skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In general, yes - especially if those sites are not immediately revenue generating.

The kind of infrastructure you need to defend against humungous DDOS attacks does not come cheaply, whether bought or outsourced.
I think you could get a lot of mileage out of taxation.

Increase the short-term capital gains rate to -- say -- 50%, add in an shorter-term capital gains rate of 75% for gains inside a month, and just for good measure top it all off with a super-short-term rate of 90% for gains inside of a day.

And to balance the equation, maybe make a longer-term capital gains and drop the capital gains rate on investments lasting more than 5 years to 5% or so. (Or, heck, just inflation-index them.)
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It's possible that your college had a different focus in Organic Chemistry that involved less memorization, and more conceptualization?

Here is one typical text for Organic Chemistry:
http://www.amazon.com/Organic-Chemistry-Paula-Yurkanis-Bruic...

Roughly the same as yours?
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It seems to me that he actually coded in Assembly and then translated to 1s and 0s, and that's quite normal.

I've done it for school projects, where we had a simple processor that had to be "programmed" this way. Sure I didn't have to implement a BASIC interpreter, but I know how hard it is to debug.
I know it wouldn't actually put a stop to what they are doing, but am I the only one puzzled that the US Government hasn't (afaik) done anything visible, such as seizing their .com domain, or asking/forcing Twitter to delete their account?
TDD leads to an architectural meltdown around iteration three
I spent the last month using VWO, and despite the website needing a slight Web 2.0 visual update, it has been a good experience.

I'm now getting started with Optimizely and the biggest thing I miss is Video demos. I also liked that VWO had a much smaller JS file with the option to remove Jquery. Fix this Optimizely, I don't need to load Jquery twice!
I'm of the opinion that you shouldn't even be at university if you're not foaming at the mouth to acquire the knowledge.

In principle, I agree. In practice, when a college degree is a de facto requirement for a decent job, you're going to have lots of people there for reasons other than the purity of learning.
csslint css = 0 errors and 2 warnings.

Thoughts?
I think the author's point is that by the time you have gone to learn all of the complexities of an ORM, and all the steps you must take to sidestep when you can't bend it to shape... you could have much more easily written it by hand.
Hmm.. still no beans.

If any members are willing here is my application: Edit: Thank you guys.. got an invite :)
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true, but also, these schools are more than adequate to equip a society to function

the top-tier universities of united states cater to the top 1% of the world, have incredible research records, nobels, etc... yet by almost any measure, the US itself as a nation is beginning to fall behind canada on per-capita measures of wealth, education, longevity, and happiness. this isn't that astonishing, the US is also falling behind many scandinavian nations with apparently unknown universities

remember last week's nba final? the "superstars" lost.
Don't forget the 65 warnings thrown... on CSS Lint's CSS code.

I'm not going to say it's useless, but it certainly isn't as good as a real CSS validator.
Sweden: http://temporarystockholmer.blogspot.com/2008/12/swedes-are-...
The Economist Asks: Has Facebook peaked?
Well this will be interesting.

Great article btw in the current Popular Mechanics [1] about the new militarized CIA and whether or not that's a Good Thing.

[1] http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/military/news/spi...
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I haven't kept track, but let me clarify a bit. The links are pretty good on my homepage, it's the comments that usually degenerate into nonsense.

I also get tired of all the stupid pics that get voted up to the top.
This is why I've stopped using programs that don't have the decency to at least pretend to be Emacs.
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These other students (by which I mean asians) would do things like get ahold of the test in advance (cheating) and get together and try to figure out the answers.

Wow, I feel sorry for any honest, hard-working asian who's ever crossed your path.
I didn't feel like explaining. I said "sure" and went in. I understand he does not understand me, and that is ok.
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People have levels of both introversion and extroversion, most people have a balance between the 2, some people are extreme one way of the spectrum but can't be full one way.
The exact balance within yourself is hard to measure but probably you know best where you can find yourself on the spectrum.
Example, I am more introverted than extroverted, I like to be alone but do not mind to be among people either, I am not shy and able to start conversations with total strangers, but I really dislike being in groups and having to do the group thing as I think groups are mostly behaving dumb and retarded.
That's what I do. I have a DB class in PHP that makes most queries easy (much easier than Pear or PDO), and all DAOs are similar to each other so it's a copy-paste-modify to add a new one.

Then I have static methods to do the special queries that the post author talks about, which may return direct result sets, an integer, generated objects with fewer columns, or large object trees depending on the case.

ORM would be faster (developer time) for a prototype site, but do-it-yourself DAOs work just fine.
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"But are you an introvert?"

