skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Or pedantic: it's an observation that "home schooling" correlates well with shorting social interaction. Why is left as an exercise to the interested reader.
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I think that goes back to identifying adversaries. It's unlikely a criminal would attempt to cut off fingers for access to a random smartphone.

If you have secrets that are very valuable, you are outside the standard use case, and should probably use more advanced authentication.
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You're correct. My mistake. :)
The one where my company failed
B2B sales for tech founders
Many of first time tech founders working on B2B offerings, sales is like a black box and we make lot of mistakes setting up sales teams and making it work together so that they attain their quota.

There are lot of tools which allows you to track emails, track customers, make calls etc, but there isn't a tool which provide you a playbook, a guide which puts structure to all of this and help you succeed.

Keeping these problems I faced first hand, I am putting together a new offering and would love to get your feedback on the offering. If you would like to take a quick look at very early beta please request a demo here http://bit.ly/1tfJZpc

If you have any comments or would like to discuss specific challenge you might have faced , please feel free to add it below in the comments.
No one's saying you have to give one red cent. If enough other people find value in contributing to the project that's up to them. So why you mad, bro?

For an institution that's millennia old and used to be the most powerful institution in the Western world, I'd be surprised if they didn't have a massive trove of historical manuscripts just out of historical accident.
Thanks Mozilla for the quick reaction. We were not really blocked on this as a for-in/Object.getOwnPropertyNames loop is an easy workaround, it's more that finding the cause of an unexplained slow down took a bit of time (the usage comes from another engineer's rpc-serialization library)

Is there a point of contact for rendering/paint performance issues? We've had problems in Chrome where we had to work around excessive invalidation/paints, but those were diagnosed by using Chrome's layer/paint debugging tools and talking to Blink engineers, things may go quicker if when we encounter problems, there's someone we can email for help or a fix.
I didn't take it personally at all and if you have the time and inclination I'd love to hear more about your experiences. Please feel free to email me. smith at anvil dot io.
This was sort of regular at a past job of mine. We have offices in India, China, Japan, and different parts of Europe.

We frequently sent people to India and China to give training, especially when building out a new office or department. Occasionally, we would fly someone here (the US). Not so much for training but more to meet the the team.

With the caveat that I am not a lawyer or accountant, I would expect (but since when are laws reasonable) that if the person flown to the US doing so for a short time period and moving to the US, their pay would not need to change. But I could be very very wrong.
I can understand what Starbucks or Nike are selling... I'm just trying to figure out what exactly Ello is selling. So far, all I can find is "beautiful" and "ad-free."

Standing against commercialism sounds very noble, but a very small percentage of my friends and family care enough about that to jump ship to a new social network.
I love that it's becoming so common. I don't use Ubuntu personally but I think it is a great "first experience" with Linux.
Well, that's interesting, although I'm skeptical. Can anyone with legal experience say exactly how much this means? If Ello genuinely just did something that makes it difficult for future investors/acquirers to turn Ello into a ad-fueled, data-selling, privacy-undercutting behemoth, then that's pretty encouraging.

But ... it just seems "too good to be true." I've expected them to be about as "ad free" as every other business whose initial ideals are abandoned once the founders have gotten theirs and moved on.
The search for the prime suspect in last month’s celebrity photo hacking scandal
All of those sound like initial selling points of FB.
lol. This is not Hollywood. A phone thief isn't going to be using tape and superglue to find your fingerprint. Do you really want to encourage someone to remove your index finger when they mug you for your phone?
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> I think it's more likely they didn't understand the law fully rather than malicious intent. The workers were after-all, temporary and were not going to be staying in the US permanently.

Oh yeah, we agree there, what I meant is
that of all the times companies brought over employees here to work for some time, this time it so happened that their salary was below the minimum. If they were bringing over people from, say, Canada or Germany, they'd probably be paid way above the minimum.
Can you explain that further? A quick search suggests that H4 holders are not legally entitled to work in the US.
"Peoples is peoples"

People are people (people is plural in this case)
Did you look at the iptables hashlimit match? It can be used to rate limit per source (inbound) or destination (outbound), without needing conntrack.
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>4. They simply don't have the history of Facebook and co

They're new. It's hard to get history yet. That's not a USP unless you're easily bamboozled by the latest shiny.
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> How can you give your child expert knowledge of physics, mathematics, history, biology, foreign language of choice and sports?

Who comes out of high school with "expert knowledge" in anything?!

The same could be said for a lot of university degrees for that matter.

