skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They removed his whole blog. Which seems reasonable enough without the imagined anti-Google conspiracy. He doesn't work for Oracle so there's no reason his old blog posts should be on oracle.com.
Pursuit of government sponsorship is easier than convincing people to part with their hard earned money by persuasion. A government bureaucrat with a magic bank account called a "departmental budget" filled with other peoples money can be far easier to entice with the latest lame scheme to make the area look good on paper, while adding nothing of genuine utility to the infrastructure.

I agree with the author on this one- it's a waste of money.
But is it "entrepreneurial"?
Yes. Sad, but yes.
I agree, either this is untrue or is the product of someone very dumb. The four minutes I spent reading that were an utter waste of time.
Sorry, if I was unclear. Confirming that he is an auditor should be a checkbox in an audit as should be limiting the information provided to an auditor. While I like your idea that it would show if they could get access to users passwords even handing out the salted password list is a bad idea.

One of the more interesting government audits I have heard about was the auditor did a basic internal audit and said he was part of physical secuity ect so people knew he was part of the audit team. He then showed up late, turning off the power supply to the building and then pointing at people who show up at the generator and saying "bang your dead" this is part of an audit etc. If they failed to call security before everyone was "dead" they where considered to have failed that part of the audit. He also attempted to get into the building without showing up on camera's ect. All of which sounds like a fun job and a good idea.
Well, actually you are still breaking the honor code even after you're graduated. Though the school would probably have little recourse against you in practice.
The student admitted that the whole email was total BS. I took excerpts of the email and posted them here, not the full message.

Come on, could you really believe that this email contained a single element of truth?
What happened to HTML? If this were formatted with web standards, I could resize the fonts, scroll with my browser's built-in preferred scrolling mechanisms that aren't chunky, laggy, and painful, and I could actually read it. I'm not the only one to comment on this, but apparently whoever did this page is dense enough about web standards that the point needs to be repeated. How do you run a VC and not get this? My opinion of Founders Fund has gone down.
Not in IMAP.
In this example, affinity is an edge property (stored on the "friend" edge), weight is an edge property (stored on the "news" edge), and decay is a calculated value based on a timestamp stored as a property on the news edge -- I fudged on decay because I don't know what their decay formula is.

From what I could glean from the article, weight is static for each content type, and affinity is a calculated value. Facebook may update the affinity value after each user action or run some kind of PageRank-type algorithm for friends and update it periodically.

But in Gremlin, you can calculate PageRank in 2 lines.
What's unethical about that? If politics have required him to do provide information he can't legally provide, falsifying the information seems like the only reasonable course of action.

Of course, quitting is the other out, but I do think he has a moral obligation to prevent his company from handing any of this information over to the auditor.
Fair enough. I guess I just don't dig communicating via SMS-style messages.

EDIT: And, having pondered that some more, it's not even communcating. It's more like writing something on a wall hoping that your neighbors happen to see it and take interest. No, I certainly don't dig it. Although I can imagine following tweets of a person I'm really interested in, but that would only be 2 or 3 people--close people like girlfriend and relatives.
Ive taken issue with 'entrepreneur' being associated with anyone that launches a website regardless of what it does AND frankly any business whose sole business model is advertising. I think its reached a saturation point where its just not very interesting anymore. I accept that is a personal opinion and money is money.

I think the more interesting problem is what venues of business are going to create growth vs. which are just going to sap the reserves of the dwindling pool.

To play devil's advocate, I think alternate transportation does need to be subsidized because individual free choice is not always the "best" choice for a society's growth.
Now we know that Amy Winehouse is dead we see that we need better noise filters.
In the same way, shoplifters would never try to steal anything larger than something they can fit in their hand. In reality, they walk out of retail stores with objects as large as kayaks everyday -- often with the assistance of store staff. Why? Because everyone assumes no way this guy isn't legit because a bad guy would never attempt something so blatant.

Asking for everything might sound more legitimate than asking for one small thing. Perps generally go with their gut. In this case, this "auditor" shot for the moon with the wrong mark.
Wow, I couldn't disagree more. "Intellectual Ventures on TAL" (the other submission) describes exactly what the link is. "When Patents Attack" communicates only that this is a link about patents.
Ask HN: Mac OS X 10.7 Lion, first impressions?
New look, full screen apps, Mission Control, Mail, Safari, "natural" scrolling and new gestures (I returned to the trackpad), Versions, some issues (mine with the new SMBX). What do you think so far?
World of Final Fantasy
According to their last statement:

So, we will continue to invest in very talented entrepreneurs
who are pursuing ambitious, challenging tasks. We will treat them
with respect and hope for the best.

