skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is also the possibility of a Joker pushing somebody (possibly multiple to be sure) else onto the grenade, thus saving their life and causing destruction. Which has 2 possible out comes in itself:

1) Joker pushed another Joker or Cooperator. Which might be uncomfortable for a time, but would pass.

2) Joker pushed a Defectors, in which case some Defectors would want some form justice.

I have no numbers to prove this, just my feeling for the archetypes.
if your code is 'live' and you plan ahead a few features: feature branches.

if you are running as fast as you can for the first releases, what i do is use feature prefixes on the commits. And of course, a commit can have several prefixes.

of course, if i have to cherry pick something, i still have to look at each commit, but with prefixes it's easy. And i have the time i didn't spend thinking ahead for something i don't even know i will need.
People are affected by flickering lights at a very basic level - we stare at fire, too.
This is a relatively easy litmus test. Let's say someone you decided to do an investigative piece on you Annie Lowrey (arbitrarily deciding because you write publicly that it fits his definition of a "public figure) and publicly states considering visiting you at home in order to learn more about you.

Would you feel creeped out or "hey, come on in?" To me, _why by his actions has demonstrated that he wants his privacy and to be left alone. It is not for you to decide that he is a public figure. Prioritize the human aspect and respect his wishes before the advancement of your own career.
I know that there's not much to do about it, but these embedded web view OAuth dialogs always make me cringe. There's no URL bar, there's no SSL indicator, no way to check the certificate of the page it was hosted from.

It would be ever so easy to present a faked Google login page.

Of course, this is just a matter of trust and the issue would be the exact same if I were to just type my Google password into a native username/password form.

Still. What good is this OAuth stuff when it practically provides no security advantage over a traditional native UI? It's as easy for a malicious app to present me with a faked Google OAuth page as it is to just log whatever I type into the native UI which would have the advantage of being easier to use and not requiring any loading time.

OAuth is wonderful between webapps, but I really don't see justification for it with locally installed client apps.

If at all possible, please, please if you are forced to do the OAuth dance, try to make it go via the system default browser! THAT would allow me to check certificates and would be a huge security advantage over any traditional method.

Provided I can trust my browser, but frankly, I trust that much mor than $someapp_i_just_downloaded.
Does it need to be able to fire more than once?
Mobile Backend as a Service Drives Next Round of Apps
Real passion is loving something even when it's not working yet
If that hypothetical woman was getting hit by men after she made it clear that she dislikes it, then I'd say it is punishment. Well, not punishment exactly, because that's a response to a behavior considered wrong, but in a "no good deed goes unpunished" sense.
I'm very suprised that they keep some secret, custom gear in a semi-public shared data center. What exactly prevents no-googlers from wearing their own headlight or using a flash in camera?
When death becomes optional
Do places like New York or Los Angeles see increases in sea levels? Is there any definitive source of sea level measurements that can be referenced to add credibility to these claims?
In Soviet Russia, your SSL private key becomes public key. (the private key is held in memory by the nginx process. If you can dump memory, you can dump key)

(you may also want to generate a new key and get a new certificate if you use nginx, concurrent with patching this...)
A new dead easy musicians search engine - Emuzikos
Tracking someone down because you suspect wrongdoing is not the same as someone who as far as I can tell has done nothing but contribute to the Ruby community.

It's all about context.
Gnarly... I'll look for both of those and check them out. Thanks!
Take it from this guy.
Musk is demonstrating hard work in this area, too: they're building rockets and launching them. Far more affordably than their competitors, too.
interesting idea, but a sample session output in the README would help the short-attention-span peop... brb.
Diablo3's important issues.
What about airsoft? You could mount a cheap, automatic, battery-powered unit and seriously sting those squirrels! I thought of using a similar system to protect the chickens I've got from the feral/neighborhood cats (I do have a fence... but that doesn't feel "complete").
My favorite logo with Escheresque perspective is AT&T's. Compare the globe's north and south poles:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/2/22/AT%26T_...
Will be interesting to see of they are all assigned to current efforts like G+ or if they are given some independence and freedom like the slide team. Probably assigned to current efforts as it seemed some slide base efforts in Google were fairly half baked.
I'm sure they will rock. The concept is really fresh!
heh that's actually an interesting problem, it would depend on how many times the gun needs to fire, also how stable can the copter be as it fires? if it only needs to get one shot off then you're good(but then it'd be more practical to load the thing with explosives, ugh that idea gives me nightmares)
maybe some sort of dual gyroscopic stabilizer like a camera coupled with opposing barrels as some one mentioned, but using blanks instead of live ammo?
It's more Pythonic to write

[e for e in items if e.isFoo]
So is SpaceX. Their rockets are changing the economics of space launch already--they are several factors cheaper per pound to orbit than their competitors.
I also don't see the point. If I need to experiment, I'll create a branch, mess around there, and merge it back when I've figured things out and have everything working.

