skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The lack of prosecution is not the entirety of her essay. Even if her rapist were successfully prosecuted, there would still be good reason for her to write what she has.
There are a few advantages to releasing a stream rather than a torrent.

First, it keeps the story going. Had it been a single torrent, there would have been a lot of stories, and then on to the next thing. That this may also be more commercially successful does not escape me.

Second, it give the government a chance to really put their foot in their mouths. With Wikileaks, the US mostly said nothing about the details. With the Snowden documents, government officials respond to one thing, then further documents reveal where they are lying or weaseling.

Third, once the torrent is done, the government can do a whitewash investigation, and then say "all that is behind us. We've fixed the problems and now we're focusing on the future." It's not possible to have a whitewash investigation unless you know all that needs to be covered.

Fourth, this is a complex issue, and the process of reporting lets the reporters have time to get feedback from the analysis of other people, and integrate new information into their reporting.

Of these, I think #3 is the most important advantage to a stream over a torrent.
tl;dr Foundation is everything you want, but Bourbon (+ Neat & Bitters) is everything you need.

Discuss.
Look back 4 or 5 years prior to the founding of X.com/Confinity/PayPal: Elon Musk was a South African-born undergrad at Pennsylvania, Peter Thiel was a German-born lawyer trading derivatives at Credit Suisse, and Max Levchin was a Ukrainian-born undergrad at Illinois. Now, which comes first in Silicon Valley: merit or connections?
I've done both - I have a background in EE, verging on CompE. I've only ever done hardware professionally, however.

I think my view of a prototype is more in line with what an industry would view as a proof of concept - enough hardware to show that your vision is possible. I wouldn't want to show anything I built over a weekend to a VC in an effort to get them to fund me, unless I absolutely had to.
But we do want to head toward a world where people have control over other people's physical advances on them simply by voicing their consent.

Maybe it could help if you imagine a situation where someone claims that you were willingly joining in a street fight with someone, i.e. that you were fighting together, when the street fight consisted of some thug saying to you, "Wanna fight?" and you saying "No."

Sounds like the definition of declining, to me.
Doesn't he fail with the last para call to action?

>"Want to try out this technique on more prospects? [...]

He needs to be more positive and active in his language and provide an action for us to follow, no? "Try out this technique with your prospects." ?
Why is this here? Because MIT is ostensibly a tech school so it is "6 degrees" relevant? "Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon"
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> When I play with code outside of work, it's usually to learn something, not write something useful. I have almost nothing on Github because most of what I've done outside of it has been things that already have solutions out there; I just want to learn more about the problem, rather than seeing some deficiency in the existing solution.

This is what gets me. Yes, hirer, I have a github profile, and yes, you'll probably be disappointed. I occasionally do bug fixes and file issues, but 99% of what I do is on private repos. And no, I can't show them to you. I've open sourced a grand total of 1 repo, but that doesn't mean I don't like coding. I just find my brain spent after a 40 hour work week of programming.
>Does anyone really expect to be etching PCBs in a hackathon? Is a simple breadboard setup good enough to win?

Yeah, I'd say so. As I've mentioned to other folks in this thread, I feel hardware hackathon entries are more "proof of concept" than "prototype".
Ethically, there's a difference between profiting incidentally from criminal activity because a fraction of your customers happen to be criminals, and having a business model which is viable largely due to criminal activity.
I don't always copy strings, but when I d8$#@C11&C^C^CSegmentation Fault
Look at Akka, it brings a very rich concurrency toolkit to the JVM, building on the already-excellent primitives provided by the standard library.

Futures and actors are quite elegant and simplify reasoning about concurrency.
Why is this thread dead?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7158145
Why not just prevent partners from individually investing?
I subscribe to Netflix, Hulu+, and Amazon Prime. I find I rarely ever watch video on Amazon. I value it primarily for the free shipping and the video service is a bonus. $120/yr is a LOT of shipping. Especially when you actually look at how Amazon Prime products are clearly priced to include the shipping fees compared to the non-Prime versions of the same product.
"beatings/vandalism to discriminate Maidan"

You have to try really hard to discredit this (opposition in action):

http://votarea.com/uploads/posts/2013-12/1385948933_1328475....
http://img12.nnm.me/e/c/c/b/7/2dfacaf7de32a36db9cf7794f86.jp...
> And if you choose to defame homosexuals, people could look to see if you were wearing your corporate CEO hat or your religious zealot hat at the time

I am unclear why you write as if this is a good thing. I don't do business with people comfortable trumpeting how horrible they are just because they say "oh I'm only horrible when wearing this hat". I would rather that speech have consequences (particularly when someone is in a position to harm less-privileged groups).
You can attach photos in Hangouts. I do so on iOS and desktop all the time.
I cannot find your github issue about that. Could you paste a link, if you managed to find 10 minutes of your precious time to post the reproduce-scenario during your 1 year long struggle?
Counterpoint: Warren Buffett
> I dreamed every night that a different man raped me. In excruciating detail, I dreamed myself being raped by my closest friends, men I have loved and trusted, my family, and men I have purely imagined. Faithfully, every night, men would sink into my dreams and find me. Each night was a new and complex scenario...

