skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Good points. I would add to his last point though that hiring at least one person with a high y-intercept can increase the slope of your other hires significantly. (It's a lot easier to learn something quickly if you have someone around who already knows a lot about it.) And people who both know a lot and learn quickly are expensive and rare, so I expect the optimal hiring process would look for a large percentage of relatively inexperienced fast learners, along with a small (but non-zero) percentage of more experienced people, even if they aren't likely to develop as quickly. (Perhaps consultants would fit well in that role too.)
The articles mentioning CVE-2014-2970 are incorrect - no CVE has been assigned to this issue.
Prostitution in Thailand is technically illegal and practically murky [1]. It does not support your assertion.

[1] http://www.thailawforum.com/sex-crimes-in-thailand-part2.htm...
Living "just outside a major Northeast city" is not remotely the same thing as living in "flyover country". Chances are if you're in software that "major Northeast city" has plenty of offerings for you should your current job disappear, your particular town benefits immensely from the proximity of the (likely more cultured) metro area nearby, and so on. I'm going to guess your pay is also larger, even adjusted for cost of living, than many (most) in the "flyover country" mentioned.
L3's peering contract with Verizon requires roughly equal traffic. Maybe that's dumb, shouldn't be the case, unfair to Verizon customers, etc., but that's literally the issue at the moment.

L3 did the exact same thing to Cogent before, for the same reasons.
>The non-math programmers vastly outnumber the math-based ones.

At some level I'd love to have a different word for what I do [1] that distinguishes it from web or other kinds of programming. When I talk to someone who has only encountered web developers and I say I'm a programmer, and they say "Yeah so is my uncle! He does HTML!", it feels like they really, really don't understand. Like I've said "I design Tesla electric cars" and they've responded "My uncle assists mechanics in a shop that repairs VWs!" [2]

But at some level it's just my ego talking, so it might be best to just take the ego hit as a lesson in humility. ;)

[1] I do native C/C++ code on multiple platforms including optimization for real-time performance, as well as high speed server optimization, system security analysis, and cross-platform video game development. Not math-heavy, precisely, but still far more skilled than basic web development. I also create the occasional high-performance web page, so I can compare directly.

[2] With no aspersions on assistant mechanics, but it's a VERY different job.
Totally, hence pedantic. But it does still seem to flow better the other way, if you discount the fact that most people tend to think of pounds in terms of mass. (Which of course is relevant and shouldn't be discounted.)
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Exactly how would it affect the fight against any of those? Why would trafficking in sex workers be more exposed to trafficking than any other kind of slavery, except because it is illegal in most places? If legal, why would trafficking be able to compete with legal alternatives?

As for the idea of selling bodies, why are you equalizing the women with their bodies and thereby making them into objects instead of seeing them as people that perform services? I thought the whole point of feminism was to see and treat women as agents with the same self determination as men have - so why are you reducing sex workers to simply their body and gender?

And yes, some women are forced into prostitution. But some are not - some choose it because they like it and some choose it because it is a lot better than any of their available alternatives. Why do you think that it is ok to deemancipate those women?
Verizon Fios throttles Netflix
You build up your finger strength with practice, and also using your little finger instead of sliding your entire hand over because your pinkie hurts. Pinkie pain is just a stage.
Not just ownership, but rights in general, and even worse: the concept of individual independence and empowerment.

There has been a consistent trend to portray the digital/online realm as a world apart from the "real" world, rather than, as is the truth, just another facet of it. This has facilitated massive erosions of civil liberties in the online world. Government censorship is the norm on the internet, not the exception. Warrantless monitoring and trespass on private systems and data by the government and law enforcement is also rampant, with few safeguards. In a similar vein, the protections of the rule of law and the criminal justice system are completely thrown out the window in many circumstances when it comes to the online realm. You can be effectively punished online merely due to an allegation (i.e. DMCA takedown), and often only arbitration is available as a remedy, erasing centuries of traditional protection for individual rights through the court system.

And that's aside from the ongoing war over DRM and the desire of major content aggregators to deny ownership rights and privileges to customers.

Add to that the growing reliance on paternalistic relationships with large corporations and business entities, eroding individualism. People rely on their ISPs and their cell carriers for access to the online world, a major aspect of modern business and private life. Unlike phone service these service providers have much greater leeway to decide what you can and cannot do online and have increasingly taken advantage of consumers. People rely on major services (gmail, hotmail, facebook, twitter, etc.) for their primary means of communication, services that in many cases border on unregulated monopolies. And at work people are increasingly dependent on their employers to provide medical and dental coverage, retirement savings, and so forth.
Pebble (YC W11) is hiring full-stack devs
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I believe it's because everyone knows you can add ?share=1 at the end and have it work.

https://www.quora.com/What-are-the-most-profound-life-lesson...

