skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I imagine the answers would allow you to shrink the sample down to a few select individuals. E.g. This anonymous survey complains a lot about a supervisor, let's start with his/her direct reports.
On a small IRC network I used to frequent, at one time I set up a channel with a bot that lead to a very similar situation. The idea was that channel ops can see people talk even if the channel is muted (+m). Furthermore, on unreal, you can set auditorium mode (+u) which hides all users in that channel from /names and /who. The aforementioned bot was the only op on that channel and was set up to repeat everything said in the channel for everyone to see, effectively anonymizing it.
The problem was, this isn't scalable unless you remove flood throttle from the bot (which is almost always a very bad idea) and there's still the possibility of the person running the bot looking at the raw IRC data to find out who is saying what. It was funny while it lasted though.
We use Riak as our primary datastore at Showyou, with Redis, Solr, and Memcached helping out. The big advantage of Riak is high availability and easy management, but for sorting/listing keys, range queries, and low latency we need other datastores which maintain post-commit-hook updated indices.
Where can I find out more about the "last mile" wireless links near the end of the video?

I will be moving to an retirement area that has a summer population of a few hundred and a winter population of many thousands. There is no internet currently aside from cellular. I wanted to look into long link wifi, but only have found expensive point to point solutions that are multiple thousands of dollars.

I don't even know if it is possible. The closest town is only a few miles, but I doubt Comcast is going to let me share a few business class accounts to all those users.

I was going to try to keep it free to near free, a few bucks a month and cover the equipment costs on my end up to a few thousand dollars. If I can't hook into cable without violation of TOS, then I have to go right to the telco and lease a line, which I have no idea the costs of these days. I would need at least several hundred Mb/s I believe. Hopefully there is a datacenter or ISP nearby that would allow me to work with them to put something on the roof or on a neighbors property.

Suggestions on resources?
Go and give money to a couple homeless people (choose wisely). This will help you in several ways. It's good karma, it gives you a sense of purpose and it will remind you of how lucky you are to have food and shelter. ;)

After that, you should go to a coffee shop and work or do some planning if you need to. You're so lucky you can code. I'm barely learning html and css. sigh
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If it takes you 50 years to turn $1 into $2, then you have not won. Put your money in a bank account instead.

If you can do it in a year, you've won. But if you start with $1 then after one year you have $2, then the next year you have $4, etc. It takes less time if you take a $1000 loan and turn that into $2000. Of course turning $1000 into $2000 is harder than $1 into $2, so take a loan as big as you can still double ;)
I tested it (2 minutes or so) and it seems to work OK with other person moving on the bed. According to them, your body stops the motion created by the other person.
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There is no "replacement API" for Google translate.
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Is their service a lot better? We noticed the same thing when pricing them out (via feefighters of course), but figured there had to have been some reason for the higher cost.
How about each message has to be rephrased by another person in the room in order to scramble the original author. It suffers from the telephone problem and general misunderstanding however.
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If you are not familiar with the GIL, this video was really informative: [video] http://blip.tv/file/2232410
Facebook already has the exact same functionality in friend lists. They're only a small ui tweak away from parity in that respect. As for the drag and drop into circles, it's cute but realistically it's not a big part of day to day use.
>Expire the short URLs.

If you do so, you break the implied permanence of URL's. Users (who you give the resulting short URL's to) would be very confused when they get directed to a totally different site.

Though... I admit that we often use URL shorteners as a temporary device, and do not actually need to keep them beyond a few minutes or hours. I suppose it would be better to use long/descriptive URL's for the more permanent links, but then we would not need this service.
I live in Park Slope, and those numbers are a bit high. You can get a beautiful 3BR brownstone (exposed brick, high ceilings, hardwood floors, etc) in Park Slope for well under $3500.
Bad article: the "how it works" section does not explain how it works at all.
I think processes could replace threads in most cases, but common OSs are hampering us.

Fork is slow in Windows. In unix, having lots of processes crowds ps (creates disincentive) and if you want to effectively manage a tree of threads you have to do fiddly work managing a thread group and (if you want to be fast) wrapping your head and software around shared memory IPC.

I think that if support for multiple processes in mainstream processes was more effective than it is, we'd both spend less time worrying about threads and write more stable software.
Methane has a half-life of < 10 years (7, I think) but a GWP of 25. The primary concern of atmospheric methane is, then, the possibility of a quick build-up that increases CO2 emission from natural sources; there is quite a bit of CO2 stored in bogs that only a bit of methane will release. It's the long-term side-effects of atmospheric methane that become long-term concerns, rather than the methane itself.
The whole point is to make it easy to get n specific people chatting together where they can speak anonymously.

