skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was part of a school exchange program to Moscow for the 1980 olympics - as part of the pre-trip briefing we were told not to write anything about our visit while we were there because anything we wrote would be checked by the Russians when we left and we could get our hosts into trouble.

Of course being from a free country we laughed at this ....
I worked in the domain parking industry for a few years. There's no doubt that Divank has many a ton of $$$ and is an impressive entrepreneur. But he does so at the expense of users on the Internet.

Directi/Skenzo is one of the most aggressive domain park companies on the Internet today. They make tens of millions using AdSense to monetize parked domains. Their templates (like those of Oversee) attempt to confuse users into errantly clicking on advertiser links, etc. leading to fewer available domains for start up purposes, poor advertiser returns and an arms race between search engines and parkers.
im in too!
I think you're mistaken to assume that more than a handful of us are as all-around insightful as Aristole, Leibniz et al.
I hope Google wins. I don't care if the government uses Google or not, but this unreasonable entrenchment of Microsoft is ridiculous.
I guess when I see their product, I don't see a keyboard. I see a cool widget, and I don't mean that in a demeaning way at all, it seems really interesting. In a perfect world, it would be nice to generalize the widget out so it can have multiple applications.

That's not to say the value of the product doesn't lie in the keyboard research they did as well. Anyone can design a cool widget, but the idea to recognize a very innovative solution to mobile typing and perfecting it (figure-8 drawing is a great touch, assuming it works well on many phrases) is 8pen's strongest point. I just hope there is enough flexibility after the patent is issued so I or someone else can write a generalized form of this widget.
Yeah I was going to say, I'm a silver level and this strat does not work that well even in that tier.
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nice, just signed up. Looking forward to it.
if you're interested in what other kinds of changes happen in a 6-month release window, here is a full changelog:

http://www.openbsd.org/plus48.html
Fortunately, not all customs officers are this bad. About a year ago, I spent a couple months traveling around the Mediterranean, including Syria and Lebanon. Upon my return to the states, I got some moderately thorough questioning, but nothing that required a separate interrogation room, and the officer was polite the whole time.

On the other hand, I didn't have a bullet in my pants. TSA says: "You must securely pack any ammunition in fiber (such as cardboard), wood or metal boxes or other packaging that is specifically designed to carry small amounts of ammunition." (http://www.tsa.gov/travelers/airtravel/assistant/editorial_1...)
Thanks, I signed up. I am working on a project for generating CSS sprites in the browser without any file uploads.

I'm a little confused about what exactly I share with the emails. It says there will be three links, and I click on one that records my progress. Are these goals I set up myself? Am I sharing this with anybody who wants to see it, or is it just something to use to stay motivated as an individual? I am definitely interested to see how it works.
> As such, we don't care about formal education, age, gender

Maybe I'm overly sensitive, but you may not want to list "age" and "gender" unless you're listing all the protected classes that you can't legally care about.
"Your Friends And Family Won't Understand What You Do."

Very, very true. Unfortunately, as much as I enjoyed 'The Social Network,' it certainly didn't help our cause in this regard. Practically overnight many of my friends and extended family went from thinking entrepreneurship was a fancy word for unemployment to them thinking that entrepreneurship meant: Step 1: Think of an idea. Step 2: Build it in four hours. Step 3: Party. Step 4: Party. Step 5: Party a bit more. Step 6: Profit.
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What examples of that can you think of other than Windows?

Edit: and things that were extensions of the Windows monopoly such as IE.
>most people go to around seven sites +/- 2 on a regular basis

what "regular basis" means?
every day, every week?
One of the founders must be a student at the Viterbi School of Engineering at USC. Deadline is November 15th. Winner gets $50K.
Nail on the head, here. I'd say it isn't a test of the new hire at all. Having this rule in place requires their code and tools to be in order and easy to set up at all times. That alone is priceless company-wide, however it makes the new hire feel on the first day.
it's frustrating when waiting in line and someone ahead of you can't remember their debit pin, or their card isn't swiping correctly, or they insist on writing "see ID" on their card's signature strip but don't get their ID out until asked. Just give correct change and keep the line moving...
I'm not going to try to diagnose the UM student here, but I will note that it is somewhat suspicious that the "exam anxiety" claim didn't come up until after he or she had failed for the second time.

That's the bit that smells rotten for me too. I was receiving counseling for exam anxiety, and I knew full well about it when I was 17, not at the end of a PhD exam when I'm 22+, that I've already taken once already.

There's a certain point where one has to step back and say "You had all this time to see a doctor, and yet you've made it this far without one, so why are you claiming this now after the fact?"
Mostly looks good, but I'd use a different font, or actual handwriting on top of the graph. And the arrow is ugly.

