skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Speaker cables are analog so they're going to have some impact on sound, and the study mentions a measurable difference in capacitance (the highest capacitance cables ranked best, the lowest worst — although the middle two are flipped).
Completely agree with @thatthatis, but one separate thought.

> "talks began in October"

> "they [HandyBook] had a much better and well-defined marking model and they had already developed what we were trying to iterate, but better."

Is this related to the departure of the people behind the https://giveit100.com/ around then? The non-technical founder was responsible for marketing at Exec, for example. I could imagine were I in her shoes and heard this back then I also would be looking for new work.
IANAL but my understanding is that on H1B, you can only work for your current employer. So, you cannot do these assignments legally and you definitely cannot accept money. But it is possible to have multiple H1Bs to work part time for multiple employers even though that is a totally different story.
Plans for elevated 'SkyCycle' bike routes in London
This is great news and it's a sign that this company looks into the future. Working remotely isn't just about the place where you work. It's a sign of trust that leads to higher productivity and engagement. Kudos
I definitely like to view my artisinal cables as an investment...
I think that one reason the author feels that this is "the most important trait" is because of selection bias. He says in the article that he does not trust anyone who isn't punctual. Therefore, if there are entrepreneurs out there who are successful despite not being punctual, he would never do business with them, and they would fall off his radar screen before becoming successful.

Certainly there are successful entrepreneurs out there who are habitually late. The Google founders had a punctuality problem in the beginning that became enshrined in the company culture; when I joined I was quickly educated about "Google standard time", which runs 7 minutes behind wall-clock time. One of Larry's first actions when he became CEO was to try to change this culture, which he's largely succeeded at with new hires, although many executives who were there in the old days are still habitually 7-15 minutes late to meetings.

I think a more accurate model of the world is that there are some people who care deeply about punctuality, and there are some other people that show up when they show up. And the two camps don't interact much, because the latter folk are inscrutably annoying to the former, and the fact that the former are annoyed is inscrutably annoying to the latter. So everybody thinks that most of the people in the world are like them, when it's really because they simply refuse to associate with the people who are not.

If you're a founder, the best way to harness this dynamic is to be "strict with what you output but lenient in what you accept." Always show up to your appointments on time, but carry a smartphone or something with you so you can do something productive and not get too annoyed when a person is late. That will let you interface with the greatest number of people, which exposes you to the greatest number of opportunities.

I'd further venture that each of these styles correlates with other traits that are desirable in an organization. Lateness correlates with creativity and deep problem-solving ability; someone who is "in the zone" solving a tricky problem is very likely to lose track of time and miss their next appointment. Punctuality correlates with planning and organizational skills; someone who can manage their own time is far more likely to be able to manage somebody else's. I suspect that Larry's culture change is because the needs of Google as a large company are very different from Google as a startup - the culture was driving away planning & organizer types who are very necessary for coordinating the work of hundreds of people. And the cost of that is that the new, more rigid culture drives away creative types, which is why so many recent products (outside of X and acquisitions) have been ho-hum.
Getting webmaster tools data right in the article editor would be interesting. Or warnings/alerts from the webmaster tools entity directly in the wp dashboard.
Government and Apple Settle Children’s App Purchase Inquiry
> There was a lot of discussion but it was generally polite

Except where everyone called for him to be fired, and publicly slandered and demonized him on Twitter, github, HN, and in blogs.

But apart from that, yes, a model of civility.
Exactly. Getting hired for a normal salaried job can easily involve an hour or two in phone screens, and then basically a whole workday in on-site interviews. An hour for a contract position seems completely reasonable.
The thing is, there are real psychological effects that come from your beliefs. For example, it's well established that wine tastes better when you think it's more expensive. Likewise, audio really does sound better when you're using what you merely think is better equipment.

If you think about this stuff as changing the physical sound, it's completely bogus. If you think about it as changing the subjective experience of hearing the sound then it works for some people.

And that, to me, is a really interesting point: anybody who would buy this stuff is automatically in the category of people for whom it can actually work. Those of us who recognize that the "science" behind it is complete crap won't get any benefit from it, but we won't buy it either.
4 Ways to Tame the Mongrel Internet of Things
I wonder how long it will take for there to be a chinese clone of the tech as soon as they are in China? My guess, less than 2 years.
> Agile is not something you can follow to the letter, like you said it's a bunch of processes that help you succeed.