I kind of wonder sometimes when a person is exposed to trauma, how much of the resulting issues are due to that event, and how much are due to the removal of the illusion of the false safety and control our minds create... With the latter brining out deeper weaknesses, fears, and physiological issues that were simply covered up.
Not sure how to interpret this. It seems to be a case where a young sexually repressed woman got taken advantage of. That she was taken advantage of is not being disputed, but whether or not she was raped. I find it bizarre that the ADA dismissed the complaint, but it is possible that there is more at play here (i.e the accused rapist is considered someone "important", leading the office to squash the complaint).
I'll call you when you need me.
They don't make profit because they spend most of it.
Clinkle pwned, photo found of Duplan posing with $30,000 in cash.
It was meant to be amusing, not interesting... The idea is if the only thing your program does is crash, users will expect it to crash, and so it will never do anything unexpected (or useful) like "not crash".
Why classic scrum doesn't work for us
Nokia has been a special place to work. I have loved working here and learned so much as the company invested so much in me and in others.

But the market doesn't reward companies for doing the right thing for its employees. It rewards companies for making products that people wanted to buy. And we failed to do that (mainly because we made catastrophically wrong choices in which operating systems to get behind).

It is a shame. As someone staying behind in what is now "New Nokia" I can only hope the company remains a special place to work.

EDIT: by "we" I mean "our leadership". I don't think many of the Nokia rank-and-file would have supported the 2011 decision to do Windows Phone and only Windows Phone (if anyone would have asked them).
This is awesome, but just a small comment about "Next block expected in 7 minutes". The next expected block is always due in 10 minutes, no matter when the previous block was generated. Mining is a memoryless process.
I'd rather be wealthy than smart.
I agree, they should at least compare to Go.

However, it is fair to say that when using Java, you have to choose carefully since many API's block on I/O, including those that Java programmers use by default and are most likely to be familiar with.
What makes bullshit articles more common than valuable articles? It's all about being a self-educated asshat with a lot of ego and second-order ignorance.
One can monkey-patch __builtins__, too, so `open("foo", "r").read()` will happily yield control to event loop. It's just that gevent doesn't do this.

Sounds like a great project to hack in spare time, though.
The problem isn't really whether or not the YC partners are good investors, it's really more of a question if they know something that the startups aren't telling everyone.

Early investment by any of the YC partners after a startup has been accepted to YC could give the impression that the YC partners may be doing some sort of insider trading based on the meetings that they had with the company. That probably isn't an issue at all, but the perception is there.
Thanks for the link, I will have a look!
Although, in terms of typography you cannot beat LaTeX. That's what LaTeX is good at. But the thing is, I don't care so much about the typographic quality. All I need is a quick way of inserting and hyperlinking math formulas in HTML pages.
If any rich people would like to get closer in touch with the rest of humanity, I would like to offer my services by taking one half (50%) of your money. You will then be less rich and more happy and I will be less poor and more happy.
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This is exactly the issue covered in depth on the direct marketing podcast "I Love Marketing". They come back to this issue over and over for the last few years, but the very first time they discussed it was the episode on converting leads[1]. Dean uses a clever analogy about inviting someone over to your house and telling them "Get anything you want out of the fridge, I'll be working in the den" vs. "I just baked a plate of cookies. Would you like a cookie?" The relevant part of the episode starts about 23 minutes in, or read the complete transcript.

[1]http://ilovemarketing.com/episode-005-the-one-about-converti...
I disagree with this sentiment, but you could not have stated it more perfectly.
I wish the author had considered middleware components written with Netty -- they are async and highly concurent as well.

Moreover, Servlet 3.1 Specification , which is a part of Java EE7, includes JSR-340 Non-blocking I/O. In a typical application , ServletOutputStream and InputStream do read/write in a while loop while holding on to the request thread. This issue is potentially resolved in Servet 3.1 by adding event listeners – ReadListener and WriteListener interfaces. These are then registered using ServletInputStream.setReadListener and ServletOutputStream.setWriteListener. The listeners have callback methods that are invoked when the content is available to be read or can be written without blocking.

The new versions of Glassfish and Tomcat servers already support Servlet 3.1.

So Java already supports async style web applications. The programmers have to brush up their skills.
The biggest impediment to async programming in Java-land is the lack of an async JDBC driver.
It's all about due diligence. Selling gift cards for bitcoins isn't illegal. However, you need to be aware that it can be easily exploited for money laundering, and you need to take steps to prevent that. And don't think money laundering is something that just happens in the movies. It's a very real problem, and deserves being attended to.

