skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
10 Y Combinator startups that didn’t make it, but should’ve
Offtopic and down-votable but, I haven't seen anyone as fat as the guy on the left since moving to the west coast. How nice.
For a couple of years, I used my real full name as an id. That didn't stop me from trolling. But, when people stopped replying to my comments, I stopped trolling. Just my experience.
If I ever finish a book, that book will be free speech, even if it also goes on sale. I don't want to hide ideas that I have pride in behind a paywall, and I would absolutely never trust a giant company like Apple to do that sort of thing on my behalf.
Samsung Develops 350ppi OLED Display,Superior Than Apple’s Retina
What my bank does (and PayPal too if I remember correctly) is keep track of my IP, and if it changes then it forces me to enter additional data about my account before letting me continue. (This assumes I got the password correct.) I think one or both also may use some cookie(s) to mitigate changing IPs. They may also make use of leaky browser data (like user agent strings etc.) to help identify me; they have the potential to see a lot since I'm not trying to hide from them.

I don't see anything wrong in principle with "account lock out" provided that it doesn't affect existing sessions and provided that you can just ask the site to send an email with a token to reset your password. Spammers can lock a user out, so what. Minor inconvenience. If it's happening a lot to the same user and it's also affecting the user negatively, something extra could be done to minimize lockouts for the actual user (who should be easy to detect by the server through logs and a premise the user isn't trying to hide).

Spammers are able to flood you with "forgot your password?" emails, too. I don't know how often they do it. I had my first wave in after 7 years of the same email just a few months ago mostly from old sites I forgot I even had accounts on.

I'm not really a fan of the exponential backoff idea proposed earlier above, I'd sooner go with the "X tries, then wait" approach. The lockout time should not be more than 24 hours, ideally less. Though one could also set the lockout period to expire when the user's session automatically expires, if there's a current one, but that may be too clever.

I feel that there are really two pieces of advice to give on dealing with spammers for the general case... Advice for low-traffic sites and advice for high-traffic sites. I don't have any advice with high-traffic sites since I have no experience with spam at that level (and by high-traffic I mean thousands to millions of uniques per hour), though I don't think the status quo is good enough. With low-traffic sites spam behavior is easy to detect and create a custom solution against. Custom solutions are often better than the popular stuff just by virtue of not having anyone targeting them specifically, and even if that's the case it's still easier to cat-and-mouse if the main options against spam aren't acceptable. Something as dead-simple as loading your form with javascript (or dynamically changing the URL endpoint when the submit button is clicked to something different than what's reported by the form's html attribute...) stops a lot of bots regardless of a captcha, even though you sacrifice the Lynx users. And in my own anecdotal experience I've had more success (less spam bots getting through and leaving a message) with a captcha like "Please join these two "words" together (without spaces): taeiswovd and brhpugqc" than with ReCaptcha even though it'd take less than a minute to add a parser for mine in a bot program. I used to use an arithmetic question but even the dumb bots are on to that one these days--at least the ones after my comment boxes. (I don't even think they added, they just tried numbers 0-99 and sometimes got lucky.)
So much for free trade.
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We developed a cross-platform library in C that makes our codebase reusable across multiple platforms, currently we support iOS, Android, Linux and MacOSX. Next: maybe Windows/Windows Phone?

Most of our backend services and our web site are running on Python/Tornado. Additionally, we use Python a lot for infrastructure automation on AWS.

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builtin zcalc's good if you're a zsh user:-

seth:~% which calc
calc: aliased to noglob zcalc
seth:~% calc ((8*8)/8)*8
64
I am not sure it falls apart any more than the fact that I can't see all documents at the same time.
> Clearly Apple has no problem with those.

No. This makes the assumption Apple applies it's rules equally. It does not. Making the assumption that X got approved, so Y should get approved as well is a poor assumption.

Your best bet is to try and stick to the rules. And if you get denied, just resubmit and hope the next reviewer approves it.
Steve Jobs talks about Apple on his personal trip to Sweden
NYTimes has an Olympics API and it powers this site http://wasanolympicrecordsettoday.com/
(Source: http://darentrousdell.com/post/28210308665/guardian-olympics)

Not sure how to use it
That's pretty cool. The only thing I'd change is to make it clearer that the top left button switches between rad and deg.
> (though that website is still being set up)

Even if it's just a quick-and-dirty list, or an appstore link, it would make a huge difference if the applicants had at least some idea about you.

Btw, for what timeframe are you looking for people? I don't think many people would want to live there for years. It would be fun for a few months, but I assume you wouldn't want to hire anyone not willing to commit for more.
Have you tried Wikidot[1]? Personally I've found it to be far superior to any other wiki platform I've tried.

