skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You might find this interesting: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2375633
I read somewhere that getting a photograph in those times was considered of great importance. The closest that you had back then to something like this was commissioning an artist to draw a portrait of yourself, very expensive and out of reach for common people. These are pictures mostly of rural folks, and even the ones with some kind of position like the emir were probably very poor. Therefore when somebody comes along and wants to take your photograph, you put on your best clothes, sit in a dignified pose and take it seriously, because it is a big deal.
There is a huge difference between smiling and laughing. Yeah, laughing out loud with no reason will seem stupid to anybody.
I'd like to point out, that if voodoo worked it might also be the most important thing for world poverty. This sort of assuming the conclusion makes the whole thing an empty claim.

From a utilitarian perspective, there's zero proven benefit to sending charity to first world people playing utopia.
This makes me realized how amazing it will be having tools like Instagram, having captured millions of photos, in around 100 years from now.
I would like to see people be a bit more supportive when someone announces their first app and asks for feedback.

I understand you have provided feedback, but perhaps put yourself in the shoes of the developer and consider the way you put the message across.

It would be great if every piece of software was perfect and awesome on first release, but really iterative development is what gets us there. I hope the developer and also other potential users aren't discouraged by your "DO NOT USE".
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You can anonymously acquire a Nevada shelf corporation in a week or two. If you were able to just setup a merchant account without a personal guarantee, you could then trivially rack up a significant volume of fraudulent charges without any recourse. (The bank would literally not know who you are)

If you are a real business, you will almost certainly change credit card processors anyway to get better payment terms as your volume increases. The last startup I worked for changed at least three times as our volume grew.
And that TV audience for NHL is 20x MLS.
It's a huge decision and it is a completely different world than the consulting one you are used to. The uncertainty is hard but having input (not just being a cog) is unbelievably liberating. No one can answer this question for you. Make your decision. But I do recommend that whatever decision you make, don't look back later. Fully commit yourself to it.

As for questions, will the work be interesting and rewarding? Are the people honest and feel like those you can work with? Is there a sign that the company is succeeding (funding is not market success) like traction and paying customers? There are a few anyway.

Good luck!
FYI, it is true that the implementation is broken in IE8 and IE9, but there is a fairly straightforward fix. http://mcox.tumblr.com/post/22791023337/ie-cors-support-in-j...
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If you think you could have replicated Twitter with 300K of hardware and software 2 years ago, surely it would be even cheaper now. Why wouldn't you go to Twitter and offer to do it for them? Even if they paid you three million dollars it would give them massive savings in headcount and operational costs.
Here's a post about basics of job descriptions, but it also has some tips for a/b testing your hiring posts: http://katemats.com/benefits-job-description-prove-wrong/
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I've always found it interesting that people's perception of history is coloured(couldn't resist) by having only seen it in black and white. You almost have to remember that the world wasn't actually in black and white 100 years ago. It's fascinating to see photos from that far back in colour, it somehow makes it easier to empathise with the people in the shots.
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After being on this site for 5 years, I am still surprised to not see a blacklist solely for techcrunch submissions.
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'If' is not quite analogous to cond, and 'if' is a bit of a hack, and multiway is more hack on top, is all I wanted to highlight.

And the cond you wanted has already been here for you.
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Maybe you were under the illusion that there is privacy on the Internet. This should be a wakeup call.

If you are blocking posts for Person A, but not Person B, the moment Person A and Person B talk your "privacy settings" are over.

Even without this leaking in the JSON, people can TALK to each other, or show each other their Facebook accounts, and you can't control that. This applies to Facebook, Twitter DMs, Google+ circles, email, and whenever you think you are posting privately over the Internet.
Interesting statement- any more concrete examples?
I disagree, and cite fizzbuzz. There are so many programming candidates who can't even answer a simple problem like fizzbuzz that it prunes out a good number of candidates by asking a simple question like that. Not every step in an interview is intended to meet the same goals, e.g. your coding question could have easily been a quick pruning method versus saying anything about what sort of work is being done there.
coding lame, childish "examples" are great to get people interested in learning to code.

they provide immediate gratification in terms that non-developers find humorous. which is a great way to spark interest.
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"Heck, I just started learning Lisp and truly enjoying how unfamiliar and powerful functional programming can be."

Try Haskell before you have too many preconceptions of what "should" be to burn away. :)
Ha! He's just perpetuating it by giving it more attention.
This is explicitly discussed on the linked page.
There is no such thing as true privacy on the Internet the moment you post something someone else can see.
Log in with Steam to post and vote on issue priority.

