skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why are there so many usernames that are perscription drugs? On the first page I see Zithromax, Zoloft, Zyprexa and Abilify.
I'd be interested to see some analytics, such as how many users are there with 100+ karma because that's likely a better measure of the number of active users than the number of registered users (many of which are likely inactive). However, that doesn't account for lurkers.

Or, the number of users that have logged in within the past week though this is probably something pg would have to give us because I can't think of any way to determine that without the backend data.
He also writes:

If anything, I blame myself. In retrospect, and as I read through my initial email exchanges with Dj, I recognize now that something was “off” in his manner of communication, that I trusted too easily, and probably did not do my due diligence to properly protect myself and my home.

There is nothing in the article that indicates that the situation would have turned out any different if he had access to "Dj"s contact information earlier.
iOS 5 will solve at least part of this for you: The new Safari will have tabs and the touch keyboard will be "split"

http://www.geek.com/articles/apple/apples-ios-5-finally-brin...
I guess it's a page to gauge interest in the actual project by collecting info on potential users.
But you can be almost the same person

Some people are very badly affected by trauma. But most do get over it and the almost same person is actually a wiser slightly more careful person. A bit less idealist, yep, but that's growing up.
this is interesting. i'm in the middle of developing a service that will provide graphical hashes for information like this. the idea is sketched out here - http://www.acooke.org/hash-icons.html - and i am about 75% of the way through coding an appengine service. if anyone is interested, please email me at andrew@acooke.org (i'm thinking of charging a dollar a month to cover basic costs; first month free to try things out).
the guy might be talking about reversing transactions. I probably get two actual customer initiated chargebacks a year, but maybe two or three times a month, paypal initiates an "investigation" which usually results in the transaction being reversed (though I often still get stuck paying the fees)

There is really no transparency, and from my point of view, they look pretty random, so it would be pretty frustrating, but it's usually on a $12-$20 transaction, so it's hard to get too worked up about it; they /are/ a bank, and one expects to get nickle and dimed when dealing with banks.

I email the customer and they make other arrangements to pay me (or sometimes they just re-send the payment and it goes through) so I'm only out the fees, but I have more leverage than the original poster, as, well, I provide a service that I need to keep providing, while the parent sounds like they provide a product, and once the user downloads it, they have no leverage.

If I was losing the whole amount, I could see how it'd be pretty frustrating, and how it would look like paypal is just stealing your money.
OK. So are you suggesting that this might have been the case in this situation? I would suggest that unless it is, then the proper reaction from Google would have been to inform the user what was going on. I understand that Google are covering their backs - and I appreciate that they should do that. What I'm saying is that inasmuch that it doesn't pose a risk (in legal terms) for them to keep the user informed, they could be expected to do so.
Let's start a count.

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Well it covers good FP principles, but it's about Java-the-language implementations of them. So it's full of lots of code that might scare me away from FP if I were a "Java programmer".
> Whether or not the user is able to go back and redownload images that may or may not be illegal that may not have been saved is completely inconsequential.

With all due respect, unless you're a lawyer, your comment has zero weight.

If I rent a hotel room and use it to store a barrel of cocaine, and a cleaning lady discovers it, I'm fairly certain they are 1) under no obligation to me to allow me to retrieve my cocaine, and 2) are probably legally prohibited from allowing me to collect my coke barrel.
I would hope she took pictures for documentation purposes... even if her camera was stolen, she should have borrowed one or bought one for this purpose.
I think you are referring to the famous Berlin and Kay study (here's a chapter detailing it: http://www.icsi.berkeley.edu/~kay/KBMM.ps).
I tried to trick it with User Agent Switcher, but no go. It's not just examining the user agent -- it's looking for window.chrome, too.

Having watched the video and the word-spelling at the end, there's nothing about this sort of content that strikes me as stuff that can't be done in other browsers. And isn't that supposed to be the point of experiments like this?

Google should be showing us stuff that can't be done in any browser but Chrome because of those other browsers' technical limitations or deficiencies ... not just because they have the wrong user agent.
Key takeaway from your story: you're still healthy and unharmed. All the material stuff is superficial, the only thing of real value is you.
ahem.

LOADHIGH=c:\mouse\mouse.sys
"The Internet Tidal Wave", a memo sent by Bill Gates in 1995
Poll: How much of your work time is typing code?
Also, are you happy with that percentage? How much would your target be?
1 percent
25 percent
90 percent
95 percent
Wouldn't creating a patent alliance render the evils of this system ineffective? Members of the alliance would work together to acquire patents, and these patents will be used as patent lawsuit deterrents. Any non-member company who sues a member of the alliance will have to face a dozen lawsuits from other alliance members. (Alliance members should sign a legal agreement not to sue other members on patent-based issues.)

