skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I always remember it as being a very open and egalitarian community

It definitely is, in my experience. Most importantly, despite the obvious presence of "celebrities," even completely unknown people can jump into the middle of a conversation on an important topic, and if they have their shit together, will be accorded pretty much instant respect and be treated as an equal. There's very little sense of "needing to pay one's dues."

But you definitely have to have your shit together. If you don't, you will be quickly eviscerated.

It's really rather nice, especially compared to many dev communities where there's often much more sense of entrenched factions.
My U's class registration system is also only open during "working" hours (a bit of a broader range, but same idea and nothing on weekends), although it's rather faster and obviously all automated at this point. It's very old software though - I get the feeling that the restrictions were put there to avoid giving a registration advantage (for popular classes) to those who could afford then-new technology. In 1996, a good solution. Now...
> You are exactly the kind of person that should build your own lander if you don't see this.

Once I have the financial resources, I actually plan to do so.

> Have you built something that's any one of those three?

To answer that yes I have, which is a completely orthogonal fact to my original comment because I am advocating reducing the qualifications of "space-worthiness" through the use of multiple copies. After reading your comment I decided that there had to be some respectable source who had advocated this earlier at some point and with some research I found this paper written by Rodney Brooks called Fast, Cheap and Out of Control : A robot invasion of the solar system outlining the same concept; http://people.csail.mit.edu/brooks/papers/fast-cheap.pdf

> I mean the attitude that comes across from your writing style.

Yes, I agree that my comments could look snarky under the weight of your assumptions, but I was doing my best to be genuine and engage in an honest discussion

> I have no idea what your qualificaitons are, how much thought you've put into this, how receptive you are to the idea that you're wrong

I'm actually quite certain that I'm wrong most of the times, but I don't know how I'm wrong and discussing, building things are the only ways to find out.

> whether or not you recognize that everyone has more "unknown unkowns" than anything else

Yes I do and it is a terrifying thought.

> or what your actual attitude is.

I'm doing my best to learn as much as I can and to never judge. (judgement takes up too many mental resources)

> And if you think you're the first person to think "wouldn't it be great if not every spacecraft didn't have to have to re-solve the problem of power, communications, and computation?"

I'm not and I would love to do more than just think and actually build things.

> * Having an identical copy is not redundancy

Can you please explain why? Is it because the failure points remain the same?
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You doesn't use autocompletion? o_O
But it's much much better as simple_bean and you have not clue what it do.
My Canadian insurance provider, Manulife, has this same restriction as well as pretty much every financial institute in Japan. What's worse too is that many Japanese ATMs will charge extra fees when you use them outside business hours - even at your own bank.
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Keepass has mobile applications that synchronize easily via webdav or Dropbox.

Unfortunately, you can't create new records from the mobile device with Keepass (at least, with the app I'm using; there are others). My technique is to not create high-value accounts from my mobile and for low-value accounts, I'm OK with just using a semi-secure, temporary password that I update when I'm back in front of the desktop.
That's a very valid concern, even for smaller ERP implementations, I expect that it will be the case that there will be quite a bit of diversity in the schemas. It will certainly be true for larger ERP implementations.
Eh? The OP here was lauding the ipad as some sort of "solution" to the "mess," but Apple's app-store is pretty much the purest and most absurdly restricted example of a "curated package repository" around!

Debian's (and Ubuntu's, etc) package repositories are a breath of freedom and flexibility by comparison...
"Apple's market capitalization is still well below Microsoft's 1999 record if inflation is taken into account. The $619 billion then becomes $846 billion."

-- http://finance.yahoo.com/news/apple-market-value-hits-600b-1...

note that was from april of this year.
I signed up as a physician(because I am one) to give some feedback. I got sent to an account page where I can't do anything at all.

Perhaps browsing permissions would be nice? I just wanted to see the site from the user perspective...
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I'm debating whether to learn Python or Ruby. And the initial post as well as this one has me leaning towards Ruby despite all the good things that have been said about Python.

Are there non CS majors out there that picked up Python as a first language and had doors opened for them?
Or just run tor and turn on the restrictive/fascist firewall option with ports 80 and 443. No EC2 instance needed...
Came in to talk see if anyone had already posted this. Hadn't heard of the sshuttle command mentioned a couple times in this thread. Like you mention below it's nice to just have everything built in ready to rock and roll.

