skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Anti-cousin-marriage is a very recent and very American thing, and stems from the same movement that gave us nazi racism.

Actually, eugenics in the US was a Progressive thing. They also pushed segregation. They were national while their allies, Jim Crow Democrats, were strictly southern.

After a while, "Progressive" came to be seen as a bad label, so those folks started calling themselves "liberal".
> the visa gets pulled and the deportation process begins.

> One can also imagine that INS would keep a very tight leash on the program in its first few years to make sure this isn't happening.

Experience with student and vacation visas suggests otherwise.
Welcome to the history of domestication. What species did you think you were again?

BTW, although humans routinely edit and use other species, we're far from the most merciless. Study the biology of parasitic wasps, some time.
research labs typically only hire Ph.D. students as interns, not master's students. an alternative choice might be start-ups who have a need for machine learning (e.g., collaborative filtering for e-commerce). i can't imagine why they would turn down a competent summer intern who didn't ask for equity. perhaps ask around for YC companies who are hiring interns.
The magic words are "Am I free to leave?" -- in which case, you have no particular obligation to tell them anything else (your locality may have a rule where you have to tell them your name on demand).

If you are not free to leave, you are under arrest (whether they tell you so or not). That triggers a bunch of Constitutional protections (whether they tell you so or not). If you are arrested, you only say one thing: "I wish to speak with my attorney, please."

(I have no objection with speaking to the cops to say "He went that way, officer!" or "Why yes, I did see the accident." I'm assuming you take the advice in cases where they express adversarial interest in you personally, or cases in which you are obviously in danger. For example, if I had woken up this morning and there was a dead body next to me, I would have summoned the police and lawyered up as soon as they got in the door.)
Somewhat off the main topic: I really like the feedback form, very elegant and to the point. I think Dropbox does something similar for their feedback. I might try something like that in my app.
Regarding "scale":

1. Manpower is an issue which could be readily addressed by increasing the pay and training of the job. Lets say that manpower is a concern. Well here is a novel idea: don't screen everyone. Screen every 5th, every 4th, etc. Mix up your screening. This alone will send the message that we are gearing up towards using this method.

2. Volume is a red herring. Just replicate what works at one airport by the number of airports we have. Yes it will cost and yes it will be hard to staff but just pay more and increase training. What is the alternative? Bottom line is that we can not afford larger holes in the confidence the flying public has in air travel. Not including the actual cost of losing a plane.

To all of those that talk of "profiling" I will ask you to research the Hindawi affair, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindawi_Affair. The bottom line is that profiling is used heavily but nobody gets a free pass. Nobody. I've been flying ElAl for a long time and I always get a through questioning. Fact is is that it doesn't take long for them to establish I am not a threat.
My thoughts exactly. Make it a full web version for the people without iPhones.
I am tempted sometimes to start a company in the US just due to it's market and social access to places like silicon valley. But I do not want to become a US citizen since they tax their citizens globally, no matter where they are in the world, no matter where they make their income. If I'm living somewhere that the US does not have a tax treaty with, and making all of my income there, I don't want to give anything I make over 80'000 to the US govt. Hell people give up their US citizenship to just avoid this. But your still on the hook (somehow? It doesn't make sense if you revoked citizenship) for 10 years after that. And there is a wealth tax for giving up the citizenship right after.
In a mobile scenario you could have something like an empty laptop shell as a case. No display, no guts. The tablet docks into the top half and the bottom half is a keyboard. Probably wouldn't be any larger than today's MacBook.
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> Years aren't zero indexed.

They would have been if Mr Kernighan and Mr Ritchie had been running that project!
Alien Arena 7.33 su Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic
I'm also Israeli. I completely agree, and would like to add another insight:

The Israeli security ring is built around human credibility, while the US focuses on the physical aspect of security.

From the article:

"the security set-up at Israel's largest hub, Tel Aviv's Ben Gurion Airport, has not been breached since 2002, when a passenger mistakenly carried a handgun onto a flight."

The handgun would have been detected on a US flight because screening would be done more thoroughly. The person forgot about the handgun, and thus came out completely credible to Israeli security. This is just like undergoing a polygraph.

And if you think about it, it makes sense in a way. This particular person wouldn't use the handgun, so why bother screening it?
> We are seen in the Middle East as bullies that only care about oil.

Which doesn't make any sense.

If we only cared about oil, we'd occupy a couple of oil fields, protect the pipelines and shipping, and ignore everything else.

And, if we did that, the folks who actually get a large fraction of their oil from the middle east would do likewise. (Yes, I know that oil is fungible, but that's only because US policy makes it so. The US could easily stop oil from leaving the Americas, which is where the US gets the vast majority of its oil - thanks Canada and Mexico - and let the rest of the world fend for itself.)