Of course for this to be effective a huge number of patents is needed, but there are probably a lot of big companies willing to give big bucks to avoid the patent menace, and they can raise enough money to acquire a huge number of patents. Plus each company will come with its own patents.

I guess others have already thought of this and found it impractical, which makes me wonder why it is so.
Am I the only one that fails to be inspired by this? I think I'm not inspired because it's something I've already thought about. We've always had the option to go make money, or go try to fix the world... And whatever that brings us.

I am very clear on my chances of making big changes to the world: Almost nil. Instead, I decided long ago that I'd do my best to make money and improve my own life.

I'm not saying I don't do little things to help the environment, but there's no chance that I'm going to be on the team that cures cancer. There are too many people out there that are both smarter than me and more learned in the topics needed. The best I could do would be to get in their way.
He didn't quit Google. He just quit the project he was working on at Google. I talked to him the day before and am quite sure that is what he meant.
What are the salaries you're hearing? It makes sense that recruiters, who are more likely to be hired by VCs who've invested millions in a start-up, would report higher rates than start-ups without that kind of funding.
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Just pointing this out as a woman who is in CS. There is rampant sexism within the field on the lower tier levels.(Still in school so I have yet to deal with higher level positions) Your grunt programmers, techs, and general support staff are down right scary. I have been hopping around company to company for a bit now and some of the places are just down right creepy. I worked one job where open sexism was encouraged and there was a massive boys club mentality. There was one guy who kept joking about how sexy I was and pulled pulled on my hair whenever he walked by.

Also as a whole I have found that even if I am more knowledgeable than everyone around me, I still have people come up and in some of the most condescending ways possible. Many times I am talked down to like I am some sort of child. (I once had someone try to explain how multicast and ssl works to me. They are studying for their A+, I am about to get my CCNP and also churning out all sorts of neat code for our department to help automate a lot of the boring tasks.)

I would say its not so much a genetic issue, but more the field itself has many cultural issues it needs to get past.

Last note: Filing complaints about a lot of these problems would most likely hurt me in the long run. I figured out after my first couple jobs it is easier to ignore them than try to find a new job.

Edit: Regarding skills themselves. It is a much simpler answer to claim that society 'encourages' woman into positions. Even if there was such a gap (Not saying it may not exist mind you) their would still be tremendous overlap and there would be some males within female bounds and females within the male bounds. The odds of that gap being massive enough to overshadow cultural issues is highly unlikely.

Also these stories are not representative of my whole experience in the field. They have been cherry picked to help illustrate a point.
That makes sense, I sort of had a suspicion that was the case but it seemed a little weird in light of the "no adult" policy, which in itself seems like an arbitrary decision (disclaimer: I've worked at a porn company, and a couple of my current clients own adult sites).

My main concern though is who decides who gets a contested domain. Is it a council, and are there clearly defined rules?
Don't recruiters usually only get that "bounty" once you've been there 3 or 6 months?
That's a cool example. I was thinking that hyper-local really only made sense for densely packed urban environments. Good to see that I was wrong in that assumption.
Probably spam-bots auto-filling forms.
Personally I think the poster is stupid as f@#&, leaving her apt to complete strangers and then blaming her loss on someone else. What did she expect? B&B's usually have someone onsite to prevent things like this from happening. The person to blame here is the poster and of course the tweakers, not Airbnb.
A hotel is likely to have CCTV in the lobby, full time security, contacts with local police and lots of institutional experience dealing with disruptive guests. All things that the average part-time innkeeper doesn't have.
It appears that most/all were created 1070 days ago and have 1 karma. I suspect that it was probably an attempt to rig the voting of a post.
That doesn't matter. They are obligated to investigate each and every phone call to their fullest extent. Only if the same person called repeatedly could they even begin to think about the "boy who cried wolf" excuse.
Yes it is probably a good deterrent for most people. The problem is you need something that'll work for everyone. Otherwise one person won't be deterret, will edit out the details, and put it on a torrent site. Then anyone who wants to pirate it, can pirate it.
Couldn't the tech giants cooperate and introduce a system that benefits the top 10% and exclude the long tail of smaller companies? That could be even worse.
Joel would know. You mean this one? Or is there something more recent? http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/FindingGreatDeveloper...
It has half a dozen rendering modes too, due to various driver bugs and GPU performance profiles. There are massive threads on the forum of people trying different settings to squeeze out a few more FPS, especially on lower end hw.
Visualization of a VOIP attack
The Death App reveals murders and road fatalities across the UK
The non-obviousness part absolutely requires more domain expertise than I expect a lot of patent clerks bring, but checking for prior art seems like something that could be found via search or crowdsourcing.

