skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I remember that my newsreader back in the early 1990s did exactly this. I had trouble posting the first few times because I took the message to heart and didn't want to waste other people's time. But I quickly realized that other people didn't follow the same suggestion, which meant that I should ignore the message, and even interpret it as wrong.

Why is it wrong? For example, consider the second message. Suppose you haven't read all the messages in a thread because you've been on holiday for the previous few days. But a friend pointed you to a message in the thread which specifically mentions your name, asks "could you verify this for me?", and doesn't have any followups?

Why should your newsreader force you to read all of the thread in order to answer something which isn't in the rest of the thread? Yet the only option there is "cancel".

Furthermore, "at least 10 seconds" is completely wrong. People killthread, plonk people, and develop other ways to ignore discussions. Assuming 4 hours per day means people can handle at most 1440 messages. There are 276 comments already in this thread, but I expect most people sampled a few messages on each major branch, skimmed a bit, and perhaps did a text search to see if someone mentioned a key word. Most assuredly, the entire HN readership did not read this entire thread.
On the I.Q.Org website, wasn't it Assange who said that he is someone who moves in spy circles? I wonder what happens to spies who are either doing their jobs correctly or become rogue? Manning/ Lamo chat logs also refer to Assange as having a level in the intelligence field. But legal case never mentions it.
The 200ms is pretty well spelled out in the beginning of the post. It's not that cert checking is taking 200ms by itself, it's that sending any packet cross-country takes 80-100ms, round trip, and so if you have to go cross-country two extra trips...there's your 200ms.
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A common misconception. It was Peter Wolf, lead singer of the J. Geils Band.

http://www.quora.com/Who-was-the-Facebook-Guy-in-the-origina...
As of this moment, our site is still down. Any suggestions regarding how to deal with this situation?

Update: Over 8 hours of downtime later, dns is delegating properly again. Voost is back up.
This is not for end users, it's for datacenters. Consumer hardware never has fiber ethernet as it is, because there's simply no need. Not only do consumers have no use for that amount of bandwidth, typical hardware has trouble saturating a gigabit connection anyway. Adding more unusable bandwidth isn't going to help. Of course, for some crazy reason consumer hardware often has fiber audio jacks. People are weird.

In core routers, the landscape is entirely different. It's actually very easy to saturate a 40-gig connection coming out of a major interchange, and there are lots of BGP tricks to work around that. Individual ISPs routinely only have one, for political reasons. It would be difficult to saturate 400. (For now.)
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To people missing the point: it plants the seed of distrust in kids' minds. This is not an innocent mistake which has no consequences. This is not a "goof." This isn't a character writing a virtual IP tracer in self-computing Visual Basix. This is a character saying "never trust open source."
Also the rotation controls are strange. Why would I want to do anything besides rotate around the vertical axis? I don't really need to see what my hero looks like leaning like the tower of Pisa.
Be sure to read the fine print from the author: "(Disclosure: I have various puts and wagers against Groupon.)"
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I was going to have to build something just like this next week, to add arbitrary date ranges to an existing dropdown with pre-defined ranges. Thanks for releasing this. It looks great.
For me, the problem isn't rambling, it's coming up with a sequence of words that accurately conveys what I want it to.
Sorry that's a little confusing, especially since most companies nowadays have social components. For this dataset we categorized social based on whether or not the social component is critical to their business.
This doesn't mention the distinction between criticism and discouragement. Damning, but valid criticism can sound a lot like the dismissive reactions in the article, if not phrased constructively. Sometimes crap is just crap and you're best off accepting it, figuring out why, and starting over.

I also try to avoid telling people about stuff I'm working on or have made if I don't expect them to be in a position where they can realistically give me a useful, actionable opinion. The stoic "I'll show them!" thing (for me) works in small quantities. But it can really wear you down over time, particularly from people you care about. Some people just don't seem to understand why you'd even bother to try with creative endeavours, let alone pour your life into them.
Personally I think it is more likely that intelligence services had a hand in either a) setting the stage for the rape (ie: one or both the girls were intelligence assets), or b) pushing for prosecution (IMNHO more likely).

Motives for both a) and b) would probably be to discredit Assange, as well as (with arrest, the strain of a trial, and the presumed following incarceration in a perfectly normal Swedish prison) making Assange unable to contribute effectively to Wikileaks.

Damage to the reputation of Assange, as well as limiting his ability to move around would presumably also hurt fund raising campaigns.

