skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had a chance to work with Michael at a Startup Weekend last summer, when he was already entrenched into this idea, working a few days a week and then spending the rest on the project. It's great to see that he's gotten the site up and the tool is operational. There are some things that I'd like to see improved from the UI standpoint, but it's better that he's launched where he is - this way more feedback from more people could help him to get even better. Good luck, man!
There have been complaints about it spamming the channel

I have to point out the obvious: the example quote was 34 words long, and presumably it's of unpredictable length and content. TWSS is four words, repeated, and easily filtered out mentally. I don't like TWSS, but I don't think it's fair to call others' reactions irrational.
Because it is against the law. Taking down a site used by a criminal (or someone they believe is criminal) is within their purview. Making unauthorized changes to the computers of an innocent 3rd party (even minor changes, like removing a botnet infection) is against the law.
Where do you, personally, draw the line between "company culture" and "unacceptable working practices"? Serious question.
I wish they would choose Friday. I could use a day to take a break.
IMO you could afford to build high tech self sustaining enviroment for <50k people easily, a few micro nuclear reactors [1] would provide enough electricity, hydroponics, seafood farming, or advanced things like protein from bacteria/algae protein for food production, import the luxuries. They seem to have drinkable fresh water source, and with enough power and cash desalination is viable.

The fantasy business model would be to be rich enough to be able to personally cover these costs and establish a high tech R&D environment :) I'm not suggesting that this is actually possible, it's one of those things - what would I do if I had Bill Gates kind of money.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toshiba_4S
Only support for videos right now.
Sounds great to me. All the Coders Hackers are in the same place!!
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The site with the examples, timeline.verite.co, lists iPhone compatibility as an issue.
I think if you are asking you probably wouldn't be attending HBS.
> Yet another common trope in gender discussions is this idea that people shouldn't complain about sexism because there are more important things to worry about.

But Batista is complaining about (what he at least suggests to be) sexism, just in another area with more serious consequences.
Change Publishing. Join Hyperink (YC W11)
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Hyperink’s investors include Andreessen Horowitz, Y Combinator, Lerer Ventures (the founders of HuffPo), SV Angel, and others. Our launch was featured in Forbes, BusinessWeek, and TechCrunch, among others.

Here are some of the problems we're solving:

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3. Big Data + Analytics: Driving our systems and processes are thousands of book-loads of valuable data.

4. Enhance the reading experience: We want to make books social, personalized and interactive. Share, recommend and experience books with your friends. Clothes aren’t “one size fits all”, let’s make books more personalized. Redefine how people interact with books - let’s add images, videos, annotations and music to deliver a more engaging, informative experience.

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* Advenjure
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* Auto-meme
Write a RESTful web service which takes a random image url, analyzes the image, and intelligently stamps it with appropriate, generated meme text.

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Write a program which analyzes hacker news posts and determines common attributes of successful posts (topics, dates, events).

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Write a command line tool which plays a song and streams its equalizer in ascii.

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Cool, but can you make an API request to see the jobs?!

Clarification: I see that your API is coming soon. Just kidding around. I really liked the design though.
As I said earlier, he needs to run jslinux on this stack. It will be like `computing slowmo @ 1Mfps`
All signs here point to this being a huge prank. The site was registered 2 days ago. Dondamedia.com was registered yesterday. Plus the gmail they use doesn't match up with the e-mail kanye tweeted during his rant (DONDAMEDIA@GMAIL.COM vs contactDONDA@gmail.com ).
This combined with the little printer ( http://bergcloud.com/littleprinter/ ) and I'm in.
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Using robots for this task is more a question of fixed cost than anything else. Rather than build a conveyor belt to each cubbyhole in the warehouse - some of which may not be used for weeks on end - it's much cheaper to have a few robots that go to each spot as needed. And it's also more flexible, since it's easy to add or remove robots as needed.

In computing terms, conveyor belts everywhere cost O(warehouse space) to build, whereas mobile robots cost O(activity volume). Profits are also, most likely, O(activity volume).
it's pretty!
I posted an issue on github, recommending they include a license file in the main directory and switch to LGPL. Personally, I'm a fan of MIT/BSD, but if they prefer the GPL style, then the LGPL makes sense if they want the library to be used.

https://github.com/VeriteCo/Timeline/issues/4
What's really impressive, is that it still work somehow...
It is, of course, to the advantage of the store that you don't go directly to the one item you want. A lot of research goes into how customers wander through stores, and how to sell to them in that time.

http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/freeabs_all.jsp?arnumber=5702...

http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/papers/1293.pdf

http://www.bankrate.com/brm/news/advice/19990402c.asp
"Web Ninja Bootcamp"? (I was actually surprised that that wasn't the official title. Go figure.)
Ask HN: why QR reading capability isn't integrated to smartphones
I find it surprising that even nowadays most smartphones don't seem to come with any way to read QR codes. You'll have to install an 3rd party app on all phones I have tested (vanilla android, iPhone, N9 most lately). Why is this?

