skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have so got to deal with this with OurDoings. People (early adopters especially) have an ingrained model of how photo sharing works, because they're all albums plus something tacked on to the album model to try to make it better. A site that doesn't ask you to organize photos into albums is easier, but messes with that mental model.

Does anybody have sucess stories of helping users overcome mental model inertia?
But the point is: he was impersonating a pilot.

If pilots didn't have to go through security, we'd presumably see a lot more of this.

Security checks on the pilots are not attempting to prevent pilots from causing harm-- they are attempting to close a loophole which would allow people impersonating pilots to do harm.
How is scanning his body and frisking him going to help identifying him?
Same here. I switched to Vibrams 4-5 weeks ago and I'm enjoying some pleasing results.

For example, prior to using Vibrams, I could only run for 10 minutes or so before my ankles and hips started to hurt. (This was almost certainly due to poor technique as much as the "hard strike" cushioned by my trainers.) Now though, I'm actually enjoying running again. I can do 30-40 minutes, and it's my fitness - or lack, thereof - that makes me stop rather than joint pain.

I can only think that having so little cushioning on the foot forces better technique (I'm certainly aware that my running stride is now much shorter and that I'm lighter on my feet, too).

It took a couple of weeks to really get used to them and adjust both my walking and running strides accordingly, but now I feel as though I can run like a kid again rather than a puffing middle-aged bloke.
Do You Enjoy Your Code Quality?
The Success of Islamophobia
5 Observations from MIT Media Lab 25th Anniversary Event
Simple service to send web pages to the Amazon Kindle
No - the estimates I've seen have always been 'the space will run out in a few years'.
Given that you had the initial idea AND you're doing the coding and design, I'd say you should probably get additional equity. (How many successful startups had 100% hacker founders? A lot. How many had 0% hacker founders? Very few.)

Of course, this is based on my entirely limited knowledge of the rest of the situation. There are many other relevant questions to ask. Take a look at some previous threads on this same topic: http://searchyc.com/equity

I will say, try to get equity taken care of up front, before you bring people on. It will prevent conflicts of a magnitude you would never expect.
Thank you again.

Btw. I've upvoted your response, but still see one point next to it. Strange.
> more page views over time = more income

Advertisers are getting wise. If they'd see no return because their content was mostly displayed next to celebrity articles, instead of more attractive ones (let's say finance) - they'd leave, taking their money with them.
A pilot does not need concealed weapons to crash a plane...?!? He pilots the damn machine.

You strip search him, find nothing, let him go, and then he takes command of the plane and can crash it anywhere, any time. How obvious is this??

The link you posted below, to the "FedEx Express Flight 705" incident is completely irrelevant since Mr. Calloway was not in charge of steering that plane. Had he been, he would not have tried to kill the crew.
> he already has control over it

so does co-pilot and auxiliary crew
You're blowing up a straw man. Quite a few people may actually have an active Twitter session and thus no active password entry even occurs. Open it up to Facebook Connect and it's more of the same.

You're comfortable with new user/pass and it doesn't sound safe to you.
I'm a pilot, a libertarian, and somebody who believes that it is a fair trade to temporarily trade freedoms for security, such as when governments institute blackout laws during air-raids when the nation is at war.

But this virtual strip-searching is going too far. Somebody needs to be a grownup and stop abusing the public in return for the promise of a risk-free travel experience.

The problem, from a political perspective, is this is one of those "clean water" issues -- an issue with only one side. Who wants to be in favor of dirty water? Yet the real question facing governments is what kind of trade to make between tax revenue and water treatment plants, what kinds of burdens to put on industry to not pollute (too much), etc. The real question is very nuanced and involves lots of trade-offs and discussions about private property rights and the public good. But the problem is, even though it's a trade-off, there's no upside to taking the other side of the issue.

Let's suppose somebody gets elected on the platform to eliminate body scanners. All the scanners get eliminated and the public cheers.

The next month there is a terrible attack -- one that could have been prevented by the use of body scanners.

I know what the logical response is, but what do you think the actual response from the public will be? It's going to be to get rid of that foolish politician who's reckless ways caused so much harm and misery.

And to DavidW's point, yes, I think this is a HN issue, although it is also emotionally-charged. It's a hacker issue because it gets to the heart of all hacking: just because you can do something, should you? If I can create a mind-reading device to stop terrorists, should I? It also addresses the ways people can create organizational systems without balance -- systems that continue growing ad infinitum. I would expect this virtual strip-searching to be only the beginning: as terrorist defeat these (by the use of rectally-planted explosives, as the pilot points out) then government will up the ante and find a way to give rectal exams. They'll have to. It's a one-sided issue.
Printing from off-site is easier with a public IP, I don't know how often that is necessary.
(You missed the 'reply' link)

Yes, that definitely looks better! The fact is that you will surely make a few errors, so not capitalizing and the other 'intentional' errors compound those that naturally creep in, making the whole thing look like a big mess.
Actually, in Europe Paypal operates as Luxembourg-based bank.
My preferred way of gaining a good intuitive feel for a language is to read tons of published written material (print magazines, books etc). The language is edited and proofread so you're guaranteed a level of correctness.

