skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> In the worst case, it's absolutely possible that you share something with someone, A, which A would have bought and then they don't buy it. In the worst case they don't in the future buy anything from the author/creator etc. In the worst case I'd consider that author/creator a victim in this case, they would have been paid whatever amount A would have paid but now haven't been.

The thing is, what you're describing as a "victim" wouldn't be considered a victim in any other case.

If I set up a muffin stand and sell you muffins, you might choose to buy my muffins, and not the ones from the bakery across the street. But no one would call the bakery a victim, and call my actions, that lead to a decline in the income of the bakery, a criminal or even immoral act. Hell, I might even be using the bakery's generation-old recipe, and thus be profiting from information created/discovered by the bakery (akin to a digital copy of a movie created by a studio).
In regards to your second paragraph, I think you would love starting a hardware startup. :) That's what I did. Although I did study CS in school, in terms of electrical engineering I'm almost entirely self-taught, learning by "implementing and intuitive understanding" as you put it. It works really well actually, my team and I have been able to pull off some pretty incredible feats of engineering, working this way.
An article about what sounds like a very cool thing. Its architect describes it "as a peaceful, meditative place." I found the cover photo inappropriate, though.
In short, any student who emerges from university with good critical thinking skills has achieved that by accident, not by the university's design. I would also argue that the courses that come closest to achieving the ideal are history, English, and philosophy.

How about abstract mathematics? I would argue that these days those might be the only courses where you learn those skills.
If it were couched as location-aware group highlighting/hiding, it's just one more dimension for sorting your apps. It makes a little more sense without the reactionism.
Nurses use measuring cups too.
Perhaps it would be better to ask an employee who 8 months ago may have started a family on the strength of a loud endorsement to move manufacturing back home. What's the real harm? Just a few empty promises, no laws broken and a mere 700 dashed spirits, but it's all worthwhile in pursuit of the dream - whatever it happens to be this quarter.
I'm not sure if you're objecting to the topics they're planning to train for, or the perceived formality of the training, but I don't think either needs to hurt the culture if done well.

Communication is incredibly important at any company, but startups often fail to treat it as such, saying "we don't need meetings to get shit done" or "we hire great people so things will just work out".

Some people, through work or life experience, will have no problem giving constructive feedback at appropriate times, and working through differences of opinion. Others will suck at these things. The latter may otherwise be strong contributors - especially if you were hiring for ninja rockstar coding ability and not explicitly for communication skills - so it's worth helping them acquire those skills, both for their own career and for the company.

In particular, some people with conflict-avoiding personalities may have never experienced productive conflict resolution, unless you consider always backing down and feeling increasingly disempowered to be productive.

Now sure, if GitHub HR (or employees) treat this training as a box-ticking exercise, or use it to encourage bland, conflict-free discussion, the culture will nosedive. But I'll give them the benefit of the doubt.
Perhaps. Or they'll just download it or ignore it. There's several books I've wanted to read, but they aren't on Kindle and there's so much to read so I just move on.

Additionally probably half of my Kindle purchases are impulse purchases, and half of those are done right on the device itself.
I agree with you. When Github was starting out, they very much believed in overthrowing the traditional hierarchies that limited a company. But now, it seems like they are becoming more and more like what they feared.

Also, on another point, Github believes itself as a very much hacker culture. And if it's a hacker culture, shouldn't they believe in the Hacker manifesto, where they don't discriminate on religion, race, gender, but on their ability to code?
LDAP with drones? Is that so it can destroy you and the building you logged in from after 3 failed password attempts?
I remember there being quite a lot of interest when Ada95 came out, actually. I don't think it was too late at that point.
No, it's not something that happens every day. But celebratory drinking after a significant event is a very common American custom.

Based on what the earlier commenter wrote ("her teammates pressured her to drink a Vodka shot after a major deploy"), it apparently happened after a major software deployment. For small startups with close-knit teams who've just put in a lot of effort, this can be a big event, and cause for such celebration.

This may not have even happened at the work place, mind you. The original comment isn't totally clear, but it's not at all unusual for an American software development team to go out for a few drinks at a nearby bar, especially after completing some important work.

To most of the Americans there, it was probably a very insignificant thing. I don't see how they should be at fault for encouraging somebody else to engage in a pretty typical, and generally harmless, American social activity.
I can not say enough about util-linux/coreutils. If you are a linux user you really should take an hour or so to go through the man pages of any of the programs that you are not aware of. The only tool I have never been able to use is ptx. (ptx is permutated indexes: legacy doc index creation[1])

`rev` is an great tool for processing text files from the command line. It is especially useful when you need a quick and easy way to grab the last column of a delimited file when the lines do no have the same number of columns:

$ cat somefile | rev | cut -f 1 -d DELIMITER | rev

[1]: http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/92730/usr-bin-ptx-ca...
Theoretically yes, in practice? depends on who they piss off
Everything you've described is part of the problem. For some of it there's a better word: bullying.
Living in an underdeveloped country like mine is fiddled with inconveniences, but at least the intelligence agencies are off our backs. The authorities' cybercrime awareness is abysmally low, and I remember seeing Serbia colored the "not-monitored-at-all" color on that Snowden-related surveillance map.