Basically they're looking for social-mobile-local marketing companies that target the robotics and biotech industries.
I would pay for an OFFLINE restore-only backup. Not really sure that even makes sense, but if I'm worried about Google losing my data, I'm not sure I'm going to feel better by just chaining together additional 3rd parties to backup my data. I want a copy.
Ask HN: How start doing technical hires?
I am a first time entrepreneur looking to start hiring developers after doing all the initial development myself.

While I've lead tech teams and have conduct interviews as part of an established company, doing it as a one person shop is much harder.

The first problem is getting applicants. Are paid job boards worth it?

After getting applicatns, how do you manage them? Do you use something like Resumator?
Exercises that still need coding - https://spreadsheets.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AsgWawU...
An address book is a fine example for a document database or key value
store. You'd just need two buckets or collections in the key value store.

user_to_contact_sets -> keyed on user's key
contacts -> keyed on a contact id

For searching I'd use a real search engine and index the contact data as it is stored and deleted.

The beauty of using a schema-free KVS you can have a much more
flexible contact document that can have embedded one-to-many objects
that would require a number of extra tables in SQL for data that will only ever be associated to a single contact record.

Here's an example of a hypothetical KVS storing contact data:

// API:
db.store = function(bucket, key, data) { ... }
db.fetch = function(bucket, key) { ... }
search_engine.index = function(key, document) { ... }

// Store a Contact record:
var contact = {"id": "eric-moritz", // lexicographically ordered key
"name": "Eric Moritz",
"emails": [
{"type": "personal", "value": "eric@example.com"},
{"type": "work", "value": "workin@example.com"}],
"addresses": [
{"type": "home":
"address1": "111 A ST",
"city": "somewheresville",
"state": "somestate",
"postal-code": "90210"},
{"type": "work":
"address1": "111 B ST",
"city": "somewhereelseville",
"state": "somestate",
"postal-code": "90210"}],
"phone-numbers": [
{"type": "mobile", "value": "555-1212"},
{"type": "work", "value": "555-2323"}]
}
// Fetch the user's contact set
var contact_set = db.fetch("contact_sets", user_id);

// If this contact is not already indexed, add it and store the set
if(contact_set.indexOf(contact['id']) < 0) {
contact_set.push(contact['id']);
db.store("contact_sets", user_id, contact_set.sort());
}

// Store the contact into the contacts bucket
var contact_key = user_id + ":" + contact['id'];
db.store("contacts", contact_key, contact);

// Index the document into the search engine
search_engine.index(contact_key, contact)
Jackpot.
hi. someone on twitter sent me a link to this. is this about my situation? because if it is let me say to "boneslf" if he is the correct person, i don't know a goddam thing about computers let alone the "tiny bit of programming knowledge and keyword knowledge to make money" scamming google products. let me be clear about that.
and also "jellicle" makes my point exactly and so do a few others on here.
also, i've sent an update to the few contacts i have made at google, but they haven't responded. i found out two days ago that this week the fbi raided an apt in my building connected with anonymous and hauled away computers. like i said, and like i told google yesterday, i don't know enough about computers to know whether or not it's plausible that this could have something to do with my issue, or if they would hack into my google account for some reason, but i do know that my router had "dns poisoning" last week and that's when the internet started acting up. it might be crazy for me to suspect that the fbi case has anything to do with this, but i would know if google would talk to me.
also, in my opinion, nothing would warrant what they have done. unless i was knowingly violating some term of service. which i don't think anyone at this point could possibly think that i was. i never even sent out group email or had any of my picasa folders public.
Its 12 billion light years away. Just keep in mind that this is what it looked like 12 billion years ago => it takes the light 12 billion years to reach the Earth. So the image as seen is really that old!
So this is why PSN was hacked? Were the user passwords also served to users in plain-text and evaluated in Javascript?
I kinda hate this mindset. Programming is not about how much code you write, it's about understanding a problem and then coming up with a solution; writing code is but a small part of this process. If there is anything I have learned over the years it is that one should think first then code.
I use it almost entirely as a news feed, I only very occasionally post things myself.
Capitalism + regulation. Without profit there is no motive for favoritism.
Click link, see blank page, unblock Flash applet, struggle through reading a single paragraph with eye-gougingly atrocious font and mouse-crushingly stupid scroll functionality... then my head simply explodes from the irony of what I am experiencing and what I am reading. Close window.
My school has recently signed on to one of these programs but through a different company (viaCycle @ Georgia Tech). Basically they're subsidizing their business through students. We already pay for the campus bus system and the school has plenty of bike racks at each building including bike storage rooms and lockers at the dorms. But the alumni who own the company have realized that the school will pay and the SGA will accept it because it makes them look like they're doing something.
> OO languages (i.e. imperative)

Why can't an OO language be functional? OCaml is OO, and it's one of the most functional languages I know (the other being Haskell). Scala is a functional language and an OO language (and an imperative language, as a matter of fact). Clojure could also be considered OO, with the new protocols. Javascript is a very OO language, and quite functional as well (especially considering the libraries such as Underscore). Maybe we should be talking about functional and imperative programming styles instead, imperative being a loop, and functional being a recursive function (map, filter, fold/reduce).

