skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't really see Flickr and Instagram as competitors, and saying that Marissa should be using Flickr with blinders on to the other services out there is counterintuitive. Different mindshares for the users, they missed the opportunity really.
She's a data geek. How does that make her an expert about advertising?
... depend on all of the data in the data items and only on the data in the data item ...
WUUUUT?
> > American security during a war

> Just a reminder, but there's no declared war. There's military action, yes. But no war has been declared.

Please look through http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Declaration_of_war_by_the_Unite...

The war in Afghanistan was formally authorized by Congress in the "Authorization for Use of Military Force" (a resolution which even explicitly mentioned that it satisfies all requirements of the War Powers Act passed in the aftermath of Vietnam).

Despite the fact that the writers didn't put "Declaration of War against $FOO" in the title of the resolution, it was certainly a declaration in the Article I, Sec. 8 sense.

But please, tell me more about how traitors are only created when Congress dots their I's and crosses their T's in a certain format.
That's partly because they were overfished to near the point of extinction since they were so cheap (early last century a bucket of lobsters costs a dollar).
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No diagrams for exceptions? The diagrams for the text-editing are great, but of you claim that the exception-handling diagrams would look similar, you should draw them.

Or just rename the piece "category theory and text editing" and remove all mention of Exceptions. It would be a complete and good article without the misleading headline.
It's an interesting idea and I wish whoever runs it the absolute best. I can tell the motivation here is to maximize the earning potential for a developer and find a good fit through a novel approach and I commend the thought.

I can't help but laugh at the idea of someone being auctioned off, though. Pretty sure they used to do this and you got the manacles with your purchase.

How invested is an employer going to be in a employee that he had to go into a bidding war for? I'm going to imagine a great deal. What happens if the individual just isn't a good fit for the role or the culture of the company?
And certainly Chinese companies know evil when they see it.
Is there a list like this for startup names?
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I wholeheartedly agree. The lack of transparency is CloudFlare's single largest problem from my perspective. I really wish the analytics package offered more than just a few pretty aggregate charts. Insight into failed requests to my backend servers would be a major help in troubleshooting, and with integration into their API, could serve as great early warning for when things are going wrong at the CDN level.

I'd also love to see the option of periodic uploads of raw traffic logs to an S3 bucket or similar. Something akin to how AWS CloudFront handles raw logs. I believe raw logs are currently available on their enterprise packages, but this seems like basic functionality (that would provide much of the needed transparency) and should be included in all of the paid plans.
It's about time we see some real innovation in this space, but will they be able to avoid the usual stench associated with tech recruiters?
In theory, by using RGB LEDs, you can mix the colors to produce a more pleasant color of light. I doubt they'll have only blue or green light.
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That triptych of chemo round photos in the middle. Christ.
> Although Smalltalk solves it by introducing a special method call syntax (which is perfectly fine).

Meh. Smalltalk comes from a time when not all languages had to be ALGOL-style, so it just has its own syntax.

> I was mostly thinking about C-style-method-call-syntax when I wrote this (Perl, Python, JS).

That is no issue, if you have first-class blocks. At most you'll have commas between your blocks because they'll be arguments like every other. Here's a python-ish version using chevrons for blocks:

error = (request.form['username'] != app.config['USERNAME']).then(⟨
"Invalid Username"
⟩, else=⟨
None
⟩)
To be fair, it's not clear that Hilary Mason is specifically knowledgeable about on-line advertising. She is undoubtedly very knowledgeable about computer science, big data, and a number of fields in general, but it's possible her major interaction with the specifics of on-line advertising are as an advertisee, either directly or by proxy.
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These businesses come to Kickstarter for the purpose of getting as much capital as possible to seed their projects.

Just because it is not implicitly stated doesn't mean that the business owners do not have that motive. Just because some business owners cannot scale effectively does not change their original motive. Just because you would personally run the businesses or the website different does not change the motive.

I'm not going to waste any more time having a speculative "internet argument" with you on this.
Do you have a link to the patch? The latest I know of is the security advisory saying they're looking into it and a workaround that's not really a patch.

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/security/advisory/275776...
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My brains alone. Over the years I've developed a pattern I can remember easily, and apply another pattern to it based on the site or app's name. It's a simple math formula that changes the entire password instead of just applying a suffix or prefix to an existing strong password.

Ironically, the only site this fails on is my banking site which has wish-it-was-2-factor authentication and a limit of 8 characters for the password. Stupid.
There's some background on one of the theories why MDMA may make make negative memories less painful in this Wired piece (if you can get past the link bait title :-)

http://www.wired.com/magazine/2012/02/ff_forgettingpill/all/...

