skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Commenters seem to be missing the point of this.

A plug for a charity that's three clicks in, and occupies, what, 5% of the copy written for this site, can hardly be considered the main point of the site.

The site is a parody of App.net. Simple as that. He also offers an alternative thing to throw $50 at if you have a spare $50 to throw around.
> And I see this mistake very prevalent.

Oh the irony.
The Danish dating site dating.dk uses a hybrid format with both page numbers and infinite scrolling (if I remember correctly). It's a site with a huge member base (considering the population of the country) so it seems to work well in the real world.
If it is a security torx - or some other rarer type of driver then the average guy probably won't have one in the truck. However - the guy coming down the hall to hack your lock while your down at the pool will. I liked the security-through-obscurity reference.
I pretty much agree. There's definitely a factor of luck in hitting the gigantic jackpots in entertainment, but I think it's a lot less of a factor than is commonly imagined.

I selected films for a mid-sized film festival in Los Angeles for a couple of years. I watched thousands of films, and in the end I still ended up getting desperate for great films by the end of it. A friend of mine selects for Sundance, and even there he says the same thing.

There's not a lot of great undiscovered talent out there. There may be a lot of undeveloped talent, but that's because the people who have it haven't put in the time to develop it. It's tough but true.
I think the issue is could the girls have done this inside a mosque or near it? Why do people treat Christian sacred places with levity and fear the mosque or anything near it?
Is it because Christians won't declare fatwa on such a person? and is disrespecting worship places the best way to gain attention aimed at selling your own music?

that is the food for thought?
Twitter are being shits, but as a developer on the Twitter platform, what could you really expect?
Indeed. We may not have full "Artificial Intelligence" in the short term, but longer term (not much longer) it seems like a bad idea to bet against the computer revolution. There was a time not so long ago when people thought computers would never be better than people at /chess/.
I loved the section on estimates, but I didn't up-vote due to all those unjustified (guessed?) percentages.
I think that depends a lot on how it's marketed. If it's touted as something that regular users ought to have access to as well, it might tick off a lot of people, but it doesn't have to be like that.

Although I wouldn't be surprised if the knuckleheads at Twitter botched it.
Maybe, but Apple would be inclined to make it Mac / iOS only, which would be counter productive. The other non Apple stuff has had a strategic importance, iTunes for windows enabled them to sell iPods and Safari for windows helped with website compatibility. Can't see this happening.
The problem could be that they require a signature. And a scanned+emailed signature is not a valid signature under Austrian law (IIRC, IANAL, but I am from Austria).

But from the PDF file in the second link from the parent comment they say that they accept email, so I would just try to mail them.
Red Gate Coder interviews: Jeff Foster
The outlier theory didn't 'make' anyone rich, it just explains why some outliers got rich and why other outlier events lead to the crash.

Taleb doesn't advocate backing low probability outcomes, because he can't predict which of them will occur any more than anyone else. That's a fundamental misreading of his approach. All he's saying is that some of those low probability events are going to happen, and you need to develop strategies that are survivable given low probability events. Strategies that assume no low probability events will (ever) happen are doomed.

The problem is, and he's very much aware of this, that strategies that are survivable against many low probability events are never optimal for the actual way events play out. The question then is what degree of non-optimisation (risk protection) are you willing to tolerate. A single trader might tolerate extreme risk for short periods of time. Too big to fail institutions should tolerate very low risks. Taleb is arguing for more realistic and practical ways to calculate and account for risks.
I contacted the Gandi support. According to them, the NIC.at registrar doesn't allow them to break the contract on my behalf. They also say that this practice is unique to this TLD.
Beck's open-source challenge to freetards: play it yourself
I couldn't initially determine the level of seriousness of this page.

I spend too much time on HN.
Actually, this really pisses me off. Heaven forbid that all the hard work we do as developers actually come with a reasonable compensation option... like money. I think more sites need to go pay only, I'm tired of every advertising company on the internet knowing more about my buying preferences than I do. Support developers FFS.
Top Math Achievers Are Spread Unevenly Across Similar Schools
I like blogger no complaints and you get a lot for free
Please don't use "1st off,"
They clearly intended to offend and cause controversy, no doubt at all about it.

