skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>How did that work out for you? Was it a good use of your time?

Well, I wrote this novel, right, about the 2004 presidential election; where I posited that Bush declares a fake terrorist attack, and DHS uses it as a reason to start herding liberals into concentration camps, and only this rock band on tour somehow escapes it, and they end up going and blowing up Bush and Cheney.

Would I take it back? Fuck no. But pretty soon after I finished it I had hundreds of hits from DHS, DoD, bases in Iraq, etc., and white unmarked Crown Vics were driving by my bungalow in the middle of the night. After they broke in and stole our laptops and papers and the LAPD couldn't figure out why they didn't take my money or my shotgun, we lived at Motel 6 for a month and fled to Argentina. Tried to stay out of the US since then. Spent a year in Australia, a year or two in southeast asia, and then Europe. Started a Bitcoin casino in my free time. Gave myself to drinking, smoking, drugs, snails and foie gras.

I would never, ever take back my decision to drive a taxi in LA, or write that book. It was the most eye-opening experience of my life. When I went to San Fran after high school in '97, I had $1800 in savings and moved into the Hotel Nazareth, Jones & Geary, where the hookers next door and the crackheads on the street screaming kept me up all night. There was no phone. I walked to the Hilton every day in my fucking only suit, and used the payphones to call every single ad agency and design firm in the city. Went for an interview with Bear Magazine, which was terrifying (they offered me $33k, more than I make now, ironically) -- twelve giant hairy guys turning around to welcome you while you try to be interested in whether they're using Quark or Pagemaker. Took a job for $22k to spare my psychiatry bill, working for a bunch of douchebags doing web bubbgle 1.0 on Green Street.

Anyway, would I change in my time under the russian mob driving for bell cab? No way in hell. It was an exploration of the soul. I learned things about the human condition, the human soul, that can only be put into a novel, where no one believes them.
Former WMF counsel Mike Godwin (and former DC lawyer) just commented on the Foundation mailing list:

Dan, you're misreading the implications of what the story you link to
says. What's actually happening is that the House sponsors hope to
defuse opposition by delaying and slightly modifying SOPA. My
experience as a DC lawyer for much of my career strongly suggests that
there's no reason to suspend expressions of opposition to SOPA or PIPA
or the general effort by content companies to change the internet as
we know it. In my view, it is wholly incorrect to say "that time is
not right now." Anything that the legislators can interpret as a lack
of resolve from the internet communities will encourage them to
resubmit SOPA or its equivalent in another form. The time for
protesting this is, in fact, right now.
It's just going to be an overrideable div. You could adblock it right now if you wanted, the div ID was already announced somewhere or other.
Also, no airline passenger cares exactly what trajectory they take through the air to reach their destination. If it's easier to program an autopilot which tacks slightly off course, nobody will care.
Do I need SQL or Hadoop?
The generalization is weird, but the odder part is that you know your co-worker's SAT scores.

That's what I was also thinking. I don't think I've talked about SAT scores since I was a sophomore/junior in HS and was taking the SAT. My friends and I have occasionally talked about GRE scores, but that's only because one of my friends tutors/preps people to take it.
"Oftentimes I'll just grab 4000 or so machines and run a MapReduce to test out some hypothesis"
Fuck the food. Who cares about hammocks. Isn't this most geek's wet dream?
I don't think I work 3000 hours a year, or if I do, it's probably time I would've otherwise spent surfing Reddit or Hacker News.

Not all hours are created equal. In past jobs where I've worked set hours (whether 9-5 or 10:30-6:30 or whatever), I've found I spent half the workday surfing the Internet and then didn't have time for a life anyway because of the commute and set schedule.

I value being able to duck out of work for 2-3 hours mid-afternoon because a friend of mine who I haven't seen in 7 years is passing through on her way from Marin to San Diego. I value it a whole lot more than the actual 2-3 hours of work time that I'll presumably be making up later. I'll happily work 2-3 more hours in the evening if it means I can go out for dinner & a movie with my friends at the normal time and still sleep in until noon.

I don't have kids, but my teammates that do take similar advantage of this. If their kid is sick, they'll work from home instead of needing to scramble to find childcare. If their kid pukes all over their teacher in day care, they can duck out in the middle of the afternoon to pick him up. If their kid has a school play in the morning, they can come in late, no problem.

You're responsible for your work product. If you feel you need to spend extra hours to achieve it, then do that. If you feel you can do it by working smarter (which is absolutely possible and encouraged with some problems, and not really possible with others), do that.
How 5 members of the Koobface malware gang were unmasked
Android’s Broken Software Buttons
NT was designed to use NTFS from the start. Because NT was originally NT OS/2, it was also supposed to be able to use HPFS, but NTFS was always the primary filesystem.

