network in Rural Somaliland
I am surprised to see that there is a word in Klingon for vacation: http://klingonska.org/dict/?q=vacation
Apologize for injecting insults and vitriol into this thread if wish for a contextual reply.
How do I become a citizen of Netherlands?
> When you factor in things such as "I'm a skilled programmer, but I don't know Ada." Are you still a skilled programmer?

"A programmer" is not necessarily "A person who knows Ada".

You're trying very hard to play semantics and it's not working for you. You don't get to call yourself a skilled swordsman because you sliced up some virtual goblins, simply because the only things you felt like slicing up were virtual goblins. That's not what skill is.

Neither does skill require some asinine qualification of "real-worldness". We can generally agree that many skills are non-transferable or narrowly applicable, such as skill in playing Starcraft or picking "academic" locks. But you're not a skilled carpenter or metalworker if you go out and buy furniture from IKEA. A person who walks casually across the stage doesn't qualify as a skilled dancer unless he actually does some dancing.

"Buying harder locks just to show you can pick them" is akin to "choosing a more difficult project to code up" or "requiring that your algorithm be more performant than it was previously".

Saying that raking locks is skill at lockpicking is like saying you're good at breaking into computers because you have a sledgehammer and a knowledge of where the data center is. Or brute-forcing a password. Yes, it works. That's great. "Doing something successfully" isn't skill.
The purchasing power of a minimum wage salary peaked during the 60s and 70s, which has given many people some very unrealistic ideas on what the minimum wage is for, and what they should be able to do with it.

It isn't just memories of the 60s though, there is some strong "the grass was greener on on the other side" biasing going on. The minimum wage in 1968, in today's money, was $10.56. Hardly the "buy the house in the suburbs, two cars, and raise a family of five" type of salary that many people mistakenly remember it as: http://economy.money.cnn.com/2013/02/14/minimum-wage-history...

Often people outraged about the minimum wage will talk about a "living wage". Living wage, as it is talked about today in "minimum wage outrage discussions" is a horrifically poorly defined concept. Nobody ever mentions just what neighborhood a minimum wage should enable you to live in (Malibu? I'd love to get a minimum wage job and afford a home in Malibu...) or just how large of a family this concept of a "livable wage" should support. Is a "living wage" what it takes to afford rent, with a roommate? Is it what it takes to afford rent with a stay-at-home SO? Afford rent with a small child? Afford rent with three small children?

Even if we bought into the idea of "minimum wage should be a livable wage", we'd have to specify a cutoff for our "livable wage" definition. Right now that cutoff is "is a dependent, has no dependents of their own", but people often act offended at that concept.
People said the same thing before the iPhone. However, I agree about live sports. Apple needs to go directly to the major sports leagues and get them on onboard.
same thing happened to me, for some odd reason this site came off as sketchy to me - I even whoisd her which didnt help matters much. Is it just me or do others have profound mistrust for domains that don't reveal their identity?
It's just a part of the comp negotiation, the same as a starting bonus. It's not a rollover from the old job and it's irrelevant if you got paid out for it there.

Lots of companies have mechanisms to let employees go into "vacation debt" of 1-2 weeks when needed. Asking to take vacation may cost them exactly zero, since they're going to pay you those days eventually anyway.
Ok thanks, last question and I'll leave you alone.

Could you recommend some relatively accessible reading for the layman on how the security world would react to a sudden shift into the post-quantum world?

And, in your opinion, how concerned should average Joes and Janes, like me, be concerned about a sudden shift to a post-quantum world?

Edit: For example: Would my bank be safe? Would my health records be safe?

(On this hyperbolic fear legitimacy scale: Y2K <----> Cryptopocalypse)
Infrastructure as Code - Automation Is Not Enough
HRL Laboratories - Malibu, California (No remote) - http://www.hrl.com - Interns - works on cutting edge research as a prime on DARPA and other ARPA-style research programs and for Boeing and GM. The organization is about 400 strong, mainly consisting of engineers and researchers. My team is looking for talented developers and researchers. Experience in building development tools (i.e., compilers, static analysis tools, JIT/VMs, and debuggers) and development tool plugins would be a huge plus. We use Haskell, C++, Java, and Matlab/Simulink/Stateflow.

