skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The VCs own compensation structure practically guarantees that they will raise as much money as they can and invest it however they can, no matter how much they have to lower their standards. As in the semi-obvious biological analogy, they don't really care about what kind of offspring they're producing. They just want to reduce the per-company expenditure so they can invest in more companies. That's entirely what this is about. Any good that the "be very careful about hiring" advice does for the companies or founders is purely incidental.
Rich people make up a smaller % of the population than 10%.
Is there not any rational reason for them to be unconcerned or for it?

They probably believe that they will not be targeted by it, that if an algorithm scans over their data that it's no big deal, and that it may lead to some criminals being caught. They can live their entire lives from start to finish, and whether their own communications were ever intercepted will likely have had zero impact on their life.

I'm not trying to be dismissive of people who are concerned, just wanting to point out that there are also valid reasons to take the other view.
Email Marketing is changing. It's no longer about spamming customers with "marketing BS" whenever possible. It's about sending the right content at the right time and delighting your customers.

Email (especially transactional email) should be an extension of your product, owned by creative and ambitious product teams - that's what Sendwithus enables.
Wing Tsun – A First Clue
That's the most succinct explanation I've heard on the subject. Thanks!
Wow, that is scary how a simple DHCP option can propagate like that.

Speaking of Linux-based NAS systems, Amahi systems have been updated via a repo update that pulls the latest bash fix.
I believe Apple has implemented things so that they cannot divulge the necessary data. Having it and withholding it would be contempt of court, which has unlimited penalties.
How to Start a Startup lecture 2
Lecture 2- How to Start a Startup: http://youtu.be/CBYhVcO4WgI
FreeNAS (based on FreeBSD 9.2) has a vulnerable bash. I have 9.2.1.7.
I've worked on a project that was burned by this, everything works in the lab, then we start taking it home and nothing works with kids.

Standard speech reco and face reco either aren't optimized for children, or don't have children in their training data at all. Particularly tricky for speech if there is a grammar model...
Well, it's obviously path-dependent. The US has fairly strict labeling laws now, but you can probably imagine the arguments for not allowing alcohol content to be advertized could be part of a compromise when you're emerging from a period of prohibition. I vaguely recall the debate at the time that the law was changed, and it was accompanied by the expected amount of hand-wringing.
They're around. http://www.ratebeer.com/beerstyles/session-ipa/121/ I can't comment on how they taste though, my style preferences tend to keep me in the 8-12% range for beer.
AstroHackWeek: Kepler 2 Photometry
> Are there any technical reasons why the old finger / .plan system couldn't be revived to replace facebook, twitter, etc, with an open and simple social network?

People have tried that and failed. The technical reason appears to be "UI/UX/average person/etc. issues", whatever you want to call them these days. Average social network users seem to want a unified system which distributed platforms have a hard time providing.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_social_network
Has been tried in somewhat different context:

http://www.kornferryinstitute.com/briefings-magazine/summer-...

"Swedish National Society for Road Safety created a “speed camera lottery” in Stockholm. At select traffic spots, drivers would see a digital display of their speed, as measured by radar, and a camera would snap a picture of their license plate. If they were over the speed limit, they got a ticket in the mail. However, drivers who were at or under the limit were automatically entered into a lottery to win money at the end of each month. The amount of money depended on the speeders – their fines went into the prize fund. The results were impressive. Over three days (24,857 cars photographed), the average car’s drive-by speed went down from 32 kilometers an hour to 25 – a 22 percent reduction."
I think one of the things Heartbleed PoCs did really well was show the result for the end user. Most people aren't going to know what any of this stuff means. Can we come up with a really straight forward explanation in laymans terms as to what this means for the average Internet user?
This is a dup of: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8370199
No, Google puts the ANSWER first if it has it, otherwise a list of links that might have the answer.

Google Finance does not rank higher than Yahoo Finance in your example. The stock onebox that appears (which, you'll note, Bing also does) has a list of links to Google Finance, Yahoo Finance, and MSN Money. Bing only links to MSN Money fwiw, so Google is "more fair" than the competition here anyway.

