skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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Perhaps in relation to this patent (and a host of others, I'm sure)...

METHOD FOR CREATING A PEER-TO-PEER IMMEDIATE MESSAGING SOLUTION WITHOUT USING AN INSTANT MESSAGING SERVER

http://www.google.com/patents/about?id=RRaUAAAAEBAJ
Did you not like the post or the research in the article it's linking? The article is a link-bait with a title that tries to grab attention. This is typical, even The Economist does it.

However, I find the basic idea that "women may be perceived as competent but unlikable or as likable but incompetent" in the workplace to be completely true. This idea does not carry over to other underrepresented groups, I think. For example, would you say there is a similar double whammy for black people?
The Amazon Web Services team is hiring for on-site positions in the US (Washington State and Virginia), Ireland, Japan, Luxembourg, Singapore, the UK, and South Africa (Cape Town).

More info at http://aws.amazon.com/jobs (tedious search-based UI) or http://media.amazonwebservices.com/jobs/all_aws_jobs.html (all 260 or so jobs on one page albeit with poor styling).
Surprise - The world's top social sites by # of users.
Yes, posted on HN about 5 days ago. Our main user group is doctors and medical students (or any healthcare professionals who are familiar with little bit of medicine).

Take a look at iMedicalApps review for detailed analysis (good and bad) : http://www.imedicalapps.com/2010/11/prognosis-your-diagnosis...
On this note, are there any other recommended platforms?
At least in France, where I help organize the Founder Institute, we have plenty of angels, who will invest as little as 25K€.

The difference with the US is that culturally, money and success is not as accepted as in Silicon Valley, so angels tend to hide. They don't put themselves up front and center as much as in Silicon Valley, but they are around to be found.
You can do an awful, awful lot for your business by taking this idea one or two iterations further:

1) Identify data source

2) Extract value from data source

3) Spit out templated content pieces extracted from data source

4) Farm out templated articles to freelancers for thickening up, Demand Media style

My client from this summer who paid me to do it for the average value of particular college degrees is launching sometime in the next week or so. I'll happily play show-and-tell with the non-proprietary parts if folks want, after it launches.
From what I've heard, that algorithm is essentially

if($customer->has_paid && $review->score < 4) {
delete_review();
}
Yeah, I agree! All I took away from the analogy was "you had in mind one thing that you wanted to do, accidentally did the other thing, and suffered for it."
I like this ongoing thread. This should be on HN every month....
agreed it would take a lot of organization. this is the conspiracy we're talking about though, they're good at stuff like that!

> what if their operations were leaked invalidating their previous lies?

their goal with this strategy is to devalue leaked information, so this would potentially work to their advantage moving forward. "you can't trust any of this leaked data. don't you know there's a secret bipartisan private/public conspiracy spending $5B a year to corrupt the data?"

at some point it gets complex enough that everybody's head explodes
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If everything is edge-cached a local hubs (typically how a CDN works) then it should be pretty sturdy against a DDoS attack - after the first few waves of attacks the DDoS will just be hitting static content served up by the closest end-point to each individual ping to the server - the aggregate of the attack won't impact any of the dynamic servers if done right.

That being said, I wouldn't want to pay the bandwidth bill for the CDN :p
So with your logic, we shouldn't buy a house at all because we'll probably lose our job and won't be able to afford it anyway, regardless of the size.

Should people who signed ridiculous deals be blamed? Absolutely, but that's not the majority of cases.
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Who was the engineer at Google who was granted $6mm worth of stock?
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1291375...
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Oh, I forgot to mention that they did use a hash to generate the key, which means that it is not vulnerable to the related-key attacks.

"This is interesting. Have you contacted them with your findings? "

Yes, I did. I began with David LeBlanc's blog's contact page, and ended up starting an email thread about it. I know they know about it even long before.

"How prevalent are multi-stream docs?"

Pretty much all encrypted docs are multi-stream. And it is easy to read the streams on Windows, just use the OLE compound storage API.
I'm objecting to the article rather than the research, and I agree that the 'double-bind' described does ring true. What I'm objecting to is the conclusion that women should conform to a stereotype in order to be accepted in the workplace.

I'm not saying that the situation is the same for every underrepresented group; I'm saying that if the article were to advise any other underrepresented group in a similar way it would be denounced as discriminatory.

