skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is what my boss looks for on résumés. Not loyalty so much as whether you've worked anywhere long enough to have to clean up and rearchitect after your own mistakes, rather than leave an ever-growing trail of (presumably) smoking craters.
Now it is :-)

You may want to repost your earlier answers in this thread.

2011/9/3 Paul Graham <pg@ycombinator.com>
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> fixed
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> 2011/9/3 Pierre-Yves Gérardy <pygy79@gmail.com>:
> > Hello,
> > would it be possible to unban xdissent?
> > See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2955023 for the details.
> > Kind regards,
> > -- Pierre-Yves
1) The queues execute model methods. Unit test model methods as normal.

2) Test that methods which should add things to the queue actually do, using mocks or what have you.

3) Build monitoring infrastructure so that if e.g. the queue worker goes down hard in production it restarts automatically and, if this doesn't solve it, you get woken up ASAP. This is far and away my most common infrastructural issue over the last ~3 years.
I think the most realistic way to compress a tweet would be to replace words like "before" with "b4", "too"/"to" with "2", reduce whitespace (e.g. double spaces to single), and maybe start ripping out vowels ("vowels" -> "vwls").

Although not as efficient as demonstrated above, there are no external dependencies needed; the content can be decompressed by the reader's brain in-place at the slight cost of being difficult to immediately parse/understand.
Companies pay top dollar for CFOs who can, among other things, engage in such sleazy behavior. Working capital management is critical to a company that wants to grow fast--it's conceivable that Amazon could have gone under if they hadn't operated this way, too.

Merchants agree to Groupon's terms; there is nothing sleazy about striking a deal and holding up your end of it.
The Planet Zero (WebGL)
Would it be possible to use the tweet metadata to cram more data into a tweet?
I've actually been joking about wanting to start the first YC-funded religion for a while. I think there are a lot of good idioms and paradigms from religion that one can use to tackle a variety of secular problems. I'm particularly inspired by the open source religion movement that's currently gaining momentum. That said, I'm not convinced that religion is the best approach for the particularly problem that you're trying to solve here. And even if it is, I think you're making the mistake of assuming that all religions have to basically look or feel like Christianity.

In any case, silicon valley already has its own set of highly evolved spiritual beliefs. And no matter how much research you did I think it would be very difficult to impose some sort of external religion on top of that without changing the sorts of relationships that people have with each other, which I'd be hesitant to mess with too much since that is sort of the secret sauce of the place.
Why is this downvoted? The very definition of a capital cost is a one-time (or mostly one-time) expense.

Regardless of whether you expect marketing costs to fall in the future, they are still operating expenses. After all, Groupon can't operate without this expense.

If marketing is a capital cost, then everything is, and therefor capital cost becomes a rather useless classification.

Let me put it this way: What is an operating expense for Groupon?
thanks for this. bookmarked
Visually will the explosion appear any different than looking at a star with the naked eye?
Mathematics for Computer Scientists (http://bookboon.com/uk/textbooks/it-programming/gentle-intro...) looks especially interesting.
"The unskilled therefore suffer from illusory superiority, rating their ability as above average, much higher than it actually is, while the highly skilled underrate their own abilities, suffering from illusory inferiority."

Dunning-Kruger effect, and it is the same in most professions where 'performance' can be a subjective judgement. Teaching, definitely!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect
WikiLeaks Now Victim Of Its Own Leak
Oracle finally updates its free XE database to 11.2
Please don't equate a lack of change with a lack of outrage; that assumes we have the ability to fix things here just by getting outraged about them. I'd say "if only it were that easy", except that many of the broken things that need fixing exist due to supposed outrage/fear.
Related to what Google is doing with their search statistics:

http://www.google.com/trends/correlate/draw
What are web browsers doing by sharing this accidental data between 3rd party sites anyway?

