skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In most of California and other hip areas of the country it is considered the height of wit to refer to people who support the tea party movement by puerile grade school insults ("teabaggers" - implying that they have something to do with scrotums). It is also assumed that anyone who deviates from the prevailing left-wing fashion must be unintelligent.

It is very rare that a supporter of the tea parties actually read any of these descriptions, since fashionable leftists primarily use such insults to signal to each other how enlightened they are. Referring to supporters of the tea party as "tea baggers" gets you +1 left-wing cred points.

Unfortunately, I live in California and frequent hacker news, so I'm the rare person who is insulted on quite a regular basis by my peers who assume I will think more highly of them for peppering such insults throughout non-political conversations (Hey, a satirical article on Haskell! Oh look, another person calling me an idiot for giving a shit about the size of the federal budget and wanting to do something about it before we go bankrupt.)
Coming soon: The ecofriendly WWF car that doesn't drive.
You might need a lot more than 6 months. But, like my wife always tells me, you don't fail as an entrepreneur until you quit. And the ride is sure worth it. Life is short.
Back in the late 1960s, and early 1970s, AT&T built a series of nuke resistant bunkers. The typical specs were concrete walls 36" thick, self contained turbine generators, water and air purification, plus rations to last up to 6 months. Some of those facilities are still around and operating (including one not far from me). I would expect that the switching gear of todays vintage takes up much less space and power than it did in 1971. Back then the interconnections were via long-distance coxial cable and microwave. Today there are fiber huts adjacent to the bunker.

I wonder what AT&T uses all that extra floor space for now.
I have been in a similar situation before. I offered to pay 3 months rent ahead, along with the security deposit. The landlord countered back and we agreed to sign a six month lease with the entire six months paid in advance. Once I made it through the first six months he was agreeable to let me extend for one year. But by this time I had a job so there was little to worry about. In talking with him though he would have let me extend either way since I had been up front with him and showed I was capable of making payments. I also had a good rental history and good credit so that helped significantly I believe. I have had friends though that had to get a cosigner (parent) to sign along with them.

Just be upfront with the landlord and explain the situation clearly. In my case I went in showing bank statements and my ability to pay for a year upfront if needed. It definitely helped his comfort level. One thing I also found is you will have an easier time with an individual landlord rather than some corporate management company.
Is there an avenue for the prosecutor to claim the judge is hostile to the government's side, and request a different judge? Or is his only choice to slog through the "uphill battle", and perhaps appeal the decision at the end?

I don't think modifying hardware you've purchased should be illegal, but it does seem odd to me that a judge can show that much emotion and still be considered a fair judge of an open case.
I tried those 5 methods and liked some of the features, but I prefer the methodology I've developed over time for using the page as it is. And I prefer the current format. Eyes are faster than clicks.
What was with the focus on events that happened at specific dates? I understand the importance of knowing when events happened relative to each other, but memorizing dates seems a bit much. Perhaps the lack of easy access to reference materials made that kind of knowledge more important.
newsrob is the best thing ever. I read on public transit where I have typically 3G -- but all of the content is already local. That means that even when I pass through the black hole of Sunnyvale, I can read without interruption.

I also have it sync up via wifi when I'm sleeping and what-not. I run out the door with all of the content ready.
I can vouch for getting together with Louis. He and I have done coffee a couple of times now, and he's got a great perspective on everything from funding to really in-depth technical issues.
I don't think he will listen to anyone nor does he have a spine based on previous behavior. Better off hoping there is a leak about him to make him resign in utter shame.
Best of luck, very envious over here!

Do you have a blog?
Really, calling out a site as ugly via one packed top to bottom with a ridiculous zoo of disjointed elements: http://i.imgur.com/0SUYk.png

HN is the pinnacle of beauty compared to that mess. Boy, I sound offended, but I'm just struck by the obliviousness of the author.
I understand the selection principle, but do we realistically think that's what's happening? Are there really lots of people recording detailed, insightful, coherent, highly varied, but wrong theories of the future that we are rejecting? Why would I have to imagine it if it were really going on?
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You are focusing on the wrong items. You keep on going back to your weakness in math which in reality only disqualifies you from a select handful of jobs in development. I don't know the specific segment that your are targeting but from your mentioning django I am going to assume web. While math skills are never a detriment that are really not that valuable in web. Understanding business logic and creativity trump math and raw CS a thousand fold. You need to accentuate the fact that you are creative (if you are) and that you can contribute real solutions to real problems or envision new markets that can be pursued via technology. These are the things that you need to highlight in an interview not that you can code or that you are poor in math. Coding is a small portion of a good developers toolkit.
It's not even September!
Lessons in my laundry
GHC Haskell actually supports mutually recursive generic container types, but you must enable type class system extensions which make type checking undecidable.
Would anyone else like sentiment controls in google's search tools sidebar? Three settings I'd use would be:
• Show more results about which people talk positively
• Show more results about which people talk negatively
• Show results which generate strong opinions, both positive and negative

Alternatively, a "show sentiment for this search" which added a small indicator next to the search results might do the trick. (Just to be clear, I'm not proposing adjusting the ranking of pages based on the sentiment on the page itself, interesting though that might be, but rather based on the sentiment in the text surrounding links to that page.)

