skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But, should the entire website be taken out of a dns just because one/ten people using the website are using it in an illegal way? That's what SOPA will do, and that's why it's bad.

Due process is good :)
Right, and that's why (most) cities have building codes.

Right, and that's why it's only profitable to strip mine for equity if you engage in fraud to avoid the building codes.
after reading visitorjs.com thread i asked myself WHY

Question: who would pay 10 bucks a month for using a js file for 30K requests?
Durham (American Tobacco Campus) is home to TriHUG, one of the best Hadoop Users Group in the south.

There's a great crop of young, vibrant startups in Durham and Raleigh that are thriving and hiring.

It's a lot more than IBM, SAS, Microsoft and Cisco here. You just have to look a little harder.
If you have 1 dyno, heroku spins that dyno down after 20-30 minutes of inactivity.

Also, there are services out there that will monitor your queue depth and increase your dyno count for you. Or, you could use the heroku gem to do that yourself.
With JIRA, I find that entering tasks takes far too long, it's quite jarring to my workflow. When I notice bugs, I want to enter them as quick as possible and then continue with my day, I don't want to spend 5 minutes entering a bug, so this becomes a bit of a deal breaker to me.
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The converse doesn't need to be true. If ghetto ⊂ high-crime area, then an algorithm that avoids high crime areas avoids ghettos, regardless of whether high-crime area = or ⊂ ghetto. The converse only affects whether it would be accurate to say that a ghetto-avoiding algorithm avoids high-crime areas.
Why does it matter, given the conversation.
The uptick after 120 characters would seem to be the natural 'long tail' of the graph, if Twitter didn't have the character limit. Instead of trailing off those people are forced into condensing their tweet down to 140.
Hypothetically, if you're close enough to the border, you can pay for e.g. a DISH Network subscription at a US address and bring the equipment across. I'm neither Canadian nor a border patrol officer, so I can't say how common or effective this strategy would be.
This has been posted before, but for those who haven't read it Peter Norvig has an excellent article on Sudoku solving algorithms.

http://norvig.com/sudoku.html
Valley = Cleavage.
The "Chernobyl biker" was/is Elena Filatova a.k.a. "KiddOfSpeed":

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elena_Filatova

I believe this thread is where the hoax was first exposed:

http://www.uer.ca/forum_showthread_archive.asp?threadid=8951
Does fiction count?

- Steve Jobs, the biography (edition is bad, lots of repeated passages and phrases and phrases, but the story itself is great)
- Ender's Game (better at human psychology than Lord of the Flies)

On the "biggest letdowns" ranking:
- Lean Startup (shallow and basically a recollection of common sense stuff)
- Game of Thrones series (I tried, then tried, then tried again. Not my kind of fiction, I guess)
This seems unlikely due to the taxes and paperwork expense of transferring property even with no brokerage fees.

I really don't see how the social network proves wrong doing.

I'm actually worried that an overzealous prosecutor and advocacy group prosecuted people who were not guilty.

Obviously I don't know all the details so maybe they should be convicted, but they weren't provided, so it is hard for me to evaluate.
It's not popular belief, but the result of applying a bit of game theory to the negotiation: http://stevehanov.ca/blog/index.php?id=67
Do you happen to know how much tour company bills for such trip?
Exactly. The OP's version can be described as these choices:

- A 10% chance of losing (you don't get any money).

- A 10% chance of winning (you don't lose any money).

These two are options are in no way equivalent. In your version, you have:

- 10% chance of losing (you don't get $1,000).

- 10% chance of losing (you have to pay $1,000).

These situations are comparable and can be used to test the framing effect.
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> The salary approved for this position is 0.8Y

So you start by lying to the interviewee? That's the beginning of a great relationship.
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"A solution would be to know which is a computer and which is a real user, it's not impossible to do so."

It seems like you have revolutionary knowledge that could change the course of human history. Or you're just trolling. Since you are not pointing to any actual approaches and hundreds of thousands of engineers have not yet come up with what to you is just "a solution" that doesn't even require further specification, I will go with trolling.

Figuring out remotely whether you are dealing with "a human" without any interaction (or, particularly, interaction less than a captcha, or even -gasp!- a two word captcha) is very definitely impossible. Think about it - how do you know whether it's a human? Well, you say, the black box device that he is sitting at has made sure that he is! And how does that machine transmit data to you? Over that data line that this supposed human is sitting right next... I guess you will see where I'm going with this.
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I Love this video. Especially his story about keeping burn low as much as possible. One such example of when he did that was when sawed down some desks so more could fit in the same space (i.e. fit more salespeople in the same square footage)- and many of his employees didn't even realize at first.

