skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure you didn't start the cattiness in his mind.

If I did, it was not my intention. The summation of my email to him was pretty much that I have a young daughter that I want to teach video production to. That I think it would be best for her if I could teach her some of the advanced features and I inquired if they had an educational discount program. The last line asked if they did not would they consider selling me a basic license and upgrade me to pro with the explicit agreement that it was to only be used for educational purposes. I feel that I am pretty good at regulating my tone and did not use words that would appear that I felt entitled to such an arrangement. I was polite in my request.

While, my tactic is debatable, I don't think the content or how I approached it was a factor. Further, I have said on multiple occasions that I did not walk away with sour grapes about the exchange, he was totally within his right, I was the one asking for a favor. That is not in dispute, and I was in no way shape or form upset about his decline. The only thing I walk away with was that I felt that I it was better that I had that exchange before a sum of money was involved.
Forget the holographic world cup fields, I'll take the automatic real-time translation earpiece!

If Japan really can invent half of the things that they feature in that video by 2022, I'm going to enjoy the hell out of my 40's.
Personally, I don't trust the folks at Dropbox much more than I trust a random hacker. (No offense, of course. I just don't know them.) It's not even a matter of a security breach. Can you really be sure that one of their interns can't gain access?

By that logic, you should also not trust the guy who makes your next carry out. You don't know him after all. For all you know he could be some evil guy who likes to spit in the customers' orders.
$10M - It covers the reasonable standard of living outlined by some of the other commenters plus enables you to purchase a nice (in some areas VERY nice) home with cash.
> Those attacks are the same as vandalism.

An analogy for you: What if all your (Anonymous) friends went to Wal-Mart and stood in line to buy something. Then when they got to the front they would fumble around in their pockets and say, "oh darn, I forgot my wallet", then they'd got out and come back in and do it again?

Would that be vandalism? Would it cost Wal-Mart money? Would Wal-Mart have to spend time dealing with the problem? Would it be illegal? Should it be? What if these anonymous strangers stood just stood outside and held up signs? Wouldn't the company hire someone to deal with them? Wouldn't that cost them money?
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Very cool concept - count me in!
This article was probably the most dense lingo I've never understood. Very disorienting. Well done.
American Express Blue Cash is great if you spend more than about $9000/year on it. The first $6500 in a year provides cashback at 0.5% on everything, 1% on "everyday purchases" (gas, groceries, drugstore, etc). After that, cashback jumps to 1.5%/5%. On average, people spend 15-18% on "everyday purchases", so that makes average cashback 2.025% after the first $6500 -- slightly better than a straight 2% cashback card, which are rare these days. To do the math:

- Regular 1% card: $9000 at 1% = $90

- Amex Blue Cash: $5525 at 0.5%, $975 at 1.25% (for the first $6500), then $2125 at 1.5%, $375 at 5% = $90.44 (the splits assume the average spending habits of 15% on "everyday purchases")
Ask HN: Any hackers in WNY?
I just relocated to Buffalo area. Looking to connect with fellow hackers and founders. Are you out there?
Holy cow, could a project have picked a worse name than "Rastafarian"? If one searches for "Rastafarian", you can guess what turns up. But even "Rastafarian pdf conversion" seems to drop the "pdf" and returns lots of results for converting to the Rastafarian religion. Same for "convert".

I guess I'll have to go trolling through the mobileread.com forums, but just damn.
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http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1207721 < Why writing software is not like engineering.
Yes - first set of tests in the updated post.
"I'm sorry we can't go to that place for our date... we have to go to this chain restaurant, because it gives me more rewards points..." For some reason, I don't see that going over well (unless she's a travel nerd as well, I suppose)
Iframes are everywhere, but usually in places where it's hard to notice them, e.g., in ads.
I have a feeling I'm going to be very disappointed when I get home from work today and there is no Cr-48 waiting for me.
There is probably a reasonable separation between automated DDoS attacks and manual ones. If I convince 50 million people to click on CNN once at 3:17PM on a Tuesday then that's a reasonable form of protest IMO. If I rent a botnet for 24 hours and try and exploit some hole in your infrastructure then that's vandalism.

From a monetary standpoint they might cause the same amount of harm, but from a social standpoint a manual attack is a much harder target.
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Sigh. Don't understand why it's such a big deal. Case in point in the intersection between CS/Biology/EE:

Programming has completely revolutionized Biology not even in terms of introducing databases to volumes of genomic data but in terms of forcing geneticists to think in terms of algorithms and coding practices in DNA transcription/translation.

Advances in Biology in neural imaging and evolutionary genetics have been introduced in artificial neural networks and evolutionary computing algorithms; some of which ironically are used to solve Biology problems, protein folding/disease modeling.

