skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He has a PhD...

A woman I once knew told me this story. Her friend was a single mom while in grad school, when her water broke she took herself to the hospital on the bus... After she finished her PHD she was unable to cross the street without help.

Getting a PHD on a topic does not grant you some immense skill with said topic (it can...)

However you should have done the following:

1. Production comes first, if you CAN fix it, do it. Production problems are the only time when you can and should be the HERO!

2. Once production is fixed, THEN you give the person shit... and the way you do that is by making them CYA --- your PHD should have been writing the same test for EVERY public function in your system to catch the mistake for as long as it took.

3. Its a job, you don't have to be NICE... however being an asshole isn't going to get you anywhere.

4. If you have to put someone down, at least be funny about it, or try to be. I used to work in an office that had "tokens of shame" (beanie babies). Someone would mess something up, and the token would sit on their desk, till someone else saw fit to "pass it on" to the next person who dropped the ball. The other favorite is "I'll bet you a dollar this is your fault" of course no one ever thinks it is, and they take the bet (you have to get dollars out on the table) --- then when you show them make a big show of taking the buck.
What else would "It doesn't matter if they can't work in the industry afterward; let them retire and live off their retirement." mean?
ICBM RVs spend only seconds in the atmosphere before they hit their targets, air defense isn't going to work to defend against such attacks.
Comcast and the rest of the large companies that now have to deal with net neutrality laws thought the same thing.
Agreed. Even for those of us on Hacker News who know how to deal with this, what's our incentive for staying on Android? I really love the user experience of Android, but all this makes me think about is the next exploit and whether iPhone or even Windows Phone are more secure. At the very least they get patches in a timely fashion.
If you enjoyed this, check out David Macauley's 'The Motel of the Mysteries'. This illustrated book describes the interpretation of a motel as excavated by archaeologists in the year 4022: http://www.amazon.com/Motel-Mysteries-David-Macaulay/dp/0395...
Rule by mandating locked down buggy horrible proprietary software? Absolutely ridiculous. And of course people will just hack the proprietary channel of updates, because of course it will still be flashable. The obvious answer is, make it illegal to use software to do illegal things. Don't outlaw software freedom.
ah... MSX...

The best arrow keys every created on personal computers.

http://www.msx.org/wiki/images/5/52/Sony_MSX1_HB-75P.png

Have fond memories of myself playing Goonies on MSX

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9R3p1L6HGQ

Wow, first time I'm hearing this in 30 years!
Also great for debugging and maybe even profiling.
I hate HN's tendency to be perfectly intelligent and rational most of the time, yet become infuriatingly obtuse and cultish any time we brush near ideology.

Obviously the FCC does not care about who you trust.
Hat's off to whoever is a big enough hipster to write a Makefile that creates a dependency graph, chunks out common modules while creating multiple bundles, shims non AMD/Common JS dependencies, injects external dependencies, and watches/livereloads only updated chunks...etc. Also, try to do half of that in Browserify and you will probably be better off doing the Makefile approach.
CUSTOMER LOYALTY FOR THE DIGITAL ENTERPRISE
the pictures :
http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/spacecraft/sceneearth.html
http://webodysseum.com/art/116-images-of-the-voyager-golden-...
Carl Sagan's girlfriend eating grapes in a supermarket :
http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/spacecraft/images/image077.gif
Done, read on:

https://medium.com/@andrestaltz/why-i-cannot-say-frp-but-i-j...
https://www.facebook.com/hakam.naser.al.deen
"Closed" and "out of your control" aren't identical.

You could have, for example, an OS that ships the source to its baseband firmware as part of it, where the baseband firmware has a deterministic build process that produces an object SHA-identical to the signed blob, assuming the signature is out-of-band.

With such a setup, you wouldn't be able to replace the firmware yourself on a production device... but you'd be able to modify the firmware source, submit a pull request, and determine that your change made it into the next version of the blob by doing the deterministic build yourself. Basically exactly the same idea as verifiable release binaries for things like Tor.
I'd love to see the JS too. Great viz!
Simpler version: war is how you sell stimulus to conservatives.
The difference is you're supposed to have a monopoly on your own personal traffic.
Just wait until the FCC learns about these crazy things call "software defined radios." They'll have to ban antennas outright!
And of course vendors still need to update the software, so people will just hack that method. Of course you will be violating the DMCA anti-circumvention statue, so it will be a felony. Not to mention this sounds like effectively mandating tivoization which would prevent them from shipping gplv3 code.
Then we'll have a good excuse to destroy them all for copyright infringement.
Yes. Signed bootloader loading signed kernel, etc.
Independent of the question if "everyone" is owned is the interesting (and scary) possibility that specific people have been (or will be) targeted.
Run Nasm X86/x64 Assembly Code Online
Is there any argument for the abolishment of time zones that doesn't boil down to them simply being annoying for programmers and server admins to set up initially?

