skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Cold calling is not necessary, a worker has networks of his own.

You are making these company's arguments for them. Although the notion that these individuals would need to know someone to find gainful employment at a competitor is wrong.

> and is forced to renounce by a localised cartel of employers exploiting his conditions (i.e. that he can't leave the area), I'd say that's psychological violence alright... but I guess we'll never agree on the exact degree of intensity of such force.

Rather, I think we should agree that you have created a straw man that while it may very well be an accurate depiction of some circumstances, does not apply to the story you are commenting on.

> It's the companies who could and should pay full wages, the ones who tried to scrimp on salaries.

Google is known to compensate their employees at the upper end of the market. Once you factor in benefits and equity, all of these companies compensate well above median salary for their low level employees as well as the ones targeted by these policies. What you are saying does not reflect reality.

I think a very good case could be made that these policies may constitute unfair labour practices, but if you think about how much the bottom line of these companies would be impacted if the targeted employees had their wages and compensation even doubled, you might begin to appreciate that you are barking up the wrong tree here.

> That's a big assumption.

That's really not a really big assumption when the entire practice was based on there being demand from other employers.

> "Engineers in Silicon Valley" is the outlier, not the common scenario, and people trying to use that as the basis for "new" theories are, in most cases, just rehashing old excuses for exploiting the workforce.

One could paraphrase that as, "it makes sense to apply a common principle to a specific situation, asserting as postulates foundational characteristics of that common principle even when the specific situation directly contradicts those characteristics."

On that basis I could assert that since you and I are arguing on the web that we are both introverted and socially isolated juvenile white males expressing internalized aggression, regardless of the sounds of my spouse and child asking for help with homework...
I feel you. Cleaning data is always a bitch.

That said, if you are dealing with excel, you can use Spreadsheet-ParseExcel and Spreadsheet-WriteExcel to have perl handle excel .xls files directly (though I'm not sure about xls files including embedded vba macros).
Good news for Satya Nadella to start with
The original documents, with some interesting logs.

http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/i/msnbc/sections/news/snowden_anon...
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The cost of being hacked
You usually sign a contract prohibiting you from working directly with their clients and sometime anyone associated with their clients.
I am glad this debate took place though many people advise never to debate Creationists.

Scientists that refuse to debate Creationists in front of a public audience have no standing to rise in front of a city council or state committee and demand Creationism not be taught.

We should not be afraid of debate. Is Science and reason and evidence that weak?

And why on earth should we be in some sort of superior position where we insist Creationism not be taught in schools but insist we will not debate the issue?

So of course it is important that scientists and others that want to keep Creationism out of schools publicly debate Creationists.

That said, it doesn’t mean we cannot discuss proper forums, admission policies, moderation, voting, or format of the debate.
It's a good thing Microsoft is "dead" so now when appropriate we can use MS tech without having to endure the critics.

As far as evil goes, to me, Google is much more scaring than MS.
Apple has a long history of doing a 180 and releasing products Jobs said publicly he didn't like...
Experts refute Verizon's claim that NSA can't grab non-U.S. data
Understandable move, focus on the one big product. And as far as company name is concerned, nobody outside our tech bubble has ever heard of "37 Signals".

The Q & A does highlight the reality distortion field around the cult-like status of 37 Signals though:

> Q: This is a really unusual strategy (..)

No. No it isn't. But if Jason Fried claims it is, I'm sure that will be echo-ed on HN.

(Not trying to be super negative, I consider 37 Signals a major source of inspiration, and I'm a Basecamp user.)
They were a consulting company initially, not really focused on finding and building a product.
It is an incentive to keep around gear that can't normally pay for its electricity. Mining gear that isn't online 24/7 but can come online when the need arises is useful to counter a temporary 51% attack.
In terms of UI (flat content based UI) at least, they did not copy Apple, it was the other way around. Apple just did it better.
> It's just semantics.

