skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, I have been around enterprise sales guys for too long for buzz words to bother me, I know it's the lingo of sales in the enterprise space, so I have a filter for it, where some have a radar for it. I read right past that and really liked that you said what you where going to do (as far as role). This gets omitted on a good deal of posts like this and worse yet there are a good deal that act like "hey I had the idea, what more do you want". I wish you the best and hope you do well. I part of a start-up back in 97 that tried to do an amateur sports social network / handicap matchup / scorecard site. We where in way too early and burned out in flames. The market is probably far more ready for it than it was in 97. While you idea is not the same, I do see some overlap in what we did.
Espresso for web development.
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The problem with this approach is that it doesn't really allow for nations to evolve and new nations to spring up.

Consider this: say, Tesla applies for citizenship in, say, US. He has a brilliant mind, his ideas are awesome and very advanced. He is denied because he can easily be differentiated from the other people. If nothing else, then on the fact he doesn't know all the culture, the in-jokes etc. His life-dream is also providing free electricity for everyone.

Another scenario: Ada Lovelace applies for citizenship pretty much anywhere in her era. She is denied because she's all about doing the same things as men and not quietly making dinner and staying in the kitchen.

What I'm trying to say is that your idea would result in very uninteresting nations that would be completely intolerant of anyone standing out from the herd. Even moreso than they are now.
How it looks is fine, I suppose. But it could surely use in-line replies.
Not trying to sound hostile here, but your comparisons seem a little disingenuous. You're equating Lisp with an ancient operating system and a music player? Lisp is a programming language. Microsoft has other products in the category of programming languages. The ones it has pushed — Visual Basic, C# and (to a lesser degree, since it's NIH) C++ — have all been tremendously successful. This is because Microsoft has a monopoly on Windows dev tools and APIs that it can exploit to get developers using things. This monopoly is less useful for pushing Zunes.

And to try and argue that Java is unsuccessful because it isn't used in set-top boxes? I don't even know what to say to that. The fact that Java's successes were in other domains than the one you hand-picked for your comparison does not somehow make them disappear. You may as well say that C was never very popular because no Ruby on Rails apps were ever written in it.

The fact is that Lisp has not had any major backers since the AI craze fizzled out. If a Lisp had received the same kind of support as Java, C#, Objective-C or JavaScript, the language landscape might very well look quite different.
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Well, this isn't the whole picture, but SHA is faster than DES. Certainly that'd be a factor from a brute-force perspective.
no. not at all. this would just be one vector for acquiring citizenship, and would not replace other programs.
"Let a thousand little languages bloom, before picking your bouquet."

That's a fantastic way of approaching web standardization.
Linode down yet again?
I can't reach anything on the fremont network, or blog.linode.com. Not sure if this is linode-specific or Hurricane Electric again. Anyone else having issues?
You thought he clearly explained what he is going to do

Yeah, I was not too clear on that was I. I meant the role he was going to play in the company. Not the core idea, he has.
Here's the comment I left:

You need to learn about how free market law works.

Negative externalities are compensated for if people desire it and if it's technologically feasible.

Moreover, you are assuming the "oversight" will be rational, directly contradicting public choice theory.

Edit: tl;dr: Don't waste your time reading this Keynesian Econ 101
This is what we have with an Oracle product:
Vanilla - no sample or legacy data, no dev
Sandbox - oracle sample data, no dev
Conversion - legacy data, no dev
Dev - "scrambled" legacy data, dev
Config - functional team environment setup
Test - config and dev together, unscrambled user data
Test2 - I have no idea why this here, but it is :)
Training - for training users, selected legacy data and dev
PreProd - everything after test and before prod
Prod

Given that each environment has an app server, a web server, two or more batch servers and a database, I can vouch that a fubarred deployment workflow is hell. You end up with no baseline to tell if your process is bombing due to configuration or code.
There are other ways but this makes it easy to see where competitors are being referenced. If you're trying to grow your personal brand, you could see where people you "compete with" are active, and thus put effort towards contributing content to those sources. There's actually a lot you can do with this information. Yeah, and don't discount the power of contributing quality content on different sites like avc.com comments with a consistent username and a link to your personal site in the profile. :)
The parent comment is likely referring to admin & username passwords for people working at Gawker Media, such as Gizmodo, Lifehacker, and Kotaku contributors.

