skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The right order to get high search engine rankings
AFAIK, it went down with the rest of brickhouse about a year ago.
It'll be interesting to see which political campaigns Goldman contributes to in this year's election.
Besides all this, why the heck do they need pictures to track a device? A picture of a bedroom doesn't even tell you where the laptop is. A GPS reading does, and is far less invasive (though I would still insist on the students being notified about GPS tracking).

Their 'solution' is incompetent AND malicious.
Do you know what the minimum social security contributions are in Portugal? This has been the biggest issue for me in continental Europe.
> By nature of buying a Synthetic CDO the buyers had to know someone was short, why should it matter who it was?

Because the party who was short on the product was the same party who created the product, and Goldman did not inform investors of this fact. It's not a matter of just buying and selling. The RMBS's underlying the CDO were packaged by a party who had significant interest in seeing the package blow up.

An Oversimplified Analogy:

Imagine that I come to you and say, "I have a document that represents 100 mortgages and I'd like to broker a sale. If you buy this document, as long as less than ten of these mortgages go into default, you make money. If more than ten of them go into default, your counterparty in the sale (not me) will make money."

"Okay," you say, "that sounds interesting. So where did all these mortgages come from?"

"Oh, we got an independent company to pick a bunch of mortgages that they consider fairly safe and that they believe are a good representation of the overall U.S. mortgage market."

"Great!" you say, and you buy a billion dollars worth. More than ten mortgages end up defaulting and you lose a shit ton of money. Imagine your dismay when you learn that the mortgages were not packaged by some third party as I claimed, but hand-picked by the very counterparty you were betting against. OBVIOUSLY if they were going to benefit from more than ten mortgages defaulting, they would have filled the entire document full of mortgages they expected to fail! This is fraud in its most basic form!
Yahoo is focused on local and so this makes some sense. Twice Jerry Yang vetoed an offer to buy Yelp. Yeah twice. Internally there was some bitterness about missing that deal.

Yahoo needs some M+A action to boost stock momentum and that's a multi-billion dollar move that needs to be carefully planned.

Yahoo also needs to counter the google 'what's nearby' feature.
Basically, use maps to represent data structures where you'd use several different classes in an OO language, since in principle you're still basing the same data structure from function to function.
Tippr Buys Up Patents to Take on Groupon
The article mostly mentions Cal. and D.C. but with in the past year to year and a half the Dallas Fort Worth area has laid off over a 1000 teachers as well.
A ‘zero-aware’ compression technique
Pandora for Beer.
There have been crazies ranting about how the government reads all your e-mail for years. Now that they're ACTUALLY trying to do that, no one is listening, because it's the same message as before.

If the people spouting unfounded conspiracy theories all the time would just shut the hell up, then maybe people wouldn't see this as crying wolf.
Hello World: Which programming languages are growing?
Oh great point! I will definitely add that in.
I enjoy most Mixergy interviews. Andrew does a very good job at cutting through the boilerplate biography. The long form doesn't bother me at all. Its great for the car.

With that said, I am also looking for content that addresses more tactical operational issues, but I don't know if Mixergy is the podcast for this. There are valuable insights provided in Mixergy's format of walking through the entrepreneur's story. Going too deep (low level) on specific tactical issues might muddy the waters and dilute the value that Mixergy already provides. I do think that Andrew's Fenwick episode did venture into this area though, so maybe there is room for it.

If anybody has recommendations of podcasts that do go into detailed operational issues, please share.
noatime is a great counterexample to your 'ricing' claim. I run this mount option on nearly every filesystem under my command. relatime is also a viable option if you need things like mutt.

From http://kerneltrap.org/node/14148 (which discusses relatime, a less-drastic version of noatime that keeps mutt working)

> Ingo Molnar stressed the significance of fixing this performance issue, "I cannot over-emphasize how much of a deal it is in practice. Atime updates are by far the biggest IO performance deficiency that Linux has today. Getting rid of atime updates would give us more everyday Linux performance than all the pagecache speedups of the past 10 years, _combined_."

