skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
World Citizens Census
There are tons of people on the Internet right now, going as far as to tear down frontiers and consider everyone a World Citizen. Our goal is to count how many people would consider themselves World Citizens, and compare this number to the population of different nations and regions, eventually overpowering them.

We are developing a tool for this, and it's in a alpha state. If you'd like to give us feedback and help us improve it, please visit http://apps.facebook.com/worldcensus
Perhaps that way they can still get into A.I., except without having to learn LISP. I wonder if there are any ex-CS people who similarly go into Linguistics.
Thanks. That is one of the strategic decisions we face now. Integrate deeper with facebook to rely on functionality provided by FB or complement Facebook with our own functionality?
Thanks for explaining. It's sure easier to criticize than to create.
Why I joined Rackspace: to make OpenStack awesome!

The folks I met at Rackspace share our (Anso Labs) vision of making OpenStack the best cloud platform for themselves and others.

The "marketing" team at Rackspace were the folks who understood the importance of OpenStack and worked to convince the rest of the company to open source their cloud.

Sure there are growing pains. And one could point out technical areas that the community has struggled with (automated testing against real clusters)... The point is that everyone I've talked to from developers to the CEO understand that OpenStack needs to be its own project. We (individually and as a company) are trying to shepherd the project.
Nope, just strangers. I'm very trusting, though of course I deleted internet data.
I think he means 57% of the calories come from sugars. But it sounds way scarier to say they are 57% sugar.
I LOL'ed when I read the footer a while back: "Das Kapital Capital, LLC provides investment, advising, and Quake II railgun tutorials to startups".

Circle strife FTW.
No – don't make an about page. Well sure, make one, but it probably won't help a great deal.

You need to be showing people what it's about, the instant they visit your site.

I saw your page, thought "hmm, not quite sure what this is" and left. I'm not going to stick around to read an about page.
He contests that exercise won't help with weight loss? Lost me right there.
Don't you think it's also possible for someone to know exactly what an employer would like to hear, and then say exactly that?
But general purpose topics are going to be popular for people to modify. As the modifications on something increase, the more infrastructure and procedures you'll need in order to ensure that the the end-product is always good.
You are off by a factor of ten. 5.7% sugar. More accurately 4.7%.
look bros I'm glad my post is way on the bottom. At least it won't get lost in the mix. Most people read the first post and then scroll alll the way down to the bottom. I checked analytics and alot of you stopped by. I don't have ads, so doesn't matter either way. Thanks for visiting my site though, I know there's a market for it!
There's also a distinction between a startup company and startup culture. Google, Facebook(?), LinkedIn, Twitter, and so on have startup cultures despite no longer being startup companies.
Mind you, these aren't paying clients or anything, just a 160 twitter accounts. At the time you had to have it created FROM a mobile phone, so the onboarding process was clunky. We were showing it to our friends, tell them how cool it was. A team of 10, with 3 months to pressure their friends and family in to using the service, got 160 users.
I was unclear. "You" was referring to Apple, not the customers. They're saying you shouldn't be making this available, not you shouldn't be allowed to make this available. Not even your customers shouldn't be allowed to use this, and I feel there's a distinction between something being generally unavailable and something being illegal.

But you're right that if Apple makes it unavailable, it will have a similar effect as if their customers weren't allowed to use it.
Until and unless you have put your career on the line by dedicating every waking moment of the work week on a single business idea: you haven't launched a "startup".

This is my own definition. I've been following this scene for a number of years. Seen a lot of half ass efforts calling themselves startups. Look, I've had countless side projects, have started multiple companies, and have been self employed for over 5 years - but never have I launched a "startup". Because I don't take this concept lightly.