Agile is not a bunch of processes. Agile is a philosphical orientation that guides how you do work, including selection and evaluation of processes in light of current team and mission.
Can someone name the type of wordpress theme used in the google plugin screen shots? Looks like a nice theme!
I wonder if there was more to it than "he felt bad". I wonder if there was pressure from his employer or the community (you know, death threats, million hate emails, etc)
Well your eye sight is way better than mine. Metro apps are almost usable, the desktop is barely usable (I have to walk over to the set, and that's with the text size increased. I have a very small (not titchy) living room.
In a slightly related story, our CMS team believes that there's a problem unique to PNG files that prevents them from being stored in alfresco.
...that might have been an argument almost 25 years ago, but the NATO continues to exist while the Soviet Union is long gone, and its questionable if that's for the benefit of the worlds population.
If you're storing passwords on disk, you're going to use something like bcrypt (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bcrypt).

The way it generally works is you keep a user's encrypted pass with a unique per-user salt stored on disk (usually in a database of some sort). When you need to authenticate a user, your script will ask the user for their password. Then, you encrypt this input pass with the stored salt. Finally, you compare the encrypted input pass with the original encrypted pass on disk. If they match, you're good. At no point do you store passwords on disk that have not been encrypted (via bcrypt or similar). Depending on the security needed (i.e. your threat model and risk) this can get tricky if things like hibernation or virtual machines are involved.

If you're confused at all about this, I would browse the security forums (http://security.stackexchange.com/) and ask for expert advice.
Hence the word "generally". That was a vocal minority, on the comments linked at least. The person who did it got called out from people on both sides. I can't comment on the rest of the places.
Yeah it's hard but fundamentally important. I think it's really difficult for such a system to be as valuable as closed source in terms of audit-ability (encryption is worthless if product is backdoored) and application development. I don't have the answer as to what would incentivize anyone to create such a system but it wouldn't be the first piece of important open source infrastructure that has been created.

Space Monkey looks really interesting but I agree that this isn't something that is going to perform well running on residential internet connections. It also doesn't look like there is anything like non-explicit sharing (i.e. public files) which I think is an essential part of a distributed data store because it would be a boon for small-time publishing (no more web servers!).
The next one up does http://www.monoprice.com/Product?c_id=113&cp_id=11307&cs_id=...
Man arrested with $153,000 cash in suitcase at Nashville airport
shadowrun returns got released, and wasteland got released as a early access beta. At least they could have tried to profile the year a bit more, having one gaming session, one innovation session etc.

kickstarter in more than that crappy ouya console.
the MAD is more intuitive

Which one, the mean average deviation or the median average deviation?
He did make a lot of money in 2008 as well. That is completely aside from the fact that his points would be valid regardless of how successful his individual investments have been.

I am not sure what would convince you otherwise though, since it seems like you have made up your mind already. Please loosen up on the snark.
Also, unlike a programmer, a carpenter can't simply copy+paste work that someone else did and claim it as his own. It's a lot harder to fake tangible work in real life than it is to fake intangible work on the internet.
Acknowledged - I added a few words about this to the end of the post.
> ah ok, so what is the recommendation for storing password in a scripting language like
> Ruby, Python, RingoJS, NodeJS, PHP, etc? Don't think they have fancy function to determine to store the variables in CPU register or encrypted memory?

You shouldn't need to store passwords (or any sensitive info) in memory. In fact, you shouldn't store passwords at all. Normally, you would put the password in memory temporarily (for hashing or something), and then you would securely wipe it when you are done.

Failure to wipe memory (or use it improperly) can have awful consequences. IIRC, that was how the Target hack worked. Basically, the attackers were able to search through memory and dump credentials.

You should use wrappers for trusted/vetted libraries (like Crypto++ or something). I know for a fact that Crypto++ has a concept of "secure buffers", whose contents are securely erased before destruction. All libraries of that sort should wipe any sensitive information from memory (by overwriting it with garbage or zeroes) before freeing it.

That particular library probably does not have wrappers for other languages. However, GnuTLS and OpenSSL probably do.
NNT is my intellectual superhero but the amount of hate he gets is tremendous.

Please understand that NNT's biggest issues are not so much with the way statistical models are applied to economics and finance, but how social scientists sometimes feel compelled to apply them to social fields as well, which is plain unscientific, dumb, and mostly disastrous.

So when you bear down on his arguments, please keep this context in mind.
OS X has never used Display Postscript (partly because they probably didn't want to pay license fees to Adobe and partly because in a composited environment with client-side rendering there's no need to marshal drawing commands into text that looks like Forth). The OS X UI is full of bitmaps that had to be redrawn for retina.
> I can't help thinking that if, 20 years ago, Microsoft had struck a deal with the major ISPs to prioritise packets being downloaded to Internet Explorer over those being downloaded to Netscape browsers, Marc would have had a very different take on net neutraliy.

