skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The socially accepted response is a one sentence description which then allows the person to enquire more if they are interested, or move on to other topics if not.

In general society "I'm a web developer" works for me. At a startup meet, I'd be more specific: "I'm developing an online petting zoo".

The key is to listen for prompts before you go deeper. If someone responded to "what do you do?" with a five minute exposition of either their successes or challenges without further prompting from me, I'd be a bit taken aback. After all, I only asked so they'd ask me back and I could tell them how exciting/challenging my job is.
You gotta wonder if you couldn't just keep hooking them up to the ISS. Just send up more and more solar panels.
Agreed, I've run into this behaviour several times and it is confusing and annoying, especially while programming. A DNS response for a non-existent domain shouldn't be "this page full of adverts", it should be "this domain doesn't exist".
The big issue was the clause that didn't protect those who forked from copyright infringement or being sued and the devs said that was intentional. Although, i doubt they'd really want to come out and make themselves public to pursue that.
the fish-eye lens gives the impression that the inside is much larger than it actually is, though
I am pretty sure it was 1600 not 16,000. Still impressive given their size.
Well they don't have to deal with the air force asking pony's and unicorns that they'll never actually want to use or pay for either.
The idea behind quotas isn't that minorities are inferior and need help, it's that they are equal and being discriminated against unless the law prevents it.
> the amount of downvotes in this thread is appalling. Anything critical of Google has been downvoted.

This isn't nefarious, nor is it a coincidence. There's an article that any reasonable person can quickly recognize as complete garbage (look at other people's responses to your comment for more detailed explanations of why). The people that are convinced by this drivel are probably going to be the ones with an axe to grind for whatever reason, and almost by definition, most of the comments "critical of Google" in this thread specifically are going to be the same sort of idiotic fact-free drivel that you find in the article.
I would say it is more link-baity than misleading, Google did delist the smart thermostat maker Vivint, and they did buy the smart thermostat maker Nest. The article attempts to paint a picture of intrigue and conspiracy, but I suspect it was just bad SEO on their part, or even Counter-SEO at work by another of Vivint's competitors.

That said, three major things stand out, which are not link baity and really do indicate a problem.

First, Google is how people find things, that gives them extraordinary power to direct the market, and that power is operating completely unchecked.

Second, searching for Vivint, is what we at Blekko call a 'navigation search'. If you've typed in Vivint it is pretty clear the result you want, and in the article Google auto-corrects it away to vivino. Now I just typed vivint and it found it, but if Pando was accurate that a navlink wasn't found when they tried it, that would be a pretty egregious failure of a search engine, I could see 'smart thermostat' not listing them but not a search on their name.

And the final thing is of course the opacity of it all and the challenge of the algorithm. It really is a dead end until some sort of AI comes along, human curation did wonders for our index and Microsoft's. Google might do well to stop investing a billion dollars a quarter in acquiring traffic and instead spend that money making a cleaner index.
seconded. You can also see the Falcon 9 v1.1 engine fairing in the background; the front part of the factory right by where you go in is where those engine units are assembled, so that's not a 'show', either.
Well, bye bye users.
Greylisting is so common these days - emails don't arrive straight way. Who wants to wait 5 minutes (assuming your mailserver tries that often on a greylist) to login to an app?

Appreciate what they're trying to do, but I think this is a bad idea.

edit: As tootie points out, it would be possible to use a "whitelisted" company.
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if the developers of Truecrypt are anonymous and the license doesn't allow something like this, would this allow us to find out who the developers are if they sue?
I'm not sure if that's a UPS joke or not.
This can be mitigated by paying a mass mailing company that's on all the whitelists. Of course, the makes it sort of a racket, but at least it's an option.
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VCs also anticipate they'll be wrong a majority of the time about a company. That means, a substantial amount of the time (maybe a majority of the time?), they'll be throwing a lot of money at "disrupting" existing businesses with no successful alternative.
Why Mobile First
That's a good point - yes - I hadn't thought of that.
Yeah, it's assuming your email provider has very strong security. If you're using gmail, yahoo, ms or any reputable provider, it probably is pretty secure.
Why does the amount of effort on the site matter? I don't understand how that tells you anything about the project or its likely outcome.
Don't just trust my SHA1s, verify with the sigs and the TrueCrypt Foundation public key. Ensure the key has the fingerprint shown in the great-great-great grandparent of this comment, independently verified by others in this thread.

gpg --import TrueCrypt-Foundation-Public-Key.asc
gpg --fingerprint F0D6B1E0
gpg --verify truecrypt-7.1a-linux-x64.tar.gz.sig

You should see:

gpg: Signature made Tue 07 Feb 2012 12:45:26 PM PST using DSA key ID F0D6B1E0
gpg: Good signature from "TrueCrypt Foundation <contact@truecrypt.org>"
gpg: WARNING: This key is not certified with a trusted signature!
gpg: There is no indication that the signature belongs to the owner.
Primary key fingerprint: C5F4 BAC4 A7B2 2DB8 B8F8 5538 E3BA 73CA F0D6 B1E0
.... That's a valuation based on "There exists a person who has recently put his money where is mouth is and paid someone $MARKET_CAP/N for 1/N of the company."