When I launch a startup - you'll know about it - and you can bet your ass it's not some part time gig. A startup is a full time commitment, no exceptions.
Disclaimer: I'm not HR

I would say that recent grads still have the same issue. In college, you write a lot of large projects; and, if you felt so inclined outside of your regular curriculum (if it was bored, or you wanted to go the next step in a project you liked, etc), you may want to do projects in your spare time. All of those large [curricular or not] activities you did can be put on your resume!

I certainly don't have the end-all-be-all resume, but alongside my college work experience, my resume contained such things as:
* a neural network (NEAT) based, othello game board evaluator (done for a grad project); and,
* a back-propagation based neural network project, also done as a grad project for a different class.

I had quite an obsession with NNs in school (still do).

My point is: even projects you've done in school can count as things you've done that are worth considering.

As for career switchers, if they're going to go into a higher level position, I would encourage them to show that they can do what the higher-level job is asking of them, and saying "I've done this on my own!" through projects is one way to do that.
How to be a better VC to your entrepreneurs
Nobody liked the word tweet. It was a term created by the user community, and only slowly accepted by the team.
"One investor who has spoken to companies in this Y Combinator group and who didn’t want to be identified said he estimates that the pre-money valuations on this batch will average $10 million."

I don't care how good a crop of candidates YC attracts - that type of pre-money valuation can't be for any _particular_ startup, rationally supported in just 90 days of work with a small team.

The following possibilities come to mind:

A) The investor who was not named was pulling numbers
out of their ass and couldn't back them up.

B) The current crop has been working on their ideas for
a lot longer than 90 days

C) We've reached a bubble in valuations.

D) There is an expectation of at least one multi-billion
dollar hit that will make up for the losses on the
other 40 or so misses.

E) I'm wrong, and the current batch of YC start-ups
truly do deserve $10 Million pre-money valuations.
Forged certs are for these domains:

login.live.com

mail.google.com

www.google.com

login.yahoo.com (3 certificates)

login.skype.com

addons.mozilla.org

"Global Trustee"

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/2524375.m...

Spies!

EDIT: from Iran!

http://www.comodo.com/Comodo-Fraud-Incident-2011-03-23.html
i have lately been writing a simple "samba" client for iOS (https://github.com/38leinaD/tango) and after that experience i must say to the developer doing the samba replacement at apple: poor bastard; you are in for a world of pain!

It is really a horrible protocol where you can see how it evolved and was extended from windows version to version...
Yes - they fall under "public figure" clauses, and lose a lot of their right to privacy.
While I agree about the problems with the GPL, freedom is such an overloaded term with different meanings having different levels of importance that it is effectively meaningless.
If she can win over edw519, I'm sure it doesn't hurt to put it in your application. Regardless of what can be construed from it. :)

Telling an employer what they want to hear without the employer noticing is still a skill, no less.
Seems really expensive (5.9% plus $.95 or 8.9% flat per transaction).

I've been getting setup with Stripe. They just lowered their rates to 3.5% (from 5%) plus $0.30 per transaction. Good API and no other fees. Seems great so far...

https://eta.stripe.com/faq
I didn't notice this at first glance but I definitely see it and agree now that you mention it. Not only is the type off but when I look very carefully at the lens the overall construction feels off-balance to me. It feels like the lens is being looked at slightly off center, e.g. the individual lens elements (circles) are off center.

All that said, I still think this is a totally awesome site and I hope she gets the job!
Node.js Jobs
Except she doesn't have web sites for all the other startups. Registering the domain and dedicating the site to them is enough to show me that she really cares about working there specifically.

As far as demonstrate a problem that needs to be solved and how you can solve it...that would be a lot harder to do without risking sounding elitist and condescending. Maybe they don't have a problem that needs to be solved, they just need to do more of what they're doing. If she's a fit, they'll recognize that she can do that for them based on this site.
Tout – How My Weekend Project Turned into a Real Lean Startup
Is their UX in dire need of a UX designer?

http://instagr.am/about/jobs/
| Design Candidates |
We believe that design isn't just about pretty pixels – it's a full understanding of how the products we build interact with the people that use them. An ideal design candidate will have a deep portfolio of top-notch design projects. Design at Instagram is a combination of the following:
It is free to be used commercially, if you write it, pay for it, or keep its derived works open source. The only thing GPLv3 keeps you from doing is closed-source commercialization against the wishes of the author.

