skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not directly. The new purchaser of Pyrex reduced the quality of the product; That hurt anyone who desires temperature-resilient cookware, which includes my Mom.

No, she doesn't make crack cocaine.
The mountain of pending litigation?
YC is great, but it's essentially closed to other investors and, while the program is merit-based, it's a closed selection process.

HN is nice because there's a meritocracy at work; the concept is to allow that type of meritocracy to force both investors and entrepreneurs to have to work for one another's attention. The site is just a conduit for BPs or proposals from the most motivated idea-people to get into the hands of the most motivated action-people in any area. And every area can be broken into two parties with a mutual interest in industry news, who need to sift through each other to find the best people on the opposite team to work with. So; this is just an engine based on that concept, with up/down votes serving as an objective determinant every month.
When faced with this problem, I used the Qt port of webkit (QtWebkit) to make an ActiveX control which I can use from windows forms. It doesn't work instantly out of the box, but with a bit of massaging you can probably get what you want.

Cool bonus feature: you can mark any objects you want to expose to the browser via javascript with the COM interop attribute and send them over to your homebrewed browser control. Qt's COM interop layer turns translates the Qt flavor of dynamic dispatch calls into IDispatch calls. So it works pretty seamlessly.
I'm European too (UK). Disagree with you on this one. Firstly, HN isn't "full" of people who are chasing wealth. There seems to be a broad mix of employees and employers/entrepreneurs here.

Secondly, your assumption that wealth creation and becoming 'rich' are antonymous to morality is (IMO) invalid. Sure, there are examples of 'big bad evil' capitalism being at odds with morality, but overall I would argue that wealth creation and becoming 'rich' tends to involve producing quality (software, goods, services - whatever).

And producing quality is often a win-win situation (a win for consumers as they get quality, and a win for the producers/business owners as it helps them financially). And I do honestly believe that aiming for quality isn't just a means to an end - in other words, I think that aiming for quality will benefit everyone in the company (including the employees) - not just the end users.

So fundamentally I'd disagree with your assessment on wealth generation = lack of morality.
I've poked around and even created a SubCombinator. But, I'm still trying to figure out exactly what the site offers. In some aspects its feels like Hacker News with Reddit sort of categories.

Then you have this Expert/Student system. Honestly, I'm not completely sure I understand it. I see that I can set myself as the expert for a SubReddit...I mean SubCombinator.

"At the end of every month, the top five Sensei (advisers or investors) in each area will receive the proposals of the top ten Grasshoppers (entrepreneurs or activists), based on points earned for intelligent posts and comments that month."

So, this didn't make sense to me until I registered. If I understand correctly, you 'pre-fill' a sort of pitch/proposal that you want to be sent out. Then based on your activity in the site it will be emailed to the 'Experts' of the SubCombinators where you've earned the most points recently. Does that sound right?
Who Profits from Piracy? (by independent Filmmaker Ellen Seidler)
But compromise of one endpoint should not cause (or even help) compromise of the other endpoint, in this case at least not in the client->server direction (it's pretty obvious that you can compromise all PS3's at once if you take over control of whole PSN and that can be called an feature).
Summary: Android users can opt-in to having cell/wifi info tagged and reported hourly. Said opt-in is not clearly called out as including position reporting of this nature.

Its more invasive than iOS's tracking, in that its reported more frequently And it is tagged to the particular device id.
Presumably most Americans see this as a matter of individual rights. He can say whatever he wants and Google is free not to associate with him.
I end up going back to "Dive Into Python" for reference. http://diveintopython.org/

My other two references are the Python Standard Library Docs (http://docs.python.org/library/index.html) and StackOverflow.
According to the author, they were "contracted to Google by another company." So that could be a consideration for excluding perks that are normally folded into salaries.
Interesting idea but to be honest, the color palette is quite distracting - there's too much going on.

* the yellow background for the news items is a show stopper - the text will look just fine on it's own!

