skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All I know about the data retention regulations is that every system that stores text has to retain the data. That basically means we can't use wikis, nopaste, non-official chat (like IRC), and so on. Interestingly, we can have all the in-person and and phone conversations we want, though. It doesn't make much sense.
Ah, thanks! That was it.
Ooh, very true. Plus, this entire thread seems rather emotionally split between support and derision. I wonder if he claims benefits of low income while pocketing his earnings from the sales.

While this story could serve as advertising and up his revenue, it might also be a bit of a curse for him if the IRS wants to cause some extra hassle.
Note that you can adjust demographic characteristics of your student body without considering that characteristic in the admission process. You can instead work very hard to get more qualified people with the desired characteristic to apply, and to get those who are accepted to pick your school instead of some other school.

Caltech did this at one time with women (I don't know how they do it now). They would seek out high school women who showed promise in math and science, and encourage them to consider Caltech. Women who were accepted would be given trips for themselves and their parents to come visit the campus where the benefits of Caltech could be pitched.
The biggest problem with email is how much information is in private emails instead of public forums. If I want to learn something internal to my company, I have to spend days investigating who to ask, then go to a bunch of conference calls or meetings, only to receive a 700-forwards-deep piece of documentation from someone who was laid off decades ago. In the real world, I type my question into Google and have an answer in seconds.

The problem is that most people at big companies suck massively at communication, and that that lack of skill wastes thousands of hours of valuable programmer time. The only way I can have a really productive day at work is to stay home, keep my email closed, and not work on systems that depend on any shared infrastructure. No wonder our market cap is less than our assets :)
True story: my wife is Asian (from the Philippines). She's done with school, but some of her friends are not. When they ask me for advice on this point, I tell them to check "Hispanic" instead of "Asian." Most Filipino ancestry is a combination of Chinese, Spanish, and Malay, but since the Philippines was colonised by Spain in c.16, it usually works like a charm in differentiating them from the mass of students with Korean, Chinese, and Japanese ancestry.
Safari with adblock and ghostery here, got 8 correct and 18 false positives.
How so? I was able to scrape almost every UK newspaper with a single EC2 instance. It was taking a few hours to work through all the sources, but it was a viable way of gathering a huge amount of data.
This isn't true. Lots of people don't look their race for one thing
> I don't know a single person who gets paid use Django.

If not that, what sorts of work are they getting paid to do in Python?
They do it here in Sweden as well (or at least they did ten years ago). There's really no reason not to do this.
I'm glad I'm not the only one who still calls it a planet :)

> … until its closest approach – about 7,767 miles (12,500 kilometers) from the planet – on July 14, 2015

> But by the time New Horizons sails through the Pluto system in mid-2015, the planet and its moons will be so close that the spacecraft’s cameras will spot features as small as a football field.
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Many folks can't make that switch (from driving to public transit) because there isn't reliable and/or suitable public transit for that route -- but this doesn't change the point.

Look for housing that is either very close to where you work (remove the commute) OR that's well-placed for a simple and comfortable commute on public transit (try it out a few times, at the times you'd be using it!) where you can also get some side-project work done.
>I have observed none.

How hard have you looked and what is your definition of fraud?
To offset that though, it probably helped in other ways. For example, if it's a "motorcycle", you don't need big bumpers and crumplezones.
Yes, and I need another text editor :)

No, seriously, for something as integral to what I do so many hours every day, I don't mind people continuing to innovate. Getting an editor or a management tool to fit you perfectly is pretty hard, and I, for one, haven't found a process or tool I'm 100% happy with
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Impressive. In Missouri, St. Joe Lead Co. donated land containing its mountains of tailings for a state park. St. Joe's State Park, popular for off-roading, with people riding their ATVs, minibikes, etc. through the tailings from the lead mines, also happens to be part of a Superfund site, but that doesn't dissuade people.