Self-assessment (PDF):
http://hiddengiftsoftheintrovertedchild.com/SelfAssessment.p...
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I'm looking at this. Should have let you in.
Go blog about your persecution?
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It isn't my definition. There's a fairly coherent consensus view of the salient points of the intro/extra dichotomy. You're distorting it. For example, the first half of your sentence beginning "Jung" is correct, but the second half is gross exaggeration. Other people aren't Kryptonite. That's what's wrong with your top post as well - it's full of exaggeration which misrepresents introversion.

There's been plenty written on the topic, including the linked article, which you seem to reject.
one wheels bad, two wheels good?
This doesn't show anything but garbled text everywhere (in Chrome).

My minimum font size of 14 screwing it up?
Actually it is the 'mouse being vital'. It's so vital that you don't "use it sometimes" and float back and forth ala classic mac interface the article discusses. Your hand is always on the mouse during combat.

Semantic games are fun but unless you're actually contesting that the mouse is vital you're just tilting at straw men.
My experience in a flotation tank
Why not patch the ORM then? Personally, I suspect most of the issues people experience with ORMs starts with poor data modeling.

Also, I'm not sure what "large, complex systems" means, but it doesn't sound like the use-case for an ORM to begin with. ORM is best suited for small, flexible, simple systems – which ought to be 99% of what people and companies build.

I just don't see the benefit of complaining about how its an "antipattern".
Agreed -- almost all its complaints about the first css file I passed it were "don't use id selectors".

I suspect some of the complaints are valid, but simply saying "broken box model" doesn't explain why.
We've got 99 problems but traction ain't one 
We're an unannounced YC startup which has paying customers and substantial revenue. We're building a communication platform and our product has 3 million uniques / month.

Currently we're a team of two and are looking for a third engineer and a first employee. If you love startups, can write performant Java, enjoy scaling challenges, and want a lot of freedom then we'd love to talk to you.

You'll have a hand in shaping the culture and the future of a young startup, get meaningful equity, competitive salary and it'll be fun!

If you're in (or can move to) the bay area please reach out to StartHackingWithUs@gmail.com
NP. It was non-obvious from the YouTube description.

I had to dig around for confirmation it was a sim. I was scratching my head after your mild assertion.
Hilariously, the massive media frenzy surrounding the site outage will send the site enough traffic to DDOS it, even if LulzSec never meaningfully impacted it in the first place.
Why did you find that cheap?
Confirming that it is indeed down for me.

I wonder what the CIA are going to do, especially because LulzSec is directly targeting them now.
...not sure. They're not exactly charging for Adobe Reader. If end users or site owners switch to a less bloated viewer, they still keep using Adobe's PDF format.
For a bunch of DIY hackers, I'm sort of surprised you guys are so willing to hand your money and control over its security over to the government and financial institutions. Then again, I was a computer security guy for the government and online financial institutions, so I guess I'm comfortable with my ability to protect my (very very small amount of) money, or I'm just more cynical about them.

Western Union is irreversible, and would probably have been shut down if it wasn't so well-established. Most other US payment systems are reversible, which is why you have holds on getting the money out of those systems - they want time to detect fraud and reverse the fraudulent transaction. This requirement for reversibility seeps through the system, which makes anonymity very difficult, and causes a lot of friction on anything that changes a reversible payment into a non-reversible payment, since that's where you eat the fraud. Now you know why it's hard to get cash equivalents out of the system, especially to a remote party.

The point here is that once the money is in a non-reversible network, you can accept a payment and know that it's good very very quickly. If you make bitcoin reversible, you might as well just use one of the old payment systems, where the money might disappear later (and you'll be out your privacy, goods, cash and services), or you'll be paying transaction fees based on your charge-back rates, and unable to charge more for the reversible payments than the non-reversible ones due to contracts you have to sign to be part of the payment network - and thus the non-reversible payers subsidize the reversible payers. What a racket.

As we used to say, "there's no good guys in payment processing, only bad guys and less-bad guys".
That won't be true forever. The Moon gets about 38 mm further away every year, so at some point there will be no more total solar eclipses, only annular eclipses.

Shame for future humans or trans-humans, but great for us to live at such a time.
Agreed, bitcoin is in the bear trap phase right now. Almost nobody knows about bitcoin yet. Wait until the Federal Reserve starts banning bitcoin... that'll mark the beginning of the bubble phase.
I apologize for editing my comment - after reading yours - to try to convey my message better. And failing to do that, and making yours kinda senseless. Will avoid that in the future.
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The only part of that sentence that I found terribly relevant was the first. I'm just not sure that there will be enough dealers that are not just located outside of the United States, but located outside of ANY foreign country that would likely hop on an anti-BTC bandwagon. Additionally you have to worry about customs, etc.

