skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What a fucking ridiculous patent. While the effort behind pulling the actual process off may be quite difficult, the obviousness of being able to do this should not be patentable.
Blogspam:

http://blog.posterous.com/private/cvywyxHCnB
Ask HN: How and When to Outsource
I do front end web design and web development. One day I would like to make apps but I am spending more and more time managing past clients, helping them make changes to their site as their content evolves. Even in addition to having a CMS.

I would like to outsource some of this but I have no idea how to start.

So HN,
- when have you resulted to outsourcing / delegation?
- How did you get started?
- How did you devise a system for it?

Thank you all!
In addition to taking economics, accounting, and law classes, I really learned a lot from reading public corporation's proxy statements. I would literally spend hours reading through Disney's annual proxy statements. You can find them on the corporations' site usually or as an SEC EDGAR filing. I also learned quite a bit from going through SEC filings http://www.sec.gov/edgar.shtml of companies I admire (Google, Disney, etc).

I also just looked at public stocks (finance.google.com) and tried to figure out what everything meant (EPS, P/E ratio, ROE [return on equity], etc). Reading articles in the Wall Street Journal also taught me a lot.
Simple passwords are easy to crack, who saw this coming?
No doubt there are a lot of opportunities for better electronic teaching tools, but I just don't think that gets at the heart of the matter.

First and foremost you have a culture that doesn't value education. This trickles down the lowest level, where doing good in school just isn't cool. I did one year of junior high in a Minnesota school and one year in Brazil (which is not exactly known for its great education), and the difference in student attitude was night and day. I realize there are some places where parents really care about grades and that trickles down to students to some degree, but I believe those are isolated suburban communities that don't reflect the general disdain for education that I remember from public school.

Why the disdain for education? My theory is it's a crippling mix of entitlement fueled by the anomalous post-war prosperity of the US and easy credit, along with a growing disparity in wealth leading to a general sense that getting ahead is based purely on who you know.

Hmm, now that I think about it, those problems are all hopelessly intractable... e-learning systems it is!
people with more friends could quickly down-vote each other's negative reviews and write scathing reviews for whoever they wish to bully

unless they explicitly bar people below a certain age, this site will wreak havoc in children's social lives
Relevant:

http://www.soilandhealth.org/03sov/0303critic/030301studenta...
I really truly hope so!
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Something I wonder about: For various reasons (e.g., the 2005 CD rootkit episode) the name "Sony" has very negative associations in my mind. Even before reading this article, if I were in the market for a game console, I wouldn't get a PS3; that "Sony" on the box is a real turn-off. And there might be lots of people like me.

And so I wonder whether this move of Sony's might very well be strategically sound. I don't know whether it will achieve whatever goals Sony has, but I suspect that it will not offend very many customers. The people it would offend are people like me; but they already stay away from Sony, and so do not own a PS3.

On the other hand:

> I am curious as to the legality of altering a product offering ex post, ....

So am I.
I work in Altadena @ AdventureLink. i'm happy to arrange for a light meetup at my building most anytime.
It sounds like we could actually create a descent local chapter.
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Another strategy would be to write a few well-written, plausible, damning reviews of yourself. That way you weed out prospective employers who are stupid enough to believe any old garbage they read on the intertubes.
Wikidpad http://trac.wikidpad2.webfactional.com/wiki

I don't want to use a separate app for to-do lists, so I either use whatever text editor is at hand or Wikidpad. It's also a great way to stop using dozens of text files scattered around your filesystem for notes/lists/etc.

Wikidpad also has some to-do-list specific plugins/scripts, which might be handy but I don't use any of them.
I agree, this article is really useless. I mean, just look up what the acrynom means:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_Resource_Locator

It's the definition!
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Check it out if you guys are interested
Yeah. I am tired of the get rich quick crowd. The best way to get rich on the internet is to sell 'how to get rich on the internet' advice to people who want to get rich on the internet.

I've been a software developer at internet startups for 15 years and never made anything beyond my (frequently minimal) salary (me=bad negotiator), but it was usually fun, challenging and I've learned a lot. But I've never claimed to be smart. The most money I ever made was something that had nothing to do with the internet (real estate) that a friend of mine talked me into against my better judgement. And the only reason I made any money at all was because I'm such a pessimist that I sold right before everything crashed.
Use makeup to hide your face from detection systems using the Viola-Jones method
Read his previous posts to learn more about the project and the detection method he's testing against.
Lunaru, there is a discussion in the comments section in the blog about the kind of success ( "increased capacity to contribute to the world around you" )

I could not move those comments to the main post just to keep the post to a reasonable size :)
Wow, great job man. I've been looking for something like this for a LONG time. Downloaded and tried it out with the lists I already have in there, and great stuff.
Owyn, the article was not focused on "richness" from a money perspective. Success simply meant you have an "increased capacity to contribute to the world around you."
You might know this then: How do you get a page of just GAFYD tasks?

https://mail.google.com/tasks/ig?pli=1 works for normal gmail, but fails miserably for GAFYD
funny thing google has all that practically by default from android users
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But I've never claimed to be smart.

