skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you missed his point again. He's not speculating as to what MC will optimize. He's just stating point of fact, as we understand it today. If you do A then B will happen.

Given that its unclear to me that what Wikileaks even did is illegal (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/02/world/02legal.html?_r=1) I have little sympathy for MC. It just feels like they're a bully in this situation. It does suck for their customers though. Maybe more customers will drop MC due to their inefficiency? Who knows.
Something like www.blacklotus.com
"If voting made any difference, it'd be illegal."
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http://blogs.theaustralian.news.com.au/mediadiary/index.php/...
Mercury-Redstone 1: NASA's 4" Rocket Launch
The problem is this isn't how it happens. First, consider that no attack is really happening. It's merely digital, it harms no one physically. So this is merely economic harm (indeed, calling it an attack only elicits sympathy for the victim). Gandhi used an attack on the economy with his salt march. He broke laws.

Boycotts and demonstration raise awareness, but unless it reaches a critical mass, they don't work. Boycotts and demonstrations that disrupt (like marches through the street or strikes) are other forms of economic attacks that cause real monetary loss.

Voting with your wallet only works so far. Usually you're in the minority. Not because you're wrong. Even elections understand this: the results are based on those who voted, not those who could vote.

Review history, and time and time again you'll see economic attacks as parts of non-violent means.
11, and my best friend had spent the summer trying to make a video game based off "The Goonies" in QBASIC. (Graphics were done the only way we knew how, by using colored ASCII-art.)
Media Comes To The Defense Of WikiLeaks - “The Leakers Will Win”
TimesSkimmer was very good when it came out. But gradually, it has become very slow and somewhat unusable. I definitely think the Chrome version is much far ahead of the Skimmer. Skimmer used to open the article in an iFrame, which spoils the entire motive of decluttering. There were also needless animations that made it a bit slow. Plus the lack of any social functionality that made sharing articles difficult. I really like that they took care of all of these issues in the Chrome version!
For $15 you can test the waters. How much do you make in an hour? How long will it take you to design your own web site? In other words, is it worth the $15 gamble to see if someone can come up with something to blow you away?
Big Patent Firm Sues Nine Tech Firms
Scala, IO, Erlang
He really is like Zuck. He can't come up with his own ideas either.
I was eight. This was about a year after my family getting a PC running MS-DOS (maybe Windows at that point, don't remember), so I had probably just discovered QBasic. I was thus adding to the biggest lump of unrelated elements that I have ever piled into a single piece of software. All in one file, of course, and with no proper subroutines (the one book my public library had about BASIC was older than subroutines were, though I did know about GOSUB). I remember being incredibly happy upon discovering the labeled GOTO, because it was so much easier than having to number all the lines.

Meanwhile, people at CERN were building the very foundation of what my livelihood would one day be.
I sincerely doubt it would have made a difference even had Hitler read it.
I was just thinking of something similar; Would everyone want HTML5 elements or rather not?

My thinking right now, is I would build an order form that has a few predefined options. I usually use my own CSS starting point but am familiar with 960.gs. Blueprint seems to be the other big one, so I could look into adding support for that.

But mostly, the markup and css would adhere to my standards. I would have to do this to make the development time minimal so charging to low price makes sense. I would of course offer example markup on the order website.
I'm whelmed.
It's not just for the chrome browser because it's built on HTML5 and JavaScript and can be used on any modern browser. I'm currently using firefox to view this "app" which is just a regular site, well it's actually a very clean & impressive design and great UI features. Some of the so-called apps in the chrome store are merely bookmarked links that go directly to the page, for instance the gmail "app". I'm having a really hard time to accept these as "apps"
Apple's Steve Wozniak: 'We've lost a lot of control'
Maybe because they were based in Switzerland, and did not say double-you?
France has a different legal system. Under British Common Law (which the US follows) I don't know of any way to get a preemptive ruling that you're in the clear. The best you can do is get a legal opinion from lawyers who, being personally liable for their answers and knowing that judges don't always do what they think judges should do, are always going to suggest the most cautious course of action.
And here's the HN comment comparing a non-violent DDoS attack as penalty for unjust operations to the violent LA riots.

It's all in how you spin it.
In the past I used HtDig (http://www.htdig.org/) on my Linux desktop. HtDig's latest release is from 2004 and it doesn't support PDF (only Postscript). Also it is not so easy to set up. More recently I tried Strigi but it seems to be very slow. However it has adapters for many file formats including PDF. I don't use MacOS, so I don't know how about the performance of Spotlight.

I think a fast full-text search for the desktop can be very useful. Collecting all those publications doesn't really help when you can't find them when you need them.
They're a non-profit, so there's probably nobody raking in particularly large sums of cash from their shady or sloppy ratings, but it would be daft to rely on them.