BTRFS on Windows?

And yes, ZFS is more advanced, at least from what can be deduced from this article.
Cirrus real time media flow control
AOL in the late 1990's, minus the dialup itself.

Content publishing: Weekend project. Rails, memcached and CloudFront and you're done.

IM and Buddy Lists: 1.5 million simultaneous users doing n^2 pub/sub-type distributed transactions.

Mail: 4,000 emails per second with live unsend and recipient read/unread status. I think PostgreSQL tops out in the millions of rows per second nowadays.

Web caching/acceleration: pick your favorite proxy solution and configure it.

Single sign-on: Form strategic partn-- Hey, you said technical challenge, not political.
Show HN: Straight forward Kindle Fire battery status viewer
When I got my KF, it was a surprise to me the many taps to get to the battery level screen, so I put together a little battery status app.

It's free and I hope this helps somebody out there. Install by pointing your KF browser to the Download page.

https://github.com/seymores/Fire-Status
Link: https://github.com/seymores/Fire-Status
I will donate money toward a json_project_key feature this way.
1. Install reactive-banana and read its docs and Apfelmus' intro (i).

2. Write a simple, 80s-style game using it.

3. Write a short tutorial explaining it.

4. ???

5. Profit.

(i) http://apfelmus.nfshost.com/blog.html#functional-reactive-pr...
I guess "jurisdiction" is a new concept to you. The answer to all of your questions should be obvious otherwise.

The US is not World Police. Get over it.
Same here, trying to get some things done tonight, but how can you say 'no' to something like this.
Googlers: there is an up vote button next to posts you can click to express agreement
Great post. I hope it gets the attention it deserves but it might terrify those who want developers not to know the value of the true value they create.

The biggest thing any developer needs to know what is easy for me isn't easy for my customer. By putting this at the center of how you see things the world becomes clearer as well as the interactions. A lot of people will try to knock down your value, you might do it yourself. The truth of the matter is knowing your value will get you your value. Not knowing your value will give off the vibe tha tyou can be beaten down.

I no longer get requests from people who care too much about what they will pay me. They should understand I'll cost them less in the short and long term for their overall investment and if they want 5 hours of my time vs 50 hours of someone with 1/10th of the experience, they can go do that.

To recap the point about something being hard for others that is easy for me:

My friend is a doctor. Just like surgery is hard for me and easy for my doctor friend. To the point that he can give himself or me stitches when drunk. And I trust him.
>Given how strongly and persistently these forces act to divert our awareness from the present, I think there is a lot to be gained by attempting to understand why this is so.

This... I mean, even as far as I've tried to isolate myself from civilization, and I've gone really far and given up almost all personal possessions to do that, I still feel the pull of the constant entertainment/what-next machine.

I probably don't have anything really smart to say in this, but I've noticed that the more survival shit I have to deal with, the less all of these things seem to matter. So if I have to chop wood, it's pretty easy to forget about what's next for an hour or two. If I have to think about rent, I could give a shit about the next twitter update.

I think the most dangerous thing for the human species is allowing yourself to be catered to on a 24/7 basis as if you're on some kind of thinking cruise ship.

Taking a cut in salary and catering to myself has never been a serious question.
Naw, you can technically scan this link w/ another laptop using its webcam.
Another point to consider is the following:

People have been taught by their IT dept., their family members, friends, store clerks, etc., to not mess with a computer. This also applies to their automobiles, appliances, etc.

In short, a lot of people out there have been hit with a newspaper on the nose (various times) for trying something new.

So, they decide to learn a new hobby (or craft), and they spend (waste) a lot of time fighting the fear of breaking things.

Yet, we (as in hackers) all know that one can't really do much harm to a computer with a simple approach such as the one used by CodeCademy. But non-hackers do not know that. They fear the machine (or the result of making a mistake with it (their files will be deleted! - plays in their mind)).

So, CodeCademy, I suggest you help people overcome such fear by showing them what they can do before showing them how to do it.

The terminal is fine, actually, I find that it was a genius idea. But, learning how to code is not bound to a terminal. It is bound to thinking, problem solving, abstractions. A learner cannot be afraid to break things, otherwise, they will not learn.

Challenge their fear (and ignorance) from the start. Instead of throwing them crumbs in the form of a simple string.length exercise, show them that they:

- cannot mess their computer up by playing with your website
- will not get a virus
- should try again if they fail at something
- programming (not coding) takes time to learn

How will you do that?

I can point north, and tell you that Nirvana is that way, but I cannot walk the roads for you.

Sit back, and think about what I'm saying.

Help people learn how to code by helping them get over themselves.

