skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'll expound on the doorman situation because it was something I thought a lot about during my time in Dubai. I knew I was being watched by CCTV all the time (and to some extent that's probably the case while I'm walking around in NYC), but I wasn't constantly reminded of it.

The fact that the door man would watch the feed and press the elevator button remotely was an unwanted and often reminder that I was constantly under surveillance even at my residence. It wasn't that I walked by the door man and he hit the button for me just as I walked up. It wasn't that he had a control for the elevator (which I get is common). It was that I was several floors above or below him and he was monitoring me and pressed the button for me. He even said once, when I asked him if he was the one doing, that "Yessir, I see you all the time."

It was creepy.
Which would be a tiger, I believe.
I used to use OpenBSD extensively in my job because of the awesomeness of PF but later moved on to big iron F5 and Cisco gear. In this new age of NSA wiretaps and cloud based services built around advertising and tracking however, OpenBSD feels more relevant than ever. I'd like to give it a shot as a desktop again.

So, who makes a modern laptop with good OpenBSD hardware compatability?
If you get out of the VC/Silicon Valley/Tech universe these companies are appreciated much more. In the wider business world, they still get a lot of attention, largely because they are good businesses despite not having the sex appeal that smaller, but quickly growing companies might have.
And if you're that important of a target, they're eventually just going to pick you up physically, black-bag style, from nearly anywhere on earth if they can. The NSA is the US military after all, there's really nowhere on earth that someone is entirely safe if they want you (maybe under direct protection by Beijing or Moscow).
> For example, imagine that a college wants to focus less on book smarts and more on wisdom and practical intelligence.

Why?
How does paying for a service hinder you from capturing its value?

Do you not value your house or car because you have to pay for it?
you skipoed parts of my comment: you can have those bnefits, by backcompatibility, which you do by evolving only by adding, not changing the part of the interface that is already there. All those examples you mention evolve, with later versions adding features that require the interface to be added to. They aren't "fixed", they are "backcompatible".

This also applies implicitly to any client for interop: you don't have to use the whole interface, just the festures you want. In effect, you are using different, smaller interface.
Peculiar. Don't most wild giraffes live south of the equator?
dafuq? I was just getting used to the dumbass name "Agilent."
This king of thing always remind me of pirate baby's cabana battle street fight by Paul Robertson http://probertson.tumblr.com
I go to Carnegie Mellon and I actually have a friend who works in the admissions office. She's told me that, being a really strong tech school, CMU often gets applications from people who are academically incredible, but may not contribute to campus life, extracurricular organizations, etc. This has led admissions to try to look harder at candidates who might not have gotten an 800 on their SAT math scores, but maybe a 760 with some strong non-academic resume items. Campus life at CMU is definitely lacking compared to other comparable universities, so I think a system like this might be really useful to a school like CMU which is trying to better understand the creative skills and emotional intelligence of potential students.
Also worth noting is that Ebay has just recently announced a split (splitting Ebay and PayPal), and many are suggesting that Cisco split into two businesses as well.
The Brazil governament is fraud, democracy forever, Thanks Diego F. Aranha my best teacher.
It might seem far-fetch, but Electroconvulsive therapy[1] are still used to treat severe depression even today.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electroconvulsive_therapy
There was something about the old space quest games that was really creepy, somehow the lack of fidelity in graphics really intensified the alienness.. Or it could just be nostalgia.

http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http%3A%2F%2Fimg3.wikia....
Will Pluto be reinstated as a planet?
This used to be a big problem in astronomy, before the introduction of computers. Astronomers would use a special device, called a "blink comparator", to rapidly switch between two pictures so they could see the changes between them. (This is how Pluto was discovered.)
Was thinking the same thing myself. I keep thinking recent MacBook Airs would make a good candidate--reasonably standard Intel hardware, decent components, tons of systems in the wild. Hence my comment about trim support for SSDs.
but everyone that worries about those silly dates are north of the equator.
Im excited for this. When hanging out with friends we will often get a pizza or something of that nature but it is always determined by who has cash on them, its not going to be a hassle anymore reimbursing them to the exact penny for each persons share because they are all in the FB ecosystem.
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I don't think it does apply to p2p loans. When I save $100 with a bank I retain my demand deposit - that $100 is still "there" for me. That is the multiplier effect (though that model has other flaws).

