skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think people who claim "Google is planning xxxx" miss the fact that Google isn't exactly some monolithic entity.

There are plenty of people within Google who'd love NaCI to take over the world. But equally there are lots who think it is a downright bad idea.
$2.5 million judgement against blogger – court says she is not a journalist
sued for $10 million by investment firm Obsidian Finance Group for defamation for writing several times on her site, criticizing the firm and its co-founder Kevin Padrick. The judge handed down a $2.5 million judgment against Cox
I love it when companies add a little personal touch to their 404 pages (though they're taking 'personal' to a whole new level here!)

I saw an incredibly great collection of creative 404 pages a few months back. I can't find the one I saw, though Fab404 (http://fab404.com/) has a bunch.
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Same reason there is more literature on Hitler than on Gandhi.
Is it too late to enter the challenge, link is broken for me now, although it still says I have qualified to take the challenge...
at Google they are easy to replace

Must be why they are paying those huge retention bonuses...
Or maybe he doesn't.... they need to A/B test! :)
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It's just an auto-playing video loaded behind the content. Path did the same thing with their v2
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yep, Paypal is awful. They hide behind 'fraud protection' as an excuse for absolutely awful and opaque customer services, yet... how many people here have had their bank account hacked/defrauded? And, at least for me, I can usually get my bank on the phone and most problems resolved within 5 minutes (and that's living in China dealing with a UK bank account).

I have a business account with my bank and I'm a valued customer and they offer me extra services and discounts. Yet with Paypal, if you run a business through them, you're almost automatically treated like a hassle, a criminal, a 'suspect'.
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Speaking of conspiracy theories, from the footnotes:

I'm strongly of the belief that Google's internal strategy has long surpassed "organising the world's information", and is now something like "become the world's biggest private intelligence agency.", but that's a paranoid side-note.. ask me more on this at your peril. ;)

http://www.hackerspews.com/
New Rule: Whoever mentions Microsoft first, loses the debate and the thread is closed.[1]

[1] Obvious References:
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[1.2] Godwin's law ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin%27s_law )
Hello Hacker News.

I would LOVE to have 18 months in the bank. In fact, I would love to have 30 days in the bank. And I think I have a really terrific idea and I know for a fact that I can make it a reality, since I have implemented aspects of this before, and have about 27 years of programming experience (started when I was 7). The thing is, it seems quite far-fetched to think that someone would give me 18 months worth of cash to make my vision a reality. Anyway, here is the idea: http://cure.willsave.me/vision . Basically the goal is to replace WordPress with a platform that has a number of advantages, starting with a CoffeeScript codebase running on Node.js.

"The Cure Platform is a component- and plugin- based content and data management framework.

The main goal for this platform is increased developer and user productivity. To achieve that the platform will have these features:

* WYSIWYG drag-and-drop designer. No source code templates (no mixed markup/source) and limited CSS.

* Component (GUI control) -based architecture to enable easier code reuse and faster configuration and integration of modules.

* Comprehensive data framework enabling drag-and-drop form creation with corresponding updates to hierarchical models. Transparent data handling. "

So my plan is, while I am finishing up my current project, to work on this new platform. I have already started with some of the implementation. I would very much like to avoid getting another "regular job" or gig when my main project is complete, and so I was hoping against hope that somehow I could crank out a simplified version of this new platform and miraculously turn that into my day job immediately. Or perhaps get a few thousand dollars from kickstarter.com or some such.. but most likely not try to raise much money at all, and probably not do any fundifying until I had a prototype of some sort.

Anyway, supposing I can live on just $3,000 per month, and I need exactly 1 person to help me who also only needs $3,000 per month. Suppose that includes all of our expenses for servers etc. and we are working out of our homes. 3000 * 18 = 54000 * 2 = $108,000.

I'm sure people will tell me I am wrongheaded, doing something wrong, or misinterpreting, but I think that this article is quite clearly saying I should try to get $108,000. This seems completely unrealistic to start going around trying to get $108,000. And actually, once I have a prototype, I still doubt I will even want that much money -- I will probably be happy to try to sell the system for 2 or 3 months, so maybe 3 months would be nice, but after that, I can't see going 5 or 6 months spending someone else's money without significant money coming in, so the $108,000 doesn't even seem prudent.

