skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The OP makes an interesting point, but I think Steve Hsu's post below provide a more nuanced discussion of Oppenheimer and of the book mentioned in the linked article:

http://infoproc.blogspot.com/2013/07/strange-gadget-robert-o...

Elsewhere, Hsu also links to this review by Freeman Dyson of the same book:

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2013/aug/15/oppenhe...

in which, rather than to lack of confidence, Dyson attributes Oppenheimer's "failure to be a great scientist" to:

a lack of Sitzfleisch. Sitzfleisch is a German word with no equivalent in English. The literal translation is “Sitflesh.” It means the ability to sit still and work quietly. He could never sit still long enough to do a difficult calculation.
> USA’s visas are a very difficult topic. To work you need the right visa. I think that it’s not so easy to get an internship with a student visa.

Well, not quite. Getting an internship is actually pretty easy if you are on an F1 visa to the United States. You file for something called CPT (Curricular Practical Training). Go intern at the place of your choice; this internship has to be related to your field of study so no working at McDonalds as a summer intern or whatever.

On the other hand, getting a full time job is different. If you are graduating from a STEM school, you apply for something called OPT (Optional Practical Training), which lets you work for any STEM company for upto 27 months before you need to get into an H1B.
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How has no one mentioned mobile? Smartphones/tablets? You know, the largest segment of general computation devices?
>> Edit: I've run across a few comments complaining about these large max values. The reason I set them high is that the machines I work on are not multi-user in any way.

Then why is this posted at all, this isn't improved default Linux settings, it's settings some guy likes for some customized environment.
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Yeah, I am lucky in that I do not have many friends and no one knows that I use. The salary definitely makes it easier to support a habit.

Have you ever gone into work sick?
How does this differ from "a same-domain policy for :visited links"?
It wasn't apparent from the title that this data was mostly from Seed-DB, and partly from Crunchbase.

Seed-DB is accelerator based funding, and the crunchbase data that was used is incomplete.

It lists Seattle behind Atlanta in terms of Startup Funding.
At what interest rate? Seems to me the average startup's credit worthiness is somewhere between Junk and Non-Existant.
If you wanted to take it a step further, the touch screen could have a very narrow viewing angle, have the angle of the screen automatically or manually rotate to the users eye level, and then someone standing next to you would just see a blank screen. With random keys on top of that, someone would literally have to poke their head over your shoulder to see.
hopefully they are consistent and have the same comments about anyone having their phone out of their pocket
http://blog.svpply.com/post/31008753911/ebay-inc-acquires-sv...

"One thing we do want to make clear: Svpply is not going away. We’ll continue to bring our users new products each day"

Sounds oh so familiar these days...
I think Whisper can be used in some interesting ways by news organizations
Perhaps epochwolf has been to a pride parade and extrapolated.
Another anti-Google propoganda with highly offensive comments (pedophile, glasshole etc.) with high upvotes and not a single downvote.

You can do the exact same thing by hiding a camera in anywhere your body, and they won't even be spotted like Google Glass. There are cameras as tiny as: http://youtu.be/CgtTg62GDfs?t=2m19s and I'm sure many intelligency agencies around the world have better cameras than this on their agents, and some one might be actually using them. Additionally, almost all the stores has security cameras, which are on top of you and potentially can do the same thing, and you won't even notice.
Well I can attest that having user's file limits set lower than 4096 will cause some web servers to not handle a multi-user client performance test of any decent size.
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No, but some police do seem to have a mentality where they think they need to be a substitute jury or provide some of the corporal punishment the legal system omits.
> Yeah, but there is something to be said about Glass making it possible (and trivial) to record the sensitive information.

Google glass didn't make that possible, the invention of the video camera did. Plenty of those around -- often in compact form -- with or without Glass.
This is exactly why HBO keeps their Game of Thrones content which costs $6 million / episode exclusive.

If they started selling episodes for $1.99/each in HD the day after they air they'd see their upfront capital they get from their recurring subscriptions evaporate, and the show would also go away.
There's no guarantee of that. Several other sites may offer more favorable terms, but if they don't have a fraction of the viewers that YouTube has then those terms will still be worth less than a shitty deal with YouTube. The laws of supply and demand are obvious under perfect competition, but network effects massively change that calculus.
I like google, but your point that "different account for youtube and gmail, Google is perfectly happy with you doing exactly that" is false.

