skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ugh.. this is the same problem that exists with Web of Trust. Too easily gamed, entire sites hurtfully (and wrongfully) flagged.

The more cynical side of me would say that MS got a chuckle out of this. After all, Dropbox is a competitor to SkyDrive.
That would be useful if either of those had comments, but it doesn't look like much of a discussion occurred on either. So I think this merits a repost and I can't say I understand the purpose of commenting to simply link to no discussion. Maybe you could enlighten us as to why you do that?

Edit: I see four comments in the link you added in edit. Unfortunately I find these kinds of comments to be a distraction; they don't actually add value to the discussion and instead contribute one more thing that must be filtered and often ignored. In the cases where there is significant discussion, it can be useful. But all too often it comes across as condescending and does little to actually build upon a new discussion.
> Dallas, a psychology lecturer at the University of Bedfordshire, is Greek and has said her grasp of some technical English is not good. [...]

> "I did not understand that I could make no search on the internet," she said. "I really apologise. I never thought it would cause such disruption."

Was she competent to be a juror?

(see also (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3500267))
It looks like Khan Academy for college-level, semester long classes. He should target the University of Phoenix's crappy online program. Their parent company, the Apollo Group, has a market cap of $7B. Thrun could easily take a huge bite out of that.
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I used this link http://www.gehalt-tipps.de/Gehaltsvergleich/Gehalt/Lkw-Fahre... provided by thomasz. Then I took the average from all those reported wages which was €2,109.36/month, divided it by 20 (as this is the average work week for most employees even in the trucking business, and actually well regulated) and multiplied it by 4 as paganel said his brother had worked for 4 days ("he just came back from a 4-day") and earned €300. If the information provided by thomasz is correct or not, well I can't really judge it without more information, but to say that a German truck driver makes 5 times €300 in 4 days is just ridiculous any way you cut it. As a side note, the average truck driver in Sweden makes SEK23,000 that is about €2,600.

http://www.lonestatistik.se/loner.asp/yrke/Lastbilschauffor-...
This project, hosted on the PlanetLab, could help.
http://codeen.cs.princeton.edu/codns/
For the love of crap, THIS. I'm glad I'm not the only one who's somewhat miffed that the advertisements are getting preferential treatment to the actual content (the reason people actually GO to youtube).

If I wanted to watch advertisements at the expense of content, I'd subscribe to cable again.
I've never used Django, I don't have any HN buddies, I haven't lived in Arkansas for 15 years, and you are currently replying to a piece of my very public HN history on HN.

Point taken, and partially agreed with, but the fact that facebook is systematically doing this about every aspect of every individual's life would guarantee that getting better info than you got about me, in a shorter time, would be trivial.
They asked what my desired and walk-away salary was "to make sure my desired salary wouldn't sound stupid/outrageous to the company", also under promise of confidence.

A good way to even it out would be to reply with "Well I dunno, why don't you tell me what the company's desired salary is, and I'll tell you if it's outrageous?". After all, if the only reason they want to know is to prevent you sounding stupid, they'd tell you that, right? :P
No, that version is not usable because the underlying API's (WGL and GLX) have since updated and using that ancient version of GLUT will not allow you to use OpenGL 3+ at all. There's also a bunch of other features introduced by WGL and GLX API changes.

The original GLUT was written for an OpenGL book (IIRC, the red book) so that the code examples wouldn't occupy so much space on paper. It wasn't probably intended to be used for real applications at all.
I take issue with the viewpoint that behavior is best understood by treating all involved minds as if they were perfect Bayesian reasoners motivated only by increasing the frequency of their alleles in the gene pool. Evolution doesn't work like that. Evolved minds are just a pile of kludges that were good enough.

Instead of the way you've been thinking about this, suppose instead that empathy is a straightforward consequence of mirror neurons, which essentially try to model the mental state of others based on their behavior. That might be most useful when dealing with the others in the ancestral social group, but it might also be useful to figure out that that bear over there is probably just protecting her cub, while the tiger last week was probably just hungry, for example. Of course, it would have to be possible to override empathy fairly easily, even in the context of one's own social group, but in the absence of any particular reason to do so empathy might in large part guide one's behavior. Stick people in an environment where food comes from the store, nothing wants to kill and eat you and the animals you encounter most are domesticated or mostly acclimated to humans and one can see how empathy might be applied to all kinds of things it wouldn't be under other circumstances.

This is just a half-baked hypothesis by an amateur, but you get the idea. Brains end up just being good enough, not optimal. If anything, it's a wonder that ours aren't even worse than they are at general purpose computation.
I can confirm that his reasoning is correct. The word on the street is that Sebastian alienated the powers-that-be at Stanford.
Wow. I have yet to read the entire indictment, but the pieces and parts I see scattered around the internet are pretty damning. If they get extradited, they are sunk.
Tell it to the UX designer that got fired for answering to Dustin Curtis. http://www.dustincurtis.com/incompetence.html
The real game changer is that in many areas German policies worked better than others, especially in the current economic climate. Ten years ago this was open. Countries like Ireland were seen as 'Tigers'. The UK was adopting the service-oriented economy with a large banking sector boosted by North Sea oil and gas. Germany was struggling with the reunification.

