skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
@jnickhughes, dud link to Seconds in the article.

Business idea looks good though - I think you're onto something.
Thoughts on DynamoDB From a Netflix Engineer
I'm confident that regardless of the ultimate outcome of the Battle For Freedom on Internet and Intellectual Property, it will remain that the most wealthy most often gains financially from their own wrongdoings. The judiciary system will remain the warhammer of giants, way to heavy financially for most individuals and small companies.
Should have been 73Signals, not 67. Even Sheldon Cooper would approve!
How would people recommend doing async file IO w/ tornado?
I was using Tornado until I needed to write a server to handle very large file uploads at which point I switched to Node.js + CoffeeScript.
Righthaven didn't own the copyrights on the material; they were simply "granted" the right to sue, which turned out to be bogus from a legal perspective. To enjoy the benefits of SFC enforcement, you must assign your copyrights to SFC thereby avoiding the Righthaven situation altogether.
How is saying that his AdSense account was closed without an explanation? That's exactly what happened.
That shouldn't be hard since old square dongles are unencrypted [1]. Just create an app that interfaces with the dongle and looks like the obama app. You're good to go [2].

1. http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/per_visas_orders_square...

2. Note to the NSA or any other government agency reading my public social network comments: It's a shame I have to post this disclaimer, but I have no intention of defrauding supporters of any political campaign (simply discussing a known security flaw). Also, Hacker News is not a news site for crackers.
And if a big company like Google can't avoid being evil, then what world-changing enterprise can?

A company owned by actual persons, i.e. a privately owned company, can better avoid turning evil. There are lots of world-changing privately owned companies, especially in Europe.

Profit seeking by committee (a.k.a. board and stockholders), turns companies into un-ethical, maximum-profit seeking machines. Even more so, since noone feels like he has "real" responsibility for the whole company's actions).
Sure, you can micro-parse the language, and yes, I mean it's at the 50% co-pay or whatever.

If I were trying to explain the rationale in this case, I'd theorize it's because this is typically something that happens once in a lifetime (if at all). I'd expect once one wisdom tooth gets cranky, they'd yank the rest at the same time. So, in this case, the thought would be that people partially pay for it when it happens rather than making everyone in the insurance pool pay for that risk every month, especially people with no wisdom teeth.

But I am not an actuary or insurer, so I don't know for sure.
Is there a way to turn it into a part time business that you can run along side a new venture? 50-70k sounds like it could be helpful in supporting you during a new venture.

Figure out what you want to do, slow down your involvement with your current venture as you scale up what you are passionate about doing.

I think most people here would recommend that you do not shut down your current revenue stream until you have at least offset it with a new revenue. View your current situation as an vehicle to help you do some awesome things in your next venture.
The title explicitly says "accounts".
This is probably going to be a fairly unpopular opinion, since it seems git has won the popularity contest, but this is why I've always preferred bzr. Sure, it's a bit slower, but the interface is consistent. There aren't as many commands and they generally do the same thing every time. There aren't many switches on those commands either, besides the necessities, like defining revision numbers to apply the commands to.

I started using git about 6 months ago, primarily for github, and it's obviously a very powerful tool. Unfortunately, all that time that is generally saved by git's speed gets sunk into browsing around trying to understand how to use it. I have about 15 git projects right now and I still have no idea how to do some of the simplest things with git.

Maybe it's just because I came from years of svn, but I pretty much had bzr's interface figured out within a week. That whole week, I searched around for commands and whatnot and since then, it's been Incredibly rare for me to wonder what commands do what.

I'm not saying you should switch, as git is certainly an incredible tool. But if you live your life in the CLI, I would recommend trying bzr out. The simple interface is a dream in comparison.

Personally, if it weren't for github, I probably wouldn't use git at all for my own projects. That said, I may end up switching to git Because of github. And that's pretty much the only reason. Git's won the popularity contest an hence has a far larger ecosystem. But if I do make that switch, and that's a huge "if", I would miss bzr's CLI about as much as I miss childhood.
webmin has a shell console as well.
Indeed, I'm pretty reluctant to hand over my credit card to someone I meet on the street, regardless of the cause that they claim to represent. I imagine this app will be more successful for collecting donations during official campaign events.
Would GitHub be a place to look for this? Not sure if they have search by location for users but if they do it could be a good way to find other dev's in your area
I hired a project manager. Showed him how to manage the work, employees, etc. Suddenly sales went down as 70%. I figured out that he does everything right but he's not a person to motivate the team, to be a leader, he was not passionate about it. He really didn't care much about his work.

I tried to hire someone else, but for a good project manager or CEO you have to pay very well. The problem is, we are not so big startup to pay so much money.
Let me try to be precise: I'm not characterizing enforcing the busybox license as aggressive. I'm saying that using a busybox license violation to bootstrap an investigation (and potential enforcement) related to GPLed code for which SFC does not hold the copyright is aggressive. That doesn't mean it is wrong, or even unreasonable, it is just aggressive.

