skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe people are afraid. The new mantra is "you're lucky to even have job" with this economy. People are less inclined to push back because they don't want to potentially jeopardize their job.

I agree that ideally people should always be pushing back, but if it's potentially between a raise or you're fired(at least in the minds of people requesting the raise), then people will be more cautious.

Also, young(cheap) workers are in large supply so people may actually be fired for asking for a raise; they can just fire the guy and hire a new younger worker(probably working for less too).

Many of these tech companies out here in the Bay probably pull hundreds of millions of dollars in "free" labor using an army of temporary interns(because it's cheap).
You can encrypt the flash content, which puts you down to memory, something that is pretty hard to do when it's embedded inside the CPU SoC. If the baseband & other co-processors are not trusted with full DMA access to the CPU ram, then it's practically impossible.
Surprised no one has posted this. From the folks at TrueVault. https://github.com/truevault/hipaa-compliance-developers-gui...
I think the point of "do X every day" is getting over the physiological hurdle of starting something. If you want to write more but find yourself watching TV all evening because you fell burnt out from working all day. Maybe you should be relaxing in front of the TV, but you are in a better position to make that decision once you have force your self to get over the initial hurdle by writing n words. That n should be sufficiently small that if if are burnt out and want to back to relaxing you have not overly burdened yourself, but you will likely find many occasions when you want to keep writing because its something you would rather do than watch TV.
When the music player slides away, how do I bring it back?
I was actually looking for similar thing. I was disappointed while I was searching good presentation toolkit to produce presentation videos programmatically. I ended up with using HTML5 and phantomjs. It was totally hack and no control over timings. I would like to see how Gizeh handles text, fonts and text effects.
This book opened my mind to what might be possible with AI and convinced me to start my journey into Machine Learning.

Having said that, one of the messages I took from the story is that AI cannot replicate human to human contact.
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Note that in 1913 U.S. economy as a whole was probably 20 times smaller, even after adjusting for inflation. So, JP Morgan had a relatively big chunk of money as a percentage of real gdp
"Scientists Have an Answer to How the Pyramids Could Have Been Built" would probably be a better title.
What the linked article says...
"Eighty-four percent of Americans have higher family incomes than their parents did."
...the question is "incomes" just raw income or did they adjust it? Clearly people will have more dollar bills, but that dollar bill doesn't go as far.

I certainly know I'm not better off than my parents, I'm most definitely worse, but I still have a higher number on my paycheck.

UPDATE:Parent comment was deleted, it referred to this...
http://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/reports/00...
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They say that the code could "hijack" a computer like some hackers have "hijacked" some computers to mine bitcoins.

Their concerns aren't completely unfounded in that it is granted it is quite possible to use any piece of code for ill. However, their complete failure to understand that this wasn't a case of "hijacking" computers by black hackers, but a potentially innovative business revenue generating project says to me that the cyber unit of the state department has no understanding whatever of programming. If that is the case, these 19 year olds should be awarded damages so that this reckless behaviour can be discouraged.
> Not sure why this has to be a condition.

Because they can share JavaScript objects.
In England RIPA can be used to put you in prison for five years if you don't disclose the key.

RIPA is a bad law.
Although the economy suffered a hit, does anyone remember what the job market was like for programmers after the boom? If this article is right (which I'm not convinced of), even to a smaller extent -- how do you think that will impact the current job market?
Despite your suggestion that it is not for an initd to do process respawning, all init's I've ever used (since '93 or so) have the logic built in anyway. It's just that making use of it restricts you to /etc/inittab for your configuration.
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I was under the impression (possibly wrongly) that you could relatively freely change teams at Google assuming you weren't entirely unsuitable for the job, and were reasonable about not changing team too frequently and actually getting stuff done.
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I don't like the 10-attempt-auto-wipe because it also gives someone an easy way to erase your device -- which I think is just as likely as a scenario. For example if you recorded the police and they didn't like it...

Having the password (in your mind and on your fingers) and the "sensitive information" ;- having them together in the same place at the same time is just asking for it really.

Look at this list of Soviet interrogation tactics and imagine how many of them could easily be used against you in your country's justice system: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9236.htm

edit: link is to a low-quality site but the text is copied directly from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gulag_Archipelago
they need to bring in a couple of seasoned enterprise developers who can hand off any project in such a state that it would be easy to rewrite it from scratch than to even just successfully build it, less run/debug/understand...
Hmm, I think it depends on who is using it out West. There are plenty of MIT-style hackers in CA who describe themselves as such, including many on HN. But you may be partly right, I think that the way it's used among SV entrepreneurs differs a little from the MIT connotation.

