skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I see this sort of plagiarism occur all of the time, for all sources of media and from different mediums. Very often without any sort of citation used for the original source. I don't think providing a link is adequate at all times either, as that one article that goes viral in a sense could be the one that makes your blog gain that needed popularity for success. If everyone views your work on another site your blog doesn't get all of those valuable hits. All in all I don't know how this problem could be policed.
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No. Building a replicant would be awesome.

Even more so if more of this audience were old enough to remember when Daryl Hannah was hot.

VVV ahh indeed! Why then we're in violent agreement!
This is an exaggeration but as a PHP developer the biggest problem I have with wrapping my head around Ruby is the Perl-ish "more than one way to do it" design. PHP seems to be more straightforward with relatively fewer paths to my destination. I haven't messed with Python, but I hear Python is more like PHP in that regard. If true, then it would make sense for a PHP developer to select Python over Ruby.

The only major reason you might pick PHP over the other options is if you are interested in working with the major content management systems on the market. A huge percentage of business portals (brick and mortar as opposed to web based) are running on PHP based content management systems and of course there is also a lot of work in those areas.

If you are more interested in custom application development, then Ruby and Python might be a more interesting choice (though PHP is plenty sufficient.)

That's not to say that market size should be your only consideration. If you are strong player in a small pond, then you can do as well or better than you could do in a much larger market.
Javascript constructors considered mildly confusing
People often behave like sheep - the fact that a lot of articles are voted up isn't a reflection of quality, it's a reflection of familiarity and unthinking, sycophantic behaviour.

If this is true, then the problem is with the users of the site, not with bots that correctly submit stories garnering upvotes. Remember, this post is not about bots that submit spamvertising for Rolex knock-off watches, it's about bots that accumulate karma by submitting stories that consistently hit the top of the page.

Why are we trying to game the behaviour of HN readers by artificially throttling the submission of stories they find interesting? Far better to take a step back and ask whether HN is in danger of experiencing its Eternal September.

If the behaviour of HN is such that posts can hit #1 while still being undesirable for some reason--like the 47th straight article slamming an overfunded startup--then there is an issue, but surely it isn't the bot's fault any more than it would be a person's fault if they submitted it by hand.
Are your parents going to be ok with letting you do things differently? Are you ok with the transition not taking 5 years but 10 years? What do your parents expect from you? What do you expect?
Testing code - good. My mantra is "if you haven't tried it, it doesn't work".

Writing unit tests - usually takes too long. Shipping can happen 25% faster if you hack and adhoc-test and prototype like mad.

Its a question of process - and in a startup there is time for very little.
> 10 hours ... is quite reasonable.

How many good candidates have been willing to do it?

That's the fact that matters, not an argument about what people "should" do.

> If they're considering 4 offers and can't spend 10 hrs on each, then why on earth not?

Suppose that I'm considering two offers. One wants 10 hours and the other doesn't. Are you seriously suggesting that I shouldn't take that into account?

The answer to "why not" is "because even if getting a job is my only priority, paying extra for a chance at given job isn't".
I'm not very convinced. The excitement about bitcoin now is that seems like a semi-mainstream alternative payment system. And a big part of that is that it seems legal in the first place.

I need to write an article on kitty activism and other ways to allow bitcoin to thrive.
Whether pmap is faster than map depends a lot on the duration of the task: see http://incanter.org/downloads/fjclj.pdf page 45
I apologize for over-generalizing. I realize it isn't replicating a star.

The nifty thing about being a star is that you have this massive gravitational force available as your containment.

No matter how we do fusion, we'll likely need containment, and it's a vastly harder problem than "put enough fissile atoms close enough together to sustain a chain reaction." Let's face it - the big reason that fission reactors are dangerous is that stopping a reaction is as difficult or often more difficult than starting it.
I feel the same way, and I agree that it probably comes from intellectual laziness-- people just not bothering to pay appropriate attention.
I agree, I've seen his columns and he's firmly standing behind his ill-informed bigotry. A pity, because if you see some of his writing as a younger man 25 years ago he was interesting, funny and observant while still demonstrably holding the same political views; now far more he's a frustrated bigot railing against the modern world.