Yes, it's not different than IRC... so long as you had a bot that could create a room, invite n people, install an irc client on their machines, get them in the room, teach them how to use it, etc, etc.

This is an attempt to make it easier. This is like the dropbox of inviting specific people to an anonymous irc room. It's nothing new, nothing innovative, but it makes it easier.
Agreed. However, the comment I quoted overstated the case against dark colors saving power.
One of the best vim plugin interfaces i've seen yet :). This merits a plus. Thinking of using it right away, even if it is not already stable.
Same here. I wonder if some people never played of getting buried in beach sand, and are "parsing" the image incorrectly, imagining the kid's body buried vertically?
I have been using the app for about a month now and it works for me. Usually, I wake up and expect the alarm than other way around.
How to hire well: check code samples and references
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The "interesting" bit starts at 55 minutes.
dbs11, do the emails appear in any given order? You may want to be sure the order is randomized, otherwise the person who starts the group might be able to figure out who is who rather trivially.
I may be out of line, but I don't think this article has made me any smarter. Do we really need to reiterate that you need to check references and code to hire well?

I'm not by any means trying to insult the writer, just the relevance of it.
It also depends where you live. I was blown away how much food miles were emphasized as a mark of sustainability on packaging and advertising in the UK two years ago.
Your post seems to support a conclusion opposite that of which you draw: cost of living is higher in NYC, but if you're willing to live in a much smaller space, you can pay the same amount. Which is basically the definition of "higher cost of living."
I think the carbon crisis is political rubbish that spawned a new industry I mean who the hell thought of carbon trading - sounds like something school children came up with.

The earth's atmosphere and environment is more changeable than we realise - we've only been looking at it for a blink of an eye in the scale of things so we can't claim to understand it. Not only that, they've worked out based on various factors that the CO2 levels were higher in the Cambrian, Ordovician and Jurassic periods. It's like trying to work out who farted in a lift full of people.

As for the locavore thing, it's only better because it's not usually mass produced crap so it has health benefits. Chickens, goats etc are a counterpoint to the OP's "theory" as they live off waste and are highly efficient meat generators. Not only that, anyone can manage them.

I grow huge amounts of edible things myself (because it tastes better and is cost, health and psycologically beneficial). I'm not labelling myself with Carbon Crusader, Green warrior, Locavore or whatever terms they think up next etc though - that's just silly.

You're ultimately trading your health for carbon guilt.
PyPy is stable/easy to use for python2, with a limited selection of C extensions.
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I use it to replace writing tedious map reduce jobs. Once you have it setup, it is very easy to write new jobs very quickly.
Two answers really:

* sharing memory - sometimes you have lots of immutable data, like modules, graphs, whatnot. Yes, there is copy-on-write and no, it doesn't work well on any python implementation out there. Also sometimes it's mostly-immutable data, but not quite.

* serializing lots of data is a mess and even if feasible is usually a big performance hit if you want to exchange actual objects.
This is a job that's incredibly hard to describe. Well done.

The other hard bit is making companies understand why they need one.
I've used anonymous groupware before, and yes, it was pretty cool.
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I just downloaded the generic nightly iso and installed it with VirtualBox. It seems to work well. The keyboard shortcuts where a bit of trial and error, but I determined that the "Home" key is what you'd expect. The escape key is back. "End" key is the power switch. Overall seems to work pretty well. Just need to figure out how to get the market installed and test out USB debugging.
I've been a vegetarian for a few years after hearing more about the cruelty, environmental impact, etc. We get local food fairly often but I should really make more of an effort.
Hi, there's a question here about AnyAsq:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2710226
It's helpful yes, but I'm not sure everyone would agree that it's better.

For example, many people wish to form their own opinions about the news they read, before being told what everyone else thinks about it.
I'd assume it's because you've spent $100 and made $200 3-4 times successfully, and hence want to up the ante, spend $50k and make a $100k now..
You lost me with that post there, Max. The opposite of "there is an absolute right to have choice" is not "you must not do anything to promote choice".

Besides, rights are not contextually absolute, as exercising them may conflict with the rights of others.
I've worked in environments where it would be trivial to get an email of your SSN the moment you visit an HR online survey, let alone complete it.

It's possible to promise confidentiality, but you should be extremely suspicious whenever someone guarantees anonymity.
Sarbox only applies to public companies, no? I wasn't papering over the costs, I assumed we both knew they exist. Public companies can typically afford a little accounting overhead, I don't think anyone's being dissuaded from starting a business because if they go public and become megamillionaires, there will be marginally more sarbox-related accounting work than there would've been anyways.

