skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Something that wasn't really covered here but I think might be important is culture. If we were to jump back 6 or 8 years ago, most of us would want to work for google because of their whole "not being evil" schtick, as well as the amazing campus and all the money. But with every little thing that happens, when you realise that Google (like a lot of companies, granted) is in it for the money, one might become a bit less excited.

I think a decent amount of good software engineers has a fairly strong ethical code, and would rather not make deals with the devil. Some companies (Google was one of them) seemed to make their deal about making the best services in the long term, and not about making things about money.

I remember watching a talk about the history of OpenSolaris. Including the absolutely mythical phrase "Don't make the mistake of anthropomorphising Larry Ellison."(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zRN7XLCRhc#t=2298)
But after that comment he goes into the very sad details of how OpenSolaris ended up becoming closed source by Oracle. After this , many many very competent engineers left Oracle almost immediately(within 90 days). The talk is worth listening to (it's about 3 minutes after the Ellison jab), and the guy giving the talk gets extremely emotional about it. The power of the social contract with the OSS community was extremely strong.

No matter how much money you can give, a lot of people end up following ethical and moral rules. I'd think Corporate culture is about 75% of software engineer's decision of where to work.
What a facile view of the world.

EDIT: Not Franklin's!
The US has the same, except it doesn't work out so generously for the top ~2% of households (earning more than ~$500k/yr)
How much money do you reckon they saved on the laptop? How much is your time worth?
That would make sense if every miner immediately sold every coin he/she mined.
It is amazing that every time we use our own tool for some real purpose we find a shortcoming. Even after many years of development.

Our product is jotform, an online form builder. We probably create a form for our own use once a month or less. The last form we created was a survey for specific set of users. We found some problems on the sortable list widget and fixed it. http://widgets.jotform.com/widget/orderable_list
The hiring process at Google is affected by a lot of variables. But for senior engineers, the salaries + benefits (especially stock and bonuses) are definitely very competitive.

It's also much easier to negotiate a better deal if you have a competing offer from another firm. And doing extremely well on the interview process also helps, along with a strong track record or in-demand skill set (e.g. mobile development). This is generally applicable to the most tech companies, not just Google.

Disclaimer: I'm a hiring manager at Google.
I work for The Climate Corporation, and while I really like it, it really doesn't have a 40-45 hour a week culture right now.
Really? Only "altcoins"?

They have the exact same mechanics, structure, and backing as Bitcoin...
Primarily because you can reuse partial queries and add conditional where clauses more easily.

There are other features I haven't shown here as well, like building an IN expression with placeholders from a slice.
Free market does not mean death to bloatware, quite the contrary. One of the reason why we have bloatware is because a significant amount of population does not really care about it and even if they do they prefer bloatware over an expensive laptop. The bloatware helps vendors reduced the prices of their devices by $10 - $20 making it more competitive.
Will you still have faith in your local police and see them as a part of your community after the conduct a triple anal probe on you or your children and hand you with the invoice for the procedure?

While I generally support unions, the police fraternity mindset is troubling. There are no good cops as long as the blue code of silence is the de facto mode of operation.
Happy 40th birthday, Dungeons & Dragons
Supply is endless and turnover may be desirable.
Doesn't the phone needs to be rooted for that to work? And rooting normally voids the warranty.
I'm a bit confused here. On the bottom right, it says that the package contained a replacement keyboard, and not an actual laptop.
can vouch for this method. should advise that it has other caveats. buyer beware.
Another case worse than partially-hijacked trips was mentioned in a slashdot post, and if I recall correctly, there was a vague reference to the autonomous-car-makers considering it, and it has bothered me ever since.

Imagine a situation where a crash appears to the AI of car C1 to be be inevitable. But also, if C1 executes maneuver M1, its own occupants will be saved from harm, but another car C2 will have a worse crash or will crash when it otherwise would not - but if C1 does maneuver M2 instead, its own occupants will be killed or suffer worse harm, but the occupants of C2 will be better off. What if, in such a scenario, C1 would decide to "sacrifice" its own occupants to minimize the total harm (e.g., C2 has more occupants)?