Anyway, if someone reading this wants to give me $108,000, I am sure I can build the system I described.. just not sure if people would be smart enough to adopt it. You can PayPal the money to node@willsave.me
(lol)
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Quoting a fixed price? It’s all about your hourly.
love the super secret URL parameter
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If I were picking new for today, I'd use Stripe + Spreedly if I were a US developer. (I've used both separately.)

That said, I have no major complaints with Paypal. (Nor do most merchants who use the service. You just don't read blog posts like "Day 1,349: Paypal continues to provide very cheap services without requiring a merchant account. Details pretty much same as Day 1,348."
On a semi-related note, has anyone signed up for them? They don't comply with the CAN-SPAM act by not giving an unsubscribe link in the emails they send out.
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Agree. A sieve is generally more useful than a bucket with a hole.
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It's still Turing complete because it can perform arbitary computation; it just can't cause arbitrary behavior at the machine code level. (Indeed, making a VM that's both Turing complete and safe is not generally a hard problem - for example, most Brainfuck interpreters qualify. The hard problems are making safe interfaces to the rest of the system, and speed.)
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because pornography is more intimate when you know about the people having sex, but knowing about Rømer won't change the speed of light.
Pretty cool. I'm not super familiar with machine learning but from reading section 2 of their paper it sounds like you need to manually find a matching picture to the one you care about (the single positive) and a bunch of pictures that don't match. Then you run the algorithm and come up with a set of weights.

It would be nice if things were more automatic, like if a computer program could decide what features were unique (maybe also through machine learning it could learn that buildings are generally unique and the sky is not).
This one is appropriate for HN:
http://fab404.com/magnetize/
The problem with Groupon's unsubscribe page is that for all of their "please come back to us" they don't have a one step "Undo" button. I unsubscribed to watch the video and then had to re-go through the whole process of making an account again. I would be curious what the logs say about how many people started the re-subscribe process only to bail before they were done.
Which I haven't seen. And it would still look nice, even if I had.
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It seems that this post will have some competition, watch out:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3322024
Next up, ad network designed for embedding on 404 pages. :-)
The greatest Dane? I'd have to go with Marmaduke.
Small shameless plug for our own attempt at the "personal" 404 page: http://www.ties.com/fgswgdfjgjah ( flash required to see video, sorry )
I doubt you're alone in that :) And it's quite possible your comment here will be seen by more people, so it serves its purpose :D
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That's good to know. Thank you for clearing that up. I think you should put that on the pricing page. But it could just be a minor concern of mine. I've told my friends in case they're interested.
Can I still use this news.ycombinator site for free or should I stop until I can be charged for its usage?
Very cool. Figure 7 is particularly instructive as to the power of this approach.

It would also be interesting to see a comparison of images where the features are less pronounced, e.g., matching landscape images. One can imagine uniform weighting approaches performing better where, for example, color is a more important matching criteria than form/features.
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Because Wikipedia is the social media of encyclopedias. Sometimes you get really good stuff, but you also lose the serious but boring people and you get a weird social rules system.
very cool - good job
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Shades of datelance.com:

http://www.deseretnews.com/article/600150311/Friends-post-bi...
Sounds like a good startup idea. Let's build it!
Personally I'd vote for Montaigne's Essays.
I haven't read the paper in full yet (nor am I a machine learning expert), but it seems to be training it against a precompiled dataset, not using human views:

"To learn the feature weight vector which best discriminates an im- age from a large “background” dataset, we employ the linear Sup- port Vector Machine (SVM) framework. We set up the learning problem following [Malisiewicz et al. 2011] which has demon- strated that a linear SVM can generalize even with a single positive example, provided that a very large amount of negative data is avail- able to “constrain the solution”. However, whereas in [Malisiewicz et al. 2011] the negatives are guaranteed not to be members of the positive class (that is why they are called negatives), here this is not the case. The “negatives” are just a dataset of images randomly sampled from a large Flickr collection, and there is no guarantee that some of them might not be very similar to the “positive” query image. Interestingly, in practice, this does not seem to hurt the SVM, suggesting that this is yet another new application where the SVM formalism can be successfully applied."
What's more interesting is the Chrome Remoting technology. It allows you to render webpage/webapp in a desktop chrome process but display it on another remote device, even mobile device. It's like Microsoft 3389 RDP without fullscreen but each individual window.
Should talk to the EFF and see if they'll take your case. Representing yourself in court is such a bad idea that even lawyers hire other lawyers to represent them.
I like to emphasize "Dictionary editors are historians of usage, not legislators of language." ( http://lesswrong.com/lw/od/37_ways_that_words_can_be_wrong/ )
As a counterpoint, when Paypal detected suspicious activity on my account ("Egads, someone just accessed your account from a novel IP in Japan and then received a payment of about a month of your normal turnover and then spent it really really quickly!!1"), it took a one-minute phone call to resolve. ("Hiya Paypal, it's me. does recognition dance I just moved apartments." "Oh, OK. We just wanted to make sure no hanky panky was happening. I've unlimited the account for you.")
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By representing herself and appearing largely ignorant to the law she not only lost the case but essentially made it so that the judge could rule no other way. Ignoring the sensationalist article and looking closer at the actual trial documents as linked http://www.citmedialaw.org/threats/obsidian-finance-group-v-...
You can see that in many of her responses instead of trying to make a legal argument she just rants about how much she hates the plaintiffs and thinks they are idiots and states things like "This connection is further reason as to why Defendant [sic] Crystal L. Cox Feels [sic] that Kevin Padrick of Obsidian Finance is involved in a plot to kill her."

In addition, she replies to the platiniff "So I want to Let you know and Obsidian Finance that I am now offering PR Services and Search Engine Management Services starting at $2500 a month to promote Law Firms... Finance Companies.. and to protect online reputations and promote businesses.." Which the legal firm didn't take kindly to, "It could hardly be clearer that Ms. Cox is attempting to use her outrageous and utterly false payments about plantiffs as leverage to extort a payment from them."

Also, she ignored a deposition in Montana for which the plaintiffs are requesting the court place sanctions on her which if she didn't would also have made it trivial to move the case to another district court where some weird wording in the Oregon shield law wouldn't have mattered.

The Judge probably wanted to hang himself after reading her motions.
> when it's easy to convert an NaCl app into a native app that can be downloaded and run at will.

In theory .NET JIT can emit native image code. But have you ever seen any framework-free .NET apps?

The dependences, libraries, ecosystem will lock you in.
You should post this at the article-level so it gets seen.
Why this hasn't existed in some form on the W3C site from day 1 is beyond me. good job!
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except it implies that a 404 occurs when something goes wrong and when you can't type. A 404 would be the superset of those two, not the intersection
Previous discussion on HN: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1346766
While I agree that corporations have a lot more money than unions, the presidents of many large unions make about as much in cash compensation (vs. equity) as most small to medium public company CEOs -- $200-500k.
I wonder how long till he gets a date? Probably a while since it's only us nerd dudes that know about it.
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Ask HN: Quickest way to test the market?
I drew a simple diagram of the method some use to test market interest in a product (http://www.scribd.com/doc/74937130/Startup-Pretest).
How would you add to or modify this method?
Netflix CEO: 'We got overconfident'
To clarify, they appear to have a strong focus on mass analytics, data collection, acquisitions of facial biometrics companies, and most recently a push towards a "real ID" policy on their services, that to some extent sets me on edge (I'm not certain any single company should be doing all these things).

Regardless, I wouldn't have written any of this if I didn't have a certain love for the company, and desire to follow their movements with some level of intimacy. I just don't agree with everything I suspect they'll be doing 20 years from now.
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Actually, that already exists. Believe it or not there are ad products that pay for the people who click "Under 18" on porn entry pages.
I did not mean details about the exploit but details about what the exploit enabled an attacker to do/see.
Go to Berkeley.

For a "decent" job, it doesn't matter; for the best jobs (or cofounders!), it will be helpful to start off at an elite institution.

The most important qualification for getting a job at a place where you can be happy as a software engineer is the ability to quickly write short programs at the whiteboard while your interviewer looks on and takes notes. You'll be given a problem statement and expected to identify an efficient combination of basic datastructures and algorithms to reach a solution on the way to writing down the code and discussing its correctness and the merits and demerits of the choices you made. You really don't want to work at a company that thinks a formal credential is more important than actual ability.

The reputation of your school doesn't matter much outside of first-rate software companies, where it will be helpful but not necessary to have a top-5 school on your resume.

