skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This article reads like somebody put the "Entrepreneurship" section of their local bookstore into a shredder and packed the shreds into fortune cookies.

Come to think of it, an awful lot of entrepreneurial blogging falls into this category.
It's the same: L2TP/IPSec, PPTP, Cisco IPSec.

It's annoying though because it is unable to auto-reconnect to VPN after it locks for a few minutes
Being an iPhone owner I disagree (though original iPhone so I don't know about newer models). Mine crashed, not applications, the phone itself, on a regular basis.
Hopefully these scripts would eventually evolve into a client management panel, making this as easy to the general populace as Firesheep.
Whoops, yes, $7.39. I was taking the prices from memory and remembered the $82 as $85.
As always on HN, the debate is always stimulating and informative compared to other places.

I think you're right about Ireland. There's also a lot more in common culturally with Ireland than with Portugal, and while Anglo-Irish history is a tricky subject, I would imagine people would take the concept of helping Ireland more seriously than Portugal.

Your point about fragmentation is quite interesting to me. Perhaps if Portugal and Spain were 'encouraged to leave' by the EU that might be a politically bitter pill to swallow, but perhaps a financially acceptable solution. After all, a large part of the Eurozone no longer meets the Copenhagen criteria. Unfortunately neither the EC or EU Parliament seem to have any grounding in reality or rational thought.
True, Jon is one of the very very few. But isn't it telling that serious political discourse can now only take place on a comedy show?
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What a complainer she is. Problem totally blown out of proportion. She is not even that hot (6 out of 10, maybe).

A girl with barely any experience who goes to networking events. WTF does she expect?
Yes, it says she went to the police. Where does it say the police didn't care?
To the contrary. Most people react pretty darn well in most situations. Many techie guys seem to have a problem though.
The new official domain is http://wikileaks.ch but it's down for me right now.

Source: https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/10621623082156033

Other mirrors:
http://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/efi01/wikileaks_v...
500 million people majority of which (except UK, Germany, France - to name only the big ones) are already living off EU welfare?
The article is interesting, but dear... The picture he uses is awful. The basic composition is fine, but the blatant overuse of HDR is incredibly annoying.

Sorry for the off topic, but I had to get that off my chest. :)
This works both ways. When everyone can see the communiques, the communiques go offline.
Thanks, facebook.com is blocked at work.
I've seen a few "summarize text as a service" sites now. I'm wondering if they are just repackaging Open Text Summarizer or if the are actually doing something different
The page is now showing "We'll be back shortly. Our servers are over capacity". Now I'm really interested in which one they are currently using.
Also, there were plenty of actual nuclear bombing victims to draw many kinds of statistics.
Right, which is why they're executive orders :)

Guantanamo is in a half-state because Congress invoked NIMBY with the attempts to prosecute detainees in the US. No other country wants to take them in.
> The Germans have a history of spending silly money on contingency plans for things that will never happen. Oh wait, they don't.

The German General Staff had and has contingency plans for everything. The General Staff was Prussia's / Germany's secret weapon for two centuries, until it was copied by other nations.

But that's just the German army, I don't know about the civilians.
Excellent point!

Guys confronting sexual harassers is a big part of the solution, and so is an anti-harassment policy is one good part of a solution. More women will come to conferences if it's not so likely they'll be harrassed.
So there are (or were) two separate DDoS attacks going on? (One against the site itself, and a second that hits the DNS that hosts its name)
To elaborate on this, a working knowledge of some area of mathematics is not like a set of historical facts to be familiar with, or a list of fundamental particles and their properties, or a group of plays or novels to be quoted from, or a set of pigments and their interactions with brushes and paper, or even a code library’s API.

Mathematics is, fundamentally, about model building. The study of mathematics is about learning how to make maps even more than it is about the specific territory being mapped. In my opinion the largest part of mathematical fluency is the constant willingness to test mathematical structures and ideas against each other and against new data, to figure out how parts work at their deepest levels and then to go back and try to see how each one fits with all those known before. What matters in understanding a mathematical concept is not whether you can repeat a witnessed proof step by step or write down a formula, but whether you have an intuitive grasp of the abstraction(s) in question, whether you can explain them to yourself (an ability to explain them to others also recommended), and whether you can apply them to new problems which arise.

It is my belief that this kind of deep understanding and fluency can only be obtained by repeatedly interacting with these abstractions in a wide variety of problems and contexts, writing down the patterns and working through the proofs, questioning the axioms underlying them, asking how they generalize or how they apply to specific cases, and so on. Very little of this work can be done on flash cards, at least for me personally. Indeed, I believe it is precisely the teaching of mathematics as something which can be learned from flash cards which most impedes mathematical education and understanding.

