skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Besides, put yourself in an employer’s shoes. You’re interviewing two college graduates — one who started a company and can clearly articulate why it succeeded or failed, and one who had an internship from a “brand name” institution. If I’m interviewing with someone who chooses the latter candidate, they’re not a place I want to work for.

If the 'startup' succeeded, likely that person isn't going to be applying to a job in the first place. If it failed, there's likely going to be difficulty for that person to really understand why it failed ("I just needed 6 more months of runway!" or "People are just too stupid to get what I was doing!"). The 'startup' person is far more likely to bail in the next year to pursue their next startup idea.

This notion that people will be far more willing to hire a failed 21 year old 'startup addict' because of the experiences gained is an odd one, and something I suspect they use either as a justification to parents/friends, and probably don't actually believe it themselves. "I'll prove my value to future employers by demonstrating my lack of respect for established authority and contempt for organizational hierarchy (unless I'm at the very tip top of it)".

I'm sure people will be falling over themselves to offer you top management jobs after your "social todo facebook widget android app" fails because it ran out of funding. Come to think of it, this is probably a perfect game plan for silicon valley. :)

EDIT: Before someone points out that I too am a grumpy old timer, I'd simply prefer to see the OP actually doing something worthwhile with fetchnotes. Perhaps, you know, actually work on the startup. Writing blog posts about how you can't work for other people because you don't take orders, or how you argued with your dad about morality... none of these are "working on your startup" - they're just self-absorbed rants.

EDIT2: There's loads of options in between 'startup' and 'internship'. Some of us, you know, actually had real paying jobs during college. What would an employer want to choose of those three? Someone who understands that providing value to a company leads to an actual paycheck, someone who failed at a startup, or someone who went for 'brandname' status? I know which one I'd choose.
Make the mobile web cheaper would be my first priority - data roaming rates are insane
I'd like to know how many are plagiarists

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Plagiarism

or persons who misrepresent their identities,

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Sock_puppetry

especially after some infamous incidents

http://www.roughtype.com/archives/2007/03/head_wikipedian.ph...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/20...

of editors with a lot of trust in the Wikipedia editing community who were abusing that trust. I don't find it easy in the culture of Wikipedia to gain trust by referring to reliable sources and checking what those sources say.

After edit: The phenomenon of edit wars

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Lamest_edit_wars

goes a long way toward explaining why most Wikipedians have had contributions reverted, as the submitted blog post reports.
>> Want to shoot a war movie? Need access to military assets?

Where did Avatar use current military technology?
weird.. test-ipv6.com gives me 10/10 for full dual stack compatibility and ipv6test.google.com says I don't have IPv6 at all. Anyone else getting this?

edit: it looks like Safari must run dns requests both as IPv4 and IPv6 and uses whichever returns first. Refreshing a few times found the IPv6 is ready message on ipv6.google
I wouldn't be so sure. They are spread all over the world and have a rather disjoint corporate structure (as previously noted, Sony Pictures is distinct from the Sony running PSN), so while some branches may be quite secure, others are very possibly not. I didn't hear the technical details of the latest Sony exploit, but somehow I doubt they were that impressive.
Make something people would pay for then?
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"Over three quarters of contributions from registered users are from someone who's had a contribution reverted."

Well this makes sense entirely since it is peer reviewed and the articles are a living ecosystem which are built off of and on top of prior submissions and versions.
This, also to me, seems a little fishy. I doubt this repo is official. I'd like to see the dropbox staff to comment on this here.
Intermittently, yes. Some of the time it detects IPv6 correctly...

Is that 10/10 on both lines? The first 10/10 just means you have working IPv4, and you don't have a broken IPv6 that will cause problems. So you get 10/10, 0/10 if you just have working ipv4 and no ipv6...
Scorched Earth Strategy
ok, so this is a dumb question, but if i see:

# ping6 ::1
PING ::1(::1) 56 data bytes
64 bytes from ::1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.054 ms
...
# ping6 2a00:1450:8002::6a
connect: Network is unreachable

does that mean that my isp isn't supporting ipv6? as far as i can tell, my system is configured to do so (i am worried about the "pure ipv6" part, not ipv4+6, which is fine).