Watch Top Gear though (which I do and largely enjoy), and there's a relatively regular stream of reactionary material with a 'boys will be boys' tongue in cheek. The problem is, it's consistently in the same direction and at the same targets; it's using a cover of comedy and his TV persona to make attacks he couldn't otherwise make in such a platform. Jeremy Clarkson the newspaper columnist stands behind his positions, I agree; Jeremy Clarkson the TV character often tries to make much the same attacks while laughing them off as 'just a bit of fun'. That isn't intellectually honest.
Depends on what you consider job activities.

In the broadest classification, I spend 0% of the time I'm at work on unrelated activities, because even when there isn't active work to be done, I'm expected to be here in case any other developers need to ask ?'s. Waiting is part of the game.

If you use a more realistic definition - work activities are those related to the active development of software - then I probably spend about 20-30% of my time doing things that are unrelated.
This strikes me as dubious at best. I think a more likely explanation is that his detection software is flagging anything with the path "c:\windows\SL" as malware.

He says "This key logger is completely undetectable," which is clearly untrue (he has allegedly detected it).

If it's logging his keystrokes, it's either storing them locally or sending them off somewhere else, or both. If he's as qualified as he says, he should be able to find out which (find a file that increases in size after a lot of keystrokes, use Wireshark...).
Does that apply to police and firefighting as well?
I'll also add it depends on your what OS you're running. If you're on Windows, Python will be more forgiving than Ruby.

Some Ruby gems build native extensions as they're installed, which isn't always possible on Windows. Granted, the state of Ruby and Rails on Windows has improved over the last few years, I still wouldn't consider it a first class citizen.

Granted, there are some nice online resources for jumping into Rails:

http://www.codeschool.com/

http://tryruby.org/

http://rubykoans.com/

http://mislav.uniqpath.com/poignant-guide/

http://humblelittlerubybook.com/
Building a replicant would be awesome

That was the intent of my post. Building a bot that earns 10,000+ karma ought to be an achievement. If for any reason it isn't particularly difficult, then it ought to be taken that earning 10,000+ karma as a human isn't an achievement either.
When I use those benefits I pay. Internet, I pay for it. Healthcare, I pay for that too. Education, you can be sure I paid for that. Roads, pay the toll, pay road tax.Pay petrol tax. Pay tax on the required insurance.

Research? Paid for it when I bough the product that was used to monetise it.

I've been working since I was 15, paying taxes since I was 16. I'm nearly 30 now. I'm not wealthy by any count but you can be damn sure I've paid plenty.

I save my money in the bank I pay tax in the interest, I save money in my pension, I pay tax when I withdraw it. I buy shares I pay tax, sell I pay tax. I even have to sell the shares every few years just so the government can tax me on it in the meantime.

I own a house, I pay tax just for the privalege (I don't own a house by the way, just saying).

I get taxed on the money I make as income, I get taxed on the money I spend as sales tax, I even get taxed on the money I don't spend.

If I give what little I've earned to my kids when I die, a huge whopping chunk of it is taken in tax. If I have a home, and I give it to my kids when I die, they have to sell it to pay for the tax the government has charged.

I'm wondering where other people are paying for me, cause from what I see I'm paying for everything I get and use, and paying tax.

I think, one less way the government can squeeze a little bit more blood out of a person is a good thing.

So you can just go ahead and suck my cock with your collectivist claptrap.
Paul, thanks very much for answering my question!

I think that the gradual degradation of comments is a fascinating problem to think about.

The existing disincentives are pretty clear (over time: topics no longer link to the first page, new comments have a harder time standing out). There's the usual ways to deal with these issues (hot topics section, more clearly distinguishing between old and new comments, ordering discussions by time and not by points) but I'm not sure any of those necessarily promote quality; they just promote the number of comments.
It's an interesting one.