Some factors why I would expect it to be part of any modern smartphone:
- Technology is easy to implement and standardized.
- QR codes are no more just for techies, but you start to see them everywhere.
- Integrating the functionality to the OS camera app would make it easier to read the QR codes.
- It is easy to demo by the phone company and most customers know how to use it.
1. clicked through as described 2. Carnegie's book not on my list

either Amazon fixed this already or it never worked in Chrome? or something else.
Its an analogy, not a comparison. Different workplaces have different cultures and different standards of behavior. Startups in particular are known for having unique work environments, and how well you fit into the culture of any business is an important part of determining if you should be hired there. e.g. http://dondodge.typepad.com/the_next_big_thing/2010/09/how-t...
Very cool.

I want to create a journal/blogging app which uses this as its main user interface.
Brogramming quiz
Worked for me, on chromium.
You can ignore miss manners, but you cannot ignore the guy in the room constantly making sexist jokes. If that guy finds an opposite response of equal magnitude annoying, well that's some shoe on the other foot shit right there.
I was not aware that was possible... A little terrifying, actually.
That's a slow mile!
>History teaches us that there will always be hold-outs and that the most effective way to achieve this goal is through brute force.

That's assuming you want them all of the island and that you need everyone's consent to take over, you just need the majority to be take power trough democratic process and the few that wish to remain could be employed/incorporated in to the state.
Must be Wednesday.

TODO next week: Go collect all of the blog post cycles of "Agile Sucks" -> "No, agile in theory is fine, it's just marketing and implementation that sucks."

It's a full-fledged meme at this point. And I think if you distilled all of these posts down to their essence, you'd have a really solid critique and we could build some lessons learned, and the next time someone gets burned by a bad implementation of s/Agile|XP|Scrum/ maybe the narrative will change a bit from "Agile sucks" to something more productive, something closer to "there's that Agile execution thing again, and here's what I did about it."

Everything OP says is true, Agile is misapplied, overmarketed and badly executed, and much suffering in the name of "Agile" has happened.

But we need to change the story now. This same cycle of "sucks" -> "yeah but" is generating more heat than light. Time to reset and redirect our expectations to something productive.

"In time there will be a new movement which paints Agile as broken, inefficient and bad and we’ll get a new brand. That’s the kind of iterative development I’m looking forward to; a new target for our collective disdain ;)"

Here we've hit on something. On common refrain in anti-Agile screeds is "Meet the new boss, same as the old boss." And it's true, but instead of cynically setting us up for some other jaded iteration of Good Process Idea -> Marketing Scam/Bad Implementation -> Backlash, let's distill the lessons learned into something a little more focused and circumspect.

Let's not cycle through this again, please. Let's set Agile in its proper place, good stuff, bad stuff, the whole thing. And let's tell the right story that might help us stop looking to things like Agile as the One Best Way to do software and see it as the limited tool it is, dependent on many other concerns, such as quality of developer, product focus, political environment, etc. Agile was a great insight in its time, and I think the time is come for a large-scale retrospective by the community to state the lessons learned.

One iteration I would really like to see end is "Agile Sucks" -> "But Not Really". Time to move on to the next level, one that acknowledges Agile's failings but doesn't involve a wholesale scrapping of Agile's important insights.
Wanted to make sure there was interest before I invested the time in it. It's looking like there is.
I think the last time I was this angry about a software pricing scheme it was when movable type started charging — that really pushed a generation of folks into the wordpress camp for good. my bet is that we could be watching the decline of adobe. and not for nothing for you folks looking to start a business the entire adobe product line is waiting to be disrupted — the time may be right for a Photoshop or an InDesign killer. The entire CS line is bloatware at this point...
With interfaces, it's pretty simple to replicate patterns like a Container<Comparable> or Channel<Reader>, to borrow common Java syntax. Personally, I like how it forces you to think about parametricity whenever you want polymorphism, like most functional languages.
Worked for me on Chrome fine just now.
Effectively owning your roadmap
> the only suitable targets for blame were people and critters.

See polytheism.
This is the biggest release we've done since video filters - Ammon and Guillaume are allstars! Socialcam = Army of Three
Yes, please accept application/json and text/plain, the latter so we can just curl and grep for keywords.
Fun though it always is to accuse people of racism.