EDIT: I have no idea why parent is being downvoted. He/she raises valid questions.
Got it. Fixed. Thanks for pointing out
Anyone able to attain a copy of the lawsuit?

This is what the article links to: http://cas-ncr-nter03.cas-satj.gc.ca/IndexingQueries/infp_RE...

I doubt this lawsuit has any real substance. Other than RIM dragging Kik through the equivalent of a legal hell, there doesn't seem to be much there.
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The defensibility part is what raises red flags for me, I wonder why Groupon would sell right now when they seem to be on a twitter or facebook style trajectory. It would seem like even the board of Groupon may see some real risk in their ability to maintain market share so might see now as the right time to exit.
I've been doing that for a long time, combined with ShiftIt and Spaces at 1920*1200, with 2 open applications on each space, each taking 960x1200px. (usually: browser+textmate, logs+doc, im+itunes).

I'd like to get a 2048px wide screen, but can't afford it right now.

This approach gives you some of the convenience of a tiling WM with the easeness of use you expect from OSX (cmd+num for tabs in applications, cmd+alt+cursor keys to tile, ctrl+cursor to move between spaces, not forgetting cmd+tab and exposé).
Because once you enter the mode of acquiring your way into new products, it's hard to shake it; it distorts the internal incentive structure.
That's a conventional way of looking at it, but what if that big people-network is exactly why Google wants Groupon? Google has been critisized for not having good support or any kind of retail presence and this could be a way to shore up their weakness in this area.
~515M is Facebook's active monthly number, I'm sure the registered users number (which she uses to measure every other site on the list) would be much, much higher.
Thanks - not sure why my link is messed up.
R is great at 100s of thousands but fails miserably at millions. This seems especially true for clustering and regression. With the explosion of data collection, tools have to be able to easily take in and clean millions of records quickly.

Does anybody have experience with Orange or RapidMiner?
You can get staggering productivity wins by automating enough of the right 1, 5, 15 minute tasks, especially when you consider how terrible people's schedulers are. If your computer lost an hour of productive work every time it context switched, you'd figure out ways to eliminate it's list of small recurring chores, too. Happily, your computer has very, very efficient context switching relative to you.

I've been keeping a running count of time spent on various activities this month, for giggles. Total support time for BCC in the last two weeks: eight minutes. The machine has been humming so efficiently I burned some time yesterday just to check that the whole thing hadn't been hit with a meteor or something.
That's already two quite big assumptions. There might be other means of mutation than imperfect copying or no mutation at all. I also wouldn't rule out that there couldn't exist a ecosystem with no involuntary death. Space is a big and weird place.
Not only that but it would be interesting to see natural selection processes evolving using something other than what's familiar to us (DNA). If something like this were truly separate from us, wouldn't it have evolved its own genetic system (or equivalent) as well?
I am another (UK based referrer) and I was attracted to the model which seems innovative. It will not suit everyone but for those who have an idea and want both funding and support it seems like an interesting approach.

All of the referrers are on the look out for projects but also welcome contact from those with the right sorts of ideas at the right stages of development.
This is definitely a problem with R, although the biggest problem IMO is that a lot of libraries aren't multicore capable. Fixing the memory problem was just a matter of adding lots of ram into our workstation, we can't fix the "can't use more than one core at a time" problem as easily.
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We need experienced iPhone and Android developers to help us improve the FaceCash (http://www.facecash.com) apps. Remote is OK if you're in the Bay Area and can visit our office as needed. Part-time is also OK. Apply at:

http://www.thinkcomputer.com/corporate/jobs/index.html
Background:

0) Kik is like cross-platform BBM for Blackberry, Android, and iOS users.

1) RIM had previously removed Kik from the Blackberry “App World” store.

2) Then two weeks later, they revoked Kik’s developer keys and crippled existing Kik installs by disabling Push support. This meant Blackberry Kik users (reportedly over a million of them) would start getting Kik messages up to an hour late. Link / discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1935093

⁂

A week ago, we discussed the possibility of a lawsuit. Discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1935182

⁂

Strikes me as evil and, as some of you are saying, a bad move politically for their platform. Even if only those 1,000,000 Kik on BB users care, and most BB users don’t, we developers generally give a shit, because this seems grossly uncalled for and anticompetitive.
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The Berkeley Pit (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley_Pit) is similarly fantasy-novel in its toxicity. Indeed, it is the result of the works of men, inadvertently poisoning the land in their search for buried riches.