All the usernames and passwords for users with {@lifehacker.com, @gawker.com, etc.} email addresses in the torrent (plaintext, not hashed). The torrent claims Nick Denton’s password was an 8-character sequence of even numbers, and that he used it everywhere. (Edit in reply: The hackers used this on e.g. his Twitter account IIRC so it wasn’t truncated to 8 characters.) Some of them are even '11223344' or a substring of the author’s username!
Any way you could check if my email is there? It's my username @ gmail, don't really want to download the whole torrent.
Jailbreak killswitch removed, most likely to avoid lawsuits
Austrian Economics uses praxeology, logically necessary insights in human action. Economics as a branch of logic.

All other schools (including Chicago) see economics as a branch of statistics.

This is a fundamental difference that almost nobody seems to realize.
I can get to linode.com but not blog.linode.com
There were so many reasons I chose Atlanta for my linode. No outage yet there!
For brevity, the main takeaways from my posts here are these:

(1) Avoid overanalyzing when debugging. This is true for all programmers.

(2) Divorce identity from skills to avoid personal limitation. Say "I can develop web pages", not "I am a web page developer".

(3) Side point: I am not convinced specialization in CS is helpful, and in my experience, it proves to be a hindrance to integration.

Sorry for the confusion.
Google actually hires a large number of junior-to-midrange engineers and trains them up. Average age at Google is something like 28; a large number of Google engineers have never worked anywhere but Google.

At that level, they hire for aptitude, not experience. The $60-80K that Google pays for beginning hires is on the anticipation that after training, they'll be worth at least that much, and Google can retain them long enough for them to make it back. It's fairly common knowledge that a new Google engineer won't be productive for 6-8 months at least.

The risk that a startup runs by paying $35-45K is that they'll get people with lower aptitude who'll never turn into experienced engineers. That's a pretty big financial risk to take, particularly for a startup with much less runway than Google.
I recommend you book The Domain Game from David Kesmodel- http://tinyurl.com/2dv5u9c

It is fascinating story about domain tycoons like Kevin Ham or Frank Schill
any chance with making it dynamic? I tried changing the number from 100 to 10 and it didn't work. Went back to 100.
Or Lake Wobegon.
S.F. ⊆ U.S
Security of My Personal Identity [Gawker]
I'd like an option alongside noprocrast and showdead:

* hidekarma

For your view only, it hides the karma in the top right, and hides the number of points next to each article and comment.

I, personally, find karma to be a distraction...I'm not afraid to admit that I subconsciously check my karma score every time I log in, and very occasionally catch myself "karma whoring"...that is, writing comments or submitting articles in a way that will improve my karma, instead of concentrating on writing something intelligent (yes, they should be the same, but they're not).
Thanks for the response, any suggestions on the best way to get the sms from the phone to the computer automatically? There could be hundreds coming through each day.

HTTP/SIP/SMPP SMS gateways in the cloud.....is that a do-able option for me?

Thanks
I think the right word for TWC's view is 'delusional.'
It’s there, but only hashed, not plaintext. I’ll email you the line.
as i responded to dholowiski, this program would not replace other paths to citizenship. Every country should be falling over itself to bring Tesla and Lovelace into their work force and society, regardless of how similar they are to the current population.

This program would cover people like the kid who got into Harvard, but then discovers he was born 1km south instead of north of some invisible line. Or the kid who grew up admiring American society, got good grades and goes to an American University, makes lots of American, but then doesn't luck out in the visa lottery. Also, more mundane cases like Canadians who want to live in the States and vice-versa.
My fremont-based sites are all online and working fine.

