skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unfortunately, this takes the current problem(where legitimate reviews are removed), and replaces it with the exact same problem, where legitimate reviews are flagged to oblivion.

Instead of having the owner's friends post reviews, they post reviews and then flag every poor review, attempting to get them taken off. Or idiots with an axe to grind flag all the good reviews.
One of my commenters reports that he showed my essay on evaluating the harm from closed-source software to Richard Stallman, who became upset by it.

Anybody have a link to this comment? I couldn't find it.

[EDIT] After an hour nobody claims to have found it. Is there a real comment, or is ESR just fantasizing about RMS caring what ESR writes?
very, very easy...attempt to determine

Yes, they can attempt at determining the ownership but a condominium can also be rented out by the individual landlord legally (as in my case twice at two different residents). A lease is a unique binding contract that varies even within an apartment/condo complex.

The hosts do agree to the terms of service, but I suppose if they want to make it less agreeable to hosts they could scare them away with a big red warning when signing up.
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It dosn't matter how good the CPU is at least it reacts but the displays are quite importend.
> Really, money and political whim aside, a large portion of our freedom can be attributed to these individuals.

How so?
Desalination plants are already operating in many coastal areas of CA. The problem is that, like the article mentions, seawater desalination is very expensive and much less efficient than bringing water down from the sierras, so its generally used as a last resort.
7% of Greeks voted for a party under the slogan "so we can rid this land of filth", here is their flag:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Meandros_flag.svg

I wouldn't be so optimist.
No, because thermodynamics is a bitch.

Desalination works by reverse osmosis and costs energy. Rather a lot of energy, in fact.

Osmosis-based energy production goes by forward osmosis and produces energy. However if you were paying attention back there when I said "thermodynamics is a bitch" it should come as no surprise that the energy you get out by wasting your fresh water isn't as much as the energy you put in to get it in the first place.
Linus Torvalds on Becoming a Linux Developer
Nokias low-cost phones are now being pressured from chinese phone makers. What's to stop that from happening with their WP7 devices?
And it's not blue!

But anyway, I'd really love your feedback on the Monday front page and to hear your expectations from calendars. I've got some time left in the big vision hourglass until I head back to hacking.
> Access to the hardware

Yeah, C is close to the metal. But only on a PDP-11, the assembly language of which C was conceived to integrate with.
Waldo - the Haskell powered codebase behind xkcd’s Umwelt comic
Just because some people copy and think they're stealing doesn't mean that the people who think copying is moral are rationalizing. This assumes the correctness of copyright and dumps the arguments against it as rationalization, without providing any argument in favor of copyright.
inb4: "Please don't learn anything, especially C".
to call a low-end x86 box with 2GB NAND a PC?
"...the cost is around $3000" and the primary benefit seems to be you get to call yourself a "Data Scientist". There are tons of free resources online for "hadoop, NoSQL, machine learning, statistics, graph algorithms..".
Actually, I'd say the truly brilliant people are in the marketing department, building huge hype for something which... presumably doesn't work as well as advertised or else we'd have heard about it again in the intervening three years. I don't know precisely what is wrong with it, but it's safe to assume that there's something.
>I'm implying that when you factor in the lack of time zone differences, communications issues, and the increased efficiency of having your employee in the same office as you, then you'll probably get the work done in half the time.

Even that's only the case if your office is designed for software/creative work. If it's a noisy, open-office plan full of interruptions and distractions, it's no guarantee that on-site software developers will be more productive than someone working remotely from a library or home office or the like.
It's a little ambiguous. It basically says that many colleges are very expensive and none of the students end up getting jobs, so you should call the number to learn what kinds of questions to ask to evaluate whether the college you're considering attending is a scam or not. I wanted to take a picture but there was someone sitting in front of it. The first time I noticed these ads was Friday, I think they're either on the S or the 1.
A lot of this post is eerily similar to one of my old blog posts: http://voltsteve.blogspot.co.uk/2011/10/why-should-i-join-yo...

I'm not claiming the author lifted any of the content but I am curious as to whether or not he/she had read my post in the past?
Changes in currency only have short time effets. The prices tend to new equillibirum. Your imports get cheaper and after a while it reaches a new equillibirum (balance) between the two.

Deflation(Inflation can only grant a short term benefits and that is without calculating in the distortionary effects.
The thing about K&R is that it effectively communicates the hacker spirit to the student.

When I went through K&R, I already had enough programming knowledge to "know" most of the problems he mentioned existed. K&R didn't try to show how to write the most correct, robust C function or program, but it did manage to get me to love C.

C is a hard language to do much with. It takes hours to do in C what can be done in seconds in other languages. That's fine; it is intended to be an implementation language. The thing is, at the time the student is learning C, he normally is not ready to start implementing things. At Uni, we didn't start working on operating systems or programming languages for at least another year after the class that introduces the student to C.

