skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Iran simply blocks services it does not like.

There would be no point in Iran requesting info and removals from Google. Google would ignore them at best, or worse, publish the requests and make Iranian govt look like idiots.
(disclaimer: this is just my theory...)

Coming from an Asian perspective, I can see why the concept of schooling has become so heavily mainstream.

Surely enough, people in the old days didn't get as much "schooling" and entered the adult world with real responsibilities and work earlier in life. For this reason, the jobs they held would typically have been labour-based jobs.

In such societies, though labourers received a decent life, it was the doctors/lawyers/professors that held the highest respect socially. The reason for this is that when things got tough outside the norms of what the common people could control (health, injury, legal issues, politics, etc), people from such educated professions were the ones that were looked up to.

It's due to the commanded respect of such learned professions that more and more parents wanted their children to receive further education. Even to this day, I hear a lot of my aunties and uncles talk in awe of children who grow up to become doctors. They really were the celebreties in my parent's culture.

Times have changed. Rather than being a place to go to learn, highschool has turned into a mindless competition to get "ranked" on how well you can retain (mostly) useless information that would have little to do with what your target professsion will actually require.
I dont see what the source can get you. In fact, given that Google reuses a lot of open source, the source code is probably out in public already.

I think for Google, their data would be far more valuable. For their password systems, I guess it is safely secured with a salt+hash somewhere so someone would have needed to hijack an admin's account.
He has been quite motivated in his learning as considers the problem of how to use his teen years to get ready for running a business in his (soon) adulthood. That's been good for my younger children to see his thought process in making the teen years count for adult independent life. The essay pg wrote about this

http://paulgraham.com/hs.html

has been helpful in our family's thinking about this issue. Perhaps endure school-like experiences, but look for the most adult-like learning experiences possible.
How risky is it to be an entrepreneur? 10-30% chance of sucesss.

I'm pretty sure it's a lot lower than that. Especially if you count success as exiting with fuck-you money[1]

[1] http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=fuck+you+mone...
A few months ago I read Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman's excellent book Nurtureshock:

http://www.nurtureshock.com/

If you have or are responsible for children, I highly recommend it as an excellent overview of current research into cognitive development.
I have a Revo and it's pretty nice for streaming video from a server but it's pretty sluggish for Flash content even with the newest Flash beta running under windows.

I love it as a XBMC front-end to my UPNP linux server; it is super quiet and uses very little energy when it's sleeping, and works fine on HD content. As far as Hulu goes though, it just doesn't cut it (YMMV, I didn't try very hard).
It will be interesting to see how they will react to Android.

I don't see how Android's marketplace will ever be a threat to Apple's. Just look at the financial incentives: Apple is in the game to make money off the devices and the content royalties. Google is in the game to commoditize the devices that people use to see ads, and Android applications are a complement to those devices. To Apple, the App Store is both itself a source of income and a complement to their primary source of income. To Google, the Android Marketplace as a complement to a complement to their source of income.
I would guess around 10k-15k for the summer (though I personally haven't been involved in any), depending on amount of funding, etc.
See e.g. http://rethinkdb.com/jobs
At a high level of abstraction, marijuana seems to make sense to treat autism. The various flavors of autism involve difficulty seeing patterns, and THC makes pattern detection fire more often. While frequent marijuana use can take the brain too far in the other direction (seeing patterns which aren't there, synesthesia, etc.), it seems like there might be promise, though certainly not without side effects.

The only way to be sure is further research, and it's unfortunate that the political and social stigma make it so taboo.
Depends on who you expect to consume it I think. If you're going to have enterprisey folks use it then they're most likely going to want SOAP etc, if you expect it to be used in service orchestration ...... then the people with that kind of skillset tend to end up using SOAP etc. General consumer access REST all the way. I've wrote a custom service that did both as there was nothing at the time that did both, but that was ~4 years ago. The REST service was never really used, I think that because for your average joe sitting there in a corporation, the training and toolset he's got is all SOAP focussed for the most part.
Am I a cyber-bully?
For reference, the Wikileaks video can be found at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=is9sxRfU-ik

The HN thread on the original video can be found at:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1241879
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It's really cool. I would like more details on "data request".. it's still very dark matter that doesn't really tell much about. It would be interesting to know how much "per person data requests" has been released. Brazil has more "data requests" than US, but it may happen that US requests that ALL user data is sent back every month, witch would count as 12 requests :)
http://rubyonrails.com/ is working, by the way.
One thing I've noted is that a rare number of politicians, like Gingrich and Al Gore, have the ability to see above and beyond the short term political context and the courage to act on what they see. Both of them have an uncommon amount of wisdom and intellect and an inclination to break from conventional thinking.
We wouldn't ever have heard of this soldier if it weren't for the WikiLeaks video - and if they hadn't sensationalized it, nobody would ever have seen the video.

