skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the rule of thumb here is common sense. I know for certain a large number of med comms agencies in the pharmaceutical industry use enterprise certs for "internal" app distribution (think one off events, internal meetings etc. maybe needing to be run on 500 devices for 1 day only), where content may not be legally signed off/approved until 2am for an 8am start the next day. There's simply no way (other than jailbreaking) to get around this at the moment.

If Apple were to start enforcing this with an iron fist, a lot of this industry (which is, believe it or not, responsible for a lot of device sales) would quickly migrate over to Android, now the devices look and function as well as their iOS counterparts.

This doesn't hurt Apple's ecosystem - everyone is running Macbooks, iPads, iPhones, paying enterprise fees, etc. Most of these apps have no place clogging up the Appstore or consuming Apple reviewers time.

They just don't want you buying an enterprise cert to push out your emulator bundled with illegal ROMs or illegal movie streaming app, easily downloaded by all & sundry off a public web server.

This is why they put up the barriers of DUNS numbers, brief phone interviews, etc., before they will issue you an enterprise account.
> the 10 year life of XMPP.

I really wish XMPP was more prominent than it is. It's an incredibly powerful protocol.
Ozric Tentacles. Perfect psychedelic space rock jams with no lyrics.

From Wikipedia: Ozric music is a highly psychedelic mixture of driving basslines, keyboard and intricate guitar work, with a sound influenced by Steve Hillage and Gong. Many of the Ozrics' songs are in unusual time signatures and/or unusual Eastern-influenced modes. Furthermore, the band often features complex arrangements, which change time signature, key signature and tempo frequently in the course of a track, a well-known element present in progressive rock. There are also moments of straightforward funk-influenced grooves and strong influences from jazz fusion, dub/reggae and ambient music styles.

These features are mixed with electronic elements, including densely layered psytrance- and techno-influenced arpeggiated synthesizers, pads, synth basslines, effects and programmed drumbeats. There is also a strong influence from dub and ambient music, with many quiet relaxed tracks, that balance the frenetic, intense material.
I do think it should be illegal, but "isn't it illegal?" was a genuine question. I don't know the specifics, but I'm surprised there isn't some legal requirement. You can't even send e-mail without allowing an opt-out, and every ad network I know of has an opt-out policy, so sending tracking information to every website you visit and selling that information with no option to opt-out just seems over the top and out of step with what everyone else offers.
Simply calling somebody a nut instead of pointing out the flaws in their argument is a proper example of the ad hominem fallacy. However, taking aim at the argument itself, successfully demonstrating its nuttiness, and concluding that one would have to be a nut to try making such a case is not a failure of reason. Quite the opposite.

After all, the ad hominem rule is not some generalized prohibition against personal attacks. It is merely a prohibition against baseless or irrelevant personal attacks – especially when used to deflect a justified charge, skirt a legitimate issue, or evade a properly vexing question.

This is a very important limit, and one that serves a valuable social function. Specifically, it's what allows us to derive positive utility from clear and direct condemnation of dubious personal characteristics in cases where those traits are producing or defending overt violations of reasonable and openly defensible social norms – like not gleefully spreading baseless FUD, for whatever reason.

I'll be the first to agree that killing messengers is bad policy. That said, I'm also a big fan of marginalizing unreliable narrators. In that regard, knocking Assange down a few pegs seems like a major boon to the mass surveillance conversation, which could really benefit from cooler, clearer heads prevailing.
I know all about Xkeyscore: https://medium.com/state-of-play/getting-xkeyscore-right-f49...

It's a database that has nothing to do with a full-take of Google data with Google's cooperation as claimed by Greenwald and repeated by Assange to support his thesis. Greenwald's PRISM fantasy is just that.
The article is missing Ephraim Engleman, who is still a practicing medical doctor and researcher at 103 at UCSF Medical Center: http://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/article/Dr-Ephraim-Engle...

If you are doing what you love or work that is important, why retire?
https://www.djangojobs.net/jobs/207/python-programmer-medica...
This story links Planet Money, which leaned on NSF statistics, I guess the ones published here:

http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/nsf13327/content.cfm?pub_id=42...

If you grab table 33, you ostensibly have the number of computer science degrees awarded between 1966 and 2010. If you grab the xls, hey, you can add them up. Between 1966 and 1985, there were ~195,000 bachelors degrees awarded in computer science fields (exactly what fields would depend on the NSF methodology). About 61,000 went to women.

