skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As I said above, Link Bubble development started before I was aware of Chat Heads.
1. Make sure devices are calibrated to a few seconds with a radio wave (easy).

2. Give each like a specific t0 and a transmitting period for well-defined pulses.

3. Draw current.

4. Correlate.
Parent poster wasn't condoning breaching privacy; parent poster was condoning an individual owning their own observatiosn.
According to the S-1 for the IPO that never happened, they spent nearly as much on delivery as their total revenue. Seems like they weren't doing that well.

http://www.secinfo.com/dRqWm.5c8t.htm#1jjz
Presuming this is closed source? Although it looks like a neat concept, it would be a more attractive option if I knew something that was dealing with my browsing history was open source.
I guess their activities vis - a - vis him are not covered in his daily briefing, assuming he elects to receive one.
For me there's two things that make OVH interesting: IPv6 and DDOS mitigation. It really depends on what you want to do though.
> Meg called to talk about our hiring practices. Here is what she said. Google is the talk of the valley because we are driving salaries up across the board.
Then Eric Schmidt says:
> I would prefer Omid do it verbally since I don't want to create a paper trail over which we can be sued later

So Silicon Valley execs were illegally conspiring to drive down wages, and who knows how much more was done outside of the paper trail mentioned.

Then we have an article discussion yesterday and blog posts etc. in the past few weeks about how companies can't find great engineers, and how we need immigration law changes that blocks Mexicans etc. but brings in more engineers to drive down engineer wages etc.

Maybe if CEO's weren't illegally conspiring to drive wages below their market value, there wouldn't be a so-called "engineer shortage"?

I mean it's risible. They conspire illegally to drive down wages, then whine that not enough people want to work in this field where wages have been artificially and illegally deflated.
I'm sure when Eric Schmidt was being recruited for Google from Novell[1] he didn't get a pay rise or better share options at all...

[1] http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Schmidt
For in-house code in a manufacturing company, we usually left all the debug symbol and assertions in our C code. For writing a product that shipped to others at a dev tools company, we usually turned off the debugging, turned on NDEBUG and full optimization. (although the product had checking for things built into its logic, and a lot of testing -- C being used as an assembler surrogate -- as we were writing developer tools, rather than "enterprise" whack-it-together-on-no-time-budget pile-age)

"Production build" varies by environment, TMTOWTDI.
Its a "public" copy of the message, it's been no doubt emailed to the person in question as well. Posting it here, on reddit and on bitcointalk is just the author being pushy.
Perhaps, but what is important is that neither of those positions reflect reality.
uProxy will be hopefully released a few months, which should help you help others in a censorship jam that you trust with greater confidence not to use your connection for such activity. And I imagine speech freedom will still need your help whenever it's released..
To whoever downvoted this, how is his question and concern not valid?
That's not what colored coins are. Colored coins are coins which have been used to mark ownership of another asset, like say a share of stock.
thanks, seems it needs lot of work than i thought
Bear in mind that the connection between these addresses is tenuous at best. There's very little to suggest that the same person owns all of these transactions. The paths are fairly convoluted, it could be a normal user or a mixer or an internal wallet. You'd never know by design.

As I've mentioned before, this sort of thing is usually correct in that same way a broken clock is.
> These emails[1] (not the commentary around them) seem to say that the big tech companies in the valley agree not to recruit employees of other companies

My first reaction when reading this was "well, duh". However, I just noticed that the title of the piece is incorrect. That's BI's bad, they should know better.
This is the free market. People choose what they think they are worth. If you don't think Google is paying you enough, quit. Deals with companies to avoid poaching have a cost themselves. This doesn't need more government interaction this needs people to value their work, to think.
That's not the question... the question was why put this on pastebin and have it posted to HN. If this was communicated in a more private manner, you could have actually done something with the information, such as find the people who are moving these coins.

Now, if there is anything nefarious going on, the parties responsible probably know that others are watching.
> unlike FIAT.

Actually, unlike any commodity or any currency with a physical representation. What makes other currency not traceable is the notes and coins, not the fact that they are fiat or not.

side note: has "fiat" now become synonymous with non-crypto currency the same way hacker has become a swear word ?
Oh please! Obviously Facebook benefits when people use their programming language more. People contribute to the standard library, test stuff, share stuff. The pool of people familiar with the language to hire from gets larger.

It's so obvious I wonder what goes on in the op's head.
If no one is doing it, perhaps it's worth trying?
I own HolyC.

http://www.templeos.org/Wb/Doc/HolyC.html

God says...
geek humility go_ahead_make_my_day revolution outrageous
how_bout_it what_would_Jesus_do one_more_time biggot do_you_have_a_problem
theft Ramsay Dean_scream doh stoked I'm_gonna_smack_someone
hippy stoked act where's_the_love I'm_God_and_you're_not
Ivy_league it's_hopeless don't_count_on_it oh_oh you_owe_me
jealousy so_let_it_be_done fancy not_in_kansas_anymore
do_I_have_to
> If all the big companies just move each other's employees around, nobody benefits.