Advances in biomedical engineering from applied silicon wafer design has made expensive equipment such as DNA replication (PCR machines), sequencing and genetic expression (DNA microarrays) accessible to every lab. To reciprocate, Biologists are building organic circuits to eventually build a self-replicating bio-computer.

Sometimes as a scientist, you have to do engineering work to build the tools to investigate a new phenomenon. Sometimes as an engineer, you have to do some science research to build a new widget that's not been built before. It's all the same to me.
Thanks for the reminder! I was just saying the other day how I still missed it so long after its TV run, I had quite forgotten that one.
I doubt they were ever asleep. Just executing a ling-term strategy.
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Neat, I wonder how long before it shows up in 23andMe tests.
I'm in the same boat, and use this:
https://github.com/panicsteve/nv/downloads

This fork of Notational Velocity adds a third pane which shows formatting using markdown.

If you are willing to learn markdown, and it's pretty darn easy, you can add formatting while maintaining raw text format.

I like markdown enough though that I find I write in markdown, and just hide the preview pane that includes formatting. I just don't really need it.
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Spolsky's comment is way overrated. He's only addressing the 80 questions bit. In that case you just need to add enterprise pricing to cover that sales cost. I'm guessing for a $9990 license (keeping it within a single manager's pre-authorized budget) you will feel quite happy filling in the little Excel cells for a couple hours.
Have you looked at PlainText?
stack scripts were the reason i chose to move away from mediatemple and slicehost...
I have an Evernote account, but also find it too cluttered. Here's what I do:

Install Dropbox's linux client on my Ubuntu slicehost instance (could be one of the free Amazon instances, now).

Create a home/Dropbox/t/ .

Keep all my active notes as textfiles in there. Have an archive/ subdirectory. Spend most of my time in t/todo.txt.

I'm always logged into the slice with screen running. Terminal 0 is always todo.txt, which is just a text file open in vim with foldmethod=indent: I only unfold my current tasks, and move anything I've done to a fold for today's date.

I can search this with grep (or spotlight from my mac). I can get into it from anywhere, though: blackberry, iPad, or any web browser. The Dropbox clients will all display textfiles natively.

There's not tagging. There's no categories. There's no web clips or OCR. I can get to it from anywhere.

Works great, and theoretically free if I ditched Slicehost for Amazon.
Successful or Unsuccessful - Me
Hi hackers,
I am java developer having 3.5 years of experience and working in IT Industry in ASIA. throughout my career i always tried to find out and rather best solutions for the projects that i had been assigned. I worked by giving complete attention to it. however despite of my focus, committment my every project does not see the light of the day. I know most of the recent happenings in my area, my domain, requirements, frameworks, technologies to use. Is I am doing something wrong ?? or headed towards a wrong direction..... ... Please help!!!!!!
Interestingly my degree was in Computer Science (from a respected British University), yet this was part of the Engineering faculty. That seems quite apt for the duality of Computing, which I agree definitely straddles across both.

I think most Computing studies cover both the engineering (eg. programming), and science (eg. algorithms, grammars etc.) sides.
And the difference is very small. The risky option was chosen by 41% of MAOA-L carriers, and 36% of MAOA-H carriers.

In other words, knowing which version of the gene someone had would tell you absolutely nothing about them.
he assumed most of his readers are smart enough to know where "somewhere" is.
Programmatically. License an open source formula based on the value of short/long contributions against a revenue / equity model.
Roll your own JavaScript lambda syntax
Try http://workflowy.com/
I'm not sure if it does or not. I did the same thing. Since the applications were so different, I figured I would fill out the general one on their website in addition to the one linked to from within the chrome dev build (I used the same Google account for both applications). I got my Cr-48 this morning, so it must not have counted against me too much.
Who determines product direction? Aside from the challenge of estimating developer contributions ("I wrote the core services" vs. "I wrote the money making feature of the day" vs. "I wrote the analysis / AB test tools that let us optimize"...), how would you split revenue among non-coding contributors (including artists, for example)
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"Throughout history, a full scientific understanding has been neither necessary nor sufficient for great technological advances"

Although this is true, it is also true that a full understanding(garnered through science) is necessary to fully grasp all of the implications of a new technology.
I cite for example the internal combustion engine. I suspect that although it was known gasoline powered engines produced harmful exhaust fumes, it was never fully understood at the time what effect those fumes would have on the atmosphere & environment when the number of automobiles began to go up in orders of magnitude(until there was a significant enough number of them to produce a measurable effect, which no doubt a scientist found).

