skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I fully agree with you and I have my theories:

1) The early 2000 dot-com crash + the Enron crash that changed the regulatory landscape to make it harder for companies to IPO. This has resulted in start-ups being formed for the pure purpose of the acquisition route - fund, and flip strategy.

2) I see the Netscape IPO as the transition point - I like to call the eras, BN and AN (before-Netscape, and after-Netscape) which coincided with the commericialization of the internet. Netscape IPO with its cult of the young founder started this trend.

All you have to do is list the companies that were formed in the BN vs the AN era, and get a feel of the 'engineering quotient' of these companies. Of course it also coincides with software overshadowing hardware companies where the former requires less upfront capital than the latter.

The capital requirements have gone down even further thanks to virtulization and consolidated infrastructure services like AWS.

3) Paradoxically larger involvement of the state. All the UC system and other universities occurred due to the threat of the cold war. Almost all the success of technology companies since the 1980s' can be traced back to the investments made in the earlier decades in universities (eps. in STEM fields), infrastructure (inter-state highways) and so forth.

How the same forumula can be replicated is going to be a challenge. Some signs like allowing private companies like Space-X to compete and augment govt. agencies might be the first steps - it will create new markets that will drive innovation.

The American triangular replationship between the State, Universities, and Private Enterprise are the 3 legs of the proverbial stool, and when one or the other legs weakens, the whole edifice starts to stumble.

4) Larger numbers of H1Bs who are legalized indentured labor that makes it harder for them to be confrontational with their employers. Note I myself went thru. the process, so I am not your garden-variety bigot here. My answer to this is to streamline the immigration process to:
a) Delink H1Bs' from a spnosoring employer. Allow H1Bs' to freely move to any companies to allow a more fluid labor market.

b) Allow H1Bs' to start companies - i.e. if they get VC funded (as founders, co-founders or early founding member teams), they get immediate upgrade to green cards. DHS can keep a list of certified VCs' where this program can apply, and it can also get a % of equity as a one-time fee (along with other concrete fees), so the immigration department can be self-sustaining, and overall encourge more entrepreneurship.

c) Reduce the 6 year process to 3 years for H1Bs to acquire green-cards, and remove country-based quotas (a holdover from 1920s regulations to limit immigrants were certain undesired countries which is really an anachronism in todays globalized economy).

Note from an IRS pespective, you are as good as a American citizen or a green-card holder after the 6 months residing in the US - i.e. you are submitting full taxes as anyone else, and IRS treats you as a resident.
Either interpretation seems to be loaded with subtle "isms" [0], if you ask me. Shocking.

[0] qv. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7999486
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But presumably not a situation where the attackers mistakenly thought they were shooting down an aircraft that was about to attack them.
Is HN a proper place to feed politic trolls?
If anyone knows of a book that does that - I want to know about it too. That would be really, really useful
In the case of the Siberia Airlines Flight, I do not find it unlikely that Russia pressured them to admit it was them. At the time, Ukraine was basically a Russian satellite state. The evidence is inclusive, but Ukraine just suddenly admitted it was them.
This book is good at explaining these language tools: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/947256.A_Short_Course_in...
L-3 Communications advertises (pdf) the GSIMS system as
the most advanced secure communication system for VIP and
Head of States aircraft

In the light of Snowden's revelations that we spy on our allies and try to get broken encryption products released, I wonder if any head of state except an American one bothers with an American encrypted phone.

If not, I wonder who it's being marketed to?
When I read On Intelligence and from there found Numenta's stuff years ago, I was pretty excited. There were some crazy cool demos back then, and they've occasionally popped back up with more.

So it's too bad about all of the patents, then, now, and forthcoming. They promise not to sue [1], and pledge that future patents are for the 'protection of the NuPIC community'. Maybe, but I'll spend my time with one of the many open-source projects without patent pledges of nebulous enforceability. Most of them seem to do just fine without patent guardians.

[1]: http://numenta.org/blog/2013/07/01/patent-position.html
How he dealt with the design agency is quite selfless and ended up with $4K in donations for local food banks.

http://krazydad.com/blog/2014/07/18/about-that-mac-cheese-ma...
These two are even older, from 1978 and 1983 respectively. Also note that the 007 was some 500 miles away and that 902 was a few thousands miles away from its regular path. Not so with 655, 812 or MH17.
Given that the MBA RAM is not upgradable, it'd be wise to max it out - just in case.
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Can anyone seriously think of a reason why Ukraine, the Rebels or Russia would have downed that passenger plane on purpose?

Because I can't.

Whoever shot it down, obviously thought it was a military aircraft. They made a mistake.

If it's a mistake, it's not murder.
why so much tv?
He's trying to rationalize his personal hate of russians. I've heard a lot of such speeches from 1980-90 emigrants, usually they have no idea what's really going on here.
The first nation to achieve accurate mobile laser defenses with rapid firing that could shoot down ICBM's could take out the primary weapons of all of its enemies (and even friends).