Public education has only been a "normal" thing for a century and a half or so. It's certainly not the only way to turn out a competent adult, and that's assuming it actually does, which is becoming more and more questionable.
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Silly because it's factually incorrect? If so, why?
Yes, the status is pretty weak if you think of it as some kind of protection from investors. A "public benefit corporation" compared to a regular corporation removes only one specific route investors could use to force a company to do something: a shareholder lawsuit alleging that the company is failing to maximize shareholder value. But in the post-WW2 era, even regular corporations have no legal duty to maximize shareholder value, and can be run according to a number of principles (the belief to the contrary is a mixture of some early 20th century cases combined with a good amount of urban legend about corporate law). Especially considering that nearly anything can be justified as "part of our brand image", and courts aren't interested in second-guessing that: if Ello thinks it's important to its brand image to not show ads, a court is not going to inquire into whether this is a good or bad business decision, regardless of whether it's a public-benefit corporation or a regular one.

All the other ways investors could force a corporation to do something, such as pressuring the board, voting in directors, voting on shareholder resolutions, etc. remain available. If the investors think Ello should show ads, or should sell to Google, or anything else, they have good ways of making that happen (given sufficient share ownership/etc.).
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Late to the party, but...

There does seem to be a difference between honey and refined sugar that is worth noting. This study compared rats eating lots of starch, glucose + fructose or honey:
http://jn.nutrition.org/content/132/11/3379.full.pdf+html

This blogpost displays some of its data in nice, colorful bar charts:
http://blog.cholesterol-and-health.com/2010/10/high-fructose...
You do realize these "scammy for profit tech school[s]" are everywhere? Just down the street from my workplace there is a "Tech Skills: School of Technology" which claims they will, for a hefty fee, beat anyone into sys admin shape. A company I used to work for sent me and another manager over to check them out for a possible "post-graduate" hiring process (the school wanted to guarantee X% rate of employment, and we wanted good trained employees). Needless to say, it didn't work out.
I love, love Unity; I love keyboard shortcuts for getting things done quickly, and Unity's keyboard shortcuts are intuitive and cover just about everything. And the visual design is beautiful.

...I just know that if the average person could walk into their Best Buy and get a Windows laptop for $X and an Ubuntu version of that laptop for slightly less, we'd see Ubuntu everywhere. One can dream.
There is tons of crossover of this material into the hobbyist world. The problem is that people don't bother to do their research. The average programmer who wants to build a CNC mill (or more likely, a router) jumps right into the software and electronics. The mechanical aspect is an afterthought.

OTOH, had he started by trying to understand the process of machining without focusing on whether the tool is being controlled by a human or a computer, he'd find that there are thousands of hobbyist machinists online running fully manual machines that will happily share the knowledge you mentioned. Machine tools have been around for 200+ years. The basic techniques haven't changed very much in all that time.

TL;DR: do the research first.
Put in your terms:

Ello lets somewhat older young people (and probably eventually everyone) chat with and follow their friends, acquaintances, and people they find interesting, without needing to use their real identity or make their private data available to advertisers.

The market definitely exists, but is probably quite a bit smaller than the facebook market, and people have tried and failed to tap it in the past. Its time may have come due to the various real name policy backlashes against other services. It's also very possible that it will run into the same brick wall as everyone else who has tried this has.
Think of react.js as a Directive alternative - it's not as full-featured as Angular but you could replace Angular Directives with it.
A really fresh idea!
The word "reform" is too ambiguous. Please say what you mean.
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The Vatican is really a amazing piece of history in and of itself. Despite how you may personally feel about its religion, or the effects of it on the world. The enlightened western world we live in today would not exist without it, and without all the knowledge, art, and culture it (and its local branches) preserved for ~1000+ years.
Designing my first CNC, any ideas/answers would be appreciated:

[1]Looking to move XY stage with fine resolution: 5 micrometers
[2]The stage will only need to support ~5grams
[3] There will be optical feedback
[4] speed can always be sacrificed for accuracy

- Instead of the classic steppermotor setup, I was wondering about the feasibility of servos with arbitrarily reduced gearing (let's say a stack of laser cut planetary gears).

-What are the pitfalls of this method? has anyone else done something similar?
Mobile application for runners – as a strategy game
With a few custom rules and factors, daily jogging can turn into a strategy game based on natural factors, like temperature, altitude and many other stimulating factors.

"Run with me" it's a project which just have been launched to Indiegogo (http://igg.me/at/run-with-me/x/8756488).

Like it or not, I would love to hear your opinion about it.
I am gay and even I don't know the answer to that question
Freemont has some of the cheapest, and best bandwidth on the West Coast. Hurricane Electric has 2 data centers there, one of which is a major ipv6 hub for the world.

It also happens to be one of the most active WISP communities in California due to the close proximity of the mountains/hills behind it which overshadow the city. Makes for a great P2MP setup.

