skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One of the best examples for an exam like this was the final exam in history at my high school. Half of it was a few class-wide topics of 20th century history. The other half was anything of the students choosing, I've chosen the policy of Perestroika of Gorbatschov and the downfall of the Sowjet Union.

The exam was simply a text snippet (dunno anymore whether newspaper or something more official) from the time about the reunion of the two Germans, and the assignment was to put it into greater context and connect it with other things that happened at the time, hereby explaining this particular incident. The questions for the general part were of similar spirit.

It's been one of the best exams I've ever had. Not just because I've got a straight A, but also because I've actually _learned_ something while writing it: It forced me to think about the knowledge I've already amassed from a different pov for two hours, greatly increasing my understanding of it.

I think every exam should be like that: If you haven't learned anything new while writing/having it, it's likely just pointless rendition of stuff learned by heart. And frankly, computers just beat humans at that ;-). Of course, doing this requires good teachers and quite an investment of time from them.
I don't see how the grammatical errors could have arose simply from writing a rough first draft of a blog post. It seems like the writer has little experience in the way of English grammar.
I deal with companies ripping off GPL software. Not a single company -- or the webhosts they use -- have ever responded to a DMCA request.
Maybe I came across the wrong way. I just meant to say I thought you were a real business with real income, not a startup which might still be looking for a business model. I have no doubt you can scale to the moon, if and when you choose to.
As a former head of HR for three successful start-ups and now as the founder of my own, I (in the words of our former president) feel your pain. I've reviewed 10's of thousands of resumes and interviewed over 1,000 candidates so I know what you're going through.

Your points are well taken and insightful - and while they're especially true of technical hiring, they are also applicable for all start-up hiring. A smart person can learn the tech skills you need but it is impossible to impart passion and an intuitive understanding of culture where it isn't already present.

I eventually honed my interviews down to one question: "Please describe your most significant team accomplishment, where you were a key member of the team."

Then I'd follow that with numerous follow up questions until I really understood the person's role. This will uncover the candidate's passions, communications skills, leadership abilities, and their technical prowess. Then I'd ask the same question about another accomplishment.

Good luck. I'll write you a note on the side with my contact info. I'd be happy to talk over any "people stuff" if you'd like.
Mint's original marketing plan
I've done this too. Let's me create a github repo where "master" is fixed at a known version (to me) and I can clone it to any machine without worrying about remembering a the hash for the tag I want. I can push/pull at will and merge in changes from upstream whenever I desire. Sometimes local changes stay local, sometimes they get pushed out.

Github and Bitbucket aren't only for working on code with other people, they also let us consume projects at the rate that we want to consume them.
This guys website is just others content, HE is taking flash games created by others and publishing them on his website FOR PROFIT. I spotted some friends games on there that they are unlikely to gave permission to put on there.

Also, he has taken a popular t-shirt design, copied it and then is selling it for profit here http://www.cafepress.co.uk/playitontheweb as advertised on his website.

If the guy who posted this is reading, where do you get the games from you're posting? Are you downloading them from other flash game sites and uploading them? Are you scraping those sites? I bet it's the latter. You're only slightly less shameful than this guy you're attacking.

irony eh.
I think that the overall causes of obesity are fairly complex --- there's not some simple cause one can point to that is "the problem". But, threads like this one and the recent HN thread about Western diets remind me of this set of photos on "what the world eats":

http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1626519_137366...

Which provides some evidence that how Americans get their carbs in 2011 is likely very different from how they got their carbs in 1914. For example:

http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1626519_137369...

and

http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1626519_137374...
It certainly does give me pause, but we also know how the Republicans will come down on net neutrality regardless of whether an overreaching regulatory body is advocating (some version of) it. That, to me, is the bigger story.

As you said, the FCC can only do what Congress has authorized it to do, so we're not in any real danger of the FCC having a "broad, unchecked power to control what happens on the internet". What we are in danger of is having a Congress that kills net neutrality, period.

Edit: Not that I care about karma, but I'm curious as to why I'm being downvoted. I'm not disagreeing with grellas' point.
There's probably a reason it's so unprotected (though probably not a very valid reason).

Writing CSRF-safe logout would mean that you can't have an href to a static link, and you'd to implement some sort of unique id/key and/or a form post behind the scenes.
Noble intentions but please don't do this in the future. Working in security (not at google) I promise we are trying to fix it as fast as possible already :)

You may also get cash+prizes if you submit as you did but don't release it publicly.
It's definitely a bug, but I'd be shocked if they didn't know about it (and thus accept it). Its net result is to make Google accounts more secure (if more annoying to use).

