skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"We can terminate your account for any reason" is a legal term which should be in every SaaS's (default) terms of service. Your lawyer will be happy to explain why. If you'd like a less formal explanation, consider what happens when you get a phone call at 4 AM in the morning which begins "Hello, is this the owner of $COMPANY? Great. This is Sgt. Stevens with the $CITY police department. I have a lawyer named John Smith in my office here. Mr. Smith alleges that you're assisting in the violation of a temporary restraining order."

Data retention is a separate issue, but I can envision reasons why I'd want to reserve a maximally "We don't owe it to you" clause, as a SaaS operator. (Slack, for example, allows arbitrary file uploads. This is a high risk feature, for a lot of reasons, data security, copyright compliance, and explosive reputational risk being only three of them.)

As a separate matter: if these clauses discomfit you, speak to enterprise sales. For $10,000+ you can negotiate better ones. If you do not wish to pay $10,000+, that's fine, but you don't get custom legal language.
This does make sense. If done in moderation there is nothing wrong with hiring minority groups. The problem arises when those minority groups are so unqualified that they actually burden the team with their presence.

In my case I have been put in the awkward position of working with 4 male coworkers on a project I knew nothing about, I was getting paid the same as them while contributing nothing to the project. I felt humiliated and asked to be paid as an intern but my manager just smiled and said I was there for support and that my coworkers enjoyed my presence on the team as it was "A breath of fresh air to have a female in the work place". I quit the next week.
I would like to hear his "complicated sixteenth note patterns."
WPS is broken anyway. Its trivial to crack via brute force. Why its still being shipped as a feature, let alone a feature that's on by default is beyond me. The failings of the wifi consortium are pretty obvious, to the point where I wonder if there's some NSA trickery involved in making sure these things are insecure by default. I wish they took security more seriously.

http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/723755
You only asked for next most likely, not likely. :)
I disagree.

Many democracies around the world are admittedly flawed, but regardless, a larger portion of humanity today lives in democratic countries than anytime in history.
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Or as it's sometimes formulated, "the sports car-slash-dump truck problem."

In other words, you can build a great sports car, or a great dump truck. But there's no way to build a great sports car that is also a great dump truck.
Please do some research. What you're missing is that the pay gap is measured between people in similar jobs.
I just don't see how SaaS at this scale can ever be profitable. Asana, Slack, and the like have to support large teams while the enterprise sales cycle is extraordinarily expensive. If you're Oracle and can charge $5k a seat plus consulting fees, then sure, I understand it. If you're an also-ran SaaS business charging $8 a user, you're never going to be profitable.

All of these are just different spins on the same communication features. There's nothing that's really defensible about any of them.
Gotcha. The next step is making an animatable SVG. I'm trying to follow https://inkscape.org/doc/tracing/tutorial-tracing.html
I've always seen UUIDs stored as strings. What's the suspect part? Favoring human readability over optimal machine storage utilization?
I play the Lavender Coffin track. I listen to it carefully. I replay it and try to clap on the claps. I fail. I try again. I still fail. I listen to the song again. I replay the track, but this time try to tap my finger (which is easier than clapping) and I still fail.

Will it get easier or am I just "beatdeaf"? (Here I can clearly hear the 1 2 3 4, and the claps, but I just cannot match the claps on 2 and 4.)
Note that the 1 in 1 million figure is for 100 million IDs generated, that is, after 100 million generated IDs there's 1 in a million chance that two of them are identical.
USA law is the Patriot Act which EFF dot org says is used mostly for
'low level' drug caes and not the intended targets.
Cyprus. redacted

Hungary needs a reason to monitor and peek at you. So, a small
tax. Famous USA gangster Al Capone never convicted for
murder, but he was convicted for evasion of tax laws.

Allegedly some say the laws were passed just for the famous gangster.

Why did the USA invade in the middle east? Supposedly the
'internet forgery' Italian letter, which would be taxed by the
HUNGARY INTERNET TAX.

