skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If the company is supplying the computer, it's a bit of a false savings to worry about $100 for Windows or an extra $100 for an SSD. It's not that wasting money is good, it's that the normal costs of doing business are the normal costs of doing business.

For a business computer, I'd strongly consider computers with business class warranties - e.g. 3 years Next Business Day on-site [or better]. It just doesn't make economic sense to fool around.

Personally, I'd go with Dell. Shopping is relatively easy and straight forward. For cheapness I'd look at refurbished/scratch-n-dent/previously-ordered-new from the outlet [which is not the same as DFS].

I've bought two personal machines that way. My Precision T7400 is pushing seven years old without a glitch, running out of expansion capacity or short of processing power. The Vostro I bought my son is pushing three years. Again, no substantial issues.
You should probably read these legal docs again. Thew US courts did not approve this, as it was an international court.
What amazes me is that all of this information came voluntarily from Whisper.

>The Guardian visited the Whisper offices to consider the possibility of undertaking other journalistic projects with the company and sent two reporters last month to look in detail at how the app operates. At no stage during the visit were the journalists told they could not report on the information shared with them.

What kind of a company invites journalists from a newspaper known for its investigative/muckraking skills, and then hands over their secret sauce along with such gems:

>Separately, Whisper has been following a user claiming to be a sex-obsessed lobbyist in Washington DC. The company’s tracking tools allow staff to monitor which areas of the capital the lobbyist visits. “He’s a guy that we’ll track for the rest of his life and he’ll have no idea we’ll be watching him,” the same Whisper executive said.

>The Guardian is no longer pursuing a relationship with Whisper.

Well, no shit Sherlock!
The Wikimedia founder, Jimmy Wales, is an investor in Quora and contributes to the site often.

https://www.quora.com/Jimmy-Wales
It depends on your definition of 'best'.

Do you want to leave with a solid understanding of how a programming language works, how memory functions, many of the fundamental algorithms and data structures in CS, and more of that kind? Or do you want to leave with a couple of different, solid Rails/Python/JavaScript/mobile apps under your belt, and go straight into app development? Different courses focus on different things.

Many of the online courses skip the former and jump straight into 'rails generate' -- but not all of them, especially if you supplement with Coursera courses which are often far more academic in nature. The in-person bootcamps vary a lot, and I had a fairly low opinion of them as a breed until I started mentoring Hackbright students and realising that they do learn the fundamentals -- but I know there are others that don't teach that stuff at all.

Disclaimer: I'm a part-time instructor at Hackbright Academy and a former Thinkful mentor. In structuring the part-time class I have had to think a lot about how to help convey the elements of CS in a very limited time-frame. It's tough. I honestly welcome feedback and discussion from others who have tried to do it.
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Why You'll Need About $3M to Build Your First Real Sales and Marketing Team
If it was actually prompted by something, it would probably be the recent Inspeqtor[1] takedown[2][3][4] by Monit.

[1]: https://github.com/mperham/inspeqtor

[2]: https://twitter.com/mperham/status/518796150733033472

[3]: https://twitter.com/mperham/status/519164948887257090

[4]: https://twitter.com/mperham/status/519326759930454016
Ask HN: Switching from Dev to Product
Has anyone transitioned from programming to Product successfully after being a programmer for a while? What did you have to do to make it happen? What are some pros and cons?
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Had the chance to meet one of the guys running this.
Really awesome stuff, one of the reasons, why I'm convinced that Vienna is a great place to start a startup company!
Yeah, the domestication of the silver fox is one of those really cool stories but also—to someone as astute as you—is a bit of a cautionary tale about unintended consequences.
Hey Kalium!
You definitely bring a passion to this, so I definitely want to understand you.

Perhaps you can explain your opposition a little more specifically?

My response was really to explain our methodology, perhaps mistargeted in your eyes but we're not talking about a dream, we're talking about the mission our students are on, the opportunity we work to provide.

So no, not accusing you of anything. just perpetuating the discussion. Thanks for your input!
Ok, lets assume you are correct: Experience beggars experience. Those with know how of Russian should speak Russian, those with know how of car will fix cars, those with money shall decide what to do with money.

Obviously we don't live in a world nearly static enough for this to occur. If so then the Zuck never would have made FB nor Carnegie would have left Ireland and we all would be worse off for it. Yes, these are historical issues. Lets try a future one.

Assume that Pablo is a UPS driver. Pablo notices that many times when he has to turn left to make a delivery, he spends a lot of the time waiting at a red left turn arrow light. Pablo, needing to make his metrics, decides to cross intersections and make Uturns and rights and all other sorts of maneuvers. Pablo shares his insights with his co-workers and friends. Everyone benefits from Pablo's insights, more packages are delivered, the company spends less fuel idling, everyone makes their metrics, etc.

