skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A question..

Several miss spellings were in the posted original RC email at TC..miss spellings that you would think RC would not make.

Are we sure that the original RC email that TC posted was real and from RC?

Things are just not matching..

But for a group of Super Angles not to know that they cannot
participate in a discussion where they suggest to collude to price fix.. tells me that I should not take any business advice from them..How about rest of HN readers?
Mozilla sites hierarchy can be hard/impossible to traverse for the un-initiated

I wonder if they'll improve this.
Why not just make the groupon offer profitable and then the issue of discrimination becomes moot. The key to using groupon or any form of marketing is to improve your bottom line. The business needs to be setup in such a way that even if the groupon offer is a loss leader that the traffic generates additional revenue.
Very well written, I like it. I wish more articles were proofed like this one probably was.
A minimal js stopwatch+timer
I could not find a simple timer that would count up and down i.e. stopwatch+timer so i quickly put this together. Let me know what you think :)
Works smoothly on Safari on OSX, though not Chrome. Anyone know if OSX-Safari has explicit hardware acceleration? Or does it use the core libraries for display? Or is there some other trickery going on?
Brilliant - thanks for the links. Much better than this one.
I think that's a feature.
1) "Any other content that is illegal, promotes illegal activity or infringes on the legal rights of others."

The site engages in commercial exploitation of photos of non-public persons without their consent.

2) "Content related to racial intolerance or advocacy against any individual, group or organisation."

The texts that accompany the pictures generally mock and harass the subjects. From the article:

"A recent picture of an obese woman sleeping had one comment: "OMG … it's 'The Bulk.'" Another, showing a pair of Hasidic Jews on a train, included a joke apparently referencing concentration camps during the Holocaust."
Probably Rails with JRuby. Install rvm, use rvm to install jruby, then install rails via jgem and you're ready to go.

Sinatra would be even easier if you're doing something simple.

Edit: very curious as to the reason for downvotes on this. If you have a better answer, give it.
I agree, but that's more a question of whether it's valuable/interesting/trashy than a question of whether it's promotional modeling use, isn't it? This just doesn't look like the kind of uses that model releases are normally required for.
Silicon Valley Just Ain’t What It Used To Be—And That’s a Good Thing
Another carbon neutral website provider? better than co2stats.com?
Maybe it would be possible to identify tracks not known to MusicBrainz by uploading them to Youtube and seeing who sends the automated takedown notice.
Right, but the concept was created to talk about distributed systems and remote procedure calls where if a failure happened on your end and you didn't know if the procedure call worked, you wouldn't have to check if it worked before retrying. So it doesn't quite fit here. Also, I don't think idempotence is a solution to this since a) This is more of a security issue, and less of a systems design one and b) you might actually have a legitimate use case for multiple posts
I've been a lawyer, and now I'm a startup founder. Sometimes I think I should have skipped the lawyer part; other times, not so sure.

I've never heard of a "law partner" (which doesn't mean there is no such term), but I don't think almost any startup needs a cofounder with a legal background. That's not to say, though, that you shouldn't start something with your friend -- if he's smart, if he has hustle, if he can pick up the business end while you do the coding (or vice versa, or whatever), then it's fine.

Look at it this way: your friend's legal background is unlikely to help your startup very much, because if/when you start to get serious you're going to need more legal firepower, even for pretty mundane stuff, than just one guy can provide. But it isn't going to hurt you, either.

The question is really about whether the two of you are a good fit for one another, sufficiently passionate about building this thing, and sufficiently skilled to be able to do it. Good luck.
Lift and Play! embody very different philosophies of web development, but if you want something closer to the common MVC frameworks Play! is very nicely done.
I absolutely agree. The current warnings are inadequate because the average phone user does not bother to read them and cannot understand them.

The average user does not think up malware exploit-cases to convince himself that full internet access combined with the universal implicit 'read anything off the SD card' permission is not a good thing. He just clicks the funny rubber cow and listens to the moo sounds!

If games want to display ads, that would be okay, but they need a more limited permission which gives them internet access to their home server only (like java applets) and no access to local filesystems except a little space for their own settings and files. I think there should also be a declaration of ad-spamminess in the manifest so that people can avoid such games. I really don't trust random closed-source freeware games with my filesystems.
"Do I just e-mail one of the professors there, speak a little about myself, and just sort of say "I'm interested in becoming involved in the research you head"?"

Funny -- I actually wrote another essay called "How to Get Your Professors' Attention" on this subject. Some friends are reading it right now, and I wrote it in response to some of the things I've read on HN.

In any event, if you're trying to get in another lab, I'd try something like this:

1) Find the list of the profs and/or their websites.

2) Look at their research. You might not understand a lot of it, but try to get a sense of what they're doing.