The workflow in the article seems like it's trying to be clever for the sake of being clever. I guess it works for him, but I think most people would find it too confusing to be practical.
That's such an encouraging read.
Learn to hustle.
It is harassment because it's not up to YOU to decide if a) he is a public figure and b) if he cares for such information to be shared.

You can couch it in different terms but I view this as much more self-serving than any else.
We just completely redid the design of our site and barely touched the HTML other than the top nav, and that's mostly because the content changed there, and the changes were mostly deletions.

In my experience a lot of developers solve problems using HTML that could be better solved with CSS and a sprinkling of Javascript, because they don't know the DOM or CSS well enough. I think that's what most often leads to the situation you described.
By the way, that article page is too hard to read comfortably. Shortened the width of each paragraph and upsize the font will be really good for me to read it.

tl;dr , I didn't read that page. :(
The essential startup team: content, analytics, design, engineering
Well, the (sending) MTA is not exactly mine: I configured exim to send everything through my ISP's. Of course, the domain is still managed by me, and so is reception, although I keep Google Apps (free) for the backup MX.
Very happy read.

What this says me, and hopefully you is this:
"that inconsequential thing you are staring today.. do not be so sure it is that inconsequential. Most of all just do it"
A lot of co-lo facilities frown upon people taking cameras/phones into their server rooms.
Are Google’s Search Techniques affecting newcomers?
I'm sure that's not the prevailing reason for their choice.

Please do not pursue a career in government or law enforcement.
IE 8+ has dev tools. They are not designed very well but they provide a lot of the functionality of Chrome/Fx.
Real-Name Registration Threatens the Lively World of China’s Microblogs
The point of the article is that observational studies are terrible and non-scientific, but people seize on them anyhow if they like the conclusions. You reply by saying, in essence, "this article must be wrong, because it disagrees with some observational studies which must be right because I like their conclusions".

Ironic.

(As the article points out, the very limited hard data we have - ie, not from observational studies - indicates that meat-rich diets are, if anything, good for the heart. And that observational studies such as the one under discussion ALWAYS show that the people who comply with advice (even if it's to take a placebo) are healthier. So your blithe "this study must be right, because we already know eating meat is bad, and what else could explain these people being healthy?" is just magical thinking. And thoroughly debunked by the very article you're commenting on.)
This is all very speculative. I'd say they just want to save power.
No man's land control and anti-air defense is exactly what I saw such solutions marketed for, when browsing through drone tech last year.
The Bad Science Reporting Effect
Yeah, we have another post in the pipeline for exploring Tastypie, especially for a) using it with Backbone, and b) using it as a simple writable API for jQuery.

Django does seem to be fairly open-ended when it comes to AJAX, and while there may no be standard way to do it, I think approaches like we take are a lot more reliable than some of the others I've seen.
Yeah well Kevin Rose's startup had a couple hundred thousand users and made $0. So what makes Kevin Rose so amazing that he deserves a bailout, while the rest of the startup world whose name isn't Kevin Rose has to do things the hard way, like grinding it out, or EARNING a job at Google, or starting another startup?
First off, it's spelled "ridiculous".

Next, it's not for you to decide if someone wants to have multiple personas. It's also going to vary over time.

Here's an example taken to the extreme: because you have posted publicly (at least several times on HN), is it okay for me to decide that that fits my personal definition of a public figure because you have now a reputation of being kind of a tool and then proceed to investigate and post personal details about you?

I didn't think so.
Awfully rich coming from an entity which makes absolutely no content whatsoever.
In my opinion, the notion of an "algorithm for generating new ideas for startups" is absolutely appalling. I am far from an expert in the field of startups but I have enough knowledge (at the very least from a consumer's point of view) on the matter to know that great products are crafted by imagination and passion. Having a process decide what a "good startup idea" would be completely takes away from the base imaginative thought. Furthermore, how are you to become passionate on an issue that was brought to light by a process rather than intuition?
I find this to be over kill but I see the point.. as if you're always trying to make "good" commits you kind of lose the "get all the shit done" mentality as you have to separate everything in smaller ideas.. whereas it's faster sometime to really hack lots of thing and commit, and then at the end cleaning stuff.
There are a number of very low-recoil guns in existence. There was even a video a few years back of a group of friends who mounted a paintball gun to a quadrocopter. So yes.
I really enjoyed PGs post for the detailed description of the thought process behind the creation of YC and how they took those initial steps (including getting the funds together and deciding how to run it).

