skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well I am all for people hiring or entering companies based on their preferences. If you prefer diversity, sure, go for it. I just don't see the sense in dictating people their preferences.

It's a good thing that there are all sorts of companies. There are companies where everybody has to wear a uniform all day, and companies where people work in their underwear all day (because they work from home). Some people might prefer the one, others the other. But then to write "everybody should be working in their underwear at all times" is just bullshit.

Maybe the underwear people will outperform the uniform people. In 20 years there would be only underwear companies left. Or vice versa. Or there will always be a mix. But if you want to predict that ("I claim that underwear programmers will outperform uniform programmers"), you should provide some very good arguments.
nit-pick alert

Basic SEM work requires a conductive surface (carbon coatings also work), and in some cases you can skip that if you have a good carrier gas. The real limitation here is that most SEMs require you to pump down to vacuum, which would eliminate the water. Even variable-pressure SEMs that operate close to atmosphere require a purge, first.

So the limit is the vacuum, not the metal coating.
Considering that your MBP screen issue is the same one always mentioned about Apple, and it was widely discussed online and screens got replaced under warranty, it seems to be the exception that proves the rule.
This a thousand times.

I'm not accusing these guys of being dishonest, but we know that the three-letter organizations do this sort of thing, both with and without the knowledge of web hosts.

It seems like these guys (and anyone else who has a similar service) shouldn't require people to trust them. Instead, they should allow CORS (it appears cdnjs does) and provide boilerplate code that verifies the script's sha256 before inserting it into the page.
imagine a world where this was the norm. You wouldn't need to worry about outages due to falling trees or utility poles exploding or people screwing with your wires.

Then you step outside to look up at the sky and you lose your eyesight
Same as above
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John Connor: So this other guy: he's an AI like you, right?

The Musk: Not like me. A D-Wave advanced prototype.

John Connor: You mean more advanced than you are?

The Musk: Yes. A quantum computer.

John Connor: What the hell does that mean?

The Musk: Nobody knows but it sounds cool.
> It's nice that you don't care about your coworkers as people (having dinner with them or becoming friends). I am sure there are loads of companies that are perfect for you, because they only require blue collar programming drones.

First of all, I care about my coworkers to the extent it is necessary to work together. Also, if they ever run into hardships, I am willing to help out if I can. It's just basic human decency that I will afford to anyone in my life, not just coworkers. But at the end of the day, I am primarily seeking a mutually profitable business relationship, not an emotional relationship.

Second of all, I don't have the need to become friends with my coworkers. If it happens spontaneously then fine. Work is a good place as any to make friends. If it doesn't happen, I'm really not going to lose my sleep over it. I don't have an obsessive need to be friends with my coworkers.

Also, I think you'll be surprised when I tell you I actually work for a company building cutting edge stuff. The fact that you assume that you need to work at a particular kind of startup with a particular culture to have that just shows how prejudiced you are. There are plenty of amazing and rewarding jobs that don't require these things.

> But why should what you prefer be good for every company? Why shouldn't a company be allowed to aim for co-workers who become friends? Why not let the market sort it out (maybe the drone companies will outperform the friend companies, maybe not).

Fair enough. I respect your opinion. However, if you're going to screen people based on arbitrary criteria, why don't you go ahead and put those criteria in the job ad? What's preventing you from making the process transparent by writing say, "Only people who are like us and seek to become friends need apply"? Or perhaps "Only people who listen to Michael Bolton and like drinking beer on Fridays...". That would be perfect because people who are not interested in those aspects could just skip your job ad and move on without having their precious time wasted jumping through hoops in a lopsided game with oblique rules. Don't you think that simply listing technical requirements in the ad and then turning tables on people and changing the rules of the game once they're sitting in the room with you is unfair and disrespectful? Are you afraid that listing those criteria would make your company look ridiculous?
According to this[1] definition, a confidential source is a PERSON who provides information. If this is so, then the judge that approved the warrant was actually tricked: a person providing information implies that the information may be volatile (the witness may have seen something by pure luck), and on top of that it also means that the information was obtained through a legally sanctioned way (ie, a witness and/or a confession). If they used a word that defines a person to identify something that was not a person, then yeah, there was some deception involved.

