skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> And the worst part in all of this is that people are still using it, please do something about it...

This probably has to do with the ease of setting up or subscribing to a mailing list with Google Groups, even despite how its usability has devolved. There aren't any free mailing-list services that are as easy to get up and running with--partly, of course, because almost everyone already has a Google account, making it trivial to join a group.

Still waiting for somebody to create a good mailing-list service based on "subscribe with GitHub" (i.e., OAuth) to take this all away from Google and crappy self-hosted Mailman both.
Agreed... And maybe my marriage as well ;)
Exactly. It's crazy to even think, outside of analog, that someone would want to build a modern SOC with RTL directly. Even the full-custom folks like Intel, correct me if I'm wrong, essentially use a hardware approach where they can abstract away from and use EDA to synthesize to the stuff they hand-craft. Most SOC builders simply don't have the labor to waste working at RTL for a complex design & its inevitable problems. It's why they pay so much to the Big Three for synthesis tools.

For software people following, it would be like trying to build Microsoft Word with assembler while competition was using C/C++.

Note: Chuck Moore of Forth fame may be the exception to this rule in SOC design. Then again, he's an exception to a lot of them. ;)

http://www.ultratechnology.com/okad.htm
Thanks, moxie (he's on HN).

Maybe I will make TextSecure my default app. I'll give "the hype" a day or two to start sorting itself, while I have the "auto" stuff disabled in my current default app.
In this case, it is. All these so-called "holograms" (Tupac etc) are actually just HD projectors and transparent plastic screens. Not that it should be legally different even if it were any sort of "hologram", but it's literally just cinema + marketing.
Eye Exams from the Comfort of Home
If you can get it to exec some arbitrary bash command (or otherwise access the environ of a process) you can also have it cat any file on the server, and even the memory of the running processes that belong to the same user as the exploited process, and also execute network requests. So if you get that far, pretty much nothing will protect you.
They didn't have to. We're just going to say they did anyway because they are evil bastards (TM) and we can't possibly be anything but the good guys.

This scenario is the exact same scenario as a current ballistic missile launch. There are no safeguards for those systems that could be intercepted and interfere with the use of the weapon.
Air defense batteries have limited use if you have excellent global surveillance capabilities -- they will know about an impending air attack long before it happens. Consequently, they are really only used to protect critical "first strike" targets. With ample warning, there are many ways to protect areas from air attack, including combat air patrol.

Also, air defense and ballistic missile defense have largely converged. The newer systems are designed to intercept just about everything that moves from sea level to low-earth orbit. It is one of the reasons the ABM treaty had to be scrapped -- limiting missile defense was tantamount to limiting air defense.
So, err, when are we gonna get medical MDMA and medical LCD?
What is a mitochondrial uncoupler, and why would they help with neurological problems?
> Both of these things can be true with temporary plaintext passwords.

In that sense, a password reset link is equivalent to a temporary plaintext password.

Except it's got better usability, being a link that you can click on.
Just because the ship followed him to one event/location, doesn't mean it needs to follow him to every. Their thinking probably is "We can get good protection at this location through USS whatever, let's do it."
I have heard that Vungle is doing well financially, so I'd say that's success.

I don't know about Shyp tho, but they have a lot of buzz and an innovative product, which in my mind is a success...although they still have a LONG way to go to prove themselves. So I get your point. I don't think funding is defines success, but more so a strong sign that your on your way making something work. And I totally agree...funding in itself isn't something you should brag about.

However, the # of jobs Jack helped create IMHO is 100% a success. It's super rewarding and changes lives (most of the time) in a great way.
There is beyond hardware & computation already.

Genderless no form factor options.

So, sure. Its not impervious to beyond time.
"> In April 2011, Yu pled guilty to grand larceny, fraud, and falsifying business records, and is cooperating with the investigation."

He was the first one found to be doing these things, and was also fired before any of this saw the light of a courtroom, because of suspicions raised by the bank, not the aggrieved mortgagees. He has no possible incentive to spin himself as a mere pawn, whatsoever. /s

"The DA’s argument is that fraud was standard operating procedure at Abacus, that it was taught there, not just tolerated."

Of course that was the DA's argument. The jury disagreed pretty vehemently, however (and whatever the NYT's 'spin' on 'small independent immigrant bank doing its best' is, let's face it, most people are going to be looking for 'greedy bank' when called to judge the situation of mortgage origination fraud).
Consider that if it was that useful, maybe they wouldn't have to try so hard to protect and advance it as a policy? It's common enough for bluster and bravado to mask weakness.
I tried chmod 0000 libstagefright* but my rooted 4.4.4 wouldn't boot afterwards. Any ideas on how to disable the libraries without completely breaking android?
The US Sixth amendment:

"In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, [...]"