Chances are that its going to be the US.

Should the US decide that China is going to be too powerful eventually then they could create some false flag events, possibly involving a regional ally such as Japan, that would give the US this power:

1. Nuke the entire country without reply. Not likely.

2. Force the Chinese government to scrap all nuclear weapons. Likely.

3. Force the Chinese government to not have a large standing army. Likely.

4. Force elections. Likely.

Now rinse and repeat for Russia and anyone else.

Every other nation would be forced to sign a treaty to not pursue laser weapons.

Many countries would have to force their local populations to disarm.

Now add in drones and you've got the US then able to continuously monitor and fly weapons of war over other sovereign states to "keep the peace". No need for land based robots when a drone in the sky could fire a laser instantly killing someone as soon as they show a gun.

That's what I call complete dominance and control.
A Facebook/Twitter account is basically an opportunity to publish your 'digital ego'.

Its the reason apps like Instagram exist- they allow you to polish your images so that you can basically tell the world, "hey look how much fun I'm having, and you're missing out"

Facebook/Twitter/ in fact a lot of these publishing platforms exist to weed out the mundane parts of your life so that what is public is the most exciting, jealousy inducing 'Cliffs Notes'.

Essentially, thanks to them, when you die, people will be able to look at your profile or your tweets and mourn, "that person lived such an interesting life."

Whatever you opine upon reading this is your answer to your question (as I see it)...
At least facebook/twitter/github/most google services not blocked in Russian....
So they murdered the wrong people?
What were your scaling issues in particular?
How to fix your engineering PM
This is one of the typical rants by Russian immigrant who enjoyed top quality free education in USSR/Russia which made his success possible (+ no student loans), left during turmoil of 1990-2000s and still judging Russia on that bad memories basis.
Article is full of clichés and gives general FOX news feel while reading.
I lived in Moscow in 2011 and I'm part of that creative class he mentions and no one in my social network was supporting the protests. I doesn't mean that we are happy with all that happens - we just believe in slow and steady hard work towards better Russia and progress so far proves that it's working.
Stop blaming Russia for everything - you're not USA State Department! :)
I have quite a few problems with Western media stating that it's Putin's fault.

- There is a lack of motive (seriously why would he?)

- There is a lack of identity (if it were the Separatists, are they really controlled by Putin to that degree?)

- The murder weapon happens to also be in the hand of the Ukrainian army (19 systems, 3 of them stationed in the range of the crash site) [2]

- The Ukrainian air control obviously let the flight deviate quite a few kilometers of the "usual route" which goes south of Donetsk. [1]

- The lack of prosecution in the case of Maidan snipers (and evidence against the Ukrainian gov't as being behind it) and the Odessa fire.

I am not saying who it was or who it wasn't. I just state that I seriously doubt anyone who claims to know it right now.

[1] https://twitter.com/VagelisKarmiros/status/48992616773114265...

[2] http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/07/18/us-ukraine-crisis-... 2nd paragraph
TV, I think, is a good discriminator. I could list "Objective C", "Node.js" etc, but sharing similar tech passions aren't as accurate at predicting compatibility.

I could well be completely wrong. I aim to find out.
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Complete and total bullshit, based on US propaganda against Russia. I live in Russia and build my second IT business here. Most of my friends are entrepreneurs from Moscow and other cities.

Of course there is corruption, autocracy and alcoholism. It is there for several hundreds of years, and we have to deal with that. But situation is actually getting better with time. You can't change loves of millions of people in an instant.

Propaganda is an interesting point. In fact, I think it is not strong enough to counter the massive western information war against Russia. I read BBC and NY times regularly, and constantly notice biased and one-sided view.

I think that the author fall victim to the NY Times style propaganda articles about the evil Putin, connected it with his experience and decided to support it. I don'think it is a objective point of view and it does not describe reality.
https://hn.algolia.com/?q=mopidy#!/story/forever/0/mopidy
Which is a great course but very shallow. I feel like the OP's advice applies.
> If Kiev government survives, it will fairly quickly unlock economic benefits of non-mafia, free economy.

...maybe. The rest of the Ukrainian political elite is also fairly corrupt, actually. So I expect it to take a decade at the very least. See, for example, Romania and Bulgaria.
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I am not sure about other places but here in India, this is termed as 'hoarding' and is illegal, however not that it has made that model non existant
For the price, it's great, but it's almost half the resolution and not an IPS panel.
The man behind one of the world's most successful apps
Indeed this is even better.
Many people use such flawed logic not because they're clever, but because they arent very good at reasoning and will accept anything that matches their beliefs as truth. Discussing anything with such people is a waste of time.
Almost half the resolution and i'd really prefer IPS panel over these LCD panels.

