skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> So my guess is they applied little care to the oversight committee and handed them a sheet of what not to do, such as attempt to browse external web sites. The staffers did so anyway, and now are "penetrating" the firewall that didn't even exist except on paper. The agency now has a reason to restrain activities of oversight staffers that they didn't have before (for violating policy).

That sounds likely, but that also sounds like incompetence on the CIA's part. It also seems absurd for the CIA to decide what the CIA overseers can see.
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Ah yes, I failed to address that. I think there are two things at play here: first is that the "investors" were merely asked to rate, but not actually invest. So their honest opinions can come through. Second is that investors have a little less power disparity (in relative social terms) over founders, so a overt display of wealth isn't likely to work as easily. Could even be considered off-putting.
How to write about S.F. if you're not from here
Simple tips for building a roller derby website.
> If you need to extract data from a web page, then the chances are you looked for their API. Unfortunately this isn't always available and you sometimes have to fall back to web scraping.

Also, many times, not all functionality/features are available through the API.

Edit: By the way, without JS enabled, the code blocks on your website are basically unviewable (at least on Firefox).

http://imgur.com/CSYxMfL
That'd just push down wages for the parts of your schedule you're actually working, though. Minimum wages are the type of thing where if you push on one side, it incentivizes employers to extract more value by any means possible out of you.

I'm a broken record on this, but: an unconditional basic income is the answer to this situation. The only way you can make sure every job has dignity is for every person to be able to quit their job without worrying about starving or being unable to afford any housing. Once everyone is guaranteed that bare minimum, employers have to treat their employees with a basic level of respect and dignity. Otherwise they'll quit.
And a government who supports the main telecom and lines company. There has even been talk of putting some cash their way to compensate for the money they would lose (the dividend they have been paying to date has been good too - but that couldn't be cut of course). This crap from our PM. After screwing us for decades, the commerce commission makes a decision that required a backbone and the PM sides with the corporation rather than the taxpayer. http://i.stuff.co.nz/business/industries/9169753/Chorus-must...
If nothing major has changed, I'd rather use the nice API DirectX offers than the general weirdness that is OpenGL. Any project that makes DirectX (as an interface) available for all platforms is great news in my book.
Your bad boss is your problem, and it’s on you to fix it.
19bn $.

No way anyone else at FB could have built this app and given it away for free for years for that price.

No way. Totally worth it. 19bn $.

Sequoia's deck on the amazing sclaing of 32 devs supporting that many users? well, guess what, they did it through taking shortcuts. Who would have guessed. Totally flabbergasted.
That's the point of closed shops & unions, right? To limit the pool of labor contractually to force better working conditions...
Retractions are good in when the original paper was the best efforts of its authors. This kind of big-news nonsense paper is far less forgivable.
The explanation I've seen for Feinstein's apparent two-facedness is that one of her bugaboos is torture. She started her speech with reference to the CIA's destruction of the videotapes documenting torture, and the documents affected by the CIA's actions here are concerned with the SSCI torture report.

It just so happens that the current Outside General Counsel for the CIA, Robert Eatinger, is the lawyer who approved the torture tape destruction, and apparently his name is mentioned in the Torture Report 1,600 times for things such as referring SSCI torture investigators to the DOJ for investigation as a method of intimidation.
Spy on Others (Regular People) - it makes us safer.

Spy on me (Rich Senator who is becoming richer) - it is an OUTRAGE!

These congress critters really need to be a bit more nuanced in their double standards. This is the same person that publicly accused Ed Snowden of Treason [1].

So when we got to know about Large scale spying on the entire American Public for NO Reason - the person who told us about it is a traitor.
When they learned about a SPECIFIC case of spying on their staffers there is sudden (manufactured) outrage?

I think she senses the public mood & is trying to use this issue to slink back into "of the people by the people" mode.
Real Slimy.

[1] http://thehill.com/blogs/defcon-hill/policy-and-strategy/304...
Burdening these people by making fewer of them have to do crummy, hellish work?
I'm soooo sorry for eliminating work no one wants to do.

Unemployment isn't an engineer or an MBA's fault. It's the fault of shareholders, executives and congressmen: they're the ones hoarding the money at the top. I guarantee you, if the money went to the engineers, we'd have 98% employment right now and the jobs would be a whole lot more interesting than retail. Heck, we'd have to start using graphical user interfaces for stores because we wouldn't be able to find enough people to work retail!
But the OP was talking about blowing his life savings on a bakery because he couldn't find a job programming in Perl.

