skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I used the term "live round" rather than "bullet" in deference to the other comments on the page.

The emotion is unfortunately part of the process. An interrogation is designed to unsettle someone, it's not a process of uncovering evidence, an audit; it requires shaking the fruit down from the tree.

Had he been interrogated in such a manner for simply being muslim or Afghani I would have been saddened but in the context these questions were apparently merited.

Either you bring paraphernalia associated with terrorism and accept the consequences or you leave them behind. Expecting to bring those things back from Afghanistan and just walk through is ridiculous.
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Agreed. I'm really supprised that language like that made it through to the final RFP. I have been involved with RFPs at government organizations and legal is always supper careful about writing requirements that potentially restrict competition exactly because of risks like this. It is also just poor requirements writing, you should never specify the solution in the requirements, you are just cutting off so many possibilities
Great talk! I did a quick one-weekend evaluation of Cascalog a few months ago; I wish I could have first watched this video as a good introduction.
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I just posted on Twitter about a programming version of NaNoWriMo. This is exactly what I was thinking.

Lets see how I go juggling this, finding a job, getting a visa, having family visit from overseas and going through a wedding ceremony all in one month. Sounds like fun.
Right. But if we're talking about content, most people go there because of Amazon's content, not other merchants. The vast majority of Amazon's revenue is from their own sales, not merchants'.
I think a CTO should, but I personally would feel more comfortable with a business development or sales oriented CEO depending on the nature of the business. A person can embody both, but If I had to chose, I would want a business focused CEO that does no mettle in the technical decision of the CIO/CTO office.
Looks like you have a bunch of spam comments on: https://spideroak.com/blog/20100928101634-spideroak-diy-a-sp... (And an unanswered customer complaint. :) )
I haven't bought anything with Sony's name on it since then.
Other sources have said that most of these people aren't developers, but rather were people who worked on non-coding aspects of OO.

Also, one of the big complaints many had about how OpenOffice was run as an open source project was that most of the contributions came from Sun employees being paid to work on it. Contributions from non-Sun developers were supposedly hard to get accepted.

Are these people who are leaving part of that group of Sun/Oracle employees, or are these from the non-employee developers?
Honestly, I think the real problem is getting enough women that the site has enough value to shell out $250 a month.

I think wealthy men, even if they have no problem getting laid, will still find a lot of value in a large selection of women in a market that is artificially in their favor.
Google offers bounty to Web bug hunters
"Everything we do needs to be shared. Everything."

Congrats, Zuckerberg would be proud of you. (pukes)
GeoCities lives -- sort of
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They're scared of glen beck.
yeah its an all in cost. Includes power, space, network gear (juniper ex8200), optics, cables, salaries of employees.
As someone who crosses the border frequently, and knows many others who do also, I can assure you, this sort of "not acting according to policy" is a fairly regular event.

This is not an isolated incident, in fact it's not even infrequent.
It seems like cheese has failed more often than not so far in the GSL. At best it's a 50-50 proposition.

Tester deftly deflected cheese attempts from Hyperdub and NexFreeSaga before crushing the remains of their army in season 1. On the other hand, fan favorite TLO was eliminated by some proxy barracks from the cheese-loving Hyperdub and GSL season 1 winner aFruitDealer showed that he wasn't above a cheese game or two with a ballsy six-pool on a four spawn map against Inca.

Cheese fails every time if it's spotted against a high-level player, which is why it's cheese. These guys have definitely practiced against 6-pool, proxy gate, proxy rax, 7 roach rush a thousand times. There's no way they would take a cheesy loss with $80,000 on the line or give up the easy counter and auto-win.
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I live in Haverhill, MA. We need a Merrimack Valley HN meetup!
> I can learn a lot from them and then proceed to work on my own startup.

Could you elaborate on how working for Google and what you learn there is going to help you working on your startup ?
Frankly, I'm too stunned by the fact that this kind of paranoid and pseudo-fascist (yes I went there, fuck it, if you feel the state has the right to treat its innocent citizens that way, that's how I'm gonna call it) rambling gets 54 points and counting on HN to think of a decent reply.

There's no excuse for this kind of treatment in a free country. Absolutely none. This kind of attitude destroys freedom, not terrorists.
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> Appeal to authority is a logical fallacy

Yes, but the comment I replied to was questioning their credentials, which is at equally invalid - more so, in this case, since they actually do have quite impressive credentials.

With respect to The Lancet: controversy sells, but you still want to have a credible argument.

You are right, though, that this isn't exactly objective and independent of current policy. Then again, it may be hard to get such data...
Compared to the cost of installing conventional telecoms Iridium's $6Bn looked very cheap.

