skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is about being able to connect keys to individuals and then searching The Stash for more links that then build a graph.

But it's just metadata, isn't it..
> Were there any other significant factors specific to his business that made you mention customer disputes as such a significant reason?

Unfortunately, yes. Still, explaining the marijuana restriction should've been our primary focus in that email.

In general, we would never close an account that had a reasonable explanation for high dispute rates (unless card networks or banks forced us to). Our goal is to help users manage their disputes, and in the long term to not have to worry about them at all.
It's a question posed because of the statements in the article that the tech industry is racist and sexist, and 10x programmers are toxic, not his actual view on black female programmers...
I sometimes wonder how much of the US tech industry's success and influence depends on, 1) access to the world's largest market (including the access that comes from cultural familiarity), 2) the U.S.'s already enormous global cultural influence, 3) English, it's distribution across the globe and the fact that much IT is built on it, and 4) first-mover advantage.

In other words, to what degree are those the reasons that the world uses Facebook and Android, and not the South Korean equivalents?

(Yes, the question is a bit theoretical and likely impossible to answer definitively.)
>Disinformation only works if you're too lazy to research the reality.

That's like 95% of the time for 95% of people though.
So far the only issue was some slowness when it uses xsel over ssh. I don't think it should take that long because of network alone. Otherwise - it's very good.
Yes they do! They also apparently like OSX, iOS, and RHEL.[1]

Oh wait, you were just trying to score cheap snark points, weren't you?

[1] - https://www.nsa.gov/ia/mitigation_guidance/security_configur...
This behaviour is a defined by the SQL standard. PostgreSQL provides the non-standard statement_time() and clock_time() functions to get the time at the beginning of the execution of the current statement and the actual current timestamp, respectively. Even then, it's probably a good idea to use sequences rather than timestamps if strict ordering is required.
Implementing OpenCL in C on Mac OS X
Counterargument: war is a conflict between sovereign states. Terrorism is violence utilized by political pressure groups, not sovereign states. Terrorists are no more at "war" with the US than the Al Capone gang was, or Zetas gang in Mexico.

The Taliban was a sovereign state that, for a basket of reasons, actively supported terrorist attacks on the US. The invasion of Afghanistan was a war.

Al Qaeda is not a sovereign state; they're a criminal organization.

What makes it difficult to prosecute Al Qaeda using US criminal procedure is the fact that they're mostly non-citizens, mostly operating out of the US, mostly in countries that are not especially cooperative with the FBI.

In fact, I think my counterargument says that the "grave problem" is the opposite of the one you pose. It's not that prosecuting Al Qaeda criminally risks corrupting the criminal justice system. It's that prosecuting them as a sovereign who we're at war with has demonstrably corrupted the military.
Isn't ISE pretty much what you are asking for?
> I'm surprised, frankly, that they don't have better English-language proficiency.

People with high English proficiency are probably employed at better-paying gigs.
or make time constant and stop trying to keep it in sync with things.
>Until you can point me to the test-suite for a Linux kernel& driver set that gives me 100% code-coverage, then Linux will never get past this point.

Of course, this is proprietary to the whims of the companys' deploying SIL-4 Linux: THALES, et al.

http://ti.tuwien.ac.at/ecs/teaching/courses/hwswcode_vu_WS_2...

http://ercim-news.ercim.eu/en75/special/tas-control-platform...

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-real-time-linux/

(BTW, HSE isn't exactly an industrial authority on much ..)
Nobody is now, but 7.50 an hour could provide for that based on current residential space costs and food costs.
The next generation of spreadsheets will be a database
Taken out of context, this type of comment makes for good nationalist propaganda.
What a wonderfully informative article. I really appreciated all the specific scenarios and cases.
no, that would be A-OK. load everybody onto the ISS and send it to orbit around Uranus.
Regardless of incompetence, indifference, or deliberate intent, dubious software is still dubious.
The problem is letting local people vote for it at all.
> I hope that someone invents a sane client-side lib with sane page generation quite soon.

