skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I only link with people I know. This articlehttp://www.brelson.com/2011/05/how-recruiters-are-posing-a-t...
explains why you might want to be choosy.

"The general principle is that, if you’re connected to more than a couple of recruiters, searching LinkedIn will turn up more and more people who are second degree contacts, but that you only know through recruiters. The value of someone being a second degree contact slowly declines, because when a recruiter is the common contact you learn nothing more meaningful than that you both once looked for a job, or once tried to hire people."
Risqué Names Reap Rewards for Some Companies
There's an Etsy blog post where they explain what a B Corp is and why they wanted to be certified as one [1]. "It’s like a LEED or Fair Trade certification, but for a business, not just a building or a bag of coffee."

[1] https://blog.etsy.com/news/2012/etsy-joins-the-b-corporation...

You can find their Overall B Score at:

https://www.bcorporation.net/community/etsy
The bit about taking a picture of food you are about to consume and reading/logging nutritional data might be closer to viability once smartphones get Kinnect-like 3D sensors, making it possible to read volume data. Google's [Project Tango](https://www.google.com/atap/projecttango/) is one such initiative.

Does anyone know of any computer vision research into identifying food?
You can use Google Music. It will cache content while on wifi for playback when you have no connectivity. This is done somewhat intelligently and you can also explicitly request content be downloaded.
Nobody is talking about taking away HBO's right to sell entertainment in ways that make them money. They can and should out-compete BitTorrent.
They're not, never will be. Especially if there were a concerted effort to put together a GNU/Linux like open source hardware stack to get rid of the fear, uncertainty and doubt of what's inside commercial processors and chipsets. Also there needs to be more decapping of commercial chips to see what's actually in them.
I have a 100 mbps connection. Speed Test even shows it about 25% faster than that every time I test it out.

I have Cox in Tulsa, OK. It's $99.99 / month.
I've read this entire thread once, then scanned it a second time for the word, "splits" - as of 124 comments, nobody has suggested a rational reason as to why Apple would split their stock. There were two implications of splitting the stock, one was that options plays (which normally trade in groups of 100, though some more expensive "minis" are also available) become more inexpensive, and some hand waving about "more people can afford the stock, therefore more demand, therefore greater impact on the price" - which I've heard for 20 years, and I believe has been fully debunked (the counter argument is that if the underlying stock has an actual value, and greater availability pushes stock above that value, then rational people can profit by shorting the stock/selling it until it reflects the actual value)

I'm always confused when an otherwise sane company starts playing with this type of financial engineering, the only people who really seem to profit will be the team who manages the split - and I often wonder whether a split is just some way of rewarding them with business, in return for some type of off books advantage.

Is there any other rational reason why a company might want to split? Does it give them some way of controlling their shares more effectively by splitting them -I.E. When the stock splits, do they get an enumeration of their shareholders that they might not otherwise have?

Anybody been involved in a stock split that can explain what the behind the scenes reasons totally not related to the "stock is cheaper so more people can buy it" excuse is?"
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Forensic Examiner's Guide to Google Glass
FCIP – Connectivity over Distance
Additionally, you should test whether your PTR "smells" dynamic (i.e. contains part of your IP address in the PTR itself.) It may or may not be something within your control, but you should know as it may cause you problems later.
It's just about the psychology of price. People are influenced by the share price. A share price of under a dollar seems cheap and a share price of 500 dollars seems expensive regardless of the actual market cap.
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The only other country to do this is Eritrea.

In 2013, the Canadian government expelled the Eritrean consul for illegal efforts at collecting that tax.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_taxation#Citizens...
Maybe these boards should have no ports on PCB and have headers for everything?

We could even define a standard and... oh no, it's ATX all over again :-/
In the features section where they compare their camera vs. that of another smartphone, they're doing some shady stuff.

The two pictures are identical! They've photoshopped the original to look shittier, and passed it off as being taken by another smartphone.

link: http://imgur.com/VG8AUg3
Bit Torrent doesn't produce anything, it's just a distribution channel. I fail to see why HBO should spend anything on accommodating people who have no inclination to pay for the product they produce.
> The VC has collected extra cash

How was that cash collected? What is the VC collecting now?

He collected cash from the last batch of "entrepreneurs" and their teams who did all the work and wealth creation. He's doing it with the current guy, which will fund him doing it to the next guy. He's not collecting cash like picking apples from a tree. He's parasitically leeching off the working wealth creators, as are his heir LPs.

The pie is divided up in a certain way. Of course the VC side has it in their interest to tell some story of how deserving they are. Of anything I can think of, I can't think of anything that would motivate people to tell a BS story more than why their pie slice should be a certain size. Anyone who says that there is some omniscient, objective obviousness to some positive quality of VCs is obviously engaging in the most standard argument of all of partisans. We're not doing some repeatable experiment on some hypothesis that everyone has an interest in accepting. It's a zero-sum division of a pie, and if the VC can get over on people that he's so deserving, he wins the game. If we're talking about dividing the pie, everyone piping in with a comment has an agenda, whether hidden or not.
I loved the email pitch. Seemed to the point and anyone reading it was clear who you are and what you could do.