Which is hardly to say that you can unload the entire company at that price, or that it'll last, but it's a step above mere 'feelings'. :b
Hey, you never replied. How's it going? Can you post a throwaway GMail?
His sketches and the back-and-forth with Kubrick on The Shining's poster are pretty fascinating: http://www.thefoxisblack.com/2012/12/11/saul-bass-poster-ske...
We are still taking in Asian refugees from where there are still many conflicts and instability. According to [1], we took in 19,000 refugees from East Asia (I'm betting mostly southeast), 35,000 refugees from the Near East/South Asia, 2,000 from Europe and Central Asia (why they clump those together...weird).

[1] http://www.dhs.gov/xlibrary/assets/statistics/publications/o...
Very nice! I assume clicking inside the panel is like throwing a pebble in a pond? Is this correct?
How can one get a SpaceX tour?
I agree, I've got a copy of ModelSim which I use for that, I was wondering if someone could create a 'simulator as a service' using JS code in a browser. If you can take the RTL description of the synthesized hardware and create a model that runs in a browser, then you can have your browser do a quick check of your HDL while you are working. People compile so many things into JS these days, why not hardware?
In the context of a funded audit, this is about as meaningful to me as the complaint that OpenSSL is insecure because it's written in C --- which is also true.
Thank you Matt. Agree, even a quick look from a not-so savvy SEO at their backlink anchor text you can see that they were intentionally building a ton of links.

I think the only thing that made it a tad fishy was the timing. It just seemed like the acquisition happened, then the penalty tight after.
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Lazy query: do you do overstrikes? The keyboard one has to commit to memory is _so_ much smaller.
A lot of private law practices are run that way.
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The relevant question isn't whether it is "breaking things" in the abstract, but whether it is breaking things in a way meaningfully detrimental to end users. Or, if you really want to stretch it, perhaps also include externalities imposed on the "internet as a whole."

In the era before the omnibox, I personally can't see much in the way of "breaking things" on account of OpenDNS. Doesn't mean you and others can't disagree with that, but it's not as cut and dried as your statement seems to imply.
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> their example of interracial marriage is heavily imbalanced by gender.

I read somewhere Asian women is most desired by men of other races while Asian men is least desired by women of other races. Read that somewhere...

No, Asian is not white.
I'm shocked, shocked: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7812476
You hijacked NXDOMAIN breaking many applications in my personal experience. Over the past 4 years I have cautioned hundreds of people not to use this service because of that. It is not an issue that affects "DNS nerds", it affects everyone.
It would be nice if the people who pick up and run with the "reboot" of Truecrypt's project management had a background in cryptography. Do these people?
Experiments through data are by no means impossible when it comes to race or gender. That's the lifeblood of social science. Throwing your hands up and saying "too many numbers! no conclusions could ever be possibly found!" would be completely unacceptable in any other discipline. You're now picking and choosing which fields can even use basic statistics.
Enterprise and government comes with a lot of baggage that no sane developer would ever try to take on. You are manifesting your priorities on them, and that simply may not be the case. The $200 price point is likely that high in order to keep the client base low. I'm not saying you're wrong, but Apple itself barely supports enterprise with most of their enterprise management bits being third party. A laptop without a docking station??? Crazy, they might as well not sell computers...

Source: Work for government, not entirely sane, have had Apple reps brought in to discuss in house dev, written in house application, ruby, C#, C, Obj-C, JS, C++ developer in order of preference.
Want a job at Google? You’d better be a white man
Oh I liked that quite a bit. One of the things I liked about my Google interview, I tried to use this when I was interviewing there as well, was to take algorithms and express them in any programming language you are comfortable with.

Of course if it was carpentry the question would be "Hmm, everything you've made out of wood seems to look like a table, even this house over here." If you wanted to capture that "I can write Fortran in any language" feel.
To what end? Just because one can steal someones code or force them to reveal their identity doesn't mean it's a good or nice idea.

Apologies if I missed anything, I don't follow this truecrypt stuff too closely.
My feet start to hurt after the second or third hour of consecutive morning stand up meetings.
I completely agree that some people can find it uncomfortable. So what? It's not their business, unless they participate in it somehow. Nobody has an obligation to make them comfortable. Some people think seeing women wearing trousers or men having long hair or shaving facial hair make them uncomfortable. The only reasonable answer to them is "well, if you don't like it, don't look at it".

