skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My guess would be that it doesn't matter. Plenty of managers and senior people are hired from outside of companies these days. And in any case, if you don't make more money, it doesn't even really matter: http://www.forbes.com/sites/cameronkeng/2014/06/22/employees...
Full control of the global economy actually, courtesy of what then happened post-WW2 with the establishment of the global FRN standard.

They can crash the Soviet Union, tank modern Russia, break the pound, prop up Japan, build out trillions in manufacturing in China, encourage $20 trillion in new debt creation in China, crash oil with a stronger dollar, nominally inflate stock markets with asset inflation programs, rig the commodity market and libor, squeeze countries into default via currency or bond manipulation, and so on.
I'm not convinced that the FBI has this power.

Can they really say to MIT, for example, that port 9131 on IP address 128.31.0.39 is now out of bounds? Or coerce all of Riseup's peers (including any future ones) to cease connecting to their entire 199.254.238.0/24 range, or even just firewall off 199.254.238.52 upstream?

As far as I know, there's no precedent for this where the provider - and, crucially, the owner of the IP address block - is hosting the server itself.
The second thing you mention already sort-of exists in the form of qubes os: https://qubes-os.org/
For the really lazy: https://www.reddit.com/r/listentothis
> The first six months of a new job is taken up primarily by learning new systems, procedures, who to talk to etc. <…> in the beginning, you will probably feel a lot less stressed out.

Weird, for me it’s the opposite—the most stressful time is when I don’t know how things work. Battling lacking or missing onboarding processes instead of working on challenges I thought I was hired to solve can be demotivating.
It's implicit in the information. Also, the PDCF is closed:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primary_Dealer_Credit_Facility
Enigma is an outstanding book, but once you've read it the film is pretty disappointing in the way it falls back on Hollywood tropes. However, a 'gratuitous' spy plot is not one of them; Enigma is not a documentary, the plot is the story.
If somebody ever asks me "what does mansplaining mean?" I'm just going to say, "Well you see, it's quite easy. Just read this blog post"

In all seriousness, there was no need for the point in this post to be explained through such exemplary mansplaining.
No, I'm correct. The market always buys value, and historically always has. The sole question is price.

There were in fact willing buyers after the great depression. You're admitting I'm right by pointing out the great depression: all of those assets were eventually purchased by the market, that's a tremendous example of what I'm talking about. The only thing you can say is: it took too long, but that's merely an opinion. Besides, the government not only caused the great depression, but then made it much worse. I'd argue the market would have corrected dramatically faster had the government & Fed not screwed things up so massively.

The problem in this case was the market price would have bankrupted the banks that were sitting on worthless loans. And the price deterioration in the housing market from the sinking toxic assets would have wiped out trillions in wealth for the middle class.
These are some great resources! Thanks.
In my view, taking the portfolio approach is a sign of not having enough faith in any one direction.

Entrepreneurs generally have sound visions in a few specific directions unlike VCs who are generally hopeful about a wide variety of stuff but will never bet on a very select few.
The best LaTeX editor I have found is [Latexian](http://tacosw.com/latexian/)

In a discussion on Latex Editors, I find it surprising how it was not mentioned even, so far.
That doesn't always get what you want, though. I've been working on a terrible project and even my managers know how bad it is, yet despite all their efforts to explain this to senior executives(need more people to work on it, more time to refactor, etc.), they simply don't want to hear it.
If you're not happy in your current role, make your employer aware of that fact. If you believe you are underpaid, say it. If you're overworked, say it. I'm not saying you'll necessarily get results but I think people all too often look for the door when what is making them unhappy can probably be resolved where they are. Of course if you're miserable and need a change that's a different story. But remember that if you're good, losing you is going to hit your employer hard. The cost of replacing good people is so high, any good employer will try to resolve any issues you may have in order to keep you.
Yes, music discovery is still a problem. Take a look at the first iteration of Audio Galaxy, which I thought was the best possible music recommendation platform available. You'd have a client opened. Humans would join groups. Humans would push tracks to groups. This is how I discovered DJ Shadow, DJ Food, and several other artists back in the day (read: 2001) all because I was part of a trip-hop group. People would post discussion threads, organize, etc. There is a difference between computer recommendation services and human recommendation services... you know, soul... and I haven't found a single thing that's similar to that iteration of AudioGalaxy yet. Tomahawk does look promising.

I shudder when I wind up listening to Kaskade because I started an Astral Projection station on Pandora. Last.fm was a bit better, but just not the same as AudioGalaxy of yore. Algorithms don't push barriers and take risk (or at least do either "properly"); it's the exact opposite of what they're trying to do.
Could I see a reference? I've been reading a lot of Mike Pall lately and this is relevant to my interests.
> Capitalism requires, at a minimum, very low taxation, few economic regulations, strong protections on property rights, low friction for trade, and very little government intervention into the economy. The US has almost the opposite of that and has for a very long time.