[edit: updated with an ipv6 address from http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/howto-test-ipv6-network-with-pi...] [edit2: updated again with google address from below]
In plain english, basically you expected mysql to work from inner to outer parentheses but instead

IN (SELECT species_id FROM enemy_species WHERE enemy_id = 123)

is executed against every row in the table instead of just once, taking a REALLY long time.

I think every everyone goes through that particular mysql learning curve - use a join instead.
European who loves watching USA TV shows: it can literally take YEARS before very successful US shows make it to (non-pay) TV over here and quite often they are not being shown at all.

I was honestly surprised "Dexter" was on regular German TV here rather soon - I was on season three when they started season one here. I cannot say "Breaking Bad" is being aired yet nor "The Shield", "The Wire" or any other of my favorite shows. Not even "Battlestar Galactica" or "South Park" made it to non-pay TV.

Well, at least "Two and a Half Men" is on if you are so inclined.
You only route your actual IPv6 traffic over the tunnel, so it is a small fraction of your traffic.

Not sure how they make money though...
It's not a matter of love/hate, but I've found it's a lot easier to sell something as "a web service using XML" than "a RESTful API using JSON". People know what XML is, not everyone has heard of JSON.
An interesting property of this approach: The app creator _will_ know if "wouldn't have bought it anyway" is true.

The result may be a shock for some, but at least they have no more illusions ("So many people love my app but pirate it. If they couldn't pirate it they would buy it!") and can get back to work.
Progress bars are a cheap dopamine hit.
Video Start-Ups Vie for Place Beside YouTube
From the article:

"[Dropbox] even provide Ubuntu packages that wrap the dropbox client and provide integration with Nautilus.

Unfortunately for Debian users, those packages do not work on Debian due to a dependency that can’t be satisfied (because Ubuntu introduced an epoch on the version of their nautilus package that Debian doesn’t have)."
Assuming that the long term goal is to start a company of your own at some point they are just means to an end.

If you work at a large company you need to work for a longer time to have enough cash, relevant knowledge of wide business area (not just something highly focused), and it is a safer choice.

However if you are one of those who like to see change, cannot stand lazy co workers, and are excited about immediate impact of your actions then startups are the place to be. It is riskier, more fun, you get enormous experience in a wide domain which might not directly be related to your work. Whatever be the reason, please do not work in a startup because you think it will do well and you will be a millionaire because of it.

Also regarding: If you are not a cofounder, you will be expected do a lot of different types of work, affording you little time to spend on the particular subfield of interest.
I for one know a lot of co-founders who work their asses off and party alongside their employees. This is in my opinion the best part about working for a startup that you will never find in a large organisation. There is no-one who is a "boss". You are a bunch of people who have a passion to make an impact and everyone is focused to make it happen.
So they got exposed because they were acting like a bunch of children and taking no precautions?

Man, if people who don't know what they're doing are this successful, imagine what it means about people who are. And how any laws we make about computer security are just security theater.
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The Chinese government responds to all insults like a hurt child. I don't think truth matters as much in asia as does perception, or "face".
I started seriously thinking "bubble", when someone I know who runs a moderately-successful, very small Groupon clone, decided to launch an incubator.

Maybe that's not the sign of a bubble though. Maybe it will be a bubble when someone launches an incubator for incubators.
Probably, although it is possible your ISP has support but you havent got a route set. What does route -n -6 say? The default route is 2000::/3 in ipv6.
To start something like HN or Reddit without an existing audience is simple, since this is the kind of service that you can start enjoying even with 10 selected users.

So if you are an hacker, just invite a few of your friends and start sharing links, and the community will start growing...