See http://www.maa.org/devlin/LockhartsLament.pdf
Internauts... I think everyone should start using this word.
While I agree, with the general consensus here, that the design itself is pretty useless in practice, I think that some of what they've done is kind of intriguing, from a mouse intent perspective.

When I saw the label of a "clickless" interface, I immediately thought I would constantly be dodging popped in elements trying to get at other elements, but this actually happened far less often than I anticipated, mostly because it was designed fairly well for that use case.

I think in general, mouse intent elements, such as pop up menus on hover, are hugely frustrating on 99% of sites. Just now I was trying to close an ad on the bottom of a youtube video, but the resolution pop up kept jumping in the way. Navigation menus are frequently the same way, they pop over other content without you intending it to do so, and then its frustrating getting them out of the way.

Personally, I dont see the benefit of trying to guess what the user is trying to do by where theyre hovering, but a lot of sites do this anyway, and with some disregard to the side effects.

At the very least, this site offers some interesting paradigms for a clickless UI, and illustrates a somewhat thoughtful design around that interaction.
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If those things have enough range, you can just stay indoors, safe from police interference. It would be very difficult to trace unless the cops ran around in triangulation squads.

Other ways to do it could be by wireless internet.
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Or perhaps instead of banning beer they should adopt non-harassment policies which are enforced and make sure that they respond to complaints swiftly?

Beer doesn't make people creeps... Their personalities do.
Agreed; isn't this why this discussion should use GNP? Or would that miss some other relevant detail?
Well, with this kind of thing becoming more popular as it becomes more possible (thanks to improved batteries and cheap small video cameras) it's only a matter of time before it gets regulated.

Even if everybody only used them with the best intentions, someday someone's gonna get seriously hurt by getting clobbered on the head by one of these things.

Still, for now: awesome video!
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I'm Mackenzie in the article. The guy who made the comment about why someone else was agreeing with me...he wasn't new. I don't know about the guy who grabbed/kissed me.

Going a little broader in the tech field... I know of some people in the hacking/security community who are...well, when you're new to the scene, you're warned about them. I can only think of one guy I was warned about, but he's well known. I can think of two others I was told new guys to the scene (particularly if fairly young) should be warned about, and those two are around-since-phreaking-days levels of established and well known. Being icky doesn't mean ostracism.
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Ask HN: Does programming language effect investment opportunities?
Many new projects are using Ruby on Rails (Groupon) and other trendy languages and frameworks. (This is not a question to start a language war.) Is a RoR (or similar) project more likely to get funding over a PHP or .NET project?
Yes. It was only Euro cash that was introduced in 2001. (Or was it 2002?)
It's like the cost of meaningful tech research has dropped so much with software that the "public money -> universities" model can now be replaced by "wealthy individual -> hacker shop" model. Interesting parallels to art world; worked well for the Medicis.
<snark>Yeah ... it reallly sucks to be goodlooking.</snark>

I understand what she's saying, and I empathize, I really do, but its is a hazard of being attractive ...

SUCK IT UP.

Its bad form to rant about that kind of stuff ... its almost like some dude who owns a Ferrari/Aston Martin/whatever, complaining about how people are always crowding around his car wherever he parks it. (Yeah how dreary it must be to own a Ferrari!) ... It just comes across wrong.

If she really wants to solve her problem and stop ranting ... let her put on 30 pounds. I promise the shennanigans will stop ... abruptly.
Minor correction: Google opened an the office in NY three or four years before the DoubleClick acquisition. Google was already in the building at the time of the acquisition.
I think this would be a mistaken assumption to make; they already have about 2000 employees in this location and a pretty strong presence. I think this transaction just turns them from leasers into owners.
I'm not sure what this comment has to do with the article at all. Try to evaluate the idea, and not the author.

Whether or not you think women are treated unfairly in the industry (I used to bristle at the idea, then watched my wife interview for jobs and radically changed my take), and whether or not this particular woman endured any real unfairness:

It is still worth considering how totally unprofessional and inappropriate it may be to ask a woman for her business card in order to abuse it for your personal benefit. It's not something I had thought of before. It's worth discussing.

If gender politics makes your brain turn off (and, it used to do that to me too), just pivot the story in your head so that instead of asking for a date, the guy takes her card at a tech convention and later calls and tries to sell her a dental insurance policy. It's spam. Spam is bad. There's an implied agreement when I give you my card that you're going to use it for its intended purpose: to contact me about something relevant to my business.
Well, true, but I've always read that as him not wanting to become the same sort of political lighting-rod that he hates. He was very careful to avoid any overt political associations for his rally, for instance.
Or they just wait until it lands. Either they catch you picking it up or they confiscate it from you; either way the flight becomes unworthwhile.
A lot of the issues he creates are very low priority or invalid , but he aggressively, un-cooperatively, and repeatedly pushes that they be fixed.
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This is not that kind of recovery. You still would lose your teeth, hair, fingernails, vision, be extremely weak, get massive skin wounds pretty quick and gradually rot down in painful agony. You may last a week or two at hospital bed, but would be not much of a soldier.

