skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I love when that happens! That's because I hate being wrong. I really really really hate it. I hate being wrong so much that I'm extremely grateful when people point out my mistakes. Then I get to stop being wrong and start being right! The satisfaction I get from that more than makes up for any amount of embarrassment stemming from the revealing of my mistake. It's not that I hate _appearing_ to be wrong. A little embarrassment never killed anybody. Rather, _being_ wrong is awful, even if nobody knows it, even if I don't know it.

I hate being wrong.
Holy crap that's cool.
Heavily armed drug cops raid retiree’s garden, seize okra plants
Anecdotally, I work in tech in New York City, and holy shit do I see a lot of this.
"I was mostly writing applications that generated SQL and wrapped the results in some HTML. Pretty boring." - This is basically why I'm interested in making the move (eventually). Earning power may turn out to be a perk but the main motivation is something that is perpetually stimulating.
Zxpoint
The most important question before raising money is what do you want to achieve with it. Raising a round just for the sake of raising a round might not be the best thing for your business. Set a goal and the resources you need, multiply by 2. This is the rule of thumb I go with, because the work you'll do will take more time than expected and you need to have a buffer on top of this. Keep in mind that raising a bigger round takes time. Make sure you have long enough runway after you've completed your goals, so you can start raising a second round if needed.
Currently I working into the Cakephp and Django framework. Now I wanna to work in yii. which is the best between Yii and laravel in large concept application. anyone tell which is best framework for large application in Cakephp, Yii, laravel. please describe.
They are, according to many definitions of "Western".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_world#Modern_definitio...
The logo looks a bit creepy to me.
+1 for godep
Looks like the early bird is already gone?

Very nice product though btw
And notable they were profitable the entire time, no less. Very sad to see them go. Consistently high quality. If anything, there was too much high quality output to keep up with...
I think it is not just MBAs.
And that's fine for that kind of application. You could also do just as much with a cheaper system (but you'd need a lot more software work so maybe that's Intel key point: you can shovel in all the X86 code you've been slogging around with you for decades).

But, in my opinion, the examples you mentioned are not IoT. Unless you're planning to put one of these at every sprinkler head.
The Productivity Map
I wonder what their game is here. Why is it free to share with 100 friends? I can't see that it would be any cheaper for them. Also, 100 friends? When would I ever want to share file storage with that many people?
Massachusetts Becomes First State to Require Price Tags for Health Care
I wonder if the performance can be improved by adding a heat sink? The CPU might be throttling itself if running at 100% for a while.
If you scroll right the site breaks.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think the privacy advocates are the target market for this site.

I also believe that the cloud has proven people are willing to forgo some privacy in exchange for the ease of use/access. I don't take part is such activities, but many seem to.
would be nice if it ran Ubuntu
Won't let me drop a directory of files in, because one of them is a bittorrent file (why are you looking so carefully at the types of my files?)

mp3s don't seem to come back bit-identical, obviously some editting going on remotely.

So, don't trust this with files where you actually care about your data not getting "adjusted".
I think that they're trying to create a viral loop in order to attract advertisers to their platform.
Thanks, that looks good, but it's more expensive than the Edison and doesn't have WiFi, as far as I can see.
To Apple, Copying Is Always “Stealing”–Unless It's Doing the Copying
Check out supervisor (http://supervisord.org/). Super painless daemons if you're like me and hate writing init scripts.
This is how the cover art of Dungeon Master (1987) was made
I think you're entirely right. Based off of what I saw, this isn't for secure file storage on the cloud. It's for storing photos and music collections that you'd like your friends and family to have access to.

Of course, it does mention documents and such as well, but I'm sure there are plenty of uses for "socially" sharing that type of thing too.
They aren't, but you said you don't get what the Edison is about, so I mentioned a few cases it's perfect for.
I am one of the developers, so I can offer some small clarifications. While it was not clear from the writeup (and when it got posted) this experiment was run 2 days after the bug disclosure and well before patches started to stabilize. The post had to go through a review before we could publish it.