Let me try an analogy: Suppose that, as part of a BSA settlement, they didn't just require you to come to terms with any BSA members whose licenses you were violating, but also with any non-BSA members whose licenses they judged you were violating. Having never had dealings with the BSA they may well do this (in the interests of drumming up new members or something). Nevertheless, I would characterize that in exactly the same way: not wrong, or even unreasonable, just aggressive.
False. At the very least, Reddit uses the strong tag, and so I don't feel like scouring the web for more bold text. I did do one search, and it turns out other people recommend strong over b in most situations, like this person: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/649305/alternative-to-the...
Looking at SFC's website, it appears that people actually assign their copyrights to SFC.
> idealistic expectations for what ultimately boils down to a money-driven company

Are there non-profit-driven companies counting more than 10 people?
I'd considered something like that. However, I thought you still had to download, install the VNC app, thus putting us right back where we started - up against the onerous school district IT policies. I did a little more digging and found this: http://www.realvnc.com/support/javavncviewer.html.
If I set up a server and run with their free edition of Java VNC viewer, will this work?

Are there any open source alternatives to this?
Yes, client libraries for SQL databases should absolutely have an escaping function. The fact that some don't is responsible for a significant fraction of all security failures.
Well, just because it really exists doesn't mean it wasn't a silly thing to ask for ;-)
Harvard Topcoder challenge (genomics)
Agree, but they should always keep in mind what made them successful in the first place: the fact that they had backing from users. The day you start listening more to your shareholders than you spend time with your users, there's something really wrong going on.
Dana White vs. Annoynomous
Cool idea. Thanks for sharing. Probably a little too basic for what I'm after. He's already familiar with Python IDLE, so I want to keep him on that track if at all possible.
There's a few ideas floating around here https://github.com/amoffat/pbs/issues/6 on how to implement it, but nothing looks really feasible. If you have any insights, I welcome them :)
You're probably right on the leather.

But I stand by the general point, and specifically I think it is idiocy to make any of the following optional in a car-of-the-future starting at $50K.

* Xenon headlamps

* Automatic keyless entry (seriously? fumbling with keys to unlock the door?)

* Homelink

I suspect Tesla itself is full of people who agree with this... and that all these obviously silly things were done solely to hit an "under 50,000" starting price point.
I suppose you are boycotting everything else made in those factories from other non-Apple brands as well?
Now a days these cases have become more and more. Accounts from Pakistan and India top the list...even genuine guys account gets disabled. Google says: your account is "posing a significant risk to our AdWords advertisers"...as if we are running behind his customer with a gun or knife.
My wisdom teeth actually fit in my mouth. Because I took care of them (and the rest of my teeth) as they started growing out, I get to keep them.

Dentists far too often recommend extraction for wisdom teeth when it's unnecessary, probably because they can charge a hefty fee for it.
This is fixed on master as of version 0.4, just fyi. It has some limitations (no star import) but otherwise works as expected.
I have no idea why you're being downvoted for this, I had exactly the same experience. I was expecting it, and I still had to stop myself from hitting back reflexively.
is it realistic for someone who releases their code to expect an unrelated party dealing with a license violation to just give them a free ride to enforcement? I mean, fine if they do, but it is by no means expected. I dont disagree with how this looks on sony's part, but mucking about with other peoples license enforcement smells kind of funny. Who says sony doesnt have a license from the author on a given piece of code? I mean, sure, then linix kernel andwhatnot, we know, but hypothetically, they could be usingsoftware available to the general public under gpl, but licenced to sony including non-disclosure terms about the license - only thecopyright holders can go after them, as it should be.

If its your work and you hold the copyright, how you license, distribute, and enforce it are all up to you.
Building Better Bananas
Validation has gotten an overhaul -- I'm afraid it'll no longer allow you to create a model in an initially invalid state.

If you'd like to keep the same flow, first create an empty model, then `.set` the attributes on it.
If anything ever reaches "11 out of 10 on the pain scale," your body is probably telling you something.

For those of you in San Francisco or New York, I highly recommend One Medical - you can make same day appointments and they are super efficient and timely. It's a beacon of sanity in the absurdity of American medicine.
I expect at least one of the Go authors was well aware of this very incident (the Java breakage), it was fairly well publicized before Go ever saw the light of day.
Bacteria are incredibly diverse. Antibiotics are not effective against every strain.. not just because some have become resistant, but because they they usually target a specific enzyme or pathway that may not be present.

