skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It helps going into this sort of thing to know you don't have any underlying mental problems. I used to pull crazy sleep schedules as an early 20-something, but as a late 20-something even mild sleep deprivation leads to muchos weird psychological situations for me now.

If I were giving any advice to early 20-somethings nowadays, I'd say save up your sleep deprivation experiments until you have a baby. You'll need them :-)
"Nor can we accept government or corporate funding and maintain our absolute integrity." from their fundrising drive section.
The last time I've looked Google was a company.
What disasters has Google had to deal with, so far?

(I'm sure the same systems that have given them such resilence against a myriad of failures at scale so far will be helpful -- but there hasn't yet been something like a major bay-area earthquake over their whole existence.)
I agree, but the sad truth is that drama and name-calling attracts attention.
In many ways, worse. Stopping a book from being published is a relatively active act. Adding anther domain to the filter is a very low hurdle.
I would say so. Think about where consumer adoption was before it was announced that the iPad wouldn't have flash. Everyone was scrambling to get Flash ported to their mobile platform (Android, WebOS, BB).

Apple was able to draw a line in the sand and said "Web standards, or nothing", and the industry listened. There is not a major media company that isn't thinking about how to reach iPad/mobile users, and web standards are now the best way to do it.
One of the Quora folks posted a link here about two weeks ago so HN users can bypass the invite system: http://quora.com/hackernews

Original post: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1197146
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I think it's mostly slang from people in their 20s/30s. It was used most prominently in Office Space, a 1999 film.
Thank you for the followup! A quick question: after reading over "Detecting and preventing the use of DNScat" on this page:

http://tadek.pietraszek.org/projects/DNScat/ ,

it seems as if uncovering small amounts of data sent this way might be difficult. Here are the detection techniques mentioned:

detecting unusual and malformed DNS packets (DNScat will evade this)
detecting high number of unusual types of DNS queries (e.g. TXT) (DNScat will also evade this)
Anomaly detection: DNS query and response length
Anomaly detection: profiling the amount of traffic per client source IP address

Are there any other detection methods?
I don't think the lesson here is, "Boy, girls today!"

This 16 year old is an outlier, despite her mainstream looks. She has built up her audience to the point that she can attract 450,000 views to a youtube post on shoes, and she has monetized this audience. I don't like a lot about what she represents (teenagers should aspire to $305 custom-made snake skin high heels? ugh) but she is very good at what she does.

When we were kids, there was essentially no way for an ambitious, entrepreneurial, but non-technical 16 year old to do this sort of thing. Viva la internet.
" ... and the industry listened. "

And there just happened to be this HTML5 thing that, among others goals, sought to replace proprietary video with something else. Without that, what would brightcove be streaming? Quicktime? Would they be updating their infrastructure solely to support Apple gadgets?

Apple is but one player in the drive to oust Flash.
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Props Andrew for taking an interesting take on an iconic design. The "squared" shape would def. be an issue with carbonated beverages ... but could work well with non-carbonated ones (ie. Dasani). I'd also take a look at what the folks at http://boxedwaterisbetter.com are doing with the carton approach. Best.
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I think for the girl is bad. Because whenever one side has to sacrifice something for the relationship, it usually creates this uneasy sentiment where anytime anything goes bad the person who had to give something up would be like, I SACRIFICED <BLAH> FOR YOU!
The low-brow 90s Jennifer Aniston romcom? Now you mention it, I remember my wife dragging me along to that.
For high-volume general discussion about a broad range of topics, Metafilter is almost always still best, if you ask me.
Whatever happened to glass bottles? Why exactly did we stop using them? In what way are disposable plastic bottles better? Reusable plastic bottles? Are there weight issues? Is manufacturing them too expensive? They are pretty sturdy, after all, and I cannot imagine that the reusable plastic bottles we have here in Germany can be reused as often as glass bottles.
There are big sites, and there are real-time sites, but there are very few big, real-time sites. Walmart doesn't have live feeds.

