skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The trick would be loading/unloading the cars in a reliable and fast way. With a multi-cart train running in a loop, I probably wouldn't shoot for TCP/IP.

Something like T1 would be a lot easier to implement because it uses very straight forward time-division-mutiplexing (serial by nature). You could use a simplistic encoding method like AMI, but your frames would have to be much smaller. The simplest T1 carrier frame is 192 data bits with 1 signaling bit, so you're looking at a pretty massive train. Because the physical train itself could serve as the frame boundaries, you could use 16 cars and carry two bytes per trip.

The bit rate and latency are going to suck though ;)
Good idea! Thanks!
The current fad? Hmmm, so if a programmer can take shots and break into something faster than his opponents that makes him a good programmer (Reference to The Social Network)?
Some great stuff I've tried recently
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Odd technology job interview questions revealed
Saving the world - a possible response? a post on my blog from September
The list I quoted all applies to selling new goods, too. It's very strange to assert that it's not scalable to procure, sell, and ship goods at a profit when the bulk of business growth in the past 20-30 years has all involved those activities. (Apple included--their engineering and design are no doubt important, but their success is built on a strong operations backbone.) His main argument didn't look anything like the argument you paraphrased.

My point is that it's folly to try and argue this particular negative. I'm not so confident it's impossible to scale reselling of used goods when there's been so much growth in optimizing operations processes.
He used to post on webmasterworld as he was developing the site.

Some interesting stuff. And it's on IIS which blew my mind.

webmasterworld.com/profilev4.cgi?action=view&member=markus007
So really, your whole point here is 2 grammatical quibbles that everyone else could get past just fine?
I'm not crazy about how this site requires an email address simply to see what's on offer. But they do tend to have good stuff, and Mailinator works as always.
> Obama's most vocal liberal base will transform into an internet hate machine to rival the likes of the tea party if SOPA is signed.

Unless they're willing to vote for his opponent, and they're not, that doesn't matter.

Politicians are only interested in things that affect votes. Signing SOPA will not lose Obama a single state. However, signing it will give him money to win states.

The Repubs are the ones who are playing this one dumb. They should oppose SOPA and all "protect Hollywood/MPAA" measures because those measures give money to folks who contribute to Dems.
Kuwait Government will suspend Twitter accounts of hacktivist groups Anonymous
First of all: All modern malware/botnets steal session cookies in real time and then log in and perform any automated task they're programmed to. All you're protecting is a username/password which should be unique to the service anyway.

So basically you want one-time session tokens. This is only slightly secure if you do the "first" login on the phone, not on the desktop, since you don't trust the desktop. You can achieve one-time session tokens with an app on your phone that doesn't need network access, such as a one-time pad or some kind of HMAC token-generating app (display a token, user enters into app along with their secret key, a new token is generated, put into desktop login and poof, you have a secure one-time token). You can do that with QR codes to prevent from having to type stuff.
I disagree I do not know calculus and would not have done this class if that was the case. I am now implementing ML in my day to day work .
Anybody can make ML difficult , the greatness is in making it easy for people to use it and that makes a real world impact IMHO
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Google, George Mason University, and the NSA have been working on a secure Android kernel for a while. I doubt it will be compatible with all Android devices, but I'm sure they'll consider it reliable before rolling it out in DoD.
This is sad, if true (and it kind of rings true). As soon as I saw the reimbursement policy I got the sense that the program would be bullshit. I'd love to hear otherwise.
SEO vs. PPC
1. None of those things are strictly raw materials; they've all been refined, cut or treated in some fashion.

2. Coming up with a several examples doesn't show that such thefts aren't rare in comparison to other thefts.
Oops, I'm a dumby and hadn't had enough coffee yet. That file was just logging 301s, and the actual target was going elsewhere, which has an appropriate number of requests.

Overall pretty awesome, thank you!
In some ways it reminds me of the very early days of PCs. An early consumer really needed to know their stuff when buying a PC back then.

Here's some common scenarios from back in those days:

- Buy a Tandy? Sorry, weird video card and sound controller meant limited software selection.

- PC Jr? Similar. But entirely different from the Tandy hardware. Even had a different kind of VGA and oddball joystick ports!

- 5.25" drive when the software is only in 3.5"?

- How about double sided disks?

- Double density?

- Oddball keyboard connector on your AT&T brand 8088?

- No Parallel port? No printer.

- No PS/2 port, but the needed trackball peripheral needs it?

- Weird IBM MCA slots? Can't get a sound card.

- Wrong UART chip? Stuck at 2400bps.

- Hercules graphics card? good luck with that.

All of these things were on systems that were "PC Compatible", and were advertised as such, but made owning and operating these things a serious pain. It was a loose "compatibility". If you had just the right hardware mix and match, and just the right drivers loaded in the just the right parts of memory, you could get 85% of the software to work.

