skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The top rated comment and its subsequent discussion are golden:

I am a retired sound engineer who spent a lifetime in major sound studios and I can state categorically that there wasn't a one cable in all those recording studios that cost more than a dollar or so per foot. Keep in mind that I'm talking about recording studios that cost in the millions and where the search for the right sound is an obsession.
A cable's only function is to carry what goes in one end out to the other. To talk about the sound altering effects of cable is heresy. They can't and they don't. It's marketing hype.
I'd prefer him alive too, so he can keep making amazing products.
I also didn't know everyone in japan would think that perfection = quality. That really is a revelation to me. And if you ask everyone in Korea, they'll tell you new = quality. They are kind of related culturally, yet they are radically different.

I actually asked a Korean man the same question maybe 20 years ago, and he told me that he thought quality product meant "well crafted." Maybe because he was americanized in some way by watching American movies, etc.?
You sir, are a gentleman & a scholar.
Replying as discussion originally seemed to be about first/last/profile picture privacy.

The scenario is: you are not able to get into your rightful facebook account but you know some information (phone, email) that is associated with it. If you are coming from a semi-trusted computer/ip/browser/etc that has a history of being associated with your account Facebook displays some public information about that account to ensure one doesn't try to recover the wrong account. The posts here about people getting differing results when hitting this endpoint with other peoples information are a result of these factors.

Important note: If a user you are initiating a recovery for has their "who can look me up" privacy setting set to "everyone" then we will always display such information for that user. That setting discussed a bit more here: https://www.facebook.com/help/www/131297846947406

Hope that clears things up, this is one of the most common false positives we get via our bug bounty program and I certainly see how it can be alarming at first.
The POS systems that I've observed in a standard retail setting have three main components: the printer for receipts, the main terminal (POS system) in which items are scanned (which runs the Windows XP for POS), then the credit card reading machine for CC payment processing. So in this context, the POS device is the cash register.
Tenants in England do have a lot of rights (for example a tenant can only be evicted by a court) but these aren't tenants, they're "licensees" who do not have any of the legal protections afforded to tenants. You raise an interesting point though, and according to this article there are potential conflicts between these arrangements and the law that may eventually lead to court involvement: http://www.landlordlawblog.co.uk/2013/03/11/property-guardia...
Zach King's 'Magic' Vine Compilation
Rhodia pads and Lamy pens.
Yeah, the key words in the title are "security products": "antimalware engine and signatures".
Probably what Paul Graham means by "formidable."

http://paulgraham.com/convince.html
If you are interested in relatively fresh photos of everyday Somali, you could look at reports of famous Russian traveller and designer Artemiy Lebedev:

http://tema.ru/travel/somaliland-1/

http://tema.ru/travel/somaliland-2/

http://tema.ru/travel/somaliland-3/

http://tema.ru/travel/somalia/

English versions of this reports are available, switcher is in top right corner.
I wonder, wouldn't it be useful to hide keys to encrypted container in some other type of memory, say videocard memory or processor caches?
Show HN: erd - generates an entity-relationship diagram from plain text
Well clearly they need to send more balloons. So everyone gets arrested.
Heh, the machines still running XP in corporations are likely doing so because of the applications. If they were going to move to Linux, they'd just upgrade to Windows {7|8}.
1/3 of registered SF cabbies switched to Uber, Lyft or Sidecar in the past year
Disable/uninstall Adobe * and Java. Don't configure a default gateway on it and force all traffic through a proxy (on the local subnet). You're probably good.
The Rise of the Hardware Startup
On their face these WoodEgg books look very attractive. I having been toying with the idea of setting up a company elsewhere than Australia, and would be very interested in an in-depth survey.

Anyone who owns one care to share their thoughts?
They didn't say they wouldn't hire each other's employees, just they wouldn't actively recruit top talent from each other. I don't see what's wrong with that. Top employees can still apply on their own.
Even if we were free thinking individuals, able to make rational decisions on our own, we base those decisions on past events and the current situation. So even if you get to choose, you'd probably make the same rational choices as long as your past experience and the environment is the same.

