skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Props to these guys, i'm currently going through this as a 17 year old founder. This is more about the tech community and how it seems to be perceived by Forbes at least.

From what i've seen startups don't discriminate by age (young at least). I know lots of 18 year olds (some younger) involved and working for startups, lots starting their own and raising money. I just perceived the piece as if they believe the valley is like wall street. When it's such an open ecosystem, if you're building cool stuff and are around you already have a lot of leverage.

It's also much easier to achieve a lot of meaningful connecting from out of the valley, i'm from London and am out here for a week and have had lots of great meetings and catch ups. I've been able to meet all these people I know from twitter, hacker news (to an extent), events in other places and MLGen (http://mlgen.com).

Not saying any of this is easy but many of these publications don't understand how it works.
you might want to google Heart Taxation Act before you say yes to that proposal.
Dude, anyone with half a million dollars spare isn't moderately wealthy but filthy fucking RICH, with capital R, I, C, and H.

$500.000 is more than 99.9% of people in this world will make in their entire lifespan.
True, but Apple products have strong aspects of both. They make some great and highly useful stuff, but there is truth in the jokes about people not buying the 4GS because other people can't tell it's better the new model. Look also at the Apple commercials, which are chock full the message that Apple products are high status. Hell, the word chosen from the dictionary to advertise the iPad is "erudite" while classical music plays in the background.
http://www.foxnews.com/eyewonder/interim.html?src=https://ra...

Mustttt resssisttttt.......
why? Is my english that bad?
Government debt and fractional reserve banking are two totally unrelated concepts. The latter is what increases money in circulation. Government debt only increases the debt instruments in circulation. Debt instruments, as far as I know, cannot be used to meet reserve requirements.

China, however, has a currency which is pegged to the dollar and backed by the US treasury. As a result, our government debt increases their money supply.
This just makes me so sad. The author's work flow cries out for sharing, not syncing, perhaps augmented by some sort of notification system. This is a problem my filesystem colleagues should have solved years (decades?) ago. Arguably they did so at a technical level, but the user and administrator experiences were so horrific that people abandoned those solutions. Instead they turned to things such as Dropbox and its (too) many imitators, which put the right interface on top of the wrong solution instead of the other way around. Now there's so much storage and bandwidth wasted storing copies insecurely on services such as Dropbox, when it should be going directly between users' systems with no middle man to pay for compromising security. It's a business model that shouldn't even exist. What a waste.
Apparently she did.
http://www.usgovernmentspending.com/spending_chart_1992_2011...

Spending increased more slowly from 92-94 before the Gingrich congress came to power, than it ever did afterwards. And Clinton didn't have to shut down the government to do it.
I really dislike all these after-the-fact rationalizations and second-guessing, and wish we could simply let the man rest in peace.

That said, for those interested, an actually well reasoned and knowledgeable piece on the subject comes from Science Based Medicine: http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/index.php/the-death-of-s...

Some quotes:

"Did Jobs significantly decrease his chance of surviving his cancer by waiting nine months to undergo surgery? It seems like a no-brainer, but it turns out that that’s actually a very tough question to answer.

... So, is it possible, even likely, that Jobs compromised his chances of survival? Yes. Is it definite that he did? No, it’s not... In fact, based on statistics alone, it’s unlikely that a mere nine months took Jobs “from the high end to the low end of the survival rate,”

Now, let's hope this thread dies instead.
I would strongly recommend that rather than doing that, go with standard PBKDF2. In essence, HMAC(HMAC(HMAC(...(password)))) with a per-user salt. I generally recommend 10k+ rounds with PBKDF2 (each one is cheap). This wouldn't give you an additional dependency and is super easy to put in place -- I'll do it, if you want.
tl;dr version: 21st century version of Madmen. People with a talent for exploiting social networks to achieve brand recognition in a particular demographic.

