skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think so too. It also works both ways. For those lucky enough to work on a mutually agreed Open Source 'pet project' they will have a good idea as to whether they really like the atmosphere and if the challenges available at Stripe are going to suit them.
This idea has been making me smile for like the past 40 seconds.
Thats the point. Play ball now (Comcast) because you might not like what they (Netflix) do next.
At what point does it become a self fulfilling prophecy? If we continue to cater to people who insist on demanding that research and funding go to the prettiest scientist or the on that has the best power point who is to blame when things like this happen? I think it's better to not be an enabler. Sure, it may be harder and more complicated, but to me it's the right thing to do. We're letting ignorance win when we have we shelter the ignorant.
problem is that privacy/anonymity runs counter to the core Google business with is advertising and collecting personal data.

so for Google, they would need to find out what could be a defining feature that would move people off FB. whatsapp's killer was signing up via telephone number, from a smartphone.

for business people there's LinkedIn, for coders GitHub, for teens there are SnapChat/etc. - Google would need to find an underserved target demographic and build something, anything unique.

so far they have failed.
> That popup experience is obviously not ideal.. And not how its working for me.. Can you tell me what browser you are on?

Chrome 34.0.1847.116 m on Windows.
It would be really interesting if they offered reduced subscription fees for anyone who acts as an edge CDN node for them!
Last week, I've posted this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7598111

Last week! :D
Ebola Reston has shown signs of being transmissible via air. Although it has only been confirmed to infect crab-eating macaques, the potential to jump to a human host is unsettlingly high. Seeing as from a "virus's perspective" a human and a macaque aren't very different. Our cytoplasmic membranes aren't that morphologically divergent, due to our common lineage. Currently it's unknown if it can affect humans, though there is a fair body of evidence suggesting that it can't. However, it could easily mutate to a human hosts; it's basically just a roll of the evolutionary dice.
MoCo's board tried to convince him to stay the course as CEO or CTO, but he felt he should sever all ties with Mozilla to draw fire away from the organization:

https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2014/04/05/faq-on-ceo-resignat...
PEBCAK, PEBCAK everywhere...
So it should devolve its lethal symptoms until it spreads to Greenland and Madagascar.
Good, because UPS needs to die. Of my last 3 orders with them:

1) was reported "left at door" of ... my apartment building? so I never saw it and I had to reorder at my cost

2) my ouya was again marked "left at door"... of my apartment building and I never saw it (seems very likely the driver just took it home). Thankfully this time amazon reissued at their cost

3) after one failed day time delivery the package was left at a nearby ups pickup place, we called to confirm it would be there on the weekend and then they called the depot and promptly sent it back to the sender...

UPS's policy of allowing abandonment of packages is not remotely safe because drivers can just steal and mark it "left at door". It doesn't look good thought when it's an apartment building and they probably didn't even get inside.

So yes, UPS needs to die because they have cost me and amazon time and money.
> logind cannot feasibly be reimplemented

I disagree that is what the chart shows. A bit later in the document they say

> If you decide to reimplement one of the APIs for which "Reimplementable independently" is "no", then we won't stop you, but you are on your own.

so I think they mean to say sth different than "the APIs can't be tried to be implemented at all".

I think when they say "reimplementable independently" they mean "to develop a feature-par system", which might be way too strict. For example, the unit format also is marked as "not reimplementable independently", when it is clear it is in some form; plausibly, some attributes one can specify in unit files as implemented by systemd can't be replicated in other systems, but that doesn't mean there can't be similar, partially-compatible implementations. I guess in some (most?) cases, those might be enough.

Also, logind's case might be marked as not reimplementable independently to discourage forks like Ubuntu's, which caused their version to remain stagnant when the API changed upstream. I'm not sure, but logind's API might still be a moving target, so a reimplementation might have to face some issues.
To add to this a bit, because it's not explicitly mentioned in this article (but I recall reading about this previously):

> “With their no vote, 17 members of the Senate chose to protect billion-dollar industry profits over the safety of the constituents they were elected to serve.”

