skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think there are two main parts to Facebook's seeming ability to "get away" with all sorts of things. The real name policy is one but simply having shitty privacy/sharing controls (compared in this case to G+ and its Circles which make it easy to pick which groups you want to share a post with).

Facebook has a huge userbase. "Critical mass" is definitely valuable but as other social sites have shown, it's not enough to make you invincible to competition. I think that the issue with Facebook is that not only is "everyone" on it, but it was the first such site to really get everyone on it. MySpace was huge with the under-30 crowd and yeah, even some people's moms got accounts but Facebook was really the one that got all of your non-techie relatives, your boss, your doctor, your local bar, and your neighbors to all sign up.

While I would have no issue just pulling up stakes for G+ (real names or not) because I like the interface, the mobile app, and the granularity and easy accessibility of sharing settings better, I have loads of friends and acquaintances who don't care about the real name policy and still claimed to hate G+. The most common reason they gave was that it was "too hard" or "not like Facebook".

Unless those people see enough reason to overcome the friction of learning a moderately different service, they'll never leave the comfort of Facebook. Hell, even minor changes to Facebook are inevitably followed by weeks of complaining (on Facebook, natch).

Which brings up the second point: when none of these services are compatible or built on any common protocol (like email), you can't just pick the "provider" you prefer with the interface you like best or the most appealing TOS. I have a Facebook account and like a lot of other people, I set up a G+ profile when it became available.

The issue is that it can only go one of two ways: everyone leaves Facebook for G+ (or any other competitor) or I need to maintain two separate profiles and post things I want to share on two separate sites, defeating the entire purpose of the services to allow casual sharing with large groups of friends and acquaintances. Actually, there's a third way it can go and it's the way that ended up happening: hardly anyone uses G+ outside of some niche areas and in herd mentality terms, that means it's a joke and only deserving of derision.

I'm sure something will come along and replace Facebook eventually but I can't imagine it will happen by literally trying to build a better Facebook. It'll happen when people start using different types of services for that sort of interaction and Facebook sort of just trails off as that annoying place where the only ones left posting are radio stations, meme pages, and your aunt that likes to post pictures of those "minion" guys.
see http://www.claymath.org/events/iut-theory-shinichi-mochizuki
and https://www.maths.nottingham.ac.uk/personal/ibf/files/symcor...
for more information, including the 1st letter to its participants.
This is also quoted on CNN feeds under the title "Intel's miracle chip could make your gadgets 1,000 times faster".

The IEEE article is a little more skeptical than the CNN one because of the vaguery around the chip and its application. Still pretty cool - lots of big ramifications on how to optimize hardware and write DBMSes and so on.
Dude, didn't get it! didn't get the email after signup.

Also, any idea gets 10 penny? no threshold for how good the idea is? You just submit and you get the money or someone needs to like the idea?

Edit: Dude, I got it! Got the mail, I mean.
Edit2: Dude, I also got how it works now.
We found out about this at the last minute, already had the video, and didn't have enough time to make new demos and videos. So, YC got the same video we submitted for TC Disrupt.

Note that startups apply for a _lot_ of stuff, and we have seen a pattern that teams that look more professional are more likely to be selected (regardless of stated criteria). We're also based in Hollywood, so the kind of video stuff we just make ourselves in a weekend project tends to end up looking reasonably professional.

At the end of the day, startups are rarely successful based on careful adherence to all guidelines, and we think our business is a lot more exciting than our demo and founder videos. Hopefully the YC reviewers think the same.
Sometimes, I think people spend too much time and energy trying to avoid spending too much time and energy on what to wear.

Maybe Jobs and Einstein did it, but I view it more as a quirk rather than efficiency.
And what about when your machine started with a retail motherboard that doesn't have OEM Windows keys embedded in the firmware? What kind of signature does it use for the initial registration?
Claims are irrelevant, data breaches happen all the time.

If you are concerned about the confidentiality of a file then use encryption or don't upload it to the internet.
Falling parts could still be a huge danger even if they are small. So it doesn't have to be a danger to the helicopter to be a danger to someone.
Sorry if this is not the correct way to phrase this, but why post this again when it was on the front page less than a week ago? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9938893
Is the underlying reason for this strategy the low costs of settlement, or the extremely high costs of lawsuits?

Lawyers are expensive. Good lawyers are extremely expensive. There are also experts, investigators and consultants to hire. Everything about the process is expensive. It's very good that newegg is doing this because it helps everyone.
I view it as almost a commodity. Stripe does offer some unique value, like their Connect piece (https://stripe.com/docs/connect). Paypal pro has more flexible fraud controls, though many of them are extra cost.

Either is fairly easy to integrate, and if you're running an out of the box ecom package, likely already done for you.