As Mark Twain said in a letter, "if I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter".

Still a long way to go for me but I can see my pitches are becoming better. I happy to start with a long winded sentence now and then gradually cut it down.
Right now, researchers are putting together functional brain structure maps combining fMRI, SPECT and PET scans for Alzheimer's research. Apart from the inconvenience of wearing a giant magnet, pulling together one or more brain scan techs with compute resources might be a way to pull it off. Heck, if the compute power needed were too bulky to be practical, it might be possible to offload it to a hosted service. (Talking a solution 15-18 yrs out anyhow.). It's entirely reasonable that keyboards would be slower than thought input in 50 years.
Yes... Do be diplomatic about it.... Don't say... I redesigned ur site because it sucked.
I just use Mongo as a big JSON / BSON storage locker for node/express stuff I'm learning. The apps all involve DOM manipulation and using HTML client API's where div id's and their positional data are stored as JSON/BSON in Mongo ( then looped through and pulled back out when the user wants them ). Mongo seem really convenient for this kind of thing. I've done one similar project with PHP/MYSQL before and the workflow seemed a bit more 'heavy' compared to Mongo whichs thus far feels a bit more in alignment with this work style( I'm also using node/express which is a bit complimentary ). So I guess my comment is more validation that its good for making small toys. Ha!
Being born deaf in one ear is rarely a cause for "laughing out loud"

I think it was quite clearly intended as sarcasm.

the "lol" adds nothing to the first sentence

I can agree with you there though, but mostly because I don't like "lol" as a word and not because of the use of sarcasm.
> Just because you were not told how the money ended up where it did doesn't mean people didn't know.

That's true, but there was a lot of additional evidence that they really didn't know:

1. They said they didn't know.

2. Two weeks passed during which they could not find the money.

3. The money was only found after the person in whose account it ended up contact me (not the bank!)

And, BTW, I actually found out later how the mistake had been made: the original wire form had been filled out wrong. It was supposed to be a for-benefit-of wire, but the form was filled out as if for an intermediate-institution wire. And the bank employee who entered the data was apparently completely clueless because they entered an account number as an ABA number (or maybe it was the other way around, it was a long time ago). But it was without a doubt a total clusterfuck from beginning to end.

> barring a very small percentage they all work

Yes. As I said, this never ceases to amaze me.
That sounds completely normal, even for things other than programming. I doubt anybody can be even nearly as productive doing something boring vs something they're excited about, especially if it's a mentally-intensive task.
> - I never got used to the fact that it needs to be in Snug contact with your skin 24/7 for all the sensors to work this can get tricky when you sleep (for example) and the device is on on too tight

I have a Basis B2 and my experience is the same. I really need the Basis because my pulse has been very erratic lately and it helps me monitor it so I don't overexert or stress myself. But the device is so tight, at least once a day I take it out just so my arm can "breathe" normally.

While it syncs over BT with my iPhone, it takes 3-4 tries to do it. I've just given up and sync with the cable and my computer. Another issue is that if my pulse goes over 100-110, it detects it as half the bpm (50-55), making me look way healthier than I am.

So ya, I'm with you on this. None of the devices are there yet. I'd pay $500 if all of the above are worked out. On the plus side, the sleep detection with Basis (especially REM phase) works surprisingly great.
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Here's a post I wrote about using Ansible inside a docker file -- http://www.ansible.com/blog/2014/02/12/installing-and-buildi...
Thanks for using words. I am happy to know something I didn't know yesterday... I just don't know why instead of getting answers to the question I asked ("Is my perception of the motive incorrect?"), I got downvotes. Especially when my comment about knowing someone personally who does it for "hipness" got an equal number of downvotes. Anecdotes are not suitable data for proving conclusions, but I would think they are suitable for disproving generalities.

I apologize for complaining about downvotes - I'm just very surprised and disappointed that some innocent curiosity is getting such a vehemently arrogant reception.
Having spent a fair bit of time optimizing JVM GC, I understand that there is a bit of dark magic to it. That said, with a little bit of work you can typically find the right configurations for most use cases.

This is due to a wide variety of GC options and a long history of iterating on best practices. I'm curious how well newer languages that focus on performance but offer GC (Go, Rust, etc) have dealt with this. Is it a case where they have just jumped to some "best of breed" GC configuration set? Or do programmers in these languages just get left without all the lessons learned on the JVM.

I'm honestly curious, what is the state of the world in non-JVM languages and GC optimization?
This isn't complex, it's just obfuscated.
"To strike a contrarian tone, how much is this going to matter a handful of years from now as the internet at large and bandwidth to the home continues to increase?"