They're referring to the insurance premiums charged by the mobile providers and companies like Asurion. They make a ton of $$ by selling damage/theft/replacement insurance and the associated deductibles, and the thought is that revenue stream could be damaged if the incentive (and therefore risk) of theft is reduced.
I naively assumed that the vast majority of phones already had kill switches. If my iPhone gets stolen, I can track it and remotely brick it. A thief can't erase/restore without my Apple ID.[1] It looks like it takes more effort to get this behavior on an Android device. A thief won't be able to get the data off my Nexus 7, but it looks like they can still restore it and sell it.

I think that as wireless and battery technologies become cheaper/better, more devices will have remote tracking/bricking. The incremental cost will be minuscule, but the benefit (drastically reducing likelihood of theft) is great.

1. http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5818
<b>Hangouts really is best-in-class as far as I can tell</b>

My S4 updated from gtalk to hangouts, and I loathe it. It now crashes quite regularly, sometimes multiple times in a single chat session, and included a stupid button that starts a video chat on my phone, a feature I have never wanted and never will want, but manages to get fat-thumbed, or randomly turn itself on when I am trying to communicate with someone.
I run only one startup: www.postjobfree.com

I think it's better to focus on one thing that do many things at the same time.

But even with one web site there is problem with focus: there are so many features that I'd like to incorporate and so few hours in a day to actually implement them.

PostJobFree generates $20K+/month revenue (gross, not net) and allows me to work full time on it.
I find it funny that Page complained about Gmail taking 600 milliseconds to load back when it was created. It probably takes longer than that these days unless you have a really fast connection.
Edit: Do you seriously think that GFiber isn't going to be a major player nationally? Or that automated cars will never see market? On the second part I think we're a lot closer than you might imagine:
http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2014/04/09/autonomou...

As for R&D spending:
http://ycharts.com/companies/GOOG/r_and_d_expense

Over 2.1b quarterly.

Not exactly peanuts.
I think the problem in the end is the narrowing definition of normal behavior.

First it was ADD - adolescent boys who were fidgety and distractible now had an illness, previously this was considered normal for young boys - then we decided that people who are not as social, perhaps shy - were now ill as well, whereas before again, this was considered within the definition of normal human behavior.
No, it will be mailed to class members, and leak that way.

They can't keep quiet the terms of a proposed settlement from the 64k engineers they claim to represent :)
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If I understand correctly, this is meant to be used to help implement existing known good crypto algorithms correctly, not help design new crypto algorithms, which you absolutely should not do unless you're one of the few (thousand? hundred? dozen?) qualified to do so.
there is some kind of drug dealer spirit in the idea that the current price depends on the past price, and you can't really cancel.
Yes, let's point to this one failed example as how the entire company has been misled by Page...
If users get frustrated enough, the public policy on net equality might change. ISPs get away with lobbying, the revolving door, and exclusivity deals with city governments because only techies care.
If this passes someday and then later on a hobbyist smartphone-building community pops up, how would that community be affected?
When you think about it, Comcast NBC Universal is doing the same stuff with Aereo.

Broadcasters get a government monopoly on a finite resource. Broadcasters don't provide a good signal to all customers. Some customers want to use Aereo (that's not the only reason, but a real reason) instead of paying for cable.

But no, the broadcasters want to be paid for not-providing a signal to those customers. Instead of investing to improve their infrastructure, they want to be paid for not improving it. With a straight face.

Of course it's especially ridiculous in the case where it's Comcast NBC, and they are also an ISP. If Aereo wins at SCOTUS, and grows big enough, Comcast NBC can get their pound of flesh as an ISP like they do with Netflix.

It is all well and truly fscked.
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To customer houses ? How many CDNs do they have ?

Take "last mile" literally and divide the US in a big grid of 1x1 mile squares.