>>> all someone would have to say is "if you don't want to have sex, leave, but you get your own plane ticket"

If the implication was that the ticket is paid, that would be deception, unless explicitly agreed upfront that the sex is part of the deal (which it wasn't). However, nothing like that happened and nowhere in the article we can see that they were pressured to do anything they didn't want to do.
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Hey, some people want take the elevator to the gym and work out on a stairmaster...or put their bike on their car to drive to the place where they can ride their bike...away from all the other cars...=D
I hope you don't mind me auto-replying to every BS recruiter who sends me jobs in e-mail do you?
The funniest part about that comment is the response that says "I really was leaning toward NSL, till I read this post."

Head-desk-head-desk.
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He'd tell you, but he's been NSL'd.
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> "have you stopped beating your mother yet?"

Really? You couldn't think of a better example to compare my comment to?

>yet you're already rushing to what you apparently think is an inevitable conclusion. (e.g. Who knows if this thing is at all true, but Google has been pretty fishy lately).

Saying if there is truth to doing something illegal, things are going to get bad is not an inevitable conclusion or anywhere close to what it means. Its the same as saying if there is truth to the accusation that the politician accepted a bribe, his political career is in jeopardy.

> Come on, do a little research. Have you ever heard of Vivint before?

I would have if it did help sustain the point. The point is if Google is giving an unfair advantage to its own products regardless of the moral stance of their competitors. Your revision akin to "look, I don't know him and since he seems shady, his accusation of being robbed is false".

>So help me out here, and I'll ask the mods to remove my downvote.

Nope you don't have to. I don't care about petty fictitious points but it was seriously appalling to see just downvotes and no reply to any comment that was critical of Google. Some here believe downvotes should be reserved for spammy or off topic comments and others believe it should be for disagreeing - Go figure.

>what about a thermostat is directly competitive with a home security system?

Well what about a home security system competitive with another other. Yes, nest is moving into home security (Try doing the "research".) [1]

The rest, I have no idea how you interpreted my comments but I was referring about how Google was under fire dealing with Webmasters and Adsense clients. Combine that with the ruling by the EU. [2] Things do add up brick by brick.

[1] http://www.theverge.com/2014/5/26/5753026/google-and-nest-co...

[2] http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/06/technology/google-reaches-...
I had to manually remove the https:// in front of the URL for it to work. The following error is:

[blocked] The page at 'xss-game' was loaded over HTTPS, but ran insecure content from 'script-url': this content should also be loaded over HTTPS.
> By interpreting this purely as an attack on white males ONLY

Come on, man! He's not doing that! He was responding to this claim you made just two posts above:

> I don't think anyone is saying that white men are a "problem". There's so much defensiveness in these counter-articles coming out as though this is some specific attack on white males.

Despite Asian people being overrepresented and White people being underrepresented—in fact, despite Asian men being the most overrepresented of the demographics listed by Google (honestly: congrats!)—CNN and other media go for the fashionable target: White men.

It's interesting: When Asian people succeed, White people admire their hard work and determination. When White people succeed, White people feel shame and guilt.
If I were to say that "you're ${INSULT}" when you can't hear me, is that not disrespecting you? If I close all my HN posts with "parenoob is ${INSULT}", is that not disrespecting you? Or, to stick with the 2-people restriction, if I closed all my direct e-mails with that statement?

The answer should be fairly obvious.

As for point 2, the fact that teens are currently taught to be sexist doesn't mean they should be taught to be sexist, or that it's OK. Especially not from adults.
Did you not see the .ch domain name ?

You can rest assured.
In defense of the OP, the Google spam-punishing procedure is not purely objective or run as an unsupervised automation...it seems that Rap Genius would not have even been discovered had a blogger not made a relatively innocuous inquiry about RG's very public solicitations...which was then upvoted to the top of HN and presumably to Cutts' attention. And then after RG was reinstated, there were complaints that had it not been such a high-profile startup, the Google team would not have reinstated it so quickly (but in the defense of RG, they described and released the source code to the program they used to hunt down the bad links, which made it clear that RG handled the process in a way more efficiently than most other companies might have).

So Google's banhammer is wielded by humans with biases...that much is clear...but do we really know the order of cause-and-effect here? Perhaps this suspicious timing was an inadvertent screwup of Vivint's...that is, right after Google's acquisition of Nest, someone on Vivint's marketing team thought, "Oh shit, better step up our back-link game"...and then took it to a level that triggered a Google investigation. That chain of events could also explain the coincidental timing...and also could mean that both Cutts and Vivint's CEO are both telling the honest truth, as far as they know (not all CEOs are privy to the actual workings and details of their marketing teams)
This is a bad idea. TrueCrypt should be put to bed for good. An event of this magnitude is easy justification for dropping TrueCrypt. It serves an extremely delicate purpose and this raises far too many red flags to ignore.

