skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Then read the second term:

2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
Preparing a manuscript in Emacs is like preparing a graphic design in GIMP.

Suck it up and use the tool that everyone else is using -- Word.
Having an Apple rep demo it on stage at the next WWDC may help spur adoption...
It's unfortunate that we're still having the same arguments decades later.
I completely agree with you in regard to the implications as I wrote the post.

My only criticism is your use of the word "random" to describe the people listed.
"We need to question why most VC firms intervene in company decision-making in the first place, when their original decision to fund these startups was presumably based on how effectively the founders had been handling decision-making up to that point."

I don't think they were basing it on how effective the founders were. Many VCs don't trust their money with inexperienced business owners. I sure wouldn't. They see an idea that could possibly make money combined with desperate founders. After making a deal for majority control, they move their own experienced people in to run the company.

Many founders like to play the buyout game where they don't really care about making money from a product. They try to get as much investments as possible, get paid in the process, and hope for a buyout from a larger company that can take the assets and users and eventually monetize them.

"Secret has proved this to be a bad strategy, clearly demonstrating that if the founders’ buttons are pushed hard enough, they may decide to simply walk, allowing the house of cards to come tumbling down. As we know, when this happens, everyone loses."

What was the original 'vision of the company'? A business is there to make money and an ROI for the investors. This is the #1 goal as soon as you take any investments.
It's an interesting idea to put into a JPEG decoder directly.
If the only criteria is only to get "a" job, then only the ratio job applicants / job offers categorized by programming language should be taken into account.

If you add other criteria, such as salary, happiness, difficulty, locality, etc, then the choice will become more difficult.

That said, the programming language should just not be a consideration for a programmer or to get a programming job.

Do you ask your surgeon whether he uses knifes or clams from such or such provider?

Do you think that hospitals will reject a surgeon because he never worked with knifes of the same made as the ones they have and use at the hospital?

A real programmer will be able to use any programming language.
If you ask an experienced real programmer, he will tell you what programming language to use to write what application, and it may very well not be the same language for all your applications.

(Actually, this is because languages have different features that are required or more adapted for different applications, that languages such as lisp or scheme that have a good macro system, ie. compiler hook, allowing the programmer to _change_ the language and implement domain specific language features (or use libraries implementing domain specific languages), that language as lisp are so good and should be used more, if you asked experimented programmers, instead of newbies or managers; this is also a reason why newer languages like ruby or python that try to be more like lisp have such current development, but people would do better with lisp).

So as a future professional programmer, your friend would be well advised to become acquainted with several programming languages. For example, he could write a small smartphone applications with a backend server, where he would have to write android java, iOS Objective-C, some C or C++ library used by either, a Common Lisp server, using some PostgreSQL database (programmed in SQL), with a Ruby on Rails front end, and a few bash glue scripts. To be efficient in his work, he would also learn emacs lisp to customize and automatize his emacs workflow. In addition to the smartphone apps, he would write some administrative web server, including some Javascript stuff generating HTML and CSS.

http://www.jasonbock.net/jb/News/Item/7c334037d1a9437d9fa650...
Wow, that's amazing. Hope the lander didn't sustain any damage.
Even as a freelance person it's not a huge problem for me. It can be annoying, but if I'm doing real work rather than just looking up one article on a whim, it's not a showstopper. Mostly I just use the local university library. Non-affiliates can't check out books, but anyone can walk in and get on the wifi. And once you're on their wifi, you get whatever database access they've negotiated for their IP range. Not every university library allows this, but quite a lot do.
I live in Vietnam.

Facebook is extremely popular. Small businesses generally just create a facebook website instead of regular website. Zalo and Viber are also very popular.

Apple is an insanely popular brand - although not very many people have Macbooks. You see their logo plastered everywhere. The funniest place I've seen it is the cutout of the lamp shades in a local pizza restaurant.

I've been pretty amazed at how willing people are to spend essentially all their disposable income (and then some) on cell phones. New cell phones are more expensive here than in the US because they are taxed (although you don't get chained to an absurdly expensive plan with a company).

I think a big contributor to the popularity of smart phones is the camera. Every new location is a photo opportunity and every new photo must go up on Facebook.......
New app for discovering people and chat
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On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.

Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
>Ok, Magic the Gathering and Star Trek are my genuine interests and passions. Think that'll work for me?

Ain't gonna slow you down as long as you follow your first two bits of advice.

Definitely helps to know how to talk about them in a casual conversation without being off-putting.
It works as long as you know which locks you need in advance. You'll get much better concurrency than with the one-lock model when there's a low probability that two processes need any of the same locks (e.g. locking a whole table vs. locking individual records).

