skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It looks neat, but it does look like you have to think in mapreduce, which is a big barrier of entry for most people.
I think it is instead a bad company that runs people. Just because C/Net tends to attract morally ambiguous people who have no qualms twisting the facts to suit their marketing/business campaigns is a side effect of their mission statement, "As leading destinations for the information and entertainment people crave(1), we don't just support lifestyles – we help define them(2)." via http://www.cbsinteractive.com/company_info.php

NOTE: They are in the CBS Interactive brand portfolio.

(1) Meaning media=software downloads for Downloads.com

(2) Through bundling malware which customers wouldn't intentionally install otherwise.
I like ZeroCater, but "[t]he team that eats together stays together" is BS in my book.
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I agree that it's not super useful when comparing storage systems. Though, in debugging a nibble is one hex digit of a byte which is useful. It's also the next largest cs unit. If you would have said the next largest commonly used unit to measure storage it would have been fairly clear. I just wanted to educate the younger readers(probably not you) about another way to look at bytes and bits. Cheers.
How else are new users supposed to find out? Man pages are often poorly written and unhelpful. Indeed, calling the utility 'man' instead of 'help' is unhelpful.
Post it. I have data to the contrary.
I have only just looked at this service, but it may be exactly what I'm looking for. I see a lot of advice against operating your own mail server, and while SES might work for outgoing you're still screwed for incoming. Thank you for this, I'll check it out more!
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Thanks for the submit techvibes. We're counting on t-shirts doing their part!
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He is saying wrapping nmap was a mistake because they aren't supposed to do that with open source software. Therefore I would conclude that anything non-open-source is fair game.
It's the result of actual people making decisions about what to say.
I know a few cases where people have sold gift cards above market value. Mostly it's because the purchaser is unable to buy from the shop because of their location, credit card brand or other enforced block.

Many online games for instance block purchases from Israel due to the large amount of fraud. Israels will then purchase game cards on ebay (often above market value) from people who bought them in North America.
How did 51 people on here get more than $11m out of their ownership? Calling BS w/o references.
OK, I'm going to expose my ignorance here, but what do you mean by "running balance"? My understanding of the term is that it's roughly equivalent to "current balance" which Mint does indeed give. I've never been hit with fees due to any misinformation on Mint's part.
I did almost exactly the same thing on one of my websites (screenshots showing the user what to click on to complete the download).

I started getting customer support requests complaining that the "Download window could not be clicked on and was stuck to the web page".

Turns out users thought that the explanatory screenshots were the ACTUAL download dialogs and they were trying to click the images in the web page. Oops.

Turns out I needed to resize the screenshots and discolor them slightly so it was obvious they were the REAL buttons to click.

Lesson learned.
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There was a big hype a while back about how people just wanted to keep it "real". And they would say all kinds of things that, while possibly true, possibly honest, were not constructive or helpful. I love this word "sincere" because it means honest but with a connotation of construction and well-intention. I think if you want to pick whether to be honest or sincere the latter will probably take you a lot further, other things held equal.
For a $1 app? It's still astounding what agonizing great lengths a customer will go through in order to decide for or against a $1-5 app purchase. A latte apparently has higher value than a piece of software you'll likely use at least a little bit longer than your latte.
git GUIs on windows are all pretty weak, but the git command line and git bash work perfectly well.

my experience with git GUIs in general (regardless of the OS) is that you should just give up and use the CLI.
pquerna's guess is a reasonable one, though I don't know the authentication mechanisms, either.

Here are some other wild guesses that may have little or no resemblance to what Verizon is experiencing, but kind of show what can bring down an Internet-like network:

* Some sort of configuration fat-finger that got rolled out everywhere without proper testing. You'd like to think that's impossible on this scale, but after having an insider's look at the operations of a couple major US cable companies, I put nothing past telecoms.

* Verizon probably runs some form of routing protocol internally. If a core router has gone insane, you could, conceivably, get route flapping and bring down pretty much everything, but that's not supposed to happen on carrier-grade equipment (cough see previous paragraph).

* In a closely related scenario, large portions of the public Internet have been brought to their knees at least once by a nasty BGP bug in a major vendor's routers that got triggered when somebody broadcast just the right set of options in their announcement. Picture a guy in upstate New York trying to route around a bad line card, and suddenly the US goes dark because half the routers crash when they got the BGP table update.

You can probably spot a common theme here -- a "decentralized" but homogenous network is still vulnerable to the triggering of problems shared by all points.
Reminds me of the Human Giant TV News sketch...
http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/8a81dd6b88/human-giant-mont...
Maybe, but you can't change the past, so why not change the future? The haters (righteous or otherwise) get to take their potshots in the history books.
Thanks for the response. I disagree though:)

Simplistic doesn't have to have a negative connotation. Infact the word simplistic can have, and very often does, a very positive connotation.