Right now if I travel anywhere in the world I'll have a basic idea of when the sun rises and sets, when stores are open, hottest time of the day, when people are usually working, sleeping, etc.

Going with your argument, I would not only have to keep track of the sun set and rise shift but as well as the working hours in that particular part of the world. If I ever go there I have to learn the times of everything since they are completely different from where I live.
Carl Sagan was not known to be super optimistic. In Cosmos he shows a lot of concerns that the Human Race may destroy itself in the Atomic Age.
There's not really that much to understand about block chains...

It's a globally shared immutable linked list...

Umm... I'm pretty sure programs still execute on hardware...
> Someone could probably also create a video with a payload to hot patch libstagefright.

This is brilliant. Assuming that it doesn't cause further problems.
If the 'traditional relationship' isn't working, why even get married in the first place? Plenty of people stay single and just date/hook up.

This would be life if women allowed it. However, most women want a monogamous relationship at some point.
and costs money, lest your shortened URL "expires"
To me the root issues are a team culture where:

1. Code ownership is not collective.

2. People's jobs are at risk over individual mistakes.

3. Team members are inclined toward bickering rather than just solving the problem.

4. Outrageous behavior toward other team members is deemed acceptable.

Good luck.
I'd suggest considering going back to tech/startups, but trying to join one that's doing positive innovation in an important cause, like edtech or online education.
First, some telescopes do do portions or all of their observations in queue or staff mode, where you just give them the required objects and weather conditions. Just not all of them. I think most 8m class ones will have a mixture-- if your proposal wins just 1 night, then maybe it goes to staff, but if you got 10 nights you get to do it yourself.

There are a few reasons. First, lots of astronomers do not trust anyone but themselves to deal with the data (and this is a reasonable distrust as every single telescope has a unique 'feel' and quirks)-- so they want to be there to do reshoots if necessary.

Another is that it's not entirely schedulable, like, if you queued up the whole year's worth of observations (this is what you do, twice per year you can apply for time, some telescopes once per year), and then everyone's sent you their absolute best case requirements and you end up not being able to fulfill them on time (because maybe there's a big volcano in Iceland that changes the atmospheric transparency for 4 months), then its inconvenient and the astronomers feel gypped that they won the time but didn't get the observations.

Astronomers prefer being told: okay, you get 8 dark nights, but if there's a storm, your SOL. But this is ok because you frequently have all your buddies on Skype at the dome, so when you say "shit well the seeing is too bad to get these spectra" your buddy says "well I have a bright night project we can probably do through the clouds." This is how a lot of observations and projects that can't win time on their own get their data.

A staffer will know how to take your observation requirements, wait until the conditions are right and get exposures of x object at y wavelength for z time.

An astronomer will be able to, on the fly say: well our original plan isn't going to work, but I know that at this time in winter we can see Draco from this latitude and my friend was doing a project in Draco that isn't too hard so I'll just snap that while I'm here.

That and most people like going to observatories, best business trip ever.
I trust GPL code only.
So, he attempted to fix the problem, didn't do that correctly, you were an asshole about it, and he called you out on that.

It seems to me this problem (and the related ignorance) could've been fixed in 10 minutes of working together instead of 36 hours of fighting about it.
"It should be noted that a full 90% of the non-dark-matter mass of the universe appears to be in the form of very thin X-ray-hot plasma clouds surrounding large galaxy clusters, unlikely to condense to the point of star formation via understood processes."

Wow. Non-dark matter is ~5%, so non-xray-hot-halo matter is 0.5% of the matter universe? That's all the rocks, all the stars, all the exotic objects we can count. Half a percent?
Yes, it seems unrelated to what you wrote except for vague associations with the words "Microsoft" and "Canada".
The FCC has an open rulemaking proceeding that would expand these requirements beyond the 5 GHz U-NII devices covered by the OET document to all Part 15 devices. See paragraphs 45 and 46 on page 18 of the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (FCC 15-92):

We propose to modify the SDR-related requirements in Part 2 of our rules
based in part on the current Commission practices regarding software
configuration control. To minimize the potential for unauthorized
modification to the software that controls the RF parameters of the
device, we propose that grantees must implement well-defined measures to
ensure that certified equipment is not capable of operating with
RF-controlling software for which it has not been approved. [ . . . ]
We seek comment on these proposals.