[1] http://wikidot.com
can you explain your flow?
So we really are that dumb? A little depressing knowing people aren't ashamed by their ignorance.
Tesco's 'Secure' password storage
Just an FYI, the existence of content in an Apple Store does not mean that the content is in anyway approved by Apple. Rather, it was approved by a single reviewer. You can submit something, get denied for a specific reason, and then resubmit and get a new reviewer, and get through without an issue.

Furthermore, the existence of content does not mean your content/app that has the same feature will be let in. Heck, during review, you can comment on the fact that other content/apps has or does exactly what you are doing, but that does not matter in any way.
We haven't had TV for three years now, and don't miss it at all.

Funnily enough we dumped it because at the time Desperate Housewives was a season behind the US, and by the time we'd get to see it the ending was already spoilt.

We've only this year got Breaking Bad.

Instead it's a subscription to an NNTP provider. High quality, we can choose where and when we watch, and we don't have to wait for some high authority to decide if/when we get to see it.
It sucks that I turned down a job in KC during the spring because I didn't want to move away from my house. It would be very cool to have a chance to use Google Fiber.

I wonder what the timeline will be to spread this baby nationwide. Then again, I wonder what Congress will do because Google is in yet another industry. Hopefully then can pull this off. It'll be a great future!
d) All of the above.
> I think people hide behind anonymity and they feel like they can say whatever they want behind closed doors.

God forbid people could freely say what they think. This obviously has to be prevented or our civilisation might collapse.

I'm strictly pro anonymity. If prude people don't like something they read on the internet they probably shouldn't read it ... or visit the internet at all.
Keep in mind, however, that Apple has a long history of doing this. This is not a new development. Indeed, it's the status quo.
Most coffee drinkers don't get coffee anywhere near that often.
The disintermediation of the firm: The feature belongs to individuals
I've been thru Apple's review process enough times, and been rejected enough times to say that Apple does apply its rules equally.[1] Given the responses I've gotten back from the reviewers, it is clear that I've interacted with multiple reviewers, and I've never seen a deviation.

There is the occasional mistake, but the very telling thing about this article is she never tells us the specific rule that she broke. Hiding this information is important for making it look like Apple is arbitrary.

But the thing is, when you're rejected by Apple, they cite the specific rule.

Since there are lots of books about Amazon in the bookstore, and since there is no rule against publishing books about Amazon, this story does not add up.

[1] Every rejection resulted in me immediately getting pissed off, much like the original OP. But once I calmed down I realized either I misunderstood the rejection, and the fix was easy and the rejection was legitimate, or the rejection was due to me making an error that would produce a bad experience for the customer, sometimes because I misunderstood the guidelines, occasionally because I was being lazy without realizing it, and often just because of a mistake or bug.

Since Apple is uniform in the way they apply the rules, and the rules are not so specific as to cover specific bugs, it does take some interpretation to figure out what they are saying. If you don't take that step, its easy to fly off the handle and assume Apple is being arbitrary when they aren't. The reality is, it just means you didn't take the time to read what they wrote you and comprehend it.

Of course the rejections feel personal, and I won't tolerate a company that won't play by its own rules, but they've never been unfair to me, and other than a few mistakes that were corrected, I'm not aware of them being unfair to others.

However we get a lot of these kinds of stories where someone says one thing, but they never cite the specific rule, or are evasive, which indicates that they're just trying to get publicity and were really rejected for other reasons.
You place a limit order to buy FOO at $32
Someone else offers FOO at $31.90

That scenario would result in a locked market, which can't possibly happen under RegNMS. The exchange that saw the offer for $31.90 is required to route-out to the exchange with a bid of $32.

A HFT algorithm buys FOO at $31.90

That also can't happen. Even without RegNMS, the exchange's matching engine would have paired the value investor with the offer of $31.90, though the execution price would actually be $32. The HFT participant won't even see the ask price in this scenario.
My site, Scribophile, requires that people sign up with a "pen name", which has to sound like a real name. You don't have to use your actual real name, just something that sounds like it could be a real name.

The idea wasn't to prevent trolling or bad comments--I spent enough time banning trolls and cleaning the forums every day to know that it wouldn't have helped anyway--but to add an air of credibility and, dare I say it, professionalism to the environment.