This would be true one second ago, and a second ago this would be true about the second before that.
China's pirates turn their backs on wearable tech
Do you have links to source code that practices this? It'd be very helpful to learn by example. Thanks!
Fly like a bird: The V formation finally explained
This is common in Amsterdam too. I have a friend in this situation and she has had to move 10 times in 7 years. The rent is damn cheap though; something like 150 EUR/month.
However earnest, such efforts always end up being a narrow perspective which when successful becomes even more dangerous as then the one persons stereotype becomes an 'accepted fact' (case in point the Indian head nod references, What!)

The only way to do this would be to avoid being your culture centric and wherever you go start with respect for that culture and then open your eyes, ears and mind as the first step

During business visits to Europe, I have had Indian colleagues who cringed up their faces short of vomiting at the sight of a rare beef steak and have had European colleagues come and track down that 'cow on the road photo shoot' as their first biz agenda.

Now that is not the right start and it does not need a book to tell you that you have to respect others way of life.
Towards the end of the film, they come to the conclusion that even though the collective mindset of NK citizens is changing, it won't necessarily result in a cultural revolution. It seems the primary thing keeping real change from happening is that North Koreans can't trust their family friends to not turn them in, and if they do somehow know who to trust, they can't gather in groups to talk or organize any activities.

This seems like a technical problem, no?

What would a "social network" (for lack of a better term) look like that enabled citizens to feel each other out and establish a network of trusted individuals? Could it be made resilient to breaches? That is, if one person were to divulge their communications with the state, how could the damage be limited?

It wouldn't even have to enable communication outside the border. It would be a boon if all it did was to let insiders organize over the country's cell network.
Iterative testing and lessons in humility
Are you saying that "quality" has no "taste" of newness in it?

"Newness" being an especially desirable trait in Korea is a separate trait (and interesting enough in itself).
If Wikipedia is to be believed, a conspiracy doesn't require secrecy: "Conspiracy has been defined in the US as an agreement of two or more people to commit a crime... A conspiracy does not need to have been planned in secret to meet the definition of the crime." (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conspiracy_%28crime%29#United_...)
Here's a similar appearance by Vernor Vinge: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v407/n6805/full/407679a...
Instead of lowering SNR with a rude comment, just stop reading.
Gabe Newell jumps on Reddit
Paying teachers more won't magically make them better teachers. I have been told by experts that there is strong evidence that better teachers achieve better results for students. From this it follows that if there were a way to identify potentially good teachers, it would make sense to attract these people by offering higher salaries.

But that would involve hiring different people (who would probably demand higher salaries), not paying existing teachers more.

The fact is that some people are more valuable than others. Not in an existential sense, but in the sense of how much their labor is worth the market.

Senior management are a special case. I think many of them are people with exceptional ability, but it is harder to argue that their wages are "market wages" because they tend to determine their own salaries. There are many market frictions that are particular to the shareholder-manager relationship. These might potentially allow senior management to extract "economic rent" i.e. wages that are beyond the value they produce.
Well I missed the memo... InfoSec on StackEx
bluecalm says:

"What an assertion! It also proved to be very useful for hordes of scientists... what about some examples of confused scientists?"

How about every single economist and financial analyst who failed to predict the financial crashes of the last 50 years? Did you realize how much money was lost over the last 50 years by the financial industry's reliance on models that improperly use the standard Gaussian bell curve? Taleb pointed out why the Gaussian is not usually an appropriate model for financial analysis and suggested a return to more conservative models. Yet today Modern Portfolio Theory and the Black-Scholes models (which use the Gaussian) dominate in financial schools and institutions despite the fact that they absolutely utterly failed, not badly, but catastrophically in every financial crisis when they were most needed.