> "It's also perhaps the most stupid Unix design idea of all times. Unix is really nice and well done, but think about this a bit: 'For every file that is read from the disk, lets do a ... write to the disk! And, for every file that is already cached and which we read from the cache ... do a write to the disk!'"
Review HN: BillMeBob.com - Generate free invoices with no signup
Whatever you may think about Joe Biden, I can guarantee you he's a better VP than Sarah 'Drill baby drill' Palin (who now, ironically, has a TV series on Discovery where she talks about the natural beauty of Alaska that she kept trying to destroy).
I installed an SSD in my MBP some months ago, and it is fantastic. Just do it. Don't worry about hacking the settings--the OS folks at Apple will eke out the last few percent of perf for us when they get around to it.
Not exactly the same thing, but several tools in the Government rely on "crowd-sourcing" entity extraction and disambiguation vs. using an automated approach -- Axis Pro, Palantir, etc.

You get high quality named entity tagging (since humans are doing it), but it takes a lot longer than doing it by machine, and it has a couple of downsides -- like scaling poorly, involving lots of staff doing entity tagging instead of real work, a noticeable delay between incoming reports and being able to use them (since they aren't tagged and those systems pretty much require tagged documents to do anything useful with them), as well as people fighting over the disambiguation of certain entities.
interesting...so maybe having a recommended beer show up after they enter in a beer?
clearly you, sir, have not been to a newsstand in nyc.
How about "Your Dudeness" or "El Duderino", if you're not into the whole brevity thing? Petty namecalling is stupid, but "dude" is a sign of (modest) respect.

Seriously, as a foreigner I reckon that the office of the President of the United States needs to be taken down a few notches. I mean, I accept that the dude needs a private jet, but does it really have to be a 747 and called Air Force One? I accept that the dude needs a limo instead of driving himself around, but does it really need to be a custom-built limo? I accept that the guy can have a nice executive mansion, but does he really need his own seal, his own theme tune and a standing ovation every time he shows up to talk to Congress?
I think you have a great thing here. I like the polish of the "Unidentified Location Object" and there is plenty of GUI "Ajaxiness" going on.

Maybe a Map feature? What high rated beers I haven't tried are near me (you can add high rated beers as rated by users who are similar to me aka recommendation engine later)?

One quick improvement is to add <A Link> to the city and state where the person had their drink and then list beers had there or near there. Improve it later by adding Zip Code/Geolocation to the user registering, and then you can find/sort by distance to beers and people which can then create beer connoisseur groups ala meetup.com
Except that humans don't (or will not) need these qualities anymore. Humans will evolve to be desirable to the other sex, i.e. "tall, muscular, lean, brave, intelligent".
Is it really better, or is it just a fell-good thing? What if reducing number of writes has no practical consequences at all? There is no data provided to judge either way.
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle - The Three Rs of Programming
It doesn't diverge from any other closure/lambda implementation in every other language. It's just like Smalltalk blocks. I had never thought about it before, but it does make Smalltalk-style control structures(normal messages with blocks as parameters) much more convenient to use. Smalltalkers need non-local return in blocks to be able to do:

foo ifFalse: [^ bar].

doSomething.

Ruby has if and unless and some other control structures with support for returns, but why not allow control structures implemented as higher-order functions to include returns, too?
The assumption with securitization is that the people securitizing the deal are attempting to aggregate risky assets then slice of tranches with different levels of risk/reward. When they are telling you that these slices are relatively safe, the presumption is that there isn't grounds for disbelief.

The fact that the people structuring the deal were short on the deal is evidence suggesting a far, far more involved analysis before getting involved. That's a red flag that should cause significantly more due diligence. The entire purpose of the SEC is to make sure that such material information is not lied about.
The two biggest problems I know of:

The available user password space is so small that random jabbing at the keyboard will get you root access in under a minute.

