skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In 2003 I was just a few years out of college, working for ClickSitez Japan, K.K., a startup trying to convince VCs that people were going to do their photos on the interweb tubes. We had angel funding and a prototype/demo with one and only one error-free path through it (the "shining path", one of our advisors called it, and the name stuck). We on the engineering side divided our time between coding the prototype and helping the bizdev guys pitch it to anybody who'd listen: VCs, other dot-coms, even NTT.

My business card read VP/UX, which was supposed to mean "Vice President, User Experience". Like a lot of dot-com startups at the time, we had like 7 vice presidents of this or that, with only 2 staffers below VP level.

What I actually did know then, and simply wish I had factored into my decision-making processes more, was that the dot-com bubble was a bubble and that trying to play the stock game in a bubble isn't fundamentally different from playing blackjack. Bootstrapping is preferable to chasing investors, in retrospect.

Of course, everybody knew it was a bubble; the technology stock analyst I was dating at the time told me, "Yeah. It's a bubble, but it's still paying out. So there will still be money to be made here, until the day comes that it was a bubble."

It was March 2000 when that day came, as near as I can recall. We never got that next funding round, and as it started to become clear that the party was over, the three of us who could code went our separate ways, and the company was acquired by some short-lived web consulting company, which was in turn acquired by somebody else, and ultimately was bought by the posterboy of dot-com Internet flameouts, marchFIRST.

The most valuable lesson that has stuck with me is that none of these people--investors, analysts, "experts", bosses, underlings, dot-celebrities of the day--knew what the hell they were talking about.

I'm not saying that I did, mind you--nobody did. That's why these things are assigned descriptors like "revolutionary, disruptive technological paradigm shift". Because nobody knows what the hell all the effects are going to be.

Not many of the things such hyperbolic labels are applied to actually turn out to do all that much disrupting. But the dot-com revolution was different--it was a bona-fide Gutenberg-level event, and for all the billions of dollars that were bandied about and the huge transfers of wealth and the frenzied investment in it, that was really just a pretty minor part of the whole picture. The impact of the Internet becoming a mainstream part of modern human society goes much deeper than that.

And that's what made it fun to be living and breathing every day. Despite all the missed opportunities and inevitable what-ifs looking back, I'm glad I was there.
I'm interested, but on the fence. How many people usually go to these events?

I live out in Gunma, so a train ticket and hotel room would be a pretty major investment for me.
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Sarkozy Announces via Facebook that he will not run in 2012, per a hacker
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I was working for a IT recruiting company, managing a team that essentially was pulling down and parsing every resume from the job sites at that time - Monster.com, Dice.com, HotJobs, etc. Recruiters were on the phone every day to try and find guys who knew all the 'hot' tech at the time - Vignette was a really big ticket item, for example, with six-figure salaries and a high percent for recruiters.

It wasn't a 'boiler room' mentality--far from it--and we had plans to really grow, after creating our own database of resumes.

Of course, that ran out of steam when the bust came and there was only really one company which had the resume database market covered, and that was Monster. By that time, I had moved on to another company called ArsDigita. Hmm, out of the frying pan...
I also dont see problem there. I think it's SEO problem of StackOverflow
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Why not? Facial recognition algorithms are becoming common features. I'm not saying the Tunisian government would have had the ability to drum up a hack like that, but the concept has been proven possible by several independent entities.
Spot on: the so called "Master" isn't a chief, but a world. A Good DM fades into the background, such that only the deeds of the PCs are remembered. I heard a passionate recall from a Starwars RPG once. The game master wasn't even mentioned.
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Motorola. "Remote Access Server/Software Deployment Engineer".

I learned that I never wanted to work for a big company again. It was a big ordeal to a manager's sized cubicle for me so I'd have the proper space to do my job (build and image servers).

The good things I learned were process/project management, UNIX in a production environment, and an appreciation for Sun workstations.
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WebGain, a company that could not have existed without the bubble, though it staggered on through 2001. First wave of layoffs in November, the company died 5 months later.

Taught me to never value stock options more than common sense.
Crazy, so if this is legit, this really is more akin to a keylogger than them sniffing the network traffic, which is what I thought was meant by it.

Tunisian IPS's were injecting some javascript code on Facebook's login page that was watching the keystrokes in the login/password fields. When someone clicked LOGIN, the script would send those credentials to a URL, but also Facebook's HTTPS login page, so everything proceeded as normal.