Especially for any graphics work, LCD's color reproduction compared to IPS is abysmal - especially in these price ranges.
90W is rather a lot. I'm looking at the Intel NUCs, which are a lot more compact and power efficient. Downside is that they only come with a single Ethernet port so you need to add any additional ones via USB3.
So hitting Ukrainian planes is OK?
There wasn't any kind of terrorists that I'm aware of who got access to such a sophisticated weapons. And no one of those 'monkeys' could even handle with that 'BUK'. It's obvious that only trained army team could make this launch and it's obvious for us(Ukrainians here) that after brutal annexation of Crimea , this sick freak wont stop until he gets punched in the face. He doesn't understand any other language other that rude force.
Ukraine is weak, much weaker that Russia now. Mostly because the very same Russia-oriented mafia clans. Former government of Ukraine is now hiding in Russia and they wont be judged there. Russia's mission number one was to prove that Ukraine is a failed-state. This is the main reason why all this happening. Max explains the rest in his post.
Nice! I am definitely going to play around with this. I've been thinking about doing a proof of concept VST plugin with a JS/Html interface for a while now, this would make my job a lot easiers.

One question,though... Licence?
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This comment would be much better with just the first sentence. Please, no personal slights.
NSFL* Album of genocide in Gaza http://imgur.com/a/gtc9T
Quick! Which fallacy does MartinCron's reply represent?
> This article isn't actually about the shooting down of any flights.

Have you read it?

It actually writes:

"The mass murder of passengers & crew of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 using Russian’s weapons and (most likely) by hands of Russian military squad exposed to the world that Russia is now complicit in committing crimes against humanity."

Now what do you think about proved US and Ukrainian plane shootings? Aren't they crimes?
With "criticizing a nation", you probably mean criticizing a nation illegally occupying another Nation's territory, repeatedly breaking international human rights conventions, and indiscriminately killing civilians (with a particularly predilection for children).

I'm part of a large, and growing, international community not supporting anything Israel.
The US is doomed if the country elects a colorblind president. All that red-green color-coding for secure and non-secure calls is going to ruin them...
Not the best explanation for "at scale". A toy implementation of map-reduce would have gone a bit farther in showing that yes, monoids are fundamental to a lot of scalable things.
Along those lines, the first ever detonation of a nuclear device was 21 days before the bombing of Hiroshima.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinity_(nuclear_test)
Wonderful book! On L-systems: The Sierpinski triangle is used in fractal antennas which dramatically improve signal strength. There is a program called Terragen which procedurally generates entire planets with atmosphere and vegetation, in 1:1 scale. https://vimeo.com/3611863
I'm sure the USSS will be very interested in this whole thread but what are they gonna do?
If you are a service provider, then yes, you can avoid using any TLD. If you're a user, you can't use bit.ly services with DNSSEC without trusting the .ly TLD, right ?
Leaps of mankind in this particular field:

1) first satellite - USSR;

2) first man in space - USSR;

3) first man-made object to impact Moon - USSR;

4) first man-made object to land Moon - USSR;

...
> Learning Swift really isn't a big deal.

Often I feel that learning a new language is more like learning a local dialect or slang than a truly new language. Some languages are very different, but I'd wager that if you're looking to learn swift you've probably worked with another very similar language before.

Sure there'll be some stumbling blocks, but you can get to a point of "this works, but probably isn't the best or fastest way for this language" fairly quickly by trying things and copy-pasting errors into google.

> If you need to learn something that might not be permanently useful: so what?

Indeed, and unless it's a really poor language you'll probably take something useful away from it. Maybe it'll be a language-feature that saves a lot of boilerplate that makes you wonder if you can implement in your own favourite language. Maybe it'll be an awesome package manager or module structure. Maybe it'll just be fun or make you think more about how different approaches work for different situations.
which part is trolling?
Isn't what skills each person has to offer important in cofounder match making?
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This is definitely the best way to listen to the audio:

http://www.firstmenonthemoon.com/
Confirm that. I'm from Yekaterinburg, and Max rant seems to me just exagerated imagination of someone who haven't been here for decade.
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Great read, I like how author's perspective and distance helps him see through a layer of lies and propaganda. I have russian and ukrainian friends and they confirm everything said in the post, they left their home countries because they didn't feel safe there.
My criteria for a cofounder would be someone who has complimentary skills, and that I think has a good chance of being a successful entrepreneur.

Sharing interests might be a nice secondary thing, but I would start with the kind of person you're looking for first.
Disclaimer: I'm not the author of the post, just linked to it.
Ask HN: What can you tell about a person's future potential?
If was fun reading about Ousterhout's emails. That point about slope over intercept as it applies to new hires I think is incredibly important.