You state that "Standard deviation tells you how volatile measurements are". But Taleb shows how financial markets are non-Gaussian and have "fat tails" and gives the data and the supporting arguments.

bluecalm says:

"As someone who uses it daily I am eagerly awaiting his argument."

You're late! Taleb began publishing his arguments years ago and continues to publish. You're way behind. Read his papers and read his books in the following order:

Fooled by Randomness http://www.amazon.com/Fooled-Randomness-Hidden-Chance-Market...

The Black Swan http://www.amazon.com/The-Black-Swan-Improbable-Robustness/d...

Antifragile, http://www.amazon.com/Antifragile-Things-That-Gain-Disorder/...

BTW simply because someone's writing style is different does not mean that he is wrong. To me, complaining about a writing style is a form of ad hominem argument. People are different and Taleb is one-of-a-kind. Initially I didn't see where he was going, but once I realized that he was presenting ideas that were absolutely, utterly novel and had real explanatory power I sat up and paid attention. If you read for the facts and the valid arguments you will see that Taleb delivers the goods.
Well, it's not #1 and getting consistently upvoted more than anything else on hacker news at the moment for no reason at all.

So it's probably a revelation to most people and very relevant to all programmers.

If you go to:
http://www.sachitgupta.me/

you'll find someone in marketing and generates leads. that's probably coincidental since most people on hacker news are in marketing.

I don't think you should be curious why this is #1.
I wonder if this will also make it cheaper.
For a portable firewall/router, I use a cubieboard running OpenBSD. It has a USB to DC cable that powers the device (no hdd attached) and runs LTE sticks fine. Costs $50 and runs a complete install to run Tor or whatever you want. Right now I have it running pf filtered VLANs to segregate devices, an authenticated AES wireless hotspot and Jondonym mix, which I tunnel all traffic through including Tor and i2p traffic. That way the local wireless carrier who you're using doesn't see any tor traffic.
If Japanese hated asymmetry then why was Yumi - an asymmetrical bow the choice weapon for he world famous Samurais

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

Generalism may help paint ourselves into nice little circles for easy digestion by our brains but let's at least give it a fight :-)
the tendency to quickly label and dismiss said advice is probably a bias itself.

That's a good point, and I definitely have this tendency.

On the other hand, I don't think a list like this is that helpful. With as much experience as Sam Altman has, I'd prefer to see him do deep dives into particular items on the list, with an attempt to establish causality between the item on the list and the success of a particular company within a particular context.

Why did this particular strength help this particular company at this particular time in its lifecycle, facing this particular environment? Has that strength proven a weakness in a different context?

That seems more useful to me than, effectively, "Be tough, be smart and care a lot", which is great advice, but not something anyone with passing familiarity with startups doesn't already know.
So, does this mean I am asking the wrong question? Are AMIs less relevant now that we have containers?

My sense was Docker was the future, but AMIs are the present. Perhaps that is wrong?
(google employee here)

One thing I have always wondered is if the raises Google employees received in 2011 were a result of the illegal collusion being uncovered and therefore no longer depressing salaries. The timing seems about right.

For reference: http://www.businessinsider.com/google-bonus-and-raise-2010-1...

(It was much more than 10% by the way, and by far the biggest raise I've ever received in my career)

It's beyond dispute that the raises were given for competitive reasons. (No, we didn't all get a raise because we were doing such a great job.) There was an uptick in Googlers leaving.

I suppose some of it had to do with Facebook, which was NOT part of the collusion. But I wonder how related the two events are, and if this issue will come up in a future class action lawsuit.

It's a pretty unprecedented event to give all employees at an enormous company such a big raise. A sudden shift in the job market caused by this defunct agreement could explain it.
Rich man's ghetto?

Give me a break, we have to look to really the bottom rung classes of 3rd world countries to find people unable to scrape enough money together over a decade to buy half-decade old hardware needed to run a copy of Vista they would inevitably pirate.

