skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a good point and it is how I believe workingwithrails.com has handled this. You are ranked by the number of recommendations you have. That way new users who are unvetted do not rise to the top. Though in my experience recommendations are generally short and weak in their content. Maybe a system where users can say if they have worked with the person and if they would work with them again would be good.
For most gamers the upside of playing the game overrules the downside all the time. Me? I haven't bought SC2, L4D2 or MW2, because all of them disrespect the platform, and it's users. I want more features than I had in 1995, not less, I want companies to stand by their promises, and I don't want some neutered 1:1 console port, respectively. I also don't want Blizzard controlling the upstream of game content. Bobby Kiotik will want to monetize that, I'm not stupid. There's going to be Starcraft 10$ map packs soon. I refuse to relinquish my rights to companies who have proven that they are untrustworthy, even with entertainment.
This could be true, but I find it more likely that the original poster simply doesn't understand what he's talking about. For example, take your thought experiment, and modify it such that Gold, Inc. pays out all $10 in compensation and dividends, and grows its balance sheet by $0.

Now, we have $10 in debt-fueled spending, $10 in increased personal income, and the original poster is still wrong.
Would be nice to have a mixed dynamic/static typing system. So you can static type when you need the solidity and dynamic type when you want ease of use.
Don't forget:

- Installing the OS
- Securing the server
- Setting up backups
- Monitoring

None of these are particularly hard, it just depends on how much you value your time to set them up.
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Hey, don't shoot the messenger. :)

What you just said was pretty much his point. By decreasing the number of hops you are speeding up the connection (maybe not, but let's say so for simplicity).

His point then is that net neutrality has always been a fuzzy concept. Because even now you can boost your speed by spending a lot of dollars, for example buying servers as you point out.

I won't comment if its a realistic comparison, but I definitely found it an interesting pov: food for thoughts. :)
Paper has been around for centuries without significantly changing in form or function. Over that time, many stable conventions evolved for organizing information on paper and using paper as a medium communication.

Its digital equivalents are still immature - we don't yet have common expectations of how we share the same types of information digitally. The underlying forms are still changing rapidly, and the decisions we make in how we communicate are therefore more coarse. We don't think about the minute details of how we put out different bits of information in order when we first need to settle whether we're going to use email attachments or files on Dropbox or Google docs, or send an IM, etc.

Eventually, conventions will stabilize as certain types of information become strongly tied to particular methods of representation and communication. Once those become stable contexts, we will be able to vary the more minute details within each context to carry metadata in the same way Tufte does with paper.

This situation demonstrates an interesting (current) weakness with using technology to manage information. When your organizational systems, methods, and conventions are purely conceptual, it's very easy to change and adapt them in real time, allowing for a gradual evolution of processes, and progression towards nuanced equilibria. But when we rely on software, we may often need to write new code to support a new idea - we increase the upfront investment needed for experimentation, often drastically. And people who are non-technical can't experiment and adapt on their own at all. Until most people can adapt their digital tools as easily as their physical ones, it may take much, much longer to optimize their effectiveness.
Is THIS startup the one?
Of all the sites I've coded over recent years, this has been one of the most exciting, but I really need to ask some of the readers at Hacker News whether you could actually imagine using it...

Fedang.com pulls together every comment you make anywhere on the internet. It's based on the signature you post with (check the end of this post to see mine in action). I love it because it combines my 2 blogs with comments I make at any other site (book reviews on Amazon, comments on other blogs, ... comments ANYwhere) into one Fedang feed which is basically everything I say online.

Like I said, would you use it?

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indeed. there are probably not many people on HN or people who are going to post comments on blogs that are qualified to actually weigh in on this type of thing.
Yes but you've linked to a comment to the main blog post. Which is a bit untoward. A comment on a blog is hardly authoritative. I did a double-take until I realized you weren't linking to the main post. The main blog post says (and I quote) Still there remains the key question: is the proof correct? In one sense the present paper almost surely has mistakes—not just from the above objections but what one could expect of any first-draft in a breakthrough situation. The real questions are, is the proof strategy correct, and are the perceived gaps fixable?

edit: the commenter Charanjit Jutla seems to know his stuff but I still maintain that an offhand comment does not warrant the definitive titling of your submission.
15 weeks ? Are you absolutely certain?

What would a person need to learn to get that kind of job?
4. Nobody wants to have sex with the Android wielding sysadmin
I think back in the days there were a lot of cases.

And also Google felt like the underdog taking on the hated Microsoft.

