skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Diaspora. Friendica. Pump.io. If you're more technically inclined, you can self-host one of many:

https://indiewebcamp.com/projects

There isn't just one alternative, and I don't think there really should be - the fact that most of them are interoperable means that not everyone has to be using the same software. We need to standardize on a protocol, not so much an implementation.

(But yes, there does need to be a nice-looking implementation if we want the general public to use it.)
There was a lot of that. I was one of the people behind Fringeware, well-acquainted with the Mondo crew.

I named my son Hunter Speed Thompson.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mongol_invasions_of_Japan

pretty cool stuff!
Uber does not require licence because its smartphone app does not “accept calls”
The last release from the original author was 2.0b4 (2.0 beta 4) in 2009.

However, there is a community fork "beanshell2"[1], which was created exactly because the original was left to rot. It looks like the most recent change to beanshell2 was February 2014, so it may be going the same direction.

[1]: https://github.com/pejobo/beanshell2 (formerly https://code.google.com/p/beanshell2/
> What method did you use to initially learn the characters?

We were introduced to the characters in class and subsequently learned how to write them. So after being introduced to a character I repeated it on paper for a couple of lines. I repeated this exercise from time to time. I also read the stories of the text book out loud and listened to the recording of the texts. But as I've pointed out in my other post, you have to have context to really learn a language. Just the fact that I used several types of learning doesn't mean that they weren't kind of shallow.

The technique you've delineated above certainly sounds like a better approach.
Though the words are nominally the same, the FBI quote has a distinctly different meaning than all the others—I don't think it's quite fair to lump it in with the rest. The FBI saying "we take threats seriously" means they are willing to throw money at investigations and prosecutions. The other companies don't have that particular power.
No, I'm responding to the blackmail concern, and when you do something that if made public would so severely compromise you as to make you vulnerable to blackmail, can you really claim to be blameless?
>This guy is not smart.

On the other hand Warren Buffett who has a reputation as one of the smartest guys in business is buying more IBM stock than any other stock at the moment, over $13bn worth, his largest ever position by purchase cost. I'd put my money on it doing OK rather than dying just based on the above. I'm not sure Cringely's assertions such as:

>IBM and HP (my go-to examples lately) are failing to recognize that a big part of their business has become a commodity.

>IBM ignores 99 percent of its workforce

>Do you think IBM respects its customers? They don’t.

edit:

There's an interview here with the IBM CEO which contradicts most of Cringely's points https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9brTt_eLPo

etc are actually based on evidence rather than him just assuming that.
This argument was implied. If they will own your data when you put your HR database on the internet, maybe you shouldn't put your HR database on the internet to begin with. I can't be the only one who feels that computer security is a field that is insufficiently mature, yet people put confidential data on the internet all the time even though the technology isn't ripe yet to do so safely.

Compare this attitude with the extremely conservative approach in rocketry. The technology is positively from the stone age, but everyone agrees that it is well understood. You can't take any other approach when space missions are multi-decade projects and the price tag has nine figures.
Sounds like an interesting startup idea: SRS for classrooms

Probably not a millionaire-in-5-years or one-man-lifestyle business. More of a improve-the-world kind.
I still have quite a few copies of various issues of FR.
Specifically, read the reply from the author of the blog-post in this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9324418
Yes, Woz's crash was at the Santa Cruz Skypark airport in Scotts Valley. He was flying his V-tail Bonanza, a notoriously tricky airplane to fly:

http://www.cultofmac.com/275742/wonderful-rides-steve-woznia...

I used to love flying into Scotts Valley back in the '70s and '80s. It had a great picnic spot next to the field, and a scary approach when the landing direction was toward the southeast: The base leg (last turn before final approach) took you right toward a big tree-covered hill and you had to scoot around it a bit to avoid the trees.

Most of the runway is long gone, with houses at the north end and a park in the middle. There is a bit of the old strip left at the south end - but it would have to be a real emergency to even consider trying to land on it.

You can see the old airport in Google Earth if you use View/Historical Imagery and go all the way back to 10/1991. The south end of the runway is near Mt Hermon Road and Kings Village Road in Scotts Valley.
Ask HN: How does an engineer transition to problem solving roles at a startup?
A lot of junior engineers we hire, some of them right out of college for whom this is their first job experience, acquiring some specific skills (like iOS/Android development) are not to hard to come by over a year or two. However it is hard to transition them to projects that involve planning and designing a system and then building different components that can work together. What sort of learning curriculum can help an average developer improve their problem solving ability within the context of the start-up given that there might not be very experienced folks to learn from and not too much time available to attend a full time program. The problems aren't complex algorithms or anything, just simple application systems that need to work end to end.
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No thanks, I feel this(sloppy programming) is already a problem in Python. Mine and others.
Do you happen to know any good introductory texts to the renormalization group?
Maybe "we are sorry this happened and are working to improve" and leave it that that?
Check with a Swiss bank. They typically spend 10% of their IT costs on security.