The A3 stack relies on syscall monitoring (via virtual machine introspection), network filters (which are protocol specific) and filesystem-neutral monitoring. Some of this stuff is readily comprehensible to a sysadmin, other stuff is not. Automatic application profiling is an area of ongoing work for the project.
Yea, Apple, and not the corporate board of Nokia that hired Stephen Elop and gave him contract that basically guaranteed a huge windfall if Nokia gets sold.
> Assume your adversary is capable of one trillion guesses per second

Jesus, one trillion passphrase checks a second.

Well I know what I'm changing this afternoon.

> My personal desire is that you paint the target directly on my back. No one, not even my most trusted confidant, is aware of my intentions and it would not be fair for them to fall under suspicion for my actions.

Snowden has always had my respect but the more I read the more he has my admiration as a person.
> I have never been to china, but my Chinese lab mate says that the best translation for Chinese outside of the cities is "peasant" not farmer. One good example of the way these people are treated is the lack of public education for people in these areas.

I live in China, and I wonder which rural areas you are talking about. From my knowledge, primary and secondary school (known as 9-year compulsory education) attendance is virtually 100% everywhere with two notable exceptions, namely extremely mountainous areas and the autonomous regions. In extremely mountainous areas transportation is almost impossible and schools tend to be underfunded; the problem with autonomous regions is beyond my knowledge.

To back my claim with statistics, a report from the Ministry of Education (http://www.moe.edu.cn/publicfiles/business/htmlfiles/moe/moe..., the report is in Chinese) estimated the net primary school enrollment ratio at 99.71%. A more dated UNESCO report from 2000 (http://www.unesco.org/education/wef/countryreports/china/rap...) estimated the net primary school enrollment ratio at 98.5% in the year 1998.
The Unix System: Making Computers Easier to Use (1982) [video]
I guess it's about marketing Hive to people. If you bring them 100 customers, and 5% of them will pay full price for Premium. Why shouldn't they give you smth in return?
>Yes and this assertion is laughably wrong:
>History shows the exact opposite. For example, at one point every business above a certain size had its own electric generator, and developed their own electricity on-site. In other words, decentralized power. That was replaced by contracts with central generation providers because that centralized model was so much more efficient.

Your comment assumes that efficiency is the most important thing. Addressing power imbalances and improving local resiliency are also important.

In the 1960s and 70s for many people computers meant centralized power and oppression. Computers were huge and expensive and therefore centralized, and only big government and big business (i.e. The Man) could afford them. A lot of the appeal of desktop computers in the 1980s was that they were personal: you could run the computing tasks that you wanted, on a machine that you controlled.
rtmpdump -r rtmp://cp262207.edgefcs.net:80/ondemand/mp4:techchannel/11316/videos/AA13001_UNIX_Making_Computers_Easier.mp4 -o unix-01.flv
These are good suggestions, and you're presenting a good guide for people who need to fill in some gaps prior to "grad school". But to me, this sounds like the standard (in the US) undergraduate curriculum for the general STEM majors - Math, Physics, Operations Research, CS, various branches of engineering. Typically, a student would have done what you're describing prior to grad school.

A Masters degree is typically an opportunity to specialize a bit and have a little more space to pursue an interest.

One suggestion I'd make is to go through the python scikit-learn library, do the examples, and research the math behind the algorithms to make sure you understand what's happening in the background (maybe even implement a bit on your own). I would agree that if you have the background you described, you'll be able to do this (though it'll take some study).

http://scikit-learn.org/stable/

One other thing… I'm a little less enthusiastic about learning purely on a "need-to-know" basis, because sometimes it takes knowledge of an algorithm to recognize the opportunity to apply it. I don't think you can keep all of this loaded in "exam-ready" memory (and I really wish interviewers would understand this), but I think it's important to study and read widely. You can learn (or review) the details in the moment, but you do need broad awareness to approach data with a certain frame of mind.
Everything about this says creepy.
They're trying to point out that it's usable today with paypal and the S5. They have no control over the steps Paypal and Samsung require to set it up. And although the 12 steps or however many there are are not ideal, it's not as if they left the setup for the user to figure out; all you have to do is follow the video. You're making a huge deal out of some extra steps on a one-time setup.