The MovieOS developers refuse to remove the UPLOAD VIRUS "functionality" that routes malware past any and all defenses.
You sound like you're probably not a part of the target audience for this article.
I tend to enjoy the Mixergy interviews, but I find that Andrew is often too self-focused. It's somewhat jarring when he uses his access to people to say "What do you think of My site, or My Style?"

I understand the temptation; I'm not saying I wouldn't necessarily want to do the same thing, but when George Stephanopoulos interviews Obama or Putin, he doesn't ask if they watch his show.

I also understand that it's reasonable to use your own site/startup/etc as an example of the larger world, but it seems somewhat unslightly. This may be a place where avoiding the appearance of conflict is best, even if it would otherwise make sense.
Just don't run your globe-spanning alien invasion on it until you upgrade the virus protection!
Since you're going to be reading and writing to the drive repeatedly, the drive is always going to hit the write performance crunch no matter what you do (unless you support TRIM - Windows 7 does with the correct drivers, OS X does not, not sure about Linux).

However, even degraded, write performance of a modern SSD will still make a hard drive look like yesterday's news - so honestly, I wouldn't even worry about it at all.
It's just more of an adult / documentary thing IMHO. They spent way too much trying to make some principled point rather than entertain. Same with 'Up'. I think perhaps they were catering to people who nominate Oscars or something.

My kids were bored. Gimmie Princess and the frog, Hercules, Aladdin, Little Mermaid etc etc any day.
Bass Fishing Techniques
Bass Fishing Teacher is a bass fishing guide for both new and pro fishermen that includes a lot of fishing tips and techniques.
Very cool! Invoicing is a terrible (and least interesting) part of freelancing and consulting. This looks like a great MVP. I especially like that when I print it out, that there's no big "billmebob" logo at the top there.

I think it would be fair to put a self-promotional link/tagline at the very bottom of the page though.

Also, allowing me to email directly from the page would probably be nice. At the very least, just do a mailto: link with the subject and body filled in for me to just hit "send" :)

Awesome MVP, definitely keep us up to date on the iterations!
That's an interesting question. I think it depends on how drastic the pivot is. Also, sometimes the fear of pivoting can really hold you back. With my startup, OnePage, we started as a life-stream and now we allow people to create an online business card. It was surprising how few people asked where the life-stream aspect had gone. Would love to hear other people's thoughts on this.
You can subscribe to the audio podcast version and your iPhone will play it back at double speed automatically!
In this day and age of cheap video games, movies, and pornography... there is not much of a market for this anymore.
Even that wouldn't help if your server is hosted in the US. If they really want access to your e-mail, they can just have your hosting provider give them access (or get the data for them), and under the Patriot act, they can't even tell you about it.

Another other solution would be to use e-mail providers (or hosting solutions) outside of the country. Vancouver, Montreal, and Toronto, for example, have excellent connection to the US fibre networks (my company has its own pipe from Level 3 from Seattle to Vancouver). Host a server there, and no amount of government intervention is going to get your data, and hosting companies here (well, the good ones) won't give your data up without a subpoena or a warrant (and are able to tell you).
"The acne medication isotretinoin (Acutane) has been linked to a possible increase risk of suicide."

Acutane is an AMAZING drug for anyone who has acne. There are a bunch of extremely rare, but unusual side effects that scare people away from it. It's a shame.

Having bad acne causes more depression than this drug could ever cause (in 99.99% of cases).
Disappointed that the list of famous people who have committed suicide did not include Kurt Cobain.
No, it does not. To understand why lets compare it to another situation. Cancer cells vs normal cells. Cancer cells are "selfish" so if you wait long enough every cell on earth would become a cancer cell, right?
You almost make it sound like it would only show you it's going out to 500 friends _after_ you clicked the button. :D
For that matter, I've read that the original English translators of Japanese primary sources translated the "dirty bits" into Latin.
Given that Intel SSDs are claimed to support writing 100GB of data every day for five years before losing the ability to write, and I rarely hit even 10GB written in a bus development day according to OS X's Activity Monitor, I'm uncertain if these tweaks will make all that much of a difference in the lifespan of the drive.
Cray: Chapel specification
In progress discussion of SEC charges:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1270775
It's interesting that there's no visual cue when an email is sent that distinguishes between sending to a single individual or a group of people, or an even larger group of people.