Imagine if there were a public review step to granting patents, where the broader community could provide examples of prior art and debate the non-obviousness of it.
Cross-Species Gadget Tests Reveal Reason for Dolphin Tools
These pages rank at the top of the site: search because they have a lot of backlinks. Why? Because someone created the profile, then went out and created links to their profile page (e.g. http://www.opensiteexplorer.org/links?site=http%3A%2F%2Fnews...). Why? Because they were probably planning to drop a link on their HN profile page to a page that sells Zithromax.

This is a common strategy on Youtube or really any social site that gives you a profile page and the ability to drop a followed link. Even if you're building junky links to your HN profile page, the overall domain authority and trust of HN is relatively high, so it's a way to launder link juice and create a quality link to whatever it is you're selling.

Eric Ward wrote about it here: http://searchengineland.com/social-link-manipulation-11429

There's a fairly good sized contingent of the affiliate marketing world that depends on this link building strategy.
Samsung sees 300% growth in smartphone market share
I think it would be very difficult to do this without running afoul of antitrust law.
Wouldn't it just be easier to ask pg to post the data...

pg?
My house was robbed in college. They also took a jar of coins. Heaviest $20 ever.
Many of the results are 'No such user'. Add 'karma' to the end of the query to get a more accurate guess: around 11,600
>No one needs a million dollars. No one.

food, roof (with internet connection reaching under it), freedom. In Bay Area, if you have a mortgage, it is half a mil bare minimum and even a million may not take you far enough. There have been experiments to build societies with decreased degree of connection between food, roof, freedom and money - somehow it always went like this one http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/dprk/dprk-dark....

And you can't build SpaceX without a bucket of millions (Copenhagen Orbitals are beyond wonderful, yet they are in Virgin Galactic league at best, even in their furthest plans. They show the possibilities for the future and at the same time how far yet that future is)
Folks he has not quit Google..post Title is incorrect
The image in question was removed. His own take on the image: I am not angry at Google about this, as some might suggest, only because I too found the image bordering on the limits of what is legally permissible and hoped to highlight the fact that it is allowed to exist within a grey area of legality. I find that sentiment hard to reconcile with the "I have no idea" claim. I don't think he was outright lying, but I suspect he was in denial.

edit: Just realized I said "images" and not "image" in my original post. I was thinking about the image even he thought was a legal grey area.
Yes, somehow.

See this:

http://www.google.com/#sclient=psy&hl=en&source=hp&#...
People just assume older code works. I'm regularly finding stuff we've had in production for months that never did what it was supposed to. You could go back and write all the same tests after the code is done, but I find it extremely unlikely that anyone will actually reach the same degree of test coverage (I know I for one never have). And even if you're one of the rare few who will pay down this technical debt eventually, it takes away quite a bit of the value of the tests to muddle through all the coding work without them.
The Idea/Expression Dichotomy Is Dead
It might be the reason that Apple are infringing on the patent is that they are selling, not just using, a product which contains something which infringes the patent.
I would imagine that homeowners being terrified of having their homes trashed by guests would also cut into their revenue stream, and, if the "97% of airbnb guests are wonderful people" bit is true, the premiums should be fairly negligible.

At the very least, it should be an option for property owners to purchase.

Even if you do have homeowners / renters insurance, I wouldn't be surprised if most policies have exclusions for operating your home as a rental.
I found starting a company and naming myself CTO was the quickest route, but your brother's mileage may vary.
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No, you're not the only one. He's a bit naive if he thinks he's going to cure cancer by quitting his job and reading some undergraduate math textbooks. However misguided his plan may be, it's heartwarming that his wife agreed to be his study buddy, instead of divorcing him.
I normally don't like video links, but this one is worth watching.

Anyway...

He starts by talking about how he joined Google because he believed they really wanted to change the world. They are basically the only ones fighting for Net Neutrality, etc. He said Amazon had a similar culture when he was there. He goes on to talk about scaling and how it might be the biggest problem for a lot of companies. Basically, everyone is working on some kind of scaling problem and it's usually for a stupid "cat picture project" (social networking). Later in life, you realize there are more important things (specifically, health related in the video), but it's too late because these tasks require math, stats and domain-specific knowledge. We are mostly lacking the domain-specific knowledge. He talks about how you may wish you could go back in time to tell your younger self to do something more meaningful. He challenges everyone to learn something new and make a difference. With about a minute to go he's puts his money where his mouth is and quits his job.
So I'm not really an ask me anything type guy, but I work on a bioinformatics team at an academic cancer research center. We have genomic sequencers and a software stack running 24/7/365 plus your normal collection of IT and small dev projects here.

If you have questions about what it's like to be a hacker in this type of environment, post them here and I'll share what my experience is like.

BTW, I completely wish I knew more stats and bioinformatics, so I probably should purchase the Yegge book collection myself . . .
My account page exists, but I rarely post (4 comments); adding my username to the google search finds zero results, so there are at least 28,701, and likely many more than that.