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=%22St.+Joe+state+park%22&h...

http://www.epa.gov/compliance/resources/cases/cleanup/cercla...
I really enjoyed this. I had a project once where I had to pre-render a font to be displayed at various (low) resolutions, and the Microsoft foundry fonts stood out as working exceptionally well at very small sizes. Almost nothing else was even acceptible at e.g. 6 or 7pt. I knew it was because of superior hinting, but I didn't realize how hinting worked, exactly, until now.
If you're half Asian and half European, why is checking 'White' considered hiding half your identity? That only makes sense in the background of US racial views, where Barack Obama is known as Black due to 50% of his heritage. So, if you're not 'pure white', you're not 'white', according to society. I feel it is worrisome that such an old style racist line of thought is ingrained into our culture in a way that few question.
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Hey guys, looking forward to seeing the comments. Go easy on Graham, though, he's the sensitive type. ;)
""""not only are the Chrome alternatives awfully lacking in functionality, I also need to have enabled JS for them to work"""

Yeah, just like 70% of the modern web, and all of Web 2.0.

"""Safe?"""

Enabling JS? Not to tin-foil-hat standards, but yes. You should also remember that Chrome has a special sandbox security model that FF lacks --and that is often found to be the safest browser in security tests, js and all.
Isaac Asimov also ran into Columbia's Jewish quota.
I like the name "minimap". Graham and I struggled with what to name it and could only come up with "quick sort bar", which is a mouthful. :)
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As mentioned in the bug, this landed but is pref'ed off for now. I don't know what the process is there, no idea when it will be switched on. It might or might not be on for FF11 (which the title of the submission here states).
Haha! We feel you. Your response was pretty much exactly what my developer friends said to me. "I'd like to use the product management app that doesn't exist." ... That's why we worked so hard on the GitHub integration. It's basically a CLI interface to sprint.ly for developers. We also have pretty deep email integration for managers.
This is a really awesome accomplishment. Keep going!
Also 'few pixels' is relativistic in terms of the dpi of your monitor.
Related, an advertising company who was accused of tracking history: http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/node/6695
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> 95% of the so-called Business Analysts I see (many from top schools and top firms) really don't know anything about the businesses they're analyzing

So, what are they paid to... do, then?
Ideas don't mean anything, execution is everything. Feel free to give away your idea to everyone.

This applies to entrepreneurship, but not, I believe, to other more "creative" fields, like art/music/etc. Fine arts are judged much more on the fundamental idea behind the work rather than the execution. For example, with the exception of mainstream music, excellent records are released all the time that have sub-par mastering/production.
I'd have loved to see prior art on the USB connector. That's the most shameless part of all.

It's completely needless – the dock connector only makes sense in light of Apple's larger ecosystem. Why not use micro or mini USB, like everything else on earth?

http://www.oled-display.net/files/u3/samsung-galaxy-tab-usb-...
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Even better if you can curl these sites from the terminal.
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Tiananmen Square protests:

Year: 89

Date: 6/4

Both 89 and 64 are blocked by the GFW.

Censorship of recent history this blatant seems less like historical negationism and more like the statement: "Speak of this event and face severe punishment."
I handle it in nginx with the SSL Module. Haven't implemented it in other servers. But with nginx it was set it and forget it.
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Plus, Chrome basically comes with Firebug by default.

I feel that Chrome is similar to Apple products in that it feels restrictive when you first use it (especially with regards to its extension system), but that eventually you realize that you didn't really need those features in the first place. For me those were tree style tabs, as well as the "Awesome bar". The only truly killer feature that Chrome lacks is a reliable Adblock plus.

Of course, YMMV, etc.
Remember that there's a big difference between an aftermarket mod and setting up a factory to build purpose built electric cars. You have lots of additional regulatory/cap costs/etc. to bear.