Yes, it's semantics, but I would hesitate to say "just semantics".
It would not be optimal for Microsoft to die. And it is kinda sad that DEC and Sun are no more. I liked that http://altavista.digital.com. It was good.
Pretty terrible title considering Xbox 360 had taken off in 2006. Not one mention of Xbox in the whole post, indicating how much PG is out of touch. Xbox took gaming to next level, especially online gaming and managed to build a great ecosystem for games.

The younger ones, in the last line, are all actually playing on Xbox. Microsoft has greater identification among younger people as brand than say, Apple given their decade long presence in console and PC gaming.
I don't think the changes to the existing code are that much more minimal than using OpenCL, and the algorithmic changes that need to be made are identical. Based on the example, it looks like OpenCL is a more verbose about allocating memory for the input and output (due to supporting devices with separate address spaces), and OpenCL requires the entire input and problem size to be specified by the code enqueuing a kernel, where this shows one of the dimensions (in OpenCL parlance, the number of workgroups) being defined implicitly.

Other than the vector primitives and address space qualifiers, OpenCL's kernel language adds very little to C, but this adds constructs like foreach, launch, and sync for things that OpenCL uses library functions to provide.

One thing that seems very telling is that it mentions support for SSE2 and SSE4, but omits SSE3 and SSSE3. Those extension sets were mostly about horizontal operations (between different components of the same vector). The way ispc is designed, it doesn't seem like it would be anywhere near as good for things like reduce operations.

The coherent control statements seem like a really good idea given the architecture targeted, and I wonder why I haven't heard of any similar hints for OpenCL.
Central Bank of Estonia: Bitcoin Ponzi Scam
Let's be clear that the original CRIME attack was against request header secrets. Therefore, disabling response header compression (as nginx defaults to) does not prevent that. SPDY/3.1 request header compression is a client-side choice, not server-side.
A hardware designer I used to work with noted that Jobs was against putting a radio in the iPod, and sure enough it appeared during a spell when he was off sick.
Ah okay sorry, yeah I agree with that. I didn't realize what you were saying.
The first iPad mini was introduced on 2012-10-23. Steve Jobs died on 2011-10-05. It's certain that Steve both knew about the iPad mini and supported its development. Apple's hardware development takes time and does not shift on a dime.

"Apple is no longer hungry, nor foolish" is such a facile statement that means absolutely nothing.
Certainly -- our sun will eventually radiate away all its useful energy and that energy, although not lost, will assume a form that can no longer be exploited. This shows the truth of the expression "entropy increases over time". Reference:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entropy_(arrow_of_time)
What struggle?

They were formed to design websites and that's what they did for 5 years. Though I guess you can view web design as a "struggle" with all that IE6 testing and what not, but some people really enjoy it :)
It's almost as if he had a stake in the web/startup scene or something.
Show HN: FitSpot.io – profiles for personal trainers
Hi HN,

My co-founder and I just released v1 of FitSpot (https://fitspot.io) into the wild. We are offering fitness professionals a simple, free way to create a web presence. The functionality is still basic, but any feedback would be greatly appreciated!

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This is true for any advice. You have to tailor the message to the receiver. Perhaps the speakers should consider their audience.
Interesting that some of these are even cheaper then DO. Which makes me wonder if they are sustainable.
I've always been a D3.js fan, more so because of the extensive range of novel chart types that it has. But, this looks good when you need a simpler solution.
The Secret IMs Revealing The Mark Zuckerberg Of 2004
I think this is an interesting contrast with PG's "Microsoft is Dead (2006)," because it points to a reason why Microsoft lost their hunger and dominance: they had no driving company goal after they got to "a computer in every home (running Microsoft software)." Both read true to me, as a 20-something who never really appreciated Microsoft during its dominance. By the time I got to high school, Apple had already switched to Intel, and I purchased the first iPhone for $600 in 10th grade. I've never used Outlook, and I don't think I ever will.
I do not self delete, but I got the same page.
Snapchat For Business? It's Called Confide, And It Exists
> As to the video itself, is it possible ARD simply has a copyright claim it wishes to enforce?