Pure gold!
> There have been crazies ranting about how the government reads all your e-mail for years.

Yeah, those of us who were protesting Bill Clinton and Al Gore's backing of the Clipper Chip 17 years ago were just lunatics. It's not like we managed to stop a horrible government program or anything. It's YOU young heroes who are the first ones EVER to stand up for your rights against government monitoring communications.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clipper_chip
The double down isn't that bad. The grilled one would be the perfect sandwich to have after lifting weights.
I would not say delicious really thrived though.
> I used to live 15 minutes from the Capitol Building.

So you lived in the imperial seat in the US, the one are where 75% of people are working for the government (directly or indirectly), and the one place that actually GREW during the current recession ... and you use that background to argue that Americans-as-a-whole are naive and love big intrusive government?

You see the logical flaw here, don't you?
That's excellent!

If you take fields for the google checkout and paypal links it would be better. If it also generated a emailable letter which could be copy pasted into an email it would be fantastic.
Scientists work to keep hackers out of implanted medical devices
Hackers can access and remotely control medical devices like insulin pumps, pacemakers and cardiac defibrillators
So that the world will have more Perl hackers: http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~damian/papers/HTML/Perligata.... .
> Living in the US, I accept the claim that not many get together to say "No". Compare to Asian/European countries where the slightest rift creates huge protests.

What gives you the impression that "the slightest rift causes huge protests" in Asia and Europe?
I think it's nice for a UI to show you things in a way you can respond to on an almost instinctive level, but will it help with UI designers who just don't think?
I used to do freelance web development work and invoicing was always such a pain. You either roll your own, use a paid system, or something totally bloated like quickbooks. This is great for individuals doing short projects. Great MVP. hope you pick up some adoption.
my tl;dr summary - After seeing several doctors and chiropractors for her excruciating back pain, Lucy found that exercise and [re-]building core strength was the answer. The problem was her muscles, not her bones.
"Corporation, (Noun). An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility." - Ambrose Bierce
The presence of a nude photo shouldn't matter.

This is incorrect, because incentives are important. If we don't hold people responsible for their actions, even when their actions are due to negligence or incompetence, then we build a society that is intentionally negligent and incompetent.

When (hypothetically) some teenage girl's nude photos wind up on the web, I don't think that a "sorry, that was an accident" is going to make her feel much better. When people are injured due to the actions of others, the injured parties are owed some redress.

We don't want incompetents running things, so we need to make sure that they are weeded out. Now, it may be that "oops" is a mitigating factor, but it is in no way an excuse.

A friend of mine was doing a tax protest many years ago, handing out fliers in front of the post office. He was arrested for this. He later sued the town and the police officers for violating his civil rights. He won several thousand dollars from the town, but the police officers got off. The explanation was that it wasn't their fault because they hadn't been trained for this scenario. Now, knowing that this is a viable excuse, our police officers have every incentive to avoid training. If they get trained, they're liable for their behavior, but staying ignorant is a get-out-of-jail-free card.

Edit: I may have misunderstood you. I first read this to say that a hypothetical nude photo wouldn't be a big deal, because the school didn't mean to do that. Maybe you're saying the opposite, that it doesn't matter if there is NO such photo, because it should be obvious that it could easily happen.
I would have a preview of what the invoice would look like before making me fill out everything. If the formatting is not what I am looking for, I wouldn't want to spend the time filling out the form.
Great news, I've always wanted a job as a gangbuster.
Early numbers show surprisingly high iPad browser share
I doubt this is going anywhere.