Still, I'm not a fan of this either.
This is what Perl6 with Parrot VM aim for.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parrot_virtual_machine
What type of cables have you normally purchased? just curious. I bought 2.

I tend to go through a few knockoffs every year, especially in the car.
I live in the US (Los Angeles) and there are plenty of places where this functionality (if not the form factor) would come in handy. For example, service can get spotty in underground parking structures (common in LA) making it impossible to text someone nearby to ask "where did you park?" Another place that has bad reception is Disneyland. There are no towers inside the park and the berm that separates the park from the city of Anaheim seems to block out signals pretty well, so this device would help groups keep in contact there.

While traveling, two places that come to mind where cell reception is nonexistant would be hiking in the mountains or while at sea. My wife and I bring walkie-talkies on cruise ships, but an SMS is more discreet than a chirp and speakerphone.
Use the best tool for the job. If you don't know bash/bourne shell well, use ruby/perl/python/etc. I started out as a sysadmin years ago and know bourne shell/bash very very well. It is all about what works best for the problem.
It seems that the debut of $10/mo Kindle Unlimited was accompanied by the demise of the one per month free Kindle lending library for Prime customers.
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Ask HN: Which YC rejects have gone on to success?
Also curious if there were many cases of rejections that after pivoting or further development managed to make it in another round.
Perhaps HN could either do this automatically for Quora links, or simply prohibit Quora links that don't already have this added?
Not always. But that even so that shouldn't make any difference.
I played poker online back when it was legal. Ran my bankroll from a couple hundred up to a few thousand. Got really, really bored playing poker during all my free time. Ran my bankroll back down to zero a bit before the crackdown, semi-on-purpose. Haven't played since 2010. But it sure was fun for a while. The feel of winning, of knowing exactly what another player will do before you bet, of stringing someone along with a made hand...nothing like it. If it gets legalized in the States again, I'd take a peek.
Thank you so much for your response!

I don't know how I didn't come across r/Korean while I've been lurking in r/Korea for the last couple weeks (trying to find out more about dual citizenship)... I'll definitely have to check that out. I've been in the middle of creating an Anki deck while studying for the MCAT and I've used it in the past for learning Mandarin and I absolutely love it, just wondered if there were any existing Korean decks you particularly recommend.

Good idea on the youtube videos too. I was thinking straight up kdrama and rewatching some of my favorite Korean movies but it might be too complicated right now for beginning.

I'm surprised to hear Korean is supposed to be hard for English speakers to learn...I don't think fundamentals are that hard. It's really vocab that sucks balls and I feel like I can say that about lots of languages, but I'll never know in person how hard it is so :/
Intriguingly, that's the opposite of what's popular on HN. HN and /r/programming posters prefer the "Look at what I've done. Here are my projects" approach which is the y-intercept because it describes where they are. Asking them a question they've never heard before and observing their approach is a way (albeit imperfect) of seeing how fast one can deal with a novel problem.
Unfortunately https not working, because they are using github pages. They should really put up a https site especially considering they are a crypto project and are soliciting email addresses. At least a TOR hidden service or a namecoined https site.
> I’m only including the cost of components, and not things like cables, breadboards or the laser pointer (or flash).
Hahaha, yea. OK, Apps coming from the Windows App Store are signed (same thing with apple). But I've been doing this research for a while and most windows application are NOT signed (even non-appstore commmercial software). AVs included, oh and sourceforge (they use NSIS, not certificates), that's freeware right? And AVs don't flag if you aren't signed, only if you have a bad signature, maybe (McAfee doesn't care). Plus I think you are meaning SmartScreen Filter, not SmartFilter; this doesn't stop malicious software, it only stops software that does have a bad signature, and warns when it's not commonly downloaded software (https://twitter.com/midnite_runr/status/451738775300087808/p...), so even if it was signed like the picture IE says "I don't know George, wtf". When Jimmy McKittenButts want's his catScreenSaver.exe he's going to get it, SmartSceen Filter be damned. The _only_ thing that stops this is whitelisting (Applocker) and a smart user.
Here's a sample from BDF, patched with a reverse shell and still works normally: https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/a31ed901abcacd61a09a84157...

Edit: more sarcasm
There's a button right there that says 'close'. I assume you just didn't see it. Granted, I'm not a fan of this either - but it's hardly holding the content hostage.
I downvoted you because you lumped "Joining the military" in the category of jobs that "are only technically voluntary and are driven by economic duress more than anything else." That's surely true in a few edge cases, but not in the vast majority (unless things have changed dramatically). And I'll accept the downvotes that I'm sure are coming.
That would be great, in my opinion. For now I use an extension (though a Greasemonkey script would suffice).
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Clicking "close" doesn't make the blurred-out content visible.
Given that Quora is in YC[0], neither of those things are likely to happen.