It's on archive.org now:

https://archive.org/details/snowden_interview_en

(thanks to zeeed for the link)

Not entirely clear about the license, it says "opensource movies" and credits the NDR person in the metadata.
A lot of people (myself included) would disagree with you there. The fact that they can afford to do something like the OP is announcing is sort of proving that... I've not used any project management tool that I've liked as much as Basecamp, and I've used heaps of them.

Campfire is pretty bad though, yeah.
2007 - $51.12 billion

2013 - $77.85 billion

I'd love to die like that.
The scary thing is just how commonplace, and how well-thumbed the playbook is.

Look up the stories behind the disinformation and smear wars waged on behalf of tobacco, leaded paint, MLK, labor organizers, environmental activists, global warming (especially), and others, and you'll find the same story again and again. It's very useful to read these stories, because the tricks simply don't change.

In a recent posting on documentaries, "The Corporation" was listed, and I took the opportunity to watch it again. Yes it's long and repetitive, but it's good: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6zQO7JytzQ

A friend of mine lost his father as a child in an industrial accident which turned out to be the manufacturer's fault. That process involved years of litigation, much of it lead by his mother and a young attorney (the other families were less active) against a major corporate titan. They attempted to smear her character and play all sorts of other dirty tricks, but did eventually lose. The whole affair did form the basis of an excellent education in corporate cynicism, however.
what are your privacy settings? I think that is the big differentiator.
It is not surprising at all. "The Cloud" is really "the mainframe" and "native software" is really "client-server".

The cycle takes 10 years or so but once you've seen a few you'll realize that the same things come round again and again. The only progress is through better hardware. Software guys, with their (our) fascination for the new and shiny and disdain for "legacy code" means we just reinvent the wheel over and over again.
If you've read Steve Jobs bio and know enough about him, you could surmise that he is "full of shit". He changes his mind, absorbs other people's ideas as his own and doesn't give them credit.

The iPad Mini actually sells really well, and Steve was around to ship the hundred iterations of iPod (nano, shuffle, etc.)
Compiled 1.5.10 with ssl + spdy module and worked like a charm. On my SSL server blocks, I added `spdy` to the end of the listen string.
It seems like you're referring to the visual style, but I think the comment you were replying to was about the structure and behavior more than mere skinning, and about differences that far predate iOS 7. There's a reason the term is "look and feel", not just "look"; that second half is where Apple so often distinguishes itself.
> Here’s my stab at it: Microsoft services, sending data to and from every networked device in the world. The next ubiquity isn’t running on every device, it’s talking to every device.

That sounds more like Google to me!
but some people really enjoy it

Who.

0_o
System Configuration (msconfig) for me was a huge, huge disappointment product after product by Microsoft. Sure it's for "power" users, but I think a lot of people want to make certain applications not start up at boot, and not all software makes it easy to do in application. For more than a decade I have waited for them to allow resizing the damn window so I can read something more than the first few letters of an application name, path, etc. Nothing!!!
At the time obviously. And by small, I suppose I mean negative haha.
Defamation of character is tortuous: http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Defamation+of+...

Conspiracy to defame would also be tortuous, and in the context of this case, possibly criminal.
The next phase will be a virtual cruise, in which you pay thousands of dollars and go for a virtual ocean voyage from the comfort of your home theater. No seasickness, no virus infections, no piracy.
That is not the definition of death that the article uses. He argues that Microsoft died as a monopolist, as the bully of the schoolyard. DEC and Sun never had that position to lose. IBM did, but now I keep paraphrasing the article. Read it :)
Did anyone notice Dustin's use of the words Obvious and Subtle? Considering that Medium, a competitor to Dustin's Svtle is owned by Obivous Co. Dustin always impresses me with his svbtleties.
Related article:
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/sentencing-lulzsec-hacker-sabu-dela...