But the punishment is way, way, way out of line.
Thanks for keeping me honest. To be frank, I went the route of ignoring them at first, thinking it was a scam. Then I had to settle.
Yes, but slavery is illegal.
That Bic pen hack was pretty crazy! for those that don't know, the technique may have been discovered as early as 1992 [1] but the Kryptonite hack was made public in around 2004. [2]

[1] http://www.snopes.com/crime/warnings/kryptonite.asp

[2] http://www.wired.com/culture/lifestyle/news/2004/09/64987
People do protest around mosques. And besides, christianity is founded by a guy who apparently trashed a temple after riding into it on a donkey, so churches are fair game for protest on that basis alone. Also, the russian government isn't trying to co-opt islam in the same way that it is trying to co-opt the orthodox church, so doing this at a mosque wouldn't carry the same political message.
A click, rather than the mouse pointer, is useful for setting the center of rotation in 3d views...I prefer middle button (scroll wheel) click.
How do you find the middle ground? My hypothesis is that one can write the tests first and use them as a compass. If debugging proceeds monotonically, you have thought enough. If you fix the bug revealed by test r, but later when you fix the bug revealed by test s, test r starts failing again, that is a clue that you didn't think enough.

What the clue means will depend on the order of the tests. If the tests were written in order of increasing code coverage it is probably a clue that the algorithm needs more thought, but it could be a clue that one hasn't thought enough about test coverage and has ones tests in an unhelpful order.
You are probably right there, I think I have mixed up Monotone and Mercurial in my chronology.
I think you missed the main point of the article: that the activity of HFT algorithms overwhelmingly takes the form of quotes that never lead to trades and only serve to manipulate prices or create an information asymmetry.
Here's the blog post in which I introduced the feature...

http://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2012/03/13/firefox-adds-new-dev...

The 3D view is not "every day" useful, but people have found it to be a quick way to spot unexpected nesting issues.

As noted elsewhere, this feature started life as an add-on made during Google Summer of Code 2011 by Victor Porof, who continues to work on Firefox developer tools today.

(in case you hadn't guessed, I work for Mozilla... usual biases therefore apply ;)
This is starting to smell a bit cargo cult.
We did have walled gardens. I had accounts on Compuserve, bix, cix, MCIMail with a college account that did mail with bang path addressing over uucp (this is in 1986/7).

Most of the UKs email over uucp came in via the ukc gateway and IIRC I think I was charged something like 4p/1K for email that was international at that point. From memory my usenet feed came via a US bank in the City and was over a telebit trailblazer modem.

By 1990 I'm pretty sure that cix,MCIMail and Compuserve all at least had gateways to SMTP mail and within a few years it all became more more transparent and free.
The rent, the petrol, the food and the imported goods are not primarily driven by the Australian minimum wage. Domestic labour forms only a small part of their cost.
People are not mocking app.net for not being free. They are mocking it for being a generally silly idea borne of nerd-rage against 'the man' err... Twitter... wait, what?
Where do you get the idea that asking someone to uphold their end of a contract is equivalent to owning a human being?
Sounds like your order fell through. Someone I know just ordered one and got it a week and a half later. That was list about two weeks ago.

You might want to get in touch with them.
Serious question.. what's better/worse, someone with no college at all, or a college degree and a bad GPA, assuming everything else about these hypothetical candidates is equivalent?

What's the safer bet? "The devil you know" (the sub-average college grad) or "the devil you don't know" (the person with no college)?
Open Source Instruments: I give up
Why not just go to the sidebar and click on 'Simplified English'?
As someone who teaches intro to HTML classes, 3D view is a cool way to explain divs, spans, etc.
Makes back-navigation, especially on mobile, painful as well.
Thanks for your additional insight. I really like your statement about there being less of an undiscovered talent market and perhaps more of an undeveloped talent market. Rings true in so many professions. I am not sure if there is good data to back up this assertion, or if it is just perspective, but I certainly find a lot of truth in your observation.
No need to apologize, thanks actually. I wish people would correct grammar more often, certainly mine, and doubly so when it comes to names.. why get used to writing stuff wrong, when I can get used to writing them right :)
And sometimes they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they forget all about you.
It always amazes me how people like this come along and heap tons of praise onto FreeBSD but then twist just one of those good points around into a disadvantage to run with. His only reason to not use FreeBSD is because companies don't have to contribute code back yet that is what makes Linux distributions "chaotic" (his words) and FreeBSD "professional".

His only real reason for staying with Slackware is that he's used to it.
I'm a professional film director. I also agree 100% with this statement.

There is a huge variance in skill in all the creative professions.

I've had the opportunity to work with some extremely well-known actors. Within five minutes of starting working with them, it was obvious why they were so well-known - their skill at the craft was, to a man/woman, extraordinary.

That's something I've found to be the case in other contractors on films, too. Most of the time, in my experience, the 3D artists who get the top jobs or command the highest contracting fees are the most skilled and the easiest to work with, for example.

If you want a really good basic guide to success in the creative arts, I recommend Neil Gaiman's University of the Arts speech:

http://vimeo.com/42372767
Perl discussions historically tended to be trolled mercilessly on HN, seemingly from adherents of certain competing language environments, so I assume people don't like to post discussions of Perl here.
How about just [SENTENCE] ?
Except that the website is so obviously a big joke from the start, that the people who “try” to sign up aren't taking it seriously.