I wish your team the very best;

code_pockets
This really varies per site. For example, since StackOverflow is primarily for concrete technical questions, overly subjective discussion questions are liable to get moved or closed; however, if you're interested in something concrete but still broad (e.g. how to use existential types), you're likely to be fine.

On programmers, on the other hand, most of the questions involve a good bit of discussion; the majority have several answers. This is because the focus of the site is different.

Finally, I think there's a lot of selection bias--you're more likely to remember closed questions, and the sort of questions that get shared on HN are the sort that don't really fit in StackOverflow.
Where's your apology Google?
You should email this guy - if your only problems were your hosting provider not being cooperative- which is quite likely on a shared server- that's something that can be solved fairly easily for a very small amount of money.

[edit] Surprisingly good idea- I like the site!
You might find some inspiration from duosecurity, who uses QR codes during their setup process. (Don't know if they're using them for auth, yet.)
I used to have a high fashion blog, and I would have probably found it valuable to curate my trending wishlists and to show off what I've bought and where from.
It's kind of like a clever way of showing off what you own without bragging
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And don't limit yourself to discussions from just this particular post; many of his other posts have good threads here.
The original comment seemed to trivialize the differences between the games. If you wanted to you could say something similar about any conditional branch but doing so completely ignores the differences between the branches. Assemble time checking for _RED and _BLUE makes it easy to switch between versions sure, but the it doesn't say anything about the actual differences (large or small) between the versions. A simple flag like that can be used to build vastly different programs. Also, given that those flags are macros to begin with tells me we don't even know if that was how the originals were differentiated; you can't really disassemble a macro.

edit: I don't mean to be an ass about this. There's certainly a sort of poetic quality to the use of a flag like that to switch between versions but I just thought it was worth also pointing out the work it took to do so.
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Autistic Girl Expresses Unimaginable Intelligence
> Their decision to make two complementary games is really fascinating, especially from a business perspective.

Indeed. It seemed to be really successful especially given how small a development effort it apparently was. But why did no one but the Pokemon games seem to do it subsequently?
I've always been curious about running a pure BSD on the open net, but its very hard to find cheap VPSes which will do that (and meet my other needs). Hopefully this will pave the way for that.
PandoDaily/TC 2.0: Too Many Conflicts of Interest to Benefit Startups?
One of the things I love about StackOverflow is that I learn even when I'm the one answering the questions. People are always happy to point out how I can make my code more clear, idiomatic or elegant all without trying to belittle me. Not to say other communities are worse--it's just that the absolute level of quality at SO is very good.

And, of course, since it's basically an MMORPG, it's addictive. Not that I mind--one of the best ways to learn a technology at an intermediate level is answering questions there. It's much more productive than a real MMORPG and more convenient time-wise than just learning from a book or by having a project (of course, I use those too: all the different methods augment each other).
The raspberry pi(http://www.raspberrypi.org/) and cotton candy (http://www.fxitech.com/products/) computers to be released. I desire the raspberry pi to be released soon because, it represents computers getting to the point where you can use them in almost any hobby project cheaply and effective. I'm really excited to see what projects it will get put into and ways people will use it.

I want the cotton candy to come out, because its well rather cool and i would love to be able to have my development tools and release candidate software in a package that is easy to transport.
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Nice dude, my wife cooks for the both of us while we work on bootstrapping our startup. Nothing like a healthy, lovingly made meal.
I don't mean to cause offense, but I find people who never went to college or did not major or focus heavily on CS or engineering generally more interesting to both work with and as people. Somehow college grads (especially in math heavy fields) seem to believe that their scores or grades are a reflection of their intelligence, drive or even personality. Not to say there are huge exceptions; both among people I know, and among famous thinkers- I find Poincare, or Mandelbrot to be great 'broad' thinkers who totally understand the fallacy of such numbers in both life and science.

-Said as someone who went to a big name CS place
The thing that worries me is that it seems likely that we'll see ARM-based laptops and maybe even desktops soon. I don't like the locked-down nature of mobile devices but I can tolerate it because I still have a laptop that lets me do whatever I want with it.
How was their honesty? How was their transparency? How was their respect for their customers?
Implicit numerical schemes tend to handle errors better.
Have they published any revenue numbers? I'm happy to hear that they're growing like crazy, but knowing that they'll still be around in a couple of years would be even more awesome.
No he wouldn't. He would represent his own values which differ greatly from the vast majority of citizens.

And he would run into the exact same reality as Obama.
You should show solutions in video form so the users can see what they should have done.
Joel, Curious about your opinion on HN culture vs. SE culture in the context of growth. Both sites saw significant growth in 2011, but from my perspective, HN culture has been far more affected than SE. If you agree, do you attribute this to something specific that you are doing at Stack Exchange and is there something you would do differently to improve things here?