"For the third time in less than a year the sentencing of Hector Monsegur (aka Sabu) has been delayed without explanation."

Subu as a founder of Lolzsec, organized "elite hackers" to attack a number of targets, until (and after) he was arrested and immediately turned informant.

Working for the FBI, Subu continued to recruit new hackers for new operations while feeding all information to his government bosses.

Read these chat logs. How is that not entrapment?
Show HN: new feature for searching and brainstorming domain names outside of .coms
A major risk in dealing with unofficial brokers instead of going through distributors is a good chance of getting devices that were scrapped in production test due to malfunction or failing on performance parameters.

We have had several customers with issues sourcing this way and not realizing their devices are malfunctioning.
Domain suggestions are usually oriented around .com for obvious reasons.

But most good .coms are taken, many new TLDs are coming, and more people only need domains in their home country.

So we built a feature focused on domain names outside of .com: TLDs like .co.uk, .de, .in, and all the new ones coming online soon.

Search at http://www.panabee.com with the desired TLD in the query like mobile.co or mobile.me. All suggestions and searches will get oriented around that TLD instead of .com.

No, we don't steal domain names. FAQ: http://www.panabee.com/domain-name-search/panabee#domain_nam...

Note: some TLD searches are slow since the feature is in beta. If there's interest, we can accelerate searches in the future.
how do we know these are real?
> No company today has reach or influence anything like what Microsoft had during the golden era of the PC. Not Apple, not Google, and not Microsoft itself.

I think Google is pretty close, really. They obviously don't have an operating system for laptops or desktops that everyone uses, but using a computer without Google products is something that people just don't really do anymore. iOS, Android, OSX, Windows, Ubuntu, etc. no matter what you're probably using something Google wrote on it.

Which is really a very old-school Microsoft strategy brought up to date to the early 21st century. Google recognized that the OS doesn't matter anymore and Microsoft continued to believe it was everything.
I noticed Raphael being used - is it still the library of choice? I though most focus is on D3 these days? Would you mind sharing your rationale for each library used?
The curious case of the Sochi double toilets
A Python news aggregator (Flask, Bootstrap, MongoEngine, Whoosh)
That's just graphic design. UI is about how it's designed to work, what controls are where, what labels, what feedback it gives, etc.

The same UI can have different themes easily.
Now, a question.

If your business has a great product, is it the best idea to follow Basecamp nee 37Signal's trajectory? In other words, build those other products, then later consolidate?

Or take the GitHub route and stick to (basically) one awesome product and leave it at that? I wonder what's a better choice? I lean towards the latter personally.
> I wonder if skype has a way to see IP addresses of all login attempts.

That's not the operative question. The operative question is whether they would be willing to share their activity log with you.

> Do you know any good keylogger scanner for Mac?

Not being a Mac user, I can't say what's good, but start here:

https://www.google.com/search?q=macintosh+malware+scanner
It's going to take a hell of a lot from MS in order to have someone like me buy back in.

I'll present one of the other perspectives.

I was all-Microsoft, from MS DOS up through Windows Server 2003. Late 90s MCSE, nothing but MS. Most of my time was spent building and maintaining NT4.0 installations and then migrating to 2000.

I got tired of keeping pace with the amount of changes in all of the services somewhere between Server 2003 and Server 2008 and have since jumped ship.

Now I use entirely open source software and a mix of AWS instances and dedicated servers in various parts of the country for heavy lifting. (I work with multiple small companies rather than one large company that would benefit from the perfect AWS deployment.) This is after having spent time and personally maintained dozens of machines in half a dozen different data centers stretching back to 1998.

It's going to take a hell of a lot.
This article was incredible. Deeply against the good guys win narrative.
MVC is a Cargo Cult
Pendo for your notes, todos, calendar and sharing, on iPhone
I understand chargebacks. This wasn't a chargeback, it was a straight up Paypal reversal. And if you count not being able to use Paypal for anything as a penalty, then I got screwed too.
Stallman and Delhi govt collaborate on Free Software migration
> Password was only used for skype, it was "blocks12" ...