Later software sent users through extensive setup processes with questions like:

"What DMA assignment?", "Hercules graphics?", "CGA, EGA? or VGA (not PC Jr. Compatible?", "EMS?" etc. etc.

It's not quite that bad with Android, it seems about 95% of the software I try on my devices works fine. But it's still kind of a pain, and useful to keep the old days in mind.
That's what I thought. Implementing it without asking for extra info from the user might be troublesome if access to a phone's UDID is restricted (I think it is with Apple now?), and I'd imagine using a QR code as the second factor might be better for people who don't want to give a service their phone number or receive texts from it.

That all being said, and as interesting as it is, I'd be more interested in something that could use, say, push notifications (and Android intents specifically, unless there's an iPhone equivalent) as a smooth implementation of some sort of public key authentication.
Usually d&b, jungle, house/trance. As long as there are no lyrics, I find that the words in music draw my attention away.

Edit: I have a friend who listens to podcasts while he codes, I really couldn't do that!!
Why aren't you encrypting?
Anyone spot the miracle function?
Open letters to people or entities who are unlikely to respond
I didn't know that cheeseburgers could "seek".
Paul Graham: Great Hackers (video, 2004)
A New RSS Reader With No Sign Up Form – A Google Reader Alternative?
These type of questions are more about the interviewers and company ego than they are about actually gaining any insight into the employee. The fact remains that most that ask would not have the psychological training to make a hill of beans out of an answer. But they help maintain the illusion of being an elite institution. The problem is that now people are mimicking the practice while not knowing how to even utilize the results, thereby sending good candidates right out the door.

Whatever happened to sitting down and having a conversation with a person? Look at what they have done, ask them about it, passion bubbles to the top pretty quick when you talk to someone about something they have built.
Show HN: cheekh: growl from your vm or desktop
Jedberg, I'm sorry I didn't respond, but I don't have a record of getting an email. Corrections are always welcome. A lot of articles are summaries from multiple sources, so they aren't made up (I'm not sure how I would even do that), and the sources are always referenced somewhere. But of course I could screw up. And I don't make an effort to contact people anymore because seldom is there a contact point and they rarely respond or follow up. Which is why I rely so heavily on existing materials like blog posts, presentations, slide decks, forum threads, and whatever else I can find.
Carbohydrates produce insulin, insulin causes us to store fat. It's not complicated. There have been scientific studies out since the 30's entirely dismissing calorie counting as being effective.

Good Calories, Bad Calories: http://www.amazon.com/Good-Calories-Bad-Challenging-Conventi...
It used to be based on IIS and ASP.NET (one of the biggest Microsoft success stories on those technologies).

Edit: from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlentyofFish
they used ASP.NET 2.0 and Microsoft SQL Server 2005 in 2007.
Antisec hits private intel firm; millions of docs allegedly lifted
The single most important marketing tool for your startup
I agree with you Jonathan.

The Steve Jobs defence has some validity to it. However, everyone isn't Steve Jobs..

Additionally, having a track record of creating things that people wanted helps immensely in justifiably invoking the Jobs clause.

But most people aren't Steve Jobs. They aren't on their second, or third, or fifth great product.

Even then, Steve Jobs had the deep enough pockets to have some spectacular failures (Cube mac, etc) on the way to getting it right.

Do startups have the deep pockets to spectacularly fail, or believe in their own legends a little too much?

I'm not so sure, but look forward to reading the thoughts here.
If I recall, solving back propagation in multiple-layer perceptrons was an unsolved problem for some time, and the solution relies pretty much solely on partial differentiation. I don't know much about ML but things like neural networks were pure mathematical constructs before they were CS topics. I agree with the GP, though, you don't need to know the actual math for most of this stuff.
I think the reasoning is that an AI singularity is more likely than not within the next 2 centuries. During that time, people can differ about whether they think nuclear war, nanotech, or bioengineered pandemics are likely. But the risk of a catastrophic asteroid strike are basically known, and small. (1km asteroids hit the earth every 500k years.) So, depending on your assumptions, asteroid deflection might be the most cost-effective existential risk to mitigate, but it shouldn't be the most statistically feared.
1) Go to namecheap home-page.
2) Try to find out how much it costs to *renew* a domain after the first year.
3) Realize that they are also not the masters of clarity and transparency.

No domain registrar is willing to compete on price (or premium services) alone. Not one of them is willing to put a simple price table on their front-page, and stick to it. There is always some coupon or bundled offer (can I get a discount if I don't want a SSL cert?) or volume discount, or reduction on the new ".yagni" TLD...

After all that, people just do what you say and "stick with someone who doesn't act like a dick to them". But that doesn't mean that the general confusion isn't there. Quite the contrary: it is working so well that you don't even notice it.