(Also if you think that $50 can wipe out slavery you're incredibly naïve. At least the return on investment when you spend that $50 on “virtual crap” is more clear. That's why people will continue to spend more money on “virtual crap” rather than charities, however undeniably noble their intentions are.)
While it definitely would take a novice programmer much longer than 6 months to learn to build a production caliber web app, it's plenty of time to make a functioning prototype and get some perspective on the craft. This can focus and clarify the concept, get you taken more seriously, and make you about 1000% more effective at hiring and managing developers down the line.

Unless you have piles of money or friends in high places, learning some programming is a great place to start if you want to build a tech startup and aren't already a developer. It isn't the be-all end-all, but I'd definitely agree that spending 6 months educating yourself and getting something created, even if it's sloppy, is better use of time than cruising around meetups and networking events trying to find someone to implement your idea for you. Ditto for hiring contractors who you can afford and won't leave you with a lemon when you have no basis for judging whether someone knows wtf they're talking about.
> Sometimes, obviously, the use of these algos goes wrong. You get a flash crash with a death by ten billion cuts as the market moves to smooth in some incorrect way.

I learned recently that there have been many similar crashes throughout history, well before even the invention of computers eg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wall_Street_Crash_of_1929

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Monday_%281987%29

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friday_the_13th_mini-crash

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_27,_1997_mini-crash

It seems to be more a matter of market dynamics rather than crazy algos. If some market shock drops prices too quickly you pass from a stable equilibrium into panic selling. Market makers will only accept so much risk before they start trying to offload stocks too, leading to a feedback loop. Lots of exchanges now have measures in place to break this feedback loop by halting trading on a stock if the price moves too fast and running an auction instead.

The 2010 flash crash was really only notable in that the move to electronic trading made both the crash and the subsequent recovery much faster. Panic selling itself is a problem with the market structure, not with the machines on the other end.
The fact that it uses the licensing, it does not mean that it is a GNU project. Or the fact that it has to bear the GNU/Something name.
Amusingly, it doesn't even use Twitter's own picture service for photos attachments which is a year old at this point. It still uses yfrog.
My kids apparently use this all the time. They thought I was simple for even bringing it up!
For those who don't know, this post is becoming a sort of meme on /r/linux . And while I'm all for giving credit where it's due (by calling the OS GNU/Linux), I think, as I said on Reddit, that this copy/paste job devalues the discussion, since it gets tossed anywhere the system is called just Linux, gets downvoted as off-topic and nobody reads it anymore. So it's, IMHO, pointless and counter-effective.

Since I noticed people tend to be a little less emotional here then on Reddit, does anybody have any opinion on this?
> As for git, it's not nearly as simple as people portray it to be.

git's famous simplicity is in the form of its well-designed and stable (and well-documented) underlying data structures, it has nothing to do with the size or runtime dependencies of a particular implementation.
Somebody once pointed out that such link aggregation sites that operate outside the US seem to be getting in more legal trouble than similiar sites operating under a US domain and possibly on US soil. Is this true and if so, why?
Diamond Age is recommended. You might also like Little Brother by Doctorow.
I would recommend anything by China Mieville.
Take a look http://blog.kaipakartik.com you might find something you want to read.
We use base 24, actually, but since we truncate before concatenating, we behave as expected here, unlike Gecko/WebKit. Obviously, a different TC that depends on one selector having more class names than another ("c" in CSS 2.1 6.4.3) will fail in Opera; it passes in GeckKit. See attachment at http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2012Aug/0493.h... for an illustration.
> "remember that quaint concept?"

I'm American. It's been a while.

My hat is truly off to Ecuador and its people if they're taking the altruistic route.
I never would have noticed, since it continues to work without any issues for me.
Well, they did apologize for doing so, and say that in retrospect choosing the church as a protest venue was a mistake. Part of the issue with the Church in Russia is that it is not really just another religion, but closely tied to the state, so they probably thought of protesting there as a way of protesting against the state (their song was against Putin). It doesn't help that the Patriarch has close ties to Putin.

I don't have a problem with citing them for trespassing, in any case. It's more the over-the-top response of the Patriarch in calling for the State to root out devilry and blasphemy that I find slightly troubling, especially given the Orthodox Church's historical role in actually using the resources of the state for such purposes.