The thing that C does actually do well for a student is that it makes things much less mysterious. That, to me, is the the beauty behind K&R. It removes the mysteries of the standard libraries, and by the time I finished, I felt like I could start working on an operating system without feeling completely overwhelmed. Even though I never did, that practical knowledge has served me well when doing any kind of programming.
I have one of these: http://igoergo.com/ (I think it's an older model not listed on the site.) They're not beautiful but are very customizable including bigger or smaller seats.
What is the actual use case for a "self-modifying singular intelligence"? Define the problem you are trying to solve (as an actual task, not nebulous stuff about beliefs) and I reckon you will find more success.

There is a one nice way around the intractable problems of maintaining a huge model of the world: don't. Rodney Brooks' famous saying: "the world is its own best representation." And it isn't necessary or usually even helpful to translate all incoming data into some propositional model. Again: what is your use case? If you are just trying to satisfy some essentialist intuition of what it means to be intelligent and what 'must be' inside minds, then you will be lucky to ever get anything meaningful done.

If you want to write an agent to do something without ongoing guidance, and you have not thought out the task from the beginning to get a specific algorithm, do not start by making a monolithic program that makes lots of vague high-level decisions like "how much reality" based on abstruse constructions of data. Start with the data which is always available, processed minimally, and see how little you can do. Implement walking before you implement steering and implement steering before you implement path-finding.
It might be interesting to point out that in all the examples you give there exist strong regulatory requirements. Are you (we, collectively) saying that regulations and government oversight should be on the table for web sites that provide services requiring a certain level of security?
ESR did not bring us emacs or gcc, but he has made some contributions:

http://www.catb.org/~esr/software.html

I'm most grateful for vc-mode in emacs.

(I'm merely addressing a factual point and in no way excusing the way ESR treats RMS in writing.)
I'm building Monday for the web and iPhones+Androids in full HTML5, with help from Backbone.js, Appcache and Sass+Compass, and it's an amazing platform! I can't wait to write more about the stack and the lessons I've learned building and debugging it all.
MySQL Authentication Flaw Easy to Exploit, Researchers Say
I'm not disagreeing with the author but ...

I wonder what we'll think of your book in 40 years. I suspect we won't even remember it. I'd be surprised if it wasn't upstaged by another book. Perhaps one that spends a chapter deriding your work?

But mostly I wanted to comment on how you lumped together "style" (and implied best-practices) with outright bugs. I learned a lot from K&R in part because I experimented with the code samples in the book. And I worked around the bugs during that exercise.

But style and best-practices evolve as we learn. It shouldn't really shock us that both the accepted style and the recognized best-practices are different today than 40 years ago.

I can't explain why the bugs in the book weren't corrected in subsequent reprintings ... that's something to ask the publisher.
The problem, I suspect, is that people who own their homes are much harder for Airbnb to work with than people who are renting. Airbnb grew quickly by removing friction and making it very easy for people to list space and by providing the bare minimum support to people who list places. That was "good enough" for renters because they don't own the homes and don't care as much. Homeowners might expect a level of service that would tie up a lot of resources and hurt scaling.
Indeed.

To drag the analogy further, the politicians are being engineers of the tax code when they should really be its product owners. Should politicians really be responsible for the minutiae of how many numbers to put where, or should they simply give higher-level directives, such as "incentivize alternative energy"?
The German manufacturing industry does not export raw materials. It exports cars, machines, tools, power plants, .... For building these things it needs all kinds of materials. Much of that is imported.

> relative labor cost would change

German has already a much higher labor cost than most comparable countries. Still we have industry here and Germany is the second largest exporter in the world.

> while German relative productivity was rising

Productivity is high and still rising.
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Laptops are ergonomically horrible.

If we have removed the technological restrictions that tied us to that form factor, are there not better ways to modularise this kind of functionality than to just make a dumb terminal in the shape of a laptop.

For this kind of product, if the keyboard can't unclip from the screen, then you are doing it wrong.
I'm not alone, check out this search on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/#!/search/ustream%20malware

Edit:

Better yet, this tweet from UStream on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/Ustream/status/212198100301918210
Sorry Mohnish! Great job, sorry, I thought Rasheed wrote it.
Jenkins User Conference -- New York Wrap-up
Jenkins founder Kohsuke Kawaguchi shares highlights of the recent Jenkins User Conference (JUC) in the Big Apple.