Don't blame the technology or the FIDO alliance when that video is about the S5 and Paypal, and the video is hosted on Paypal's youtube account.

The new yubikey neo (as of October) supports FIDO, but I don't know about client (browser/mobile) support middleware, and it requires nfc or full sized usb.
Applying the same contrarian point of view, it's probably a good time to work for a record label or a physical bookstore.

I don't think IB is on the same level of obsolescence as those industries (it's not obsolete at all, although banking as a whole has surely changed since 2008), just pointing out the flaw in that reasoning.
While the article is good, the title is really bad for people who don't stay current on this stuff since there is more than one Nobel Prize and people may just read the headline :(
Imitation Game Opens London Film Festival
To be fair, that might not be an exact description of the government's capabilities. If I were in Snowden's shoes, I'd provide a benchmark at least an order of magnitude or two greater than I thought was necessary, just out of an abundance of caution.
It's straightforward to customize Bootstrap with LESS, i.e., changing the column layout, break points, buttons, typography, and UI components.
Interesting, I'm a Programmer (Systems Engineer) with an MBA, and right now, I don't know where to go.
You should still assume it's futile in the end, to be honest; the ultimate surveillance system that may be going on right now is that all encrypted communication and data right now is being stored and catalogued, waiting for technology to be able to do even more calculations. It's said that once quantum computers become usable, a lot of encryption of today is pretty much useless. Even without that, computing power will increase exponentially - what's one trillion passphrases now will be a quadrillion passphrases within the next ten years, maybe in less time given certain advancements or discovered weaknesses in encryption technologies.

I personally don't really care if the NSA gets to look at my private documents, communications and photo's (for example), but if you're privacy-conscious, it's something to keep in mind.
Obamacare is closer to car-insurance, with the caveat that even if you don't want a car you still have to buy the insurance. THAT is what has most of the nay-sayers agitated.

Medicare/Medicaid are, like the student loan programs with college tuition, at least partially responsible for driving up the costs of healthcare in the US.

We've backed ourselves into a very difficult corner, and getting out of it isn't going to be easy, and it won't be popular.
MBAs follow the money, and right now that's in tech and consulting and not as much in finance.
In the case of net/http, I think it really turned out that simply integrating with http.Handler has so many more benefits than wrapping net/http with your own interfaces. Even Jeremy Saenz realized that and released Negroni after developing Martini.
It's unfair to blame "the Internet community and dynamic" in general. The community and dynamic are built by the rules of the site. There is a reason that Wikipedia has quality content that would not be possible by a free-for-all editable page.

As much as their rules have resulted in the output of a wonderful source of knowledge, it is far from unquestioningly perfect. The worst problem I see is the need for a single consensus on a page. I would prefer, if there was a controversy in a page's community, to split into multiple pages each representing the topic from a clear viewpoint instead of a single page of watered-down groupthink.
That's unfortunate. MBAs are toxic to businesses. They're the classic middle-manager, the random internal goal creators, the inefficiency masters, and so on. They also, as this article makes clear, only care about short term profitability over long term growth or stability (as they won't be there in five years anyway!).

You can look at tons of formally successful businesses that took in too many MBA types and lost their edge (e.g. IBM, Microsoft, HP, Cisco, et al). Google is also starting to go in that direction. Amazon has actually been fairly successful in avoiding that culture (partly due to their own internal culture being almost anti-MBA philosophy).

I'd happily hire an accountant, a lawyer, or even an economist. They're all specialists who bring different knowledge and perspectives to the table. I'd avoid hiring an MBA as they're largely useless people who just want to gum up the works with bullshit.