I can't get to their blog though.
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The Two Best Things on the Web 2010
Good shout on TacoEdit, glad I discovered this.
If they haven't done so already, then they've lost any and all credibility as a company in my eyes.
the tablet article by pg twice is listed twice here. bug? http://news.ycombinator.com/over?points=300
> My family is/are going out to the movie. The class was/were getting restless.

In Australian English (derived from but not identical to the UK):

My family is going to the movie. The class was getting restless.

And the programmer's favourite: The data is corrupt.
The blog is coming up for me... just very slow.
Lessons From The Attack On Google
An affiliated group, Anonymous, gained attention last week for apparently taking down Web sites like MasterCard’s in a show of support for WikiLeaks

Why is Anonymous "affiliated"?

Flagged for being plain disinformation.

EDIT: This article reports that the crackers themselves said they are unrelated with Anonymous:

http://thenextweb.com/media/2010/12/12/gawker-media-is-compr...

EDIT2: Why the downvotes?
It sounds like you're suggesting internships. Perhaps employers need to be more open to interns who are already out of college, but other than that, I don't understand what change would meet your desires other than just lowering standards.
James Fallows is a beast. He's featured on the cover of the magazine with an in-depth article every other month, contributes short articles each issue and updates his blog regularly. The long-form articles must each take years of research; his recent clean-coal piece hinted at at least four. A bit of estimation suggests that Mr. Fallows is running ~10 non-trivial article-length projects at a go, in addition to his PBS pieces and books.
The fact that they still haven't replaced the double-hyphen in the n00b banner with a proper en-dash is a painful irony on a site devoted to TeX.

This has the potential to be a very useful resource though. I hope it takes off.
You don't have to conflate feeling like the dumbest with feeling bad.
I was going to give you an upvote actually, but I viscerally hate the phrase "I know I'm going to get downvoted..." Just write what you have to say and who cares about the fools that react negatively.
Blockbuster didn't think they were gonna be a challenge either.
Several times in this article, they make it sound like Netflix is competing with cable. But in reality, Netflix only streams TV shows that are already out on DVD. iTunes is the service competing with cable, both on the PC and Apple TV.
US Provisional Patent Applications for Startups
US provisional patent applications for start-ups promotion ends on December 23, 2010.

http://www.pinskylaw.ca/News/patents_for_startups.htm
This isn't entirely accurate. Their hashing mechanism only hashes and stores the first 8 characters of the password. So you only need to get the first 8 right, even if the password is 12 long.

That also means that, although unlikely for some, '11223344' could have actually been '11223344aBc$!q'. Not that it would have mattered though!
That's http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungarian_notation — it seems to be popular among Windows programmers.
I would be very concerned if any of my development team announced they were going to use their iPads for developing code. The iPad is a device that is best used for CONSUMING information, not creating it. Developers need large screens, efficient processing and multi tasking. Perhaps some small work could be done (like reviewing), but not serious development.

Brett Miller
http://www.customsoftwarebypreston.com/android-iphone-ipad
Or writing something at just the right time and having him link/reference you in the first paragraph of a blog post.

That's what happened to me. I giggled like a school girl.
The author calls this statement by Rothbard "shocking and typically blind":

"In a developing free-market economy unhampered by government-induced increases in the money supply, prices will generally fall as the supply of goods and services expands. And falling prices and costs were indeed the welcome hallmark of industrial expansion during most of the nineteenth century." Planning for Freedom, p.247

The author explains that falling prices of this sort "exhibits an exponential process of sorts when it is rapid . . . . As the currency becomes more valuable, it gets horded, and less is used for economic activity or lent out. What is the point if just holding it gets you regular returns? Less exchange leads to more deflation, and the system seizes up with nothing happening, unemployment prevalent, and no easy way out."