It is a little concerning to see things like this happen near me, but for now I am grateful for the lack of pressure on me personally. I would love if the pressure ended everywhere, though, but it seems like it will only escalate in the future.
Your faith in the impartiality of legal processes is most refreshing.
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In this case, present to boss.
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Blessing in disguise- "pi" as a cultural touchstone is the dumbest thing. Nobody's impressed that you know one thing about a circle.
Android is a pain in the ass
Yeah, I saw that too, the trail is still there - he's no fool and, as his book testifies, knows copyright in depth. You'd think he might stipulate with his publisher that he had some say in sub-licensing or set some sanity limits on sales or something?

My guess at the first response to my answer above would be "MIT Press wouldn't take it on then". But then it becomes a case of "my price for the copyright in this book allowed MIT Press to do this", which is fine but means that he sold the license still that enabled this.

Incidentally the economics aren't entirely clear to me. The author says IEEE charge $15 per chapter. But it's MIT Press's book (effectively), how much are they getting? How much is the author getting. Is the story here [just] "authors have bad contracts with their publishers".

It's almost like a malicious joke - "This OA guy wants to sell his book for $11 and use a CC license, so we're going to sell it for 20-times that just to screw with him. The kicker, it's not even open access! Lol! That'll teach him.". You'd think the first line of this guys publishing contract/license would read "all version of this book, sub-licensed or otherwise must be OA without exception".
That's nonsense.

Bullying is done out of malice. Encouraging somebody to enjoy a celebratory shot of alcohol after a big event is, in America, a show of friendship and camaraderie.

Yes, Americans can often be assertive, especially in a playful or friendly manner. That's part of American culture. As a foreigner, it's best to understand this.
When I was in Toronto some years ago I visited the CN Tower, which has a glass-floor observation area.

http://www.cntower.ca/en-ca/plan-your-visit/attractions/glas...

The conflict between what my eyes were telling my brain and what I otherwise believed to be true was quite enlightening.

I guess it's the neocortex arguing with the reptilian brain.
It's pretty simple: An unvalidated/unauthenticated certificate looks like a MITM. Requesting an HTTPS resource indicates you want a secured connection. If the certificate is not trusted, then you don't have a secure connection.

The criteria is not self-signed, it's trusted/authenticated or not. Most self-signed certs are not trusted, and solving that solves the CA problem. But if a self-signed cert is trusted then browsers happily display the secure UI without any errors.
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To fill in your ellipsis: "However, while there may have been no legal wrongdoing, the investigator did find evidence of mistakes and errors of judgment. In light of these findings, Tom has submitted his resignation, which the company has accepted."

Although they found no evidence of legal wrongdoing, they found enough general dirt to force a founding CEO to resign. Obviously the public will never know exactly what happened, but an explosive, highly publicized employee departure followed by a CEO's resignation makes you wonder how the company allowed things to go so wrong.
A well placed net or piece of wire lobbed at it would suffice. Seems like someone reasonably motivated could clear them from the sky easily.
I always wondered if any tickets got challenged on constitutional grounds that there exists on human accuser. A machine cannot testify in court.
Perhaps they want to make this change before the acquisition to spare Google the bad press of "shutting down yet another service".
In the end, it's not about 'making copies'. You're obtaining entertainment without paying the required fee to the entertainer (vast majority of torrented stuff is entertainment). You're using a service without the required recompense. You can perhaps argue that semantically sharing is better likened to 'fare evasion' on public transport, but they're semantically similar crimes: taking something which you're meant to pay for for free.
Communication, giving and receiving peer feedback, and conflict resolution are all extremely difficult to do well, and almost anyone would benefit from regular training.

It seems like a lot of programmers, engineers, hackers, etc. have a strong case of Dunning-Kruger in these areas.
You'd put a pot of boiling water on a scale? Wouldn't that risk damaging it?
Horizon – 1977-1978: Now The Chips Are Down
Totally amazing BBC documentary from back in 1978. Some really brilliant and prescient quotes.
(NB You can use hola.org if you're outside UK)
Well said. Let's not forget why GitHub is putting such things in place. Had they existed before, they might have avoided all the unpleasantness they (and their former employee) went through (which also led to the CEO's resignation).
I think if you try to responsibly design this feature in browser UI, you'll end up with the same problem.