The suit is civil, not criminal which likely means no one is going to jail. They'll get find 1% of what they made on the deal and call it the cost of doing business.
Yeah, this is awesome. Everything I need and nothing I don't. If you allowed me to upload my company's logo for each invoice, that'd be even better.

I do freelance from time to time, but not enough to justify spending any money on an online invoicing service. This does exactly what I want without having to have an account.

Bookmarked, great job!
Does it come with vegetables? Does it come with some kind of energy source other than meat?
this should have been in the dante's inferno eula.
Yahoo is focused on squandering money on overhyped, flash-in-the-pan products, in order to hasten its demise. Words like "stock momentum" and "focused on local" are apparently euphemisms for "lost in the woods".
Mercurial over Git
Emacs: (for easy copy-paste into your .emacs)

(global-unset-key [left])
(global-unset-key [right])
(global-unset-key [up])
(global-unset-key [down])
(global-unset-key [prior])
(global-unset-key [next])
(global-unset-key [home])
(global-unset-key [end])
Incompleteness isn't applicable to the real world? (It is, just not naively.)
I wonder, how difficult would it be to detect whether a user of some sort of brain interface simply is or is not irritated by the particular on-screen thing s/he is looking at?
> I can guarantee you he's a better VP than Sarah 'Drill baby drill' Palin

Thanks. Your extensive footnoting and logical arguments definitely convinced me of your point of view.
The truth is that the truth you allude to is only one of many truths, and I consider it my duty as a mansplainer to point out that there are other truths you failed to incorporate into your paragraph in such a way that makes me feel as if I have a bigger and more complete collection of truths because then I won't feel so bad that my pants make me feel ugly.
Where do you stop? I spent 5 bucks on lunch today. Should I have not eaten because people are hungry? What about the computer and internet you typed this on? Should we have not invested in those and spent all the money on curing disease?
and Idiocracy
Simple API Versioning in Rails
> where there is smoke, there is fire.

I will always hate that phrase, because it's one of the phrases my dad used to 'prove' that Saddam had weapons of mass destruction.
I'm feeling an uncanny valley kind of response when I see this thing. It mostly looks adorable and appears emotive but it's not real. Imagine replacing your dog or cat with such a thing. Your dog actually cares about you and maybe your cat does too (unlikely), but this thing is just a machine. You can turn it off and throw it in the corner. To pretend to care about it, all by yourself (not as some fun among a group of people) just seems really weird to me.
That is why the laptop keyboard/trackpad combo is actually far better than the desktop keyboard/mouse combo. My fingers never leave the asdf jkl; position when mousing around a site. Each finger and thumb gets about the same usage. These things matter a lot if you do a lot of computer interaction.

The vim plugin for firefox is another route that might be good if you were on a desktop machine - I plan to NEVER a desktop for default development again.

And dragging is still hard even if mouse/trackpad is immediately available; the trade-off is a dozen fine-motor motions for about one byte of information input to a computer. My ideal one rough motion = one byte of information to the machine. The only time I'd want to home-in on a target is playing a video game, not choosing a file whose name the machine already knows.

Hands, hands are important. Use your hands gently...
responding to csarva(http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1271567)(I can't seem to reply to individual messages anymore):

>[re-]building core strength

That's [re-]building strength in core muscles (the ones that hold your skeleton together)... as opposed to motor muscles(those who move your limbs)... that is the crux of the whole article, and I think it makes a lot of difference. The way you put it leads to think to core moral strength.

Edit: The excruciating pain is also not core to the article. In her case, damaged nerves lead to muscle fatigue being manifested in lack of power and quite pointedly lack of pain in certain circumstances when pain was to be expected (though she also describes experiencing said excruciating pain).

Edit2: Actually, although the article is interspersed with passages of personal drama (it /is/ a blog post, on /her/ blog) it is also filled with too much information to be easily tl;dr'ed... Also, the post itself is a postmortem style post in which what happened over a long period of time is condensed. Further compression runs high risks of being lossy I think.