skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because you can't just say "we're going to disrupt the way people campaign/vote/get elected." It is a staggeringly massive government bureaucracy even at the most local levels, and it prevents that kind of change at every point possible.

Edit: Not to mention the fact that as much as we like to pretend all politicians and millionaire slime balls, they're working people providing for their families. Very few are going to entertain the idea of running their campaign in an entirely different way because chances are they'll lose their job if they do.
Game plot spoilers is equally valid (as distributable information) as the bits on the disc itself.
I love this kind of hustle. If I was dropbox, I'd hire you.
I didn't go it. After all I've been coding distributed applications since early 90's.

So what changed in network topologies?
Well, an obvious way to address this would be to become emotionally invested in acting rationally. It's a pity that so many people aren't.
It's a bit stretched to assert that European countries don't have Free
Speech. Germany, for instance, grants Freedom of Expression in its
"Grundgesetz" (its fundamental law), and states that "there is no
censorship", though there may be exceptions as defined by the law. For
example, it's illegal in Germany to slander or insult someone, or to
deny the Holocaust.

I don't agree especially with the latter. It's ridiculous to assert the
Holocaust didn't happen - I've visited the remains of the Dachau
Concentration Camp, and I won't ever forget that place in my life - but it's
equally ridiculous to disallow questioning it. I just pity the people
who do it.

But again, it's not exactly right to say that Free Speech doesn't exist
here in Europe. I'd say it's mostly the same situation as in the US -
it's under attack and we, as the united inhabitants of this planet, need
to stand up and fight back where-ever possible. Stop thinking in
countries. Start thinking as a part of humanity as a whole.
* Hackerspaces
* User Groups
* Hackathons
* Tech Happy Hours
* Friends and Family
* Monster, or company-specific job boards
* Classifieds
* Mailing lists, local or tech-specific
HP makes a "Microserver" that's designed for home/office use: http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/us/en/sm/WF05a/15351-15351-42...

Quiet, ECC RAM, and decent speed for most home-related tasks (backup, etc.)
Yes, the article does little to source its claims - largely because they are so widely accepted and the research is so prevalent and easy to find.

What you haven't said is that you actually looked for it. Go do that. You will find plenty.
I'm really intrigued by your approach. But doesn't this come across as nagging? I get the first email, and it's perfectly fine by me. I wouldn't mind receiving such an email. But the second one seems a bit spammy to me.

Can you share what kind of feedback you got from those emails? What is your success ratio?
Does the same apply to shift? I think that should be a far more concerning key than Ctrl.
Then get out of IT and move to the frontier...
I'm still ~50% .NET, the website and a lot of backend processing and maintenance software is staying C# because there's no benefit in shifting that to whatever language like there was with the API server.

I have started running some stuff under mono though!
The point is that the users who were outed didn't "put secrets in the hands of facebook's whims" [sic], they were outed, when someone else assigned them to a group that the other person had created.

Simply put, you when someone assigns you to a group, by default you should get a notification along the lines of "So-and-so has added you to a group x. Are you part of group x?" Very much like how tagging in photos currently works, though I think there the default is to allow tagging.
IMHO these guys just didn't architect and configure .NET to suit their loads. ADO.NET connection pool is adjustable, it's trivial to setup a (NodeJS style) single DB connection per app pool.
Confirmation Bias, Media Economics, and Filter Bubbles
Apple donates when you buy red products
The commentator on the live feed did reiterate several times that the exaggerated curvature was due to the lens, I guess the press just decided to ignore that.
Congratulations to Shawn and Tony for launching this new venture! I know you guys have taken big personal and professional risks to follow this dream (you know, quitting your jobs, putting up your life savings, professional reputations on the line, etc). From the hard work and pure hustle I've seen so far, I've got great confidence that you will be successful. Huzzah!
Yes, and it's pretty surprising that the same mechanism isn't used for group affiliation.

The default behavior should be that other people can't release information about you without your approval, whether it's photos, location, group membership, reading habits, etc. This shouldn't be a tough concept for FB.
But it also costs programmer time to tweak software for weak hardware. Sometimes it makes sense to spend that time on setting up a few big iron servers yourself.
Ironic, you just illustrated misconceptions #3 and #4, while trying to educate me about why I was wrong to comment on misconception #2.

All of these notations are just notations for functions, and the functions can have any relation to reality that you want. Here are precise and accurate statements about quicksort using Θ notation. The average and best case performance of quicksort is Θ(n log(n)). The worst case performance of quicksort is Θ(n²).

I maintain that most decent hackers would make those same statements using O notation (which is true), but many would jump to correct someone who said that the expected performance of quicksort is O(n²). According to what is taught in CS, that "correction" is wrong. But given that language is established by usage, they aren't really wrong. And given that arbitrary upper bounds aren't very useful, the common usage makes sense.

Before disagreeing, tell me what value there is in the true statement that the expected run time of all major sorting algorithms is O(nⁿ).
I love how number 1, 2, and 4 are Singaporean :D Nerd country!
We're certainly not fans of spam. But a well timed recommendation of something I actually might want to buy, from person I know, at a time when I'm ready to make the purchase has a great chance of converting. You don't have to send tons of links (in fact that really doesn't work, people just unfriend you) - you need to send the right link at the right time.