Well then this doesn't really apply to you. This is talking about smart people who don't achieve much, not about dumb people who don't achieve much.
Maybe you need new friends
Here is a fun trick: imagine Bernard Madoff, Kenneth Lay, or George Bush Jr. reading this. All of these people "went somewhere", but I certainly don't aspire to be any of them.
But when the data are complicated --- by which I mean, there are many different effects that must be accounted for in order to interpret the raw data as a measurement of a parameter of interest --- then it's not necessarily a surprise to find problems with the data, and to find that when those problems are fixed the result is better agreement with a model.

"The problems are fixed" based on what? You can't use the model to "fix" them, since the model has validity only insofar as it tracks data points. In short, this is simply circular reasoning: the model has no validity beyond it's ability to explain and predict data values.
I'd be keen for that too.

There are some groups on meetup.com already, like http://www.meetup.com/upstarta-brisbane-qld/
the 5 or so apple was forced to pay up a time ago
"Mediocre Life" is relative and you don't have the right to judge the lives of other people. If they are happy with their life then let them be.
Why did you move to Brisbane to start a startup? Are your potential customer's here?

At the risk of starting a heated discussion, my impression is that Melbourne is the capital with the most blossoming startup culture. (I'm in Bris by the way)
I like to add a simple hash value based on the URL onto my passwords. A simple hash that you can calculate in your head is best, such as the first four consonants of the URL, and then you can integrate that into a password by just concatenating them or splicing them together somehow.

That way, all your passwords are different in a manner that is not immediately obvious, but there is no significant additional burden on your memory.
I am in arcadia as well but work on the westside.
Would love to meet fellow hackers. Email is in my profile.
Of course..there is no motivation to judge and compare people. The tone of the article (and the discussion in the comments) makes it clear that it is our responsibility to live to our full potential - leading to some "extra capacity" that we can use to make this world a wee better place.

It may be too much to ask, may be. But I am hopeful and will continue to ask :)
My crystal ball shows that the future is cloudy, with a chance of defamation lawsuits.
It won't be long before all protocols would be tunneled over the stateless and rock-solid HTTP protocol which works well across different networks, NATs, behind firewall and on different devices.
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If financial success isn't your goal in doing what you do then I'm wrong and I apologize. My career is about code. My life "beyond it" is not about "business" and it's quite happy, thank you very much. That's the last thing I care about and it's not my fucking problem. Most of the companies I've worked for have gone out of business. This is hacker news. I am comfortable being the angry pessimist in the cave who snipes at others.

Nice sunglasses, btw.
And the answer is: https://mail.google.com/tasks/a/domain.com/ig
Why not change the names in your fun trick and look at Bill Gates and Warren Buffet. They also went somewhere and left us inspired :)

It is up to you to choose where you want to focus on, right?
Agreed. The end for one is simply the means for another.
> Technology once sold as an expensive niche keyboard is now in the hands of tens of millions of people worldwide. Darn.

And if the other 99% of the world want to use said thing in more inovatives way, apple forbids. And they can forbid even if original reasearch got to close results. Darn
That happens to me with Cheetos.
Nice, some new ones to add to my list: http://internetmindmap.com/available_domains
Wow great designs :) really cool stuff
That was brutal.

Just because you're not smart (or you're not hailed as one) doesn't mean you're dumb.
Owyn, I couldn't reply to your last reply as there was no reply option there :(

Yes, you are welcome to be angry and be pessimistic or in whatever mood you choose to be. And it's OK to disagree too. I never claim to know all the answers anyway :)
this comment came from a previous fingerworks customer (i imported their products). And they where more useful, more inovative, and cheaper then the iphone itself. So despite the reach of apple market, it had more reach before.

The iphone is just a better market model.
Shouldn't do that. Price testing is really risky and perhaps illegal too.
hahaha. touche. :)
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Thanks Tyler, nice post! Very happy that you're finding Pip.io enjoyable.
Wow. Starts to sound like Ford's freedom of color choice for his cars.

By rejecting all files created in Microsoft Office and Apple iWork,
you can send a strong message to your friends, colleagues and
businesses that you do not support the actions of these companies.

