skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow ... our own TA! That would be neat.

I just started watching this course on iTunesU and was wishing I had someone to ask basic clarification questions to.

Would using Convore be appropriate for this purpose?

EDIT: I created one ...
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It's very obvious, but also very hard. Hard because it isn't measurable in the short term, and hard because many engineers aren't wired for it. That said, technology leaders have to eventually overcome the introspection that made them successful in the first place.

It is easy to see how some of the greats in the tech industry do it. Look at Ron Conway - he is a perpetual networker, and one of the highest impact people around. Steve Jobs is another, creating his famous reality distortion field. Look at Demo Day - isn't this the culmination of a lot of networking on top of great product work?

One of the interesting aspects of social networking theory is that it is the people more removed from us who can help us the most. The people we are tightly linked to don't know that many people that we don't. The folks less tightly linked have the incremental connections we can't access ourselves.

Coffee anyone?
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Speaking as a novice Ubuntu user, I don't even know what "install a port" means. Do you mean "open a port"?
It depends. If you google "books linus torvals reads" I am the second result. Bill gates favorite books , I am in the first page. But thanks I will work on this.
God be praised.
Out of curiosity: has anyone here actually liked using a 3DS?

I've always considered Nintendo an expert on what's fun and what's not, but I can't for the life of me understand the motivation behind the 3DS.
Cheap phones might have low-end displays too. The quality of a display is hard to quantify as numbers (unlike the CPU, memory, etc) so it's easy to leave that out from your marketing material.
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The best source of traffic are Search Engines, and that will take some time.
You need incoming links to your site, which I'm sure you are getting from all HNers and Redditors bloggers that visited you.
You also need to learn about SEO and keywords, and write respecting that.
Take care of meta descriptions, and meta tags.
Write good titles, and urls for every post.

But, after all, it is a matter of giving good content, and patience, just wait a little and the organic traffic will start to arrive.

Just my two cents, and please consider that I'm not a SEO expert.
Ask HN: Do you contribute to open source projects with your real name?
What are the pros/cons of real name/pseudonymous/anonymous contributions?

Obviously there are lots of implications like privacy, taking credit, taking responsibility, claiming code, claiming copyrights,...

There was a similar discussion on Slashdot some time ago: http://yro.slashdot.org/story/08/11/17/1746239/Real-Name-For-Open-Source-Development

But that's Slashdot, this is Hackernews. What's your take?
Actually, I know the problem:

It's with our right hemisphere, it's the one of you that is creative, that had hopes as a child to really do something useful for the world, the one that is out of control, seeks freedom.

The thing is that you aren't doing art/music(that's what people frequently do with it) and art/music is well known as freedom, what you are probably doing is:

A stupid startup to proove yourself, make some money and shit. Even if you own twitter or facebook, it's still shit compared to art, believe me. It's shit.

If you were doing something that would eradicate some sickness in africa and would save millions of people or had anything altruist in it, i doubt your heart wouldn't be pumping from the second you started.

Believe me, it's because what you do is shit, your brain knows and it wants to free you from this bullshit.

I don't procrastinate to wash dishes for my girlfriend, no matter how much it's boring, i fucking love her. But you know, if i had to wash it for ME, i would procrastinate all day. You need love.
I'm somewhat more worried about just the lack of vertical integration, rather than even the cross-field collaboration. The more you treat parts of your experiments as black-boxes done by someone else, the more likely it is you might misunderstand some details of what exactly is happening, and draw the wrong conclusions. It requires the abstraction boundaries being very good, anyway, so that nothing gets changed at one level that actually impacts another level's results, without the sides communicating. If it's the same people, or at least people who see each other daily in the same lab, they're much more likely to notice that a "minor" change in a detail is actually experimentally relevant, due to how the result will be used somewhere else, or assumptions about the process that were baked into an equation, or something along those lines.

Even in a field like CS this happens a lot; tons of benchmarks are screwed up or at least misleadingly reported because someone didn't 100% understand the entire stack on which their part was running, and what its implications were for their results.
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I pointed my finger at him and told him firmly. "If you get up from that couch, I'm going to take the computer away."

Really? I would have just slapped the kid ;-) It's quite effective.
Is it really needed to post the same crappy story 5 times on HN?