Self-driving cars might well be designed this way. It might be mandated by law. Authorities would try to reassure objectors by saying the "avoidably killed by your car" outcome is very unlikely and that you're better off in the big picture of all risks.

Edit: On a closer reading I note that the linked page http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/10/the-et... covers, not exactly the above, but similar scenarios.
I lived in the New Orleans suburbs (metairie) and then Georgia. Neither place had any decent public transportation. Metairie at least had sidewalks something Georgia just does not have. I cannot safely walk to any store. I cannot even safely walk around my neighborhood. Cars own the roads and pedestrians have to move out of the way or get hit. I hate it.

Luckily I can afford a car, something that I can't imagine living without. I have friends that have lost jobs because their car broke down and they couldn't afford repairs. Then they don't have any job which leads to even more issues.
The point of a market is not for you to manipulate it. I don't wait to buy milk until I can amass enough capital to drive the price up.
You could use the conky-cli build (without the X dependency). You could then run it and pipe the output into some file that you serve statically. Hmmm may spend some time investigating.
Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by opaque logistics.
In the USA, there are laws in the way. You can't sign a contract with a hospital giving you the right to visit your partner. Not in practice.
No. Read your Wilkinson and Pickett.

Income inequality is what splits the country. It's what causes the divisiveness. Policies which promote income equality lead to a more harmonious and healthier society.

Wealth redistribution is the easy and correct solution to the poverty problem. It's been shown to get results where conservative and libertarian dogma have failed.
You could have had more users if your url was:

https://cloud.sagemath.com/new/jl ;-)
Great work Algolia!
I've been struggling with building a C++ library for astrodynamics simulations (anything involving the motion of objects in space) within my research group for the last four year. The biggest problem is that for our applications, performance-wise a lot of high-level languages just don't cut it (particularly MATLAB, which is pushed down our throat from freshman year onwards). After some deliberation (and before Python really caught my eye) I opted for C++. That unfortunately brings with it an incredibly steep learning curve for new students who typically aren't interested in programming, but just want to get to the fun space mission analysis stuff. As a result, the project has grown a lot, but interest is waning. Julia seems like the ideal blend between high-level and high-performance.

As a general question, is Julia Studio the best way to go about setting up a workflow? Or should I go with something like a Julia plugin for Sublime Text (which I believe exists). Or are there any other tools out there that make Julia dev straightforward?
All true. I wrote my OP under the assumption Snowden would still like to be pardonned/granted clemency and return home one day.

But if he has decided that is no longer a possibility, ever, and wants to devote the rest of his life to opposing the global surveillance state, then yes, hero indeed.
I guess it's like a pyramid scheme where everyone knows its a pyramid scheme and believes theyre close enough to the top that they'll still profit.
The American Dream is a logical fallacy. It has but only outcome which is self-destruction. How can the normal distribution exist without mediocrity and poverty?

What's truly disturbing how conservative politics can flourish so predominantly amongst the least likely to benefit from them[the south].
Confessions of a tech-zombie. Living constantly connected
But when that keyboard gets plugged into the motherboard of the laptop, it'll have an opportunity to install malware in the form of device drivers.
By this time next year, you could be 3D printing custom inserts for your shoes
World's oldest-known living cancer '11,000 years old'
Nice affiliate link. You should print that as a QR code onto a t-shirt and send it to Archive.org.
Good point, but an even better definition would take variance and risk of ruin into account. If you just look at expectation, then buying insurance would qualify as a gamble. I think most people would say it's more of a gamble to skip insurance.

Betting all your money on one hand of blackjack is a gamble, even if you've been counting cards and know the odds are in your favor. A casino spreading its money over millions of small bets is investing.
I wonder if meant 'PARC User Interface aka POOEY' ?
I don't get the "installing malware" part.