I could probably get slightly better rates with an actual merchant account, but it's a confusing road to go down, with lots of intentionally overcomplicated models.

My biggest beef, as a seller, with cc processing, is the unfair nature of chargebacks. We don't get many, but the system is so biased towards the buyer that buyers can (and do) get away with straight up fraud. My second beef is the scam of rewards and miles cards. The "rewards" are funded entirely on the backs of the merchants.
The case for the 32-hour week
I think you have to be purposefully not paying attention to not see the variation in bathroom ritual across cultures for it surely exists and in significant ways.
Eh, I'd say the bigger bit is compared to all ex-felons:

> About 3% of felons with no known history of sex offenses commit one within 4.5 years of their release.

Its pretty clear:

To justify having a subset of ex-felons [sex offenders] on the list, all ex-felons have to be on the list. Otherwise, the justification [they are sex offenders] falls flat when other types of ex-felons commit sex offenses more frequently.

Honestly, it sounds like a publicly auditable and widely accessible list of felons is likely what we need if we consider 1.8% reason to put people on a list.
Professional APs are in the $1-2 thousand dollar range, and you need one for every 5ish users. So, for a small company of 20 people (which won't have it's own IT professional), you're looking at an initial outlay of between 20 and 40 thousand dollars (IT contractors are expensive, and you have to include the Ethernet drops, rack, routers, patch panels, labor, etc), and a few grand a month for maintenance and support.

Compared to using plain Ethernet drops, the cost is hardly negligible, to the point where it isn't worth it for many companies.

My company has been going through the process of implementing this for a new office to hold around 100 people, and the amount of planning required to provide good coverage at a reasonable price has been enlightening to observe.

> Heck, your $30/night Motel 8 can manage that...

Not in my experience. At least not well enough to support bandwidth above the 100Kbps range.
One of their 10 reasons that Twitter is "dying" is: "Still no CEO. Dick Costello [sic] forced out in June 2015. Jack Dorsey is Interim CEO. No update on CEO search."

It's July. Did you really expect to have news on the new CEO less than two months after the outgoing CEO stepped down?

Also, misspelling Dick Costolo's name severely damages the credibility of this piece.
“Anonymity is considered a big part of freedom of speech now...” That's a great way to express the importance of Tor.
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A tool for evaluating how aligned your team is with your product goals
Made me question what's a startup? Blank and Dorf says it's an "organization formed to search for a repeatable and scalable business model" which doesn't place any limits.
Added the Klein model! WRT your question, I'm not sure.
Yeah. I like it better than the "old" Solitaire, but it can make my tablet crawl (is a Yoga2 Pro core i7). Turning off thermal management in the bios seems to have fixed a lot of the weird speed related issues I got in Win8/10 though.
Well, by that logic, everything is written in assembly since everything uses assembly as its primary technology.
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The hierarchy has changed, the UI is completely inconsistent.
Might be harder as operations are aware that people can sniff out a shill or sock puppet if they have five minutes and cared.
Yes. The entire notion of the hash tree is designed to prevent it.
Actually, it was the other way around. Hitler came to power thanks to his strong-arm leader and despite his anti-semitism. His first efforts to create hate against jews were met with resistance from german society. It took several years of concentrated propaganda to change that.

No sources ATM, posting from mobile.
Amazon's push-to-order Dash Buttons are now on sale for $4.99
As an aside, having mandatory animations on slide transition as these, breaks one important functionality: the ability to speed through pages while seeing them briefly.

For example, on a powerpoint deck with animated slide transitions, when I’m presenting, a second hit on the right arrow key will kill the animation, so hitting the key repeatedly, although it makes me hit two times per slide, enables me to move quickly; whereas in this example, if I hit the key repeatedly, I don’t see anything readable.
waiter... not writer
Well, if you want to sue them for $50k, and the cost of defense is $500k and your case is 90% chance to be lost, then the solution is quite simple - settle the case for 50k.
I got a degree in Finance alongside lots of Accounting majors. Turns out that's not who gets hired in most of the top business jobs, e.g i-banking.

I think there's a growing amount of positions that take some coding, but where the soft skills are equally as important and let's be honest: the average CS major is not known for strength in that area. (Just as accounting majors aren't known for having "dynamic" and risk-taking personalities which are sought in high-finance.)

That being said, I think these code bootcamps are providing an important injection into tech diversity (the real kind of diversity).
Are they using machine learning to determine this or simply a hard coded algorithm? I would imagine a combination of both, but I'm very curious how they generated enough data to train their model.
The difference being that cloud insurance will actually compensate you if the worst happens. Right now, the most an SLA will give you is service credits.