If it was Samsung's responsibility (big if at this stage obviously) then I'd actually be more scared if they didn't install it on purpose.

I get that large corporations intentionally do bad things for money but I kind of assume that they're competent enough that they don't accidentally let their master install for a new laptop get infected with a key logger. I'm not saying that I believe them to be completely competent, just that the level of cock ups I expect from them doesn't run to this.

For me if they did install it accidentally then that's worse than them installing it deliberately for some ill considered audit or support purpose.
I was apparently editing that right as you made that remark. You are of course correct.
If your needs aren't met by dropbox's free plan, the cheapest plan they offer is $99 for 50 GB a year.

In comparison, amazon is offering 100 GB for the same $100 a year, and even has cheaper paid plans (e.g. $20 per year for 20 gb).

So, dropbox is currently expensive on two fronts; Amazon gives more GB/$ and also has lower-priced plans for more modest needs.

This is a big win for some users, like kunjaan and me, because we haven't been too thrilled with Dropbox's syncing abilities (tons of "conflicted copies" everywhere). Furthermore, a large portion of our data doesn't need to be synced; it simply needs to be available. This includes data like ebooks, music collection, pictures.
Yes, it is not a news-flash that the bulk of modern "journalists" are, for the most part, low paid college grads who lack the ethical standards of journalism in which their forebears prided themselves.

But there are still plenty of serious journalists out there. Thankfully, in the Internet age, we can be choosy where we get our news.
Or those who fancy sex on the dinner table without spectators? That's a relatively crass example (sorry), but the privacy implication is clear when you put it in those terms. My home is my home, and what I do behind my door is my business.

I'm surprised you're getting voted up. As much as I disagree with most of the privacy agenda, a lot of their fights are the only thing stopping us from turning Orwellian.

Nothing to hide is pretty arbitrary, too; you mean you have nothing to hide under our current laws. So sure, let them bring the cameras in. Then they'll rewrite the law and you'll suddenly have something to hide.
What is the risk for somebody with 14 billion in the bank to call out other when he/she feels they've been wrong (regardless of whether it's perception or reality). Allen could have called Gates they antichrist and he'd still have people lined up around the block to take his VC money or sit in the owner's box of Trailblazers game with him. 14 billion is definitely "FU" money.
This bill is ridiculous. They ignored the small towns, the small towns got their own connections and very good ones at that, and now they want to be the only players. As an NC resident I think this is a bill most people left and right could agree is bad, but unfortunately the only party who cares enough about it and has clout is Time Warner Cable, so it'll get through.
Analyzing a Stuxnet Infection with the Sysinternals Tools
I saw it and activated it, without any tangible effect. And reflow is probably the single most useful feature of a mobile browser.
You say that you don't really want anyone to get fired over this. It's a noble attitude, and I admire it.

I am a college professor, and even though I observe at the end of each term that some of my students have failed to learn anything, I don't really want anyone to fail.

However, ...
It sounds pretty close to a ban to me. Certainly close enough than "banning" rather "severely restricting" is not flamebait.
The pre-canned models were the best I could come up with on short notice. It'll be interesting to see if they hold out.

Twitter dead or sold within 5 years?

http://hn-books.com/EZ-Business-Model.htm#AverageSalesEvents...

Color to 50K monthly users within 6 months?

http://hn-books.com/EZ-Business-Model.htm#AverageSalesEvents...

It'll be fun to bookmark this comment and come back later to see if any of it actually happens the way I modeled it.
Ask HN: An Autodidact Asks, "What's Your Favorite Wikipedia Article?"
Being that I barely made it out of high school, and am a person who is self-taught, I need to fill in the gaps myself. But knowing what you don’t know is tough. Reading interesting mathematical, historical, philosophical, grammatical, political, or scientific Wikipedia articles has been a great way to explore and fill gaps. Can you suggest some starting points?