Libertarian is functionally equivalent to conservative in a post-january-2009 world. Sorry, it's not my fault, blame the tea party. The point still holds regarding the triumphant freshman class of 2010-2012 -- where are these guys on reforming sarbox? They're too busy ranting about socialism or death panels on Fox News and threatening to default the government.

Like I said, I'm all for reform that makes it cheaper, more effective or more efficient. Where are you actually disagreeing with me here?

EDIT: I actually do think it says something in favor of sarbox that nobody had an Enron style accounting disaster during the implosion. I mean, given that we saw every other form of financial bad behavior on display, why not that form too? Impossible to prove a negative, of course.
The car makes an enormous difference, but the cost of living in New York is not limited only to rent. Even basic food items, toiletries, and other household items all cost a significant markup from median cost of living.
Jesus, that's a markdown.

With the release of Google+, I have to wonder if we'll be seeing something similar with Facebook five years from now.
Your definitions do not address the point of the comment to which you're replying.

To restate, the point is that many markets tend to wind up as monopolies or cartels. This turns out to be bad for the people making up society, and they (we) will not put up with it, so we pass laws against it.

This is why we have and use the words "monopoly" and "cartel". And other terms like "price fixing", "bid rigging", "market failure", etc.
Not to mention, apparently a lot of them base the cost-of-living on the cost of buying property, vs. renting. I have no interest in owning a house in the next five years, and wish I could exclude that stuff from comparisons.
Leadership and management are orthogonal. There are managers who couldn't lead their team out of a paper bag, and there are great leaders with "Intern" on their business cards.

More importantly, there are leaders who aren't even _good_ at management tasks. Just because everyone trusts your opinion on architectural design doesn't mean you should be assigning tasks, or prioritizing the backlog.
I'm really excited for the potential of wireless technologies like this to break the last mile death grip companies like AT&T and Comcast have. We are at the point where spectrum regulation/management isn't even necessary, except for legacy devices.
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If American Tobacco had the best interests of the public in mind, do you think they'd still exist in any form?

Being philanthropic is not mutually exclusive with owning an amoral or even unethical business.
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Might as well as give it away for that price ( compared to how much Rupert Murdoch paid for it )
Depends, I rent a 2 bedroom in seattle for 1525 downtown, and take the bus on microsoft's dime to work almost everyday. In new york I lived in what was more or less a walk in closet for 600 and purchased a monthly subway pass for about 85$ a month.

Theres so much to do in new york though that the accomodations didn't really impact my quality of life.

Additionally, Food was cheaper in astoria than it is in seattle, or than it was in california. Street vendors are tasy and inexpensive. Resturants outside of manhatten are reasonable. A couple of resturants inside of manhatten are reasonable.

Clothing was pretty cheap especially for the quality level if one is willing to hunt around a bit for good aftermarket stores.

7$ beers in the city were a little annoying but prices plummet as you head towards queens or brooklynn.

Life may be cheaper in some locals but the quantity of ammenities and quality of life makes up for a possibly modest increase in expense.

. . . and before everyone starts down voting me let me just say "boo, microsoft bad. Wahh, terrible, evil giant"
Anonymous chats with verified memberships have a number of interesting applications. For example, I seem to recall Mencius Moldbug discussing them as a mechanism for regime change.

The idea being that in a totalitarian regime like North Korea (or to a lesser extent, the countries of the 'Arab Spring'), it's well known that even the elites are discontented and would support the overthrow of the regime. But there is a knowledge problem, a coordination problem, that they cannot be sure of the support of all the other elites and factions. If they declare their opposition publicly, the still loyal elements will dispose of them. But private declarations which are safe also do not reach enough people to constitute any sort of Schelling point. (This is one of the main points of protests: taking risks, demonstrating solidarity, and a genuine costly signal. If there's sporadic gunfire and suppression from the regime, all the better - scare away the pikers.)

On the other hand, suppose you had a secure anonymous forum for, say, just military officers? With one of the anonymous e-voting schemes integrated to get a headcount of subversive questions like 'how many of us officers would support a regime change?' Then maybe public protests would no longer be the best way to solve the coordination problem for coups...
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There's good regulation and bad regulation, and sometimes the best regulation is none at all but that's not always the case.

That's the key point there. Unless of course you're against regulation or government on principle.
I/We are also using Hive to process compressed logs, manipulate them and create sub tables, that we can query on. We use Amazon EMR, and storing the data on s3. But mainly we use it for text processing via HQL.(Right or wrong it creates some structure around our data.)
Not significantly so. Our grocery bill didn't go up very much - although I've noticed that fruit and vegetables tend to spoil much faster here.
They might actually have made their money on the deal. Do we know how much revenues MySpace generated while News Corp owned them?
Totally agree, hence the "mostly terrible". I was just brainstorming about how to achieve the guarantee "shortest URLs on Earth" if that was one's goal.
I've tried to learn Photoshop from tutorials a few times and failed each time. Either the tutorials were for a newer/older version than I had, or they assumed basic Photoshop knowledge which I lacked, or they were flawed and missed an important step and never worked.

