skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know how old you are, but be prepared to battle this for much of your life. At 32, I would have hoped to excise the latent misogyny and distrust of former jocks that my adolescent experiences burned into me, but it has not abated. I expect this to last a lifetime, and my only defense is to continue working on discarding cached thoughts( per the LessWrong folks )whenever they are recognized.

The real kicker is that if you have a successful startup exit, it gets much worse. My own cynicism grew enormously after witnessing the dramatic change that money brought into women's attitude toward me. The day you realize a woman is sleeping with you merely as a chore to gain access to resources - well, let's just say that's not a very good day.
Apple iPhone Safari Crasher (iPhone 4 & 4S, iOS 5.0.1)
One simple demand: a presidential commission to repeal the law of gravity
From the comments.

“A joker is someone who says they’re going to do something, and then doesn’t. A joker always has excuses.”

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Hannibal you’re back! Did you conquer Rome?

Erm no. Had no siege weapons and my men would… Oh well, I tried…

No, I don’t give a fuck that you tried. Did you do it or not?

Could have.

DID YOU DO WHAT YOU SAID YOU’D DO OR NOT?

Erm no.

Hannibal you’re a fucking joker and we’ve got problems.

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priceless.
You can buy Bitcons from an exchange http://mtgox.com is the most popular.
Oh please just remove this link... eric is negatively legendary for obscenely proposing to pretty much any and all females wherever he shows up as if he was a combination of Appollo and Pan and god's gift to women.
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One Chrome (and Safari) extension that I found helps is called Page One [https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/pojkjlgamiogkhagab...]. It will automatically redirect your browser to the single-page/print view for a number of popular sites (21 as of today).
You might mean most banks or big corporations have larger and more complex interrelated schemas than most developers are used to.
NameCoin domains are de-centralized. It's like running DNS on Bittorrent. You can take down 1 pc but all the others keep on going.
If your job involves regularly receiving emails like this, you need to run, not walk, away from that relationship. This guy seems like one of those poisonous people who will inevitably screw things up (through some combination of ego and ignorance of the way the world works) and then blame you for it.
The question is how they would do that, technically, since the system is distributed.

They could of course force you to give up your domain physically, by seizing your server. As a non-US citizen, my primary concern is relying on nameservers located in the US. My machines are located in Sweden. Of course, that's no guarantee that they would be safe from the FBI...
I'm taking the ml class right now, thank you! Everything you say is absolutely true, enrolling in this class vs watching some videos is like night and day:
- a large number of other students who are at the same cohort helping each other
- lecture materials
- programming assignments
- comprehension questions

I don't feel quite like I am taking a real masters level computer science class mainly because the assignments are easier (you guys set up a lot of the boiler plate for us and we implement a few core algorithms). That said, the assignments have been a big part of me retaining the concepts and since they are not ball breakers, I can actually keep up with 30-60 minutes a day, with perhaps a couple hours one day on the weekend.

Professor NG is also an amazing teacher. I'm cautiously optimistic that the other teachers will be as good.
Time for a Kinder, Gentler IT Ops
First, is this realistic? Most torrent sites advertise porn or malware, which none of the big advertising companies serve anyway. Wikileaks doesn't use advertising, but by popular demand they may raise money in any possible way, even in cash from selling t-shirts. Very weak argument from Google
Learn from history. Repeat after me: nobody will ever use an alternate root.

The idea is much, much older than your project. Consider ipv6, and everyone is TRYING to adopt that.

Repeat after me: nobody will use an alternate root.

PS: Yes, I know what namecoin is, and the idea is stupid. It may not be an alternate traditional dns root, but the point is exactly the same.
This is good though I would argue that most of this is true for small to mid-size businesses (<200 people) as well without the extreme risk of not getting paid or working 80 hr weeks that happens at startups.
The title is far from being sexy or linkbaiting, but behind it's demure umbrella is an excellent rant - both informing and entertaining.

