skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Too-big-to-fail banks is a rational compromise. Some Russians might still remember the failure of Sberbank in 90ths which was a disaster for millions of families (it was the only place to have savings account). You probably cannot imagine what a hell it will be if something like AIG or BoA would allow to fail. At least no government or rich elite could survive such kind of event which very probably will trigger a new period of forceful and bloody wealth redistribution (which is what all revolutions is all about). So govt choices to print its way out of being overthrown.

What Iceland did is subtly different. It lets foreign banks to fail, to bear the consequences of their own risky and stupid investments, and refused to tax its own people to cover foreign bankers loses.

Russians do even "better", they just says to its own folks "sorry, your money is gone" (what can you do?). Sometimes they bother to invent excuses for foreign investors, such as "tax returns" or "market cobditions", but that's very uncommon event. Usually your money just gone and people who did it are "clever guys".)

Notice also how gun ownership indirectly restricts a corrupted government from just plainly robbing it's citizens and promt it to invent some more complicated, less efficient, slow schemes.)

So, nothing to see here.
What if you don't need AES encryption? Now you're just paying for gates you don't need. What if you don't need SIMD instructions? Now you're just paying for gates you don't need.

It doesn't matter. Modern processors have the complete opposite problem. It isn't that transistors are expensive, it's that they're so cheap you end up with too many and they generate too much heat. If you can stick a block on there which 60% of your customers can use and the other 40% can shut off to leave more headroom for frequency scaling, it's a win.

Also, the number of gates you need for a network controller is small.
You might call that crony capitalism. In non-western countries giving money to an official in return for favourable economic conditions is called a bribe, in the US, Canada and Europe it's called 'lobbying'.
I have a friend with family in Venezuela. A few years ago, Chavez decided that underutilized land is suddenly free for the poor to squat on. Their family member had bought the land after saving a long time, and was now saving for the funds to build a house on the land. Now the land is gone.

The GP's analogy is extremely weak.
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You haven't been paying for the silicon for a while; when you buy a chip you're really paying for the design and it's cheaper to design one chip with all the features people might need.
Ask HN: Volunteering for a good cause; which nonprofit should I shoot for?
Hey HN,

I'm taking a class that mandates each student to have one, unpaid, contract position with a registered nonprofit. Since none of the companies near my university are tech-oriented, I've been looking for alternatives online that would make the most out of my skill-set.

Of the nonprofits out there, do you know what one could definitely use a free full stack application developer?

Thanks in advance!
One of the primary goals of encryption is to make the result random, such that no structure can be determined. However you are correct, there is structure there, but it's encoded with so much randomness that the structure is effectively hidden. It's the whole point of encryption.
The Microsoft settlement for the same was interesting:

"Vringo also sued Microsoft over ads in its Bing search engine. Microsoft settled that case in May, agreeing to pay $1 million plus 5 percent of whatever Google ultimately pays."

It's strange agreeing to pay 5% of Google outcome on the same and quite clever the more I consider the pros/cons.
Now combine the two

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lohner-Porsche_Mixte_Hybrid
Thats a bold claim. Care to name what you are using in your gaming PC ? Two years old i would guess a HD6870 or equivalent, thats about half the performance of the PS4/XB1 GPU which is on the 7870/R9 270X/660Ti level. Add an 8 core CPU and 8GB of extremely fast DDR5 to the mix and i highly doubt Sony/MS are making any profit on the hardware right now.
-- But you decide to not provide additional information

Yes, like the opponent did. He _decided_ to not provide additional information also, but put more words into it.

Should i have said "Wrong, wrong, wrong"?

I'm not claiming that my statement proves something. I just wanted to show the original post has zero prove also.
The midwest is very aware of the tech industry, even if large numbers of hackers in one place are harder to find there (due to population density). Awareness is probably lower among working class people, but even they usually have smart phones these days.

It's not SF, but there's a really nice tech scene here in NYC. Who cares about the finance people? I don't care if NYC's #1 most famous industry is tech. Rank #2 or #3 or #4 is fine too, just so long as there's a decent enough amount of it going on to enjoy.
Don't be so quick to judge, I've got a small FAT partition on my boot drive right now for the EFI system partition. That partition also doesn't frequently have data written to it, you could in theory hide a small encrypted volume in the free space and so long as Grub wasn't updated nothing would touch that free space.
I have a four letter twitter handle(zaid) and I probably average a half dozen forgot-password requests daily...many of them people in the middle east with the same name as me trying to take over my account.