And if you do a search for what's obviously a stock ticker, like AAPL, you'll actually see Google goes "Onebox with answer + links to google finance, yahoo, and MSN money followed by finance.yahoo.com search result", whereas Bing is "MSN money onebox followed by a link to google finance"

So clearly Google Finance's high position is justified regardless, as other search engines put that result first.
According to the lotto machine at my local Safeway, you're also an avid supporter of local schools who got $X,XXX,XXX from lottery money.
It's not one unit a day, stop scaremongering.

http://www.patient.co.uk/health/Recommended-Safe-Limits-of-A...
A few things:
- It has efficient joins. So you can store a "many to many" relation in your database (like you would have done in a SQL database) -- so storing things related to a social network is way nicer/more efficient.

- It has changfeed, so you can push notifications to client when something changes on the database. You can build real time application. For example if your http server is NodeJS, plug SockJS for the browser, and RethinkDB for your database, and your whole stack is reactive.

- The query language is way nicer to use (it's embedded in the host language).

That's the 3 main differences for a web developer I can think of on top of my head.
These same people seem awfully shy when I ask to go through their photos, just to see if they have any using drugs.

But that's exactly it: if you leave a gaping hole for the feds to get through I (in the sense of a hypothetical attacker) can go through it too, especially with how easily most federal secrets leak out and the fact that rekeying is essentially impossible for this use.
FreeNAS doesn't use bash as /bin/sh by default or as root shell unless you've set it yourself (which some users do: http://forums.freenas.org/index.php?threads/replacing-standa...)
Supposedly hot/cold cycles are bad for incandescent, so if you have dimmers and rarely actually switch the bulb off, that might be the source of improvement.
This is a controversial opinion, but I am actually of the view that SSL is structurally unworkable against nation-state-level adversaries. There are too many dark corners and not enough eyes, and you can't dig your way out of complexity with a volunteer standards committee.

I am working on the problem (and by that I mean "it's in private beta"). Mobile is sort of a unique opportunity because a typical mobile app doesn't have the same interoperability requirements as the web more broadly.

However, it's hard to sell, which explains why nobody does it. First it's hard to sell commercially, which you really need if you want it audited by people who know what they're doing. But it's hard to even give it away, because nobody wants to be the test pilot when it comes to security.

Solving this requires a level of cooperation that we may not have as an industry right now. That may mean dark days ahead.

Email in profile, if you want to chat about it
I expected women on bikes based on the link, but the nudity in the second photo was definitely not expected.
Someone needs to get the NYTimes data visualization team to clean this up. Doesn't do the enormity of the number justice by folding the last column into four columns when the rest are a single column.
They already do. Blocking images in emails usually helps. Blocking third-party content is essential. Some of the usual suspects, such as "constantcontact", should just be blocked.
Android: Paid App Devs Must Respond to Users in 3 Days
Yeah, isn't that a reddit-specific app?
Cometary impact is considered the primary delivery method for water onto planets. In other words, this is hydrogen and oxygen that bonded together in the protoplanetary disk to form water; clumped together to form icy bodies (comets); eventually had its orbit disturbed sending it into the inner system; and finally, impacting a planet. It is also possible that the icy dust grains (water) may have been part of the planet as it formed, assuming the planet formed far enough out that water ice could exist. The planet would have then migrated inwards (which new models are showing is the likely origin for the close-in exoplanets).
For Android you can do this as a regular application. If you're a developer have a look at: https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/admin/device-admi...
The advice about burnout isn't so helpful.

Yes, perseverance is important (particularly for undergrads, who have probably never worked on a project with a time horizon longer than a semester), but you can't fix burnout just by lowering your head and trudging forward like a packhorse.

I don't know if there's a single, quick fix for burnout, but taking a vacation is definitely a good idea -- even if it's only a few days. And if you can't take your mind off of what you're doing for a few days, something else is wrong.

