skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Phoebus was indeed established in 1924 but:

1) There is a scientific basis for the 10.000 hours, the "greatest" achievement generally attributed to Phoebus[1]:

> For a supply voltage V near the rated voltage of the lamp:

Light output is approximately proportional to V 3.4
Power consumption is approximately proportional to V 1.6
Lifetime is approximately proportional to V −16
Color temperature is approximately proportional to V 0.42[88]

2) According wikipedia (and this page: http://www.uwcc.wisc.edu/icic/def-hist/history/famous.html )[2]:

> In the late 1920s a Swedish-Danish-Norwegian union of companies
(the North European Luma Co-op Society) began planning an independent
manufacturing centre. Economic and legal threats by Phoebus did not
achieve the desired effect, and in 1931 the Scandinavians produced and
sold lamps at a considerably lower price than Phoebus.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightbulb#Light_output_and_life...

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoebus_cartel#Demise
You reckon they'll be around in the next 4-5 years?
The biggest part of GTD which has really helped keep me organized and achieving my goals, is recognizing your memory can be fairly terrible at remembering things when it is important to remember them. So everything I need todo gets written down. Then I will stop stressing about my todo list and forcing myself to remember. He calls it "mind like water".

With this technique + kanban for my personal life (todos, open source projects, baby books, etc) my wife is 1000% happier.
Not really. This isn't any less insane than your average televangelist.
The modern cars I've driven with LCD dashboards (modern as in like MY2013) have all allowed screwing with everything while driving, even GPS. I remember when it wasn't allowed, but at some point they relaxed those rules?
To add to this, they're also dependant on Russia for trade. http://www.tradingeconomics.com/ukraine/balance-of-trade

The vast majority of trade Ukraine does is with Russia, so souring that relationship will spell economic doom for Ukraine. Unless the EU is willing to purchase more products from Ukraine than Russia while at the same time providing them with loans and cheap gas I don't see how a trade agreement with the EU is a good thing.

It's not like Yushchenko was able to get anything beneficial from the EU, why does anyone think Yatsenyuk, Klitschko or Tyahnybok will do any better (assuming any of them could even get elected splitting the vote in the west)?
Yes, you've been to Russia a couple of times and you've encountered a couple of Russian con men. That makes you an expert in all things Russian and gives you deep insight into Russian soul and Russian politics. And gives you the right to tell people who grew up there how it really is. I get it.
I could never get apachetop to work on Debian or Ubuntu. It displays the data all right, but doesn't respond to most of my keypresses, and it segfaults. Maybe related to its not having been updated since 2005 or so? It's too bad, because it promises to do exactly what I want.
He's talking about startups that try to be x for y for no reason besides that x and y are in fashion. His two counterexamples support your point.
Can't happen here soon enough.
Who the fuck cares? It's fucking dogecoin. It's the "slot machine" of cryptocurrencies.
Thanks, that's how it should be done. I don't care if the collection script is written in Python, Ruby, Node JS or Brainfuck; it shouldn't execute shell commands when it receives a HTTP request.
Except I'm not an American English speaker.

Anyhow, no "jerkishness" intended, this was mostly an observation after yesterday's thread "Where do you find the time for side projects?" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7117131 where many parents chimed in on how they squeeze family time here and there between working and juggling side gigs, great for them, but I could not do it without burning out, and I would owe it to my family not to risk that.

So long as I want to work long hours and risk my livelihood building things on the side and use my free time hacking, fine, I'll be on my own. The day I'll be able to afford a family (money-wise but particularly time-wise), I'll do so.
Dude (or dudette?), what do you practice?

(Can take this to PM if you prefer).
Indeed, the Lothar König affair is something I had forgotten.

And the NSU is an entirely different beast of a story - personally I think it is one or more blacker-than-black ops gone wrong and the intelligence service fucked up to properly cover their traces.
Have you heard of Workday? We, the employees, continually vote Workday as the best company to work for in the bay area. I wouldn't consider us a big company, but we fit a lot of the criteria that you've specified. I've been at Workday for a while, and we have very interesting technical problems.
Indeed, the law he's referring to applies to everyone. Expat or not. He later on clarifies that it solely applies to Booking.com. This kind of emotional writing I can do without. It is way too easy to assume he's talking about all Dutch people, so IMO badly written and not worth it.
ARM has a CA office IIRC (not HQ though obviously). It's nit a big big company but it is a nice place to work.
Investment in riot control gear and militarization of police in first world countries doesn't suggest that this realization is going to come any time soon.
Startups: These are the people you're enriching.
So far so good: It's fast, accurate and readable.

