skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Weird, somehow there are two thread about this, even though the submitted URLs appear identical. Didn't think that was supposed to be possible.

Anyway, cross-posting from the other thread:

> This is brilliant. Get tons of people who current just use GitHub for public repos to put up some private ones, then in a month send them an email saying "start paying, or we'll take away your private repos". People are lazy, so a lot of people once they've already put the repos up won't want to move them.

Inertia was working against them; this gets it working for them.
Honestly, the fact you can run most XNA-Xbox360 code without any code changes I think pushes into a ready made game porting group.
Is anyone looking for an Embedded Linux developer to do some contract work? I have a full-time job but I'm looking to supplement my income.

I have experience with x86, ARM, MIPS and PowerPC development on different kinds of systems from user-space apps to kernel drivers (wireless and character devices).

My contact info is my profile
I mis-spoke; it wasn't my intention to call viruses alive. My intention was actually the opposite: I was trying to anticipate a possible objection to what I said about all known life having the same genome type (double stranded DNA). That's true as long as one discounts viruses as a sort of life.

Really though, whether one wants to call viruses alive or not is a philosophical point, detached from any real significance.
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The deal seems yawn because as micro-plan subscribers, we're not able to take benefit of it!

If I hadn't a micro plan already, I would definitely give it a try.
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Hasn't this news been around for 24-48 hours now?
I've always loved traveling to places where the standard of living is much cheaper then where I live. This way you can eat better and do way more extravagant things while potentially saving money. Between 5 star meals you could be hacking your side projects from a posh roof top patio and when your in a slump you can go site seeing.

The other advice I'd give to traveling to relatively exotic places is to somewhere that someone you trust knows well; preferably with said person. The best way to find all the gems of a new place and get a real feel for the local flavor is with someone who knows how to showcase it. If you have friends from interesting places see if they can help you plan a trip, or see if they can join you for some portion of the excursion.
Interesting setup, but it seems pretty wildly incorrect at times.

For instance:
Comp Sci -> Ethics: "Designing interactions that combine pen, paper, and computer".
Comp Sci -> Radiology: "Securing untrustworthy software using information flow control"
Comp Sci 98 -> Physiology: "Consistent overhead byte stuffing"

Could be a heck of a lot better. Especially given the long almost-locked-up pauses, and the inability to keep a block of text up when you move the mouse away. All the little things add up, making me doubt the creator used it themselves at all, aside from making sure it functioned.
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this blog is completely justified, and it shows that wepay stands behind its commitment of customer service.

It also shows that wepay (through this blog rant) is not saavy in some pretty standard ways of the world. Which is a real big fucking concern for anyone who's thinking about trusting them with their money.

OP says it himself with his very first "lesson", "Don’t optimize for the edge-case." Then he violates his own first lesson.

By complaining about customer service, he just got a small set of sympathetic people to passionately agree. And accidently got a huge set of potential customers to go away.

OP had a difficult experience. He got bitten by a software bug and horrible customer service. We've all been there. We understand.

My point is not that I don't sympathize with him. My point is that he's using his corporate blog to make a small point, potentially costing him huge unanticipated problems on the other side of this. He may pick up a few raving customer service fans, but how many people will think twice before trusting their money to someone either too green or too lazy to understand a standard airline contract?

OP may win this battle, but lose the war. I imagine he, his co-founders, and his business partners have worked way too hard to risk so much for so little.
Amazon stops hosting WikiLeaks site
The fact that it does exist doesn't strengthen your argument that large companies should be allowed to act like assholes to their customers.
Nothing... that I can think off. DDOS attacks are horrible for exactly this reason, if you can find the source and kill it as close to home as possible than you have a chance but other than that, wikileaks is in a really bad position right now.
Is wikileaks seriously Down?
The language on the home page around 'too good to be true' made me pause before signing up. It almost sounds like you're saying 'there's a catch!'

I think being a little more clear about your business model will go a long way to allaying concerns among users signing up for RewardLevel.
Here, providers are already working on rolling out IPv6. I think initially they will give both a IPv4 and IPv6 address. If you stay on IPv4, fine, but you'll eventually have to live with NAT.
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Aaron.

Awesome feedback. Should we include how we make money in that paragraph?
the chart includes C#, D, etc, but not Fortran?
allowed???
The formula is:

FundingAmount = €41K + NumFounders * €50K
I don't think that wikileaks really worries about someone taking their servers at Amazon. The data on them isn't secret at all.

