skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If your copyright notice is in place, then Burn'em they've got cash for... Bigtime media feels they can walk over any & everybody...so (WTF) Burn'em.
interesting ... i don't know about stallman's involvement in Hurd, but iirc he's been pretty critical of all major software companies, even ones like Google that are friendly to the open-source community. i wonder how he feels about Hurd participating in Summer of Code.
I believe their argument is more on the lines of "why aren't we doing this? It's so damn cheap"

Like you said, cost of fuel is a small part of generating energy. Besides, PG&E would mark up for the "privilege" of using their power. ;)
Falls under the category of circumstantial evidence, which can certainly tip the balance beyond the "reasonable doubt" criteria if there is enough of it.
I studied music in college, but my instrument is an orchestral one of limited appeal. I did teach middle school and high school students during college - I wonder if that's not something to revisit. Thanks for the encouragement and comment.
Downloading Facebook Albums with C#
You should also tell them that fat and carbohydrates are basically interchangeable. The body can easily convert between them, so there is little point in limiting just one of them.

In fact eating fat will probably lead to less calories overall since fat gives an earlier feeling of fullness.
This line of thinking is immature. If you walk in with mentalities like that or dumb filters like the one described, all you will get is strife. We already have enough of these silly dip-stick questions floating around in companies, and HR teams trying these tricks.

My advice, take time, talk, and don't work with programmers or people who make their judgements based on a movie plot. It only shows they might be emotional and very difficult to work with.
This has worked for me. I estimate it will take 8 hours - quote 16 days.
Reading the bill, I'm not seeing where it bans community fiber; rather it seems to require local government to not use tax monies to subsidize the access, and to not abuse their position to hamper private competition. Both seem pretty reasonable to me. What am I missing?
The telecom companies are already themselves subsidized.
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> Is there a way to just output the letters as a stream of phonyms?

After noticing the frequency of NCBE, I focused on these three lines from the first document:

(FLRSE PRSE ONDE 71 NCBE)
(CDNSE PRSE ONS*E 74 NCBE)
(PR+SE PRSE ONREDE 75 NCBE)

They seem pronounceable in a sort of pig-latin style - "Flur-say pur-say ohn-day 71 nick-bay"

> although its tough to say "oranger than orange with a texture like crumpled sandpaper and snow" succinctly.

As a side-note, do you know of any books/novels that authentically explore with that kind of language and method of internally expressing concepts? I think it's interesting to learn how people interpret the world.
no, but as http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2384961 mentions, its probably the quality of the peering agreement making the difference
I'll be honest: I was going to leave it like that until they posted their last update (the one at 4:23pm in my post). It actually pissed me off at that point, and I started thinking: "hey! This is a freaking newspaper! What else are they going to lie about?"

So I kindof have this grudge now, and I can even couch it in a sort of righteousness... as in, "they're destroying our trust in the whole enterprise of journalism" and whatnot.

So, I guess I don't want to move on because I want to see if there's anyone watching over this. For example: newspapers need to have their circulation audited by some third party. I'm wondering if there's an ethics group consisting of journalists who sortof watch out for things like this.
It seems like any company can be legally forced into spying on you, and if that isn't already the case then they can always pass another law to make it so. Thus any such promise would be essentially toothless. Probably the strongest thing they could say would be "we only spy on you to the exact extent required by law, but by law we can't even tell you what that extent is".

http://www.aclu.org/national-security/doe-v-holder
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I consider 2010 the year of site clones and affiliates. You can also say horrible google results peaked then, and I wonder how much of it attributes to the use of apps such as wordpress. Perhaps with the decline of a clear revenue slice less people are visiting these sites.
It would be interesting to get an update on their work, if any.
I guess I don't have a big problem with this, law enforcement would need a warrant to get the information, and in most cases it would only confirm or repudiate what they already know or suspect. It's just a more convenient way to surveil a suspect, and for the suspect it's easier to counter: turn off your phone, or better yet leave it somewhere where you're not.
It's pretty amazing to be part of two incredibly successful companies. If anything this is simply proof that you can get it done.

I'm sure it's tough to maintain control when companies become (or are acquired into) behemoths. I can't imagine all of the emotional turmoil being successful in entrepreneurial adventures can be in comparison to failure, quite frankly.

He can walk away knowing that he was at the VERY least part of game changing contributions to the world. And that's pretty neat no matter what he decides to do next.

And they say...3rd time is the charm.
Effectively makes it illegal, as far as I can tell, for a community to decide that internet access is similar to roads or water infrastructure and make it broadly available at low rates.

