skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can say from watching my father do this while I grew up that this is extremely unhealthy on the body. Sure you can do it, sure you can recharge every few many months but this will not work out in the long run. By that I mean accidents are looming when you live with this little sleep regularly. Trust me on this before its too late to say I wish I would have slept more.
Personally, that hashtag is so unfortunately awesome that I'm going to use it at every opportunity! #foundersexchange
why do they mix symbolic and realistic designs? why are some objects axonometric / isometric / perspective and others front-on. why are some "old fashioned" and others modern?

does anyone actually use this? seriously - are there any attractive, well designed sites as examples? because it seems to me like you need to do a lot of filtering to get something consistent and appealing.
If everyone is failing to become experts in things, it means that the value of the expert goes up. This is derived from the fact that the value of an expert is relative to the number of non-experts.

In consulting this is a huge win for experts, since my industry is littered with people who could largely be considered incompetent. So I don't see this as being a lost art.

Plus, is expertise considered an art? IMO it's more a science or a craft.
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I don't say "persist without looking where you are going", of course, pursuing a bad idea for 20 years won't work out. I can't back it up here on the spot, but if you study a bit you'll find that most success stories were no instant success. It became a meme for a reason, same thing about having a good idea. Just a good idea is not enough, but it certainly helps.

Plancast: Two years is way to short to draw conclusions IMO. Why don't they address the user feedback? If they want to reach the broader audience, why not change the definition of "Event" into something we do more often? Etc.
Thanks for the comments. I will speak with my employer today and see what happens
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I'm still clueless how su gets the same pid as his exploit...

Maybe i will get it when it's not 4am
I think the reason for the mix is that there's more than one 'input set'. I figured that when I saw the thermometer icon that that was it: the 'canonical thermometer icon'. However, clicking on it gave me a page of two different icons.
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Knowing your previous skill and knowledge would give more context. Did you know any other languages? etc
Considering that Facebook has been caught tracking people without Facebook accounts, I won't go so far as to say that it is completely voluntary.
Also, this is not my first job. I worked in IT for a metal company for almost 3 years before graduation also did math tutoring at a county college for 2 semesters and before that did 3 years customer service.
I just don't see anything beating out Vim. A good Emacs user might be able to get close, and get's a lot of other benefits, but I think Vim has editing nailed for the keyboard. We will need a completely different interface for something to unseat Vim.

Vintage mode in Sublime does add some Vim key bindings, but that doesn't get you Vim. It probably get's enough to satisfy someone who isn't very deep into Vim, but it will never get so far as the users who think in Vim. Also, I'm not sure that you can do everything in Sublime using only the keyboard, once you have to start messing with the mouse then you aren't doing things the Vim way anymore.

Vim mode in Emacs (using Evil) is far better for me than Vim mode in Sublime.

I have never understood the "looks" argument against Vim. It's text, it doesn't need to be pretty.

You will see a lot of people say they are impressed with Sublime. I usually see that in response to people asking about editors other than Vim or Emacs. Others who ask aren't the people who are willing to put in the time to learn Emacs and Vim. I would agree with this, take away Vim and Emacs and Sublime is probably what I would be using.

Emacs and Vim are open source, Sublime is not. Need I say more?
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> a customs notice is displayed enumerating all the freedoms you are being denied?

That will never happen. It's more likely there will be a list of how you are being protected from the bogeyman du jour.
> Voting on morality is not a good idea.

Who is then gonna decide what behavior is OK and whats not OK? Who is gonna decide if filesharing is OK or not OK?
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I don't think German truck drivers make 1200 a Week. Let's say 600. This seems more realistic.
There was a similar project a while ago called Lad Vampire (by a group called Artists Against 419) that used to do the same thing to fake baking sites. It was pretty effective and to be honest, it was kind of cool seeing the sites being listed as going down over time.
iTerm2 is an amazing app, but I also like the default Terminal in Mac and I don't need the extra functionality...
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Yep. I was a designer for a few years before, so I knew html/css from scratch. Had absolutely no clue about programming when I started. I will probably make a blog post detailing exactly how my progress was here a bit later.
The cookie issue doesn't exist for Safari users as it disables third party cookies by default. I don't know why all browsers don't do this. I've been disabling third party cookies in my browser for years and have never come across a website that it breaks. And if Apple can do it without people complaining, I'm sure Mozilla/Microsoft can too.