So if everyone started demanding trials for speeding tickets, they would probably just switch them to civil offenses instead of criminal ones, where they already aren't.
Companies may be able to downsize show-rooms, etc, but there will always be the need to experience physically the item in question. It would be interesting to be able to see more information in these AR/VR modes, like what if you could examine the plumbing blueprints and electrical blueprints of the home? That would be where the real advantage of AR/VR is, in displaying the information that cannot easily be seen.
> latent defects frequently have a long shelf life

They do, but it has also been observed that code in which no bugs have been found is less likely to harbor them than code in which some bugs have already been found and fixed (other things being equal, of course).

If I had had to bet where in the whole codebase the next bug would turn up, I certainly would not have bet it would be in this guy's code.
NP. Is there anything to look for in past MMS's that could be indicative of an attack? Would it always be an unknown user with a video attachment? Or could they spoof a known user?

Since it has been in the wild for a while, I'm now wondering what I can do to look for symptoms of an infection.
There is a theory that falconry developed in part because birds of prey will first eat the nutritious parts of prey (i.e. the spinal cords, marrow, organs, etc.) leaving the muscle for the very last. Since humans largely prefer the muscle, it forms the basis for a lovely friendship.
That is an understandable choice, which Google should respect and enable.

For many others (self included), the account integration is a killer feature.
> "Southern slave codes did make willful killing of a slave illegal in most cases.[8] For example, in 1791 the North Carolina legislature made the willful killing of a slave murder, unless done in resisting or under moderate correction.[8] Historian Lawrence M. Friedman wrote: "Ten Southern codes made it a crime to mistreat a slave. ... Under the Louisiana Civil Code of 1825 (art. 192), if a master was “convicted of cruel treatment,” the judge could order the sale of the mistreated slave, presumably to a better master."[9]"

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

In theory (and depending on the year and state), slaves in America could also appeal to authorities.

Whether or not such appeals would have been effective are another matter (although it should be noted that these laws were in fact OCCASIONALLY enforced, putting this slightly outside the realm of the purely theoretical (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treatment_of_slaves_in_the_Uni...), but you seem to be discussing whether or not such appeals are theoretically allowed.

With that in mind, the shitty logic of this statement should be pretty clear to see:

> "That's when I learned... if you can call the police or get the authorities to intervene... then it's not slavery."
Likely. Although there's been remarkably little public research on EMPs. It's hard to say what impact that would actually have. Even if it fried every electronic device, that'd still be much better than a 10 megaton nuke going off above downtown.
The Sacred Rac is another bit of great reading along these lines: http://www.abstractconcreteworks.com/essays/teaching/Composi...
Sorry for the late answer. Email me whatever you would like to have shared and I will print and take them to all the local Persian stores. 1000app at gmail.com.
San Francisco Middle Schools No Longer Teaching ‘Algebra 1′
I did a CS degree and then moved onto masters in systems development which is kinda similar. Do I think it was worth it
1) Experience out weighs everything when finding good work. I cannot stress this enough. My masters has not helped much at all in getting better work, experience and confidence has.
2) You will be tired doing it. I did it part time for two years while working. I drank way too much coffee and didn't sleep. My body has taken a bit of time to adjust back to normal
3) My development passion increased dramatically doing it. I had gotten stuck in a rutt before doing it and had no passion for code, i been coding for too long the same old ways.
4) Paradigms, one of the downfalls of getting more educated is they can sometimes lock you into a way of thinking. Don't become that person, You need to stay open minded.
5) Money, it was expensive doing masters
6) Bragging rights, it is sometimes nice to blab on about a masters degree.

Would I do it again, hells yes but would I do it when I was a bit younger (I did mine late 20's) hells no. Go out and learn as much as you can working on your own projects or better yet step away from the computer and have fun. There is more to life than trying to be the best at computing. Masters won't go anywhere, you can pick it up when the time is right.

Peace
You can change people's submissions? Hmmm. That seems a bit strange.
I don't know what work people will be doing when technology replaces everyone's work.

It's also true that were I around in 1880 I would not know what roughly half of the US population who were then farmers would be doing after automation.

For those new-age luddites who are generally afraid of technology destroying jobs, why stop at tomorrow's technologies? Why not outlaw washing machines? Surely elimination of washing machines would bring back a lot of jobs. Or let's outlaw productivity tools like spreadsheets. If people were forced to do everything by hand, surely this would create a lot of jobs.

Would you propose we eliminate any of today's technology? Why is it always that today's technologies are OK but not tomorrow's? Those will surely be our downfall.

Ironically, increasing the cost of human capital through a minimum wage will surely hasten the replacement of human capital by machines.
I am interested in the topic but the website has repeated loading failures on my iPhone. Fancy code drives away readers.
you can bump into 10 pitch meetings at The Creamery or Coffee Bar in the mission.
The NSA Will Destroy the Bulk Phone Records It Collected
we had better allow them to come over here to the USA.