(moral weapon my ass)
Assuming you can evaluate "two-bit hacks" in a way that is accurate enough that you don't create false positives.

One burnt bridge that turns out to be a major success later on, even if they are a hack, actually, can kill you.

The parable of the Lion and the Mouse should always be heeded.
The AMI recommended in the post is pre-configured to use EBS. Makes things a lot easier that way!
Not really. Random.sample samples from a population multiple times: that means no doubles (unless they were in the population as well). Try it: sample 30 times from string.ascii_lowercase. Since you did it with 10, less than len(population), it didn't croak, but it also doesn't get you the numbers mentioned above.

Here's one I like better: "".join(random.choice(string.ascii_lowercase) for _ in xrange(len))
If only there were solutions or compromises in this business of building sites. Sadly, the complexity of such solutions eludes the both of us.
I'm actually surprised people so vehemently dislikes this. While a click-less interface may not be inherently superior to one with clicks it's still an interesting concept to explore, which is exactly what Dontclick.it does.

I personally found the site to be intuitive; although, Areas, a click-less shooter (http://www.kongregate.com/games/Ridiculous/areas), did a fine job of teaching me to inhibit my urge to click everything.
Skype and the Incredible Power of Persistent Group Chats
There are a lot of areas which need critical breakthroughs to solve the increasingly critical circumstances casued by increasing population, increasing buying power and limited resourcs. The list would be a very very long.

But the single area that can accelerate developments in almost all areas is easy availability of massive, cheap computation and probably automated - impying AI, and the ability to use that.
probably a representation of a value smaller than 0 but larger than the nearest-to-0 possible value that can be encoded as a floating point number (that still isn't 0). or something like that.

see also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subnormal_numbers
I posted this after seeing the "7 Game developing things I've learned so far" post. I thought it would be an interesting addition from a professional game dev.
When the cost of these kinds of robot drops by another factor of ten, they're going to have the biggest impact on military security since the invention of nuclear weapons.
Interesting... Just a heads up if anyone cares: We had at least one tumblr submission yesterday, too, that had trouble. Two days in a row might be a larger red flag for tumblr or tumblr users.
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iShowUHD

Taken as a suggestion from this podcast.

http://peepcode.com/products/screencasting-on-the-mac
I'm probably late to the party in this thread. I've launched mine couple days ago, http://www.previouslook.com (web page snapshots overtime).
If I had a billion dollars and had paparazzi chasing me, I would love for them to try this so that I'd get to mount an AA gun on my yacht and shoot them down.
You can replace the install of openvpn with openswan to provide a strong tunnel that's compatible with iOS. There should be prebuilt packages for ubuntu.

http://www.openswan.org/
It's actually even bigger than ESB, but I don't think it's the largest in Manhattan

"But at 2.9 million square feet, it has more space than the Empire State Building and plenty of room for Google to grow."
The whole idea, of course, was based on assumption that Soviets would use only conventional weapons in retaliation to neutron bomb usage. After all neutron bomb is moral, right? But somehow it didn't ring with Russians, who made it clear they'll follow up with nuclear response. That kind of renders all advantages of the weapon useless.
"Amazon cuts them off, then says the Lieberman call had nothing to do with it. We have no reason to doubt Amazon. It's consistent with their philosophy of not taking sides in political battles."

Seriously? Is there some memo addressing this self-evident truth that I missed? What Amazon did was politically expedient. That doesn't mean they didn't take sides.
How is she 'obviously' trading on her appearance exactly? If she was minging and had exactly the same online presence you wouldn't be saying that. Tard
A candidate not versed in prog folklore = not suitable for hiring
To anyone who desires this level of security but doesn't want to have to go through the trouble of a VPN, using SSH tunnels works just as effectively.

Assuming you have access to a remote Linux/BSD box, you can (from Linux) `ssh -D 1025 remote.host.address` then proxy your browser's SOCKS proxy to localhost:1025.