Swiss banks have a tradition of security overkill. Branches in nice areas have bulletproofing rarely seen in the US outside of very bad neighborhoods. It would be un-Swiss not to be prepared.
"Caring" doesn't matter though, only execution does. Everyone cares about obvious things that people should care about, it doesn't matter though if you fail at what you are supposed to do. Only execution matters in business.
true, but AFF is marketed to godless scum
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I'm sorry, but this is not /r/getmotivated, or /r/PUA, or /r/mensrights. Please go back to Reddit where you belong.

Get this alpha/beta/omega b.s. out of here.
Hot Wired is also credited with inventing the banner ad.
Location: Albuquerque, NM

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No, but willing to come onsite pereodically.

Technologies:

* Python backends such as Django, Flask, Pyramid, GAE, etc. Some Ruby and Rails.

* RDBMS' such as Postgres, MysQL, SQLite.

* REST APIs (creating and consuming)

* Version Control: Git (and GitFlow), Subversion, Mercurial, Bazaar

* Linux dev env + light sysadsmin (ie. I have been administering my own linux desktop since 1997), OpenStack.

* Frontend - HTML/CSS/JS, Angular, D3, C3, jQuery, jqPlot, Flotcharts, Grunt, Gulp, etc. UI and UX design.

* Google Analytics, A/B testing, Optimizely, KISSMetrics

* User research, interviews, customer development, prototyping.

Résumé/CV: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1MwpK_L-50TGYyOm3EqGCOA4s...

Email: michael@fandomhome.com

Looking for a full-time remote position. Prefer smaller teams, but in organizations of all sizes. Current desired salary is $115k - $130k.

No adult websites, gambling, advertising, or similar/related sectors. Your company must be adding value to the world, not just extracting it.

Additional profiles:

* LinkedIn: https://www.linikedin.com/in/michaelbernstein

* GitHub: https://github.com/webmaven
And the Euro is falling again: (1.43 when posted) https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=pound+to+euro&oq=pound&aqs...
What if you were gay and when people found out it ruined your life?
As of now: 61% No. 39% Yes. [ 51% vote counted ]

What's next? I have a gut felling we are seeing the beginning of the end. The situation is not comparable with Iceland, as the whole country has shutdown. No export import.

Obviously things can't run like this. It will be interesting to see how they work it out.
To add a point of agreement from another security engineer - this is the best top-level comment on this story.

People love to hate companies for their security practices when a breach happens. It's much harder to form a dispassionate, nuanced view from a place of critical thinking.
If you're interested in coding interfaces on mobile, I've yet to see an on-mobile coding app as slick as Lisping[1].

Touch C[2] on WP8 showed potential, but sadly seems to be all but abandoned.

[1] http://slidetocode.com/lisping
[2] http://www.windowsphone.com/en-us/store/app/touch-c/3fb34f3f...
> No employee access to arbitrary Internet sites

zomg! muh freedoms!
After my first knee surgery, I regained consciousness midway through speaking a sentence to my mother. I was literally listening to words coming out of my mouth and had no idea where I was, who I was, or what I was talking about. My very next sentence was a panicked question to my mother trying to figure out those things. Turned out I had 'been awake and having cohesive conversation' with her for over an hour. I still have no memory of that conversation.

As I was being prepped for my third knee surgery, my doctor asked if I had any problems with anesthesia. I told him about the memory loss after my first surgery. My friends who were accompanying me, and had been at my second knee surgery, started mumbling "um, huh, well, oh, actually". It turns out that after my second knee surgery, when the surgeon was giving me a summary of how the surgery went, he told me he botched up my knee, and I proceeded to make very coherent and precisely detailed threats against his life. (The threats were bad enough that the surgeon considered bringing security into the recovery area and restraining me. In the end, my friends, including a combat vet, convinced the doctor that I'm not actually a violent person and agreed to restrain me if I actually became violent.) Again, I have absolutely no memory of this!
pretty telling http://imgur.com/rs2SO89
The UK is a pretty extreme example of that (the other way round; urban areas tend to report first), so May saw Labour-party members discussing the unexpected scale of their defeat even whilst the actually announced results and counted votes put them some way ahead.
Of course, in this case the analysts had plenty of past data to work with in being confident that narrow successes in urban areas and defeats in marginal areas meant little hope of any gains anywhere else.
It's not like someone is saying that the companies have board meetings where they decide to be evil or do stupid things. But they DO decide on budgets that in the end means that there isn't enough time and/or resources to do more than the bare minimum.