There's one group of people who do benefit from this - employees themselves. The positive feedback loop that comes of such zero-sum scenario raises the salaries of developers and also gives them an advantage when negotiating compensation.

I do side with the companies on this one - such practices waste lots of resources and reduce the quality of company's output, so the society at large loses.
The page was causing 100% CPU usage in Chrome for me. Admittedly, this may have been the result of using an adblocker and some aggressive rules or possibly some kludgy userscripts. Anyways, the page was giving console output suggesting that it was trying to use javascript to actively change the layout of the page. Whatever the actual intent, I managed to stop such activity by blocking 'devicepx-jetpack.js' and 'jquery.sticky-kit.min.js', and article site appeared to stay mostly intact.
At greater risk of exposing my misinterpretation of it than jat850, my understanding was that his domain knowledge allows him to solve the problem directly rather than fumbling around with generic solutions (perhaps solving it accidentally). Some quality of the action affects the outcome, even though the approach is pretty much the same.

Some problems with my router call for a simple power cycle; others call for a power cycle with ~30 seconds unplugged from power. Someone without much knowledge of the router might do the same thing as me (power cycle), and it might even occasionally work (if s/he unplugs it, goes to make lunch, and comes back), but my domain knowledge enables me to solve the problem more consistently (seemingly magically).
When you say "nobody benefits", you are leaving out the employees, who will see higher wages as a result of competition for their services.

In fact, if you only consider the companies (and not the employees), this kind of competition is negative sum, not zero sum, which is kind of the point.
But this is exactly how UK student loans work - you only pay them off if you make more than X amount of money per year(and then the amount of money you pay off is proportional to how much you make), and if you never make that much money, then you never pay it off and after 40 years the loan is forfeit.
F*ck them in the year (c)
Yes, that's the joke. It's not my favourite. A good hacker Koan should end with a non-trivial insight - this one is just trying to be funny, unless I'm missing something deeper.
We use Resin as the Java Servlet container for plain Servlet and most of the Servlet-derived frameworks in our benchmarks [1]. Incidentally, benchmarking static delivery of larger files on modern hardware is a bit uninteresting since it's relatively trivial to saturate gigabit Ethernet.

[1] http://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/
This is a good point; people might see Tor as a one-time step they have to do to continue doing exactly what they did before, rather than a complete change to their digital routine. Still, I hope people keep building distributed alternatives; eventually someone might just get the right UX at the right time.

I normally wouldn't have been so harsh in my wording, especially when jumping into the middle of a thread, but I guess the words "waste" and "absurd" seemed hostile enough to set me off.
The actual study: http://www.sciencemag.org/content/343/6176/1203

Gist of it is, Google Trends overestimated flu cases by about double for 100 out of 108 weeks, according to the paper.

Edit: There is actually an interesting podcast available on it without a paywall: http://podcasts.aaas.org/science_podcast/SciencePodcast_1403...
Just forget about the idea, to be honest. Gambling laws are so vastly different around the world that it's dead expensive to run a Internet gambling business.

Furthermore, the US are known for arresting managers of poker sites based OUTSIDE THE FUCKING COUNTRY for violating US gambling laws.

Seriously, don't mess with gambling, it's a hell hole waiting to swallow you.
Bitcoin user natural selection, I suppose.
Unbabel (YC W14) Launches A Human-Edited Machine Translation Service
Agreed- it is very hard to tell who is holding the currency due to tumbling and all.

But if it all does condense down to one wallet, or a set of transactions that is suddenly happening on this one service... then it does smell funny.

If it should turn out that the owner of the account is someone affiliated with MTGox, then I can only imagine that shit will hit the fan.
Is college important to us as a society?

Assuming it (and other forms of further education) are, might we be better off funding state schools to the point that they have an affordable tuition?
The upshot of this would be an cost competitive alternative to private schools. The looming debt these students take on now is not going to go away and will remain a drag on their forward progress for decades. Perhaps the collective interest being spent on all these loans might be better spent on actual education.
Ideally, store it for a set amount of time and then delete it. Or keep it in perpetuity and only allow it to be used with a court order.
> We have to ask ourselves why college is so expensive.

Because you cannot discharge student loan debt through bankruptcy.

If students could discharge their debt, loans would match risk better and decrease. In turn, colleges wouldn't be able to raise their prices as far since they would price themselves out of students.
Thanks! Went ahead and made the fix.
I didn't say we should require everyone to record themselves all the time. I said maybe it makes sense to encourage people to voluntarily record their public lives.