Anyone in a first world country with internet access can find old PCs capable of running more than XP on craigslist or the local equivalent for literally a couple of dollars. Anybody without internet access won't be getting any support anyway.

Seriously, machines from 2009 are half a decade old at this point, they are cheap as dirt.

You "need" XP for your games? Well fine, keep it around, but expecting free support for that is nuts. Talk about a first world problem...
On Facebook, there are granular privacy settings to control who can search for you by email/phone number if you choose to use them. They're accessed by going to facebook.com/settings (dropdown arrow @ top right), then "Privacy", then "Who can look me up?" ...the analogy would be opting to have an unlisted phone number in the white pages back when they were printed on paper and arrived on your front doorstep.
Thanks so much for creating SelectorGadget! I used it a lot when scraping some fanfiction and Wikipedia data.
Oops, I linked the wrong board!

Fubarino SD chipKIT
http://fubarino.org/sd/index.html

Little bit better ;)

It's only for prototyping to be honest, I'm likely to end up wiring up my own PCB with the chips myself, to give me more flexibility in shape and speed, but for now this will do to get it started!
The route of proxying the web page presents much difficulty in doing actual authentication on Facebook or Google's website via the proxied webpage without first rewriting most of the javascript and hijacking their Ajax calls on the fly.

The approach I took was to hijack the Cookies from the browser once the user has signed in after on e.g. Facebook via the browser extension.

The route of proxying the website does in fact do away with the need to install any external 3rd libraries.

This browser extension I built coupled with the web service its integrated to does allow for scraping of pages from Facebook, Google and LinkedIn logged in pages as well.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/krakeio/ofncgcgajh...
It is, as long as you keep in mind that the hardware is weak and the OUYA controller is complete trash.
New Hampshire House Votes to Legalize Marijuana
That reminds me of Feynman's Thesis and his (failed) attempt to build his Feynman's Radio...
Also, interesting discussion here, on Free State Project facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=666691373374112&set=...
What do I even begin googling to find this in my city? Toronto.
Well, no.

I'll restate again: Economic Freedom gives you, the individual, the freedom to pursue your own economic choices. That is the type of job you'd like to do, the type of business you'd like to start, how you'd like to spend your income.

It has zero to do with David vs Goliath, Corporation vs Individuals.

Case in point. Would you like to start a community bank, to better serve yourself and your local community? Have you got the freedom from regulations to do so?

Regulations, as we all know, are often written by lobbyists and passed by politicians. Frequently these regulations are designed to entrench power and escape from competition.

Let's look at a common discussion point on this site - Uber. High economic freedom means you're free to start your own Uber-like service. You're free to create a car service, and free as a consumer to purchase a ride from them. Low economic freedom means there are barriers from either starting the company or buying it's products. From such freedoms springs economic growth. Entrepreneurs require economic freedom so that they can find new paths, so that they can pivot around looking for the right business model.

That is why it has nothing to do with 'big vs small' or anything like that. Regulations do not make you free.
Everyone in Japan would say quality was equal to perfection, so I'd probably say nobody in Japan is a Samurai anymore who needs a bow.
Sigh. Another facile "ooh, different language/cultures are so very different" story, coating a nugget of truth in a thick layer of bullshit. Having lived in the US, Japan and Singapore, rest assured that in any of these, a washing machine (or car or mobile phone or...) that falls apart in a week is considered low quality, regardless of how new (Korea), shiny (Japan) or expensive (China) it looks. Sure, each of those three cultures has those preferences for appearance and you'll need to take that into account for design and marketing, but material quality (Jp. 品質 hinshitsu, Ch. 品质 pinzhi) still means exactly that everywhere: how well it's built to spec, how long it lasts, etc.