Love it.
I'm with this guy. I'm not much of an OO fan myself. There's too much evangelizing in the tch community. People are out defending their languages, frameworks, styles, and trying to convert others as if it were a religion. It used to be fun to read about all that but now it's really frustrating as sometimes you can't even have a decent conversation about such topics without people getting overly emotional... Like when you talk about religion.

The reason I mention this is because most people I know do nothing but OO programming and I've seen nothing but people defaulting to either OOP or functional because that's what "good" programmers are supposed to do. I agree with a lot of his points especially the part about the code being convoluted. Sometimes it's harder to figure out what's going on by chasing down classes and their members than it should be.

I'm not afraid to write procedural code at all. I've had people thumb their nose at me for writing procedural code claiming it would be more "elegant" or readable if it was OO. I don't care about elegance and the code is still readable. Their real problem is this snottiness they've developed after learning how program in an OO way. If it works and it works well, and it's maintainable then who gives a damn if it'd OO or procedural or a bunch of include statements linked to files each with a single function in them or something. That's not to say I don't write OO code. I do. When it's the right choice. But when I read an article like this I'm reminded of all the programmers who default to language x, framework x, style x, and platform x because "that's what good programmers do" as if bad programmers don't write OO or functional code. Come on.
* No economy bubble burst in europe

* G+ doesn't go anywhere, but doesn't shut down just yet

* More failed IPOs will make mass media call it "a different 2k bubble"

* Incubator/accelerator bubble burst (specially outside USA)

* Facebook phone

* Facebook credits for physical stuff will face-off with Paypal

* Obvious Facebook IPO

* Groupon files for bankruptcy

* Nintendo declares yet another year of losses, doesn't die (yet)

* The year of Linux on the Desktop (just kidding)
Mongrel2's ZMQ protocol was designed for lightweight messages against async handlers. Instead of a synchronous ZMQ REQ/REP pair that this nginx module uses, Mongrel2 used a combination PUSH/PULL sockets to send the request, and PUB/SUB to get a response.

Say you want to map /chat to a handler. Mongrel2 opens a PUSH socket, and a SUB socket connecting to one or more chat handlers. The handlers open a PULL and PUB socket. Mongrel2 will spread requests to /chat across the available handlers, and receive all published responses. It's a pretty smart way to handle multiple handlers receiving requests at the same time. It's been a while since I looked at Mongrel2, so it's very possible I have some of the details wrong...
That's what she said :(
Dubious tax advice aside, I've never worked at a company where the contractors are treated equally to the full time employees. I would never work as a contractor simply because you are setting yourself up as a 2nd class citizen.
oh, right http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elena_Filatova

'Chernobyl tour guide Yuri Tatarchuk claimed that Filatova "booked a tour, wore a leather biker jacket and posed for pictures.' LOL

Yeah, there are legal trips to Czarnobyl and lots of photos from the place (although you can't enter with vehicles), that's why I was curious what is the hoax about.
... and Google bought them and made the team millions of dollars? Yeah, that YouTube.
The people who are likely to be scared into shutting up shop all together will be smaller distributors of independent or amateur content.

I would be saddened if the Internet became like the high street circa 1996 with a few large companies and producers setting the agenda for what we will watch and listen to.

That's exactly what we have to worry about, and exactly what old-school content providers have been fighting for ever since the Internet was created.

We use YouTube and the App Store as examples that appeal to the common person's awareness of the Internet, but we have to be far more concerned about the effects of SOPA/PIPA/etc. on the next YouTube.
Good point. I'm often surprised at how many of my tweets are exactly 140 chars (after condensing, to your point).
I'd second that. You want to say in the Bay Area. Also as a young person SF would be a lot better for him than Palo Alto. Palo Alto and the South Bay is a suburb where developers go to start their families.
You say you don't mention a number, but saying "I'm in the 90's" is basically the equivalent of saying "I make $90,000" as far as the negotiation is concerned.
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OT/Meta: comments that consist solely of "Could you elaborate" or "Please explain" without quoting from and referring to the original idea may be perceived as a lazy way of pretending to engage in the conversation, while placing the burden of actual communication entirely on the other party.
It seems as if the true owner of the property wasn't changing, but just the name of the nominal owner on the paper. Control stayed with the same group.
Clicky (getclicky.com) has a script you can hit to log visits from the backend. Not sure if there is a gem for it, but its as easy as open(url with args) and it records the visit.

Can log custom info, goals, conversions, revenue etc.

I use them for "normal" js site tracking, and now for app tracking without JS and couldn't be happier.
Yes, the same Youtube that sold for $1.65 billion several years before an unsuccessful lawsuit.
Yes, I would learn to fly a plane from a book.

Pain isn't necessarily a bad thing and doesn't necessarily mean 'damage is already occurring'.