User requests an HTTPS resource, which means the connection must be secure. The UA is unable to establish a secure connection, just as if a MITM attack was underway.

So, now, the user has just entered https://facebook.com. Currently, when this secure connection fails, the browser warns the user in no uncertain terms.

Your suggestion would be to what, exactly? Put a small, unobtrusive dot somewhere in the UI indicating "yeah, I know you asked for HTTPS, and I ignored that, but I didn't wanna really bother you"?

If you're responsible for user's safety, which may depend on the UA treating HTTPS as it should, then you've just betrayed your user.

And at any rate, by not aborting while verifying the certificate, you're already leaking potentially personal information: The URL, cookies, etc. So if you treat the user's data with respect, you don't go sending that insecurely after the user requested HTTPS.

And if you can't transmit the request, because you need to warn the user... you end up with a UI like browsers have.
Lots of interesting stuff in the full deck.

On cybersecurity (18):

"Vulnerable Systems Placed on Internet Compromised in <15 Minutes"

Improvements in genome sequencing previously tracked with Moore's law, now jumping far ahead of it. (89)

142 and 143 provide some food for thought.

PDF of slides: http://s3.amazonaws.com/kpcbweb/files/85/Internet_Trends_201...
Hi mate,

We choose our interview questions based on the position and how the candidate presents themselves - e.g., if you state you have strong SQL skills, we'll be expecting you to demonstrate those skills.

In the first filter interview, we're generally looking for war stories that show you have what we're looking for, so if the word 'scalable' pops up in a job description, for example, then a relevant anecdote on a time you had scaling issues and overcame is worth making notes on.

We also prefer to have you work on actual problems on a computer while pairing with one of our team members instead of doing stuff on a whiteboard. We're interviewing for skills and team fit, and if you're intelligent, then skills can be taught, but attitude rarely can.

In summary - depends on the specifics of the job description.
I think that you've misunderstood my comment just as you've apparently misunderstood American culture.

Instead of trying to truly understand American culture, I think you've just ended up injecting a lot of presumed malice that just isn't there in reality.

What you and your friend see as "pressure", many Americans would consider just being friendly and sociable.

What you see as an unreasonable request, many Americans would see as merely trying to be considerate of others and what they have to smell while at the office.

And as I stated earlier, I'm not even an American. But I do realize that American culture is unique in many ways, and it's far more enjoyable to interact with Americans if you put forth the effort to understand where they're coming from, and why they act the way that they do.
How to Hack a Car: Phreaked Out
There's plenty to criticize in the Scandinavian judicial systems. Norway in particular has been criticized by the United Nations and various human rights organizations for decades, due to the indiscriminate use of long-term solitary confinement of suspects under criminal investigation. (Just today, a police officer accused of corruption was finally released after three months of solitary confinement - court-ordered as part of the police investigation).

Speaking of Norway in particular, there is also the question of less clear-cut rights against regarding invasion of privacy etc. than the United States constitution provides. The counterweight is a very educated and well-respected police force.

There is plenty to criticize in our contries, criticism which should definitely have a more prominent place than it does today. And I am saying this as a pretty strong supporter of the way Norway does things. The "damages" conviction of the TPB guys is another case in point: The ruling is in effect (1) a sentence to lifelong economic slavery or (2) a sentence to lifelong banishment from Sweden. Take your pick. This is not the way a modern democratic legal system should function. Similarly, criticism could also be made for the way these cases (and also the Julian Assange case, for instance) were started through external pressure rather than the regular state of affairs. Plenty of stuff that should be discussed more openly.
Driving into Colorado from the west, I drove over a mountain pass that was something like 12000 ft high. When I got to my destination, I thought I'd convert that into meters and compare to the mountains back home in Australia. 12000' is 3600m... and the tallest mountain back home is Kosciuszko, which is 2200m high. I'd just driven over a pass 50% higher than the peak of the tallest mountain back home...
I've never seen a photo or visualization that gives a feel for the size of the area at the summit of Everest. There are thousands of photos taken at summit of course, but it's always someone standing on the summit himself, so you don't know how much space is behind the photographer.

According to this source http://www.alanarnette.com/everest/everestsouthroutes.php
the summit is 30 square feet (or 3 square meters). I'd still love to see an close-up aerial photo from a helicopter or plane directly overhead.
Off topic, but I just wanted to point out that Google Translate is really great. The quality of this translation is probably better than many human non-professional-translators would write.
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That was an incredible use of the technology. I'd watched sailing on TV before, but for the first time I could actually see and understand the scope of the race and the strategies of the skippers.
For those who didn't click the link, the classic example of price discrimination is movie tickets. There is one price for adults, and another for children, even though the costs to the cinema are the same either way.