Please and thanks.
Hey Google (I know you guys lurk here),

Where is Buzz for Google Apps users - specifically corporate Apps users? From a personal point of view, I find Buzz completely uninteresting. But as a collaborative tool, I would love it.

Yammer is basically what I'm looking for, but for some reason they haven't done Google Apps integration.

I suppose an alternate question would be: Hey Yammer - why no Google Apps integration?
Ars Technica article about the same bill:
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/03/cable-backed...
It's encouraging that a number of other systems are being developed (EU, India, Russia, China). What is slightly discouraging is the time and delays it takes for them to launch.

Original date for the EU's Galileo was 2010. Now, it's going to be delayed until at least 2014. That much more time during which we're still dependent on GPS.
And that's exactly what the world needed. As if Wall Street was not enough to destroy the world. I also question the validity of posting this link to where entrepreneurs, a.k.a value creating people, frequent.
If there are plenty, could you please point one out?
Is this a joke?

Autodidacts are self-directed, by definition. They don't ask others what to study.
Wait a second, it is completely that person's fault, don't you think? People have a responsibility to submit well-considered, high-quality links. Granted, a lot of people completely abdicate that responsibility and submit whatever strikes their fancy, but it doesn't mean the responsibility went away; with whom else would it lie? The guy submitting that 47th article is being a dick.
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Using Safari on a MacBook, the site briefly flashes a white knight, and then just a blank, black background where I can do nothing.
Sure. I'm not saying I'm a good programmer.

I'm not sure why your comment is being down-voted, but I can say that my question to you definitely was not meant to imply that you might be a bad programmer. My only point is this: as a budding Haskell enthusiast I am constantly shocked by the difference in succinctness between my solutions and those of the experts. However, I would never say that because of my lack of familiarity with Haskell idioms Haskell is a verbose language.

The rote replacement of map with pmap will never work as a general solution because there is overhead involved with using pmap. The impact of the overhead requires thoughtfulness in usage on a case-by-case basis.
Of course there was something to solve. London is 2000 years old, but NYC is much more recent. How did it become the hub for finance and media when there's Boston to the north and Washington to the south?
Salesforce acquisition of Radian6 demonstrate the importance of social activity
> I believe I read somewhere here on HN that DropBox actually only stores a single version of a file.

This is definitely true. For example, if you put a video show you got off of eztv in your dropbox, the upload is instantenously complete. Why? because someone else has already put that file into dropbox so you don't need to upload it as well.
How an informal IM exchange cost one business a million dollars
Cringley's account is very critical of Gates and Balmer, particularly on the subject of getting control of Paul Allen's shares in Microsoft should the worst happen. While this seems very cold-blooded it was probably a reasonable course of action given the circumstances - look what happened to CraigsList when one of the founders sold out to eBay.
Is that the typical response to bug reports, or an exception to the rule?
False. Surely a story written by someone that doesn't understand. To install an app from the Market, one has to press Install and approve a list of permissions. Outside of the Market, a user has to download an APK manually, open it with the Package Manager, choose to install and again with a separate button, agree to grant all of the requested permission.

It still requires two levels of agreement from the user. There's no security risk here. Call us if the Package Manager is somehow exploited, not really sure how that would even work anyhow.
Exactly. I don't get what the big deal is about working with lower skilled programmers. At my job there are some fairly "bad" programmers, but even they are a pleasure to work with. The trick is simply to make sure you hire nice people. I've spent plenty of time getting them up to speed with various languages and techniques, and they're all very receptive. The trick is, you yourself have to leave ego at the door. I think this is the hard part for a lot of people.
It's hardly fair to look back with 30 years of hindsight and say that BASIC was more important to a company than SoftCard. Obviously, we know that now, but that doesn't speak to their specific situation.
^ Presumably, heyitsnick meant this sarcastically.
Not content delivery, but CDN as in Canadian.