* the two-tone peach/cream background for the main content blocks is distracting. instead try a subtle tone for the left section and the page body color for the news section

* the dark grey background + blue headers and footers is not cohesive. make the background a very light grey or creme color (#f8f8f8 for example) and if you want the headers and footers to have a color, I'd make them extend the full width of the page or else make them flat (no-gradient)

Of course, this is all my opinion, and you get what you pay for right? :)

Good luck with this interesting idea!
I agree with you that it was probably done from PC (or well just about anything including PS3, but not because it was required to use PS3), but on the other hand it seems plausible that information extracted from (probably rooted) PS3 was significant help.
Right. You fill in your proposal, which is kept hidden. If you're in the top 10-rated "grasshoppers" in a subcom, at the end of the month, your proposal gets packaged into a nice email that goes out to just the top 5-rated "sensei" or experts.
Don't use terminology like Sensei and Grasshopper as it confused me with what the idea even is. Plus it means you've got a lot more text with all the brackets. Although I do not like the colour scheme, it's really distracting.
in technology its normal for a badge to have number to call..when I did temp IT work I once worked as field engineer for MCI Worldcom..due to security, etc at customer sites the badge I wore had a 1-800 number to call if there was any questions..
I see your Amazon affiliate code is odli-20.
The official docs are great, but I personally find them difficult to navigate.
Thanks. I pro'lly gotta work on that. I get a little carried away once I start CSS'ing.
Have you shared this with people who would be experts and actually interested in receiving proposals? I guess I don't fully understand how my activity in a news sharing site makes me important to an investor. You're basically trying to reward people who participate and submit links with the idea that their pitch will be seen by an investor who is following a topic you contribute to.

Its definitely an interesting approach. And there's some work to be done on the UI, education and flow within the site. You just need to make sure there's real value for everyone involved.
Business Communication is Not Just Talking Loud
... their response to power and its abuse depends upon the source: they don't care about governments, who have the power to kill you, seize your wealth, or do anything they'd like, leaving you with no claims for redress, but go crazy with corporations, who at worst can offer people shitty jobs (!) or charge too much for shitty products.
Sure thing! It's about iterating a piece of work and revising.
Both Java and C# can be compiled to native binaries - there's nothing stopping that. The standard runtimes for them just don't do that.

Java can be compiled via gcj ("It [GCJ] can compile Java source code to Java bytecode (class files) or directly to native machine code, and Java bytecode to native machine code." - http://gcc.gnu.org/java/). C# can be compiled down to native code using various tools. MonoTouch uses that to run C# on iPhones for example.
Microsoft's contractors are "orange badges", and their email addresses start with a- or v- depending on what kind of contractor they are. They're very much treated as second-class people, ever since the 1990s class action suit (Vizcaino v. Microsoft, for those keeping score at home).
Patent Absurdity (part 1 of 3), Suing the Patent Office To Grant Patent
The Internet Wins And Will Always Win
Persistent state for Node.js application servers
Too early to say - this is probably the one part of the language that has had the least design work - but I suspect they'll feel like Dylan's macros. That is, Lisp/Scheme-inspired, but tailored to a C-like syntax.
I like Learn Python The Hard Way by Zed Shaw: http://learnpythonthehardway.org/
I was under the impression that even these are vulnerable, because both MD5 and SHA1 are computationally efficient, meaning you really should be iterating the hashing process many times over, or using something like blowfish. Also, I think MD5 has collision problems?

Which really just brings us to our final solution, which is use a system that is designed by others and has been thoroughly tested and trusted.
I don't follow your point. You can filter by store or brand. You can, for instance, allow someone to see the shoe collection and hide everything not from Nordstrom or not Gucci (or both), etc.

EDIT: By the way, I still think you make an interesting point in how people really shop, and I appreciate you sharing that here.
The official Python, http://docs.python.org/tutorial/, written by Guido van Rossum himself, is one of the most concise introductions to Python I've read. Just skip the first few chapters.