They did exactly what they were supposed to do: get the raw info out there, so that we can now all go through digesting it and picking it apart. This was the whole point in the first place.
My javascript dev environment consists of the following:

- Textmate (any text editor will do though)

- Firefox with the following extensions:

a) Web Developer Toolbar

b) Firebug

The firebug console is brilliant and also helpful is the toolbar icon which displays how many errors have been encountered. I also find that console.log() is superior to alert() in almost every way when trying to debug.

I honestly can't think of how this could be made better as I have grown so accustomed to this workflow that it's pretty much second nature.

However, I think as localStorage becomes more widely integrated it would be helpful to have a database manager and query testing tool for developing apps requiring client-side storage.
They're about to get a whole lot more, I think.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1280955
"writing them on sticky notes attached to their monitor, about the worst possible computer security behavior you can undertake."

Really? The way I understood it, if a person has physical access to your machine it is game over. How often does a would be hacker come wandering past your cube? Maybe I'm missing something but I keep all my passwords in a little book in my home, and feel pretty safe from hackers. I suppose a thief could break in and get them but why not just take my physical stuff then?
There are some copies of the popular ones with less views still up.
This was the best one IMO: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUjaW4ZtdN0
The comments in the blog talk about arrogance and how someone else would have done what RMS did if he didn't exist. They also complain that him being a "nutjob" has actually done harm to freedom. This line of thinking is dead wrong. It takes someone precisely like RMS to stand for his ideal and dedicate his life to what he believes. I, personally, feel a great debt to the man.
ServerDensity is another tool that's good at notifying you if something is amiss on your server: http://www.serverdensity.com/

As a bonus, the creator of ServerDensity has a great blog that shares details of his entrepreneurial bootstrapping endeavor: http://blog.boxedice.com/
This reminds me of when Viktor Belenko Defected to the US with a mig-25 foxbat. The US disassembled it and sent it back in thirty crates.
Brazil is probably a special case due to the heavy use of Orkut there. Indeed, 218 of its 291 removal requests are related to Orkut.
Stallman is nothing if not dramatic;) I have trouble imagining that computers would not be as widely used today, not without corporate backing and innovation, but without the kinds of hijinks that have kept the Wintel near-monopoly in place for so long. It was a bunch of hackers, not suits, who started the personal computer revolution.
Most companies that I've worked in or with seem to treat interviewing as a miserable bore, and most candidates as utter incompetents

Jeff Atwood and Joel on Software blogged about how an absurdly high amount of people applying for programming jobs can't actually program at all. Many candidates are utter incompetents. Filtering the wheat from the chaff is hard process for the average company, because interviewing well and performing a job well are two different tasks.
Actually, the quote refers to `arrant pedantry'. However, I guess that this proves your point.
I wonder if this applies to Dual N-Back? http://brainworkshop.sourceforge.net/

This claims to have the support of a scientific study.
Clickable link: http://www.networktimeout.com/
There is something off; I'm not sure what the article is talking about.

The study is available from http://groups.google.com/group/brain-training

Reading it, I see significant advantage for the meditating group on the 'Computer Adaptive 2-back task', but not the 1 v 10 difference cited. Specifically, it seems that according to figure 1, before the intervention, the average 'extreme hit rate' on the n-back was ~2 for the meditating group and ~3.5 for the Tolkienists, but after 4 sessions, the meditating group was scoring >9 while the Tokienists were ~5.

The only significant discussion of the 2-back is on pg 6:

> "Fig. 1 shows the significant group by session interaction found in the analysis on the extended hit rate from the computer adapted n-back task, F(1, 47) = 6.76, p = .01, g2 = .12. The meditation group, in contrast to the control group, had more extended hit runs. There was also a significant session effect, F(1, 47) = 18.78, p < .001, g2 = .29. Follow-up analyses on the speed measure of the n-back task did not show any evidence of an interaction effect F < 1, or an effect of session or group, Fs < 1."
I wouldn't mind HN having sections (like subreddits).
You raise an interesting point about the difference between intent and outcome. Making the factory farm analogy makes it appear that you are hijacking an issue to push your own agenda.

To paraphrase you:
The soldiers weren't out there with the express intent of killing civilians, but farms do have the express intent of killing animals. It's not that you equate human loss of life with animal loss of life. It's that you equate accidental loss of human life with intentional destruction of animal life.