I can't believe public bug reporting for major studio game releases is still being done through forum posts, like it's the fucking 1890s or something. Seeing this site in action, I became immediately convinced that this kind of simple, easy to use, public-facing bug/wishlist system needs to be a standard part of any large software release, and it is negligent of any company to launch a product without one. It needs to be promoted every bit as emphatically as their official forums (or more).

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Post announcing this system, and its acknowledgement by the game's developers, stickied on the official CS:GO forum here: http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=29118...

Primitive bug-report thread which seems to otherwise be the standard for major studio game releases (if public bug-reporting is present at all) here: http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=22638...
Well, the best revenge is success, but this kind of thing just makes them look childish and crass.
I don't see how your first sentence is supported by the rest.
This is not true, I think.

The self-identification with the term "hacker" (in the good sense) is pretty strong amongst a lot of people from "those days." The co-option by the media to mean something else was an annoyance, but really hasn't changed that a whole lot.

In other words, it's a personal issue, and nothing to with popularity per-se.

It's like you and a group of childhood friends called yourself "the bucket gang" or something, to the degree that this usage pervaded your personal communications. If suddenly the media started using that term to talk about terrorists or something, you and your friends would probably be annoyed, but it probably wouldn't affect your personal usage, because the connection is already simply too strong; you wouldn't suddenly start using this personal term more often because of the media co-option.
This is indeed technology. http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/technology
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Makes the world back then seem more modern, forces me to take it more seriously. The past is a different place, not stupider or more primitive, just different.
Does anyone else agree that a good business case could be built based on a deploying a fleet of $250K self-driving cars?

As an example, assume that a 12 hour shift taxicab driver costs $100 per shift and that a full day labor cost is thus $200. The 365 day labor savings on a full time taxi is thus $73,000. Payback for the $250K self driving taxi is about 3.5 years.

I think that self-driving cars could disrupt the taxi driver occupation in North America if the car would cost less than $125K with a 3 year payback, and fare prices discounted accordingly compared to a human driver. There may be as many as 200,000 taxis in North America.
the tl;dr;

pay attention to ux!
For what is worth, Galician is essentially a variant of Portuguese, in the sense that it's mutually intelligible with European and Brazilian Portuguese. There are differences in pronunciation but not significantly more than between European and Brazilian Portuguese.
If you support freedom, you would prefer incompetent contractors here.
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Hi guys and girls I'm working on Startup Weekend in Perth today. Our startup is called Tripendar that provides consolidated and timely travel research information in one spot. I would really appreciate if you guys could fill in this 2min to help validate our idea. Thanks!
Joining the dots a little bit for you, here's another quote leading up to this point.

>> Russians need a particular reason to smile. You've heard good news and you smile to show that you consider this news as good.
As soon as that person sees your Facebook account using the mobile phone of another friend of yours, the jig is up. Don't "vent publicly". Vent privately.

If you do this a lot, you will have publicly offended a lot of friends of yours and it will backfire one day. One day someone will know who you are venting about, and copy it and send it to them just for fun.
There is privacy on the Internet. I think it is an illusion that you cannot have privacy on the Internet.

Sure, Person A can always DECIDE to talk to Person B. But that does not mean I voluntarily tell Person B everything that I only want Person A to know. This specific argument of yours doesn't even have much to do with the Internet.

You are basically saying it is useless to ever share anything with only a specific group of people because the specific group of people can always just talk to everyone else you don't wish to share the information with.
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True privacy isn't hiding something from everyone; it does mean being able to share something with only the people you choose to share with.

For example, when we send an email, we are be pretty confident it only goes to the people we select and not the entire Internet. The vast majority of emails are only read by its intended audience. That's privacy.
I've worked at this plant, I've been in that control room during a refuel outage. I was there back in the 90's to install some feedwater pump vibration monitoring equipment when I worked for GE as an engineer. Later went on to design feedwater (level) control systems for other plants. Brings back some great memories.

Edit: I'm just hanging out listening to Giants/Dodgers... if anyone has any questions on the control panel systems, acronyms, etc fire away, I'll try and answer if I can. One memory was the all the acronyms I used to know. AMA
I don't think the distinction you have made is valid.

Experiments are a kind of technology by any common definition. Just because this never rolled out into mass production doesn't mean that it wasn't a systematic application of scientific/engineering principles.
Are you arguing that there is no difference between UI designers and graphic designers? It may all seems like "silly design stuff" but I promise you -- there's a big difference between the two. For example, UI designers usually need to be able to code (if perhaps only rudimentarily).