The response time is actually really impressive!
Hi, I'm the original author of Teapotnet, I want to precise some details.

No cryptograhic library is used mostly for deployment simplicity and portability, but we plan to use OpenSSL in the future (see below).

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. Usernames are part of the authentication anyway.

The current authentication is a simple digest method. It does not garantee Perfect Foward Secrecy. In the future we plan to implement a stronger method using authenticated Diffie-Hellmann (We have to OpenSSL for this). The tracker name is not a part of it as you could change trackers.

Thank you for your interest in the program !
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"evade one's own accountability for one's relative lack of success does not." — this is it, in a nutshell.

Those who earned deserve it. Those who didn't done. How do you know whether someone earned their success? Well, they're successful. Calvinism, just world fallacy, circular logic, and on and on.
Bingo. Thanks.
Investing always is a gamble.
A word of warning: OpenCL, and heterogeneous computing in general, is very very difficult. It will take a lot of effort to get even the simplest hello world application working.

And when writing OpenCL, even you are using a single API to write code, if you want to get high performance you will need to rewrite parts of your application for each hardware you intend to run on if you want good performance. This is obvious since the code may end up running on Intel x86's or Intel, AMD or Nvidia GPU architectures which are all very different. If you're lucky, it's enough to rewrite your kernel code (the code running on the device). But you might also need changes to the host side code (running on the cpu) and make changes to the way you manage the memory and DMA transfers, etc.

Finally, when it comes to the basics, OpenCL is not too different from CUDA and there's a lot more material available on CUDA (because it's been around longer and is perhaps used a bit more). You should be able to pick up a book or a tutorial on CUDA and translate it to OpenCL without too much effort.

Finally, even though it may take quite a lot of learning to get started, parallel programming on GPUs is quite fun and it is very rewarding to see your code run with very high performance.
Are you behind a forced proxy? Carrier NAT?
That guy needs to do some pushups.
As someone who has experienced an exploding offer, don't ever take them. If it's that hard of a sell and they're putting that much pressure on you, you don't want the job. I will never, ever except an exploding offer again even if it comes from someone I know.
Hows the local ageism in Berlin aka how much longer will you be able to work? If you soon will be unemployable anyway, then how the resume looks doesn't matter. Or perhaps you'll only have one more chance to "get it right" so maybe you should stay at a decent place. On the other hand maybe the job market is healthy and you have no such limitations. Just bringing up a dimension that was not discussed yet.
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.

However, I'd rather not have a program execute a shell command when it receives a PHP request. Written in PHP or not. It's just wrong.

[1] http://www.php.net/manual/en/security.globals.php

[2] https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=47796
Windows first, Linux & OS X later. Eventually we are going to release the game for iOS and Android, but it's too early for that now.
Salesforce.

Lot's of investment/work in "BigData" (Hadoop, HBase, etc).
Interesting scalability challenges at all levels. Great work/life culture.
I guess you didn't really read it then. The game was originally envisioned for GC but, early on, it was decided that it would be released on both platforms. Plenty of time for development.

Anyway, it doesn't matter; the game was released on both systems almost simultaneously (Wii first). These two facts hardly imply that this was a GC game ported to the Wii. Years of development were spent specifically on the Wii version.
another free market triumph ;)
Build your own analog synthesizer with Korg's MS-20 kit
I brought up the Constitution because it is a direct counter to your assumption that policies are justified as long as they are shown "at least at some remove, to benefit US citizens". It is definitely more complicated than that, and I suspect you realise this but I don't understand why you don't address it in any of your comments. What I was getting at was that the US Constitution demands a genuine mandate from several branches of government for policies to be enacted. Through this mandate, the popular consent to be governed is ensured.

Specifically, my major issue with the NSA's activities is that they were and are not accurately portrayed to the legislators and even the justices who were meant to oversee them. There were specific obfuscations by officials and by entire branches of the State that served to obscure the true purposes of these programs.

The Constitution absolutely has something to say about the issue of officers of the State purposefully misleading other branches: I would direct you to the section on High Crimes and Misdemeanors:

>The president, vice-president, and all civil officers of the United States, shall be removed from office on impeachment for, and conviction of treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors

Notably, the original text appended "against the State" to the above, but the Convention dropped that part specifically because even a high crime for the perceived benefit of the State would be considered actionable.

As Hamilton said in Federalist 65:

>...those offences which proceed from the misconduct of public men, or, in other words, from the abuse or violation of some public trust. They are of a nature which may with peculiar propriety be denominated POLITICAL, as they relate chiefly to injuries done immediately to the society itself
Charles Schwab seems to be pretty good in regards to taking care of their employees. This is my first corporate job and most people I work with have been @ the company for 10-20 years. All of those people rave about working for Schwab. I don't feel quite the same way but I also don't have anything to compare it to. They love benefits and how well the company treats them. The IT side is pretty well funded and you can work with some neat tools.