With that said, both fields are due and ample amount of respect. The article seems to favor engineering more, and indeed it does result in remarkable things. However, it is equally important to have the full picture that can only be garnered through empirical scientific research.
for all the noise that evernote makes about its numbers, 800k sounds a bit paltry... sure, most startups don't even come close to a 10m run rate, but I'd expect better given how proudly and frequently they boast their stats publicly.

evernote is as old as groupon and doing <1/100th the revenue - overhyped much?
A good book on this topic is "Designerly Ways of Knowing" published by Birkhauser. It defines Design as a third discipline, distinct from Humanities (which deals with the human experience) and Science (which deals with the natural world). Design with a capital D meaning anything related to creating new things, usually with technology.

The book goes on to explain how the three disciplines differ as per the skills required to practice it: scientists need analytical thinking, designers need synthetic thinking.

You learn this by page 10. The rest of the book is just as interesting as its first chapter.
To me it sounds like you have two separate but related tasks:

1. You need an embedded systems programmer who has experience with porting complicated things like network stacks to new hardware. I doubt you specifically need "experience with the stack source code" (sic).

2. If I'm parsing this one correctly, you need someone who could match your requirements and needs to the currently available hardware and find the appropriate chipset to use.

Do you already have the hardware designed?
Yeah, it used to be a fairly commonplace story from the guys running online gambling shops.
This reminds me: did we ever get to see results from that "Are Entrepreneurs pirates?" test that ran on HN a while back?

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1898317
We're all waiting for Google to make their announcement. At least everyone in Duluth is!
http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2010/11/09/goog...

If we don't hear by the end of the year as Google promised, the pitchforks and torches will come out of storage.
theorising by armchair experts arent always accurate?

That sounds more confrontational than I meant it to, point if you just guess at improvements without testing them, it is still a guess.
Definitely a regular login/password using my email address as the username and no validation on the password. I hate when I have to come up with a unique, really complex password for a site I don't use often unless it's a financial site or something.

Whenever I log in with Twitter or Facebook I'm always afraid that whatever I do on that site will be published to my Facebook or Twitter status.

My Google password is unique and precious and I don't want to use it log in to anything but Google.
Yah, but I stopped development it... ScreenRack. Save snippets by highlighting text, archiving full articles and capturing screenshots of the original articles, etc.

Mobile / web app. Think Instapaper + Historious.

http://screenrack.com/

If there's interest, I'll push forward again.
Then you should probably accept the same login options as Hacker News does to ensure acceptance
Thats a pretty awesome version number :). I would be happy just with a smoother browsing experience. Everything is good as long as I use your panel system, but I just want to be able to set my own zoom level, have it maintained on each page, and have the experience of panning the page with the mouse / touch to be much smoother than it currently is.
there's always been a lot of debate about whether software engineering is part of computer science or a separate profession.

looking at it through my own personal lens ... PREfix and PREfast (the static analysis tools i architected) were primarily software engineering -- we published in the Journal of Empirical Software Engineering. others working in the same space took more of a computer science approach, developed far more precise models and made breakthroughs in SAT and BDD. over time the two streams merged, which is a big win all around.

on the other hand, some of my other work was very CS-y -- looking at formalizing security algebras, for example, and applying standpoint epistemology to graph theory. so in the end i consider myself both a computer scientist and a software engineer.
Addendum: before doing any of the above, make sure you know how to use the software at at least a moderate proficiency!
You'd think that, but Intellectual Ventures clearly does care if you ever read the stuff that comes out of the company. Google up some of their previous articles and you'll see their execs lauding all the amazing scientists they've employed. If I had to guess, I'd say they're betting that patent trolling will eventually be recognized for the predatory practice that it is and banned — because although their behavior is hard to distinguish from a common troll, they work hard at PR to make themselves look like the wunderkind offspring of IBM and Microsoft's research labs.
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I think that's a great way of putting it, though I don't think someone like Einstein would agree.

The truth is that labels don't really matter. We call ourselves hackers. Some would disagree. It is what it is.
Dutch 16 year old arrested over attacks on Mastercard and Visa websites
Oh, true, I didn't realise they were viruses. Here's hoping we see a commercially viable implementation soon, then!
Public recognition is key to employee engagement
Good job. It was very slow the first time I reloaded a page (this one), but after that it was fine, regardless of how many comments. Simple and unobtrusive, and something I have wanted for a while.
That is, indeed, illegal. In Japan, the crime is Disruption of Business (rough translation). In the US, as soon as the clerk wises up and tells you to leave, you're trespassing. It is also probably public nuisance and disturbance of the peace, and an enterprising DA could probably indict you for larceny.

But there's two or more of them doing it, with the intention of harassment. Ho ho ho, bad idea. Now we're up to conspiracy to commit racketeering.

Tech people seem to think that the law is a finite state machine, which has no memory and so cannot parse a crime out of a series of legal actions. Tech people are foolish about a lot of things.
I speak from my startup's experience. We thought we were a lock for angel funding around 4 months ago. Finally, all the answers came back, "no". We believe it was because it's our first startup, and we did indeed look like the cardboard rocket ship to investors. They loved the cardboard rocket, but weren't about to give us a quarter of a million dollars to turn it into a real rocket.