Other good books are:

* Learn Python the Hard Way -- http://learnpythonthehardway.org/index

* How to Think Like a Computer Scientist/Think Python (now Python for Software Development) -- http://www.greenteapress.com/thinkpython/

Dive Into Python is good, but IIRC (from Dive Into Python 2), Mark Pilgrim tends to use very convoluted solutions to simple problems. The solution might be superior in terms of performance, but don't always help you learn the language.
That page says "If you can already code then the book will probably drive you insane", which doesn't match the poster's request.

(The parent, now deleted, was referring to http://learnpythonthehardway.org/ which a couple of other posters also link to.)
Let's just allow to downvote submissions so poor ones will be pushed down.

This will also diminish number of comments, because: there are lots of comments because there are lots of (poor) submissions...
> If it is true that they have a separate building where the 'people of color' work segregated from the others, that is pretty outrageous.

But it's not true and the allegation is so obviously ridiculous that it marks OP as a moron.

When you say "people of color", does that term include people of Chinese descent? Japanese? Indian? You should find plenty of those in the main building, because those races are reasonably well represented among the class of "people who got a CS degree from Stanford (or similar)". Whereas if you look at any section of the business that doesn't require advanced tech degrees, you'll tend to see a different mix.

> It really does say something about the corporate culture there.

No, it really doesn't.
Repeat after me: "use bcrypt".

http://codahale.com/how-to-safely-store-a-password/

Or just use bcrypt, please.
Guy doesn't know what he is talking about.

See http://chargen.matasano.com/chargen/2007/9/7/enough-with-the... and http://codahale.com/how-to-safely-store-a-password/
Live Barcelona - Real Sociedad Online 2011
"indication sent to the PC speaker from the computer's BIOS that the CPU fan is failing or has failed, or that the power supply voltages have drifted out of tolerance"

Should have made it play "Daisy, Daisy, tell me your answer do..."
What this guy did (interviewing other employees with a camera without appropriate authorisation, that is, heavily breaching the security standards of his employer) is Gross Misconduct and that's an acceptable basis for immediate termination anywhere in Europe. If you don't believe me, give it a try at work on Monday and see what happens.
I didn't watch his video clip, but the article read like a very curious person looking into a weirdness. Kind of like a journalist....
Why The Copyright Industry Isn’t a Legitimate Stakeholder in Copyright
I have found that Googling for "python docs X" usually has the python doc page for X as the top hit.
I'm going to try to save tptacek the trouble of typing it out again:

1. Salt must be per user unique. Do not reuse salt.

2. Do not use md5 or sha* as they are, because they are too fast to compute and thus too easy to brutforce. Instead use a slow hash function, as slow as you can possibly tolerate in your app. E.g. Bcrypt, scrypt, or pbkdf2. These algorithms allow you to tune their slowness.

3. As computers become faster, you will need to make your hash functions slower. Have a plan in place that will allow you to recompute bashes to increase their slowness.
I just see it as a business decision. From the outside, a black-hat SEO campaign just looks like a really successful SEO campaign. "Oh, you're ranking for 'cheap dresses' a couple years after you started. Awesome!"

I'm basically helping investors figure out if their investees' rankings are sustainable. Ideally, I'd see a site like Mint (ranking for "money management software" because that's what they're good at) or OKCupid (#1 for "online dating"), rather than Milanoo.
Just a suggestion, you might want to register your new project with http://projectilo.com to get continued feedback from other developers
They were "forced to switch from measuring cups purchased at Walmart to test tubes and beakers stolen from labs"? Really? This doesn't pass the sniff test.