Also keep in mind that they are making entirely (or mostly) new types of vehicles, ie. the tricycle. And design doesn't come cheap.
Anyone who rides the subway likely knows that it's against transit rules to make loud noise. You don't need to look it up. These rules are there for good reasons. Bold people can sometimes get away with making money by breaking law but we don't hav to support them just because they a successful.
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That's also what I thought until I read his résumé.

Which tells me there's something wrong with it.
Vimeo doesn't allow one to skip ahead -- it should be hosted on youtube. (I have this problem with any vimeo vs youtube video.) Also, it looks like some of those popup boxes don't open when clicked until a delay happens. Looks slow. Ug.
Not an expert on any scenes or sure what you mean exactly, but I have been to a few meetup events for the San Diego JavaScript Meetup.com group, and they are definitely mentioning this "startup scene" thing as though they are part of it. There is some overlap with the SD Ruby meetup.com group people. They have a meeting on Tuesday http://www.meetup.com/sandiegojs/events/41414182/ Meets at 3rd Space http://3rdspace.co/.

Besides 3rd Space there are also places like Co-Merge http://co-merge.com/ and the Hive http://www.hivehaus.net/ where some startupy types are sometimes. There is also an HTML5 meetup.com group.
Program manager, product manager and business analyst are 3 roles that make me check that mental "looks busy, does nothing" box. Maybe they're interdependent. Program manager feeds product manager feeds biz analyst who feeds program manager. The devs toil quietly in the corner and don't dare question the symbiosis and CEO is relieved someone is there to do all the work they make.

If I sound grouchy it's because a biz analyst once tried to suggest I wasn't senior enough to attend the meeting we were in. [12 years ago. They'll never find the body.]
If SPDY is adopted by Chrome and Firefox; Google and Facebook; and Apache, ngnix, varnish, and squid, then HTTP's days seem numbered.
It is explicitly legal to perform non-amplified music in the subway.
>The Xoom was also bloody similar.

First, Apple is suing over the Xoom's design, not a technical patent (the details came up in the Samsung lawsuit):
http://www.macworld.com/article/161675/2011/08/apple_motorol...

Second, here's a photo gallery of the iPad 2 vs the Xoom:
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/mobile-news/ipad-2-vs-motorola-xoo...

It was obvious to me which was the iPad and which was the Xoom in every comparison shot. Since you disagree, it sounds to me like you're one of the people who actually think Apple should have the exclusive rights to minimalist, black rectangles with rounded corners.
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This is brilliant. I signed up and it wasn't obvious where to click once I entered my email. I pressed enter and that worked. Good luck!
Chrome has its own version of Adblock plus: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/cfhdojbkjhnklbpkda...

Is it missing something that's in the Firefox version?
Would like to sign-up but it asked me for a Beta Invite Code and I don't have one. Can someone please send me one?
seems like a ripoff of neuromancer "the future is already here, it's just unevenly distributed"
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Don't be root until you need to.
Granted. But in either case, there's no proof - only a probability that you haven't reached an incorrect conclusion. I associate the concept of proof with logical certainty, and no statistical method will give you that.
Not if you are behind some nasty corporate squid gateway or limited http channel to get online.
Why does Google search always count more results in Chrome than in Chromium?
prove used to mean test. Hence, that's the exception which tests the rule.

in fact, that meaning survives in the phrase "proving ground"
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Stories like this irk me, because they overlook the larger injustice of
continuing to think about elite schools as meritocratic institutions, when they
are plainly not. At Harvard, for example, the bottom half of the income
distribution makes up 6.5% of students.[1] When we consider the most selective
schools in aggregate, we see that nearly three-quarters of incoming freshmen
at those schools are drawn from the top quartile of incomes.[2]

The illusion of merit that graduation from these schools imparts leads to a
false sense of mastery amongst those who've been able to scale the pyramid of
achievement, a self-deception that has had pretty profound consequences for the
country since, oh I don't know, say 2008 or so.

[1]: http://chronicle.com/article/Pell-Grant-Recipients-Are/12689...