Maybe have a free option to get some traction.
NaAppWriMo would work, but I can't say that.
I don't fully understand how he made it to Customs without someone catching the ammunition earlier.

I can't recall a travel experience where I went through Customs before going through security first. As Customs occurs at port of entry, I assume he would have passed through security in Delhi. I suppose security could have been lax or complacent there, but it still seems an odd thing to have made it through a scanner first.
>Specifically, the DOI stated upfront in the RFQ that the solution had to be part of the Microsoft Business Productivity Online Suite. Google is making the argument that this is "unduly restrictive of competition,"

I don't actually know what the Microsoft Business Productivity Online Suite is, but if they're already using it for a lot of other stuff, I think it's pretty understandable to want their email system to integrate with it.
Indeed. I was only talking about the original comment's argument, not about the reality of government.
How do they do this?

Do they use an x86 build or do they use an arm emulator to run the software?
I used audio as a known example of content producers playing Apple and Amazon against each other. Do you think the MPAA is any less ruthless than the RIAA when it comes to controlling and pricing their content?
Not quite. Metonymy is calling something by the name of a related object. The most common use of metonymy is probably "the White House" for President Obama's (Bush's, Clinton's, etc.) administration. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metonymy
I don't know. Having TA'd during an exam with the disability cases, I can see your point (nothing looks physically wrong) but generally I find that they're given far too much time anyway, they seem to finish within a reasonable timeframe.

If your exams are written in such a way that they're completely time-dependent anyway, you have bigger problems with your examination procedures.
ya, the regular basis is a bit misleading. I expect regular means daily. There are plenty of sites and traffic serving people on a non-regular basis.

Wikipedia I don't visit daily, and I'd suggest the vast majority of people don't visit it daily. But I visit it when I'm looking for something.

Same with Amazon, IMDB, and a ton of other massive sites.
Have a clear vision of what you want to accomplish.
No one likes hitting a moving target. Sure there might be pivots, but don't add to that by not understanding in great detail what you want built.

Assist them by helping them test everything you can.
Pret A Manger (a sandwich chain) used to do something like this in NYC a few years back. Everything you bought would have an odd price like $7.13 or $10.32 so that once everything was rung up, your total was always a multiple of 25 cents. I loved the idea but I guess they found some problems with it because they eventually stopped doing it - it would be interesting to know why.
In that case my pragmatic side says to approach some educational institutions and see which they'd be more likely to buy.
The emails just ask you if you're on track for launch at the end of the month. It's hard to get any more specific than that since everyone is doing something completely different and will be at different places.

That data will be surfaced to you in every email, so you'll see your streak of making positive daily progress and hopefully that'll keep you motivated. In the next week or so, we'll offer you the option of declaring what your project is and making those progress updates public, so people can help keep each other motivated. Just working out a few issues with that feature though...

We hope you enjoy it, and email me at ryan at 21times dot org if you have any questions or problems.
Why are there so many people so obsessed with this? It's a base unit of measurement, and the problem is one of perception more than anything else. A single penny is viewed as worthless, which is a problem of currency inflation, not of the penny itself.

How long will we be rounding everything to the nearest nickel before that too becomes so laborious that we move on to the dime? Quarter? Whole dollar? Where does it stop?

Instead of applying arbitrary rounding rules to currency transactions, we should enact policies that return value to that currency.
Is the idea behind this to launch an app in a month or to create and launch an app in just a month? The latter sounds much more intriguing.
Sure, network effect is a big deal for sites like facebook, but it's not everything. Network effect didn't save myspace. If something much better than facebook came out people would start switching to it, and quite rapidly the network effect bonus would vanish. My point is that there is every reason to believe that the possibility there could be a social networking site significantly better than facebook is very high. Precisely because the problems in play are incredibly hard problems and nobody has solved them very well yet.
Fixed.

No deception was intended -- I just like being able to track links with Bit.ly real-time instead of waiting overnight for Amazon reporting -- but I can see your point. Hopefully the new text will clear that up.

Glad you liked it.
I hadn't seen the earlier version, but I just got the latest beta. It would be nice to have a more detailed grade for each case, so that I could learn in better detail about the investigation & management choices I made vs what the ideal choices were.
I think they should do both, in a better and more obvious way. Certainly, some level of filtering of the feed has alwaye existed, but 1997 Yahoo tried at search and 2004 Hotmail had rudimentary spam filters and reporting tools. Google admittedly didn't have to fight against strong network effects to grab market share there, but it was the ability to incrementally improve that made their product offering more compelling rather than anything staggeringly original. And Yahoo and Microsoft had a better starting position to make improvements had they realised the true value of the underlying data on their user behaviour...