It depends if you think internet access should be treated as an infrastructural good. I personally think that makes a lot of sense. While I wouldn't want to see anyone make a law against private internet connectivity, if a town wants to pool their money and pay to build out infrastructure that should be legal.
Take the shortcut. Build the product. And if later, it turns out you made a design mistake, refactor the code. But at least you will have a product that your users love.

This doesn't seem to be working with me. When you re-factor a part of your code, you are probably doing it for optimization. When your architecture is broken and you are going dark, I don't think you can still re-factor your whole code base and keep your customers happy. (Deadlines, bugs, downtimes, costs...).
When you consider two markets

a) digital content sales (amazon mp3 store)
b) paid cloud music host for pirates

Selling MP3's is clearly a superior business, and they are to some extent at odds with each other. What's more, we know that Amazon has contractual relationships with the majors and plenty of other music players. If they defacto condoned piracy they could end up getting a lot of grief over it from their partners.

Note that storing your pirated files on the service is against the TOU:

You must ensure that you have all the necessary rights in Your Files that permit you to use the Service without infringing the rights of any copyright owners, violating any applicable laws or violating the terms of any license or agreement to which you are bound

And they have the right to inspect your files to ensure, among other things, your compliance with the TOU:

You give us the right to access, retain, use and disclose your account information and Your Files: [...] to investigate compliance with the terms of this Agreement, enforce the terms of this Agreement

Whats more, the way music is commonly pirated means many illicit copies will have very common and identifiable names and hashes. The way amazon will be doing de-duplication means they'll automatically have indexed lists of every user that has a copy of each file without even trying to make one.

While I'm unsure if they'd want to do anything about it for PR reasons, given their interests and those of their partners I certainly wouldn't suggest using Cloud Drive for files you don't have legitimate rights to.

In a bit of an unlikely what-if scenario, imagine Amazon + Warner Brothers offering you a one time chance to pay $3000 to buy all the questionable music in your account or they'll refer the matter to their attorneys?
I think you make a good point. But I also think that in high school, yeah, I want the guy who spends a whole lot of time in the park playing ball, because he's the guy who's gonna make it into the NBA. It takes a big time investment to get really good at something. So, do senior devs need to have a github account? Maybe. Should a junior dev? Definitely.
So if you got bought for the "people" then those people go off to create some other company -- isn't that a waste of money?

Why not just setup an investment arm, invest in those people and keep a cut of their next ventures -- because you know there will be other ventures.

There seems to be some delusion that creators will want to stay long term at BigCo. The fact is that creators will always seek to create - and there are only a few slots within any BigCo to support the in-house creator. The slots at apple, for instance are filled with Jobs and Ives...
The term "serial entrepreneur" is in common use around here and definitely describes a certain class of people. While you may be right, this is one case where you may be wrong. Unlike politicians leaving to "spend more time with family".
That cache just points to the outline for me. How do I get to, say, the part of the article on exception handling? Or, alternatively, the paper on C?

Disclaimer: I've never used Drupal or a coral cache before, so I don't know how to create these links. I'm going to try the Google cache...
"something useful"

That's quite subjective. Most past figures who's contributions to society I would deem useful, who have fundamentally changed our lives and the ways we think, have been well educated. Yes, grad school is probably not the path the maximum monetary wealth but there are greater glories.
Great. Thanks for sharing. Was in middle of integrating SES and now I just need to just use your package.
Yes, and that's a separate problem that needs to be addressed, no doubt. There are a lot of places where the relationship between the telecomms and the State is corrupt and needs to be fixed.
> Instead I used c style programming in php which ends up being faster.

Faster in performance, or faster to develop and maintain?

Most PHP apps I've come across have little need for CPU optimization. Not using built-in functions in those situations is likely to have no practical benefit except making it harder for other PHP devs to work with the code.
I didn't really notice it till I read this comment, but considering their long-available AWS Console is also a flash app, it makes sense, and it sure doesn't seem like that this is all the surprise to dropbox that people elsewhere on this thread are talking about.
Couldn't agree more on value vs time. It doesn't matter at all how long I slave over the hot laptop, it's the value I bring to the client! One hour of optimization that saves $5000 a year in server costs is a steal at $2000/hr over 2-3 years.
Sue them for what? As far as I can tell, there's no copyright violation here.

edit: worth pointing out, I think what they did was unethical, but not illegal.
Students can (and should?) put the school work on Github or Bitbucket or whatever. Plus side to that is higher chance of getting to look back in later years. I desperately regret losing track of some old projects, just for missing out on poking fun at my undergrad naivete.
I lit on that too. I find myself adding syllables and sounds to words in my mind all the time to "smooth their edges". Some words just don't fit together without "help".