-- http://transition.fcc.gov/Daily_Releases/Daily_Business/2015...

Anyone interested should file public comments with the FCC in ET Docket No. 15-170 by August 16: http://apps.fcc.gov/ecfs/proceeding/view?name=15-170
The "right to repair" under the DMCA is not freestanding like the rights to free speech or a jury trial. It's an affirmative defense (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affirmative_defense) to an anti circumvention charge brought under the DMCA.

Maybe having such a free standing right would be good policy, but it's not current US law.
Zimmerman's position gave him regulatory authority over Nestle. He had the power and opportunity to correct lapses in oversight but under his supervision the lapses were ignored, forgotten, or deprioritized. Then he retires and the organization that benefited from this lapse hires him.

I have no problem with skilled government employees taking jobs at a private company as long as the company they're working for could not have benefited from regulations they administrated.

I don't think the acquihire analogy is relevant is this situation.
The whole thing is meant to poke fun at a certain breathless pop-science writing style.

There's lots of other errors. I'm surprised you didn't hit me with the brachistochrone curve.

I am picturing you reading bedtime stories to your children, and interrupting to say "well ACTUALLY..."
Here's what you need to know about ethereum, take any presentation from a few years ago that uses the word 'webscale' now take that presentation and replace 'webscale' with blockchain. Now you understand both how ethereum works, and why it's so awesome and will revolutionize computing.
Facebook's lesson to Google should have been one of caution for forcing real names since Facebook is pathetic at telling if a name is real or not. http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/feb/16/facebook-r...

Once again, if your verification of real names excludes a whole group's conventions, you have failed hard.
Show HN: Match names and faces of YC and 500 Startups partners
His point was that individuals could compile their own malicious code in to DDWRT source then flash it to routers.

Your point is corporate code sucks.
What you're seeing here is a policy that came into full flower in World War II but has been a part of radio since the beginning. It's the idea that all paths must be pursued to maintain absolute mastery of signals intelligence on communications channels used by the public. It's as full an example of imperial military doctrine as you will encounter anywhere. This unfortunately puts the military interests of the United States directly against the civil rights of United States Citizens.

Oh yeah, also. It's pretty settled case law that your first amendment rights do not apply to broadcast radio signals.
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Sounds like demandbase. They have IP lists of many big companies and serve ads targeted by company, part of a field called account based marketing. My manager used them at her previous company.
I uh... had 10/10 on all my first 5 results. After that I just closed the page, since it was obviously irrelevant.

I like these tests, if just for fun, but they need to have an actual result :P
[(People harmed by G+ policy) * ~1/2] is still O(People harmed by G+ policy)

(Also, presumably "half the people you happen to know who joined G+ that you circled" has some selection bias to it.)
I seriously hope you're being sarcastic. People with that sort of attitude are becoming part of a huge problem where I live (Colorado). You can not treat water like that and expect to not have huge problems; the front range here is perhaps beyond sustainable use for our watershed, yet people insist on watering their lawns as though it's nothing. That sort of short sighted and self-centered behavior is sort of disgusting.
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Sebastian Thrun and Andrew Ng aren't on the list. Hmm.
I wish the franchise model allowed this. You can have a minimum level of service, but allow some locations to customize their experience or provide other services as long as it goes above and beyond the minimum. For example, a Starbucks in the big city can standardize around fancy latte art, but a location in th country could compete more directly with Dunkin Donuts. You can have a local McDonalds with furniture and decor that more resembles Shake Shack or Chipotle than McDonalds from the 90s.
Acquihire is purchasing a company that employs someone in order to get them to work for you. It's really not an apt analogy here.
Creating effective network data visualization with D3.js
This is what makes startups so special, and powerful.

Everybody now knows (or should know) that the more modern type of developer environment - wear what you want, arrive when you want, stay home when you want, have all the free coffee you want - makes them MORE productive.

Pissing them off or giving them a shitty environment to work in makes them less productive.

And productivity = money.

Of course defects cost money. One defect means you lose money once.

Less productivity means you lose money every single day.
My experience with Facebook is a bit different. They were pretty aggressive in suspending Native American accounts with traditional names (e.g. Yellow Bird). http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/feb/16/facebook-r...
EDIT: The more I contemplate this, the more silly it sounds. A trap of nostalgia (for a time I wasn't even born in!).

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Yeah true.

The world really is wonderful, yet I always get the impression that science was much more respected in the past than it is today and that the general populace thought space exploration was a worthy endeavor.