When I borrow $100 from p2p lending then loan it out to you through p2p lending I no longer have that $100 until you repay it to me, at which point you no longer have it. So we are simply passing $100 around without any multiplier effect.

edit - can't reply to you as the reply limit bottomed out - your response doesn't have enough info. You didn't address the demand deposit vs timed loan difference.
All of the openbsd devs use thinkpads and they have good compatibility in my experience. The newest ones might have UEFI and they might not work well.
You can switch direction. Try putting 4 xor gates in a diamond shape ;)
An example from earlier in HP's history:

When Carly Fiorina was ousted from the company she wrote a book all about how she was despised at HP for being a woman in charge of a major engineering firm. But being a woman had nothing to do with it; being an idiot who didn't understand engineering culture and who damn well nearly broke the company had everything to do with it. Steve Ballmer was ousted from Microsoft for similar reasons.
> Some people already aren't paid in fiat

(This is not directed at you. You just provided a convenient place to fork from)

I think the way many people in Bitcoin circles use the term "fiat" can be a bit misleading. Most people outside of Bitcoin circles use "fiat" as part of a dichotomy. In this dichotomy, a currency is either a fiat currency or a commodity-backed currency.

With Bitcoin, we have a trichotomy: government-backed fiat currency, commodity-backed currency, and non-government backed non-commodity-backed currency.

If Bitcoin has to be placed in the fiat/commodity-backed dichotomy, it is a lot closer to fiat than commodity-backed. Bitcoin is essentially a non-government fiat currency.

By using "fiat" as part of a different dichotomy, fiat vs. Bitcoin, Bitcoin people are risking inadvertently misleading people who use non-fiat to mean not commodity-backed. I'm pretty sure I've seen "gold bug" types misunderstand Bitcoin because of this. The "mining" terminology probably doesn't help here, either...
This reminds me of HG Well's Time Machine where it explored the theme of one human species eating another human species.
I must admit I'm surprised at some of these results. Being French with Japanese in-laws, I've had ample opportunity to compare both populations' level of english and while French people are by no mean excellent, I found that it was rare for Japanese people to speak any english. Is my experience truly that different from real life?
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Also try a "bone" shape.
It is a common mistake to assume that things written by third parties about Apple's intentions are in any way actually related.
Lenovo X201 works well. Not exactly modern but a nice machine and more than adequate.
I think in total, in my 35 years of life I've lost in total less than one month of my income at current rate. So not a problem. Just a source of interesting observations.
I was aware grapes having a higher percentage of tannins, flavenoids, etc... when grown in adverse conditions. However, I thought this was a property of the fact that the plant always commented the same nutrients to the grape, but because it's restricted in how much water it can intake, the grapes never fully plump with as much water. This plumping would reduce the percentage, and then dilute the wine. I didn't realize they actually provide more nutrients. This seems counter intuitive, since the plant would on rocky hard soils, have much fewer nutrients to draw from. Do you have a citation handy, it would be a good Sunday afternoon read?
Part of the reason may be a PR thing - they want to improve their image so that there are less people, say, protesting their busses and employees.
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I had no idea, sorry. Most of what I said about direct-linking doesn't apply if you're affiliated with the website you're direct-linking to.
Better to hire somebody for the job than split control with a co-founder.
Try FreeBSD if you want TRIM. Also has LLVM, PF and ZFS out of the box.
American Dreams: Did William Gibson’s ‘Neuromancer’ Blueprint Our Reality?
I agree, it's pretty slick. But the size would prevent me from using it on any mobile focused site.
Presumably the use case would be you want to transfer secret information from a secure location via an insecure channel to another secure location (e.g. in a diplomatic bag perhaps?).

This is for people who care more about knowing that the data was transferred securely than whether it goes through at all. There would likely be a master (backed up) copy on an internal air-gapped machine.
Except that male parents don't leave tech. So it's not why parents leave tech, it's why moms leave tech. And since 81% of women will have a child by the time they are 44 [1] this is a woman's issue.

[1] https://www.census.gov/newsroom/releases/archives/facts_for_...
It's a good poll tool, but the 90s interface was a deal-breaker for me.
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Ads suck.

How is valuable, insightful discussion not worth paying for?

Give me an example of an ad-funded discussion medium that does well. Even reddit isn't profitable.