This trains your mental 'correct-language-pattern-matching-AI' with a constant stream of correct examples to compare all your produced language with, and for me at least, has been the best long-term method of producing correct target language (in my case Japanese).

The idea is that you constantly expose yourself to what correct language sounds like, and based on the accumulated experience of reading those you can have an intuitive feel for when a bit of produced language is wrong or right.

tldr: read more!
I think he means that a side-business making $24k/year without daily supervision will give you a comfortable a comfortable safety net outside of your primary income.
I'm guilty of this... This the signature I'm using.

Thanks,
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Firstname Lastname
My enterprisey title.
Name of the Company I Work For.
555 Some Rd. | City and, ST ZZZIP-CODE
Work Phone: 555-555-5555
Cell Phone: 555-555-5555
Email: flastname@company.com

I wish I could reduce the length of my signature but at least it's on the small side compared to the majority of the non-spam emails I run across in the customer support mailing list.
In many European countries (I don't know about other countries) there's not so much different between these two options. In fact, in Austria it's even easier to cancel a charge to your normal bank account (which you can do without giving any reason, and even if you initially approved the charge), compared to your charge to your credit card (where you need to claim that the charge was unjustified).
I can see it from both perspectives. It is shocking, but the government isn't just doing full body scans for kicks. Airlines are ridiculously hard to secure - if terrorists use another one as a bomb after the US has spent so much money already protecting them, then we're in big trouble. Not only would more terrorists try to hijack planes, but we would lose some standing with other countries because of "insecure" transit systems.

The BIGGEST QUESTION for me is: Will there ever come a point where our airlines WILL be safe again? If there is ever a lapse in our security, will someone new try to embarrass us using the same attack? Will the world ever be safe?
http://ipv6.he.net/statistics/

Check the "v4 Exhaustion" widget on the right. It currently reckons there are 228 days left. I wrote an article about it on the 28th of May this year, and on that date, the widget calculated there were 427 days left.
> whereas Slicehost only has memory-hungry 64 bit systems

http://www.slicehost.com/articles/2010/3/1/32-bit-images-now...
I believe that would be a turnoff for just about everyone not turned off by "splendid bacon."
While it forces you to get an actual merchant account, the experience when using ActiveMerchant is super easy to integrate. It's certainly less than your 20 lines of Ruby.

And if you wanted to go that route, it supports a ton of backends, so you could actually start with PayPal until you get a merchant account, and then switch over.
Why Cyber Civil Defense Will Never Work
I can't wait for the last IPv4 address to be handed out. There is going to be so much opportunity for profit here.
Anyone care to explain how Canonical requiring copyright assignment for contributions to their projects is different from Red Hat requiring a Contributor License Agreement for contributions to Spacewalk, their now-open-source Red Hat Network code-base?

At first glance it seems that Canonical ask for copyright assignment and then 'grant a very broad license back', while Red Hat let the contributor retain copyright but ask for a similarly broad license for their use of the contribution. Other than the name in the copyright statement, it's difficult to see there's much difference in the control over downstream use of the contributed code, and it's potential for downstream (mis-)use that the original article seems to be primarily concerned about.

Yes, the disparity between the contributor agreements is confusing and requires potential contributors to put their legal head on to work out what they're agreeing to for each project they want to contribute to. That's where the free-software/open-source licenses were a few years ago before efforts were made to catalogue them and reduce their number somewhat (largely by The Open Source Initiative, I seem to remember). And that seems to be the problem that Project Harmony is trying to tackle.

So, are there real differences between these two instances? I'm having trouble spotting the objective difference between 'This set of policies has some flaws' in one case and 'copyright assignment intimidation tactics' in the other.
Is it an issue with the geocoding limit ? if so why don't you geocode client-side ?
It's like the Time Cube of email signatures
The author would probably say "once you have a minor religion following you, you can do whatever you want in your sig, too."
Horrible compared to just being robbed?
That's because dying in a plane is much scarier than dying in a bus. I mean, think about it, you're trapped up there... if the plane blows up, you blow up with it. If you're on a bus... oh wait, you also die in a fire. But on the news the plane crash looks scarier -- more people can see it, and more people are irrationally afraid of flying.