So, to recap, the author seems to think that technological progress resulting in greater societal wealth and lower prices result in "nothing happening" and "unemployment prevalent."
You mean it hasn't happened already? Gawker scrapes the bottom of the Internet barrel.
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The passwords aren't very important, although I can see why that'd be an issue. But those internal chat logs are going to be a bit of a problem. For Nick Denton, that is.
Fallows is the closest thing the U.S. has to a public intellectual.
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Well it depends on your patterns of access. If you remove nodes a lot then you might end up moving large blocks of indices around. Unless you use a sentinel value, but then before you know it, you are implementing a hash table.

To reduce memory allocation time penalty you can use a memory pool.

However if memory size is a problem (maybe another 2 pointers per element) or if you do mostly adds and random access of elements an array could be a good choice.
This doesn't really work, because things with high points can be anywhere on the page after they've stopped getting votes -- if you look at the front page, the stories aren't in point order by any means.

Although this would be bad for the community (people need to see the low-point articles for them to get voted on), you could have a page that sorts all stories by number of points, and allows you to remove them either by clicking on them, or marking them as uninteresting. It would solve the 'problem' of missing articles when I'm away at least.

I guess you could have some kind of mix of new and highly voted articles, which could be interesting?
Probably because he likes games too much. The supply of game programmers is simply too large for there to be decent salaries and working conditions for everyone.
This has been a scheduled maintenance that's been on the Linode status page (where you should always check if there's an outage) for a week: http://status.linode.com/2010/12/scheduled-network-maintenan...
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Well here's an interesting example a friend's startup is going through.

They have to date raised several millions of money, created a few jobs in the US, have an HQ there and another subsidiary also in the US ...

... but none of the founders can get a visa.
I expressly condone your decision. I dislike it when anyone says that, or when people say "UGH WHY AM I GETTING DOWNVOTED." But, I have noticed that sometimes I will be spontaneously aware of someone's voting patterns, and I catch myself thinking, "This guy gets downvoted for the same stuff every time he says it. Why does he keep posting it?" So I thought I'd put the little explanation down there, in case anyone does something similar. IMHO, "I know I'm going to get downvoted..." is a little less stupid when it comes with an explanation--a pre-emptive, quiet rebuttal to all of the silent downvotes.

EDIT: Also, I never presume that people who downvote me are fools. Sometimes I find myself downvoting due to some essential gut reaction that I either can't verbalize or don't bother verbalizing. In fact, I think I have done that when people fecklessly criticize corporate business practices. Perhaps it was my initial awareness of "I might downvote the comment I'm writing, if I came across it in the wild," which inspired me to include the explanation.

Every disagreement is an opportunity for learning. By including the explanation, it invites someone to reply and say, "Actually, I downvoted you because x," and then I will learn something new about the nature of HN commenters.
but I don't know any examples of invasive bacteria to trust that they'd be a problem in the same way

Actually, that makes this even more dangerous. Normally there isn't much scope for invasive species of bacteria precisely because they've been around for a very long time and because they're everywhere. Odds are something has already evolved to eat something else that's similar. Mirror proteins break this. All of a sudden, nothing can eat these new organisms and survive for very long. It would be something unprecedented.
Taking a class from this guy:http://www.cc.gatech.edu/gvu/people/official/thad.starner/wh... at Georgia Tech a decade ago made it sound like it was quite definitely part of him by that part. (Look at the picture to see what "it" is).

Pretty interesting professor, although he'd occasionally just stop mid-sentence to do something on his eyepiece. We joked he was garbage collecting...
My sites in Fremont were down for about 45 minutes total (so far). Status update history:

- "We do not expect a significant interruption of service during this maintenance window."

- "There will be a brief period of connectivity-loss while our network infrastructure undergoes this maintenance."

