skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why is something like this always a small side-project of getting a degree, and not in the focus?
That was to satiate a european fuel efficiency requirement. At the beginning (not sure if it's true now) you have to own another Aston Martin to purchase this.

They basically ripped the Toyota iQ platform
Others will jump in to say that markets are not predictable like chemical bonds, but i would counter-argue that they should be more predictable and less fear-and-rumour-driven
The german government seems really wise in this regard. The notion that there are any easy "fixes" to something as complex and intricate as an economy is very suspect to me. Things like quantitative easing seem way more dangerous than simply making sure your financial fundamentals are sound.
thanks for sharing Juan. I think HN managed to bring http://greaterskies.com/ down.
The Globe and Mail has the background story :
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/technology/science/israe...
I see, thx for your feedback.
Like nodata said, you might want to take a look at third-party plugins / add-ons. My friend had an issue with using a third-party advertising company to run adverts on his site and firefox / chrome flagged the JS it embedded as malicious.
I absolutely agree with you.

I can't help but juxtapose this current dialog (which now includes one of the Unix forefathers) with the idea of "Worse is Better" (http://www.jwz.org/doc/worse-is-better.html). Maybe it's the Jersey in me but at the end of the day working, shipped software is all that concerns me.
wow this is definitely a hint. The WPEngine guys are looking into it now.
Four years ago, I got annoyed with repeated emails from Google recruiters and asked them to place "DO NOT CONTACT" on my file. This worked for a few months; then I started being contacted again by recruiters who "just wanted to check in case [I] had changed [my] mind".

Asking for this to be changed to "DO NOT CONTACT ON PAIN OF DEATH" seems to have worked, though.
It's also Heroku
FWIW The sophos anti-virus I'm forced to use at work says this is the problem:

http://www.sophos.com/en-us//threat-center/threat-analyses/v...

It's probably wrong though!
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Symlinks are bad. They break the natural semantics of a hierarchical tree-like filesystem, and turn it into a messy half-assed graph.

What happens if you move a symlink? Will it still point to the same object? That depends on whether it's relative or absolute. What if you move the directory containing it? Do you have to recursively check for the correctness of links every time you operate on a directory? Sounds unreasonable to me... What if it links to a location which isn't mounted? Whats the definition of '..'? If you cd into a linked directory and do an 'ls ..', should that list the parent of the target or the link? How would you implement that?

The point is, symlinks are a messy kluge which probably wasn't thought out very well. You can look at what Rob Pike has to say about it himself on http://cm.bell-labs.com/sys/doc/lexnames.html
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Firefox uses a filter that doesn't give false positives [1]. If your site is blocked (even intermittently) there, it is in Google's malware list.

[1] Actually, the odds are 1 in 2^128 if Google's servers are up, and 2^32 if Google's servers are down.
Not quite what I had in mind, but this is probably sufficient enough for me to eat my words.
While morally entirely correct (IMHO, I'm Dutch, we also use the same word for guilt as we do for debt) I doubt the Germans can hold on to this position for very long. Apparently the German "Landesbanken" are heavily invested in Greek and other crappy debt, which is a problem because these banks also fund a large part of the "real" German economy. So Germany probably has no choice but to prop up the lousy debt.
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AirBnB facebook fanbase is one of the fastest growth right now. The site went from 42,000 fans in end of June 2011 to 75,000 fans in beginning October 2011.
That's a 80% Facebook fanbase growth in 3 months.
How does it compare to TripAdvisor...
With this caveat that financial markets fund a lot of the real economy as well. So you really don't want banks going bust left and right, as morally righteuous as that would be.
Here is the MP3:
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One of the many reasons we got that far the global crisis is probably the reactive attitude "jump when the markets tell you so". As a German I find it comforting that our chancellor is not of that kind. One can criticize many points, but one has to agree that she does not fear head wind. Would be nice to have more politicians of her kind in Germany.
"[Investors are] nervous about investing in equities and derivatives markets, not in startups which aren't subject to the whims of the stock market."

Um...what? I know that around here people tend to focus disproportionately on the "exits" involving Google buying dinky, 2-person companies for talent, but industry-wide VC returns are predicated almost exclusively upon stock market performance. IPOs don't do well in bear markets, and if there's no IPO market, there's no venture capital. If there's no VC, there's no angel investment. Google can't prop up the whole ecosystem.