As for your car example, I'll leave that to the other comments already rebutting it.
Hi, thanks for your suggestion. I mean teens of both genders and women.
Be careful what you wish for re. Turing completeness. One of the things we're discovering is that, when implemented properly, basic modern CSS (i.e. 2.1) parallelizes beautifully across multiple threads and cores for large speedups, with only a few exceptions in wide use, like floats. But if CSS hadn't been so declarative, we'd be stuck in the computing model of the 90's era it was designed in when implementing it.
A reasonable compromise? Any compromise is reasonable when your starting point is extreme enough. Saying "well it could have been a lot worse" is a cop out. It shouldn't have happened at all.
So, I'll agree that wealth does not make you smarter.

I think, though, that people are missing the broader point of Scott Adams' piece: what is being said is being buried underneath how it was said. And yeah, it was pretty stupid of Tom Perkins to phrase things in a way that invites everyone to immediately focus on how he said things rather than on his actual point.

But I'm neither wealthy nor famous, and I'll come out and say this: I believe that the underlying emotional motives behind the protests in the San Francisco are the same underlying emotional motives behind the Holocaust. In both cases, you have people worried that their fundamental economic survival is threatened, unaware of why it's threatened or what to do about it, and looking for a scapegoat (techies in SF, Jews in the Holocaust) to blame for it. That does not mean that I believe there will be another Holocaust, or that the magnitude of these two is anywhere close to equivalent. But I do think it's worth focusing on the substance of people's concerns and addressing them before it becomes a situation where such concerns are warranted.
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Agreed, the author paints it mainly as a rich vs not-rich divide, and while he in the end admits that it's broader than that, the core of it seems to be the country/suburbs vs city-dweller divide. Do you want to be in the mix of all the humanity happening, or do you want to stay away from it? For the last several decades, you don't need to be what we'd call rich to live in the suburbs. At least in most of the US.
What about generators and stuff like Koa[1]? Do you dismiss them too? You don't have to use events all the time, and it's trivial to wrap most Node IO as promises, thunks or whatever it is that you like, and then use generators as syntax sugar to work with them.

[1]: http://koajs.com
Is http://arxiv.org/pdf/hep-th/9907164v2.pdf#page=30 a reasonable approximation? It works in Chrome and should work with the Adobe plugin, but doesn't work in Safari. I don't know if PDF has finer scale references than page.
Thanks, I'm going to make that research
What do you mean "manage"? Backup? View? Share?
Java blocking I/O is faster than non-blocking, at least on Linux. This is kernel level, not language level.

http://www.slideshare.net/e456/tyma-paulmultithreaded1
Classic bait and switch. Get multitudes to sign up for Prime over the holidays and then bump the cost.
Man - don't take my example as something to extrapolate from. See the big picture and where my example comes from. Extrapolate from there.

This particular piece of code is simple and easy to understand and follow. The function is small - you can take a few hours and understand the stack.

The point is, you have to play the compiler game in order to understand. The original coder is not helping you in any way. It doesn't give you any context. Where's the place of this (any) function? Why was it written in the first place? What problem is it trying to solve?

There are some things that the code alone can't tell. Because the code talks to the compiler and the compiler doesn't care about context - people do. And people understand either by taking the hard way (playing the compiler game - having to jump back & forth) or talking to a human. And the code comments are the best that you can get short of talking directly to the developer.
No, democracy is not like making Ukranians or Egyptians love baseball, bullfighting and bratwurst. It's not some oddity from western cultures. It means rule of the people as opposed to the rule of some small group of thugs with guns (aristocracy, apparatchiks, the mafia, military dictators, religious leaders, etc). Everyone, everywhere in the world understands that by now.

What is specific to western cultures is that we don't expect the thugs to always prevail. All that talk about democracy as a foreign implant is a glaringly obvious and self serving attempt by the ruling thugs to present the status quo as an inevitability so they can keep lining their pockets without interference by the people. Let's not fall for it.
For the most part I agree with this explanation, but it does not apply to certain cases such as inheritance. Unfortunately the tendency to portray all wealthy people as entitled heirs has been around since the days of explicit aristocracy.
> Over 50k modules all written in the async style, ready to use

Is this even true? There are "57 210" modules in NPM at the moment but many of them are explicitly synchronous
That's not all. This code:

foo = do
result <- do_first_thing
do_second_thing result

Kinda sorta roughly desugars into something like this:

function foo(cb) { do_first_thing(function(result) { do_second_thing(result, cb); }); }

Synchronous and asynchronous Haskell APIs can have the exact same interface.
I’ve used strace before to help diagnose issues with buggy software I was using and I thought this was a great article.

