skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hustle hard.

It should also be noted how he did this "hack". He spoofed a call to Jasons own number (thus reaching the voicemail). The voicemail was not setup (or PIN secured), so he was able to do the initial voicemail setup.

Would have been cooler if they were working on some security-related product.

Also: people need to relax.
"... while the wealthy are no more likely to be born stupid than the poor , a wealthy upbringing compounds stupidity while a hardscrabble childhood dilutes it, if only for Darwinian reasons. This is why the elite need a prophylactic barrier of shitty state schools, to prevent clever kids from working-class post codes ousting them from the Enclave of Privilege."

Mitchell, David (2014-09-02). The Bone Clocks: A Novel (p. 179). Random House Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.
It doesn't work in that regard.
Oh well, as long as Jason can use his personal influence to harm the attacker's life in return.

Who needs a justice system or the police, anyway?

(And why is it Sam Altman's place to apologise to Jason Calacanis? What is he apologising for - did YC suggest, approve or have anything to do with this act at all?)
Oh I agree completely.

The Pods are not general purpose storage devices. They are literally as close to tape as you can get without getting dirty.

the average throughput of our teir1 storage is around 10 gigabytes a second (not bits) with a peak of 25-30. however they are just 60disk with 4 raid6 (with 4 hot spares) and dual 10 gig servers, 4tb disks.

They are just plain NFS servers with XFS. They are fairly good general purpose fileservers, great for high streaming IO. replace those 4tb disks with SSDs or 15k disks, you've got amazing random IOPs
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This is akin to somebody breaking into Jason's house while nobody is home and placing an ad for their startup on his coffee table. Nobody is physically harmed but it is a gross violation of privacy. I assume this is against the law, and I do hope the perpetrator is prosecuted for it.
No idea why they're so common. I was born in the early 1980s and I've noticed this trend happening in my lifetime. It wasn't always like this.
This article[1] is worth mentioning in this context as we talk about Microsoft's anti-trust policies.

[1] - http://www.hanselman.com/blog/MicrosoftKilledMyPappy.aspx
I'm obviously not a doctor. I can only say that in my experience, eating a teaspoon of coffee works for me and relatives of mine who have tried it. And it works amazingly fast and well.

Of course, I also know what kind of food or drinks I shall avoid in order not to get acid reflux, so I always try to avoid getting it in first place.
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I'd also question what damage he did as MS CEO that can in any way take away from the good his foundation is doing/has done.
No, it's not obvious. If it were then we'd have programmed an AGI by now.
Please stop trolling
my apology: https://twitter.com/AviZolty/status/526467881295683584
So it can be used against him? How?
Slightly-misleading TLDR:
Iterated embryo selection is sort of test tube reproduction and selectiong. If you can create gametes from stem cells, then create many more embryos with these gametes and then score each embryo, repeating the process selecting for those that have the best genetic correlates of cognitive ability, you can perform the equivalent of a 2000 year eugenics experiment in a test tube in about six months. You could potentially get far, far higher IQs than 160.

Prerequisites for this are cheap-gene sequencing, very, very large databases of genomes tagged with their donor’s cognitive measures, and advances in human stem cell research.
Damn, this is bizarre; the kind of elitist attitude that gives Crossfit bad rep. 5 basic lifts with a linear progression (SL/SS) and some mobility/flexibility work is absolutely fantastic way to create foundational strength. Rippetoe goes into much more detail on this — http://www.t-nation.com/training/crossfit-the-good-bad-and-t..., http://www.t-nation.com/free_online_article/most_recent/ripp..., http://www.t-nation.com/free_online_article/most_recent/ripp...
Of course, but the second one DOES execute whether the exception occurs or not. So the first call is redundant.

If no exception occurs (which is most of the time, probably), the code will call stream.close(); stream = null; and after that it will pass that null stream to Utils.safeClose, which can't do anything to it at this point, as the stream is closed by now and we've dropped the reference to it anyway (by setting it to null in meantime) :)

The code reads as if its author was under false impression that finally only executes if catch executes. But that's not true, and it would make no logical sense (why would the language distinguish between "catch" and "finally" at all in such case?)
In response, someone (EDIT: Cofounder of hacker's previous YC startup) tweeted:

"the valley seriously can't take a joke anymore. Like 'hey guys - hack traction do crazy shit' then 'what have you done, you're crazy'"

"but to hack your voicemail, it means you didn't set it up in the first place. Am I missing something here? Failing to find the harm."

https://twitter.com/apcommunicate/status/526449274133807104
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So all he had to do was spoof the number to access voicemail setup? That seems wrong. Would he not need the voicemail passcode as well?
I laughed heartily. This is the funniest repo I've seen in a long time

> But then your inner lazy piece of shit replied: "but what should I do, I'm too lazy to think of something i could do!"
is the "more guesswork then science" related to emotional intelligence or intelligence tests in general?