On Windows, using PuTTY, one can simply go into the Tunnel menu, hit the "Dynamic" radio button, type in 1025 and click "add" to achieve the same effect.
My laptop is for reading email and surfing the web in hotel rooms. Occasionally I program on it when I don't have a choice, but I'm far less productive than on my regular workstation, both because of the ergonomic problems and because I haven't invested the time to set up all my usual software the way I like it. (Am I a dinosaur? Does everyone else have a laptop as his primary machine these days?)
Why? They're already so cheap the military could buy an unlimited number of them. Or because people will use them to remove military security? I don't follow your logic.
That's definitely the biggest issue. Back in my Symbian days we'd see everything go through essentially 3 testing cycles.

1. Acceptance test at the OEM level
2. Acceptance test for each individual phone
3. Another round of testing at the carrier level.

It's that third round of testing that was always the most frustrating, as it was rarely well executed. We'd get a lot of really ticky-tack things ("bugs" in the form of "I don't think feature X should work this way"), while the big problems were rarely caught. We finally built out a rather large internal QA staff which was much more effective.

I'm not against testing, but the carriers need to adapt to the new environment. Instead of trying to catch every bug (and failing) be much quicker to push updates to the network. I'd much rather have an update every month or two, rather than wait 4 or 5 months to get a fix in.

This is one thing Apple gets right. The cadence of their updates is perfect.
I worked in the building for two and a half years and it may appear "dumpy" on the outside but it's an awesome place to work.

Walking into work via a half a block long corridor with cable strung over your head and the clack of your feet echoing along it is a great way to start the day
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If I were looking to hire a developer I would do the following :

1) Select a set of candidates based on their resumes making the assumption at this point that their resumes are honest. Good candidates should have at least worked on some interesting projects so their resumes should look interesting. Most lame candidates wouldn't even be able to invent a credible interesting project.

2) Do phone interviews where I would ask knowledge based (ie not problem solving based) questions related to their resumes. The goal here is mainly to filter out fake/exaggerated resumes.

3) Invite the selected candidates to give a presentation on a topic of their choice related to work they've done that is at least marginally relevant to the job. I think you can learn a lot about someone by seeing how they present their work and respond to questions (though it doesn't tell you if they're good coders, that's for the next step). The presentations could probably be done remotely.

4) Hire the selected candidates for short-term contract work. Set things up so they can work remotely. Assign them real tasks that you would expect them to perform in the job.

Make final selection based on evaluation of the candidate's work on step 4 and offer positions to the best.
If you let me I'd like to add this as an extra point to my article since I totally agree with you
I know that cooler heads will prevail, and that python won't get this silly syntax change, but...

...everyone seems to be forgetting that i == -j (either squared is 1). Physicists usually describe traveling waves (of whatever) as something proportional to exp(kx-iwt) where that's an omega, not a w, and electrical engineers for whatever reason prefer the notation exp(kx+jwt) (note the minus sign difference). Except ee's sometimes write exp(kx-jwt), depending on the convention in use at the time.
how is this good for the disabled? if you're unable to click, i'd have to assume you have difficulty moving a mouse with pinpoint accuracy. hell i had problems doing that and i'm fully functional here.

if anything this would be HELL for anyone lacking full motor skills
programmingpraxis makes a comment in the latest post on Maximum Sum Subsequence:

"any programmer who doesn’t know about the solution will likely fail the interview, on the theory that if he isn’t at least interested enough in his profession to read Bentley [Programming Pearls], he isn’t interested enough in his profession to work for me."

In a follow-up comment:

"I still think a candidate not versed in the programming folklore will be less productive than one who is, and thus less suitable for hiring."

Is this a good or valid criteria for judging a programmer's abilities or future abilities?
Not only that, but Google was already using 4x the amount of office space in the building that DoubleClick was at the time of the acquisition.
Ask HN: Rate my app: Gazaro Protect
Re: November Startup Sprint
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1773398

Hey All, sorry for the delay in posting my app. A couple days into writing the app I was having a coffee with my CEO and I was telling him about it. He got very excited about it and he thought it was so good that it might be worth putting more efforts behind it. So we did. It ended up not only being myself creating the app but 4 of us, 2 server dev, 1 designer and 1 iPhone dev borrowed from our friends at @select_start. From start to finish it took us about 3 weeks.

The app is called Gazaro Protect and it let's enter your purchases from Best Buy. Once you enter your purchase(s) we track the prices on a daily basis and if the price goes down we notify you so you can request the difference back from Best Buy (Based on their Price Match Guarantee). It's still up to you to call Best Buy to get the money back but at least you know about it.

There are three ways you can enter your purchases: 1) using our iPhone App, 2) by sending your receipt/confirmation to us, or 3) by entering it manually on our website.

The technologies used are the AppEngine and obviously the iPhone SDK.

We just released the app yesterday and would appreciate any feedback you all have.

http://www.gazaro.com/protect

Cheers,

Wrath