I just thought I’d let people know that it can be a lot easier to read strace’s output if you read the output log file using Vim as it contains a syntax file which can highlight PIDs, function names, constants, strings, etc. Alternatively, if you don’t want to create an strace log file, you could pipe the output to Vim and it will automatically detect it as being strace output, e.g.

strace program_name 2>&1 | vim -
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You are partly correct. The IP is the node who first told Blockchain.info (assuming that's what this is using) about the transaction. The "entry point" to the network would be when the person sending first transmits it.

There is no way to be sure where a transaction came from, but if you have data about how long it took to reach parts of the network, you can make an educated guess (which becomes more accurate if you have more connections/nodes).

Some people specifically add Blockchain.info to their peer list, but that is bad for anonymity since all your transactions will then list your real IP in the "relayed by" field.
I think it is fairly easy to live amongst middle-class folk regardless of how much money you have. It is a matter of knowing how to live rich (it takes skills:) )... I think you can easily find upper-middle class towns and neighborhoods where you can live amongst normal people without concern for your safety.

It is even easier if you move to a big city where wealth doesn't isolate.

Personally I have never gotten the appeal of rich people moving to exclusive areas, I think I would feel very boxed-in in such environments...but again I have never been rich :)
Your link points to the (very old) 1.x branch docs.

http://www.playframework.com/documentation/2.2.x/JavaAsync
This story was posted here a few weeks ago execpt not on yahoo and it was written by the man himself.
"But I don't think being rich equates to being smart."

Possibly. It depends how one got rich. Did they inherit wealth from previous generation ? They may or may not be "smart" by the book. But if you got rich on your own (think entrepreneur, gambler whatever), then I am sure there is some element of smartness involved but the important thing is to define smartness. For example, are you smart with money management? Boom, you could possibly get rich over time if you do it right. stuff like that.

Overall, I think that being smart is necessary but not a sufficient condition (hello logic class) to be rich on your own. What do you all think ?
Yudkowsky pushed a virgin into a volcano once.
Hit ’Em Where It Hurts: The solution to the higher-ed adjunct crisis
Cameron: UK public is fine with domestic spying
Isn't what socialist countries do ?

Tax more the richest to be able to tax less the poorest so that overall the poorest are more happy ?
I think you need to explain why money laundering is unethical. Because there are plenty of laws passed by various governments that many people feel would be unethical to follow.

To use an extreme example, was it unethical to hide jews from the Nazi's?
Money is root of evil today, but if you ask for any rise it's no surprise, they're giving none away.
I run OwnCloud on my Synology NAS at home. The Synology has got dynamic DNS and I have then CNAMED the synology.me address with cloud.mydomain.com. The sync client seems OK to me and I can access my files and contacts remotely. Everything goes over SSL with a free StartSSL cert.

I also use dropbox for work stuff that I don't care about from a privacy perspective.

Overall I'm happy with OwnCloud. Sadly they don't have an officially supported OwnCloud package for Synology, but you can have everything I guess.
Optimizing Web Font Rendering Performance
Asciidoctor: http://asciidoctor.org/docs/asciidoc-writers-guide/ . There are forthcoming plans to include a LaTeX backend (https://github.com/asciidoctor/asciidoctor/issues/681 ), but it can already output to HTML and Docbook, which can in turn output to other formats including PDF. There's also MathJax-based equation support for the HTML5 backend: https://github.com/asciidoctor/asciidoctor/issues/492 .

Obviously the big step is for it to be able to output LaTeX so that the equation capabilities and such will be directly exposed, but Asciidoc is pretty awesome already in my experience.
Thanks for posting this, scardine! We've stayed pretty quiet with ZenHub but the product is in use by a few thousand people and everyone seems to like it :)

We built ZenHub last year after cycling through a bevy of different project management apps like Trello, Asana, Tracker, JIRA, etc. We found ourselves frustrated having to juggle multiple tools and decided to centralize everything into GitHub.

ZenHub is built upon the GitHub API and injects additional features directly into the GitHub user interface via our browser extension. Features include gorgeous Kanban-like boards with filtering built in, unlimited file uploads of any type, and a very effective +1 feedback button added to every GitHub Issue or comment.

Disclosure: I work with Axiom Zen, the company that built and maintains ZenHub.
I'd rather be wealthy then smart.

Did you mean:

I'd rather be wealthy than smart.

OR

I'd rather be wealthy, then smart.

?

EDIT: crimsonalucard corrected the typo in their comment
I'm guessing the intent is to say that anonymizing the source of money per se doesn't seem to do anyone any harm, much like accepting cash as a form of payment. The problem is when people use such channels to avoid detection of crimes by law enforcement. We have to decide as a society which conveniences or defenses of privacy (anonymizing the source of money being one) are worth sacrificing to enable better law enforcement.
Awesome! I wonder how easy it would be to integrate http://galenframework.com with this
Based on what you just said, smartness is not necessary for wealth.