skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The first 2 paragraphs were assholey, the rest was pure heart. It's controversial.

Yes. But needed to be said. I'm glad people read it.

In reality I wrote that when I was drunk, I was an asshole. But read it again. It's hard to admit sober. I think edw519 needed challenging, I think he was weak pretending to be strong. But damn, in all seriousness, edw519's choice was a LOT harder than mine. I knew recovery was a few weeks away. He knew his was never.

Don't give your disease ridden parents the rest of your life.

Mainly because they wouldn't have wanted you to when they were whole.

You're supposed to be the next generation. Not caring for an empty shell.
1) The amount of government money involved in "climate change".
2) the fact that it's gotten so politicized that you will not be taken seriously as a scientist if you go against it.
3) Emails came out showing that data was forged. It was explained away without too many more incidents.

Even if we found evidence tomorrow that it was not man-made. I can't see any European government changing their mind. The stakes are too high and too many people's livelihoods depend on it.
Permanently disable 're-open windows' on OSX
comments are always welcome
Socialcam added 4 million users in one weekend
Not always true. People look guard and abuse their own first.
"Exploitation begins at home"
You spent 47% of your words in your comment on that paragraph because "somebody had to say it", and it was incorrect. Is 50% of what you write being incorrect a "minor" issue?

And as for my entirely predictable defense of my husband… anyone who's watched us work together would laugh at that statement. But in this case, he's right, and you barely mounted an argument except that:

"Whitespace isn't significant" -- except that, of course, by ASI rules, it is sometimes and not others. You can argue over the meaning of the word "significant" and say it is all or nothing, but that is not what the rules of ASI indicate. Call it what you will -- sometimes it is, sometimes it isn't.

"This is a calculated marketer at work, trying to sell consulting and training" -- which is untrue.

As for my comment being "little more than an attempt to drag me into a 2-on-1 battle royal" -- is Thomas even addressing you? Not at all, from what I can see.
anybody can browse the blog there is some more content which may be helpful for u
news are always great and hacker news too :P
Yes, and that's an opinion. And he doesn't say it is a fact.
Guess this very much depends on which position the financial investors have put the (technical) founders into.

If they have taken a huge part of the equity for themselves and left the founders with far less than 50% such behavior might become understandable (many founders then might feel that it's not their company anymore).

But if the founders still hold around 60% after financing rounds of >$50million and then leave a large part of their investors "standing in the rain" i.e. they just get parts of their money back this becomes dubious. Nevertheless such cases are very rare and most of the time some investors will still complain even if they are making a very serious profit but less they have been dreaming of.

Best seen recently with Instagram when one early investor was labeled as not very clever even though they were making a few hundred time their investment (a few 10'000 pct profit).

Generally if investors are unhappy, that those who have generated such massive profits for them benefit as well after they themselves have already been rewarded, something else is substantially wrong.
What would be really slick is if the iPad remembered this and, once it realized you do this all the time, made a note to quietly display the keys where you want them from then on.
This will no doubt be how I travel from now on. I Can't wait for SimpleHoney to launch!
I guess we should be on the lookout for the Comcast billed me XYZ dollars to sync my GDrive stories in about 2-3 weeks.
When was the last time you checked in on C# land? It's getting a lot better lately.

ASP.NET MVC with Razor, Nuget, and the JUnit/NUnit-like test framework in Visual Studio are all in that line of thought. For something Active Record-like, historically more mature--and somewhat less ponderous--alternatives to EF and LINQ2SQL include NHibernate (FluentNHibernate is nice) and other approaches like Simple.Data, PetaPoco, etc.

Oh yeah, migrations have been notably absent, although I've tried a few like FluentMigrations, which is nice but "out of process" enough that I find it terribly easy to neglect.
New Study Abroad Blogging Community: Students Gone Global
Working At Walmart: A Dream?
Thanks for the feedback. We're working on building out really interesting functionality while maintaining the simplicity of the app. We believe there is real value in providing a single forum where you can find what people in your network, and in your area are doing tonight.