I've found that people interact more intimately when they're talking to "Bob Smith" instead of "cyberwulf555". People can picture themselves talking to a "Bob", but they can't picture a generic alphanumeric handle as well. It makes people more confident in building lasting relationships. In that respect, the policy has been a complete success.
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The last TV Olympics?
I've sent you an email. Thanks :)
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‘There will be no more professional writers in the future’
le upboat xDDD
Does mathematics have a place in higher education?
I'm a Brit living abroad, and guiltily use one of the (probably illegal) methods already mentioned to watch the BBC - I feel bad, but I just can't do without it!
One thing to know, it's completely okay to listen to BBC radio from anywhere in the world, http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/radio. There's a sports station for the Olympic Coverage - Radio 5, and I also heartily recommend Radio 6 for music, and Radio 4 for excellent speech radio, including news, documentaries, comedies and dramas.
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The company I work for uses C and PHP mainly , but as our platform is Gentoo that also makes us users of python. I also write most of the utility scripts I use in python.

http://sevone.com
Maybe someone should tell pg to shut off sign-ups for the next few days ...
> This lady's story is an outlier in an otherwise pleasant place

Oh god, no. Not at all. These things happen all the time. This isn't an outlier. It's consistent inconsistency.

> Disagree with the rules if you want, but don't complain when you don't follow those rules and are asked to leave.

You make the assumption that you need to follow the rules to get in, or that following the rules means you'll get in. Neither is true. Indeed, there are no rules.

Seriously, I can't fathom any Apple developer suggesting that the review process is in anyway consistent.

And that's the big problem. The moving goal post. Or in this case, the invisible one. I've experienced this first hand, seen the absurdities. The inconsistent reports. It's X. No, it's Y. No, actually, it's Z. Oh wait, nevermind, you're in!
Heh, interesting discussion about the word "hacker" in HN.
But then the session id can leak via referer header :(
SevOne's careers page says that a Bachelor's degree is a requirement. How strict is SevOne (or any other company, for that matter) on this requirement? Do you know of any software engineers that don't have a degree?
I've seen ridiculously hostile and inappropriate comments posted with full name and photo (using the Facebook comment system).

As a particularly dramatic example, which was so bad it was almost art, we had a debate in a Norwegian newspaper about what to do with the traveling Romani people who put up their tents everywhere. One commenter said: "Why not put Anders Behring Breivik on the case? He cleaned up a camping site in an hour", referring to the Utøya massacre where 69 camping teenagers were killed.

If someone's able to post that with their full name and photo, I don't really think there's any hope of solving the comment problem without old-fashioned moderation.
I know that Google is using C and Python. The first version of Google was written in Python. Today the webserver and the web page are written in C, for performance reasons. But internally they still use a lot of Python.
Same can work for companies too. Customer's should be able to regulate rough companies in ideal world but world is not ideal.

End user's view are actually affected by propaganda only when it starts hurting their bones. At the moment they are in love with Apple devices to notice.
I like it. Where can I sign up for the OAuth 3.0 working group (we'll probably need to use a different name) to complete this and then evangelize it?
"Apple/Google might buy the Olympics rights and put it in iTunes/Play."

Are you sure that's better than the current model? You have to be very careful about listening to customers, because what people say they will pay for is quite different than what they will actually pay. Aggregately I might pay $80 for access to the Olympics and several other channels as well (I already do this, so this isn't really a stretch). I'm not so sure I'd pay $1.99 to watch the US Men's Basketball team play one game, and even if I would, NBC makes its money through advertisements. There is no proof that a pay-per-view model would bring nearly as much revenue as advertisements over wide broadcast would.

And this says nothing of the people who don't necessarily live in Silicon Valley and have ready access to broadband and iTunes.
tl;dr

"Hacker News...seems like a bunch of SEOs and Apple fanboys got together to have a big circlejerk."

"/g/ is pretty much just angry basement dwelling freetards."
Some people want to be able to have the same kinds of social interactions they have in the real world, but with the convenience of the internet.

We've gone thousands of years with certain social norms (e.g. not being anonymous most of the time), and so far replicating those social interactions faithfully online has been difficult. There's nothing wrong with free speech unrestrained by social expectations, but there's similarly nothing wrong with wanting to avoid that sometimes. Why should you get the internet all to yourself?
See algebra as the gym for your brain. Although you might not need algebra, you will benefit from the exercises.
They're making good points.

One thing that sorta bugs me is karma arbitrageurs. Stuff that runs on HN turns up within a day on TrueReddit et al and vice versa.

If there was a buck in it I'd write a bot to do it.
All the good ideas are already taken
Enthought - www.enthought.com

We are the scipy/numpy folks and use Python/C to solve interesting scientific / engineering problems. I have been writing interesting Python C extensions for the last six months.
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You can force a calculator result with an equals sign:

http://www.google.com/search?q=9/11=
80 billion/yr selling mental drugs using DRY rule:scary
How can you claim to have evidence that apple applies it's rules equally based entirely off your own experience of the process? That makes no sense as an argument.
Definitely. Could help the economy, too.
So given this new information, what percentage of a load of shit would you now say it is?
python -i

:)
"Even something as seemingly innocuous as an in-eye-HUD turns you into a complete robot... something no longer human"

Spot on! I was thinking the same thing. Who needs to worry about robots turning on us and ruling the world when we are turning humans into robots! Mindless, soulless robots.