It dissolves the geese that land on it, but they still found life in it not too long ago.
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We make surveys for market research; not collectible trading cards. We'd like someone with Python and Javascript web development skills to join us for a full-time position in our downtown Portland office.

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> * (discounting viruses, which are oddities that probably arose from cellular life)

This is a general post, not intended at you specifically, but you imply that viruses are living, so I feel the need to throw this out there: I think the key reason the exception has to be made for viruses here is that viruses simply aren't alive. They have no biological processes, they don't reproduce, don't eat, don't breathe, don't create or consume energy, etc. A virus is really nothing more than a piece of data in a container. One of the traditional arguments is that they do reproduce, they just do it via a living cell, but to that I say: does a CD reproduce when a human copies it?

I think that in a couple decades, we'll look back on viruses being defined as living organisms and wonder what we were thinking.
Normally, a retailer pays a wholesaler or producer money to get goods, then re-sells them to end users.

Produces set the price, and retail outlets, with a markup, come up with a business strategy ot move that inventory to their customers.

Now - look at Wal-mart. They're big enough that they can go back to the producers and say "Hey, by the way, you're going to knock 1% off the price this year or we're going to drop you - and we can say that because YOU need US."

Same deal here.
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So the industry is "wide open" but if you fail you can be arrested? I'm not sure there are many convincing ideas to take a shot at Japan until the laws change.
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Suing Waterloo students is also not how to build rapport with the massive number of co-op students they hire every term.
It would seem that the sales people at Groupon become less valuable as Groupon clones and Woot-type sites gain traction. As they become more popular among consumers wouldn't businesses start clamoring to get listed, negating the advantage of the skilled deal negotiators? Although every business would want to be on the largest site, which would be Groupon.

Would buying Groupon and running it independently like Zappos and Woot for Amazon somehow keep Google out of the eyes of regulators in a way starting a clone wouldn't?
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There's a recent story in the New York Times about this, and a business called DecorMyEyes: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/28/business/28borker.html
Love this, not because of the list, but because the author is asking for help instead of assuming they know everything, unlike many others I've seen with similar pieces.
Emacs really feels like an IDE. But not just some normal IDE, one that I can hand customize the shit out of to do what I want it to _easily_ (which is important).

If vim had a SLIME like frontend I may not have switched in the first place, but now that I know emacs I don't think I would go back to full-time vim.

Vim is still great for quick change editing due to it's awesome load time and superior default keybindings.
This might be stupid/crazy, but might it make sense to have a DNS for phone numbers? Why not have 6464680751.cell resolve to a public IP address of my phone? If another phone wants to send it a text message or make a phone call, could it just use the variety of protocols on top of IP?
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You can drag the leftmost column wider to get a more traditional list.
Ah, then what about prions?
I tried to do almost exactly what you're describing about a year ago -- scraping structured data about mutual funds and constructing articles about each fund, which I submitted to Associated Content.

Unfortunately, I should have spent more time "thickening them up" -- after the first half dozen or so, AC began rejecting them for being too similar to each other.

But yeah, the potential is definitely there.
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You know plinkplonk, you make some fine points there†. What would you feel about the following - how about stating upfront your lack of intention to insult?

"I'm not criticizing you personally but, yada yada yada"

†this being and polite malarky is a cinch, wish I'd known sooner
thx for the fixes, tero. :)
Actually the screen is IPS. 1024x600 resolution.
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You seem to think the definition of life is going to get sharper in the future. I'd say all signs point towards it getting a lot fuzzier instead; what will die is the idea that it is a binary yes/no instead of yet another continuum. Is a sufficiently advanced AI alive? Well, some yes, some no.
OkCupid still has a bunch of problems. Less experienced men don't get any replies, experienced men get replies but often struggle to find interesting women and women, especially attractive ones get so many messages (many of them really disturbing) that they just can't keep up with them. In fact, a very attractive female friend of mine went back to one of the paying dinosaurs sites after trying out OkCupid for a week because no matter how many messages she got, she couldn't find any men she was even remotely attracted to. It seems that there's an awful lot of potential in creating a dating site that alleviates these issues, although it is a hard problem to crack.
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As a black person (and a woman, ha!), I can say there is a similar double whammy for us. In addition to the competence double whammy, there's the one about being too assertive (for women)--the infamous "angry black woman."
Management training, maybe. Why you shouldn't train your technical startup workers:

1. They will learn on their own.

2. They will train each other.

3. They will learn by training each other.

4. They will often have to learn skills for which no training is available.

Maybe I've been lucky, but my coworkers have always been extremely generous with their time, and I've tried to be the same way. These days there's also a huge amount of information on the internet: tutorials, technical presentations, and so on. Anything that's common enough to have in-person training available, there's a multitude of articles in addition to the official documentation.