No, he wasn't. The article isn't about Perl. The article is about the excessive attachment to novelty and reinvention as practiced in much of the programming world today.
Yes, it is difficult to bring oneself to turn off the magic money machine once it starts printing, but keep in mind how much money he made and how much the existing installed copies still make for him. It certainly made the decision easier, I think.
Because all entertainment must also be high art?
The featured photo for this story is very strong, and it answers more questions than the story itself ever will :)
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This perspective asks too much of everyone. If I want to make an intro to you, it's because I think it's helpful. It's the opposite of disrespect.

To then place the additional burden on me of checking in with you first is, in my mind, just cocky. Not my job to know your schedule, and how about respecting the fact that I'm trying to help?

People who insist on pre-introductions are vastly overestimating how much others should be thinking about them or "respecting their time," which is actually no one else's business. Responsible adults can handle the additional burden of someone trying to help.
Nah, of course not. They're copying Apple of course, everybody does after all? iMessage, FaceTime, whatnot.
it is now both /dev/random and /dev/urandom on openbsd
‘Customer Experience’ Is Today’s Business Benchmark
So, what happens if the unconditional basic income becomes 'the new poverty' as the economy adjusts and the price of basic goods and services change? We'd end up in the same spot - they can treat you like crap, because you are replaceable, and you still need the money.

I should say I also have no idea if that's what would happen. Just a concern.
I don't think you are evaluating the tradeoff at all here. WhatsApp won by making a friction free experience. You are adding email and pass phrases, or any one of the dozen things that make it harder to use.

I accept there is a good solution, but I don't think you are thinking about the problem broadly.
"There really isn't any need to treat employees well"

All you have to do is sell your soul and abandon your own humanity. Cheap, right? You can learn a lot about someone, or a culture, by seeing how they treat those less fortunate.
After realizing that I feel like I know what you are talking about, but then realizing that I have only met a couple investors in my life, I think you must be talking about something more general. Perhaps personality archetypes. I think our chosen field attracts these two personality types, which I guess you could say map pretty well to "engineer" and "marketing and sales (business)person". I think the third major category would be the slightly more nebulous "designer", or craft-y/sman type, but I don't know if thats as common among investors.
It also sounds like a canned response from Stretch who probably uses that to justify why he himself works there.
How do the installed copies still make money?
thanks for writing it. i have yet to grok or embrace Lisp-family languages, but your post was still fun to read.
I'd like to see harder numbers on the hourly value the store gets from the employees. As a for instance, Dick's Sporting Goods has a per employee operating income of about $15,000. That isn't an amazingly solid number, but it's enough to say they have quite a bit of cash moving around after they pay wages.
This doesn't pass a smell test as far as I can tell. Tumors adapt. http://www.cell.com/retrieve/pii/S0092867412015504?cc=y
Consistently faster?

In my experience over the years, on any moderate sized db (more than, say, 100k rows in a table) select count() has always been faster under mysql - both myisam and innodb (although innodb doesn't claim to be 100% accurate all the time).

Why should I* have to keep a computed column when the core engine has all the data all the time? And it's something pretty fundamental to the data - how much of it is actually in there.
Well, I guess I have some terrible flavor of social anxiety or something, because it often takes me half an hour or more of ugh to compose even a short reply if I'm introduced to someone, so this ends up being a huge boulder in my todo list. I suppose if people take this attitude in response the situation will simply resolve itself.
I see this is getting downvoted. Will an honest man upvote this back into the black?

The fact is that men place far more value in physical assets than women do. That it is even questioned and needing a scientific study is bewildering.
Responsive Boilerplate.
Lighter and smarter than both Bootstrap and Foundation, Responsive gives you a proper baseline from which to build responsive websites without all the unnecessary fluff other frameworks add.
extremely useful!
This seems like a possible solution, but you have a chicken/egg problem with the account identifier / AES key.
Why are static site generators popular now? Because not everyone's building a social network for marmots that has to serve 300,000 image macros a second. Plus c'est la même chose.
One important point here: In the article the author says that the location of the database is /sdcard/WhatsApp/Databases. That's not entirely correct.

It only gets copied there when you use the build in backup feature (Settings -> Chat Settings). Else, it sits "safely" under /data/data/com.whatsapp/databases like every other Android sqlite database.

But nonetheless, WhatsApp was and is not really known for its safety...
Are you guys seriously crying and screaming about compensation when so many actors/directors/producers are filthy rich? I am sure they are all so hungry right now...Think about it! Not to mention the differences between countries regarding salaries and quality of life.
That's because the commercial facilities are doing all the heavy lifting for the NSA. Facebook does all the analysis, NSA gets the finished reports.
I kind of did a double take at this:

> Even though I was living rent-free in a guest bedroom, my every-other-Thursday paycheck couldn’t help me climb out of my hole, particularly after the state took half my pre-tax, $300 weekly salary for child support payments.