Every PC comes with malware already installed by most manufacturers. (Yes, if I have to spend time removing bloated stuff it's malware, I don't care if it's an "antivirus demo" or something like that)

Now, if it's a hardware detail, this is more interesting.
The regulation you mention here is certainly outdated NOW, but when it was passed it was a very pragmatic decision.

The anti-bloatware law is more than welcome, because competition keeps failing to reach the desired outcome. Regulations are exactly the right thing to do when competition and market fundamentally fails to reach what constitutes sanity, and converges to a local minimum.

Needless to say, such regulations should certainly be revisited when the root cause vanishes.
How Justin Bieber’s Troubles Exposed Twitter’s Achilles’ Heel
So many people seem to think that that's the dream that I've almost given up saying anything.

#3 and the Carlin quote from #2 probably make a good point: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=american%20dr...
Gee, I totally get somebody putting money into Bitcoin or mining Litecoin, but the rest are honest scamcoins (or at least - circuscoins). If you mine, then it's probably okay, although it still costs you real money (energy, hardware, opportunity cost, etc.), but to put money (fiat or bitcoins) into it - you need to be completely out of your mind!
I'm working on a mobile app right now and delight.io was one of the (many) services in my "try later, when we have a working app prototype" bookmark folder. Shame I won't be able to try it.

So maybe it's too late now, but I have some "feedback" or thoughts on the service and its offering.

- Pricing. Seemed really expensive to me at first, but thinking about it 3 hours of recording are quite much. Still, I never felt that the pricing was 'right'.

- Code vs. features vs. benefits. Oh great, I can paste some Objective-C to my app. I as a product manager don't care at all about that, developers do. I would care about what I can do with the lib, how the interface looks and how an intergration feels for the user. Can I comment the stream I get to persist my thoughts I have when watching it? How do I view them?

- Design and English. Bootstrap and unedited English are fine for a MVP or personal project. A real offering should have more. This certainly wouldn't have a been a dealbreaker for me, but still - it makes it much harder to just try a project.

- iOS only. I know you had to priotize, but for me this would have been a problem right now as we are Android first right now.

So I'm still very much interested in using a service like delight.io. A website that shows me how the recording looks for the user, what I as the customer see of the recording and how I can use it to gain real insight and generate change to my app could convince me.
Twitter does lead to emphasising banal commentary, with less space for nuance. Your comment, simple as it is, is 50% too long for twitter.
I think it's a valid concern. My knowledge of startup culture is very limited, so from what i read here, the usual desired outcome is an "exit" aka getting rich by selling the business. I think that is totally valid for social sites and other freebies, but not for infrastructure services. there is a lot of potential and great ideas in things like hosting, monitoring, crm/helpdesk software etc, and if you're not entering the market with an intention to last, you're actually playing in the hands of tech giants. They're asking a lot of money for crappy and downright ridiculous services (ever worked with e.g. HP Service Center or anything SAP), but give you planning reliability in exchange.
With the given startup mindset, you're yielding that market to tech giants.
> It is precisely these kinds of ripple effects that Stallman is concerned with: he would argue that by supporting LLVM the community set themselves up for a situation where Apple was able to later hoard valuable changes while still getting the benefit of an army of people fixing bugs in their compiler for free.

In the absence of LLVM apple would license/develop a closed source compiler. They would not use a GPLv3 GCC if they had to.
There's a wonderful book that an HN'er recommended a while back on a thread similar to this one called "Exit, Voice, and Loyalty" which is in essence precisely about this: what makes members of an organization (be it a company, country, or other) leave or stay.

Highly recommended reading.
Show HN: Get a ride with friends (and their friends) to the same party/event
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I built an Android app that shows you which Facebook friends (and their friends) are going to the same party/concert/conference as you. It then let's you chat to the other person so you can figure if you're splitting a cab or a ride.