I thought the opener was cool, but then seeing a guy on his couch looking at a blank wall was so cold and isolated. Everything is in his head and he's not using his other senses. Yes, the characters in this film could just connect to others who have liked technology, but its still missing that aspect of having a warm body next to you.

Also the constant searching of apps that will help out the date is just painful. Relying on technology just to do well with the interview/hanging out process of the date seems so detached. Its like the girl wasn't dating that man. She was dating his technology.

This was a good video. Could this actually be the future? Perhaps, but we've always had that "red flag" moment where we thought "Wait a second, this is going too far!". Then again, how can you detect someone who has this technology on them? I don't have an answer for that.
People write a lot of vitriol on Facebook and in Facebook comments. I guess you can be hopeful, but experience shows that it doesn't exactly stop the stupidity entirely.
From a linked article: According to a study by the KCC, malicious comments accounted for 13.9 percent of all messages posted on Internet threads in 2007 but decreased only 0.9 percentage points in 2008, a year after the regulation went into force.[1]

And from a glance at the CMU paper: Our findings suggest that the enhanced identification process shows significant effects on reducing uninhibited behaviors at the aggregate level, but there is no significant impact regarding a particular user’s behavioral shift.[2]

These actually indicate an improvement in general, and in fact the first reason listed in for scrapping the real-name registration was that it increased "cyber hacking" rather than the ineffectiveness of using real names.[1] I haven't read through the paper, but I'm interested in the contexts where changes occur. For example, if HN and reddit and YouTube all switched to real-name logins, which site would have the most improvement? Are sites that discuss primarily controversial topics more likely to resist improvements in comment quality after a switch to real-name login? (These are rhetorical.)

1: http://english.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2011/12/30/2011...

2: http://www.computer.org/csdl/proceedings/hicss/2012/4525/00/...
Uhm, pretty "ghetto": git init in your ~/vimwiki directory and then it's git push/pull all the way.

I guess you could automate that if you really wanted. Another idea would be to put your vimwiki folder into your Dropbox.

As vimwiki files are plain text you can really do almost anything to them.
Note for non-Brits: Tesco are the UK's largest supermarket chain, have various trademark spin-offs including banking and insurance and MVNO cellphone arms, and are pretty much the British equivalent of WalMart.
I'm pretty sure Spotify is mainly C/C++ in the client and python for the web
PayPal doesn't ask you for some extra data. It blocks ("limits") your account so you can't actually use it until you provide them with a copy of your utility bill or something. Terrific when you're on vacation and need to make a PayPal payment. That had me so pissed of that I closed my account (which isn't possible whilst it's "limited" unless you manage to get them on the phone -- good luck with that. -- at least you can then tell the person on the phone that you think they're full of )
It has become a pretty diluted term.
The best way to improve comments is to charge for your service. well.com have probably some of the most amazing discussions I have ever been part of. Sadly the website is slowly waning. But there are great great discussions in there and all of them well behaved even when it gets heated.

You own your words
> Mathematics, both pure and applied, is integral to our civilization, whether the realm is aesthetic or electronic. But for most adults, it is more feared or revered than understood.

This is very true, but lowering expectations is hardly a solution. Ignorance (in the form of oh-well-that's-the-class-smart-people-take) is no better than fear. Before we set the bar too low, let's keep pushing to make mathematics less intimidating, less foreign and easier to learn for everyone.
bitly is overwhelmingly C and Python
Some people on both sides of this argument feel that their way of doing things should be the only way of doing things. This causes even the moderates of each side to resent their opponents, and not without reason: if either side pushes for either technical or legislative means to implement their vision, the step from feasible to all-encompassing is small.
This would drive me up the wall. I don't want to have to sit in my mail client, waiting for it to pull down the message that may-or-may-not have arrived at my mail host yet, when it's incredibly easy to use a password manager for everything without having to leave my browser. He bemoans the number of controls you need to interact with to log in, but to get to log in with his method, I need to put in my email address (or take the time to find it in the list), interact with whatever control submits the form, switch to my email client (at least 1 control, probably more), refresh it to get the most recent messages (perhaps more than once), open the message, click the link, go back and close the window I used to start the login process in the first place, then switch back to the window with the app in it. Seems far more complex.

I don't buy his premise, either; he claims you need to interact with "6 different controls" to log in to Facebook, but (a) you only interact with 4 of them and (b) that's only the first time you log in from that computer. He's trying to solve a problem I have never experienced. I'm curious to see if others have felt overwhelmed by the number of controls on login forms; this is a problem I've never had.
Yeah, cos being reactionary against 4chan works really well.
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