Then one day we woke up and Google was massive, and doing just as much underhanded/questionable policies as the next guy.
I've been watching it the whole time, and I still have absolutely no idea what's going on.
I've used both Drupal and Wordpress. Each system has virtues. But from what you say, it sounds like you're looking for something that is going to be small and you don't want to spend a much time maintaining it. So I'd recommend wordpress. If you're using a shared hosting service, there's a good chance they already have a one click installer with automatic updates for you. So you won't have to deal with installation and updating and you can get lots of great themes for under $100. If you do go this route, my only recommendation is that you avoid using third party modules to avoid any security issues. As long as you stick with WP core and you keep the overal size of your site down then you should be fine.
There are several indicators, the author of the comment seems to be a researcher at an IBM R&D center.

Also the original author removed the paper from him web page. Thus which indicates that he is probably backing out on his claim.
It's a bit of both. The same reasonably-skilled photographer is going to take better photos with a SLR than with a camera phone. The better tool lets you use your better skills. (And even someone with no skills at all is going to get better results simply from the improved light-gathering and CCD quality.)
No One Likes A Sure Thing
Tech Startups: "Not All Sunshine and Rainbows"
You can find revised versions at: http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Vinay_Deolalikar/Papers/ It is being revised frequently.
Everybody uses this free software, http://www.david-laserscanner.com/
Always be thankful when the carelessly dismissive reveal themselves so cheaply and easily.
Final by Default
Plus that any part of that money does not goes towards contributing social security fund in USA.
You consider the iPad to be a "far superior reading device" to, say, a Kindle or Nook? I do think the iPad (or any quality tablet with educational software available) could be very useful in schools, but I think it's a far cry from the "far superior reading device to anything else on the market" you claim it is.
So how do you prevent people from spoofing it?

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The trouble is that "Android Phone" is not as meaningful a category as the article makes it out to be. Nor is "Motorola Phone."

Droid Eris is not a MotoDroid is not a N1 is not a Sidekick is not a HTC Evo ...

Really, there are certain Android and Motorola phones that could have very similar demographics to the Blackberry or iPhone. Furthermore, Comparing the cameras on the phones more recent than the MotoDroid to those that came before is night and day.
Control panel on the site - I can 'de-own' any posts that erroneously get attributed to me.
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I just bought a remote for my camera precisely because my friends and I don't spend a lot of time taking pictures of each other. Sometime this week I'll spend the evening looking off camera like I'm having spontaneous fun with a bunch of people, when I'm actually alone, posing in my apartment, taking picture after picture trying to get my posture and facial expression just right.

Strangely enough, this strikes me as hilarious instead of depressing, and I'm actually looking forward to the challenge. I'm also looking forward to the laughter and teasing when I show off the results to my friends.
I may be wrong (I am not American and don't follow everything that goes over there). But I thought that the FCC was trying to push for some reform, and the reason why they got stuck was because of the massive backlash by the carriers (and others).

Can anyone confirm one way or the other? Thank you.
Bookmarklet allows you to play chess in real time.
Witten at Your Fingertips
It could be said that I am that guy. It's not that I have more time to spend than other people. I'm just more profligate with it.
GDP per capita has increased linearly in the US over the last few decades.

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs217.snc4/39207...

The distribution of salaries for the UK looks like this:

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs224.snc4/38561...

and I expect that the US is even more extreme, although I don't have any data for US salaries.
If you're offering it for public scrutiny, then the good news is you've just gotten a good bit of it from an experienced security professional. Perhaps instead of calling tptacek arrogant, you could take the criticism that you say you're inviting?

The best practice in password hashing schemes is well understood by the security community, so you have to understand that it can be frustrating to watch the same mistakes made over and over again.

As tptacek pointed out, the correct answer is "use bcrypt". He's not telling you not to offer your library for public use, he's just pointing out that there is absolutely no reason to roll your own password hashing scheme.

"Also, could I not continue using SHA2 256, and add an option to specify the number of hashing repetitions, which would increase the time to compute, as well as frustrate dictionary attacks?"

Are you sure there is no inherent property of SHA256 that would allow an attacker to shortcut the computation of successive hashes? I'm not saying there is, but simply that cryptographers have already solved this problem and considered all the angles. Why are you trying to start from scratch?
As a Lisp beginner, I also really enjoyed PG's lengthier walk-through of Lisp-in-Lisp, which explains each part in more detail:

http://lib.store.yahoo.net/lib/paulgraham/jmc.ps
Anyone else try this out? It's fantastic.

I'm at http://hackernewsers.com/users/messel.html

other newsers are automatically pulled in by adding a link to your about

http://www.hackernewsers.com/users/<your_HN_name>.ht...
Notice that I chose the phrase "reign in the debate". And I would say that the FCC has sufficient "skin in the game".

Google/Verizon, to their credit, have put out at least some of their proposal for public consumption. I just don't see how a policy put forward by a corporate entity (or alliance in this case) could be anything but biased to that entity.
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True, but you'd be surprised how many self-taken photos there are on OKC; either the notorious MySpace shot or the truly sad "self-portrait in bedroom full-length mirror".
Thanks for the advice Steve!
Do a quick search on the blogs and the names of people posting comments on it. They are authoritative sources, just because it is on a blog (run by a well known complexity theorist) doesn't mean it's less important. I am quite surprised to see so many comments from these guys and such a discussion happen in public.
The fact that Dubai salaries are tax-free has a big impact too (although cost of living is quite high too (not relative to big US or UK cities but pretty high)).