I don't doubt they would fare no better in many conservative Muslim countries if they ran into a mosque and started playing music deemed offensive to the government. But that's a fairly low bar to match. I don't think they would receive a jail sentence in North America or Western Europe if they did something similar. I can't imagine the Danish courts giving a jail sentence to someone who ran into a church of the Danish National Church, and played blasphemous or anti-Queen music. They'd probably just get a fine for trespassing or disorderly conduct, if anything more than a warning.
What is Google Pagerank? - John Divramis Paramarketing Blog
So why are they doing this? My guess is to drive users to their clients, so that they can start displaying ads and gather revenue. 3rd party clients won't display Twitter's own ads so there's no way for the service to collect on that.
This and the fact that religious officials and principles have influence on what should be a civil case. A stunt like this in this church legally should be treated just like a stunt in any other public building.
I think this parody is right on.
The app.net pitch is all about the fact there is a fee.
Why not build a cool app, ask for a fee and _then_ explain the reason for the fee?
Man who provides low-income families with Linux computers has cancer, needs help
How a Virtual Assistant Rescued Me From a Support Nightmare
Cool, but old news.
plan9 still gets regular updates and there are various forks now all in pretty active development:
http://lsub.org/ls/nix.html
http://www.quanstro.net/plan9/9atom/
http://code.google.com/p/plan9front/
HN likes to pretend that infinite scrolling has no utility, but it's simply not true. For sites where you want to quickly scan a lot of content, infinite scrolling is vastly superior to static pagination. For sites where you will typically consume every item in the list carefully and want to refer back to specific points in the list, pagination is vastly superior to infinite scrolling. They both have their benefits.
I wish my girlfriend had a simple flag, I seldom understand why she's mad, and when she explains it, I just get more confused.
The article is titled "Microbes maketh man". Where did you get this title from?

This isn't a revolution in thinking about the human body, we've known for quite sometime of the bacterial soup that helps us digest and procedures like “Stool transplants” are controversial at best, unhealthy at worst.
That's a legitimate complaint. This attempt does seem to point out how a basic online tool is considered "first world luxury" even though it might be, and probably is, an important tool that will help a lot of people create value (new companies, mergers, sharing of information that may save people money by propagating best practices etc). (Sorry for the salesman pitch.)

I mean you don't go out and guilt a carpenter for money because he bought a nice power saw instead of using a manual one?

This just goes on to imply that internet "goods" are frivolous commodities further degrading the idea of paying for software.

I wonder if they did this similar thing for other 'tangible' goods, like this silver plated ballscratcher http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0010NWP9K.
Obligatory http://xkcd.com/547/
ha that's interesting, although I was a little bit more interested in example cases like Pinterest
I think he means that Linux and GNU don't need each other, therefore its not /, its +, as in one is not a sub-component of the other.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muphrys_law
Are people missing the fact that existing Twitter clients can keep their token allocation and double it? And new ones are limited to 100K only by default (they can ask for more)?

Since when did people consider unlimited access to Twitter's API an unalienable right? It is their platform, and their API. It's also completely free.

Twitter is absolutely free to limit usage of their own API however they wish. If it means they want to change the rate limiting on their servers, I see no problem with that.
No, it's not quite what I had in mind. OStatus is intended for exchange of updates between sites that have statuses (statii?), while I'm thinking of something that would exchange messages between users directly without the need for a central server (except probably for user discovery and connection).
I can't believe what I've just read. A civil case yeah why not but criminal charges and imprisonment from a private entity after the CPS have basically said its not worth it? Scary.
Oracle XE? What a weird requirement for a home server. Esp. for someone who's main motivation for using Slackware over FreeBSD is because of the GPL.

As someone that's used Slackware AND FreeBSD heavily (I ran Slackware as a desktop for a year around 2008 before switching to Gentoo and have used FreeBSD in a high-volume server environment)- my advice is NEITHER.

I use Ubuntu Server now. I rather get shit done with a heavily-used, well-supported Linux distro instead of dealing with package hell and compiling most everything from source.
The Changing Scene of Data
Great timing for app.net.
That there's any confusion is why this is a problem. Once you start getting into centralized, micromanegerial control of the content of applications, you have to handle all the details, all the edge cases. Law has the same problem.
Another story from the HN front page mentioned the value of a college degree in today's workplace. With all this pressure on tuition fee rises and the (wrongly) perceived lack of value in a university-level education it would make sense for a high GPA to mean even less than before.

Regardless of what the silicon valley types believe Yahoo is still a fairly attractive company to work for, and with Mayer at the helm I can see it becoming a great place to work.

For once I'd like to see a tech company openly come out and say "grades mean nothing" and to persuade those gifted few that cared more about real-world projects than writing a route planner for the London underground in Prolog. Don't get me wrong, grades do mean something, but when you're looking to work in the big leagues you'd hope that their recruitment process could discover the difference between a great programmer and a great academic.
Ah but in an ironic twist, I'm sure some film maker will create a movie about this. Oh wait, I think they have...