Honestly, I'm just not sure that many users are using SilkRoad for ganja. Like you said, it's so widely used. Granted, I'll eat my words in a few months, but it's easy enough to get your hands on that I certainly would have to be in a very uncomfortable spot to risk having weed mailed to me. I'm not really into anything else, though HN keeps me intrigued about LSD, and even then I'm sure I could ask 2-3 people and get that, so I'm not really sure.
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I did an unpublished survey of my med school classmates, got a decent response rate, about 70-80% as a I recall. I asked how much time they spent on about 30 or so study habits, and then some demographics. One of the demographic questions was "which quintile of the class do you think you're in?"

So, not exactly awesome methods, but some promising leads. There was a lot "meh" in the middle, but, in order

1) review and condense your notes the week before the exam is the single best thing you can do

2) go to class, read the book, and make one set of notes (eg: take notes on the reading, then add targeted bits during lecture, or vise versa)

3) Do the assigned homework. Or, in the case of medical school, do a lot of question books and understand the answers (question banks are the staple of medical school, which is a whole 'nother post). Add what you learn to your notes.

3) If you can't go to class, listen to the podcast, but taking notes is critical, and whatever you do,

35) don't take notes on a computer. Perhaps partially due to WiFi access, going to class and typing notes was the worst idea you could have, actually worse than

33) listening to the podcast without taking notes and

34) going to class and not taking notes at all).

I also found there was a skew in the bell curve: completely innocent, one might expect people to evenly distribute among the quintiles, but there seemed to be a skew, which has been repeated in other studies: the top students slightly under-rate themselves, but the bottom students significantly over-rate their abilities, so there's a huge bulge in the middle, but it leans to toward over-confidence.

Applying Bloom's taxonomy(1), there seems to be a tactile-kinetic element to note-taking, and there's critical thinking involved in choosing what to write down, because you can't just transcribe the lecture and the book. There's further synthetic thinking when you try to merge class and book notes, and there is further synthesis when you build those notes into that a pre-test crib sheet.

If I were designing school from the ground up, lectures would be 20 minutes.

(1) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blooms_Taxonomy
I'm not trying to say it's the best fit for you, but Apache CouchDB is fully ACID compliant: http://couchdb.apache.org/docs/overview.html
Ask HN: What Is The Status of HN Office Hours?
What is the status of HN office hours? The only two times I have tried to use it, I click a profile that clearly says available, and then the person is not on AIM and not available for chat. The other option is to send an email, which doesn't feel right, and seems drawn out. I have seen available profiles with zero contact information.
When HN Office Hours was introduced it seemed like a lot of people were into it. Is there an alternative that I am missing?

My issue isn't a complicated one, but it is something I wanted to ask a rather n00bish question about. (Installing mysql on my mac has been worse than the time I had Windows ME, yes I google)....

I am curious to know peoples thoughts on hn office hours. Maybe a free model isn't the best way to do it. Maybe, you should be able to earn tokens helping people, spend tokens getting help, and cash tokens in if you are the ultimate helper. I don't know, what do you think?
Isn't this exactly how a law firm works? The only difference is that they would sue in the name of the actual rights holders.
I doubt that the core of the CIA cares too much about it's public-facing website.
In the comments I'm noticing no one ask: when should or shouldn't you use an ORM?

Most of the discussions are over the merits of either approach, when to me it seems an ORM has many places it belongs. And a few it doesn't.

For most database of record systems, which are a large chunk of your average webapp, an ORM is a god send. When I say DBOR, I mean things like articles, posts, comments, users, products, transaction history. An ORM saves a large amount of work writing SQL, it covers 95% of your queries (particularly insert,update,delete and simple gets) with minimal effort. You create the model, and let it get dealt with by the ORM. Your objects are mainly records. The pain comes when you start wanting to do analytics and interesting reports - but stick with a reporting tool, and keep this out of your application, and you feel less pain.

But this breaks down when you move to a database that represents a complex real world system. If you're working on a model that represents, for example, an electrical distribution system, these are not really records. They represent a vast set of complex interrelations, Of course there are still records, but in isolation, away from the complex relationship of say pole->{location,type,maintenance history,conductors,insulator type}, and conductor->{poles traversed,length,a end location,a end join type,b end location, b end join type,material,material batch number,power circuit carried} etc. etc. Then your queries to "find all customers affected by the pole at these coordinates", requires joins through: pole, conductor, circuit, serviced area, customers... we're moving rapidly to lots of complex queries, where hand crafting really is the way to go.
Is it a (d)dos or an actual hack?
biggest issue i had: ran into the same problem i have on youtube, grooveshark,etc -- i may be able to think of a song or two to play, but then you freeze up and can't think of anything.

you need some kind of reference/resource. that's just another reason we're building http://gorankem.com to do just that as the 'cliffsnotes for the catalogs.'

if we integrated our fan favorites for a particular artist (e.g. http://gorankem.com/artists/66 ) into a turntable room, it'd surely make it easier to find some songs you'd love to toss in the mix.

can somebody help me with some contact info to the turntable team...
AFAIK all grid systems use float, maybe the suggestion is that you shouldn't be floating things constantly and instead use a grid system.
A throwaway account for this comment?
Whether they care about it or not, it's a great excuse to tighten internet regulation and track these people.
A sub-question, if you don't mind my piggy-backing: Don't most grids rely on floats anyhow?
In Defense of ORMs
My first thought too. I immediately tried to load CIA and then thought, "Maybe they didn't hack it at all but just put out their Twitter message to drive traffic at it?"

