skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting, do you know of any blog posts or articles that discusses these rooms, or more on how to do this? And I may be showing my out-of-touchness with black-hat culture, but I assume by "owned" computer, you mean one that's a botnet node?
I love creativity in a lawyer.
For a company that deals in billions[0], this is more of an experiment to gear towards the future of media dissemination.

[0]: http://www.teleread.com/paul-biba/some-sales-figures-from-am...
The strong version of this hypothesis is surely untrue. If it were true, we might conclude that some languages that I speak that lack marked gender in the languages' grammar are spoken among native speakers who are "less sexist" than speakers of languages in which gender is strongly marked. The real-world observation, if anything, is the other way around. I have to respectfully disagree with the strong version of the linguistic relativity hypothesis. Within each language grouping, people differ far more in their personal thinking along the dimension of visual thinker or not, or auditory thinker or not, than people differ from one another in thought patterns based on language background.

My native language is General American English, and I grew up in what was essentially a monolingual immediate family and neighborhood of English speakers, although both of my parents had had some instruction in other languages. All of my grandparents were born in the United States, but three of the four spoke languages other than English at home, and my two maternal grandparents had all of their schooling in German.

German as a second language was mandatory for all elementary pupils in fourth, fifth, and sixth grade in my childhood school district, very unusual for the United States. I had more German in junior high and senior high (in two different states) and then Russian in senior high. I entered university as a Russian major and immediately began taking Chinese, switching my major to Chinese as I grew in delight for that language. I have had formal instruction as an adult in Modern Standard Chinese (a.k.a. Mandarin), Cantonese, Biblical Hebrew, Literary Chinese, Attic Greek, Biblical Hebrew, Japanese (first in the medium of Chinese, then in English), Taiwanese, and Hakka, and various courses in linguistics (also in the mediums of both English and Chinese). I have engaged in self-study of Biblical Aramaic, Mongolian, Spanish, French, Latin, Hungarian, Malay-Indonesian, Esperanto, Interlingua, etc., etc., etc. For several years, my occupation was Chinese-English consecutive interpretation for people traveling to the United States from Chinese-speaking places to meet government officials or businesspersons here. My observations of many speakers of many languages, and trying to think in two languages in the same conversation while doing my interpreting work, convince me that people's thoughts are much less constrained by their native languages than by the family backgrounds they have, the educations they receive, and the mass media they consume.
Judging by the comments on the linked article, I'd say quite a few black-hats and crackers/etc are upset he's bringing this to light for those of us who were unaware.
"The finance hedge funds had the most strict req's. Target school, CS degree (nothing else but CS), no Masters or higher degree, 0-2 years of experience etc."

haha, I had considered this route since I have a BS in CS/math and MS in math and I figured they would like that more. apparently not. I like working 40 hours a week anyways at an employer that pays more more for the MS.

...and will just take the financial actuarial exams if I want in that route anyways.
that is because doctors are trained to multiply drinks per day by at least 2 to get actual drinks a person is drinking a day.

... sad thing is for most people at the doctor's office this isn't unrealistic at all.. Oh and if they say 'one drink' make sure you ask how big!
If you think that the side effect profile is what keeps people from taking about their personal mental health issues with their doctor, you're mistaken. There is a long-standing social stigma against people with mental disorders, and you can find it in our media throughout the past decades. Depression, for example, has been looked at as a weakness, because people that don't have it don't understand it. They look at someone and just tell them to 'snap out of it' or 'exercise more' or 'get more sunlight.' They see depression as a weakness of character, they do not see it as a disease.
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Thanks for the insights. Yes, I'm very interested in discussing, particularly on how I might choose someone local who can work with me and getting a second opinion on course of treatment. Your email doesn't seem visible, though. You can find mine in my profile, or add yours to the 'About' section. The 'Email' field itself is not visible to others.
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Major Win.
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- Jobs appears to have that certain je ne sais quoi. There are exceptional folks and outliers and he is one of them IMO. I wish I was smart enough to what it is about him so I could bottle that and become rich selling it, but alas...

- Market is significant because the size and growth of it matters. Picking a niche market that is not growing is a fatal flaw even if you do everything else right. Or when a market turns on you - just ask anyone involved in real estate in 2008.

- Success is profit or wealth-creating exit (not acq-hire or asset sale). By the metrics of funding, user growth and employee growth, most dot-com startups in 1999 were successes. I worked at one of them (Kozmo.com) - by those measures, we were one of the most successful companies ever :) Again, funding, users, employees may all be conditions which are necessary for success (not sure that's the case to be honest) but definitely not sufficient.

Am a data junkie so see lots of value in what you're doing but worry about efforts to distill entrepreneurship into a 'playbook'. There may be correlations with what is being observed but causality is a whole different world.