It certainly illustrates clearly the difference between what one might consider 'traditional' promotion to 'modern' promotion. In the sixties they guys would have founded a PR agency.
One vote against. I love Google Reader. I have intelligent friends that share actively on it. I don't use Google Plus. I don't know if those friends use Google Plus. Now, I won't read the articles that my friends are sharing. I also expect sharing will go down as Google forcibly alters user behavior and manages an adoption problem.

In effect, Google is now impeding my access to great information. That's counter to their mission, isn't it? And it's risky to do this to a very loyal user group. Google Reader users are passionate about this product.
It's interesting that someone went out of their way to obfuscate the interim.html script:

document.write('<s'+'cript language="JavaScript" src="');

I guess they were intentionally trying to evade some tool that looks for '<script'?
It doesn't sound like that was being implied.
I disagree. Reddit is extremely diverse in opinion because anyone can set up their own sub-boards, and every content creator I know fears apathy more than controversy - not least because many creative folk are poor self-promoters. Overwhelmingly negative publicity can still lead to commercial success, viz. Rebecca Black.

It will always be possible to search without preference filters, because there's an economic incentive to providing all-inclusive indexing decoupled from the ratings system. However, being able to express only approval inevitably leads to a crowding-out problem; witness the ever-expanding ration of ad to content and the plethora of competing buttons to like/+1/tweet/digg/zzzz.

Lately I find myself filtering more and more; after blocking disqus, for example, I can't see comments on most news stories any more and this has been a signal improvement. I was a big booster for the democratization of the communication commons back in the 1990s, demanding that every media outlet put public comment facilities on its websites so that everyone could have their say on news stories and so forth. Boy, did I get that one wrong.
Of course this is OT because we are only talking about the public debt.
It would be great if somebody added some tests.
I had never heard of that book, thank you! I feel the same way as many others on this thread, I wish I knew more about how to get artistic. It's nice when someone suggests a resource (and it's well-reviewed, I see).
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No, no, you English is fine. However, its highly ironic that you never managed to finish and launch your event. An event who's entire purpose is to help people finish and launch things ...
My theory is just overzealous protection against having the </script> end tag break that JavaScript block early. Escaping the end tag is necessary.

document.write(adUrl+'"></s'+'cript>');
So, this guy is bragging about committing a felony, right?

(I think it's a very neat hack and that he shouldn't have to be worried, but... am I right? Is this in fact a felony? Less?)
You failed to launch the project that was going to help people launch projects.
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I disagreed.

David Tisch, David Cohen, and the other dozens mentors who helped us during the program have been amazing. They stayed in the office with us until late at night. And you can hear our comments about them on TV in different occasions, even in the finale.

Maybe Bloomberg exaggerated a bit the personalities of everyone (e.g., Jason of OnSwipe is great to be around, he jokes a lot) but the TechStars program in itself was great.

And if you do not like people criticizing your idea, you probably shouldn't be an entrepreneur, because that will happen a lot. And that's ok. It's your job to listen and figure out if they are right, or convince them if they are wrong.
And other people might post "inappropriate" photos that would get featured on the home page.
And sometimes the correct response is an error code and an HTML page, e.g., 401 Unauthorized and an ajax login page that reloads the current URL.
Didn't he do the same thing during Apple's IPO? I was under the impression that Apple employees only received stock because Woz voluntarily gave up some of his own to form an employee pool.

It's this tight-fisted aspect of Jobs that makes it difficult for me to appreciate him on a non-professional level.
Or that inflation should be kept to low levels!
(...) argument was a straw-man. I.e. they disagreed with the point I was trying to make.

Pointing out that your argument is a straw-man is not a disagreement. It's saying that you are misrepresenting the article's position, and that's an objectively bad post.