He's not a security expert either. Hacking doesn't always mean security expert. Lots of times it means programmer, engineer, etc.
Why not write "Link" instead of "WWW"? Clearer and to the point.
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Ah, googling for just the company name returns a more relevant result. But not in a language I can understand :(
The very title is "An alternative to employee options/equity grants", which are certainly meant to be incentives!

The thing that makes these completely worthless is, should the company ever actually have an equity event they are void, as the new owner may do whatever they please which probably won't include honoring "these spreadsheet scribbles we put together with no legal weight whatsoever"
Yes. Word even localizes the keyboard shortcuts (e.g. in Swedish office, you bold text with command-F for "Fetstil")
The most common use case... except among the kind of people whose idea of a fun evening is developing a Free image editor on a Free operating system.

I'm not one of those people, but I have a similar background, and GIMP has suited me pretty well for the photo-retouching and website-graphics work I've done.
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Nice, it's been a while.

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Your comment really made my day. Thank you very much, I needed the positive mood today.
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Better quality video : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quGhaggn3cQ
It's an opinion piece. Credibility of sources counts.
might be that cellphones will be as powerful as todays computers by the end of the decade, but the average computer will also have moved forward alot so its still unlikely you will see racks of cellphone sized servers.
But for private use if they are enough for what you need, maybe.
Quit doing non excellent stuff - create excellent products
Can anyone offer some advice in choosing between the three courses?

My background: I've only completed CS 1, and read LPTHW and Kochan's Objective-C book. I have about an hour's worth of Khan Academy videos in linear algebra, and have taken a basic prob/stats course. My university offers a database class, but not ML or AI. Based on my minimal knowledge of the subjects, ML/AI sound more interesting than databases.
Which porn company?
They claim to have a huge 1930mAh battery (http://www.gadgetsbing.com/2011/08/first-chinese-phone-with-...) and that the display is a Sharp 480 x 854 LCD, but there might be many models.
If you're on a blacklist it'd probably be because people flag your links—either because they're of low quality, of little interest to the community, or because you spam them.

Big Sites™ get so many links posted here because they're reputable sources. When I see TechCrunch, I have a good idea of the link's content.

Protip: Writing good content is the best way to get more readers.
The moderators here only usually censor smaller up and coming blogs not big ones that already get loads of traffic like Techcrunch even if the content on the smaller sites is better.

Techcrunch usually are allowed as many links per day as they like even if they are pure blog spam in nature while other smaller blogs aren't usually even allowed one.

Stop spamming us you're wasting your time is what most smaller sites can look forward to it.

Hackernews is pretty mainstream now so the mods are making money by promoting specific sites in a corrupt manner.

It's just how it is.
Here's the story reported three days ago, with a great deal of discussion:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2878055

It's also been posted here:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2890714
Here's the story reported three days ago, with a great deal of discussion:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2878055

It's also been posted here:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2890723
Maybe not, but collateral damage caused by handling it in a wrong way may be worth few orders of magnitude more.
In the same way that the iPhone was an Apple copy of what Samsung and HTC did in 2005. It's the despite that counts.
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I'm curious how 'evangelical' someone could be about a porn company? Do you really find word-of-mouth advertising to work for you?
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There are better ways to handle one's customers than displayed by the CS employee here, but be that as it may: think long and hard before you get into the business of taking $3 a month from people who are demographically similar to Redditors.
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Hotel stays anywhere can just me made memorable if you are in the right mood to enjoy the smallest thing coming your way.
A couple of points:

- Backups are your responsibility. Not the hosts, not the government. Not anyone else. You. Period.

- Cannot pay with Paypal? Paypal HQ spontaneously explodes into a huge ball of fiery death? Find another way to pay. It's your responsibility to hold your side of the contract.
I hope they don't standardise screens - one of the great things about Android is that people aren't locked into just one form factor.
The author points out it was a bug that caused this, not a valid state. I think they should probably be using sqlite anyways though.
Nope, he does not mean open a port. Ports is the name of the packaging system FreeBSD uses, and a port is the equivalent (more or less) of an RPM or deb source package.

http://www.freebsd.org/ports/
You're right of course. But even so, Motorola had lot more to do with Droid brand's popularity than any other Android OEM.
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This makes me wonder. What's stopping Google from implementing something like "social scam warnings"? It would be nice to see something along the lines "1 of your friends thinks this site is bad" with the search results.