Interesting vector for an attack, seems like the solution, of serving the login page itself in HTTPS as well is simple (and cheap) enough that everybody should adopt it.
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Ask HN: What's happened to fuzzy logic?
I've come across fuzzy logic mostly in pedagogical context these days. Of course there are still researchers and developers using fuzzy logic to develop algorithms, but has the mainstream future of AI been supplanted by machine learning, natural language processing, computer vision, robotics, etc.? Or fuzzy logic has become a part of each or some of these subdisciplines of AI?
I wrote a bit about how I generated these files here: http://ghewgill.livejournal.com/145305.html Also, there's a link to the source on Github.
I added items to my back button history. Really annoying.
>Yes, that's my projection. Sorry for the ad hominem argument. It just smelled like a rhetorical trick, so I got carried away.

Fair enough. There are so many dishonest people arguing on both sides that one begins to expect the worst.

>Either God exists, or it doesn't. Of atheists and deists, one group is wrong. As a matter of fact.

Agreed. But one can never prove a negative. We can never prove that there is no plane of existence where another being might exist. That's not to say science shouldn't try. Science should, of course, explore every aspect of existence that it can test and observe.

>Politeness is secondary, however: we face Freaking Real Death! I bet many would like to solve that problem (and there are slim hopes that it will eventually be).

Of course. I don't see why a theist should have a problem with trying to cure death. For a Christian (for example), the story of the tower of babel should be enough to feel comfortable that man wont be allowed to do "go to far". If it happens, then it was obviously allowed.

>Hey, my non-believer's very soul is at stake!

Honestly, it is this very urgency from both sides that causes the problems I think. If the climate change situation has demonstrated anything, it has demonstrated that my urgency can not inspire you to action.

>science has a hope of detecting (and proving the presence of) that thing

We can't even detect the things we think we know about (e.g. dark matter). We can't expect to be able to detect things we don't even know about yet.

>not only God is observable

Not God, but actions of God. And I agree, some occurrences in a holy book should be able to be discovered.

>If we don't (it's pretty clear we don't), then something is off.

You seem to be assuming God would be in the same plane of existence as us. If I build a house I am not confined to that house, why would God be constrained by his own creation.

>saying that the existence of God can't be tested strikes me as an extremely weak justification for belief in God

It wasn't my intention to justify belief in anything, but rather defuse the absolute certainty of a position that can never be absolutely certain. My hope is that if people realize that no one has or can have all the answers that they'll stop trying to convince everyone all the time.

From what I've seen, the people who preach their message to strangers the loudest tend to be the worst representatives said message, regardless of faith (or lack thereof).
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Hem, the photos and the second videos are fake. The light sometimes doesn't match the mouth.

The first video is quite funny, though.
Of course, this may well be why Apple has done so well the last ten or so years. Perhaps CEOs should be more involved in product development, and it would be an error for Apple to go back to doing what everyone else does...
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Thanks for this post and the funny title.
Main lesson: take your business serious but focus on more than this.
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These matters aren't binary and solutions don't have to work for all time; raising the sophistication and effort required to bulk-compromise accounts for now is a worthwhile goal.

Of course requiring SSL won't save people from widely-trusted rogue CAs, ignoring all security warnings, or even very active man-in-the-middle attacks which hide from users that SSL was ever being required. But each of those attacks requires a larger investment than tampering with a plain HTTP page.

Same with the social verifier: if the agents had already studied a specific person's network of friends, and need to break that one account, with effort they can. But their previous automatic dragnet was broken.

Facebook may have been in a stickier position if the Tunisian government had attempted a superficially 'legal' demand for user information. But the government didn't. And even if it had, unless Facebook has Tunisian offices/hosting, the government's pull over what Facebook does on its US-based servers would be very limited. To even try ordering Facebook around would have worsened the domestic discontent. (The article reports that it was rumored at one point Facebook would be blocked nationwide.)
What's happening to the ISPs for collaborating with the previous government on these requests?
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I was 13 or 14...
But login requests on Facebook do use SSL- if you use firebug on the Facebook homepage, the login form points to " https://login.facebook.com/login.php?login_attempt=1 ".

The issue seems to be that code is injected in pages that merely contained a login form: http://blog.rootshell.be/2011/01/13/tunisia-tracks-users-wit...
That's a weird way of doing checksums. Summing digits preserves residues mod 9, yet the final check is mod 10. Weird.

(Now how do the 3 additional verification digits on the back work?)
I was in a software company with a product that made it easier to interoperate with different OSes. I was doing tech support on e-mail and phone duty and did QA work on the side.

The #1 thing is to sniff out the signs of a poorly run company which, believe me, even if you couldn't care less about the machinations of business much less have never run one, you can still see the warning flags a country mile away.

When there is no clear oversight of who is keeping tabs, you're in trouble. This ill-fated company company had a staff at most 60 and yet we had a tech closet with _literally_ a laundry basket full of RAM; for WHAT? I had no idea. That was just the tip of the iceberg.