Can you explain more fully what you mean by "sane page generation" please? I am not getting your drift, apart from wondering if you want a return to 1990's static HTML pages...
Ugh, fail.

The Guardian comments sections are a trashbag of political censorship and general idiocy, but I see no evidence that they are being trolled by the Kremlin. A whole lot of people THINK they are, and the Guardian has levelled such accusations (without presenting evidence) but my own experience is that I am routinely accused of working for the Kremlin there, based on no evidence at all. Their view is simply "you disagree with me therefore you must be a paid troll". Making things worse: the Guardian moderators delete vast numbers of comments that would be considered completely acceptable anywhere else, merely for questioning what their articles say.

I think the only way to respond to government-sponsored trolling is to just ignore it. Who cares what someone's motivation is? The only practical response is the same anyway: answer back and be more convincing than they are.
Did Budweiser have anything to do with this?
ICBW, but I believe Ctrl-[ is already available, and works the same.

For me, having remapped Capslock to Ctrl, this is a dead simple way of hitting Esc without going as far off homerow.
Books:

What The Buddha Taught: http://amzn.com/0802130313. A straightforward overview of the foundations of Buddhism.

Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism: http://amzn.com/1570629579. In your journey, your ego will be tempted to claim your spirituality for itself. Don't let that happen.

Mindfulness In Plain English: http://amzn.com/0861719069. A classic introduction to meditation.

Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: http://amzn.com/1590308492. A mind-opening taste of Zen, and a classic. Read with your heart, not your brain.

Other recommended Zen authors: Seung Sahn. Taizan Maezumi. Brad Warner. The aforementioned Alan Watts.

Also, an invaluable online resource: http://www.accesstoinsight.org, especially essays by Thanissaro Bhikkhu: http://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/authors/thanissaro/index....

There are also many fantastic essays on Tricycle: http://www.tricycle.com

Finally: reading about Buddhism is like reading about the most delicious food. It won't satisfy your hunger. It's mind-medicine - only for your mind. The only soul-medicine is sitting down every day on a cushion and looking at a white wall. (Or variations thereof.) You cannot reach enlightenment and save all beings from suffering by reading a book. Don't take my word for it - you have to see for yourself.
Oh thank god!
the trans-pacific gap described in the style of product design is interesting, but i doubt the idea to look at the habits of seoulians as a crystal ball to predict the future - rather, the diffrence probably stems from the internet culture and history unique to seoul. i don't think its necessary or likely that the tech cultures of the west and east converge anytime soon.
Why Every Enterprise Startup Needs a NYC Presence
How six people built the #2 mobile analytics tool in just a few months
Just wondering - has anyone heared any other side of the story? Whenever a story appears to be such clear cut black and white with one evil villain, my septics radar goes up.
apple doesnt want you replacing apple maps with google maps, or safari with chrome.
Deploy Locks looks interesting. does any one has more info on how this can be achieved in a git pull based deploy flow ?
It is amazing how prescient the movie "Enemy of the State" (with Will Smith, Gene Hackman) was. And how it holds up to a second viewing even today.
This is exactly why I prefer buying "dumb" tvs and simply adding chromecast/appletv/firetv, etc. Much better experience.
I guess I just see it as too easy to solve w/o adding custom complexity to ØMQ.
Ok. This was missing from your description. It seemed like what happened to you could have happened outside of people using VPNs/Tor to download pirated material. E.g. you could have even just been running an open access point.
Here is a better example:

https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=yeahyeah

At the time this was the top comment and completely derailed the conversation. Pretty sure that wasn't a Russian agency, take a guess which one it was.

EDIT: amazing, I provide the community a crystal clear example of astroturfing and get down voted.
I think this translates as, "Sepp Blatter can't make travel commitments required of his position without facing extradition."
It's pretty much a public secret that Ballmer was one of the last reasons why Microsoft did not participate much in the OSS community even though a lot of employees wanted it.