Who will enjoy the benefits of the increase? If you are only getting 9.6kbaud unless you pay millions of dollars in fees to every ISP between you and your peers, then all that bandwidth is useless to you.

"In a decade is it unreasonable to expect that "really fast" home internet is 1 gigbit?"

One gigabit to Youtube, unless you are on a Comcast connection in which case it is 1 megabit for Youtube and a gigabit to NBC's streaming service, and 256 kilobits for anything else.

"Does this make it harder for Netflix"

Oh you wanted to have access to Netflix? Well that will be $300/per gigabyte for a business line that has real Internet access. For a mere $20/month, you can have unlimited access to the best of Comcast, now partnered with Microsoft!!!
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MPlayer can also do this. Something like this should work as an example:

$ mplayer tv:// -tv driver=v4l2:width=640:height=480:device=/dev/video0 -fps 15 -vo caca
Forget looking at my ugly face, how do I watch movies in my terminal?
The best part is that the developer is called "Team Shanghai Alice" on the title screen and elsewhere. This gave me the impression that it was a ton of people working on the games. I was shocked to find out that it was one guy.
Denying something doesn't carry the same weight and it seems like a PR move, whereas "actions speak louder than words."
Yeah, heh, Glyph pointed out the same thing. https://twitter.com/glyph/status/458758471505035265

Hindsight is 20/20 I guess.

I have my doubts that that would have solved all of our problems though, but that's certainly a different path we could have taken.
It's sftp in my experience. And all keys have two year expiration, which is stressful because ssh keys don't have a real expiration do they just send you an email saying "give us new keys" and you have to hope the cutover goes smoothly.
In just one year, Zynga has lost nearly half of its daily active users
You're in luck:

$ mplayer -vo caca my-movie.mp4
Testing for Developers: why you should be doing Unit, Integration and QA Testing
There is greater leverage with Haskell in tackling hard problems or problems where there are existing quality libraries that can be leveraged (such as parsing). Haskell is probably not a good choice in comparison to C/Go/Java if having the best possible CPU performance is a requirement. I am not sure what you mean by a server backend, but that could potentially describe most Haskell code written in the modern networked world.

I think the idea though that one language is objectively better at a certain task gets strongly warped by subjective factors. Ultimately language decision is more about the team of programmers you have, the available libraries and ecosystems, and the team's understanding of it.

Perhaps not surprisingly, we have found that for programmers already experienced in Haskell, Haskell is a great language for most problems.
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Maybe HBO should embrace an innovative distribution model, instead of clinging to the obsolete premium-cable-channel model. HBO itself would have been impossible if the media establishment had been success at killing cable; why should I feel an iota of sympathy for HBO's unwillingness to embrace newer, better technologies? Why shouldn't I use better technology to access entertainment, regardless of whether or not HBO has bothered to try monetizing those technologies?
I just tried the CSS Buttons course on a lark, because I felt I'd be able to breeze through it. I may have hit "Reset Code" at some point, because around checkpoint 4 or 5, the CSS was wiped out and the HTML was back to square one.

I quickly retyped everything, but... only the HTML changes seemed to take effect. I tried targeting the CSS to a class I put on the HTML, then to an id, then to the div itself, and a bunch of different simple litmus tests for whether or not it was working like just applying a color, but nothing worked.

After each change, the preview pane would re-render, so it was picking up the changes. I tried viewing the preview in full screen and refreshing, but nothing got the CSS to apply again.

Anyway, the site looks great. Congratulations on the revamp regardless of nitpicky bugs.
You can't really blame Wheeler. The courts tied his hands.
Thank you, I found this very helpful. I'm being selfish, but I'd love some more examples like this where you compare the basics in Haskell against more mainstream, imperative languages - it makes it easier to digest.
Fair enough. :)

I just assumed it was because it was in reply to my comment. My mistake.
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Well yeah, that would definitely not go well. I plan on introducing it as "This is what I can do."
There's a good general sales lesson here: "research" is not "preparation", even though they're commonly assumed to be the same thing in practice, as was the case here.

It's hard to craft a viable proposition if you don't know your target, but simply knowing your target doesn't mean you have a viable proposition. Ultimately, the OP's pitch to Moritz ("my poker success can be translate to success as a venture capitalist") was interesting enough to land him a meeting, but not compelling enough to close the deal.
Yes, I should of been more specific. I meant web server backend. Changed.

I agree. Modern languages are converging on ideas more than ever so it starts to become subjective. However, there exists a subtlety in feature focus. Compare concurrency and distributed programming in Erlang and Haskell, for example. If you're proficient in both and your domain demands high concurrency, why would you choose the lesser of the two which is Haskell?
This is one of the greatest and most influential short stories ever. I remember in college we had long debates about how the machine is the equivalent of what Facebook would be if "the machine stops" (i.e. social networking suddenly shuts down).