If there's professional training available but a lack of free or reasonably priced documentation, then it's a scam anyway and you might as well save your time and just give all your money to the nearest consultant.
That’s a US patent and the lawsuit is Canadian, but I have to imagine they applied for a similar patent in Canada.

I hope they lose the case and their patent is invalidated. (Isn’t this system highly similar to how Napster messaging and AIM “direct connection” chats worked, before 2004?)

Anyway, here’s another US patent that could be relevant. Seems even weaker, though: “A method of displaying messages on handheld devices. The device displays messages in a scrollable viewport of vertically arranged fields. Date separators inserted into the vertically arranged list of messages to enable the user to associate the messages with a date. …”

http://www.google.com/patents/about?id=6lKrAAAAEBAJ
nix that part of the debate.
Find a company with the smartest group of developers you can find, hopefully working on a project you are interested in (secondary concern). LEARN.
Three years later, repeat.
Repeat that until you have 10 years under your belt.
After that you will know what to do.
Nothing says we want developers on our platform like suing the popular app makers. Even if there seemed to be some IP theft here, I think lawsuit is a horrible way to solve the problem. There is just no PR spin you could put here to fix this.
Why not wait until you learn a few more details than a vague "RIM sues Kik for something" post before you decide to boycott a company?
FTA:
"Some may argue that denying Internet users the ability to post anonymously is a breach of their privacy and freedom of expression. But until the age of the Internet, anonymity was a rare thing. When someone spoke in public, his audience would naturally be able to see who was talking."

According to the author, we have gone straight from preliterate society to online, entirely bypassing a time in which one could publish a book under a nom-de-plume; write a letter to be published in a newspaper or magazine, with "name and address withheld"; or print flyers anonymously.

Even without printing presses, we've long been able to express our opinions with nothing but an unverified forename, via the medium of radio talkshows.

She also disregards the fundamental interconnectedness of ones actions on the internet today. If I chose to physically stand on a soapbox and broadcast my opinions in the preliterate fashion she describes, I could still maintain my anonymity by doing this in a town where no one knows who I am. This is not the case if I have to use my real, verified name everywhere on the Internet.

There are plenty of people (e.g. Teachers and Civil Servants), people who trade on their impartiality; for whom the exercise of free speech under their own name is difficult. Expressing partisanship, or even a view on a contentious issues, may jeopardise their careers, or at least make life a bit difficult.
good point, I didn't think of that

facebook does seem to be way more in the public mind than skype
I don't know why skype doesn't enhance its product with its own social network and compete with facebook!
Exactly :) Cool.
They asked the US gov to redact any sensitive sources. They didn't get any help.

http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2010/08/20...
I really can't figure out for the life of me what architect/engineer/builder thought these were a good idea. I'm sure it was in some remodel, but that's the type of thing that I couldn't even show to the client and keep a straight face. Its like handing someone a website you did for them, turning on comic sans and misspelling the company's name in the h1. Just sloppy.
"Go back over the last 12 months - are you honestly trying to tell me that there were no ad networks serving ads containing Flash exploits? And that's only one area they appear."

You're missing the point. Considering that nearly everyone has flash, most people don't update it, and Chrome forces you to always have the latest security patches (AND it can be disabled AND it can be click-to-enable plugin), they're protecting users, literally as much as possible.

It's certainly better than the Firefox model which is what it's being compared to...
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I typically don't. I have zero reason to believe anything on any "review" website. I talk to people I know and get recommendations from them.
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I'm curious: why did you submit them to Associated Content instead of building your own site, where you'd have total control and keep most of the value you created? A deep backbench of semi-automated articles about funds plus relatively fewer pillar content pieces for linkability strikes me as a potentially very viable business in an industry which is quite literally awash in cash to spend on marketing.
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