Rather than hunting for plans posted on Twitter and/or Facebook, you can always rely on doingtonight to find out what people are doing tonight, without having to sort through all kinds of unrelated conversations.

We also think people have a different identity at night, and don't want to mix that up with their identity on the rest of the social graph.

But you're absolutely right that we have to do a lot of work before we realize this potential!
very similar to Forecast
It wasn't hard to find one that I received myself. I've got coupons in magazines, hostgator, domain resellers... it shouldn't be too hard to come across one legitimately.
I hadn't previously heard of this, but had signed up for Pixelapse. My curiosity (and a quick visit to Google) led me to this Quora question: http://www.quora.com/Design/How-do-LayerVault-and-Pixelapse-...

Interestingly enough, there are responses from both sides, and I won't get into it in detail here, but it is quite a read…
So? If you ignore the "shiny new features", it doesn't make much difference if the updates are 6 weeks or months apart. They are not fast-moving targets because the already standardized technologies don't change. Pages render 99.9% alike on Chrome 4 to 19, same goes to FF > 3.5.
A similar app I know is Twitter http://twitter.com

No seriously though, wasn't that half the point before it turned into the "omg we're a social network build your popularity and acquire all the followers to broadcast your brand" game?
Can you elaborate on why? It's an honest question, because I genuinely don't understand why. Good to see the 'ole downvote-without-discussion at work, too.

I understand sexism to be about discriminating based on gender. Does it also mean "naming software a body part a certain gender happens to have?" If I name my software "penis", or "testicle" (a great name for a tongue-in-cheek test suite) am I going to be accused of being sexist toward men?

As for "clit", can I understand potentially offensive to certain people who are sensitive to sexual matters? Sure. Demeaning or discriminatory to women? Please convince me of it. I think the sexism brush is getting really loose, and it's such a strong, legally-damaging word to throw around.
We use FluentMigrator and it works amazingly.
Your right that the majority of the population doesn't care about playing battlefield 3, as an example. But, a very large precentage of the populous is insanely interested in casual gaming, see farmville.

The value that gets skipped by mainstream "tech sites" is that, yea its kinda crap at playing battlefield 3, but what it does do is create a baseline of capabilities that you can expect out of an average device. In other words, it opens the doors for mainstream adoption of technologies that weren't there before, ultimately leading to a new baseline performance for those putting out casual games.

I guess what I'm saying is that the next farmville could now have decent 3D graphics where as that was out of the question prior to the mainstreaming of decent GPUs. Intel plays a key role in that process.
Really nice graphics. It might be interesting to be able to select a region and have a pop-out that zooms into that region and maybe shows additional information. For example, showing cpu performance I would like to select a region where performance declines and get a pop-out that shows a more detailed view and includes network, disk access and memory statistics. I am sure there are many more uses though. Keep up the nice work!

Edit: Not really the purpose I know but it was just something that struck me as a possible use case.
Create Meaning
That's pretty nifty
The co-founder interview questions are all must ask questions.
Wait, their blog says its available today but all I get is a "Notify me when its ready" button when I visit http://drive.google.com/start ?

So its a soft launch for technology journalists then? What gives?
I couldn't agree more. It seems amazing that with thousands of eyeballs on this there has been no effort made to fix it.
Although this is very exciting I remain highly skeptical.If anything this smells like a pump and dump scheme more than a legit effort. I hope I'm wrong. I really want to see this succeed.
That again a different problem unrelated to rapid updates.

Yes, I agree it would be great if everyone converged on standards sooner. If we agree on the one true standard to create a linear-gradient, for example, then we shouldn't have to wait 2 years to get it implemented.

Btw, you are supporting all those Opera extensions too, right? :-(
A question about null routing - would the upstream provider or the datacenter do that?