From Google's blog:
As it turns out, Google has a world-class sentiment analysis system (Large-Scale Sentiment Analysis for News and Blogs). But if we demoted web pages that have negative comments against them, you might not be able to find information about many elected officials, not to mention a lot of important but controversial concepts. So far we have not found an effective way to significantly improve search using sentiment analysis. Of course, we will continue trying.
See, other places, people would ignore the submission rather than focusing the conversation on the post. The effort required to rant about a humor piece on HN is considerably than the effort it takes to glance past the obvious satirically titled post.
Chromium is open source - which makes me suspicious of claims that the browser is nefariously tracking your every move without pointing to code.

Here's a search for the 'client_id' that the author was afraid of:
http://codesearch.google.com/codesearch?as_q=client_id&v...

It looks like a likely possibility is that the author is syncing his profile to google - in which case it makes sense that some ID needs to be stored in order to figure out which sync updates are coming from which browser.
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We compensate very well, paying market rates or above for real talent. You may choose to substitute some equity for salary, but that is not mandatory.

We are looking for someone who:

- Has experience building complex web apps (think Facebook) and in PHP*
- Has experience with AJAX/HTML
- Is somewhat familiar with the LAMP stack ("full stack") and doing web app deployment to live servers.

*Though PHP doesn't need to be your favorite language; I’m looking at you Python/RoR evangelists!

A little about us: we are a small startup that is highly profitable. We bootstrapped our way to profitability by using minimum money and time (8 months). We are expanding to take on larger challenges and need a great programmer to work with us.

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Stop pretending Dons. It is quite amusing that you are voted up 5 times for such a content-less comment yet you and your associates are powerless to downvote the article.
Agreed, offline access is very useful, but lack of it doesn't make the app pointless
They seemed to say that such an option was still on the table.
I'm pretty excited about this as I've been wanting an official app for awhile now. Every android RSS app I've tried left a lot to be desired. I've also noticed that (with the tiny exception of NewsRob), android RSS apps have pretty ineffective UIs.

This app looks great and has worked excellent so far. RSS on android just became a whole lot better with this release.
"In this decentralised world, who can be trusted?"

Thats a good question. An equally good question is "In this centralized world, who can be trusted?"
I hope this is one step closer to having PDF documents die in the most horrible twisted way possible, I hate it with every essence of my being.

Not for "green" reason but for bloat reasons and having the updater pop up at work which seems like every day.
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Depending on how thorough you want to be, don't forget evercookies

http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2010/09/evercookies.ht...

http://arstechnica.com/security/news/2010/10/it-is-possible-...
What do you mean by now? His position hasn't changed as far as I can tell.
I'd happily join you, but if I weren't already convinced the format will go nowhere, I'd assume it this whole campaign was a publicity stunt on the part of the WWF.
I don't think you were referring to these, but there are actually a few windowless, fortified concrete skyscrapers in New York that were built as telephone switching centers. Here's one in Lower Manhattan that is 29 stories:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/33_Thomas_Street

They were likewise designed to withstand nuclear fallout. Because telephone switching equipment has shrunken over the years they now rent out some of the floor space as a hosted ultrasecure datacenter.
I am 41 with a product to be launched soon. It is never too late.
If only we had courts and judges to handle this sort of thing! The government could file a complaint, a team of legal experts could take a look at the evidence, Wikileaks could present materials and arguments in their defense, and a final decision could be made. If Wikileaks' content was ruled illegal, then this court could send Amazon a letter asking them to remove the content. Amazon could, of course, appeal. Once the appeals process was exhausted, then they could be compelled to remove the offending material. (Not all of it, of course; only the material that the court deems "illegal", whatever that means.)

The whole process could be open and transparent, and nobody would have any grounds to complain or yell "conspiracy!"

Oh yeah, but they're terrorists, so they don't deserve freedom. Much better to punish them in private, so nobody knows what is and is not illegal. Then when the government doesn't like you, they can take whatever action they want against you, with no oversight! That would be a much better system! Potatolicious, you could say.
I'd go over to SEOMoz to see which consultants they recommend.
I think that can be applied to technologies that aren't open -- and it can be a property of the technology itself.