Their big mistake was assuming that mobile phone usage would be a limited special market alongside landlines. They didn't consider that much of the 3rd world would simply skip over the cost of installing landline infrastructure and cell phones would be the cheap alternative so leading to a much larger demand and cheaper phones and calls.
Best Cheezburger practices. What's the thing you do with the palm of your hand... no not that one... I mean making contact with your forehead.
Awesome bundle. Almost triggers the Paradox of Choice...
Removed the redirect that bounced news.yc visitors - I guess my site isn't banned anymore. Admins, you can remove the post if my domain should still be banned and your filters didn't catch it.
How technology gets news out of North Korea
In Finland maybe, but in France, Italy, Spain, Belgium at least the euro 1 and 2 cents are commonly used.
I'd be interested in seeing the numbers on Amazon customer criteria -- there are plenty of reasons besides price.

Two data points: 1) I recently bought a netbook via Amazon even though it was a new model and Amazon's price was near list and above most other search results -- because of their superior return policy and faster (semi-free) delivery; 2) I recently discovered some backpack clips I liked but declined to buy them at Amazon at $2.16 per clip because a search indicated I could get them for less than half that at REI -- and I would be near an REI outlet that weekend.

In the first case I was sacrificing more than a couple of dollars for speed and improved chances of a satisfactory transaction, in the second the money saved was less relevant than the fact that I'd be near an REI store soon anyway and it's always fun to browse their aisles.

Anyway, I guess my point is that there lots of criteria people use in Amazon visits and their Web usage in general. I visit Hacker News and Amazon "regularly" but it seems foolish to conclude from the frequency of my visits any correlation in my reasons or implied value, even if someone dresses up their SWAG with an allusion to a 1956 psych paper. From an entrepreneurial perspective, I'd be much more interested in contrasting customer usage of Amazon, say, with the Google "shopping" tab. (Amazon does its best to induce browsing of products beyond what brought you to the site -- how successful are they, I wonder?)
Recovering a bricked SheevaPlug from a bad kernel flash
I do - North Korea isn't going to nuke anybody, ever. They need insurance that the US won't invade them.
Elation EMR - San Francisco
(Telecommuting considered for the right fit.)

Seeking a front-end guru to join as an early member of the team. We're building a super client-heavy, data-intensive web app aimed at a huge and profound goal: revolutionizing the delivery of medicine. We're a young energetic team who also happens to have spent decades committed to improving medicine. Our investors include Ron Conway and the founders of Facebook, Asana and Quora.

This position is a front-end whiz's dream. We want you to:

- Own the front-end. Create an experience that makes users forget they're on the web.

- Engineer wicked smart solutions. Among our many challenges are addressing performance requirements of highly demanding users, caching and refreshing data intelligently, on-the-fly rendering, client- and server-side templating, long polling, etc.

- Forget IE exists. We control our users' browsers.

- Use and love HTML5. The latest web technologies are our friends.

- Build a product that deeply touches people's lives. That's what we're here to do.

We use Python+Django, Javascript+jQuery, and whatever else you know and love -- it's early; we're flexible. We're SF-based and well-funded.

If you fit the bill and are excited, or if you don't fit the bill but still feel you could be a tremendous asset to our engineering team, drop us a line at jobs@elationemr.com. Feel free to mention your favorite web products and why you like them!
Gainful employment is all about trading your tolerance for various things for money.
I'm starting at Meetup in a couple of weeks!

To anyone considering sending in their resume, I highly recommend it. Everyone I met during my interviews seemed like very intelligent people. :)
You need a spinner (or if there already is one, you need a much more obvious one) so I can tell the app is doing something when I click one of the "Filter by" buttons on the right sidebar. Just go to ajaxload.info, get an animated GIF, load it in the template display:none, and then $("#spinner").show() when you make your call back to the server.
... and you're now on the watch list.
hey Andrew,

Super job, Demand Media and enom are to be shunned like the plague.

Enom now owns bulkregister so that's another party to avoid, when they bought BR out I moved all my domains elsewhere.

It would be great to see (lots of!) pressure put on enom and demand media to refund the rest of the money as well!

Maybe an email to enom/DM that if within 30 days they have not paid Andrew back that you will take all your business elsewhere ? (and follow through on that).

Press people, please take note of this and write about it!
So Cheezburger Network is holding their new hires hostage until they get some work done? This must be demoralizing, and I imagine it would leave a bad taste in the mouths of new hires who expect an introduction to the work environment first.
modern-day brownshirts
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I am not so sure they where tiny - even at the scale of the Chineese bomb, the windows where I live wouldn't even be shattered; yet I used to commute longer than that (in fact past what would be ground zero) by bike.
Eldarion is hiring Django developers (and freelancers). We're a web development company, and you'd be primarily working on client websites. We're big contributors to open source (every single one of senior developers is a committer to Django), and we believe in best practices.