It fails you if you have a monadic rather than applicative requirement on the computation; that is, if intermediate computations can require you to take more locks that you couldn't have predicted needing in advance. In that case, you're going to need a transactional-memory system that can abort and retry computations, and that is powerful but hard to get right.
I think the prices for most of these journals individually is enormous - they are usually sold in bundles through individually negotiated, confidential pricing agreements that run into the hundreds of thousands of dollars. Far cheaper per journal, but probably including a bunch or journals that the institution normally wouldn't be interested in, and a ton of garbage.

http://www.pnas.org/content/111/26/9425.full

Not to say that many/most papers can't be found with a little bit of effort, and I can't really imagine a situation where an establishment journalist emails authors about one of their papers and doesn't get it.
"Lego-like" == what a great description.
I'd recommend stealing a copy of Ringolevio by Emmet Grogan,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmett_Grogan

or if your local bookshops' security is too good you can read some of it at http://www.diggers.org/ringolevio.htm
It's not the first time security clearance information has been exposed. Back in 2014 several of the contractors who do background investigations had breaches.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/dhs-co...

http://fedscoop.com/another-opm-background-check-contractor-...
I still have a 3C905B handy. Those and the NE2000 were fantastic for Just Working in Linux. I think I still have some 10BASE2 "N" coax terminators and T-pieces too. All this kit was first used to play DOOM multiplayer in the mid-90s under MS-DOS using the Novell IPX drivers.

All of these technologies are now dead, except Doom.

Edit: it's kept in a box with a 56k modem, an ISA Action Replay, a Soundblaster 16, a Trident video card, and a loose Cyrix processor.
Flag+Day+celebrated+in+Troy
He wasn't internationally labeled as an inappropriate dresser, he was internationally labeled a sexist. That crossed a line and the fact he had to give a tearful apology on one of the biggest days of his career without making that distinction or defending himself in any way is disgusting.
About 44% of newly built units in 2014 are privately owned, so the other more-than-half are not.

I couldn't figure out how much of that is actually publicly managed (versus some potential third class), but they're already a significant part of the housing landscape of Berlin - and they have less of an issue with recovering costs over 25 years than individual house owners.
and immediately following this article https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2015/06/cyber-attack...:

The site is under a strong denial of service attack from a bot trying to crash it by overloading with millions of pings from multiple locations. I presume the objective is to take down the revelation of the fake MI6 Snowden story, which had been read by tens of thousands already and is now really taking off.

While the copyright in that article remains mine, I grant permission for it freely to be reproduced by anybody, anywhere. I shall be grateful for multiple copies to be posted around the web so it can’t be taken down.

Some extremely brilliant people have put an awful lot of time and a bit of money on the defences of this blog, making it very hard to crash even by governments, through a cloud hosting system. (OK, you got me, I don’t understand how they do it). With any luck we won’t go down, but backups on that article very welcome.

This article will be deleted in an hour or so to put the MI6 lies back at top of the blog.
I wrote a greasemonkey userscript for Firefox to reduce the number of non-technical articles. It works alright, I never meant it to be perfect, just get rid of the stuff that never is fun for me to read or is about topics that come up too often.

https://github.com/ErikHarmon/hncleanse/blob/master/hncleans...
This year's CVPR has a lot of great papers.
In case anybody hasn't seen, a full list's available at
http://cs.stanford.edu/people/karpathy/cvpr2015papers/
This is very cool.

Also check this out - at a "mere" 490 USD you can buy a 10BaseT to 10Base2 converter kit, USB based. http://www.icsaero.com/products/groundtest/lantap-10
It is very often possible for journalists to get papers for free. In many cases it's easy to email the author and they'll happily provide you with a copy within short timeframes. Some archives provide free access to journalists, e.g. the cochrane library.

I'm all for open access, because I think everyone should have the right to see publicly funded scientific research. But from my experience as a journalist who's written a number of pieces on scientific works it often isn't a big problem. I never had to pay for a journal article to do my work.
Free+iTunes+Codes+•+Free+iTunes+Card+Codes
With the above in mind, here's the text of the original post (https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2015/06/five-reasons...).

Five Reasons the MI6 Story is a Lie

The Sunday Times has a story claiming that Snowden’s revelations have caused danger to MI6 and disrupted their operations. Here are five reasons it is a lie.

1) The alleged Downing Street source is quoted directly in italics. Yet the schoolboy mistake is made of confusing officers and agents. MI6 is staffed by officers. Their informants are agents. In real life, James Bond would not be a secret agent. He would be an MI6 officer. Those whose knowledge comes from fiction frequently confuse the two. Nobody really working with the intelligence services would do so, as the Sunday Times source does. The story is a lie.

