skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't mean to play devils advocate here, but let me apply two other possible interpretations: My statistical prior that someone with money did questionable things to obtain it has only been rising with time as I see increasing evidence of illicit business practices among the highest earners. (everything from insider trading to the more recent wage fixing).

Secondly, is it reasonable to assume that one might find distaste for people with money who flaunt it? And that this might cause one to share that distaste for others with money, even if they don't flaunt to such a degree? I realize the latter half is a generalization that can cause problems, I'm just trying to state a rather "human" response. If it is constantly shoved in your face that certain people drive cars worth enough that it could bring your family out of debt for life, you may grow bitter at this.

I believe money can be made, I just also believe there are a lot of "bad actors" in the system, for whom it is "stolen" to some degree, and it only seems to be becoming more common.
Couldn't write the whole name, as the headline is limited to 80 chars. Sorry.
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This is another excellent example of when security-through-obscurity fails; the vPro environment docs are presumably NDA-only (or never released outside Intel), but reverse-engineers will figure things out anyway, and they're not really willing to disclose how much they know...

None of my machines have vPro; I remember someone I know calling it "the ultimate pre-installed RAT" when it first came out.

Another interesting little fact: Intel's wireless cards, at least the 3945/4965 generation, also use an ARC core to run their firmware.
I see. I get it now, it does make a lot of sense.
Although Herman miller chairs are more adjustable I find that the lack of a head rest causes people to fall into really bad habits. At work we have very nice Herman Miller chairs without headrests and you see most people slumped back in their chairs with their necks craned forward. I have the Markus at home and because it had a head rest it allows me to stay comfortably in a position where my head is properly balanced over my spine.
The only reason I would pick SF is because of the weather.
That's not Marxism at all, just go read The Capital. It's seminal and extremely important. Communism has nothing to do with it. It's all about a mixture of catholic hypocrisy and envy.
Trust me, I'm Italian, I know what I'm talking about.
> Pretty soon we'll have a raft of reality TV shows dogging our every move, and providing income to those of us who have fallen from the grace of the techno A-list.

It's already started.

http://techcrunch.com/2012/04/04/reality-tv-gets-startup-obs...
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Year after year, decade after decade I hear "SF is the next this, that or the other". I believe SF is the city with an inferiority complex. No matter how accomplished SF becomes, it can't simply be itself, it has to take somewhere else down. I've given up the discussion at social events; SF simply want to be anywhere else but itself, and that creates all kinds of f'ed up logic spewing out of it's citizen's mouths.
> One had a criminal history that included three assault charges

I really dislike when "charges" are used this way to defame character. Were the charges dismissed? Was the person found innocent during a trial?
The tech:SF::banking:NYC comparison is false for a number of reasons. Chiefly, no single industry in New York overwhelms the city the way tech overwhelms San Francisco. Finance, fashion, media, and many other industries are very big in NY. But NY is still bigger, bigger than people from San Francisco can fathom.

San Francisco is already overwhelmed with tech culture, and this sector continues to grow. Everywhere you turn, it feels like you meet people who work for startups or large software firms. There is no comparable industry in NY that is so pervasive. This lack of economic diversification breeds the other diversity deficits this article mentions.
Well, the same Congress that passed the Bill of Rights also passed the first militia act, basically all able bodied men up to age 45 as I recall. As it stands today, per 10 U.S. Code § 311:

"The militia of the United States consists of all able-bodied males at least 17 years of age and, except as provided in section 313 of title 32, under 45 years of age who are, or who have made a declaration of intention to become, citizens of the United States and of female citizens of the United States who are members of the National Guard. (http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/10/311)

Following that, the unorganized militia are the above minus those in the National Guard or the Naval Militia. Per modern interpretation of Federal law, this now probably includes women.
I think the argument is that if everyone in SF is tech focused now, despite different backgrounds, there is a lack of diversity in the interests of the groups taking over SF (techies), where there used to be diversity. So now, everyone's a techie, instead of maybe musicians or artists, etc. I'm not sure it's a good argument, but I think I agreed with it briefly.
Is Tom Preston-Werner the co-founder who was suspended?
I drive to work and I'm much more fit than most people on HN. Why? I care.

Living downtown would cost over double my mortgage and significantly reduce my quality of life. I have access to trails and silent nights by living 14-20 minutes from work depending on traffic.

I also eat real foods and avoid most processed food and sugar. When I have a sugar craving, I buy some fruit.

If "walking" is your only form of exercise, you may curb obesity, but you'll still be far from perfect health.

The human body is an incredible contraption, and there is almost always room for improvement and growth. Get stronger, faster, and more durable.
"Press one button for “no,” another for “yes,” and a third for “present.”"

Well, after eight decades, we and our social networks have almost caught up with Dr. Nevil Monroe Hopkins, but are still at least one button short.