Google products are pervasively checked for CSRF, in case you were worried that this was a worrying sign. I'm sure they have CSRFs, but not because they don't hunt them down.
Yeah, because you don't understand responsible disclosure.
Contact security teams first before going public with a problem.
The network view is not really intended to give a complete list of all contributors. It is intended to show the network of the different branches/forks. And it shows only a small time window (starting with the most recent time). So if there were commits earlier by other people and they were merged in, you will probably not see them.

I think under commits, the contributors list should be the requested information.
Google does not consider this to be a security vulnerability (or at least not one they feel they can deal with). See http://www.google.com/corporate/rewardprogram.html (Logout cross-site request forgery is the section to look for).
I find it interesting that Adams mentions a MBA rounded out his entrepreneurial experience. From his descriptions of his business escapades in college, it seems like he was a well-rounded, experienced entrepreneur already. The only value from the MBA that I can think of would be the corporate perspective.
Just adding some javascript that just made sure the right ads are showing would have been a much more subtle response.

I wonder if there is a possibility of a JS library that could detect this type of scraping and reserving automatically. Would probably leads to an interesting arms race with the scrapers.
Hot Failure: Tuning Gameplay with Simple Metrics
Are you implying that the workers in sausage factory think they are making filet mignon?
I feel like this article is missing the second half. The discussion is set up perfectly and then it just dies.
Crowdsourcing for a good cause:Support Women Startups get Funded
Sorry, but no. The DMCA simply says "A service provider shall not be liable...if the conditions set forth...are met". It does not compel ISPs to make those conditions true. They're not "not acting according to law" by not actively creating the circumstances in which the DMCA provides the limitation of liability.

http://www.copyright.gov/legislation/hr2281.pdf
I'm pretty sure that the Network view is complete. I have around 3,000 commits over 2 years and they're all listed in my Network view:

https://github.com/cool-RR/GarlicSim/network
Great looking interface! Would like to see an option to sort my brew history by rating though. No sense in searching through mediocre brews right?
Whitehat SEO is a Joke
Wekeroad — Getting Constructive On ASP.NET Deployment
While this is true, decent tea will be well packaged and should stay fresh until one cracks it open. Oolongs and other quality teas that are best fresh tend to be sold with the date of harvest (like Alishan Winter 09 (sigh!)), while pu erh can, and arguably should, be 12 years old when one drinks it.

In fact, for serious tea heads, tracking the age of tea might be most useful for aging pu erh disks that aren't quite 'there' yet.
Agreed. The vigilante content of the switcheroo is whatever. I want to know how he actually pulled it off. The not-so-over-the-top-vigilante-ish alternatives are pretty endless.
IPad2 users report 3G connection troubles by Verizon Wireless
Ask HN: Should I try to get my product on Kickstarter?
Have been playing with the idea... Despite working in UX, I still have a passion for Industrial Design. Would be good to get my hands dirty again for a bit.

http://thingsfromthefuture.com/grow/

(clickable link fail)
A Cloud Developer's Bill of Rights
The margins in air travel are also slim. Google did a very smart thing here. There business model can support the ITA purchase, not many other businesses could do this. The kicker is they also just hired a lot of talent.
"The Internet is hot. Let's wire a web browser deeply into our operating system and office suite people won't know if they're accessing trusted local data or untrusted internet data. What could possibly go wrong?"

"Social media is hot. Let's wire social deeply into our successful search engine, web apps, and operating system. What could possibly go wrong?"

It reminds me of the first part of the 20th century (well I'm not really that old :-) where every kind of business reacted to the disruptive change of the automobile by simply bolting on drive-through windows. It fundamentally misses the point and will seem silly in the long run.
Its a good point but less relevant to the discussion than some of the other comments here, and currently has 3x the points of all other posts in this thread.

Don't just upvote just because you agree, upvote because a post contributes to the discussion!
If someone were to pursue it further and remind Amazon that not following OCILLA means being liable for every single copyright infringement that they host, whether on EC2, S3 (looking forward to that one!), or the Kindle store, they might change their tune.
At first, I thought he was trying to make a joke. "The phrase it's self is flawed." In bold! The needle just snapped off of the irony meter.
Any further recommendations on windows software? I'm not a Mac guy but would like to play with some podcasting.
What does this mean? Seriously. Sausage is delicious. The point of the sausage factory isn't that sausage is disgusting. It's that a delicious product sometimes requires production steps that appear repulsive to outsiders.
One word OperaMini. That would be +- 11million. As for credit cards forget that people dont need those to buy online.Bank Deposits work. Just like New Zealand and China. I dont own a credit card but i buy alot from the Prophecy and Sybaritic I also got Paypal linked with my FNB. Moral of the story lets stop with the Telkom and Creditcard excuses and start building shit relevant to the Whole of SA.
How Our Government is Tracking and Databasing Your Every Move
I think some people fork because they just want a copy of it in case it goes away. That's what I've been told at least.
The name would be covered under trademark law, and the website/graphics copying could be considered plagiarism if you are attempting to pass them off as your own.