[2]: http://books.google.com/books?id=4JyQus8r9JYC&pg=PA150&#...
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Yes, it does poorly on many Flash videos, especially twitch.tv and other streaming sites.
That's why I always put African on the ethnic origin forms - I understand my ancestors came from Olduvai Gorge
When asked for your race, answer "mongrel" http://yarchive.net/risks/mongrel.html

Quoting from the anecdote:

All of my known forebears came from Europe, mostly from Southern Germany with a
few from England, Ireland, and Scotland. A glance in the mirror, however,
indicated that there was Middle Eastern blood in my veins. I have a semitic
nose and skin that tans so easily that I am often darker than many people who
pass for black. Did I inherit this from a Hebrew, an Arab, a Gypsy or perhaps
one of the Turks who periodically pillaged Central Europe? Maybe it was from a
Blackfoot Indian that an imaginative aunt thinks was in our family tree. I
will probably never know.

As an arrogant young computer scientist, I believed that if there is any
decision that you can't figure out how to program, the question is wrong. I
couldn't figure out how to program racial classification, so I concluded that
there isn't such a thing. I subsequently reviewed some scientific literature
that confirmed this belief. "Race" is, at best, a fuzzy concept about typical
physical properties of certain populations. At worst, of course, it is used to
justify more contemptible behavior than any concept other than religion.

In answer to the race question on the security form, I decided to put
"mongrel." This seemed like an appropriate answer to a meaningless question.
One of the most interesting experiments in "occupying computation" on behalf of the 99% users is content management systems. They put schemas, queries, and algorithms in the hands of users whose idea of scribing great PHP and SQL syntax would be paying someone else to do it. In a sense, technologies like Drupal and Wordpress have increasingly allowed far more non-technical people to create real web applications as soon as they can wrap their minds around the wealth of possibilities.

The 99% cannot fully occupy computation until they're provided technologies that allow them to understand their own untrained capabilities without hours of specialized training on what they can already achieve. That's just a long way of saying, we need Neo's "I know Kung Foo" app.
I meet panhandlers on a daily basis who pressure people in all kinds of ways.
Agree. CurveCP is a dream come true. It's perfectly suited for robust overlay networks.
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One: don't do anything as root. Root is the system's account, not your user account. If you need to run a service or application, make a new user for that! I've never needed root for anything other than system administration tasks, like apt-get or adding a user. Also, don't run multiple applications as the same user. If you have a web server, a blog, and a forum, you need three users. The web servers can talk to the backend servers via UNIX sockets or TCP.

Two: don't pass -f. Do you even know what -f does, or are you just cargo-culting it? If you need -f, rm will tell you. Don't use it until then.
Yeah, that's kind of weird - to be a real product guy, you actually need to have an extremely broad base of technical knowledge, so that you can look at every part of the system and make intelligent decisions about them.
I've just been installing applications into ~/base/app_name/app_version using the configure script's --prefix option. Can a Stow user tell me how it is an improvement over my setup?
Surely they meant,'to enable hijacking'.
I'd really like to try this. How can I get an invite code? How far out are you from sending more?
In other news, go.com is still a thing.
At top you could say "work on this site" and link to it on github - rather than only on the about page http://github.com/plusjade/narly - what widgets exist, if any, for github built websites?
try running it again. it will say you visited them all !

script FAIL !
I only know being a product guy on small teams.

To me, my role as a "product guy" is to keep the whole product and it's intricate details in my brain. I work with the CEO and the Head of Engineering to set the direction for what we're working on today or next. I take in all the feedback from our metrics, our customers, team members, and the boss to decide what's the next most important thing we should build. I push back on business needs when our scope starts to grow too big. I push back on the engineering team when we don't complete work in a satisfactory way. I'm responsible for the success or failure of the product.

I enjoy the job, but it's not something I would consider easy. It's not something where I spend a lot of time looking busy and doing nothing. I could. That would make me a bad product guy.