People use CDN to refer in shorthand to Canada, even though it's not part of any official shortening or abbreviation. The Canadian currency is officially abbreviated as CAD although many folks incorrectly think it's CDN. :-)
Looks pretty close to the standard full-text Mongo example, but nice to see the issues they ran into putting it into real world practice. Looks like a surprisingly capable search for such a simple solution, minus a few things like stemming. Thanks!
Is the Moon young?
Stuxnet is so incredibly scary that I would be afraid that the thing would come alive during the dissection... like a scene from Independence Day.
That's pretty crazy that they are able to construct such complex vessels, but yet they still resort to trafficking drugs.
A New Perspective on MongoDB
The TriLUG (Triangle area Linux Users Group) mailing list had a very long discussion about this bill, that very quickly turned into a shit storm (it lasted for over 100 lengthy e-mails). One thing I learned from it is that not everybody views this bill as negative, even in the tech sector. Basically, TWC just strong-armed a few congressmen/congresswomen into voting their way by contributing to their campaigns, and the opposition could not get organized in time.
You could also have GNUChess run on the server: http://www.gnu.org/software/chess/
There's a market for all three. Personally, I'd advise you to look at a few code examples, and pick the one that 'looks' best.

If you need to, have a quick glance at a few tutorials, and decide which one you like best.

You can't misfire all that much.

(Though, I would advise against PHP, but that's just my personal hatred towards the php language and its interpreter, and is a very subjective opinion)
Startup Quote (Anniv. Ed.): Gordon Gekko, managing partner, Gekko Partners
"If this is true, then the problem is with the users of the site, not with bots that correctly submit stories garnering upvotes. "

But bots do the bidding of humans ;)

As well as sheep-like behaviour, we're often also egotistical and care deeply about the tokens that are used to pass judgement on our place in the world; tokens such as karma.

I think that there's a lot of content on HN that isn't about interesting ideas; there's a lot of mediocre content that is created to self-promote, because some authors' find it gratifying to see their posts do well within the community. Imo, this kind of behaviour is dull.

Perhaps the solution would be to allow people to vote-down articles they deem uninteresting.
Fighting fire with electricity. Plausible?
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Actually, I was impressed how the OP handle his setback and how he took it as a learning experience.

== Below was a supposedly reply of mine to the top commenter in Reddit, but keep getting an 504 error message ==

Not to disagree with you here since this seems to be the sentiment here, but the questions (ie. boot process/signals) he was asked was broad and would have shown if the candidate have a solid grasp of Linux fundamentals.

Hypothetical situation, say he applied for sysad job in big Linux shop like Google. Describing the boot process would have given the interviewer an idea how well he would recover from a system crashed using a rescue disk. Understanding signals are important for making non-trivial Bash scripts. And describing a symmetric/asymmetric encryption is crucial if one of you job responsibilities is to administer certificates.

Not saying the questions are easy, they're not. But if you're applying for something like a Linux sysadmin job, then these questions are good indicator how strong your skills are in this area.
Maybe, and if that were the case, the number of people the sarcasm is missing means it could have been communicated better. Watch his karma swing around -- I'm not the only one that missed it, apparently. It certainly wasn't a good spot for it, because he's responding to sarcasm.
This is easy enough to verify, confirm, or deny independently. All you need is another security expert to come to the same conclusion, and it's confirmed. Likewise, another security expert can invalidate the conclusion just as easily. There's not much ambiguity in the outcome.
Then you are correct.
> Criticizing people for accepting welfare in a welfare state is like criticizing people for speeding at Nascar. Everybody does it.

Actually, "everybody" doesn't do it. You can't subsidize everyone because you run out of money long before that. The vast majority of us don't get subsidies.

Two wrongs don't make a right.
It’s not always the most popular person who gets the job done.

- Gordon Gekko

http://startupquote.com/post/4209286780