On the other hand, someone that copies a movie is neither:

1) Claiming to be the movie studio that produced and/or distributed the movie.

2) Claiming that they were the producer/creator of the movie.

Comparing the two situations doesn't work because the only common factors are that copying happened and that they're both related to the nebulous term 'IP.'
I don't understand what you mean. Are you suggesting Europeans are cheap because they like to use open source operating systems on servers they themselves manage?
You must prove that for any colouring with red and blue, six red and six blue, there is a line that divides the clock such that in each half there are three red and three blue numbers.
Great app!

What would push it over the top, for me, would be if you offered a thermometer like this one:

http://hmb-tec.de/iPhoneApps/BBQ-Thermometer.html

that plugs into the headphone jack. Ideally yours would be lighter weight and would float on water, but the peripheral exists already.

This would add great functionality; it would now become 'perfect tea. anywhere. anytime.' The phone would chime when the water is ready, then simply pour, the phone chimes again, tea. Doesn't matter if you're by a campfire, in an office, in front of a stove; perfect tea.

Make it an attractive peripheral that matches the rest of the Apple way and you will sell a lot of these gizmos, at more than $1.99 - 30% profit per gizmo. Perhaps a kickstarter to pay for production, a la the Glif? I'm in for one, possibly two, in advance.
Don't reinvent the wheel. But by all means, upgrade and evolve the wheel.
Pretty much content free imo. His main point seems to be trying to tell Google "Don't just do search", which is odd, seeing as he opens with a description of the 7 key areas of Google.

I think the comment by spinchange sums this article up quite nicely "I think it must be much, much easier to write articles like this about managing Google than it is to actually manage Google.".

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2427093
Viewing your website at 1024x768 in Chrome, the image of the phone overlaps the text making it partially unreadable.
Maybe this is why he didn't want to send a DMCA takedown notice? He didn't want to claim, under penalty of perjury, that he own the copyrights?
I didn't even bother to look at the screenshot of the altered site. You're completely right. Edited.
I didn't downvote, first of all. I upvoted! I am also disappointed to see it downvoted. There is some contention that downvoting is a valid way to express disagreement; I don't really agree. Downvotes should be reserved only for poor decorum or other disruptive behavior.

The point Grellas is making is that if we let the FCC slide on net neutrality by accepting their arguments of ancillary jurisdiction and implied authority over the internet, then it would give the FCC free reign to do whatever they wanted with the internet unless Congress came in and expressly forbade or altered their authority. Right now, we have the opposite situation, where the FCC is not allowed to exercise authority over the internet without an express dispensation from Congress allowing them to do so.

The latter is better because it's much easier to hold elected representatives accountable than it is to hold appointed bureaucrats accountable. If Congress gives the FCC authority to regulate the internet that way, they can use the FCC as a proxy for all their unpopular regulatory actions and redirect the flak.
Last I remember, on Github, when you delete a repository any forked repositories are also deleted.
Violent agreement. You and GP seem to be saying exactly the same thing -- because the original still exists, there is no subtraction of property, and it is not stealing.
Taking steps to prevent malicious logouts would mean that you're creating cases where a logout will not succeed. This opens the possibility of having a bug that prevents people from logging out at all, even if they want to.

Would you rather have a bug that allows logouts, or a bug that prevents them?

That said, I would love for Facebook to put this snippet in their footer.
Howdy Jd!

1) We might try to figure out a way to shorten the video. So much new stuff to share!
2) All of the presets are editable.
3) I think that 95% of the use cases will eventually be using the timer, which will be preset perfectly for each tea.
4) We respect Teavana, but we're not a fan of their app's design. Maybe that's bias.
5) Agreed.
6) Agreed. We're working on. It was actually an original feature, but a little trickier than one would think.

Thanks for your feedback! If you have any more, drop me a line at sam at teaapp. com!
OK. I did not know that. I've never tried it either.
(2006), please.
Are you refering to Twangoo?
Really?! That seems incorrect. I don't want my code disappearing because someone deleted their repository.
I was talking more about green teas, many of which go bad after 6 - 8 weeks.
Seriously? That sounds like an extremely flawed feature.
Fast Two Way Sync in Ubuntu
I completely remember those gifs coming in one agonizing line after the other, except mine were... uuh.. Also bears.
Really? You still think people use linux because it's gratis? I wouldn't use windows for my server software even if I was paid to do so.
I usually clone the original repository. And after I make my changes, then I fork it and push to it. Most of the times there is no point to fork it before making changes.
Hi!

1) Inventory tracking was a risk we took because you're right, you can just look at your teas. However, there are some really cool features in the pipeline that will take advantage of the inventory tracker better. For example, you might have several teas, but some go stale more quickly than others. Tea can suggest for you which teas to use up more quickly, but only if it has an idea of how much you have left. Etc.