Simplification: the act of recollection involves the memory being erased and then rewritten. If you're "happy" when you rewrite it then some of the negative emotions get knocked off for the next time you recall it.
Neither. If you look at the S3 URL, they are URLs with expiry times after which they stop serving the content. The cryptographic signature makes it... let's call it "infeasible" to manipulate the URL to change the expiry time.
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Granted, life puts limitations on us as we get older but I don't understand how one can predict behaviors of people who do not fully read what they are clicking on.

See, you've misunderstood the root of the problem. This person knew exactly where he wanted to click, he aimed for those targets, and his physical limitations caused him to miss those targets. User intent is not the problem.

The problem here is the penalty for missing: he gets shuttled to an off-site advertisement that doesn't have anything to do the task at hand. If he misses and just goes to Drafts instead of Inbox, that's a much easier mistake for the user to understand and correct; the intended target link is still prominent on the unintended page, it's easy to connect cause with effect ("Stupid shaky hand, oops!"), and it's easy to try again. Unfortunately, in this case, that advertisement's placement makes it a very expensive miss for the user. Before the user even knows what has happened, he's on another site entirely. And that ad is placed between what are arguably the two most important links in the interface: Inbox and Compose.

In the example provided the ad link has a decent amount of white space between it and the inbox link. There's even an intended barrier between the two in the form of a horizontal rule, granted one pixel. What more do you want?

He probably missed the targets because they're skinny and/or long and require a good deal of "vertical accuracy", which can easily devolve into "vertical inaccuracy". The targets should be given some additional vertical size. This is anecdotal based upon experiences with my own shaky hand, so YMMV.
Would love an invite, too:
"eric." + "s." + "bullington" + "@" + "gmail." + "com"
The language is very plain, you just have to skip to the sections which list the claimed infringements. One is for assigning unique identifiers to files (UUIDs, such as SHA1 sums in case of git), and another is about addressing files using those IDs. Basically they're attacking essential elements of git itself but because github is a company they sue them instead hoping to extract money.

There are more infringements but they all seem pretty trivial and variations of each other. They're related to data duplication and access permissions.
Right on! But what if you have a team of employees and interns that need access to different accounts. You can't expect them all to memorize unique passwords.
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I had almost the same conversation with my fiancee. Fast forward nine months, she loves her moissanite ring. I think what changed her mind was actually seeing a moissanite — it is very obviously not "fake," and the stone's fire is amazing.

Incidentally, rather than pitch it as "the ones you buy are created in a lab and are cheap," I'd go for something more along the lines of "they grow them through a natural process, kinda like pearls." It's not scientific, but it's true enough.
It's not a traditional auction in the sense that "highest bidder wins". The goal is to present each software engineer with 5-10 opportunities at cool companies, with numbers attached to them.

They can then choose which offers are worth following-up with via phone or in-person interviews based on any number of factors (location, product/service, company stage, who the investors are, equity, salary, etc.).

Like you say, there's much more to a job than a salary but in an environment where the average SF Developer gets recruitment spam every 40-hours, we hope to provide a more efficient way of vetting & comparing opportunities.
Some of these seem really questionable at first glance (note that I haven't read the entire patents yet)

> United States Patent No. 6,415,280 "Identifying and Requesting Data in Network Using Identifiers Which Are Based On Contents of Data."

This sounds alot like hashing the contents of a file to get and identifier for it. If anything it sounds like maybe Git itself violates this, but I thought that Git hashed the difference between all the changes of a commit to get the hash. Some of the others sounds equally obvious at first glance.

I don't really understand why they are suing Rackspace for the Github service other than the fact that it is hosted by Rackspace and it seems they are an easy target since they are based in Texas along with the plantiff putting them in the same jurisdiction.

It seems like some of the more generic patents related to "Controlling Access to Data in a Data Processing System," "Distributing and Accessing Data in a Data Processing System," and "Accessing Data in a Data Processing System" could apply to lots of other services and cloud providers anyway. Why not go after Amazon or someone else that does Git hosting?
Agreed.

But the larger point is that all of those poor people in red states who pay no taxes are effectively disenfranchised. Their states are red - their blue votes are meaningless.