Okay, now I understand. With all respect, you need to learn how to choose a password.

http://www.passwordmeter.com/

Score: 34%, weak.
AFAIK D3.js does not have 'a range' of chart types. It's just that you can use D3 to draw anything you like including charts, maps etc. It does not have any chart types built-in.
"The Eart is flat. I already know what the reaction to this eassay will be. Half the readers will say that the Earth is round".

Might not exactly be the case here (since he's talking for relevanece vs profits) but one can argue that continued and even increased profits must also show some kind of relevance.

But, most importantly, I wanted to show that foretelling what your critics might say doesn't make what you said any more correct.
Neat. How many letters per minute?
Sorry, those are a little off my radar :) Was just referring to Olympics.
I thought all the microsoft hate came from the anti competitive behaviour like - embrace, extend and extinguish http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend_and_extinguish , along with documented anti competitive behavior http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Microsoft and similar patent trolling against linux and most recent android.
> the size for carry-on luggage is pretty large

That's not so true in Europe, where many airlines have a quite strict size and weight limit (e.g. 8kg @ 55cm x 40cm x 20cm)
Hmm, that's true.

I worry about the logistics. What if there's some condition where the barge needs to be evacuated (storm, etc.). Since nobody has visas for the mainland, where would they go?

Also, let's say you have 1000 engineers living and working there; where are you going to get all that network bandwidth? Wireless?

Finally, families?
It's hilarious that people believe there was an actual, unstaged market transaction selling a fish for $3k/pound.
Doesn't matter. The barges should be driving their cars to work.
No. I'm not referring to the visual style alone. Microsoft didn't just do flat UI to be cool. There was a purpose behind it to focus on content first, the same thing literally is being preached by Apple. Apple just executed better when it came down to it but they definitely borrowed many ideas from both Android and MS in terms of interaction alone.
I doubt vehicles are special enough to require their own replacement for TCP/IP. Last time I heard that kind of talk was with WAP/WML – anyone remember those?

TCP/IP is good enough, and making your own protocol on that level is never worth the huge hassle for everyone involved. Unless your aim is to obfuscate and erect barriers to entry.
Jeff Dean shares his first experience at Google datacenter
The interesting quote here is:

You'll see a second line for bandwidth, that was a special deal for crawl bandwidth. Larry had convinced the sales person that they should give it to us for "cheap" because it's all incoming traffic, which didn't require any extra bandwidth for them because Exodus traffic was primarily outbound.

This shows that there's more to being a successful business than just good code; you need to know how to run a business, too. How many people working on web search ranking would ask for a special pricing exception from their bandwidth provider and get it? The answer is, apparently, one.
> Defamation of character is tortuous [sic]

No, it's tortious.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/tortuous : "full of twists, turns, or bends; twisting, winding, or crooked: a tortuous path."

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/tortious : " having the nature of or involving a tort; wrongful."
It is disheartening to know that multiple people fought hard against a system, lost, and were knowingly, maliciously attacked, rendering their careers over. This sort of obvious corruption and immorality in character present in a group that has so much power with very little oversight is repugnant. To arms...seriously.
Jobs resisted plastic iPhones? Did they have to drug him to get him to introduce the iPhone 3G and 3GS?
The more power to them. In 9 of the 10 cases Bitcoin is used for either illegal or fraudulent cases.
Similar story here. I work in Italy for a US employer. I'm technically a consultant, but I work a 40-hour week just like an employee.
> If you've read Steve Jobs bio and know enough about him, you could surmise that he is "full of shit".

I knew Steve, I happen to agree, but de mortuis nil nisi bonum, as they say. :)
GPUs are actually "single program, multiple data" (SPMD) machines, as far as programming is concerned. Internally, I believe they're implemented in a SIMD-like fashion, with extra hardware to handle the single program aspect within each lane.