What I want is a domain registrar version of http://prgmr.com/xen/
From DataInfo.rtf in the iap:

StopWords: common words in languages: Swedish, English, Mandarin, Italian, French, German, Spanish Japanese, Russian, Finnish, Dutch.

Special Word: discard pronouns/trigger keywords in all of above languages.

Currently removes all pronoun in sentences

Stop Words From Where:

http://www.ranks.nl/resources/stopwords.html
http://www.lextek.com/manuals/onix/stopwords1.html
http://www.lextek.com/manuals/onix/stopwords2.html
http://www.link-assistant.com/seo-stop-words.html English

http://members.unine.ch/jacques.savoy/clef/index.html
http://wiki.apache.org/solr/LanguageAnalysis Other languages

http://hi.baidu.com/zhaocy0113/blog/item/146b5c346a738c4d251...
http://tribes.tribe.net/geographicalife/thread/98f6abb6-71bf... Chinese

http://dnnspeedblog.com/SpeedBlog/PostID/3187/Japanese-Stop-...

http://www.ranks.nl/stopwords/japanese.html Japanese

THEN ALL TRANSLATE ENGLISH FIRST STUFF

LENGTH STOP: 19,070

LENGTH GLOBAL: 8059

LENGTH SPECIAL: 362

Good means no change/Draft little change/Bad 000s
It's a launch page with two buttons to share on twitter and facebook. Am I missing something???
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This is true. This gizmodo article covers how he "markets himself":
http://gizmodo.com/5830076/how-i-made-a-15+year+old-app-deve...
I disagree. There is not a one-size-fits all way to start a business. Some businesses need big customers such as the cathedral example. But other businesses -- the ones Paul Graham likes to write about -- productize their service, and the product is an investment. If no one wants the product, the investment was lost, but if you did it right, the cost was minimal. And usually you can re-use what you built and pivot into something else.

The great thing about this industry is that so much is virtual. You can now work from anywhere, at different times, and still get things done, if your tools are good: Skype, Google Docs, Mercurial, Redmine, what have you.

Things can get prototyped quickly on a small budget. You can launch your MVP and iterate until you achieve decent growth through viral channels. You can get advertising to offset your hosting costs, or do something more interesting like freemium. You may license your tech or sell it to bigger players. This is the essence of the free model.

Nothing wrong with this. It's just a bigger risk and bigger reward.

Not to mention that you can now sell on app stores, and make $$$ for your company.
Content industry supports "Stop Airline Piracy Act" (SAPA)
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The best smartphones to carry with you into 2012
> Other objections are that the advertisers would be the ones paying Wikipedia, and thus have the ultimate control; they can threaten to reduce advertising revenue in order to get objectionable material removed, they would incentivize people to put more advertising-friendly content that would draw people to lucrative pages and entice them to click on ads.

The same is true of contributors as is the response - get different contributors/advertisers.

> They are beholden to their advertisers, not their users.

They lose advertisers as soon as they lose users, so users control their advertising revenue.
Anectodal - here in Slovenia all mobile phone operators just ran out of all Galaxy Nexus shipments (same as they did when S2 launched).
Pricing is practically identical vs. iPhone (both S2 and GN sell for about 400-430€ in widely-used subscription packages vs. 430€ for iPhone 4S 16GB).
Ah, the good old days. Me thinks the kids these days are spoiled by all this "plug and play" nonsense and video game consoles that don't require any configuration on the user's part.

Some people seem to expect perfection out of the gate and aren't willing to give things time to settle down. Not everyone can or wants to be Apple.

Plus too many ignore the fact that, in the US at least, cell carriers are fully willing to do things for their benefit to the detriment of their customers.
So, you disagree with him. Better to say why than to downmod to express the sentiment. On the other hand, people are hair-trigger here about race, and for somewhat decent reasons.
Being consistent means learning new habits. You might require some self discipline initially, but as time goes along, it becomes a habit and you don't need as much discipline, especially when you start to see tangible progress. So I can see why he would be anal about it.
It's almost like you didn't read the article. Which is too bad, because it's probably one of the best weight loss articles I've ever come across.
Wonderfull Project!
We are currently working on http://supportbee.com in Startup Chile.

I spent some money from my Indian company's account when I was coming over but I could print out a few documents to prove it and it was done in 20 mins. Atleast that is no longer an issue here.

It does take about a month for the first reimbursement to roll in and you have to manage till then. The account executives (the ones handling your reimbursement) are quite friendly and willing to help (by giving you a date sooner if you are really running out of money etc).

The only case I have heard of someone having to give back money is of a guy who smashed his phone on stage during a presentation and had the cost of the phone, 400 dollars reduced from his $40k grant (or may be next reimbursement). I was not present in that meetup and I have never met the guy.