0: http://blog.ycombinator.com/quora-in-the-next-yc-batch
I'd feel much more comfortable with the idea that programming is math if my anecdotal experience of programs written by mathematicians didn't show that they have absolutely no clue how to write a good program - I'm talking about aspects of design like modularity, cohesion, separation of concerns, testability, sensible use of abstraction, etc. There's clearly something more to programming than math or there wouldn't be such a high correlation between good mathematicians being such garbage programmers. I suspect the whole debate is a sign that mathematicians simply dismiss these other aspects as unimportant and only count the mathematical parts and then come to the "surprise" conclusion that "wow, programming is all math!".
It's a walkie talkie that uses a BT audio connection to your phone to use the mic and speaker of your phone as the mic and speaker for the walkie talkie, brilliant as many people will think it is magic cellular. Save yourself a lot of money and just buy a walkie talkie with it's own regular mic and speaker.
Definitely.

It should also be noted that any organism that uses oxidative phosphorylation for metabolism (humans included) technically use "pure energy in the form of electron flow" by having carrier molecules like NADH and FADH2 release electrons into the mitochondrial membrane. The electrons then flow through a few proteins, which use the electrons' energy to create a proton gradient in the mitochondrion, which is then used to create ATP (the "currency" of chemical energy in many cells).
Tap lets you ping friends by tapping twice on the phone in your pocket
Sounds a lot like ownerlistens.com
Same consumer facing SMS functionality (masks your number) or an app if you want to avoid fees
Backend more fully featured + has an API and supports iBeacons
But once the protocol is published, it won't be the only client. Other clients will also have to make encryption decisions.
My ex was career military. It was his dream career, the only thing he wanted since childhood. But, like anything, for some people it isn't so voluntary. The American military is more "color blind" and thus a better opportunity for black Americans than many civilian jobs. So when the Gulf War broke out, blacks were "overrepresented" in the military and this became a political hot potato: What had been a good opportunity in peace time was now a serious risk to life and limb for an inordinately high number of blacks and this was seen as another form of racism in America, basically.

Plus, in many countries there is a compulsory term of service.
literally verbatim

Seems like you have some duplicative redundancy going on there...
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Looked at the slides, I kind of undestand something now, and it looks intriguing if not really interesting.
Have you thought about key revocation, how is it handled?
It seems to be an ongoing misconception in the public, that part of good security is obstification. Know of any simple clear articles I could point people to when they make these sort of ("because Hackers might see") claims?
I've only been watching from the Deep Learning sidelines -- but I believe people have steered away from pretraining over the past year or two. I think on practical datasets it doesn't seem to help.
I live in France but it worked right away. I still have an old address in the US on my amazon account from when I studied there which might explain why it works.

My credit card's billing address is in France though so I think they're really just trying to make it as easy as possible to sign up while still respecting the letter of the contracts they signed.
I have no problem with iAP and I have no problem with shareware.

However, at least when I get shareware, I know they are going to pull the rug out from under me 1/4th the way through. As a result, I usually don't play shareware because I know I will be unsatisfied, I know I wont enjoy the experience.

Now shareware is "free" and I can't find any actual free games, actual free applications. I can't find anything that isn't trying to use or manipulate me.

The set of applications that were made because someone wanted to solve a problem and share the solution are obscured by wolves in sheep's clothing. I can't trust anything on the app store. The signal has being completely drowned out by the noise.

I hate, truly truly hate, the current condition of the android market. My phone is only good for making calls and playing the Simon Tanthem puzzle collection. I don't understand how you could defend it. I don't understand how anyone could defend it. It's so openly hostile.
http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=2014-2970 - seems to have been assigned April 21 - to something.. Obviously can't be LibreSSL - it didn't exist then.
Or, as the french say: "La meilleure façon d'apprendre une langue étrangère est sur l'oreiller."

(The best way to learn a language is on a pillow.)
Since HN is a site where one of the things that people learn through transparency is how different business models operate, it would be interesting to know (even roughly) how partners fit into the profits or payout from YC companies that succeed. In other words how profits are allocated.
Who invests early in YC's unicorns?
Well the implications are a bit more life changing when users decide to store child pornography on your HDD, it's a good question.
Other industries that have had a lot of victims have been made safe with workplace safety standards and unions. Why would that be a worse solution?
Cheaper and more robust isn't really what Dropbox has been competing on.Great UX, feature set, support, and general marketing is what will make the difference.
But you could make it look like several computers have copies of the data when there's really only one copy of the data. You would get credit/coins for multiple copies and reduce the redundancy of the files.
Major companies accepting bitcoin have gotten a fair bit of free press even if they haven't converted to sales in bitcoin.

So they aren't doing it to get bitcoin users they are doing it so that they get free publicity from the news media and bitcoin users going around talking about them all the time.