Also, I'm not sure if downvoting when disagreeing is discouraged. Spam should be marked by flagging, not downvoting.
"Some places might ask for grad school grades - Google, I'm guessing, they're strange about that sort of thing - but in my experience this is pretty damn rare, especially when the grades are of questionable relevancy. "

It's not so much the possibility of getting low grades that troubles me as the fact that my grades may be EXTREMELY bad (ie, FAILing)

So you think getting an MA as opposed to just dropping out now is very valuable?
Here it is running on Cloud Foundry:

http://lamernews.cloudfoundry.com
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This was also discussed in this blog post, shortly after his death:

http://www.skepticblog.org/2011/10/06/steve-jobs-succumbs-to...
1) Follow their contact us request (Likely an email to the general address) and make a task note in a month to review the correspondence (stateless).

2) If no reply in that timeframe, make a blog post and a recommendation to listen to security reports. Post to HN. Public shame upon them to do two things aforementioned.

I'm happy with this for my projects. I take security reports very seriously and it's the only development priority over cat pictures.

For monetary incentive: Major websites will give a reward for reporting to them.
> I think it's pretty straightforward to call that closed source

Straightforward and pedantic. Even the GPL allows a "reasonable" time for someone to yield the source upon request which as been widely interpreted as up to a month. If the source will be available in a reasonable time period then it's reasonable to call the general project itself an open source one.
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I'm personally interested in hearing any advice you have for graduating students who are deciding between:

-- working at a large corporation (Google, Microsoft, Amazon)

-- working at a (for lack of a better term) "well-established start-up" (Dropbox, Twitter, AirBnB)

-- working at a very young and small start-up

-- pursuing their own start-up

What experience should they expect to get from working at each of these "levels" and what is absolutely necessary to do/have before jumping between these "levels"?

Thanks, and looking forward to hearing your talk!
"at a regular tech startup, you'd be surprised to find out that beyond the core employees, most people have average or below average experience/education. On a team of a dozen software engineers that I'm a member of, one has an MS, and it isn't in CS"

You mean the technical workers have below average programming skills? I haven't really been applying for jobs at startups because I thought I had to be really good at programming or statistical analysis
> a very strange definition of "quality"

Is it strange that, say, comments are stripped out of a binary? Or that the file names of the source files are not in there? These things are examples of aspects of quality that have no impact on the binary but make a big difference to the quality of the source.
I hope not. He hasn't done anything at all. Unless its used maliciously. Like, if he went into CNN comments and posted a link that forced users to repost his comment, steal passwords, etc... Otherwise this is almost like me telling you to post javascript:alert('you are ugly'); in your browser.
Hi Salvatore,

many thanks for the reply, that does clarify the issue.

So when sub-objects are only a few dozen per collection (per parent object) on average, storing them as JSON blobs allows Redis to "inline" them, yielding good memory usage. But for large numbers of items per parent, Redis can't inline them so you might as well represent them as a hash, which can never be inlined. Is this a fair summary?

I guess that ideally, all objects would always be represented in the same way from a client perspective, and the database engine would decide which internal format is best suited for storage, maybe using hints provided by the client, and handle any necessary (de)serialization as an implementation detail. That said, I know Redis is still a young project and I suppose this is something you guys are thinking to improve long-term anyway.

Cheers!
Hmm, what crime would that be? He has not sabotaged anything on the vulnerable websites, he has not used it to gain access to any data, and he has not used it to impersonate or trick anyone.
I also kind of want public groups, but the way it works is you have to search for topics.
Why pass up an incredibly well testsed tool that will hands down be more secure than anything you can write on your own?
Do you want more?
It's not an artificial boundary. It's the approximate maximum altitude at which winged vehicles have to move faster than the orbital velocity (at that altitude) in order to attain lift (where lift is depending on the pressure at that altitude). A wing moving below orbital velocity and above that altitude will not get lift at any angle of attack, just drag.
Ron Paul is somewhat an illogical idiot.. ever hear of the 1920s crash? We got out of that situation by guess.wait for it.. debt spending in ramping up to fighting WWII..
If you're good at what you do and have the results to prove it, eventually, people will recognize that and present opportunities. This is Silicon Valley, not Hollywood, no need to "Break In".
I think I knew that BC had a pay program like that, but it just seems foreign to me. OHIP and MSI are entirely covered by taxes, so I've never had to pay the government for my healthcare directly.
Wow, I just found a major performance bug in OSX.
For more info, checkout this blog post (not me):
http://blog.benstrong.com/2010/11/google-and-microsoft-cheat...
I had the exact same revelation two weeks ago, and surprisingly that is almost the same phrase I tell myself :).
Great plugin! You should change your demo to use something like