> * got the opportunity to leave Sporting Goods Inc. for a temporary job as a communications director for a Capitol Hill nonprofit, a gig that paid twice as much per week as I’d earn in a month at the store. That salary still didn’t come close to my Politico paycheck, though it was a step in the right direction.*

- 300 * 52 = 15,600 annually

- 15,600 * 4 * 2 ("twice as much per week as one month") = 124,800

- "That salary still didn’t come close to my Politico paycheck"

So, at least $150K or even $200+K? Gah-damn! I know big beltway journalists get a decent salary, but Politico is a relative newcomer (though profitable and growing).
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I'm still surprised how close to my last job this is. The do everything, get nothing [1]. Same mindset about being robbed by employees. The worst part there, to me, was the absurdity of it. You have to be on 100% ~24/7 even when there's nothing to do. But you're certainly not allowed to change things in any way to simplify or increase productivity. Something any programmer will cringe at to death. This is something very different from other jobs like mcdonalds where the rush impose high productivity constraints meaning things are already quite optimized. No time's wasted: you're active and for some valuable reason. Helps a lot.

[1] optional bonus: being slightly mocked by less educated people that will then ask you for hints about things they don't understand. Of course, I helped. Slave genes.
Awesome. Just this past weekend I've been working on something similar. It's never been more obvious that continuous integration was developed pre-git than today. Everything about our workflow is distributed, why is the thing that blocks our code from going to production so centralized? Heroku built a company out of using git post-receive hooks, I can only hope we will find other interesting ways of using git to solve integration issues. Maybe someday we will be overusing git, but I don't think we're even close to that yet.
The original article definitely had a feel of non-truth-yness that was widely discussed in the comments. As a show me the numbers nerd it is nice to see a supporting study that supports some of the priors discussed.
When playing, it seemed like a 50% chance the new tile would be placed in exactly the spot or two that I didn't want it, even if there were 8+ open spaces.
Three. Freaking. Cheers for this one. Anyone who's had to suffer through MySQL's abysmal attempt at doing "spatial" should give PostGIS a well deserved look. I've used Oracle Spatial, ESRI's SDE (which rides on top of MSSQL/Oracle/DB2/SyBase) MySQL 'spatial' and PostGIS. I have to say, hands down, PostGIS has been my favorite. We had to implement MySQL spatial as all of our tabular data was already there and the IT folks felt "comfortable" with it as they knew they could dump it to a plain text file full of CREATE statements any time they wanted to. The problem we have seen is that dumping some of our ancient MySQL spatial tables, we could not import them into other versions. And vise-versa appeared to be true as well. (I'd need to go back and look)
Senator Accuses CIA of Illegal Search of Congress Computers
It's also a highly-simplified backend. No multisession (synchronization is hard), no back-end message history searching (search and graphs are hard).

They took a lot of shortcuts, which turned out really well for them. Simplification made for a very fast client and a low-latency, low-bandwidth protocol.
Is Twitter down for anyone else?
yeah can't log-in anymore. Session error
Here's the routine I've used to win multiple times in a row:

1. "tumbler" until 128 can move to the upper left corner (up right down left, repeat)

2. The highest number on the board is always in the upper left. Make the top row descend left to right.

3. Before combining values on the top row, keep hitting up until one of the lower rows will not combine from a left.

4. Often, the slot you are filling (eg, top right or one below top right) will have a two. Alternate pressing left and right until a two appears, allowing you to combine

5. Keep the second row locked as soon as possible with unique values ASCENDING left to right. This way you can use up, left and right without moving the slot you are filling on the far left of the second row.

6. Never fill the top three rows such that a left or right cannot be used. You will be forced to use a down, messing up the top row.