They have copies of the data and gave copies away as encrypted volumes on bittorent.
Heh. Makes me wonder if Kik enticed some BBM engineers to switch jobs.
SSL is the application of RSA like a pebble bed nuclear reactor is the application of radioactivity.

Every-other-web-developer's use of SHA has created vulnerabilities, from crappy password hashes through poorly-considered URL authentication schemes that have blown up on extremely well-funded teams (see: Amazon and Flickr).

Just like that Boy Scout who figured out how to extract uranium from old clocks and gas lanterns, most of the time, when lay developers try to build something with cryptography, all that happens is that a team of people in hazmat gear have to come clean up the mess.
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Ask HN: Thanks for helping me with my talk, now I need your help for charity
Last week I asked for your advice on how to talk in front of a large audience. Thanks for all the suggestions & links, much appreciated. This is last week's discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1937170

Many asked what this was all about. I can lift a little corner of the veil now : I will be talking onstage at the LeWeb conference in Paris in order to raise money for charity:water. I've been swimming to raise money & that's what I'll be talking about.

http://www.leweb.net/agenda/2010/program

I have no experience whatsoever with raising money for charity, so if anyone has suggestions, chip in below. I really want to make the best out of my five minutes allocated & raise as much money as I can. Any tips on increasing awareness & virality of what I'm doing would be great.

I've prepared this blog as a starting point, suggestions welcome: http://www.coldwaterswimming.com
Surely by labelling yourself with this identical info block you're marking yourself as a type of person?
I think it makes WePay seem human

Human yes, but also young and inexperienced. The cool kid who hasn't been around the block yet.
The identity of informants would be pretty secret. (Still waiting for wikileaksleaks.org).
That didn't last very long eh?
Ideally, yes. Maybe you could say something like "Sound too good to be true? It isn't: Reward Level is completely free for you and your users. We make money through our partner referrals."

Except that what I wrote is terrible, but hopefully you get the idea :)

Edit: and please put this above the fold.
Would downvote if I could.
WikiLeaks website pulled by Amazon
Considering i could keep my private repo from the beta until i accidentally deleted it (empty repo) this is a good deal for us that do not use github enough to warrant paying monthly but does appreciate it. I just made my self 5 private empty repoes named private1-5. I can just rename them and put them to use when i need them and most likely they will persist (or just become public?) when the free month runs out. Not that i wouldn't want to pay GitHub for their awesome service but when you're a unemployed student with bills to pay i'd rather have food on my table one more day than private repos.

Should probably add that i would pay for a plan if i needed private repos, but this is nice since i get stuff i don't need and don't have to pay for. Freebies are awesome :-)
seems like a great guess to me: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felisa_Wolfe-Simon
Or maybe we're just testing out a new feature we just built that might be a bit bigger than 30-days free micro before we start pushing it out more.

You never know.
Really like the idea. At first, I thought you were building a funnel for your other venture, but this application has much bigger vision. My one primary turn-off here is relevance of the reward to what I'm signing up for. I'm sure this is what you're going after and hasn't materialized yet due to lack of offers to pass around. But I'm curious how you're planning on solving this in a way that scales well.

PS: Tidy up those "Reward Detail" popups! Keep it up!

PPS: The email link on the about page is "protected" (hi [at] rewardlevel [dot] com) whereas the email link at the top is not.
I'm sure WePay does not dedicate as much time/effort into understanding every complex industry and in fact they obviously shouldn't. Banking and payments is core to their business. Air travel is not. I would still trust my lawyer if he/she failed to tell me how high I could jump on the moon.
An great example how a lot of "political" stories are hugely relevant on tech startups. Anybody who's thinking of hosting controversial content on AWS or other Amazon properties has to be looking at this closely.
Amazon no longer hosts wikileaks
I find Alan Kay's perspective interesting:

Some people are completely religious about type systems and as a mathematician I love the idea of type systems, but nobody has ever come up with one that has enough scope. If you combine Simula and Lisp—Lisp didn’t have data structures, it had instances of objects—you would have a dynamic type system that would give you the range of expression you need.

And:

I just think that’s a two-culture divide. I’ve seen many meetings where people are unable to communicate just because of the stylistic differences in approaches.
The website that distributes documents to the world does not need to be the same place where they receive incoming communications.
So would I, and I did! Sweet nectar baby.
I think this is a great resource. If integrated correctly (game layer) then I believe websites with decent traffic + communities built around them will be able retain users longer (sticky) and increase loyalty will equal more $$$ in the long term.
Github, you can do better ! It feels like we're being offered to test drive a free trial deal which ought to exist anyway.
I'm new to DVCS, and I recently setup a Bitbucket account which offers free unlimited space and repositories. Github does seem to be far more popular, though. What makes Github better and worth paying for?
It's standard knowledge that your second leg will be canceled if you miss your first leg. It's been that way for 30 years.