3) Try to read some of their recent papers. You might not understand a lot of them, either, so look at the bibliographies: figure out if there are any seminal papers in the field that are cited that you might have a better shot at understanding. Alternately, try to look for a more accessible source of information on the topic. Profs at your own university might be good for that.

4) Then send them an e-mail saying, "I'm interested in subject X and read Y and Z. I've done A and B to learn more about this subject. Can I drop by your office hours to talk it over with you?"

Almost all profs will have office hours.

5) Part of your goal should be to signal that you're not going to waste the prof's time. One way you can do this is by showing that you've invested some amount of your own time. Profs quickly discover that most people who claim they want to learn don't and that most people who implicitly claim they won't waste their time will.

If you want to see a draft of the essay I mentioned, send me an e-mail.

Does it even matter? -- in line of what jseliger and pg said about choosing majors -- that it doesn't matter, because the more important skills are easily translatable into different fields.

Look for what interests you, and do that. What you major in does matter somewhat -- if you want to be an economist, I wouldn't recommend that you single major in art history, and if you want to be a psychologist, electrical engineering might be less useful than some other fields. But people say things like, "You'll be unemployable if you major in X," or "smart people only major in Y," and in those senses what you major in doesn't always matter.

When in doubt, build your reading/writing and math skills, since those are applicable to nearly everything.
I don't think there's any legal requirement on text:photo ratio; photojournalists' blogs that are nothing but streams of photos of people in public places haven't been required to get model releases, and are probably protected by the first amendment. Granted, most of them are more legit journalism than this is.
Seriously? Seems like a security problem waiting to happen... gotta give this a try now.
It is not a sense of entitlement--- it is years of watching network television where the content (that cost millions) doesn't cost the viewer one red cent; it is all supported by advertisements.
I think they should have separated permissions that could compromise privacy / security from less important permissions, and grouped them by potential impact. Also the user should me able to say "um, no I won't allow you to read the phone state". As it is, the apps are in control, not the user. It is extremely difficult to effectively change the range of permissions now, with such a large body of existing apps.
Another thing: assume that the people designing the curriculum might possibly know a little more than you do about what subjects are useful later on. I.e., don't say stuff like this:

"But why do I need to learn about matrices? I'm a meteorology major! We don't use matrices at all, it's all just partial derivatives!"

(This is an actual complaint I received when TAing ODE's, which was required by the meteorology major. I didn't even bother explaining how you discretize a linear PDE into a system of ODE's, or why that matters for weather prediction, I just referred her to her department head. )
it's when I see story like this that I remember I really hate assholes ...

what's killing me too is that they get away with that but something like google streetview have to blur people face for privacy reason

their TOS (see 3.1.7) considering the context is ridiculous (and obviously not followed)

on top of that, they use the chicago tribune article as advertizing for their website (that I never heard of before)

and that is really the worst part, those guys with no idea (people of wallmart -> people of the public transit, shit my dad says -> stuff my boss says, etc.) may end up getting some bucks with more popularity, all that by exploiting the stupidity of people who can not understand a bit of difference from the norm.

the only thing those guys deserve is to get DoS'ed and/or banned and/or ignored.

Entrepreneurship should be rewarded when you do something cool, not when you exploit someone else.

[edit]
and here the photo of the asshole
http://twitpic.com/2sb48b
I think the summary is: Persuasively written speech can let you curry favor with both sides of a debate without having to take a real position.
The resources used in the stimulus come from someplace in the economy. The resources do not magically appear out of thin air when the Fed buys government debt.
It never hurts to try. Check out the faculty website for the area you're interested in. Find out if anyone is recruiting grad students and ask them if they could use an undergrad. Lots of professors will hire undergrads to work in their lab over the summer. Also, try asking your instructors whether they know anyone at the university who might have an opening.

Grad school is like entering a medieval guild apprenticeship. The main reason a master would take on apprentices is that they're cheaper than an equivalently motivated and skilled individual. So, your goal is to convince potential supervisors that you're motivated and skilled. The specific research doesn't matter so much as getting a good recommendation.
> scrape the token from a legit form

Assuming the tokens are strongly tied to a user ID, how do you propose getting yourself a readable copy of this form?

(There are a lot of ways of tying the token to a user ID... associations in a backend database/memcache; token = encrypt(userid, garbage); token = garbage + cryptohash(user_id + server-side-secret + that_same_garbage) ... )

(edit: tweak to 'cryptohash' method.)
Electronics Kit: Discounted for Gizmodo "University" Electronics Course
> Hell, you can take photographs of people and things on private property as long as it's readily visible from public property and you're not trespassing on the private property.