I prevent the IP address leak by using the Firefox addon RequestPolicy to block cross-origin requests.
PID does not change on execve().
I found a couple of issues (Chrome 16.0.912.75 on Ubuntu 10.04)

- When previewing an icon I can't close the lightbox by pressing "Esc". I have to explicitly click outside the box to close it.

- I can't seem to be able to view an icon's details page when cookies/local storage are disabled. I.e.: from the home page, clicking on an icon doesn't load the details page unless I have cookies/local storage enabled. I can get there with a direct link though (e.g.: http://thenounproject.com/noun/fountain-pen/#icon-No1033)

Anyway, this is a great project, thanks!
From the article:

> It turns out that su on the vast majority of distros is not compiled with PIE, disabling ASLR for the .text section of the binary!

I tested on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, likely to be installed on many servers, and 11.04. On these two versions `su` has not been compiled with PIE.

Edit: just to make things clear: in these Ubuntu versions su is compiled without PIE, but are not vulnerable because they have kernels < 2.6.39.
That's a good point. I didn't really think of it that way. And I'm definitely in the 'fun' phase of this project. So thanks, maybe as more tedious stuff comes up I'll have a better mindset going into it.
thanks for the insightful comment, Dan!

Indeed it did not get a ton votes, thus we were double surprised to see it get to the front page.

Though whoever HN reader "karlzt," thanks again! You made our evening, day and week - cheers!
Are the public services so great? If you are unemployed, Harz IV, provides barely enough money to live a decent life (especially compared to other Western-European countries). Healthcare often distinguishes people who have private insurance (only accessible to public officers, self-employed, and employees earning more than 50,000 Euro) or public insurance. Germany also doesn't have a minimum wage.
>I am a little concerned that such a democratic creative process will lead to the redditification of motion picture;

The conflict between art and craft is present in almost every kind of media, in my opinion: Whether it's books, music, or movies. The only difference is that some media are cheaper to produce and thus more open to art.

The higher the up-front costs for a medium, the less room for art. If it isn't resolved on the script level, it will get punished at the box office.

I assume, this is what worries Amazon, too: Writers who think of themselves as artists are probably those who are unlikely to sell their script(s); but they are also the ones desperate enough to submit it to Amazon. There might be a nice idea in some of these scripts, but they probably need some additional work.

Of course, a bunch of guys who have no clue about art or craft aren't going to produce anything worthwhile, no matter how many of them participate.
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You don't get taxed on free food at work.
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That'd be a good addition to the list:

They desperately try to increase their social media footprint. (Agree? Vote this!)*

* Irony
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It isn't unusual for votes to go against their party faction, though the parties do generally have rules that allow the party to demand they follow the party line in certain situations, though they can't legally enforce that. The worst they can do is exclude said person. There have been a number of situations where there have been important cases where they've tried to enforce a specific vote and members have left the party in question in order to vote as they pleased, which makes the parties careful about when they use those mechanisms.

But the ability for smaller parties to get in also mean that each of the parties are far more homogenous than the US parties, for example, so it's natural for them to toe the party line to a reasonable extent for important votes. In US terms, most of the parties in the current Norwegian parliament would've been members of the Democratic Party, but in Norway that span is considered so wide that it would be unthinkable for any of the current parties to merge.

In terms of barriers, there's a 4% limit below which you need to get in on direct votes, but no other limits (other than being able to fill a list, so you need at most a couple of dozen people willing to put their names on each regional list for parliamentary elections - a low enough number that even parties with a few hundred members have no problems fielding lists in parliamentary electins). The way the Norwegian system works is that most seats are tied to a region, so there's, say (I haven't looked up the actual number recently), 18 seats for Oslo. Each party provides an ordered list. So for the first 2 people on a party list to get in on direct votes, they need the total number of votes for Oslo / number of seats * 2, or more.