Two quotes for flavor:

"C is a language that combines the power of raw assembly with the expressiveness of raw assembly."

"(expr $x+$y) fails because the craptastrophic lexer (a whole 12 lines of C code) assumes that each command argument will be a single token, and makes no effort to actually do any, you know, lexing."

Hopefully this will teach me to use bc or $((...)) the next time I try to do math in a terminal.
Actually that world is reality for many people. Think about it, how many people do you know that own "their" car... most people i know just drive cars on leasing plans, live for rent, and use a company computer and cellphone most of the time.

Owning something has become for many things the exception rather than the norm.
For a somewhat more whimsical take, see http://store.artlebedev.com/toys/card-games/36-54/space-inva...

Loving these, although the Russian symbol for queens ("A" instead of "Q") took some getting used to.
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Honestly, consider taking (behavior) therapy if any of this toxic shame is left inside of you now! Work through this.

Oh and, chances are you are a hacker with a good amount of money at your disposal. Nothing wrong with making up for lost experiences in the here and now. If you feel you missed out, there are gorgeous escorts way more lovely than those dumb girls in high school you lusted after and it might just help you polish your confidence a bit. It is up to you if you want to go down that road and try it but hey, more power to you if you do and come to realize that while sex is great, it isn't THAT important once you start having it.

Finding a loving and honest, trustworthy partner will be so much more rewarding.
I'm all for it, but IT operations makes a great place for control freaks to "standardize" on some thing or another. IT provides a great rationale to, say, enforce a "standard browser" (strangely, always Internet Explorer) because the "internet connection can't handle all the individual requests, we have to cache them."

IT allows management to put in choke points for purposes of control. And let's all face it, doctrine to the contrary, a lot of what large corporations do is control their employees. While it may be high time for Kinder, Gentler IT (not just Ops), it won't happen. Human nature is against it.
I'm taking the ML class right now and it is truly excellent - all aspects of it, the videos, material and assignments. Can't recommend these enough.

The only problem with the winter classes is I can't decide which to take!
People never do things, right up until they do. It's a matter of how great the need is, and it has never been greater.
Strooizout kopen, waarom nu al?
Het hoeft nog geen winter te zijn om u er toch al op voor te bereiden. In België moeten we allemaal ons steentje bijdragen om veilig en op twee voeten de winter door te komen. De overheid verplicht ons namelijk om de stoep ijs- en sneeuwvrij te houden. Strooizout is en blijft voor aankomende winter het beste product om gladde situaties te vermijden. Het werkt snel, efficiënt, is goedkoop en normaal gezien altijd voorradig.
It appears to crash Google Chrome on Windows 7 as well, which makes me think that it's a problem with WebKit.

Firefox 3.6.3 was a little iffy with it and stopped responding several times, but did eventually pull through.

IE 9 did not appear to be adversely affected.
> We owe society some answers that are more sophisticated and productive than "the old business model is broken, so it's okay to pirate until someone launches [new service from which I can get everything I want, when I want it, at a price that's easily affordable]."

I agree but these are hard questions. I've thought hard about this and I decided that the only legally and morally clear option for buying music was to go back to buying CDs only (and ripping them). Which of course means I've not had any new music in months, as that's just a pain in the neck.

I don't think mine is a good solution* but cases like this make you wonder if rights to own, or the like (eg: listen to in perpetuity), digital music maybe non-existent.

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* And yes this is just as reductive as "steal everything"- but I couldn’t find any solid ground in between.
It depends exclusively on corporate culture. I've seen my share of small to mid-size businesses with an IBM-like culture of paperwork and "ask permissions thrice to the superior of the superior of your superior".
Are You Making Our Lives Better?
If they did, then they'd stop being Car and Driver and start being Motorcycle World.
You mean like Cory Doctorow?
Is your channel more important than the specific problem you are solving?
I am sorry for what you had to go through, I can relate in a way. I will recommend the same I recommended to winter_blue: consider (behavior) therapy and work through whatever pain and/or toxic shame might be left in you from the past.