If I read the article correctly, what happened is that the police obtained information in ways they apparently weren't allowed to use (unconstitutional surveillance), and then hid this fact under the pretense of a supposed person giving that information. This is all kinds of wrong and, among other things, voids those warrants.

[1] http://definitions.uslegal.com/c/confidential-source%20/
Yes, but how do they keep the sharks alive up there?

Space-to-ground laser communication is a neat trick, but you still have the problem that you need to have a line of sight to the receiver in order to use it. The good news is that you are not quite as limited by bandwidth during the time that you can see the receiver. It would be nice if we could get the sort of international cooperation that would allow for continuous contact, but unfortunately, the politicians in charge usually don't care that much about space research. We'd probably have better luck with one or more reflector satellites that could bounce the laser signal back to the receiver.
TEDx: Hackschooling makes me happy
I believe NASA does have a few UHF stations elsewhere, or at least used to. As of a 1998 document about the shuttle program [1], they listed 6 UHF air-to-ground stations, 3 of them in other countries. The U.S.-based ones were in Guam, Hawaii, and Florida; and the others were in Ascension Island (a British dependency halfway between Africa and South America), Bermuda (a British dependency off the east coast of Canada), and Dakar, Senegal.

[1] http://science.ksc.nasa.gov/shuttle/technology/sts-newsref/s...
The entire point of an interview is figuring out the answer to these questions: "Will this person deliver what I want if I give them X amount of resources?" Second, "Can I stand working with them for at least one year?". Unfortunately, establishing a trusted conversation with someone takes a lot more than two questions! Fortunately, it's well worth it when you find them.
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DDoS Testsing vs. Pentesting
Bitcoin — assuming it works — also becomes the perfect currency for kidnappers and blackmailers. Awesome, huh?
The blades on turbines are massive and would require adding a lot of height to the existing towers. Also working around live transmission lines is extremely dangerous much less trying to add to the tower. It's just too dangerous.
It seems to make a lot more sense to judge people based on the things you know.

So do that. Stop pretending you are a psychologist, and capable of figuring out what kind of personality is good at this job, because those are things you don't know.

Instead, give work-sample tests. Those are something you can know. You can look at the results the person emits. Then hire based on that. Personality only needs basic things like "doesn't spit on other people" and "doesn't say racial/sexual slurs to coworkers/clients."

There's no reason to think that a psychological test designed by non-psychologists is even as good as random guessing. On the other hand, work-sample tests have been studied and are a very good guide. Commenter 'tokenadult has FAQd this up for us: http://www.focus.vc/tokenadult-recruiting-faq/
There's a much bigger problem going on here. Why is it acceptable to say that your information comes from a "confidential source" at all? The nature of the claim is that it can't be verified; a confidential source cannot be distinguished by any means from a fevered imagination.

I assume you can't get a warrant to search someone's house for drugs by saying "he looks like a junkie to me". It would be too easy to ask how claiming a "confidential source" is better than that. How is it different?
Have you checked ghost.io? I don't know what is their business model, but it looks really close to a new Wordpress, based on Node.js
Interesting. If a 2.5 watt laser was used for communication from the ISS to Earth what wattage would be needed to send a high-bandwidth message back from Mars (or Titan)? How does that compare to traditional radio-based communication?

This point-to-point communication is also interesting in relation to the Fermi Paradox. It seems likely that a sufficiently-advanced race would beam their messages directly to their recipients rather than wasting energy (and privacy) transmitting an omnidirectional signal.
I never said they should be obligated to hire them.