Used the command for years to my own boxes. The amazon spin up version I guess is cool. I'll spin one up at some point just in case. Never know.
Yeah, should've known the article would grossly misrepresent the claims of the scientists.
Bitcookies are a way to say "thank you" with money
They're doing something...web sites eventually resolve, but any SSH connection always times out.
Carol Dweck was obsessed with failure. [...] So she began watching kids [...]

Scientists rarely proceed that way.
It really was a rookie mistake. Anyone could've seen the virus, IT'S OPEN SOURCE.
This should be the top comment. This blog post just shows URLs, which are the result of being signed with the 'consumer secret'. You can see the same thing with wireshark, charles, or any other sniffer or debugging proxy.

The more important thing is the consumer secret itself, which is discussed here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4419915/how-to-keep-the-o...
You attempted to reach ureddit.com, but instead you actually reached a server identifying itself as http://ureddit.com. This may be caused by a misconfiguration on the server or by something more serious. An attacker on your network could be trying to get you to visit a fake (and potentially harmful) version of ureddit.com.

You should not proceed, especially if you have never seen this warning before for this site.
It is only going to get worse if we let religion to prosper.
maybe https version noVNC is a better choice.
I find that baffling. Phineas & Ferb deals in actual jokes, and sometimes even innuendo, and doesn't need a laugh track to instruct kids, "Hey! This is funny! Laugh!" Other shows, instead of dealing in innuendo, deal in double entendres, which are already extremely simple and not funny, but they have to make it even worse by making it obvious in the lines the characters deliver.

I guess the usual Disney Channel exec took the day off when they green-lit P&F.
My favorite date range picker http://burrow.dev.agriya.com/ (They didn't seem to use Bootstrap though)
Don't bother trying to style custom form controls—they break in Firefox
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A better message would be "don't style form controls; leave that up to the user-selected operating system look and feel."
I never dealt with any legal issues, but one day I noticed that licq.net was registered by AOL. I had the licq.org and licq.com (sold the .com years ago though), but always thought it was funny how they did a passive-aggressive move like that.
How about this alternative way of measuring the 'value' of a company: Net asset value (including retained earnings) plus the sum of all dividends ever issued, minus total investment capital.
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It's really too bad that there isn't more newbie-friendly friendly stuff going on in the SF ruby meet-ups. One of the first things I did upon moving here a few months ago was to join the group and look for anything aimed at learners. Unfortunately in 3 months and dozens of emails from the meetup group, I haven't seen a single event where men welcome (without a woman bringing them).

In this city, at least, it's probably a better idea to spend more time on your own learning. Some of the resources on the OP's list are great. Learn to Program was something I went through before moving out at it was a good intro. Also, Code School is good if you can spare the cash. Coursera has been fantastic-- it's completely free and has full videos, graded tests and forums.

Once you do have somewhat more of a foundation, then the normal meetups start getting more useful-- hack nights, pair programming nights, lightning talks, etc. One thing I have to say though, is that I met some extremely friendly and welcoming people early on when I went to meetups and had no idea what the heck everyone else was talking about.
Nope, that'll just get you the addresses being freed. This, on the other hand, seems to do what I expected:

dtrace -n 'pid$target::free:entry { printf("%s: %s", probefunc, copyinstr(arg0)); }' -p <pid>
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+Corinthians+14...

Flipping a coin to make random numbers is tedious. I stop a high speed stopwatch for random numbers.

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Would you mind elaborating? Isn't it more convenient to be able to navigate without having to scroll to the top?
agreed, this post doesn't show any information you don't have permission to know being the authorised user of the application...
I suspect that's the result of over-hiring (giving a $150K senior position to someone who should be junior). I think it's less a matter of experience than laziness: I've met too many CS majors and/or devs with 10 years of experience who write this code. They get lazy, complacent, and confident, and never grow.

On the other hand, the OP has a hunger: I suspect he'll continue to grow if he stays hungry. You don't magically write better code by sitting in a desk for 5 years: you write better code by seeking growth.
It's a [failing] attempt to make sense of hard figures. Pretty much like 3 times the distance between earth and moon.
Statistical data? I mean, the few graphs are interesting, but that's VERY little data being displayed at all. I was expecting much more before clicking this link. Tufte would be mad at the abuse of space for the ridiculously small amount of data actually displayed.
Not to mention that any old tutorials, blog posts, wiki pages etc -- now link to 404 land.