Right?
Yeap, we have different types of test like I/O, Unit, Swing ect... and instructors pick the type they want and fill out a few fields.
NSA will destroy millions of American calling records 'as soon as possible'
You may as well do the first two if you aren't going to do the latter. Fighting an opponent using AI is like fighting a modern army with spears because you think guns are evil.

This is such a technology leap it's not even funny. I appreciate the signatories' intent here and applaud them for higher level thinking but banning offensive AI first strike or counter strike ability is not going to happen because it puts people that ignore said ban far ahead of you in the ability to deal death department.

The US isn't going to dismantle it's nuclear arms, and neither is any other major power. Same story here, only these weapons are even scarier because of the fact that they are much more flexible.

It's nuclear arms strength without all that gooey radiation mess. AI could do everything from surgical strikes to full on massed combat without losing a countryman and dominating other nations on the battlefield. Nobody is going to get caught flat footed on that one.
Ask HN: How stupid this idea is?
Weekly motivational postcards stapled together and hang on your wall?
Guacamole is a text protocol. The screen is sent as PNG images in base64. It was built before websockets were compatibly implemented across browsers.
Morse code, alpha bravo charlie, ASCII... there's actually a long history of doing this. Maybe not one meant for easy of memorization and drawing though. Even Mark Whatney had to be taught Morse code on Mars.

(Yes the phonetic alphabet is meant for ease of hearing by people, but writing a program to understand 26 distinct sounds can't be nearly as hard as natural language transcription.)
"Created" is a strong word for Microsoft's contribution to Halo, given the original debut of the game at MacWorld: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2RMHeMGDDU
I agree that we shouldn't celebrate raising money. Unfortunately that is just a standout metric that many companies are still judged on and was added at the start of the article to give some credibility.

it wouldn't have been as catchy if the title was "here's a tactic that helped me start a company that became profitable and delivering value" ;)
Like the one we've used on bank cheques* for all of time

MICR E13-B: http://www.micr-fonts.com/MICRfont/micrfont.html

(*British. <grin>)
I also don't know if it would apply here. As these are "native" ads to LinkedIn. They don't really label them as ads much. I guess if the <div> mentions ads then it might be blocked.
Pretty sure I've started receiving MMS messages on my google voice number. It looks like support was added around November 2014.
"Create your own contract in 29 easy steps"

yikes, that's a lot of steps... isn't this supposed to simplify that?
Real Names policy was the brainchild of a 40-yr-old multi-millionare who was an expert in cultivating his personal brand and image, and knows not donsay anythig embarrassing online.

Why would you care to use Google+ in any other way, he thought.
A drone is one possible implementation, but I was thinking more of a standard infantryman accompanied by two or three bots.

Leave the strategic decisions to the commanders, the tactical to the infantryman, and the split-second firefighting to the robots.
No, I think YO, the app is silly and pointless.

Unless you want to suggest there is literally no other way on a device capable of running the YO app to send a message to a group of people (which would be an absurd thing to assert), then I will stand by my statement. If it's useful, it's useful in spite of its own stupidity, not because of its own brilliance.
Hey rgawdzik, we are actually engaged with University of Maryland and are in early talks to do some trials there. Marmoset is a great tool but we have some additional layers of analytics that set us apart. Also Marmoset is self-hosted which some instructors find annoying to maintain.
One of these days make it big here, one of these days :)

Thanks for the discussion link.
yep, his was a funny 'hack'
Each time I read a sad story like that in the comfort of my flat, I wonder: what can I do to help them? Then, I can't think of anything, and my mind tries to forget this cruelty being inflicted to others, and I move on with my life...
How to work with developers
No it's more like having guns that are mounted around your village, but not allowing guns that can be mobilized outwardly. For a world trying to be more civilized, that's a noble and defensible position.
Not anymore. On the desktop, only AMD has ever used a VLIW architecture in their GPUs for a while, but they switched to a scalar architecture years ago.
I'm finding it very difficult to understand your insistence that all of the currently published research[0] into the benefits of marijuana use is somehow "low quality", or invalid, or an advertisement, while simultaneously claiming that all of the research into the detriments are completely valid. That's pretty silly, and quite the opposite of "remaining free of bias."

If you had stopped at saying we should be wary of touting marijuana as this utopian drug with no downsides, I would completely agree with you. In fact, I don't need research to know that marijuana use can be detrimental to health, as I am susceptible to a very extreme form of cannabinoid hyperemesis syndrome[1], and have come uncomfortably close to being the first person to die directly from its use. This has led me to actively investigate the subject for years. Experiencing first-hand results which are identical to both positive and negative research, I can't help but question the "non-bias" in your approach to the topic.