Guess I won't be touching this concept with a 10-foot pole.
Lots of things to take issue with in this piece (among other things, the author seems to imply that Gibson coined the term "dub music") but this bit raises an interesting point about the ways that canonical near future books like Neuromancer and Snowcrash actually shape the near future:

"Thirty years after the novel’s publication, it’s difficult to tell whether Gibson foresaw the future or whether the future, designed by technologists who idolized Gibson’s novels, self-consciously imitated his novel."
Founders DNA – Genetics of Start-ups
I downloaded this a few months back hoping that in NYC there would be enough user density to make it useful, but it seems I was too early. Interesting use case that protesting would be using it.
The Potential Power of Networked Community Building
A big hexagon shape made out of xor gates imitates a xor gate, except that the inputs and outputs are nicely separated. You can omit the inputs as you want.
Good point, I hadn't considered that. Made the comment mainly because we had an incident a few weeks back where a client saw a bunch of stuff in a production version that was definitely never supposed to see the light of day and put us in a very awkward position.
You can see in the graphic in the article that they advertise the price as "from $4.99." I think the ability to advertise a lower price, even if nobody actually takes it, is probably more of a factor. I think people are used to simplifying costs into multiples of 5, so "about $5 with a $2 upgrade option" sounds better than "almost $10."
HP to split into two companies
One number which really has me is that Singapore's proficiency is only high, from what I've seen, they have (on the whole) have an excellent grasp of english.
I heard this and installed OpenBSD on my thinkpad only to find out there is no support for nVidia. I suppose you need ATI or Intel video to get a working X.

There is a brief warning about nVidia here: http://www.openbsd.org/amd64.html
those prices are for kids. only.

since the xbox, and passing trhu the app store (e.g. FTL is 9.99 drm free for 3 platforms, vs appstore 9.99 for a single device). everyone with half a brain knows buying online is never the best option. xbox FPS games are around $20 on target and the like. buying on the live network it is $59.99.
Who Are the Voices in Transformers: Age of Extinction?
Your Fedex scenario wouldn't work if both the disk or key were compromised mid-transit. You might not know that someone sneaked a glance at the key or if they managed to clone the drive, but if they're sniffing all your mail then you've just given them the keys and the data.
If humans would to perish. Animals threatened of extinction such as the Tigers, rhinos would be saved. World fish populations and sharks would be restored. Rain forests would be saved. The air quality of the earth would be cleaner. Global warming would stop.

In short human sucks for most other species on earth as we behave now.
Jeez, don't you downvoters know your memes? http://www.lolbrary.com/Funny/Giraffes-are-heartless-creatur...
That's a terrible idea. Because when the day comes that a security researcher finds the flaw (and they will find the flaw) Apple has to admit that they lied to their customers. And that's a very bad business practice.

The enhanced encryption is Apple's way of saying that it's not their problem if LE has a beef with you. It removes Apple from the equation. If LE starts knocking at their they can say that there is nothing they can do.

It reduces warrant less spying, and removes some of the ease with which LE agencies have been able to operate. LEA agencies can collect data with broad strokes anymore, they'll need warrants (which they should have needed in the first place and they will have to conduct targeted investigations now (which is what they should have been doing all along).
Because QE puts so much money in the hands of already rich people that they lack markets to invest in, therefore arts, collectible cars, posh condos and houses all go up with the bubble.
it's just a psychological thing. i'm sure different people have different psychologies around it. (and yes, i'd probably value my house more if i were not paying rent on it)

as for capturing value, i'm referring specifically to the monetary aspect of things - assuming the company adds value by providing the platform and gets paid for it and the users add value by providing the content but do not get paid for it, the explicit introduction of money into the ecosystem has introduced a situation where one party is seen to be asymmetrically rewarded for the overall success of the ecosystem.
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Really, "more great than ever in history"? Tell me one single group that is better than Queen, one single singer better than Syd Barrett, one single song better than Stairway to Heaven.

I believe there is good music out there, but saying "more great than ever in history" is just plain false.
Given the importance of security and worry over theft of intellectual property by accessing servers on-site, etc., I am really surprised that hi-tech firms (Google, Apple, Oracle, Microsoft, ...) don't hire their own security. Also, for people that store data on Google, Apple, Microsoft, Amazon servers, I'd want security to be vetted by the firm (Google, etc.) that is accountable for providing the secure service.

Incidentally, this also holds true for hospitals, etc. that have secure medical data.
Perhaps your comment is a reference to something that I don't know about, or a sarcastic quip. However, it is in direct conflict with the substance of the article:

"Female giraffes, for example, have been found to form close friendships with one another that can last for years, while mother giraffes have displayed signs of persistent grief after losing their calves to lions."