I can completely get behind the idea that what someone knows today is completely irrelevant compared to how fast they can learn.

But then, how do you get your hands on how well someone can learn? Accept a credential I guess? Well, that's a sorry state of affairs.

I guess if you have neither credentials nor experience, then what you're left with is a pretty low market rate.
The ISS programme is a joint project among five participating space agencies: NASA, Roskosmos, JAXA, ESA, and CSA. It's not a NASA mission.
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I will too criticize a nation that just spent the last few days bombing children and civilians, breaking basically most of international conventions. My baseline for criticizing a nation is, and i hope we can all agree to that, killing children.
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"Why would we continue to file patents on work that is going to be open source? The principle reason is to protect the NuPIC community. For example, outside developers could work on similar concepts without becoming part of the open source community. They could seek patents on their own work, making it proprietary and blocking progress of open source NuPIC developers. By keeping our patent portfolio current, we retain the ability to protect the NuPIC community from these threats. In other words, by holding patents on the work, we are able to protect the whole community from others who might seek to wall off their work through patents. In addition to filing select patents going forward, we also will evaluate other measures that would enhance patent protection for the NuPIC community."

Since this is a long-term project, it's more important that Numenta is able to protect the community it is building from patent trolls, and this is one approach to doing that.
Strange to find you downvoted.

I just finished reading a brief history of the cooperative movement in the UK. I was amused by the various parallels to Free Software: the explicitly utopian premise, the entrenched interests fighting with FUD, the originators being laughed at as kooks and nerds, the startling success of the model that rapidly made it "normal" in many industries.

Much like (social) darwinism, too much has been made of competition compared with cooperation in business, in both cases against all evidence (families, herds, the fact that we are ourselves built from cooperating organisms, or on the business side that you have far more suppliers, customers and employees than competitors), because it suited some people with power to justify their actions.
This is really cool. Here is PLANETARY_INERTIAL_ORIENTATION.agc which contains Apollo command module code for converting between vectors in earth or moon based coordinate systems and a basic reference system:
http://www.ibiblio.org/apollo/listings/Comanche055/PLANETARY...

It really looks surprisingly similar to modern assembly code. Well commented too.
True, but I'm approaching it from a new angle, interests first, skills second.

I think this way is better, because even if there isn't a skill match, we'll still likely have an interesting conversation (presuming we bond over one or more of our passions or peeves). And I'll probably keep you in my Rolodex...who knows, maybe sometime later we'll have complimentary skill sets.
Our problem here (Iran) is they change dns packet, so whatever you censor the result or not, its always censored here. https://gist.github.com/fzerorubigd/7a5a7a3d3bcdde982067

Thank you, but PLEASE provide dnscrypt service too.
When Hamas stores missiles in schools, I think it's pretty clear where the problem lies in this conflict.
All three are necessary. But finding someone you fundamentally click with is the harder of the three, IMO. Followed by the entrepreneur spirit, followed by the skill set.
While it's true that softwares are rarely audited, protocols are much more analyzed because they are expected to be read by humans. Fortunately, the DarkMail authors want to create a new protocol and have it interoperable, so there should be an open protocol; that's the most important thing, and we must keep our focus on it.
Ask HN: Advice/interest in app that allows control Sonos Speakers away from home
I'm currently working on a project that would allow for the control of Sonos Speakers while being away from home (i.e. not connected to the network that the speakers are on). Any advice/tips/interest about the project would be greatly appreciated.

GitHub Repository: https://github.com/rukmal/SonosHome
It doesn't seem that surprising to me that Air Force One has encrypted VOIP phones.

But it is always useful to see new info.

It is surprising that they are relatively new.
Everyone is on Cloudflare anywho.. so much for decentralisation :-)
Good alternative and only these differences:

1. Costs a little bit more 250$ vs 261$, but then include UPS Priority shipping.

2. Requires assembly.

3. Doesn't have a monitor mount.

But it certainly is more hackable.
"Modern Russia is not a weaker version of Soviet Union “empire of evil.” This capability is, thankfully, long gone." - empire of evil is still alive and well, after defeating the Soviet Union and is still seeking for new proper enemies (will it be you, China?).
I believe the basic building blocks (prediction, pattern recognition, attention, etc.) give rise to the higher-level phenomenon that you mentioned. I think we need to first understand those fundamental principles, and we'll be able to infer most of the rest from that point.

Emergent phenomenon can seem complicated and impossible to understand, but the mechanisms that give rise to them are usually simple (for example, evolution creating diverse and intricate life).
"in light of" ?

This has been an obvious problem since the dawn of communications of any sort. No government on Earth would blindly install foreign systems. They wouldn't blindly install domestically built units (what better way to get the inside track then to accidentally be able to listen in on your government's private conversations).

People need to realize that nothing Snowden disclosed was news to any government, especially its security people.