Now Germany has high debt, but was dealing with this problem years ago to keep in under control. More has to be done, but we are further than we thought.

The industry is more competitive in terms of delivery capability, production technology and products.

The decentral structure of the country enabled competition within the country - between Berlin, Munich, Stuttgart, Köln, Düsseldorf, Leipzig, Dresden, ... there is no such central structure like in France or the UK.

Key was to keep employment high. Youth unemployment is very low. General unemployment is on a 20 year low. This kept people confident. Confident that they have enough to weather this economic crisis. Germans save more, they speculate less and many prefer renting instead of owning (and being in debt).

There were some mistakes made (like some of the German banking system failed), but in general it looks okay.
i'd suggest using Git properly instead of making a new copy of the main JS file with every version:

https://github.com/adityaravishankar/command-and-conquer/tre...

it would also be nice if you separated out the code into functional modules (as opposed to event functions) so that parts can be reused. I was interested in checking out your selection code since I implemented my own recently.

better modules and functional separation would also make it easier for others to understand and contribute to the code.

Not taking anything away from an awesome demo, just some suggestions.
Such a specialized situation it's not even worth discussing.
The four things RIM must do to reboot
You beat me to it. :) Some background on Command & Conquer in relation to Dune 2:

http://www.computerandvideogames.com/183584/features/command...

"The first time we showed that game internally it had wizards
and castles," recalls a smiling Castle. "We were working with
Virgin at the time, and they said that they had this great IP,
Frank Herbert's Dune, and Brett loved the books. So we took
the game we were working on and recreated it in the Dune
universe.

"It solved one of the fundamental problems we had with making
an RTS, which was that we wanted to have a central resource
that everybody was fighting over. Dune has spice, which made
perfect sense - and it was also used when we came to the idea
of tiberium. It became the anchor of the C&C universe...".
It's an interesting problem, should the site be flagged because you can host viruses and such on the public folders even though the site and company itself is not malicious it's users might be.
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Ok, so I see the point that the websites you visit invite Facebook tracking onto their pages.

But one can trivially block these autoinclusions.

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http://webgraph.com/resources/facebookblocker/

--

My work's firewall directs Facebook.com and Twitter.com to /dev/null . This stops all such tracking.

Individuals could do their own blacklist via Greasemonkey / Charles proxy equivalent.
Can you programme FizzBuzz? If so, then you could consider getting a paying job.

Unless you really, really want to work at $BIG_COMPANY, and you could only get an internship with them, or you are only looking for something for 3ish months. If you are looking for 'experience' and you have a year, get a paying job.
I'm a bit (very) new to programming so I'm not sure how to quantify this answer but:

- Majority of processing done in the browser using jQuery and Javascript
-- Ensures my server doesn't get banned/throttled for too many requests to each of the services.
-- Also means the data is 'as live as possible' as there is no caching in either the client or the server

- Some processing is done server-side
-- Acts as a proxy for some non-JSONP services
-- General parsing/cleaning of feeds

- Services/APIs used where possible
-- Twitter search service is used client side
-- Viralheat Sentiment API is used client side
-- YQL is used client side for some of the calls
That's not strictly true; you have to consider the entire system, not just the individual. It's not like only you picked up this new tech and can therefore, if you will it, drop it. Everyone else in your social circle needs to, as well.

It's the same as asserting that people can communicate without phones, or that they can get news without the internet, the phone or newspapers. Sure, they can, but it's incredibly inefficient, exponentially so when everyone else still does.

(I've still managed to stay away from Facebook, but, then, I don't have many friends.)
Sorry, I think you missed my point.

I'm not disagreeing that these type of experts exist. The JS/HTML5 field is also littered with incompetence as well. I get the feeling that the OP is trying to say that we culturally don't advocate these type of people anymore and thus it's a "lost art". I disagree. And for every hundred incompetent people, there is one writing a new boilerplate or book. My point is that this one person doesn't exist without the other hundred. It's unfeasible to suggest that all 100 should be experts and that there was a time when this was true.

...oh God, now we're getting philosophical...
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The Germans I know when asked to compared Germany now to Germany from 70s or 80s always say that it used to be MUCH better. The same goes with my friends in the USA.

Peaked?
For whatever little it's worth, I just logged into my dropbox account on IE9 here at work with no issues; downloaded and uploaded .zip files without it complaining.