I get the impression that we live in a less scientifically literate society.

Still, I never did live through that time and my impression might be based on rose-coloured romanticism. As an example, I got the impression the whole world was united by the moon landing, countless people in many countries glued to their television sets in awe and wonder. Yet today we have people that seriously argue the moon landings never happened.
> To be fair, you're talking about an agency that provably intercepted deliveries of Cisco hardware and installed backdoors in them.

I'm unsurprised, but do you have a link for that? I'd like to read more about it.
No. Do you understand the attack I'm referring to?

(Legitimate) Site A sends file a.com/image.png w/ a hash.

(Attacker) Site B sends file b.com/image.png w/ identical hash. If no request is made for b.com/image.png, the attacker knows the visitor has gone to Site A.
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Former NYT columnist Richard Bernstein laid down several research failures in Nir's original piece. I haven't read enough to agree with the assertion that it is duplicitous, but the refutation is compelling. http://www.nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/2015/jul/25/nail-salons...
1. Some are in slums because they have no other choice.
A large proportion of the slum population in poor countries probably falls into this category.

2. Some are in slums because of their choices.
The inhabitants of Blacktown or St Marys, slums in Australia probably fall into this category.

Group 1 tend to be motivated to improve their situation.
The descendants of those in Group 2 will still be in slums in a hundred years.
This remains my favorite essay by Maciej, and a reason why I'm never completely sure how truthful he is in his other stories.

I've rarely laughed as hard as when this was read to me at my birthday one summer night after a few drinks. The sentence about the burritos "[tracing] graceful arcs into the East River, glowing like faint red sparks in the night" will stay in my heart for a long time.
In practice, currently you have neither control, nor the source for it. On the contrary, as was already published about mobile devices, baseband has access to the main system memory (which is a spooky thing).
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i think there's a 
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I haven't deal with things like that - though it must be a common problem so I'd assume there's a tool somewhere to do it.
I wanted to say "Are you serious?" but that would not help you understand. So I will try to explain using different examples.

1) Surely it is not a big deal if a retired army general is hired by the Chinese military to advise on warfare and machinery.

2) Surely it is not a big deal if the CIO at Google is hired by the Russian, or Senegalese (to be fair) government to consult on information architecture for their systems.

3) Surely after Obama retires, it is not a big deal for him to consult for Iran, and North Korea on how to develop a better relationship with the West.

When you have taken a role in office, you simply cannot go work for the type of companies you were regulating in the first place. You could be the most honest person on earth, but we just have your word for it.
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Start learning how to hack robots. This is too useful and asymmetric for any major power to opt out.
Why would you ask such a narrow question? That is (a) not the deal I suggested, and (b) not the only deal one could offer.

But to answer your question: yes. If the pay, benefits, and opportunities were attractive enough, I would.
Immediately assuming we must give something up is a poor way to proceed.

If we had made that assumption in the past, the clipper chip[1] would have been a "success". After all, the NSA doesn't care about software freedom either.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clipper_chip
Umm... Amazon and Alibaba ship actual things, and how they improve the situation is by economies of scale such that the profit they make is less than the inefficiencies they eliminate.

Even then many people would rather go to the mall and pay for local retail space in order to be able to inspect the goods before purchase.

I fail to see how ethereum will make the distribution of goods anymore efficient. 'middle man' is just hand wavy economic ignorance.
See and I (personally) think that's the wrong way to go about it. Wouldn't it be arrogant for me to try to innovate education from the office of a startup? Shouldn't I be in the kids' world - letting actual experience guide the innovation? Using the scientific method to discover what works and what doesn't?

I'm glad you have the page in there, though! Best of luck with this project.
I thought the same thing. Today we'd never do something so "woo woo." The sorts of visionaries who could be both imaginative and rational are a dying breed... We're left with stiffs and wackos. Either you're a card carrying member of the boring universe brigade or you believe everything on Rense.com.
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/05/photos-of-an-nsa-...
I made this to help with onboarding. It's hard when you're new and don't know anyone and they all know your name.
Was confused at first. This is a slideshow and on bottom right there's a button to go to the next slide.
Amazon Aurora Now Available
http://www.engadget.com/2014/05/16/nsa-bugged-cisco-routers/

More here https://www.google.com/search?q=intercept+cisco+routers&ie=u...
I'm in Australia. I really don't want to have to JTAG my router to get it into an operable state.
Checked vs. Unchecked Exceptions: The Debate Is Not Over
Are the children of Reddit going to throw another tantrum?
long time openwrt user here, FCC is focusing on the right thing with wrong priority. how can we stop that?