A lot of 'this is how I became successful' biographies seldom provide that level of detail. Whilst I still find them interesting, I found PGs writing to be more inspirational (to me anyway) because it's almost like a 'how-to' guide.
Go does not use native dynamic linker.

Please check package syscall, specifically
src/pkg/syscall/dll_windows.go. You will see for yourself, how it is implemented.
This one got me laughing. What comes next? ChuckNorris.txt in every document root?
Ask HN - Companies sponsoring H1B in USA
I am a Ruby/Java developer with 6 years of professional experience. I have been a hacker since college, so total experience with IT application development is around 10 yrs. I have been working with consultancy pioneering Agile and XP practices, as well as worked on small and large projects from big retailers to major investment banks.

I am currently working in London and planning to move to Silicon Valley/Bay Area/San Francisco, US.

I am looking for employers who would be willing to sponsor an H1B in order to make this possible. Please email me at jobseekerinuk83@gmail.com for detailed resume.

Also kindly list any companies you know that are sponsoring H1B.
Isn't that how the business world works? Especially with start-ups? You look for inefficiencies and try to capitlaize on them. You use the information that others dont have to create value.

I don't know about other startups, but speaking for myself, I don't consider the hoarding of information a virtue. I use capabilities that others don't have to create value. Taking advantage of information asymmetry is, IMO, exploitative rather than creative.
Awesome, I have been using the your work a lot recently. I do have one question though, is SIFT available in the python bindings? I have not been able to find it.

Thanks for contributing your time, it has made my life much easier.
Agile Coaching is Evil
The personalized web is just an interest graph away
Also kindly list any employers that you know are sponsoring H1B.
agreed. From that post, only missed some more insight on how he dealt with that first batch on the summer camp. Were most of the ideas already good? Did everyone even got there with ideas ready to go? etc
Mixpanel (YC S09) is looking for awesome backend developers
Hi HN,

We're looking for people to join our backend team and help scale past 4 billion actions every single month. You can apply here:

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Fantastic read. It's really interesting to hear about how Y Combinator started much like a startup itself. Today we take YC for granted, but 7 years ago that concept must have been extremely novel and easily dismissed. It's hard for me to imagine the modern tech world without YC, though.
... or just read the patch.
Santorum Pledges Pornography Blackout Using Lawsuits & SOPA-style ISP Filtering
His argument is that Agile coaching is a local optimization. Based on Russell Ackoff's observation that "Optimising one part of a system ALWAYS leads to sub-optimisation of the system as a whole," he concludes:

"So, It seems clear to me that Agile Coaching, in its common form is a largely irrelevant local optimisation that is, on balance, harmful or injurious to both the client and the individual players (team members being coached), and that ignoring this is morally wrong. That’s the evil."
this is interesting. you could add alerts to show when something has an XX% rise in popularity. for example the explosion in keywords. basically creating stock market types graphs for keywords?
half-baked idea got hundreds of thousands of users... That is success.

No it isn't. Success is earning money and staying in business. Oink earned zero dollars and failed, so how does did this failure translate into success for Kevin Rose? Was Oink just something to add to his resume? I don't get it.
Buy commodities, sell brands.

-Warren Buffet
IE9 is the only browser among safari/chrome/firefox/ie that I can't get to render html5 audio tags, or respect document.createElement('audio').canPlayType tests. Ridiculous.
Cool, thanks. It's actually a slightly different idea though, because (as far as I understand it) highlight doesn't signal your interests, it just shows who you're connected to. Maybe more like a class ring than actual clothing?
Tip: sudo to root.

I am ignorant as dirt on this subject. Maybe this was obvious to everyone else. I read this at work and decided to log into one of our main web servers. I tried following the directions but I got the error:

tcpdump could not find a suitable device

However this:

which tcpdump

showed me that tcpdump was on the machine.

I look back at the examples in the article and saw he was root. Luckily, where I work, all of the engineers are given root access on most of the machines. So I could sudo to root. And then the examples worked.

Don't get tripped up like I did.
"Five orders of magnitude less" than the cost of the Apollo program is $20 million [1]. Current large space telescopes and underground labs cost of order $2 billion, only 1/100th of the cost of the Apollo program, so I don't think your suggested alternatives are as cheap as you think.

What makes SpaceX important is that they've rethought the design and manufacturing process to make their rockets far cheaper than others to date. If you bend the cost curve enough, surprising things become reasonable.

[1] https://xkcd.com/980/
They don't generate anywhere near the heat nor use anywhere near the amount of energy the servers do. I imagine this wasn't a big part of the equation. Google is incredibly secretive about datacenters and servers. Speaking as a former engineer who worked on web search, all information about datacenter hardware was very, very confidential, way more than plenty of other confidential info. I hadn't heard about the lights out policy before, but it doesn't surprise me.
As someone who has been in that facility I chortled.