But all that is pretty immaterial to the question at hand. Both hacker subcultures are probably intended as the target of intimidation.
Yeah, this is more or less right. Inflation adjustments measure how much you have to spend to consume a given amount -- so, basically, if a loaf of bread costs $0.02 in 1913 and $2.00 in 2014, then inflation is 100x. With lots of complexity in there as well, of course.

Notably, what inflation isn't is something like "percentage of total size of the economy." So if the economy expands (as it has), then the amount of money available to be made in something that scales to the size of the economy (like the financial markets) increases well beyond the pace of inflation.

In 1913, the US population was about 1/3rd what it is now. The US now plays a much more significant role in the world economy, and of course technological advancement has increased the size of the economy as well. Inflation doesn't account for any of that per se.
A better alternative is to have a second decryption code that allows you to unlock the phone, but to a completely unrelated set of files. This would be along the lines of a Truecrypt hidden volume. That way, the court can't get pissed at you for deleting evidence.
True, but it's nice to have one when the social costs are evident.
In 1970, 55 percent of U.S. income was earned by households in the middle 60 percent of the income distribution. More than half of households were in what Pew Research Center has labeled the “middle tier” of households (those earning between two-thirds and twice the median income). In 2013, both numbers had fallen to about 45 percent.

It's not clear that this is an apples-to-apples comparison, but this AEI chart suggests this statistic might not be as disheartening as it sounds:

http://www.aei-ideas.org/2013/07/yes-the-middle-class-has-be...

In other words, America’s “middle class” did start largely disappearing in the 1970s, but it was because they were moving up to a higher-income category, not down into a lower-income category. And that movement was so significant that between 1967 and 2009, the share of American families earning incomes above $75,000 more than doubled, from 16.3% to 39.1%.
You'll have similar problems with Apple and Google.
Thank you! I'd be honored. Likewise, I'll be eager for any music from you, especially as you're even willing to ask. It should be noted that I truly love all forms of music and sound without reservation.

Would be nice if HN had a simple forum or messaging/alerts for these moments. My lists are a disastrous mess in Foobar. It's time to finally get up to par and organize what I can on Spotify or whatnot for these situations. Any way to message, or just check back in a few days?
I'd have to agree, it's a slightly misleading title. This part was the most interesting to me: "Notably, few of the many studies were performed by interdisciplinary teams. While both physical scientists and archaeologists have tackled the problem, the divergent sets of skills and interests may have delayed a solution to the mystery."

There needs to be a lot more collaboration between scientists and archeologists/historians on questions like this. Experimental archeology is an interesting subset of this, but my impression is that it's been fairly moribund since the 70s and 80s: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Experimental_archaeology
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Ok, we'll use that here.
Correct. Even with hardware-entangled key stretching, Apple can jack into your phone, disable the 10-entry erase, and then brute-force your passkey. With Android, they don't even need to use the phone. They can just dump the flash storage and attack it on arbitrarily powerful hardware.

You can thankfully enable arbitrarily long numeric or alphanumeric PINs on Android and iOS.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nimrod#Idiom

"In 15th-century English, "Nimrod" had come to mean tyrant"

"In 20th-century American English, the term is now commonly used to mean a dimwitted or a stupid person."

I could see how you wouldn't want your programming language to be considered a tyrant or a dimwit.

Or a dimwitted tyrant. ;-)
Used jamvm in some osgi products and it works well. however I never heard about Avian (http://oss.readytalk.com/avian/ https://github.com/ReadyTalk/avian) and it does look interesting.

a table of all JVMs:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Java_virtual_mach...
Actually, that brings up an interesting question: does muscle memory act like "regular" memory, with a curve of forgetting and with spaced repetition being a viable solution? If it did, then you could adapt at least some of these SR programs to, say, "perform this piece" or "do the following exercise" and learning an instrument might get considerably easier.
Exactly. Their function is creating market-beating returns for their investors. Nothing else.

There was a great interview with Josh Reich from Simple on Mixergy recently [0]. Before Simple, he worked at a hedge fund but didn't find the work to be fulfilling because he didn't feel that he was solving a problem for anyone, or making people's lives better (he had studied to be a doctor prior to that as well). He summed it up by jokingly saying "I've never had someone come up to me on the street, saying 'I need liquidity!!'".

[0] http://mixergy.com/interviews/joshua-reich-simple-interview/

edit: wow, there is some hedge-fund sympathizer down-voting every post that doesn't buy into this "social function" premise.
“Despite the seemingly obvious answer—tomb art discovered in the 19th century depicts laborers pouring water in front of a block-hauling team—debate over how the pyramids were built is almost as ancient as the pyramids themselves.”