In fact, the emotional behavior of giraffes is a focal point of the article.
The problem is that we are talking about the kind of people that doesn't even know half the valuable capabilities of Windows XP.
I'm excited I think this break up will be revealing in the mid term showing the insane revenue declines in personal computers and printers( still profitable though) , and then showing how little revenue is actually flowing through enterprise business, but how fast it is growing.

It's been a long time HP strategy to use the revenue in device sales and the growth in the enterprise to keep the stock prices strong. If you break those two up you show two businesses with big upsides and big downsides.

Should be interesting to see how the markets react to the separated numbers.
Not exactly London, but we're looking for Rails devs a few hours north in Leeds. http://www.pocketworks.co.uk/jobs
In general I wouldn't trust random forums for information about OpenBSD. People tend to repeat stuff long after its true. Send a message to misc@ or tech@openbsd.org and you'll hear directly from the devs.

Just make sure your partitions are 4k aligned to minimized write amplification. Many openbsd devs use SSDs. I've used one with openbsd for years without problems. Honestly it's a requirement given the shortcomings of ffs.
Austria has a lot of jobs in tourism.

The position of the Netherlands on the list is easy to understand, foreign TV programmes are subtitled not dubbed.
Whether or not they know the meme, they're down voting because memes are contentless wastes of time. They're against the HN guidelines - as is complaining about down votes.
Because the current systems cant detect our Einstein, Mozarts, Da vinci's or even Jobs correctly;

Creativity is the "next thing" on XXI century, and creative types have hard times following rules, or working well in army-like societies; those people are our underdogs now; the system doesnt know what to do with them; and does not like them (until they create "star wars" or a flying car); so i would say its a joke and pretty much broken
I'm thrilled that MIT last year added maker portfolios to their undergrad applications. I chatted with a couple freshman who said they spent less time prepping for the SAT and got to use that time to work on their side projects instead. It's still early but hopefully other universities consider different metrics by which to define academic capability.
What about a simple "Does the left door go to heaven and am I asking you this question?"

Just combine a known truth with what you really want to know.
link disengoogled:

http://img3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20080110190718/spacequest...
Here's a link to the actual project
http://tangible.media.mit.edu/project/inform/
with a link to the paper at the bottom. If you skip to the mechanical implementation, it uses 900 ALPS RSA0N11M9A07 motorized slide potentiometers which have since been discontinued, but they are still available in limited quantities at around 30 $ a piece.

I did some more searching, and it turns out the newer version can be had in quantities of 1000+ (roughly the quantity required for this project) for about 9$ a piece of AVNET (~70$ on Mouser). That means the actuators alone will set you back about 9000 USD, maybe less if you order directly from ALPS. Note that that doesn't include the controllers and fans, the kinect that they're using, proably another computer or two and a projector.

That, and the 700 W average power consumption whilst in motion (2700W theoretical peak), make it unlikely this will be in your coffee table anytime soon.
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Off by default makes much sense given it is another vector to attack. If not needed then why be on and more likely to just use IPv4 over even touching IPv6.
The Netherlands' history as a trade-based economy forced us to speak both English and German (and possibly French?) pretty fluently.
> it is very difficult for her to end up with certain opportunities that rich kids in America take for granted

That's actually one of the things that originally drew me to computer science--code is inherently democratizing. It only takes a small, core group of people to build something world-class, provided that core group knows what the hell they're doing. Unlike just about any other field out there, software is something anyone can create. And as hardware has become more commoditized and virtualized, the barriers to entry have been reduced almost purely to knowledge and effort.
I would like to see a lot more scientific corroboration of the validity of emotional intelligence before it is used as part of university admissions process. Likewise with the one study the author cites that claims to quantify "wisdom." This all sounds like a cultural bias minefield.
I owe you the $100 in the same way that the bank owes you the $100 you deposited. The only difference is that the bank is regulated and (FDIC) insured.
T420 is great too, so long as you have Intel graphics and wireless.
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"IPv6 is now turned off on new interfaces by default."

I have had to remove the IPv6 option from my kernels because enabling IPv6 by default (which to me seems like a "policy" decision) has become so pervasive. Nice to see this change; here's hoping other OS's follow suit.
Often (although this might not be relevant for Google) these services are provided by the owner/operator of the building, replacing them can be tricky for all sorts of reasons, not least of which is that you may be displacing union jobs
Thanks, that works perfectly. Seems to work for 'o' and '+' as well: surround anything with a hexagon of xor gates and it will behave the same on a larger scale, as long as you don't feed it signals too quickly.
Kurt Vonnegut, the Art of Fiction No. 64 (1977)