Technical question:
What happens if there is a DNS hijacking on the country level
like before? Or some high bandwidth sent from the botnets
to YOUR PERSONAL COMPUTER?

Pay up Hungary because that RUSSIAN 'assistant sofware'
makes for high bandwidth. The video cassete manufacturers
will make sure that HUNGARY NETFLIX dies an early death.

Pay up Hungary!
Don't forget about the risks of taking psilocybin. I myself had a psychosis triggered by them, no fun at all (believe me) and in many cases not reversible.
Did you get it from DigiCert? Or from another CA?
> Khrushchev commented on the excellent IBM plant, but said that computers were very highly developed in the Soviet Union too; such things as A-bombs or the H-bomb could have never been developed in the Soviet Union if it hadn't had highly complicated and sophisticated computers.

LOL that's such B.S. Cybernetics was considered a capitalist anti-science in the Soviet Union up until the 60's, and it was waaay behind western world. In the 1970's and early 80's, my parents' worked in scientific institutes with the most advanced computer technologies in the country. They used tech that was long ago obsolete in the west (punch cards). IMHO, that was one of many reasons for the collapse of USSR's economy.

Also, another anecdode I've heard about Khruschev's visit to USA (not sure how true this is) is that he arranged to bring Pepsi back to USSR for a trial, and people travelled thousands of kilometers to taste it, from Syberia to Moscow, and brought it back all the way in little plastic cups.

Unfortunately, all the "thawing" efforts got turned 180 degrees as soon as Kruschev's rule ended and Brezhnev came to power.
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I've maintained a regular meditation practice 2 years sitting for ~30 mins a day. The benefits are most noticeable when dealing with other people and if I have an important meeting with a client I'll meditate shortly before, which undoubtably improves the outcome.

It helps reduce the influence of my ego over these interactions. This in turn lowers my clients' guard and reduces their egos as well. Less ego makes meetings less about politics and more about solving real problems.

More generally, meditation has helped me maintain focus on my work and made me less susceptible to distractions.
Empirically speaking, certain groups are underrepresented in hard science.

And this is wrong, why? Post-modernism is at the heart of the entire "equalist" movement precisely because it ignores the scientific process of modernism.

It begins with an a-priori assumption: racial and sexual representation in all disciplines must be in proportion to the population. If the representations are even slightly off, there is discrimination, racism and sexism. Proponents of this line of thought then look for statistics and conjure up conspiracy theories to explain these deviations from their own asserted optimum.

This line of thought is absurd to anyone with basic training in scientific reasoning. Unfortunately, scientific literacy is a rarity in the modern world which was built by it.
No - each name is checked before issuance. .onion is an interesting one though since there isn't WHOIS info. The only check there is to download Tor and check that FB controls the service.
Aren't WPS Pins completely flawed in their design anyway?

I seem to remember being able to use an exploit to break into my own router that had WPS enabled about a year ago using a program called reaver.

The exploit had something to do with routers telling the attacker whether or not they guessed the first 4 digits correctly and then it narrowed it down enough to where bruteforcing was easy.
>When your IDs are random however, each new record has to be placed at a random position. This means a lot more thrashing of data to and from disk. //

Just use the GUID externally and use have a sequential primary key as the table index?
Depends on what the middleman provides. If it's domain expertise that'll take time and money to gain, they're useful. If it's just connections, well, the Internet is making that obsolete.

And if it's just storage, Amazon's breathing down your neck. ;)
I didn't say ban manned space flight. We keep trying to restart our space program by sending people to Mars. I think we should start a more extensive national unmanned space program. For example, if the Hubble, or its replacement, needs to be fixed, we should have an unmanned answer, for instance.

We should start building on Mars without humans. If our machines can't do that yet, then we should invest in them until they can.
So they traded sometimes dangerous moving parts that could lead to a mission fail to a rarely dangerous pressurized vessel that would lead to casualties?