Soon or later I want to create some kind of no profit organization to create something very similar to HN but with a more open model (not YC focused and so forth) and with more features that can be interesting to experiment with.
For now I don't have time for family and work issues, but hope to find some time in the next months.
Ancient Greek oral traditions got geology right
As I was manually going through the top 50 list, "Darius Dhlomo, 920829" seems like someone who was banned, based on significant copyright issues.

Also, plagiarism is difficult, because there are a lot of articles based on the kernel of public-domain texts, of which citation is not required. And sock puppetry is difficult, because some people keep bots that do productive work, but if human beings have trouble sensing that, I imagine it'd be much more code than the hundred lines of code that it took to process this the first time: https://github.com/lsb/ugc-contributors/blob/master/mh-diffs...
assuming by ping6 2001:0db8:200:f101::1 you mean ping6 to a real IPv6 address rather than the 2001:db8::/32 demonstration address, then yes, you probably have a link local IPv6 address only. You can also check by running ifconfig (or the similar utility for your OS) and looking for a globally routable IPv6 addresses on your network interface. If you only have addresses starting with fe80 then you are likely link local only and not getting anything globally routable from your ISP.
They certainly act like kids. And, independent of that, I feel sorry for them. And I am nowhere near as sorry as they will be.
Thanks for your kind words! I was fascinated by that talk.

And if you want the code + data, you can just xargs https://github.com/lsb/ugc-contributors/blob/master/mh-diffs... over all of your pages-meta-history.7z files from http://dumps.wikimedia.org/enwiki/20110317/ or get the sqlite database from Infochimps from http://www.infochimps.com/datasets/entropy-per-revision-of-w...
Ask HN: Soon-To-Be CS Graduate. Best resources for finding decent job.
I'm currently positioned to graduate from my CS Major this December. It's from a State school and is ABET certified. I really love to program and enjoy learning as much as possible about different coding techniques as well as getting really in-depth with the details around programming.

That being said, I'm currently on the lookout to try and find a job once I graduate. I'd like to have something lined up by the end of summer. I'm for sure planning to relocate (preferably to the sf bay area). I've been an entrepreneur my entire life, but am ready to trade that in so that I can focus on learning as much about programming as possibly without the extra headaches of running your own business. I've spent a lot of effort to learn and effectively use most of the web based technologies, as well as the standard desktop programming languages (C++, C#, Java, etc.)

So far, I've been searching for jobs on Dice and Monster, searched through some on Craigslist, and have been networking with anyone I know, and whom those people know, to find people in companies that would allow to get my foot in the door.

I've applied directly on some of the bigger companies web sites (Google, Apple, etc.), but am still waiting to hear something back. I'm married and have a young child, so some amount of stability within the company at the moment would be nice, but not absolutely necessary as I've survived this long without much financial stability.

Any help / advice would be much appreciated.

Thanks.
Seus
Why there is need/space for a better payment gateway in India
But only as much as the other side doesn't take some even more extraordinary measure to locate you.
We use a similar strategy for our HTML5-based IOS app, however the issue is that it might take a few seconds to realize that an error has occurred and the resource should be served stale, which pretty obnoxiously kills any responsiveness.

The ideal way to make this work is to allow requests to be loaded idempotent and thus you can serve a stale request first and then if a more recent version should come down from the server you can re-load that resource individually (say a feed request to your server or something). This of course requires more than just an HTTP header but it's a cleaner solution provided you can prove that loading of resources is idempotent.
I'm not arguing for or against piracy but keep in mind that even at one dollar these apps can easily add up to a lot. My younger sister, for example, wants to download every cool looking app that she sees in the app store, be it useful or not. Add to that the huge influx of crappy $.99 apps that are not worth even a penny and you have enough incentive for people, especially teenagers with limited budgets, to pirate these cheap apps.