I've had two users offer to buy my username.
This is pretty misleading. Iceland could let their banks fail for several reasons. First, they were not essential to the global banking system. Second, while Iceland's equity market lost a lot of its market value, it really did not hurt the citizens of Iceland - they invested as most do, in U.S. and Europe with some emerging markets allocation.

As is pointed out, the decision to let the banks in Iceland fail is applauded by many...but this is due to the ridiculous size of Iceland's banking system compared to the rest of its economy. Also, don't forget, the same IMF that says they did the right thing now, said 6 months before the crash that there was no problem with the size of Iceland's banking sector relative to the rest of the economy.

This article seems to selectively reveal information based on a pre-existing belief held by the author.
So a minute ago you're saying that a Mercedes can't really compare to a unique Internet handle but somehow owning 4 houses is comparable? I'm really not following your analogy.
(I work at twitter but don't have anything to do with account security, etc)

I think something is in the works...
The point of encryption is to make non-random data appear random, and sense can only be made of it when the correct key is used to decode it.
It might make sense as an owner of the startup to outsource your blog. But as a reader I am interested in reading about the experiences of the founder.

If you have little time to blog then write a post in pieces. One post per week is not that much of work. Besides writing a blog will help you in many ways. It will help your organize your thoughts and it will help you gain new potential customers and you will probably make a few friends on the internet as well.
Again, fair argument, the 25 dollars was just me throwing out a number. If you want to get better identity checking the underlying idea is you can push the burden of cost onto the user and make them pay for it, because they are going to make money for themselves by using your service.
> Science is all about observation and repeatable experiments.

True.

> When it comes to the question of how we got here, both creationist and evolutionists have the daunting task of convincing us to believe in an extraordinary tale with very little supporting evidence on either side.

There's vast amounts of supporting evidence for both the general applicability of the mechanisms theorized to underlie the process of evolution, and the specific theories about the ways it worked in bringing about the current diversity of species.

> Either you believe a supreme being willed the world into existence or you believe that fish turned into people -- when you boil them down, both explanations are quite implausible.

Well, except that while creationism does hold that a supreme being willed the world into existence, evolution does not hold that "fish turned into people".

> It seems fair to me that teachers would tell their students "Obviously we weren't around to witness the origin of the planet, but here are a couple theories people have on how we got here..."

Creationism is a "theory" as that word is used in some non-scientific contexts, but it is not, unlike evolution, a "theory" as the term is used in scientific contexts.
>"I have also several times encountered the idea that "there are no more software jobs, they all went overseas". Of course that has no basis in reality, but that is one of the themes about the tech industry that is perpetuated by various forms of media."

One of the smarter guys in my physics class was convinced that programming was a dead end career. I was perplexed since he read a lot of science and tech news and seemed pretty up to date on things in general.
I wouldn't claim the Neural nets don't work. We've seen many use cases where they do work (And I have looked at deep learning just a little, it may superior in ways but it doesn't seem in any way fundamentally different from the other stuff).

I would add that Support Vector Machines also work and they are similar and have a much clearer math to them [1]. But SVM and neural nets are ultimately just linear matchers on a nonlinear pattern space, they ultimately involve adhoc choices that experts learn over time.

As I said above, once you learn the maths (linear algebra, statistics, functional-analysis or whatnot), it become less basic understand and more "understanding how", a series of tweaks that experts "with a feel for this stuff" do. But this "feel" level understanding seems exactly what stands in the way of serious, rational progress on the topic.

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Support_vector_machine
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I find it amusing that the underlying technology that made this study possible was patented (end of page 1), but that a royalty free alternative solution was found. In science people are often quick to patent each new breakthrough, which sometimes just prevents other scientist from building on that initial breakthrough. I think it is an important lesson to realize that not every new discovery is worth patenting. Perhaps only when a technology is truly ready to be brought to market in the foreseeable future should a patent be considered. Otherwise, the patent could become a distraction to the importance of the breakthrough itself.
You're right, nursing jobs sites must be so niche they hardly get any traffic. The healthcare industry in the US is tiny, I mean, it's only, what, 16% of the entire US economy? I mean the total expenditure on hospital care in the entire country is only $380 billion or so a year, and employs only about 2.6 million nurses. That's just 1.8% of the US working population. And it's not like nursing is disproportionately dominated by short term contracts, or the provider market that employs them massively fragmented meaning that almost every six to twelve months a career nurse will be jobhunting... yes, 87 nurses looking for jobs, 1 of whom is using IE7, sounds like a perfectly reasonable estimate for the amount of traffic this site with a page 1 google ranking for a search for "nursing jobs" probably gets.
That doesn't make it any less of an antipattern. The "fat model" pattern is essentially "if you can't figure out where it goes, put it in the model." In the article's example, the credit card processing code is wrapped up into the quote model. I can't think of a single situation in which this is a good idea.
Science class isn't about teaching "points of view", its about teaching science.