"The W32.Sality family of threats has been around for some time as the first versions surfaced in 2003 and may have originated in Russia"

http://www.symantec.com/security_response/writeup.jsp?docid=...
I understand that XeTeX allows some fancy ligatures and access to other opentype features, but what's lacking in [La]TeX's kerning, and basic ligature support?
This seems to be a reiteration of the same point: you believe that if somebody finds the work environment hostile, it's ok to pressure them to leave. You're really not seeing anything wrong with that?

I'd also question your belief that "the girls" (who are, I take it, 8-12 years old) are ok with it. Go talk to some people in the field who have had a few jobs but aren't stereotypical. E.g., gay, female, or black. Ask them if they've ever laughed at something that made them uncomfortable because they wanted to fit in and felt unsafe doing anything else. Because you're ok with pushing out somebody if they don't like the joke, guess what: if they don't like the joke, they'll still pretend to you that they do.
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Since everyone in your company enjoys this attitude, it's nothing but good, clean fun (or good dirty fun, depending on the color of the joke).

But someday you may hire someone who, as it turns out, does not appreciate the jokes. Or perhaps, like Jessamyn, enjoys the jokes sometimes but feels that they are overdone to the point of being irritating.

I would not advice you to tell this person "If [you] find it obnoxious [... you can] deal with it or leave." Because in the US (I can't speak for other places) that is illegal. If this sort of behavior is pervasive it is said to "create a hostile (or offensive) work environment", and if someone is fired (or effectively forced to leave) because they do not enjoy the behavior then they are well within their rights to sue your company.
Or they could label versions like LaTeX, using a mathematical constant's decimal places.

For root 2: Version 1, Version 1.4, Version 1.41, etc.
So, this is an iPhone replacement? (my preferred way to read tweets on the toilet)
No amount of process can fix bad communication. Standups are an attempt at that. Teams that have good communication succeed more, and standups aren't integral to their success. Teams with bad communication fail more, and standups can't help them.

Sales teams and sports teams don't work as a comparison, they aren't building something (sales is a particularly bad example, most sales team members are in direct competition with each other). I'm trying to imagine standups on a building site.

Tom: "Yesterday I.."

Everyone cuts Tom off and talks over each other: "No shit, Tom. You're gonna work today, too." "That insulation isn't going to unroll itself!" "Tell us, dear Tom, will you be screwing the sheetrock in with a DeWalt or a Hitachi?"

Good teams communicate while they build, and know where each other are.
Go get some massage therapists - college students can be a cheap option. Touch is a great antidote for the immune system!
>Maybe not all users are as worrisome as me though.

For me it isn't really a worry, there are just very few products that I'm willing to go through the hassle of pulling out my credit card and typing in those magic numbers. Is it laziness? Yes. I prefer refer to it as I value my time more than anything in the world as it is the one thing I cannot replace (yet).
Either this is a hoax or the unrealistic claim of a sad group of hackers. Regardless, it's still interesting to imagine what it would be like if the internet really were inaccessible to a large number of people. Even light Internet users would realize how dependent we have all become on this infrastructure.
I understand, but I'm not convinced that the macros couldn't be somehow compiled down to some more compressed binary representation. Regardless, I still think keeping them on disk in a tarball or something would be more economical. Decompression can be quite fast if the right compressor is used.
But, unless I'm missing something, it's missing the supporting bits you get in a nice functional language, like algebraic datatypes and pattern matching, which make that style much more pleasant.

Of course, most of the functional language DO have generics, and full type inference to boot, also.
I would love to see a similar visualization for the entire Google Apps Domain for admins
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So it's a nice front end for a WHOIS lookup?
Exactly. And note the date: 6 years ago. I think the collective wisdom has been acquired. The IT community needs to name it in a way that makes these lessons learned common enough that the next time someone is burned by Bad Agile, they won't rewrite one more iteration of this same post.
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yes: http://code.google.com/p/go/downloads/list
One thing that bothers me about any and all up-vote/down-vote systems is exactly what has happened to Batista.
He expresses an opinion that is contrary to what other people are saying and he gets down-voted into oblivion.
This just feeds into the creation of a culture bubble and never lets anyone in the communities views get challenged.

As a side note, I would like to clarify that my view on the issue is:
A) Not relevant to the point I'm bringing up; and
B) Not the same as Batista's. However, nor is it the same as anyone else’s in this discussion.
(It's worrying that I have to clarify this for fear of being down-voted like him. I should not have to sit here and worry that I will get branded a sexist for not just mindlessly hitting down-vote on him. This is a horrible trend that needs to stop.)