To be fair to Facebook's team, the feed does seem to have improved recently and not just because I've manually blocked Zynga apps. But with their data and talent there really shouldn't be any suggestion that a competitor starting from the ground up could better facilitate the social interaction they started off specialising in.
AWS is great if you're small to medium sized. Once you reach a point though, scaling in AWS is difficult.

Scaling a database in AWS is difficult, no matter if it is relational or NoSQL. We see boxes with hardly any load get 50% IO wait time and stay there for 20 mins. Try and scale anything when you get that.
...what is more accurate know as a...

Must be contagious.
Sorry, don't get me wrong, I understand it's easy to burn through cash.

My point is: I'm not sure why Cheezburger thinks it's impressive to set up Wordpress blogs of other people's images without breaking the bank.
Maybe in the first rev the IOS apps are emulated. I bet in the second one it's the other way around. We've already started a transition. They haven't announced it yet, because they want to ease us into it, but I'm sure this is where they're going.
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He mentions that the task is a small, specific code change (I imagine planned in advance), and that another developer sits with the new hire for the whole day. I didn't get the impression that it's a "trial by fire" kind of scenario.

Overall, it strikes me as a nice idea; I know I would appreciate having a first day like this.
Noooo! Why does this clash with the NaNoWriMo?! www.nanowrimo.org
Why not simply switch finger every now and then? It takes a fraction of a second and fits perfect into the "release finger to insert space"-routine.
Disclaimer: I am an iOS developer.

Dave might be right in broad strokes, but the post is very muddy on what it would mean for "iOS apps" to run on the MacOS.

Fundamentally, it would be pretty straightforward for Apple to allow iOS apps to be easier to port to the MacOS: bringing some of the UIKit APIs to desktop Cocoa would make things very much easier. As it is, anything that touches images or the user interface has essentially zero overlap between the desktop and mobile APIs. Very frustrating.

However, the speculation about MacOS on the Air being a "compatibility layer" is utterly ludicrous and unfounded. A quick peek inside /System/Library/Frameworks will indicate that the build of 10.6.4 that runs on the Air uses exactly the same set of frameworks that Apple has built up for the MacOS as any other traditional computer they sell.

While the brief preview of Lion given the other week indicates that there will be significant cross-pollenation between desktop and mobile OSes for Apple, in both user interface and (one assumes) APIs, it's hard to exaggerate how off-base this particular item of speculation is, in the right-here and right-now.

I would be unsurprised to see a third architecture added to "Universal" iOS apps to allow them to be run on Lion desktops, but as any iOS developer can tell you, even porting an app from the iPhone to the iPad is hardly a set-it-and-forget-it affair. Winer snarks about the multitouch trackpad at the end of this article, but he's just as wrong about it now as he was when he first said it.

The iPhone is a fundamentally different user experience from the iPad is a fundamentally different user experience from the MacBook Air, even if 10.6.5 + Mac App Store includes all of UIKit.
Dumb question here, but why don't we simply use handwriting recognition?

Have a space at the bottom that is big enough to write two characters, so the system can know when you've started the second character, you are done with the first.

I could write with that super fast. And HW recognition is probably better, for most people, than their mobile phone typing accuracy.
One change they could have made is add data to the satellites. Data was greatly desired by the users, but the system was not designed for it. The best they could do was a slow analog modem.
Most countries allow you to have multiple passports - it's useful when you have lots of business trips that need visas to 3rd world countries that take 6weeks to process the visa.

I work in mining and in the bad-old-days we used to have to keep multiple passports, to keep SAfrican, Isreali, Chilean etc entry stamps separate.

Now I tend to keep one passports just for the USA - it's easier than explaining to the TSA that visiting a country that doesn't speak English (like Jesus did) doesn't make one a terrorist.

Ironically the only problem I have had is that after being forced to get a brand new passport because the USA demanded RFID - I was questioned for 30mins on my lack of travel history!
What's next? The OpenSparc guys call it quits?
Thanks! I know, sounds like an obvious question, but far too often, people doing mailings forget a few things.

1. Time is relative. "Tomorrow" isn't clear. I don't trust that "tomorrow" is relative to when I signed up for it (even in this case, where I knew the launch date of the site).

2. If someone signs up for a mailing list/newsletter like this, it's best if you send them the most current newsletter. When I sign up for a newsletter like this, I want to read what you are writing. So please, send me something to read.

But yes, thanks for the info. =)
Meh... the whole thing didn't sound so unreasonable to me. The guy took a trip to two places well known for harboring and training terrorists. They found a bullet, a piece of terrorist propaganda, a burqa, and a note in his journal outlining some desire to renounce his citizenship.