The default setting ought to be that connections to 3rd party sites are done in incognito mode. This would disallow tracking by looking up the referer and sites like Facebook couldn't also tell who's login cookies the browser is storing. You could then whitelist connections on a per-site basis.
My view of this is that it is intended as humor and is kind of tossing out the idea of "surely, there must be some sort of hack available for the visa problem". I was hoping it would inspire serious discussion of that piece of it rather than having people focus on the part of it that looks to me like it is tongue-in-cheek. (I get that kind of reaction a lot myself, which is sometimes frustrating, so it's possible I am projecting rather than being insightful.) Serious discussion of immigration options would be an interesting discussion to me. Busting people on the idea of "you can't be really serious about this" is pretty meh.

Peace.
Links to other explanations not mentioned in the article :

http://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Bayes%27_theorem

http://lesswrong.com/lw/2b0/bayes_theorem_illustrated_my_way

http://commonsenseatheism.com/?p=13156

(I don't mean to critique the article, which by the way looks great — short, yet comprehensible. It's just that different explanations may suit different people or be complementary.)
I'm impressed: this actually is accessible and intuitive.
> Best thing to do is look at some really old code you wrote and realize how far you've come.

When I do that, I tend to get surprised how good it looks contrary to my expectations of coming far since then.

And sometimes when I look at the code of some famous project I like, I may get surprised how bad it looks.

Maybe this is the difference between "rock star" programmers and your average perfectionists out there - the former just get the job done, while the latter spend too much time making their code look beautiful.
"The PTF survey uses a robotic telescope mounted on the 48-inch Samuel Oschin Telescope at Palomar Observatory in Southern California to scan the sky nightly. As soon as the observations are taken, the data travels more than 400 miles to NERSC via the National Science Foundation’s High Performance Wireless Research and Education Network and DOE’s Energy Sciences Network (ESnet). At NERSC, computers running machine learning algorithms in the Real-time Transient Detection Pipeline scan through the data and identify events to follow up on. Within hours of identifying PTF 11kly, this automated system sent the coordinates to telescopes around the world for follow-up observations."

can it look like a planet-wide intelligence to an outsider? :) . Interesting to compare to the origins of cybernetics :

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norbert_Wiener#During_and_after...

It seems to me that detect-track-target feedback-looped principle was one of key in the development of intelligence of animals and humans, and it seems to continue its work in developing the intelligence beyond that.
Bloomberg: Dish Network is trying to become a Netflix competitor
It's not a trademark issue, it's a DMCA (copyright) issue. You can call it a tricorder if you want, but he can't use their visuals and sound effects without permission I guess.
It looks more like a failure in the system. It seems like it's been willfully hijacked with the purpose of pricing the common man out of being heard.
Nope, actually it looks more like a PADD than any tricorder I remember seeing. But if the images were copied from a CBS property without permission I guess they might have a case anyway.
Certificate Authority Hacked, Google Faced MiTM Attack
If your code begins to look good and other people's code begins to look bad, you know you're not in the right company.
Planning doesn't mean slavery to the plan. But planning can be useful, even without 100 page slide decks to sleep through, or massive binders on the wall.

Planning can help with:

- How many talented developers might we need in 3 years? If we want to grow our own, when do we need to start hiring interns?

- At what size do we need to hire a receptionist and start thinking about more space?

- What's our burn rate, and when do we expect to run out of money?

- What rate of customer acquisition will we need to grow this business? Are we doing the right things to get there? If we do succeed, what's that imply for buying hardware?

- What's success look like?

- What's failure look like?
If Sergio Calderón did steal the iPhone5 and if Calderón did give permission for them to search his home and if the Apple employees found it not an San Francisco Police Department officer would that not make the evidence inadmissible since an SFPD officer didn't find it?

Calderón could easily say in court he never had it and the Apple employees planted it there.
Really nice summary, because it applicable to almost everything, if you one paraphrases the first item as 'look around what others do, and why, learn, and then change the way you do the same things' . ^_^
Business Plan Dos and Don'ts, From the Judges' Table
If they found any evidence it would otherwise how is it admissible in court?
Example Video for YC application
You may have noticed that the link to the Directed Edge YC pitch from http://ycombinator.com/video.html leads to a private page and Posterous returns a 404 error.