I thought maybe "Firse Perse On de 71 Nice be"

I'm perusing the thought that maybe he's taking notes on how people treated him or something.
Project GNU has participated in the Google Summer of Code in several past years; here's a little more info:

http://www.gnu.org/software/soc-projects/guidelines.html
I believe I read somewhere here on HN that DropBox actually only stores a single version of a file. If you try to sync a file that someone else already has then you never really upload the file. Your dropbox just has a 'pointer' to the same file.

Seems like that would throw an interesting twist into the music/movie copyright battles. You could in theory upload and consume a lot of content that you never really 'uploaded'.
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Wonder if them rolling this out/testing was part of the reason why I had a bunch of billing issues yesterday. Tried to buy two apps, got double billed on both. Immediately afterwards Google cancelled/refunded both immediately. I somehow still managed to get access to those apps even though I didn't really pay for them.
Why I cannot See any Backlinks from the Web Directories I Submit to?
Security implications of PEP383
It's been 5 years and 8 days since work on Twitter started on March 21, 2006. Several other founding employees will be fully vested by now, so I'd expect a few more departures, particularly now that Ev has made it OK to leave.
That's just it - I'm interested enough to want to know more about the company. But without knowing more about them, I'm not sure if I'm interested enough to send my resume.
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> That's like someone sympathizing with the villain from Die Hard or something.

Hey - I sympathize with the villain from Die Hard.

He had style, a good plan, including contingencies, and was doing a reasonable job executing it. He even did an okay job adapting to the unexpected.

He was just overmatched. There's no shame in that.
It seems fairly obvious that a pure tech interview doesn't screen for cultural fit, and that you need to have some form of behavioral/cultural assessment as part of the interview process.

Depending on how much time you have to interview (and I suggest you take the time if you're going to hire someone!) the "standard" dev interview can do pretty well at weeding out candidates who clearly lack basic skills. Joel Spolsky is a proponent of this and I agree.

I've found that passion is a great indicator of future success, and you can usually get a good quick read on whether they are serious about software development by asking people about their favorite projects, what they spend their time working on, and what interesting things they see happening in the field.
> homeschool vs public school
I can't speak with any authority on the relative value of home school vs public school for children of wealthy families. But I will point out that simply because a school district is well funded does not mean the school district will necessarily be better than better than a slightly less funded district.

>scaling
I did speak incompletely. I meant to to explain that school best works at scale (I meant to say "not only does that not scale down"). You have already explained this for me. Each family requires a parent to do the home schooling, where as public schools can provide a teacher for multiple children of multiple families.

>pay for it regardless
Fortunately those that own, they realize an associated cost of owning is taxation. The argument could also be made that in return for paying for the public school system, those residents are able to live in a place that has a compulsory education system.

I'd be willing to bet that no one would flock to (let alone stay there for a significant portion of time) an area that did not require taxes that went to a local school system.
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Could you expand on why Mark Zuckerberg is not in the same "class" as the others? I'm not sure what makes him so different in the example, other than Facebook is not yet so old as the other companies.
I created Crunchbase within TC. It goes down all the time because every dev TC had has left, most of us prior to the acquisition. I believe there is a single person there atm looking after everything, and the mixed environment (RoR for CB, PHP for the rest) doesn't help.

Nothing has been added to CB since I left - because I assume that the dev who is there is now stuck in the trap of administering what is there and not having the time to do development. CB is also hosted separately, and while it does go down, it just needs some TLC and a cleanup.

There is no way they will hand it over. It is worth far too much. They just needed a kick in the butt to get it back in order. CB ranks far too well on startup terms, has a lot of its own traffic, and is probably worth $10M+ on its own.

If you are a RoR dev and want to work on CrunchBase, I suggest you ping them (note I have no idea what the situation there is atm)

On the other hand, there is a legacy in my decision to make the API unrestricted and just simple json output. So CB can never disappear or be controlled. An application can get to the data as easily as a user can. The license is also super-liberal, all that is required to use the data is attribution (it's CC-Attribution). If you are ever implementing an API for an important community resource I suggest you do the same and forget API keys and all that.
There's an premise here that nuclear power is currently unsafe, which I think needs to be placed in the context of the less scary but much more widespread environmental impact of fossil-fuel based power generation.
Thorium, Uranium, whatever. Just make sure that whatever new reactors you make have negative void coefficients, so they shut themselves off if they get too hot. There's no reason civilian power reactors to make the same design trade offs that let us cram a nuclear reactor into a submarine.
Ask HN: Any better alternative to Yahoo Pipe?
I need to aggregate feeds from different source and transform the data
Megablogging. No post can have fewer than 140,000 characters.
That's kindof where I am... it was unethical, but I don't really know what is illegal about what they did.