If you are remotely in touch with your own body and athletic you can teach yourself yoga from books/youtube/podcasts. The best progress I had doing yoga was when I was living in Taiwan and 90% of the class was in Mandarin (which I don't speak). It caused me to focus more and listen to my body.
TriDUG too, the Southeast's largest Drupal user's group outside of Atlanta.
Sorry, in all my excitement I never saw that upload button. I think this is a great selling point for your product. Now that you have mentioned it, I can see it sitting there as plain as day :)
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The point is, there are other possible outcomes.

None of which are good. Either the site is taken down, an onerous burden is placed on the site owner to do the copyright owners' job of policing content, or yet another arbitrarily enforced law sits on the books, waiting for some enterprising media exec or prosecutor to contort it around their case of the day.
Wait, maybe I'm late to the party - purchased Instapaper over a year ago for $4.99 on my iPad - does Marco want to charge me a renewing fee now for my use of his server time? I suppose that's fair, but it is a change of policy and I'm wondering why he can't let early adopters get a free ride (I paid money after all) because we supported him in the beginning before he was popular...
True. Student loans would help out here, wouldn't they?
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The problem with that question, to me, is that the 10% difference in outcome is nearly inconsequential. By the time I'm losing (or gaining) $900, what's another $100? If the proportions were different, I think the question would be more interesting.
It seems likely that the prosecutor was able to document that the finances didn't make sense without the participation of 'Heather' and great deals from 'Moe'.
While I'm very much interested in a technical solution/workaround to SOPA (with community support), I'm also liking this answer. I might have to look at doing the same thing.
I've lived in Brooklyn for eleven years, Manhattan for three years before that. I grew up in Chicago, went to school in Pittsburgh and have spent significant time in Sydney and San Francisco.

I don't think you can do wrong by coming to NYC, but I also don't think you'll necessarily do better here than in SF or Pittsburgh or Austin or wherever.

Assume your startup fails entirely: where do you want to end up living? NYC is great, but you'll definitely burn through cash faster here (or in SF) than in a cheaper city. SF has a lot going for it, but will you really be there or in the Valley?

Rather than ask people to justify why one city or another is better, why not list the criteria you're using to make your decision?
Cookies are very different - you can control how your browser handles them, and you can delete them. The Android ID cannot be changed (although if you root your phone you might be able to - not sure about that)
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The Library of Congress should step into the "super library" role as authoritative archive, with the Internet Archive serving as DR/backup; buy the content once, and heavily subsidize Kindle-esqe devices ($79 currently from Amazon, buying tens of millions at a time should be able to drive the price below $30/piece) to distribute.

Turn libraries across the country (world?) into collaborative meeting/working/co-working space.
There's a lot of sentiment in the HN comments that he should not leave university. For a community that is fairly bent on restructuring the education system, I have to ask: what gives? Is going to college worth it or not?
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The only thing I can think of is:

10th Enemy Has the Bomb
$600: http://rt.com/news/prime-time/chernobyl-tourist-destination-... (Legal fallout bans Chernobyl zone tourism)(2011-NOV-25)
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The constitution and other agreements on human/civil rights are frequently violated by the American government. Why do you expect this case to be any different?

(My favourite example is that America hasn't had a constitutionally-authorized war since World War II. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Declaration_of_war_by_the_Unit...)
Would an intelligent computer have a "right to life"?
for a long time, the patent office required little models of the thing to be patented. it was a huge pain in the ass, but seems like a worthwhile requirement.
Yeah, I'm honestly not sure how gumroad does that - I'm sure he has something worked out.

Visa and Mastercard don't allow what's called "aggregation" which really just means collecting money as a middleman for the transaction.

If anyone knows how he has worked around that, I'd be interested in learning about it... ;-)
If someone had some experience with pascal triangle, they could come up with a very efficient solution, that might put them at a advantage. If the interviewer valued efficient solutions.

So far
dspeyer, has one of the most efficient algorithms.

def pascal(i):
o=[1]
for j in xrange(1,i):
o.append(o[-1] * (i - j) / j)
return o

in ruby this could be

def pascal2(i)
o=[1]
i += 1
for j in 1.upto(i - 1 )
o << o[-1] * (i - j)/j
end
o
end

we could make it even more efficient if we remember a there is symmetry in a pascal triangle. So that we don't have to calculate all the values in a row, maybe just half of the values. We have to calculate the row a little different if it is even or odd in number.

def pascal(i)
o=[1]
i += 1
if i == 1 then
return o
end
i.even? ? d = i / 2 - 1 : d = i / 2
for j in 1.upto(d )
o << o[-1] * (i - j)/j
end
o[0..i/2] + o[0..i/2 - 1].reverse
end

So far it up to 2x as fast. I wrote this method in Ruby to time the different methods, pascal, pascal2.