Now in a world where the path was designed by Paco up at headquarters, Pablo could not make those alternative turns. If he did, he would have violated the paths that Paco designed and he would have faced repercussions. Why? Because Paco knows more than Pablo and Paco is the one responsible for designing the routes. You assume Paco has superior know how and experience and will be better. But Paco is just a man like everyone else, he makes mistakes and didn't see what Pablo was doing was beneficial. Not through malice, but just because Paco looks at google maps all day, not actual light cycles. It wasn't Paco's fault, nor was it Pablo's. It was just an oversight.

But in a world where we do not assume that the most experienced are also flawless, Pablo took it upon himself to fix the problem, and everyone is ok with that.

Multiply this example by thousands and you have a sense of what is going on out there. Also, sprinkle in some greed, malice, lies, sex and drugs, and all the other deadly sins and you get why we need democracy. It's because we all screw up, but if we screw up at least we can get each other out of it.
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You can't patent natural genes for their natural uses. The controversial thing is patenting the process of using particular gene sequences in order to diagnose particular conditions.
One of my favorite Churchill quotes is, "The best argument against democracy is a 5 minute conversation with the average voter."

You're position isn't all that strange, and it does cut right to the heart of the issue. Do we really want to live in a democratic society?

Part of the problem with addressing this question is that we've generally agreed the answer is, 'Yes'. Even if we're not always willing to fully live that way. No one wants to be labelled as undemocratic, non-westerners get their countries bombed when they get that label.

Another problem with this question is that the other systems of governance we've tried have mostly been worse. When you start trying to figure out how some people can have more say than others based on their merit you inevitably end up picking winners based on something other than general merit.

Who gets to be more important than the rest? How do you hold them accountable as a class if they're the only ones that can ever hold the reigns of power?

I appreciate your honesty about this, but your opinion also scares me. Because there is no way to achieve your perfect world without privileging the rights of some over the rights of others.

I also don't like your comparison of decision making in business to that of decision making in government. In business it is easier to determine good outcomes. If more money is made, we made the right decision. Government involves morality, and outcomes cannot be measured with amoral assumptions of correctness. One person's good outcome in government is another person's bad outcome relative to morality.

You're probably right when you say that the elite are better at holding the reigns of power than the rest of us. It's a very monarchist thing to say, but it's probably right in many contexts.

And like monarchies it's something that I believe we should fight to change. John Dewey recognized this, and made it his prime motivator for compulsory education in the United States. To train citizens for a functioning democracy.

Democracy to me isn't some state that we sit in and relish. It's something we focus on improving through constant education of ourselves and by teaching those around us.
>The state is a bit more legitimate than rich individuals because it's more accountable to the people.

That isn't necessarily a universally-accepted idea. Democratic systems have the machinery of accountability, but some of us are not completely convinced that it works; surely not as-advertised.

I know that some will regard the wealth of the rich as having been acquired by some means of trickery or even coercion. And that may even be true in some cases. But it is true of taxation nearly 100% of the time, as states must use the threat of force to acquire that money.
Hopefully no Chinese voiceover this time :)
But you just said that they do stick to something: Win32
"Gates' idea of a consumption tax would heavily penalize these people, who have been enslaved into a consumer lifestyle by the wealthy who exercise control over their lives."

That came out of the blue... can you expand on that? [Note also that Gates said a progressive consumption tax.]

I like a progressive consumption tax because (I currently believe, anyway) that it's harder to avoid than an income tax. Income can happen anywhere in the world, but if you are living here then you are consuming here. You can keep trying to defer income through clever accounting, but that seems harder to do with consumption (if you have a yacht today, you pay taxes today).

It also takes away most arguments about class warfare. A wealthy person can't just call themselves a "job creator" and oppose taxes while floating around on a yacht and running a business into the ground. If they do, it will be obvious the taxes are for their yacht, and not their job-creating ability.
Watching the Congressional Hearing on Ebola right now. Opening statements from agency heads are very interesting. Highly recommended if you want to be informed. I am sure it will derail a bit once the politicians start talking. Just read between the lines. Some notes:

NIH has been looking at mass bio events, man made or natural, since 9/11. They only do basic research. They have nothing to do with field ops in the case of events. FDA working with DOD does that.

BARDA is an agency created in 2006 during the Bush administration to specifically deal with terrorist threats of the bio/chem nature. Ebola and related was on their list.

Impression so far: Lots of research but potentially no centralized response organization and testing pre-event.

More to come.
That is why you wouldn't carry such a weapon as a CCW and hope for the best. You'd pick one with a safety if your goal was safety.