If there are people that truly do care, they should stand up in the early process and make sure enough budget is allocated.
Kinda thinking it might be beneficial adding this to the libgit2 project itself (eg via GitHub PR).

Any objections to that?
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This is a very interesting project. It makes Python behave a bit more like Perl. By default, Perl is very forgiving with errors. Instead of stopping everything when a non fatal error is found, Perl will try to continue and will throw a warning instead.

This behavior is very practical when writing quick scripts to automate things or process data. And this is the reason I often prefer Perl over Python for these kind of tasks.

Of course, this has a downside: when you just continue with errors, it's often hard to find the real source of them, or even notice them at all. For bigger application this might end up in weird errors in production that are hard to debug. In this case I very much prefer the behavior of vanilla Python.
"Employment isn't the goal of an economy."

I would highly disagree with this. And the later assertion that we could use basic income, especially given the political climate in the US.
So, you're looking for somebody else to do at least some of the technical work for a passive income project, without some sort of profit-sharing arrangement or transparency about that fact (until I brought this up)?

Truly rich companies are more likely just to pay for talented developers or services than small folks--see also aquihires.

Anyways, enough of the business/philosophy stuff...what are you looking to gain by using PG as a backing store?
I began my study of Chinese in 1975. I got to be good enough in reading Chinese to set the ceiling of scores obtained in an experimental administration of a test for Chinese language for speakers of English. (The test was not further developed by the test developers, but I saw the summary of norming administration scores.) I worked for quite a few years as a Chinese-English interpreter for government-sponsored people-to-people visits to the United States. I was just reading Chinese-language newspapers via Google News just before bopping over here to Hacker News.

Simply put, the biggest single mistake learners of Chinese make in learning Chinese characters is learning them only in isolation and not also by reading connected Chinese-language text in which Chinese characters appear in "compounds" (meaningful Chinese words). The full argument for doing this is developed by the late John DeFrancis (a brilliant language teacher and textbook author) in the front matter of his book Beginning Chinese Reader,[1] which is still a very worthwhile book decades after it was first published. DeFrancis built in a lot of spaced repetition in the book lessons, back in the days before "spaced repetition" was a trendy term, but he crucially also makes sure the lesson texts illustrate the various ways that Chinese characters enter into compounds to form high-frequency words in the modern Chinese vocabulary. Try it if you'd like to more Chinese in the most efficient way possible.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Beginning-Chinese-Reader-Part/dp/03000...

P.S. for a more extensive discussion of how to learn natural human languages effectively, see a comment of mine from about two years ago that was very popular with other readers of HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6302276#up_6302816
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Until you discover the issues, you don't know which bits aren't robust enough.

And rewriting them, along with modifying the rest of the application to use them, takes time and can lead to further unexpected behaviour.
Moving the scans to new digital media and data formats is the hard part. It takes effort and money, whereas analog formats need no extra work.
I guess it's like music. There's engineered pop that's designed for catchiness but otherwise is pretty crummy, but if you dig you can find good stuff.

I feel the two are to some extent mutually exclusive. Some of the parent cartoons are amazing but they're also weird. They're "heavy." I might not post those to my Facebook feed. My in-laws are on there.
Goodbye, euro. Hello, drachma. The next 10 years are going to be uncomfortable for Greece. Not so much the rest of the Eurozone unless others follow suit.
Hackers takes your security (and your money) seriously too.
It also wouldn't hurt to move away from the "network security" model to a "zero trust network" model, where each computer is secured against everyone else in the internal network, just like it would be against the Internet, and the users have very limited privileges to only allow them to do the job they are required to do.

http://blogs.wsj.com/cio/2014/04/24/google-cio-enterprises-s...

https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.c...
> computer science has demonstrated flaws in foundational technology that weren't widely known 15 years ago

Can you list a few examples of such flaws?
Earlier discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9833930
It's fine to relate, and I'm pretty sure we all need that. That's why I list hobbies/interests, as a point of departure from strictly relevant professional topics in a résumé. But it's also against most HR policies to ask about family-anything because few can do it without crossing some liability boundaries. This is a good conversation to have.
So you think the government should step in to regulate (or "enforce contracts" if that phrasing makes you feel more comfortable) AirBnB, where many of the properties are sublet in violation of the contract between landlord and tenant?

What would that "enforcement" look like in a libertarian world? Government contract inspectors with guns turning up to AirBnB properties to demand the tenants stop subletting?