> declarativity instead of an imperative style of programming

I guess there's a thin line separating these concepts, and also a great deal of overlap and confusion. Here, we're declaring what we want:

even = [i from nats[1:100] where i % 2 == 0]

Here, we're using "the imperative style":

even = []
for i = 1 to 100
if i % 2 == 0
even.append(i)

This is functional style:

even = filter(nats[1:100], i -> i % 2 == 0)

However, this is also imperative - we're telling the computer what to do. The main difference is just that in the "imperative style", we're dealing with elements, while functional style is focused around sequences.

On the other hand, these concepts and expressions are used with so many different meanings and in so many different contexts, that it's no surprise that different people understand them differently. Maybe it's better to just talk in code...
It's certainly possibly, it's just generally a waste of time for games made for fun..
Any company that wants to show benchmarks should, at a minimum show:

1. The hardware on which the tests were run
2. The software (OS) on which the tests were run
3. The design of their benchmarking utility
4. How much memory/CPU was available for each test (i.e. how much crap is running in the background)
5. The version of each thing (parser) they are testing
6. How many trials they ran for each test (no reason for a test like this to not have several hundred or thousand)
7. The average and standard deviation for each thing (parser) they are comparing
8. The data ran for the tests. (Some data suites may favour certain parsers over others). Best case: running different kinds of data suites in separate tests, to see if some things (parsers) handle certain kinds of data better than others. (i.e. there might not be a global optimum parser)

Additionally, they should also run the parser on a few passes prior to starting benchmarking to "warm it up". This reduces variance in the runs, especially via things like initialization/memory allocation in the first run.

Without most (or all!) of that kind of information, one can't make a reasonable judgement.
The question that pops out to me after reading your request is what is the role of these people? Are you just looking for contract code, or co-founders?
These are two fundamentally different people/groups, requiring two different aproaches during the search for them.
>"How start doing technical hires?"
You could start by not scaring off any technical people with your improper grammar.

>"applicatns"

If you can't even take the time to write a proper title and use ASpell to check spelling errors, how do you ever expect that any good technical person will want to join you?
Under this theory, why do we have any government at all? One might argue that the main purpose of government is to provide an aggregate benefit to society that would otherwise not occur due to coordination, efficiency of scale (lack thereof), tragedy of the commons, and other issues.

For example, in this particular case, even if consumers wanted these bikes / bike stations, it might never happen if the company relied on consumer sponsorship. Who's going to pay for such a service when there's only a handful of stations and bikes? But how is the company going to get a ton of bikes / install a bunch of stations without customers? Of course, raising money is one way, but selling to a customer that (in theory) represents the entire population (and has some of their money) is another.

Not saying that in this instance, the government is not incompetent/derelict beyond all belief - all I am is saying is that you can't say a company isn't providing something people want just because they're selling to government. In order to be able to do that, you'd have to first show that the government in question is completely broken in that it never provides things that are beneficial to society, which the author has not (maybe the U.S. government is close, but I doubt many would assert that it is 100% broken).
JavaScript: today's equivalent of BASIC for beginning programmers?
Yea to a database newb MongoDB and even Redis look simpler to use than MySQL. I was judging from the basic setup, syntax, boilerplate, tutorials, etc. Mongo's syntax requires the smallest learning curve, it's the dot notation you're used to. But that's was a total n00b's perspective and I imagine people that don't dive too deep in MySQL feel similarly. Generally programmers are superficial and look for the easiest syntax.

For prototyping purposes I'd like to see a comparison of building a twitter clone in MySQL, MongoDB and there's already one in Redis http://redis.io/topics/twitter-clone MySQL will require the most boilerplate here, setting up schemas etc.
On one hand, both gesture unlock codes and longer alphanumeric codes, both of which android supports, would probably make good candidates to secure the key ring with. On the other hand, the email application, for example, still needs to receive email even when the screen is off, which makes anything entered on screen un-lock a bad candidate for key-ring solutions. Boot is better, but how often do you turn your phone off while not using it?
Even Snakes Love a Ferrari
I posted this in the article itself, and I think it's relevant here:

The concept of location-based communications is a very powerful one. Imagine that you were new to an area, and you wanted to meet locals with similar interests. You should be able to create a tag about something that interests you, and broadcast it out to people within, say, 1-2 miles and invite like minded people out to coffee, or a movie, or some sort of similar event. This provides a way to create real-life followers and build interests off of that. If nothing else, I my end up writing something to do this myself...