Look forward to seeing future updates.
You can have a look at: https://github.com/julienq/spqr/blob/master/populus.js

Bear in mind that it's still a work in progress. Look for "populus.object", especially create(), is_a() and call_super(). There is still something called $new (not new because some picky parsers don't like it) but it's just the chaining of create() (a wrapper around Object.create()) and init().
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Cool :) I spend a lot of time finding good TV shows. Wish I could do a join between the IMDB database and the Netflix one: Show me all the TV shows which score more than 8.5 on IMDB and are on instant watch on Netflix.
The problem is with any site that uses stuff after the hash to distinguish between what should be different application states. From the REST perspective, these applications just have one huge state and thus miss out on many of the benefits of REST.

What's worse, fixing this flaw necessitates breaking all of the application's URLs.

When pushState is used properly, a single-page app essentially becomes a transparent client-side proxy/cache, which maps much better onto REST.
Your degree and what school you went to don't matter. What matters at this point is what you have accomplished. So what have you? If you have no publicly available proof of your work (open source, or web app, business ...) then get started. It is never too late. At the age you would be by now, people will judge you on your accomplishments.

I am 41 and have a couple of small companies (30 employees total). For my education, I barely graduated from public high school. I had my sister write a special make up paper so I could pass French. Without that I would not have made it. I am married now to a professor. I go to many parties with academics, and they are mostly impressed with the fact that I am self employed. I am impressed with all the degrees and publications they have. Nobody asks me where I went to school because that is not relevant to figure out if I am successful or worth talking to.

So to summarize - your place of education has an order of magnitude less importance than what you have accomplished. And the gap will get wider as you get older. So do something that people can see, and prove to the world that you are capable.
I can relate. I have an old high school friend that I used to maintain pretty regular contact with via email since I moved interstate. Early on in the Facebook rise we both had accounts, she still uses her's but I lost interest in it. However, to her online social interaction = facebook and we no longer email each other.

I find Twitter is a bit different though, since it is not like putting your whole life up on a page, it can just be short catchups fairly regularly. Maybe it's better in this respect because it doesn't try to take the place of things like phone calls and email in the way Facebook does.
yes, I agree with you sort of. I"ve done a lot of SEO in the past, nothing you mentioned was new to me. But here is my experience, one of the startups I did had a brand new domain, which had nothing on it before launch, and didn't hyper optimize the type of SEO you mentioned. However, due to the nature of our site we got a lot of links for big name groups like peta, the nra, etc. Follow links on their site, all within a few months of launching.

We ranked really well really fast, whatever sandbox people think google may or may not have didn't seem to affect us. Like I said, within a few months, on a brand new domain, without an SEO expert optimizing things like H1 tags, we ranked really really well for competitive keywords.

That's the basis of my hypothesis, without good backlinks, it doesn't matter a whole lot, and good backlinks matter a lot more than tags on a page, whether you have /posts/title, etc.

But I do really appreciate the time you took to look at my site and offer suggestions. You did catch a missing index :) I didn't notice because no human goes to tag pages, and it didn't show up in 'new relic' because my other pages are fast and get hit a lot more.

btw, i'm curious if you see my site on this search, http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8...

I rank decently for long tail things like that, if I did your suggestions would that page go up? I see it in 7th position.
In the article, the author also used terms like "reprogramming". That sounds very 'geeky' to me. It feels like this: we can imagine those scientists were computer programmers, those skin cells are the instances of a certain SkinCell class (presumably derivative class of a base class Cell), their goals were to convert SkinCell instances into Neuron (another derivative class of Cell). Previous approaches involve two steps by using casting: SkinCell -> Cell -> Neuron. Those programmers are smarter, they managed to accomplish it in one shot. What they did (not very clear in the article, so I'm guessing here) by directly modifying type information of those instances. They must be using a certain kind of dynamic language.
If the best camera is the one you have with you, a corollary could be the best movies are available on Netflix Instant Streaming.
When sorting by rank, there seem to be a lot missing. Why does it start with "8 - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"? Are all 250 really available?
So Samsung is suing Apple to give them the schematics on their top secret hardware so that Apple won't sue Samsung later for copying their top secret hardware?

That's actually pretty funny. A win/win for Samsung.

So Apple will probably refuse, then Samsung has an arrow to fire at Apple if they claim Samsung copied their hardware.

Some of the lawyers from Samsung have been reading a little too deeply into sun tzu's art of war and Robert Green's 48 laws of power.
Holy mother of ... https://github.com/julienq/spqr/blob/master/populus.js#L266-...
Poll: Should HN display comment scores?
It's now been long enough since I hid comment scores that we know
what the site will be like without them. Do you prefer the site
now or the way it used to be?