It wouldn't even have to be Google - anyone with a huge social graph (LinkedIn, Facebook et al) could implement "check your friends' opinion on X".
It is well known that the Hackernews is used as a publicity platform for the larger sites to keep their traffic up. Some of them are extremely dependent on it and they do bribe and cut deals with the mods here.

It's just how it is and has been for a long time.

Hackernews is just plain mainstream now.
It is an interesting (and also important) line. Generally, it is services that fall under the category of "public good" that are provided by government (in a capitalist nation anyway). These are things that, by their nature, a) must be afforded to everyone for them to be effective, and/or b) for which there is no (or little) commercial incentive to produce.

...

You know, I was going to write a lengthy explanation of what that means for your examples, but I'm late for work, and it's on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_good

But suffice to say, there's no natural monopoly in space flight, and they're getting paid (by both the private and public sector) for their services, so space flight isn't a public good (anymore at least).
Isn't "looking after your hardware" exactly what they're responsible for? Why else are they being paid?
Apple got it right with Lion - why bother with Save icons at all? We’ve got enough space now to autosave nearly everything.
The skins are basically just the Launcher app, and that can be easily replaced as it is.

This will give you the stock launcher:
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.moo.android.launch...
We would be glad to have them. We give domains to Open groups for Free - we are "Open Source for Domains". We have given the domains Oscon.Com, Drupal.Com, Fosdem.org, OpenAjax.Org and many others.
What?!? This information was on the PUBLIC WhoIs database, it's avaliable to anyone. I did this to show the contact information for the site, anyone could have done this but I did it so no-one else had to.

http://www.whois.net/whois/thiswebhost.com
First of all sorry I wasn't aware that this has been stated a lot here.

I'm not sure if Google is really the hero at this point like other commenters are stating here. Maybe they bought 3 times more patents than MS/Apple but it's not clear to me if all of those are really interesting in this fight.

I have to admit that I just don't like the Google way here. Saying that patent system sucks and and patents are bad but buying more and more patents is just silly don't you think? Plus they said that Nortels weren't worth 4 billion but they bought 3x patents for 12,5 billion. It's just the same ratio isn't it?.

Let's just see how this will end.
Hardware acceleration with OpenCL? That's not the kind of acceleration I expected.
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What this author considers a novel, future direction for science is something that I call "going to work in the morning." The US Department of Energy operates many user facilities distributed around the country, including nanotechnology centers, electron microscopy centers, neutron facilities, and X-ray facilities. (I run an instrument at one of the X-ray facilities.) Access to these facilities is free to the user and available through a peer-reviewed proposal system. In many cases, these facilities provide access to equipment and experimental techniques that don't exist at individual institutions. In some cases (notably at the nano-centers) capabilities are provided that might be available at a university or a company, but the nano-center provides access to a very broad suite of instrumentation as well as access to expert staff. While there might be a concern that the proposal system would cater to insiders (as one commenter discussing CERN suggests below), that is not my experience. I regularly have new folks coming to use my instrument.

My caveat here is that my field is in the physical sciences, while the author works in the life sciences. The user facility concept is specialty of the DoE and, while DoE user facilities do serve many life science users, it grew out of a physical sciences funding agency. Still, the user facility concept works well and is a model that could address the sort of distributed yet collaborative science that the author describes.
I wonder how many of the participants were able to go back and insert a link without any problems after they were told what the chain icon does?

Icons are really useful once you learn how to use a particular interface. It's ok not to get it at first as long as you only need to learn it once.

You will always need to educate customers to some extent, what you need to do is make that learning curve as easy as possible.
From the looks of it, the company offers no other payment options other than PayPal and didn't provide any information otherwise (I.E. "We need this now, please wire us the money, here's our account details")
A single-core Atom will still beat these in single threaded performance. Multi-threaded performance is a different story, but I would still not expect an outright win for these Snapdragons. However, Adreno 220 is clearly superior to the GMA 950 crap bundled with most Atoms.
The mods are going to delete this comment because they're scared of the truth getting out. Pathetic.