I thought that was standard as well, but I fly usually fly United or other big carriers.

I flew JetBlue recently, and did something just like what this guy did. I called up expecting to have to rebook, but they said that wasn't necessary, and even refunded the money for the first leg.

I can see how someone used to Virgin, JetBlue, et al. could make this mistake.
> "It should also be noted that many non-techie's I speak to think Droid = Android."

Hang out in a Verizon store for about 30 minutes on a weekend. Count the people who come in to ask about "the Droid" and note the looks on their faces when the salesperson inevitably says "which one?" and proceeds to show them the whole lineup of "Android" phones.

The customer comes in trying to answer "do I want a droid phone?" but then spends all their time on the question "what the hell is a droid phone?" It's hardly surprising so many people remain undecided.
Who are we lying to?
User tracking is so essential to business optimization and ad targeting that the FTC's initiatives can only backfire.

Today, the analytics and advertising industries increasingly self-regulate, cookie-based opt-outs are usually available, and concerned users can quite effectively opt-out through technical means. Should the FTC or Congress mandate opt-in or even a broadly promoted 'do not track' list, companies will quickly protect their revenues by making opt-in mandatory for content access - and the opt-in that's required will likely be a whole lot more intrusive than the relatively benign tracking that takes place today.
totally agreed about the sysadmins.

i think there's lots of people who deserve credit for stepping up to try to handle it -- security researchers, Linux folks, and yes Microsoft (things really did change starting in 2001 or so, although of course there's still room for improvement). sysadmins are at the top of my list though and don't get anywhere neary the credit they deserve
Google responds to NY Times article by improving its algorithms
I thought it was for exactly this reason. He doesn't elaborate though.
I remember reading about this when it was combined with a 5.56mm rifle in a single package. Good to see it going to production; combining the best of direct and indirect fire in a single weapon does seem a bit of a game changer.

It's interesting to project the tactical adaptations of people facing the weapon. Seeking L-shaped cover and trying even harder to avoid direct engagement (IEDs, etc) seem obvious; but I'm sure there are many more implications.
FYI, the link to RFS 8 is broken.
Remotely hacking wireless networks via iPhone
Typo in the last line: "and inch" should be "an inch"
I know; I'm making that page now.
That's just for now. We're manually running the scans to monitor the results as they come in. After our beta, scan results will be viewable in less than a day.
fixed; thanks
Yea, pretty terrible :P

Let me think of something. Don't really want to push changes live but tonight or early tomorrow.

Please keep the feedback coming!
What I don't understand is why Google doesn't go a layer up from this and aggregate across the many deal sites. Outside of the US, the clones are the leaders in the space. Google could work to provide search across the multiple deal providers, provide custom alerts when particular products and services become available (just imagine the value of knowing which items a person is watching to see when they go on sale!). Google Deals could be much more powerful than a single site app like Groupon.

Buying Groupon, especially at the rumored prices, is a weak move. Incidentally, I signed up for the service and unsubscribed after two days. It's of zero interest to me to have irrelevant garbage deals pushed at me, so maybe I am missing some key spam/bacn tolerance level needed to grok it.
Can somebody passionate explain what Pomodoro is? When I Google it all I get are sauce recipes; I'd love if an enthusiast for the system could explain to me what makes it so effective and nice.
Definitely true about people assuming that Droid = Android, and the article title comparing the iPhone (physical device) to Android (OS) doesn't really help.
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A quick note about business models. As he is an Admob guy, he is categorizing app business models to two main category

"Decide whether you’re providing a one time, high value experience that favors the pay-to-download model or if you plan to reach a large audience and continue to engage them over time, in which case an ad-supported model often makes more sense."

However, with easy mini-payment options (in-app purchases, cross-promotion between apps) mobile is currently strong a business model that is potentially much stronger than either of these: get a (large) audience and sell more stuff to them. It's working for games (half of the top grossing apps in App Store are freemium), it's working for navigation apps, I'm pretty sure that it will work for many other categories too.
My first thought, like many of you, was that everyone knows (or at least all frequent fliers know) that missing a leg will usually result in cancellation of your flight, and that you have to let the airline know BEFORE the first flight departs that you don't plan on taking it. The OP could have saved himself a lot of trouble by simply calling United before he left and canceling his departure.

