skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was a paying customer and actually found it somewhat difficult to use.

When an upload finished, many of my friends / contractors didn't know you'd need to refresh the page to view files. I'd sometimes find two or three copies of the same file in a given drop.

My drop had an admin password, but also a manager password (which were different, but would presumably be used by the same person).

Even browsing for files to upload was more difficult than it should have been. Once a file was selected some users assumed it was being uploaded already.

These were manageable interface problems for me, but required delineated instructions to the "average user."
Even if I agreed it's still an issue of timing. Would you agree that somethings are age appropriate and other things are not?
"Executives previously have said it is close to being profitable, despite the large costs associated with storing and delivering so much video content."

Youtube has yet to be profitable? wow.
thank you very much. you are correct in the home schooling sites giving recommendations but I wanted something first class and HN is the place I thing of when thinking first class websites.

oh and as to NSFW: leave off the final '/'
This may be a short-term thing. When your body recovers, you will likely go back to sleeping more normal amounts. (I haven't quit caffeine per se but have gotten off a long list of medications.)
If you just don't fly commercial, it's a non-issue, even at regular airports (see recent news blurb about Steve Jobs in Japan with throwing stars).

Nobody goes through TSA to get on a private plane.
It makes me wonder how many members of Congress and senior TSA leadership actually have to go through the same processes us plebes do...
do you have a blog ?

seriously, this was a superbly informative rant.
I use a white list so blocking is not the issue. I need to find a first class encyclopedia to complement our curriculum.

And thanks for the wiki link. Illuminating...
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I've had people try to offer me stock options in the kind of companies that would never go public too. It's a very popular option for shady businesspeople with M.B.A.'s.
Server takes a massive hit as well.
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For some posts the value might be the HN discussion following them, and not the post itself. And as usual when people whine about stuff they don't find interesting, all I have to say is: you < all HN users
That's an extremely narrow, Judaeo-Christian view of religion.
You should be getting back to normal soon. That's a lot of coffee, are you not experiencing heavy withdrawal?

I would definitely have a headache after stopping that much caffeine.
It's further complicated because of upstream development (everyone benefits from Red Hat's kernel updates, CentOS benefits from pretty much everything Red Hat does), as well as dowstream bug collection and triage (Debian benefits from Ubuntu's installed base).

Current models do not exactly apply.
The appeal of Diaspora was its story (university students raising money to build a version of facebook which would not raise privacy concerns) not its technical superiority. It also explains the amount of media coverage Diaspora received. Having just watched the social network, I came to the conclusion that the only reason that movie was made was the law suits surrounding the creation of that company. There's no appeal making a movie about two or three guys working harmoniously together to build something useful.
I don't even have a vote in this matter, but yes. legalization + regulation is the answer here.
Anecdote is not the singular of data and all that, but at the major game development studio I work at, no-one at my team has even /heard/ of git, and when I try to explain what a distributed version control system is I get blank stares.
I've said it multiple times but github won because of what they focused on - code:

http://goo.gl/XfvG (http://lusislog.blogspot.com/2010/10/designed-for-developers... for the paranoid)
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Wouldn't it make more sense to just do this, and see if it goes anywhere? Thats much more organic and basically how the Offer HN trend started.
Makes sense. 10 years ago I hired a PhD. I was ashamed to make the offer because of the limitations of my budget at the time. Yet, it was still three times more than she was able to get in academia.
The details are interesting (although completely obvious), but the article is really stupid, as it assumes everyone uses unsalted passwords and MD5 to create hashes. Duh.
Thank you, I thought it was just the vm, but apparently it's a whole suite of compiler tools.
No, there isn't an interactive version, but I once tried the API from inside iPython, and that worked.

Pipe is interpreted by the shell and separates the commands on either side, so I don't see how that could work. The very first version of osh actually did run separate commands, connected by a Unix pipe, but the pickling and unpickling costs were extremely high, so I opted for running the whole command in one process.
This is precisely what happened to me, and the reason I ditched git for Hg in my most recent project.
I am not doing anything large enough to warrant paying for a GitHub account at the moment, and its not because I am cheap - its because I am a poor South African, and $7 a month is infinitely more expensive than $0 a month.
I worked for a very well known company who licensed some of the early genes that were patented by companies like Celera. It was such a painful experience and the arrangement caused tons of legal knots years later. When the license period ended I distinctly remember an email asking that in addition to surrendering all documents related to the genes, we had to "forget" anything we might have learned personally about them. By that time they were all publicly known, so it was a bit hard to tease out what was learned as a result of the patented genes vs. what you learned from a search at NCBI.
As of 2007ish courts rely on the "Graham factors":

- the scope and content of the prior art;
- the level of ordinary skill in the art;
- the differences between the claimed invention and the prior art; and
- objective evidence of nonobviousness.

e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inventive_step_and_non-obviousn...
Hmm.. You mean like "Your dad is from Egypt, let's put a gps sender on your car and treat you 'special' at the airport from now on, since our background check thinks you're part of the target group"?