- "Routing for some subnets has been affected. We working with the NOC to bring them back as soon as possible."
Dallas DC seems to be fine.
How ink is made.
Boardgame Remix Kit: mashups and tweaks for old board games
I'd be lying if I said I don't doubt you are not incorrect ;)

What you are proposing is a statistically generated version of the Gunning Fog Index (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunning_fog_index) or the Flesch–Kincaid test (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flesch%E2%80%93Kincaid_readabil...).

If I were Google, I'd try that, but I'd also try something like working out percentage deviation from a Markov chain generated from their crawl. A method like that would show that my first sentence is pretty unreadable, while an algorithm based on word complexity would see it as pretty simple.
I find mods retitling links to be a strongly positive feature of HN. It is one of those things thats very touchy though, but it'd be a shame if people's territoriality meant we had to accept wrong and misleading titles.

For what its worth, whatever was wrong with the original title I feel like yours was pretty misleading after going and reading the article (great article by the way, thanks for sharing it). The article was very explicitly about the library congress meeting to talk about the origins of the map, rather than a general piece about the map. If thats all you found interesting, perhaps you should have linked to a wikipedia page or a more general article.
It's been 3 years since I left Digg. Other than the occasional angry outburst here, I don't really have much to say about the mess that was made.
The argument 10,9,8,7 contradict to the main premise (China were a Free Market).

The argument 5,4,2 are tautologies to "Facebook would have won".

The argument 6,3,1 are valid ones, but the same analogy can be applied to any foreign Internet companies (thus, not convincing at all).
That article is 100% wrong. My aha moment was when they showed the citric 'app'. A google chrome computer is a modern day dumb terminal, and the citrix server is the mainframe.
Corporations who spend millions of dollars supporting computers (and most of whom already host their business critical applications on a citrix server) will jump at the chance to replace their costly (in terms of money and tech support) pc's with cheap dumb terminals.
You might also want to check out Redis. I use both MongoDB and Redis. I don't quite understand your requirements or data schema, though.
>She is denied because she's all about doing the same things as men and not quietly making dinner and staying in the kitchen.

I find your stereotype of stereotypes pretty amusing. Augusta Ada King (nee Byron) was encouraged in mathematics from an early age. Among her many tutors was Augustus De Morgan! He expressed great appreciation for her abilities. She married a baron who later became an earl. Not much kitchen work in that lifestyle.

Of course there was sexism and biases etc. I just thought it was funny that you pointed out completely wrong ones.
Richard Nixon on Google: It is not spam if a Google engineer does it
Breathing LED effect with the MSP430 LaunchPad
The legacy media has an emotional connection to their old business, because it is the source of their power and privilege. If they kill the paper edition they would be a website and they don't invite writers from web sites to dinners at the White House or the best Manhattan parties. They don't give Pulitzers to web sites. They don't make movies about courageous whistle blowing web masters. Columbia doesn't do lectures for people who run web sites.

Perhaps most importantly, legacy media knows it is superior to websites, and doesn't feel the need to treat you as a professional colleague or peer publication if you aren't on dead tree. They'll happily just lift your stuff or ignore it. Want to get a job with them? Pfft, you ran a website? Darling, this is the New York Times. We hire journalists here.
Gawker posted password change guidance on its website, but no mention is made of having attempted to directly contact those affected, so I'll assume they didn't. I don't know who's handling this for them.

We have the list. Anyone with a MailChimp account want to be a good samaritan?

Edit: I'll certainly help, but I and my girlfriend, Stella Artois, have been lamenting the embarrassing loss our Jets suffered this evening, so I figured I'd float the idea for vetting first :)

Edit 2: Wow: I know a lot of people on this list. I'm letting them know, and recommend that others scan on behalf of friends and family as well. I've been told that there has not been active communication; wish gawker would confirm either way.
It seems just network maintenance. I can connect to my server now and based on the log, there is no restart event. (after about 1 hour interruption).
$60-80k? Maybe for HTML or "Excel" programmers or something.

Actual developers cost much more than that.