There have been documented cases of similar (and much, much worse) by eg. the CIA and the FBI[1,2] -- I don't think exploring the possibility is crazy.

Saying it absolutely is so, without any proof, is crazy, however.

[1] http://articles.latimes.com/2006/aug/18/opinion/oe-schou18 (Extra irony points for link to LA Times story on Webb?)
[2] http://cironline.org/reports/man-who-armed-black-panthers-wa...
Wow, I'm really sorry about these multiple posts. Blame my HP Touchpad's browser...

Anyone have the power to delete these?
I haven't watched the talk yet, but I did consult Google and discovered that LtU had a spirited form on it a while back:

http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/4312/
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He must have been sufficiently flattered to respond to them. I would have put them in the fireplace after the 10th or so.
Thanks for weighing in. I worry about going out on a limb describing FreeBSD in a thread you're a part of. While I'd never assume omniperfection, I expect top-down enforced careful consideration to more often produce correct decisions.

That said, given your response, I think perhaps still don't understand the meaning behind your cathedral/bazaar dichotomy.
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Aeropress. Electric kettle (bought for $5 from CL). Kurps Blade grinder. (Burr grinder would be better, but too big for my kitchen). Heat milk on stove top. Froth with aero latte. Enjoy.
This reminds me of mushroom cap[1].

[1] http://my.safaribooksonline.com/book/work-relationships/9781...
The default is actually 50x20px which is pretty small, I could possibly add it so you can specify a size for the toggle in the options.
Good stuff. I imported and played with a regulatory dataset.

The results mostly confirm industry suspicions that enforcement differs the most based on what region an operator is in (poor regulatory performance operators are mostly located in the same regulatory region).

What was neat was how little individual manufacturer's designs mattered. But over time, it was either hugely advantageous or hugely disadvantageous to simultaneously operate multiple types of designs. Example: in 2007 it was about 5% better to simultaneously operate multiple designs, but in 2010, it was about 17% worse.

Also confirmed that it was much, much better (from a penalty standpoint) to find and self-disclose regulatory non-compliance rather than to let the regulator find it.

Awesome work guys! Will there be an ability to play with the time dimension soon?
They don't actually share a border with Russia, were never part of Russia or the USSR and are part of the EU. There's zero chance of the Russians invading.
But Debian v.x.y.z isn't a target; "Linux" is.
They're pretty good for perimeter patrol, the Uruguayan military uses them, it's not a bad suggestion at all.
It says in the footer that it is not affiliated at all with Reddit or Conde Naste.

Do you think that the lawyers at Conde Naste might have a problem with it?
Have you wiretapped our office?

While we hope to work with big publishers too, niche blogs are an awesome place to start. As you say, they provide a self aggregated group of individuals with a common interest. They're perfect for polling.
I think the expectation of a response to an email is lower than to a letter. I certainly behave this way--if you send me an email, I might not respond but if you send me a letter I definitely will.

Of course, being a largely useless college student, I hardly get inundated with emails and so will probably respond in either case, but I would certainly feel better about ignoring an email than ignoring a letter.
I think we should try to stick to the guidelines [1] even if there are off-topic stories that may get lots of comments and votes. My reasoning is there are many good sites on the Internet dedicated to politics and current events, but surprisingly few good discussion forums for tech startups.

This story is really only tangentially related to information transparency; the text is entirely about international politics and the law. It has nothing to do with technology.

[1] http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Ubuntu's business server is hardly something as turn-key as vagrant.

We use Ubuntu on EC2 and Canonical has made so many atrocious decisions since the release of 10.04, I am not sure if I ever want to run anything from them again. =( We are however heavily invested with custom PPAs and all that.

Back to Vagrant - as others said before: `vagrant up` and productivity starts. At work I manage local and remote people and they all work with Vagrant. It works the same for developers and frontend people. And most importantly: it works.

Yes, there are ins and outs, but they are mostly Virtualbox related and I cannot wait until other virtualization is supported.
I'm actually pretty surprised about the curry thing. Here in the UK we get so much US media (films and TV) that I feel like I have a fairly good grasp of what they have in America. Not having curry has shocked me though.
It told me how to engage webGL in Safari, but I was using Chrome. And apparently it recommends Chrome to anyone using firefox... fancy a game of three-browser monte?