There are indeed nice things in Freemont.
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But is there a single piece of evidence for this ever happening outside of Hollywood?
Here, this is free: http://pergatory.mit.edu/2.007/resources/FUNdaMENTALS.html

And probably more useful to you.
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3rd party statistics auditor
Our business makes claims about xx% improvement in client metrics. We're in a crowded field that make similar claims, and we'd like to get our numbers audited as a means of standing apart. Would a traditional financial auditor be able to help us with this? Or are there more accepted general auditors?
> Not every success story has to be "an exit"

I think every success story that starts with raising millions in VC funding pretty much does have to be "an exit"...
Well I would expect my child to be taught biology by someone who has a higher degree in that subject, a degree which I myself don't have so I don't feel qualified to teach it. And I would like the government curriculum to be applied because I pay for it in my taxes, so I equate home schooling with an all out anarchism.

And I have my mind fully opened to the idea of home schooling - I just have not seen a single compelling argument for it yet. If such is provided I will support the idea fully - but for now for me it looks like it's just a waste of time and money.
Curious, as I'm quite the noob: why would an attacker install an IRC bot onto a vulnerable system?

Are they able to send the system commands via IRC? Or is it for a less nefarious reason?
Ello is the new Clinkle
Ubuntu 14.10 (Utopic Unicorn) released
Delayed Gratification
Lets imagine Merke wanted to crowd-fund their next drug? Or your banker crowd-funding interest? Or the local Laundromat crowd-funding soap?

I just find it very strange.
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I work a minimum wage job. Save, save, and save some more. The only people I could reasonably blame for my position in life would be my parents, not wider society.

Maybe people should blame their parents more instead of vague shadowy corporations?
There's a bit of a joke here. Obviously the first guy to call himself "Dread Pirate Roberts" couldn't have chosen that name because he wasn't the first, right? But it's perfectly plausible that he chose the name because he didn't intend to be the last.
>> Myspace let young people (and then everyone) connect online, share photos, and declare who's their friend.

Don't forget that it also allowed significant customization of user homepages, up to and including embedding music. Sure it got annoying sometimes, but it also added a lot of excitement to the experience. Things felt very... wild wild west.
Touch ID only works for a minute or two after your finger is cut off. Touch ID reads the blood vessels, not the fingerprint, meaning it only works for a minute or two after the finger is cut off.
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I've been a few times now and really enjoy them.
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Your descriptions about Myspace and Facebook are post-hoc. It's easy once something grows big to retrospectively say {Service} let {certain people} do {something} in {some way} (e.g. I recall music being a thing for all my friends on Myspace). When something is small, it's not always clear how things will pan out or what direction they may take.

Misson statements are always vague in some sense. "Organise the world's information" was probably strange once upon a time.
It's important to note how restricted all of this wealth of knowledge is. They could allow anyone with curiosity or interest to research for their own reasons, but they don't. I was actually curious if this behavior would change under the new Pope.

Qualified scholars from institutions of higher education
pursuing scientific researches, with an adequate knowledge
of archival research, could apply for an entry card.
Scholars need an introductory letter by either a recognized
institute of research or by a suitably qualified person in
the field of historical research. Applicants need to specify
their personal data (name, address etc.) as well as the
purpose of their research. Undergraduate students are not
admitted.

I have mixed feelings because if they wanted to be open they would just become open. Given all their restrictions it really comes off as if they want to "control the message" regarding anything they have collected over the centuries.
Really cool. I've been wanting to build something like this for a while. I think the software industry has focused so much on small screens for the past 5 years that we've ignored the possibilities on the big screen. Looking forward to trying it when I have access to my Windows machine.

What I really want to experiment with is using this sort of spatial layout to reflect browsing history, which has a tree structure. So to the right of one page you would see not just another tab, but all the links you opened from that page.
Sorry, I might have phrased that sentence wrong - by "give child expert knowledge" I meant that the person teaching has to be an expert,not that the child has to become one. If you are teaching your child about something that you haven't received proper education in, then what, do you expect to be learning as you go? That even sounds ridiculous, and I am pretty sure it is.
I'm not sure if Ello solves this, but facebook took a really long time to allow _some_ gender-neutral pronouns. Some people would like to define their own.

Also, transgender people had some issues with facebook recently. [1]

[1] http://www.cnn.com/2014/09/16/living/facebook-name-policy/
Thanks, great to have support. You can email me at alexis@takes.io if you have ideas or feedback :)
Two observations:

a) after signing up there setting "Allow Ello to gather anonymous information about your visit, which helps us make Ello better. Learn more." defaults to YES.