There are other contexts in which teaching non-scientific "points of view" that people might encounter could defensibly be taught.
There were a lot of "ifs" in that comment. Unlikely he has 300k in savings, if he did he wouldn't be scared. Also unlikely his cost of living is low if he lives anywhere near the valley and has a wife and/or kids.

If you have tons of money in the bank and have a really low cost of living, and your business isn't capital intensive, sure you can skip a few paychecks. Even then, the small salary you are taking likely isn't meaningfully impacting the startups runway. Maybe extend it just slightly. And as you are doing it you are lowering your own savings and personal "runway".
In case you didn't read the title, Weilos started out as something IMO much more interesting and useful, which was pairing trainers with people trying to lose weight, which is a serious problem and a serious market for most of America.

YC has no control over what people pivot to.
You don't want to live half your life as an over-60 geriatric, with daily pains, vocational ostracisation, inadequate income, and decreasing social relevance?

Mind you, some would bin that in with the douchey "I wouldn't want to live if I became paraplegic/deaf/blind," but I do fear that, given how crappy it is to be 75 today, it's not going to be senior Disneyland by the time I'm old. Older.

Put my brain in a jar and I might have a different perspective, but I've seen enough family members admit they're just tired and want to go when their time comes.
What does this mean for ad-supported startups? Does anyone have specifics on the patent issue here? I didn't get it from the news coverage.
FUCK PATENTS. The old system (copyright, IP, etc) needs to BURN TO THE GROUND.
I think the idea is just that you say that you used some dead man switch to store your real password. You could even have it actually overwrite some 1 MB random file and claim that it was the keyfile for the volume. In reality you wouldn't use it at all and just memorize the password like normal, no one would be able to prove if that really was a keyfile or just a decoy and you couldn't be in contempt of court if you can plausibly claim that you don't have the information to open the volume anymore.
Apple’s patent claims to determine mood based on various types of data
Maybe the hacker was bragging about the hack and someone who heard that tipped him off.
The anti-depressants comment was unnecessary. SSRIs are most effective when used in non-situational induced depression anyway.
I've often received bug report screenshots or sat in watching a customer screenshare using our product in IE6 on literally a 800 x 600 screen. Each time it makes me cry inside and I debate just ordering them a new computer. That said, as others have pointed out here, almost nobody these days running IE 6/7/8 is doing so of their own free will, and any computer you send them can't be used for work.
I think this highlights more of a fundamental problem with android's system for updating permissions. lots of the permissions that apps have to request permission for, they will only use a small part of.
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I haven't figured out a reasonable way to make it non-confidential yet. :(
Twitter handles are free and multiple tweets are free.

There is no reason he should have to give up @H just because he isn't utilizing it enough. The person that got it better not send a single tweet shorter than the maximum to fit your logic.
Alas, the BC Residential Tenancy Act makes it illegal to have a deposit larger than one month's rent. Not that anyone is going to stop you -- but if you pay 12 months of rent in advance, you can legally demand the next day to have 11 of those months of rent returned to you. Unfortunately the law is very clear that you can't sign away your right to only pay one month of deposit -- even if you want to.
> You think a vacuum, dishwasher, mixer, blender, washer/dryer and microwave reduces the work that much?

Yes, but their availability also increases the socially accepted standards of housekeeping, etc., enough that the actual labor doesn't change at all.
Why can't they simply incorporate outside US in some country where the patents are milder ? Or is it that they have to pay royalty even then...
It's worth what people are willing to pay for it. If people are willing to pay $50k then it is worth $50k. Of course it might have gone down in value since the offer.
Everyone looks bad here, but I want to focus on Twitter. For me this case is yet another demonstration that Twitter sees its customers as advertisers and places low priority on the community.

I pay Twitter nothing, and yet the service is valuable to me. So instead of continuously crippling the service in the name of goodness knows what, why not actually charge users for a premium experience. Things like customer service that works, a gold member status flag, controls on swapping account ownership, analytics and so on. Offer 3 paid levels - personal, business and corporate, and obviously keep the free level forever.
Once revenue comes from customers, then perhaps it will help in understanding that while other revenue night be larger, the true value of Twitter is derived from the community.
I'm seeing things on both sides. They have bad customer service due to some reasons such as operational cost. But it's necessary for their business to disqualified you and they have the right to reject serving you since the service is free on your clients side. Please don't take it for granted that you must be served. That's why I suggest them if they cannot afford the customer support like other decent online financial systems, they may verify on large transactions only so that they may still get the chance to serve customers with small or medium transactions, while large transaction itself can cover the service cost.