Ahem. Your lack of perspective is painful. May I recommend [1], which ranks countries by both tax burden and government spending as a percentage of GDP. The US is in 60th place in terms of relative tax burden, and 46th place in terms of relative GDP expenditure. Of particular note: please look at the countries ranked below the US in either measure, and tell me which of those both fit your definition of "capitalism" and are places you'd actually want to live.

You can only say that US is "a hyper regulated, highly taxed welfare state" if your baseline of comparison is some wholly delusional Libertarian-land. No such place exists. In the real world of developed nations, keeping civilisation functioning requires both taxation and spending. By that measure, the US is relatively lowly-taxed, and miserably ineffectual at delivering a welfare state.

1: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_spending#As_a_percen...
Kudos for pointing it out to us, then.
Seconded. The point is not that bad code is a necessary evil (it's really not), but that they are going to end up with it if they insist on doing things a certain way.

Another good one is, "Well, I can build you a 20,000-foot fire-breathing chicken made of balsamwood, if that's what you want, or if you just want me to parse a CSV file, I can do that too."

As a developer who has to hear the "tech debt" thing all the time from my co-workers, I really hate that concept. Metaphorically or otherwise, I don't like being in the position of a bank demanding high interest payments from a poor sap who didn't realize what he was getting into. That's not how I view myself in relation to my employers and clients.
My Dad always said to me that if you ever wake up and realise that you're not enjoying work anymore (or even worse, dreading it) then that's the day you start finding something or somewhere else.
The nor Project (Not Tor Project)
Then what trick is more practical than "surround yourself with smart people" that you could derive without smart people?

By the way, the first trick was "The first step is to have an explicit belief in change."
Libtomcrypt/LICENSE
We used to call this a Socratic dialogue, but I'll update my vocabulary. Thanks for the notice.
That may be one of the very few context where judging people is easier than ideas.

Ideas that grow huge look completely random, except when you happen to know the one or two details that make them promising. And you can never know if you know all of those details.

Almost all people that make something big share some few treats that most people lack, what makes this a useful filter. Of course people can change, what reduces the effectiveness of the filter, but it's still better than random.
One can get around the automatic NSFW detection by chaining it to another URL shortener, for example: http://nt.gd/lx2hr0. Might be useful to either detect this, or warn that the next link also hosts a redirect.
Oh come on. I'm not even sure "mansplaining" is a thing, but even it is, in no way does "mansplaining" == "socratic method".

Also, did you even know Alex Potato is a man†? I know two Alex's, one male, and one female. I've never spoken to a potato.

Or is it automatically "mansplaining" because the topic is about a specific woman being underpaid/overworked, and any helpful suggestions to that specific women (that reframe the situation and empower her to improve things herself) are automatically sexist? I mean, I'm happy to condemn employment conditions that systemically underpay women, but that won't actually help Sam, whereas this advice might.

In conclusion, whilst obviously not everything men write or say that is intended to be supportive of feminism is actually helpful and supportive, it really worries me that if men who are trying to help are shot down for missing the mark, then fewer will try in future, and the only ones left commenting will be the trolls who are looking for such a reaction.

† I mean, we could assume they were because they appear to work in software or the like, and play paintball, but we shouldn't do that because it would be sexist, right‡?

‡ Did I just "mansplain" there too? Ooops.
In my current role, I like the company, the product, and my co-workers, but I'm almost positive I could be making 20,000 more a year in the same area. My pay is (I feel) relatively low because I'm a junior software engineer, so I'm torn on whether I should just stick it out and ask for a large raise/promotion in a few months, or put my feelers out.
Read Harpo's autography for an amusing story about how he covered off a huge margin call in the wall street crash by doing private gigs for some gangster mates of chico
I agree completely. I have a two-step process for managing a portfolio of ideas: 1) develop a set of criteria by which to evaluate ideas so that you can compare them apples to apples, and 2) be rigorous and honest when evaluating your ideas. I use a trello board based on the following "idea funnel": https://www.dropbox.com/s/7zscq79ybhjrxni/Idea_Funnel.png?dl...

Worth noting that ideas aren't worth much without execution: http://nducoff.com/post/128443632/what-you-are-doing-is-not-...
> the larger issue of Apple's EFI firmware security and secure booting with no trusted hardware is more difficult to fix.

IMO this shouldn't really be a problem. If the SPI payload disables writes before executing anything unsigned, then it's really quite hard to bypass.

Presumably the bug is a result of EFI capsule on disk support. The design is sh*t for exactly this reason.