Its a problem. When things go wrong and your customers get hurt, you should be doing more than giving them more of your services for free.
A City Is Not a Tree (1965) [pdf]
Brilliant! I find it so true how project success often begins with the team, and not just the product.
It will be interesting to watch how over the next decade the airspace is forced to get split up and reassigned. We're on chapter:fairy tale and we will eventually get to chapter:mundane. The tech exists, the money exists, the demand exists. There are clearly some huge obstacles, the same magnitude plaguing self driving cars. Both fascinating worlds unfurling before us.
Sounds tempting to get them to try it out . . . but I would avoid mixing your work world and future company/product world, keep them isolated, you have your contract that states it's your IP but if this thing is really awesome and fills a need they are looking for they could change their mind or create a legal hassle for you. Maybe not likely but possible.

I would contact other potential users of the product while staying away from your direct competitors to your day job just to keep things isolated. Grow some users/revenue then think about putting in your notice once you reach a level of revenue that you are comfortable with.

Signing up your current company isn't really a way to show their is a market for your product since you have an inside connection.

Grow an email list and test out signing up people/companies you don't know.

Good luck with your company, sounds promising.
On a Mac with Chrome 43, I had a small pop-up at the top of the screen that asked me to allow the page to capture my mouse input.
I had the same thought as you, having also skimmed the articles. Having now read them more fully, it seems that patzerhacker's (admittedly, somewhat kneejerk) reaction draws closer parallels than I initially thought.

The approximation is here:
http://www.codon.org.uk/~mjg59/ted_mail/0037.html

In that email, Ted Ts'o disputes the common knowledge that 1 in 4 women are raped. It does not, in my opinion, rise to the level of rape apology (though clearly, that is subjective), and attempts to explain that perhaps the "1 in 4 women are raped" statistic (that seems pervasive) is an exaggerated claim. His best piece of evidence, IMO, is that of the women cited in the statistic that results in the 1 in 4 claim, only 1 in 4 of the 1 in 4 even categorize their own reports as "rape". Whether that's right, wrong or indifferent is not mine to say, as I can see merit on both sides of the argument.

The article here, regarding recidivism of sexual offenders is doing the exact same thing as what Ted Ts'o attempts to do, which is to take a popular, but possibly wrong statistic, and give it more context which may render the original statistic moot.

The parallels are indeed close, which makes me glad that I did not initially downvote patzerhacker's comment without reading both articles. That said, I am not savvy to the nuances of either statistic, so I cannot claim to be authoritative on either, but as a non-interested, passive observer, it seems that Ts'o's branding as a rape apologist seems unfounded, from the information that was linked in the article, and Garrett's claims seem overblown, and predicated on the false dichotomy that because Ts'o doesn't believe A, he must believe B, which does not seem to be the case in his email.
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>And this differs from Google's and Facebook's usage policies how?

Unlike Microsoft, Google didn't criticize their competitors for their privacy polices. They really are hypocrites.
I have a talking SETI.
I admit that we didn't follow the rules totally, but there are so many others that completed missed all the parameters. Yeah good luck to you too.
It said that before, too — I was paraphrasing. "humb.ly" is a more trustable name than, say, "Megaupload", but they can say whatever they want.

What I want is some assurance like "The EFF has complete read-access to our platform and maintains a continuous independent audit of these services to verify that we comply with our own privacy assurances." The EFF is probably not the organization to do such a thing, but that's kind of what I'm looking for.
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Good, great to hear. Sorry, I need to explain how it works better. You create a Gotit (an idea) for 1 Penny. It starts in the market at 1 Penny. Someone buys it for 1, and if they like it, it goes up to 2 Penny. If they dislike, it goes down to 1 (floor is 1). You get the Penny people pay minus the toll, which is 10%. I'm going to improve the instructions today.
Wouldn't a greater bias to fund them lead to worse outcomes for those categories?
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Actually, those are initials for my name (repeat 4*).

But I know what you mean.
Idiocy of political correctness taking it's toll. Always relevant George Carlin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o25I2fzFGoY

In 20 years, next Github will be taking down projects that have "cognitively impaired" in it, because that's what we're going to be using to insult each other.
I definitely think that's a big part of it. A lot of the people involved in these discussions probably have been sexually assaulted, but relatively few have had their lives affected by genocide (or even murder).

Puritanism probably plays a role, too. Even consensual sex is often considered an inappropriate topic, so it wouldn't be surprising if that applied doubly to rape.
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I don't often see projects by Hopkins alums on HN, so it was a pleasant surprise to see the Peabody show up as the first image on Panellum.

Thanks for taking the time to build this.
You get what you pay for. Everyone wants everything to be free, therefore it is shit, and you shouldn't complain because if it's free you are not the customer. The advertisers are the customers.