In the end I picked up a workable knowledge by watching a 2D designer work with it for a few afternoons and occasionally interjecting questions ("that's really useful! Which hotkey was that?").
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Well, that's only a $545 million loss, considering Murdoch bought it for $580 million or so.
Just wanted to say that working with Braintree to implement our payments solution last year was a great experience. I can't recommend them highly enough. It is amazing to be able to ask very specific questions about the API or chargebacks/terms/legal matters and be able to get clear explanations from a real person so quickly.
I don't think those were ever publicly available -- probably an internal test. I still had a Google Web Fonts tab open from last night, and it only shows options for Cyrillic, Greek, Khmer, and Latin: http://i.imgur.com/T3sh5.png
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I didn't find that was true at all. Toothpaste, toilet paper, mattresses, TV sets, etc have standardized pricing across the country. If anything, the more remote you go, the more stuff costs. Except in South Dakota. For some reason everything is really cheap in South Dakota.
OK, so I am trying to tell someone by phone how to get to my webpage. How do I do that?

"Key in Right Arrow.ws/abc"

Yeah, that'll work.
2 Ruby client projects. Really happy with it. always use it with Redis so we can get atomicity for things like counters, etc...
I'm always really curious about people who deny human causation of global warming, which is what it seems like you're doing. I mean this as a legitimate question: How do you justify this belief?

The overwhelming majority of climate scientists believe in human-caused global warming. I'm assuming that you don't have specific training in these issues, or data that no one else possesses, so under what criteria do you choose to follow your own reasoning, or gut instinct, over such a mountain of educated opinion?

A corollary, for me, could be drawn to atoms. I have never seen an atom, nor have I ever really dug deep into the data that people say proves atoms exist. I have no more first-hand knowledge of atoms than I have of God. Yet, I simply choose to believe in atoms because people who are supposed to know about these things say atoms exist, and I'm told that if I really wanted to prove it to myself, I could go back to college or to a laboratory and do so.

We have to do this for all kinds of things, every day. We're surrounded by things that operate on principles that no single person will ever have the time or energy to investigate and validate by themselves. We have to delegate authority over most technical matters to specialists, simply because we don't have any other choice.

Why draw the line at global warming? Do you believe in internal combustion? Do you believe in black holes? Do you believe in evolution?

Really, I do not mean this to sound like an attack. I want to know.
I wrote a much more detailed takedown of Groupon's evaluation, in fact. You can find it here: http://shortlogic.com/post/6142108636/groupon-ipo-pass-on-th...

If this stuff is your flavor, I also wrote one on Pandora: http://shortlogic.com/post/6586713689/pandora-should-be-trad...

Enjoy!
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It's possible but not probable.

Myspace at it's peak simply did not have even close to the reach and influence that facebook has currently.
I find it interesting that the founders bid on it.
I'm using Braintree for my new app (https://www.getcloak.com/) and am extremely happy. They have incredibly responsive customer support, both business and technical.

When I reported a unicode-related bug in their Python API, the technical team responded coherently within a few hours and released a new API revision within 48. Can't beat that...

On the API front there are some minor issues. For example, their subscription API is excellent except when dealing with upgrades/downgrades. Upgrades can be prorated and billed immediately; downgrades (sensibly) must wait until the next billing cycle. Unfortunately, the downgrade is _recorded_ immediately -- you don't have a notion of a pending plan. Hence a user can downgrade/upgrade repeatedly during a _single_ billing cycle and end up spending an arbitrarily large amount of money.
Okay, fine, but how the hell is someone supposed to TYPE this address? Better yet: >.ws/ass is being redirected to Google search by Chrome.
They had the 900 million dollar advertising deal with Google at one point.
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If you allow "plants", then yes- starchy staples, nuts, fruits all have you covered on calories. It's up to the OP though to clarify whether he meant plants or celery.
How long have you been learning to code and how far along are you? I'm seriously considering learning to code myself.
This is correct, but US immigration are quite picky about the kinds of job titles that they will allow you to gat a TN visa for. The general rule is the job title needs to say "computer analyst" and "management consultant", and avoid the words 'developer', 'programmer' and 'manager'.

Also smaller border crossings tend to be better than large airports. YVR and YYZ are quite strict about documentation requirements and are a bit power-trippy from my and friends' experiences. Land crossings are better.