The firmware could lock the flash, detect the capsule after initializing option ROMs, copy it to RAM, do a full reset, then find the capsule in RAM and verify a signature prior to re-locking the flash, though.
Very generalised comment and not necessarily true (many factors come into it). But that implies that this company is going to generate enough of its own publicity to push out stories already ranking from techcrunch and arstechnica etc.
My take is:

"The world changes, and when that happens you must change your beliefs accordingly. Yep, you knew that, so now go practice it."

What's a great message to receive from time to time. Yep, everybody knew that, that does not mean the message is useless.
He is wrong [0] in his interpretation of copyright and the BSD, but I think his wishes for his code should exceed his misunderstanding of the relevant law. Further, I think this is a patent (application?) on M3, which is what he is wanting to say with the "Public Domain" stuff [1].

[0] Though, IANAL.

[1] http://www.google.com/patents/US20090043584
My perspective is right in fact.

Libertarian land doesn't exist? You're openly admitting I'm right that the US isn't a highly Capitalist nation, and you're attempting to mock me for being right, hilariously. The US a century ago was a very low regulation, very low taxation, very high Capitalism country. Hong Kong at times has also come very close to qualifying for libertarian land.

As I noted the government's take of the economy is ~40%. That alone automatically disqualifies the US as a Capitalist nation. You can't have a government system that large and still pretend the US is a low regulation, low tax, small government, Capitalist system.

The countries you're comparing the US to, proves my point further: the US is under no circumstances a capitalist country. It's not even close. Comparing the US to middling, poorly run welfare states (the vast majority of all countries), is exactly what I'm talking about.

I never said the US had the worst tax burden. I never said the US government system extracted the highest % of GDP. I said the US was blatantly not a Capitalist country because of how large those figures are. I'm right, all those other countries you're comparing the US to are not highly Capitalist countries either.

Show me the tax burden as a % of GDP for the US in 1890 or 1910, or the government expenditures as a % of GDP for the same era. And I'll show you a Capitalist system.

You want an example of a low figure country I'd like to live in? Sure, Singapore, from your wiki list: 13% tax burden of GDP, and 17% govt expenditures of GDP. No coincidence they've enjoyed one of the greatest booms in world history.
Yes, the first 6 months are by far the most stressful. You are far more replaceable in the first 6 months than you are after a few years.

You will earn more money though. Switching jobs is the fastest way to get a pay raise.
The file in question, for anyone curious:

https://github.com/OpenRefine/OpenRefine/blob/master/main/sr...
It's too bad groklaw isn't still around, it would have been fun to try and get thier take on this.
Why don't you use this sequence in such a case?: 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, ...
How to Automatically Back Up and Purge Your Gmail Every 30 Days
There is this tools as well developed in OpenStack: https://github.com/openstack-dev/bashate
Obama does not consider Sony hack an act of war
Good aspect! I know lots of mathematicians and excellent, "rational" engineers who are terrible investors and tend to go in dead ends with their excellent analysis. Our gut is smarter than we think!
> While it may have been technically "right" to copy the code, it wouldn't have been worth the damage it would have caused to the person behind it.

Well, I will play the devil's advocate. If the code is useful to enough people, then there is damage to everyone else who might have benefited the port.

What I understand from his comments is that he does not only not want you to use his implementation but also "his" algorithm as a basis to the port. Now assuming that he has an efficient algorithm to solve the problem, then he basically forbids other people from using the efficient algorithm.

So the needs of the community's damage may in fact be more than the individual's. Also say the exact same thing happened with GNU toolchain, does the individual's damage still outweighs the community's?

I would not bring this up if his tone in his comments wasn't arrogant despite the fact that he is at fault by not reading making any effort to understand the licence.

EDIT: Can down voters care to comment?
but we all know, that most ideas change significantly. if there is enough capacity of the team, why not launching several things? time is the most expensive resource. when you do a problem - solution fit several directions & products can be tried.

everyone has vision, even people who don't start companies. when you start a company you want it to succeed, because 90% of them fail. sticking with one idea doesn't make sense. maybe it was true 10 - 5 years ago. Now there are so many cloud services, which help to roll out things in days instead of months.
What is legal to do, and what is moral to do doesn't always match up.

I'm sure they're within their legal right to copy the code if they wanted to. But that wouldn't be the moral thing to do.
The video is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXoG0WX0r_E
Right. I know what technical debt is. The commenter I replied to said "I don't believe technical debt is a thing" and was hoping (s)he would elaborate.
Make Fever's investors pay your trip to the movies
How a Massachusetts man invented the global ice market
Is it the lack of making enough money that bothers you? If you dig deeper, what would you say? If you were to ask yourself "What it is that would keep me motivated?" -- what answer emerges?

In his book, "Drive", author Dan Pink argues mostly successfully that it's not the salary or the stock options or other perks that keeps effective individuals motivated. He summarizes that it is the pursuit of that illusive trio -- "Mastery, Autonomy, and Purpose" that keeps people motivated in their work and in their life.