It is really inefficient to pick IT, UX, Sysadmin, etc. talent based on whether they drink or not. So I'm assuming they are oblivious.
The scroll wheel was a gimmick in the tradition of the Apple hockey puck mouse, that was worse than the obvious alternatives (a regular rocker is much easier to use for scrolling through long lists) but people bought because they look cute and trusted Apple's supposed design insight.
Ask HN: Ipad ssh clients
What app do you use for an ssh client on an Ipad? How much do you trust the app or IOS with your private keys? Are there any that are open source? Does jailbreaking help?
> The technology gaps are going to take forever to close for two reasons. (...)

The secret is that the utility curve of technology is not flat. For example: when processors ran at 4Mhz, doubling the processor speed to 8Mhz had a much different utility value than when they doubled from 1.5Ghz to 3Ghz.

As such, even if the technology gap doesn't close, ever, the utility values obtained from each technology will close, to the point of indifference.

You can already observe some of this utility curve flattening, if you observe the absence of game changing feature announcements on WWDC and Google I/O.
Completed all levels and produced this spoiler.

http://andrew-euclid.blogspot.com/2014/06/euclid-game-spoile...
How do you know they don't already work in computer security? People are greedy.
Evernote style open source tool with end2end encryption
>"I don't think just being a billionaire means that the things you think out loud are important," the Elevation Partners co-founder said. "I would like to worry about the problems that are killing us today as opposed to the ones that may kill us in 20 years."

Investor I've never heard of telling me that money alone doesn't make your opinion important. I wonder if he sees the irony. Also shouldn't be surprising that a modern investor would be so short sighted. 'Do not worry about 20 years from now, only think about today!'
You invented Uber. You could have become billionaire.
To be honest, it's probably less difficult than the tracking that a compact disc player has to achieve to play an off-centre bent wobbly CD. The error correction would be fairly similar too. How long have CDs been around now?
Kolab is pretty much a drop-in replacement for Google mail, calendar, etc.
Now at 11am EST: (my original comment was at about 7am EST)

sue.ns.cloudflare.com = 48ms
theo.ns.cloudflare.com = 240ms

ns1.google.com through ns4.google.com are all still at nearly exactly 32ms.

Interesting results...
Google’s European Antitrust Woes Are Far From Over
You can install it via Chocolatey. If you already have Chocolatey installed, then just run:

C:\> cinst Atom

http://chocolatey.org/packages/Atom
Yeah what i was thinking. There is no state to be managed. Its just a pipeline which doesnt not anything more than more machines to handles more load. Its relatively easy to implement.
Same thing for VisualStudio/Bing

http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/a1166718-a2d9-...
How good is the speech recognition Windows 8? I've become a fan of Siri on the iPhone, pretty good. I get the feeling that were pretty close to very accurate speech recognition. Between Microsoft, Google, and Apple I think we're going to get over the line really soon. This post was done entirely with Siri. The missing words or her fault. :-)
Complete tangent of course, but I wonder if aliens using laser communication methods might be why we aren't being bathed in radio waves.
Divorce rate in Maine has a 0.99 correlation with US per-capita consumption of margarine.

http://www.tylervigen.com/view_correlation?id=1703
finally, the future!
Mozilla Says It’s Not Working on a Firefox TV Dongle, but a partner could be
Could we please stop with these headlines that hint at alien life?
yup, we can't have the cake and eat it too. we have to learn how to minimize risks and keeping bitcoin alive
You should check out the alternative app store F-Droid. It is completely free software apps, and all are Ad-free and high quality. There are alternatives or replacements for just about anything you might want, and you don't need Google anything.
Meet Blue the Dog.
see also: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqEccgR0q-o or search for 'wind turbine brake failure' on youtube. you don't want this stuff anywhere near high voltage lines.
You haven't seen some tech illiterate people try to work a phone have you?