If you get on the wrong team, you will have a tough time getting past the "group-think" established by the ranking veterans who refuse to innovate. However, that seems to only exist at the "team" level rather than the organizational level. I had to learn the appropriate place to take certain ideas.

A downside is that they don't seem to fire anyone which can lead to quite a bit of "bloat" at the lower end of the staffing spectrum. However, the higher up the technical ladder I climb the more brilliant people I meet.

The corporate red-tape is a never ending battle and my favorite managers @ the company thus far have been able to remove me from those situations and let me work on fun stuff.

The culture is a little too formal for me. The dress code is "business casual". I feel like a renegade for wearing a t-shirt to work. They have an odd reluctance to spend money on certain things and have no trouble dumping 100's of K into something else. We still use 4:3 monitors at work and I can't bring in a widescreen from home. It drives me up the wall.

Overall, the company will treat you well. You will receive a reasonable compensation. You will fight normal corprate red-tape related fights. The "unofficial technical leaders" are really smart people and drive the company in the right direction. A few people seem to take advantage of the "it is hard to get fired" here mantra, it shows.
One minor technical difference: you don't need to actually flash a new OS to your device to remove Android bloatware, "/system/app mover" will do the trick.

Of course this does not help if the manufacturer replaced core stock Android software with their own (Samsung), but at least in the case of Samsung I can't really complain on their replacements.
Currently, the driver.
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The list is of the members of the United States Congress, in case anyone didn't realize that right away.
I am OK with this. as long as there is a web service that tells you when the "hot" light is on.
I created http://tomato-timer.com when I was trying to see what the Pomodoro technique was all about and if it'd help me writing / coding. I haven't used it in a while personally but it still gets some organic traffic.
Funny eh? Get a secret US court to force Google or Ford to kill you by slamming the autonomous car driving you into a utility pole.

Al Qaeda, torrent user or whatever war we'll be fighting by then
Even ignoring the macro effects, just reading the log and watching people bail out early, it occurred to me that this would be a great case study for students of game theory.
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We are getting there (250 rolls now), I'll put the extra throws up. Your finding may come as a surprise to many geneticists however...
Same here. In my so-far limited experience, it feels like the upgrade to Python 2 that I wish Python 3 had been.
Great feedback. Your UI comments in particular are insightful. It's impossible to get something that pleases everyone, but we'll try to get it closer to current HN design in the next iteration.
Build an API that can convert a twitter username OR Google+ username OR Linkedin ID to an email address. It won't be 100% accurate, but if you can have 20% accuracy, there are lots of people who would pay for such a service.

If you don't want to go that route, then go buy an establish website from Flippa, use your coding skills to auto-generate unique pages to rank in Google (content farm), then flip it months later for a profit. Keep doing this. How to auto-generate unique pages? One idea is to deep crawl old forums, and get an unique sentence and do an exact match search in Google to see if it's in the index, if not - assume that content is unique. Or go ping random blogs that aren't popular in Wordpress every second, scrape their content and put it up so Google sees it first. Black-hat, totally lame, but you just want make money, and I'm your son :)
More so than camera servos or other arms on the probes?

Again: while high-reliability, low-pressure lubrication is a challenge, it's clearly not an insurmountable one. Providing a means to ensure your only source of energy remains viable would be useful. Failure of the dusting system of itself wouldn't result in a mission failure. Success of it could prolong it, and/or allow for smaller collectors (as I recall the solar panels were oversized to allow for possible dust accumulation).

I'm thinking of some sort of rotary duster which might pass horizontally above the panels. Less a windshield wiper design than a dual-arm rocker.
Committing suicide is not The Way and is against God's Law, for which you will find no rest, only punishment from God.

I know these are the ravings of a lunatic (who in reality isn't that far from your average conservative Christian, just saying), but I'd just like to intervene.

The Bible has no single conclusive view on suicide. Obviously, suicide is discouraged by the clergy, since offing yourself and/or not reproducing is antithetical to the propagation of a religion (a notable exception in encouraging procreation amongst Christians, are the Shakers).

Seven people killed themselves in the Bible: Abimelech, Samson, Judas, King Saul and his servant, Ahithophel and Zimri. There is no conclusive verse that condemns suicide as an unforgivable sin, or leading to damnation.