Actually thought that after Facebook's Open Compute work they would loosen up a bit at Google, guess not.

As for the camera question, generally it can be pretty informative if you can take a picture of 'all' of someone's infrastructure to get a handle on what their costs are but I doubt that seeing a bunch of SuperMicro, HP, Dell, or BrandX faceplates in one installation out of hundreds reveals too much info.
Well yeah, look at all the hot startups out there. Except for a few orgs at the extreme high end of tech, a YC style startup is a marketing project with basic IT. Dropbox and a couple others might be an exception.
Case in point, I picked up a novel by Thomas Pynchon when the Borders stores were closing down. I read about a third of it and thought 'OK I get it, I understand this guy's style'. If I had more time I could see myself enjoying the entire thing. Instead I sold it at a used book store last weekend.
"Initially we didn't have what turned out to be the most important idea: funding startups synchronously, instead of asynchronously as it had always been done before. Or rather we had the idea, but we didn't realize its significance. We decided very early that the first thing we'd do would be to fund a bunch of startups over the coming summer."

I wonder what the best batch size is: each cohort seems to be larger than the last. When does it makes sense to do three, four, or six a year as smaller batches.
At the Blackjack Ball, card counter Dr. Edward Thorp is King
Happy birthday YC & Co. Been a fan since it was publicly announced.

And not to take anything away from YC's effort but I find it rather amusing that first time some good hackers take their turn at improving the VC industry they transform it and become (arguably) the most successful investors in it.

I wish more people would try to improve the VC industry. There's at least a few YC-level waves that could occur. AngelList the best example.
Why I'm leaving as the CEO of Twingly
What does my comment have to do with reading minds?

And it "doesn't matter now, but if it keeps up.."
That is great advice and I can say that sticking to it can be hard and if done does prove to making hacking while married not all that stressful on the relationship.

I'm now moving on to the hacking with a child phase. First due in July. Not sure what my hacking schedule is going to be yet, but I'm sure it is going to be much more abbreviated . But I'm hoping that will keep me better focused during those times that I am.
"And then we get paragraphs detailing how this journalist stalked him...

Being a journalist does not give you a right to stalk people. "

Nobody got stalked here, who upvotes this bullshit?

You can disapprove all you want but flat out accusing someone of "stalking" which has a legal definition borders on libel.
Is it really that bad though? I see it as a form of brainstorming and/or a way to overcoming blind spots/biases in your thinking. It's not an 'automated process' to generate ideas - just one method in a whole 'toolkit' of methods to stimulate one's creativity.
Regardless of Zed Shaw (the author of Lear Python The Hard Way) says, I think that Dive Into Python is a great book and one definitely worth reading.

I love Mark Pilgrim's writing and I've found the book quite helpful when I started.

http://www.diveintopython.net

That said, LPTHW seems like a great book, too though I haven't read it the whole thing.
Awesome talk, but I can't resist: Leave it to a software engineer to find a $250 solution to a $10 problem :) (http://www.wbcboulder.com/pole_mounted_baffles_sub.html)
Zigfu Dev Kit for Kinect and Unity3D
Zigfu (YC S11) is happy to announce the commercial launch of our ZDK for Unity3D bindings. Full information is available here:

http://zigfu.com/en/zdk/unity3d/

A trial version is available with a watermark. You can buy a dev license with your credit card through our site to eliminate the watermark. We are offering developer seats at the totally awesome public-beta-release price of $200 for the .99b version and we are offering free upgrades for all 1.X releases. Site licenses are available and we published our prices on the site.

Features:

- Compile to Mac, Windows, and Web Player using the Zigfu browser plugin

- Compatible with OpenNI/NITE and Microsoft Kinect SDK computer vision libraries

- Calibration-free Skeleton Tracking

- User selection methods (first user found, hand raise)

- point-cloud to particles effects

- Hand gesture detectors (push, swipe, steady, wave)

- Plenty of Samples Scenes to get started

If you have our kinect browser plugin installed (http://zigfu.com), you can try our examples compiled for the Unity3D Web Player up at http://zig.tv/examples

FAQ, tutorials and more examples to come. We appreciate your feedback and we look forward to seeing what you make!
Name a successful product made by bad developers.

I have a relatively who consults for a big publisher on these offshored educational software products. None of them sell.
It's Fantasy Silicon Valley available for iPhone and Android! Trade your team's hustlers for their engineers, make billions in an IPO, and defeat the evil villain Mark Zuckerburg.
Oh man ... then you missed the part six pages into the Brazil trip where you find out the rest of the book is all a dream :)