Just because people exploit medical marijuana programs for the purpose of recreation, doesn't mean there aren't legitimate therapeutic benefits. The reason why those programs are being so heavily exploited, is that marijuana has long been subject to prohibition in many countries, despite wide acceptance (even among your peers) that it is no more harmful than other legal drugs. Prohibition, of course, has not stopped anyone from growing and smoking it, which is exactly why these medical programs get exploited: they can be. Why go through the hassle of growing and harvesting and curing, or risking fines and jail time, when you can make a trip to a doctor's office and lie about muscle pain?

Marijuana has also long been subject to many, many smear campaigns[2] from people with zero understanding of the drug. Which ought to tell you that there are likely just as many people pushing for negative research results as there are positive. But that doesn't mean all of the negative research is "low quality", or invalid, or an advertisement, just as it doesn't define the positive research. It just means there are a lot of ignorant and greedy people in the world, which I think we can both agree on.

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/science/search?q=marijuana&restrict...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannabinoid_hyperemesis_syndro...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reefer_Madness
Thanks CSDude!
I don't believe that any country has laws against "allowing employees to work from home on request" so I don't see how that's relevant.
Escape Dynamics Successfully Tests Externally-Powered Space Launch Thruster
There's also just way too much crime for our English common law based system to handle properly, with a jury trial and all. Without going back to original details like executing those convicted of real felonies, which we're too soft to do as of now, not to mention our police/judicial complex is simply not that trustworthy, the current plea bargaining system is probably the best we can do.

And there's the minor detail that US crime has dropped dramatically from its recent peak; per the thesis of Arrest Proof Yourself, without a steady diet of "the clueless" being run through the system on petty crimes at worst, many police units and courthouses would have to lay off people, and that wouldn't do.
> Government is often quite efficient. For example, public health insurance has smaller overhead (like five fold less) than equivalent private products.

I don't have the numbers so I can't speak to the overhead, but I can point at the VA health care system as a counter to your statements about government health care being efficient.

> The entire NIH budget produces prodigious amounts of research, from the basic to the translational, for less than what the entire pharma industry spends just to refine their drug development. The private sector sucks at research spending.

There are a number of problems with this argument.

First, the NIH can afford to take a shotgun approach to research funding which pharma can't take because the risks of loss are so much lower. The NIH can give out large numbers of grants per year, have a large number of them fail to produce meaningful results, and call their work a success as long as some good work is being done. That model is untenable at the major clinical trial level because the losses would be astronomical. It's the same reason why the Y combinator investment strategy wouldn't work if you wanted to apply it to big private equity deals: You can't fail massively more than a few times before you're in trouble.

Second, the standards for "success" are completely different for drug development and basic / translational research. Most basic research is looking for (at best) proof of concept in an in vitro or in silico model; most translational research is looking for efficacy in an animal model using small populations. A pharma research project has to consider statistically significant efficacy, formulation, dosing, acute and chronic direct toxicity, delivery, off target effects, drug-drug interactions, manufacturing, storage, population differences etc and are held to much higher standards at every stage than your average research lab. By the way, even with these differences in requirements, it is well known that a lot of published, NIH funded research coming out of academia is not reproducible: http://www.nature.com/nrd/journal/v10/n9/full/nrd3439-c1.htm..., http://www.nature.com/news/announcement-reducing-our-irrepro... If this were to happen in pharma, you would have deaths and lawsuits.
Which is why I qualified it with "within the tech circle", I'd be really surprised if the precentage of Ad block users on this forum was less than 80%.
WeChat (A very popular communication app, ~550 million active users) uses QR codes as a way to add contacts. The app will display a QR code and people you have just met can scan the code to send a friend request. People use this feature quite a bit. It saves time over ensuring that the other party is typing your name correctly.
Going through your definitions...

1. Yes, this person is a slave.

2. No, this person is underpaid.

3. No, this person is dependent.
I dont use linkedin much but I just tested it and it blocked 4 ads on the page.
Hey moschlar, if it makes a difference we work with individual instructors rather than the school as a whole and are a kind of pay as you go model rather than long terms contracts.
It might also be based on very practical things. The prez/vice always have a quick exit plan. The stockdale has a pair of helos that could have picked him up from anywhere in the city. That might mean they didn't have to lay on as many ground assets.
fair point. I mainly wanted to focus here on the aftermath of the linkedin campaign.

The sequence of events basically was:
- Thursday saw the TC post, same day created Linkedin ad campaign
- Friday got a call from Thomas
- next week we got the final spot (on about a Thursday)
- about 3 days later we were on a flight to san francisco to join Angelpad (+ $120k at this point)
- about 10 weeks after moving to San Francisco we started raising our seed round. We ended up raising ~$2 mil led by Google Ventures
- about a year later raised $6.5mil Series A
- about a year after that raised $17m Series B
- after that the company kept growing and has opened offices in various countries etc

for myself personally, I moved more towards advising a few different startups.