My intuition is that there are many people that don't post at all or only post infrequently.
I've studied math. The most recent mathematician I can recall by name (due to a few important theorems) has been doing his great work in the 1930s. Most of the stuff is older. I don't care squat about the gender, but they're likely all male.

Looking at gender ratios in students it's about 50-50 now (ETH Zürich, Switzerland), massively thinning out towards the top (professors are just a few out of 50). It'll take time and untill female mathematicians have an about equal importance in the curriculum students learn, likely a few hundres years. Maths really ages slowly (often because theories get update/extended, but the name sticks).

So being able to name female mathematicians imo doesn't have much relevance to the gender discussion. Luckily society changes faster than math ages ;-)
Indeed. In my defense, anecdotal evidence: quite a few people in what we call the super-senior citizen bracket (yes, really) do pay taxes, and more than a few of them don't speak English.
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I totally agree on that front. Five years seems like a reasonable upper limit to how long software patents should last.
> I like the idea of Pump, and am tired of frameworks protecting me from HTTP.

if you don't like being "protected from http" why not write raw wsgi applications?
I'm going to have to say "pics or it didn't happen".

Post the simplest code that causes the problem, so we can all try it, verify it, and maybe propose a fix. Because right now, this sounds a lot like some program that actually does not free all the memory it allocates, i.e. the program leaks.
I have to hand it to the professor... That's a lot of work.

I correct English on a language exchange site for fun. But it doesn't take long before I start to look at it as a chore, and not much fun. He does it for a living, all day, and comes back for more!
This seems to be the crux of the issue right here. When I heard the airbnb business model, this type of situation was the first thing that came to my mind. Airbnb absolutely does provide an incredible service, but these types of issues need to be solved. A 24/7 line should be step 1.
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I know. It's kinda tiresome hearing these old claims trotted out as "AMAZING NEW THEORY".

As a note, the initial Sapir-Whorf hypothesis is considered to be based off of flawed research.
Oh wow. Thank you for that explanation. It's impressive how many of these profiles were made. This means the total number of real HN accounts is probably significantly less than 28k.
For comparison, pg posted figures on Feb 9 showing 90,000 unique visitors (timeframe unclear to me, but I'm guessing daily) - http://ycombinator.com/images/hntraffic-9feb11.png

If (as the results of my Google search revealed) there are 28,600 members, then 90,000 uniques is roughly a 2:1 lurker ratio (almost certainly much higher, given member!=active member, and not all members visit every day)
Making the world better is a complex problem which depends on a hell of a lot of systems.

Having worked in academia, you rapidly appreciate that the people who keep the lights on - administrators, lab techs, librarians - are about the most important people there.

And that system? Depends on taxpayer funding. If you're doing things which are ethical, and you're doing them well, then you're helping cure cancer and all the rest, even if only indirectly. Maybe you could do something more direct; that's your call to make. But don't minimize the impact of doing good work.
For those interested, summaries and comparisons of the plans currently in the House and Senate, the positions of Obama and Boehner when negotiations broke down on the 22nd, two bipartisan senate plans, and the earlier House Republican plan are all viewable at http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/07/22/us/politics/20...
I am not sure that any other animal has evolved to have it's skull and brain squished hard during birth, like we have. This is why chimps outsmart human children for the first years of life. We do indeed have a very unusually plastic brain.
That sounds kind of like the [Open Invention Network](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Invention_Network).
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Or chopsticks.

Assuming someone hasn't patented a stick.

(Or come to think about it, the chewing process.)
It's amusing that when there is a ruling in HTC's favor the headline is: "Judge Finds Apple in Violation of HTC's Newly Acquired Patents"...but when there was a ruling in Apple's favor it was: "Apple's Plot to Kill Top Android Maker HTC Nears Fruition With Win"

The latter being illustrated with a picture of Steve Jobs as the Emperor from Star Wars. Classy.
Rough Estimate of users with Karma > 100:

http://www.google.com/search?sclient=psy&hl=en&biw=1...
Never mind the fact that there simply cannot be centuries of evidence about software patents.
> People are still essentially good.

Experiment indicates that the majority (65%) are not: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milgram_experiment

I am sorry to be a downer, and I agree that it is nice to pretend that people are essentially good. Ignoring the Milgram results, however, leads us to forget why we have to maintain societies with complex crime deterrent schemes, and why we should not trust anonymous individuals who cannot be located for punishment.

"[H]alf ... were female, and their rate of obedience was virtually identical to that of the male participants." "Where participants had to physically hold the "learner's" arm onto a shock plate, ... 30 percent of participants completed the experiment."
Remember that government is the monopoly of the application of force.

When you have a competitive market in force...
Go there.

A more psychological safe zone.

To breath and talk without excess authorizations in a safe space.

In reality, in our world, in your mind. I think you should go there.