skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I shouldn't be a problem, as long as all you're doing is writing code while you're here ... you're not using a US phone number on your site or listing a US address as your business address etc ... It really shouldn't be a problem, but I'm not a lawyer
This reminds me of a story I read about Grant Achatz, the great chef of Alinea. When he started out of cooking school, he sent a resume every week to Thomas Keller at the French Laundry, until Thomas Keller finally called him in and interview him. Persistence does payoff
You get in trouble not at the moment this happens, you get in trouble much earlier than that - when you allow yourself into a situation where a single typo leads to ruin.

Myself, I use TimeMachine and bitbucket on my Mac, and every-15-minutes snapshots on all Amazon EC2 EBS volumes. Similar solutions can certainly be found for your platform of choice.
Do you have customers? Co-developers? Or are you just working on your own?

Are you struggling to get traction? If so, use analytics (AB testing?) to figure out how to get more customers.

If you are just setting stuff up to satisfy your own curiosity (be honest), then it's quite rational to lose interest once the problem is solved.
Sometimes people tend to throw around logical fallacies a bit too much.

In the legal system it's perfectly acceptable to bring up such an ad hominem argument: motive.

No one should be convicted on motive alone, however it does frame the interpretation of facts in a certain way.

In this particular case we have a seemingly sensationalist article, along with some suspect data collection, and then a large jump from correlation -> causation about nuclear fallout. Once it is seen that the authors have a vested interest in damning nuclear power, it's much easier to draw conclusions about what's going on or to increase scrutiny considering the impartial nature of the researchers.
Really? Can you elaborate?
The term "plant" includes all the surrounding equipment. Batteries, backup generators, fuel reserves, etc.

My understanding is that if a functioning subset of generators had survived they could have powered the cooling pumps and the problem would have just been keeping them refueled. You can truck-in or airlift-in fuel quicky, so this would have been a very manageable problem in the short and medium terms, much more so than repairing long spans of downed electrical distribution lines.
This is only a partial answer and if you don't fully understand what's happening and why, you'll get your ass handed to you.

You need to know what YOU are bringing to the table and what THEY are bringing to the table. You need to have the full picture in your head. If you fully, passionately, believe that value will be created for both of you through a relationship ... all you have to do is convince the other person. If it's obvious for you, it'll be obvious for them too. They will, of course, meet with you.

On the other hand, if you're just bullshitting and you have nothing and you just desperately want to meet them because you're hoping that they will figure out how value will be created through a relationship ... well, they'll know what you are from the very first hello and you'll end up in the SPAM folder of their mind.
I remember my friend coded a program that Alt+Tab each time he moves his face to the right, and Alt+Shift+Tab when he moved his face to the left. It was awesome. :)
on front page, clicking on "more" reports "expired link"
I really like that website design. Very different from what i'm used to from microsoft
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The solution is to find higher quality news outlets. NPR and PBS come to mind.
The article I provided had data. From the FBI. 3 links to an anecdote do not make it data.
Nice job!

Feature request: Make the queries linkable. I think people would appreciate being able to have permalinks for themselves or HN leaders like tptacek, patio11 and jacquesm.

It would also be very interesting to see how the results for edw519 size up against his own curated comment list: http://edweissman.com/53640595

--

Update: Thanks to bitovod for implementing the feature. There's now an ongoing list of the HN leaders at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2662721
I wonder if this means WebGL will be in Android ICS. Sony Ericsson has already showed some demo in WebGL on a phone earlier this year, if Apple is starting to implement it in iOS already, then Google could do it, too. I just wonder if they considered it a priority, because when asked about WebGL coming to Android's mobile browser at I/O, the WebGL guys weren't too sure if that will happen anytime soon. But I sure hope so! Upcoming dual core and quad core chips should be able to take advantage of it somewhat.
Streams are encrypted. They are exploiting VBR(variable bit rate) part of the Skype's architecture. Skype uses VBR to make sure they pack enough fidelity while maintaining the low bandwidth requirements.

It is an interesting paper to read. Initially I thought they exploited LPC which is the base for all our mobile communications as well. As long as VOIP provider doesn't opt for VBR compression, their networks are immune from this attack.

From the paper.

Under VBR, the size of the codebook entry,
and thus the size of the encoded frame, can vary based
on the complexity of the input frame. The speciﬁcation
for Secure RTP (SRTP) [3] does not alter the size of the
original payload; thus encoded frame sizes are preserved
across the cryptographic layer. The size of the encrypted
packet therefore reﬂects properties of the input signal; it is
exactly this correlation that our approach leverages to model
phonemes as sequences of lengths of encrypted packets.

Also, they included the solution.