Perhaps I'm just getting the definition of pejorative wrong?
I think he's one of the best guitarists out there today, but his reputation is really mired by the way people perceive his antics off stage.
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I would be highly suspicious of the greater than $11M category. You'd have to have one hell of an exit to get $11M as an employee and according to the poll about 1 / 16 people on hacker news have been through this or more. From my experience and those of my peers I'd put it at somewhere betwen 1/100 (being extremely optimistic) to 1/1000 (probably still being optimistic) - and yes there are the google, facebook etc. stories but for each there are the 1000 other untold stories that didn't pay anything sizeable.
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Perhaps you would like to provide some of your reasoning behind that statement?

Certainly in my somewhat limited experience coworkers who are friends generally work better together and are more likely to ride out the bad times.

The theory goes that eating together is a natural environment for people to establish a rapport that carries through to their working relationship.
It certainly goes to show how lethal these weapons were, through two houses, bounced a few times, and even into a mini van. They would have been monstorously lethal on the battlefield, just imagine ranks of soldiers rather than a house.
It really depends on what you're looking to learn, but if it's "pitfalls in financing startups", I'd start here:

http://www.grellas.com/resources.html
There's also some interesting stats on Mochi Media's site:

http://www.mochimedia.com/zeitgeist
Note: I never used linq-to-sql, but in my experience EF (especially with the code-first stuff) is a decent, lightweight, and highly usable.
Sorry if I'm misunderstanding your request, but maybe ghostery is what you want

http://www.ghostery.com/download
Gates implies liquid approaches to nuclear are hard compared to TerraPower 23 mins into the TED talk. Liquid as in LFTR (Liquid Flouride Thorium Reactor)?
Do you have as many data points as Trevor does, though? Just curious since this would be impressive in itself.
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You probably haven't read enough. It really depends on your goals and what you are trying to learn (or whether you are trying to learn at all). Doing is great and it's how you get things done but not everything can be learnt in a few short articles. It also depends on what you are reading too. Reading within a narrow field or an echo chamber can only take you so far. Reading and discovering new ideas can completely transform your entire way of thinking.

Personally, I've set myself the arduous task of mastering English. If you are reading for less than half your day, you will probably never get there with that one.

Written language is a wonderful tool for understanding the past. If you think you know everything there is to know about the past you are indisputably wrong.
Al from EmailYak here - I'm happy that people are finding the service useful as it looks now, but we're also going to overhaul our design and explain the service better. Here's a sneak preview:

http://alabut.com/projects/emailyak/home.png
I use cygwin's git and it's fine.

From the cmd.exe prompt, some of them are still working, as long as the cygwin bin folder is in the PATH variable, and the executables end with .exe, and are not cygwin symlinks (the file would be very small and contain something like !<symlink ...>) - then they won't execute, but you can still execute them from cmd.exe, like this:

sh -c "gitk --all"

Hopefully git is still normal executable (gcc is not, for that: sh -c "gcc --help"

C:> gcc --help

Access is denied.

C:> sh -c "gcc --help"

... Help displayed
I'm straight up evil.
cygwin's gitk works just fine. (or sh -c "git gui")
Um, why are we upvoting this dreadful stereotype of a developer (dickie bow, nerd glasses, and "slow cars, sharp crayons, awkward silences") Puhlease!
Does anyone have experience doing this in Python stack?
There's already a wonderful tool that you can use... Git Bash :)
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You're right. He's "only" the Chairman.
Alternatives to advertising:

- Patronage. It's how the arts survived for the first 2-3000 years of civilization.

- Mechanical royalties / automated syndication. It's how musical performances are licensed currently.

- Live performance. Asses in seats.

- Mixed-model revenues. The Economist splits its revenue share roughly into thirds of subscriptions, ads, and bespoke services (the Economist Intelligence Unit).

- Memberships. Public broadcasting, Consumer Reports, and similar systems rely on contributions and pledges.

- Mandatory licensing -- the BBC television tax model. I'm not arguing that it's a free market system, however it's demonstrably worked and fairly well for nearly 85 years.

There are a lot of models. Mass-market advertising applied well to mass-media broadcasting. It's been heavily pursued online, though advertising rates (low), click-through metrics (phenomenally low), technical means of avoidance (readily available if not widely applied), audience dispersal (high) all suggest it's not exactly a resounding success.