The French have historically run a fairly brutal occupation.
Thank you! My Gentoo Email server was affected, manually fixed for now.
There were some minor UI improvements, like stacks and expose.
This is why heuristic tests suck and statistical classifiers are superior.
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Is there a way to sort out domains with numbers + hyphens in them? I imagine most people are most concerned with llll.com domains.
>While your at it,

That's "you're" not "your" :-P
http://hardcorenews.ycombinator.com

News for Hardcore Hackers.
This is true, but there are plenty of other teams within Microsoft (or Yahoo or Google) that do applied machine learning. You probably won't end up with a publication in a peer-reviewed conference, but you will learn about the state of the art. Of course if the goal is improving your CV for application to a PhD program, that may not help much.
You can't really compare the output of a tech company with that of a country. For instance, according to your example:

Microsoft, Apple and Google combined employ around 148
thousand people and have $112.71 billion revenue.

That boils down to about 750k per employee, much, much higher than the GDP per capita of any country in the world. Even the US, with a labour force of 155 Million and a GDP of 14.441 Trillion, or about 93k per worker (or 44k per capita), still about 8x (17x) less than the MAG trio.
Yes, Maven is a great tool in my opinion. With automatic dependency management and IDE integration it makes my life so much easier.

When I'm justifying including a third party (open source) library I ignore those that are not build with Maven and whose artifacts are not installed in the central repository.

* slow (even with -o to stop it downloading the internet every time)

At least you don't have to download everything manually, which is far, far more tedious. I'd rather let it to the tool to download dependencies.

* incredibly verbose, in both configuration and output during builds

I bet the simplest pom file will be shorter than the equal ant build script. And I personally don't care about output verbosity.

* inflexible (but I've not really looked into plugins or advanced configuration)

You can easily extend maven builds with ant scripts, which makes Maven as flexible as Ant.

*opaque and thinly documented even for basic needs

That may be the real issue.
"america" doesn't seem to be thinking much

I think a lot of the problem is that electorates "decide" via different algorithms than the ones used by individuals. Our brains choke off stupid and irrelevant thoughts. But in politics, every moronic idea under the sun will attract some little constituency who think it's the best. thing. ev4r. and who will shout about it at the top of their lungs to anyone who will listen. Sometimes, they even win everyone over. Other times, they're right.

And let's not even get started on our menagerie of paid and semi-professional shills.

why is selling us crap that we don't need a science, but saving the world just a big debate?

Maybe if we made debate into a science? There are better methods for aggregating information and making group decisions than the loud-as-you-can model we're using now. I've even done some thinking about how to build startups around
See Home of the Underdogs.

http://www.hotud.org/
The scoring mechanism is weird, and not quite intuitive. However, I played around with it for a few min and it started to make /some/ sense.

Overall, very useful for finding short names.
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This is very interesting. Where are you sourcing the data from?
Went back and looked at the page. I agree, its very elegant and to the point. Good job!
DRM.
I am doing solo part time development on a medium size personal project which uses Maven as it's build system. It works just well for me, I have nothing bad to say about it.
I really like it... it would be great, as I'm sure you know, to tie in registration.

On that note, who is everyone using for registration these days?
An FS that supported indexing and querying of files through metadata was a key feature of BeOS, actually.

And yes, MS claimed their project, 'WinFS', would be a key part of Vista (aka Longhorn), but then dropped it in 2006.
Beyond PageRank: Learning with Content and Networks
gandi.net is a French registrar that I use.
This implies there is currently some functioning central government, which is mostly a polite fiction. One of Afghanistan's fiefdoms is centered on Kabul, and we pretend that one is the government.
The demo is long enough to get a feel for the game. Instead of removing the web demo limit I would focus on making an android version and improve the app on the iPhone by improving the aesthetic appeal of it. Hire a designer to make the app look better if you lack the skills. It is a fun app for sure but I was actually not going to give it much of a chance because the game looked less appealing than a popcap game or something like that. The initial reaction that I had was that if the developer did not spend much time on making the app look great then they probably didn't spend a whole lot of time on making it fun.
I think it's a lot more complex than that: http://www.chomsky.info/articles/20050601.htm
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Who owns Mint.com?

There. Now you can be sure.
All this effort to track down Nigerian terrorists flying around with explosive underwear, which, including related attack vectors, threaten a couple of thousand lives per decade, when ~50,000 people die each year from car accidents.

Yes, our priorities are screwed up.
The frustrating thing is that many Asians are starting to reverse their names when working with the rest of the world. If "Kai-Fu Lee" sends me an email, I'll have no idea how to address him ("Hi, Lee", "Hi, Kai-Fu", "Hi, Mr. Lee," and so forth). :-P
link to complete article in ps: http://lib.store.yahoo.net/lib/paulgraham/jmc.ps
just moved everything from godaddy to namecheap. It was a good bit of work, but glad to have finished it.
Jurisdiction here means that Blizzard could've sent back a politely worded request asking for a more legal binding order. But its bad PR if a police investigation is slowed by them and then the dude axe murders somebody, so they probably cooperated out of self-interest.
I've worked with ivy on a project a few years ago and the integration with eclipse worked fine for the classpath and sources. I didn't check about the javadocs.