Wouldn't one have to be dropping the packets at the upstream level in order to keep the pipe clear? At larger scales, is it common for the datacenter to own/control a router upstream, or would that be something that they would have to get in touch with their upstream provider to make happen?
Skylight is testing paypal integration for its invoicing system
Skylight is testing paypal integration for its invoicing system
Ford Cuts Global Waste by 100 Million Pounds and Counting
Andreessen Horowitz Has “Nearly Returned” Fund One
Hidden Improvements in Visual Basic 11
Pro tip: CMD + ALT + [Left / Right arrow key] changes to the previous / next tab. Combine this with BetterTouchTool if you own a MacBook and you can switch between tabs with simple swipe.
> It almost sounds like blaming women who wear certain types of clothes for attracting sex crime.

I completely stopped reading this comment here, when you wrote this, because that was a completely off-base comparison and has absolutely nothing to do with the topic at hand. Worse, you probably know it; I wouldn't assume you to be stupid. And that was a mountainously stupid comment.

In hosting, there are customers that attract DoS attacks. Period. Ask anybody who does hosting. IRC servers are a canonical example and are DoS magnets. Torrent trackers are another. Pastebin sites, like Pastie, are becoming another (look who uses pastebin.com a lot: Anonymous). Hell, Facebook and Google probably takes several DoS attacks a day just by nature of being well-known.

Don't even conflate my argument with an undertone of sexism.
The best design is the one you don't even notice.
your example is pointless as no actual datacenter actually pays their equipment vendor anywhere near list price for those devices. i certainly don't.

network equipment vendors like to have high list prices in order to:

- ensure they get sales inquiries from serious buyers;

- give sales representatives a large amount of leverage when negotiating the actual line-item pricing for each purchase order;

- promote some kind of enhanced "value" to executives ("it costs a lot of money, so it must be good!")

a realistic price for two routers with two 10gig-e linecards is about $15,000-$25,000 per unit direct from brocade. cisco would be around the $35,000-$50,000 per unit ballpark. if you're paying any more than that, you're getting extremely shafted.

further, the circuits for the uplinks aren't going to cost that much themselves, as it's all sold under percentile-billing (not even 95%, usually more like 90% or 80% at over-gig-e levels these days) when we're talking actual transit costs. commits for "Joe's Web Hosting" might only be 1.5gig on each 10gig circuit, so that cuts down pricing a lot right there.

in terms of getting an experienced engineer, most attacks can be detected and mitigated automatically using netflow/sflow/ipfix flow analysis. i wrote software which handles the detection automatically, with a fairly high success rate, and it's free to use on bitbucket. :)
http://manojmunna.blogspot.in
Christian Louboutin Miss America 150mm Slingbacks - Blue
Your malware-infected PC or router needs to get clean, or lose Internet access
Repo Man director: “The studios...are pretty clearly a criminal enterprise”
What a stupid question. It doesn't even give an example of classes which require "a lot of memorization."

Does the asker seriously propose that foreign language classes will be illegal because they require memorization of vocabulary, verb forms, pronunciation, etc.?
Couldn't agree more. Would love to chat about the space some time!
Can someone try to track down those two sites he shows screenshots of and figure out what they are both doing to figure out what this new signal or change is?
A ruby gem to help during job interviews
Why didnt the attacker directly use the details in his code, rather than creating a configuration file and decrypting it from the code?
1st site is doing keyword stuffing. The 2nd is producing spinned content. I imagine the new algorithm is improving the way they determine whether content is automatically generated, or written by a real human, or even written well.
>state-of-the-art features

How can you claim to use state-of-the-art features and not appreciate that those features will be more stable and more readily available than ever? And the cool new features being worked on are far, far, far more expansive, neat and "useful" (as you desire) than "css3" or "mobile devices". If you're really doing "state of the art" things, then you're probably using features that were added to Chrome and Gecko as part of one of the features that was enabled by the rapid release cycle with multiple versions and pipelines being worked on simultaneously.

