skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Which is weird in and of itself. Normally, submitting the same thing would get the first copy upvoted.

Just how were all those submissions bypassing that process?

EDIT: Here's the first link to it. It's the only submission by someone who joined over a year ago who has no comments and the default 1 karma. And it has an editorialized headline. I bet it would only take one flag to kill something like that. Then everything else would be marked as a dupe of something dead....

So much for "Don't be evil": How Google is doing evil in Kenya (co.ke)

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3459756
I accidentally took a pocket knife through airport security in LAX.

After that, I realised that the TSA was not only annoying and a waste of time and money, it was completely pointless as well.
I'm guessing the dupe filter doesn't check [DEAD] links
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Already on frontpage:

Here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3460033

And here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3459966
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(as author of original post)

Agreed. But GitHub did a lot more than just that - across the board it removed the barriers to collaboration (I used to run a few projects on SourceForge, and contribute to others; the ease of GitHub was like a breath of fresh air).

It got people excited and feeling free and able to collaborate.

...and so (I suspect) we're today less tolerant of unexpected barriers to collaboration. GitHub gets you hooked, then makes it extremely difficult to manage the "handover" part of a project (something that SF - for all its failings - handled pretty well).

The projects that die this way may well never have existed without GitHub in the first place - but that's not an excuse to just kill them off under a burden of maintenance crud.
Or perhaps they're really honest, and it has Sick Building Syndrome. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sick_building_syndrome
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WHOIS is generally very reliable - there are identity checks when you register for IP space (especially with ARIN, which is who provides Google's IP space).

One other way you can check is by looking at the organisation handle in the WHOIS - it's GOGL, which is the same org handle as you'll find on all their IP addresses if you WHOIS them. That ties up with the ARIN site:

http://whois.arin.net/rest/org/GOGL

I've done a fair bit of network engineering and I'm convinced that this is actually a Google address.
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This doesn't mean that the people on the other end of the phone actually are employed by Google. They could have heard of the Google initiative and attempted to capitalize on the opportunity.
> I have never hosted/written a django app, do people typically run a request in a thread in django?

Depends on the handler, mod_wsgi allows for m:n (mixing threads and processes) for instance.

> I thought python had a GIL just like Ruby (1.9+).

That's correct, but any C IO (such as DB queries) will generally release the GIL, which allows other threads to run.

(technically, CPython has a GIL, Python-the-language does not mandate it and neither Jython nor IronPython use a GIL. Pypy also has a gil currently, but Armin has started exploring STM to see if it would be a good replacement)
I had read about unschooling, but hadn't heard this about the rote work, etc.

I think it's interesting because in school, I absolutely refused to do homework unless it was absolutely necessary to pass the class. Instead of being a straight-A student, I often got B's and C's, and even an F a couple times.

I was also in a special 'gifted' class in elementary school that took me out of regular classes once a week and taught us other things. (One of which was programming, which is where my career went!) We still had to do all our normal class work, and since we missed 20% of the in-class lectures, that meant a lot of catch-up each week, which was a lot more interesting than sitting in class and listening.

I have a feeling, after reading your post, that those things are related to my continued love of learning. I also have a feeling that unschooling would have been even better for me, but at least I didn't get burnt out young.
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I am hoping that this is a rogue group of local Google employees who are about to be smacked down by Google head office.

This kind of thing is going to happen occasionally with global organisations, but Google needs to do something public quickly to make it clear that this is against policy.
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You might be right. It might just auto-kill instead. Might be worth looking at the Arc source, but I'm about out of time right now.
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It looks like HN auto-kills *.co.ke links.
Thanks for the feedback.

I know what you mean. It's not quite what you'd expect from a web product these days. I actually had doubts about making this available to the public, at first. It was just a tool I wanted for myself, and a grim one at that.

Still, when it was done, there was no reason to keep it locked away. You never know. Writing all the copy took me longer than the actual coding, but I saw it as good training.

Anyway, this doesn't have to be as grim as the title suggests. It can be simply a kind of insurance: if you go on a trip and get lost, for instance, this thing can shoot important information to friends and family that helps bring you back. I could see this being relevant to people who live alone and travel a lot.

On the technical side, yes, the email warning system is weak by itself. That's why my first order of business was having it check your twitter feed. I just uploaded the feature.

In the future, it'll also check your facebook and foursquare activity. And send SMSes if you get really close to the timeout. Between social media monitoring, email and sms, it should actually be quite reliable at knowing whether or not you've disappeared.
Thanks for clarifying - ok, so there was lots of traffic from a Kenyan IP resulting in phone calls from a "Google employee", followed by traffic from a Google IP resulting in the same.

Perhaps I'm trying too hard to find a way out for Google, but this doesn't add up for me. Things like the Google callers giving out gmail.com addresses rather than their google.com addresses (transcript page 8).
Where did you get the information that there is no ICS Update planned for the Galaxy Tab?
The Galaxy Tab 7 and the Galaxy S will get a special blend of ICS, with a special version of touchwiz that has a lighter footprint to compensate for their older processors.