Is this a case of not seeing safety's big picture? Cutting accidents in half (or by whatever) is great, but not if that means the remaining accidents are fatal. A more frequent controlled failure is a much better scenario, but I imagine hurts the bottom line too much.

I'm wary that for-profit companies aren't going to invest enough in private manned spaceflight's safety when there's a profit incentive at work dictating otherwise. At least without a fair bit of regulation.
Constructing machinery has huge environmental costs as well. The CO2 emitted in the construction of a car rivals that emitted by driving it afterwards, for example.

Getting into orbit requires a huge amount of energy. That's just physics, and there's no way around it. Spending lots of money on extremely complicated and efficient machinery to use less fuel getting to orbit does not mean you're more environmentally friendly.

Also, numbers matter. The environmental costs of space travel are completely insignificant, while cars are choking the planet, simply because there are billions of them. A tiny efficiency improvement applied to billions of cars will dwarf a gigantic efficiency improvement applied to a few rocket launches per year.
We switched for largely arbitrary reasons. I do really like the Slack experience, I'd say I prefer it in some ways. But Flowdock was also great, no real complaints there at all.
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A couple off the top of my head:

Gov't nationalizing private pension funds (=stealing): http://www.ipe.com/nightmare-in-hungary-as-government-nation...

Corruption scandal over tobacco stores (where shops were required by law to get licenses, which were then awarded to friends and family): http://blogs.ft.com/beyond-brics/2013/07/01/hungarys-tobacco...

You can also Google MediaLaws, nationalization of other key industries such as parking meters, the constant rewriting of the constitution (modified more often than I push to Github), the 9(!) year appointment of a friendly Chief District Attorney, and most recently the 3000 Billion HUF deal (15B USD) w Russia to construct nuclear power plants that reeks of corruption.

US has also started banning some Hungarian VIPs, something that's typically reserved vs Russians...
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/10/20/us-usa-hungary-idU...
How often do people make this error? I know, it's a terrible error but I code every day (maybe my opinion is not relevant for this reason) and I rarely come across this issue.
Headhunters use this same sort of model. For example, take a look at the finance industry. They interview talented, young people with 2 to 5 years of experience for specialized positions (private equity, investment banking, corporate finance), then try to match up that person with one of the positions in their database. The potential new hire isn't charged a dime. The headhunter charges the hiring firm a percent of the new hire's starting salary (30% to 50%).

The assumption behind this model is that:

1) Companies are willing to pay for the best talent

2) No in-house capability to recruit or choose to spend their time on the core function of their business rather than screen individuals

3) (Salary + placement fee) > cost to recruit that person themselves
I was referring to lucrative consulting opportunities.

Side note: the "equity/benefits/stability of being a salaried employee" are somewhat overestimated.

1. Equity has risks associated with it that are discounted during good times but become painfully obvious when the business cycle turns. Think Google or Facebook are great companies with bright futures? You can buy their shares without having to work for them for 4 years.

2. If you're working as a high-end consultant, you will easily be earning enough to create a tailored benefits package for yourself. For instance, you can set up a self-directed 401(k) and defer up to $18,000 of your salary (2015 limit). Your business can also contribute up to 25% (or 20% if you're a sole proprietor) of its profit as a profit-sharing contribution. All told, you can stash away up to $53,000/year pre-tax in a 401(k).

3. Stability is an illusion. Most salaried employees are at-will and can be terminated at any time for any reason, or no reason at all.
An oxidizer leak isn't going to explode.