Usually when people say "I can't take a break" they're engaging in catastrophic thinking. If for some reason they really can't take a break, it's time to take a good, hard look at how you're doing things, and see what it is that's causing that situation. In my experience, the root to your burnout will often lie in an honest exploration of that question, alone.

It's incredibly helpful to get an outside perspective on your situation when you feel this way -- this is what counseling is for. If you can't afford that, talk honestly with a friend you can trust -- a friend who has no personal interest in the outcome. That's critical. If you ask your co-founder what you should do, you have to realize that s/he'll be biased.
They want to release Colletotrichum salsolae. Glomerella cingulata's teleomorph is Colletotrichum gloeosporioides - different species. Since it's the Ag. Research Service that's interested, the first thing they'd test on are Ag. species.

Also, hopefully the dual-naming of fungi by anamorph/teleomorph will go away some day. It's really weird to refer to a species by two separate taxonomical names.
For any companies that handle customer data, especially PII or credit card information, even having the data access could be actionable and result in massive costs/fines.

This would be a major risk, IMHO.
Er...no. In the real world they don't always arrive with a SWAT team. Many warrants are served peacefully, and they have even been known to use locksmiths. I don't agree with stereotyping encryption users as if they were criminals, nor do I agree with stereotyping law enforcement as if they were shock troops.
And I don't know why she swallowed the fly.

Perhaps she'll die.
I'm a heavy drinker who runs in a crowd of heavy drinkers. I am typing this at a bar. I should probably drink less.

I cannot imagine drinking an average of 10 drinks a day.

Even playing with the numbers a little bit: if you were to have five drinks every weeknight (which seems doable, but still high), it would take more than 20 each night of the weekend to hit an average of 10, which seems unreasonable.

So, three questions:

1. Anecdotally, is anybody else having this reaction?

2. Has anybody found the raw data? The linked summary of the original study is not very helpful. I'd like to look at the area of this data that spans the 20%-10% range more closely. The jump between the two categories is huge, and it seems to me that about halfway between (so, say, 35 drinks a week) fits where I would expect there to be a band of heavy-drinking culture. Is there demographic or age data in the study?

3. Given that this is a summary of the way a book that is trying to make a political argument represents these data, has anybody seen a different analysis of the same study?
Actually, there are 45 CAs run by Symantec (!). TC TrustCenter and GeoTrust are both Symantec-owned.
Take the 'ignorance' test
"If [founder and CEO of multi-billion dollar startup] from Stripe is watching the thread . . ."
Probably the most interesting part of this article (and the linked article on developing a URL structure for broadcast radio) is the argument in favor of not making human-readable URLs. A part of me really likes the idea of URLs which can be read and understood by a layman without deep understanding of the system. But technically that's challenging to maintain, and as the article points out, challenging to keep consistent automatically. And arguably it's better to offer users something which you know won't ever break than something more convenient which quite likely will.
Very food link which deserves more attention. It's a non issue.
U.S. Forest Service wants to charge $1,500 to take photos on federal wild lands
OCD.JS: JavaScript Obsessive-Compulsive disorder
Murata's cheerleader robots move around on balls and do it in J-Pop unison
Of course they're outraged, in the same way that a serial burglar is outraged when they discover that someone's backdoor, which has been wide open for years, is suddenly locked. What's their outrage got to do with anything?
Having used EMACS all the way back to the original Stanford SAIL machines (with a physical META key on their custom keyboards) I still don't want to use it.
Just a few months ago I listened to a principal at a VC firm in NYC talk about how things aren't going to change anytime soon because a bunch of firms just raised new funds

Timing is famously part of the issue. Alan Greenspan's famous "Irrational Exuberance" speech occurred in 1996–three to four years before the tech bubble burst. People started predicting a housing bubble in the 2003 – 2004 timeframe (Megan McArdle, for one), and if you believed there was a bubble in 2004 you spent four years with people telling you that you're stupid. With other crises, like Long-Term Capital Management in 1998, I don't think anyone saw the bubble coming.