Seriously, how would a background check work? What are you looking for? Ethnic background obviously would be the biggest failure (although still done, see above). Credit history? Police records (international? Good luck with that)?

Either you disclose what you are looking at and "the bad guys" can trick your check. Or you don't and you're back on the security by obscurity road, doing "arbitrary" (to the public) things, annoying probably just as much.

I think this idea is just as flawed as the current procedure. And I surely hope no one is starting something like that, since this whole security BS seems like a race of arms to me lately..
The best thing I've come across django related is the "Django from the Ground Up" tutorials: http://showmedo.com/videotutorials/series?name=PPN7NA155
I enjoyed your original rant against economists and the damage some of their bold but ultimately baseless claims can do, but many of your examples seem ill-chosen. It's really no more complex to incoporate bundling vs budget constraints and the time value of money into neoclassical economic models than it is to incorporate friction into a physical model. Appending "given no corresponding increase in supply" to a claim that the price of a commodity will rise given an increase in demand is really no more of a "patch up" than appending "given the absence of air resistance and other frictional forces" to a statement that the earth's gravitational field will cause a falling object to accelerate at approx 9.81ms^2. "Demand" being the level of quantity which would be purchased at a given price at a given point in time is as fundamental to microeconomics as the concept of net force to Newtonian classical mechanics.

Sure, a number of economists attach undue weight to some underlying assumptions which are only partly true, such as economic actors to some degree exhibiting "economically rational" (perhaps akin to a disciple Newton fan asserting the wave nature of matter has no meaningful implications for their bodies, this kind of abstraction is harmless when applied to sufficiently large numbers). But whilst this economic model appears to break down at levels as simple as individuals being ineffective at computing stochastic optimisations in their heads, it works rather well when analysing the behaviour of crowds. It's not so good at identifying when bubbles will burst, but then meteorologists can't predict the weather next year with any reasonable degree of accuracy either, and that's arguably a simpler system to model.

Where economists overstep the mark is not so much the tendency to oversimplify as the fusion of normative arguments with their models, such as the sleight of hand that dresses Pareto "efficiency" as a static optimisation problem rather than a rights claim made on behalf of the status quo.
Yes, the main problem with the article is that they never mention LM. The page they link to too. Only from the "14 characters" we get the idea that they crack LM hashes:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LM_hash

"To address the security weaknesses inherent in LM encryption, Microsoft introduced the NTLM algorithm with Windows NT 3.1."

That's 17 years old news, that LM is weak.

Still what most people unfamiliar with the topic don't know is that LM hashes of your passwords can still be present on your Windows machine, default "for compatibility reason."
Yes, and: "Implementations of Scheme are not required to implement the whole tower of subtypes given in section 6.2.1, but they must implement a coherent subset consistent with both the purposes of the implementation and the spirit of the Scheme language. For example, an implementation in which all numbers are real may still be quite useful." (From your URL)
Interesting you think Apple made the problem "go away". If I was distributing copies of The Hurt Locker from my website and someone took me to court, you can be pretty sure my problems wouldn't just "go away" if I took down the website.
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Putting people in cages can border on anti-social.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antisocial_personality_disorder
Well bitbucket won me over and made me start an account with them when it happened. And now that I'm with them, if I go over 5 users I'll gladly pay.

It certainly can't hurt to be the first site to do it. (first considering github, bitbucket, google code, codeplex, sourceforge(?))
The GPL doesn't say anything at all about what the end user can do. In fact that's "rule 0":

http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html

The restrictions are on distributing the software which is quite different from use of the software.
I guess Facebook is 'sexier' right now with the movie and all but honestly I rely on Google way more than fb in a given day - work or leisure - and hope this doesnt mean the goog is sinking or something. On the flipside I guess they're hiring?
ehh... I would strongly disagree. I think it would be a fairly universal opinion that having your Facebook account violated is favorable over having your home broken into, even if nothing is stolen or damaged.

I would agree that there are some ethical problems with his actions, but this is far from being ethically analogous to the whole break-in scenario.
I have a bachelors 'of science' degree in Economics, with a minor in Finance.
The only thing I really took away from that program is that there is virtually nothing scientific about economics. It hasn't moved beyond high-school physics ("imagine a frictionless surface with no gravity").