After mulling it over, my second thought was that air travel is a BIG DEAL to most people -- it's stressful and expensive, and the rules are opaque. I agree that United could have made this MUCH better by sending the OP a notice within, say, 12 hours of missing his first flight explaining the situation and his future options.

Straying from the customer experience, on a systems side, airline yield management is a TERRIFIC problem to think about. By forbidding passengers from skipping flights in an itinerary, you effectively remove the restriction that the total itinerary price must be the sum of the legs that it comprises. This opens up all kinds of new possibilities to use economics to balance load across the system.
This already happens all the time in politics. All you have to do is plant a lie in people's heads and some people will believe it forever, despite conclusive evidence to the contrary.
Sounds good, I look forward to seeing it! Plus, I did sign up, and I'll let you know offline if I have any more feedback.

This product looks awesome, btw!
This looks like a great idea.

I think it would be great to use as an incentive for participating in a site after signing up. For example on my site, Scribophile, I don't consider a user 'converted' until they 1) sign up and 2) post a critique. Just signing up is useless to the site unless the user also participates.

Looking at the way you've implemented the widget, is there a way I can make the above scenario happen? So say there's a message after you sign up for Scribophile that says something like "write a critique within 5 days of signing up and get xxx reward!"

Also, how do you target these rewards? Again, for a site like mine, users wouldn't want a Kissmetrics account. They'd want something writing-related, like an Amazon.com gift certificate, or the like. Is there a way to choose specific rewards?
About the same. Depends on how recently I looked at it. I usually stop when the articles are ones I've seen before. That's when I roll over to the new section. Don't usually get past 5 pages over there.
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Hi Simon,

I'm the monster artist.
I doing it mostly for fun, but there are a few people who will use them for logos, avatars, and character designs for role playing games.
As for the copyright - I say if you buy it, you own it. If for any reason the monster goes on to be famous - just let me know! You keep the profits, just give me credit please.
Opinions are fantastic. The problem here is that your opinions are meaningless unless you support them. And whether you choose to back up your opinion or not in a meaningful way is the difference between reading/commenting on news _here_ versus reading/commenting on news _most_ other places.
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I also find it bizarre that they pay Lucasfilm Ltd. EVERY TIME they use the word "droid." That is a LOT of dollars for a few Star Wars/robot/geek-masculinity associations.
I agree it isn't ideal, but given limited resources, there are a lot of cases where having a good manual/human exception handling procedure is a better solution than fixing the software. (And training employees to "be nice to customers, pretend your boss's mother is flying today" would improve all interactions with the airline; fixing this one particular bug wouldn't be as generally beneficial. Realistically United will do neither :)
Mike,

Appreciate the feedback.

We will solve it with inventory and the algorithm, just takes some time get it all right.

Redesign for pop-up and hopefully js version with roll-over coming shortly.

Yea, hopefully google apps can do its job at protecting spam.
I'm not sure how anonymous this is, but http://whenisgood.net/ works pretty well for this general type of task.
Ryanair's website is truly evil - who would have guessed that "No I don't want insurance" is half way down the list of countries.

However, the flight experience is OK - comparable with your usual charter flight carriers and the value for money is exceptional.
Think hard about where these algorithms have actually been a user win. Sure, SSL and PGP (though these are both products of the 1990s). Maybe, maybe you could win an argument for SSH --- thought SSH has a really bad track record. What else? Mostly, people who try to use RSA or AES end up like the people at the turn of the last century who ingested radium tonics.
How would you do that? Would a simple 'wget --recursive' suffice or you're after something more sophisticated?
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Basically just timeboxing for 25-minute sprints:

http://www.pomodorotechnique.com/
The real thing that makes these "tablets" interesting is the number of features they have packed into them. The "ease of use" that people are talking about when referencing Apple's products is just a part of Apple's marketing for their devices. Android (and Maemo and MeeGo and etc) devices are much more capable and much more hackable. Why the praise for such a bland device such as the i-OSes when there's an awesome OS and device market sitting right next to it?
Another possible recipe for a startup (not saying this would be easy) is to find an important way that Apple is handicapping their devices and overcome it on Apple's own platform in a way that Apple will allow. If you can do that, users will love it and buy your product.
I believe the parent post was saying that, having one parent would more make you more likely to be poor. So when looking at the list of billionaires who are poor the majority would have one parent.
Developers have used the accelerometer in ways Apple could never have imagined.

That sentence is one instance of this sentence:

Developers have used <platformFunction> in ways <inventor> could never have imagined.

What better argument for open standards, APIs, and community cooperation?
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Is there any way to stop the service offering competitors products?