(I have no idea how either tests work, but I'd be inclined to believe it's harder to test for "tactfulness" than "ability to recognize patterns")
"He's a great sport"

Great sport? This isn't a practical joke gone wrong.
There is also such a thing as diminishing returns: for some people, working on something different after a day's work is better for productivity, happiness, and the bank balance. Especially if that gets channeled back into the main gig.
Didn't that happen with Arrington?
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>my Spanish abilities are barely adequate to order a meal in a restaurant most of the time //

So you didn't eat out, how did you manage getting your shopping in, buying bus tickets and such without learning any of the local language, just hoped people spoke English?
Depositions are unnatural, legally technical situations. For an amusing treatment, see http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/28/opinion/verbatim-what-is-a...
I've read much the same - it seems to me that the West's current political ethos is largely a reaction to the racial idealism propagated by the Nazis in WW 2, which was used as an ideological justification for the Holocaust. Consequently, any discussion or idea which even tangentially broaches the topic of eugenics/dysgenics is a massive hot potato.

China doesn't have that kind of baggage associated with its history and on top of that it's ambitious to establish itself as a superpower. Thus, Chinese people are far more welcoming of genetic engineering and it won't surprise me at all if China is the first country to implement it on a widescale basis. Then, like you said, competitive pressures will virtually guarantee that the rest of the world will follow its lead.
For the same reason that evolution, global warming, the historical study of religion, etc. are controversial: it conflicts with popular political beliefs and leads to taboo discussions.

It's taboo to both the left and the right. Both like to pretend differences in innate ability don't exist. The left likes to explain disadvantage exclusively as a socially constructed phenomenon that can be remedied through social engineering. The right likes to chalk it up to laziness or moral corruption, arguing that the disadvantage more or less deserve it.

If it's biological to any significant degree, they're both wrong. It's heritable, so no amount of social engineering will fix it, and it's also not a result of chosen moral deficiencies or laziness so it's not a moral failing. Being born with a lower IQ is no more your fault than being born without an arm.

It also leads to taboo discussions around wealth distribution. If our success rates are largely a result of our success at winning the genetic lottery, can you morally justify really massive levels of wealth inequality? Is it just that random initial conditions completely dictate outcome?

If intellectual ability is largely heritable, then both the left's PC moralizing and the right's Calvinist moralizing are bullshit.

I've toyed around with the concept of a kind of transhumanist socialism in which these kinds of enhancements -- both germ-line and for already living people -- would be made universally available to everyone. I wonder to what extent the failure of socialist schemes is the result of their technical inability (or unwillingness) to address the root causes of inequality. Use a progressive income tax not to fund the zero-sum redistribution of wealth, but the positive-sum redistribution of ability. Transform humanity into a "runaway self-improving AI."

As far as I know, virtually everyone in every political persuasion or "wing" would be horrified by that concept. Given what garbage pretty much all of today's political discourse is, it kinda makes me think I'm onto something.
> Any experiences where you became unproductive while using a language or technology, wasting time googling, reading multiple blog posts on the topic, trying to fill in the blanks?

Yes, when trying to bridge between first learning to program the little text applications and trying to program something more useful was the worst time for that.

I'd like to see more guides bridging the beginner stuff; Land of Lisp, for example; and the more complex stuff; such as creating a GUI, talking to other devices connected to the computer, calling foriegn functions, and so on. There seems to be remarkably little out there that takes someone from... toys... to actually having something useful which they can put in the hands of someone else. Or that tells you how to learn to learn that stuff for yourself.

I suspect we lose a fair number of potential programmers to that sort of thing – running through the beginner stuff and then having no idea where to take it next.
The preferred format for arXiv submissions is source.

http://arxiv.org/help/submit#text
10K lines is very fast to make it to proficiency. It takes me a lot longer to 'not suck' at a new language, I'm not at all sure what a reasonable value here is but I don't usually consider myself slow. Probably I'll have to adjust that self image now ;).
Indeed. If only he'd found a way to systematically make money by breaking the law and "disrupting" things, he'd be getting a valuation in the billions.
Incredibly diplomatic.
> It means you can write a lot of code having no idea what's going on under the hood, which is good.