Also, I am completely not buying that story about somebody refusing a dented shipping container just because it's dented. Think about it for a second: if somebody offered you a shipping container full of goods, and said giant metal box looked like it had fallen from a crane, would you buy it? Hell no, at least not without inspecting every piece inside for damage and a hefty discount for my troubles.
Looks like "Story of Your Life" is going to be made into a movie.
http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/10/ted-chiang-story-of-your-li...
Ok, first you write that "wages come from the value a person produces."

Then you write "it's hard to find examples of high wage workers who aren't in some sense unionized."

And then you again add something completely contradictory.

But I do agree with you. I would say that tech workers are underpaid. Google has revenue per employee of $931,565. Most of that is profit. Is the average compensation per Googler anywhere near that?

Why shouldn't Googlers form a union and take lets say an average $500,000 per employee? Right now, Googlers get paid free-market wages that are a fraction of the value they add to the company.
The "culture shock" series is pretty good too, aimed more at people who actually move to the country.

The difficulties with books like this are 1> they age quickly 2> they are hard to generalise (books of the same length for the Netherlands and India will have wildly different levels of resolution) and of course the authors will be different.

This wood egg approach seems like a reasonable way to deal with the latter.

I've lived in five countries the only general statement I can make is that people are the same everywhere, and completely different as well.
You could try doing IP address rotation by rotation EC2 instances or some other cloud services.

I wrote a library for that.

https://github.com/KrakeIO/resque-my-aws
In high school I used Facebook to share photos with friends and comment on them. Similar to what people use Snapchat and Instagram for now.
Touché? What if I came to America and tried to start a...liquor store? Where you can buy a bottle of vodka at 90 percent off, compared to clubs? Totally novel, right? Unthinkable.

Most people buy at liquor stores to take to a social event. That reinforces the story's point, not contradicts it.

Liquor stores don't compete with clubs on price, they compete with each other and other sources of take-away alcohol.
Flu medicine has caffeine because often people unknowing go through caffeine withdrawal unknowingly while they have the flu. Excedrin has it because people with headaches often just hadn't had their fix recently enough. Headaches are one of the major things a day or two after stopping.
HTTPS is definitely a problem for proxy servers unless you the proxy server rewrites all the URLs in the html pages loaded as well as all the URLs of the Ajax calls to point back to the proxy server.
A very good book about this topic:

The Supermen: The Story of Seymour Cray and the Technical Wizards Behind the Supercomputer

http://www.amazon.com/The-Supermen-Seymour-Technical-Superco...

It's a great book about Seymour Cray (biography) that details all his work. He was one of the very best, a real hero. Sadly he died in a car accident in the nineties.
Have you tried therapy?
How much hand holding do we need to do, here?

I don't know who "we" would be in this case, but in general, I'd like to see enough hand holding that everybody can use encryption safely and confidently without having to be cpercival or tptacek.
Quote: As software eats the world, every sort of engineering (and indeed, every sort of profession organized along lines suggested by the physical sciences, including fields like medicine) is becoming effectively a branch of computer science.

This is sort of what I've been thinking for a long while that in essence (being able to write) software truly is the new literacy. In a sense scribes ("pure programmers" with no additional domain skills) are being also deprecated day by day.
I wonder if they ever rent office buildings to startups. Or entire families or groups of people.
I'm from Australia, but couldn't resist not seeing this. I used a free US VPN to watch it ;)
Nokia Normandy Android Phone In More Leaked Pictures
Besides pagination, you might want to handle nested pages as well as deep linking too.

https://krake.io/docs/define-data#next_page_object
Cusoy: A Postmortem
Django select_related: Displaying related table data in a template
See my other reply, but the only 'more powerful other' that has the ability to remove your economic freedom is a government. A large corporation cannot remove your ability to change jobs, spend your income how you like or start up a new business unless they do it through the government.

Microsoft or Apple can't prevent me from starting up a new company or buying some other product unless they get the government to regulate my other choices out of existence - which means they can only harm me by decreasing my economic freedom. The exact opposite to what people seem to be trying to say here.