Edit: Reference: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7453293
you like freezing? you've confused SF with southern california; worlds apart in attitude and temperature: laid back and warm.
Do preliminary hearings tend to happen before plea bargains are offered? So if you are faced with 10 charges adding up to 500 years on jail, those have already been vetted by the court as having sufficient evidence and aren't just a scare tactic to get you to waive the trial?
Ask HN: Self-employee or start a company?
I do some contracting for different companies (web development, linux administration).

So far I've been self-employed and just getting checks in my name.
Recently I have done some contracting for a company, and the manager told me he finds it weird that I don't have my own company.

I was wondering, are there any advantages of creating my own company ? I'm not looking for any jobs, they come to me, so I don't care about people seeing me as a company which is more professional.

I'm wondering more on the tax side, are there any advantages in getting all the money as a company instead of a person ?

Thank you for any advice.
Of course the emotional appeal that Microsoft was making was that a personified "Google" was poking through your e-mail. It seems very unlikely that they were spending money to make the banal point that the ads one sees on gmail are the result of an algorithm.

In this particular case human beings at Microsoft actually did paw through this individual's e-mail, to his detriment, as was their intent.

At the same time, it seems unlikely that anyone believes that Microsoft was actually advancing a principled criticism in an ad campaign as opposed to merely saying an expedient thing. I doubt that accusations of "hypocrisy" will hurt them, other than making coverage of "scroogled" in the press marginally more disdainful.
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Would be interesting to know how that worked on a technical side, how did he intend to transmit the information back?
Ah okay, thanks. I seriously hope mods will close that crap PR.
It worked for me very well until spring came, and I started doing sports. It's really hard to stand if you've just spent two hours working out.
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I'm not a lawyer either, but I believe that normal due process procedures in the U.S. include going to the police or FBI who can then obtain a search warrant from the jurisdictional court, and they can then examine the contents of the suspect's account. Apparently, MS didn't do that, but they probably could have. In any event, they did involve the FBI as evidenced by the FBI report linked by the article.
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Managing user email as sysadmin is different, in that you can do it with a total expectation of getting away with it. Not that a moral person would want to; but since electronic examination of unsecured data leaves no trace when read, temptation has no buffer.
I was more hoping for a hate thread. As it is how I feel at this moment.
Having spent time in both, but living in neither, I think that's fair. Specifically, good observation on the cleanliness of the city. New York is busy, but I never felt it was dirty in the way I immediately felt SF was. I think a large part of it was the uncontrolled panhandling and the fact that there are certain areas that those folks know will be busy, so they go there. I've never seen anyone openly urinate on the streets in New York, where I have twice on the same trip to San Francisco - an anecdotal fact that kind of blew my mind.
Sounds like a great idea. One question whether Android would need to go through some type of certification for financial applications?
The stark raving mad behavior of LA area police in reaction to Chris Dorner removes pretty much all plausible doubt from your supposition.
The solution for this is to publish textbooks on demand. I know professors who do this, and they get reasonable royalties and a book they're actually pleased with and can change from year to year at no additional cost to their students.

At least in mathematics (excluding the cash cow known as calculus), professors really do care that their students don't have to pay ridiculous costs for texts.
I suppose every company is different. As a counter-example, we have two different programs -- one for CS grads and one for other non-CS science grads (e.g. physics, math, ee, biology, etc.). Both programs are about 3 months in length and are meant to either teach or refresh practical skills needed on the job. This includes both outside knowledge (e.g. C++) as well as internal tools/processes. More importantly, the group "graduates" as a class and everyone starts their job knowing a decent size group of people in various places throughout the company. A job isn't entry-level if it requires experience outside of school. I just wanted to give an example to show that programs like these do exist. In fact, some of the best programmers I know were math or physics grads with no CS experience outside of a few classes.
They hired a lawyer in Turkey to negotiate with the government.
An Unsolved Puzzle Solved – National Security Agency
Eh, I disagree. I've spent time in both and I prefer SF restaurants. I think it may have to do with the fact that local is generally better in California. Also there are some types of food where I just don't prefer the NY style -- in particular I don't like NY pizza. I've tried all the recommended spots and I think I just don't like the style as much.

EDIT: Someone mentioned elsewhere about the high quality of food in the Bay once you leave SF. A good example of this is Michael Warring's found in a strip mall in Vallejo (yes, a strip mall in Vallejo) -- just really good food:
http://www.urbanspoon.com/r/6/1691241/restaurant/Michael-War...
> ADDED: and our path is particularly odd there: as has been joked for some time, there is no French word for "entrepreneur".