It might be true in the general case, but Google did make a significant effort to require real names on Google+ (and by extension youtube / gmail). It didn't affect the large majority, but you can find some people it did affect. Google cared in some cases.
Probably a Zedboard.
Unfortunately, randomizing the button locations would be an accessibility nightmare.
Fingerprints are also one of the most promiscuous of biometric indicators possible. You leave your fingerprints just about everywhere you go, which can be picked up with some powder and sticky tape.

I would never consider my fingerprint to be a secure form of identification, nor should systems be designed that make this assumption.
You are setting yourself up for a reflected request forgery attack.
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Calling it misleading is stretch. There are dozens of factors that you can cherry pick to cast aspersions on the increase in inequality but if you step back they don't come close to explaining it. There are another dozen that can be chosen that do the opposite.
Security and accessibility are pretty much inherently opposed.
That's a good point. But while it's permanent it's at least harder to replicate for the time being.
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The slowness of functional methods like .map and .forEach for a time was due to their not being self-hosted. Since then, both V8 and SpiderMonkey self-host them, and bz has posted some numbers below [1].

But perf problems are more numerous still for these functional methods, because compilers in general have trouble inlining closures, especially for very polymorphic callsites like calls to the callback passed in via .map or .forEach. For an account of what's going on in SpiderMonkey, I wrote an explanation about a year ago [2]. Unfortunately, the problems still persist today.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7938101
[2] http://rfrn.org/~shu/2013/03/20/two-reasons-functional-style...
It is a standard for many banks in Turkey, since we only enter PIN
That's not the point. This is a thread about a particular set of contract provisions YouTube is apparently offering to publishers, not a general shift in consumption patterns.
I think that sums up nicely why I don't particularly like the STL: it's that mindset. It's all well and good having a generic operation over an arbitrary collection of anything, but sometimes you just want to get stuff done. All that generality adds distance between your code and the problem you're trying to solve with it. It's obfuscation.

Edit: I hope that doesn't sound too combative - I'm just trying to explain myself, not saying that you're wrong.
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Very interesting project. I'm one of those rare people on HN who actually did a graduate degree in the area of bipedal locomotion so I'm well aware of IHMC and the research coming out of this lab. Great work!
Runescape's been doing it for years.
Bear in mind that Pivotal Tracker is a very tiny part of what Pivotal Labs does. It's simply their internal tool released to the public. I imagine most of what OP is referring to is related to their software development consulting services.
It shouldn't be that bad, given the need for the compiler to export an AST.
Explain "stirred the pot." Most companies hire new employees to perform certain tasks, not "stir the pot."

Unless you have something specific to share as to how or why Pivotal wronged you, this blog post comes off as vindictive and, frankly, not very well thought out. I suspect that pretty much everyone reading it is a bit confused as to your point.
Because it wouldn't mark the links on the HN front page as visited if it were a "same-domain policy."

The origin policy fixes that.
Yeah well commenting this I realized that it sounded too simple to be new, but it really did remind me of the book where it (spoiler for the hunger games now) did disgust me for killing one of the main characters who was utterly and completely innocent (and working as a doctor).
I don't understand why anyone would post something like this. It cannot help you, it can only hurt you. It may be cathartic, but venting to a friend is probably much more productive.
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Well if this is some kind a support I really don't know, but I think she should be proud, because with only 22 years old and doing all this (trip to another country, leading a startup). I wish you more luck on your another attempt.
Yeah I got that. But the link doesn't show it's all that common either. Basically none since 2011, and America is a big country. A handful a year across 330 million people is too many, but not nearly as common as the European and my parent are making it out to be.
Most employment or termination agreements I've seen have non-disparagement clauses that specifically prohibit this kind of post as well. (Although who knows if it would be enforced or could be enforced).
The manufacture and use of Stingray type equipment is clearly in violation of Federal law and is punishable by up to ten years in prison. Two parties conspiring to infringe on a citizens civil rights. Read for yourself.

http://www.justice.gov/crt/abo...

It is also agains FCC rules with 2 years in prison on $50,000 fine.