Engineers for engineering managers aren't perfect, but at least they aren't so far removed as MBAs are. At least once in their lives they knew what it took to deliver, and I'd prefer to train up an engineer into a decent manager than take in a pre-trained MBA.
This isn't about web design. You should just add links to these articles on the article you submitted. Good for google ranking, increases the chances of someone reading them, makes user happy :)
I have no data to back it up but if YC interview setup is even slightly inspired by the YC video guidelines [1] then being genuine is better than having scripted answers for everything.

Of course there is a point for balance and being unprepared is not the way to go.

[1] http://ycombinator.com/video.html
Agreed. camlistore and sandstorm.io are far more interesting, to me.
I wouldn't mind jumping into Xamarin.Forms dev, but is it still a subscription based system? Like, the free version only allows you to create really small programs?
I wish Xamarin had different way of monetizing... This 90s style shareware is a real deal-breaker (aka PowerBuilder, Clarion, Delphi).

Hint: Charge for IDE, make raw SDK/compiler available for free.
So it looks like the general consensus is people are not comfortable being the product. They would rather pay a nominal fee. So it's funny if Hive charged only like $0.99 / month or even $2 / mo I bet this launch would be received a little more graciously.
Again, this seems to be a problem that could be solved by locking up your project when you're done working with it.
EXPLOSIVE TRAINING WORLD
the headline is another way of saying 'tech is officially in bubble mode'
And the performance of those photo-finish systems is impressive. I would be grateful if someone could explain how the software is able to almost instantaneously identify the runners who are frequently not in lanes and also often have missing numbers. For one example, see FinishLynx (http://www.finishlynx.com/)
Does anyone know if "Citizen Four" (what Snowden signed his first email with) is a reference to anything?
I live in Braintree Massachusetts, and you may have heard that there's a person suspected of having Ebola in this very city. When I read about it, literally my very first thought was that we need to isolate my city until further notice. Don't get me wrong, I'm not relishing the thought of being stuck here, but we've got a responsibility to keep this thing from spreading. I still stand by that.
How about a zip file?
The Bad Physics in the Amazing Spider-Man 2
Code is, in my opinion, always relevant when talking about Petzold. After hearing it mentioned by some podcast pundits I enjoy, I picked up a [dead tree] copy from Amazon. It is a beautiful and well written book.

In some ways, the bookcraft it expresses reminds me of Tufte's Visual Display of Quantitative Information. But Petzold clearly is drawing more heavily on story-telling traditions making the book readable even for someone less interested in the technology.
Beginning AngularJS: Best Paths to Take, Recommended People and Resources
Peter Thiel, last week, on MBAs getting jobs:

The conceit of the MBA is that you don’t need to have any substance at all. It’s just this management science, and you can apply that equally well in [any company].

At the end of [their MBA program], a large number of people go into whatever was the last trendy thing to do. They’ve done studies at Harvard Business School where they’ve found that the largest cohort always went into the wrong field. So in 1989, they all went to work for Michael Milken, a year or two before he went to jail. They were never interested in Silicon Valley except for 1999, 2000. The last decade their interest was housing and private equity.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/on-leadership/wp/2014/10...
Amazon and Its Missing Books
A bruteforce attack is probably unworkable without some really incredible hardware.

http://www.pgp.net/pgpnet/pgp-faq/pgp-faq-security-questions...

> I personally don't really care if the NSA gets to look at my private documents, communications and photo's (for example), but if you're privacy-conscious, it's something to keep in mind.

Might I recommend reading this:

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20141006/17572528748/dea-i...
The Problem with Refinements in Ruby
That's a generalization. Looking at analytics for my site, about 1-2% of people out of 50k daily unique visitors are on mobile. The site is geared towards young, tech savy males.