It is well known that the Hackernews is used as a publicity platform for the larger sites to keep their traffic up. Some of them are extremely dependent on it and they do bribe and cut deals with the mods here.

It's just how it is and has been for a long time.

Hackernews is just plain mainstream now.
I wonder how far away Blue Origin is in terms of making the same progress SpaceX seems to be making. Oh man, its like a good o' fashion space race!
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Am I understanding correctly that this course is more about how to use databases than how they work and how to implement them?
FatCow isn't different. I've promoted their hosting services and they've consistently refused to pay me around $1K.

The only reason I've not brought their actions to light is that I still have some months before my account there expires and they can terminate the account without any reason.

But after reading this I'm very motivated to bring their shady tactics out before they make a buck more by scamming their own evangelists.
Y Combinator engages in widespread censorship
I saw that while staying in a Chinese university for one year. But my university was not a major, glorious, famous school, just a "good" one. I think these days it is not that extreme anymore. Chinese students actually have relationships, hobbies and friends. Just the ones who have to be the elite live in such an extreme environment. But that I think is the same for most countries. Especially the U.S. probably can't exclude themself from that (although it just what I think from watching US tv shows and movies, never went there).

China changes very fast these days. If I go there in 2 years again, I think I will again already meet another country. And now (meaning starting the last months!) the change starts to be public driven and not government driven.
From my limited view, not really. I've worked at multiple large insurance companies (I'm a consultant) over the past 6 years. For many it has created a large set communication disruptions that are hard to overcome. Also, many outsourcing companies have poor quality control mechanisms. I've been at multiple clients where an Indian firm "delivered" code that wouldn't compile.

Outsourced IT can be helpful for some processes. This seems to be mostly grind work like using humans to automate testing. Rather than investing in a real automated testing tool, scripts are created and then given to a team in the country of outsource. They sit there clicking on links and buttons until something fails. Then, if you're luck, they send you an email detailing what buttons and data were modified before the failure. More often than not, you just get an email that says X didn't work for account Y. But better them than customers.
There was no intention to track him down, someone posted a comment asking to check on the WhoIs to find out the owner. I do not want to figure out their phone number, I merely noticed it's clearly incorrect (against the ICANN T's & C's)
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Run government IT like an Internet start ups?
The UK government allows people to create e-petitions which will be debated in parliament if enough signatures are collected. I created one which I think can save billions if government IT projects will be scrutinized by a panel of internet start up pros.
He may be referring to Scaleform (or another Flash GUI library; I don't think he specifies), but he's also talking about his experience with scripting in Doom 3- which I'm fairly sure didn't use Flash.
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http://pastebin.com/9rHuWFGw

CENSORSHIP THE MODS KEEP CENSORING YOU'RE JUST PROVING US ALL RIGHT
The birth rates in the western world are already low enough that populations are decreasing excluding immigration. If your suggestion was implemented, they would literally go extinct in not that long a time span. Not sure I'd call that outcome a bingo!
The UK government allows people to create e-petitions which will be debated in parliament if enough signatures are collected. I created one which I think can save billions if government IT projects will be scrutinized by a panel of internet start up pros. At the moment those projects go to huge corporations operating under silly budgets just because they can and the government will pay them that much. Many of these projects fail to the tune of millions and sometimes billions of pounds.
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If it's on liquidweb shared hosting then there are four levels of backups with rotations on an external drive array. They don't mess around.

Not sure if they could do an end-run around a reseller to liquidweb and prove ownership, but the backup is definitely there and undeleteable at a reseller level.

Someone should point that out to the former customer.
And when they only accept Paypal? What do yo do then?
I don't care if I have backups. Such a termination of services and further purging of data is a big no-no in my books.
http://pastebin.com/9rHuWFGw

Ycombinator CENSORSHIP you can delete this comment too because you guys are so concerned about the truth getting out.
See my comment again: generally.
As a personal preference, I like to keep various site's pseudonyms separate from my real life identity, inasmuch as is possible. I prefer to let each identity gain or lose recognition in a vacuum, as it were, with no simple way to simply google a username and get my full bio.

My take on it is that it's a lot easier to link them up as you need to, than it is to unlink them.