If Netflix was able to dispatch its traffic up to each of these squares, there wouldn't be any problem. but there wouldn't be any Netflix either :)
Here is the text of the bill that the Senate rejected:

http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/13-14/bill/sen/sb_0951-1000/sb...

One thing that CTIA did while lobbying against this was to announce their "Voluntary Commitment" as an alternative:

http://www.ctia.org/policy-initiatives/voluntary-guidelines/...

As you can see from the reporting and the text of the two documents, one of Senator Leno's biggest disagreements with the industry is about whether the mechanisms should be opt-in or opt-out.

An issue that I have raised indirectly on behalf of EFF is whether someone other than the phone owner has the technical ability to kill the phone, and, if so, whether the phone owner can reverse this on their own. Neither Sen. Leno's text nor CTIA's definitively answers this, and we haven't seen it publicly discussed very much.

The worst-case scenarios for me are if a government can order a carrier to disable the phones of everyone who attended a particular protest (or everyone who has recently exchanged SMS messages with a particular person), or if there's a master list of keys sitting around on some hard drive that could be used to disable every phone of a particular model in an entire country.
Google also doesn't mind offending Native American with traditional names http://www.buzzfeed.com/joeflood/what-happens-when-google-do...

I'm pretty sure reddit hasn't rejected a Native American's name.
I honestly do not understand why the plaintiffs would settle this case.

Lawyers? Maybe they did the math and realized they could pocket $XXX million to $1 Billion if they settled.

On the other hand, engineers might get a $10 Adwords coupon or a free song on iTunes.
Do it.
Honestly.
I would love to see one complainer here take on the task of dealing with a large class action lawsuit, and see what it's really like.

People think startup life of "80 hour weeks" is bad.
Try a large lawsuit sometime ;)

Not that i think they aren't overpaid, or sometimes reach settlements that don't benefit anyone but lawyers, but that's a different problem, and in fact, why a lot of countries really don't do class action lawsuits like the US.

The problem is people want the result they want, without having to do any of the work.
If you want that result, you should be the lead plaintiff.
Or opt out and sue yourself.
I pay that price for that service, but comcast doesn't deliver that service to me, because they decided to throw away the existing play book of Internet peering.
Can we class action sue comcast?
Errr, what criminal law do you believe it violates?
I don't think the bounty is all that significant in deterring any would-be exploiter. Instead, it incentivizes the honest person who enjoys the puzzle of finding the exploit but would never actually try to profit from it illegally. It might allow some of those "hobbyists" to justify a little more time at the task, or attract them to one project over another.
"The men who are willing by this means to become the saviours of their country shall be called the Synagogue of Satan, so as to keep themselves from the friendship of the fools who mistake names for things." :-)
I agree completely about how sketchy LinkedIn seems. It feels like every action I do on LinkedIn is tracked and available for purchase. Then there was their, "send all of your email through our servers" app.

A Google Professional/LinkedIn competitor would have been perfect for Google+. I would also be more willing to share with my friends and family on a site like that, so it would be a perfect LinkedIn/Facebook killer at the same time. Google+ just focused too much on sharing with friends/the world type site at a time when people are getting more cautious about sharing online and things being public.

I do want a service very similar to LinkedIn but more trusted and less weird stats/data-mining, Google would be a good company to make that happen, but Google+ would need a major overhaul.

(I know Google tracks everything too, but the whole "pay X dollars to see who viewed your profile" is when I made my decision to not support LinkedIn.
The "Find My iPhone" feature has to be turned on ahead of time, so one issue between proponents of the existing SB962 and the industry is whether these features should be deployed as opt-in or opt-out.
I have not; but the point around my list was the sudden 'woops', where things are eaten up more quickly than expected, or there's a surprise one-off expense. Cough syrup, in particular, is more of a one-off thing. Most people don't run out of it on a schedule
You are trying to access Inactive Account Manager from a Google Apps Account. Inactive Account Manager is only available for Google Accounts.