In response I would say that we all draw that line somewhere. Humans don't tolerate unlimited cruelty to animals, even if it is beneficial to us.
Registering a domain name called collateralmurder.com with the lede "WikiLeaks has released a classified US military video depicting the indiscriminate slaying of over a dozen people" is not releasing "raw info".
Two things:

1. Occam's razor would suggest that rather than hiring a "rockstar of programming" you should hire a "programming star". It's much simpler.

2. A real programming superstar usually has much, much higher hopes than to become become the ultimate Pythonista or Rubyist. Good programmers transcend languages and technologies.
I have mixed feelings about this viewpoint. It's like taking VC money before you're ready. The world may benefit from your "idea", but your lousy execution is hurting your cause.
I disagree. Had the number some actual reason for being chosen, some relevance, or some greater purpose, then such would have come out in the book. As it stands, the complete and utter irrelevance of it is almost a plot point in the book. That there is a great system of machinations far greater than what any single individual could possibly understand is a fantastic premise -- that it derives a nonsensical answer that the universe can't comprehend is even more fantastical, and in my opinion, is part of what works about the story; I honestly don't think it would have held as well if the number actually had some importance.
FreshBooks is the most useful web-based tool that I use as a freelancer. The product is easy to use, has great features and they have good customer service.
The Downfall - Das Boot double is an epic day, and well worth the investment. It's tough reading subtitles for seven-something hours, but the hollowness of war feeling I was left with...
...regardless of the financial damage they may or may not do.

From what I remember from another article on here, most of the time it is the banks/etc that are liable when someone is the victim of identity fraud, not the victim (like a 50$ maximum liability or something). The banks don't give a crap about keeping your money safe, it's about keeping their money safe.
And where do you suppose the salt is stored? (EDIT: Not to suggest Google would be so naive as to use a single static salt value with N hashing iterations. I really hope there's something smarter at play than that. The question is, does the source code contain all the information needed to perform dictionary attacks, or is some element of it externalized? And does anyone even know if user 'passwords' (in whatever hashed form they exist) were compromised?)
More info: http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2010/gates-visit-0405.html
So you feel that ssh should be written in Perl?
There is a huge difference between sticky notes on a monitor and a book kept in your home.
Nope, the justification is that they're going to give you enough equity that you'll get rich when they sell to the google/ms/oracle/ibm type.
"That's leaving out the benefits from practicing general problem solving skills, logical reasoning, analyzing design trade-offs, etc."

Yes. I do so explicitly and intentionally, as there is no evidence these benefits exist. That was my whole point.
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Yeah, clearly we don't agree. I take the "no stones unturned" approach to journalism.

Well, here's the thing. I work at a ("traditional"; been publishing papers since the 19th century) news organization and I actually have the word "journalist" in my job title (how that replaced "developer" is a story for another thread). I spend as much time working with reporters and editors these days as I spend working with coders (unfortunately, much of it in meetings, but such is life). So I've ended up with a lot of exposure to a a particular, I guess somewhat conservative, perspective on journalism, and that's what I'm applying when I think about how this story should be handled.

So. Find out who it was and publish some information to give context? Sure, that's useful. Ruin the guy's future as well as current career by making sure his name's permanently associated with this? No; it doesn't help the story in any way to do that. But then, Gizmodo's obviously operating on a very different definition of "journalism" (more akin to the supermarket-checkout tabloids), and it's not one that I really approve of because it ends up putting the focus on the least relevant information in order to drive up the sensationalism and the pageviews.
Happy 420 HN.
It maybe doable, but your business isn't as likely to be successful.
He is on record as not wanting to have a kid because in his view the planet is over-populated. Also, I don't fully understand (due to lack of inquiry into it) his view of marriage but I'm fairly certain that "thinks it's too easy" is not accurate.
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I wish I thought of that
I guess Richard Dawkins' selfish gene theory and Free Software Foundation don't go together. :)
One pleasant surprise was that they give you a sample snail-mail invoice, even with their free plan. It may be a clever marketing ploy but it works - I remember opening that envelope and being convinced that this would add a whole new level of professionalism to my freelancing.
If you spend any time at all researching Christian you'll find out he's written 2 books on JavaScript and contributed to several more, while speaking prolifically at conferences on the subject.

As a colleague and friend of mine, I can tell you he's trying to be an educator and help other people become better coders. If that means he's aimed some stuff under a line for "good" that's because he's trying to help people get over that line.
Why? "imperatively executing statements one after the other" does not imply that they have to be on different lines.
Godfather, anyone? :-)
Internode has wanted Aussie WoW server for years
This is actually pretty sad, since the director of "Downfall" approves of the usage.
http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2010/01/the_director_of...
If there is one book every JS developer should get it's "The Good Parts".

Completeness is not the same as 'bestness'.