Almost all of them are browsing on traditional resolutions and displays. In my case, it's mobile last.
> I personally don't really care if the NSA gets to look at my private documents,

This isn't about you. Do you have a preference of living in a society where the people in power have nearly total thought-level-control over the population? Allowing the state into your privacy may not bother you as an individual, that's fine - but you have to understand that your attitude allows them into all of our thoughts and minds, not just yours if you extrapolate this out into the decades you're talking about.

The total surveillance society is much worse when discussed at a real scale, a societal scale. Not caring about your own privacy means you don't care about others, and that's a dangerous line of thinking.

We form our society and laws around privacy - we're creating new standards and new expectations of rules for the next generations, and I'd rather not create rules that set baseline population control as normal.
assembly programmers that coded in C once said that, oh, i don't want to wade through codebase full of machine generated optimizations. i just want the compiler to keep it simple, and then we can optimize. Now, the average compiler will generate far more efficient code on a large project than a human can. Have you thought about the possibility that in the future, you will not have to wade through those codebase? The patch might be on a lower level where you never have to see it. Be imaginative.
A Quick and Practical Reference for Tcpdump
Looks like the US Constitution is becoming more of a propaganda document as we move along the timeline. So I would have to say it's not just a failing of a formal Communist Party, it's a failing of humanity.
What is chroot? Just popping outside of the GUI and using the linux underneath?
I read the post, thanks, it was very interesting. It didn't address at all the concerns about a malicious user inspecting the IP sender field, however, but I suppose one could argue that because availability is high the network can incur the costs of malicious users as long as they do not get above a certain percentage of the entire user base.

Now, one problem with his math is this: the assumption is that any node that goes down will eventually come back up. However, this isn't the case. Say I get a new laptop and throw my old one out or otherwise wipe its drive. Well that's no longer part of the distributed network anymore. Of course, you can add to your file storage protocol by shifting files around as nodes go down, but that adds a lot of complexity.

Ultimately, the problems that are trying to be solved here are very difficult and I think a satisfactory solution via distributed computing is unlikely unless you are willing to make severe trade-offs (such as the ones I suggested, use trusted servers).

Now, making trade-offs doesn't make it useless. It just means the system isn't useful in all cases. Realistically, the data you have on your laptop probably isn't so important that it needs to be replicated across the globe, encrypted, and stored in such a way that the government can't access it. And if it is? Well, it's probably much simpler to just encrypt it on your end, send it to AWS, and get on with whatever you were doing that's so important.
Thats when you know you have a bubble.
That is when you know tech is in a bubble
Oh, thank you, but don't mind that, my computer has very low memory, but it actually ran pretty well after I commented that after a first impression.
Follow on the "build product" point, I love to see the list of actual product demo video from YC company.
Will we be able to kill the slicing syntax, then? :)
Jose ''Scarface'' Aldo Highlights_Knockouts
It's neat, but hard to come up with a use case that's not a part of a commercial product just yet. As a unit the 0.4mm pitch connector is absolutely impossible to solder in a DIY environment, you must buy a breakout board, and suddenly it's not a sub $50 device anymore. All of the use cases I could think of were better served by a device I could actually tinker with, so I hedged on a Minnowboard Max instead.
That's my understanding. You should also be aware that the licensing is per-platform. Also, since Xamarin.Forms is a layer of abstraction on top of Xamarin, I don't think a ton of people are using Xamarin.Forms for game development, if that matters. I think there are several mobile game devs using Xamarin and Unity, though.
We have unique diagnostic codes for each error, and I have plans (and an in-progress PR) that points to a web page with a much longer "this is what this error looks like, here are some strategies with how to fix it" in the works.
The x86 compatibility is what is amazing here. I almost used the processor that the Edison uses on this year's Defcon badges for that very reason...
This kind of seething diatribe is what's wrong with HN.
I don't care enough to do deep experiments, but it seems if I upload files Hive doesn't have "magic" for, they don't get changed. Also, another mp3 didn't get changed, so maybe they do some kind of cleanup on some?