In other words, people don't read comments. This is why the best practice is to build self-documenting pyramids.
Gotta love their tenacity
I think he's getting at the fact that this is more of a resource repository and not a place to sell your designs. Still kind of a stretch to say he mis-read however.
What's the social cost of hedge funds?
I can only see this helping them... even by a little. Never understood the naming strategies of some folks.
Their social function is to hasten the glorious Revolution.
+1 ,THIS would be great idea.

Also allow short videos.Today UI interfactions are often "dynamic".A UI can look poor when seen as a still,but be quite awesome when seen in action.
This reads like a press release, and not like real reporting ...
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An excellent example of that was Greg Anderson [1], Barry Bonds alleged source for Steroids.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greg_Anderson_%28trainer%29
My friends are currently serving as missionaries in Tanzania and are teaching the art of beekeeping to help diversify the local economy and diet: http://makondefrasers.wordpress.com/
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1% not 10%. CALPERS only allocated about $4B out of $300B to hedge funds.
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DO NOT FEED YOUR INFANT HONEY

Just in case anyone read the first paragraph and thought, "Hey that's a good idea!" Honey contains bacteria that causes infant botulism [1]. Once a child has a more fully developed digestive system, this is no longer a problem.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Botulism#Infant_botulism
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If Amazon's stock price fell by 25%, and Alibaba's did the same, as an Alibaba shareholder would you take comfort in the fact that Alibaba still has a PE ratio one tenth Amazon's? Of course not.

Actually, yes, I would take comfort in that fact. It would mean that Alibaba was far more likely to recover its value.
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I'm mixed about this. On one hand, $250k/yr seems like it should be a bit above market rate for the value engineers provide their companies. Even mediocre engineers provide far more value than the typical market rate. Market rate for mediocre or even slightly below average talent should be much closer to the mid-$150k range than it is. Good or excellent engineers should already have base compensation around the high $100k/low $200k range anyway.

That said, this company is a game company at its core, and I would expect these salaries and perks to come at quite a high price in other terms (particularly work-life balance).
It depends what the account is!

I'm a bit scared about all my accounts. I do mot currently understand which account depends on what bit of information.

That leaves me vulnerable. For example, if this phone dies and Google starts asking me for a password and 2FA I have no idea what I'd do.

I have several pieces of hardware that I use to login across a wide range of accounts. I guess I need to print out a list of passwords and 2FA codes and set two phones as backup IDs.

I really wish someone would just fix authentication. :-/
THANK YOU. I'm tired of all this scientistic nonsense showing up on HN: "Stupid Egyptologists couldn't get it right for hundreds of years; scientists forced to step in and solve the mystery with absolute certainty!" was basically how the headline read before.
Long-Term Capital Management's bailout was organized by the Fed even though it didn't actually take on the assets. If the private bailout hadn't been agreed to, then the Fed would have directly intervened.

I say this to correct the record, not to detract from your point about risk management, which is true.
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Apple introduced 'retina hd' this year; they are still doing 'pixel counts' by other means
You can use the content of the shill reviews too, the majority are done by people who didn't even play the game. Are you seriously telling me you've missed the whole GG afair that's been going on for the last month? Where it was discovered that indie game devs are being invested in by the people running indie game "competitions" who then hand them awards and schmooze "journalists" to hype their investments? You missed that whole "oops, we are really sorry about that whole integrity thing, we'll be good now" business?
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Let's not forget the Christmas Lounge!
FYI: it's a programming competition, at least sometimes held on college campuses. (If you log in, you see the only one announced and so far completed just over a week ago at Virginia Tech.)

So now there's...

• Bram Cohen's CodeCon, a defunct (?) series of hacker conferences

• Re/Code's Code Conference, abbreviated #codecon, the Mossberg/Swisher post-WSJ successor to 'D: All Things Digital'

• Bloomberg's CodeCon, a series of coding competitions

I think I'm going to start CoDecon, a COllaborative-consumption site to book DECONtamination of chemical/biological hazards, like when a compact-flourescent bulb breaks or you suspect your last AirBnb guest had Ebola.
Disclaimer: I am a hedge fund manager.