I knew it was over about 6 months later when the CEO hired a friend to run marketing and the guy ordered Aeron chairs for him and his hangers-on "team". Then we had a huge blowout shindig replete with house band, Filet Mignon and an open bar. Everyone was completely wasted and well-fed. It was glorious.

3 months later we were all laid off.
It's used somewhat in AI still, especially the communities going under the name "computational intelligence" (CI). In many communities it's been supplanted by various statistical approaches, though. Fuzzy logic starts from logic, and adds in non-binary distinctions. An alternate approach is to start from statistics, and add in structure: things like Markov logic networks, Bayesian graphical models, probabilistic planning, hierarchical reinforcement learning, and a dozen other such approaches. Both sets of approaches have the same high-level goal of bringing together symbolic reasoning with numerical inference, in some form.

The second basket of approaches (statistics+structure) is now more popular overall than fuzzy logic I think, though it depends on what communities you're from; fuzzy logic is much more popular in engineering-flavored disciplines than in math-flavored disciplines.
But login requests on Facebook do use SSL- if you use firebug on the Facebook homepage, the login form points to " https://login.facebook.com/login.php?login_attempt=1 ".
The issue seems to be that code is injected in pages that merely contained a login form: http://blog.rootshell.be/2011/01/13/tunisia-tracks-users-wit...
Sean Parker sort of reminds of a couple of guys that lived in the neighborhood I grew up in. If you ever saw the documentary Cocaine Cowboys these are those guys. Guys with humble beginnings as pilots and fishermen (in the 80s before the war on drugs got the DEA AWACS and nightvision) that stumbled onto something that made them insanely rich. After hearing their stories about 80s Miami and reading stories about Parker I can totally draw the parallels between them.

Its quite possible that most of the other characters were fictional but the writer seems to have nailed him.
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> Do you have any explanation?

In the context, the two words are essentially synonyms; they mean that you favour neither side. Go look up the definitions rather than imposing your own artificial distinction.

And the point with Godwin's law is that if you need to resort to absurd comparisons with Hitler or the Holocaust, then you obviously don't have much of an argument.

Your point above seems to be that one time, somewhere, a TV program took a ridiculous stand on an issue[1], therefore the whole media artifice is ridiculously biased and crumbling... or something.

[1] Note - not a neutral stance, because they gave holocaust deniers disproportionate airtime in comparison to the weight of evidence.
I feel I'm being moronic, and will come back to this in an hour or so once I've finished some work and do the maths again... but I've checked with four cards (two credit cards, two debit cards, all VISA) and none of them result in a number divisible by ten. Results were 107, 98, 107, 106.

Having read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luhn_algorithm I'm either doing it right, or I'm way more tired than I thought. Each card number is 16 digits long, so for (from the left) digits 1, 3, etc. I double them, then I add the sum of those doubles to digits 2, 4, etc.

i.e.

1234 1234 1234 1234

Would be:

((1 * 2) + 2 + (3 * 2) + 4) * 4

I feel really dumb for writing that out given it's already written out in this article, and on Wikipedia, but either I am being really dumb or my four cards are all invalid.

EDIT: Here is an old card number (card is long expired), and to be safe I've swapped various numbers around (but only swapped even position numbers with each other, and odd position numbers with each other, so it shouldn't effect the check sum). Could someone kindly tell me if I'm being an idiot?

5658 4612 3826 9730
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A complementary approach is to find a really recent general one and skip to the end for the citations. Where possible, finding the original paper on a topic (e.g. gelman & gelman on mcmc) always makes me feel like a child with ten pence for sweeets.
Spot on keyle, website redesign is one of the key uses we're pitching Wirify for.
Still don't understand why it would need the url to specific articles. Surely the domain would do.
You could also write that "if only we knew..." because were it common knowledge it would of course be priced in already.
But presumably they're also getting paid market salaries.
Good points prawn.

Certainly if someone was to 'rip' an existing website design wouldn't they just grab the HTML+CSS directly? Wirify is definitely not intended, nor useful, for that.
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Related: Glo-sticks burst in a shower of (hot) glowing liquid when thrown in a campfire.
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Is "options, not stock" mainly to get around the 500 shareholder rule? How is the strike price of the options typically determined?
I'm flagging this post because the entire premise it rests on is shaky at best. Whether it was a random moderator or a whole bunch of people who flagged we may never know but frankly, I don't give a damn.
Sure, but the big problem with a static structure is that once you are down the road the inevitable 'unknown unknowns' creep in, no matter how tastefully you've designed your interfaces (whether they are literally java/c#/etc. interface types, or class definitions, hierarchies, etc.), and it becomes incredibly difficult to modify things without there being a lot of work involved in fixing things up.