Having said that, a major benefit at a strong school is that you'll be among the people who wind up working at all the best companies. It's good to learn and work with talented/motivated/smart people, and it will be easy to choose good internships and good prospective employers because you'll know so many people with first-hand knowledge of each place.
"guys, let's replace javascript with the most advanced modular program distribution and compilation toolkit known to mankind. hell, we could even implement javascript on top of this toolkit to let people have their cake and eat it too. oh wait, nevermind, some person on the internet told us this is evil. my bad"
Spreedly (http://spreedly.com/) with Samurai (http://samurai.feefighters.com)
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Most likely patents. That's why there's no effective US-based competition for eBay, anyway.
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Upvoted by the HNers For Humor coalition.
Why not Samurai? I looked at both stripe and samurai in conjunction w/ Spreedly and came out on the Samurai end (lower prices being the motivating factor)
I would prefer to be able to walk to everything I need. But unfortunately, that usually comes with a lot of other problems I'm not interested in.

The fact is that in a modern economy many things are shipped from business to business and from business to individuals. Laziness has nothing to do with it. Everything thats available in local businesses also has to come from somewhere.

Many things must go through many hands before they become available across the street. There's no reason a human being has to chauffeur things from place to place.
Hitler is arguably a far more important historical figure than Gandhi. What's your point?
So, who emailed Justin after seeing this page? Wonder how affective this is!
Quora- What are some of the funniest 404 pages:
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Yeah, after it's been fixed the person who discovered it is welcome to post details about what it would allow an attacker to do / see / etc.
Am I the only one wondering if it was a prank on Justin? I think it's more likely that a coworker was being funny than Justin's desperate for a date :)
launchrock is not two words and it's unbounce, not ubounce. Also I'd say either launchrock or kickofflabs
I find that hard to believe - mainly because it's impossible to believe anyone actually clicks that link. Heck, I'd bet half aren't even links, just text (only kidding!).
How is it heteronormative? I see no reference to the gender that he's interested in.
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Fell out of the funnel when they asked me to create an account on JustGive. I don't use PayPal.

Give me a form I can type my payment details in, and I'm game.
If you have free time and some income (not sure that you have much of either of those during a postdoc) then I would hold off on getting a getting a dev job as long as possible. Instead, focus on allowing your curiosity in development take you for the ride and continue building your craft. The more powerful your development chops become, the less you have to worry about landing a job. Take care of the important things and the rest will work themselves out.

You might try your hand at contributing to open source projects. Find one that interests you, watch the flow of communication and code publishing, learn the code well and then work to insert yourself into that flow with contributions. You will get great experience with being part of a development team.

You might also try your hand working on some of your own ideas for things which can bring in some cash. Start small and try a number of ideas. This is a great learning experience because you make mistakes and then adjust, the same thing that every start-up has to go through.
wasn't implying Hyundai is Chinese. was two example of the same mentality.

and yes, Hyundai is a good brand now. they even styled the H diferently, but their first cars, e.g. the pony, was a copy of Honda's offering at the time. and you never saw a pony because it couldn't even pass US emission regulations of the time. if it's an OK brand now, it's because it got a lot of money from people that couldn't afford a honda before.

anyway, to keep the analogy in context, i'd buy a huawei device, but not other brands that have a plastic case and/or brand name that is almost the same as a linksys one
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Paypal is the shadiest of mainstream internet companies. You're better of doing business with organized crime.

The whole business of freezing legit accounts and consequently stonewalling the owners, often for months has all the hallmarks of a scam.

I would not be surprised to see Paypal execs end up in jail.
I was also confused at first because I usually think of the free software movement not like free beer but free like free speech.
I think you don't understand what a public good is. A public good is not something that is paid for by public funds. Here is a reference.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_good
It should be a site all about 21st birthday stories. Everybody has a story about their 21st birthday. How drunk they got, where they went... user generated content ftw. Concentrate on content first, monetize after. If done correctly the site has potential for a decent revenue stream. Facebook integration/sharing is key.
I recently beta launched http://exquisitejobs.com/ a job board where all jobs are hand picked, and only the best hackers/freelancers/applicants get in (invite only) to ensure the highest quality for all parties involved.

Might not be what you're looking for, but it does aim to be a higher quality job board.

Corresponding HN discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3244078