The majority of those who pay no income tax are already non-entities in Presidential elections.
For multi-day interviews, they should definitely pay. With the current job market, I'm surprised more companies don't.
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Don't want to nitpick, but the article says "Baxter will sell for $22,000, not including its base and hands, but including a software subscription and warranty." So not really a 10x cost saving.
Sure, it isn't really that bad - mostly the same boilerplate repeated _ad nauseum_. They are being sued by two patent troll LLC's in the Eastern District of Texas. The patents (9) are very generic sounding:

* Data Processing System Using Substantially Unique Identifiers to Identify Data Items, Whereby Data Items Have the Same Identifiers.

* Identifying and Requesting Data in Network Using Identifiers Which Are Based On Contents of Data.

* Enforcement and Policing of Licensed Content Using Content-based Identifiers.

* Controlling Access to Data in a Data Processing System.

* Distributing and Accessing Data in a Data Processing System.

* Similarity-Based Access Control of Data in a Data Processing System.

* De-duplication of Data in a Data Processing System.

* Computer File System Using Content- Dependent File Identifiers.

* Accessing Data in a Data Processing System.

The rest of the document (linked above) just says that they want reparations for damages incurred from these 'patent infringements'.
"There's a whole bunch of different things Kickstarter could do about hardware projects failing to deliver. "

Such as what? Like offering insurance for failed products? Doing due diligence into creators? Or?

Any solution you come up with (and I do really want to hear your suggestions) has problems. If they vet it puts more liability on them and legally that would place them in a different position. If they offer insurance then they have to vet and the risk shifts to them which isn't the idea of what they are trying to do. So your thoughts are specifically?
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Yeah, from a revenue standpoint I can understand why, saying you are from google means you passed the 'google interview' or something. Therefore those candidates are probably easier to place (there's an assumption of excellence).

That doesn't make it any less frustrating for those of us not graced with the big names on our resume. In the meantime however I've found places like Angel List is a good place to put your profile to find out about startups.
The titles of the patents:

5978791: Data Processing System Using Substantially Unique Identifiers to Identify Data Items, Whereby Data Items Have the Same Identifiers.

6415280: Identifying and Requesting Data in Network Using Identifiers Which Are Based On Contents of Data.

6928442: Enforcement and Policing of Licensed Content Using Content-based Identifiers.

7802310: Controlling Access to Data in a Data Processing System.

7945539: Distributing and Accessing Data in a Data Processing System.

7945544: Similarity-Based Access Control of Data in a Data Processing System.

7949662: De-duplication of Data in a Data Processing System.

8001096: Computer File System Using Content-Dependent File Identifiers.

8099420: Accessing Data in a Data Processing System.
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Broken with very large numbers, i.e. ~1,000,000,000 funding. :)
You have no idea what you are talking about: the research on aggressions, alienation and social dynamics in male-dominated spaces is extensive. Until you've bothered to do even basic research into a topic, I suggest you don't whine about it. It just makes you look ignorant and unpleasant.
> And when I think of successful cartels in history I think of DeBeers and OPEC and... well, those are the only two I could name that lasted longer than a few years.

Another would be drug cartels. They keep prices artificially high so that everyone gets a share of the profits. But cartels in general always have players that "cheat" by independently lowering/raising the price. If a player is caught cheating, the cartel usually punishes the rogue player by excluding them from future pricing meetings and use their market share to kill the player both figuratively and literally when drugs are involved.
I bought a mouse a decade ago for my grandma that was specifically for people with movement disorders. It's got nice ergonomics and a little microprocessor that runs some sort of smoothing algorithm to cancel out unintended jerky movements. Worked pretty well.
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Wrong Roosevelt. Teddy was President from 1901 to 1909, and died in January 19. The Prohibition amendment was ratified 10 days after he died, and took effect one year later.

The Presidents who were in office during Prohibition where Woodrow Wilson, Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge, Herbert Hoover, and Franklin D. Roosevelt.

Franklin Roosevelt assumed office on March 4, 1933, when the effort to repeal it was already well under way. On March 22, weak bears and wines were legalized, and in December of that year Prohibition was repealed. I don't think there was ever any vigorous enforcement under Roosevelt. You must be thinking of someone else.
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Looks like GeekNet is going to focus on ThinkGeek. Good move really.
Interesting. I can build a Proof of Concept for this with Neo4j. Privacy would be an issue. Do doctors don't need to know who in your family had issues, or just that someone related to you by DNA had issues? If you have mock-ups of how it would work and can commit to spending some time, I'll reciprocate. Tired of finding ways to help sell crap to people, rather work on ways to help people stay healthy.
What happens when your ISP has to NAT you?
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Time to start more acquisitions?
http://www.roadninja.mobi/

Best I've seen
Apparently it's not a better link, since it just shows XML garbage.