Doug's book tells you what you should know, Flannigan's book tells you what you can use.
It makes me a little angry really. There are so many liars and people who spin things, political blogs, "opinion shows" on television. It's just outright lies. People are not telling the truth and I find it to be one of the most disgusting realizations I've had as an adult. It really takes a brain and critical thinking to understand the world because of the sheer number of liars broadcasting their lies through every means possible. This soldier came face to face with children hurt in war, and it's the most authentic and reasoned response I've read yet with regard to this incident. Wikileaks on the other hand just became another one of the liars. It's just despicable. I hope they're proud of their new status in life.
It's "funny" that people see his statement, that perhaps it's better he didn't die as an infant because he's done some good, as arrogant. He could be paraphrased as saying something like "I've experienced such misery that sometimes I wish I wasn't here at all but on the other hand I think I've done more good than harm for others and there is some comfort in that." How that's arrogant is beyond me. I can understand people having the opinion that, no, he's done more harm than good - but he's not arrogant for thinking otherwise.
Yes, I got that, too. :) They also gave me an introductory phone call to see how things were going and if I needed any help. They are really top-notch. :)
Either computers would be useless novelties or they would be mainstream and lose the hacker/counterculture status. Those are the only two options. There is no way that every person on earth was going to care about source code. Progress is still progress even if it's not what you want.

There is plenty of fun to be had still in technology, just don't get married to a philosophy. I learned that the hardway.

In the early days I ran a BBS. When the Internet became mainstream I remember thinking "how do I compete?" I redoubled my efforts: upgrading modems, adding drives/door games, increasing my software library, etc.... All the time thinking "where's the 'community feel' on the Inet?" By the late 90s I realized the problem was me and not the world.
Ask HN: Best task management software for small teams?
I'm interested to hear what web-based task management software HN uses when collaborating in small groups <10.

We have a small group of 5 and need the ability to quickly create and assign tasks to each other, and add comments or updates to those tasks.

We'd also like the tasks to be groupable by project (not a deal breaker).

I've tried a few apps already but didn't find anything that quite matched what I'm after.

- Basecamp was OK, the interface was a bit clunky and I couldn't do a newline in the task description.

- HiTask was OK, but I couldn't add comments to tasks.

Really appreicate your input!
I wonder if it would be possible to have a debate site that didn't degenerate into noise? How would you keep things civil? Or how would you keep it from becoming an echo chamber?
No personal experience (currently applying for positions), but I know Skritter recently posted an offer of $4800 for 3 months plus housing and airfare.
http://blog.skritter.com/2010/04/summer-intern-wanted-softwa...
This makes me wonder what would happen if you could have a company 'salt' which is known internally throughout and organisation and added to the end of your password, each month it changes... everybody would know the extension to their password (no forgetting) but it would make it difficult for outside brute force attacks, while making your password no less secure internally... or so my half asleep thoughts appear to suggest (of course, if somebody internal had already compromised your password it wouldn't help, but presumably at that stage its game over)
This is a reasonable comment. I'm further surprised to see you being down-voted.
I'm not sure it was that hard to be like, "you know what, I'll do Farecast for sports and concerts" as an idea. It's the execution that impresses me, but the idea was obvious the day Farecast proved that you could pull it off.
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That's a disingenuous way to say c is a fine language for ssh.
What I meant is that I would prefer to see where exactly my keyword surfaced in the course - in what lecture or assignment vs lists of all courses mentioning the keywords.
Can't you just edit the post?

...Or maybe you can pretend it was some sort of clever play on words next time. :)
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I didn't read any negative intent to it, jacques.
"I think I've done more good than harm" is vastly different than "in terms of the effect on the world, it's very good that I've lived", though. A little humility goes a long way.
I used to participate in a blog that ran mostly like a debate site. It had several authors, all of different persuasions (but all friends). Each day one would take a position and write and essay. Then the debate would begin.

What happened was this: because the people taking positions were first and foremost friends, they also monitored the comments to make sure everybody was in line. There was a clear set of rules about what was allowed and what wasn't (no name-calling, for instance). The strength of the friendships and the community overcame people's sometimes passionate views, and we all (mostly) learned to disagree agreeably.

One of the best sites I've ever visited. I keep hoping to reproduce that experience somewhere else. There is something about _true_ diversity that makes thinking about big problems a lot easier. (I'm not saying people didn't get heated from time-to-time, but there were clear limits)
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I like the note from Bill Gates as well. A gentle reminder that behind the caricatures we all create for celebrities there are real people with depth ... some of whom spend too much time playing maze games.
Generating a baby isn't the only way to "have a kid", though. I haven't really seen what he's said, but that reasoning always rings hollow to me.
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