For example I've heard about Overstock more in the past year than I have in the past decade and they are constantly in the news. Despite the fact that bitcoin sales figures are low and have been in decline since day one for them.
I just clicked on the whitespace away from/off of the login popup - it disappeared and I could read all the text.
I've found a list of domains associated to Nicola Worthington.
http://reversewhois.domaintools.com/?all[]=Nicola+Worthingto...

We have found http://zz.cx, and http://liz.sm.

I found another one of the strange directory sites at http://liz.sh, http://liz.so just dies. There are 2 more to be found.

EDIT: Found her resume, http://perlgirl.org.uk/
Yeah, I know, but it wasn't clear if the parent comment was referring to select() on /dev/random, or the new syscall interface.
Work is underway on an API to do all of this. Nick and Scott are hacking on it about three feet to my right just now. The days of scraping are numbered.
No it's hard and could lead to sad stories. Say your phone holds a few wallets and a hacker breaks in a starts double spending. That would ruin those wallets and I guess there are simpler cases like you just lost your wallet / forgot your password that might be as troubling.

So key handling is totally one of those things I'd love to outsource. Actually please let me outsource as much of of the crypto as possible, I don't want to be inventing things.

To that end http://www.w3.org/TR/WebCryptoAPI/ looks like a reasonable start. I've also been reading http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-jose-cookbook/ and generally trying to get a sense of the least opinionated path I can take.

Luckily our iOS lead at Couchbase is experienced writing apps that use cryptographic signing, so he's written up the beginnings of a spec that we'll likely evolve: https://github.com/couchbase/couchbase-lite-ios/wiki/Signed-...

If you want to join in the implementation nitty gritty feel free to start a thread in our group: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/mobile-couchbase

I've always used my own application development goals to find interesting directions at Couchbase so this project is just an example of how we work.
No, it's just fucking wrong. My point is that Bitcoin leaves the consumer defenseless. Eating at a restaurant Has nothing to do with that. I could in fact refuse to pay.
Storenvy:

Admitted to YC S10 and kicked out [1] but later raised $1.5 million. [2] Currently has $6.5 million in funding. [3]

1. http://venturebeat.com/2012/09/10/entrepreneur-y-combinator-kleiner-perkins/
2. http://www.marketwired.com/press-release/storenvy-secures-15-million-funding-fuel-growth-its-social-online-store-shopping-community-1386691.htm
3. http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/storenvy
Edit2: Perhaps it only has to simulate from your perspective, but the more you critically observe and interact, the more expensive the simulation is.

New life goal: be as difficult to simulate as possible ;-)
The first problem that comes to mind is that I'd have a lower salary on my resume, and would likely take a hit when I worked again in a high-salary state like California.

The second problem is that I'd also be taking a hit on real estate, if I ever planned on moving back to CA. This is speculative, I know, but it's how I think: I'd most likely buy a house, and, when I sold it it would be most likely worth less than if I'd just bought in CA to begin with. So I'd be taking a hit there as well.

I'd also think it would have a lot to do with the industry you're in... If I wrote software that controlled, say, oil refineries, than then I might be more willing to work in Texas.
Url changed from http://www.itnews.com.au/News/390053,new-mayhem-malware-targ..., which points to this.
It did for me?
How do you use accelerometer when phone lock?
I've reported the incident to the Department of Redundancy Department.
Wasn't meant to discount what you wrote, and obviously the paper you linked carries a lot more weight. There are just issues with self reporting and calorie consumption, plus I just have a hard time believing that someone on an actual low calorie diet can be extremely overweight, but this may just be my own bias. I don't have much outside of personal anecdotes.

Nutrition is complex and from what I've read (and what you linked) there is large variation among types of calories, but I haven't read anything suggesting this is more important than the number of calories themselves. My impression is that it does have an impact, but the volume of calories consumed is the determining factor.
My point is that in most everyday transactions, the consumer's defense is not the legal system of the country he or she lives in (because it's too expensive to litigate most everyday transactions), but rather market mechanics like reputation and competition.
Ah, I'm just surprised that buildings ended up mattering when you were deciding between 150MHz or 900MHz.

While people like to complain about the frequency getting higher and propagation dropping off (especially related to 2.4GHz and 5GHz wifi), I haven't found a good paper that guarantees that's the case. Anecdotally, I can receive a 5GHz signal in my office in Manhattan from a radar in Floyd Bennett Field, 12 miles away, with buildings in the way. Similarly, inside my apartment, I have much better luck with 440MHz radio communication than 144MHz communication. (Ground floor, so not that great either way.)

Being limited to 4W EIRP in the 900MHz ISM band probably played more of a role?

Anyway, you might want to find these guys: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7981431

The combination of your product with their technology could be quite interesting.

Also, follow up question: does your protocol attempt to recover signals from below the noise floor?