Or more interestingly, if they were in the process of hacking or something and wanted the cover of a torrent of strangers trying to reach their site.
I started writing a response in a comment, and then I started frothing at the mouth, and pretty soon it ballooned into a whole blog post:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2659442
Ask HN: Why do YC-backed companies post anonymous job postings?
More often than not, YC-backed companies early in their life cycle post jobs with throwaway accounts and gmail accounts. Why? What harm would come from saying "We're company X and we do so-and-so and we're looking for Django folks etc"?

Is there some strategic element at play in not divulging info up front?
is there any good way to avoid using IDs as selectors?

i'm working on my first large web project in a while. i'm using Compass/SASS (looks like you are too, or at least blueprint) to try to make things easier but i am finding that the HTML/CSS part of this site is such an incredible time sink.

my approach has been coupling the HTML and CSS almost 1:1 except where there are obvious re-use cases (which i'm not yet great at identifying, two pages in). this is probably bad but is there really a better way? i'm finding everything needs its own div in order to be positioned correctly across browsers and so i end up with container divs, then inner divs for padding purposes, then divs for each element, etc. it's a mess.

and don't get me started on the complete impossibility of consistent selector naming scheme...
shyness is not introversion. Not wanting to be in a group of people when talking to a girl one on one might be a sign of introversion.

It's more like - I run (and win at) marathons, but I can't do relay races because it throws my game off.
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I don't know either.

I've posted a bug report demanding a clarification of the documentation on that point.

https://github.com/stubbornella/csslint/issues/26
Joe Rogan seems to like his flotation tank too.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEjTXX2rHgA
You would think so, but I guess MS are trying to play a long game. I was talking to some friends who work in corp./enterprise IT the other day; they were saying that the sysadmins and CIO's that they talk to are all very excited to be able to roll out WP7 within companies that are already using MS infrastructure as an iPhone/BB replacement.

MS may be late to the consumer party, but they could still take the board room - or if the execs won't give up their iPhones, the rest of the company.
Its not that surprising. Bada is very popular in Malaysia and Indonesia, and is more of a feature phone OS then a smartphone OS.

Its really in competition with Symbian.

The biggest issue with it though is that the SDK is C++ only which is going lock out a lot of developers.
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I’ll just ask a question to you guys, have you wander, what will you do next after, a number has been added on your age?
True, it's probably little more then a coat of paint on it's house. That being said, they're probably paying more attention to those that just threw eggs all over it, and if they chose, to act accordingly. Not like there woudl be much that would stop them.
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I prefer Eclipse with VI plugin. You get the best of both worlds. And if I'm not happy with the vi plugin implementation, I can always continue editing in actual VIM by typing :vi in Eclipse.

All, that being said, I have heavily customized VIM with ctags, cscope, Command+T plugin and taglist.

Command+T alone is really worth it, you can open any file in the entire project structure by just typing a few letters (just like Eclipse's CTRL+SHIFT+t, but works on any file type).

With all these I can navigate code, and edit pretty much like I am in Eclipse, but unlike Eclipse this combo works for C,C++, Ruby, Python, Perl, Javascript etc. as well.
I think this is what everyone is forgetting. MS can attack the cooperate market. Its not sexy but there is a truckload of cash there.

I always thought it would be a good move for Oracle to buy RIM. They could then offer an end to end solution for businesses, from hardware (sun), OS (solaris), database (oracle), language (java), all the middle ware software through to the phone. I could see a lot of big companies jumping on that platform in a heartbeat.
I tried to push up one of my apps. It passes all validation and stuff and then uploads to Apple. Then Apple sends me an email telling me it was signed wrong. I follow instructions, repeat.

They're OK at support, giving me a lot of stuff to do building screenshots and junk, but it's slowed me down quite a bit. I'd still like to get my app up, though. It's very useful to me. :)
I started on RentACoder[1], earned little money for 2 weeks, and then saw the work pile in after clients discovered that I was competent. It worked for me, no reason if you're talented (and reply to emails within a reasonable amount of time ;)) that you can't do the same :)

[1] I documented my experience here: http://tbbuck.com/winning-your-first-freelance-job-on-vworke...
Hehe. No problem, I was just generally blown away. Loading the full thread back up makes it more obvious now. Oh well, I get edit happy too!
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