I think in order to solve the problem, it's important to see and understand all sides of the equation, even the ones we don't agree with.
Why Are There So Few Minority Owned Startups? The Answer Is Simple
Is this for real? The websites seems to be fine and up now.
Can someone confirm?
JQuery Condom, Namespaces for Plugins
jQuery Condom provides a namespace functionality which will allow you to create jQuery plugins on the fly; without touching the main jQuery.fn method. You have the same amount of control as if defining it from jQuery.fn.

This library is not meant to replace jQuery.fn, it's meant to work with it.

The jQuery official Plugin Authoring guide states: Under no circumstance should a single plugin ever claim more than one namespace in the jQuery.fn object. [source.]. And this library will help you follow that rule.

When you write a plugin (or any portion of code for that matter), you'll usually end up passing jQuery objects as attributes to methods; breaking the jQuery way (and sweet chains).
You forgot about: Need access to military assets? Avatar had zero need for military assets.

The most effective form of censorship is self censorship. Let's not say really bad things about X, because I don't want to burn any bridges. There is a popular image of the US military has little to do with reality. Consider the number of times an active army US soldier is portrayed as raping someone in a movie vs the other guy's army. Or the extremely high unemployment rate rate for soldiers you only serve one tour.
I can attest that entering a ~32-character-long ~base64 password on PSN is a real pain in the ass. :)
That's a great example of exactly how not to try to get someone's attention.

Let's see... No samples, no reason for THEM to want YOU, just a needy 'I need a mentor' post. You even listed a few ways that WOULD have made them notice you, but you're apparently too lazy to finish them.

Here's a telling quote: "I started with a portfolio, shot several takes of a video and even thought about making a personalized “hey 37signals!” site. But what I’ve realized is none of that is for me. " You essentially said, 'Design isn't for me. Hire me as a designer anyhow.'
Arc: http://arclanguage.org/install
loads fine for me too... may be it already got reverted back..
Maybe you're much older than I so our contexts are different, or wikipedia is wrong, but it says there that the /term/ MI-6 has been around since world war 2, referring to the SIS. The existence has been only publicly acknowledged since 1994.
Yup, they hacked it.

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?sclient=psy&...
Except that that's not true - I would cite iTunes as a counter-example - easy (and reasonably-priced) trumps free.
Here is a useful guide to the kinds of issues and fixes you might get http://www.getipv6.info/index.php/Customer_problems_that_cou...
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thanks. i fixed the address (i hope). and i do have an "fe80" address.
Deezer limits also to 5 hours per month
"While I don't like to attribute a book's content to it's author"

Where else should it be attributed?
The iphone browser prefers ipv6 if available I think, well my version (iOS 4.3) does.

Does test-ipv6.com say you have a public ipv6 address?
route -n --inet6 doesn't have anything for that, only for fe80 and ff00.
Its a game that could very well be implemented in a similar fashion to csspivot.com
Only to some degree; single sales have also partially dropped off because the relative cost of albums has decreased. I bought my first album in 1987-8ish for about £8.50 - the same purchase today would most likely be £10 and back catalogue releases are very frequently on sale for about £5-7. Factor in 24 years of inflation and....

tl;dr - albums now cost much the same as singles used to in real terms, but have more music. Why shouldn't people buy them in preference?
If you're looking to actually think relationally, that is, composing more complex queries from simpler components, as opposed to using only find-row-by-id types of queries (the kind that work equally well with a noSQL store like mongo anyway), you'd best use Postgresql, or if you like to spend money for no good reason an Oracle or SQL Server.
Had a tdd openspace at codestock this weekend that morphed in to an agile discussion. Someone asked "what's the one key thing I need as a foundation to become Agile?" (paraphrasing that).

4 people all said "communication" at the same time.

Communication has always been the backbone of successful projects, in my view. In 16+ years of software dev, I've only had 2 situations where there were technical knowledge issues that were a huge barrier - issues like "how do I connect to a database?" being something someone on a team had massive trouble with.