I really do think go's 'real interfaces' i.e. types being implicitly convertible to interfaces which have matching method sigs is a tasteful stroke of brilliance, especially for a lowish level language.
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What about EOD only? Iirc mildew was only a few hundred a month.
Fair points seancron. Wirify is already skipping quite a few HTML elements in its processing, however it certainly works better on some sites than others. I've found that proper 'semantic markup' also gives better results than old school table-based layouts for instance.

One of the earlier prototypes let you control the 'level of detail' in the wireframe: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuKJVZRDjRo We've decided to ditch this idea for the time being though due to the extra complexity.
Ask HN:How to fire a client who is a scamming gullible people through your work?
I am the CEO of a small software services based company(7 devs including me). We
have been working for a customer for almost an year now. We created a job
portal for these guys from the ground up.

They told me that thier business model was:

a. They put up ads on newspapers and other media.

b. People looking for jobs call them.

c. An agent tries to sell the caller, one of their products which helps them get a job.

d. They said that if a job seeker buys their "paid product" they hookup the job
seeker with one of their employers, meaning that they had contacts through
which they patch up job seekers and potential employers.

e. The job portal itself showed jobs which were scraped from careerbuilder,
monster etc,.

That's what I knew when our company took up the job. It still sounds like a scam, but I did some
research on these guys and found nothing suspicious. So, I went ahead and took
up the job, trusted that I was not doing anything wrong, and everything was hunky dory.

Recently I found that the job-seekers didn't actually call them, It was the
other way round. These guys got the information about people looking for jobs,
and called them up trying to sell their product. Now, when I search for the
company, I see a lot of complaints about these guys on ripoffreport.com and
800notes.com.

I am convinced that these guys are cheating people who are
desperate to get jobs. And, I am gonna stop working on all their stuff right
now. That is what I am gonna do. However, I need help figuring out a few
things:

1. What would be the best way to tell them, that I am going to stop working on their projects?

2. Also, these guys have told me recently, that they want more developers and
that they want to build more things. So, How do I cut them off completely?

3. How can a company like ours spot these scammers before taking up a job in the
future?

4. Lastly, is there anything I can do, to undo the damage I've done to these
job-seekers?

P.S Please upvote this so that, I can get this in front of as many eyes as
possible. It's an anonymous account.

Thank you!
I had just left a mobile healthcare company (Palm VII's and Palm V's with a giant data sled!!!) I had founded in college with some friends that was doomed for failure.

I had just graduated and started at a small mobile company (hockey-stick growth!) that was trying to convince distributors that putting cell phones in Coke machines to call home was a good idea. I was told the company was planning to double in size that year. I was the last guy they hired.

About 4 months later I got laid off when the company went from 60 employees down to about 10 in one afternoon. I felt horrible. I then went through a get-hired/layoff cycle despite giving 110% effort at each new job. Oddly enough, each new position paid better and I sharpened my skills. I learned the art of the interview, and I learned that sometimes getting laid off has nothing to do with you.

Being rejected and forced to claw my way into the field with little experience was good for me, but for a while I overvalued job security.

I learned this: always have a few months living expenses in the bank. When the music stops, you won't have time to run and grab a chair. Live on Ramen and pickles until you have saved up enough and then make that number your new "empty". If you increase your cost of living, increase your reserve. Bank account:2mos is the new Inbox:0
You may also look at "Topographic view" or "Topographic page layout" bookmarklet. See http://www.squarefree.com/bookmarklets/webdevel.html .
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Yes, and some of those `hidden features' are just nice library functions that avoid adding features to the core language. Look at `enumerate' and `zip' for example, which allow Python to get away with one very simple for-loop.
The Wirify terms of use are outlined here: http://www.volkside.com/tools/wirify/#terms-of-use

As for guarantees on being around, there certainly aren't any, but hey it's the internet right :)
Mind if I answer that? Native talent, if you can find any willing to work for you, is incredibly cheap. Years of age times 100k yen, there, that will get you any flavor of engineer you want in Nagoya. (Fully loaded cost multiplies in a fashion similar to the US, so figure on $60k or so all in for a thirty year old after you pay for company contributions to healthcare, pension, taxes, etc.)

Foreigners typically get compensated better unless they're stupid. sheepishly raises hand

Two issues in hiring that are relevant for startups: bilingual engineers are as rare as hen's teeth, and the traditional expectations of Japanese society strongly counsel your best potential hires to ensconse themselves in a secure job at a Japanese megacorp rather than rolling the dice on a startup.
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