skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd like to see a site that used the proposed karma system. It feels a little complex, though.
This was posted yesterday:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1962554
Give a theorem your name
Also a good point. I'd be surprised if a programmer didn't know what a binary tree was and would certainly consider it a warning sign. I would assume that, given a description, they probably wouldn't be able to code one (or code much of anything). However I'm willing to be proven wrong and if they were able to implement one I would be pleasantly surprised.

Of course, I can only speak for myself. I'm sure many programmers would immediately write them off.
OpenSUSE To Offer A Rolling Release Repo; Calls It “Tumbleweed”
Daring Fireball: Viber
For the purpose of defeating FireSheep, ssd -D works just fine.

OpenVPN in the configuration of the blog post utilizes 443/tcp, which is open at most places, while the ports required for PPTP/L2TP/IPSec could be closed.
There is a difference between words and actions.
Great post. The sort of thing to re-read once a month. Thanks, Mark!
Yes. (That doesn't make it a good one, though).
If you think you can model human activities with logic, or even self interest, well, I don't know what to say. Spend some time away from your models and read a little history. No assessment of history can be prove in the terms you are usedctovthinking in, much less within the lifetimes of the participants. That doesn't mean there is no value in discussing, and even arguing about motives, dreams, and delusions...
I agree with Erik. We tried raising money from the same groups in Portland and ended up getting ripped off by some of the people volunteering in these groups.
this is clearly a prominent endorsement of wikileaks as a legitimate player in the cycle of information dissemination, don't you think?
It wouldn't be much harder to run. You can start and stop the instance using the command line tools, so you could easily wrap the whole lot into a script which started the server and brought up the VPN link, then when youre finished take down the link then the server, all in once command.

The API-based management is what makes cloud providers really special.
This? http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/10/07/60minutes/main6936...
Really personal, deep post. It's awesome how studying entrepreneurship and VC is really about mentoring and life.
From accidents in the early days of nuclear research and extrapolation. An example:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demon_core
That is a great option for people who have a dd-wrt/tomato/etc. compatible wireless device.

The goal of the post was for folks who don't already have a solution setup and to get people familiar with EC2 now that it has a Free Tier and see some of the "not so obvious" things we can do with.
Screenflow is the shizzz
To be (slightly) fair, the assassination policy was created by the Bush administration and merely carried forwards (like so many Bush administration policies). Although I agree he's done zero to stop torture, and backpedaled on his "promises" to close Gitmo and end the war in Iraq.
Remember the goal is to find high quality candidates not shift though all of the incoming resumes. So if you have 2 open positions and 10,000 resumes just stop when you find enough high quality candidates.
Because it's... hacker... news...? :-/

This is what the flag button is for, IMO.
That's all fine and dandy till the users decide to pause, seek to a different spot in the stream or switch streams altogether rapidly.

When a user hits "next" to go to the next movie, it should start playing in less than a second or two. When a user seeks to a new chapter in the movie, the same thing.

Your math works if the users passively sit and consume a stream without much interaction.
Among a number of other places:

http://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/efi01/wikileaks_v...
Chinese is the future.
DuckDuckGo/WOT search partnership
Okay, outgoing ports makes sense. I didn't realize that was the meaning. And with persistent connections I was thinking down the wrong path.
RTZ: Circuit Debug
>I think the same goes for T-Mobile.

Carriers get a cut of the Android Market revenue (10% of the sale), so they do have some interest in seeing you upgrade your phone. However, they also insist on exhaustively testing everything that runs on their networks (or, at least, everything you get from them), which gets expensive. I'd hope the Market revenue would be more than the testing costs, but I don't know.
No DOCTYPE means "old document" to the browser and render it in Quirks Mode: http://www.quirksmode.org/css/quirksmode.html
My ethical equation is simple: "Every act of war directed to the indiscriminate destruction of whole cities or vast areas with their inhabitants is a crime against God and man, which merits firm and unequivocal condemnation."

I surely hope that "the most moral weapon" is an ironic joke.
World's best agile planning tool? That might be a bit much...
A much more readable, FB-free version of this is at his blog, http://carlos.bueno.org/
they're transfering the site to wikileaks.ch
I said something about j in my number theory class after 3 years of EE and my professor looked at me like I was an idiot. He apparently had never heard of j once in his life.
Did you consider "Ubuntu One" synchronization of all your scripts and dotfiles?
Actually I intended that statement more as an hypothesis/conjecture than as a statement of fact.

It does agree with my own introspective observations. If I have seen many different approaches to solving a certain class of problems and I'm presented with a problem which shares features of that class I'm going to have to spend time trying to figure out which of those approaches is most appropriate to the problem and circumstances. If I've only ever seen one approach to that type of problem then the initial phase of the solution space search is simplified and I can immediately begin to try to adapt that one approach to the particular problem. An example might be solving a max flow problem. There are graph based and linear programming based approaches to that problem. If you're only aware of the graph based approaches then you won't lose time trying to figure out which of the two approaches is most appropriate for the problem you're facing.