If you missed NY, check out the other JUCs this year in Herzelia (Israel - July 5), Tokyo (July 29), San Francisco (Sept 30), or Antwerp (Nov 13).
Well, the Greeks freely voted for politicians that promised lavish spending from the public purse - I don't think they deserve too much sympathy for the taxes to pay for it all.
This is a just-world way of thinking. Those peripheral countries were irresponsible, people say. They should be like the Germans! So the proposed solution is to fix their economic problems, grow some responsibility, and act the way fiscal conservatives want them to.

This is an old way of thinking--it's popped up every time there's been a recession coupled with a fiscal crisis. The results have almost always been bad.

The Euro crisis is macroecon 101. The periphery cannot manage their money supply to match demand. So you get deflation, unemployment, sticky-price stagnation, capital flight. People who knew their economics could have called this as it happened. Many did. Many were calling it when the Euro even began.

It's true that those with unstable debt situations have suffered more, but it's not caused by having an unstable economy, it's caused by having an unstable economy while on the Euro. "Fiscal responsibility" will only make things worse. The respective stories of Euro and non-Euro countries should make this obvious--consider Iceland, who suffered a debt crisis that caused their entire financial system to fail, yet are expected to recover better than the Euro periphery.

I do not like your line of thinking. It's moralizing in an odious way. Even worse, it's wrong.

DOWNVOTERS: please express your disagreement by telling me what's wrong with this post. I believe everything I'm saying here is factually correct. I furthermore think that this line of false moralizing, alive in the minds of central European politicians, is a major part of this crisis and a major cause of the resultant suffering. I will not run from it because I rubbed HN conventional wisdom the wrong way.
Yes - it's easy to forget there are countries where manufacturing still has any relevance!~
It is interesting that you should bring up SpaceX. If SpaceX used the GPL, there is nothing to say that you would ever get to explore that source code. The only time you would be guaranteed the source is if you have a rocket of your own and are using their control system, which is arguably when this becomes more than just a wonderful curiosity and becomes truly important.

The GPL doesn't stop software developers from making money, only certain software developers that would like to market their software software in certain ways, like sell it as if it is a scarce commodity when it is not. Although I'll have to take his word for it, RMS is quick to point out that the vast majority of software is produced under private contracts or internally. Under these situations, the GPL has no "not getting paid" issues for developers as the software you produce under contract is the companies to distribute under the GPL or not distribute. In fact, the FSF has an explicit statement that NDAs for contracted GPL work are acceptable (https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#DevelopChangesUnde...). RMS doesn't have a problem with companies keeping their secrets or with developers not allowing you to see the source code they write so long as it isn't on your computer. The flip side is that he does have a problem with the independent developer that wants to write a closed source program and milk it for all it's worth by selling it by the copy or the subscription to end users. Admittedly this is a well represented group on Hacker News and amongst entrepreneurs in general, probably because copying bits can be a quick and/or easy way to make money when compared to getting paid for the actual development directly.

To his credit, RMS has been fairly clear (at least recently) that writing GPL software to sell copies is not a viable business model. And no, I don't think that developing proprietary software so that you can force a false scarcity should be called evil, but perhaps immoral is not too far off, and certainly sketchy.

edit: Actually, on second thought, I think RMS hasn't been clear on this; he seems to refuse to answer the question because it is irrelevant. If the business practice is immoral, it doesn't matter if it is viable. I took his silence as conceding the point.
That's true, but I find the one thing missing from learning online is curriculum: I can find a ton of resources to learn a specific thing, but because I don't know what I don't know, I don't know where to start. It's also hard to judge the quality of the material without being versed in the subject. This sort of structured course adds value in both of those areas. Whether that's worth $3k is a matter of opinion.
The crawler is out of date due to an IP change from a move to an AWS VPC. We're working on getting the crawler up-to-date ASAP.
Usually the places that want $450ish, it's a single check that they'll hold onto and, iff they decide to give you the apartment, they'll actually take it (otherwise they return the check). That way they're guaranteed that you're a serious applicant (or they get a consolation sum if you're not). It's sort of a like a security deposit on your application.

I don't care for it myself.
> When I hear "Scientist" I tend to think "PhD level work."

There's a lot of non-PhD level work that goes into a large research project, often for aspects you may not have considered like animal care.

A "Data Scientist" might be a specialized software developer, but it doesn't follow that they have only a superficial understanding of the inner workings, even if that understanding is not good enough on its own to do much original research.

This is the first I've heard the term "Data Scientist," though Harvard recently announced a masters-level "Computational Science and Engineering" degree. (http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2012/06/a-new-masters-...)

The bottom line is that due to the amount of data being generated by research, demand for programmers to help deal with it is rising.
Reminds me of the Cold War discussions on "megadeath". If we fire this missile, how many millions of people would die? It's dehumanizing, and "two megadeaths" sounds a lot more appealing to the eyes and ears than "two million deaths" or "2,000,000 people dead".