On the other hand, did you see there is another post directly suggesting you to have your name changed with a middle initial. Don't think you are always 100% perfect and it's all other people's fault. This is another caveat in culture for the new generation. When conflict occurs, check on yourself side first. I gave you advice because I wish this type of thing would not happen to you again. If you don't learn the lesson, you may have more similar type of experience down the road. Didn't you see the other people's story with his credit record? Do you think it's fun?

You didn't get my point at all. Choosing simple name and always making job simple has the same culture background as fast food. I don't need to mention about the good or bad about it. Everybody can make his own choice. You may stick to your common name and have the other consequences. Other than you, yourself, who will care?

iPhone is not made with regular PCB design techniques, it's not that easy. VLSI design is not PCB design. With this type of attitude, you are not qualified for any of those professional work until you are trained or change your attitude. This is my point.

BTW, if you don't mind, can you please tell me how you down voted me? Is it done by complaining to the YC admin? I can have different opinion with you, but I'm helping you. I will not down vote you because I have different opinion with you. What a decent manner you have.
I've heard good things about them from friends. This article was the last straw for me -- I just migrated my 90 domains off of GoDaddy. Actually, I didn't. I just told DNSimple to do all the work, via their (brilliant) concierge onboarding option: http://blog.dnsimple.com/2014/01/domain-transfer-concierge-s...

"Here's my credit card and GoDaddy creds, guys, and here's a technical note about my DNS settings that I want you to pay extra special attention to. Tell me when I should expect to start getting the GoDaddy confirmation emails. Other than that, have fun playing with DNS settings -- I never want to even think about them again."

This post is 5% "Here's my recommendation for a DNS service" and 95% "Notice how in return for an hour or two of grunt work a SaaS company just made it very easy for me to award them $2,000 of high-margin recurring revenue a year despite being twice as expensive as my pre-existing option by successfully overcoming my 'I would love to move off my existing solution but it requires grunt work so I think I'll punt on that decision for, oh, eight years' objection? That's a really good trade. You should consider offering it in your SaaS business, too, in any way that makes sense for it."
Very nice. I love the idea of specific social networks where people can connect based on their interests.

I really like the UI as well. The top 10 represented on the map, it's so convenient. I hope you keep working on this.

I think you should include a link to github on the main website it might be a good endorsement?
It's sad, but twitter's not transferring it back in a week's time gives me more confidence in twitter, not less. There isn't any evidence of the stealing of the domain names and the extortion available besides OP's copies of the email messages and information that GoDaddy won't provide. With the value twitter ID has, twitter shouldn't do anything without clear evidence.

He might have been able to get it back if it was his trademark or even name that he lost and not some witty username.
Thanks for the response, I have 2 people IRL that are "interested" in buying, a further 3 on my IM list.

I am based in London but the campus is to expensive for me, I'm going to be working out of my spare bedroom, lol. I've been looking at meet ups on meetup.com and have identified 7 that I'd like to attend due to pure interest, I guess I'll just have to go. Truth be told that's 1 thing I'm nervous about as I'm not very social.
Washer/dryer, especially.
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The twitter namespace is property of Twitter alone. It's cute that there are those who think the "owners" of these names would be each user.
How fast are you moving when you’re sitting still?
see: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7141532 which links to the original post.
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I did a high school internship (that the high school set up) for CAD work. After doing it for two years, I decided that wasn't what I wanted to do at all. Saved me a lot of money because I opted not to make it a college major. You should check if your high school could help you find something.

My last internship turned into a position, but to be considered, you had to be either recently graduated from college, or in a college program.

You should look locally, but know that larger companies may require you to be actively enrolled in a program to consider you.
A cherry MX blue equipped mechanical keyboard solved my hand pain issues. Caution: the switches are loud.
Also, why an ongoing 1.36% cut? What's the significance of that number? Might as well peel back the layers on this farce.
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They're arming patent trolls and aiming them at google. This isn't the first one (rockstar).
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Since the SatDirectory audio downloads page is now a bunch of broken iCloud links, here's a full digital version of the Firedrake:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHsSyfj6uEg
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FDA allowed antibiotics in animal feed despite human health risks
> there is no WAY this guy would have had an issue if he was with namesilo and had both protections enabled

Except their customer support has a process to bypass those 5 security questions:

http://www.namesilo.com/Support/Forgot-Domain-Defender-Answe...

How can you be sure their customer support can't also be socially engineered? I'm actually hesitant to use a service which requires 5 security questions to make a change, because I bet so many people forget their answers that their support is lax when it comes to bypassing them.