I think power discrepancies between private citizens can be just as great. I'm 5'6" and 120lbs. Even unarmed, many people pose a threat to me. Heck, I've been physically threatened by strangers several times in the past month.

Also, I think recording strangers in public would help curb antisocial behavior. There's a guy swearing loudly on his cell phone on the bus I'm riding. Maybe he'd tone it down a little if someone threatened to upload a video of him.
It's a little different when these are the primary tech giants in the field even offering those positions and they work together to keep your position at a lower salary. "Not work for them" would mean leaving the industry.
"Reject" is fine, it means "a person or thing dismissed as inadequate or unacceptable."
Just got back online and doubled the number of Heroku dynos on it.
Your tablet's killer app: A personalized printed keyboard.
Here's an awesome idea that will appeal to any user of a computer, tablet or smartphone. It's a printable keyboard that anyone can hack and make for themselves. Unlike other printable keyboards, this one can be moved around, it can be customized however the user wants, you can use multiple keyboards at one time and best of all it can be printed out on a standard ink printer.

http://youtu.be/MyVJBWWdVZg

Best,
Evan
How can this be patented? It doesn't seem functionally no different than "open tab" and "open tab in the background", except that it opens a round notification instead of a tab-shaped one. Is there something else in it that's novel? Maybe the protocol for coordinating apps for opening the link in the background from a different app?
Read it again - granted 14.33 million common shares at 30 cents each in 2001. The IPO 3 years later was at $80, opening in the markets at $100 - he made $1.43 billion that morning, in common stock alone.
A publicly funded search engine?
There is no longer a justification for self-defense in the US?

That would be news to a whole lot of people. In terms of effective self-defense we're now to the point that if Peruta v County of San Diego is not struck down by a 9th Circuit en banc hearing or the Supremes, 90% of the US population will live in "shall issue" or better concealed carry regimes. Did you miss the nationwide sweep of this, in the modern period starting with Florida in 1987 and ending with Wisconsin and Iowa in 2010, with the courts forcing Illinois (which is now mailing out thousands of permits), and now California and Hawaii? (Sucks to be on the East Coast, Maryland and New York I think cert denied by the Supremes, New Jersey and Massachusetts cases still pending. Add the ones where it's not an issue, that's all of the Federal Appeals circuits!)

Those of us with a detailed knowledge of the relevant history know the dependent militia clause was a sop thrown to those who feared standing armies and e.g. "select militias", which are exactly what our modern police have become. They lost because e.g. George Washington, who had very detailed knowledge of the merits of militiamen and regulars, said "no way".

Might as well mention the U.K. since some of our correspondents hail from there: as I understand it, effective self-defense, that is, using a disparity of force, was judicially nullified in the '50s, and was enshrined in law in the '60s or '70s (this is what the recent "have-a-go" stuff is about). I doubt any of you have lived in a time when you could effectively defend yourself, and therefore the concept could be quite alien to you.
> People are free to make agreements if they want to, just as employees are free to not work for them.

No, they're not. This is anti-competitive wage suppression. It's illegal.

> Are you free to use the power of the state to try an boost your salary? I don't think you should be able to do that. But apparently many people do.

Pretty sure that's illegal too.
That's not true at all. Police discretion has a long and well documented history (including a significant amount of legal precedent).
They didn't just get a lot of people to their page. They also got a large chunk of their visitors to pay them. The first part might not be sustainable - and it seems they weren't planning for it to be as this was a one time offer - but it definitely validated something, and also put them in touch with a lot of customers.
Agreed. The line from Marco's footnote irks me.

"They get almost no benefit from anyone else using them"

"Except finding bugs and occasionally submitting patches, but Facebook is so massive with such a large codebase that they’re likely to find most bugs relevant to them long before anyone else does".

Facebook's bug bounty proves this to be untrue.
I would not stone them, they tried, it doesn't work well, they can fix it or scrap it. At least they tried to use their technology for something positive this time.
It's one thousand times better to fail when trying to predict the flu epidemics than successfully using technology to bomb weddings.
Show HN: Fibonacci sequence 2048 clone
So are bitcoins going to have a modifiable value based on being tainted?
> The amount of foreign students has grown, consequently you need people to keep track of immigration requirements that seem to get worse each passing year, and you also need cultural programs, you can't expect people from non-western countries to be thrown into an alien culture and succeed.

Um, most of the reason foreign student enrollment has grown is because foreign students pay cash. Adding bureaucracy to manage students who whom you admitted primarily because they carry cash is not something I particularly sympathize with.
I travel on buses that have CCTV and a big monitor so everyone can see what the 8 or so cameras are recording. People swear loudly (no audio recording but I doubt that is a factor); people prepare cannabis cigarettes; etc etc.

Some people are just anti social[1] and do not care.