Interesting point. However, imagine if regulators had dictated the web browser as a "common carrier" and defined exactly what it can and can't do, we might never have had all of the new tech that makes the modern web so much better than the IE5 days.
I'm always fascinated by how willingly we discriminate against the less intelligent (at least down to a certain threshold).

Few people would ever say something like, "if you're that blind, you deserve to not be able to read books". But what's the difference, really?

I'm not claiming to be better, here. I do the same sort of thing myself. But I find it very damned weird that we've decided this one attribute is acceptable to discriminate against, while so many others are not.
Agreed, probably the biggest for us is IM logs actually.

Usefully searching and organising email is an open problem - there is probably considerable scope here for improvement and I'm sure enterprises would pay lots for some kind of meaningful email discussion trend mapping.
This is pretty common, and there's certainly a wave of open source software based companies currently. Definitely a tricky thing to navigate, of course.

Typically I find it works best when the company is very clear about which areas they feel should be open source and which areas they will be monetizing. Its the ambiguity and loss of trust that creates tension.
I'm still not sure if I was reading something like The Onion.
Ladyada talks to President Obama about patent reform [video]
Or does it exist in places where medical care is cheap or free (Canada or the UK)?
This. After the first 1.5 year I had nothing to show because the products either didn't launch, or were software for companies internal usage. So I would have been happy to do that. And since it's paid at the full rate, what's the problem?
"to within about a percent a year is pi times ten to the seventh"

The way to remember that is "pi seconds in a nanocentury"
Oh my god, give it a rest, man!

https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=dclara
And the production version still makes ridiculous legacy distinctions like...

You're ignoring context, which is a fundamental design decision in Perl. That's like criticizing C for having pointers while ignoring the design decision to expose memory as a flat space.
Wouldn't the inclusion of Thunderbolt (similar concept to Firewire) make that some sort of attach still possible?
It's possible, but you have to veer sharply off into the surreal. Things like claiming the cable ripped a hole through the fabric of space-time, Elvis popped through said hole, then personally endorsed the cable.

Satire is better when it has some air of plausibility, but as you said, audiophiles have already taken up all the material there.
yes, but we are talking about digital cables. big difference.
>>It's become common practice in many US states

I think it's unfortunately down to the incessant anti-tax rhetoric in the US. It's a lot easier to get a private company to finance a toll-road with a concession agreement than it is to pass bond measures or increase taxes.
People don't properly use prescribed medication. I see no indication that the takers of fish-drugs are leading the charge on this one
Immigration Hacking: Solving Immigration puzzle for foreign-born Entrepreneurs
It also helps to build a list of people who have something to hide ;-)
Hence numbers stations: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numbers_stations
I don't really understand the fear. The Compuserves and Prodigys of the world died because they weren't open and it didn't take a government dictate to kill them.
The best example of this kind of crazy thinking is the massive volume of articles you'll get from the audiophile community about how Blind AB audio test are flawed because when they do the test blinded they can't hear the difference between the expensive and the cheap components but when they do the test unblinded they can instantly hear the difference.

It's funny every time.
I was a long-time m0n0wall user on the Soekris platform but switched to pfSense running in a VM under ESXi last year because the little Soekris just couldn't keep up with modern home internet speeds. In the end, it was a very positive change and I wrote a blog entry on the somewhat peculiar hardware setup that I chose to replace the little Soekris:

http://output.chrissnell.com/post/39550480075/the-jack-of-al...
We do something similar if we are hiring a remote freelancer. Although first thing we look for is github code, then we do a short call, and then if that all looks good we do a 10 hour paid task. We then scale the work up from there with larger and larger tasks as our trust in them grows, because, as we've found, the hardest part of hiring freelancers is getting people that can reliably deliver. You don't want to give someone a too large task initially because the risk of them not delivering is too high and you need to know that you can cover the work if necessary.
I wonder if there is a correlation between religious people and audiophiles.
BlackPhone and PrivateOS Now A Reality - Stop The NSA From Monitoring
> The guy is a vile idiot of the worst kind: ignorant and aggressive.

Your comment is a bit irritating. I don't know the author of this blog post but I think he has a couple of valid points.
You seem to dislike him for some other reasons. Feel free to share them. The blog post is still perfectly reasonable.

Anyway, I agree some of your comments as well, namely this:

> I can give hundreds when std dev is useful and mean deviation isn't. Anything when you decide what % of yoru bankroll to bet on perceived edge for example.

and this:

> Guess what though, taking the squares have a purpose: it penalizes big deviations so two situations which have the same mean deviation but one is more stable have different standard deviations.

But I don't see why this comment from N.T. is stupid:

>>>It is all due to a historical accident: in 1893, the great Karl Pearson introduced the term "standard deviation" for what had been known as "root mean square error". The confusion started then: people thought it meant mean deviation.