It's basically all about touchwiz, in my own opinion Samsung would have no problem throwing a stock ICS on the Tab 7, but Samsung wants a smooth TouchWiz Launcher on it because the customers are accustomed to it and even demand it.

Compare this situation to MotoBlur or HTC Sense and you'll see that Samsung does the right thing in the end.

Buy a Galaxy Nexus if you want to make sure that you'll really get the updates asap.
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So a team of rogue callers (some of them with indian google ips) pretending to be google pretending to be partners of mocality call numerous kenyan business numbers and promote google initiative. What's the point and who pays for that nonsense?
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I'm curious to see how this ends up.

The upsell is the part that makes me suspicious, because that doesn't sound like the type of thing that Google would do.

My guess is this. It is someone claiming to be Google and selling a service that is actually free. That's a pretty common thing to see in Africa, in Rwanda we see people 'selling' Google Apps for domains all the time.

The WHOIS lookup does give me pause though.
Impressive, given that's the country code for Kenya :)

.co.ke for companies
.or.ke for NGOs
.me.ke for personal websites and emails
.ac.ke for academic institutions

I wonder if HN had a big spam issue in the past from Kenyan domains?
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Someone is suggesting that HK auto-kills .co.ke links:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3460186
I suppose "unmaintained" was incorrect, I probably should have said "not well maintained". I was going off of the notice on the HPN-SSH website at PSC: http://www.psc.edu/networking/projects/hpn-ssh/, which has a large bold header that repeatedly says that updates are "delayed" because all funding for the project is gone and there are no interested sponsors. So while not technically abandoned, the project is apparently "on the ropes" and further updates are questionable.

I usually use SSH on my local network too, but I usually max out the capacity of my disk in transfer speed anyway (gigabit network, but disk max read/write is ~30MB/s sustained), and there are definitely some fairly simple alternatives to local SSH usage if it's not fast enough in a particular situation (which I haven't encountered personally).

Of course, this doesn't mean HPN-SSH is useless, but its utility may manifest only in a small number of cases, making continued interest in maintenance or funding unlikely.
I fail to see a better alternative unfortunately.

The only way that you can stop this is by having multiple maintainers for a project so that projects don't just die if the main maintainer is hit by a bus.

And yes, this crappy, albeit well known situation is not just specific to Github.
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> RoR is more mature [...]

Really? Really?!?

https://rails.lighthouseapp.com/projects/8994/tickets/1203

Marking a bug as "wontfix" because the developers of the RoR platform are arrogant enough to say, and I quote, "[...] figure out what other software is putting that version in your environment and stop it from doing so" is now called mature?

The dialogue on this bug alone was enough for me to put RoR in my rear-view mirror and not look back.

Which would you rather use: a tool which demands it is the only tool on your system which can set environment variables (RoR), or a tool which plays well with others (Django)?
This is what I love about HN. Ask a question about Stack Overflow, Joel Spolsky gives you an answer.
It's mainly just slow - the whole set of code has to be parsed, processed, validated, run, etc every time it's used.

It's not insecure in this usage (even if it were used on the client), as all the actual code is generated by uglify-js via an AST and it takes care of properly escaping everything.
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I’m Phil, one of the guys that built SquadMail. I've long been looking forward to presenting my own app in HN but since we’re based in Berlin, Germany expect a butchering of the English grammar in my posts :)

SquadMail les you create email folders and invite others to them. The folder content is continuously synced among all collaborators. SquadMail works 100% server-sided so you don’t need any downloads or software installation, you can use it with every email client (incl. Gmail) and it takes no more than 15 seconds to get started!

But besides shared cloud space there’s a ton of really cool things you can use SquadMail for that I’d like your opinion on:

1) All folders get their own email address. You could for example open a folder ‘Newsletters’ and use that folder’s address for all your subscriptions. That way you never have to give a third-party advertiser your real email address, all newsletters come directly sorted into their folder and when you don’t want to get the newsletter anymore you can simply remove the sender from the collaborator list. Also, how about adding friends to the folder so you guys have something like a common newsletter reading room :)

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3) SquadMail stores replies in the same folder as well if you want than (otherwise uncheck the tickbox in the folder settings). Imagine you and your roommate look for another person to move in with you. Simply put the folder email address in the add and now both of you can reply to incoming emails and see what the other on wrote, when meetings are set up and so on.

4) The app also provides the easiest way of setting up platform independent group email. Some friends and I share a folder for funny stuff. Whenever one of us finds something good he sends it to funmail@box.squadmail.com everyone gets it. Since the stuff will never end up in your main inbox it also works for everything NSFW :)

At https://www.squadmail.com/login/register?auth=HKNS39fGqsD you can directly register for the app without an invite.

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"Highly Educated Professors"? I hope this is a tautology. On the other hand, given existence of sites like this, I am no longer so sure...
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You seem to be under the continued delusion that if I criticism one, then I must support the other.
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I wonder what conversion rates are on mobile ads, seems it's so much easier to "accidentally" click on them.
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Yes, they are hiding somewhere in the multi-gigabyte Android source code. At least the basic default elements. And their style formatting.

And then there are the closed-source Google apps which at least slightly resemble the UX guidelines given on that site.