To give a concrete example of the changes (heard from a former Microsoft employee): Under Ballmer they were not allowed to touch anything open-source. Pretty soon after he left that was changed to a policy that a BSD/MIT open-source solution must be used if it is available unless there's a damned good reason.
The Internet Needs a Save Button – Why Pocket Is Now Integrated in the Browser
MS is finally waking up. I guess new CEO has some positive effect.
If you use a key exclusively for github servers then there's no graph-building.

something like the following in ~/.ssh/config

Host *.github.com

IdentitiesOnly yes

IdentityFile ~/.ssh/hostboundkeys/github_ed25519
Seems a lot like he's stepping down now to avoid being dragged down later.
I agree with you that the word is overused. Avastin is most certainly not a breakthrough, I don't know any oncologist that considers it as such.

I think the word is justified in this context however because the rationale behind immunotherapy is very sound, and it seems able to cure a non-negligible proportion of patients with otherwise incurable disease.
Thanks for the informational post!
In the long term latency makes that a non starter.
You forget that the employees are also taking a risk. A Fortune 500 is stable, and steady work can be found in many city hubs.

Startups are sometimes spread quite afar, Mojang was in Stockholm, and are not always likely to survive. While Notch was "rolling in the dough" there was no guarantee that it would continue indefinitely.

That risk is why employees, especially early employees, feel like they should get some equity. It's a trade-off: they are accepting a percentage chance that they are joining a company that could fail, but there's also a chance it could be wildly successful. The difference between equity and wage represents an assessment of risk and riskiness. And, of course, offering lower wages and higher equity shares creates positive incentives for employees to go above-and-beyond and ensure that the company is not just a mild success, but a multi-billion-dollar-buyout success. This is opposed to the perverse incentive that wage-only compensation creates, where a buyout potentially means losing your job. After all, if you weren't valuable enough to deserve equity, you may not be the talent the new company was seeking to acqui-hire.

In this case, it is almost certainly the case that any Mojang employee would have better off foregoing all wages in exchange for a small amount of ownership.

With hindsight biases, I suspect every Mojang employee would say they'd be willing to give up some wages for some equity. But before the acquisition, it was nowhere near clear that the company was worth $2.5 billion, so I wonder how many employees might still be willing to take that offer.

So, like I said, trade-offs. I think the tone at the end of your post represents how a lot of founders might look at it, and I realize it's hypothetical. But stepping back from the situation, there are complicated incentives involved in wage and equity compensation, and balancing those as a founder or an employee can be difficult.
... are you suggesting that the entire US population refuse to pay any taxes until surveillance issues are fixed? Because that's a terrible idea.
Even better:

imap jk <ESC>
imap kj <ESC>

I just hit both and j at the same time with my pointer and index fingers so it's essentially one keystroke.
> Disinformation only works if you're too lazy to research the reality.

The disinformation has an enormous advantage: It costs much less state a lie than to determine the statement's truth. I'm not lazy, I just don't have enough time to check the truth of all these statements. In the end, I have to trust someone.
I'm convinced Francois Hollande is France playing a cruel joke on itself.

As (I think Zappa) said, "Politics is the entertainment division of the military-industrial complex".
That's because the researcher didn't do that on an actual plane. In fact it wasn't even a simulator, it was a virtualized simulator where he put the systems all on the same bus. On top of that the guy was only able to listen in on traffic.

The entire story is bogus.

The systems are isolated just fine.
So the decisions about where a bunch of millioners will be kicking a ball will be made more fairly?
'virtual stickers' == 'virtual scarcity'

Many of the points seemed good and worthy of examining when considering policies locally, however that is one idea that I really think needs to die.
Thanks, that is awesome!
I'm aware Firefox can do tab, bookmark, and history sync.

However, Firefox on Android cannot be deeply integrated like Chrome is on my Nexus 5, and last time I tried Firefox Android it had a weird UI and didn't look like a native Android app either.

Also, the lack of Chromecast support in Firefox is also making it difficult to use on the desktop.
The phrase no longer makes literal sense in this day of ubiquitous wireless communications.