And on gold-digging women: they should be sufficiently easy to spot and just decide whether the sleeping-with-you and her presence is worth it to you or not. There are also great girls out there who are having just as much a hard time with some dumb male partner who would be happy to be with someone honest and hard working. Don't give up and more importantly, work through whatever pains you from the past.
I wrote and deployed a Scalatra project last month and found the framework to very intuitive, powerful, and flexible.

Not to mention that the team working on the project is amazingly helpful; especially when you are new to scala :)
Fun with Epitrochoids
Have you ever seen an Epitrochoid plotted with python?
Readability ported to C. 100x faster than JS.
https://github.com/cappuccino/cappuccino
What do the best web developers look for in an RFP? 
I'm not a developer myself but I do have a good amount of industry knowledge. How can I attract the best talent (assuming I need to do this via an RFP)? I believe that I personally could weed out the groups who are making promises they won't be able to execute, but I work for a large company and my superiors may not and will likely just go for the low bidder.

What qualifications can I include that will make this distinction obvious?

How can I make my project appealing to the best of the best?
A hug, or possibly medical treatment for his bipolar disorder.
I'm not surprised.

Who the heck backups 512 GB on a free place?
The death of Kazaa was a major contribution to BitTorrent usage. If it becomes the easiest way of accessing pirated content then I could see it doing very well.
PhoneGap 101 - Why Mobile Apps are Still Relevant
Libiconv problems with MAMP, PHP, and Ruby
The 10 best ancestry sites on the web, as voted by users
Remember Scotch Guard?
Good design has nothing to do with being a "photoshop wiz."

Unless, of course, you as a developer describe your main skill as being "a text editor wiz."
Sounds more like it would be an unhealthy hazard.
The best programmers copy from different sites, combining their code in a way to make it distinct and unique.

Do you see why this is inaccurate?
Daily Mobile Minute #55: Will charming, whimsical & fun win the smartphone war?
Rapid7 Scores a Massive $50 Million Round of Funding
Ask HN: Best Examples of Effective & Creative PreRelease Landing Pages
I am looking for inspiration for some of the best, most effective, creative and generally memorable per-release landing pages companies have created to get sign ups and of course some early on buzz.

Very curious about use of interactive landing pages
Whats with this trend of illustrating blog posts with Flickr photos that don't illustrate anything?
Yeah, I was broad in my definition of Technocracy when applied to Italy, I'll give you that. But Technocracy isn't defined as well as Democracy because there's no real context from history to draw on, so I stand by it. Italy has a Technocratic government right now.

That said, A Technocracy does not imply dictatorship. Nor does it imply despotism. These are two "aspects" of a Technocracy you've just made up on the spot to support what you believe.

All I ask is that my chancellor be a qualified and learned economist. That my minister for health be qualified in a related field such as medicine or biology. That the scientific/ethical debates in parliament (or congress) be argued between scientific experts and philosophers and economists, not by people who have never actually had a real job outside of politics, or have little to no education in the field they are responsible for. When our leaders can say sincerely "I asked God what to do", and everyone thinks that's ok, we've lost the plot. That's Tyranny.

What I want is to feel confident that the people making the decisions that govern my life know what the hell they're talking about. What I have right now, what we all have right now, are leaders who make decisions based on how much money someone is willing to pay them, what they feel in "their gut" to be right, or what some magical fucking tyrant living in the sky tells them to do.

Democracy my arse. It's a joke.
for example, someone could use the new system without installing anything, by trusting a Namecoin resolving server

It is already possible - http://dot-bit.org/HowToBrowseBitDomains#Replace_your_DNS_se... . There are two traditional DNS servers that resolve .bit addresses.
http://onetime.2ch.to/
The idea is imitated.
I remember when you first launched news.usethesource.com as a HN for programmers, and then closed it due to inactivity. I hope it has more success as a job board.
I would flat out tell the teacher "Sorry, summer is family time and not your summer reading list time."
You don't seem to understand that as long as enforcement isn't 100%, the cost of punishment must exceed the cost of compliance if it's going to deter violation.