Place your energy in the alternatives. I wish you could downvote things on HN, if only because this is downright dangerous and needs to be read by as few people as possible.
Why don't you send TrueCrypt.org a few dollars then?
Can there be a third option? Is it possible we could get someone to manually review his comments and approve the good ones?
> "This will be the first time that a printed rocket engine sees flight."

Is printing engines a tactic for making return flights from Mars more plausible?
The strange thing to me is that when we took action, our notice told Vivint it was for unnatural/spammy links to their site. It's really not hard to find these spammy posts, so I'm not sure where the disconnect happened.

Regarding timing, Blekko did a neat site called http://www.spamclock.com/ that claims a million spam pages are created every hour. It's safe to assume that Google algorithmic + manual protections against spam have to operate at that scale. As Del Harvey pointed out in a recent TED talk at http://blog.ted.com/2014/03/19/how-to-keep-240-million-twitt... , "[At Twitter], a one-in-a-million chance happens 500 times a day."

And since Google operates on an even bigger scale than the volume of daily tweets, you end up with these sort of occurrences. For example, it's virtually guaranteed that some website's rankings went up today, and they happened to start using AdWords today. Likewise, it's virtually guaranteed that some website's rankings dropped today, and they happened to start using AdWords today. There's no causality there--buying AdWords doesn't help your Google ranking--but to that particular website, it might look like causality even though it's just the law of large numbers. I think the logical fallacy is called "Post hoc, ergo propter hoc"?
Catalyst has better Plack/PSGI integration than Mojolicious; in fact Mojolicious is often better deployed without Plack because the PSGI stuff just gets in the way of Mojolicious' home-brewed async stuff.

The whole point of Mojolicious is to be an integrated set of tools that work well together, whereas Catalyst is focused much more on being a part of the wider CPAN ecosystem, and generating its own ecosystem of extensions in turn.
In that example "//" is just another way to say "https://", though.
You'll be alright.
Is FiOS still giving out those terrible Actiontec routers? If so, maybe this will get them to fix that.

I still remember switching from them to Comcast to what should have been a far better connection (over 2x download and maybe 8x upload) and thinking it was crap... until I turned off the access point in the Actiontec and started using my old AP again.
From what I found is that there isn't a competitive salary for software engineers in Germany. From what I've seen through out Europe the salaries have been rather low.. thus workers will try to immigrate to the US.
These engines are built from Inconel [1] superalloy, which is very hard for machining. 3d printing allows to cut the costs, and also enables more intricate shapes, thus improving the engine efficiency.

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inconel
If by cheaper then yes and if by printing on mars then probably not.
I wouldn't mind a product that can replace food, if it's cheaper, more convenient, provides all necessary nutrition and eliminates the feeling of hunger.

However the biggest issue I have with Soylent is that I cannot trust it. It hasn't been tested long term and it doesn't sound like it's being developed by people who know what they are doing.

Also let's stop pretending it's something new, stuff like Plumpy'nut have existed for a while, used in developing nations for malnutrition treatment. I bet it would be as effective as Soylent as a food replacement for a few months. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plumpy%27nut
If you want a simpler signaling server for WebRTC, you might check out the "caress" server I developed for Chatphrase: http://github.com/chatphrase/caress
Thanks, Matt. I always appreciate your input here. Your response sounds legit. In general, I still think that G is in an awkward position. Essentially we have to believe that Google, a company whose primary goal is to make money, can effectively police itself and operate on a level playing field. Yet there is a lot of secrecy in the things they do and just like any other company they deserve that right (I guess). I wonder if 'we' can do much else at this point except _trust_ what you are saying.
There is a $30,000 audit currently underway. There will be no security problems un-turned when they are through. That's assuming there are any to begin with (Personally, I think not).

I see no issue picking up the codebase and running with it.
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Would you mind pointing me in the direction of a good alternative? Thanks.
This is science fiction stuff. Thank you Elon Musk.
I'd say it's more of an economic problem. Sex is free. The pill, IUD, nuvaring, and other forms of low-effort birth control are not. Combine that with the fact that a lot of poor young women have nothing to give their lives purpose except a baby, and all of a sudden single-parent demand is created for procreation.
These are good points for discussion. But the counter-arguments is that they add cost, complexity, and time.

I can readily buy 2000 calories of food that are shelf-stable for under the $9/day price of solent. That are equal in weight (500g), hit a target of 15% protein, are compact in volume... and far more palatable for long durations.

Soylent has going for it that its easy 1-step and always predictable with minimal preperation and packaging. Once I start having to mix or pre-soak, Soylent has no apparent advantage to the system I just highlighted above.

It basically becomes assemblage if not outright cooking. And the need for something like a fridge? Again I think it is capital intensive and sort of against yhe minimalist ethos/usp of soylent.
Anyone who has a Gmail or Facebook account automatically has one. I really like Google+ sign-in on Android.