Yes, the ability to separate markets and thereby price discriminate will increase producer profits. Yes, this will sometimes make otherwise unviable products viable. However, this is not always the case. In the case of textbooks, I would suspect that, if producers could not discriminate, they would price at roughly the 'Western' price, and people in low income countries would be unable to afford a licensed copy of these books. Perhaps we would save a small percentage, but not much.
SEO the shit out of that blog post.

This strategy will not redound in your favor with regards to securing mutually fulfilling relationships with good prospects, because it screams a) I'm a chump consultant, b) I will be difficult to work with, and c) there is a huge downside risk of employing me if we run into utterly routine speedbumps. (Freelancers may not perceive "not being paid in a timely fashion" as a speedbump, but that is what it will read like to clients.)
It can hurt their reputation, at the very least. Beyond that, I doubt it.
You might be interested it http://builditwith.me, a platform for people with ideas to find designers/developers.

It appears to be mostly old listings (earliest idea is from Feb 2014) but people will probably still be receptive to emails. YMMV.
> What if the person committed that crime while under the influence of a prior mental illness that he or she has since sought help in correcting, and now recognizes their previous intent/action as criminal?

And what if they're a Schizophrenic, stop taking their meds (as such are wont to do) and murders someone even though they had been receiving help?

N.B.: this is not a hypothetical scenario, it describes one of the things that led to the brutal murder of my mother.
I imagine that amongst the Sherpa, it's the guides that get the recognition, and one rich white is much the same as another. Cultures tend to lionise their own members.
Time to get a trademark on Tau before it takes off.
Or, on any *nix worth talking about, by default...

perl -e 'print reverse <>'
You won't find it with those search strings because the American viewer (presumably who is posting those videos to YouTube) takes it totally for granted.

Try searching for just "first down" with football, or viewing some game highlights on NFL.com.
I was just thinking about how exceptionally well this article was translated. More often than not I can't even understand the gist of what the translation is. Maybe some languages are better than others.
As I understand it, the evidence is a chatlog and an encrypted container. The police have had a hard time proving that he was one of the people in the chat. The encrypted container, which the police somehow broke (wonder how they did that), had data from the Danish hack and private documents which doesn't look too good.
Also he avoided a sentence for hacking into Nordea in Sweden by claiming that his computer was remote controlled and they couldn't prove that it was not.

I'd say it looks fairly likely that he had something to do with these crimes. Also I wouldn't say they have no evidence just that they probably don't have enough to convict. The arguments for continuing to hold him are pretty thin. He already had unsupervised meetings with family and friends so holding him because they are afraid of evidence tampering seems questionable.
Ok, `NSImage initWithContentsOfURL` is awesome. I haven't ever done much GUI coding, is that a standard type of thing in GUI toolkits?

(also, the pedant in me would like to point out that this is not "shell scripting" as you're not scripting a shell, but it's super cool regardless)
Isn't that `rev`, not `tac`? (I think `tac` should be `unlines . reverse . lines`.)
Google Analytics can give a lot of insights to the webmaster about how a site is being used. The others? Meh.
> "... it's far more enjoyable to interact with Americans if you put forth the effort to understand where they're coming from, and why they act the way that they do."

Is it really too much to ask for the same in return?
As far as the NY attorney database shows, there is only one licensed attorney with that name, and he works for a bank, and so likely does not deal with IP law. Plus, the fact that a home address is used on the letterhead suggest that he may have written it as a favor to a friend.

Although admittedly, an attorney practicing in a area that isn't his area of expertise is not much better (and maybe worse).

Interestingly, most of the letter seems to have been taken from [1] and [2]. Yes, it's copyright infringement. No, most lawyers don't care if copyright of their legal documents have been infringed.

[1]: https://www.z2systems.com/np/publicaccess/neonPage.do?pageId...
[2]: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:TjCi1WP...
I assume this is exactly what said 50+ year olds were thinking about their elders circa 1970. "Generational change" is not the panacea it appears to be while in your 20s.
I suspect the author would argue that training in abstract mathematics is comparable to the other sciences in the sense of 'data analysis within a framework', subject to the problem of under-training in the ability to recognize the limitations of the framework. I suspect s/he chose History, English and Philosophy because they are fuzzier than the sciences, including mathematics, and so they require understanding how to choose - or define - a set ground rules to apply in a given situation.
That was the problem. Works well on my android now. Thanks!
Will Apple's Beats Buy Hurt Pandora And Spotify?
> it also makes legitimate deployments of law enforcement pointlessly difficult.

That's a good thing. When you start from a premise of "let's make things easy for the cops", then it is inevitable that this will be at the expense of making everything harder for people who just trying live their lives.

> Instead, we need strong, principled

This is the same as saying that we need magical regulations. There's no evidence that any regulations written anytime in the last few centuries have been in any way principled.
You're not a school teacher, are you?