Think about how Americans handle risk; the risk of dying in a plane hijacking is very low. The risk of dying of heart disease if you don't eat well is very high. So we spend a ton of time, effort, and money on preventing plane hijackings, but we eat tons and tons of unhealthy food. You'd think that the reason we have security is to prevent ourselves from dying, but if that's the case, we're doing it very wrong. The reason we have airport security is so that some bureaucrat can get a promotion; armed guards with high-tech tools make people feel like their government loves them. (Except for people with a brain, who think it's a little scary to have to show the cops your charlie browns every time you board a plane.)

I don't even want to think about how much healthy food we could buy with the money we spend on full-body imagers.
Yes and also some details about the project. We also have Github integration so you can see recent commits.
I don't think you're an idiot, so stop pretending like you don't realize that he used his special privileges as a pilot to get concealed weapons onto the plane.

And stop advocating for lifting security requirements off pilots with ridiculous arguments like "pilots are - for the most part - the most stable people that I have ever met" and "he already has full control of the plane, so heck, he should be allowed to bring whatever the fuck he wants onboard anyway".
Spaniard in London with the same problem here.

The BEST on-line material is BBC's "The sound of English" http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/grammar/pr... Just watch it and practise with a mirror many, many, many times and you will improve.

If you are willing to spend some money, I recommend doing an elocution "soften your accent" course. I did it a couple of years ago (sorry, don't remember the name of the company, it was close to St. Pancras Station) and I improved a lot.

Pay special attention to "intonation patterns". Even if you make every individual sound right, natives will have trouble understanding you. You have to make all sounds in a sentence flow together in one of the few predefined sound patterns found in British English in order to get understood. Just changing the intonation pattern changes the meaning, even in the same phrase.

Example: 'I like YOUR new blue dress' vs. 'I like your new BLUE dress' vs. 'I like your new blue DRESS'.
Calloway was not flying the plane!

From the Wikipedia article you linked to (twice) but apparently did not care to read:

"The scheduled three-man flight crew consisted of 49-year-old Captain David Sanders, 42-year-old First Officer James Tucker, and 39-year-old Flight Engineer Andrew Peterson."

"About twenty minutes after takeoff, as the flight crew carried on a casual conversation, Calloway entered the flight deck and commenced his attack."

This incident is therefore entirely irrelevant to the conversation.

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It's interesting, though, to find (articulate) American people who actually approve of the TSA methods, because I thought it was the TSA vs. the rest of the public (cf. "Ask the Pilot" Salon column for instance).

It's interesting, but disheartening, because it means the TSA and its gropers and thugs are really here to stay.
In Spain, there are metal detectors and x-ray machines at the gates to the train platforms. In Israel, there are metal detectors and x-ray machines at the bus terminals. Security seems to be mostly reactive - people blow up a train (Spain), you get frisked boarding an intercity train. People blow up buses (Israel), you x-ray luggage and pat down people entering the bus terminal.
One of my friends did Kensho: http://kensho.r10.railsrumble.com/

Click on the little about box, not only is it a website, but also an API...
Thanks! :D Also bacon is splendid!
At one point I did a back of the envelope calculation and it came out that 25 e-mails are roughly equivalent to 1 sheet of printed paper. My context was whether to send out a mass e-mail or to put up a few posters around the place. I guess a few posters would be better for the environment in some cases.
Every host on an IP network, from servers to personal computers to networked printers, is assigned an IP address, a unique identifying number that is used to communicate with other hosts on the same network, or globally.

This statement stands for itself. I don't see where it is implied that locally assigned addresses deplete the global IP space. Are you sure you aren't misappropriating the "or globally" part?
Google probably use a tweaked version of the Viterbi Algorithm ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viterbi_algorithm ) to perform POS tagging. It's really not that hard if you have a tagged corpus.

People always seem to look at google as though they're doing some special secret magic, but in fact they're really just implementing fairly well-known CS algorithms. They just do it exceptionally well.
He used his privileges as a pilot to bring the concealed weapons on board. How the fuck is that not relevant to the discussion?
> I love Ubuntu for their UI breakthroughs, but I'm only tolerating them for stealing Debian's work as long as Ubuntu stays free (as in price).

> If you want to sell your Linux distribution, at least build it yourself.

So you're saying that what the free-software community really values is more package managers? Red Hat, SUSE and Debian all have their own, and if you want to be respected like the big boys you'd damn well better invent your own packaging format?
Not to mention there is a big axe in the cockpit.
My former employer has in their guidelines that, in addition to the 10 or so line signature, we needed to attach the department's graphical logo to every e-mail... Can this be considered the signature whale?
Does Visa/Master/Amex have their share of PayPal's robbery? Why are they not offering an alternative and credible service?
"It may very well be that more serious harm will be averted if the government has more ability to monitor encrypted traffic."