You can view the video here
http://scotchi.posterous.com/directed-edge
'Amazon of Russia' Reports Record Revenues
"Give Up - The Postal Service"
"The time it takes to reject your application -- which is as-night-follows-day inevitable"

If you're willing to invest the effort into reverse engineering the various court rulings on religion then you could probably get away with it, but you would also need a certain amount of traction first. While the supreme court usually strikes down protections for new religions, in all of their rulings they have been extremely careful to explain why such-and-such a protection shouldn't be granted in this specific instance, so as not to completely bar the creation of new religions in general.
Now this is an interesting example of recursion in action. :-)
The only complaint I have is that the installer hijacks the Python icons. I don't exactly care what program .py files open with since I usually drag/drop them into the appropriate editor and run Python apps from the command line. But I grew quite fond of CPython's file icons and they're much different after Python Tools installation.

The workaround is to reinstall Python after installing Python Tools.
I just like to try and see both sides of something like this.

While I can certainly agree to that general notion, in Facebook's case that's simply a bit too stretched. I find it pretty hard - if not impossible - to assume honest intentions regarding these cases from a corporations whose founder openly opposes privacy and considers it "obsolete".
LED Beer wall
Future of Sponsored Conversations
As a small anecdote, before I purchased a VPS I applied to all of the Django-only hosts and visited each one's IRC channel. Gondor was the only one that actually let me try the beta and they were also the only one that had a human on IRC at the time to help with any problems.
They chose the place deliberately, so that they would be arrested, to make a point, as I understand it. The point was about the environment, not the 'free speech' issue.
He was at the bar the night it went missing. Likely Calderon pickpocketed the phone.
Its a bit shakey, taken on a cellphone!
Lenovo Claims Samsung Galaxy Tab Sold Just 20,000
Handling Self Doubt and Battling Inactivity
I don't believe that has been true for a long time now.

I have disconnect installed, and, looking at the source, it checks a resource's URL on a beforeload event, and cancels the load if the domain has a match on the blacklist. Where is the problem?
The Field - From Here We Go To Sublime

Minimal electronic album that places you into a rhythmic trance, yet doesn't distract your attention away from the task at hand.
Just an aside: the original title before it got edited by HN mods was "Yes, There Are Sites Recovering From Panda".

I posted this because, although a lot of the sites affected by the algo update were junk, there were a few casualties that did not deserve it.

I hear a lot of people asking wether it is possible to recover from the penalty and it appears that, although AFAIK no site has been able to recover 100%, a few like Hubpages (which is legit enough) are slowly recovering. [1]

[1] http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2011/07/13/site-claims-to-loosen...
The Sugary Secret of Self-Control
Hansen's arrest was no surprise – in fact, it was deliberate.
eBay couldn't meaningfully do Groupon accounting because they do not beneficially possess the total transaction cost for any length of time. Paypal accounting gets incredibly complicated, but basically, if A agrees to buy B's widget on eBay for $100 with $10 of eBay fees, eBay gets the $10 from B's credit card and, a short period later, A pays B directly through a subsidiary which Very Carefully (TM) never puts the $100 on eBay's balance sheet or under their direct control. eBay doesn't call it revenue because eBay can't spend that money.

Groupon can spend that money.

There are many businesses which make active use of money that is owed to other people prior to actually paying it. Warren Buffets owns a lot of insurance companies. A huge portion of his investment operations are funded by float: basically, you have to pay him premiums and then he gives them back to you when (statistically speaking) your house burns down some years later. In the interim, it's his money, and if he manages float correctly it buys a company like e.g. Coca Cola on a continuous basis.

Or: take Bingo Card Creator as an example at the waaaaay opposite end of the scale. Many of my sales come through Google ads. It is basically economically equivalent to giving them 50% of the purchase price of 50% of my sales -- in fact, there is a Google pricing option which would make that exactly equivalent. However, crucially, I do not pay Google contemporaneously with the sale: like Groupon, our contractual arrangement means I pay them quite a bit later.