Section 705 of the Communications Act

Section 705 of the Communications Act adds to the Federal Wiretap Act additional restrictions on the unauthorized interception of communication "by wire or radio." Specifically, the Act provides

No person not being authorized by the sender shall intercept any radio communication and divulge or publish the existence, contents, substance, purport, effect, or meaning of such intercepted communication to any person. No person not being entitled thereto shall receive or assist in receiving any interstate or foreign communication by radio and use such communication (or any information therein contained) for his own benefit or for the benefit of another not entitled thereto. No person having received any intercepted radio communication or having become acquainted with the contents, substance, purport, effect, or meaning of such communication (or any part thereof) knowing that such communication was intercepted, shall divulge or publish the existence, contents, substance, purport, effect, or meaning of such communication (or any part thereof) or use such communication (or any information therein contained) for his own benefit or for the benefit of another not entitled thereto.Violations of Section 705 carry strict penalties, with willful violations "for purposes of direct or indirect commercial advantage or private financial gain" meriting fines of up to $50,000 and prison for up to two years for the first offense.
If you get fired, that's not really the same as leaving. I can see if his post was about how he became disillusioned with the company and decided to leave but the reality is that he got let go so this comes off as a "I got fired so here's my rant about how bad this company is." Regardless of what happened, I think companies would be hard pressed to hire someone that does things like this.
If I can use a custom keyboard to enter my iPad pin code -- problem solved? I'd of course point out that the pin code is the least of your worries given most apps' security when on unsecured wifi... Besides, this really is nothing new, as people have been remotely stealing PIN numbers for ages, even recruiting others to do it for them. That this is an iPad instead of a PIN pad doesn't make much difference.

That all said, I'm sure more people will buy into fingerprint passwords from articles like this ... which is just as insecure, someone can easily get your prints if they wanted to. Perhaps we need a bluetooth Yubikey plus manual entry for 2FA ;-)
Those describe downward pressure on income, not wealth necessarily:

None of these would lead to a decrease in wealth so quickly, except for situations in which the wealth had to be consumed to make up for loss of job / disability / sickness / overconsumption.

Re: Military families: Most people getting killed/dismembered were too young to have any wealth to lose. Even still, their wealth would actually increase upon death as the military's life insurance policies are quite generous.
Very interesting reads, thank you for sharing them.

However, just looking at the time scale over which the net worth changes described in the original article occurred, and their magnitudes, it doesn't seem likely that the effect they describe can be explained so easily by social factors. Hypothesizing that it's just a social change related to shrinking households leads to some interesting questions about what that really means in practical terms: Did the bottom 5% go from an average net worth of -$9K to -27K over the course of a decade because, on average, three individuals in the red would get together to form a combined household with pooled debts? Did the 25th percentile go from an average of $10k to an average of $3k because of parents getting divorced and kids moving out en masse? Meanwhile wealthy people's family structures remain static.

I think the data you link and the data in the article are reconcilable. Income and wealth are different things, after all. Perhaps wealthier folks' net worth dropped less precipitously during the Great Recession because they experienced nothing worse than a drop in the valuation of their primary residence. Meanwhile less wealthy folks suffered a greater loss because they were more likely to get foreclosed on, therefore suffering a loss of all the equity they had built up in their homes. This trend wouldn't show up as much in the income numbers because losing your house doesn't necessarily coincide with losing your job, certainly not the way things were playing out in 2008.
Not if you can move your finger and listen for the number via VoiceOver. And if it's not on by default. That said, I wonder if one could make a tap pattern password for blind folks and finger drummers ;-)
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Randomizing the locations can help, but if the camera sees your display, you're screwed anyway. I guess you just need to be more careful about others' lines of sight when you're entering sensitive data. Someone may be spying over your shoulder, as well.

Regarding the comments: they may seem ridiculous after you've been browsing HN and reading the comments on here. The kind of discussion on that Wired article is not any worse than your average Internet discussion, it's just that HN raises your bar because it targets a narrower demographic. Such niche communities tend to have the most sane behavior of users; on the other end is 4chan's Random board where "everything goes", and look at it, it's the asshole of the Internet.
One of the things that imo has pushed some of the other Unixes out of HPC is the move to using cluster file systems. Any Unix supports a traditional NFS-mounted NAS solution for storage, as used to be typical in HPC clusters (and still is fairly common in smaller installations at universities). But only AIX and Linux really have solid cluster filesystems; there's nothing in the BSD world analogous to IBM GPFS, or to Lustre, and porting is nontrivial.
Does US really have the most fans in Brazil?
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Seriously, be professional and don't burn any bridges. It's something you learn the hard way I guess.
I'm learning useful things from these comments. A lot of times I don't even click on the OP for obviously link-bait TC type stuff but I nevertheless find HN comments interesting.
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An the answer to a rhetorical question in case anyone is interested: Philosophy of Science. Specifically read Hume (Inquiry Concerning Human Understanding) who demonstrated that inductive reasoning to universal laws (empiricism) was fundamentally based on circular reasoning. Then Karl Popper developed the idea of falsification to show that while Hume is correct--you cannot prove natural laws as true, you can prove them false. He essentially codified the idea that scientific laws have to be testable, and falsifiable. So scientific laws are contingent. They are they closest we have to the truth, until someone devises a test that proves them wrong.
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This isn't solvable with version numbers, either use Haskell or layer a type system over package interfaces along with the runtimes ability to upgrade and downgrade dependent packages on an link error.