For this reason, the use of constant bit-rate codecs is important to consider as an alternative to simple block ciphers for VoIP, since such codecs might improve call quality given a relatively large ﬁxed packet size. Another alternative might even be to drop
or pad packets [19, 27, 57], though, in that case, the effect on perceived call quality is unclear. We note, however, that VoIP providers have made no move to employ any such measures:
Skype’s SILK, for instance, is a VBR codec. Similarly, one of the leading proposals for 4G, the LTE Advanced standard, speciﬁes a VBR codec for audio [1] and the use of SRTP
to secure voice data channels.
Since you don't have time to get mired in this debate, you may just want to dress in layers.
This is excellent! I had envisioned doing something like this but never got around to it. Thank you!

A few ideas for enhancements:

- the ability to sort comments by a user defined formula using karma points, number of comments in thread, and date (Later comments get too many points because the site has grown so much.)

- a few formatting options

- a service than prints hard copies...

AFAIC, anyone who has submitted 100 good comments to Hacker News has effectively "written a book". You may not realize it, but you are an author and an authority on something. You should have hard copies of your pdf (in a pamphlet or handout of some sort) and you should carry a half dozen of them everywhere you go.

It may seem kind of silly, but if you've contributed value here, you should not be ashamed to share it with others, whether they be customers, prospective employers, or anyone you meet networking.

Your top 100 comments (The best of <xxx>) says volumes more about who you are than any resume or business card. You should be proud to share it.
Nitpick mode:

Beyond "pollution", the magic string is subject to race conditions. If someone puts it in the profile, and then waits a while to register, anyone could claim that username.

Sure, it's a somewhat unlikely scenario...but pretty easy to exploit if someone forgets they have the magic string in their profile but haven't yet registered. A unique magic string per-user would be the solution to that.
This is why I love Linode ... they do stuff like this, once a year or so and its so fantastic ... they upgraded me from a 328MB linode to 512MB last year for free ... now this ...

I wish more companies would follow suit. It inspires loyalty in very subtle ways ... I was going to get a 512MB linode anyway, but with the money I saved, I added their backup service for $4.95 a month ... I couldn't imagine going anywhere else for my vps hosting.

However, my apartment complex has jacked up my rent on me, even though I've lived there and paid my rent on time for 4 years now.
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I think it's ok to wait a year if you really intend to go to college afterwards. College provides a lot of learning outside the classroom and the experience you gain there working with other people and learning from them could benefit you down the road.
While the idea that Fukushima would be responsible for a 35% increase in infant mortality anywhere in the U.S. strains ones credulity, her being anti-nuclear is not proof of her being wrong.

It's not like MIT nuclear scientists are "disinterested parties", either. Pretty much everyone who's knowledgeable about nuclear power has a stake either way.

There are two competing effects at work here, and it's hard to say which is strongest: If you are biased one way or another, you probably will put more effort into finding facts that support your view. That doesn't mean that those facts are wrong or that you are being disingenuous, just that you have acquired a self-reinforced, biased view of the world. And then you may of course also be selectively reporting those facts known to you, which is more dishonest.

But saying this argument is like pointing out "motive" in a trial seems like a stretch. Motive would usually include financial or other similar types of gain. If saying things you believe are right makes you liable to a charge of having motive to lying just because you have an opinion, then you can't trust anyone except completely ignorant people, which is not a step forward.
Care to provide any example of an OS that would prevent this? Windows and OSX both have this same fault.
They have a 1/10 chance of catastrophe whether or not I build the plant. A 1000 year earthquake is going to cause much bigger problems then a nuclear meltdown. Would you construct a house that could withstand the sun going nova?

Again, not that the engineers didn't screw up. But the fact that a nuclear power plant got destroyed by a magnitude 9.0 earthquake should come as a surprise to nobody, and should not reflect poorly on nuclear technology in general, any more than the fact that cars crash when driven by drunks should reflect poorly on motors.
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Well to be honest, what are the choices FOR Windows (this applies to Facebook as well):

1) It's ubiquitous so it's not like a statement that you like windows.

2) Main competitor is Apple/OSX which has always required a hardware upgrade/switch as the OS doesn't install on Win boxes.

3) PC manufacturers are operating on razor thin margins, so any joy you might get from the hardware is often minimal due to low quality parts... you have to be an enthusiast to have a decent experience or pay as much as the Mac users do.

Microsoft is a victim of it's own success... they forgot they actually have customers (not just consumers, businesses) and became arrogant.
If we were only allowed to post stuff that was universally true with no exceptions, HN would just be an "iPhone news" outlet. ;-)
I read/watch AJ English most days and I've found that their on-the-ground reporting is excellent but they also publish a lot of marginal rubbish.
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The article isn't really clear, you need to read the paper. Quick summary:

They can use the size of the packets to find boundaries to different phonemes, which can then be used to check for e.g. what language is used, or even against known phrases. They have also had some success at determining which phonemes are used based solely on the length of the VBR packets.
Mobile payments are no longer interesting or exciting to, but mostly frustrating. Hopefully, Google throwing a couple billion at ubiquitizing NFC terminals will stir things up.