You can find us online (http://eldarion.com/) or on twitter (http://twitter.com/#!/eldarion_team).

Our team is entirely distributed and we communicate primarily via IRC. If you're interested email James Tauber (jtauber at eldarion dot com), and if you have any questions you can email me (alex.gaynor@gmail.com).

PS: We're big fans of Lord of the Rings, I think company policy requires that you've seen it.
Amazing story! Two minor details piqued my attention:

* How the journalistic storytelling style is different from the US one. I guess I have grown accustomed to reading NYT and other newspapers here. For example, I don't think the sentence "Other girls her age are driving, going out dancing and sleeping with their first boyfriends" would have been used for a story like this.

* And more importantly this: "Pakula [her doctor] practices in a medical building near the Greenbergs' house. He wears a tie adorned with cartoonish hippopotamuses. A tall stack of paper -- Brooke's file -- sits on his desk. "This can't be lost," says the doctor, placing his hand on the documents. He knows what a treasure the file represents." It's outrageous that they are using paper records to track this girl. At this age of iPads and other amazing handhelds, doctors' offices are still operating in the 1960s.
With Django it is really doable to think about launching something before the end of November!
Facebook? I actually see some real, relevant, and useful ads there. And there are a ton of teachers there, avoiding working on their lesson plans.
At the point in time you're talking about, the was no standard technology to use. It is, again, not comparable to the proprietary Flash plugin today.
I go to Amazon firstly to buy goods from Amazon - but I also consider marketplace sellers.

Amazon has a good level of customer service, and makes a strong effort to keep a positive relationship with its customers. I can't be sure that the smaller sellers will go out of their way to ensure I'm happy.
Me - "Thanks mom but do you think IBM would hire me. I dropped out of school to work on this web stuff."

Mom - "You're right maybe you could work with your Uncle. He needs computer help from time to time."

Me- "Good idea. I'll have one of my engineers call him and see if we can help."

Mom - "Good. Maybe they can get work also."

Me - "You're the best."
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I'm a big fan of Capybara, but not so much of Cucumber, so this looks really awesome. The basic RackTest driver is so much faster than Selenium - if only env.js could play nicely with V8 and jQuery.
This is all great and fun, you know, for the cheeseburger network. I am not sure that companies like Microsoft or Apple would ever entertain an idea like this.

For someone with pretty grandios claims about Microsoft it seems like you definitely didn't double check your statements. One of the most helpful things that anyone did for me when I started at Microsoft was when my office mate helped me get setup on the network, pull the source code, find the target area, and "check-in" (not a real check-in, the MS final check-in process is complex) a trivial patch with a full recompile.
Exercise: How would you rid your comment of "poorly"? (I figure it's an adverb, but English is not my mother's tongue.)
"Brooke holds the key to everything," says Walker. He's anxious to press on with his work, because he feels that his time is running out. But Howard Greenberg is stalling. He has long felt that he is protecting a valuable treasure in his red brick house. He's even hired lawyers to examine the issue of the rights to Brooke's genome.

It saddens me that the state of human genetics in the United States (perhaps elsewhere, but I've only done genetics here) is such that Mr. Greenberg would even have to consider such things.
Even if it is not the first day, I think the point is well taken that this needs to happen ASAP. I have worked as a consultant at large corporations and have seen developers go months without ever checking in code.
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> GA search is a hill climbing algorithm which is prone to finding local maxima

GAs are not pure hill climbers. Variation operators introduce new solutions into the population at random. As long as premature convergence is prevented, GAs will probably explore the search space well. There's always a tradeoff between exploration and exploitation.

> The less obvious a strategy is, the more likely it is that GA will miss it.

This is a tautology that states "the harder a problem it is, the harder it is."
I really hope this isn't an Ender's Game kind of thing...
None of these are red flags.

Carrying explosives onto a plane most certainly is a red flag...
I am looking forward to trying this out. I have been a complete convert to Swype since getting my DroidX, so I am totally sold on the idea of trying new interfaces.
looks like you got chicken/egg problem. why wouldn't i just use elance or odesk?
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Neither. I have my own things I want to do, I don't really want to do them full-time for Google or Facebook.
I am surprised this hasn't had more attention than the couple articles I've read about Brooke over the last 1-2 years.