It would be helpful of every successful package DAG for that occurrence we communicated somewhere for others to use.
> How has no one mentioned mobile?

Because Linux does dominate mobile? Android is Linux and iOS is a *nux. (iOS is a BSD derivative.)
Pivotal works fine for this startup. shrug
"In short, the implementation is proved to be bug-free."

This reeks of bull shit.

"We still assume correctness of hand- written assembly code, boot code, management of caches, and the hardware"

Sorry, I don't think you can claim you have a mathematical proof of the correctness of your kernel when you assume this much.

And where is this proof? I can't seem to find it anywhere on their web site. The only thing I can find is the publication

"seL4: Formal Verification of an Operating-System Kernel"
http://ertos.nicta.com.au/research/l4.verified/pubs.pml

which looks like it just talks about the proof, rather than providing it. Am I just blind?

This looks interesting, but the confidence which they espouse is very suspicious.
Can someone summarize this using less grandiose/mystical language? It seems like he has a point but I just don't feel like wading through the analogies. That said I am sympathetic to his position as I know multiple people involved in different startups who say that the Pivotal consultants they see today can't hold a candle to the Pivots they worked with five years ago.
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I think you are right that those blogs do not fully explain what happened after 2003. It seems like the measured wealth dip (amongst all groups) from 2007-current is quite consistent with losses due to the drop in housing prices from the great recession (though I have no solid data to back this up). Lower income households tend to have a greater proportion of their wealth tied up in housing (and with less home equity due to a variety of factors including low down payments in those years), so they were likely disproportionately (negatively) impacted.

I am not sure what could explain the changes between 2003-2007, though I would be very interested to hear any ideas.
I'd agree with you only if you'd agree with me that:

There can never be enough RAM. ;)
The way PHP allows fluid, dynamic interaction with the symbol table is pretty nifty, I think, and even if there were no extract() function built into the language, you could implement it yourself out of other primitives. I'm not one that believes that any feature of a language that can be used in dangerous ways should be eliminated (anything can be dangerous). I just think extract() is one that you ought to think carefully about before using. This example ought to reinforce that.
I've recently imagined a spindly-legged robot that left a charging home base with water, poison, seeds and fertiliser. It would wander out into a home garden and handle whatever tasks were necessary - identifying and neutralising young weeds, checking soil moisture and watering at a per-plant level, applying fertiliser based on a log of past applications and knowing which plant it was servicing, etc.

Picture a daddy-longlegs spider, but with four jointed legs about one metre long (three always touching the ground while the fourth moves position). Then a light-weight body with storage and probes/applicators.

If the base station had water supplied, solar charging, etc - I'd find this useful in my vegetable garden. Swarms of them could potentially look after larger gardens.
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I was given a free Chromebox (Samsung "Series 3"), and I tried to install Linux on it. It didn't work at all, apparently because the Chromebox doesn't support "legacy boot," whatever that is. I tried Crouton and Chrubuntu in turn, and found that sound didn't work in the first case, and that the kernel was not upgradeable.

I gave up and I bought a PC (Intel NUC). I was able to install Linux on it, but it failed to boot. I then found a BIOS update, and managed to get it installed (not a trivial task). After that my NUC worked well, except for the IR port, which required additional driver hunting.

Sadly, we're still a long ways from "it just works." The NUC didn't support Linux out of the box, even though it ships without an OS!
More routers run linux than you'd think. There's very little reason to reinvent basic networking and routing components and a kernel, when all the common SoCs are supported by a free OS. For the small price of stashing a source code bundle somewhere on their website (if even!) companies can get most of what makes their product tick off the shelf.
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I've hired a lot of people in the past. One of the most important questions I ask is "why did you leave your company X?"

I don't really care about the reason, I care about how they handled it. Whether they leave voluntarily or are forced out, there's always a telling tale there.

People rarely ever feel they've been fired "justly". Some people get on with their lives and some people set fire to the building on the way out the door. The only thing for certain is that everyone leaves eventually...
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