An image of what we luddites are missing out on would improve the no-webGL error message, and make me more likely to take the time to turn webGL on. (Yes, I hunted down the gallery, but no, that's not the same.)
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I don't think this follows.
I am a fan of the word "bozo", and even used it in a book title. It explains so many bad things in our industry. The fact that this author is associating it with Google is just the icing on the cake for me.
These companies seem to suffer brain-drain and increasing mediocrity in the same way that online communities suffer the constant erosion of their best users.
nice work! what license is this released under?
I can remember Terry Pratchett (notable British author) announcing having to abandon having a public e-mail address because of this. He'd had one for basically as long as internet access has been available to the general public, which worked well enough in the early days of the internet but...
Yeah, I suppose at a certain point the words that don't follow the rules are the most confusing. "Instantiate" follows the basic rules, "pizza" does not.
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I know this is not really the point of the post but on a practical level I'd recommend Text Expander (if on a Mac) to anyone sending repetitive canned responses. Huge time saver.
> * One of the things I was working on was using Tesseract to do OCR on uploaded image files. After 3 weeks of trying to get it to work, I achieved about a 97% accuracy, but because of some underlying bugs that I didn't understand, it wasn't good enough.*

Ha, I've been working on this thing too, though I suspect for different use cases. I don't know if you were using this as a general example of how you managed to solve a problem...but this really isn't a "web programming" problem, in that it's a program that has many uses outside of a web server. In fact, it should be a standalone script that has no awareness of the web (unless it's doing something with a lot of moving parts, like recording results and doing machine learning).

In any case, the problem with people trying to learn web programming is that it encompasses many things...I'd argue that web programming doesn't really require learning HTML beyond the basic idea of HTML (and CSS)...and yet many beginner programmers spend a month or so thinking that programming consists of memorizing tags and CSS rules (nevermind cross-browser considerations)...which must be frustrating as hell.
Thanks for the support, Dan.
I've seen startups with rigorous hiring processes, places where only top employees are hired. But then when it comes to hiring execs, they get so focused on luring in a "superstar", that they do little to no screening. The idea is that the person is so great, all you need to do is sell.

And thats how great startups hire a bozo exec team. And we all know where that leads.
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> But I wish I could accurately tell when that's the person's goal, versus whether it's a person who actually finds solving real problems more fun than talking, like I do.

I think you're still missing it. Have you never enjoyed a movie with a surprise ending (as the GP pointed out)? Would it have been just as fun if someone had given you a 30-second summary of the plot? What about working out puzzles, brain-teasers, etc.? I like all of this stuff; I also solving real-world problems. I think the point is not that there are different kinds of people [1], but that there are different kinds of discussions. And, yes, it is good to know what kind one is involved in.

[1] Although there are. :-)
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I believe its called Kickstarter :)
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I can attest to the "Nobody wants email" myth being a myth. We started with a "Sign up to find out when we launch" form on our startup page and never planned to email until we launched. (Big mistake)

About 3 months in, with the encouragement of an email marketing guru, I started emailing people every week. People didn't unsubscribe. In fact they wrote me to tell me how valuable my little newsletter was to them. People all over the world told me it was the only newsletter from a company they read because they learned something new every week. They even forwarded it to other people in their company.

In the end, we launched, and I spun out the newsletter into it's own thing. There are over 1000 people who want me to write them an email every week. If you asked most people in tech, they would say "That's not gonna work".

It remains to be seen how well that translates into more subscriptions, but I figure if I can share what I've learned to give value to others, it probably comes back to us somehow.
Man, I'm sort of with you. In the last few years, I've spent time in a variety of languages --- Python, Ruby, JS, Java, and lately Go and Haskell --- and Java just seemed completely terrible: bureaucratic, staid, and just plain mediocre by many standards.

Then I started reading a lot of C++. And I mean no disrespect to the many brilliant people who use and enjoy C++, but it wasn't until then that I really got why Java exists.
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hmm. http://www.comcast.com/About/PressRelease/PressReleaseDetail...

In October 2003, Comcast doubled speeds from 1.5 to 3. $57 is about equivalent to today's 50Mbs plan. In theory, 9 years is 6 doubles (192Mbs), so they're about two doubles short of hitting the 18 month target, but they're actually ahead of schedule if you're willing to grant a two year timeline per double.
I do this when developing and it's great. I don't mind things small if I can see twice as many of them.
In all fairness it was meh at its release. It didn't even support images.
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Trivia is not useful knowledge in today's world. The most important thing is problem formulation. Once you have figured out the right question to ask, answering it is usually easy.
What you want to convey is clear.