Ivy is mainly a tool to work with ant, so it makes some sense that IDE integration is not in the same project, but as far as I could see, ivy and the eclipse plugin are written by the same people.

The eclipse plugin was actually one of the reasons for choosing ivy over maven, because at the time maven was
moving to 2.0 and its eclipse plugin was not yet available or stable. The other reason was the documentation. At the time there seemed to be more documentation about ivy than about all functionalities of maven together.
name.com is really good. free private whois, and the interface is really great compared to something like godaddy. they do exactly what i want them to do and nothing more.
Ask HN: What to focus on when pitching, product or underlying platform?
(Note: This is my second try, rephrased and hopefully clearer, with a question I posted a few days back.)

I'm working on launching a startup based on a new computing platform developed by my co-founders. The platform itself is very powerful and flexible, and we envision it being used as a foundation for various different products and services, but we have decided to start with one product which is relatively simple to develop while having potential appeal to a wide range of end-users.

So, I'm really curious of the HN's opinion, what would make more sense to focus on when pitching to potential investors? On one hand the platform is where the power lies, but it might not be too obvious at once, especially to a non-technical listeners; on the other hand, it might be too easy to get lost in the specific aspects of this specific product. So, should we focus on pitching one, the other, or both simultaneously? Or perhaps we should prepare two sets of presentations, depending on who we're pitching to?

To make things clearer, let's just say that the product itself is nothing particularly innovative except for its platform; something like Google Docs when compared to MS Office.
This is fantastic. Otherwise I use freshdrop.net, but this is surfacing good domains more quickly. Well executed.
The primary advantage of maven is that it gives a common structure to a project and it's dependencies. When working with multiple development teams, it gets very difficult to comprehend different projects when:

Project A has the source in /java/src
Project B has the source in /main/src/java
Project C has the source split in two different dirs:
/src/test/java
/src/main/java

worse yet, compile targets are called:
project A -> compile
project B -> build (note, the build target in project A will deploy the software to a stage server... good luck the first time you accidentally figure that out)
project C -> go

and to maintain the version number of your package:
Project A uses a file called /resources/projectA.properties with a key of "verno"
Project B uses a file called /main/project.version
Project C uses a property set in /build/build.properties

Maven, when used in a way to avoid the above mentioned problems, will typically have the source code structured the same way for every project.

Yes, it's java-centric
yes, configuration can be a mess
yes, documentation is redunkuluously poor

But it sure beats wracking your brain trying to figure out how to build a project when every new developer does it a different way.

PS. I've never experienced any of the performance/download problems other folks have mentioned. I think they might be doing something wrong.
From http://www.infochimps.org/ -

* http://www.datawrangling.com/

* http://flowingdata.com/

* http://numbrary.com/

* http://swivel.com/

* http://theinfo.org/

* http://aws.amazon.com/publicdatasets/

http://www.opendatacommons.org/

http://delicious.com/pskomoroch/redistributable+dataset

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/where_to_find_open_data...
What is the right way to do PDF redaction?
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1024186
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It's pancakes. In a can. It's made $15 million.
http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/jobs/intern/faq.aspx

The majority of our interns are PhD candidates, however, we also accept some master’s students who demonstrated a serious interest in research.

Point taken. The poster needs to decide how academic research focussed they are.
> “I did a search off the IP address to locate him,” said Roberson. “I got a longitude and latitude. Then I went to Google Earth. It works wonders. It uses longitude and latitude. Boom! I had an address.

Wait, what? How can you get house-accurate geo coordinates from a (presumably dynamic) IP, without contacting the ISP in question? I thought the police got a warrant for this?
If you were going to do it like this, hard links would make a better option. And in a tag based file system, the actual on-filesystem "filename" isn't as important as the path, er list of tags.

This would end up being a maintenance nightmare for different reason, though. You'd end up with two dirs, for example work/projectX and projectX/work, with some files in one and some files in another. Strict hierarchies don't map to tags.
Why does it say magic.com is free? Or am I doing it wrong?
Here are my predictions (the lucky 7) for the next decade:

1. Our vision for our company will be in place, our startup won’t be a startup anymore, it will be a full fledged powerhouse that will change the way certain things are done (that’s still under wraps) for a lot of people. Our company will be an important part of people’s lives and over this decade we will flex and grow to meet their demands and expectations. Some of you in this forum will be working for us. You will be well paid and you like it.