If you look here:

http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1987-08-02/news/870226065...

You have an article talking about keypunching requiring minimal training, with about 324,000 data entry keyers working in the U.S. in 1984.

I have trouble believing the narrative that the women earning CS degrees in the 70s were, as a group, ignorant of the opportunity to just go directly to data entry (which was obviously there, there were more people doing data entry than had university CS degrees).
Accepting a job at [big company] is often not a cure for work/life imbalance, especially in tech. It's going to be better balanced than running a start-up, but it's not like you're going to all of a sudden have all your nights and weekends back.
I think the clustering either has been trained very well, or uses a very conservative rule-based system. It seems to work great!
> Gamergate claims to be about journalistic integrity. I hear the names of women, but never the male journalists.

And let's not forget: most of the women who have been attacked have little to nothing to do with journalism. Felicia Day is an actress, for crying out loud!
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Thank you for the article! His life seems fascinating.
After revisiting several hours after having made my original comment, I have to say I agree with you. In no way was he being pretentious. I think I know why I might have read it that way but it doesn't matter. I was wrong and it was unfair of me to say it. To the poster: I apologize.
1. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is actually used on Wikipedia as an example on the regulatory capture page; saying that "[i]n a June 2010 article on regulatory capture, the FAA was cited as an example of "old-style" regulatory capture, "in which the airline industry openly dictates to its regulators its governing rules, arranging for not only beneficial regulation but placing key people to head these regulators".[1] If you believe that regulations have improved food safety, I suppose that would be attributable to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), where there is substantial evidence that it has caused more deaths than it has prevented, as well as evidence that it has gone out of its way for the benefit of some corporations; I have too many citations to provide for easy reading here, but the Wikipedia page is a good start.[2] It is possible that seatbelt laws sped up adoption, but the government has continued to ratchet up safety requirements without regard to the cost/benefit ratio to consumers, and the regulations have prevented further innovation in many area of automotive design and construction.[3][4]

2.
a) Although the 'ingredients list' is a frequently cited example, the court system is sufficient to police this, as product descriptions are legally binding; the judicial system serves well in areas without 'consumer protection' agencies, such as electronic component performance specifications.

b) Is the problem that consumer action is ineffective, or that the majority of consumers don't agree with you, and engage in the same boycotts you do? Boycotts by individuals and corporations were effective in pressuring South Africa to stop apartheid, and have worked against many companies including Nike. I for one cannot manage to persuade my fellow citizens to boycott "The Simpsons" (which I don't find funny), or "Lululemon" (which far too many people wear outside of yoga classes), but that does not mean that I should be given the coercive power of the state. Perhaps the onus is on you to be more persuasive, and regulators are unnecessary here as well.

c) Maybe codifying standards into law is a possible solution, but the real problem is that there is no way to prevent the standards which are codified from being crafted in such a manner as to benefit special interests more than the general public (for public choice, and political ignorance reasons).

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulatory_capture

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_the_Food_and_Drug_...

[3] http://econlog.econlib.org/2014/10/09/mueller2.jpg

[4] http://www.autonews.com/article/20140331/OEM11/140339975/tes...
A lot of what he writes has nothing to do with the facts but rather adds to the general "evil theme".

Somehow he was able to paint having "analyticity" as a bad thing: "Schmidt’s dour appearance concealed a machinelike analyticity".

And acquisitions are conveniently renamed into takeovers: "In 2004, after taking over Keyhole"

And then this. I don't even:

"The hidden hand of the market will never work without a hidden fist. McDonald’s cannot flourish without McDonnell Douglas, the designer of the F-15. And the hidden fist that keeps the world safe for Silicon Valley’s technologies to flourish is called the U.S. Army, Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps."
It looks like Whisper doesn't have the same set of powerful friends some other similarly ethically challenged companies do.
I suggest that people reading these comments look through the posting histories of the people bashing Assange and make a judgement about whether or not they're real people.

You be the judge.
Can you please refute my point then? If not due to voting, why do areas with a liberal population enact liberal policies and areas with a conservative population enact conservative policies? I'm honestly curious to know what you think...
Have any good resources to suggest? (aside from oDesk, where I sense it's become a race to the bottom price-wise.)
Why would they do that?

It would defeat the anonymity purpose of tor and essentially be just another ISP, with diminished speeds and no added benefits.
To any "outsider" unfamiliar with Hacker News, it's heavily populated with Google employees, contractors, and developers that build on to Google products and services.