While it would be great if everyone could just magically upgrade, if you've spent a lot of time wrangling some content management system to the "old" bootstrap, you're more likely better off fixing bugs in that site, than upgrading and hoping nothing breaks.

If it's supposed to be used as a framework, I'd say it's common courtesy to provide the old documentation for at least a short period. It's not that hard, see eg:

http://www.python.org/doc/versions/
I do. I was illustrating a point by mentioning a 200% resize.
The dividends issued historically are gone, entirely separate from the company. Assets and liabilities can exist in different forms, including tricky ones like depreciation and intangible assets. If such 'value' is accounted for important uses, manipulating it will be much cheaper and easier than manipulating market cap anyway.
Awesome crowdsourced teaching. I just tried the 3D Art class and it's great. I especially like community postings of their 3D work. One passionate bunch.
As far as personal security tokens go, I recently came across the YubiKey, which provides 2-factor auth using OTPs. It looks very promising, but I haven't used it myself, so I can't provide any anecdata on it.
Nice read man. I just started learning programming as well in early January of this year.

6 months ago, I never thought I would see myself working in a top HCII program as a research programmer. I'm sometimes in total disbelief of where I'm working at and also of the fact that I'm actually helping my professor.

"When I started this search I thought I would be scrubbing toilets in exchange for nightly code reviews."
That was definitely my train of thought on my value as well, but I guess I underestimated myself as well.
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I suppose this is the essence, because however much he may chaff at autoconf's implementation (and it surely is ugly), it actually works pretty well. Users (in this case, "user" = "developer") never see the ugliness for the most part.

With more open development communities there are tradeoffs, but often the result is that you can do stuff you simply wouldn't have the manpower to do in closed communities.

I think most of us would love it if every library and tool we used was pretty and elegant, but in the end, it's often better to have something, however much you'd ideally wish for it to be prettier.

Morever, a community in which different components are often the result of disparate teams with different thinking probably results in more attention paid to robust and simple interfaces between them, simply because that's the only way you can get everything to work. Systems composed of heterogeneous components with robust and simple interfaces between them, are, I think, a good thing. I suspect they tend to be more future proof than systems with everything designed by one person from the top down, because in the end, change is inevitable, so having to deal with heterogeneity from the beginning is an advantage.
Wow, this is great. I am surprised that it's built using PHP, however I love PHP and am just glad such an awesome resource exists.
You know how some people just seem to succeed at everything they do, while others seem helpless, doomed to a life of constant failure?

I never noticed that, except in greek tragedies.
Ask HN: Use randomly generated email addresses for extra security?
It seems that one attack vector used to hack accounts is based on the same email address being used on multiple sites. This would also go for email addresses using a simple algorithm (ie. news.ycombinator@somedomain.net for HN, facebook@somedomain.net at FB, etc).

In the age of keepass/lastpass etc, and on a scale of 1 to "tin foil hat", would it be better to use a randomly generated address for each site (ie. 46ia0ygd51tw9src@somedomain.net)?

Edit: This is using your own custom domain, and catch all email address. You could probably use gmail/hotmail accounts, but setting them up would be very annoying.
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Have you?

Yes. The site for the UK's "Companies House", an agency that registers and tracks British corporations, only used to work during work hours. I seem to recall a public hack day helped resolve this somehow but can't find a story about it now..
I second that. I am following the same course and while I have some prior finance training this is nevertheless very useful to better understand some stuff I simply applied before. Great, great stuff.
Wow.. so I really could have landed a programming job when I was 13? Damn. Maybe I should have just believed in myself more like this guy.

I shudder to think of the quality of his code and the projects he or people like him are let loose on.

Awesome that he's passionate and landed something, but underneath it just makes me cringe because I see the shithouse quality of work that comes out of people probably equally skilled, but not as passionate, everyday.

I should move to America..
The SF Ruby list reaches several thousand people. I organize free weekly Ruby classes but don't blast SF Ruby for fear of being quickly overwhelmed. I emailed you with details.
I'm curious where Standard Oil would stand had it not been broken up.
Right on! The nerve of some programmers to think their profession is in the same league with the big boys that need college and university degrees! Who do they think they are, some kind of scientists or engineers?