I actually agree that standard deviation is a confusing name, why do you think that's a stupid comment?
How do you choose the angles at which you send the beams and the number of beams? It appears to be somewhat random, even though I'm sure it's not.
You know many countries are working on giving the internet natural right status.

If the net wasnt neutral there would be no google we'd all be stuck using yahooor dogpile. The net and all its services would look a lot more like cable was begining to. I find it hard to take anyone seriously when they are defending companies that would have you pay in the blood of your first born if they could get away with it. You think the net would have gone mainstream? You think that facebook would exist? Amazon?

The world has changed with open unfiltered acess to the internet, anything trying to lock it down and monopolise the network transmissions at a base level is incredibly unethical and an attack on so many parts if your life now.

Its too much of a burden on carriers to be regulated like they should be? Fuck me man, its too much of a burden on the world at large not to.

The fcc needs to call them carriers, be done with it, fix the pricing, fix the dodgy dealing and if need be deregulate the issues that seem to be getting isps in such a huf.
>You wouldn't ask a carpenter to make you a closet before you decide if you want to hire them, you look at the other houses they've created[...]There's a lot of crappy carpenters out there, and it feels like I've worked with them all

The author is saying you could have avoided working with any of the crappy carpenters, if you had paid them to make something dead simple in an hour as part of evaluating them.
There's nothing wrong to focus on NPM.

Take a look at Maven[http://maven.apache.org] and Sonatype[http://www.sonatype.com/] (dependency management in Java-land).

Works awesomely (and maybe even better!).
Will Student Loans Stay With You Until You Die?
> I get the feeling (and please tell me if I'm reading too much into this) that you take exception to the pull request and what many people would call political correctness.

Not the grandparent, but I don't take objection to things like gender-neutral pronouns (I try to do it myself if I can incorporate it in a way that doesn't make the sentence feel weird). I don't know how easy it is for someone in his position to merge things on Github, how important following protocol is etc...

But what leaves a bad taste in my mouth is when someone does something that can be interpreted in a malicious manner, someone interprets in that (worst kind of) manner, and then dozens of people fuel the fire with "I am outraged, too!!!" without adding anything more to the issue or debate. Then by the time the 'offending party' gets around to respond, the damage has already been done, the slander has already spread like a wildfire, and everyone has already made up their mind about what went down based mostly on wild speculations from third parties from one or the other (or third) sides.
True, but given my limited antibiotics exposure (I just haven't had to take them much), the chances of getting a resistant bug from someone else are much higher than my getting a resistant bug from nature (which I have limited exposure to now).

I probably could have phrased it better. Blame lack of coffee.
I assume you heard about status consumption. The fact of paying $700 (and people around knowing it) may be the enjoyable thing; for some it's even worth the $700.

The buyer might even never need to plug the cable in :)
IANAL. They can do the homework in their free time, but they can most probably not get paid for it.
http://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/part-time-work-multip...
Microsoft on the threshold of deleting ‘appalling’ Windows 8
You should contact me (see my profile). We're always looking for remote devs and we have a pretty good reputation at this point for how we work with remote developers.
Penny Stock Nestor Surges 1900% Because People Confused It With Nest
> Can you hear it? Who knows.

There's no "who knows" about it. The change in output due to changes to the signal on the cable is well understood.

The reason this sort of thing is considered to be ridiculous is not because the signal on the cable can't change. As you say, it's all analog at the bottom. However, with a digital system, any change is either corrected in the receiver or shows up as a massive error. That is to say, you never get subtle errors. You either get perfect data transmission, or you get a horrible glitch that even the most tone deaf person can hear.
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Oh no, nothing so prosaic as that. (For the record I am in favor of making a [good!] living via open-source software.) The scam is this:

I believe that Node.js is waaay too immature to be used as a foundational technology, yet so many people (both folks who should know better and their naive followers) are trumpeting it as a great wonderful thing, pushing it hard as hell.

If you really need dynamic programming on your back-end server use Twisted. Twisted.

If you just said "but my engineers only know JS!" reflect: you have people that won't or can't learn Python but who feel okay about writing your back-end code.

Fire them and hire a real programmer.

Toys are very fun, and I would never try to take that away from anyone, but (in my opinion) there are waaay too many people pushing Node for production work that should know better, and that's the scam.

Node is not ready for the position which people are hyping it for, and (again in my opinion) if you are telling your non-tech-savvy clients or students that they should learn and use Node because it is ready for prime time then you're lying to them or simply naive and misguided.
Modern CPUs have a lot of cache these days. Couldn't the keys be store there are well (assuming the threat is just the removal and reading of RAM)?
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