With that said, there is no real way to do economic 'science' - you cannot stage experiments with controls, or test the vast majority of hypothesis, aside from back-fitting against existing data.
What are you replacing the drink with. Just because you're not drinking coffee don't forget you still need to take in fluids.

For me, when I've quit in the past, I tried variously ginger squash, herbal teas and just water (hot or cold).

I tend to drink more caffeine drinks when I'm bored as a break from work and because they are available.
Ubuntu is already considering switching. Most people don't develop with "GCC in mind". They just target it, but now that there's another compiler that compiles almost all GCC C out there the cost of switching is very low.
If these are developers then I'm shocked that they could be that ignorant of trends inside their own profession.

Although I met a student studying Java for a CS degree who hadn't heard of Python. So anything is possible I suppose...
Is it possible for developers to see this merely as microsoft positioning everything to be more like apple?

I'm seeking some validation if the following is now true:

wpf ~~ cocoa (for mac)

silverlight ~~ cocoa touch

html5 (formerly SL when used as webapps) ~~ html5.

I hope microsoft pitches the above this way, so developers like me that need to use their tech stack can sleep easy at night. It's a simpler way to think about everything. And Flash can still have it's place for RIA and grow to be a premier tools developer for html5 apps.

Remember, apple originally took an opposite direction when the iphone first came out, originally expecting developers to develop mobile html applications for the phone. That idea died quickly, and a year later Cocoa Touch and the App Store came out.
I'm a game developer (though only ~3 years experience) and I only understood 50% of it. Gives me something to aspire to that someone can be that good at it.
Previous discussions:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=190676

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1524757
One random good prediction proves nothing, unfortunately. I tend to believe that Ricardo's comparative advantage and similar economic principles established for more than 150 years are solid enough to be relied upon when dealing with a relatively large markets; I'd go with HilbertSpace about the global macroeconomic BS, however. I'm pretty sure that global markets are too complex to be described by any current model.

One point that particularly saddens me is the utter misunderstanding of growth by economists, because they go with the easy assumption first (GDP growth is a representative value), then with the oversimplification about the sources of growth, particularly the salient dependency of available cheap energy to sustain growth (see for instance http://netenergy.theoildrum.com/node/7069#more ).

Then they generally proceed by forgetting that Adam Smith wrote his books in a time of immemorial non existent or extremely slow growth, which change radically the view. Market efficiency is to be considered in a radically different manner when the general environment is economically quite stable, which naturally should prevent concentration, for instance.

This is just to mention a couple of things that struck me, I generally don't pretend to know much about economy, though.
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We're getting a lot of submissions that seem to me as not especially focussed and more suited to a general purpose social site.

I'm thinking that perhaps someone is submitting these as part of a "we submit your story" type service?

If not then perhaps, because there are several such stories on the HN site already people are simply not bothering to read the submission guidelines. As an aide-memoire perhaps a brief synopsis of the submissions guidelines could be added to get people to think whether this is the appropriate place for their post.
Like alcohol, caffeine is dehydrating. So you may need less to drink if you give it up.

(My ex was career military. When he was a trainer at NTC, the part-timers would show up and drink soda all day and alcohol at night, which didn't help their bodies adjust to/cope with being 3000 feet above see level in a hot, dry climate. Lots of folks ended up in the ER for dehydration and heat exhaustion.)
I think that's entirely the wrong way of looking at it. This removes payment processing, download costs and (critically) installation support and serial number issues hassles.

But that isn't really what you're paying Apple for. You're paying them for the creation of a new market that may (or may not) be better for you. Discovery (formerly marketing) is going to largely be their thing. Customer education will become standardized. Trust - they will teach people that apps are safe and hassle free to install & uninstall. They will teach consumers what an app is.

This will probably amount to far more then an increase/decrease in sales. It will determine which apps succeed and fail. These will be different from the winners and losers in the existing, "natural" market. It will determine aggregate demand for apps. This will also be different. It will affect consumers' expectation for what an app should be. For example, I think that learning curves will need to be reduced. The concept of learning software will be reduced.

A lot of existing software (the big names: MS Office, Adobe CS, etc come to mind immediately) probably won't fit into the app mold comfortably. Developers will have strong incentive to create apps that do. It will be interesting how much software can be "apps."
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I find it a little boring.