It might take a few years to shake out (especially to work its way down to the angel investors), but if the recent bear markets hold, the money will do what it's always done in bear markets: go to cash, bonds and other conservative vehicles -- even if it means taking a small loss. The hypothesis that people will suddenly start making speculative investments because bond yields are low ignores the very factors that are making bond yields low in the first place.
I see that you yourself have had many necessities based on your profile, so I'm sure you have no shortage of ideas
Probably, c.f. bind and union mounts .
The point is it was not a verb before Google the company
...but people also spend real money to buy (ugly) ProgressQuest real-world items. I'm pretty sure if PQ introduced some stupid free-to-play/pay-to-get-juicy-upgrades thing that they'd get a bit of cash.
Attacking www.nyse.com !== 'erasing' the NYSE
Is there an opportunity to raise money from non-traditional sources, such as foreign investors or PE? Or do the risks associated with these sources outweigh the benefits?
Did you raise for FastCustomer? I would love to hear your fund raising story in detail.
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Look, don't be so alarmist. This article is spot on.

It's not saying the sky is falling.

Venture funding isn't going to dry up. It's going to tighten up. In three to six months. That's the thesis of this article.

I believe it's plausible that the venture market will cool down soon. Here's why:

A lot of companies have been getting funded now with very company-friendly terms and valuations. This is because the investment market is hot right now. An entrepreneur told me, in January, that this is one of the best financing seasons he's seen in a while, and that anyone looking to raise money should do it immediately. He predicted the market would stay hot until the summer, but was cautious about predicting after that.

It seems inevitable that the market will cool down at some point. VC funding keeps lagging general economic trends by a quarter or two, the article notes. The economy is currently down. The author extrapolates that VC will be down soon too. Seems like a reasonable inference.

This article predicts that in three to six months, that it will be more difficult to raise money. Not impossible, just more difficult.

Companies with sound fundamentals (i.e. proven business model) will still get funded. They just won't have money being stuffed in their hands. Terms won't be as favorable to entrepreneurs.
Hehe, it's true: I do come up with a lot of ideas. Viable ones, on the other hand...
I hated writing semicolons by hand for a paper & pen coding test I did a long time ago - I spent more time than I really should've in trying make them not look like colons. I find my sense of penmanship is very difficult to overcome (God knows why - my handwriting is atrocious!)

Do whiteboard test really work better than giving someone an editor?
Samsung compares the iPhone 4S with its Galaxy S II
Counterpoint: http://blog.asmartbear.com/youre-a-little-company-now-act-li...
This seems to be using Chrome extension API, not javascript.
What do you think of this CoFounder Calculator?
I am looking to launch a startup and am in the process of negotiating equity splits with my cofounders. I'd like to hear perspectives on the following cofounder calculator as rough guidance? I know no calculator is perfect, and am more curious if you think there are gross inadequacies regarding it. Thanks!

http://foundrs.com/calculator/index.php
YMMV indeed. AngelList only works for those companies who already have preexisting connections to the angel/VC community. For companies with little or no existing social proof, AngelList is shockingly ineffective.
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A well-produced tribute song/video to Steve Jobs.
Produced by: laskxg

... Are you getting it?
For people who have a hard time seeing the image, here's the text of the comment:

Rob Pike - It's a different kind of mess, and for different reasons, but the Unix/POSIX/Linux systems of today are messier, clumsier, and more complex than the systems the original Unix was designed to replace.

It started to go wrong when the BSD signal stuff went in (I complained at the time), then symlinks, sockets, X11 windowing, and so on, none of which were added with proper appreciation of the Unix model and its simplifications.

So let the whiners whine: you're right, and they don't know what they're missing. Unfortunately, I do, and I miss it terribly.
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After years with a super cheap Office Depot chair I just purchased my first nice chair (an Embody who should be delivered today). Funny thing is that the bad chair messed up my back enough to cost me in chiropractic visits more than the nice chair.
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No. The main anonymous twitter accounts have denied it and they suspect it is a ploy to get people to use LOIC to arrest activists associated with #OccupyWallStreet
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Also interesting that the Economist continues to come up with the same kind of story every week. Just check the last Economist links that were posted on HN over tha last weeks and you will see that they all have the same message. To be honest, I would expect them to be more diverse.
Also, symlinks create a concurrency hell of their own: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symlink_race
The EU has and always will be a forced construct that Germany will essentially have to shoulder. Other countries were going to tolerate Germany's reunion only when they support the EU.
Now that they realize how the construct attempts to level the standards of live across the union, Germany realizes in what kind of downward spiral they tapped.

Going to be even more "fun" to watch, when certain rules such as "penalty" for countries that export more than they import are enforced. Germany makes an excellent Hamster-in-the-wheel.
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I had very few pre-existing connections to the angel/VC community when we started raising, but we did have some social proof when we opened up on AngelList.
That's the main quandary that the politicians/economists appreciate but the general public doesn't, I think: either way Germany is stuck bailing out this debt, because in large part it's not really bailing out Greece, but bailing out German banks. The main choice is whether to pay the banks directly (let Greece default on the bonds, then cover the losses to keep banks solvent), or to pay them indirectly (send Greece enough money for it to keep servicing the bonds).
Ask HN: Would you like to contact visitors to your website/app after they visit?
A problem for me is knowing who my visitors are, especially the ones who don't come back or register. I'd like to be able to ask them what they liked/didn't like, why they didn't register, etc.