I'll be down-voted myself anyway for even daring to defend someone’s right to express their opinion however.
You get given a down-vote at a high karma so that you can use it against spammers and not just to use it on people you disagree with.

So god damn it learn to argue with people properly instead of just trying to silence them.

Edit: Also, down-voting people as you disagree with them verbally is like gagging them whilst you debate them. It doesn't convince anyone, it just angers them and sets them in their ways more.
looks pretty neat. How are you fetching jobs from the different sources? do they all have api's for their jobs sites?
Considering the main use of hacked DNS is going to be stealing login info by redirecting to fraudulent versions of websites, I don't think these criminals will have a problem forging logos.
Instead of asking what makes you sick, rather look at what keeps you healthy.

General health tips:

Fruit, vegetables and white meat - Eating Healthy

Regular snacking (small portions) is much more healthy than large meals.

Take daily supplements (Multi-vitamins, especially Vitamin B1/6/12, Omega3/6) and also weak probiotics (like the children take) and CellFood generally keep your immune system strong.

Regular and ocassional intense exercise is also excellent and recommended.

Good and regular sleeping patterns (specifically at night - between 6-7 1/2 hours show to be most efficient)

Sanitation tips:

Keep the office and workplace clean and clean regularily - I read somewhere keyboards contain on average 60% more germs than toilet seats - clean those buggers! According to dentists - toothbrushes should be replaced every 1-2 months.

Make sure the drinking water is good and there is good ventilation.

And wash those cups!

Har har :) Hope these tips provide some value to you. Don't consider me a fanatic - I work in the Health Care industry (as a hacker/developer) and pick a couple of things up along the way.

And lbcadden3 is right - daycare is a germ factory.

Also, try not to have your co-workers sit/work closer than 1 1/2 or 2 metres in proximity of eachother - unless you are looking for the domino effect!
because the actions required to do so are illegal. This isn't about replacing sites or controlling the C&C machines. That's relatively easy.

To 'take down' the bots in the fashion of the OP means you upload the AVG removal tool so that the bots grab it at some point in their update cycle and run it.

What you've done here is arrange to run code on the infected machines that the owner of the machine is unaware of. Code that is intended to alter software on that machine, and that is illegal in exactly the same way as infecting the machine with the bot virus in the first place.

As the machine's are in the main unidentified and spread all over the world, no one legal entity FBI, SOCA, Interpol etc covers them all within their jurisdiction, or can target only the machines with in it, so applicable warrants and permissions would be practically impossible to obtain.
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Grove API
You can totally automate the deployment of windows machines. Maybe what you suggested the other guy did for linux you should do for windows.
I believe that is the purpose of the AltGr [0] key, is it not?

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AltGr_key#US_international
While I agree it would be nice, if your twitter account is public, you're basically just giving it your username.
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So I'm learning Rails myself and I'm nervous about the whole deploy to Heroku part / the cost of hosting a small app. Did you have to buy additional Dynos to handle the traffic from HN? $35 for an additional Dyno isn't the end of the world, but shared hosting for $5 a month at railsplayground is a whole lot cheaper for a humble junior developer like me.

The site looks great! Congrats on your first app launch!
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I knew when I posted that comment that it would get downvoted, but I honestly don't know when or how "They're bugging me so I'm going to 'take the high road' and bug them back" became acceptable behavior.

If it was something my daughter had done, she'd be in trouble for it, but because she has somehow appealed to the vigilante in everyone, while trumpeting the almighty PC agenda of sexism, she's apparently justified in being just as much an asshole as her tormentors.

The irony of course being that of course people would treat her as having done "the right thing", because she was "the victim". Just the same as people root for the guy who hacked Sony, or for whatever random "little guy" stands up for whatever negatively though of "big baddie."

It still doesn't make it right, and we're supposed to have learned that lesson by the second grade.
Wait, you're proposing to create an unfettered dictatorship with access to nuclear technology? And you think everyone will be fine with that?
> Stuff that doesn't bother you (that another poster here describes as being "tuned-out"), as a man, because your gender plays no part in your job, is experienced differently by your female colleagues

This is an insightful observation. Guys often like to think that they're much better at taking sexist jokes directed their way. "I have no problem when a commercial makes fun of a guy's inability to do housework!" they say. It's easy to "lighten up" about things that don't actually affect your life. I wonder how guys would react to women constantly making jokes about legitimately sore subjects for men. The stereotypes of men as rapists and child molesters, for example. Men don't seem to "lighten up" so easily when those subjects are brought up.
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I have a working model 102 on the Shelf Of Dreams here at work.
The fact that the subtexts weren't intended doesn't mean they aren't there, though.
HTML5: The difference between an App and a Page.