2) The argument that MI6 officers are at danger of being killed by the Russians or Chinese is a nonsense. No MI6 officer has been killed by the Russians or Chinese for 50 years. The worst that could happen is they would be sent home. Agents’ – generally local people, as opposed to MI6 officers – identities would not be revealed in the Snowden documents. Rule No.1 in both the CIA and MI6 is that agents’ identities are never, ever written down, neither their names nor a description that would allow them to be identified. I once got very, very severely carpeted for adding an agents’ name to my copy of an intelligence report in handwriting, suggesting he was a useless gossip and MI6 should not be wasting their money on bribing him. And that was in post communist Poland, not a high risk situation.

3) MI6 officers work under diplomatic cover 99% of the time. Their alias is as members of the British Embassy, or other diplomatic status mission. A portion are declared to the host country. The truth is that Embassies of different powers very quickly identify who are the spies in other missions. MI6 have huge dossiers on the members of the Russian security services – I have seen and handled them. The Russians have the same. In past mass expulsions, the British government has expelled 20 or 30 spies from the Russian Embassy in London. The Russians retaliated by expelling the same number of British diplomats from Moscow, all of whom were not spies! As a third of our “diplomats” in Russia are spies, this was not coincidence. This was deliberate to send the message that they knew precisely who the spies were, and they did not fear them.

4) This anti Snowden non-story – even the Sunday Times admits there is no evidence anybody has been harmed – is timed precisely to coincide with the government’s new Snooper’s Charter act, enabling the security services to access all our internet activity. Remember that GCHQ already has an archive of 800,000 perfectly innocent British people engaged in sex chats online.

5) The paper publishing the story is owned by Rupert Murdoch. It is sourced to the people who brought you the dossier on Iraqi Weapons of Mass Destruction, every single “fact” in which proved to be a fabrication. Why would you believe the liars now?

There you have five reasons the story is a lie.
Point #1 won't be fixed by trying to interfere with smart growth, instead, Google will end up leasing more office space spread around MV and traffic will continue to grow worse.

Those companies are going to continue to hire more and more employees. Either the politicians actually work with them to come up with smart plans for growth to relief traffic pressure, or they can stick their heads in the sand hoping it'll go away.

There have been proposals IIRC to improve freeway infrastructure around MV, but those were shot down by anti-growth members of the council. In fact, the council often votes to make traffic clogs worse: http://www.mv-voice.com/news/2013/06/19/cycle-track-to-repla...
Wow! And XKCD has already updated his epic Landing live-comic: https://xkcd.com/1446/

(See http://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1446:_Landing for the background)
There are lots of stolen iphones. Ho Chi Minh has lots of thefts. Both locals and tourist get victimized.
> leave employees with a higher salary then they would have negotiated for somewhere else

Only the below average ones. Above average employees would have been able to negotiate a higher salary/extras. Thus, higher quality employees will go work someplace else and not at Reddit.

A quick list of what hiring B players leads to: lower team productivity (lowest common denominator), higher HR costs, poor culture fit, shitty workplace politics creeping into everything. Oh, and the A players you do have leave because FTS and stress.
I hacked Uber's website yesterday
I didn't propose a solution because it isn't a problem. Regulations protect people by forcing corporations, generally, to do something that's more expensive but better for their workers/customers/the general public because our society has decided (by voting) that we want certain standards to exist; I want to be able to walk into a restaurant and know that I won't get food poisoning and die without having to consult some privately owned and non-accountable review system. I want workers to be treated decently so they can support a family and be part of a livable civil society. These are basic, basic things that we've developed over thousands of years of civilization as expected common goods that the extremist hyper-libertarians like you see here are trying to destroy because they get in the way of someone's ability to make money by exploiting others. Because that's what deregulation does; it allows people with money to abuse the capitalist system to exploit others and make more money, since regulation is almost always used to prevent exploitation.

Sure the barrier to entry problem exists but honestly it's minor in comparison to the value the regulations have. It is HUGELY blown out of proportion by people here. Maybe it's more expensive to run your business safely and prove that you are but honestly I don't care, if you can't run a safe business society doesn't need to allow you to have one. We allow businesses to limit their liability in exchange for being good citizens; the regulations just make sure the businesses are holding up their end of the deal because we've seen through history, without them, businesses are disgustingly exploitative and destroy the lives of citizens and entire societies (see robber barons).
How did you select words to compare?
Did you have to try many poor combinations before selecting
a "good" set?
In the US most bank checking accounts have a monthly fee which is waived if you meet certain conditions, like maintain a minimum balance (I think mine was $1000) or get an automatic direct deposit at least 2 times per month of $250 or more - these would be hard to meet for a childs account. Credit unions are usually free though.
I did something very similar with dotjs before I realized it was introducing a 1-5 second delay in the loading of every webpage. How's the performance of this script?
Most Mac users on here are probably used to the US layout of keyboard. Check out the UK version for a mean bit of design. The left hand shift key barely exists and the return key is a remote sliver. I always buy the US keyboard when I get a new machine.

http://i01.i.aliimg.com/wsphoto/v1/1853014535_2/Wholesale-5P...
Thanks for the link! I'll take a look!
> > Google will store your website and WiFi passwords (along with your emails and pictures) in plaintext on their servers

> You're going to need to qualify that statement.