In fact, one entire category of technology that's overlooked right now is sensors. Besides sound (mic) and light (camera), accelerometers and magnetometers are already there. Some other detectors of "state" that make sense:

Pressure (think of being able to predict rain)
Humidity/Temperature (think of an environment controller)
Directional Microphone (4): Conferencing, noise cancellation, etc.
aristidb, it is an algorithm, not a blacklist. The rankings for hundreds of websites change as a result of this new algorithm.
I'll have my associates look into this matter.
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I like the hacker news android app, which is the app I use the most. Since I don't talk on the phone much, it's arguable that I spend $1500 a year just to read hacker news on the go...
"At least, if not better." The context disambiguates the direction of magnitude.
This is some of the best and most simplistic advertising and pr I've seen in a while. I've heard of mix panel probably 50 times but this was the first time I clicked through your website to see what you guys are all about.

Nice product by the way.
There is also cperciva's http://www.daemonology.net/hn-daily/
I know we all assume that because something seems obvious that people must have though of it, but history has shown that it isn't the case. It could be simply that they haven't though of it.

Maybe send them a email?

As for the visibility of Wikileaks, I think that what matters is that journalists get the files. That's how most people hear of them. So it wouldn't really matter if they were released in a distributed P2P fashion, as long as the files are easy to find and recognize (f.ex. Wikileaks-01-01-2010-003.PGP or whatever).
I get the feeling these can do things Random Access Lists can't (I haven't experimented yet, but I think trellises can support both data and code).
Doesn't this delete bookmarks, too? I have a file called "bookmarks" in the directory that is deleted by the script.
Does she have a tech blog or portfolio site?
is it illegal, did for example the nytimes violate any laws? it would be good if someone expands on this.
The judge's emotion was regarding questionable conduct by the prosecution. Not only will that not raise a question of recusal, it's expected.
This smells an awful lot like a story planted by the telcoms that want to stop net neutrality.

Does anyone honestly believe that, were Comcast or Verizon to start metering internet access, no competitor would show up to steal away all their business with an all-you-can-eat plan?

History says otherwise.
Uh don't use Adobe. Problem solved. "I hate Fords, when are we going to stop using cars."
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Of all the silliness. There is already a "no printing" flag in PDF.

Bit position 3 of the 'P' key in the standard encryption dictionary. Page 61 of http://www.adobe.com/content/dam/Adobe/en/devnet/pdf/pdfs/PD...

On OS X when you print to PDF you can adjust the security options to forbid printing.

(Um, not that I've made modified version of xpdf or anything… but I had a legal right to print that document and DMCA wasn't dreamt of yet.)
I use Blogger. It has customizable CSS, lets you use custom domains, and scaling is never a worry. All for free. I can't for the life of me figure out why someone would pay for blogging software or hosting.
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This is kind of a dumb idea, even on paper (pardon the pun). Deliberately crippling print functionality is a little gimmicky, despite the good intentions of the WWF.
I for one would buy a micro plan if its only limit was 1 collaborator, but for now I will stick to bitbucket (kiln is free for 1 collaborator in case anyone didn't know through the student and startup edition).
I read your comments before reading the article, and fully expected to loathe the article. I found it well-written and amusing. I for one am pleased that it ranks highly on Hacker News.
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True, but it does create a lot of waste.
Does the development of a social network require bullying?
I love Portland and Oregon (grew up there, went to OSU), ...

That points out one of the problems the Portland area has. Most states the size of Oregon split their funding between two major state universities and a number of smaller ones. Oregon splits the bulk of the funding between OSU, UO, and PSU. The strongest tech school is OSU - 80 miles from Portland. PSU is OK, but hardly a talent feed for local startups. OGI had a decent little CS program, but when it folded I don't think PSU's status came up much.

...but this is a waste of time and money.

I hope this pans out, but the ideas vs. execution rule applies to government initiatives as well. The City of Portland has a terrible track record for its own IT projects, so I don't have a lot of faith that they can lead private industry where they themselves have failed.

The biggest thing I'm afraid of is that it will be something like the Portland Seed Fund, which claimed to be YCombinator like, but is really a flawed effort:
http://siliconflorist.com/2010/10/04/portland-seed-fund-y-co...
Wherein I help you get a good job http://www.aaronboodman.com/2010/10/wherein-i-help-you-get-g...
Also, Standard ML. I learned Standard ML and created a couple toy systems in it before becoming utterly frustrated with the insane state of the "standard" library[1] and fleeing to Haskell. I briefly considered OCaml, but of the MLish languages it seemed to me that OCaml had the ugliest syntax, so I chose Haskell instead. Dumb reason to choose a language, probably, but I absolutely adore Haskell.