There are many ways to skin a cat. The difference between a bad product guy and a good product guy is that the good one finds a better way to skin a cat. A good product guy improves the lives of all the stakeholders in the product.
I know it sounds crazy, but I'd love a free option. A 1 person project doesn't make a lot of sense in any case other than as a test for the product. From that view, a free option doesn't seem like a big deal. I think of it like having a racing bike I can't take out of the house. I can see all that it does, try it out, but to really use it I'll get a paid account.
Startups spend their money on marketing and 'social media'....
When the script is run the second time, it will show that every site was visited. After the first visit, guess its cached and cannot figure out if its a hit or a fail :)

Running in Chrome's incognitive mode is a bit different though. only 7 show up cached the first time its run.
What about a co-op of sorts? You could take your cut while people are donating, and then you give back the extra money in the form of a voucher or something that can be applied to another crowdsourced project (that way you don't have to exchange it back to their account and get hit with the transaction fee going back in).
It's beautiful, the video is great, but I don't see myself using this instead of the other thousands of project management tools. What does it do differently? In what will it make my life easier? Is it for developers or managers (or everyone..?) Basically, why should I use this instead of trello or asana? (To name only 2 out of 1000 project management tools).
They aren't paid to do. They are paid to be. Somebody with hiring authority thinks that business analysts are needed, so business analysts get hired.

As the article says, not all of them are useless. Some business analysts provide very valuable insight, and a manager who has come into contact with one of those will want to hire more of them. By the intangible nature of their value though, it can be hard to judge whether you've hired a good one or a leech.
>Look at an HTC phone. There's no way one can mistakenly think that it's an iPhone.

True. If you mistook my G2 for an iPhone I'd say you need needed your eyes checked. Nevertheless, looking at the list from The Verge, I think there's an argument that it violates all but one of them:

- Rectangular with rounded corners (check)

- Centered screen with lateral borders (check)

- Horizontal speaker slot (check)

- Front surface with limited adornment. Well, beyond the elements an iPhone has (speaker slot and trackpad/home button) it has a T-Mobile logo and the 4 lite-up capacative Android buttons. IIRC, this is just like a US Galaxy S2 (the international version, which my wife has, drops the search button). Without the example of the SGS2, I'd say HTC was in the clear here, but...

The only "suggestion" HTC has clearly followed with the G2 is that between the metal bezel and the gray bumper below it, the front surface isn't entirely black.

In other words, the design rights Apple is asserting are astonishingly broad.
sales. their sales team is massive and expensive. Zynga pours money into acquisitions and marketing. They have more than enough talent to produce formulaic games and generate profit but instead choose to keep spending.
I think the DC subway system is cleaner than the NYC subway system, but I don't think it has anything to do with the food policies. For one, I have never seen food refuse in the NYC subway. I think the biggest difference is scale and number of riders: the DC metro has about 700,000 riders on a weekday, while the NYC subway has about 5.1 million. (From Wikipedia.)
"The Mature Programmer would say that "clever code is almost always dangerous code". But fuck him. The problem is that when you get carried away with being "mature" you suck the joy right out coding."

I counter this with the following:

Fuck the joy of programming. On every occasion I've seen a multi-million dollar project crash and burn it was directly attributable to PM's lending credence to developers bitching about "boring" technology.

Here's the real joy of professional coding: 40 hour work weeks with no after-hours crisis pager. The only way you get those is through a rock solid codebase that's so boring you can ramp up the new guy in two days.
A thought struck me that I find amazing. New Horizon's is traveling over 2.6x the distance from the Earth to the Moon in a day. Average distance is 384403km. NH is moving faster than 1 million km per day.

It took the Apollo crafts about 3 days and 4 hours to reach the Moon (specifically 3 days, 3 hours, 49 minutes).

Even at New Horizon's speed, it takes 10 years to reach Pluto.

Damn, space is big.