I'm not so convinced HN is as anti-corporate as you claim, though I'd color myself that way. It's that there's a very high level of technical expertise -- far more than is necessary to be aware of and successfully deploy ad blocking. Without both factors, you'll find low utilization of same, even with a high anti-corporate bent -- which isn't all that rare, really.

I'll stand by my first point: the general public is fearful and highly ignorant of the technology they use in general. Show me some stats to the contrary and I might find this conversation more interesting.
Though my company handed me a BlackBerry, I still use my iPhone. If IT depts lose faith in RIM's ability to meet the enterprise, they've got nuthin' left IMHO.
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If mastering English is your goal, then reading == doing
Grocery store giftcards aren't really for presents, they're more for situations like parents ensuring a college student is spending money on food.
After using Tower on Mac you may change your mind. If there was a client like that on Windows it would win. Currently hg integrates cleanly and more of a svn replacement since it is more open. Note: I code mainly on osx but some .net only on windows.

I always thought it was cool that Mercurial is written in Python, part of that cross platform magic.
Does anyone else see the irony here?
I worked for a company that got three offers for acquisition, all of which were talent grabs:

- One really high offer from a social network. Talks fell through.

- One reasonable offer from a relatively unknown company (which they took, good culture fit).

- One completely terrible offer from a major tech company, with incredibly high salaries afterwards.

The first one would have been the best for investors, and good for the employees, except the culture fit wasn't quite there. The second was a great culture fit, but wasn't that great for the investors (especially considering it was a cash-and-stock deal and the stock tanked). The third would have been a fantastic deal for the employees and a slap in the face to investors (which is why they didn't take it).

It's funny how easy it is to take the asshole route when it comes down to it.
It doesn't matter. My point was that at one point in his life he was intimately part of a decision making structure that killed some great companies like Borland and Netscape to name but two. And now he seems to be Mr. Awesome. That I find bizarre. It's a bit like the early and late Wittgenstein, something has happened to the man.
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MVC has to be one of the most non-skunkworks projects in Microsoft history. Scott Guthrie (senior management) was involved from the very beginning, and there were frequent preview and beta releases through the entire development cycle. Couldn't have been more open, both inside and outside of Microsoft. Maybe there's another meaning of skunkworks I'm not aware of?

Also, FWIW, a lot of Microsoft's biggest public facing sites run on ASP.NET MVC now, so even if you assumed a lot of stupidity or evilness, there's a lot of inertia behind ASP.NET MVC.
The problem with Amazon is that you become very, very aware of the items not on Amazon. I recently got an Amazon gift card and realized that I can't get an iPhone.
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I'm pretty sure that .NET developers won't take away from its awesomeness. Quite the contrary, I think that if more .NET developers are opening up to how things work outside of their environment, we'll see a lot more openness and collaboration coming from .NET devs.

And then maybe this whole us versus them thing will stop.

There is nothing genious about MVC3

As a Python developer, I don't think there's anything genius about Ruby on Rails either. It's just a bunch of borrowed features that were added with good taste + marketing + community enhancements. Overall the whole package is great, but it does stand on the shoulders of giants nonetheless. Borrowing stuff is not a sin - if anything I blame Microsoft for the often displayed NIH syndrome.
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Which is really sad when you consider the problem. API accepts SMS and inserts into database; workers take queue from database and action against SMS gateways (works in reverse for messages going the other way).

How can this be that difficult to do?
I hope they don't try to include something like this in ACTA to bring it across to the EU
I should read up on it, maybe it's a pattern? Once your basic needs are totally covered and once the guilt sets in you start to give a little something back? Dunno. Wish more people were like those robber barons and the later Bill Gates in that case. Especially with the way income inequality's been going.
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I never had them until my mid-20s, but apparently a lot of people's only experience of brussels sprouts is boiled to death, which allegedly increases their bitterness. I've had them roasted, and they were reasonably good.
Agreed - if someone enjoys their startup life, more power to them in that there is nothing that pays better than enjoying your situation. For someone who is looking at it as a financial play but sitting in a startup that is grinding them down to nothing, they are most likely making an extremely bad investment.
I don't get this sentiment--it completely ignores the differences between mature and fledgling startups.

It's clearly not all unicorns and cupcakes, but there's a difference between "work for us at 2/3rds market plus 1%" and "we're VC-backed, work for us at market and get health plus other nice perks." Startups are not uniform.
As a fellow smart, hard-working, nerdy introvert, let me add another bullet point (or perhaps a sub-point under "humility"): personal ethics.