Keep that in mind when you read the comments here.
Go to this page over a cellular connection. (Turn off your wifi) http://checkyourinfo.com/request Then look for a long number.
Haha, well the work environment at Xerox here in New Zealand is actually really good. Too bad he didn't, I've met with a lot of their senior engineers (also at Konica) and they're extremely knowledgeable and friendly.

Unfortunately the pay would likely be why he turned it down.
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Ramit has a lot of good tips on his free mailing list. Just ignore the upsell stuff.

http://www.iwillteachyoutoberich.com/
typing this on an HP Pavilion 15 Laptop. Installed Arch Linux, and Catalyst Drivers. works without flaw. Much better than the Windows 8 that was on the machine.

of course, I avoided Unity and went with KDE 4, because I'm not a massochist. Blue Ribbon, otherwise.
FWIW, there are ample counterexamples of startup founders who have had young children and done very well on both fronts. For example:

All but one of the Fairchild Eight had young children while founding Fairchild (and the modern Silicon Valley).

Jan Koum had two young children while founding WhatsApp.

The Zenter founders both had young children during YCombinator, and ended up getting bought by Google.

It can be done. I doubt anyone would consider it easy, but the data certainly doesn't a blanket claim of "You're not spending enough time on your start up AND you're not spending enough time with your family."
The Case of the Modified Binaries
No, his argument is that Assange is clearly wrong on one point, so don't buy his (Assange's) spiel hook, line, and sinker.

Think. Look into things. Do some research.
Then we shall have to agree to disagree. I'm comfortable with that.
Hence, my point. My preceding comment was pretty par for the course as far as HN comments go. To call it "mean" is to exaggerate its impact and it significance.
The problem I see with using docker for development is, you still need different rails environments(development, test, etc.), the dockerfiles I've been making are for production, and I'm not sure if they would work in the other environments. Also you have to use tons of commands (rake, rspec, migrate, etc) which at this point requires entering the container, which you really shouldn't have to do unless there is a problem with the container itself.
Reminds me of the story Merlin Mann tells about the butcher who when asked what trick he uses to know that he picked up exactly a pound of meat responds "Be a butcher for 20 years".
Do we feel collective guilt over having paramedics who need to scrape dead toddlers run over by trucks off the road, or hospice nurses who spent their days changing the diapers of dementia patients? It's a shit job, but they're stopping everybody else from seeing the worst of humanity.
It's great to see a few quick trends visually here:

1. Smoking cessation rate - this has clearly peaked. Smoking is no longer socially acceptable and the vast majority of people willing to quit probably now have (or have moved onto vaping).

2. Sports participation - up and down, looks like it's probably in-line with major events - i.e. Olympics, Wimbledon, World Cup, etc.

3. Workforce - a few more people are starting their own companies, which leads to them employing more people and therefore unemployment dropping accordingly.

4. Mortgage repossessions are down, but landlord repossessions are up.

5. International visitors clearly peak and trough based around the seasons. Their spending (this seems to be increasing generally - in line with inflation?)

6. More people are cycling - probably due to the increase in cycle lanes and cheap, accessible state rental bikes.

I might be off on some of these as I've only glanced across the stats from a top-line. It's nice to see the data presented clearly and be able to take guesses at what's going on.
I browse the internet shops for faster hardware.

I used to continue editing code, but this is a bad idea, since I've got the "save" reflex activating every 10 second, so the compiler breaks on incomplete newly saved code.
He just emailed you, thanks anyway :)
You are arguing about a program that has nothing to do with Assange's thesis that Google is an arm of the US State Department. This isn't merely semantics.
It's surprising to me how seriously this is taken. Not many people would identify anti-workplace-discrimination laws as burdensome regulation. Most people (at least among the intelligensia) would just not discriminate and be done with it.

The odd thing is, Graham doesn't appear to be even suggesting a criticism of any cover-your-ass bookkeeping, and he doesn't appear to say the regulation isn't the best tool to achieve equality, or any other more nuanced critique that may or may not end up having merit. He's suggesting that discrimination is good.
It is hard to determine the causal relationship; I think it goes in both directions: those who are closer to death are more likely to retire and those who retire are more likely to die sooner.
This is actually still not fixed - trying searching for Langely, WA. I've been reporting it since maps came out, at least 5 times now.
Betzig is the top of the field (got a Nobel), but this is old news. So you are right that the article is nonsense, but for the wrong reasons :-)
Does he have an up-to-date portfolio on what he's been working on? how are his side projects?