I hid comment scores after tptacek suggested it as a way to reduce
arguments. There was a nasty kind of argument that used to happen,
where people would literally try to score points off one another,
and users voting on the thread became like a mob egging on two
people fighting. I prefer HN without comment scores, because those
fights really disturbed me, and they've practically gone away since
I hid comment scores.

I realize there is another side to the story, though. Lots of
people have complained that without comment scores it's harder to
pick out the good comments. Some say that's better, because now
you have to judge a comment for itself. On the other hand, with
sufficient discipline one could presumably judge a comment for
itself despite seeing the score.

Last time I tried asking this question, the voting was roughly even.
I'm curious if there has been any drift toward a consensus.
I liked it better when comment scores were displayed.
I prefer the way the site is now, with comment scores hidden.
It doesn't even take a billion hits. I'd say it's a problem as soon as you scale to a couple dozen servers. At that point you're wasting enough money running extra cores that you could have hired another dev instead. We picked up something like 6x web frontend performance by doing a pretty straightforward if tedious Java port (64-bit Sun JVM), and it also put us in a position to start using NIO (with Netty) much more heavily.
As a mac owner, do you develop using mac native tools or in linux on a VM?
I am a ubuntu/PC user who is looking at switching to the mac, but I have some questions. How many Mac users develop on it using native mac tools? or do they use some flavor of linux on a VM in the mac? I would not want to let my linux skills go to waste. so, should I make the switch?
There's a seventh, which is that we gain complete control over the decline stage and are able to reverse it. That's the one I actually envision. (Hard to imagine it not happening in the long run, barring serious technological stagnation.) However, it might be quite a few lifetimes before we hit that technological point, and people would be making do with inferior tech in the mean time.

One possibility is that before we get there, we might go through a phase of relatively crappy extension where we tend to end up stuck at a plateau somewhere towards the end of the decline stage. What I'm basing this on is the fact that (according to Michael Rose) fruit flies and other organisms reach a senescence plateau where their rate of death stops increasing with time, instead remaining at some fixed percentage rate per hour death rate stays constant. In biological terms that means they aren't aging any more, i.e. the death rate is not going up. He claims this happens in people too, just at a very late stage in the life cycle.

The idea I am going for is that idealized life support systems, robotic exosuits, implantable organs, and so forth could act as a crude counterbalance for the death probability (taking it to near zero) without actually altering the fact that your body has aged (i.e. would die very soon on average without the external life support).
I generally subscribe to "rule of law", and believe that one should strive to obey the law as it exists while at the same time working to change it, rather than flouting it and hoping that it is not enforced. It's a philosophical position with pros and cons, but does play a role for me. Trying to be 'legal' rather than simply 'not caught' definitely increases the stress of trying to run a business, and is part of the reason I don't like my work.
No, I know Hawai'ians who use an ammonia freezer.
Toy Story 3 is in there twice, with ratings 34 and 143.

On another note, it's amazing seeing all the movies in here which aren't available in Canada.
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Because they aren't available on Instant Play.
Good catch. The Godfather (imdb: 2, 3); Shawshank Redemption (imdb: 1); The dark knight (imdb: 1) are not available on instant watch. The blog post says "All the IMDB 250 that are available on Netflix Instant.", not "IMDb Top 250 available on Netflix Instant" as the HN post (which I interpreted as all 250 movies).
Reprogrammed?
The longest cell in the history of life
Is it ironic that while reading an article about the 'free flow of information', I get stopped by a pay wall?
I like point 0, that the idea doesn't need to be brilliant and unique. A business can be built on making something better, easier or faster. I bet a lot of good ideas are discarded because they aren't seen to be "earth shattering" enough.
toy story 3 is listed twice at 34 and 143.
I appreciate the detailed answer. Thanks!
I'm currently building a hybrid. An app would benefit from pure javascript frontend (speed), but to honor accessibility (and SEO), I've decided to serve pages traditionally using static urls, and only if client has javascript enabled, it will take over and make page fully dynamic, updating content via ajax and address bar with history.pushState. Been considering hashbangs for a while, but that thing just doesn't feel and look right to me. Although not all browsers support pushState yet, browsers evolve pretty fast, so I expect this feature to be supported by all browsers fairly soon, no point to waste time and break the web implementing inferior solution.
Good luck doing that with HTTPS.
You might want to double check "Gladiator" because I'm pretty sure the one on IMDB isn't the one available on Netflix instant. :)

I told my wife this was one of the most important web pages I'd looked at in a long time.
The title is somewhat misleading. Think of it like "Venn diagram intersection of Netflix Instant and IMDB top 250".
Ask HN: OpenID Merge doesn't work. Is there a work around?
When I try to log into Hacker News with an OpenID, it asks me to create a new account. I already have an account, so I press "Already Have an Account", and give it my credentials, in hopes that is will tie the OpenID to my account.