Further, the companies that have both requirements know who they are, and don't need a "NoSQL movement" to get the right architecture in place; they just hire some good systems engineers who synthesize the useful concepts behind NoSQL from their actual requirements.
I'm not asking the phone to do everything. My gripe is that it can do all of these things, but they have been artificially restricted.
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I personally lost all respect for how WikiLeaks does business after I offered several servers and was told that they didn't even want me maintaining login access to them. So I offered my development skills to help improve their setup and never heard back. I especially dislike the holding of their information hostage until they reach their donation limit. If it's server/capacity, just let it be slow, go down to only a couple of servers.
The problem with this approach is the belief that the university is a place to train undergraduates. Having worked as a staff member, and then jumped to graduate studies, I realized that actually, the modern university is a place of research. The undergraduate bit is simply to pay the bills. The university system's mission to disseminate information to the populace is almost entirely from the research, not the undergraduate teaching. It's not surprising they are inflexible.

The reason the UK has more entry methods is because there are far fewer universities than in the US. Having moved to California from the UK when I was 24, CA has far more "universities" that specialize in teaching. The State school and Community College system doesn't exist in the UK... that's why there are all the internships.

Finally, the author seems to assign all value in a university from what you learned in lectures. That's a flawed premise: the lectures are there to spur you on to learn outside of contact time. Developing all those skills, meeting all those like minded people, having an ecosystem where you can work on the student newspaper to get more skills... those are things that distributed learning doesn't offer.

University != undergraduate lectures.
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These days in teenage slang, premade idiomatic insulting noun-phrases are increasingly rare; instead, on-the-spot synthesis of single-syllable root insults ("ass", "cock") with extensions that aren't insulting on their own ("clown", "master", "diver", "gardener") is considered to be more clever.
brief impressions, last used it a few weeks ago:

- insanely polished for a private beta. (see treyp)

- nitpick: no full-text search (no indexed answer content to display when query doesn't match any question content) and/or an easy way to return to a question i recently viewed

- it is so fast. i didn't even notice at first. i just noticed i was clicking, a lot more than usual.

- it feels like browsing around silicon valley's water cooler (but tamer.) whether quora can keep the feeling of high-quality insight when it's no longer entirely composed of early adopters is the million-dollar question

- interesting/unusual content, for now. mark zuckerberg asking what companies facebook should acquire for talent, actually getting some interesting answers...
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I feel a JavaScript powered "idiomatic insulting noun-phrases" generator coming on. Let's call it "taintsurgeon."
The CIA is largely a propaganda organization

[citation needed]
Nothing hinders the executive from saying "Sorry Bob, I have decided this and now we'll do it." - Instead he is basically lying Bob straight in the face.
This has nothing to do with picking your fights, but all to do with being unable to stand by your decision and be straight about it.
Not exactly a new idea: http://www.otto-office.com/OODE/b2b/deu/mediadatacat/art/600...

Oh, and while boxed water may be better, water from the faucet is definitely best.
I think Google would have far more impact upon wikileaks via pagerank tweaks than via funding (if it wanted to). But in any case if Sergey had any balls he'd make a public statement praising wikileaks. It doesn't take balls to criticize the Chinese government.
Yeah thats pretty true but supporting "technologies" wich are truly backdated is a pain.

I personally give IE6 a special CSS that those users see the webpage in a pretty but not graphical enhanced design. so thats a plus for me and if the client agrees this we are fine.
This 16 year old is an outlier, despite her mainstream looks.

Good point, but unless you're trawling social networking sites,the ones plastered over the TV (MTV, 90210, et al) are the only ones we see a ton of :-)
The only real value they provide is the anonymization of submissions -- there are technical ways to do this, but most people with information won't know about those technologies beforehand.

Authenticating the information could be done with a cryptographic signature, possibly by an unknown signer. Operate on the "last 100 0-days signed by this key when initially published were good, #101 is probably good too" basis, to build a brand.

The problem of maintaining a nice repository for the information is much much simpler, once it's already online. Google could do this for most data (just include a special string in the file), and for stuff google won't touch, there are plenty of people who would pass it around informally.
"Walmart doesn't have live feeds". Maybe it does. HN comments:

> the guy that ran the IT department for Walmart gave a presentation on how they got real-time data on each store.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1109385

> Any book on Walmart will talk about their IT systems. Their main operations room looks like NASA's mission control. I recall that Walmart can redirect trucks on the road via satellite to different stores whenever demand suddenly fluctuates.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1109777
Who are the other players?
Thanks for the link :D

It has been discussed before, but 2 years ago is a long time on the internet - sites die but many more are born.