(And it's pretty hard for a leak of anything to explode much when there's nowhere for it to build up. Limited internal space, wind rushing by...)
About 0.4% of people working in the Alaska crab fishery die on the job, and people seem to be relatively okay with that. And it's much, much better than it was years ago. I know people who were crabbers in the 80s --- stories that would curl your hair (or straighten it, if it's already curly).

http://money.cnn.com/2003/10/13/pf/dangerousjobs/index.htm
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>Successful, scalable, revenue-generating software projects that compete in a big market, on the other hand, are never finished. Microsoft still has top engineers working on Excel and Windows. Google almost certainly has some of their best people incrementally improving Search and Maps and Gmail. Many of Amazon's top engineers are working on improving AWS. Apple's certainly not transferring their best engineers off iOS.

I'd suggest that products of this size and scope are an extreme minority of projects in general, that projects of the class you describe in your first paragraph are the norm, and an agent would help for those. Also, agents are good for renegotiation (and outside work, for that matter); David Letterman still has an agent. His agent negotiates his continuing to work on the same project, and monetizes his experience within that project as he accumulates it.
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Yes, this. You beat me to it.
I've never been through a job application / interview process that didn't result in an offer. 4 interviews, 4 job offers, 3 taken, in about 11 years in this industry.

That probably means I haven't been aiming high enough. But I'm also very selective about who I'll consider interviewing with, yet I'm not particularly active in searching. Unless a company comes to me, and I like the company, I'm unlikely to interview. This pretty much guarantees that I'll never work for a big company unless via acquisition.

I think there's definitely a problem in "matchmaking". I'd like to be approached by more interesting companies doing interesting things, but I'm not interested enough to spend the time to actively seek them out.

Most approaches are by startup of the week types. And I was never contacted in the first 5 years I lived in London, while I was working remotely for a California-based company (Borland then Embarcadero) - it wasn't until I switched to a local job that I turned up on their radar.
I've heard a lot of horror stories about people taking jobs which advertise a sexy/modern technology, but then when you get in the door, 90% of the code is in an older technology.

Anyone else run in to this issue?
Actually, those stats are not horrible.

If you dig around online (sorry, can't find the link right now), you'll find people reporting conversion numbers for SaaS free trials --> paid accounts at:

10% convert to a free account
15% of free accounts convert to a monthly subscription
------------------------------
0.015% overal conversion rate

To put it loosely in perspective with your numbers:

2,200 wait list signups
9 people signed up and used it
------------------------------
0.004% conversion (a quarter of the way there)

I didn't read your follow up, but my first thought would be to carve out a hyper targeted sub-niche of users.

For example, programmers who work at a < 10 person startup, located in San Francisco, who can be found listed on Twitter/Facebook/Etc..., have purchased monthly subscriptions for software tools in the past and wear yellow t-shirts :)

Market to them with a very personalized message (easy since it's a very targeted sub-niche) and see if you can get closer to that 0.015% mark with that targeted messaging.

But you may already have done this or something similar detailed in your follow up post :)

Just my two cents...
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I appreciate where you're coming from, but as it says in the article, UUIDs are really unnecessarily long for no good reason. The traditional hex encoding is also much longer than it needs to be.

In any case, the article exists to help you decide how long you need to make your ids for you to be comfortable. If you decide you aren't comfortable with a 1 in a million chance, the math is there for you to figure out what does work for you.
I knew a girl who was a junior at Darthmouth. She went to
a concert with her friends on a holiday break. At said
concert she took some acid. She went to bed. She woke up
and she didn't recognize the family members around her. She
got better over the years, and finally finished her degree
20 years later. I'm not anti drug, but I think about her
often. No, I have never tried anything other than pot. Pot
is too strong for my constitution. I wish I had the personality to experiment, but I am just not willing to take
the chance.
From my understanding, these systems send voice to servers to recognize queries, but they detect the prompting signal ("OK Google" or "Hey, Siri") entirely on the device, and both systems make a "Listening now" sound when they switch from one mode to the other. So, presuming that software is working as described, when you speak near an Apple/Android phone, your speech isn't being sent to the cloud in most cases.