I'm not so sure that's good. The more stuff there is under the hood that you have no idea about the more places bugs can hide in.
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OP posted an apology:

https://twitter.com/AviZolty/status/526467881295683584

> I just wanted to take a moment to sincerely apologize to @jason publicly. Been in contact, he's a great sport, and I admire him so much.
This competitor seems to have brought in all the bells and whistles alongside the core of the product

I'm using a SaaS product that offers a lot of bells and whistles. However they seem to be (and I'm sure were) added to the product to meet one customer's needs. So they are not bells and whistles I need, and they complicate functions that should be simple. A form that has 20 fields, 16 of which I learned I can ignore, added a huge congnitive load as I was trying to learn the software.

Do not feel you need to build out bells and whistles or even the complete vision you have for the core product before you try to sell. Identify one pain point your customers have and solve that well. That will get their attention and you can have the conversation about other core features to come.
I'm generally opposed to the idea that people can crush others in their pursuit of wealth, and then become "good" now that they are part of the uber-rich (and can afford to just toss money around). It encourages the idea that the ends justify the means.
We expect ethical behavior from our community, and this fell well short of that standard. Obviously we didn't suggest or approve it, but we are still sorry it happened.
LaTeX, and TeX, are the last gasp of a long line of development. That line starts with MIT's RUNOFF, which begat roff, nroff ("New ROFF"), troff, ditroff, psroff, and finally TeX. It's the last of the programming-language like word processing systems.

TeX assumes your final output is paper. That's an obsolete assumption. The math features are concerned with presentation. You can't cut a formula from TeX and paste it into Mathematica or MathCAD and have it understood. TeX doesn't understand mathematical notation; it just format it for printing.

We need to get past that.
I'm generally convinced that gluten is bad is everyone, or more so humans are not designed to digest it.

But replacing one processed ingredient with another, doesn't make much difference.
Bitcasa has always had atrocious customer service.

I used their infinite plan for a year but stopped when 20gb of my data suddenly disappeared from my drive. The response I got from customer support was basically "what do you want us to do about it? You should back up all your data."

Thankfully I did have a secondary backup, but yeah... I never got the feeling anyone at that company gave a damn about the customers.
That someone is his co-founder
Couldn't have said it better myself! Jade Teta has a fantastic article on this — http://www.t-nation.com/diet-fat-loss/a-calorie-is-sometimes... — including so-called HEC (hunger, energy, cravings)
So basically, we can't make a photodetector without first being able to create a sun?
Totally agree. Which is why I mentioned that I'm glad the OP posted about it and brought it to our attention.

Apple is averse to asking users lots of questions in general, but especially difficult questions that most won't understand or know how to answer -- or the implications of their choice. Pretending for a sec that Apple will change their default setting here, to the detriment of 99% of their users but to satisfy the noisy us... I'd love to see suggestions on how to word this checkbox option.

iCloud has a lot of options already. It's a complicated concept for most people. I agree that this is borderline surprising behaviour, but I don't see how to avoid surprising someone.
I only know about emotional intelligence, but I think other forms of intelligence are more reliable. But I want to stress that the idea that intelligence is multidimensional, and that there is such a thing as emotional intelligence is scientific consensus.
I tend to agree, but I also think industries -- particularly tech -- have a working definition of totally botched lawmaking that means lawmaking the industry doesn't like. eg the lawsuits against Napster, that was attempting to build a business facilitating bulk copyright infringement with vanishingly few non-infringing uses.
I think the parent level poster was referring to the cloud-streaming capabilities Adobe is rolling out for Photoshop and presumably other programs, starting on the Chromebook.

http://chrome.blogspot.com/2014/09/adobe-joins-chromebook-pa...
Tech aside, I'm quite curious about the economics of storage here. By the price tags and 'Debian 4' I'm guessing this is an older post. But still, $7867 per 67TB and $5 per month, means they need 131 users pay for one year to recoup the cost of one pod, assuming those 131 do not generate over 67TB worth of storage in that period of time. I've not factored in data centre costs, salaries etc. Just a pod. I'm guessing they have enough users as they have been around for many years now, but still, $5 seems a bit on the cheap side to me (not that I'm complaining)
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We are still paying for IE. XP can't install a version greater than IE8, which many people and companies still use.
The whole point of a finally block is to have the cleanup code in it that should be called regardless of whether or not an exception occurred in the first place.