Google UI at its finest.
Chrome sync (including passwords) can all be encrypted on the client. Just go to settings -> Advanced sync settings -> "Encrypt all synced data with your own sync passphrase".

Also, if you're this worried, you really owe it to yourself to put in a little effort on your email. Email is often not transmitted in the clear, especially if you're using gmail already, and if you would just switch to a desktop client and IMAP or POP3 access, you can PGP to your heart's content.
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This post does not reflect the opinion of myself, the submitter just to make this clear.
That's a good question, but it maybe because at the root of it you have an object/class called check box and its attributes and methods are defined by object. These object are not rendered the same as formatting is by the browser.

So in your example that select box has a list method which doesn't have a property that supports indentation.

You'd have to write a new set of methods that extend the current form inputs. Depending on the browser I guess you could load as an extension or add-in.

Hope that helps.
People keep repeating this, but it isn't true. Ebola has an incubation period which can be longer than two weeks, and the disease can be transmitted during the incubation period. This is more than enough time to transmit the disease to more than one other person in a dense population.

The biggest reason we haven't seen larger-scale outbreaks of EVD/EHF is that previous outbreaks have been in geographically remote areas, and that doctors are stomping on it with full force whenever an outbreak occurs. The outbreak going on right now disproves the theory that Ebola just burns itself out quickly.
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I would hate this type of policy. For me, a policy such as this is almost like censorship. Would it not be better to know they are such articles available than not knowing at all? Admittedly, you may have to pay for it, but at least you know that it is available.
That is incredibly user-hostile. Google and Facebook would end up looking like the bad guys, and nothing would change.
You should see this video to really understand how impressive dbs technology is. Incredible doesn't even begin to describe it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBh2LxTW0s0
No, it's useful for both.

Here's a presentation they gave in 2012 about Cryptol that does a pretty good job explaining it:

http://2012.sharcs.org/slides/hurd.pdf
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I've been using a pubcookie module (http://www.vitki.net/book/page/pubcookie-module-nginx) to do authentication across multiple subdomains (x.example.org, y.example.org, z.example.org). The idea being, you only have to authenticate to one of them in order to access any of them.

However, the module hasn't been updated in forever, and to build it in recent versions of nginx, I have to turn certain CFLAGS off (i.e. Werror).

Does ngx_http_auth_request_module seem like it could do pubcookie's job? Or perhaps, can I approach this problem using ngx_lua?
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After their spineless handling of this farce I see no reason for him to have to do anything with Mozilla.
"My experience is that the Real Names policy was hated by a small but vocal and influential group of users"

It was also hated by people who had real names that some damn fool at Google thought were fake like Native Americans[1]. You would think with a search engine they could figure this out. I am so glad we went with Office365 because I can only imagine what would have happened when half the student body's accounts got frozen.

1) http://www.buzzfeed.com/joeflood/what-happens-when-google-do...
I'd argue he'll be viewed as a Henry Ford like figure - Important, but flawed.
Just wanted to point out...

Kaplan and his co-founder chief technology officer Mark Kuhr
previously worked at the National Security Agency as senior
analysts

Yes, that little fact is going to follow them around for life. It also puts this quote into an ironic light:

“We call them security researchers, but ultimately they’re
‘white hat’ hackers,” says Kaplan. ”They’re hacking for good.”

This company does not clearly state what their relationship is with western intelligence agencies. Not even as much as a hint of an ethics statement or information about how long they hold disclosure or how this is handled. One should assume that 'white hat' for them and 'hacking for good' may mean the exact opposite. With that I'm a little surprised the irony of Google Ventures money being used for this is not highlighted more. Google complains along with others about the destabilisation of the tech industry at the NSA hands and yet funds a company that may very well help with that?
non-competes are void in California.
Then the ISP shouldn't sell you bandwidth it doesn't have. That's called "fraud" in most other businesses.
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Exactly. This whole situation reminds me of this excellent article by Susan Sons in Linux Journal, that everyone with an opinion on gender and software should read.

http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/girls-and-software
Funny, just this last week, Amazon's carrier either left a package for us on the sidewalk, or just didn't deliver it. They marked it as delivered, but didn't ring a bell, or leave a note, and we never saw the package. We had to get it re-ordered and it came through fine with UPS.