Ads placed on September 4th turn into sales on, statistically, September 5th which turns into money in my bank account on roughly September 7th. I get invoiced for the ads on approximately September 25th and then have until October 20th to pay my credit card prior to paying a penny of interest.

This means that I'm generally holding a couple of thousand of dollars of "Google's money" in my pockets at any given time. (It goes up and down depending on what time of the year this is. At the moment, it's a little under $1.5k off the top of my head.) Crucially, I can spend it. I'd have to replace it prior to summer (when the float tends to evaporate, due to how my market works), but if I want to replace a laptop or pay for a plane ticket for a couple months without having to pay credit card interest rates or dip into savings, I can take the money I was going to pay to Chase to pay Google in October, and then instead pay Chase in October with the money I was going to pay them in November, and then... you get the general picture.
The most important update, from Aristotle: "Tina Kulow of Facebook Germany has spoken again. In a tweet, she wrote: “To clarify: a 2-click button is not ideal – but not a problem. Only a Like button that merely visually pretends to be one is not OK. That’s all.” Since heise online changed the design of the button for the first click that activates the Like function, there should now be no obstacles on Facebook’s part to further use of the 2-click button by heise online and other websites."
Same, I feel that if there is a good coverage from unit testing, then you should only need sanity checking. Furthermore, if you are using jquery (which itself is well testing on all the browsers), then you should have more confidence that your javascript will work (providing you're not using non-cross-browser javascript on top of jquery)
I use outrage as an indicator for the degree of caring (in the sense that "value privacy" means "care about privacy"); is that not an acceptable use?
Interesting aside. I didn't even know domain proxies existed, although I'm sure that's common knowledge, and a fairly obvious thing to create.

Can you walk me through the way you discovered the hostname? If I `telnet pandalized.com 80`, I don't get anything interesting back.
cf. "2. Rule of Clarity" - Basics of the Unix Philosophy
http://www.faqs.org/docs/artu/ch01s06.html

1. Rule of Modularity: Write simple parts connected by clean interfaces.
2. Rule of Clarity: Clarity is better than cleverness.
3. Rule of Composition: Design programs to be connected to other programs.
4. Rule of Separation: Separate policy from mechanism; separate interfaces from engines.
5. Rule of Simplicity: Design for simplicity; add complexity only where you must.
6. Rule of Parsimony: Write a big program only when it is clear by demonstration that nothing else will do.
7. Rule of Transparency: Design for visibility to make inspection and debugging easier.
8. Rule of Robustness: Robustness is the child of transparency and simplicity.
9. Rule of Representation: Fold knowledge into data so program logic can be stupid and robust.
10. Rule of Least Surprise: In interface design, always do the least surprising thing.
11. Rule of Silence: When a program has nothing surprising to say, it should say nothing.
12. Rule of Repair: When you must fail, fail noisily and as soon as possible.
13. Rule of Economy: Programmer time is expensive; conserve it in preference to machine time.
14. Rule of Generation: Avoid hand-hacking; write programs to write programs when you can.
15. Rule of Optimization: Prototype before polishing. Get it working before you optimize it.
16. Rule of Diversity: Distrust all claims for “one true way”.
17. Rule of Extensibility: Design for the future, because it will be here sooner than you think.
Has Facebook (or Google) ever had a "privacy misstep" that was an error on the side of too-tight privacy?
Kernel.org Attackers May Have Slipped Up
Ah .. I got it. telnet in, then print some garbage, causing the server to respond with an error. This comes from the main Apache instance, rather than the individual virtualhost, and that has the hostname you mentioned. Clever.
It's a question of cost vs. benefits. I know how Google benefits from Android; I know how Nokia was planning to benefit from Maemo/Meego before Elop happened.