The app was launched a week ago, and it's still very alpha (read: buggy). That said the app relies on partnerships with clubs for promotion and revenue.

I was wondering if the HN community has experience with 'B2C2B' apps.

I'd love some honest, sincere feedback this community is well known for.
> Xoring the username together is mostly a simple refinement so two passphrases entered for two different contacts or users does not result in the same secrets stored in their profiles.

I'm aware of that, but why do you xor the two usernames together instead of concatenate the two full addresses? So that even if two people on different trackers with the same username using the same shared secret contact the same third party, they don't generate the same key?

Edit: Also, why do you avoid asymmetric cryptography? For the same reason you're avoiding OpenSSL?
The things not taught in school
Worse: laptop keyboards are usually connected to a special embedded firmware (IIRC on my Clevo laptop it's called EC, short for embedded controller), which handles the FN+x key combos like LCD brightness, volume control, keyboard backlight (Lenovo!), WiFi/BT/cellphone-data connectivity, webcam enabling (!) and other detailed functions.

Now, if this EC chip is vulnerable, a malicious keyboard can have direct DMA access (just like FireWire controllers, EC is usually connected to the main PCI bus)... no need for drivers here.
Well, one solution to this is to have it show you the route in advance and have you confirm it (or even edit it first). If it picks an obviously suboptimal route, you know something's up. If Krispy Kreme is already on your optimal route, then too bad.

Basically, as long as the thing doing the navigating is also showing your the route it plans to take, then it can't pull any funny business like this without you noticing.
When I found H.L.Mencken, I was somewhat astonished at the essay "The Sahara of the Bozart".

A search will produce the text, and Lew Rockwell has a good piece about it here: http://www.lewrockwell.com/1970/01/gail-jarvis/h-l-mencken-n...
Litecoins's Wake up call or the 100, 000 Tree Project.
And imagine if the AI also rated the car occupants on their future value to society.
Thank you for the thoughtful response. To be honest, up till now I haven't heard of a suicide problem at MIT, Technion or TAU, but I wasn't exactly at the right circles anyway.

I wonder why doesn't the student body (here or at your place) rebel against this. At times I really want to grab one of the student representatives and suggest they do, but I know this will be the quick death of my academic career (not that chances are good as it is :-)
Rooting and flashing another firmware is an entirely different process!

Rooting usually involves setting a configuration flag, maybe hacking the bootloader, which is for most devices a point and click op. Flashing a firmware is "real" hacking compared to rooting!
My point is that I don't think it shows that, and just because the U.S. is such an "unequal" society. Moving from the 40th income percentile to the 20th in the U.S. represents a major absolute gain in income and presumably quality of life. I suspect it's not as dramatic a change in Denmark along either measure. To the survey, they're the same magnitude of change, and there's no accounting for the more impressive absolute change in the American case.
I think an advantage he had was time. Bill Gates does similarly well on his presentations from that era.

Unfortunately we don't have the chance to do 35 minutes presentations anymore. Now everyone has to squeeze their pitch into 30 seconds information-free commercials :)

How do you get meaningful ideas across if no one has the time to listen? Only the most superficial ideas can be put across in an elevator pitch.
As usual the media is about 3-4 years late in reporting. Startups have been the primary draw from Google since at least 2010, and the trend seems to be waning now. At the time the media was reporting that all Googlers were leaving for Facebook, which presumably is where they were all going in 2007. Among folks I know, the biggest exodus toward Dropbox was in late 2011 and early 2012.
Register Global has been depreciated since two versions ago and even completely removed since the last version. Follow your own posted link [1] and it says it right on top with a big ass banner.

>Other dynamic languages have similar risks but at least they don't have a history[1,2] of making completely stupid decisions when it comes to security.

Yes like Ruby and Active Records SQL injection debacle where Github was pwned and the developers din't seem to care?