Our settings are managed by policy, though, so I can't say what security features are on/off. I've seen the Safe Browsing stuff before, though.
It's true that this is a common belief among outsiders, but it's not true that it's actually...true.
I just aptitude upgrade'd to Sid/Unstable.
You can also just null out www.facebook.com in your hosts file and be done with it.
Would hosting user content on a different domain (eg: dropbox.net) shield the main dropbox.com domain from being flagged?
I found it when searching for something that wasn't in the list.
We (the Germans) were told that the US people work harder. They have either well paid jobs without vacation or they have several low-paid jobs. Plus they had to be more flexible, have less protection, drive long to get to their homes in the suburbs,...
Agree, and unusable on a mobile unfortunately. It says my browser is not up-to-date - more like someone's web dev skills are not up-to-date. It's a very good project but just feels like it's trying to be too clever.
> 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?

Some business models are impossible without slavery. Does this mean slavery should be allowed?

Stallman's argument here is the same: if the particular software you make can't survive financially without abusing people, then you shouldn't have a right to make that software. And he considers all proprietary software to be abusing people's human rights.

So if you want to counter him, saying that it will put developers out if work is no more valid that saying that abolition of slavery is bad because of the financial hardship it would impose on the cotton industry.

To counter Stallman, you have to come up with arguments showing that non free software does not abuse its users.
Is it not just easier to learn Objective-C / Cocoa touch, than have strangers filing in and out of your spare bedroom for 5 months?
I had an idea for something like this a while back but it had a different twist: for any given noun or verb, anyone could upload their attempt at making the most universally recognizable version of that icon. The creator would tag the icon with descriptive words to help categorize it, with maybe one main word that it's trying to convey.

To truly discover which icons are the most clear and recognizable for a given noun, other users would be able to go through the icons one by one and add what they think each icon means by entering in a few key words. With enough input from enough users, it would gradually become clear which icons met their goals and which didn't. These results could be broken down by country and ethnicity, too. This way, we could really be confident that using an icon that's supposed to translate to a word will actually translate as it's supposed to for the maximum number of people.
It's pretty amusing to take the half hour or so and at least skim the Overt Acts section (it goes from a. to yyyy.)
In most cases, a business has a desire to fill a position fairly quickly

It depends. As another data point, I've applied for jobs where the job advert was from 6 months ago. There is a shortage of IT talent, this company had been waiting 6 months. They can afford to wait a few weeks more.
maybe dropbox should run security checks on uploaded content that goes in the public folder. if they are going to host it they should make sure it's safe.

of course this makes an assumption about why IE flagged Dropbox.
Sculpting text with regex, grep, sed and awk
I know a few people who haven't been invited - or have found out too late - about events because they were organised on Facebook and they're not on it.

Those same people are regularly out of the loop in conversations their friends have on Facebook, which at times makes them feel a little isolated.

I've heard of one person who made a huge social faux pas because they couldn't read about someone's breakup on Facebook.

The same are all true of some people I know who live on LiveJournal.

Facebook is a great tool for socialisation, and because of that a lot of people use it. When your social circles use it heavily and you don't, you miss out. Yes, you can do all that socialisation outside of Facebook, but the fact remains that a lot of people don't, and you can't really choose how your friends socialise.

It's not an absolute. You're unlikely to become completely socially ostracised because you're not on Facebook, but it can certainly make some peoples social lives more difficult not being on it.

There /is/ social pressure for some people to use Facebook.
Not in a few years, but in one month:

CS 373: Programming a Robotic Car
http://youtu.be/aI8SQCEUYrg
DDOS and threats after leaving WordPress community
I think the impulse to simplicity and the ability to recognize complexity comes from experience.

I'm sure Picasso wasn't "just" Picasso from day one. He probably spent most of his early days absorbing as much as he could as we all do when we are young and without experience. When we cannot absorb any more some of us, like Picasso, begin to find ways to simplify our understanding of the structures that beget such complexity so that we can find the intellectual room required to reflect and absorb more.

As with code and mathematics -- we may come to understand our problems and meet them with complex solutions. Yet only experience will reveal the underlying structures. After you've written the same kinds of programs a hundred different ways will you begin to see commonalities and short-cuts.

And personally I find that experience outside of programming also helps to find that elusive simple elegance we all desire our code to have. I study mathematics, fine art, literature, music all because I've found that ideas in one often reveal through lateral thinking -- solutions to problems in the other. That's why I love programming so much.
[video] Holy **** Watch this - I was checkmated in 7 Moves.
Can The World's Volcanoes Be Used As Power Plants?
Sure, we all pay for it somehow, I pay for all of my health care through my taxes, you pay half through your taxes and half out of pocket if i interpret you correctly? But on general I agree, it is difficult to compare incomes between different countries, for example IT workers in the US compared to in Europe, where the US wages are higher, but the costs of living are also higher (rent, health insurance, etc), so in the end you have to take a lot of things into consideration.