This seems eminently reasonable to me. If you want to allow people to do closed-source commercial projects with your code, BSD license it.
I'm finishing up my PhD this year (haven't set a defense day yet, but I'm aiming for June at this point), and finishing a dissertation requires piles of determination.

What I came to realize is that you can't take what they say too seriously especially when you're aspiring to create something out of the ordinary.

I can't comment on your personal experience with grad students (I use grad to mean both Masters and PhD students), but I can say that just like people everywhere else, there is a wide variety of interests and abilities. Just like with job applicants, it's easy to see a sample biased by the "bad" ones. The sampling problem is even worse for grad students, the ones lacking in drive, creativity, or intelligence tend to stick around their programs longer [1]. The only other comment that I'll add is, depending on the program, there probably isn't much incentive to work with undergrads in the capacity you are talking about. So the determined/driven/focused grad students will not do it very much. You may have been steered towards projects because it was closer to what they work on, or would explore a question that they had personal interest in.

do 4 years as an undergrad, go straight to your Masters in the same school and then to your Doctorate in the same school

This is a warning sign. Staying at the same school for undergrad and grad school is called academic inbreeding. If it's a rarity, it's probably a special case that you can ignore (maybe that student was just particularly awesome). If it's common, the program may not be trying hard enough in admissions or perhaps something worse.

In my program, there are many students (including me) that did not go straight through undergrad to grad school.

tl;dr Just like everywhere else, the awesome people move through grad school quickly and the less awesome people tend to stick around. It's more likely that you were encountering the less awesome people.

[1] That's not to say that sticking around a PhD program for more than 5 years is an indication that a person lacks drive, creativity or intelligence. Life happens. Babies, sickness, bad breaks etc..
Your last two sentence eloquently encapsulated the point of hustling. Thanks for sharing that.
Is instagrid failing under the front-page pummeling? Her page isn't showing any images: http://instagrid.me/nettatheninja/
I think it shows off her design skills and her lack of ability to write good copy, but I would've put the portfolio bit far higher up. - "here's my 1-paragraph spiel about me, here's what I've done, and at the end, put all the cutesy bits"
>I'm always wary of people who tell me how funny they are. If you're funny, I'll almost certainly figure that out organically.

Even if they're German?
I sort of addressed this in my above comment. Success in academic research, like success in startups, is more dependent on determination than intelligence.
> I have no idea why but a couple of years back the carrots started getting slimy and it got progressively worse.

This reminds me:

The sigh at the crises of the Brisbane symphony no longer irritated Vashti; she accepted it as part of the melody. The jarring noise, whether in the head or in the wall, was no longer resented by her friend. And so with the mouldy artificial fruit, so with the bath water that began to stink, so with the defective rhymes that the poetry machine had taken to emit. All were bitterly complained of at first, and then acquiesced in and forgotten.
Using Solr and Sunspot to Search Within Words
Nothing prevents redistribution, v3 seems to be equal to v2 in all the code sharing requirements. The two big-ticket additions seem to be the prevention of "tivoization" by having to distribute the keys to sign software to run on the device you distribute with GPLv3 software in it, and the requirement that if you grant some users a license to one of your patents you're granting that to every user of the GPLv3 software you distribute.

One reason Apple would care is it is now shipping a bunch of locked down hardware (the iDevices). Although those probably don't run Samba right now they may have set up a general policy to not have that risk.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_General_Public_License#Vers...
Kind of. They're cut down from carrots that are made to grow as long, thin and quickly as possibly. Not exactly from a carrot that you'd find in your garden. That's not to mention the peeling and washing they go through, which I can't imagine it not changing the taste.