2) Thanks!

3) That feature is totally optional. Let us know if you find it intrusive.

The brew suggestions that ship with Tea were very meticulously done by one expert, not an average or random statistics online. Hope you enjoy the app if you decide to use it!
Thanks. Will address.
Famous Objects from Classic Movies
What about a bluetooth thermometer that uses the heat energy from the liquid to keep it charged? Is that even possible? If anyone knows, drop me an email at sam at teaapp. com!
I keep trying to scroll up farther than the page allows
Here are the reasons why one would learn Latin.

1. Converse with the great ideas of the past directly (definitely still true.)

2. Enrich one's mind by learning a superior language (like learning Haskell to write better PHP...speak better English by learning Latin. Still true.)

3. Learn a language found everywhere (not so true anymore.)

4. Learn the language of law, medicine and theology (sort of still true.)

5. Learn a foundation to learn Romance languages more quickly, as has been said.

6. Learn it just because it's there and a Renaissance Man has to take a crack at everything. Will be true as long as the language exists!

Finally, I strongly object to the idea that the purpose of Latin is to be "elite." Back then, anyone who went to school would at least learn a little Latin. So, you can say the purpose of having school is to be elite but not the purpose of Latin, because Latin wasn't taught to a subset of children until the 20th century. Today, Latin is taught to anyone who wants to learn, regardless of whether they go to school. My wife is a Latin tutor and about half of her students are below the poverty line or minorities -- and several adults are also receiving instruction from her.
I use Rackspace Mail (formerly MailTrust) for all the mailboxes on my own domains. Cheap, good spam filters, extremely reliable, GREAT support. It's just $2/month per mailbox (with a $10/month minimum) and you don't have to point the whole domain to them, just the MX records so their servers handle your mail.
Physical science probably won't be much better if you don't like math. Remember, "The book of nature is written in the language of mathematics". Heck, be a humanities major and learn to code, it's not like computers only work for people with technical degrees (though I suspect the training in rigorous thinking helps).
I doubt a highly skilled/motivated telecom team would have trouble finding capital in todays market. Millions are being handed out to teams whose infrastructure consists RoR app running on AWS.

I don't have anything specific in mind regulation wise. I have no agenda, merely that net neutrality is trying to cure a symptom not a cause.
I don't quite see the argument myself. As a former dancer in the breakdancing scene the premise of "biting" (stealing) moves comes up a lot. After a lot of consideration I came to the conclusion that if you perform something publicly its pretty much fair game for copying. I don't think there is a benefit in spending your time trying to hunt down these copycats.
The time is much better spent creating new works.
The Open Source world teaches us that product is not just the object the item being copied but the service, the knowledge, the understanding of the product and the ability to create more.
For creatives and dancers it's the brand, and/or your name.

By all means if you think its worthwhile you can hunt down people ripping off your stuff but if you're becoming tempted to just sit on your prior work and prevent anyone else from touching it you're becoming stale.
Case in point would be Cliff Richard who the RIAA like to roll out whenever they want to extend the terms of their copyright because apparently Cliff Richard relies on this royalties as his pension. I often wonder why he didn't/doesn't have to save for his retirement like everyone else.
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Fexl: Live Functional Programming Demo
As others have mentioned, there are several options (Google Apps for Domains, FastMail.FM's domain option, Office 365, etc).

The other important part is to get a domain of your own. Put some thought into it since this will be the basis of your e-mail address for years to come. If available, your first and last name is usually a good, professional choice, or even just your last name if you get lucky. Go for something easy to remember and that quickly identifies you. Unless you come up with something very witty or you live in/identify with that country, try to stay away from the country-specific domains (.me, .ly, .tv, and so on) since the "big three" (com, net, org) are more recognizable and less subject to confusion when giving your address to others.

Visit a domain registrar of your choice (NameCheap.com, Gandi.net, GKG.net, etc) and follow the prompts. The common suffixes (properly known as top-level domains) are $8-15/year, depending on registrar. Most registrars offer free DNS services so all you need to do is pay your money at the registrar then sign up at the e-mail hosting provider of your choice. Be CERTAIN you keep paying the annual renewal fee. If you can afford it and really like the name (which you should, if you followed my advice above), register the name for several years. Make sure to keep the e-mail address on the domain registration accurate just in case you lose your password, and treat your login credentials at your registrar similar to your online banking details.

HTH :)
Why? You knew precisely what he meant, which is the whole point of English.
This is Turing equivalent, however in its present form it only reduces an expression to a normal form and stops there. I'll enhance it later to emulate some "side effects" such as print and read.

I use this technology when I need to embed a lightweight functional programming system into an existing program, written in C, Perl, or whatever.

I encourage you to push the button labeled "Evaluate". I think it's fun to push that button, but surprisingly few people do.