</sarcasm>
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I think it has been like this for a long time.
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McDonald's once having partial ownership in Chipoltle like a decade ago is nothing like "McDonald's owns Chipoltle" ... But maybe you had to be there.
I think it's a matter of personal taste. Since all the examples used to display the bar, people probably had a tendency to include the black-bar without thinking too much about it. However, nothing prevents you from building a very functional site without it (I know i have).

Either way, huge prop for the awesome work! The new doc is simply excellent and the whole framework is just remarkable, particularly if one considers how far you guys have pushed it in less than a year.
either way it would be interesting to know, if records still exists about their worth.
Sure, it's hard to measure the value of assets. But look at it this way: In the long run, every company dies, so assets always go to zero. What investors (in aggregate) are left with is the net sum of dividends paid out.

To answer "what is the most valuable company in history" I would look for the company which paid out the most in dividends before it expired. Stock price is largely a measure of which company has managed to attract the most suckers.
This is done to save money. There's probably a rack of boxes handling the dirty work. 99% of users of the system are local, as in the same time zone. So if you kill the boxes at night, you save half of your electricity bill with minimal inconvenience.

Obviously you can solve your little dilemma in the cloud by scaling based on demand, but not everything can be put into EC2 or similar. Government sites that handle sensitive data certainly can't.
Self-taught programmers get a bad rap because we've all seen the guy who didn't know about arrays and defined 300 variables (I'm not kidding by the way, and this was in perl. Full of wonderful names like $aa1, $aa2, etc.).

However you can get around this by having the OP's attitude about being a life-long learner. It's important to get a lot of exposure to different people and styles to offset some of the lack of background you will start out with.
$1tn according to Wiki http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_Oil#Breakup
Part of me wonders if git provides a hint here... What about a sha1 hash per app?
Retina does not take viewing distance into account. There is no definition of the term retina as far as I know. Apple just uses it for all their displays with higher pixel densities.
This was an incredible read. The guy deserves it. Congrats Jeff!
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Then they'd have a legitimate reason to fine him millions of dollars for being lost and stranded.
I don't write down passwords, I write down password hints. For example, "b + 7 + z" could equal baby753zyxw. A single letter can signify a word/string, and a single number can signify a larger number. I have about 20 strings memorized than I combine in various ways.
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We call people that interact with our software 'users' despite the drug connotation. Hardware stores don't say that, heck even pharma companies don't.
Also, extrapolating without much explanation means squat.

http://xkcd.com/605/
> It may not survive to deep packet inspection

I'd love to hear about your plans for "deep packet inspection" on SSL packets...

> your only S3 machine could get blacklisted

I thought the whole reason the original article was suggesting S3 was so that you could just spin up a random Micro instance, with a new IP address.
With Gmail (at least) you can use john.smith+46ia0ygd51tw9src@gmail and it will get to you.
I majored in Economics and taught myself Python starting my Sophomore year of college. I am now gainfully employed in a job creating modeles (economic and otherwise, essentially R&D) for the rail industry. My day to day activities consists of writing Python code, and my ability to rapidly prototype ideas with Python was one of the major reasons I was hired.

That being said, don't debate, just pick one and go with it. For every person who tells you that Ruby is better at X, or Python is better at Y, you'll find another person doing X in Python or Y in Ruby. The best advice I can give you is to find a book/tutorial that works with your learning style and go for it. Then grab a fun project as soon as possible and work on it.
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I would love to hear Paul Graham's thoughts on this :)
Thanks again, Alex. I appreciate the comments and great ideas.

We do plan to add polling and survey design experts to our team (I have stats but not polling background). And an analytics platform is coming.

What do you mean by our survey "might take the user by surprise"? Do you mean that it might be surprising to the user to have a survey launch when clicking one of our links? We're testing different "teaser" text for the links. And hopefully we can make it clear that a survey will be coming when you click.

If you're willing to run a test survey, fill out the contact us form on our site, and we'll give you a discount code. Appreciate the feedback.
I can't imagine this is the reason. They need something to throw up that ridiculous message...why not use it to handle requests to the site too? How much traffic does a site like this get?