Also depending on the gig often relocation expenses and other expat benefits are a factor (probably more so in the financial firms and big cos though).
>Tonight, I may be preoccupied by someone from okcupid.

Like a date? Or someone who works there?
XXXXXX Act of XXXX: Congress not even bothering to name new law.
So they are saying better quality photo's taken with quality equipment can result in more dates on a dating site?

As a photographer this makes me want to shout "Duh."
removing the paper doesn't necessarily mean that at all, he probably just wants finish editing it and getting peer feedback before he releases it officially
What, no salt?
I've had the same kinds of thoughts about photos on real estate listings. So many pics look flat out terrible but could easily be fixed with as little as changing the white balance setting. Seeing some of the basic photographic mistakes in a business so dependent on photography is depressing.
I just got a Panasonic GF-1 this spring, and it has refreshed my passion for photography. I did a lot of research beforehand and I'm glad to see that OKCupid is confirming my choice. A fair bit of the credit has to go to the 20mm Pancake lens that Panasonic makes, it's one sweet piece of glass, and it lets you make excellent portraits, where the subject is in focus and the background is blurred. Like this photo http://www.flickr.com/photos/laprice/4757480230/in/set-72157...

Amazon has a deal on that combo right now too http://amzn.to/brBxsE
Do yourself a service and read Putt's Law then compare it to your own experience. You will notice that karma has nothing to do with anything at least in a material sense.

But better life experience might be a very possible.
With the aging workforce in Japan, Europe and North America telecommuting and telerobotics will mean that people who have physical mobility impairments will still be able to continue in active employment for longer than would previously have been the case.
I wouldn't be surprised and I bet a ton of them are girls giving that damn duck face.
You forgot to give any information about you, or what you are bringing to the table. Have you lined up any customers? Do you know how much you will charge?

Did you read the 10 customers post yesterday? http://blog.asmartbear.com/customer-validation.html I would do something like this before getting a co-founder to build the app.

You should say:

"I have a dozen costumers lined up willing to pay $x. It cost me $y in marketing (like ad-words) to get these costumers leaving us $x-$y in profit. Estimated market cap is $z"

It isn't too hard to get all this data, and it will get you a much better response.
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Girl quits job on dry erase board exposes farmville boss called her hopa
It's a bug and they're working on it:

http://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/group/chromium-discu...
Uh, you stated the answer yourself. Corporations are accountable to their shareholders. They maximize profit, that is the only thing they do, and that is in fact a legal obligation that public company boards can be sued for breaching. You call them "publicly-owned" corporations but that is incorrect, they are in fact PRIVATELY OWNED.

The government including regulatory agencies like the FCC have a responsibility to take public interest into account - yes it is never done perfectly - but the FACT is that the decision-making process for governmental entities is entirely different than it is for private corporations.
Really? I didn't see Matasano in the results for "Chicago"
SCIENCE!!! </zed shaw>
Could some math expert (cperciva?) read the paper, read this blog post, and tell us the results?
Beijing workers shape up for return of compulsory exercises
How about just measure it by bandwidth usage or cpu cycles instead. Like "cloud-based" support software. Your name works perfectly with the "cloud" concept too.

Make the bandwidth limits high enough that smaller organizations will never have a problem, but then low enough that you don't have to worry about it being abused by a large corp.

Then make it $14 per month :)
Back to school bargains IT pros will love: Week 2
Sad Keanu Reeves is Being Photoshopped
People making fun of sad Keanu Reeves. Cruel? Maybe. But very funny.
A 20mm lens is not an excellent portrait lens. It will make your face look fatter.
Lovely design. Though your goal, the "Get started for free" button, is slightly below the fold for me.
Don't do it by threads (then I'll be charged by how helpful I am to my users), do it by support users (ie. admins), then I'm charged on amount of employees and it's just a small extra cost per employee.
For the employed, the current recession has pushed wages up
That's a funny question considering the quote above is precisely about the process of filing (aka tagging) things.
I hope you aren't suggesting my comment needs a citation, since it was merely making a claim of possibility. The parent of my comment looked at some data and drew a conclusion, and I was replying that the data could lend itself just as well to other interpretations and thus we can't draw such a strong conclusion. Hence the repeated use of the word "or" rather than "THESE ARE THE FACTS AND I AM A LEADING ECONOMIST SO YOU BELIEVE THIS IS ALL TRUE."
What about the iPhone wielding sysadmin? They do exist.
I'm not in the market for helpdesk software at the moment, but I think if I were looking at it, I'd be very wary of using something that limited me by threads.