Unfortunately, "non-profit" doesn't really rule out financial corruption. And financial corruption isn't necessary for organizations to act this way--the natural tendency of any organization or institution to perpetuate its own existence is probably enough.
You could argue that it's not very different at all. And it also overlaps significantly in some areas (particularly statistical machine learning) with http://stats.stackexchange.com/

Not that that's a bad thing. Competition is good, and the difference may evolve to be nothing more than culture, or focus or whatever. I mean, HN is similar to certain reddit sub-reddits (or combinations thereof) such as /r/programming and /r/startups. But there's room for both. Same deal, IMO, with AI / Machine Learning / Data Mining / etc. related Q&A sites.

Oh, and never mind that there are multiple subreddits devoted to these topics as well! /r/machinelearning, /r/artificial, /r/sysor, etc. jump to mind.

Let the market sort it out.
paying lawyers to figure out if Wikileaks might actually be breaking any laws surely costs more than Paypal is likely to make in transaction fees.

Maybe they can use some of the money they collect in interest from having money in frozen accounts.

(edited to include more of what I was quoting since it seemed ambiguous as to what I was saying they could do)
Video of the launch: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qM3aVns-yQ
Comparing this with his original post[1] is a fantastic illustration of how the business aspect of a growing startup isn't necessarily an issue of scale, but of the role itself. In the earlier stages, his job was to do whatever didn't involve firing up a terminal. Write some copy, take a phone call, etc etc whatever it took to keep the developer's happy and focused. Now managing something like payroll, contracts. and the rest is a whole new ballgame. Its great to learn from his ability to adapt.

Thank you, Spencer. You're an inspiration to aspiring tech Entrepreneurs out there too stupid to program ;)

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[1] http://spencerfry.com/whats-a-non-programmer-to-do
PrimeSense releases Kinect-drivers as open source
When was the last time a petition actually achieved anything?
have you checked internetbs.net?

Sorry, better to give you a clickable link to the page you are looking for :)
http://internetbs.net/ResellerRegistrarDomainNameAPI/

From there you can reach all their API documentation.
Hmmm... Unlike a lot of responses here, I generally agree with the results. I might not have order the top 3 that way, but I think those are the right top 3.

Java: Standard issue, wickedly popular, object-oriented compiled language. You gotta learn on sometime. Gentler than C/C++, open-er than C#. Gets you onto the JVM and all of its languages. Not surprising that a Java community picked this first, but it was also the right pick (and I'm no fan of Java).

Javascript: browser. Say no more.

Python: scripting. Great libraries, support from Google, etc.

Even though I really like functional languages, they're something that can be studied while you're not earning your living (and learning them will make you better at earning your living!).
My first point of advice is to not lose the forest for the trees. Life is about destinations, and not so much the paths we take to get there. You say you want to study environmental engineering and industrial design to solve problems, which is a laudable goal. However, it seems almost certain that you could do that without going to GT. Obviously, you'd be happier if you went there, but if GT slammed its doors to you that should not be a showstopper in the long run. Perspective is imperative if you're trying to do anything remotely difficult - which you are.

That said, let's focus on what you actually asked - how to get into GT 'under the radar'. You're right that your GPA and SAT's don't seem stellar given GT's reputation, and that may or may not be offset by your other circumstances (supporting parents and intriguing extracurriculars). That said, there are certainly avenues you could pursue which don't involve a direct application. Community college with a transfer is probably the most likely for you, boring as it may be. Are you from Atlanta? Can you talk to a professor at GT to help flesh out your options? For instance, maybe take some courses at GT while enrolled at a community college with an eye towards transferring? That would help with the boredom aspect. Maybe they have a lab of some sort and could use a volunteer for a while in exchange for a recommendation letter when you do apply. You never know, but you need to get creative. With only a high school diploma, you have less room to maneuver because eventually you will need to be admitted to the general student body to get a degree (you can't, for instance, be admitted as a provisional student as happens with graduate applicants). Be creative, though - and don't constrain yourself needlessly.

Good luck!
Very very good news for Heroku employees and investors. I also hope that Amazon will start bidding war.

However, knowing Salesforce (and fact that they have many very very big enemies in this business) I'm concern about future of Heroku offering in the current form. As far as I know, Salesforce is not a hacker company - they remind me a little of Yahoo! (product managers are running the show). And, don't get me wrong, in this case, not being a "hacker company" is a good thing. But, I assume that Heroku will be transformed to be much profitable and target bigger margin businesses.
You wonder when the first time an executive at Cisco said this. 10-15 years later, the company seems almost incapable of building anything, except for new Cisco-looking bezels for the products they've acquired. If you're an engineer at Cisco and you get an MRD --- not even for a new product, but simply for version 3.0 of something already shipping --- the rational move to make is to go start a company to build it. After all, even if you kick ass and kill yourself to built it internally, they'll still buy someone else; after all, "someone else" comes with customers attached already.