Does anybody else have this problem? Would being able to contact users after the fact be helpful to you?
Temps have standard deviation around 10ish, weights around 5ish.
Yeah, I've had many ideas over the years, some of which never made any ground...this new night-time/weekend project I'm working on I think could be really useful though as a lot of people tend to get many Giftcards around the holidays and managing balances on all of them can be a pain -- what are your thoughts? Viable or not? Monetization could be done by offering a buy-back service on Giftcards that users don't want, by offering 80% of face value and then reselling to make a small profit while charging less than the cards actual value

I'd be interested in hearing your opinions -- my post last night seemed to get no responses, I'm really just looking for some constructive criticism on the idea and validation or invalidation, either way really
Are they insane? The demands are so ridiculous that I don't think anyone could ever take this movement seriously.
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Indeed. And I cannot figure out how to scale it up without changing the DNS to point to a load balancer. Oh well.
Ah, the real, canonical Anonymous then :)
We are asking WPEngine to turn off our server immediately.
I used to see this type of problem at Google.

Your site may have been hacked. Check the site:balsamiq.com search for injected hacked pages. Check also for injected text being hidden by CSS, and try if you can to view your site through a proxy like HideMyAss, to see if they are showing you one version of the page and showing users a different one.

Also, if Google knows your site's hacked, there should be a message inside the Webmaster Tools account for balsamiq.com - check there for more information.
Such a terrible waste of time and money, yet you start a fire and it may well burn you.
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Couldn't care less. The only thing making me happy is that HN is keeping the Apple News to a minimum.
Samsung's attempt to ban the iPhone 4S over FRAND patents is deeply troubling
That's the thing, Google Webmaster tools says we're all OK! Maybe it just takes a while to notice internally?
Just a little bit ironic « musings on the free iPhone
Well, debt doesn't seem to be in a cycle. It just keeps getting bigger! :D
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> Outlaw all credit reporting agencies

Statements like those alienate the rational people who may have sympathy for your plight.

In itself, outlawing credit beureaus doesn't create any jobs. As a matter of fact, that would put people who work at credit reporting agencies out on the street.Yes, it's an unpopular business to be in for sure, but without some form of system to verify the creditworthiness of a person applying for a loan or credit, banks and lending institutions would have to return to the old ways of requiring letters of credit from your bank(s) and proof of employment, a time-consuming process that would have the effect of not only slowing the economy down, but also allowing for increased fraud in the transaction.

With a population in excess of 300 million people, a nationwide hawala wouldn't work. What needs to be done is reform the laws that govern the system to the benefit of the community, not outlaw agencies that aren't working in one's particular benefit.
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Have you got anybody to agree to give you money for using your service? Friends/family/pet dog? If so, go ahead!

Also, what's your strategy for getting users to use your site? The idea itself might be fine, but unless you have the marketing side worked out well in advance, you could be making life difficult for yourself :)
Well, I might know of one...I'll tell you at the interview :)
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Great job, it's a simple no BS calculator that does exactly what it sais it does. And good call not asking for registration, and going the way of a sharable url instead. I'll be using this. Thanks!

update: I can imagine wanting an account that organizes my urls. It would be cool that have that button on the side, but not push for people to register.
Ahahah! Wait, they really took this prank as serious?
What a great story ... and an interesting experiment! If I had an FB page, I'd put the empty pasture on it just to honor the irony behind the game - the irony that so many people thought it was a real game and that the inventor got sucked into his joke.
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Ran without finding anything.
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Samsung Looks to Block iPhone 4S in France, Italy
Sure, I'll add it. Should it appear at the top, encircling the map, or at the bottom?

Thanks for the feedback!
I'm not sure how relevant it is that Apple's move in the lower cost market was letting the iPhone 3GS drift down rather than introducing a specific model.

My view on why they've done it this way is that they've retained a clear visual deliniation between the higher end iPhone 4s and the low end 3GS. No-one who has a 4 or a 4S is going to be annoyed that they guy with the cheap iPhone looks like he's got the same thing as they have.

That comes with the downside of making the cheaper model a slightly tougher sell - it's visibly "old" - but that's Apple protecting their key market, the high end stuff.