Outside of those outliers, pretty much all other issues have come down to a communication issue of some type - not identifying things clearly enough, not raising the alarm when a roadblock was hit, not alerting a client in time, not getting adequate feedback from a client, not getting things in writing, etc. To the extent that "Agile" practices help encourage regular communication to avoid those issues, it's great. When "Agile" gets formalized in to such a state that it becomes a roadblock itself, that's where the problems start. Since "Agile" has been productized and sold over the last decade, I suspect it's becoming a stumbling block in many orgs, and we'll hopefully see a new iteration/generation of Agile practices which free up people again. Perhaps a stronger embrace of mobile tech in Agile practices would help?
After spotify, the french leader in online music streaming now limits free-users to 5 hours of music per month before being blocked.

Anyone wanna write a script to move playlist from deezer to, for example, grooveshark?
I approached that question from a purity standpoint: if you only limited Wikipedia to people who did things "right", where would you be? And the answer turned out to be that you wouldn't be very far.

I think urban planners have found that neighborhood cohesion and community watches are far better than gated communities and lawless knifefights outside, and the online textual equivalent of community dynamics agrees with that.
Thanks for the kind words.

The "spread" in this context always means the difference between your exercise price and the fair market value of the stock on the date of exercise. For example, you hold ISOs for which you can buy common stock at $.10/sh. You exercise them when the stock is worth $1.00/sh. The spread is the $.90 difference. (If this exercise involved 100K shares, the amount potentially includable in AMT would be $90K).

409A is an arbitrary (in my view) tax rule that imposes large penalties if a company undervalues items that are given as "deferred compensation" to employees. It is not affected by the spread on date of exercise but rather by the way a board values options on date of grant (to avoid penalties, a company must get an independent, outside appraisal of its stock in setting such a valuation - in practical terms, this becomes an issue typically after a first equity funding because, before that, there usually is no serious practical risk of the IRS being able to put an objective measure on the stock's value in an early-stage company so as to have a basis upon which to attempt to impose penalties).

As to Question 2, I normally urge people to strike a balance - the advantages of getting LTCG treatment justify taking moderate risks for most employees but don't do it if you have to part with a lot of cash and if you have to take AMT hits even if you do believe in the company (in my experience, it is too easy to get blind-sided in this area, no matter how promising a typical startup looks; more yet, option holders do ride the caboose when it comes to liquidity events and can sometimes lose even if the company wins). Bottom line: front-exercise if possible but always proceed with caution and only after you understand all the issues well (including tax).
The "cache-control extensions for stale content" provide stale-while-revalidate, which seems to cover that requirement
Got any advice for someone trying to revive a bunch of Panasonic Toughbooks (CF25)?

EDIT: that is not "don't run EMacs on it", that is.. ;)
No need to imagine; just look at Stuxnet.
looks like its just the subdomain: http://informatics.nic.in/
May I suggest using Postgres?
This will be challenging because I have a house now and housing prices anywhere closer are almost double my current.
Anything starting 2001:db8 is not real.

Try 2a00:1450:8002::6a which is ipv6.google.com

But if you only have fe80:: and ff00:: addresses on your network you do not have external connectivity, those are link local addresses, not routed addresses...
R2 comes close, though.
Print, too. Yesterday I was standing in B&N looking at a book. It was $15. I fired up the Amazon app on my OD Droid and found the kindle version for $9.99 and a paperback for $6. I ordered the paperback for $6, and because I have Prime, will not pay shipping and get it in 2 days.
That's a pretty bang on analysis.

Spotify, like netflix, seem to 'get it'. They offer a 'listen to as much as you want' plan for a flat monthly fee.

I'm sure their biggest achievement to date is convincing the music labels that this is a good idea.

I can't see any other business model that can compete with this, and I fully expect it to become the dominant entertainment distribution model in the next 2-3 years.

I expect this is why Apple are launching icloud, even though it's going to cannibalise their existing itunes business.

Question is, I wonder if the same subscription model will eventually permeate to the app store?