I'd be pretty damn suspicious too. I may not like it, but there are folks trying to kill us (all of us). These agents have a job, and that's to try and ferret out as many of these people attempting entry to our country as possible. It may be inconvenient, and it may be pretty nasty...but it's necessary. That's the reality of the situation.

I'll also remind everyone to take any one-sided account like this with a certain grain of salt. It's a pretty emotional thing, and often certain points are quite exaggerated. Sometimes "yelling" is really "stern questioning". Other times "an hour and a half" is really "15 minutes".

Ok.. let the down-voting commence :)
I was actually thinking about this claim. Seems kind of unreasonable; seems that the amount of data lost should be proportional to the size of the data, not the number of objects it is split into.
You'd be surprised what information was available vs what was actually being done. Lots of stuff we think are modern discoveries have been known for 2000 years.. yet not widely practiced for various reasons.

I guess it boils down to what is lately being called "evidence-based medicine". Trial and error would have taken them really far, if they'd practice it properly. Which is something even now we're not doing to the fullest extent.
Are you even reading what I wrote? I explicitly said I didn't downvote you. In addition, you still refuse to actually go into any substantial points, and still resort to the meaningless 'nahnahnah I can't hear you' style of 'discussion' common amongst toddlers.

"the topic is really so off the charts to me that I am pretty sure of myself here". Seriously? Your argument is 'I have a strong opinion about it, so I'm right"? "The argumentative here really sound of addiction." And your basic retort is "what do you know, you're all junkies"? No wonder you feel you're being treated hostile here - all anti-intellectualism is, as it should.
They could have declared bankruptcy.
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No, no you can't. It requires an upload of a PDF/DOC/DOCX in order to submit the form.
Reminds me that time I brought a rifle bullet (only the case, not the projectile itself) onto an international flight in Europe. I bought it as a souvenir in Poland and figured I could bring it with my handluggage.

Before I knew it I was surrounded by these security types asking me all kinds of questions, and I said.. "what's the matter... it's not like you can KILL someone with an empty bullet!" - That didn't help, but they eventually let me go, bullet included.

This was in 2002.
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Exactly the motivation I needed to get up off my butt and start coding furiously, instead of planning and guessing for months on end. Thanks!
First of all, what is said privately between Apple and Adobe we don't know.

Second, if Adobe wanted to create a flash runtime that runs on iOS as proof of concept, demo, or whatever, Apple couldn't stop them even if they wanted to.

Third, Steve Jobs said that they'd love to see Adobe demo a capable mobile flash runtime, they just haven't.
I think charging people to create games and letting anyone play for free is probably preferable to letting people charge users. Virtual currency is a great way to do this although you may consider doing it inside Facebook to accelerate that process. Making your own currency is tough unless you plug into a platform like Viximo. Commercial sponsors for content requires pretty enormous scale to be viable, the first 2 are probably better options.
My belt buckle has much more metal than a shell casing, and it never sets off the metal detectors at airports. Shell casings have less metal in them than the buttons on my button-fly jeans.

EDIT: I was mistaken, he did say it was an unused bullet, so it was more than a shell casing.
The big one would be: Only launch enough enough satellites to cover the area where your main customers are, rather than trying to cover the whole planet.
I’m a web developer. Much of my recent work has utilised Python/Django and JavaScript, although I have experience with a wide range of (mostly open–source) technologies.

I just checked out CoderStack. I’m looking forward to your launch :)
"7 plus or minus two" is one of the most misused and misquoted Psychology research findings ever. It's better to just say "a few" or "a handful" rather than this as it makes it clear you are being approximate, rather than attempting to link your argument back to Miller's classic paper

http://psychclassics.yorku.ca/Miller/
This is exactly what we're hoping for; you just made my day :)

Let me know if you have any issues or if there's any way we can help you in your quest.
Until the OS 64 bits, no Windows code was broken.

Chicken || Egg;
It looks bad, but not as bad as I always imagined.
"Depend upon it Sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully"

-- Samuel Johnson
Nevertheless, an RFQ that shapes its requirements in such a way as to essentially name the winner before-hand is a serious problem.
'Your Mom' is one of the best customers on the web. I always keep that in mind.
While I am not sure how effective/good 8pen solution is, the problem space they are working in ("touch screen typing"), is bound to produce a winning solution in next few of years. Interesting times.
Assuming we want customs officials doing anything terrorism related at all (which I'm not convinced of) this doesn't seem bad. Basically they made him socially uncomfortable for a while, and sent him on his way. They didn't take any of his stuff, they only detained him for an hour and a half. Overall it seems about as inconvenient as a flight delay.