But it will be interesting to see how the cheap [1] 3GS performs commercially against more modern Android phones in the same price bracket. Will Apple's brand have people going "wow, I can get an iPhone" or will people be saying "I don't want a two / three year old phone regardless of who makes it".

Obviously the attitude will vary from person to person but it will be an interesting test of Apple's name value to see if it can give a boost to older hardware.[2]

[1] I say cheap not free as it's free on a relatively pricey contract.

[2] I'm not running the 3GS down - I have one in my pocket right now, it's my primary phone, just it is older hardware and I think over the next 12 months will begin to show it's age more and more.
And back again. It should stand better now.
this looks like internet cointelpro, honestly. who owns that domain? my money's on koch industries. doesn't seem in keeping with the #occupy movement to require a login to comment on such a post.
That's the thing, I suck at marketing.. programmers aren't known for Design or Marketing skills and that's been my biggest hurdle. The incentive to use the service based on the giveaway would work, but I don't know what marketing channels to pursue. It would remain a free service, but making money in the future would be to offer a buy-back program whereby the users can sell their unwanted Giftcards for cash (less than the cards face value) and then I would mark it up a bit while still making it less than the cards actual value, so that would be the monetization plan, but again marketing for me seems impossible and always has been
Update: Webmaster tools finally woke up and is reporting malware. I guess I should have just waited 30 minutes???? How can their outside systems be updated but not the admin pages they send me to in order to fix the issue? Grrr...
As I understand it they were mainly offprints (reprints of articles that were bound in the original print run) sent to Prof Newman when Turing was published. It's possible Turing owned them but not in any significant way. Newman kept the papers. Then he tried to flog them for £½ million at Christies, couldn't, but somehow he or his supporters managed to convince the NHMF to give £200,000 GBP (along with £30k (?) or so funds raised elsewhere) for the papers.

It appears from all reports I've seen that there is literally nothing of significance that would be lost with the export of these papers. None of the Press, which all seems to be based on the writing of Gareth Halfacre, detailed what was special about the papers:

"The set includes articles which have been annotated by Newman, along with Max Newman's name inscribed in pencil in Turing's hand. Accompanying the set of offprints is the Newman household visitors’ book with several signatures of Turing, that of Turing’s mother and, of special significance to Bletchley Park, signatures of other wartime codebreaking giants."
[from http://www.nhmf.org.uk/LatestNews/Pages/EleventhHourRescueof...]

It seems the public were sold a lie. People thought the papers were Turings original notes and such when in fact he just wrote his friends name on the top.

The NHMF should now just take hi-res scans of the documents and sell them for whatever they can get. Nothing of significance will be lost you can look up the papers on Google Scholar.

Edit: as an associated example, you can get http://plms.oxfordjournals.org/content/s2-42/1/230.extract for free but it costs you $22k for the first edition print (http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/lot_details.aspx?from=sea...). IMO the free online version is more valuable.
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In the UK they openly decry the product's existence.

You must be joking. The British are probably the most adept at quietly suffering, lest it come across as inappropriate (except when it comes to the weather). Americans are far more honest and loud-mouthed about problems.

At least from an Indian's perspective.
Ultimately, today's UNIX is not that far from this ideal. In Linux, you can make pretty much everything be an fd: signals can be delivered over a descriptor (signalfd(2)), filesystem change notifications can be delivered over a descriptor (inotify(7)), and so on. Everything ends up being something you can pass to select (or a variant), and so you don't really need to handle the different concepts in different ways: a modern Linux application reads from a bunch of fds and takes action based on what it receives.

Incidentally, this is node.js' model.
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"One selling point the staff are pushing is that unlike traditional PC’s, Chromebooks get better over time with automatic software updates."

That seems a bit disingenuous. PCs get better over time with software updates as well.
I completely agree with this. Anecdotally from my own experiences. About a year ago, I decided it was time to be in shape again, lose some pounds, feel better, all that. So I went to the gym regularly, went for runs, bike rides etc, went dancing on the weekends. Nothing super heavy, just a lot of solid activity. About 2 months ago, I sort of fell off the wagon because I let work get in the way (then laziness crept in a bit too). So I am currently well versed in the whole gamut of exercise benefits (and non-exercise drawbacks). They directly relate to programming too! Not exercising is correlated with:

- Not sleeping well

- Feeling anxious more frequently

- Lack of focus

- Lack of motivation

- More difficulty following complex problem/solutions

- General irritability

After this next deadline in a week, I'm renewing my commitment to exercise and putting it in the non-negotiable list of things to do everyday.
I had installed iOS 5 on my 3GS just to do some testing. It ran perfectly fine. Better than iOS 4 actually.

It may be old looking, but aside from processing power, graphics performance and "retina" display, it is a perfectly fine phone for the low end market.