Japan has been doing it for years while US giants hold each other in a stalemate. At least Square is happily trotting forward while Visa and Mastercard miss another Paypal.
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DELETE FROM? Try TRUNCATE TABLE CUSTOMER ... that one skips the transaction log too, no ROLLBACK possible.
Thank you for putting this together!

It's dead simple to use, and hits a great niche market.
Seems like a typo, though (confusingly) in some financial circles, MM is millions (1000 * 1000) and MMM is billions (1000 * 1000 * 1000).
I bought my first macbook pro when the thunderbolt hit so that I could support 3 monitors in the future. I've overall been pretty pleased with it. I would be 100% more pleased if it didn't cost me ~3K. When I use something which has such a relatively high cost I expect a lot.

The things I do not like about the hardware:

* Once you start doing something CPU heavy it sounds as though a jet is taking off from your desk

* I've already had to return one due to overheating

* Mine makes a _super_ annoying small "clicking" noise when you torque it in any way. It sounds as though two internal pieces don't quite meet, but touching the case causes them to meet and possibly "stick" (will happen when you push down w/ your palm against the body, click the trackpad, move it etc)

* My (annoyingly located) ctrl key pops off at least once a day. This seems to be due to my torquing it slightly when using it as a modifier key. All keys may suffer from this, ctrl certainly seems to suffer the most

* the stock hard drive is _slowwww_. This can not be over stated.

* There are no hardware lights which indicate IO activity (very frustrating when you are just staring at your unresponsive computer)

* All the ports (except CD) are on one side of the body

* The space between the keys seems to be a dirt / grunge magnet.
His flaky opinion piece seems to have done a reasonable job of starting a conversation.
thank you Linode, and happy birthday
Are you calling your ex-customers and asking them why they left? What they were expecting and what they felt they got?

Looking at the app, you need everyone on the team on it or it doesn't really work? Or are there enough features that someone could use this Solo/with a partial set of team members?
Gets way too hot on the lap when plugged in and using a bunch of applications. By way too hot, I mean, me wanting to sell it because it's completely unusable-hot.

No support for more than one external monitor. Hopefully Thunderbolt will fix this.
Vivek Wadhwas comments are a bit unfair in my opinion. "Students are flocking to computer science because they dream of being the next Mark Zuckerberg, not of saving the world. "

One could argue that social media applications like Twitter and Facebook went a long way towards facilitating the revolutions in Egypt, Tunisia and the growing conflicts in Libya/Yemen. No one technology "saves the world" necessarily, but I think Twitter and Facebook don't deserve to be set aside as merely "fun."
It's so refreshing to hear about fixed requirements, as a separate stage. I know it's waterfall, but too many requirements, ill-defined, changing, lead to dread-invoking code. But we don't need to have separate requirements with software, because it can be changed much more easily cheaply than physical products. There are other advantages of requirements, but they seem to be on the wane.

Reminds me of compiled, statically-typed languages: they used to be necessary for speed. These days, hardware is so fast, non-compiled, non-statically-typed languages like ruby and python are fast enough. But there are other advantages of static-typing, but those languages seem to be on the wane... (is that true, or just an artifact of the preferences of HN/startups?)
I like Linode and use them. But 25% is almost an insult. Storage is absurdly expensive at Linode: literally 10x what Amazon charges for EBS stores (a little less, as Linode storage is local and there are no usage charges).

I really wish they were more competitive. Right now I have a tiny instance running my personal email, but everything else I do looks more attractive on EC2 or Rackspace.
Climate Science isn't a science. For science to be science, you have to control for variables.

When you can't--like with climate studies--you rely on intuition instead. That's a social science.
I'd be more impressed if they could support themselves after 7 years and didn't need investments and an IPO to stay afloat.
Yeah that would be like Apple requiring Mac hardware, OS X, Xcode, and Objective-C to do iOS development...
I'd be cool with using a clone of `rm` that sends to the recycling bin instead of actually deleting. I think that Linux should include a clone like this by default.
This isn't just a problem with online communities either. True communities are a mess.
Why not just keep backups for 30 days?