2. The media as we know it now will fade away from people’s lives like the Oldsmobile and the Pontiac. Perfectly viable businesses, self-destructed, not important enough to qualify for taxpayer bailouts just gone from the scene like the horse and buggy. They had a good run but now it’s over.

3. WIFI will be free for everyone in all major metropolitan areas and it will be 100% taxpayer supported.

4. The governments (with the exception of China and Australia) will cease trying to regulate and criminalize the internet %100, and will allow it to exist and grow according to the will of those who use it and build it.

5. Taxes in California will be the lowest in the nation. Arnold Schwarzenegger will admit he has read HN on a daily basis for years to keep his spirits up about the economy but has never made a single post.

6. Politically, Generation-X will be in power--look out.

7. No more airline travel hassles in the USA, people will be able to board and fly without government restrictions or searches.
I disagree with pretty much everything you said- except anything which is your opinion- I can't disagree with that.

Actually, you don't disagree with everything I said. I don't see how you can, unless you have an encyclopedic knowledge of Smalltalk systems. You apparently disagree with a more extreme misreading of it. You're likely using rules of thumb developed while working in other environments, which may not be as universal as you think.

A synopsis of what I actually said: I know of one context where sometimes debugging is easier than reading comments. What is it that you think I said which you disagree with?

Comments allow you not to have to digest and understand the code, and with a debugger you will still need to digest code.

Sometimes even the underlying concept is hard to grok from a written description, but easier to see played out. Sometimes the concept can be more difficult than any part of the code. Also, if your debugger is friendly enough, digesting running, tweakable, explorable code can be considerably easier than a static reading.

No matter how "good" you are at using a debugger.

I have been teaching an intro class where some egghead Wall Street quant spontaneously exclaimed: "Oh my gosh, this debugger is MAGIC!" From the assumptions you carry around, it seems likely you just lack the same kind of experience. The order of magnitude is about the same as going to GDB from no debugger at all.
To sell 10 million in a year, wouldn't these need to be under 100 bucks?
Great tool. I have one minor criticism - the domain availability seems to be just inaccurate enough to be annoying. The first few domains that caught my eye appeared to be free but were actually taken.
True -- on the desktop. But most web-based storages are doing this already (gmail, flickr, delicious).

I do believe that desktops will lose their significance over time and the web experience will be the next thing.

And then it may even migrate to the OS itself, because it will be the familiar thing.
Both solar and wind power will be produced at a lower cost than power from coal and natural gas plants, and sold to customers when they want it, how they want it.
Very cool, as someone who has been searching for domains recently I can really appreciate the functionality.

As for feedback, I think having the text boxes at the top for weighting treated graphically might be better. Either some up/down or +/- icons to just tweak those might be cool. (maybe an ajaxy slider that pops up?)

But otherwise dig the concept. +1
Seems like the typical reaction seen over and over. People love to hate maven. It always goes like this:

1) try maven but don't bother to RTFM
2) run away with your hair on fire and back to cave-man tools like Make, Rake & Ant
3) ignore dependency management
4) re-invent the build script for _EVERY_ project you start.
5) ???
6) profit!!!

You only ever hear rants like this from people who don't spend the time to learn maven. It's not that hard. This is just rants.
Because magic.com doesn't have an A record. If you click on the "free" link, the registrar (moniker.com for now) will tell you that it's taken. I know this is disappointing, but I haven't found a good way to do bulk whois for millions of names, DNS is much easier.
As of 2008, Apple sells 2.5 million Macs a quarter[1], which gives 10 million Macs per year. There's no way to sell 10 million units of a device that doesn't do anything your existing devices can't do. If the "tablet" is actually just a touch screen MacBook, then this makes sense.

[1] http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9135747/Apple_laptop_... (Extrapolating from one quarter isn't very accurate, but I'm lazy.)
Another maven user here.. and Ill tell you why its better than ant. Yes the convention over configuration is the reason. I can look at project structure, and know exactly where to find everything download dependencies and be up and productive in little time. Working at several different companies, with ant, you will find that different structures, trying to figure out where to get dependencies.. etc. Higher cost to start
2. The dependency issue the author is talking about( and seems like his main issue) is false. You should have a dedicated private repository like archiva, and you will never have issues. Just like large projects have a build manager, you should be managing dependencies yourself.
3. Very configurable, there are plenty of plugins, and you can write your own.
4. verbose ?? obviously you haven't see some major ant scripts. But yes it can get large in a single large project but the design convention would be to have a common pom, and break your project into modules.
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I like the idea but the source whois data seems quite inaccurate.

It said that digit.com and 6af.com were both free (which I obviously jumped on) but turns out they are actually registered and not due to expire for some time.
Some of the names are made up (combinations of letters or short dictionary words). The expired names are from http://namejet.com/Pages/Downloads.aspx and I'm planning to keep adding more names in the future.