This: http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2008/12/why-wall... is the best popular piece I've read on bubbles, ever, and explains why they form and why it is probably inevitable that they will form.

If there is currently a tech bubble—which seems plausible to me—we may find out tomorrow, next month, a year from now, or four years from now.
>He said he could not understand why companies would “market something expressly to allow people to place themselves beyond the law.”

Perhaps he's entirely unaware of any history where "the law" was used to oppress. Perhaps he's also unaware that something being "the law" does not make it just. For instance, in Washington, where I live, just two years ago it was illegal to own marijuana. Now it's legal. Does this now mean that the moral status of owning and smoking marijuana has changed, or does it merely show that the law is inconstant and often at odds with justice? Much is taken for granted in his rhetorical question.
Related product: http://www.ubooly.com

Related research: http://www.ted.com/talks/cynthia_breazeal_the_rise_of_person...
So here's what I don't get: This is just standard, off-the-shelf encryption, right? Like the kind I've been using on my desktop since forever? How is this such a big deal?

I realize that from a PR perspective, Apple would like to appear to be privacy conscious. And perhaps Apple was asking for legal fallout by flouting that particular aspect of correctly implemented encryption. It just seems a little too ironic that this is just standard off-the-shelf encryption we're talking about.
Some anthropologists believe that the natural state
of man up until a hundred years or so ago was
intoxication, it just wasn't spelled out as clearly
in the literature, mainly because it wasn't unusual.

There's quite a bit of literature out there about this. What I haven't seen a lot of—and would be interested in learning more about—is the seemingly simultaneous occurrence of the proliferation of coffee houses and the Enlightenment in Europe.

It would make a ton of sense to me that trading in a constant state of inebriation for a caffeine buzz might make for better productivity.
Lecture 2 Slide Deck PDF:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/f1xgbo6c976di06/Lecture2.pdf?dl=0
Not exactly. CPython combines a compiler and a bytecode interpreter. It compiles to bytecode, which is then run by the bytecode interpreter.
I have an X240 and the keyboard is backlit. I dont seem to recall it being an additional option... Its off by default, Fn-space activates it.
If you can generate standalone bitcode that doesn't ever generate more bitcode at runtime, then yes emscripten becomes a possibility.
It renders fine in Chrome 36 on my Windows machine here.
20,000 Leagues Under ActiveRecord
Not sure if you can do this with Location Services on iOS, but I'd pay for an app that destroys my private key on the device if it detects I've been within X feet of a police station for longer than X minutes.

You can then have my passphrase. It's no longer any use.
When I made a point about Orrin Kerr shilling for the law enforcement agencies https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8349006 one or two people didn't agree. I guess it is now obvious what that piece was about.

The disingeneous dimension to this issue is that smart phones are basically powerful hand held personal computers which make calls and take photos on the side. Less than 1% of their capability is used for for making calls. Orrin Kerr pretends not to understand this. He wouldn't insist that Microsoft, Apple and Linux developers weaken the encryption on regular laptops, desktops or servers for law enforcement to have access to data.

Why should he insist on it for smart phones which these days are just as powerful as PCs, the only difference being that people carry them around, make calls and store contact details on them?

Steve Job and Apple's desire to have complete control and have access to users information brought this situation about, and in doing so made themselves virtually accessories to whatever crimes people stored on their phones. Now they realize that it made them appear as agents and collaborators with the investigative agencies, they have decided to extricate themselves from that situation leaving them close to being labelled 'pedophile and terrorist facilitators'.
God's world is perfectly just.

I asked God about racism. He said, "sports"

The Bible says a reputation is worth more than gold. If you have sullied your race's reputation by raising bastard unbehaved children, you caused your grief.

Jesse Jackson said, "I was walking down a street and heard footsteps. I turned around and was relieved when I saw it was white people."

Someone mocked my claim on justice with a story about a drive by shooting killing a child.