If your point is that "baby carrots" taste like regular carrots, then I have my doubts that you've ever tasted a good carrot.
That can't be the case as GPLv2 has the same requirements in that area and Apple seems to be perfectly happy with it.
I use evernote on OSX/Windows/iPhone/iPad.

So far it's OK. It does what I need it to do, but the web and desktop clients are a bit clunky IMO. I'd probably switch if there was a service that was a) fast b) supports a wide range of devices c) was able to import my current notes from evernote and d) was free for a low volume of notes
Setting up a working file server with basic authentication is almost enough to confirm this. There might be valid reasons for all of the configuration options, but the avarage user will never need more than 10% of them.
For whatever reason it was a nonstarter for me. Notational Velocity + Simplenote has worked much better.
He prefaces it by saying that there is no offence intended. Even if it may come across as negative, it's clearly in the best interest based on the preface.
Might be a good idea to create some filter effects on your own and apply them to your photos - giving a sample of the original and your various filters applied to it. Just a thought.
Good luck.
What's the point? Please enlighten me.
Probably the main reason for this is that online is such a new environment that it nullifies many assumptions that support our off-line culture. This way, on-line we regress to the primitive ways of organisation - and these are very power-centered masculine ways - because individual power is what used to be the basis for organisation. On-line the individual strength is swapped for intellectual mastery - but I would be surprised if this shallow change would be enough to make that culture optimal in the area of knowledge production.
They are cut from regular carrots, but as the story indicates, the farms mostly responsible for baby carrots changed their growing techniques to make carrots skinny and as long as possible. Perhaps the change in growing technique has also effected the flavor.
Thanks for that. This puts her application in a more sensible light.
I kept telling Steve we needed more padding between those links ;) check out how it used to look... http://reddit.blogspot.com/2006/12/time-machine.html
Slow HTTP DoS Attacks
Like everything there is a balance. I think that if I could go back in time and give myself one piece of advice it would be: Don't try to gain insight into everything. There isn't time. Its fine to do this for fundamental things like calculus but for laplace transforms, fourier series etc it can take too long given the time that a college student has. If it is your profession then that is a different story. Also for things that are sufficiently alien to our everyday experience (like relativity) I think maybe you just have to accept it and,work with it for a while and then possibly try and look for insight after because initially we have no other intuition to relate it to.
Why do you feel you need 4 years of schooling given how much you've learned with none at all? You've already got the drive to learn. Keep doing that.
Interesting.
The NonStop has always intrigued me as a platform. Thanks.
You need to add an iPhone/SmartPhone option too. Never used it on the desktop, just on my phone.
Didn't read every comment here, but took a quick peak at the source code on the home page. Don't know if anyone else caught this:

<script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.4.0/jquery.min... type="text/javascript"></script>

<script src="js/jquery.js" type="text/javascript"></script>

She's loading jQuery twice, the second is the older 1.2.3.
> All the remedies I've seen proposed to fix this "problem" essentially just raise taxes on top earners. I can't think of a worse place for that money than in the hands of a politician.

There are two other problems with too much progressivity.

(1) govt revenue becomes extremely volatile. Rich people tend to have more volatile incomes, so when they take a hit, anyone dependent on them takes a hit.

(2) Rich people have more choices in how and when they recognize income.

WRT (2), CA has a fair number of people who get rich on paper, move out of the state, and then turn their wealth into cash. Since the latter is the taxable event, CA loses.
You are mistaken.

The technical term for "hit your bloodstream much more quickly than" is "has a higher glycemic index than". Carrots and chocolate bars both supposedly have the same glycemic index, 49: http://www.carbs-information.com/glycemic-index-food-chart.h... while Snickers bars are down at 41.