Intersting. iWork lets me export document in PDF, RTF and plain text. I guess that does not count, and I am going to burn in hell anyway, just because I used something else than OO?

By rejecting these files, you can open a friendly dialog with the
person, and ask them to support a free society by using a free
format like OpenDocument.

I guess one will have more chances to look like moron than „open a friendly dialog“.
And I still think that freedom means I can choose any tool and format i like, not the
ones that FSF tells me to.
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Actually, in the distributed database field, 'partitionable on the fly' makes a lot of sense. I used this to infer the poster wasn't really familiar with the CAP theorem (which is only formally expressed in the proof), but it seems this wasn't fair in this case.

The big problem with the CAP theorem is trying to decide what on earth C, A and P _really_ mean. Sounds like I need to do a blog post...
> Dude, cry me a river. I own a shit ton of domains and so I get that spam all the time. The spirit of the rules around public record of WHOIS data (for com/net/org at least) is that someone can be contacted for technical and administrative reasons about the domain. It's a reasonable rule and so if people fundamentally disagree with it perhaps they should lobby ICANN/etc.

> There is a difference between anonymous (read:un-contactable) whois vs using a business address or mailbox where you can receive communication but is not your private residence, etc.

Either you don't fully understand what 'private' WHOIS records are or you're purposely ignoring that information. When a WHOIS is 'private' a person is not 'un-contactable.' The service that makes your WHOIS record 'private' acts as a proxy, forwarding messages on to you while allowing you to remain 'anonymous' if you choose not to reply to the messages. Having public WHOIS information isn't just about having your contact information out in public, it's also about having your name attached to the site. If someone is upset with the content of the site and wants to find your home address, putting a PO Box or a business address as your WHOIS address isn't going to stop them if your real name is attached to the record. With a proxy service, you allow others to contact you while preventing personal information from leaking out unless you choose to respond to the person. It's not like public WHOIS information forces a site admin to respond to issues you have when you contact them.

> From my own experience running a web hosting business in the past that most people who anonymize their WHOIS details are doing so for suspicious reasons.

Suspicious how though? This is turning into a "if you haven't done anything wrong, then you've got nothing to hide" argument.

> I myself don't go around registering multiple accounts "in case something happens" to one of the accounts. Do you?

Did you say the same thing when people got paranoid about Google shutting down entire Google accounts over an issue with one of their products? (i.e. Google thinks that someone's AdSense account is gaming the system so some automated process closes the entire account and now the person no longer has Gmail access, nor Google Analytics access, etc) I remember multiple people talking about keeping each service on a separate account just in case one of them got shut down. That way they wouldn't lose 'everything' for the duration of the time that they were trying to get support from Google (if they ever got support from Google).

Why is this issue with Dreamhost that much different? If someone hijacks your account, and you need your account to contact Dreamhost to tell them that your account was hijacked, it presents a sort of Catch-22, no? Why is a person therefore to be looked at with suspicion for wanting to prevent such a problem?

In any case, why is it that someone must be a devious 'evil-doer' rather than just holding paranoid delusions? Wouldn't it be more likely that the person is just ultra paranoid than someone that was 'up to no good?'
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Congrats Patrick, well done and keep up the good work. You are a source of inspirtion for many here (including myself).
Ehh, it's a bit of a meh.

Anyone who is using face detection for a serious purpose will make you take off that abnormal makeup first
Why do you assume the model is needed to fix the data? You are jumping to the wrong conclusion, both in the general case and in the specific case of this article (where the data was fixed after taking into account that a satellite had dropped 20km in orbit, or after excluding faulty thermometers).
My comments were mostly "meta". There has been a rash of entrepreneur bs here lately and I'm sick of it. I much prefer the NoSQL posts. However. To get to the meat of your post, I have personally (meaning, in my personal life) encountered issues with 1,3,6,9 which I have overcome to one extent or another. Or not. So whatever. Fuck it. I'm going to sleep. Good luck with your whatevers, I have to write a bunch of code tomorrow.
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>> it is our responsibility to live to our full potential - leading to some "extra capacity"

Exactly my point. Living life to their full potential depends on every person. It might be that the "extra capacity" other people do doesn't involve technology or something big. It might be spending time with their family...who knows?
So there's hard privacy (only these people can see it), but also a lighter "target" gesture that highlights the post for certain people?
Sound's like they're passing along the cost of using an ELB instance for each domain to act as an HTTPS proxy.

If only this had existed four months ago, I could have saved a ton of time hosting a customer's project on Heroku instead of dealing with EC2 directly. $100/m per domain was outrageous, using EC2 directly it's $18/m to allocate an Elastic Load Balancer instance for each additional domain.