The nigger wants to degrade and insult white people:

http://hickeysite.blogspot.com/2012/03/vote-do-it-for-cop-sh...
How to engineer features and get good at it
> There must be correlation between the presentation and quality of the source code!

There isn't.

The overlap is relatively small between:

- People who are great at writing software.

- People who are great at designing logos and quality of presentation (or have someone on staff that is).
http://kripken.github.io/emscripten-site/docs/api_reference/...
How's Ingress doing nowadays? I never got into it because it sucked so much of my battery life, but I keep receiving their newsletter and it seems like a surprisingly active community.
Wrong, FBI: this is a human rights issue, pure and simple. Our devices augment our minds, and you want to read our minds. And we don't want you to.

It is disingenuous to imply (let alone assert, as in this case) that you can't investigate criminal activity without the ability to access our phones/read our minds. Somehow you managed for many decades prior to the iPhone. To claim you need this access now is rather silly.

I would suggest that you allow people their private, augmented minds, enjoy the better society that will (hopefully) give us all, and pursue other investigatory avenues, of which there is no shortage and which should occur to your thought.
Are you an alcoholic? Because alcoholics can build up quite a tolerance and also maintain the minimal amount of functionality to get by.

This is from a Yahoo answer to how much alcoholics drink:

"I'm a small woman, 115 lbs and on a typical day I would have anywhere from 8 to 15 shots. On occasion I would go much higher but this was typical."

A normal healthy adult can metabolise about one standard drink per hour, and there are 24 in a day IIRC.

Also see

http://www.niaaa.nih.gov/alcohol-health/overview-alcohol-con...

7% are alcoholics according to NIH. They'd be enough to account for the statistics in the article.
MOCL specifically does not have full CL compatibility.
6 years ago, a med school student friend had a really detailed powerpoint presentation showing actually, yes, drinking no alcohol is far better for you. I think this edge case benefit is just promoted by people wanting to feel better about their alcohol consumption, and not to mention pushed as a repetitive PR point by alcohol companies.
Credits say it's built with this: http://shorthand.com/
Does this apply if PassengerLoadShellEnvvars is set to 'no' or if bash is not the login shell?
Apparently it's related with make

https://twitter.com/hergertme/status/508429188471062529

I hope to get my laptop soon and try it.
6/10.

Three of the answers I got right were because of a Bill Gates video I saw last year. Two were because of Hans Rosling.
> People invent and invest in the absence of patents

I don't think that this is established. Patents have existed since the 1400's and areas that have patent systems have general out-innovated areas without them. This could be the result of many other factors, but patents do clearly provide an incentive to innovate. I think a better argument is that the added costs of dealing with patent trolls outweighs the incentive of a temporary monopoly.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patent
India Market Puts Linux Smartphones to the Test
a16z is scared of how high stakes got at the game he has helped to escalate the stakes at. He is getting out priced by new money coming into the Valley, and the only way he can stay in the game is to increase stakes (funding/valuations) even more. Unfortunately, at this level of funding/valuations the start-ups receiving them stop being lean/agile in any sense and become a fat small BigCo-s which just burn the incoming cash with obvious end-of-game.
>Unauthorized intruders, whether or not they have a piece of paper signed by a guy that wears a robe to work, are not welcome in my phone.

In saying this, you are literally placing yourself above any law. Above democracy itself, and in doing so, above all other humans.

In realizing this, you should abandon either the concept of democracy, or of your own importance above it.

Choose wisely.
Being a "functioning alcoholic" means you are i) addicted to alcohol and thus likely to be drinking much more than is healthy. Long term heavy drinking is associated with a bunch of health risks (the obvious being cirrhosis and the less obvious being some cancers).

I guess it depends how you define "alcoholic".
I believe you, actually, but can you provide a source? Thanks.
Made in America, Again
I guess here we need to talk about different definitions of "mine". At least people tend to say "my house" and "my car" in many situations similar to this.