Of course if you're confronted with hard real world problems then having more knowledge increases the likelihood that you will be able to find a solution. That may not apply however to artificial interview questions in a time constrained context.
They also cut musical records into X-Ray plates.
Yeah, that video infuriated me. We had the host and 2 out of the 3 guests just harping on about how the guy is "anti-american". For basically doing the job they're supposed to be doing. And this was on MSNBC.
The GDP per capita is inflated in both the US and Ireland.

In Germany the GDP is similar in the West and lower in the former East, which will need many more years to reach the level of the former West Germany.
The Euro actually exists since 1998 as an exchange currency and before that it was called the 'Ecu'.

For small business however paying and getting paid in Euro since 2002 is certainly making things easier.
Ask HN: How to minimize transaction costs of conditional pledging?
I've long though about creating a conditional pledging service, where pledges are contingent on a future outcome (e.g. a minimum number of total pledges, or a minimum total pledge amount). If the condition is met, the pledge becomes due; if not, it's released back to the pledger.

Kickstarter.com does a version of this. It accepts your credit card information, but only charges your card if the condition is met.

Unfortunately, (as far as I know) the major credit card companies set limits on how long you can hold onto that information -- so unless your pledge period is about two months or less, that's not a viable solution.

One other method is to accept the pledged funds up front and put them in an escrow account. If the condition is met, the money gets released to the fundraiser; otherwise, it goes back to the pledger.

Conceivably, this method could have a pledge period of several years. The problem is, you now have to pay one set of transaction costs when you accept the payment, and another if you have to return the payment.

Does anyone have suggestions for how to minimize transaction costs using an escrow-type arrangement?

Alternatively, does anyone have any suggestions for a better solution?
Yes.. sadly this will end with regulation- more of it.
Why is the guy thanking the TSA? What could they do and why would he even think they could be involved with something like that?
http://www.sens.org/rc
(Short version: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategies_for_Engineered_Negli... )
Looking at the cost, the EC2 setup is a lot cheaper.
It is worth watching a documentary titled "The Power of Nightmares" which will give some insight into "why Iraq" and "why Israel." And the answers to "why Israel" will explain why the choice of Lieberman (who is frequently titled "the Senator for Israel") for Gore's running mate appeared to be the right choice at that time.

http://www.amazon.com/Power-Nightmares-Various/dp/B001707D98

If your local library has a copy, I strongly recommend watching it.
Bump (YC S09) got to Mongo SV early this morning.
You did say "setting up a system to disperse knowledge and allocate time." That's management talk. Nobody should need to get time "allocated" so he can use the "system" to disperse knowledge. There's your pathology right there: the idea that developers can't or shouldn't manage their own time, not to mention the idea that developers don't know how to teach each other or write documentation without management setting up a system to help them.
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This is python's philosophy. However the ambiguity is due to different representation in other known fields, namely engineering and mathematics.

PS - I agree, (and upvoted) to your comment. I like this approach http://bugs.python.org/issue10562#msg123135
Great. One more way to strike fear and add to the regulatory glut.
I'm pretty sure the Supreme Court has decided that what wikileaks is doing falls under free speech in a number of cases.

For one, there's whistleblower protections.

For another, it's legal to advocate fascism or any other unpopular ideology.

This isn't shouting fire in a crowded theatre. Unless it falls under espionage, it should be free speech.
The headline here on HN fails to convey why Google has an interest in this building.

That it contains offices is of secondary importance. We don't describe Interpol suspects by starting with the characteristic that they are 60% water.

Also, the citation is speculation ("probably"). If the cost of power "precludes" a massive server farm in the building, there wouldn't be multiple massive server farms in the building. Our cost for power in Manhattan is only negligibly different than in Texas.

The quote about rural areas with cheap power has nothing to do with the importance of being at 111 8th Ave for peering.
I understand your main point, I was just addressing the notion that a infrastructure preserving bomb would be of no tacticle use to the US. Strategically it IS of no use tovthe US, but that is another discussion...

That aside, the point of the bomb was not simply to keep land livable for the victors to homestead, but to preserve the infrastructure during a conflict, including large numbers of the civil population not located directly on top of an unfortunately tactical spot. Gotta have someone left to work those still standing oil rigs...
Only if you choose the 3 year reserved micro instance plan. Both the 1yr and 3yr plans are $0.007 per hour, with different one-time fees:

1yr: $54 one-time fee: $0.007 * 24 * 365 = $61.32 + $54 = $115.32 / 12 = $9.61 per month.