I think that's one of the most effective ways to convince someone that you haven't been resting on your laurels/are still innovating.

Also, he could take the chance (assuming you guys are not 3 steps from being on the curb) to try and bootstrap a small startup -- 56 years is a ton of experience, he has to know some pain points in some markets/communities that he can fix (maybe his own?) and charge people money for.
Aquiles no murió por una flecha, lo mató la ingeniería social
Well that position has expired, anyway just showed djangojobs to him, thanks :)
That's a major factor keeping me from doing a start-up full-time. Unless it's profitable from day one (enough to pay your expenses), you can't actually live while doing it. Sure, you can eat noodles every night, but you can't just stop paying your mortgage/rent/student loans/etc for a year while you try to bootstrap.
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Much like fraud prevention is the "hard" part in a payment processor, reputation systems are one half* of the "hard" part in this kind of marketplaces, and very especially for this kind of tradesman services (*the other is getting both sides to use it).

I've seen several people try to start services like "Handy" and fail due to this.

One big problem is that the best tradespeople already have work, and don't need lead generation services.
not sure how helpful this will be since we won't have a ton of activity at first, but Hired is about to launch in the UK. we'll be taking candidates all over Europe although we'll only have a London office until sometime next year. if he's interested in moving up there, it's worth a shot. his skillset sounds relevant. http://join.hired.com/x/WF25Mp
David Tipper's Forward Escape is some of the best music I've heard in the last 10 years, and doubles as great programming music too: http://open.spotify.com/album/6iXjPAUqAY5c3cVe1lNHut

The Crypt of the Necrodancer soundtrack is really great: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrS1RyuoG0I

Instrumental prog is pretty good: Liquid Tension Experiment, Joe Satriani, Scale the Summit...
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Then maybe he should focus on learning skills that are marketable toward the enterprise sector?
The trace JIT has an assembler, and the C code is compiled to native assembly.

https://bitbucket.org/pypy/pypy/src/f7bc5ed1602fb522625a3d02...

Assembler.py is the jit assembler.
Those tweets actually look reasonable. They acknowledge the problem and don't deny or slander. It will still be hard to do damage control.
Your use case, and your definition of "browsing" which excludes dynamic content, isn't typical though. Most people keep javascript turned on by default, and for most people, it isn't broken.

Nothing has changed about HTML or browsers that prevents anyone from building a minimalistic site, or one that degrades gracefully, they just choose not to. This isn't a problem of the web, but the culture of web design, and the tendency of people to only use a few corporate sites which follow the same design paradigms.
Those interested in geopolitics have their own cultural references. The last is a reference to Thomas Friedman's "A Manifesto for the Fast World" (NYT, 1999). The more complete context is:

> It's true that no two countries that both have a McDonald's have ever fought a war since they each got their McDonald's. (I call this the Golden Arches Theory of Conflict Prevention.) But globalization does not end geopolitics -- the enduring quest for power, the fear of neighbors, the tug of history. What globalization does is simply put a different frame around geopolitics, a frame that raises the costs of war but cannot eliminate it.

> That is why sustainable globalization still requires a stable, geopolitical power structure, which simply cannot be maintained without the active involvement of the United States. All the technologies that Silicon Valley is designing to carry digital voices, videos and data around the world, all the trade and financial integration it is promoting through its innovations and all the wealth this is generating, are happening in a world stabilized by a benign superpower, with its capital in Washington, D.C.

> The hidden hand of the market will never work without a hidden fist -- McDonald's cannot flourish without McDonnell Douglas, the builder of the F-15. And the hidden fist that keeps the world safe for Silicon Valley's technologies is called the United States Army, Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps. ''Good ideas and technologies need a strong power that promotes those ideas by example and protects those ideas by winning on the battlefield,'' says the foreign policy historian Robert Kagan. ''If a lesser power were promoting our ideas and technologies, they would not have the global currency that they have. And when a strong power, the Soviet Union, promoted its bad ideas, they had a lot of currency for more than half a century.''

See http://www.nytimes.com/1999/03/28/magazine/a-manifesto-for-t... for the McDonald's/McDonnell Douglas quote, but I started the context from the end of the previous page to show why McDonald's was relevant in the first place.

The 'Golden Arches Theory of Conflict Prevention' is from Friedman's 1999 book "The Lexus and the Olive Tree". See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lexus_and_the_Olive_Tree' .