If the only cost of overrunning a meter were paying the amount of the overrun, any economically rational actor would simply never pay meters. If he doesn't get caught, he's parked for free; if he does get caught, he pays only what he otherwise would have.

The civil penalty for laws like unpaid parking meters and illegal downloading of copyright works should be slightly greater than the original cost times the inverse enforcement rate. If we catch 1% of parking meter cheaters, they should pay at least a hundred times their overrun to ensure that it's economically rational to pay meters. Since we need only deter humans, not "economically rational actors", we can take risk aversion and incomplete knowledge into account and probably decrease that fine somewhat.

The same principle that applies to parking meters applies to copyright infringement.
Crashes Chrome, Firefox and WebKit nightly on Lion. I bet it will crash IE also.

Conclusion: most, if not all, browsers are not prepared to handle a 100 MB HTML document. If all the file does is crash the browser, who cares? If it can be exploited, then we should be worried.

Is the OP trying to be sensationalist or did he/she simply not test on other browsers?
JSZip - Create .zip files with Javascript
These guys are partners rather than employees? Wow. This is a bad way to talk to your employees, but a far worse way to talk to your partners.

Your partners would be well advised to cut you out of the project... or perhaps to dump the project entirely since (a) it doesn't seem to be going too well, and (b) you're obviously not that committed to it yourself because you're working on something else right now.

The real problem here is not that you've destroyed your project (or at least your role in it) and alienated your friends by sending one douchey email; it's that you apparently don't realize that this is what you've done.
1) The only conceptual model I think needs to apply is the how things are taxed. Granted some organizations have edge cases in how they pay taxes (or how they try to hide things) but I think innate complexity dominates unique edge cases when it comes to the tax code.

2) I would argue that much of this complexity shows up because many companies negotiate while ignoring the cost of adding complexity. Company wants to minimize cost, workers want to maximize benefits, complexity is a dead weight that benefits nobody. Once things have been negotiated it's hard to change, but during negotiation they is no need to end up with yet another edge case.

PS: I don't think organizations end up spending 100+ million on their payroll systems because it's easy. I just think being proactive lets some companies minimize those costs. EX: Is Google's payroll system ugly?
Received my voucher last night and ordered my touchpad - assuming most others got theirs now too.
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Welcome to Funny Babies - pics and videos
It blows on every Ubuntu Linux machine I run as well - though the Flash-Aid Firefox plugin certainly helped.
They definitely should be legal. Online activations should be forced to accept it, as well.

Especially when you consider that a lot of games go out of print and get impossible to find just months after release. Which is bad for someone like me who never pays attention to games that aren't already out, and may take years to get around to playing a game. Used games are often my only recourse.
It's silicone (not silicon, as the article misstates) so it's probably safe. Silicone is used in breast implants, home window sealants, cookware (look up silpat) and yes, fabric, as silnylon (the ultralight backpacker's waterproof friend). With the last case, it is not breathable, which is why it's not used for jackets.
In the past many discovery's where made by finding better animal models. For example, Guinea Pigs get scurvy mice don't and once we had a model it was possible to isolate vitamin C. But, today we can probably create mice that could get scurvy... Which suggest for many things tinkering with a mouse DNA may bet the best option because there is no good animal models for things like genetic diseases.
I would say the only startup worth working on is your own.
Working at someone else's startup is a recipe for getting exploited - overworked and underpaid. And the worst thing about it is that it's all couched in an atmosphere of guilt trips and taking-it-for-the-team.

Perhaps there are exceptions. I just haven't seen any.
I'd rather work for The Man in my day job in a cold corporate environment where everything is explicit from the get-go, get well paid for it and crank out code for my own startup in my free time.
because you are too lazy to START a startup? :)
Worrying about RAM consumption is sooo 90'ish.