Here are a couple worthwhile things to note about this:
- E.M. Forster wrote this in 1909, before there were even televisions. He essentially predicted humanity's future obsession with screens long before anyone else did, and even predicted the advent of video chat.
- He predicted that humanity would become increasingly isolated and disconnected from the regular world, to the extreme that they literally must live underground.
- He predicted that those who controlled the machine would act in malevolence (this is, to some extent, true today)

In the end, it's just a perspective on a dystopian future, somewhat like Ayn Rand's Anthem. Although people tend to have quite polarized views in this area, everyone can appreciate the quality of writing and clarity of purpose in The Machine Stops.
Ask HN: is it time for ISPs and mail servers to close unencrypted email ports? 
Would it make sense for email servers and ISP's to plan to close plain text email transmission ports?
Seems the same as google hangouts more/less.

Looking for something that's 1:N anonymously without a viewer plugin... has a page somewhere that shows a live feed: vimeo, ustream or YT but free to stream.
> So, you might just have it backwards

Not really. It's a chicken-and-egg problem, not causality. This is a problem that predates the concept of America. Monarchies addressed it by having a three-way tug-of-war between the monarch, the entrenched interests, and the masses, and American politics have tried very hard to ape that with a very powerful central executive.

With, you know. Predictable results.

Changing the rules won't actually make a difference, much respect as I have for Lessig's Rootstrikers' efforts. That is, as Colbert put it, rearranging the deck chairs on the Hindenberg. The fundamental problem isn't that no one gets elected without spending oodles of cash; the fundamental problem is that oodles of cash have to be spent at all.

We live in an age where democracy requires marketing. That's the rule you need to change.

Not coincidentally, that's also the rule that makes free markets impossible.
My guess is that if you've written code that's hard to test in Go, it's going to be hard to write good, non-brittle tests in Python. It's not so much that you need to write code amenable to dependency-injection to write good tests, you just need to write modular code.

As a fan of DSLs, I actually do appreciate how easy it is to understand any Go that anyone has written, since there aren't any cutesy DSL tricks anywhere. So, yeah, it's hard/impossible to do DSLs, but that might not be a Bad Thing.

Generics is a (frequently discussed) downside. It's definitely a tradeoff. For every container type we had, we had to make a copy of it or a typesafe wrapper around it for every possible instantiation of the container with different types. If you're used to coding by making flexible containers and so on, that's definitely much more brittle and challenging in Go. Go peeps will tell you that's part of a tradeoff they're willing to take.
Absolutely, especially because you said you have the time. My best hires over the years have gone above what was requested of them during the interview process.

If you focus on being enthusiastic about the position rather than negative about their site, you should be fine.
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Ah yes exactly. The "prove them wrong" part, it's important not to attack the accuser but demonstrate that their claims don't hold up. Also if there is something to claims, admit it quickly (kills the story) and show enacting preventative measures.
That's a fascinating post, especially the comment from Don Geddis:

> ...I eventually reached the conclusion that "check clearing" doesn't mean anything at all. What there really is, is a web of trust among large financial institutions. They take actions which work 99% of the time, and then they have correction procedures for the 1% that fail...

> ...their primary concern is that I'm not a con man who is going to take money out of the system. As long as the cash is EITHER at their bank, OR at the original bank, they can afford to not be completely sure just where it is, and to work that accounting out over time.

> This system is totally unlike how computer scientists would design it. They would want guarantees that the money really was only in one place, and there would be a thing which is a "transaction", where the money reliably went from one place to another. A wire transfer is something like that, but it's really bootstrapped on old-time banking, which is a trust relationship with repair procedures, not a guarantee of freedom from error.
Yes - one that won't shut off until I do some jumping jacks.
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Awesome. I was actually at HackMIT. It is great to see you actually continue working on this. As a matter of fact, I told my friends who were working on similar idea for their senior project your project name last Fall. I emailed you for the Microsoft reference papers :) Not sure if I should copy and paste that.

Anyway, good luck!
Well, I was going to do it (2 years ago as you can see in repo), but somehow I forgot. Now, I made NodeJS fork of it: https://github.com/mustafaakin/terminal-webcam-chat to turn it into a chat
I find the sound produced playing on gentoo a little warmer than other distros.
If you turn this into an iOS app, I'll gladly give you my $0.99
It's just like the psychology of Daylight Savings time -- even though people could get up an hour early in the summer, they won't unless the clock tells them it is time to get up.
Chris Dodd spent ~30+ years in congress and now he is the chairman/chief lobbyist for the MPAA. Funny (sad) how that works

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Dodd
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The title did get changed. I think the reason it was titled "after 3d printing" was because you can make a prototype with 3d printing, but what do you do when you want to go to production?