Or perhaps you're implying that there is no difference between UI designers and product designers? Admittedly, sometimes those are the same person, but usually the person who fills the PD roll is a manager or CEO (if at a startup). They'll certainly consult with the UI designer (and eng), and they may design most of the product with the UI designer. Or they may not. Not necessarily the same job. It really depends on the people and the company.

If this seems like bullshit to you then...I'm sorry? That's how most of the industry works (at Google, at Apple, at ...). There are not these strange creatures called "designers" who do everything and have all skills (some do exist! but they are shockingly, painfully rare. And they're usually not in charge, so it's hard for them to do product design).
One thing I always think about is how the code works behind games like Starcraft. I find myself trying to understand the data structures and algorithms behind seemingly simple mechanisms like creep spreading or revealing the fog of war. Are there any other writings like this that talk about the technical side of popular games?
I spent nearly two years working on a large codebase with YUI and I agree with everything said here. There are long-standing unfixed bugs, components break on minor version upgrades, there's little transparency into the planning, and there is little incentive to contribute because the contributed fixes never make it into core.

It's still a great library, but it could be so much greater if community was allowed to participate.
I acknowledge Starcraft's dominance, but my personal favorite game of all time was Total Annihilation. At the time (98/99), it was probably the most advanced game out there. I played my cousin across the country over 33kps modem, and we each had 500 units moving around at the same time. With 1000 units total, each 3D rendered, the action slowed down a lot, but it never crashed, and allowed us to play entire games across the country reliably. It was truly a feat of software engineering.

Chris Taylor (the creator of TA) came out with Supreme Commander in 2007, which I bought a new computer for just to play, but I only played it for a few months, more because I got busy rather than not enjoying the game. But both games never seemed to catch on as much as Starcraft 1 and 2 have. I'm seriously considering picking up Starcraft 2 but it's already 2 years old, so I think I probably missed the boat.
This is a really good list. Another thing to consider is that one seemingly simple change request, let's say from user interface (adding a button), can affect almost every category listed. And hopefully you haven't tooled up yet, because there goes $50,000+.

On the other hand, there is definitely some fun to be had in hardware for the low volume budget hacker. We have arduinos, raspberry pi's, all kinds of components available at outlets like digikey and mouser, relatively cheap custom pcb manufacturing, and somewhat low cost high resolution 3D printed custom enclosures.
> 3) As a "nice to have", I wish I could "close" articles on the feed so that more of the 2nd-page articles trickle up to my first page.

I use the HN RSS feed, with Google reader; I never look at the HN front page ever. This works pretty well for me; I can very quickly skim though all new articles, and those I've seen are gone (but I can mark those I want to come back to later as "not read").
It's really not about winning or losing, it's to show that good ideas, sometimes REALLY good ideas are stifled in an academic environment. And to show that the Professors who have obscene amounts of power in college don't use it responsibly. Why give them so much power over students if they won't wield it with the public interest in mind? Especially at a public university? How could a Professor not see the potential of this idea? The student tried the limited amount of recourse he had at his disposal, and eventually gave up, and pursued the project on his own time, lucky for us.
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Software can not replace skilled crafts.

Adjusting a CNC machine is very complicated and requires a lot of experience and skill.

One lesson learned is, that craftmans that learned on shitty old russian manuel lathes did a lot better on modern machines than the ones that learned on super precise automated modern western machines.

The abstraction layer between metall and man that modern machines make does impede the feeling for the process.
The feeling and understanding of the cutting is essantial to make a good cut, weather it is automated or not.

Craftmansship is not automatable, weather it is software engineering or manfucatoring.

Bad news for some managers and fantasts.
This is totally awesome! The lower stage can be built with available materials and bootstrap the development of the orbital part by making existing aircraft launches so much cheaper that air freight could compete with ground transportation costs.
> The steps required to sniff open traffic are hardly extraordinary.

Neither is the step required to open the envelope.

Judge's reasoning is that it is quite easy to obtain tools to sniff the packet, and that those tools are sold to the public for very low price. I can present you with readily available envelope opening tool that costs less than a dollar.
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Yes. I would call that an example where a CC license would have been better.
I really like this article. I think the dynamic involved in working tons of hours on a project like this is really interesting. On one hand you have peer pressure and pride in your work. And on the other you have code degradation with lack of sleep. I wonder if he feels becoming a VP of Blizzard had to do with or was in spite of the long hours.
I've tried it and found it pretty much intolerable. Way too much page turning for my liking, not enough on-screen text, and I don't like looking at a backlit screen right right before I go to bed.
As an American, the only time I see Americans grinning all the time is in stock photos. IRL we don't sit around eating salad and laughing all day.
To inspect JSON in command-line, I prefer jsontool[1], it's more intuitive.

something-generating-JSON-on-stdout | json [OPTIONS] [LOOKUPS]

[1] http://trentm.com/json/
Problem with x64 fannkuch-redux -- but no problem with x86?

http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u64q/program.php?test=fann...

http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u32q/program.php?test=fann...
> Taking in that sort of money raises the stakes dramatically. Nobody loans you a billion dollars to build a $50 million/year business.