UPS is actually the best carrier for Amazon stuff to us, though. We've had problems with their other shippers.
Or.. you can use the myriad of grocery delivery services available to get a delivery within hours. Not everything needs to be bought on Amazon.
This is incorrect (odd, since you're a Mozilla employee) -- at http://dutherenverseauborddelatable.wordpress.com/2014/04/07... Brendan says:

"No one tried to convince me to stay as CEO."
The attorneys are probably making a simple calculation:

a) Take a $1b settlement today, yielding $500m for attorneys.

b) Take a chance on a $5b judgement that is then challenged with years of appeals and possibly reduced arbitrarily by a defendant-friendly judge down the road.

The law firm probably is just happy to get the money.
Good software developers also develop thick enough skin at some point to not take "your software is crashing a lot" personally.

Troll dens suck, but so do hugboxes.
Layperson here, but based on reading I'm a little more pessimistic. The incubation period can be up to 21 days, and the subject can be infectious during that time [1]. Thus there is a plausible worst-case scenario where an undiagnosed carrier flies to a population centre and comes in contact with a lot of people.

Hopefully this could be prevented by contact tracing and other containment as described above, but if one carrier got out and infected people elsewhere, containment efforts might be unable to keep up.

1. http://ebola.emedtv.com/ebola/ebola-incubation-period.html
I know that Khan academy is actively looking for summer interns. Mattermark (YC W13) is also looking for summer interns right now (found in the jobs section of this site).

Another great place to check for internships is angel.co, ventureloop, and also the great HN thread "Who's Hiring April 2014".

Another trick I use to get summer internships is by emailing small companies, (who usually do not have the staff/resources to post on job sites) in the tech industry, and ask them about possible internships. While this approach certainly doesn't work for everyone, the networking/connections you can make are well worth the effort even if you don't land a job.
As with every other Mozilla story posted over the past couple weeks, this may end up getting flagged/controversy-filtered off the front page quickly. Dang, if that happens, could we possibly get an exception? I'm tired of everything Mozilla-related getting swept under the rug around here.
I think the real problem is poor infrastructure.

None of this has been a problem here in Sweden, where the infrastructure is solid and easily supports end users with 100 Mbit home connections without me hearing any complaints.
I like how this breaks down the different functions accomplished very finely. When I explain it[1], I tend to blur different desiderata together, which has its advantages. But here it's in very digestible chunks that let you handle one feature at a time.

[1] http://blog.tyrannyofthemouse.com/2011/07/bitcoin-overview-p...
According to the NYTimes link, the actual plaintiffs in this lawsuit claimed that employees had lost out on ~3B in wages due to the fixing. Why do you think they're wrong in this claim?
Could Apple not just require it at phone activation?
If you don't mind spending a couple hundred bucks you can pick them up used on Amazon. If you just get one, get Literary Machines.

It just covers the basic concepts though, not all the details of "enfilade theory" and so on. That stuff gets really complicated and I haven't found a clear explanation anywhere. Nelson kept it secret for a long time.

This article covers the basic concepts: http://www.xanadu.com.au/ted/XUsurvey/xuDation.html

And this briefly introduces their more complex ideas: http://xanadu.com/tech/

I just found this page, which has some Internet Archive links that go into as much detail as I've seen: http://fileformats.archiveteam.org/wiki/Enfilade
Because he donated $1k to prop 8?
Mapping your moves
I know. It's not the point. My point is that I was in no way able to /not/ issue these tasks.
I'm not sure I understand what you mean with "that hits the user's npm"
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