...and I have spent an entire weekend trying to figure out how to describe within Haskell's type system something that is trivial in scheme[2] !

[1] In particular, there's a lot that's not in the SML spec that most people want in a stdlib, and every compiler's implementation is quite different. This means once you decide to use SML/NJ, if someone else has written a library you need, but for MLton, you're just up the creek. Perhaps this also happens with resp. GHC and Hugs, but I haven't found it to be nearly as much of a problem.

[2] If you care: can I create a function that takes as its arguments another function and a list, and applies the elements of the list as arguments to the function? E.g., listApply (+) [1,2] should return 3. In scheme, assuming that you already have curried functions, this is trivial. In Haskell, it's exceedingly difficult. Consider: the approach in scheme, iterative partial applications, absolutely won't work in Haskell, since the types won't match: (+) has type (Num t) => t -> t -> t, but (+1) is (Num t) => t -> t.

It turns out it's possible either with explicit isorecursive types (and some lifting functions) or using Template Haskell. For posterity, I posted both solutions on this old StackOverflow question I found when looking at how others had handled the same problem (viz., they hadn't, generally):

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3775446/passing-list-elem...
Making the message IDs equal to the byte offset of the message in the history of all messages for the topic/partition is a neat trick to avoid indexing overhead.

"Any software problem can be solved by adding another layer of indirection. Except, of course, the problem of too much indirection." - Steve Bellovin of AT&T Labs
I downloaded the app and tried it out. They're saving files as regular PDFs with a .wwf extension. This causes the files to open in their app, but if you rename the file to .pdf you can open it in other PDF viewing apps just fine. They set a password on the PDF to restrict re-saving or printing.

Dumping the strings on their binary turns up genRandStringLength:, so I'm guessing they're generating a string of random characters and setting that as the password on the PDF.

They're just shipping a modified version of Skim (http://skim-app.sourceforge.net) embedded inside their own app to do the PDF viewing.
You can find places in SF with short leases if you look hard enough, ranging from even 1-3 months. When moving into such a situation about a month ago, all it took was having my credit report, lease agreement and a verbal pledge that I would have no trouble paying the rent for at least the term of the lease. I agree that you should seek out an individual landlord, be up front, and have sufficient documentation to prove your commitment.
Ruby isn't, but Rails is.

http://www.google.com/trends?q=ruby+on+rails&ctab=0&...
That building looks like something right out of blade runner.
Remote? It's located in (under) Stockholm.
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I found the Tintin moon rocket in the conference room quite awesome ;p
The South American airlines have even worse service than the US discounters. I was on both LAN Chile and Star Peru earlier this year in Peru... Mysterious delays abound with virtually no information...
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It looks like 2000 of those bunkers were sold back in 2002 for $25,000 each.

http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/09/11/230203

Here's a map with links to pictures of 5 of the nuclear hardened sites.

http://coldwar-c4i.net/ATT_Project/index.html
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Why isn't Google Voice a good example of a good useful app? I wouldn't mind GV at all. Neither would I mind Grooveshark, for instance.
I believe it's prima donna. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prima_donna

Full disclosure: I'm not employed as a programmer, but I do work a technical job in information security. I've gone through the technical interview, so I feel like I am somewhat qualified to comment.

I see that you keep commenting "I can code." Do you have an impressive portfolio of work on your GitHub? Have you contributed to open source projects?

You say you have an Anthropology degree. You don't have a formal education in computer science, and you don't have professional programming experience. If you haven't contributed to open source projects, how can a potential employer distinguish you from someone who just picked up HTML for Dummies and wants to write Ruby on Rails apps?

It's a tough economy, but there are many jobs--even junior positions--out there. Craigslist or elance jobs are a great way to build your portfolio.

Drive means a lot. Writing a personalized cover letter to each potential employer with your resume AND PORTFOLIO is a great way to move further in each opportunity. Express interest.

I usually dislike interviewing people because I love the way my team works already. If you're working on a team that really gets along, bringing in a new, inexperienced hand is a cut out of their potential salary and a hit to their working order.

So you need to show that you are driven, bright and friendly, just like any employer worth working for will already be.

I know my thoughts might have been a little bit scattered, but seriously: write code, write personalized and interested cover letter with your resume hilighting your technical strengths and good luck. The jobs are out there!

edit: One last thing. Networking with people you already know is great. I know you said this is a throwaway account, but keep an ear out for HN jobs near you. I'm sure that if you're coding, you probably hang out somewhere on the Internet--whether it's forums or IRC, if you know people working in the industry well you might ask them if they know of open positions in your area. A letter of recommendation from someone in the industry who knows your work well can be very helpful in securing an interview.
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