I would argue that €421 for 4 days work in Germany and €300 for 4 days of work in Romania isn't a huge difference, and if there is it is probably to the advantage to the Romanian (cheaper rent, food etc).

For instance, if I had the same wage after taxes that I have now and I lived in Algeria (I use this as an example as I have spent a lot of time in that country), and my standard of living would be unchanged then I would lower my rent by about 60-80% (depending on where in the country), lower my energy costs about 90%, grocery costs would be lowered by about 50-65% and so on.
EU proposes 'right to be forgotten' by Internet firms
Can A Middle-Aged Neophyte Make It to Carnegie Hall?
isn't public transportation quite good in germany?
Jim, Mike give up stronghold on RIM
There are lots of people for who name and gender are hot topics.

And with the "Like" buttons you /are/ forced to share your browsing history (no, being able to circumnavigate it by blocking it doesn't count)
You're technically correct, burgerbrain made a poor argument.

GPL software is in no way a barrier to earning money. It's, in fact, crucial to most software today, even if indirectly.
True, but you shouldn't have to know in advance. It should be illegal for companies to track you; especially companies who you do no business with.
Expect this to be brief. For a while, there was uncertainty because CentOS updates were way behind Red Hat (the upstream vendor). As of January, CentOS is effectively in sync with RHEL.
I'm German and it is much better now.

Europe is no longer divided. I can travel around. Pay in a single currency. War is a distant memory. Infrastructure is much improved. Even the environment is better now. Rivers are cleaner. Air is cleaner. The political conflicts are less. There are huge market opportunities for our companies. Right next to us it takes decades of growth to improve East Europe's living standards and economies.
IMO it would have been better to create a unique name and then use "The agile planner" as the title attribute for your homepage.

Creating a unique name & domain would help you in the long run for search engines and brand recognition.

Searching for "the agile planner" on google has 1,950,000 results.
Just to play devil's advocate here: for almost everyone in the non-techie general population that I've seen use the Internet, Google's search bar IS the address bar.

They want to get to Facebook? They type "facebook" into Google and click the first link. They believe that Google is how you access the Internet, clinging onto the old AOL frontpage mentality of portals and site discovery. That's why search ranking matters so much.
I'm sure people from the former GDR would beg to differ.
Antitrust issues occur when you use your dominance in one market to give you an unfair advantage in another. I think FB, Twitter,and MySpace are using this to advertise Google just might be doing that. The focused language on how the results are what Google would come up with naturally if they weren't forcing the "inappropriate" G+ results is a little over-the-top to be natural, IMO.
Ubuntu has the juju stuff on its side. I'm not sure how well it works with Debian.
Wow, then he must be a fucking genius!
I did express that poorly. There can certainly be logistic factors at play.

But my point was that it's not illegal. It's a decision, not law.
Senator Rand Paul currently in standoff with TSA at airport over fullbody scan
Could you remove the "10" from the beginning of the title? http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
30C temperature drop & great speed boost on MBP after reapplying thermal paste
Never said "just the unions". But remember the VW deal in the 90s about the 4 day workweek, to avoid layoffs as VW cut down production back then? That was the unions, and that was a milestone to show how it could be done. So when this crisis came, there was some good experience with temporarily reduced work hours.
TV writers do tend to make more money than movie writers. They also tend to have more creative control (in TV, directors are usually the ones who play second fiddle), but they also have to work harder. It isn't really the case anymore that the top movie writers do better than the top TV writers, either. Show runners, who are almost always also head writers, are all making "fuck you" money. I believe Matt Weiner of Mad Men is still the highest paid, at an estimated $8-10 million per year:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/03/31/mad-men-matthew-wei...
I say with conviction (having the same experience) that this is because your endocrine hormonal system is seriously out of whack. Probably hypothyroidism, but possibly hypopituitiarism or even lack of testosterone.

Go see an endocrinologist, stat! Your quality of life, and even longevity, could be at serious peril.
Do you want to see true innovation?
Hi there,

If you're testing mobile testing application, you probably understand the challenges :-) Simulator and emulator are a band aid and OCR is super expensive to acquire and maintain. Add the tethering issue and the fact that you have to jailbreak your devices, makes it a nightmare! Right?

NOT ANYMORE!

Sorry, I'm just too excited I had to share with you guys :-)

What do you think? Isn't testing inside the app make the most sense? No tethering, no jailbreaking, all gestures recorded ... this is AWESOME!
Could the Internet Ever Be Destroyed?
I meant no harm, and was just a 5 second google in a White Hat fashion. If you see some of the other posts on this topic, the same 5-second-google got some better results.

I imagine there are data-mining companies that are crawling the interwebs systematically to collect detailed information.

Facebook is the motherlode of course, no doubt about it.