A round of antibiotics is a nice thing to have if you are traveling and don't have access to hospital, but if you have a serious infection and try to treat yourself, you are taking a stupid risk with your life.
The problem is, that the reason why the startup makes so much money, is my hardworking. I really worked hard to make my startup earning some but I'm already tired of it. When I try to let the work to my team, sales go down. I tried hiring some people to manage my team, but I saw that I am the best, who knows the business. Actually the business consist of my expertise, experiences on this branch, and normal people should have my skills to be able to manage the work be done. And it's very difficult to teach someone (project manager) what I learned in last 10 years, my expertize. So I can't leave my work, to be able to work on a side project.
SFLC is far from a well supported organization in the GPL world. You say that the busybox settlements are necessary because most authors lack the means or the time to pursue violations, but in fact anyone who wished SFLC to act on their behalf is free to let them - and yet no one does.

It is telling that not a single mainline kernel copyright holder will allow them to, including your employer and many of your coworkers. As noted elsewhere in the comments, Rob Landley regrets assigning them rights for busybox, and no other authors have been represented in the suits.

The SFC will grant a new license, but on one condition - not only must you provide the source code to Busybox, you must provide the source code to all other works on the device that require source distribution.

Quoth wikipedia:

On 7 December 2007, a case was brought against Verizon Communications over its distribution of firmware for Actiontec routers; this case was settled March 17, 2008 on condition of license compliance, appointment of an officer to oversee future compliance with free software licenses, and payment of an undisclosed sum.

On about Aug 03, 2010, BusyBox won triple damages of $90,000 and lawyers' costs and fees of $47,865, and possession of "presumably a lot of high-def TVs" as infringing equipment in the lawsuit Software Freedom Conservancy v. Best Buy, etal., the GPL infringement case noted in the paragraph above.

The suit against High-Gain Antennas was settled on March 6, 2008 with the company agreeing to comply with GPL and paying an undisclosed sum to the plaintiffs.

On October 30, 2007, an SFLC press release announced that the lawsuit had been settled with Monsoon agreeing to comply with the GPL and pay a sum of money to the plaintiffs.

etc.
It's worth noting that the guy linked here whose AdSense was turned off is Jef Poskanzer, one of the grand old Unix hackers. You may know him from such things as pbmplus, thttpd, and two USENIX Lifetime Achievement Awards.
I don't think it is a "bullshit" example. Past performance of an entity tends to predicate future performance. The equivalent service is also provided to our veterans. The VA is also a failure. Just because white people will be serviced doesn't mean it will be any better. The legislation sets up the same pattern of control. The currently passed bill fits all of the fiscal and regulatory issues of IHS.
I've read pricing on EV lithium ion battery packs is at around $450/kWh... that'd put it between $18,000 and $38,250 depending on which model you buy. It's definitely the largest cost component of the car.
Still no AMD support? Come on guys, jQuery already does that.
I'm not a Dojo member, but I have attended classes there and I think it is a wonderful resource that is surely bringing long-term benefits to Mountain View. It would be a shame to see it shut down.
Yes, Anki used to use a slightly modified version of SM-5 but the Lead-developer decided to revert down to a modified and improved version of SM-2. Basically he reasons (you can find his explanation on the Anki FAQ) that while versions newer than SM-2 are supposed to (slightly) increase efficiency, it only happens if you study every day and at roughly the same time of day. The reason is, that starting with SM-3 a failure on a certain card changes the difficulty of (determined by the algo) similar cards.
A further explanation by the lead developer can be found here: http://markmail.org/message/u2zfnrg7x53bzp24#query:+page:1+m... I am convinced that it (at least for me) offers much better studying conditions. (Actually, the mere fact that I can revise on a crowded 30min commute on my ipod would make up for any efficiency increase).
Value of YC Companies
I read this article about the value of YC companies: http://ycombinator.com/nums.html. The line that jumps out at me is "The combined value of the top 21 companies is $4.7 billion [...] $4.7 billion / 210 = $22.4 million, so the average value of startups we've funded is about $22.4 million." In a similar way, Accel Partners could say something like: "The average value of the past ten companies we funded is about $10 billion", but take away Facebook and perhaps that number drops to 2% of that figure.

I am looking to find more discerning statistics about YC-funded companies. The truth of the matter is I am a huge fan of YC and some of the companies that have come out of there. And with 6+ years and 300+ startups that have gone through it, they do have meaningful statistics. This would help those companies that are interested in applying make informed decision on whether YC would be a good fit for it.
I came to post that. Magit has a very similar way of thinking about things, with commands being 'stage' and 'unstage' and a very simple revert, and nearly all commands work on chunks as well as on entire files. Nearly as much of a step up as using git was in the first place.
I use <strong> over <b> if forced to use one, but I usually do a span with a font-weight instead.
All these frameworks make me think of this XKCD:

http://xkcd.com/927/
Debunking the EU Commission's Lies About ACTA
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Indeed - Pragmatically, why should sony care? They will care when they end up in court because the rightsholders go after them. if the rightsholders are not willing or able to do so, then sony doesnt have much to worry about. thats business.