Startup Chile does have some problems (or starting troubles) but certainly reimbursements is not one of them. Also, they provide a great office space which is a great place to work with your team and meet other entrepreneurs. I would be happy to answer any questions here. Ofcourse, I am only two months into the program so my experience with everything is limited so far.
Frind was making $10 million USD per year when he had 1.2 billion page views. If his revenue scales directly to pageviews (which I think it does), he should be bringing in about $50M per year.

Not bad.
I struggled for years trying to get in shape unsuccessfully before going on a ketogenic diet and losing ~100 pounds. It was kind of like switching from programming with memory to programming with values. It still takes hard work, but it feels like the odds are not as stacked against you anymore.
A mischievous hacker who justifies his hacking by claiming the exposed security holes would have endangered the public, and who was originally mad that he could not market his own innovations due to his victim's overly-broad patents?

The more things change...
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The problem is providing a questionable education and then selling a meaningless certification to make money.

These classes are also highly vulnerable to cheating and you can be sure that a large number of people will take advantage of this to pump up their resumes.
Now. What is it that I am looking at here?
Smart ass posts article about how smart asses drive him nuts...

...irony missed.
If you were looking for recorded lectures, why would you take the CS229A online course? You should take the recorded CS229 course : http://www.academicearth.org/courses/machine-learning
Thank you, this makes me feel better.
It's a launch page with:
- something that attracts curiosity (the header)
- something that attracts subscription (reserve your username)
- something that makes it viral (share and get private beta access early)
All you need is a few hundred monitoring stations scattered throughout the solar system and you'd have 100% visibility.

There's no phenomenon in space equivalent to planet-side weather that would regularly obscure or inhibit any monitoring system stationed in space.
and I believe this "Anybody can make ML difficult , the greatness is in making it easy for people to use it" is the real deal.
I'm not sure that a simple "months on the job" threshold is sufficient to decide wrongdoing here. From what the article says, it seems like Seagate misrepresented the position to the engineer. Given that, I think a better standard would be to look at the job listing and the communication that Seagate had with Mr. Vaidyanathan, then compare that with what he was asked to do.
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OS X 64 native code gen involves complex code, incomprehensible docs…
IS AMERICA ON THE VERGE OF A WAR BETWEEN THE STATES AND THE FEDS?
This article seems to be to be strong justification for policies to keep people from getting overweight to begin with. I know for example, there have been battles in school districts to get rid of flavored milk and such.

I really would love to see better foods in schools. It's largely a captive audience. If we could reduce the number of people who leave high school overweight, even if by just a small number, it would probably have pretty decent long-term benefits.

And likewise better college programs. For example, at my college, if there was a "good health" program I could have easily signed up for, which included aerobic/weight training and meals there's a good chance I would have done it.
Slicing Costs, and Still Serving
So the other post suggested that paying yourself was problematic. Can the money be used for living expenses (essentially the largest expense for any software-related business)?
Another jab at CarrierIQ. Like it's part of the "Single Android Specification" or something. Just because some unscrupulous carriers like to spy on their customers doesn't mean everybody with an Android phone is a chump. I've been on Android a year now and have used the carrier OS at most two days while I downloaded and installed CyanogenMod. If I can bypass CarrierIQ that easily, so can the US Department of Defense.

That said, there are plenty of other security concerns to worry about, but I just don't think CarrierIQ is relevant.
I understand how reserving usernames is good for encouraging sign-ups, but I don't see it doing much in the way of viral marketing. As for "private beta access," I hardly see how it can be viral when I have practically no information about what your company does. A "collaborative decision tool that frees you from the hassle of meetings to speed up your workflow"? Sounds like any number of companies that are released every other month.

Show me how you are different than Asana. Give me a crazy video that shows "the future is now" which I just have to share, don't just put up a generic "Tweet this" button. And if you really mean "And it’s very useful with friends too," then allow me to instantly get all my facebook friends connected when I sign up--don't make everyone jump through hoops to sign up.

It is a nicely designed webpage, but there is so little information for me to process that I can't even remember the company's name, even having looked at the site 3 times. I'd like to think you guys have a really cool product that somehow magically frees me from meetings, but I can't imagine how that would work without media or descriptions to guide me.
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I'm not sure I understand how opening up classes to the online world would would affect the coursework of Stanford students. If the author felt that CS229a was not rigorous enough, he should have just taken CS229 whose problem sets could double as full-time jobs.

Morever, a good chunk of stanford CS classes are already offered online through SCPD (the professional development system) and as far as I know, the structure of those classes remain unchanged.
I so want to know what to do about carbs and fat. I like Taubes, Sisson, etc, but am really confused about GCBC when I read stuff like: http://www.cspinet.org/nah/11_02/bigfatlies.pdf

Any wisdom to share?
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Looking forward to seeing the results of this. A good friend of mine makes an app to manage AppStore SEO.