We have since gone through 3 major pivots (possibly 4, depending on how you split it). One of them was to consult in order to bootstrap -- something through which we've learned a lot about our customers. 2 of them were pretty big changes to our core business.

Interestingly, our original concept is still the long term goal. Hearing "no" from investors just made us realize that we need to build certain foundations before we can build our mansion of a company. This is likely a consequence of us being overly ambitious at the start of the project.
I think Eric Von Hippel is one of the best known advocates:

http://web.mit.edu/evhippel/www/

Here is his book for free download
http://web.mit.edu/evhippel/www/democ1.htm
I'll just leave this here. http://gdgt.com/google/cr-48/specs/
It looks like they take 4 exposures in quick succession: 3 chroma exposures (blue, green, red), and then luminance.

This is just an artifact of seeing the plane move between the 4 exposures (and then trying to composite it back into one image)
Add a really awesome voice control interface to this and I could see it being nice in a consumer context.
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I don't think you should qualify them based on either intention or consequences. Sit-ins and other civilized protest tools have both disruptive intentions and consequences.

I also think they are much closer to vandalism, but this is because of the technology of the act. If me and a couple of friends decide to hang around the entrance of a public institution and politely tell everybody who passes our opinion, that's civic protest. If we use any kind of tool to block the entrance door, no matter how briefly or cleanly, it's a crime.

Same with DOSes. There is a threshold which once passed makes the whole thing a crime. 100.000 people visiting a site? Civic protest. 100.000 clicking F5? Most likely civic protest. 1000 people using specialized tools which are designed to go over DoS filters? I dare say it's much easier to make the case that this is a crime.
> But I also don't like the idea of a permanent aristocratic class where generation after generation are born into opulence because your great grandfather created a great company.

If you make a ridiculous amount of money, what's wrong with making sure that your family is financially secure for generations?
> Poor engineering got us into the mess; surely only good engineering could get us out of it.

An incredibly dangerous statement.
I've always seen engineering more like an art than a science. I don't mean to be condescending or anything... I don't mean it saying that we coders make works of art and everyone should kiss the keyboard we type on. Engineering differs to science in that it's driven by a selfish want to achieve something, albeit something technical which could probably benefit from scientific knowledge. An engineer is always trying to create something new either from some theory or previous knowledge, or from freaking thin air. Science is akin to reading a book and then trying to prove theorems based on what you learnt, while engineering is akin to grabbing a blank sheet of paper and draw what's in your head until it makes sense.
Here is another.

http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&msa=0&msid=10...
In my experience the fastest way to acquire users, other than paid search, is via an affiliate program. I have launched 7 programs for e-commerce properties in the last 3 years and the average first months traffic to a brand new site has been 20,000 unique visitors in the first month. Traffic growth has always excellerated from month to month as we acquired new affiliates to participate in the program.
you've worked hard enough trying to justify yourself in this thread

Well I stirred the pot, I am going to see it through. If someone replies to me they deserve a response, that is why I am here for discussion. Contrary to what may be perceived, I have a pretty open mind, and am pretty introspective. I freely admit, I am having a hard time seeing where I was unreasonable. I ask a question of the vendor, I did not like the tone of the response (not the content), I did not walk away with sour grapes, just a discomfort with the tone of the response. the other vendor said no as well, they just took time to explain to me that there are codec licenses involved with any sale educational or not and that they would eat cost. A reasonable response, so I bought full price and then did the volume contract.
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Regular login/pass will be your lowest common denominator. I think you have to build that first, and add in facebook/google/twitter afterwards. I'd sign up via either google or via login, but if you didn't offer those options I would not sign up.

My reasons are that I have concerns about the long term outlook for my twitter (potentially frivolous) and facebook (privacy issues) accounts. In fact, I've deleted my facebook. So I don't use either of those to tie accounts together, because it locks me further into the service.
Neither backspace nor delete work. Running Chrome on Windows XP.
Looks nice but seems pretty limited in functionality. Backspace and tabs don't work in vi, I tried to ssh to my university server but just got a blank screen.
"...empowering the likes of NSA/Cyber Command..."

This makes me apprehensive that a possible "sell" of this power would be "would you like us to get rid of most/all spam? With our new technology, we will have the ability to trace spam messages back to the source and take appropriate legal action."

On the other hand, I would imagine this will spark the digital DNA to rearrange chromosomes so that a distributed anonymous internet appears embedded in the current implementation to continue to avoid power wielders...

If adult content has been a driver of past innovation, will spammers be drivers of the future?

(I am guessing they already are...)
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