…In the United States. EU is a little different in this respect, at least.
This is not how the patent system currently works. Patents with broad application are constantly issued that don't have nearly enough informations attached to build a prototype of the invention (and the existence of said prototype is not verified by the patent office).
I'm the guy making this game, thanks for playing!

Got any feedback? Thanks.
Competition is good but browser fragmentation is the last thing we need. Good that IE highlights one area where browsers differ, but still, I wonder if we will ever get to write once run anywhere.
...the concept was created to talk about distributed systems and remote procedure calls...

I'm pretty sure the concept's use in mathematics predates that by far.
Several miss spellings were in the posted original RC email at TC..miss spellings that you would think RC would not make.

What would make you think that?
AngelGate is actual news. It may not be a story broke by CNN, or which appeals to their audience, but it involves real money, people, and laws. Apparently, the Federal Bureau of Investigation is now involved. This is not some frivolous gossip story. Also, it does seem to be topical considering it's on a spin-off news forum for a site with the primary purpose of angel investing. I for one am quite interested in learning more facts about this story.
Seriously. Search the web for documents on "cross site request forgery". Most of the documents discuss the POST issue. Some documents don't mention GET because GET should not be used when the request has side effects.
A minor, off-topic quibble over the opening paragraph about Ford: it's mostly wrong, historically. Yes, there was a single "model", but that model came in coupes, sedans, and touring cars, as well as an option to get them with almost no body at all. Cheap wooden bodies were then put on the frame to turn them into farm trucks, delivery trucks, and other kinds of service vehicles and wagons.

Ford always had competition. They didn't start the automotive industry, far from it. Fords didn't win the big races; Stutz did, and Stanley did, and others.

What Ford did was come up with a way to provide really cheap, relatively reliable, easy-to-service transportation to a huge market that needed it, just before roads began to get paved.

Ford was the Wal-Mart of their time, complete with the same amount of competition and controversy.

One of the shames of automotive history is that so much of it has been lost to the fable of Ford. There were companies building hybrid delivery vehicles in the early 1900s, for example. (I like Ford, I occasionally spend a weekend working on my own Model T Speedster, but the rest of automotive history is really colorful and worth knowing about.)
Sorry for wasted time. I know I have no simultaneous capacity and shouldn't read/write while distracted. :-(
“I regret David Lee was involved in the gatherings. I am sure he does too.”

In the previous email, it actually looked like Ron Conway threw David Lee under the bus.

This clarification was much needed.
You are not talking about the Open Systems Interconnection model, right? That's a protocol stack that died in the '90s and has been supplanted by a networking stack that was deliberately designed to not be like the OSI model. http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3439
Just to play Devil's Advocate for a moment, from the perspective of the development process, and the conversion funnel, granular permissions are a total pain in the ass:

First off, if you've got a user who is trying to install the app, it's extra clicks and text that they're going to ignore anyhow. They trust you, they're installing your app, don't be an asshole.

Second, say you don't need GPS or something for your product's current state, but you'd really like to integrate with something that will need it. Handling all the states of old user without perms -> new user with perms ( asking for permission? refusing without? what about when they decline? ) is a huge headache of busy work code. Get them to add that permission while they're already clicking and ignoring the legalese, and everyone wins.

Yes, we read the permissions apps use, but we should all realize that our parents won't. As long as you're allowing people to execute arbitrary code, on your outsourced hardware, broadcast over a public network, there's some diminishing returns on security. You're putting really fancy padlocks on a screen door.
play framework, I'd say http://www.playframework.org/
You said it better than I could have. The only cases of genuine survival behavior I can recall on the show are the segments where he discusses what local plants are safe to eat, or how one might acquire water in some seemingly dry locations.
Are Platform Vendors Stealing Linux?
I'm somewhat out-of-date, but Russia, Romania, and Bulgaria used to be problematic (and might still be, for all I know).

There was a scam whereby some of the more enterprising crooks would buy goods using stolen CC credentials and have them shipped to a Bulgarian address ... but put "Germany" at the bottom instead of "Bulgaria"; the Bundespost being highly efficient would then spot the mistake and forward the package! So you might want to do city/country consistency checks.

Again, look out for PO boxes.

This is going back years, and probably doesn't affect you if you're only using Paypal verified addresses, but when handling credit cards one useful thing to do was velocity checking: if two consecutive purchases come in, check the physical addresses associated with each transaction and block the transactions if the card would have had to go supersonic to get between them. You might be able to do something similar if you can dereference IP blocks geographically (e.g. purchase #1 on card foo comes in from a net in France and purchase #2 on card foo comes in from a network in Paraguay five minutes later). You can do this lazily (i.e. only trigger the check when you've got the second request).
I recall studies that show people with high metabolisms burn-off the calories with small motions/nervous habits but that's a bit different.