I can't argue that PHP is better than other languages, but holding it to f*ck ups from over 5+ years ago, most of which have been fixed, is a low.

If you can find something vulnerable within this open source coded, then I happy to hear you out and would prefer that than your unregistered paranoia.

Also, sorry for being harsh but this kind of attitude just deters people from contributing to open source unless they follow the 'elite' practices of the hivemind.
Are you for real?

>A company in Mountain View is using San Francisco's public infrastructure for private purposes and not paying for the costs associated with that infrastructure.

You mean roads? Public roads, built to serve San Francisco citizens? Those roads?

And that theft that the despicable Mountain View company is committing involves providing a service for San Fran employees who would otherwise drive into work and congest the roads and pollute the air, or worse, not live in San Fran? It seems like the implication is that it's better that these engineering yuppies not live in San Fran. That's the subtext here.

>In essence the citizens of San Francisco are subsidizing the tax payers of Mountain View because of their unwillingness to create affordable housing and provide public transit that serves the needs of its workforce.

I really don't understand your mental gymnastics. How, under any reasonable interpretation, is it a negative for an upper-middle class young engineer-types, to choose to live in San Fran - pay San Fran property taxes, support local business by living and spending money in the area, as opposed to not. Your interpretation is insanity. Furthermore, you've got it all backwards as I've said. Those commuting San Fran engineers are paying municipal taxes. They are contributing to that city. They aren't contributing to Mountain View. They are a drag on that city. Every San Fran engineer is a drag on Mountain View, if anything. But that's why cities exist. To provide services like that because you're all part of the same fuckin country and the same fuckin state and the same fuckin region, and you're treating it like some sort of fuckin theft is happening from those foreigners 40 minutes away. Insanity.

San Franciscans really doesn't know how good they've got it.

//

I know there's an ideological reason why you're focusing on big evil Google. But it's actually San Francisco citizens that want to live in San Fran, and work at Google. Google doesn't care where they live. They would probably prefer their employees to live in Mountain View. It's San Francisco citizens that are choosing this.
Using Zurb Foundation with Padrino and Compass
Very nice but it seems to break the back button, if I type and search something it seems to query every letter and so when I go back, I have to do it for each letter I type, I think queries could be grouped smarter.

Thanks!

Good work!
I only intended to comment on the altcoins that are known scams, but draw investors anyway.

Imagine you started XorNotBux, announced you were planning to sell a billion of them in a few months, then inflated the price with a much smaller supply in circulation. Some people will buy this (and possibly profit) fully knowing that you plan to obliterate it in the near future.
That sounds like an unusual experience ;-)

To be fair, I get a lot of press releases, newsletters and bulk mailings. But there's really no excuse for Gmail to keep putting emails from, say, EE Press Office in spam when I take them out every time. (My account was an early beta.)
HEY, KIDS! Do YOU know what time it is?!

[wild audience applause]

THAT'S RIGHT, it's time for WHICH IS MORE LIKELY?!

[intro music]

Today on Which is More Likely?, we're looking at a replacement Lenovo Thinkpad keyboard that was shipped to Alexandria, Virginia, instead of Seattle, Washington. What a blunder! [slide whistle sound effect]

Now put your thinking caps on and ponder, WHICH IS MORE LIKELY?!

• The largest intelligence agency on the planet, recently outed by Snowden's leaked documents for operating a multi-decade worldwide dragnet that secretly gathered communications on hundreds of millions of people, was too incompetent to have the US Postal Service display tracking information that hides the fact they're modifying a laptop keyboard in order to somehow spy on a Tor developer.

ORRRRRRRRRR!

• The third-party seller who uses Amazon to accept orders screwed up and gave Amazon the wrong tracking number.

That's all we have time for on today's episode of Which is More Likely? Don't change the channel! Up next is a BRAND NEW episode of Godwin's Law and Order! Good night from Hollywood!

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37% chocolate seems real low for "semi-sweet." That is a typical percentage for milk chocolate.