This from a site that is selling themselves as a privacy conscious is simply comical.

b) https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=ello.co

- SHA1 cert

- No FS

- Defaults to RC4

Their ops team has not paid attention to properly configuring TLS. Not encouraging at all.

If anyone at Ello is reading this there is an excellent resource for securing your TLS setup at https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/Server_Side_TLS
Well, taking them out of school 'changes' social interaction, not home-schooling per se. I deny its 'shorting' anything.
Ok, its shorting the danger, bad hygiene and bad social interaction part. But done right its adding real social skills (teamwork, leadership, public service), keeping her healthier and demonstrating real social skills.

Because school, especially middle school, is not showcasing social skills you want her to learn. Cliques, ostracizing, bullying, humiliation are lessons to be sure. But they can stunt growth, particularly in the very young.
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Maximizing profit is the pursuit of monopolies. In a market with perfect competition there are no profits.
Fabric: Why Developers Can Trust Twitter Won’t Screw Them This Time
Thank you for sharing this link here! While I have full-time day job in software and technology, Kickstarter has connected me to backers who have made it possible for me as an independent creator to manufacture a physical product.
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Facebook's statement: "Trust us. We'll show you ads."

App.net's statement: "Trust us. We'll charge you so you don't have to see ads."

Ello's statement: "Trust us, we won't show you ads."

The statement we deserve is akin to email's promise: you don't have to trust us; competing providers keep the ecosystem honest. (And the service is federated so you can connect with friends on other services)

Ello strikes me as another silo'd service. What happened to the dream of building "big" services that outlast a single company or team? The 30 year lifespan of SMTP+email, the 20 year life of HTTP, the 10 year life of XMPP.

Today we have users voting with their feet: eg I use Twitter/I stopped using Twitter after they pissed off the developer community.

Wouldn't it be great if we built services where the decision isn't use/don't use, more, my identity follows me to the best service provider (heh, like email!)?

The real statement should be: "you don't have to trust us, this is a protocol: - developers can write services against it, users can choose the developers service they like the best. And when that service goes pop, or the developer moves onto a new project, you are not stranded - just switch providers.

(disclaimer: this stuff makes me angry and we're trying to solve it at Buddycloud Towers)
I've got an old MacBook kicking about somewhere. If an Apple I is worth that much I should get at least a million for a MacBook, it's way more powerful.
I was under the impression that the shelf life on most of these WMDs (chemical nerve agents) is only 5 years or so. So we had a pretty good idea about what Saddam was holding, but they were almost certainly unusable at the time of the invasion.
I'm not really interested in being the one on whom someone learns that, though.
So essentially.......create your own school, use people in the community as teachers, and still call it "home schooling"? I am sorry,but I don't see it that way. And with most careers working as they are, if you spend 2 hours per day, you either have to give the lessons very early in the morning or very late in the day - both are horrible for children. And then you run into the same problems regular teachers do - when do you check homework? It will take you non-trivial amount of time which you don't have if you work full time.
We did the first part and very recently put http://www.sml-family.org/ online and announced the opening of the definition (whew!).

I'm primarily concerned with the parallelism and concurrency-related features, which we're trying to first clean up a bit more in the context of Manticore before trying to do something like proposing standardization for those features.

Also (IMO) you should take those slides more as a research direction for years of research investigating alternatives that eventually get standardized, not a 2015 implementation plan :-) Each of those topics casually mentions non-trivial extensions to problems that already have each had researcher-decades of investigation.
If I were a Vegas bookie, I'd think Ello has perhaps as high as a one in 10 chance of becoming the next major social network, and on the low end a one in 1,000 chance. A $20M valuation would place them at one 10,000th of Facebook.

Pretty & usable are easily purchased. Throw an expensive dev team at it. Brand and reputation are more difficult.
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I am looking for your feedback on this.
>>Amazing to me that a site that is both hard on the eyes and not nearly as usable as its competitors has raised $5.5M.

Raising money, at least initially, is about two things: user traction and good PR. I don't know how many users Ello has, but I've personally been hearing about them all over the place, especially from my early-adopter type friends on Facebook. This leads me to believe that the company has a really good PR firm working for them behind the scenes (PG's "submarine" analogy comes to mind).

And the thing is, Ello may be hard on the eyes and not be very usable now, but both of those things are relatively easy to improve. If they do have good user traction, that means they have solved the hardest problem, at least in my opinion. Achieve growth and the rest follows rather naturally.
There is a project that uses stenography to hide the Tor protocol from inspection. I need to tie up a few loose ends to some of my branches for it (I am not the originator, just a contributor) but have gotten caught up in schoolwork these last few months. Any assistance is appreciated!

[0] https://github.com/TheTorProject/stegotorus
[1] https://github.com/SRI-CSL/stegotorus