In fact, the Bible's attitudes on life... are less than stellar.
To get some sense of the numbers:

labor currently takes around 65% of gdp[1]. Owners of the automation will take some of that gain ,so at best we'll see 50% reduction in prices.

According to one calculation, a $10K per person over 21 is a possible basic income proposal[2]. So for family , after adding the 50% deflation, each family will receive $40K in today's dollars.

$40K is close to the median family income in 2012($53K). And we still haven't factored non-automation based innovation.

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wage_share

[2]http://nextbigfuture.com/2013/11/a-basic-income-of-about-100...
Gambling is when the game is purely driven by luck.

Investing is when the instrument has measurable properties and explanations for why it will become more valuable - i.e. you invest in making your factory larger, so it can produce product more cheaply.

Betting on completely unregulated currency markets (which have good reasons that they shouldn't have any value at all) is gambling, because you're entirely depending on irrationality. That said...quite a few businesses with that model.
"Challenging working environment where neat technical problems are still solved despite not being a startup"

This phrasing makes me chuckle. Why's there a presumption that "neat technical problems" are the sole preserve of startups? If I were to make a generalization at all, I'd say a successful company with a solid customer base has a lot more areas of technical challenges (both new products as well improvement and scaling of existing products) than a small startup, (especially when those small startups are in the consumer space where product features/design and customer support are far more important than sheer technical solutions).
- I haven't used any existing tools, but built some easy blockers myself

- Adding hidden-with-css honeypot links with URLs formatted with the same pattern as good links

- Check user agents - many scrapers forget to change "phantomjs" to something else

- Maybe block ip ranges of known vps providers

- make an access_log DB, define some patterns (e.g. regularness / number of visits, skewed distribution of pages viewed, etc.) and look up offending IPs

- decide what to do with offenders - block outright, mangle content (e.g. Obnoxiously watermark images, hide prices, provide less detailed product descriptions, add your brand to titles/descriptions if these are probably your competitors scraping your catalog).
Yet gambling is rarely an investment...
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Let me see...

Huffington Post: "Few Identify As Feminists, But Most Believe In Equality Of Sexes"
Telegraph: "Just one in seven women describes themselves as 'feminist'"
Jezebel: Quotes from privileged, mostly white women, talking about how they don't need feminism. (btw, Beyonce and Lady Gaga had radicalized since this article)

Not sure how the posted links are to prove that "no one wants to be associated with feminism anymore". But it's ok, take your time, I'm still very interested.
I have an Android app that help people learning Japanese to have a easier time reading Japanese text file.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.zyz.mobile

Originally, I wrote it for myself so that I can check meanings of Japanese word without an Internet connection while reading Japanese text.

But after I finished writing it, I lost interest in learning Japanese. So I don't use it, but I continue to put time on the app.
That is pretty interesting and does not surprise me to be totally honest. It doesn't seem like something that any countries' public would likely think is a good thing (rather than a price of doing business/everybody does it so we should sort of deal). But then again, so many policies work in that fashion, it would be ridiculous to think this wouldn't be similar.
Both - originally the Nazi's did have a lot of socialist policies and certainly the SA where more radical - one of the reasons they where purged eventualy

I recommend Alex Kershaws huge two volume bio of Hitler
The distinction is fuzzy, but the difference is not imaginary.
How would it be fraud?

It's perfectly legal if it's not specifically regulated as a financial market. Tons of firms do things quite like this - over-the-counter derivatives are rife with various market manipulations.
Can julia yet do the equivalent of the following Octave code:

proportion_value = x ./ sum(x)

The blocker for me with julia is translating my vectorized way of thinking into loops. I know the loops are optimized, but yuck.
"newer versions of OSX stopped supporting multi-monitors after 10.6.7 I believe."

My two displays on 10.9 say you "believe" wrong.
Checkout https://github.com/scoutapp/server_metrics (Ruby - gem install server_metrics). Grabs all the key server + process metrics, handles Linux memory cache, etc.

Requires a distro w/ "proc" functionality for the most metrics.
And yet they do, year after year. Try getting a parking space anywhere near 5th and Clement on a Saturday night if you don't believe me. The neighborhood is packed with people going out to eat at cheap ethnic restaurants.
Investing has a luck component to it as well.

The way I like to think of it is, it's gambling when your expected rate of return is negative or zero. It's investing when it is positive.

This is why a gambler is gambling, but a casino is investing/running a business.
A (Hopefully) Enlightened Conversation About Race and Gender in Technology
I agree as well. Microsoft Research in Mountain View is pretty awesome, my time there was nothing short of amazing. I have sinced moved but I enjoyed my time there and the compensation and benefits are top notch.