Anyway, if you try to argue against someone's personal experience, you should at least provide links to your claims rather than asserting the claims exist.
Re creating knowledge, it depends on the specialism. In a lot of computer science, I feel that university is perhaps one third ad-hoc / industrial trends and practices getting formalized; one third blue skies work of a some relevance, though by the time it becomes relevant is quickly overtaken by industry; and one third useless formalizations generation, more exercises in rigour (or not) for their formulators than measurable knowledge.
Yeah, I find it a little humorously ironic that the MVP drum gets beat here all the time, and when people announce an actual MVP, there's always someone saying that it needs more features to be useful. :-) (With all due respect to edw519.)
By the time I reached the senior year of my EE degree, I was terribly impressed with how neatly the prerequisite courses slotted into requirements of later classes. It's a shame that the reasoning is opaque until you've already been through the program. If I was in charge of the program, I'd give every freshman a manual summarizing the content of each class up to the junior year, and why they should know it.
I think there is a growing apathy between undergraduates and there teachers: the students don't quite see the point of slavishly attending lectures when the same information is readily available online or in the library, while lectureres don't see why they should try harder to engage students when they constantly turn up late, don't pay attention, or skip classes entirely.

I don't know if it's always been like this. My undergrad uni seemed to have recently added actual credit for mere attendance. One of the modules reportedly only had a tenth of the people show up (I didn't realise this cause I ditched it after the first two lecture which were exceptionally dull and unenthusiastic). My postgraduate class consisted of a room half full of foreign students who talked all lecture. I don't know if there's cynicism amng academics about their students, or some sort of undying optimism. I suspect they say "unbelievable now lazy they're getting, how lax the standards are, how ignorant..." when we're not there.

And then there's the tutorials: 90% of the time they were a joke. Even the better ones where some active discussion transpired, I wasn't convinced of their actual value beyond entertainment.
Ok, so I said to myself: Fine, let's download ie9, check it out and look at that demo page. So I google it up, I see the ie9 test drive.. Then, where is the [DOWNLOAD IE9 BETA] button? I can't see it.. so I google again: ie9 DOWNLOAD.. same page, no download.

Finally, reading a bit everywhere, I see a: Download beta9 now. Good.. I click on it. And I see: [Since you're running Windows XP, you won't be able to install Internet Explorer 9 unless you upgrade to a more recent version of Windows.]

So you know what? Fuck you, I stick with My XP/Mac and Chrome.
Rules of relativity come down to Earth - how to be younger
Posie's cafe - http://posiescafe.com/wp/?p=316.
I prefer the new site. The old one was horrible, imo.
Agreed. To put it differently: No double-dipping.
Bytes matter. If you put more bytes in a program it's going to do more than a program with fewer bytes. It's that simple.
You can't tell when someone is intelligent and has direct experience or evidence?
Explain how I would go about suing you, by December
> Twitter allowing updates through the API via IFRAMES and GET

Total amateurs. I hope those guys didn't have the guts to say anything about diaspora. Because disallowing GET updates is, like, third page on network security book.
Seriously, there might be better things to discuss on HN, than the Ron Conway saga. :( Last I checked there are about 18 comments on Techcrunch on that article. Bound to be a hell lot more soon.
The previous one had 411 comments, 2000 Facebook likes, 1786 retweets on techcrunch
So where ever you hide, you are not going to miss the mails and clarification of Ron Conway.
I dont think ANYTHING of value is added through speculation/opinionating over here.
Let the guys at techcrunch do their job..we can catch up whatever is happening by googling "techcrunch Ron Conway"
:)
Hi friend, having more "passion" is unfortunately not a real advantage. Pretty much everyone will say they're harder working and more passionate when trying to hustle for a job, vc money, a partner, whatever.

What's more important is tangible evidence of that passion, something that can be measured; what you have started, how many users, how much revenue, etc.

While it may be true you that you have a ton of passion, at the end of the day its just fluff. Its much easier to persuade people with statistics than with ideals.
OK, here is the study:

http://www.diet-blog.com/08/neat_how_everyday_movement_keeps...

"In a study, sedentary lean and overweight people were fitted with "magical" underwear which monitored every movement of the body. Subjects were fed 1000 calories above their weight maintenance levels. People who can activate their NEAT don't gain fat when overfed, while those who don't switch on their NEAT were gaining literally 10 times more fat..."

-- Which implies that people indeed exist who eat more than standard calories and never gain weight.
It's interesting that "People of Public Transit" seems to provoke a negative reaction, while "People of Walmart"[1] has been hailed as funny and even "the best website ever"[2].

I guess context is everything in this situation. Walmart bad, public transpo good.

1. http://www.peopleofwalmart.com/

2. http://www.nowpublic.com/culture/people-walmart-best-website...