It's like a thief got into my house and is now able to open the front door. So what?
Many (read: almost all, I'm willing to bet) web developers will be completely ignorant of trends in embedded programming. Many (read: almost all, I'm willing to bet) embedded programmers will be ignorant of trends in web programming. It is unsurprising that many programmers who do the overwhelming majority of their work in the closed-source arena would be unaware of trends in the open-source community.
Remember the failed Yahoo acquisition by Microsoft in 2008?
I'm behind this statement. As another wise man once said, we could also take the warning labels off everything and let our problems solve themselves.
how is this better than (the mature, well engineered) twisted?
Don't corn subsidies make food-corn more expensive (the majority of corn subsidies are for ethanol production, which diverts supply from food/feed)?
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Brought back some good memories..of visiting distrowatch.. compiling custom kernels..swearing at KDE/GNome for being too slow and using fvwm..moving from xine to mplayer..

I used linux for 5 years and used redhat in 2001, gentoo for a brief time, slackware for 2 years, fedora for a year, back to windows for 1 year and now I'm a happy OS X user for 3+ years.
A million times.

I try to find some consolation in believing that me reporting them will have some effect.
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I'm wondering if folks here have any "best practices" they can share for creating the right incentives? (Or should that be a new thread?)

This was something I was very good at figuring out for raising my sons. Thus, issues related to this at my job really get on my nerves (because I am convinced it can be done better). So I am wondering what people know about solving this issue for corporate culture -- or even on the start-up scene.
The new discovery here is that the drug kills creativity - that's a pretty big deal for me.

It's also quite different from meditation, which fosters creativity.
that's right

i can't comment on that post, so i will do it here

if we toss out our two biggest winners, we will still have a terrific fund

of course, i am thrilled to have them

but they are not required to have a good fund
My experience matches caustics: I was able to settle into work, but my creativity was killed.

I'd recommend smart drugs for doing drudgery, but if you need to engage the right brain for inventiveness, chocolate works great :)
A company doesn't have to go public to make money on your options. A profitable company pays dividends with their profits, and the options, when exercised, give you a share of those profits. Might not be a jackpot (and few are), but an extra $30k a year, every year, is nothing to blow off.
Note that BitBucket was recently acquired by Atlassian: http://www.atlassian.com/hosted/bitbucket/faq.jsp

I think this had an effect on the offers.
Also, most people put these together with a 8085 or a PIC in high school.
It was claimed that assets couldn't be sent to the cloud because they use too much bandwidth. I pointed out that sending a replay of events used to create assets takes very little bandwidth. This has nothing to do with the latency you are talking about here.
It is like getting a genie to grant you your wish. :)
no worries

i just wanted to add to the discussion

you can call them bankrupt if you'd like
Absolutely impossible. I met them before they had their hit kickstarter project, and they were just really enthusiastic about building a real alternative to the social networks, and were spurred on after seeing Eben Moglen's 'Freedom Box' talk.

Your tinfoil at is worn in vain.
Alcohol doesn't kill brain cells. It's a myth.

Also, while I disapprove of marijuana abuse (I've used twice, never felt like it could benefit me in any way), I would like all movements to legalize marijuana to wait until there's

a) a comprehensive study (or studies) on the triggers of bad reactions to THC (anxiety, paranoid thought etc.) which to the best of my knowledge doesn't exist so far, as well as to its link with T-cell function impairment

b) at least one reliable way of acquiring marijuana which is properly grown and

c) ending once and for all the misinformation about marijuana, THC, and their effects and alleged links to drug addiction, and so forth.
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I think a better description of the process - at least, as it applies to my own usage (prescribed) goes like this:

When you are on these sorts of drugs think of it as opening the tap. You execute with the full force of your creative reserves that you've built up. The more pent up you are - the more the ideas just pour through you as you write/code/compose - whatever.

And because the tap is open, eventually the waters on one side of the dam level out with those on the other. The rate of creative execution slows down because it's not pent up.

But I think it's a mistake to say one is LESS creative. You remain as creative as you ever were. The same amount of water flows through your stream as it ever did. One just doesn't have the same pent up backlog of ideas to execute anymore - just that steady stream.
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The way I understood it, all your objections are covered by the fact that drugs are moved in several ton bundles for a while.

Consider the cargo container. A large metal box. It'll hold several tons of drugs, or just as easily 50lbs of radioactive material and 1 ton of shielding. Or 5 people and several jugs of water.
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Dilution doesn't really apply to these employees. They don't care about their amount of ownership in the company. All that matters is how much stock they get and what they expect the stock to be worth at IPO. If they've received 10,000 shares and the IPO is at $100, then they're millionaires by the end of that day (on paper, at least).