Then again, who's to say that's a bad thing? Cisco steamrolls over its competition; entrepreneurial devs get multiple bites at a $5-$25MM apple; new products get shipped. I'm not being sarcastic: the strategy works.

Takes a bit of the fun out of it for Googlers, though.
Also 11. Also GW Basic.
I was learning on my own and asked my mom if I could get a book on programming. She bought me some book on Basic, only issue was that it was targeted at people trying to write finance and accounting management programs (mom didn't really know one from another so not really her fault). My eyes glazeth over and it took me a few years to regain my interest/confidence in programming. I still blame that book.
> Corporations are stuck in the middle looking at their bottom line, but pressured from both sides.

Maybe some of them fall into this category, but many of the others are the ones pulling most of the strings.

They are responsible for millions of dollars in campaign contributions, whereby they essentially buy seats in the House and Senate and dictate much of the legislation. They influence voters through mass advertising and propaganda, they influence the representatives through lobbyists and the threat of withdrawing their financial support.

The "government" then becomes a battlefield between the ignorant, the manipulated, the enlightened, and the powerful manipulators sitting at the top.
The support staff of a big company? Not really looking forward to that.
Or use Paint.net along with a photoshop plugin to open it for free.
Native iOS apps with jQuery Mobile
I was working at my first programming gig, writing a hypertext display engine (WIN16 app ugh) for a prototype Boeing 777 seat-back display.
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In fact, pretty sure it's this program:

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

They even gave it a cute name.

I find the 'relinquish control' part really interesting. Someone could totally f anon over if a hivemind version with access to the OS was released. Yeah, you could only ever use it once, but once is enough. 4chan would reverb about it for months.

Also because I just kept imagining the program playing a clip of the Harbinger going "assuming direct control" whenever you relinquish.
Wow, not even a mention of Azure. Microsoft has a lot of work to do marketing their technologies. Ironically I'm reading this as I sit here in Redmond at an Azure seminar.
You fail to realize that these "tools" are ugly hacks to make HTML do things it's clearly not well suited to do. Why continue to struggle with a flawed platform?

> You keep saying things that make no sense in context.

In what context is that?

I'm looking around, I'm seeing movement by Microsoft, Apple, and Google to limited-purpose simplified computers with app stores built in. I'm seeing developers actually able to sell software again. I'm seeing rich, beautiful interfaces that are responsive and smooth. I'm seeing voice, camera, accelerometer, and GPS integration. And I'm seeing it in native software TODAY. It works now, it's not beta, and it's making money. Tell me where I'm wrong?

Can you hack together a way to do all this in JS? Maybe, but it's unreliable, and it's years away from being comparable. Sure, you can wait 2 years until it's figured out, by then it will be outdated again anyway.

I think you're very comfortable writing your web apps, it's something you understand and you're good at it, and naturally you're resisting change. But the industry is not going to stop changing because you're good at CSS hacks to make rounded corners on div blocks and you just wish we'd keep doing it that way because it's easy for you.
$15 does not a web design make either. This is why it is so cheap.
Xipwire: The lone U.S. company standing with Wikileaks?
Salesforce want to position themselves as a platform-as-a-service provider. They provide the infrastructure for your apps.
> Paypal has figured out that Wikileaks isn't illegal - based on all the calls by lawmakers to ban it

Congress-critters fighting over a microphone are not a useful source of information about the state of the law.

It's actually fairly common for congress critters to say "this shows that we need a law" when there already is such a law. In some cases, they then use the current incident to pass a completly different law.
$5 out of $15 is 33.3% and $5 out of $20 is 25%

I'd say thats fairly significant.
Timeline:WikiLeaks founder in jail
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10 years ago I was out drinking at a bar in Santa Cruz with a marketing rep for Cisco who asked us what our thoughts were about the company as regards to other technology companies.

I told her that I didn't really think of Cisco as a technology company, but as an acquisition company; which she was really surprised to hear.

Even then it was pretty apparent that they weren't doing very much in-house (and it's gotten even worse since then).

Which is sort of a shame, as back in my network engineer days I dreamed about working there on IOS.
I'm not sure what his point was, but technically it's true, at least in the U.S. There are a host of "protected classes", and if you refuse to do business with someone because they're in that protected class, you get in Big Trouble. This includes race, color, gender, age, etc.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protected_class
As I said, I closed down my google apps account a few months ago because things were missing or they arrived later compared to the regular gmail, so I don't know what you may be missing right now.