Further, what breaking changes have you seen as a result of Firefox and Chrome's rapid development cycle. I mean, the features I'm discussing break regularly, but then again their specs are still in a very draft status and it's known that they will break. I can't say I've ever had a stable Javascript API or CSS rule just completely change when moving from Firefox 11 to 12 or whatever.

>"Much of the content on those sites doesn't even work on both Gecko and WebKit at the same time, never mind IE."

Honestly a lot of your claims seem to be exaggerated or I'm on a very different subset of the Internet than you.
Have these types of things happened on Kickstarter before (or has anyone attempted to just completely game the system?) What types of recourse do investors have? Any?
No need for the 1995 solution, Yelp is just doing a very bad job at detecting bad reviews. It's usually rule #1 that in any type of "bad" user filtering that many people that are good users may not engage your site.
SSN would not need to be involved at any point during a question based verification process.
You are more willing to read than most, I guess.

Legitimate complaints are welcome, I never implied they were not.
The trouble with armchair quarterbacking is that many things are easier said than done. It's not like they're deliberately making your code slower — the with-statement makes certain optimizations unfeasible. Their options are to always disable those optimizations or to do it only when there's a with-statement in scope — there's no third option that makes with-statements magically fast. If you can come up with new optimizations that make the with-statement faster, I doubt they'd turn down your patch.
Agreed; horizon charts take some explanation. However, once you understand what they're showing, they become quite natural. That makes them suitable for dashboards that are monitored by a regular audience (say, production engineers, stock traders), since the viewer learns the first time and then benefits subsequently from the concise representation. However, I probably wouldn't recommend them for a mass audience in a one-off visualization, where the effort to understand might be beyond the viewer's patience for a single viewing.
The "Omit optional tags" section is rather... scary. Check out the example they include.
It should be on by default.
Perl is My Medium--An Interview with Lisa Jevbratt
Don't forget, he'll also spend $3000 to produce and send all the t-shirts and posters promised to the backers.
awesome post...same applies for all relationships...founder, marriage...important to have the difficult conversations upfront, rather than find out way later...and totally agree, if you're doing anything worth doing (whether it's starting a company or starting a relationship), if it's to get to a meaningful point, there will be conflict. avoiding conflict is not the goal, but rather understanding how to navigate that conflict and arrive at a place where you are stronger and better for it is the secret to maintaining a healthy team or interpersonal dynamic. but it's far easier to avoid the conversation, cause it's not always easy, and if you avoid it, there's the small chance that you can be lucky enough to never have that conversation. but you might as well go buy lotto tickets. having the tough conversations upfront means that you can sort through things when you have cool heads, when you haven't gone and formed a legal entity together and when you have other employees that are depending on you. it's tough, but the right thing to do. kudos joyce on a fantastic post!!
I'm not entirely convinced this falls under the category of good design. As it stands, it's a fun and useful easter egg. But good design wouldn't have required a blog post months after the OS's release to inform users of the feature's presence.

Good design should have some sort of affordance. In this case Apple probably didn't want to have two instances of the keys along that border, but perhaps some sort of faded version of the keys could have provided the necessary affordance without cluttering up the keyboard.
The lock out thing is exaggerated. Having a Google backup is much safer than local manual backup for almost everyone.
What are the ethics around Facebook walking in the front door of your company saying "anyone who drops what they're doing to come work for us can have this big fat check!"?
They are not investing, they are buying.

There is no guarantee that any kickstarter project will ever get finished.

It's up to the backers to decide if they think the project owner is capable of finishing the project.
I'm also getting a "round peg/square hole" vibe. Google has been telling us for years that the folder metaphor is outdated and we should use search to stay organized. So when I set up desktop sync I ended up with a folder full of hundreds of unorganized documents. This isn't Google's fault (I kind of saw it coming) but it definitely supports your claim that Google Docs wasn't the right vehicle for desktop sync.