They store that information such that they can read it. Yes, it may actually be encrypted with a key they have access to, but it's effectively plaintext because they can read it.

> > Mozilla utterly destroyed the security of their sync system

> You're going to need to qualify that statement.

https://blog.mozilla.org/services/2014/04/30/firefox-syncs-n...

Your master key is stored on their servers, encrypted with a key derived from your password. That's pretty bad already, since user-memorable passwords are highly susceptible to guessing. It gets worse though, since they use Mozilla-served JavaScript to log you into your Firefox account—which means Mozilla could choose to serve someone different JavaScript and steal his password.

All it would take is a court order, and they could be forced to do it.
"Well paid"? Not so much.
If there are no associated clients, you can brute-force the SSID with MDK3 http://www.backtrack-linux.org/forums/showthread.php?t=12360

And mahouse is correct: airodump-ng automatically detects when the SSID is broadcasted and displays it.
Linux -> Linus -> (Charles Schultz) Peanuts-> peanut?
I wonder if you can still get a free elk or buffalo from the Department of the Interior.
Comparison of Modern Game Audio Engines
Very glad you found those people, cherish them!
that's funny, how every article mention using pinkie for modifier keys. I always used thumb for that :) in fact i just tried to keep an eye how i am using keyboard and i found i rarely using pinkie at all. This is on standard-ish full-size laptop and 104 desktop keyboards.
I'm not good at security stuff, but is a hardcoded password not much worse than any string written to some kind of config database but that is different for every program installation or system user?
As far as I remember, everyone was jumping on top of SVMs and Markov Models.
I'm wondering why you think life is a balancing act. I hear people say "balance" all the time like this, but I don't see any real advantage to it. It just seems like a fluff word.

Like, what are you balancing, and where is the evidence that this is superior in ways that generally matter?
Yes, there are a few.

Days of War, Nights of Love [0]
EXPECT RESISTANCE [1]

Days of War, at least is almost a super zine compilation, with many points of view. The most interesting thing I got from it was that it gave you permission to take only the parts of an idea, argument, whatever that you liked, and leave the rest well alone, and form your own ideas. (The closest book to this would be The Art of Looking Sideways, by Alan Fletcher [2] which is as apolitical as you can make it, but is basically the guy's creative sketchbook distilled down. Pick what you like, and be inspired.)

That sounds so simple and obvious, but there's many times when we fall into a herd mentality for various reasons, and those brilliant ideas get packaged with those not so good ideas. See, for example: any of the main monotheistic religions. Great! ideas in those, and some not so great ideas. One way to get around that is to have plural, indeed anonymous, authors.

One problem with more contemporary "Steal This Book" lifestyles is that it is a community-driven ideal. You JOIN a community, and live a certain way within that community. You can't really live outside the margins. Sure, you can read, understand, and appreciate the ideas or point of views from a distance, but I guess the open-ended question is, when are you going to take the plunge? Sounds a bit fascist, but it's based on a system of acceptance and trust. Freaks are not turned away; their unique perspective and problem solving abilities are seen as an asset. For example: what IS it like to go through the world as a non-passing trans women? You gonna need some good friends.

I've lost pretty much all ties to the anarcho-buddies I've had. I fear the squeeze from the recent housing bubble has made even their cheap lifestyle unbearably difficult financially to pull off. I like to think they're all living on farms, a little ways off in the plains.

[0] http://crimethinc.com/books/days.html
[1] http://crimethinc.com/books/er.html
[2] http://www.phaidon.com/store/general-non-fiction/alan-fletch...
I heard a manager at Google admit that he gave the shittiest work to state-school grads, not because they were less capable (they weren't, and he admitted as much) but because the Ivy Validation (as in Google being the Ivy League of your 20s) meant a lot more to them than it did to people coming from Harvard or Stanford.

I don't intend for this to reflect on Google (he was a level 7 or 8, not a person of significance) as I'm sure that this dynamic exists, to the same degree, at all the hot tech companies.
Yes; The Edifice Complex.
anyone else actually found the go code easier to understand than the ruby one liner combining sort, maps, reverse a funny "&" syntax (of which, as a non-ruby developer, the meaning isn't really obvious) ?