That was OzzyB's original point: Twitter should not have taken big VC money. They took too much money. From his first post:

> someone promised the moon to a bunch of financiers and now they have to deliver above and beyond of what Twitter could have been, or should have just been.
"It annoys me to think that we could simply be building a new (potentially more neutral) fiber 'highway' across the country with a similar model, run by the government. If only people weren't so afraid of government..."

The government has given us many reasons why we should fear a government-operated internet infrastructure. Do you really want the same government that's seizing web domains without due process to control the physical infrastructure as well? The same government that wants to vacuum up all the internet traffic of law-abiding citizens? That does warrantless wiretaps? That runs the TSA? Be careful what you wish for.
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...And I was the guy that played the turned based Lords of the Realm II for some reason.

Anyway, Starcraft 2 is still pretty active on the casual side, and with the new expansion coming out later this year (already in public, but not open, beta) it will surely drive a flock of new players. On the note of Supreme Commander, one of the top players of that game has been a Starcraft 2 pro since beta (TheLittleOne, aka TLO).
Photos required a very long exposure back then and a smile is hard to keep for what amounted to minutes. Keeping a neutral expression minimized movement and consequently blur resulting in an expensive re-shoot.

http://www.csmonitor.com/Innovation/Horizons/2011/1118/Louis...
"In this example, the first – the scary, evil one – is the only one using HTTPS."

git:// ~= ssh:// ~= SSL ~= HTTPS
The combination of Tech Crunch and Mike Arrington is deadlier than the plague.
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I upvote this. Let's make it happen.
> It's strange how even 100+ years ago is getting more and more recent.

I think you are absolutely right with this. As the rate of change increases (and it has been rapidly increasing for the last 150 years) it makes sense that history would compress too. Fascinating!
It was a fanstastic event: great energy, brains, turnout and ideas! a great example of the power of an idea whose time has come. This blog post captures the essence of the main seedlings of the entrepreneurship ecosystem in Cyprus! Well done!
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What can organizations generally do to help cut down on "logistical hurdles to overcome"?

MIT makes available to all free printing and shuttles.

What can organizations generally do to help foster the sharing of information?

MIT encourages collaboration and their professors are accessible.

Of course, simply applying these tricks to an organization is doomed to fail. To do so would simply be to create a cargo cult.

What matters is the attitude with which you approach your organization. Your attitude is what drives the organizational experience.
I have mixed feelings about that.

Millions of recent GPS tagged photographs floating around in the cloud have some incredibly cool technical potential when combined with something like PhotoSynth, but culturally I think ubiquitous photos actually weaken the historical impact.

To loosely stick with the Russian theme, a peek into a single moment in the life one person 100 years ago is fascinating, but a million peeks into a single moment in the life of a million people 100 years ago is just data.
At SpiderOak, every storage cluster writes new customer data to three RAID6 volumes on 3 different machines, which wait for fdatasync, before we consider it written.

... and before that begins, the data is added to a giant ring buffer that records the last 30 TB of new writes, on machines with UPS. If a rack power failure happens, the ring buffer is kept until storage audits complete.

I think every company that deals with large data they can't lose develops appropriate paranoia.

The behavior of hard drives is like decaying atoms. You can't make accurate predictions about what any one of them will do. Only in aggregate can you say something like "the half life of this pile of hardware is 12 years" or "if we write this data N times we can reasonably expect to read it it again."
Very good writeup.
I don't have much to add, but pg clearly made a mistake by not cc'ing Google Ventures on the original email. GV got sucker punched by the press because of that mistake and now the drama is playing out publicly. If pg had the foresight to cc Google Ventures, then he likely would have edited out the 'm.o.' in the original email.

That being said, what is more interesting is that pg will now have to be more reserved about communicating with his people. That is sad, because honest and unfiltered communication is a hallmark of startups. Has YC grown too big for unfiltered communication?
And what about Technocracy ? It is quite cool alternative to Democracy. Probably too radical for current politics.