And then there are the more complicated UI elements which provoked the creation of fork projects to allow for the reusability and compatibility not provided by the Google devs, like http://actionbarsherlock.com/ and http://viewpagerindicator.com/
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i wonder if they are aggregating the results using the mean or the median? with the mean, a single slow router/path can change the reported number completely, whilst with the median does not exhibit this problem as it is a more robust estimator.
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This is without patched fonts. You get nice symbols if you perform that additional step.
I am hoping the opposite. I am hoping that this was sanctioned by head office, so it destroys their undeserved and harmful, "does no evil," reputation.
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Twostroke is also capable enough to run the CoffeeScript compiler: http://github.com/charliesome/coffee-script-pure
text-transform: uppercase;

There's lowercase text in the DOM.
Out of curiosity, why doesn't she update her ID?
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And by "other platforms" we mean iOS.
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Excuse my EEE ignorance, but can this be scaled down to say a small robot (think Roomba size), or even smaller to a Li-on battery backup for something like a Beagleboard/Pandaboard?

Thanks for open sourcing this!
Yes it means that too but deriving from the sense I mentioned, i.e. asking if the person making the assertion would swear to it 'by God'.
So you're hoping Google has done something evil so people will think they're evil?!
Actually, I'd put excel (& the massive amount of custom code and extension to it, at least in financial services) way above both of those.
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Minor grammar Nazi point (since you mention you are Italian, and might be interested) - "turn on" is either "sexually attracted to" or "suddenly attack", depending on the context. i.e. "She turned me on, the smell of cigarettes is not a turn-on for me, the dog suddenly turned on me and started biting". I've no idea why ...

You mean "turned to".
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looks pretty cool, some students from my university had a similar idea http://bundlr.com you should check it out, they released a redesign some weeks ago.
I am hoping that Google has been exposed for their "evil" business practices, so people start to realise that they're just another rich corporation trying to make profit at the expense of others.

I don't want them to do "evil" things. But they do. People are blind to this and need a wake up call.

EDIT: The downvotes only serve to prove my point
Is StackOverflow blocked by the Great Firewall of China?

As it's full of user-contributed content which is outside the control of the Chinese state it wouldn't surprise me one bit if it was.
Curious: If I had a Google App Engine account, a) could I open outbound HTTP connections, and b) what IP range would I appear to be coming from?

Not that I find it unbelieveable that Google, multinational megacorp, could and would do this thing, but this evidence still seems kinda circumstantial. I mean, here's hypothesis two: One compromised PC in Google's HQ, running a proxy.
Could the http requests be made from Google App Engine? Then again, why would the scammers go though such hoops.
You can't have a "rogue group of local employees". You are accountable for all your employees action - legally and morally. How often has a company done something only to blame it on "contractors" or "a third party". That's not acceptable.
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Oh, absolutely. Google are responsible for oversight of their employees. Someone inside Google isn't doing their job, and heads need to roll here.
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I'm really surprised that nobody from Google has made a statement yet. Even if the detective work was wrong, Google has suffered a huge PR blow. This story is all over HN, all over G+ (at least the HN circle), all over my Twitter stream (which includes some top tech journos from South Africa) and is slowly being republishing on various blogs.

Google needs to respond now!
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I moved out to the valley to build amazing products, and I know I am not alone. Like many I have worked on amazing projects and I would love to found a company, but I would like to find someone at least as technical as I am, if not more so.

So the question is, how do you find a great co-founder without having worked with them?

I would just pull from my pool of friends, but true-fully none of us are doing well enough to leave our jobs.

I have a few months of personal runway and I am trying to gauge the risk of finding a co-founder, vs a better opportunity in a small funded company.

I almost raised money once before in 2008, so, I know I can raise money now if I can find a co-founder.
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For the record, this isn't my work. :-)
Wow, completely agree.

They just need to rename the environment variable into something like RAILS_VERSION instead, as suggested by several commenters in that issue. Such a simple fix, I don't understand why they won't do that.
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Google are responsible for their employees' actions. But there is still a difference between employees doing evil in defiance of management's orders, doing evil as instructed by management, and doing evil in a climate of management neglect.
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Kull, is it only for media agencies?
Are there any better sources?
http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/Homeless-Teen-Intel-Sci...

This is not the first time she has been homeless. Her family has been living on the edge of poverty for years, like many american families have been.

She's doing her research at SUNY Stony Brook, a local University, which does have the lab resources.

Here's are two important takeaways:
1. her parents love and support her. That's the most important thing we can give our children.
2. she doesn't feel sorry for herself, but presses on, taking advantage of opportunities as they arise.

It reminds me of Liz Murray, another young woman from New York who was homeless in High School (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDQjH816L6E)
Her parents weren't as capable (they were drug addicts), but she credits their love with helping her get through.
She's a newlywed. It will get updated in time.
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If you haven't heard of it, Mike is the engine director at insomniac, and a regular speaker at sony dev confs. Lots of great posts from all kinds of game developers.

From the about page:

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"Don't use right-pointing carets on line items" "Avoid them to stay consistent with the platform and in order to not have the user guess as to what the meaning of those carets may be."

Instead, let the user guess if an entry is just an entry or opens another screen full of interesting things.