3yr: $82 one-time fee: $0.007 * 24 * 365 = $61.32 * 3yr = $183.96 + $82 = $265.96 / 36 = $7.39 per month.

http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/
Yeah, the whole time I was being annoyed with stuff changing even though I didn't ask it to (by clicking, of course!), I was telling myself "They're trying to show me how clicking has ruined my brain! They're going to show me how this is better!"

I never learned how it was better.

I only lasted on that site for about 45 seconds. I saw some "aren't these mouse gestures better than clicking?!?!" examples, but to me they just seemed like roundabout ways of... clicking. Obviously mouse gestures can be more powerful, since a click is basically "execute the action represented by the glyphs underneath my mouse pointer" while a gesture can be "do any number of actions irrespective of where my mouse pointer currently is", but this site didn't seem to take advantage of that.
I bet if you asked a number of Americans which had the larger population of Ireland or Germany, a significant number would not know or would even guess Ireland.

This may be true of the average US citizen. Probably much less true of readers of thestreet.com or any US publication about economics. And certainly not true of folks reading economic publications in the UK, who are well aware of the relative sizes of Ireland and Germany.

Spain, on the other hand, has fifty million people, and is being talked about as possibly the next domino to fall. If that happens, it's much more serious than Greece or Ireland.

PS. Ireland and Massachusetts are roughly the same size; I think anyone can be forgiven for not knowing which is larger.
Parody of that site: http://whatinthefuckhasobamadonesofar.com/
Aleph-null?
Dumpy? I guess you've never been there. A lot of people prefer working in building where the architecture is not 1997 beige suburban office park.
Only married in the "divorce proceedings take a while" sense.
Your vital signs, on camera at MIT
This refers to a Guardian article (http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/blog/2010/dec/03/wikileaks-k... ):

The California-based internet hosting provider that dropped WikiLeaks at 3am GMT on Friday (10PM EST Thursday), Everydns, says it did so to prevent its other 500,000 customers of being affected by the intense cyber attacks targeted at WikiLeaks.

The site this morning said it had "move[d] to Switzerland", announcing a new domain name -- wikileaks.ch, with the Swiss suffix. However, the new address still only points to an IP address, suggesting WikiLeaks has been unable to quickly find a new hosting provider.

I'm having a hard time seeing how the DDoS attack could affect the DNS provider in any appreciable way.
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Not planes, quadrotors http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvRTALJp8DM
Yes, you would think that, since you're trying to jam your models on top of history and then rewriting whatever is necessary to make it fit. Your process produces bad results. However, that is not because history is impossible to analyze, it is because you are doing it wrong. Examining history with open eyes and looking to actions over words is very educational, but requires you to drop a lot of preconceived notions and current political fads, which, I'm afraid, your point fell squarely into. (In fact if you really want to understand it you need to learn about the political fads of the relevant time as well, which turns out to be pretty decent inoculation against the fads of today.)

You may considering starting with the history of Europe, especially around the time of the domination of the Church. Most people are pretty dispassionate about it now, so we can actually have decent discussions without too much interference from modern political fads, we have a lot of information about it, and it provides clear examples of both the religious and secular authorities claiming their actions are about one thing (the will of God or the various rights of the secular authorities) when in fact the correct way to understand the situation is as a power struggle between the two with almost no real ethical concerns about their stated goals from either side. Without that understanding the period makes no sense and I can see why you'd claim history is some sort of weird nonsensical mess, but it really isn't that complicated, just immensely full of details. Actions, actions, actions.
PG pointed in that direction with his essay "The Submarine" and how PR firms have a total stranglehold on news media. With the huge consolidation in the media, and the main news sources all controlled by the same few companies, it makes sense why the big companies don't want to rock the boat.

http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html
When engineers debug circuits, especially sensitive analog ones, they can sometime lose their minds tracking down a problem.

In fact, when I worked on debugging a circuit that was suppose to measure currents of less than 1pA (10^-12), the setup was so sensitive that the circuit would change it's output if someone walked within 5 feet of the setup.

Everyone take two steps back!
I just got a tour of the offices last week. For those of you who do not know, this is mostly the DoubleClick crew. A lot of the people working there originally worked for DoubleClick and then became part of Google when Google bought DoubleClick. This is also how Google ended up with a New York office.

To the commenter who said this is a great sign for the New York tech scene, I guess I agree, but this needs to be seen as a rebound from a low point. After all, there was a point back in the 90s when DoubleClick seemed a dominant power, and at that time New York seemed like the natural center of the advertising industry, and it seemed like New York's dominance of advertising would last forever -- all of which later was called in question.

The office has a lot of the amenities that I guess you would associate with a modern high tech company -- there is a game room with pool tables and foos ball and ping pong, there is some nice design elements, there is a little museum of old computers in one of the hallways, people ride down the hallways on scoot rides, there are bunch of little coffee shops where everything is free, and there is a room you can go and get a massage.