So the first stream.close should not be there if the 'finally' block already contains one, and it will be executed twice if an exception does not occur.
I'm always surprised by how idiots who haven't the slightest clue about things they are adjudicating, having the temerity to believe that they do.
I've unfortunately been deposed for a day and a half and they are very weird things. First, as the deponent, your goal is twofold: to not fuck up your case by saying anything stupid and to run the clock. Many depositions are limited to X hours. And at least our lawyers were very clear: answer exactly the question, nothing but the question, do not elaborate, and answer minimally.

Also, opposing counsel gets to use notes while you don't. In my case, I was questioned about emails that, printed, where most of a ream of paper. They where trying to trip me up, get me confused, etc, and I was essentially being quizzed on the emails, content, and timeline of very stressful events that occurred over two years -- all without notes. I really wanted to point out that I write things in emails because my memory is fallible. That's why date stamped written records are useful.

My lawyer also had me answer all date questions in a formula, again to avoid misstating things. Instead of saying, eg, X happened in August, I had to say X happened around august, or around fall, etc. It seemed like clarity was your enemy -- opposing counsel could get you to make mistakes on minor details (did X happen at the end August or the beginning of September? who knows; that's why I use a calendar) and then use that to claim the major details where unreliable.
It could be just that. I was at a point where I could not lie down for 5 seconds without feeling like I was choking in my own acid until I quit eating chips.
Oh boy. At least have the balls.

Doing this is the one thing, pulling back 15 minutes after someone criticises you is the other.
Advancements in GMO food has enabled America to produce food at extreme scale but at questionable health prospects.
What is your time estimate for these prerequisites?
> We are the people who end up having to deal with a lack of free choices, a small range of products which are buggy, and DRM bullshit.

What are you dealing with? Get real, you are sitting on HN waiting for your Uber.

Buggy products? Who has bug free products? Name one bug free product from 10 years ago. Is it going to be some half ass Linux desktop distro? The new bi-weekly 'Windows Killer'?

Lack of free choices 10 years ago was completely normal. Using free alternatives in 2000 as a desktop was laughable at best. Even now, in a golden age of OSS where you have tons of cool tools and cheap processing power. Mature projects have issues with finding quality contributors. I'm not talking about a random jQuery plug-in, etc.

Market spoke and it's 100% clear. I was around when there was a 'movement' of getting Linux distros to every office. That was a decade ago and the only viable competitor that made it into the space was Apple. They borrowed some of their base from *BSD. Which is mostly a server workhorse. Ironic.

Why are you bringing up DRM? What does it have to do with Microsoft? Learn about business schematics and history of it.

> As for his foundation and whatnot, it could be said that a fairly large number of people, given the sort of financial resources he has, would help "millions of people".

It's not about raw $ it's about % of wealth and focus. Handing off money to a foundation for a write off is not 'charity work'.

TLDR: You have no idea how different the technology space was 10 years ago. I can say this with extreme confidence.
I, on the other hand, want more gluten. Seitan makes for vegetarian food so tasty you don't miss a thing.
One thing that helped me in the past is differentiating on how fast I could move the deployment / customization of our solution vs. a larger competitor. The service we offered was pretty complex in terms of business requirements (periodic, enterprise-wide, hierarchical data collection of say 10-15 schedules with workflows, status reporting, followups, etc) and it took our larger competitors ~2-3+ months to turn the deployment. One tactic I employed was to ask the prospect for an excel spreadsheets they used in the past and customize the system a bit before the presentation. This had a big wow factor since we already had something that looked familiar and was almost there, made my contacts look good in front of their bosses and eleviated most of the deployment risk (savvy clients really understood that most of the risk was in deployment). We were often able to commit to ~2 week deployment and that made a huge difference. We were winning really large accounts, too (Fortune 100s). Now, this may not scale, but that's a beauty of an early startup - you get to and should do things that may not ultimately scale and may win as a result of that.
It's such a fine line and if he veered just a bit more on the other side, all this press would be beneficial. Instead, he's caught with the hot potato. Honestly, some people have the gift to notice & exploit vulnerabilities but there needs to be a commensurate amount of tact, empathy, and morality for it to be a positive force. I'm on the other side of the spectrum looking to "learn" this type of behavior but my scruples hinder my progress and way of thinking.
I find the post photo where Jason holds a phone with Skurt logo, alluding to an existing relationship equally disturbing.
That puts the last tweet in a much different context: "Jacob - I didn't do anything, but I must say - We definitely don't see it the same."