Some people discussed the situation on HN earlier today[1], but I think you bring a unique and valuable perspective to the issue. I have my own theory (i.e. SE has a superior technical solution for reputation)[2], but you have some of the most directly relevant experience.

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3469453

[2] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3354171
I might actually do that if I have time during the semester.

But I'm innately lazy and would love to have it done for me :P.

Besides, since I'll be learning how to use FRP, anything I write about it will be as a beginner with no experience. That said, a project like that would actually be perfect for the blog I keep meaning to start :)
It won't just be investors. It will also be regulators (who will take a dim view of smaller operators), potential employees, suppliers, and so on.
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My wife works in fashion, she thinks it could be a great way for models to share their wardrobe for photoshoots.
You got that right! Eating right really helps us keep focused and energized!
A new form factor is a pretty poor excuse to destroy the notion of general-purpose computing.
At any large organization with million of customers and public opinion affecting stocks, even mentioning to the that random people on the dev team have access to customer data can be pretty career altering. The fact that you're even looking at confidential information is generally highly frowned upon.

What if Mint.com celebrated their 1 "billionth" processed transaction by posting what it was? Wouldn't that cause outrage?
U.S. to Tell Drug Makers to Disclose Payments to Doctors
The Great Martin Luther King Copyright Conundrum
Ask HN: What's your biggest schlep?
Following up on pg's essay - what's your biggest schlep? What's the one annoyance you face, professionally or personally, that you most wish would just go away?
How women entrepreneurs compete and succeed in China
Many of us have n*100 Facebook friends who may suddenly open up their ears to this issue come Wednesday when Wikipedia goes dark.

For those of us who understand but may not be exceedingly eloquent, what are some examples of a graphic explanation bringing to light the horror of the issue that would also be short enough to fit into a Facebook status update?
You can do whatever you want as long as it's explicitly stated in the EULA, hopefully that's the case in your situation.
I find this quite interesting (not listed so far): http://ruby.learncodethehardway.org/
I am a BSD fan - a big one in fact as I have been using BSD since the late 80's. I use AWS for some things where the pricing/instance sizes are a good match for the app needs.

I don't keep up with the latest greatest Xen infrastructure in use by Amazon but...

Wouldn't it be easier/cheaper to get NetBSD running as it has PV support for Xen3? vs using a windows HVM?

RB
You are missing the "and repair" part.

Consider sorting data, because that's what computer scientists do…

If you can sort your data on a sea of 1000 processors in O(nlogn) with minimal errors (defined as out of order elements in the result set), then check the result in O(n) over 1000 processors and fix the handful of problems in a couple of O(n) moves then you will beat an error free sort that can only make use of 10 processors because of memory/lock contention.

For your bank (which should certainly start charging you a transaction fee on deposits), it might take the form of processing batches of transactions in a massively parallel way with a relatively fast audit step at the end to tell if something went poorly. In this case the repair strategy might be as simple as split and redo the halves.
I came here to post exactly that. In most serious cloud teams you have very few select people with authorization to look at customer data (the operations team), and everybody else is outside of that group. When debugging the service, you have to pass instructions to that team so that in case confidential data is revealed, only they get to see it.
That's probably a good thing. Lots of people are not like you, however.

If you want to understand your fellow humans better, take a glimpse into the opposite extreme with this book on compulsive hoarding:

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/25/books/review/Kramer-t.html

You may find it quite alien, or perhaps hilarious, or both, but I've met quite a few people on the hoarding spectrum, and it is decidedly not fun.

And I'd venture to say that most people have something with significant emotional resonance that they'd be loath to lose it. A wedding ring. Objects inherited from one's late grandparents. A few pieces of custom-built tools, furniture, or clothing that fit you perfectly.
This conversation seems to be getting a little off-topic. So if anyone feels that, please feel free to send me a word at

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It's strange how this article praises what appears to be a lifestyle that's utterly devoted to and centered a corporation as a good thing. The guy spends his day doing Google things (some work, some merely provided by Google), goes home and sees his family for a couple hours, does a few more Google things, then goes to bed.

Surely our lives should involve more than that.
Here you go: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/315/torrents/wikipedia.zip
Whats the name of the book? I'd like to read it.
Don't English and Welsh law allow for private prosecution of crimes in cases where the CPS declines to prosecute?

Wouldn't that provide an avenue of relief to the copy right holders without removing a UK citizen from the jurisdiction of UK laws?

This whole thing seems troubling to me.

How many US Internet companies collect VAT from sales to folks in the UK? Would that make founders of a US startup subject to extradition to the UK for tax avoidance? What if it's just a tiny DBA "company" with no liability shield?

The whole thing smells rotten to me!
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