"If the two networks aren't physically connected, there's no way to gain access to one network from another" is no longer true.
Mine updated itself to add a big banner advertisement to the main screen. It originally had no ads.
This is great but I'm still sticking to MinTTY/Cygwin for SSH until Windows gets a decent terminal program.
One of Taleb's tweets stated:

"From Mafia history: Feds close progressively the circle around the big fish via associates. They get him last to avoid plea bargaining."

The circle was being closed, and hopefully Blatter will still face some consequence while he attempts to run away from this mess.
His show is awesome and really hit the ground running! Really makes the Colbert Report replacement (The Nightly Show) look terrible by comparison (started around the same time but to be fair LWT is once a week while TNS is 4 days/week). Looking forward to other things that John will bring into the light, I've learned quite a bit from his show (or rather his show has wetted my appetite to do more research on topics he covers).
I've never worked 9 to 5 at a startup. There are real sacrifices "just employees" make all the time to make the founder's vision real and to scale.
Ah, okay thank you for clarifying!
>OpenSSH is exposed to the internet a lot (even if, yes, that is not best practice)

Please elaborate.
I would love there to be an ExtJS alternative - on ReactJS, EmberJS or something else - with all those widgets. Heck, a jQuery based library of widgets that are as nice as ExtJS would be beuuuuuuutiful.
It's funny, the parallels between Putin and Blatter. They both have tried hard to hold onto power, knowing that when they lose it the skeletons will start flying out of the closet.
I agree with the thoughts others have written about fear of losing the best employees. In addition, I think a lot of managers keep things secret because they hope to avoid difficult conversations. Also, if there is one person who you really don't want to share something with for whatever reason, it's tough to let everyone else in. Those things don't excuse a lack of transparency, but I think they contribute.

Regardless, absent of some extenuating factor related to performance, no way should you have been given no notice and no severance. I'm sure they would have taken it poorly had you (when things were going well) have given them no notice.

Good luck getting back into the game.
Having the flash translation layer on the drive itself is the only practical way for the drive to be usable by multiple operating systems. Almost everyone who uses a SSD wants it to be accessible to at least two operating systems (UEFI, and whatever OS resides on the SSD). Doing the FTL on the host system would basically relegate the SSD to being just a cache device.
If there was a decent way to hook up databases to spread sheets we probably would use it at my 3 month old startup.

As it is, I opened a json endpoint so that Zapier can scrape our orders and fill it into the next-blank-line in a google doc.

Is there a better way to satisfy this use case?
It tries, but I think ISE is super clunky and it's awkward to use. It lacks the simplicity of a bog-standard terminal while not adding features to balance out its clunkiness (akin to the difference between a text editor an IDE--the IDE had best add something I can use if I'm going to take the hit).
conhost is getting some upgrades in Windows 10:
http://www.hanselman.com/blog/Windows10GetsAFreshCommandProm...

Given that a lot of new development in the Windows world is focused on the console, I expect that we will see more enhancements in the future.
Except that fair market rate has been depressed by collusion and shady hiring practices almost universally.
No animals were harmed in the making of this report.
Alright, let's talk specifics.

1. Is the Hola Chrome extension vulnerable to these kinds of issues?

2. How can you remove/fix these issues? Is uninstalling Hola enough?
It was a hobby. Something he did for fun, as a leisure activity. Life is not about working, and for most people leisure time is not fungible with more work.
How technology can help language learning
I had jk mapped for a long time and thought it was safe. Then one day I actually had to type it as text, and it took me a moment to figure out what was wrong. I'm retraining myself to use ^[ now.
A VPN with sshd exposed only inside the private network is a much smarter way of handling remote access. (But it's initially harder, so lots of people don't do it.)
Batteriser is a $2.50 gadget that extends disposable battery life by 800 percent
You need to know how dw, de, cw, ce relate to each other, when the cursor is on a token character vs. a whitespace character, and so on, in order for this to be truly useful -- but luckily, ordinary practice with those commands in Vim can lead to an efficient internal idea of how it works. "You get used to it, though. Your brain does the translating. I don't even see the code. All I see is blonde, brunette, redhead."
For an interesting take on the FIFA charges, YC's Casetext had several articles published by Heather Lowe -
Legal Counsel and Director of Government Affairs at Global Financial Integrity:

FIFA: The Bribery Case with No Bribery Charge https://casetext.com/posts/xyrwas9p8swf80k9-fifa-the-bribery...