Perks include:

- get to work with Fortune 30 owners in a medium-size company environment with small, flexible teams and a flat structure

- opportunities to publish and patent

- the office is near the Malibu Civic Center with a cafeteria facing the Pacific and the Malibu Colony area and amazing hiking trails

- free latte, coffee, and mocha from a fancy new coffee machine

Please contact me at my username at hrl dot com.
It's pretty well known, when you're quoted a yearly salary, the 8% is usually included. When you're quoted a monthly salary, it isn't. Weird, I know, but it's so common here that almost everybody knows. Though i can imagine it's frustrating for people from abroad!

On a side note, true gross income doesn't say that much. You have taxes, 401K plans that are sometimes partially included, meal plans, etc. i had a bigger paycheck at my last job, but my net income is higher at my current job. Unfortunately, the only way to truly know what you're making is to wait a month after starting working somewhere, and check your bank account.
John Dillinger (Great Depression-era bank robber) was widely liked by the public of the day, as a Robin-Hood-esque figure, despite being clearly on the wrong side of the law.
Best advertising tools for small businesses
This is the first leak that lower bounds the NSA's capabilities. It suggests that the NSA does not have a quantum computer.

If the NSA did have a quantum computer they might fund a project like this as it would be suspicious not to.

EDIT: The more I think about this, the less it says about the NSA capabilities. They may attempt multiple paths to QC. The classification document that WashPo released (http://apps.washingtonpost.com/g/page/world/classifying-nsa-...) outlines Level A (public) and Level B (classified) research. All this shows is that the NSA is dedicating at least ~0.8% of their budget to QC.
As an engineer who works for a startup, I find that one of the troubling aspects of this heroic startup narrative is the hacker who stays up all night voraciously coding and then makes a breakthrough at 2AM. While there exist those of us programmers who do enjoy doing this, I find that this image is more commonly appropriated by more business-minded folk to squeeze that last feature out before a deadline. After all, what seems better to you? An image of yourself as "hacking into the mainframe" or some sort of stock-programmer-movie imagery, or the guy who's forced to stay there by social pressures from your boss? Point is, if you love what you're working on, don't let me stop you, but you don't have to be a slave to the code to prove you're passionate.

Furthermore, another day of work != another day of productive work. I'd say that when I'm put in an office for 40 hours a week, week after week, I get less and less productive as the process becomes more and more tedious. Very infrequently do I have one full day of solid work with no distractions. However, when I've been away from the office for a while, I notice that my work becomes more interesting for me, and I can give it more focus. I'd be willing to bet this is true for others as well.
justrudd is describing unilaterally breaking the rules because of his personal notions of what constitutes a fair contract.

I have a hard time imagining a more dysfunctional method of "negotiation". There are better ways to address differences in work expectations.

I understand the idea that you should be fairly compensated for fulfilling work expectations. I also understand that it's common for companies to have flexible PTO rules. But I've also heard of companies, very good ones to work for, that are not flexible about these things. It might not be the manager's choice. Or it might, and it might be possible to work around his/her style. Or it might not matter that much in the grand scheme of things. These are things you should be thinking about before you randomly quit over a rules quibble.
Kanye West-themed digital currency to launch Jan. 11
> The lionization of Snowden is baffling when it was already well-known.

It's because Snowden made for a good messiah. Better PR trumps good journalism.
I'm selling hipsterstartups.com for cheap - anyone interested?
GridLetter - Newsletter Roulette
Am I the only one to see this and think "They're going back to PCMCIA?" (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/REX_6000 for a "palm-sized single-board computer" complete with 240x120 monochrome touchscreen).