However, I want to believe the courts aren't the only place where something like this gets sorted out. When someone does something unethical, there is usually some group that will hear about it. Academics are somewhat self-policing, and all sorts of ethical issues result in some form of justice being meted out. Journalists seem like they're in the same boat, but journalism isn't my domain of expertise...
Every generation seems to create a genius. The media, the ensuing circus and hero worship usually end up killing the spark.
Good points. Sometimes hiring isn't the highest order bit, and metrics for the company are definitely key.
OK, but the link seemed to have a happy ending, so I'm not sure if what you're saying is still true:

As a result of a settlement in the case, the FBI lifts the gag on Nick Merrill, the ACLU's client and the first NSL recipient to challenge the records demand.
Apple's 'App Store trademark': A farce of Jobsian proportions
Firefox 4 for Android shuns ARMv6 phones And Adobe Flash too
Why is Campfire a better solution? irssi is much more scriptable/customizable than a third-party web service.
law enforcement would need a warrant to get the information

No, it doesn't.

https://www.eff.org/issues/nsa-spying
Beyond $1bn: Why Red Hat is a one off
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OK, I have slogged through quite a few boost libraries looking for stuff to use.

If you can give me an example of a part of this "continent" which is "lean and mean" rather than over-elaborated, I'd be grateful.
Ask HN: Good developers to follow on github?
Hi all,

I wanted to get some general HN opinions about who has good and well-commented code that I could check out on github? I'm looking for people who primarily develop in Javascript, Ruby, and/or PHP. I'm currently looking at the "Explore Github" -> Languages page, and will dive in from there - just wanted some personal opinions.

Thanks!
Too bad this site's domain name wasn't issued by the Iceland TLD registry.
Hardly. I imagine unnecessary corporate rules and other security rules being created from Color. Imagine: You are working in an office and all of the sudden someone is offended from the pictures on your phone. Or you are on a plane and suddenly become terrorized from the pics on the phone from the man sitting next to you. From a practical point of view, Color is not a viable app to advance society.
Yes. We position facebook as the first option to sign in. The reason is because that's the easier way to create an account and that was the intent of Facebook's connect service. That said, this isn't why they blocked us. They blocked us to do too much posting of content per minute, per person. Good problem to have? Depends on how you look at it I guess.

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Yeah, maybe. But how would I know it wasn't just a thin veneer of marketing?
Plus, the original "spiritual" founder, Dorsey, is back. It's not like the suits totally won or something.
Hey

I sort of was going to write a blog post about your pricing table and it turned into a rather large rant. Sorry :)

http://nico.kunz.fm/blog/2011/03/30/pressbackup_are_you_seri...

Im not sure if any of the information is useful or just annoying but i thought you might want to read it.
I never thought about this before, But surely will keep it on Mind next time i'm quoting a gig.
I've been an affiliate for most dating sites for a long time. We had a really long run for a while with eHarmony and did a crapton of PPC for several years.

In the end I found a broken industry with players who were far less interested in providing good service then generally doing everything they could to play the numbers. Their entire business is built around maximizing conversion and retention rates, nothing more. While I understand ROI (I live and die it for my business) most players also have not made any effort to adapt or change by delivering better value; they simply live by squeezing out another 0.1%

Then again, I've been out of the space since April last year and there are many new entrants, so I could be out of date :P
If you are in North Carolina you can call or email your Senators and encourage them to vote against the bill.

http://www.ncga.state.nc.us/gascripts/members/memberList.pl?...
What's your point? You realize it's an anonymous publishing service that, although being awesome, has nothing to do with the article at hand?
Cassandra, Redis, MySQL, and Mogile as primary data stores? Good lord. And I thought my company had a complicated architecture.
Why not just pair with the interviewee for half a day or a day? You will learn how they think and work and if you like them. It's a riddle to me. I've never heard from anyone actually trying it and not being happy with the insight won.
There's a bunch of reasons why Thorium cycle reactors, specifically molten salt reactors, haven't gained traction, but this is my favorite (via wikipedia):

>It poses a business challenge, because reactor manufacturers customarily get their long-term profits from fuel fabrication.

Glad to see razor blades, cell phones and printer cartridges aren't alone in the world.