A goofy quote from G.W. Bush relaunched by Newsweek some months ago.
I could write some pretty ugly things, but the problem is that I'd likely end up in jail for saying how I really feel :D
I think the issue is not so much that a scary adversary could simultaneously hack Twitter, GitHub, etc - that seems hard. The real problem is that all these services will, in the default configuration (no 2-factor auth), perform password resets via your email account. Thus if you succeed in hacking someone's mail account you can take control of their other accounts and go ahead and verify a new keybase profile. Unfortunately there's no way to know externally if someone uses 2-factor, so it's hard to judge how meaningful a Keybase profile really is.

The mitigating factors here are:

1) Most "good" services at least those used by the tech geek community do support 2SV these days, which would raise the bar somewhat for people who use it, although I suspect several of those services will still unlock 2SV for you if you say you lost your second factor and know enough about the account (Google does).

2) Someone would obviously notice that their passwords had all been reset and could sound the alarm.

But in practice, I think this feels like not much different to just verifying ownership of an email address, which is what CA's already do (and there are PGP CA's if you don't want to use X.509). Comodo will do it for free, it's integrated with the browser via the HTML5 keygen tag, and it takes just a couple of minutes.
I've lived in both places and this strikes me as correct.

The day-to-day food in SF is just excellent, In part, I suspect, because they incorporate fresh vegetables of a kind that are just not available in NY for 8 months out of the year.

Also critical: The food in the greater NYC metro area is abysmal. The quality falls off very rapidly once you exit the city. Whereas if you walk into some random restaurant in some random town in the Bay Area, you're likely to get at least decent food.
Why is Tor's growth curve shaped so strangely?
135 degrees would never work with me, I battle all day to not stay in that position because it makes me sleepy.

When I see his photo I think I can watch a movie in that position but working I doubt it, I need to feel more "engaged" with the keyboard, the mouse, the screen, if that makes sense.
The author never thought to get a drafting chair so he could continue working while sitting?

Mind boggling...
Also, be aware that the muscles you use when running that way are very different (much more calf muscle involvement) and you need to build up to it gradually. I was told once to start off running 15% of the distance you did when heel-striking and build up gradually. Also, speaking from my personal experience, if you start to feel a calf muscle tighten up, stop IMMEDIATELY and stretch it. This may be helpful:
http://www.barefootrunning.fas.harvard.edu/
Here is the original patent from the 1930s: https://www.google.com/patents/US2092120
herway.com has existed for many years (despite sharing part of the name of a Hanes underwear brand). They interestingly also provide analytics so you can do A/B testing on your profile as a guy.
My view is that in any place where public transportation is not ubiquitous, the ridership often comprises the poorest people in the city. Much of the public transportation system is used only by those who cannot afford better means of transportation. In NY, the norm is that everyone from the poorest classes to the upper-middle class use the Subway and buses for their daily commute, to go out at night, to grocery shop, to visit friends. The Subway is utilized by people from all backgrounds.

In SF, the buses are dirty and filled with homeless and mentally ill people. Taking a bus home late at night is the plight of the commoners, the poorest class that work in the service industry and can't afford an Uber or taxi. And this class divide is why a BART strike is possible. The worst affected were those who didn't have a car too fall back on, or who couldn't work from home for a few days.

If something so critical as the NYC Subway stops functioning for more than a few hours, the MTA provides alternative buses and advance notice. A multi-day complete system outage would impact everyone, not just the poorest people unfortunate enough not to have other options.
Well said - NYC is big in many different facets. It has a large tech presence, but when considering all the other large presence of industries, it's just another sector.

To give an idea, companies like IBM and Pepsico (Pepsi, Frito Lays, etc.), and Kraft have a large presence just north of the city and/or in it. NYC is one of the largest cities for fashion. It is home to the finance capital of the world. It has one of the largest music scenes in the world. It has a huge advertising agency presence.

There is a lot more than just the aspects I mentioned even. That is how massive of scale NYC is - San Francisco's legacy is primarily tech.
Agreed, that circular buffer thing is bound to do one of two things based on whether the RNG thread or the work thread is faster:

a) work slower than RNG – do too much work, wasting CPU;

b) work faster than RNG – produce very poor randomness.

Neither of these situations is good, and dealing with two threads in the first place is a bit of a complication. If you're going to do that, it's better to synchronize the two threads so that the work thread blocks when it needs more randomness than the RNG thread has produced and vice versa.
Go check out the Kindle Store. Look in the sci-fi category. There are over 67500 titles, 2500 of them having been released in the last month!

Sort by price: lowest first. 75 pages, over a thousand books--just in the sci-fi category--listed for $0. Incidentally, Amazon doesn't let you go past the 400th page. An addition 5000 books listed at the minimum Kindle Store price of $0.99.

Poorly Photoshopped covers. Absurd titles, splitting into fractals of subtitles, "series" this, "saga" that. I picked 10 at random, the page-length estimates average out to be about 50 "printed pages"; one in particular was only 12 pages.