[1] preparing a joint isn't anti social! They're not smoking it on the bus. But it is illegal in the UK.
Facebook has obviously invested huge resources into developing this language and its supporting architecture. It's being used extensively throughout their presumably massive code base. To suggest that they could simply drop it and walk away ignores these things. Also, presumably they developed it for a reason; it fulfills important needs of theirs and they're not going to simply let it whither on the vine.
This is good news for every entrepeneur who is developer. Why? Because it shows that you are worth more than companies pay for you!
Should be fixed now! Thanks again.
That's exactly what I was just thinking I wished existed!
There is a great episode of Black Mirror (All episodes of Black Mirror are great, but this one is more relevant - Season 1 Episode 3) titled The Entire History of Us, it turns the figurative mirror on a world where people do exactly this...
It's interesting that Microsoft is barely mentioned here. Perhaps it's just because they are not in the Bay area?
Exactly. If people saw the cost to provide these services as a % of their tuition, I am guessing most students would prefer to simply do without and pay less.
> Google Trends overestimated flu cases by about double for 100 out of 108 weeks

Well, there's a simple solution to that... Just halve all of the results from the current algorithm!
They benefit from adoption of Hack but they don't suffer from abandoning it.

Contrast this with Microsoft and C#. Microsoft would suffer if they abandoned C#. They would lose a huge swath of developer mind share. They would rattle confidence of the remaining developers. There would be huge costs to their clients who would be forced to switch to a new (possibly not-Microsoft) technology.
Big companies integrating things like this are the best kinds of acquisitions. There's no reason something like this should be standalone. Everyone should have a better browser, not just the handful of people that find this app.
He doesn't say that fiat is the only untraceable form of currency.
Yes, I know, I was being ironical Gerry.
It's important to not gloss over Apple's role in this. Based on the emails that I have seen, they were the driving force behind these agreements.

Yes, Google's "don't be evil" mantra is tempting low hanging fruit. They dropped the ball here, but so did most of the valley. Nobody should be getting free passes in the court of public opinion.
I've ordered pizza from several chains that use exactly the same process for their online orders, and have done so this way for years now.

No account is mandatory, although such functionality is offered if you want to save your preferred pizza toppings, your address, and so forth for greater convenience during future orders.

You can prepay, if you want, or just pay the delivery driver once the pizzas have been delivered.

I'm not really sure what needs to be "validated" here. This approach has been successfully used by many other organizations offering the exact same type of service.
Why was this downvoted? The discussion in these articles has all seemed to ignore the fact that engineers were explicitly excluded from the agreements.
How replaceable or irreplaceable are the support staff in this scenario? What's the ramp up time for a new member of the support staff compared to a new member of the team in question?
Exactly. People wonder why salaries are so high in finance. Part of that is intense recruiting competition.

Finance pays out a fantastic amount of profits to the people generating them, i.e. the employees, rather than just the shareholders.
Nice $40M ecommerce company – call me when it scales
The central claim of the post is that Microsoft and Apple look after their developers while Facebook and Google will not. This is demonstrably false.

The post says:

> Microsoft and Apple have massive vested interests in supporting their languages and platforms. They stand to lose a lot to their core businesses if they stop. Developers’ interests align somewhat with theirs in this regard: one developer doesn’t have a lot of power in those relationships, but the sum of all developers definitely does, so these companies generally need to care for these languages and maintain these platforms for a long time.

This reasoning fails dismally when applied to Microsoft's own technologies: VB6, Silverlight, Windows 8 Phone (original version). All these developers cast out. There are surely more examples.
Utilizar la metformina para bajar de peso
Un ingrediente activo en la metformina se pudo identificar y aislar, ese compuesto que se pudo lograr aislar e identificar pertenece a los medicamentos biguanidas, este medicamento está compuesto por dos enlaces de lo que es guanidina.
It really is a great feeling when an app solves a problem you hadn't even recognised you had and makes your experience even better. nice work Chris!
OP's head is a linkbait fluff article magnet which is somehow seen as the holy grail here on HN and other echo circles.

I have no idea where this originates from and it hurts me to see that his void content gets picked over actual quality content just because it's "the Marco". His domain should be - wildcard at the begin and end - permanently banned from Hacker News because it only drags us into a wasted spot on the frontpage.
Ironically, the original paper (fulltext) fell short of the front page in both submissions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7405286 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7422496

/newest can be so random.
Ok...So, you are saying that less than 1/2 of the budget can be traced to actually supporting research and education.

Where is the other 1/2?
There are two primary argument for police to have them IMHO.

1. Police have extraordinary power over others.

2. Juries believe them by default.

This gives them much higher requirements for accountability than most people.

I do really like the idea though. Human memories are incredibly inaccurate, but we believe our own memories and can't really do otherwise. If we had the option of a surrogate memory that could be really transformational. Imagine what that would do to your perception of time and your discount rate if you could have perfect recall of your whole life?