Of course radio and TV are the same way. Mass media has always been a race to the bottom where producers race to out-do themselves on offering 'free' content of absolute minimum quality to occupy someone's time and get ad dollars. Listen to the absolute shit that fills free TV and radio airwaves.
It's in the works. We are in a super early beta and haven't seen this much traffic and been through all of the use cases yet. This is a pretty good learning experience for us.
Learning a piano score with my arms
In my opinion - everybody already gave up their freedoms via Android and iOS, so (someone at) Microsoft feels like there won't be a problem with demanding the same on Windows.

Moves like this always draw ire from us power users, but with enough public outcry, we get what we want. Sometimes we get it through third party software. It's a game that's been played many times with many different companies because unfortunately, greed powers much of the world.
>They take up a lot more screen space.

So make them smaller, or remove the tiles you don't use often. Did they remove those options in 10?

>but most applications like calculator / Photoshop / Skyrim don't have status information.

So don't put them on your start page

>scrolling 3 pages to the right just to look at a list is annoying.

From what I've read, this isn't the intended use case. The idea is to set up the start page like, as you put it, a personal home page. That's what it's for. The all apps screen is the one with everything on it (extant 512 app limit bug notwithstanding).

>current temperature outside or a what the stock price was 15 minutes ago is generally fairly useless and wastes screen space.

>Unless I forgot my name I can't think why displaying it is helpful.

In any case it's no worse that the old start menus that did exactly the same thing.

Between icons on the desktop, pinned programs on the taskbar, pinned programs on the start page, the all programs page, and typing to search all programs when on the start page, you'd think everyone would be able to work out a balance that fits their usage pattern.
Try doing the math. Take your bandwidth expectations from such a connection, and divide the total bandwidth provided by an AP by that value. The answer is typically between 5 and 10; less if you're in an office building where each floor is providing their own WiFi network and you have to contend with interference.

Working with docker containers, virtual machines, streaming, and VOIP/hangouts... bandwidth becomes the main limiter to the number of users per AP, not the memory or other capabilities of that device.

> it's much easier with APs than plugging and unplugging ethernet cables

For the user, and only when the handoff actually occurs smoothly. When it goes wrong, folks have to power cycle their WiFi, or their entire machine. Compared to picking up a nearby Ethernet cable and plugging it in, this isn't that challenging usually. Of course, having to also pull out a dongle can get aggravating, but we were discussing that as well.
I tried this and it downloaded automatically the MMS anyway.
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What a silly short sighted argument. Web sites would have responded by blocking everything Microsoft created had they even attempted to do so.
I saw a similar one to tell you if your password was secure; it responded "not anymore".
On FF it seems sort of fiddly. It should capture (or ask you if it can) any time you click in the window, but in practice sometimes I have to click twice, sometimes I have to right-click and then cancel the RMB menu, etc. YMMV...
I'm surprised the Washington Post doesn't include any disclaimers regarding their ownership by Bezos in their coverage of Amazon.
I wonder if the outperformance of organic picks (non-referred companies) is a selection effect. That is, VC prefers to invest with a referral, but will go in on a non-referred investment only for the most promising opportunities.
It's good to be explicit like this. Probably we agree more than I realized, because what I'm trying to get at is that so many of these blog posts complaining about open offices use the wrong P by focusing on a subset what they produce on a daily basis. In fact, I'm suggesting that the employee is using a different P than the employer, and that it's plausible that the employee is the using the wrong P (whether the employer is or not).

Then again, where we might disagree is to what degree the same P can and should be applied to both individual employees and to companies. So often individuals project what they (like to) do onto the team as its primary purpose. "I make widgets, and there are less widgets at the end of the day than there could be, so the company must not be optimized." It might be, or you may overvalue widgets.
Another similar add-on I use is SSleuth. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ssleuth/ One features it has that Calomel apparently doesn't is that it shows you its "score" for all of the domains on a page, not just for the domain of the top-level document.
I've (sadly) conditioned myself to reading post hoc ergo propter hoc statements as effectively useless in today's time.

There are some statements that I suspect make intuitive conclusions, and many of which I suspect are right (e.g., availability of birth control lowers the rate of abortions and unplanned pregnancies), but even those with which I agree are relegated to the portion of my mind that holds the "do not recite this" category of statistics.

I understand why people are so susceptible to it, and indeed, what makes the scientific method so damn hard to being with, is because isolation and controls in the real world are indeed very hard to come by, but I do wish that it was something we could do less.
So, two things.

First, the link is missing an 'l' at the end. [0] Second, exactly what makes SSL Labs the 'industry standard'? I'm well-aware of their services and use in the industry, but I would tend to think that the actual RFCs are industry standard, and not a rather specious high-school grading system for whether a particular TLS provider is secure.

[0] https://www.ssllabs.com/index.html
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What we've found is that most people really want their video to be seen and aren't super worried about getting their ideas stolen. I think YC could get mad about this, but it's a great way to meet others who made videos and to encourage them, give feedback.