It then takes me to http://news.ycombinator.com/openid_merge, which returns Unkown.

Is there a workaround for this? Or is it just a feature that hasn't been implemented yet?
This is an awesome list. One of my big faults with netflix is that one account can be accessed by an entire family, but the genres don't mix and match and instead of rating a movie, they tell you what you might think of it. A list like this really helps.
There's a discussion in Cory Doctorow's "For The Win" (excellent novel, btw, download it today) of how to coordinate groups of anonymous activists online. A favorite tactic of the fictional activists in the book was to take over the comment thread of some arbitrary old blog post for a short period of time, using it as a chat channel.

Obviously, Pastebin works too.
It felt weird at first but I'm pretty much indifferent now.
This has been debated in so many threads. I want to sum up the arguments for comment scores (as see them) and maybe someone else could sum up the arguments against them.

1. comment scores let you quickly scan to see the most interesting comments

2. comment scores provide an additional layer of information ("what did the community think about this?")

3. comment scores make it easier to assess comment quality in threaded discussions (the most popular top level comments will move to the top of the page, but little information is provided about the quality of replies)

As a hacker I'm generally on the side of getting as much information as I can, as fast as I can get it. I'd love to bring back the comment scores and think of other ways to address the problem of nasty arguments.
I think this poll is proof in itself that comment scores are valuable.
Yeah, when it first happen things were much harder to read. It feels like now I've gotten to the point where it's not as big a deal to not have them. Still they do bring a lot of utility so I'm fairly undecided.
As a sort of middle-ground, does it make sense to give users the choice of showing comment scores?

You would be correct in arguing that it does not resolve the sort of argument as describe in the second paragraph.

However, with regards to your third paragraph, in this situation each person can decide whether or not to see the scores
If voting abuse was a problem, how about implementing a Heisenberg's Voting Principle... for any given submission you can either click a link to see the votes OR participate in voting, but not both.
This is a "but at what cost" situation. While it did get rid of most of the worst stuff, sometimes the delicious cookie of a +1 was motivation to put more effort into a quality comment.
Yes, if my life allowed for sufficient and regular sleep, it would definitely be an improvement. Unfortunately as things stand, I go to sleep when I can work no more, and wake up when the first crisis calls. Last night was dealing with a broken equipment at midnight, emailing a lawyer at 2 am, and trying to help an employee at 8 am. I'd quit, but I'd end up $100K in debt and a dozen people would lose their jobs. So plowing forward seems like the best option.

But although I'd be in better health, I'm not sure I'd be any less depressed. I think they are largely separate matters. The times in my life when I've had more such luxuries were much less stressful, but I don't recall them being particularly happier or more hopeful.
Apple did force Samsung to give secret future hardware plan so it would only be fair for Apple to do the same http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2385861,00.asp
There are services that get you a US IP allowing you to have access to all those unavailable titles. Haven't tried any myself though.
great strategy to get new customers. they will gain more than they supposedly lost... this "loss" will be nothing more than a marketing expense.
I feel less inclined to move a post in its current direction (up or down) with the scores hidden.
sometimes the delicious cookie of a +1 was motivation to put more effort into a quality comment

As far as I know, all users can still see their own individual karma per comment on comments that they themselves post (even for newly created accounts, I'm pretty sure), so everyone who makes an effort to post a good comment gets a delicious cookie now.
Same thing for Heat. I was expecting Al Pacino and ended up with Joe Dallesandro.
You can still buy ammonia-absorption refrigerators today. A quick Google search finds http://www.warehouseappliance.com/propane_gas_refrigerators..... I had one in my Vanagon in 2006. It's certainly true that they're more dangerous than compressor refrigerators.

Presumably you could easily operate a refrigerator like this with a solar concentrator instead of a flame providing the heat.

A thermoacoustic cooler like the one in the SCORE project http://www.score.uk.com/research/default.aspx could also refrigerate using only a heat source, without a source of electricity. (The SCORE stove also produces electricity.) I don't know what the state of the art in this technology is right now.
I'm not fully following this. Explanation anywhere? Is this how you would do inheritance?
Perfect example of how non-costly signals become worthless. Somehow it reminds me of how everyone is reluctant to accept check #1001 from a new account, so now banks just ask where you'd like the numbers to start.
Near nobody in America uses general purpose QR codes. In other countries they're pasted on nearly everything. Hell, I've seen them on TV before. Hold your phone up to the screen to scan.

But as you say, it likely has little to do with the CueCat.
That's not necessarily a bad thing though - each time you do vote it's an independent decision you've made.
> "what did the community think about this?"

I like when sites treat this as a fuzzy metric, such as on Newgrounds.

"This comment is helpful."

"This comment is not helpful."

"A consensus can't be reached about this comment."