I grew up with a serious aversion to bullshit in all of its forms. Especially when it verged on outright lying. All too often, I'd seen hucksterish, self-promoting coworkers tell bald-faced lies about their work, their accomplishments, their positions, etc., and get massively rewarded for doing so. I couldn't bring myself to do it. Consciously, I knew that bullshitting about myself -- even just a tiny bit -- was a successful career ascension tactic. And I knew that not doing so was, perhaps, actively slowing me down. But damn it, it just felt so fake and slimy and wrong.

Eventually -- and it's taken me more years to learn this fact than I feel comfortable admitting -- I realized that bullshit is not binary. There isn't some black-or-white dichotomy between "lying" and "telling the truth." In between lies an entire spectrum, and some of that spectrum is safe to play in. Even encouraged.

It's possible to sell yourself with only a drop of bullshit. Sort of like a fine layer of rhetorical polish. It's not about fabricating accomplishments out of whole cloth, but rather, about talking your real accomplishments up, and describing them in just the right way. For a lot of people, finding that level of just-the-right-amount-of-bullshit comes very naturally. For others, like myself, it's a skill that needs to be learned.
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You really think this would be true across a spectrum of companies with different funding situations, different revenue streams, and different user bases?
The Supreme Court does not "legalize" anything. They interpret existing laws and decide on their legality. They can't shoot it down just because it sucks. Their decision is based on whether or not the law runs afoul of the Constitution. Don't like the law? Blame the a-holes who wrote it. Better yet, try to get it changed.
The hosts don't "creatively try to prove things true or false". They use science.
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That's fine, I'm just surprised you'd make such a sweeping generalization. Not all BigCos are the same--why would all startups be the same?

I'm not a startup cheerleader -- "come change the world!" is the most overused pitch line ever -- but there are tons of examples (37signals, some YC teams, some of the larger NY startups) countering this generalization.
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Joel Spolsky made a good case for eating lunch together in a blog post earlier this year: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2011/04/28.html

There are many cultures, too, in which eating together has a lot of significance for a relationship. It's a very basic biological necessity that I think has deep, tribal roots as a bonding experience.

I think it can be especially important for nerds, too, in that we're not gregarious or socially outgoing by nature.
Wired article on it: http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2011/12/senate-military-dete...
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Anonymous video on it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrXyLrTRXso&sns=em
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It is SICP for me.

Design Patterns are only needed if your language is not powerful enough.

In assembler subroutines and classes are design patterns.
I believe their exit strategy is to be acquired by Amazon or someone of their scale. They drive their entire platform on Amazon AWS and the Rackspace cloud system, and Jeff (one of the Twilio co-founders) was previously the product manager for AWS.

I went to both Twiliocon and interviewed with Twilio. They're very smart guys, but the problem is that its a race to the bottom. Their idea is innovative (webapps <-> telco integration), but anyone can do it once they learn how to handle the SMS messages between the web and the carrier gateways, as well as how to handle call flows with Asterisk or Freeswitch.

Also, to me, it appears they're swimming upstream. Everyone else is moving towards unlimited voice/sms, while they're trying to stick to per minute/per sms rates (even for their VoIP offering!).

Awesome idea, excellent execution, not a long term business model.
To add to your point about the justices, Chief Justice Roberts is on the record for saying that it is not unusual for him to go through 20-25 drafts before he signs off his opinion on a case. You can watch him saying that here: http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/286078-1

His says this around 42:45 min into the video.
lol, yeah. That makes more sense, thanks :)
lightweight? seriously?

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It's a headache for those who don't like to eat lunch.
It's very... sanguine of you to think the Supreme Court is full of bloodless rationalists, computers that read statutes and, via sheer force of deductive reasoning, come to a conclusion.

In reality, the Supreme Court is supremely political, and they regularly do shoot down a law because they think it sucks or approve a law because shooting it down would make people angry.
> As others have mentioned, Apple disallows time bombs

Yes, I did not know this. I don't understand the reason behind this rule, but as a user I find time-limited trials annoying. I prefer to have a trial version where I can use all the functionality but with a limited amount of data. For example, a task management app may restrict the number of tasks I can create. This way, hitting the limit is a good indication that the app is useful for me. Hitting a time limit doesn't actually mean anything, while crippling the functionality itself means I can't really try out the app.

> you now have a bunch of customers running with Foo, except with Foo Pro functions unlocked. And you also have a bunch of customers running around with just Foo Pro.

What I suggest is to not have Foo Pro at all. Just one version, Foo, which is free and can be unlocked.

> The second part of this mess is that, unlike app purchases, users cannot see which in-app purchases they already own.

I agree this is a mess, but remember that not too long ago there was no way to see app purchases either. So there is some hope this information will be added soon.