Can Victims Sue for Damages? https://casetext.com/posts/pz8uyoy048izr529-can-fifa-victims...
I extended the life of an iMac by booting from an external SSD over Thunderbolt. I couldn't face the replacement process at home. Performance is very good.
WOW that is a huge step for M$ maybe there is still some surprises left for the new order within Microsoft. I for one welcome a replacement to PuTTY.
How to Version APIs Internally
All these drives were on hardware RAID cards it seems, is it feasible to do without them?
I'm sure sponsor pressure had a lot to do with it. You can sell "It's just the Americans" about the DOJ investigations to a lot of your voters, but when the money goes away you don't have the means of control.
Of course SSD firmware is buggy. You know why? Because any half-decent electrical and computer engineering team can slap a NAND flash controller and some flash chips on a PCB, take the controller's manufacturer's reference firmware implementation, tweak the dozens of knobs provided by the reference implementation (ignore FLUSH commands, change the amount of reserved sectors, disable this, enable that, etc), change the device ID strings to "Company Foobar SSD 2000", and release the product on the market, with minimal QA and testing. And that's exactly what happened in the last 5-7 years with dozens and dozens of companies around the world designing SSDs.

But with traditional HDDs, the amount of engineering and domain-specific knowledge to manufacture and assemble the platters, moving heads, casing, etc, is such that there are only a handful of companies around the world who can do this (Seagate, WDC, Hitachi, etc). They have decades of experience doing that, so the firmware part of HDDs happen to be very robust as these companies have seen everything that can and will go wrong in an HDD.

So it boils down to this: which would you trust more, an HDD firmware code base that is 20 years old, or an SSD firmware code base that is 4 years old?

Combine this with the fact SSD firmware is much more complex (a flash translation layer must minimize write amplification, do wear leveling, spread writes on multiple chips, etc), and you are guaranteed that many SSDs on the market are going to be very buggy.
I read it more as a barb against Steven Sinofsky former president of the Windows division, former internal competitor for CEO and alleged naysayer of open source.
"Also; it says nothing about what Microsoft is doing with Minecraft in the last year."

That is accurate. Nothing so far. At least in public.

When the news of the purchase went out there was a lot of theory about how they will get rid of all console ports but the msphone/xbox ports, get rid of the osx and linux port, somehow find a way to make it un-runnable on anything but windows 8 which I'm sure with effort is technically possible, or monetize the heck out of it like buy diamonds for real world cash or whatever.

I'm not sure if they're wisely waiting for things to quiet and calm, or if they're actually making no progress.

The modding community is busy enough. I don't think its possible for one human to keep up with absolutely everything in the FTB DW20 pack, for example. It would just take more wall clock time to gain expertise than there is wall clock time between new releases and new mods.
The trouble with open offices, and how you can manage them better
If they are giving you five days to switch and will pay out all of your processed transactions in a timely manner, then how is that "getting fucked"? It's not.

The credit card processing industry is rife with horrible companies that will freeze your funds for months on end and shut down your account without notice at the drop of a hat.

Stripe stands head and shoulders above the rest of the industry in this regard. In fact, I am impressed by how generous they are being, given that this business is obviously operating in a grey area of federal law.
Deploying Phoenix Apps with Docker
Obviously that's just internal investigations. The DOJ doesn't care about your employment status.
You can transfer files across an air gap using:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sneakernet
To be clear, I don't think it works - I'm curious to see the discussion to see if my (electrical layman's) gut feeling is correct that this is at best a vast overstatement of the capabilities of a voltage booster.
Context:

https://youtu.be/qr6ar3xJL_Q?t=702