How about the press release:

http://news.priorsmart.com/personalweb-technologies-v-racksp...

Or a scribd document of the court filing:

http://www.scribd.com/doc/106190890/PersonalWeb-Technologies...
Intriguing. What would HN think of an API for physically printing and mailing things? i.e., an API where you pay ~$0.50 per postcard, and it is printed and deposited in the mail autonomously. You could use it for CRM applications, address verification (like Google Adwords), etc
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I doubt jurisdiction was a deciding factor in who to sue. But I hated Civil Procedure so I could be wrong...
http://freemoviesite24.blogspot.com/2012/09/tim-and-erics-bi...
Could someone help me understand what is meant by job levels 1 - 5 ?
Hmm. I recently saw a company advertize their Red Herring award, and my scam-sense was tingling. I did a little looking and decided the whole thing was a bit of a scam, but targeted at me, the potential impressee.

I never considered the possibility of the company itself having been scammed.
How is it really possible that there are companies that just holds patents and are allowed to sue others who does things. No shame. What a world we are living at... This seems to be company who is suing Github and Rackspace. http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/private/sn...
> Isn't that a bit like saying, "If you want to know what Monsanto is up to, read their publications"?

No, it isn't. Scientists are not corporations.
I bet it's related to the angle of people's screens: my laptop's screen is not directly pointing at me, and the samples in your screenshot are nearly indistinguishable from one another -- but is very visible when I move it to my primary screen which is at a different viewing angle. I first noticed the issue when I was looking at a graph with a watermark, and the watermark was more visible than the graph (until I looked at it on my second screen), so I'm sure it's relatively common.

On a CRT this isn't a problem, but I imagine that many people have their LCDs at an angle which isn't perfect for viewing such contrast differences ... and if a user (like my parents) are not as accustomed to playing "spot (and ignore) the ad" based on content as we are, then they might completely miss the visual cues as well.
Developer Auction == Silicon Valley farce to recycle Silicon Valley players at the expense of outsiders and newcomers.

Yes... propagate the myth of 'the hard to find' developer by pretending that only the 'elite' exist by dint of their Alma Mater or current employer...
Yeah, but the law also says that it is up to the court to decide if the patent is enforceable. Just because a patent has been issued doesn't necessarily make it valid.
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I thought of this one, too. It'd be great for a higher touch marketing message.
Seems like GeekNet is going to focus on ThinkGeek.com. Good move I'd say. Well unless their next step is to sell it to Amazon (a la woot.com).
> That's like saying HN is just full of college kids who think making a social web app with geolocation and a REST API is going to turn them into gazillionaires when they pivot to something useful (after all, the idea doesn't matter, it's the people who count) and then get acquired by Facebook for the GDP of a small country.

A lot of us get that impression, here. Some of us were underneath founders exactly like that and have good reason to be suspect.
Sapna Cheryan, Andrew N. Meltzoff, Saenam Kim, Classrooms matter: The design of virtual classrooms influences gender disparities in computer science classes, Computers &amp; Education, Volume 57, Issue 2, September 2011, Pages 1825-1835, ISSN 0360-1315, 10.1016/j.compedu.2011.02.004.
Available at:
http://ilabs.uw.edu/sites/default/files/Cheryan_Meltzoff_Kim...

Also:
Wendy Cukier, Denise Shortt, and Irene Devine. 2002. Gender and nformation technology: implications of definitions. SIGCSE Bull. 34, 4 (December 2002), 142-148. DOI=10.1145/820127.820188
http://www.jise.org/Volume13/Pdf/007.pdf

Do you have any citations, or are you just pulling your sexism out of your ass?
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My memory is a little hazy but after the comments I went and look it up. Teddy was the police commissioner for New York city and liquor sales were banned on Sunday (this is where my thought of prohibition came from). I guess the goal was to sober people up for Monday's workweek. Anyways, he vigorous enforced this law.. playing into my original observation that he wanted this law rolled back.
Of all the groups of people you listed, it's interesting that only feminists are described with an adjective (and 'hairy' at that).
On signup: Maybe more wording to indicate I've signed up for beta instead of just a check mark? Since I don't know if the check mark means I've signed up or just the email is verified.

On "using": Slightly confusing to put it after the first drop down. It took me a few seconds to get it, I would put "using" in between the 2 drop downs instead.