Sony aside, I wondr if it is legally feasible for there to beaclass action suit against a large serial gpl violator, the class being developers only related by the license they chose to use.... copyright violation is illegal, after all, right?
> copywritten

Copyrighted. It's about rights, specifically the right to copy.
Two weeks isn't bad for an undo feature.
I've had problems relying heavily on functional/integration tests.

The first problem is data consistency. Both require consistent data in whichever environment they are running. Not an insurmountable goal, but one that often leads to a lot of false failures. These lead to a lack of trust in the test feedback.

The second problem, as others have already pointed out, is that integration tests and functional tests don't tell you what is failing or why. Can I create a user? Nope. Why? 500 error. Time to fire up the debugger...

The third problem is that functional tests do not scale. Each functional test will take orders of magnitude longer to run than integration tests, which take orders of magnitude longer than unit tests. You very quickly end up in the situation where you have more hardware than people or you no longer get fast feedback.

Personally, feedback is the primary driver behind test automation. It is nice to know what I wrote will probably work and it certainly helps simplify the code. However, the biggest pay off comes from the fast and repeatable verification that what I changed has not impacted the code base negatively.
Of course :) You stepping in and writing NPM was HUGE! Along with Ryan, you and guys like Tim, Guillermo, TJ, Felix, now Bert and others really got the ship pointed in the right direction
Hibari design philosophy
Hardwood Flooring
Hardwood flooring became very practical in modern homes construction since it requires the least maintenance. Hardwood flooring can be installed over concrete slab, which makes the whole floor construction much more durable.
Some rumor... Joyent has taken this decision. Can anyone confirm please?
It's like operator overloading for novel syntax in C++. It worked all right for iostream, but if you've ever seen boost::spirit you can see that even very smart people can make very weird things happen by trying to kludge features into new syntax.
until any other rightsholder whos copyright is being violated does the same thing....... its pretty simple.
Valid conjecture, but I think Ryan's always had that about him ("Camelcase... how cute")
THANK YOU. This addresses a question I've had on stack overflow for a couple of days. It also addresses at least two issues in Node.js's github tracker under the 'fs' flag.
Perhaps I have misunderstood something. Wouldn't you have to analyze all of the non-busybox modules to determine whether or not any non-busybox modules are GPL-derived?

I'm suggesting that some companies would not want to let you analyze their trade secret modules on principle even when they aren't GPL-derived. I'd say that concern is unreasonable, but that doesn't mean some companies don't have it.
That can't actually be taken for granted, relevant Usenet discussion begins here:

http://groups.google.com/group/comp.std.c/browse_thread/thre...
Wow, I've never seen an article both prove and disprove itself so well simultaneously.
That touchscreen definitely concerns me. I used to drive a Saab 900, and my favorite feature was this big "black panel" button that shut off all interior lights save the speedometer (when the fuel hit 1/4 tank, that backlight also turned on). Can anybody who's driven the S say whether it's possible to shut off the panel? I love the car, but having this huge glowing monstrosity right in the corner of my eye would just ruin night driving for me.
Why Blackberry is dying and what they should do
Why would an engineer do this? Why not found the company yourself and skip the suits?
Megaupload lawyer says user data safe "for at least two weeks"
For those HN readers who are interested in original source material to make up their own mind about ACTA straight from the horse's mouth, the following links are a good starting point:

Full final treaty text as signed by the EU, including translations in languages of member states:

http://register.consilium.europa.eu/servlet/driver?page=Resu...

"January 18th, 2010 consolidated text" including country positions makes interesting reading (PDF and transcript thanks to lqdn):

http://www.laquadrature.net/wiki/ACTA_20100118_version_conso...
That's a somewhat misleading. The TVs were awarded to the SFC by a judge in lieu of costs and any other settlement - Westinghouse, the company involved, had declared bankruptcy and were no longer paying their lawyers. There was no settlement in that aspect of the case, and Westinghouse never came into compliance. And if a settlement doesn't involve any payment, congratulations - you've just spent a significant amount of money and you haven't got your costs back.

Many kernel authors simply don't care. Many others are employed by companies who would prefer not to potentially scare off customers, or are contractors who work directly for companies that are concerned about increased enforcement. Some have performed all their work under work to hire conditions and are in no position to engage in any kind of enforcement. While I'm sure some do disagree with the SFC's actions, I'd be astonished if that's the overwhelming reason for a lack of involvement.
Whether we love or hate google, we sure love to either love or hate google. Companies like, say, 3M would kill to be "hated" and "evil" like google is. Our hate is really more like us picking on that girl we like.