Among other things, running the radios all the time to send audio to the cloud would be a battery-killer.
Interestingly, I use Hipchat with one team I work with and Slack with another, and far and away prefer Hipchat. The Mac Slack app feels like a web page inside a chromeless browser window. The Hipchat Mac app feels like a real app (albeit one that doesn't really comply with all of the Mac UI conventions).
That paragraph doesn't make much sense. It's assuming a single-stage rocket. Stages let you do better, and that's why every orbital rocket is staged. There will be a point where that becomes impractical (e.g. your rocket has to be the size of a mountain) but there isn't a point where it's physically impossible.
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Some say this is an "inevitable" result of pushing boundaries. No. This is the result of a poorly managed program. What they are doing is much easier than the Apollo program, which was well managed and had no in-flight failures that resulted in loss of life, while accomplishing an infinitely harder task.

This is a tragedy, obviously. But the program is about six years behind schedule, been going for 10 years. The most stupid thing they've done is stay with an experimental rubber/nitrous hybrid engine this whole time, instead of switching to liquid/liquid engine, a well proven technology. I know first hand that groups with such engine expertise have approached Virgin and been turned down.

Seeing only the first paragraph, I already know that some rubber in the hybrid engine detached blocking the nozzle and causing the whole engine to explode. The pilots should have refused to fly until Virgin had 10 consecutive motor qualification tests at full duration, not ride on a ship with a half-baked motor that has seen constant modifications during the last year.

In the software development world, a "death march" in a program behind schedule does not result in loss of actual life, not so in manned spaceflight.
Off topic: tcomb looks insanely cool. Thanks for pointing it out. Though HN is including one of the parens in your link, which is messing it up. Here's a pristine version for the lazy: https://github.com/gcanti/tcomb
It becomes a stylistic choice, but I can say we weren't happy with the experience the longer ids gave users. It made most of the url a random hash of characters, not anything significant. The URL is as much a part of the UX as anything else.
You are getting downvoted, but I actually agree with you. Space travel is awesome, but so is living, and right now we are not living in a way that is sustainable over the short term. Space travel is, for me, an anachronistic hold-over from people who grew up with Heinlein, Asimov, etc., but is not something that is realistic given the environmental situation. Realistically, any vehicle that is dependent upon currently available propulsion systems is a waste of time.

Our resources would be better spent elsewhere. I know that this opinion is anathema on a tech-heavy site such as this one, but I must nevertheless express my respectful disagreement. It would be far, far more productive for the species to dedicate resources towards CO2 and CH4 reduction in the lower atmosphere.
Which companies in boston use python?
As zepolud said elsewhere in this thread:

> current spaceplanes have the capability to fly and land autonomously--Boeing X-37, Dream Chaser, even Buran was fully autonomous and that was 25 years ago. There is simply no excuse for Virgin for being sloppy.

The point being there shouldn't have been human pilots in those seats in the first place.
So what's the difference between Citus and Greenplum?
I think I will try my hand at an Elixir version, based off the (very functionally well written!) Ruby version.

Also, you should have test suites for these. :)

Elixir's pretty cool if you haven't played with it yet- http://elixir-lang.org

It's like Ruby, but 100% functional, immutable, concurrent, and faster. :)
If this does what it says it does, this could be VERY useful!
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It took 54 years to go from the Wright Brothers first flight to the Boeing 707.

It took 53 years to go from Yuri Gagarin's first flight (one orbit) to this suborbital flight test.
There have been at least five mass extinction events that wiped out over 50% of the species on the planet. Possibly as many as twenty. The Permian-Triassic event supposedly took out 90-96%(!) of all living species.
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So, in practice, the LGPL doesn't actually let you change the code out, because the bootloader is allowed to make it impossible to modify the binaries, this being the reason for GPL3. On a jailbroken iOS device, though: yes, you can swap out WebCore if you manage to compile it (good luck ;P).
That's not going to happen with chemical rockets. Until a radically different propulsion system is developed the only planet we have is this one.