Oh although lesswrong is awesome, I'd love to find a "lesswrong" on technical matters.
Imagine you have a wife and children, and you live in the world where anybody can do whatever they want "to themselves." So in that world, the people in the houses on either side of you start doing cocoaine, heroin, meth, etc. You revel in their freedom, taking great pride in your liberarian country. Then one night they break in to your house crazed and murder your family.

Yeah for freedom! Yeah for letting people do whatever they want!

Oh wait...
> Now that I think about it I think it was a mistake to sell it, the new owner totally trashed the site. :(

That's the main thing that'd keep me from selling any sites of mine, unless I got really ridiculously impossible-to-refuse offers. I have a personal finance site I could probably sell, but the thought of something I started, that could at least vaguely be associated with me, turning into a cesspool of popup ads and paid blog posts, is enough to not do so.
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I don't think people actually looked at this before voting it up. Vimclojure and swank-clojure and probably every other Clojure IDE plugin has a syntax highlighted REPL. It would have been cool if this was for the terminal though...
Notice my careful use of "sites" in both cases, though. Real-time messaging and infrastructure in a non-web (that is, hub-and-spoke centralizable) context has been well-researched and developed for years. NoSQL is specifically a movement toward using that research in many-to-many publisher:listener configurations.
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"Ass-clown" ? Yay for homophobia being promoted on hacker news!
I want a site that has, like HN's guidelines state: "anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity".

MetaFilter - http://metafilter.com/ - meets this description, but the definition of "intellectual curiosity" is somewhat wider than on HN - that is, it's more literary and cultural and far less "techie." It's been going over 11 years though (disclaimer: I've been a member for 9).

There's also the Joel on Software boards and the just-launched "Gravity" - http://www.gravity.com - has some interesting discussions kicking off already.

Other than that, the "programming" sub-Reddit isn't that bad: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/
Seconded. Best $5 you can spend on the internet (to be a member, reading is free).
I don't think this is seriously in question, is it? For an historical example, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Mockingbird .
- Thare are laws explicitly prohibiting the CIA from producing propaganda intended to influence US citizens in the US (the infamous NY Times' Ahmed Chalabi Iraq chemical weapons truck articles were in violation of these laws and came to exist semi-accidentally b/c the CIA funded Chalabi who generated the "smoking gun" photo which was picked up by the British press and then the US press).

- We all know that the CIA funds things like opposition groups, etc. Funds them to do what? Buy guns? Recruit new members? The membership recruitment aspect is obviously propaganda, and I think one could easily consider (for example) a bomb detonated by an opposition group to be propaganda, much like a radio spot or infomercial.
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Homophobia? While I agree that it's unnecessary and juvenile (it has no place here, even though I do love the word), I can't see any way in which this is homophobic, and I say this as someone who's very much not heterosexual.
that was a bit vague. here's an example of a quality answer (though the real strength is in the consistency of the quality, for now) in response to the question:

How did Chatroulette become such a global phenomenon so quickly?

21 votes by Anon User, Kevin Li, Marc Bodnick, Dave Hodson, more

Anon user: "Chatroulette is the latest in a long line of lower-effort, higher-interaction social marketplaces. It literally has a higher risk-adjusted social ROI than almost any other site in the history of the Internet, and scales downwards especially well.

Let me explain my terms.

R: The (social) return of Chatroulette is an instant video conversation with another individual, a stranger. This basic return has been available in other venues for a while (see WooMe for a dating-specific version). What makes Chatroulette so different is not the high R, but the incredibly, historically low...

I: Investment. Meaning, the sum of risk taken, effort, financial cost, time cost, and technical skill. Chatroulette is near-zero on all of these. There is no effort, not even a sign up--just allow the flash app to access your camera, and you are done (the anti-eHarmony). There is no special skill required--this isn't like dragging your Mom through the facebook photo uploader. There's no incremental financial cost at all. There's no selection, paradox-of-choice paralysis--click a button, and you are matched (a two-way benefit--there's no waiting to be selected by picky counterparts). And, most importantly, there is no social risk--unlike dating sites, you have no idea who the other user is, and can descend into crazy/exhibitionist behavior with wild-eyed impunity.

As mentioned above, Chatroulette scales downwards especially well. Unlike auction marketplaces (divided by products) or dating/service marketplaces (divided by location), Chatroulette is perfectly usable with tens of individuals spread uniformly across the world, of any age or gender, with almost no common interests.