$20/m for each domain with free bandwidth is just dandy, maybe I'll try porting to Heroku when I get a spare breath.
(1) The only way for you to burn in hell will be to share the default export format of Office and iWork. Don't tell me you didn't understand that, I won't believe you.

(2) Yes, that's makes you look like a moron. No, freedom doesn't mean that. If you want to maximize your (immediate) freedom, then I understand. If you also want to be ethical and stop at the freedom of others, then you should restrict yourself to open formats.
I tend to think of the 'target' as a semi-private, sort of like the @replies with Twitter.
This is the dumbest thing I have ever heard. For those of us who live in caves, this works, but for those of us who participate in the real world, it doesn't. It's like a hippie telling me to only buy locally grown organic produce and boycot the rest, when it's cheaper and I really don't give a shit.

You're completely right. The alternatives are garbage. OpenOffice is an absolute joke. My dad sent me this attachment, asking for some help doing an animation. Let's compare the OpenOffice version, to the Keynote version.

Keynote: http://grab.by/3r23
OpenOffice: http://grab.by/3r25

Until the app that I use to deal with these open formats is equivalent or better than MS Office or Keynote, I'm going to use it. I could care less what format the document comes in... I've never had an issue opening something. I worked out the issue my dad had in Keynote (the slide he needed help with was not the screenshot, heh)

The FSF guys have never provided alternative solutions that actually work, and yes, until then, I'm going to ignore their stupid bullshit.
Yes, that choice is always there. One can always say that it is best to simply make "their world" better.

No one can force other person to "contribute." It is voluntary but the point of the article is to trigger some thinking so that a few people who are on the fence on this topic will jump to the right side of the fence.
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> OK, on this, I'd say you're a liar. Anybody actually in that situation, I guarantee, would understand perfectly why anonymity on the net is often considered important to people. You are either a complete dolt, or a liar (or both, I suppose)

While I agree that there's a higher chance of it being a made-up story just to try and win an 'internet argument,' than of dotBen actually happening to have a domestic partner in such a situation; there's still a possibility that dotBen and his/her domestic partner are people that are into ultra-openness (i.e. change doesn't happen unless you take risks). Don't be so quick to discount that possibility. Though I agree that rabidly trying to enforce your 'ultra openness' on other people is an aggressive stance to take, and a bit out of nature on HN.
Good find. Relevance ++!

This will be good reading on the bus tomorrow as I ride off to the coding salt mines (where crappy programmers go to die).
I'm on the Westside. It's not an HN group, but this group is pretty hackery: http://socal-piggies.org/scp

Send me an email at iphpdonthitme gmail if someone actually manages to rope people together brave enough to endure LA traffic.
Yes, yes it is. Homo sapiens is a pack animal. You interact with people on daily basis, from buying milk to job interviews and parties. And that is not a skill you are born with.

School systems throw you in a group of people usually far larger than you are used to, and that group never consists of only people you like. It's a seemingly hostile environment, and you are forced to adapt to it, so that later on politely asking a stranger to move a bit to let you pass doesn't turn into unmanageable task.

Oh, and I fear for a generation growing up with ability to block/ignore interactions with people they dislike being a mere click away and never really having to reconsider their words for fear of getting their face punched in.
2 x processes + 20GB database + unlimited bundles + SSL ($20-100/month depending on your needs) == $91-$171/month. And that's for just two thin processes with a few extra features that are generally required for most apps.

It jumps to more than $200 if you want just one more Thin process or a background worker, etc.

I'm not saying that there's anything wrong with Heroku's pricing, but I wouldn't considering it a "cheap or free web-based tool".
Just because Oracle isn't using the exact same techniques as Cassandra, that doesn't make Oracle's ability to scale fictitious.
Ask HN: How to encourage curiosity in developers
Over the years I've spotted one nefarious kind of developer over and over again in IT groups: The Incurious Developer.

The Incurious Developer is happy with what he knows and does not seek out new knowledge.

He's happy to apply whatever technology he masters to any problem that crosses his path.

She is resistant to change & will do anything to protect 'the old way'.

An Incurious developer thinks he's 'too busy solving real problems' to learn new tricks.

Now, I'm not talking about developers with a healthy dose of scepticism: doing things 'the old way' certainly has value, but at a certain point resistance to change becomes damaging.

The way I see it, is that it boils down to curiosity. Why do developers lose their youthful(?) curiosity & what can an IT organization do about that?
Yes I do understand your point. I guess what I am trying to say is: you don't have the right to call other people lives "Mediocre".