I've wanted an app like this for a while now, I'm hoping that I'll be able to build it on Google+ when their API comes out.
I was looking forward to this, based on the number of people here talking about the great reporting, but now that I'm listening on the radio I'm a bit disappointed. They are talking about patents overlapping other patents, but it is clear that they are just going by the titles of the patents and maybe a quick glance at the abstract.

Unfortunately, the title and abstract just tell you the general area of the patent, not the details, and it is the details that matter. You'd expect to see many patents with similar titles, and even similar abstracts, even though the patents might be covering things that are very very different.
Actually, it's better to keep in mind that this picture is an artist's concept, not an actual photo :)
I've seen Penn & Teller live. Fucking great. Really amazing. I was a huge fan. Even bought their first book.

Then they came out as anthropocentric climate change deniers. Plus, their cable show "Bullshit" was little more than Leno's Jaywalking, only meaner.

So I had to flip the bozo bit on them. Meaning I've lumped them in with the neocons, creationists, libertarians, homophobes, 9/11 truthers, and other antisocial fruitcakes.
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Digest auth with GAE Java, Jersey HTTPDigestAuthFilter issues
the human race will get the flying car and the fusion when it is ready for it ( technologically these innovations, at the level of successful prototypes have existed for last 50 years). What would we do with such technology if it was in widespread use today? Flying car - sprawl development even further. Fusion - com'n, are we ready for a wide availability of a high flux high energy neutron generating devices? We are still can't control ourselves when it comes to the dynamite and the similar levels of energy, and it becomes hysterical paroxysm when the fission levels of energy come into play.

The primitive steam based engine was discovered by ancient Greeks and technologically they could improve upon it further. Their slave based society wasn't ready for it.

Like Greeks and steam power, today we have the primitive access to space - and surprise!, instead of actively working upon improving it, pouring all our resources into it, we're still discussing whether it has economical reasons, and like in case of Greeks, we can't find much of such economical reasons for it.
Most of their consumer Internet portfolio companies have paypal mafia founders, or are otherwise personally connected to founders fund.
It never gets old reading comments, or in this case a whole blog post coming from people who are unable to grasp how Twitter is actually one thing but is repurposed for a myriad of others, much to the enjoyment of many of its users.
This concept has already been very popular in Europe for many years. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/13/world/europe/13paris.html

What you lack is an understanding of the most common use case. I want to ride a bike 3 miles away from my home, but I don't want to worry about finding a place to lock my bike, take the risk of having it stolen, and I don't want to have to retrieve my bike before going home. I've been waiting for this system to migrate to LA since I saw how well it worked in barcelona 4 years ago. I think it's a great concept, and furthermore it would be impossible to implement without government approval because all the docking stations are on sidewalks.
Our data center, which is powered by gas turbines, uses its waste heat to heat nearby buildings in the winter, and to cool the data center in the summer (via absorption chillers).
How can you make such an assumption with so little data? It might be that you've met people from this fund and you know something I don't, but until then your statement sounds a wee bit unqualified. It's hard to swallow that given they have invested in,

> SpaceX ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTFlFFrfEB0&feature=youtu... )

> Halcyon Molecular ( http://www.genomeweb.com/sequencing/halcyon-molecular-develo... )

> Palantir

> Pathway Genomics ( http://www.crunchbase.com/company/pathway-genomics )

> Gene Security Network ( http://www.crunchbase.com/company/gene-security-network )

> CDD ( http://www.crunchbase.com/company/collaborative-drug-discove... )

> ImmunePath ( www.immunepath.com/ )

> RoboTex ( http://www.robotex.us/ )

> SmartDrive ( http://www.crunchbase.com/company/smartdrive-systems )

> Navia ( http://www.crunchbase.com/company/navia-systems )

That doesn't sound like a social-mobile-local marketing companies portfolio to me, and yes I've seen their investments in companies such as Yammer, RapLeaf, but clearly they aren't their entire portfolio and they have taken a series of really impressive long term bets.
That's not how it works. If we observe an object that's currently 12 billion lightyears away (i.e., its co-moving distance is 12 billion light years) the light we observe was emitted much less than 12 billion years ago. While light is in transit, both the distances ahead and behind it will increase due to Hubble expansion, so once you get up to cosmic scales like these the normal distance/velocity formulas don't apply.

In general, if you point a flashlight into space and wait one year, the distance between you and the photons of light will be slightly higher than one lightyear. As you wait longer, this difference becomes less slight. When you get up to much larger scales (billions of lightyears) the Hubble expansion dominates the equations.

In the most extreme cases, you get counterintuitive things popping up like distances that are so large they can't be traversed in any amount of time, even at light speed. Until you're using equations that make that seem natural, you shouldn't rely intuitive calculations from NASA press releases like this. Convincing science journalists of this fact is one of my minor life goals.
Presenting my music biz thesis: marketing music through non-linear communication