The reason carrots don't cause the same insulin spike is not that they don't hit your bloodstream as quickly, or any bullshit about refinement and processing. It's that they're mostly made of water and indigestible cellulose, so the total amount of sugar involved is much lower.
No, it's a figure of speech. A metaphor is also a figure of speech, but similes are not a subtype of metaphors (I went to look it up both before my last statement and before this one, because I refuse to believe my own memory. You might want to do the same).
I’m disappointed by her use of straight apostrophes (') in contractions and straight quotes ("") around quotations. Using typographic apostrophes, typographic quotation marks, and em dashes in the right places makes all the difference, especially in headlines.

Nowadays, web designers have so many typographic tools to work with, like @font-face and lettering.js, but basic punctuation and formatting don’t get enough love.

It’s an oldie, but I think everyone working with web type should read Robin Williams’ The Mac is not a typewriter [0]. It’s just as relevant to modern web type as it was to early desktop publishing.

[0] http://www.amazon.com/Mac-not-typewriter-Robin-Williams/dp/0...
Porsche 918 Spyder: Hybrid Power at a Heart-Pounding Premium
Solaris also replaced Samba with in-house code: http://blogs.sun.com/amw/entry/cifs_in_solaris

IIRC this is a lot easier than it used to be now that MS has to publish protocol specs.
Packets for nothing and bits for free...
Hi, I think you misunderstand the argument being here, and are needlessly interpreting this as a 'men vs women' argument.

The author is not saying that OSS communities are explicitly anti-women. This does not appear anywhere in the article. What she does argue is that OSS projects can be unwelcoming to newbies in general. There are no gender arguments being made here. In fact, she seems to feel that she herself has been guilty to an extent here. She cites a UX designer who argues:

"There’s no perceived value in open source for mentoring, facilitation, disciplining of unruly users, training of newcomers or non-technical users, etc., which are needed to support both designers of any gender and women in any role."

Again, I think a very poor summary of her argument is "She asserts there are few designers and women in open source software because men alienate them", as this suggests that the only issue is too few women being present. If you simply introduce more women, this argument would go, the problem would disappear. This is emphatically _not_ what she is arguing. Men and women are equally well suited to implementing the solutions presented in the article, and the mistakes are equally easy to be made by engineers of either gender.
Looking forward to it! Hoping we get a great turnout!
I'm thinking Philosophy is not rigorous at all at some schools, and is just a lot of lofty opining. I have no proof or first-hand knowledge of this, but I get this from some people's description of their experiences of Philosophy classes. That may be why some people think it is intellectually inferior to technical subjects. My first degree is in Computer Science (Texas A&M University), and then I studied Philosophy (University of Dallas) many years later. I found the Philosophy we studied (original texts of Plato, Aristotle, Aquinas, Descartes, Heidegger) to be more difficult than Computer Science for a couple of reasons.

The first reason is that these were first-class leading-edge thinkers we were trying to understand. Aristotle is very densely packed with content, and we had to read and re-read passages to penetrate them. (Some think that the writings we have of Aristotle are actually class notes, and may not be a good representation of his lecture style.) The second reason is that even though Computer Science is an abstract subject, code is more concrete and graspable than a philosophical idea because you can compile and execute the code and see if and how it works. Philosophical ideas are either difficult to test (e.g. ethics) or practically impossible to test (metaphysics).
Sophisticated Gmail Hack
> President Obama has made it clear in his criticisms that he believes the Bush administration was wrong because it didn't consult the International community. As you cited he clearly believes the International community's approval is above even that of his own congress. So in his mind going to the UN and getting a resolution is a repudiation of Bush who went without one (and in doing so snubbed the political body President Obama seems to have the most respect for)

The problem with that analysis is that Bush had more approval from the "International Community" than Obama did.

As I wrote, Bush had multiple UN resolutions in support of Iraq and Afghanistan. Obama has one, and it had more absentions than Bush's.

In addition, Bush's initial Iraq and Afghanistan coalitions had more members than Obama had at the start of Libya. And, Obama has already lost one.