Be realistic. Setting up backups takes effort that many users are not going to expand, while the recycling bin mechanism can be set up by default.
If you look at Japan, one of the big reasons they were able to get so far ahead with mobile payments being ubiquitous was NTT docomo's subsidizing of the NFC units for merchants. Whether it will be Google, Verifone, or someone else is yet to be seen, but NFC is coming one way or another.
The parent was arguing that recycling processes use too much water, which implies taking in fresh water and tossing it after "use". I didn't infer that the later energy discussion was part of that, since it seemed clear that filtering or distilling the water to clean it wasn't part of the assumed cleanliness of recycling. It would, of course, make it more expensive, but reducing externalities by such means makes the price reflect the true cost better, so that's all to the good, whether or not it turns out that recycling is really a good idea for a given material.
Bear in mind the similarities between C# and Java. This will help if you are already familiar with the latter.

A small example:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_C_Sharp_and_Java#...
You're not helping yourself by saying absolutely nothing on the site about why it's good and what the benefits are.

I will sign up for most things that seem novel or interesting, but I won't fill out a random form with no hint of what I might get for doing so.
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If only you could outsource this job to India...
Golden ratio is (1 + sqrt(5) ) / 2 not 1.6 / 1
I don't have an example, I'm just thinking what's the best way for an OS to handle deletion.
There are two things that need to happen:
1) create a good idea for a name that fits what you're offering to your visitors/customers
2) Check to see if that name is available.

I built this domain name suggestion tool that does both of these instantly: http://domainjig.com

In case you're wondering, it absolutely DOES NOT hijack or steal your ideas and register your domain name behind your back.
Surely the same page running on the same browser on the same device but with 2 different javascript engines depending on where the page was launched from can best be described as a bug. A design bug, perhaps, but a bug.
There's a commercial version still under development. I think I read it would be available late this year.
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The problem I have is the whole approach of the warmists, going beyond the basic question of are carbon emissions changing the climate.

It seems to me that nobody can show particularly convincingly that current/historical CO2 emissions are affecting the climate, hence why it's always 'the consensus is that....' rather than 'paper X conclusively showed that...'. But starting from an already shaky premise, we then move on to far shakier territory. Predicting how much the climate will warm, how much we'll have to reduce emissions by to stop the warmth, things which rely on dubious computer models. And then we get to what the effects will actually be, where the basic assumption that rising sea levels will cause more catastrophe than cap&trade etc is the just the beginning. Global warming becomes a sort of bogeyman, in which any and every undesirable environmental affect can be attributed to AGW. It's like someone just looked through a list of possible warming side-effects and wrote down any imaginable connection they could have to environmental trouble. Mooses disappearing in Canada? Warming. Hurricanes in the carribean? Warming. Famine? Disease? Drought? Overpopulation? Third world poverty? Colder weather in Britain? (we'd really love warmer weather) Warming.

Throw in the whole climage-gate scandal ('we admit that we no longer have the original data to show') and the usual 'recursive' nature of public-sector activity ('give us money to do research, and we will get results that show you need to give us more money to do research, and we will get results that show...')

It stinks. They want us to globally embrace the arbitrary for policy making. Which, AGW aside, is a horrible precedent to set for the future.
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Sounds like BS to me. Do you have any citations backing this up?
Agreed. It's smelling like Google: http://phandroid.com/2011/03/15/google-reportedly-buying-up-...
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Bioware hacked, data taken from... decade-old Neverwinter forum?
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A more accurate headline would be "Witty quips and pithy one-liners by $user, and ASCII art by edw519"
I deferred school until the Spring semester (starting January) and ended up working for IBM for about 7 months right out of high school. Went back to work for them every summer.

Other people I know stretched the 4 years out to 5 or 6 and worked while they studied (stick with Tuesday and Thursday only classes).
The biggest differences:

1. Grouping into chapters. Ranking by score loses context.

2. Sorting and grouping comments together to give it some kind of flow.

3. Eliminating comments I wish I hadn't made.

4. Substituting cuss words.

5. General edits to eliminate errors and help the comments stand a little better on their own.

6. Grouping jokes together. They belong in a separate chapter.

7. Adding a forward, introduction, and table of contents.

8. 100 comments didn't seem like enough. 256 seemed right.

My version took me 3 weeks. This version takes one click. You can't beat that.
How are filled/cancelled jobs handled?

What is the planned intention for an upvote? Is it (1)I'm interested, (2)I applied, or (3) just keeping it ambiguous for now/undecided.

How are you finding/tweaking the ranking function? Most posters will probably not try to game significant support, but could for an additional one or two votes to gain a relative advantage. I imagine potential applicants will scan the whole list anyways, but did you consider a solely time-based ranking with no voting -- what HN seems to do for YC job postings currently?

EDIT: For example, I noticed someone submitted < 1 minute ago with a default score of 1. The posting, although submitted most recent, is ranked last and is on the second page.

Also, there are a couple times where a single company is posting separately for each position instead of consolidating to one thread. Is there any concern about a top-tier tech company owning most of the first page with many different postings? My apologies if these questions are a little premature -- perhaps we need a "Feature Requests" thread.