Download a try reading a few of them. 50 pages is 50 too many. Now read the reviews. Glowing expositions of "couldn't put it down until I finished it in one sitting". No shit! I should hope you could read 50 pages in one sitting.

In contrast, I packed up my poorly-maintained blog into a Word document and it was 150 pages for the last three years. With no change in my writing habits, I could be releasing a Kindle Book every year.

Now, swap the sort: go highest to lowest. THIRTEEN books listed at $200. That little bit of absurdity aside, the general fare isn't much better than the bottom of the price list. A few notable exceptions, but on the whole, it's clear people will probably prefer to take their chances on a $1 book that will probably suck than a $30 book that will probably suck. On the 400th page, all of the titles are $3.99. They average around 250 pages, but there are still some 50 page titles in the mix.

As far as the average consumer is concerned, books are a plentiful commodity. EBooks opened the door to allow anyone to publish. And then everyone did.

But even scarier, the readers bought in. Readers love their niche categories, and will consume anything in it. Is it any surprise that serious authors--looking to make a living, who also have the barest modicum of writing skill that can set them completely apart from the massive piles of garbage in the market--will optimize for what readers want?
What effect will Mt. Gox have on Bitcoin?
I can vouch for Vibram FF, or even better, straight-barefoot. I was always told that I had "weak ankles" by doctors as a teenager and I was never able to run more than 3-4 miles regularly without developing extreme shin splints and knee pain that would leave me barely able to walk and require several weeks, if not months, of recovery.

In 2010 I started wearing Vibram Five Fingers exclusively. In 2011, I started wearing Huaraches [1] which are even more minimalist than Vibram FFs (and a lot more natural--when I'm not barefoot, I wear huaraches), then in 2012 I went straight barefoot.

In September of 2012, I ran 17 miles non-stop [2], barefoot (all types of surfaces, including rain). And note that I went from running on average 2-5 miles a day to deciding one day that I'd just keep running.

I had never experienced such freedom and I can now run what feels like any distance, as long as I'm running barefoot (my current goal is a marathon, then an ultramarathon).

As others have mentioned, it takes time to let your body adapt. I've been using a custom-built IKEA standing desk [3] for the past year. For the past few months, I stand 8-10 hours a day at this desk while working (barefoot, of course, on a hardwood floor). But, I also walk 2-5 miles every day (~10k steps).

If you want to start standing at a desk all day, start by walking a lot more so that your body learns what it's like to be on your feet for longer periods of time. Oh, and don't just stand at the desk for 8 hours. I take a break every 2-3 hours and go for a 10-15 minute walk to keep my muscles moving.

[1]: http://shoestringfootwear.com

[2]: http://i.imgur.com/ec7mYgB.png

[3]: https://twitter.com/RaamDev/status/320593781240000514/photo/...
I'm a native New Yorker but lived in the SF Bay Area for 9 years. I agree with this assessment. The quality for the price in generally better in the Bay Area, since a lot of the food is local and super fresh. That said, the diversity of cuisines in NYC in much, much broader than SF. For example, in SF you can find Salvadorian and Mexican food quite easily, but New York has food from all parts of Latin America. The same can be said about other regional cuisines; the selection provides a "finer granularity" of choices for that region.
Haha! It's a bit the same for me, my Facebook post is going a wee bit crazy right now.
maybe a future idea should be a tool for timing HN posts ;)
The comparison is with NY.
Email is not secure unless you and the recipient have carefully used encryption.

This has been true ever since email was invented.

It doesn't matter what the TOS /AUP is - that doesn't stop rogue employees creeping trough email. It doesn't matter if they advertise it as a secure sevice or if they use their competitor's advert serving in ads.

We can use words like "wrong", "unethical", "illegal" but that does nothing to make email more secure.

Stop giving your secrets to a 3rd party and being surprised when they know your secrets.
This could be what it takes to get effective gun printing going. As soon as I can print effective guns, I will.
New York has probably the best public transit systems in the country.

NY has a very good public transit system. But I think I prefer D.C.'s. Cleaner and more comfortable. But both are quite good. I found London's quite good too.
One isn't needed. New York is very happy being New York. It's San Fran that isn't happy being San Fran.
New strategy would drop college textbook costs to zero
Make sure your sound drivers in your OS are set to use 24bit output only. I've had very noticeable noise when an audio stream was paused that went away completely when I changed the driver settings.
That is certainly not the case everywhere in the UK. Many humanities departments cannot afford to have enough copies of all the set texts.

Also many Science departments insist on the newest editions of books which the library will not stock past one or two reference copies.

Most university libraries will get you books on request, but that often doesn't cover set texts (they will ask you to wait for the reference copy).
Utter genius.

They had me fooled until: https://gitorious.org/c-plus-equality/c-plus-equality/source...:
Why?

Why not iust buy guns? Or buy gun parts and make them? What is it about printing that's appealing?