We're only hurting 180 megausers, not 180,000,000[1] users.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megaupload#Statistics
"Chip VIA 800MHz Processor"

I'm confused by this. Is it a "VIA processor" or an ARM processor, made by VIA? I hope they didn't change the CPU mid-way with one of their own.

Edit: In their PR they say it's a "VIA WonderMedia ARM 11 SoC".

http://apc.io/files/2012/05/PR120522-APC-Final.pdf
Quote "The above conclusions point to the existence of two independent developer teams, which can be referred to as ”Team F” (Flame) and ”Team D” (Tilded). Each of these teams has been developing its own platform since 2007-2008 at the latest."

This ties in with the data that David Sanger released in his NY Times article just over a week ago. He reveals that the NSA collaborated with Israel's Unit 8200 to create Stuxnet in an op titled "Olympic Games". So we can probably just rename them to "Team USA" and "Team IDF".

Sanger's article: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/01/world/middleeast/obama-ord...
When did US voters last pick a government that didn't promise tax cuts and then increased spending ?

But that's not the point - the point is that there isn't very much you can do at this point to stop Gresham's law in Greece/Spain/etc. Short of building a wall searching people at border Greek 'money' is going to be flying out of Greece at the moment, whether it's to Euro savings accounts in German banks or US$ held by their brother/cousin/uncle in New York.
I can't remember why I bookmarked and signed up for their pre-order alert... Why do I want to spend ~$100 on a dumbed down *nix device? Note: I am a mobile developer too but...my Asus Transformer was only moderately more expensive...
It's called capitalism. You're paying for the convenience of not having to wait to move in, not having to sign a long-term lease, etc. Of course you should expect to pay more than someone who puts up with those downsides.
I exept your point but:

Changes in currency only have short time effets. The prices tend to new equillibirum. Your imports get cheaper and after a while it reaches a new equillibirum (balance) between the two.
Deflation(Inflation can only grant a short term benefits and that is without calculating in the distortionary effects

Switzerland has the same problem now, Germany would have after the Euro. In the Switzerland case it has been a much strong effect then it normal would have been, since people used the CHF as saving.
Full 100-minute video of Apple CEO Tim Cook at D10 now available
My internal critique couldn't find a counterexample for this one.
That page has examples and detailed explanations to support the criticism.
Images are at http://apc.io/ at the top of the page.

Based on the description, I don't think it comes with a case:

"APC integrates memory, storage, and a full set of consumer I/O features in a small footprint Neo-ITX motherboard that can be connected to a TV or monitor."
I'm not going to pretend I understand all the issues here but would you really want to be half pregnant here? I mean their users are violating all sorts of little laws in thousands of jurisdictions (all the cities/towns/counties/provinces/etc.) all over the world. In some cases this is bad form in some cases that's how BNBs work. I have a sort of feeling that it's better to take the "not my job" approach here rather than doing a half-assed job.
I didn't interpret knowtheory's comment as implying that German bank's were solely responsible, but I can see how you could make that interpretation.

However, I can't provide direct quantitative information on the quality of the loans summarised by those numbers. Lewis (who seems credible to me) gives accounts of how German banks appear basically to have been taken advantage of (hence the "stupid money" comment) as customers for particularly ill-advised investments.
There are a lot of hands involved in something like stuxnet and flame. You have code breakers looking at standard hash and encryption algorithms, looking for weaknesses. You have coders that are writing all the data gathering tools. Other teams working on propagation. A team doing c&c server setup, development. Plus who knows what else.

A lot of the research done for stuxnet and flame are probably more general, but were applied for these attacks. This was executed by a number of researchers and developers. Led and organized by managers.

Welcome to the inside of the NSA, where a lot of bright math and compsci grads work.
> we can't keep the user from reusing the same password

Neither can the user. Users cannot remember a unique password for every site they visit. That's just not realistic.

The simple fact is that unique-password-per-site does not scale. Password managers don't work well, either, because they can't be integrated into the common mobile browsers, and they frankly just require too much user intervention. (Sure, I'll install this plugin on every machine I use, plus the gimpy custom browser for my phone and tablet, and I'll use the app to cut/paste into other apps that need auth...)

We really need to big players to get together and build a system that works, and for them to all implement it properly and push 3rd parties to use it. BrowserID seems promising, but I haven't heard of any other big players signing on to implement and support it.
What to do when you lose motivation
Wait, you don't know who the author is and you call yourself a tech recruiter?

Fred Wilson has invested in what, 100 tech companies? He has been writing MBA Monday's posts for years. This post has multiple hundreds of comments on it. There are probably hundreds of retweets and comments on Twitter about it (you know, another company he invested in).

I'm pretty sure he didn't need your blog post to give advice on hiring.