That's something my mom would do. She once asked me how you can tell if the phone was on or off... no joke.
I'm deeply interested in how he was able to master Latin and Greek at such an early age. From memory I recall a quote about him having read pretty much all of Greek and Roman history from the original authors.

Greek is a language with such a frighteningly large vocabulary I don't understand how he would be able to remember every word he ever looked up.

Unfortunately it seems autobiographers are more interested in his scientific accomplishments and gloss over these facts in the by-and-by. I'd be very interested in knowing just how he learned and mastered language.
Space-X put took the laser to the ISS...

Reminds me of Paul Simon's song "The Boy in The Bubble" [1]

...
These are the days of lasers in the jungle
Lasers in the jungle somewhere
Staccato signals of constant information
a loose affiliation of millionaires
And billionaires, and baby

These are the days of miracle and wonder
This is the long-distance call
The way the camera follows us in slo-mo
The way we look to us all, oh yeah
The way we look to a distant constellation
That’s dying in a corner of the sky
These are the days of miracle and wonder
...

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graceland_(album)

EDIT: Added link, not bad prediction considering it was released in 1986
$100 an hour is the just-hung-out-your-shingle rate for web developers in e.g. Chicago. It doesn't require a fancy suit, Internet fame, or having written a book on Rails. It is just the market rate for being able to do work in a mostly unsupervised fashion.
Indeed. The only reason OneBusAway exists in Seattle is because of political connections between the creator (at U Washington) and the trasit agency
I agree with Anandtech the Pro 3 is almost there, but not quite. The Surface Pro 1 sold me on the idea of an everything device. It had its limitations, but it worked as a laptop, desktop, and a tablet. Each scenario had its limits and the most limited one was the laptop perspective. As a tablet it worked great with movies, browsing the web, light gaming, etc. As a desktop it was powerful enough to run the adobe suite on an external monitor. But as a laptop the kickstand and keyboard were not ideal.

The Surface Pro 3 removes some tablet usability and improves on the laptop experience. I am not sure if this is ideal. I recently upgraded from the Pro 1 to the Pro 3. I am having a hard time using the 12" screen as a tablet in bed and on the couch. Using the device with pen in hand is harder due to the larger screen real estate. Even using the Metro side of things is more cumbersome due to the larger screen. Tiles and settings on touch interface are too far apart now.

After a few days, I have concluded that the Pro 1 was a better "tablet" with the ability to be a desktop and laptop. The Pro 3 is more of a laptop/tablet hybrid with a focus on laptop-ability. Even with all the new enhancements, I think I will return the device and purchase a Pro 2 instead.

Edit: I used the Pro 1 as my main machine for almost a year. The pen was useful in photoshop/illustrator. I also used it for gaming; Fifa 2013, Civ 5, and some indie games.
Radio waves go in multiple directions, lasers can only work in short range, unless you find a superb trick to keep the alignment perfect at great distances.
Avoid incorrect ChaCha20 implementations
I'm sure it is different between interviewers. I was just providing an anecdote where it could be a bad idea.

I'm pretty sure the reason I elicited that reaction was I have a statement on my resume about a project I work on at my current job that handles as many transactions [in terms of $$] as that entire company does.

That is just a guess on my part tho.
i learned as much as I needed to be productive in vim in one semester during one class in college. Been steadily picking things up since then. Not a high barrier to entry and definitely more efficient than sublime etc.

A little bit of effort never hurt anyone.
Technology is sometimes slowed for a time but it never stops. Many of the horrors envisioned will probably come true at some point.

For instance, I don't see any reason that semi-autonomous killer robots need to be confined to governments. It seems that (in time) a small group of people could eventually build a substantial number of semi-autonomous or remote controlled killing devices on their own and use them for crime or terrorism. I expect something this will happen at least once at some point and probably more than once.

Frankly, the the future availability of "hacker" bio-engineering scares me much more than A.I. or robotics.