What you actually convey is not.
It’s what it means, not how it sounds
Thank you Alex, I'll change it tomorrow!
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his phd thesis was pretty cool. It's one approach at a constraint solver built into a language. I can't, off the top of my head think of any direct application (maybe some prolog variant), but it's a neat way to model stuff.
Huge props to My Robot Nation. Especially on their 3D tech. In some ways they have it easier doing robots instead of human shapes (e.g. performs better on hardware that can't render as many polys), but in many other ways, they really knocked the ball out of the park. Especially some of the drag-and-drop stickers and little add-ons like gears and what-have-you.

Don't know if they are leveraging three.js (the way action figure labs and dreamforge are), but it seemed like they have their own custom rendering. Props indeed.
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What's dirty or secret about that?

If your instructor uses Tanenbaum's perfectly good question about page eviction strategies from "Modern Operating Systems", rather than writing (and debugging) essentially the same question over again, they can spend more of their time talking to you and helping you.

Also, some set texts are really excellent, and the instructor would not be able to produce as good a resource themselves. Some people are better teachers, others writers. Writing good, unambiguous questions that produce decent answers is much harder than it sounds.
You can either check the class of the .slide div or have it linked to a checkbox which will be checked or unchecked.
Except that it is true. The reddit citations are simply the reddit poster's poor understanding of the facts, which do not reflect reality.

Lesson to learn here: do not cite reddit as a factual source.
They do. From the first NYT article I found when I searched for "Assange" on their site, http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/21/world/europe/twists-in-jul...:

Some observers also expressed surprise that Mr. Assange, who shot to fame as a fighter for transparency and press freedom, had chosen Ecuador as a potential refuge. He and the country’s president, Rafael Correa, shared warm laughter and a disdain for the United States government in an interview Mr. Assange conducted for his talk show recently on the Kremlin-funded Russia Today network . But Mr. Correa has presided over a crackdown on journalists in Ecuador, according to several reports.

In February, the publisher of the Ecuadorean newspaper El Universo took refuge in the Panamanian Embassy in Quito, and was granted asylum, after the newspaper was ordered to pay $40 million and he was sentenced to three years in prison for defaming Mr. Correa.

The court’s decision was “a serious attack on freedom of the press and gagging of independent journalism,” the Miami-based Inter American Press Association told Agence France-Presse at the time. It criticized “a judicial and legal structure that is used to make reprisals against those who dissent from official policy.”
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The last programming language won't be one that people write. It will be the one that product managers speak today. "Create a program that..."
Here's an optimistic thought: one great company can change things. Google's engineering-driven culture did that. And Apple has made people care about design, albeit only the surface-aesthetic sense of "design", which is what they identify with Apple despite Jobs' dictum "design is how it works". Well, suppose a new company came along that succeeded massively by means of good software design. A lot of things would turn on their head. People would have to stop saying "that's not feasible" or "things are too complicated" or "market forces demand otherwise", just as Apple's success has caused them – against all odds! – to have to stop saying those things about elegance and beauty.

Such a company could have a profound effect because many of the best and/or most aptitudinous (sorry) programmers would be inspired by it. Right now we have no great example to point to, just a bunch of intuitions and (by now) raggedy traditions that we barely understand, which is what I take to be the point of the OP. But great design feeds the soul in a way that the steaming landfills many of us spend our days adding code to never can. So there's a fair amount of talent out there waiting to be kindled. One bolt of lightning and who knows.

Yeah it hasn't happened yet, but it's easy to imagine how it could. Historical accident plays a role in such things.
> A number of you asked...what I’m seeing happening at Google (and what I mean by a bozo).

The subjectivity of this is the core of the problem. One man's Zen Master is another man's Bozo. Often, they look indistinguishable to the uninitiated.

> Others, like James Gosling, quietly change the world by building something (the core Java language and libraries) that make so much sense and are so elegant that you just smile when you use them.

Another example of how one man's X is another man's Y. (EDIT: In putting it this way, I mean to respect both directions of opinion.)

> The indicator is when process and fairness becomes more important than judgement, and when it isn’t ok to say that some people have reached their limit.

Process and fairness are often used as proxies for meaningful relationships and understanding among coworkers. Often they are used as a means of avoiding taking such responsibility.