"Exceptionally rare" events that send you to the hospital should be minimized if you are acting rationally. Choosing an "unpopular" gun with a safety vs. a "popular" gun with a safety...well, that isn't giving up the gun now is it?

That is why I have an issue with gun enthusiasts. They don't think and they literally get people killed/injured because of it. Then go "well its rare..."

So fucking what. Cars have a ton of safety features to reduce fatalities too even tho such fatalities are "rare".

If gun owners continue to show poor judgement when they have time to think about it rationally, why should I think they'll do any better under pressure?
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Imagine there are two products on the market: "the promise of $130 in 5 years" and "$100 today." The fact that people choose to exchange one product for the other every day suggests that the two products have equal value.[0] Capital gains taxes mean that these two products of equal value are taxed at different rates. Although I work a lot of hours too, I find that quite unfair.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_value_of_money
When Should Technical Founders Become CEO?
> Gates is still blind to an important point- he came from a middle-class background

Gates didn't come from a middle-class background but from an upper-class one. His father was a highly successful lawyer and cofounder of Shidler & King (then Preston Gates & Ellis, now K&L Gates), his maternal grandfather was an affluent banker (national bank president) and his mother was a Seattle power serving on the boards of United Way, UW, US West (then Pacific Northwest Bell), First Interstate Bank and others.
> but that a system "perfectly designed for outcomes humans like" is equivalent to creating strong AI that happens to run on a market economy.

Isn't that assuming that "market economy" is something "perfectly designed for outcomes humans like"? I disagree with treating current economic system as something inherently optimal - it has a lot of problems, all of which we can see even today. I agree with the equivalence to creating strong AI, but I don't think it would run on anything close to a market economy we have today.
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>>Letting inheritors consume or allocate capital disproportionately simply based on the lottery of birth is not a smart or fair way to allocate resources.

Unfair to whom? And why is that unfair?

Is it fair to a kid born to a rich parent that they must simply be punished because they were born to rich parents?

A lot of people work hard all their lives to give a better life to their children. Having children is a huge investment in time, emotionally and other things which can never quantified by merely calling it a lottery. Parents not just contribute their genes but so many other things.

There fore they also tend to invest in their future not just through things like education but through other means as well.

That's the whole point in investments anyway, you build on top of what you make in the past. If I can't keep what I have earned for my own kids, why should I even make a effort to earn it at the first place?
1. Does the DMCA require GitHub to take down forks? AFAICT, it is up to the copyright holder to find and submit takedown notices for each copy. Plus, it's literally one click for a copyright holder to get a list of all direct forks for a repository. And if it becomes a problem, GitHub can just change the policy -- retroactively, even, if a particular incident makes it necessary.

2. This could be an abuse vector. Fork a popular repository, add some DMCAed content to it, and watch the parent get taken down. Or compromise the parent because it's old/unmaintained/abandoned and watch all the child forks get taken down.

3. Everything on the internet has legal fears. The question is, how much, and are you willing to tolerate that risk?
Apple TV, wonder whether there's a dedicated app that can be used for iOS like with WWDC.

I think TWiT do live commentary or something.
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Yes, exactly! He's the quiet winner of history.
Definitely! The reality of it is that sometimes you have to go somewhere to get somewhere, and that somewhere is often a lot different next week than it was last week!

Students struggle all the time, and some find out (even very quickly) that they just don't like coding. We work across the board to just help people figure out what they want to be doing so sure maybe its hustle on our end for a dropout, but now they know right?

I think its a bigger problem for bootcamps that are super intensive, particularly offline. The application process for these really has to include some coding prerequisites or you simply can't quantify someone's interest!

I can't say we haven't considered implementing a set of entry tests to "prove interest", we may still do this.
Same old question. How in the world do I watch it on a Windows PC?
http://www.snpedia.com/index.php/Eye_color
does have extremely high heritability, but the mechanism is more complex than what we were usually mistaught in schools, which I think is the origin of Shinkei's comment.

http://snpedia.com/index.php/Intelligence
is not being well captured by GWAS. All current associations are probably false positives.

I've not seen any evidence specific to mathematical ability.
Nono, the "lack of response" was directed at Sarkeesian - there is not one instance in which she or her supporters respond to criticisms of her arguments with anything other than silence or personal attacks.
The knock-on effects of tumbling oil prices
Seems like a bad idea in a garbage-collected environment. Based on a scan of that thread, it seems like folks would really like debugging ("who is holding on to refs for this?"). Java doesn't have "free" and seems to do pretty well with GC (one can use profilers and what not to instrument and see where memory is leaking, heap dumps can be taken if things get out of hand in production).
Could it be that some people subscribe to the theory of the proper role and structure of government evinced by the Declaration of Independence?