All the parties that get more than 4% nationwide then shares in a pot of additional seats that are used to even out their share to best match the actual nationwide percentages. Which regional party list is awarded the seat depends on who got closest to getting in, but the party is determined based on proportion of the vote.

The combination of this is that small parties have a chance of getting in - it takes 15.000-20.000 or so votes per region to win a seat - and larger parties proportions are further evened out so there's no tactical advantages in fighting harder for "close" seats. At the same time a regional link is maintained, which tends to be one of the thing people like to use as an argument for single seat constituencies.

In terms of compromises, I think Belgium has a big problem because it is too disparate. Belgium has two alternatives: Devolution of power (or splitting the country up), or compromises that nobody will be happy with but that are still better for either side than if the other side were to shove things down their throat. When these types of compromises are bad it is usually a sign that both sides to some extent would prefer to shove decisions down the other sides throat, or they could've agreed to devolve more power to the regions...

Norway does have enough conflict too where neither side are happy, but that's the nature of a system that represents everyone reasonably well.
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Here's a crazy conspiracy theory for fun: Google et al are well aware that CAPTCHAs don't achieve anything. So they build all these CAPTCHA "breaking" sites that actually just return the correct result from their internal databases after a random delay, thereby earning themselves a pretty penny from spammers that were going to abuse their systems anyway.
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"Let’s say a $100-per-night room is booked for a conservative 20 nights out of the month. That’s $2,000 of income every time you flip the calendar! At that rate, you can fully fund a basic $10,000 app in five months. "

Only if you don't tell the IRS, or New York City, or New York State about your extra income.
Hollywood, megavideo and lessons I learned about charging for content online
I have a popular documentary site which has been around for many years, streaming full length docs for small beer, it pays the hosting costs basically. But what I learned over the years that in order to survive (i.e pay the bills as hosting / streaming content is relatively expensive) is that you have to adopt the Megavideo model, i.e charge for content only after people are addicted to it. They used to force payment after 60 free minutes. I struggled to make any cash with a paywall system and only when I switched to pay in video system did it start making money. Clearly the megavideo model worked as they had 6 million in assets ceased apparently (poor sods).

I built the concept out into a standalone system in Flash and its at karsa.co.uk but for these days it would need to work in html not flash.
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I don't know if I've ever really bought into this. I've yet to hear the story of the individual who lost all social ties because they quit Facebook. I made the decision about a year ago, due to excess wasted time on the site and have yet to face any real negative side effects to doing so.

People were social long before Facebook was around, and can remain so without it. Even with an account, the information you share on Facebook is voluntarily given.

I think what Facebook has done most effectively is given people the illusion that their lives are somehow more social because of it.
Would TV scripts be better than movies? You wouldn't need too much trust to start with (there's less production costs at stake, and you are working within an established framework), and there's opportunities on both sides if you are any good (you get to write subsequent episodes, and they get another writer).

Or would TV shows have enough writers already?
Hollywood, megavideo and lessons I learned about charging for content online!

I have a popular documentary site which has been around for many years, streaming full length docs for small beer, it pays the hosting costs basically. But what I learned over the years that in order to survive (i.e pay the bills as hosting / streaming content is relatively expensive) is that you have to adopt the Megavideo model, i.e charge for content only after people are addicted to it. They used to force payment after 60 free minutes. I struggled to make any cash with a paywall system and only when I switched to pay in video system did it start making money. Clearly the megavideo model worked as they had 6 million in assets ceased apparently (poor sods).

I built the concept out into a standalone system in Flash and its at karsa.co.uk but for these days it would need to work in html not flash.
Do people usually report AirBNB income to the IRS?
If that were the case, why did he get a 94% success rate with the same image?
Ok, no one's too interested but it's actually a cool article.

tl;dr:

James Gates is playing around with geometric representations of physics equations because they can be shown to have some predictive power.
Playing with a geometric structure he calls "adinkras" he discovers Hamming codes hidden inside geometry the describing physics.