There are a few other pattern recognition tricks that you'll pick up to aid in filling a slot for higher values. Other misc tips:

* try to keep high number squares close together, and merge up to the top row as soon as possible. Otherwise, they will just close off a slot

* You may get a 2 trapped on the top row blocked by a higher value below it. Unfreeze the second row by combining squares & hope that a two appears in the new opening

* only 2's or 4's will appear. They (always?) appear in the space left behind by the previous movement
Full tilt for me. Site and via Android.
It's much like the issue for those who go to STEM Universities, dorm or off campus housing. And I would choose off campus every time, nothing worse then living in someone else filth and having to tell someone every night that they should turn down the music/tv/yelling because you need to sleep for work/class tommorow
Because it's not in the official repo
Female singer covers Tom Waits (and doesn't flip the gender)
Passion is for suckers: how to own your strengths and be incredibly successful
Quick idea for empirically determining "winnability": implement the complement AI for computer moves [which are (i) position and (ii) value i.e. 2 or 4], perform a decent number of runs with depth limits for I.D. set much bigger, then look at the results. Also, I haven't looked at the code but I don't think looking into improved heuristics can hurt.

edit: I used 'look' 3 times in the last 20 words, what's wrong with me
It's hand wavy, but you can probably say that Northern Europe is quite a lot closer to having a basic income than the U.S. I think the basic standard of living is higher there than the U.S., by a variety of measures.

(not sure it's clear: by basic standard of living, I mean the standard of living typical at the bottom end)

edit: I guess it's probably not great to compare the package of social policies to basic income though.
It doesn't, but it could
As a user of the EyeQ speed reading trainer I was looking for something just like this that could extend to everyday reading. Solid app.
10 or so EC2 instances that had to rebuilt and replaced every day

Just to be understood correctly, you're saying the exception proves the rule? Sidestepping the necessity of the task above, which I'm sure was rendered easier by Fabric or whatever, but it's not like that's a typical use case. You would have to ignore nuance to extrapolate that to generic VM instances from known-state images, etc. that might respond just as well to a bunch (not even a bunch) of scripts.
The last I heard Antigua had permission from the WTO to ignore US copyrights, but hadn't actually changed their local laws to no longer require people to respect these copyrights. Has this changed?
Yup, logged out, and "Something is technically wrong" if I try to log back in.
I'm a doctor with a working application that is currently being used in a couple of hospitals. It might fill one of these areas. I would be interested in submitting. Is there a particular format for the business plan? I've never done official tech entrepreneur stuff.
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Did you consider a server having 1000 blades? Because otherwise 1 * 24 * 365 * 1000 = 8760000Wh, meaning 8.7MWh, not GWh, and the savings are $1300.
I don't know if you've experienced it yourself or have heard other reports of it, but after playing your game for a few hours last night I've been experiencing a 2048-flavored "tetris effect" all day today. My brain keeps on trying to identify "like things" to collapse together; pretty wild.
Same here. Can't log in via mobile, desktop or browser.
Intel has a habit of putting out PR that mixes stuff that is available now, stuff that will be shipping this year, and stuff that may or may not be shipping five years from now. The press loves it but it's annoying and confusing to us technical people. (Whatever you do, do not pay any attention to "rack scale architecture".)

When it comes to silicon photonics specifically, Intel has been talking about it for years and still hasn't shipped anything.
I myself am on OpenELEC, works nice
Twitter is currently down
If I understand you correctly that you don't care for the paradigm of organizing your data in a hierarchical database I would be curious to know what you would use preferably, say when you want to open a document? Tags? Full content search?
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A scientist would respond: How many ethical theories were accepted by contemporaries, only to later be shown to be flawed?

If you want to attribute deaths to bad science, then you must also attribute far more to bad philosophy.
It would need to be continually maintained to avoid that.
I heard it was just a reskin of a premade game he got off an asset store. Is that not the case?

This article made it sound like it was an original idea, but I thought it was just that one button to go up, no button to go down flash game. Is that not what it is?
I've had a problem selling the reliability angle as our instances of MySQL have never crashed. We have drawn the line in the sand that ALL new apps get Postgres by default, but we've been turned down on funding to migrate all old apps. The belief is that they're "doing just fine". I'd love to see every single one of them moved. I know we'd hear squawking from the few folks that know how to use MySQL Workbench as it is a very pretty interface, but it'd be worth it.
hey, i noticed this on HN so just to share my thoughts. How about incorporating it a bit more simple, just pushing commands with some checks like these guys do? It is a bit more low-level but automation comes only once and should be easier to change. Here is video from their site http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBQAhsDeM-s
Honestly, I feel this comes a little too late.

It would have been nice with RaspBMC, but I've recently switch to using Put.io + Chromecast. The fact that Put.io has almost instantaneous access to entire torrents is kind of a dealbreaker.
Yup, session errors! Both on mobile and web, multiple IP's.
I think he was implying that Google is a bit pretentious in their interviewing when it seemed to amount to a regular sysadmin job from his perspective.

This, and my CV says system administrator exactly once, and that ended in 2000. Everything since then has been not system administration. To be pigeonholed into system administration because the mighty algorithm had decreed that the intersection of "Perl" and "system administration" on a CV meant "system administration" did not sit well with me.