Maybe some are fond of John Locke's Second Treatise of Government? of rights as an inalienable attribute of the ultimate minority, the individual? and of a government limited in purpose and scope so that it protects us, nothing more?
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Back in the day, we used to laugh at how awful IRIX was (a colleague who used an SGI box to run an F-18 flight simulator said IRIX leaked 512MB of RAM a day on idle -- back when 512MB of RAM was more than any desktop computer had; we had SGI sales reps visit our office and just getting their presentation software to work (on their hardware) was a major production. Essentially, once 3D acceleration went mainstream the writing was on the wall -- within 3 years of the first 3dfx video cards, a game box had more graphics horsepower than tens of thousands of dollars worth of SGI junk, and 3DS Max was enormously more productive for most things than Power Animator/Maya (Maya has improved a lot).

The company I worked at in 1999 did the special effects for season one of Farscape on SGI. They were underbid on season two by a factor of two by Animal Logic (across the street) doing everything on fast PCs running 3DS Max.

Edit: and when the writing was on the wall, SGI decided to go downmarket and fight Apple on its home turf -- porting its software to NT and competing against PC workstation vendors already running AutoCAD and 3DS Max. This allowed everyone to see the emperor had no clothes -- SGI's NT boxes were half as fast and twice as expensive as name brand competitors, and they were charging $20k for a software license.
Looks like VLC is the way to go - try this: http://www.geekwire.com/2014/heres-watch-apples-ipad-event-w...

Direct link: http://p.events-delivery.apple.com.edgesuite.net/14pijnadfpv...
I got to agree with the overall chorus here.

Without wanting to sound like a dick: a bootcamp doesn't make you a full-blown top-notch $150k "software engineer" in 1, 2, 3 or even 6 months. I just doesn't happen. The whole ecosystem today is just to complex to learn this in a short time. Operating systems, version control, protocols, databases, best pratice for security, making maintainable code.

I have been coding for nearly 10 years now and i am still learning every year.
Any, to be honest. I understand that this might greatly reduce the interest in gene discovery but I think putting a legal constraint on something that is then released into the wild and self-propagated can only lead to problems.

It's a somewhat unreasonable stance I admit but I feel the problems caused would outweigh the supposed benefits.

I'm also starting to be against patents in general so it may be a more general shift in my attitude.
Someone will post a VLC streaming link shortly.. hold tight
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We have discussions all the time with CTOs and recruiters about what gets a dev hired. We always cycle back to the fact that its really their personal projects that win the day.

Would you agree? When you're hiring a developer is it the time/certification/companies he worked for? Or his own stuff?

I know that's a bit of a shallow look at hiring which is way more in-depth, but would love your thoughts on that point.
Does anyone know if there is a technical reason they make this Safari-only?
I haven't played with it but I know you can sticky a self-post as a mod. What about putting your sidebar content up as a sticky self-post if it is that important to your sub?

Might be annoying to see for some but it'll be very visible for Alien Blue users.
What is this obsession with having to use the phone with one hand? I have big hands and even with iPhone4/Nexus One I found myself using two hands to get things done more quickly.
I wanted to build something like this when I was at Travelocity but it never happened. I really wanted to do a calendar view, where you got a pretty location spread each day plus the ability to book a trip there if you wanted (of course). Or to allow you a little virtual vacation every day. Getting photos was hard however due to licensing issues and of course sending photographers is expensive.

Booking trips is a great way to monetize but then you start competing with Tripadvisor.
The solutions that anybody brings in favor of so called Free Market Capitalism or any other form of libertarian market ideology is also easily pulled apart. I don't disagree with you but academics are expected to give a solution, no matter how stupid it may sound to you. IMO, I think he would be taken less seriously if he didn't give a solution. Every single interview and every single talk would literally be the same thing, "What is your solution then?" and all he says is "I don't know".
Any site that allows users to upload content allows 'copies'. In the sense that a user can easily download and then reupload a copy to any such site.

I'm sure there are _some_ legal fears, which is why they started with the original policy. But they have decided it is likely that the law does not require them to take down copies not specifically identified in the complaint -- just as it does not require other ISP's to identify on their own copies not mentioned in the complaint.

I think the main important point is that a fork isn't _neccesarily_ a copy, it may or may not be, the infringing material may have been added to the 'original' after the fork, or deleted from the copy after the fork.
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I freaked out slightly when I saw the headline. Shame there's so many name collisions like that...
Which is how Switzerland implemented its version of American government, freedom and prosperity starting in 1848?
But what if the forks didn't have the same code, and therefore didn't infringe? Lets say for example I just loved popcorn time's app so I forked it, but then I made my app only get video from free, non pirated sources or something. It would be a fork of popcorn time still, but not infringing.

(PS) I don't think popcorn time should have been taken down as it wasn't stealing some copyrighted code.