$('#animateTest').removeClass().hide().show().addClass('flash');

So that the same animation can be called multiple times in a row.
I grew up in Mexico. My uncle had lived in California and he always spoke of the US like a mythical land. He talked about orange trees everywhere, which was not something to see in Mexico because all the oranges would be stolen long before they were ripe. And he also spoke of sandwiches the size of your palm. My father had also been in the US and he was more grim in his stories. He spoke of how my uncle lived on animal crackers and water to save money fast because he missed home so much.

My stories are somewhere closer to the middle. I have seen some Americans do amazing things and I have seen Americans act like punks. It's almost as if doing those things is part of being human.
Don't be dense, the parties have a lot of power in the economy.

The crash of 2008? Many economists wisely point to Republican-led market deregulation, notably the repeal of Glass-Steagal in 1999, as the causes.

Considering that Democrats fight for stronger regulation and pass them (Dodd-Frank... even if that one is DOA), while Republicans fight for deregulation, it's a bit off to imply that the party has no effect on the economy.

That's a huge ideological difference and one that has significant effects on the economy, even in the short-mid term.
It's very much up for debate how much bcrypt, scrypt, and friends buy you over iterated HMACs like PBKDF2, which can be implemented in just a few lines of code. While I'd recommend the use of bcrypt or scrypt for most purposes, I personally have no qualms recommending something like PBKDF2 with a large number of iterations -- it's pretty damn sound. Iterated SHA1 isn't much worse than any of them, but there are a couple optimizations you can make while brute-forcing them, which you can't make with iterated HMACs, so I'd recommend going with that route.
Last I checked the "Bush tax cut" was a real bill, championed by one particular party, passed via a vote that went broadly along party lines, and signed by a president of that party whose administration worked hard to put his name on it. The guy in the other party, as I remember, wanted to do something like "save social security now".

Those are real policies, and they have real impact. You can pretend that they don't and that politics is all a "game", but no matter how hard you pretend it isn't true. (Sure, it's mostly a game, but at the margins it's important stuff, and not well served by bland internet cynicism).
If one opens Google News and visits sites at random, you'll find at least 1 in 5 has an XSS vulnerability in their search box. Its really incredible. Just type <plaintext> into the search box, and you'll be shocked how many sites break.
tl;dr: "Lee [Microsoft] and Rubin [Google] must be nervous."

And don't have anything that obviously competes.

And to Rubin's "you shouldn't be communicating with a phone." Assuming he's talking about personal assistant-like communication, which personal assistant am I personally supposed to be communicating with? The one I can't afford and don't have?
I'm reading the laws now... It seems that "unauthorized access" itself, may be a crime which he has committed? Also, the laws vary by state and I'm having trouble figuring out what the federal laws are.

Obviously, he didn't commit any fraud or steal any information, and I can't imagine anyone would want to prosecute him.

edit: it looks like he's probably relatively in the clear on this? Most of the laws seem to require intent, fraud, or thievery. It's all very confusing.

edit 2: downvotes? I'm sorry for worrying that our laws and legal system sucks?
I concur with you completely.

Though there are sharing options in Reader, it's largely been useless for me, and the same few people who followed me (or I followed) are on G+ now.
Well, obviously they're not totally unrelated, but I agree they are orthogonal. However, I was asking an honest question, how much of the money generated through fractional reserve banking is public debt? Ie. what's the ratio private/public debt?
There was an oncologist speculating on Quora that Jobs had to have the Whipple because he waited so long and the cancer presumably spread. Had he acted promptly it would have been a much less complicated surgery.