It may very well be the case that once given a tool, they use it for whatever comes to mind. In fact they might even use it for harm avoidance, but 'may very well be' isn't strong enough to support the idea. Hasn't much of the results of crypto laws been applied to domestic non-terror computer crimes? Is there any safe way to be transparent about backdoor usage?
Indeed. Seems like PayPal is a good argument for the anti-regulation philosophy. Reputation on the free market is just as good a protection/guarantee as any regulation. Of course it would be even better if PayPal had stronger competition.
I'll answer your question with another:

What does a hacker have to gain from taking something apart, poking at it, and putting it back together again?
It's a one-sided issue which our government has said that they're gonna fix - small cost to attack, enormous cost to defend. The US had no other choice though. If one vulnerability is found, terrorists will just continue to exploit it, and it will erode trust in our transit networks.

Are you saying we should just let 9/11s happen, and then fix the holes? Are alternative scanning methods just as effective? Wouldn't you prefer that everyone else on your flight is scanned, just to make sure you'll be safe? It's a tricky issue.
I already got 2^33 entire IPv4 spaces for free. I only need about 3 addresses and I have 36893488147419103232 of them. Not sure how you're going to monetize that ;)
Ah yes. That joys of cargo culting a URL validation regex. I can't fix it now (per contest rules), but I'll be sure to fix that ASAP.
chapt{00..15}.txt works in Zsh as well.
Good catch, I didn't realize that. Before writing my article and switching to Linode, I politely asked if that was going to happen any time soon, but they said no, and the rest is history. It took them, it looks like, over a year to add that functionality.
I'm already on IPv6. Find yourself an old 486 in the trash somewhere, get an OpenBSD install CD, and you can be too.
He was in uniform, maybe, but he was not in charge of flying anything that day. So he was a passenger that day (in a pilot uniform).
You can do http://tldr.it/summarize/?summary[url]=(your url). That's how the bookmarklet works. :)

And yes monetization is definitely on my mind. I have a few options. The first is as you mentioned Amazon stuff for the arbitrary URL's. Then there's also injecting ads into the summarized RSS feeds. Then there's also adding users and letting them have enhanced functionality for $x a month (i.e., update their RSS feeds on a regular basis, cutting free users back to once a day, make the bookmarklet a premium feature, and so on).

I really think this could be a good product; just not sure if I'll have the time to really develop it.
personally i'd prefer the original author posted about it than a 3rd person so it's relevance can be discussed in the comment thread right here.
If you're on a non-Webkit browser, it'll "work." They're really just meant as examples/placeholders that you can follow rather than things you can just click through.
And how, pray tell, would you expect a crawler to fetch the content at twitter.com/#!/ev, considering that the server doesn't even see the hash part of the URL? That's the whole point.

The simple fact is that plenty of sites (like Twitter, Facebook, and lots of Google properties) are using client-side code to build fast interactive sites, and it necessitates this kind of infrastructure.
Lenovo reportedly considers enterprise tablet PCs
"According to Cablevision, the dispute is about $80 million, to be precise. The cable company says that News Corp. is asking for that much more a year for access to 12 Fox channels, including those in dispute"

can anyone explain what precipitated fox's changed opinion on how much they're worth? was losing lee that good for business?
It seems to me that you are the most important person in this company (because you do most of the work right now, and because of your comment that "PersonB's importance will probably be greater in the future" and "I just handed this task to person B"). If you're handing tasks to people, you're the boss.

1/3 each does NOT seem fair.

To be honest, I don't understand why you are getting person B involved at all, give them equity and treat them as a co-founder if they don't have much work to do right now (as you seem to suggest). From your description, quite honestly, it seems like you might as well have hired an intern or gotten an accountant instead of giving this person a large part of your company. "Knowing a lot about funding" is NOT a reason to make someone a cofounder.

That's my 0.02c, sorry if that sounds harsh. I just don't want another post in 12 months about how to split up with my cofounders who aren't pulling their weight.

Person C is coming in later, so should get significantly less equity.

From what I'm hearing, I would not have personB involved with the expectation that at some point in the future they'll start pulling their weight. If that is the thinking, then wait until you really, really need them, and then get them involved (for a lot less equity). Person C sounds important, so make them your second cofounder.

Not knowing about the details, from all your comments it sounds like personB is not doing much. YOU found another cofounder. YOU are telling personB what to do. YOU also expect personB to start pulling their weight in the future. All this points to letting them go NOW, and asking him back later when there's a need for his expertise. One more thing: having a business co-founder who isn't doing much right now but "knows a lot about funding" may well hurt your chances to get funding instead of improving them.

Get things right at the beginning. Don't get a business co-founder just because you think you need one.

Of course, I may be wrong and there may be a lot of work for personB right now that I'm not aware of :)
"but apparently did not care to read"

That's where I stopped reading your comment.
I'd say it's a lot cooler than having to change the HTTP protocol and push new web browsers to everyone.
is there any centralized source for large lists of interesting documents like this? i'd love to know if there's a project gutenberg for juicy whitepapers.
Whatever % you go with, have vesting.