AirBnB is precipitating one of the biggest changes in modern times in the rights of property owners to stipulate terms and conditions to those who rent from them, but all I see is libertarians cheering wildly because it 'disrupts' zoning and health and safety laws and screws over the (apparently) powerful hotel lobby.
As jerf mentioned in the sibling comment, it appears my experience is not representative. I also had the Moto G, first generation? I had it for about a year and a half. Maybe I screwed something up in my settings too. I definitely would love to have had a different experience! I can't comment on why the things happened as they did. But for whatever reason on my phone I definitely had a bunch of issues. Maybe there was an issue with the radio hardware on mine? Not sure.
It's interesting that people are currently lamenting the fact that a huge chunk of human history will be lost because it's all digital now, while at the same time we are racing to digitize the past to prevent it from getting lost.

It almost seems inevitable that most of the details of human history will be lost regardless....
If I worked as a developer inside such an organisation, I'd quit. A sad side-effect of rigorous IT security is the lack of productivity and day-to-day frustrations experienced by the staff.

I've experienced this myself inside a major central bank. Most development staff were a) demoralised and b) frequently adopting insecure work-arounds.
Legalizing Airbnb is the new trend
The article considers these points to be relevant: "a large proportion of the [white, male] people who lived in the South—perhaps even a majority—were skeptical of the Confederacy.", "The Confederacy was not universally popular, even in the South", and "in 1861 more than 30 percent of Tennessee’s Southerners voted against secession, against joining the Confederacy. Well over 30,000 Tennesseans took up arms against the Confederacy. "

An obvious question is, is that meaningful? Is that true of other civil wars/succession movements?

We can easily compare it to the US independence movement. "Historian Robert Calhoon said the consensus of historians is that between 40 and 45 percent of the white population in the Thirteen Colonies supported the Patriots' cause, between 15 and 20% supported the Loyalists, and the remainder were neutral or kept a low profile." - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patriot_%28American_Revolution... .

This is easy to interpret as "a large proportion of the [white males] who lived in the colonies—perhaps even a majority—were skeptical of the United States", and that "independence was not universally popular in the colonies."

Another way to view the issue is that the people in the states of the Confederacy were about as willing to support the Confederacy as people in the 13 colonies were willing to support independence.

In any case, who thinks that everyone (or even all white males) in the South supported succession? The state of West Virginia exists because the northern counties of Virginia didn't want to go along with the rest of the state and "un-succeeded."
Is the output per worker metric adjusted for inflation? And does it take into account that there are fewer manufacturing jobs today than there were then?
Planet Money did a piece about the two options: http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2015/07/01/419238213/episo...
Yeah, the "downside" of spaced repetition is that you can't stop and expect it to stick (unless you have other means of keeping your memory fresh, such as actually using a language you've been learning). I have some subjects in my stack of cards (10,014 and counting!) that I'm not really so interested in anymore, but I keep them around because I'm paranoid that in a few years I'll want to pick them up again and will have to start from scratch.

It's not really so much a downside as an unrealistic expectation, like expecting to keep weight off after you've stopped dieting.
ha! wow, thanks for the reality check. I woulda sworn that several people made out the number. well, that is memory for you I guess. going through the link, i like the explanation that you "record" more data over the period of time which in retrospect makes it feel like time slowed.
Good. The conditions set by the troika were shit. Even though Greece's debt is significantly lower than 2010, their debt/GDP ratio is the highest it's been.

Europe was trying to influence the referendum with their hard line (ie. blackmail Greece into accepting their shit deal), but they'll backpedal, and maybe Greece can get a deal that's actually sustainable, and doesn't lead to another 25% contraction in the economy.
Then you'd be completely wrong. We are being fucked.
Redditors (for what it's worth) said devalued drachme would worsen the situation. It seems that this referendum will be a dogmatic chimera, pleasing people for his promise, too strong economical forces may bring back Greece under negotiations.
> I didn't downvote you, but the use of "virulent" instead of "copyleft" is annoying and imprecise.

"viral" is perfectly precise. One of properties of copyleft licences is that they are viral (and need to be by design).

If being viral is a good or a bad thing, is another discussion.
Still it's a well taken point - if you ask most any company if they want to drop the latest project and work on security instead they'd tell you in polite business terms to fuck off. I've had executives try to argue with me - "But nobody knows the URL!" to justify not allocating even the smallest of resources to fix security problems.

You really need a good security guy who can be the bad guy and stop projects in their tracks when it's clear there are security issues. Because asking the same people who are accountable for shipping to stop the presses to fix even the obvious shit you already know about is a challenge - much less investing resources in 'shoring up' against attacks you don't anticipate.
> infinite monetary and user acceptability/retraining budget

In that case every employee would have one or more security people standing behind them the whole day. No email would be opened without a phone call to the sender to confirm that it's not spear phishing.

But more realistically, loads and loads of 24/7 monitoring and internal auditing and testing. Attackers have to abuse something to get in, and if the company is internally doing the same thing with a large enough team, 99% is probably secure. Hackers will probably look for easier targets then. Still, this is quite unrealistic to happen in present times.
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