Here's the definition of a hedge fund: an investment firm with extremely high fees whose investment strategy probably falls outside the scope of the vast majority of accessible investment funds. Most criticisms of hedge funds are so weak that they border on straw man arguments. There are fair criticisms for sure, but mostly those complaints are centered around the fees being too high. Asking about their "social function" is a leading question and shows that the author isn't looking at this very objectively.
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I'm going to go with 37Signals.
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I think if a conman could get behind the counter in a retail setting, people would give their credit cards over as easily as they do online. No one is looking at the cashier to make sure that they are legitimate, and that's because they don't have to: no retail business could survive news reports of people getting scammed in this way. Honestly the same is true online. There's no expectation that if you started out on Nordstroms.com that your purchase information will be stolen by an imposter. Since Nordstrom's controls the content on that site, it's very difficult for an attack like that to occur.
But I do think this is a serious issue and I'm astonished at the sheer number of you who cannot allow discussion of it and will not allow your beliefs to be questioned.

We _were_ discussing it, you got a few downvotes, so what? Disagreement is a form of discussion, had you wished to iterate on the explanation of your stance I would have gladly continued until we distilled the conversation down to the core bits we don't see eye to eye on. Maybe neither of us would be swayed, but at least we'd see where one another were coming from.

I said this before but deleted it because I thought it was a low blow, but in light of your edit I'll reiterate: the problem with this conversation was not your moral stance, it was your arrogance.
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Except this would be easily detected as false data, via timestamps.
> Drawing a legal distinction between a password to unlock and a fingerprint to unlock is absurd.

Yes, but the distinction is drawn because privacy advocates don't have much else to hang their hat on here. A court can compel you to open a locked filing cabinet. That's open and shut. Saying that giving up a password is testimonial leaves open an angle to distinguish cell phones from locked filing cabinets.

The purpose of the 5th amendment was to keep people from having to testify as a witness against themselves, which has a very prejudicial effect on juries. It was not intended to be a blanket protection against investigation of your personal assets by court order.
I have noticed that more educated people do seem to be more apt to take a party line. I wonder if part of the reason for this is actually because they consume more propaganda than less educated people. If you are being educated and responsible in the run up to the war and you read the New York Times and watch Meet the Press and so on, the only effect would have been to be more inculcated with lies and BS.

The "uneducated" who are less exposed are less apt to have their brains so washed away. I think it takes significant exposure to a lot of different media and narratives over a sustained period of time to develop an awareness of how untrue our news really is and how to read between the lines not to find out what's true, but what probably isn't. The average "educated" person might read a few news articles a day and watch the evening news. That doesn't cut it.
I like jam, but I tried to purchase a license for an embedded product, all I could get was a dial tone.
People will get confused when people Google it and find the poset game Nim[1]. Unless of course that's what they were going for.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nim
I never really noticed the "no antagonist" until you just mentioned it - I find that's a sign of maturity in a literary work - a story can be riveting by just seeing different people/organizations in contention with their own aims - not the simplistic good vs. evil trope.
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If you're interested in reading some more about the collapse of LTCM, I recommend When Genius Failed by Roger Lowenstein (for a fuller appreciation, read Liar's Poker by Michael Lewis first).

If you're interested in reading an excellent account of a startup HFT/hedge fund, it's worth ordering a secondhand copy of The Predictors by Thomas Bass (for a fuller appreciation, read Chaos by James Gleick first).
>when the social costs are evident.

What are the social costs?
Yes. http://www.matasano.com/careers.
1) I meant the icons, which I think of as categorization. For example, Sagebump tags story A as 'controversy'.

2) I was using the Technocrat default view.
As a coder, I was actually shocked to realize just how bad it was when I tried Ghostery. Some pages load more than 10 scripts that are just trackers and analytics. Aside from the performance implications, the amount of data collected on your behalf, on each page, without any mention (implied consent, I spose), is pretty crazy.
> Don't sleep for three days, Hyperventilate, Extreme Sauna, etc.

People are really underestimating altered states when they've never experienced them. Psychedelic drugs are not as subtle as what you are describing and MDMA in particular is not random at all.

Also don't confuse the immediate effect of the drug with what you learn from the experience.
Zed Shaw wrote on this topic awhile ago as well:

http://zedshaw.com/essays/programmer_stats.html
As we saw with the celebrity nude leaks, backups are often easier to acquire and trivial to crack using software like EPPB. Just take a look though Elcomsoft's product list if you're questioning whether you should upgrade to a stronger passcode.
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1. There is no relationship whatsoever between the secrecy of their strategies and the likelihood of a government bailout. Most companies have some sort of proprietary secrets, after all.

2. They are no more secretive than the average private company. In fact, this is largely a myth, as is the belief that hedge funds are "lightly regulated". You can in fact find a lot of information about a fund by spending five minutes on the SEC website.
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