I have no idea how Intel is planning to benefit from MeeGo. And talking to one of the MeeGo program guys a few months ago, I'm not sure Intel does either -- it's not keeping anyone an Intel customer, with ARMs eating their lunch on every device other than the extended PC family (laptops, netbooks, desktops, servers) - and of these, the cheaper two are already showing nontrivial signs of ARM presence, through keyboard-docked-tablets like the Iconia and Transformer.
That's a bit of logic that refutes any negative news that ever breaks about Wikileaks.
Symantec, who owns Verisign, has also been breached pretty badly in the past (Aurora), which they failed to disclose. No known issues with their certs, but still.
That's definitely the challenge, but the advantages of last-mile depot collections as a universal service rather than the current 'system' of waiting for the missed delivery cards then trying to find a depot 20 miles away would be a major benefit and, I suspect, one customers would pay for.
Mysterious stranger appears in front of Fukushima Webcam
This is the biggest issue with App Stores, Marketplaces, etc.

This practice is extremely short sighted of Apple, Google and RIM.

This type of thing will only push more developers out of the boxes they are placed in so that they can have full control over the hardware consumers use.

It's funny how we fight this fight over-and-over again even when companies like Google have an air of openness.
Heads up, can't see anything. I'm getting a 404 error on the article and a Forbidden on the domain.

Google's Cached version works though: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:0I2WYDD...
New generation of airships to transport goods around the world
Paul Phillips from the Scala team was in attendance at the summit.
These conversations are useless. Everyone knows that anything we see is strictly in the past and already has happened. Yet for practical purposes, a week ago there was no supernova there. Today a supernova is there.

It may help you to look at it like this: a supernova is NOT the star exploding, it is the observation of the star exploding. In one sense, this is wrong, but in another it is really the only freaking thing a supernova can be. Therefore since it wasn't a supernova until humanity saw it being a supernova, it is currently happening.

Further, the article only says the supernova is brightening, and that the telescope saw the star early in its explosion a few hours ago. From the reference point of observability, no claim is made that something 21million light years away is being watched now, just the effects of it are being watched right now.

Relax and go watch the show.
I don't think a touch based eInk Kindle is coming this year. I predict Amazon is going to try to use the same Android-based OS from the Kindle Tablet for the touch based eInk Kindle. Amazon will need to completely abandon the existing Kindle OS and remake the device from the ground up to add touch and other capabilities.

This should push out the development schedule considerably compared to past releases which were already long. The Kindle 2 came out 15 months after the first Kindle. And the Kindle 3 came out 18 monts after the Kindle 2. If history is any indication I'd be surprised if the Kindle 4 came out before Q1 2012 and frankly I think Q3 is more realistic.

It's possible the new Kindle will use Mirasol. But if it does, even Q3 might be agressive. Mirasol's production capacity is nowhere near enough to meet the demand for a Kindle device and it takes a while to build up the parts inventory even for less exotic components. I kind of think Mirasol isn't going to work because it won't be able to keep up with competing technologies by the time it's production ready just like PixelQi. A black and white eInk display just seems much more likely.
I'm not sure about the internals of Chromium because i never use it and I'm not involved in the development of it, but from what i remember using beforeload is a hack that has a % chance of actually working per page load.

Proper resource blocking support is in development last time i checked, but it isn't done yet, which is why Ghostery, Disconnect, HTTPS Everywhere, etc aren't available/don't work on chrome.

Of course, Ghostery will still give you a list of trackers, but it won't always succeed in blocking all of them.
I did this assignment in a class that use "Computer Systems" book (authored by CMU profs) I think.
Would it be significantly relevant to set a precedent early on?
Can't you use the Schrödinger equation to assess the wave function and estimate (roughly) the future position?

Also, just because we don't know exactly where the photon will land doesn't mean photons break the laws of physics. Quantum mechanics are difficult to observe by nature -- that's what the uncertainty principle states: there is no way to observe quantum particles without moving them in hard-to-detect ways. I don't think the uncertainty principle states that quantum particles randomly defy the laws of physics in indeterministic fashion.
Also, a little more padding around the text might look better. It's a little cramped.
Apple says Andy Rubin was inspired for Android framework while at Apple