The conclusion is either we live in the matrix (Bam!) or CompSci has applications in understanding the universe.
I think this might be one reason Spotify is so successful.
This is ridiculous. I understand that the current IP legislation is a load of crap but trying to get ALL software to be free is absurd. How are developers going to live? How about groceries? Can I pay for that? Or that should be free as well?

A few points:

1) To Stallman, having the 4 Freedoms[1] to any software you acquire (paid or not) is an Human Right. And of course, you don't violate human rights just because it employs some people. So your question is completely irrelevant to him.

2) It's Free is as in Freedom, not Beer. You can charge for free software and in fact he encourages you to charge as much as you can. Of course, any of those buyers might start distributing it for free, but on the other hand, people could have also bought the Humble Bundle for almost nothing and yet they chose to pay a decent amount.

3) You're discounting the software - possibly most of it - which is produced either in-house or by a company contracting with another to write it. If a company needs some software which doesn't exist yet, or to add some feature to an existing FOSS package, they'll pay.

In fact, I have friends which work on a company which makes money by adapting Free Software to others' needs.

4) You're leaving out value adds. Red Hat makes money, despite CentOS. Reddit makes money, despite having a repository with all the code.
If your software depends on a service, you can give away the software and charge for the service.

[1]: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html
> Google et al are well aware that CAPTCHAs don't achieve anything

????

> So they build all these CAPTCHA "breaking" sites that actually just return the correct result from their internal databases

Oh, haha, I see ;)
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I'm still not sure what DDOS'ing a government website will ultimately achieve. So you cant access justice.gov for a few days...how many of you visit that site daily? How does this affect the Justice department other than making some IT guy look bad?

I see what they are trying to do. They want to show that the will of a few can control the masses...but hijacking a bystander's browser will only make Anonymous look like a bunch of assholes. This tactic will give the media and/or government a way to paint Anonymous in a different light.
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> I'd be surprised if every image submitted isn't going through an automated solver first with only the < 95% confidence ones being sent to a human.

Yes, that's how I'd do it too, but I don't know if they're that sophisticated yet (they'll get there though).

Even with 1 second per solve, that's only $3.60 per hour. A massive improvement over 13c, but still certainly not worth anyone in my country's time.
I agree that people voluntarily join Facebook, but expectations are important. If I volunteer only to realize your intentions were far removed from my expectations then we have a problem.

Imagine I start a FREE postal delivery service for writing letters to your friends. But when your letter shows up at the destination, it is full of advertisements that I hand picked for your friend based on the content of your correspondence. Oh yeah, also the police asked for a copy of the letter. Oh yeah, and we also showed the letter to a bunch of your other friends because we changed our delivery rules and figured you wanted to opt-in. Didn't think you would mind.

But you can't complain. The service was free and you signed up voluntarily.

I'm neither pro / con on the Facebook thing. I never know when the real world rules should apply to the electrons. I think we are just making it up as we go.
I would guess the if you code in the night your 2h turn into 6h. While if you do 2h in the morning you have to stop and go to work.
> Trying to understand - you mean it is not possible for other Euro countries (who also use Euro as their currency)? But does it really matter for them?

By way of example, Italy used to devalue the currency from time to time to give a bit of a boost to exports. This, for better or worse, is no longer possible.
But the captcha is randomly distorted afresh each time, so each captcha image will never have been seen before. You'll never get an exact hash match unless you're looking at an extremely naive implementation.
I trust my VPN-provider when I ask them explicitly if they keep _any_ logs at all, and they reply no. They are not required to do so by law (yet, at least), where I live.
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I don't believe this is the case. Even for iframes, the third party cookie rules come into play.
You do realize that people sell GPL'd software all the time, right?
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When I wrote a captcha script years ago, I included in the image the text: "Please only enter the text if you're on foobar.com", to deter people from relaying the image to a free porn site and getting horny teenagers to enter the captcha in return for porn.
They found an “GmbH, SARL, OOD, DOO, LTDa, A, BVO, Sp. Zoo, SRO, TAA or OOO” and wonder why international VCs don’t bother

If people want to invest in your company, its legal form is of little importance.

Changing the legal structure for a small company isn't a problem and any serious VC can even help you with that.

I never heard of someone not investing in a company because it didn't have the proper legal form.