RAM is cheap, It's by far the easiest component to upgrade in most computers.
Nope. It's the "data:text/html;" in <a> link. If I don't use this, Safari on iPhone don't crash.
I could put my head down and just grind, get it done at 4AM before I go to work, and whatever.

or better:

I was going to edit, but I didn’t really. I was kind of flat. I played a lot of Conquer Club online, surfed around, didn’t really get anything done. Then I was traveling around and I wasn’t really working on the book.

He was paid $65k in advance...
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Tell me this guy doesn't wear a gold chain and stink of aramis. Ever hear of a psychic vampire? Feel sorry for the people under this guy and is hard on for jokers.
Is an Exabyte RDBMS Cluster Possible? 
Big Data and Big Analytics
The punishment should fit the crime, not the criminal. If parking for too long isn't that big a deal, then no one should be fined thousands of dollars for it.
Sebastian seems to describe himself as a 'strategist' and he claims come up with business plans for a living. I think this means people pay him to come up with plans of action for their entrepreneurial projects or established businesses or whatever. He seems to allude to doing this kind of work from time to time in his blog. He also seems to suggest that people don't usually take his advice, so I don't know what to make of that.
The piracetam may not help; it's normally a very well-behaved nootropic (I and many others use it without issue), but that's in normal people - with bi-polar or whatever he's got going on, who knows?
Interesting that the SaaS class is being done by two Berkeley profs (and is the only one missing the Stanford logo).
Betaworks’ John Borthwick on Losing a Cofounder, Secondary Shares, and an IPO
The menu's font needs changing too (Safari, MBA). Why ever use a "fancy" font? Make it easy to read.
what is the point of the .bit ?
why would somebody want to use it ?
Testimonial from Adam about Chris Blair
Why SOPA doesn’t deserve any sympathy
There's an app for that! search for "3D Brain" (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) on your device. Also available online:
http://www.g2conline.org/
Yes, it was edited following my comment. He originally had just the link, and it came off as gossip, not insight.
I really appreciated this post. Everything Alex mentioned in his article I learned through trial by fire doing mobile development. Performance was critical and UI responsiveness was a must. It was then that it dawned on me that all the same techniques could be applied to a web application just like Alex mentioned. Most web developers seem to get stuck in the framework rut. All the tools and techniques are there to build something fast and responsive.

If there is one thing I can truly appreciate about what he is trying to do with spine it's the client id generation and request queueing. This has got to be the core of what makes good "AUI". Every developer dealing with remote requests should have this in their back pocket. 101 stuff.
I think that was a demo for activebar.
What yet-to-be-written security book would you like to see on your shelves?
Looking at my library of security books. What yet-to-be-written book would you like to see on your shelves?
Haha, I've started a startup before :)

Sometimes it just makes more sense to put your own ideas on pause for a bit and help others with theirs.
Raymond Smullyan's To Mock a Mockingbird
In my experience it's much likelier there will be complications with being paid when it comes to small to mid-size businesses than startups.
Same thought I had. The images are distracting and have nothing to do with the article.
They are on sale for $7.50 on Fab, until they were sold out that is. Says "Restocking Soon" and when they do, I'm buying two.

http://fab.com/sale/1379/product/14201
Well, this fits in with my own armchair-psychological evaluations of OP...
Copyright laws are so extreme I don't see how you can avoid breaking them. Singing a popular song in a crowded place? You owe performance royalties to the songwriter. Use a song as a soundtrack to a Youtube video? You'll be lucky if they just take your video down, that's commercial-scale infringement! Maybe huge fines, or thousands of dollars in settlements.
Someone has to step up and lead, so maybe a motivational speech is just what the team needs. The points about partying and making money might matter to his team, maybe its why they're working on the project in the first place. (And none of us can say that the excitement of making money doesn't motivate us).

Maybe, but if this was intended as a motivational speech (and motivational speeches work a lot better than motivational emails) then it's a terrible one.