Every time a site comes out that simplifies an existing, popular use case, it does well--even when it offers far less functionality. It is literally disruptive in the Clayton Christensen sense. Think Twitter against Facebook; or the iPod against the many previous mp3 players; or the iPhone against previous smartphones. In the echo chamber of Silicon Valley, we greatly underestimate how high the 'Investment' (especially skill/effort) of using our products is, and are always surprised when 'dumbed down' products come out and do well. Who needs a Snuggie? Who has trouble wrapping a blanket around themselves properly, or thinks putting on a sweater is a hassle? More people than you think."
I need an anti-bookmark. A browser plugin to stop me from visiting a site ever again. That blog post has everything I hate to see in writing.

For now, I have a new /etc/hosts entry that resolves to 127.0.0.1.
Books, since I was interested in non-technical fields as well and even though there has been a lot of progress in presentation methods most knowledge in non-technical fields is still only accessible from books.
I think the article is really agreeing with you, in a sense. Large problems (chronic liar, drunken slut, etc...) will become even more important because knowledge of smaller things (e.g. bong smoking in college) will become so common. We'll start separating out the real problems from the stupid stuff.
Do you have any examples? I'm not able to follow...
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University != undergraduate lectures.

And that's exactly the problem. Why pay to attend an institution that does not care about your studies?

There are a few profs who really care about the students. The rest just watch for the select few that can succeed in spite of the system, and pick them for grad school.
I'm hoping someone will send me some notes as the basis for a summary on Squeezed Books ( http://www.squeezedbooks.com ), or just go do it themselves.
This has been happening for at least the past 10 years and there has been very little change. There is a lot of pressure and monetary incentive in keeping things the way they are. I'll give you an example. Many lower division math classes are offered by the math department because they are service classes with hefty per unit price tags and ridiculous book prices, i.e. other departments use those classes as a screening procedure and the math department gets a whole bunch of money to invite speakers and support incoming graduate students and the book store gets proceeds from old book resale.

So as long as there is at least one department out there that is not feeling the crunch the math department will not do anything differently and there is always at least one technical department that does well no matter how good or bad the economy is. So from the other department's perspective it is a good idea to offload as much of the screening of students to the math department as possible since who really wants to spend time with undergrads when there are multimillion dollar grant proposals to submit to bring in money. From the math department's perspective it is a good idea to offer as many variations of the same course adapted to different departments as possible and from the book store's perspective it is a good idea to keep reselling old books at high prices. You tell me which one is going to innovate and get the others to go along with them. Each will cling to their old ways for as long as possible because honestly there is no real competition. The only way to get a piece of paper with B.S. and your name on it is to go to a big name accredited university.

Long reply because I've been thinking about this problem for a long time now and I don't see any real way to force research oriented universities to innovate. There is no real incentive for innovation.
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Hmm, I thought that was a 20s/30s slang thing too, more than teenage, though I suppose I wouldn't be surprised if it were still in fashion. But wasn't it big in the 1990s, largely due to the influence of Southpark?
I take the insult of "ass-clown" to be both a reference to jeffrey dahmer (a gay clown), as it is a juvenile rant wherein a teenaged boy makes it a point to insinuate that homosexuality is a bad thing while insulting somebody else. "ass-clown" isn't a reference to a clown's ass, it's a reference to a lifestyle.
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No.. They didn't.. For starters, Steve Jobs didn't have anything to do with the HTML5 tags, it was introduced by consumer demand. However, it seems he is trying to take credit for its introduction. Every non-Apple geek wanted the change anyway (but sure, despite the fact I don't use Apple equipment anymore, my feedback to Google "was inspired by Apple" obviously).

Everyone knows that there are still no good tools to replace Flash's development tools, and sites which used flash before, are unlikely to switch only because of the iPhone or iPad (the iPad isn't out yet and the iPhone only has a tiny marketshare). Furthermore, FLASH DOES MORE THAN VIDEO! I am sick of every Pro-Apple article pretending as though video is its only purpose.
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I think menu bars in general are a relic and should be done away with entirely. I can't count how many applications have the obligatory File/Edit/Tools/Help menus when the application has absolutely no need for them. Some of the newer microsoft apps have been moving away from them, which is a good sign, but they're obviously not the king of innovation.

I have an idea for how to shake things up, which is what I'm working on.
Oh great, you're one of the even more miniscule subset of the population that refuses to use ID3 tags!