For all that, though, I agree with the commenter who said the place is a little dumpy. I'm surprised this place is worth $1.9 billion - I'm always a little surprised at how expensive New York real estate is.
Oh man! I'm so out of the loop! Was traveling yesterday - sorry!
How long will Google's magic last?
Reddit is awesome for that, BTW, especially as it's sorta categorized and you can add/remove subreddits depending on your interests.
Yeah, obviously AWS has access to your traffic and host data if they choose to inspect it, but I wasn't trying to suggest it was a perfect secrecy situation (nor that thats needed). I'm inclined to trust amzn here over most providers, they have a bigger reputation to protect than most VPN hosts, and their scale and focus makes provider level intrusion or consumer focused tracking less likely.
I guess it's useful if you're disabled. Otherwise this is a completely silly idea. We've mastered right clicking, left clicking, and double clicking. Why drop that channel of information? The last thing we need to is a novel way of decreasing the amount of bandwidth from the user to the computer. It's already the most restricted path.
This looks like a great way to get started with EC2, VPN or no. I've been thinking about it, but one thing still puzzles me. You choose an AMI, but does Amazon effectively create an EBS instance for you and populate it with a copy of the AMI?

I don't see any mention of an EBS instance being created, so I'm not quite sure how you can write to the filesystem at all. I'm sure I'm missing something here, but I'm not quite sure what. Thoughts?
Indeed, the use of aleph for transfinite numbers seems to be the only use of the Hebrew alphabet in the sciences that I know.

Looking at it, it seems like it would be rather hard to introduce. Any symbol which isn't already a bit too close to a misdrawn version of a Greek or Roman letter (I see three letters which look like misdrawn πs) is pretty hard to draw without practice.
Three Big Lies (software/game development)
Okay. Well there's a few things. First, there's a debate over whether serif fonts are more readable than sans-serif, but I think that's all subjective.

Assuming you think helvetica is a good font for website content (a lot of people don't think it is), helvetica nueue (one of its more-expensive variants) was made as a font for featured content (titles, logos, etc) and was never meant to be readable at small sizes.

Besides just looking strange, the eye can't read it as fast.
To me, "lifestyle business" does represent a certain subset of businesses, but tends to be used, as you said, for any company that is not raising money to go for the big exit.

In my opinion, "lifestyle business" implies that the business is done to generate cash in a regular manner with little input. The business itself doesn't matter so much in the end and the main goal is to sustain the revenues rather than necessarily expanding the business. This is exactly what "The 4-hour Work Week" is talking about. Real-estate investments can be like this as well.

On the other hand, you have bootstrapped businesses like 37signals, GitHub or plain web/design agencies which tend to be wrongly lumped into this category. If these were lifestyle businesses, then any store owner, plumber, contractor would have a lifestyle business as well.

On an unrelated note, it seems very premature to put Path.com in the same category as Twitter and Facebook.
"The headline here on HN fails to convey why Google has an interest in this building"

Well, that's what the article being linked to is for :)
Reminds me of this shirt:

http://www.makertees.com/product/practice-hacking/

Maybe this could be the official emblem of this new breed.
That she was "bored" by the exercise doesn't necessarily mean that she doesn't share you and your brother's bold, hard-driving, searingly intense curiosity about the world, and the nature of our ability to infer knowledge about it.

It might, instead, have had something do with the fact that the point you guys were trying to make was rather trivial.
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Writing literature essays can be tough. This is especially true when writing the Merchant of Venice essay. However, if the play is read thoroughly and understood well, students will be able to write an effective Merchant of Venice essay.
I don't understand. This is just actioning on mouse over. I was imagining that there was going to be some revolutuionary new site design/structure to accomdate this, but no. It's just a normal (albeit flash) website with mouseovers. And it's fu*king annoying. Stuff keeps popping up when you don't want it to. There's a reason links are clicked, not wafted over.
With extreme irregularity (i.e. when it suits him) and a disingenuous tendency to hide behind "I'm just a comedian" as soon as anyone calls him on it.
That's pretty much exactly right - the variance of the von mises distribution is essentially the length of the average vector.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Von_Mises_distribution
The real parts of Ireland consisted of US companies tax havening there to avoid paying tax on their sales in the UK and Germany. And a housing boom that meant that more new houses were built than the country actually has people for!

The traditional solution for Ireland will still work - every body between the ages of 20-40 simply leave the country. With EU passports they can work in other countries even if the US doesn't decide to let them all move there this time.
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You might be able to signup for a new account and get another free year.... if the deal is still on by then.
Here's a description of a 2006 DDoS attack against EveryNET: http://securitywatch.eweek.com/exploits_and_attacks/everydns...

Attacking techniques have gotten better since then, and botnets have gotten bigger.
Data structures and algorithms are the foundation. If I ever find myself unable to write a list or a tree or a sort, I'd better be doing a different job.