Also, what happens if I open an email attachment in Google Docs just so I can view it (I don't use MS Office)? It seems like that will instantly sync it to the top level of my GDrive folder on my computer, so I'll end up with a huge mess of files there. Same thing if I click a link to view a public Google Doc (I'm guessing).

There's a lot to like about GDrive, but forcing it into Google Docs makes it seem like a really messy and inelegant product.
Ah, I see. Makes perfect sense.
Kellogg's went to a 30 hour work week and found productivity vastly improved - http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1093/is_1_42/ai_53697...

'After five years of six-hour work days, the company brass concluded that the "burden (or overhead) unit cost was reduced 25% . . . labor unit costs reduced 10% . . . accidents reduced 41% . . . the severity of accidents (days lost per incident) improved 51% . . . [and] 39% more people were working at Kellogg's than in 1929."'
GitHub ❤ ~/
Cheap Nike LeBron 9 Kentucky Home Royal Black Shoes for Sale
It really sounds like the only real problem was the material that covers the aircraft not being able to withstand the forces at mach 20. I wonder what the material was and if they can find something better without a lot more materials research. I love this stuff!
There is a kickstarter for a game (Echos of Eternia) where the creators are making the game using RPG Maker (a free tool anyone can use). They raised over $26k.

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1465600975/echoes-of-ete...
This was a price I received directly from a vendor who isn't Cisco or Brocade at a trade show. I honestly don't remember who because I lost interest, but I believe it was Black Lotus. It was priced per gigabit, and we needed ten. ~$12,000/gigabit, $120,000 device. Someone from Black Lotus can feel free to correct me. I was uninterested in negotiations from the get-go based on that ballpark, so if what you say is true, these vendors are doing themselves a disservice by talking me out of investigating them further simply based on a ballpark price. I also wasn't pricing routers, I was pricing mitigation gear. Cisco discontinued theirs, didn't they? The Guard? I seem to recall an admin who deployed Guards telling me they were (are?) six figures as well.

I worked for a serious buyer when I had this casual conversation with the vendor. You do business with my former employer (I've spoken to you before, when you took over cia.vc). I'd consider those facilities "real" datacenters, and they're certainly the same size, if not significantly larger, than your hosting outfit. No need to appeal to authority with me, honestly, I think we're on the same page -- I think your comment misread me as pricing routers instead of mitigation gear.

As for flows, I was interested in a solution that I didn't have to write software to implement. I'd rather have a supported appliance that can handle figuring out DoS attacks itself, rather than me parsing flows and feeding that information back. That way, if the software doesn't work, I can blame somebody else rather than me. My time is precious. Yours sounds less so, and that's your prerogative.
Just because high school is unpleasant for some and it will get better for them afterwards, does not mean none of the work has any real point, or that you learn nothing.
Its an interesting step, as a search provider (Blekko), I am pretty amazed at how creative some black hat SEO types are. I used to point folks at a web site that took PhPBB, a markov chain text generator, and I don't know, maybe 20 million 'forum' messages which were all about a bogus software product. Forum messages from users that included links to the bogus product with text like "this was a good value <link> and it really helped with performance and security I love <link> and its usability performance and security. It has great value I got it at <link> and love it"

Not quite the XKCD joke of robots commenting on robots but entire simulated user communities. All there for the consumption by the algorithm de-jour.

Impressive actually.
I wonder if the Chrome team had any input there.
breaking up with your cofounder is for sure in the top 3 of reasons why startups fail. How to make sure you are an awesome team is hard, and it seemed you guys nailed it. Great post!

ps. so when are those $150 trips to Hawaii available?
Pplive_全屏广告
Samsung Galaxy S III features and Price Details?
Samsung is all ready to rock you with the laucnh of GALAXY S III mobile..an upgraded version of Samsung Galaxy S2
Unfortunately I can't edit the title anymore (really sorry about that), HN let's you modify a post for a limited amount of time, after which the title (and the possibility to delete a post) is frozen.

As a side note, the title is the non edited title of the linked article, I didn't wrote this article ...