Whenever I go into a Goodwill/Savers/Salvation Army store, I see shelves full of old Pyrex and other borosilicate glass cookware selling for $1 a piece. Moreover, it's not hard to buy lab equipment out of a catalog (or online). Considering the profit margins on crack, I have a hard time believing that buying beakers ($5-10 each, in bulk; less for student-grade) "had a substantial impact on crack production".
Life Lessons I’ve Learned in 38 Years
27 New APIs: Location, SMS and Thomson Reuters
I feel horrible for derailing, but can I ask HN for a similar book for Ruby? I know the basics of RoR, but feel like I would be a lot better if I knew more about the Ruby underpinnings.
For a start, user could be notified that he can install that system, instead of getting a laptop with such software preinstalled. I don't really see a reason to have this installed when users are not aware of it. How many people go to the producer after their laptop is stolen and ask "Have you by any chance installed some laptop tracking software on my laptop by default? I cannot identify my laptop anymore in any meaningful way - it's one of toshiba ones." ?

If the user isn't aware of it, it's useless. If the user didn't agree to the way it's done, it's pretty much an illegal spying device.
Yet another instance where Macs are better (well, at least the old ones) ;)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0g1-iPRw-5M&t=0m25s

I had a Centris 660AV and I used to play that crash sound over and over, it was hilarious.
Thankfully the fortune 500 company that I work for in Bay Area doesn't have color coded employees. I heard Yahoo does the color coded employees and actively discriminate as well.
Many of these are tutorials. You've asked for more of a reference. I've heard people say that Beazley's Python Essential Reference is as close to a Python K&R as there is, but I'm not experienced enough in Python to know.
Programming Ruby (aka "the Pickaxe").

I never fully grokked Ruby's object model until I read that book.

I reread it often and always discover/re-discover useful information.
Please explain why employing someone at minimum wage evil.
Well. Either Andrew was not sufficiently informed of security policies or Google overreacted. IMO.

I would presume training for on-site contractors includes the security policies about job knowledge and ability to talk about it. Likely a handbook or something...

Or, if Andrew was within limits of the policy, Google overreacted.

At any rate, certainly if someone I didn't know came up and wanted to ask me questions about my job (which by the way would be company confidential), I'd be suspicious; I'd likely call security, depending on if I'd seen him around before or not.

I appreciate that it is interesting about the socio-economic divide. I would want to ask questions too, but, uh, I'd like try not to be utterly oblivious to the obvious security concerns.
It definitely hurt the telescope optics market, there is no longer an affordable supplier of borosilicate optical blanks.
He recorded on videotape something uncomfortable, true, and potentially explosive about a multinational advertising firm, which was in a position to cause them bad PR, which is the only thing that could conceivably threaten their billions in revenue and 30% margins.

The only reason this is even in the general ballpark of surprising is that this particular multinational advertising firm has exceptionally good PR, and people want to believe that it would never do this. I mean, they've repeated "We're the good guys" tens of thousands of times, surely it must be true, right?

It's a wonderful company. They make cool products. If you get in their way, they will bury you.
David Baltimore won a Nobel Prize for discovering reverse transcriptase, the enzyme that allows HIV to work. In a talk he gave at my high school, he stressed the same message, saying that "the frontier of knowledge is nearer than we expect".

Growing up, we learn everything throuugh books which seem to present all that is knowable about a subject. It's hard to unlearn that perspective and appreciate how much there is that humanity doesn't know.
Where do you get it?
OK, so what makes it so different? That's all I was looking for.
You could downvote the submissions but I think the main benefit of HN is in the discussion and commentary. I personally read the comments before I click on a story because I like to have a frame of reference when choosing to read an article. I don't think a post should be ranked on its upvotes but on its number of comments and range of discussion.

I should also add that just because a submission is bad doesn't mean the discussion under it isn't worthwhile.
Make it pretty. I cannot think when I see that page.
Isn't this "unauthorized access to computer systems[1]"?

When buying a laptop on Amazon, is there some sort of agreement/contract between the buyer and the "security" firm where one signs his privacy away?

Especially the screenshot taking would be a concern to me. What if you were working on secret company files while screens are being taken?