But, there will be incalculable benefits to humanity from both as well. So I think we should embrace that and adapt. The future is coming.... like it or not. It is good to be warned of dangers, we probably won't avoid them anyway given our past behavior (have they figured out what to do with spent nuclear material yet?), but a warning is good. I think our best option is to be prepared to adapt and recognize that things are going to change substantially relatively soon. Maybe this will be the time humanity recognizes the world is a small place and we are all on it together and problems need to effectively be addressed at a global scale. But how much trauma there will be before this recognition occurs I don't know.
In general it is a good idea but there is to little information on the homepage.
Do you also work for provision?
Do you work with more technical saas products such as CAD/CAM?
There's more to digital audio processing than code? I don't get it. Once the collaborative module system is in place (see milestone I) it'll allow for more complex stuff, as you'd be joining components and moving upwards in the abstraction levels, I don't see how big companies can compete with that.
It's a free chart with website/DNS related tools that are supported by ads.

If you have a similar service that offers free stats then please link to it.

If you don't do business in the US then this chart is probably of little use to you.
You can use my builds, http://atom.someguy123.com

They're well tested by a lot of people, and I offer both stable and unstable releases
Revealed: Over 14,000 Android phones tapped in Vietnam
All the article really says is that they are beginning to build a successor to Second Life. Do you dispute this?
If the hash was SHA-512 wouldn't that be hard?
Okay, how big is the video and what exactly was the bandwidth? Can't understand why they won't put the basics in the article.

So I illegally downloaded the video from YouTube; it appears to be 2657084 bytes, so 2657084/3.5 is 759166 bytes per second or 6073328 bits or 5.8 megabit per second. Reporting that as a maximum rate of 50 megabit seems ... a little "Comcastic". Or am I missing something?

Update: I see another article calling it a 175 megabit transmission so if that took 148 seconds that's an average rate of 1.2 megabit. It's a mystery to me why average throughput is just not interesting to the author of the original article. And presumably the downvoting I'm getting is from a similar sense of vapid apathy about intriguing detail.
You might want to add this bit into your copy. I wasn't following it from what you currently have.

Love the idea. Definitely will work for some industries.
The place to start would be to figure out how big a turbine the existing towers could support. If you look at the towers for big turbines, they are big tubes of steel, I guess the cylindrical shape is important (strong). If you look at really big power poles, they are lattices (not as strong).

There are power poles that are sort of in between, roundish with flat sides, but they are usually more medium sized.

So you quickly get to asking why do utility companies put their money towards building large (which helps with efficiency) turbines on the best wind sites, rather than smaller turbines on random sites that they own.
It's a chicken/egg scenario. How does the resource cost of resizing on-demand compare to storing all sizes? Also, like @mantraxC said, are all those image sizes really needed?

I have a system I'm trying to sunset that has a 160 and 130 size. Totally redundant, and doesn't really save that much space/bandwidth.

Still, OpenRoss is a cool project to learn from. It might not fit many use-cases, but apparently it works for Lyst.
The underlying hosting that CloudFlare proxies to can be attacked, for one.
I find it hard to believe AI will ever get to this point. I'm skeptical that is even possible, but even if it was it isn't like you are going to immediately put it inside of a fully functional robot with the means to do whatever it wants. You'd have it inside of a computer with no robotic components to control.

Edit: Looks like someone is down-voting all mentions of this not being a problem. Good luck to you sir.
It's the title of the target article.
"I don't think just being a billionaire means that the things you think out loud are important"

That was the killer comment in the article. I couldn't help of thinking of Marc Andreessen's recent writings when I read it.
Ok, who planted mind-control chips in famous sci/tech celebrities to make them start pimping for the Machine Intelligence Research Institute?

More realistic hypothesis: good job MIRI, as your reorganization from SIAI to your current incarnation seems to have massively increased the respectability of our cause and the range of people who acknowledge it as a serious problem.
Here's another one, for the US: http://hint.fm/wind/
The Information Google Is Gathering About Us Is Terrifying