Also, if you have an android phone you cannot buy apps if you sign in only with your apps account, you must use a regular account. That is a PITA, believe me.
will this affect the pricing model for small ruby builds (Free)? I hope not. As a designer/developer this service has been beneficial to sell Ruby to my more technical clientele.
Cyberattacks Are Retaliation for Pressure on WikiLeaks
Actually I think that street would be Google search results.
Chinese, Spanish, Deutsch?
You say "I think I’d be drawn to a founder whose story somewhat parallels my own—working on cool stuff from a young age and more motivated by an interest in solving hard problems than the prospect of striking it
rich"

What do your VC partners have to say about this? As far as I know financial returns are top priority for VC funds. There are a lot of cool hard projects that have limited financial return.
I had just graduated from HS and turned 18. At the time I had no real inkling of the idea that computers would become such a big part of my life. The bug hadn't bitten yet, so to speak. I'd dabbled with some BASIC programming as a kid, and we played around on the PCs in the library at school. Figuring out how to get out of the CD-ROM library thing and get to a DOS prompt where we could play, was a big deal back then.

But, at least for me, it was a year or two later, in college, when I got hooked on programming. Strangely enough, I don't really even remember exactly how it all started. I just remember starting to buy and read Computer Shopper magazine regularly; and then I was building a PC, getting a modem, playing around on BBS systems, getting into the hack/phreak scene, buying Herbert Schildt's book "Teach Yourself C" and downloading a C compiler from a BBS or something, deciding to major in Computer Science instead of Physics, and the rest is history.
The variety of UI options they give in the "customize" tab shows that NYT knew they had a problem and didn’t solve it.
You must have missed my ;) in that bit, it was a reference to this thread:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1949965
Love the Idea. I know for my few websites I have, I would be willing to spend the $15.00...
The funny (as in strange, not haha) thing is when I read that 200ish number, the first thing that popped into my head was "that seems cheap." I've either been completely miscalibrated by the supposed GroupOn valuation, or I really liked Heroku.

Probably both.
A short video featuring Napolitano will appear on TV screens at select checkout lanes, asking Wal-Mart shoppers to contact local law enforcement to report suspicious activity.

"If you see something suspicious in the parking lot or in the store, say something immediately," Napolitano said in the video. "Report suspicious activity to your local police or sheriff. If you need help ask a Wal-Mart manager for assistance."

Videos of govt officials educating me as I move through the check out line? This is incredibly creepy.
There is a difference between turning down an individual for financial reasons and turning down an organization due to political pressure (whose money they were completely okay with taking before the hammer fell down).

I'm not saying it isn't their choice, but there is no real advantage to them angering politicians who could screw them on votes or funding at some point in the future.
Another tip: ctrl-shift-d brings up the "File > Open Quickly" dialog, where you can type the name of a file into a filtered list (eclipse also has something like this). So instead of finding the right window, just bring up whatever file you need via the keyboard. I find this faster than using the mouse or cmd-`.

Another shortcut I used frequently is cmd-shift-e. This toggles "View > Zoom Editor" so that I can see more code.
People don't like using Solaris. Regardless of the recent kernel innovations, the userspace - packaging, compiler toolchain, command line UI and GUI, support for modern keyboard layouts in vi - most people prefer GNU to Sun, and Sun never addressed this. Sol 10 had some great stuff in kernelspace, but a shitty userland on x86 wouldn't have solved Sun's problems.
Ask HN: Is it safe to donate to WikiLeaks?
Given government outrage, PayPal/Visa/Mastercard being pressured to stop payments and uncertainty regarding dubious mirror sites, do you think it is safe to do so?

I'm not just talking credit card fraud - many in government want to see WikiLeaks considered a terrorist organization, and it probably wouldn't be good to be marked as having funded terrorism by the US government.

I feel torn - not donating due to the fear of political repercussions is basically giving in to the exact system of fear-based voluntary self-suppression that turns my stomach. However, I have a family.

I'd like to know your thoughts.
Ah, we just took a hex editor to LORD and had them going through a sewer, fighting alligator (because we had to keep the length of the string constant)...
Rather than wring your hands and worry you're not worthy, why not just apply and see how it goes? If you don't get in through the front door, you can make a plan from there. Of course, you still want to build the most compelling application you can. Do your homework, talk to admission offers and professors you might want to work with, etc.
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Past and Present
The things have change dramatically. Take a look!
Very buggy: http://imgur.com/GH5C0
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Never knew that one can do set operations using sort and uniq.

For example, a and b are text files that are already unique. Note this is fast, and works on files of arbitrary size, up to many gigabytes. (Sort is not limited by memory, though you may need to use -T if you have a small root partition.)

cat a b | sort | uniq > c # c is a union b

cat a b | sort | uniq -d > c # c is a intersection b

cat a b b | sort | uniq -u > c # c is set difference a - b
It's not true, otherwise signs that say "no shirt, no shoes, no service" would be illegal. You're referring to laws against discrimination based on race, sex, or disabilities. This says nothing about refusing service to people for other reasons, such as a rowdy bar patron or someone who violates Terms of Service.
The best thing about Java is how much it will make you appreciate the other ones. :-)