To each his own though -- whatever drove Jobs to seek alternative medicine first is part and parcel of the personality that gave us all he did.
Do shared circles count as "public circles"?

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/google_plus_users_can_n...
http://www.quora.com/Steve-Jobs/Why-did-Steve-Jobs-choose-no...
Sadly, only for people with bad spelling - I think "Finnish" has two N's :-)
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A lot would depend on how "access" is defined, I imagine.

What I did was provide input to a publicly accessible script on their server. I didn't have to "break in" to anything to do so, or to find out about it. So it'd hinge on whether or not using someone's website in a way they didn't intend you to counts as being "unauthorized access".

Standard case of "most persuasive lawyer wins".
Possibly but I doubt it. He has only made people access their own web browsers, so while there might be a case for unauthorized access it seems very weak to me.
Why exactly do you say HTTP is unsuitable for the modern web? If anything, the problem is that we don't abide by it enough.

More codes - which, by the way, do not increase the size of the packets - are better for the "modern web", the one where REST APIs are being adopted and which has more and more automated clients which require computer readable information.
Hydroelectric power stations run backwards to store energy (electrical->potential).

Energy usage of computers is also decreasing, as in mobile devices. There's also anticipated uptake of ARM processors in server farms, because energy usage is a major cost. The advances include advances in energy usage.

We have many options for sources of power; our current choices are mostly preferences.
You're right that energy tech has not advanced at Moore-like rates (nothing but silicon does), but it has matched the accelerating demand for it. When it fails to, we'll see serious research into other power sources. (Cheap energy is a curse.)
WW1, Wilson: Democrat
WW2, FDR: Democrat
Korea, Truman: Democrat
Vietnam, JFK/LBJ: Democrat
Persian Gulf War, Bush I: Republican
Global War On Terror, Bush II: Republican

Note, minor conflicts (Grenada, Bosnia) left out.
Angry voters?

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Popular vote 50,456,002 50,999,897
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I took only maths and physics classes for my final three years of undergrad. In first year, I also took chemistry and computer science.

No, I didn't go to uni in the US.
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It's above more than 99% of the atmosphere, very nearly space.

The pressure is around the same you'd find on Mars (on the ground), incidentally.
I haven't seen the code but the examples for Checkbox/Radio Buttons are not accessible. If I click on the label, they do nothing.Ideally, they should toggle the checkbox/select the radio button.
Exactly. There's no global police force that comes to foreclose on your country when your debt hits a certain level. What happens is that when people have doubts about your ability to pay your debts on time (relative to other investment options,) you have to pay a higher interest rate.

But in the case of US debt, the opposite seems to be true: http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-iFxt2vNk2y0/TZNxgTINNEI/AAAAAAAAAW...

When Moody's downgraded the US credit rating, the response was a rush to, not a flight from government bonds.
Hacker News | to | Hacker News
I just noticed the "Hacker News" portion of the title was moved to the end instead of appearing as a prefix. Now with many HN tabs open I can see what's what. Also my bookmark names look a little bit nicer.

In fact, my bookmarks for the past few days are like this.
So not sure exactly how new this change is, but still wanted to say: thanks!
This is getting into "architecture astronaut" territory, but Reader could have a "Google+" folder that aggregates "friend feeds" (of G+ status updates and shared articles). Does Google+ already publish RSS feeds for user content?
You're right. State and city-level governments do bond sales for this exact reason.

However, I was assuming that the size(and budget) of the federal government is large enough that if it were completely balanced, and all debt was paid off, they would have enough surplus cash(or the ability to redirect funds) to invest in a large-scale project like that. Short of another world war, I don't think that there are really any projects that would absolutely require this kind of immediate investment by the public.