Threads are something out of your users' control. Which means they might be forced into upgrading (or losing use of their helpdesk for the rest of the month), which would not please them.
Diesel 2: Using generators for async (and back again)
Efficient Digestion -- Herbert M Shelton
That's what I'm leaning towards, too. The best user experience is not having to watch your back in terms of how many threads you've used this month, so I think it's better to do it by users.

I think we're going to have to limit free plans, though.
I think he was trying to say that "speed walking" is not the same as taking a walk.
- "Get started for free" button is too low, and visually looks like it's in the page footer.

- The three screenshots with text aren't very clear, they don't explain much. FOr the first, show a support entry form, for the second, zoom out the screen further, for the third, .. you know what, why not dump the screenshots and show 1 screenshot instead showing the admin ui (the second screenshot basically)
+1 on that. I don't think telling people "pay you can't use this software for 15 more days" is going to convert well for us for the next month. Thank you.
Is the self portrait in a bedroom mirror really more sad than these photos that look like they were semi-professionally staged? In my experience with OKCupid "good" photos are often the least "accurate."
So people can impersonate you, but only while you're asleep?

I'm not trying to be petty. This would be more than enough reason for me to never use your site. It would also be trivial to impersonate you with a bot that you couldn't possibly keep up with on the control panel.
For Americans, dubai makes sense if BCG or Bains or Mckinsey are sending you there as a Consultant [read a series that appeared in MIT tech review, where this was the case], you then get 300k$ a year salary with quite bit lesser taxes and other perks.

But 30k$ per year salary to drive Tucks is surely not worth, The degradation of health due to poor living condition, is alone is a significant cost, considering any ailment that starts there would lead to significant future costs after the person comes back to USA.
Not to rain on your parade but I would suggest taking a look at:
service-now.com it seems that this software is very comparable to yours and would be a good competitor to look into.
P≠NPin' ain't easy.
I thought it would be about Shatner and Shit My Dad Says:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/08/09/shit-my-dad-says-bo...
Some of those commenters look pretty well-qualified. For example, Terence Tao was awarded both the Fields medal and the MacArthur Fellowship.
Clearly I need to study more.
How is this good for the Internet? Offering to cut deals with established players like Skype and Pandora who have the capital they've earned off the current free Internet? How can the little guy in his garage out innovate a Skype or Pandora and then bring his wireless Internet service to the masses? The masses dont care about the guy in the garage only what they are fed; their WISP (wireless ISP) is going to market the heck out of their partners(established players) whose service runs the best on Verizon because they ponied up.

I can't see how this good for the free Internet and the little guy starting.
Ah, good to know. I've been told the screenshots are pretty useless. I'll cook up an updated UI for that page that explains things a little better. (And we now have a lot more features that aren't covered.) Thank you!
HTML5 Boilerplate: a rock-solid default
I'm really interested why you consider traffic prioritization a foregone conclusion.

I can imagine a scenario where FCC bans prioritization of any form, and the market rewards the company who actually builds out the highest capacity network, not the company who most effectively throttles traffic.
Yes, yes we know.

You are an amateur who knows absolutely nothing about the topic, has no education, done no study, and knows none of the facts.

Despite this, you're arrogant enough to believe that the senseless bullshit that spews out of your ignorant mind is so important that hundreds of people should spend time reading it.

Fuck off to your mom's basement. Arrogant twits like you have ruined HN. If you don't know anything, you don't know anything. There's no shame in not being an expert on everything.
Thanks! We're always on the lookout for competitors, so this is great to know. Thank you.
How to write a term paper for starters
Assignment to write a term paper for the first time is a big challenge. Before writing the term paper they must learn about the selection of the topic, formulating thesis and how to write the term papers. This article shows how to write good term papers.
Your ad hominem attacks against Cory Doctorow don't really make his article's points any less valid. There is a difference between being discriminating and dismissive, and the arguments made in this article mostly deal with the latter.
Or maybe HP legal told him he couldn't use their web server to host unpublished material...
You are giving us a highly convoluted ad-hominem attack. Debate against Doctorow's arguments (particularly his assertion that passion shouldn't be dismissed), don't point out to us that Doctorow is biased. This is equivalent to saying "Oh of course he'll say that, he's a politician" without giving any thought to the ideas said politician has presented. See: http://www.paulgraham.com/disagree.html (where that example of a politician was taken from)
Came here to say the same thing, this is a must have. They should allow to pick "remote" or "telecommute" for people posting jobs too. For now I see posts using different wording such as "anywhere", "telecommute" and "remote". This is very important for devs.
Doesn't sound petty at all - approval before publishing is a pretty minor tweak, rather than automatic publishing and only then being able to pull something off the feed. Cheers for the feedback!
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Does this thing have a downvote arrow?