One of the worst parts about this (from a scientific standpoint) is probably the waiting game - will this person's DNA eventually mutate, forming cancer or other age related diseases? Are there tests, other than appearance of age related diseases, to determine if she is aging?

[EDIT] VladRussian pointed out that they talked about the length of her telomeres corresponding to her actual age. Hence, she isn't "immortal", but there is something else going on.
No. Hit a cartridge hard enough and it will go off. A bullet is just a component of that cartridge, and it's completely harmless without a casing full of powder surrounding it.
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Nothing more then the same old talking points, hashed and rehashed again. Save you self some time and don't read this sensationalist rabble.
The population of people traveling to countries populated by terrorists and carrying suspicious articles is much smaller than the general population. If we allow the government to conduct any anti-terrorist programs at all, it makes sense to employ such coarse filters to narrow down the number of people they keep an eye on.

Unfortunately there's no way to conduct surveillance only on guilty people.
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No, nothing yet. I thought they were letting people know tomorrow.
The galaxy (probably) abounds in Earth-like planets
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From the application site:

"On November 2, we'll invite the groups that seem most promising to meet us in Mountain View on the weekend of November 18-21. We'll reimburse up to $600 per group for travel expenses."

Seems like the news will come out tomorrow.
What a shortcut Hvs. That's not at all what Jdietrich said. He is just trying to say that this sort of grilling can be more difficult to endure if you ARE a Muslim, and that's a fact no? I think we all agree that terrorism must be fought, but like any problem you fight it better once you understand its motivations. Fighting is not always done with physical or mental violence either. Sometimes, the best way to fight something like terrorism is to understand that the phenomenon doesn't reside with the perpetrator only but also with the provocateur.

What I mean here is that maybe US forces need to learn to be a bit more unpredictable and attack Terrorism in a less frontal manner to succeed. Just like the IRA did in Ireland with the Brits. Imagine what kind of violence could come from Americans if they were greeted by foreign customs officers abroad with angry screams like: "So you believe in Jesus!?!?" for several hours in a room with a mirror.
wow, you have flattr.com right there:

"Economics Free CompensateArtists

Voluntary Adjustable Background Tip Jar

You say, "$20.00/month" on tips. You decide how much you want to tip on a given month. Each participating site that you go to gets a share of that tip jar, in direct proportion to the time you spend at that page.

You can also make an extra to a particular site if you want, with a built in tip button of some sort.

Before payments go out at the end of the month, you can adjust them as you like. "
At times, I find it unthinkably barbaric that it actually matters what side of invisible lines you’re on, in 2010.

But of course, the real world is a touch more complicated than the We’re All Just People-land I’m imagining.
Provide something better. I really mean it, there is no alternative which is qualitatively equivalent to MS exchange. Same for the office. Google has their cloud products, but I don't think that any government should have to store their data on googles servers.
It's hard to compare the magnitude of each bomb because it keeps changing the zoom level every time I click 'Nuke it!' again.

edit: also, why is the fallout so distorted when changing wind directions between east/west and north/south?
"The length of the telomeres, on the other hand, corresponds to her actual age. "

how come "immortality" comes to play here?
How long does it take to fall in love?
Review my Startup. Help a guy out. 
With my own experience, and others, I always thought there is a market for a service where an otherwise socially awkward guy could ask a girl a question (about anything) and get genuine advice. I wanted to make the service paid, so the women actually had some incentive to spend some time crafting a thoughtful response. Also, wanted to make everything discreet, so that women did not need to hold anything back, and guys owned the responses they paid for. At the same time, wanted money to be very nominal so that anyone could use it - so thought $2 would be just right. I split a buck with the answer provider. Guys can request responses from multiple ladies (5 responses = $10). Guys have option to reject any reponse deemed unthoughtful and request refund.

Income has been interesting so far. About 20 guys asked questions last month. Some of them requested multiple responses. October total $90. Through word of mouth, about 600 ladies have signed up so far to provide reponses. An email is fired every time a new request gets posted, ladies "reserve" the question and respond on a first-come-first-served basis and guys receive reponses within a few hours.

I would like to get some suggestions from the HN community as to how to make it scalable? I know there is a market for a service like this but just haven't been able to get any traction. What can I change, improve? Or is this whole concept is just flawed and I should just "move on".

Thank you for your feedback.
Pete
Ranker Hits 1M Monthly Uniques
Question: does the other guy see you as a "direct competitor?" If he has 20M uniques per month he may not feel all that threatened (whether or not he should). I'd say he has more to lose than you. Most likely even if he understood 100% what you were trying to do, he wouldn't be agile enough to address your niche. I'm with michael_dorfman, don't see the downside.

Edit: typo.
Like what other solution?