def timeA(m,n)
begin_time = Time.now
send(m,n)
end_time = Time.now
p "Time elapased #{(end_time - begin_time)*1000} milliseconds"
end

these are the times I get

ruby-1.9.2-p290 :037 > timeA('pascal2',40000)
"Time elapased 949.9490000000001 milliseconds"
=> "Time elapased 949.9490000000001 milliseconds"
ruby-1.9.2-p290 :038 > timeA('pascal',40000)
"Time elapased 470.48699999999997 milliseconds"
=> "Time elapased 470.48699999999997 milliseconds"
ruby-1.9.2-p290 :039 > timeA('pascal',80000)
"Time elapased 1776.224 milliseconds"
=> "Time elapased 1776.224 milliseconds"
ruby-1.9.2-p290 :040 > timeA('pascal2',80000)
"Time elapased 5722.419000000001 milliseconds"
=> "Time elapased 5722.419000000001 milliseconds"
ruby-1.9.2-p290 :041 > timeA('pascal',200000)
"Time elapased 160416.34199999998 milliseconds"
=> "Time elapased 160416.34199999998 milliseconds"
ruby-1.9.2-p290 :042 > timeA('pascal2',200000)
"Time elapased 235113.38 milliseconds"
=> "Time elapased 235113.38 milliseconds"
I immediately thought of Half-Life 2.
The lack of outrage over this is...saddening.
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Some more books list

http://www.infoknol.com/category/books/
Good point, but we have tried (unsuccessfully so far) to contact a random sample of these users, with no response so far. So that's another question mark.
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People watch the EPL all around the world, not just in the UK.
Why would the tenants continue to live there? Most cities have landlord/tenant regulations that tilt towards (if not strongly favor) the tenants. I would have just moved out.
I actually attended the last one, and this one is on my calendar so I plan to be there. Hopefully I'll see you there!
If you can find a video of recent (last 30 years) of state sponsored public short drop hanging (or any other equally barbaric) execution from the US I will demand the “liberation” of the US. Right here on the internet. And we will both have made it a better place to live for our children and our children’s children. Question, by whom would you like to be liberated?

Do I think the US is "spreading and expanding its joyful way of life throughout the world"... for sure ... the video by @nextparadigms shows it clearly.
Oh... you meant the aggressive post WWII US foreign policy? Afgan, Iraq, Vietnam, South Korea ... Or proxy type operations via war or CIA operations ... Afgan, Iran, Cuba, Nicaragua, East Tmor etc. Yes, the US has most definitely tried to spread its joyful view of the world, and some of these were clear crimes against humanity, some not so clear. For those that were I demand short drop public hangings for. How effective my demands are is yet to be seen. Sadly they also need to be viewed in context of global tensions and all interventions by the US have been par for the course as far as geopolitical maneuvering that all of the great powers have been doing since the dawn of history. Does it make them “right”? No it does not. Am I thankful the US is the primary power and holds a sphere control over the majority of the world? Absolutely!!! Just like Rome, the US does not really impose much on its protectorates and lets them govern as they see fit as long as they keep paying their dues, eg. Europe, Japan, South Korea, Australia, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Israel, Iraq, Afgan. These areas could very well have fallen very different regimes that have records that make the US look like kittens. It’s a complex dog eat dog world, and just because you live a peaceful existence in your neck of the woods does not mean that a genghis khan is not about to ride over the hill have wipe you from history.
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Alas, unfortunately it's not that cut and dry. We're SaaS, and were able to get through 4 or 5 releases of our app without Apple seeming to care about our model. Eventually we got a rejection stating that our application would be pulled if we didn't remove a reference to our website from the app (we can collect payment information on our website if you log in with an account you've created on the phone). The app reviewer stated that we should look into implementing IAP subscriptions.

Since we didn't want to confuse our customers by giving them no information on how to subscribe, and the app store is a valuable marketing channel, we decided to implement auto-renewable IAP subscriptions per Apple's recommendation and documentation but got rejected for having the wrong purchasability type. We then had to go implement non-renewable subscriptions (which are more complicated and provide a worse user experience, in my opinion) and got approved for sale.

One of our developers filed a bug report with Apple about the documentation regarding purchasability types and received a response that they would improve it. I guess I'm fine with sharing revenue with Apple if they make it really easy for users to subscribe (which IAP certainly does), but it'd be nice to understand the Right Way from the beginning.
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Great list. I've been a big fan of MUJI for years, so it was nice to see a book on their work.
We have made an effort to make sure that Hacker School is not about startups and products. This is mostly from experience in prior batches: students who worked on producty or startupy ideas didn't get nearly as much out of the batch as students who were working on more technical stuff.

Also, in NYC specifically, we feel that there isn't as much of a pure "hacker" scene. It's too intermingled with the startup world. We're trying to do our part to fix that.
Totally agree, but don't tell them. We want to do it first ;)