In my experience, if remaining in a job or switching jobs cannot be traced to one of these three, then the decision one takes (remain in a job or switching jobs) is not likely to turn out to be a good decision.
Most "professors" are actually adjuncts (earning <$20k/year, if that), not assistant professors. Assistant professorships are rare and coveted.
The post really makes the OP sounds like a headhunter ("don't worry, the grass is always greener somewhere else..."), in which case I would be very wary of his advice.
Yes, a person evolves that fast.

But a population is much slower. To the point where "human nature doesn't change" is an extremely useful heuristic. If you look for counter examples, you'll find a few changes that took only a century or two, but in practice you'll probably never see one of those changes.
If you understood how people actually think, in a cognitive-science sense, you would understand why "X should have the general intelligence to realize Y" is a complete load in almost all cases.
The problem seems to be that he didn't really decide.

It's easy to make a quick decision when releasing software that cannot be taken back.

And when you're finally realizing your mistake, you can only resort to what we're seeing here: pleas and threats.

And of course, on the whole huge Internet you will always have people who defy you either for legitimate reasons or just out of spite. So it's practically guaranteed that you end up with war.

I cannot make up my mind whether we should blame him (for being so nonchalant with the license) or Google (for luring him into this trap without properly educating him on the consequences).
its actually more profitable for the business to offer you a 5% raise every year (i heard thats average given anyway) when inflation is 7% anually, so definitely ask for a raise every 6 months, the worst that can happen is they say no.
Psychology distinguishes rationality and intelligence as two separate concepts. You can be highly intelligent but not very rational.
He's a man: http://alexpotato.com/career/about.pl
No one was saying that this was done by script kiddies, but IIRC there were monitors on Sony's network for suspicious activity, and they did flag some of the activity, but the relevant people were told to ignore it by Sony's 'security' team. (I imagine this means that they get lots of false-positives and were just too used to ignore the alerts?)
Well it were different times. Like many I liked to disassemble old radios. It was not rare to find a little
pouch inside the housing containing full schematics.
Many power tools came with explosion drawings, so you could
disassemble and reassemble them.

Sharing was more difficult (no Internet), but
on the other hand companies were much more generous with technical information I think.
That's not a bailout. Coupled with flat wages and rising costs of living, savings aren't exactly piling up. And home prices are expected to be pretty flat for the foreseeable future.
Oh I'm very keen on to see "I am using an optional email client packaged with systemd!". Good times for Linux community. Next debate recommendation from me: Should we call distributions GNU/Linux or systemd/Linux?
While there aren't any software licenses that do that, many projects do it as a condition of accepting contributions. As an example here is GCC's contributor documentation: https://gcc.gnu.org/contribute.html

The short version is assign FSF copyright, or put it in the public domain.
Agreed. Startups have very high capital costs. Even a usurious credit card can look lo-cost. It's not very scary at all. It's like writing Little Red Riding Hood with a "big bad groundhog."
http://theinvisiblethings.blogspot.ca/2011/09/anti-evil-maid...

"Anti Evil Maid is an implementation of a TPM-based static trusted boot with a primary goal to prevent Evil Maid attacks.

The adjective trusted, in trusted boot, means that the goal of the mechanism is to somehow attest to a user that only desired (trusted) components have been loaded and executed during the system boot. It's a common mistake to confuse it with what is sometimes called secure boot, whose purpure is to prevent any unauthorized component from executing."
It's not the money that motivates me. I get the most satisfaction from writing good code and pretty/usable UIs, and that is what ultimately drives me.

My feeling is that I could get the satisfaction I describe above at many workplaces, but all things equal, I'd like the option that pays more.
http://puri.sm

"The first high-end laptop that respects your freedom and privacy. The Purism Librem 15 is the first laptop in the world that ships without mystery software in the kernel, operating system, or any software applications."
If you just tell someone you can use the bridge then you can probably revoke it. But if you keep letting them use it and they build a house on the other side of the bridge or something then you've probably granted an implied easement[1] and can't, in fact, suddenly stop letting them use the bridge. But in this case there's actually a legal document saying that anybody can use the bridge so that would be analogous to an express easement.

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easement
>If, let's say, tomorrow they invent an AI that can write great code, putting me out of business - I will say, well, time to switch to something that pays.

This is an absolutely absurd limiting case to take. "An AI that can write great code" can rewrite itself and "go all Singularity" on us. If that happens, there will not be any damn jobs.

>Since when did we become entitled to a well-paid job?

While there is any such thing as a job, yes, the social contract dictates that in exchange for forcing people to work to eat, with no access to the commons and all the Earth enclosed as private property, we give people a damn job to live off. Hell, basic morality demands it.