[1] http://www.ncsl.org/default.aspx?tabid=13494
I recommend The Python Cookbook: http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596001674. It's not a reference in the sense that it shows you the language syntax or tells you the details of the standard library, but it shows how experienced Pythonistas do things in a way that might not be obvious to you if you come from a language like C or Java, or until you're Dutch.
Launching a Project in a Month
An mvp is a staggered flow of features, each is solid, rather than a burst of features that are released half baked under the disguise of market testing.
This story is clearly one sided and the facts are not fully represented. It is possible that Google managers were very protective over information about people hired as contractors. This is a tax issue, Google must show that these contract workers are not "de-facto" employees. Looking at who sets working hours is part of a logical test used in some cases. Maybe they were scared of setting off red flags at the IRS. See the microsoft and fedex cases to learn more about this issue.

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1153/is_n10_v120/ai_2...

(EDIT) they also likely canned the guy for being an idiot and causing trouble
> What does it cost to let everyone ride the same bus and have them eat in the same place?

It's not clear why this contract agency runs on a different schedule than the rest of the company - 4am to 2:30 or whatever - maybe it's just traffic flow, or maybe they work a lot with a group in a different timezone. But the fact that they do run on a different schedule implies it could cost quite a lot to "let everyone ride the same bus and have them eat in the same place". People arriving at work at 4am would need to arrive on different buses than those arriving at 8 - you'd have to hire extra buses just for them, find drivers willing to start driving well before 3am, and hope there's enough concentration that this one building of people rates its own bus stop locations - if they're spread out all over they'd be better served by carpooling. (Not to mention that the reason for Google buses is so employees can get work done during what might otherwise be a long, aggravating rush-hour commute, whereas the commute at 3am/2:15pm is easy and fast)

Similarly, people who arrive at 4am are on a different lunch schedule than the rest of the company so you'd have to operate the cafeteria longer, pay overtime, hire more workers, etc.

That's a lot to do for people who don't even work for Google directly.

UPDATE: Another poster wrote that this group is working in multiple shifts, presumably to get through more books faster with the available facilities. That makes perfect sense - this is the morning shift, then the evening shift arrives, maybe a swing shift after that. Which would make running the kitchens and the buses long enough for everybody really expensive.
From what I gather from the comments, he didn't work for Google, he worked for a contracting agency.
Employing someone at the minimum wage rate is "evil"?
For the design part, go through this ( http://paulstamatiou.com/startup-web-design-ux-crash-course ) post by Paul if you haven't already. That really is a crash course in design and should help you get started.
Really awesome! Thanks!
Page too wide, and paragraphs fixed at 134 columns...not good design.
Oh, so people who view the world differently than you do so because they've been brainwashed by the media and politics their whole life, whereas you are able to see through all of that and clearly perceive the unbiased truth. That must be a heavy burden for you to bear.

But it's good to know you're around. I'll be sure to seek you out for my re-education next time I start to suspect I might have been co-opted.
I have, and there are a few investors who are waiting to see what happens here. Myself included. It's got to be an organic process; hopefully some people with great ideas will start posting and sharing their concepts, and it will snowball. Although I should stress I don't see this as a primarily IT-oriented site, it could become anything, or go in any direction, depending on who gets involved. In a lot of ways it's an experimental, theoretical model. I have no idea if it will really work, but I can imagine a lot of interesting proposals being collected that would be interesting opportunities for investors, who in turn will have to work to get their ratings up, in order to see those proposals.
This is exactly what the doctrine of Theosophy is getting towards.

http://www.wisdomworld.org/setting/IntroductionByCompiler.ht...
Josep Miquel Piqué, HiT Barcelona, on Keeping the Work/Life Balance
Me too. And I wanted to know why it was different than a praying mantis specifically.
I believe he's saying that people buy for the feeling, not to satisfy a list of specs. So although us techies might like this sort of drill down, normal folks prefer the "serendipitous discovery" experience of shopping.

I'm not sure I agree, but it is a thought provoking point.
The Ruby Programming Language by David Flanagan and Yukihiro Matsumoto (the creator of Ruby) is very good.

The coverage, speed and size (half the size of Pickaxe book) make you productive quickly.