I've been obsessed with the concept of perfect information applied to the web since I worked on Whrrl several years ago. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect_information

The reality is that there are huge existing businesses with names you recognize like Mary Kay and Tupperware who take advantage of the power of friends selling to friends, but with them you are limited to their inventory, you pay an upfront cost (buying samples and baseline inventory), and a lot of labor/time to make a sale. The goal with Referly is to broaden the products you refer, eliminate up front expenses, and reduce the amount of effort to generate a sale. This might not be for the HN audience, who can make $100/hour coding, but for a stay-at-home Mom who blogs and sells stuff on Etsy Referly is a great option for additional income. It's also great for anyone who has every written a blog post listing their top 10 book recommendations.

As to why you should use us rather than your own Amazon tag - we get a better commission rate because we have economy of scale. And you can refer products from any of these websites http://refer.ly/merchants
Yes 500 it is.
"exotic personalities common of the 80s". He would have been a baby/toddler in the 80s. You do know he was only 30?
I'm much more restrictive about who I spend my face time with than who I'll accept a FB invite from.
>we couldn't pay people enough to spam their friends.

This is exactly the flaw that I see with Referly.

Not just with friends - you're diluting the quality of you communications when you become an advertiser, and in order to make it worth your time you're going to have to spam.
I was gutted when Bungie was bought by MS. It was the end of the Marathon series which was a killer Mac game. Story, puzzle, action (that grenade launcher, dual shotguns...). I have never played Halo, but if it carried on anything like the experience Marathon had I really should.
Yay. We label Uriel a troll and not Pando Daily or any other daily controversy generators.
Did you had a look at .NET 4.5? It has WebSocket support and very convenient async keyword. Seems to me it can match easily match Node for a site like Playtomic.

(I was replaying to benologist's comment, but there's a bug in HN system)
I remember the authorized Apple repair shop here asked for my password as well, I asked them if I could create another account with password, they said it's fine. Just make a throwaway account and delete it afterward, no big deal.
I myself like to do this. But only for home servers. I would never do that for a "serious" application. There are several reasons, the most important one being that this is a perfect example where outsourcing the work is both cheaper (economies of scale), more reliable (parts are tested better) and less risky (companies which do that at a larger scale have better risk management). If one the SSDs dies he has to drive there and switch it out, instead of one person simply doing that for the whole data center. This is simply inefficient.

And of course Amazon hosting is more expensive. It is more flexible; you can spin up instances at your whim. You pay for that. It would be better to compare it with standard dedicated server hosting.
Planet Money did an excellent podcast on committee assignments and fundraising:

http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2012/04/06/149714908/the-most...

I figured that's where Thomas got his 46k figure but it doesn't seem to be on their graph.
I much prefer the middle ground of dedicated servers over the hassle of colocation and hardware management. (16GB RAM quad core with 2TB raid1 from OVH for £65 a month are a good affordable level, and very quick and easy to spin up new ones).
Ordered mine last month on element14 on a Thursday night, received it the following Monday.
Unfortunately you cannot measure the number of people who would have downvoted but did not have the ability.
This article reads like the middle of a European history textbook:

> such as Ireland, which in <year> criminalized the “publication or utterance of blasphemous matter” deemed “grossly abusive or insulting in relation to matters held sacred by any religion.” The Russian Duma ... proposed a law against “insulting religious beliefs.” Other countries allow the arrest of people who threaten strife by criticizing religions or religious leaders. In Britain, for instance, a 15-year-old girl was arrested two years <before> for burning a Koran.
Bootstrap has no problem with centering juste apply the pagination-centered class on the element you want to center.

...
<center>

Centered

</center>

<div class="container pagination-centered">

Centered too

</div>

...

span6 creates an element of width 460px which like all elements starting with span has a margin of 20px on the left. It's not a way of centering elements.
> To grow your professional network I would recommend to attend to meetups, hackathons, user groups or even better to get involve in the organization. It worked pretty well for me.

Everyone of these meetups I've been to feels so...forced? I don't know but I've never really felt comfortable at these kinds of things. It's always so contrived?
Refer.ly itself won't be able to be "gamed", they will only pay out a commission for a made sale, so there is no risk to them. Are you talking about someone "gaming" other user's links and replacing the original placer's tracking id with the gamer's?

The Amazon problem could be harder to manage as they scale since they can't do subid tracking per user and probably try and correlate redirects to specific Amazon purchases, but that is going to leave a lot of grey area for any other purchases the user should be credited for but turns out to be too difficult to correlate.
I had briefly interacted with referly to see if we can use their service for our business, where they will run the promotion of incentivizing our early customers. Their ToC spooked me away. They will get to keep the email of our customers, but they do not assure that these emails will not be used for their own marketing purposes.
> it's common practice (e.g. in Rails' cookie store, but many others too) to leave the cookie contents as plaintext and just append a HMAC so that you know they haven't been tampered with.

This approach seems strange to me. Why is this approach taken? Why not encrypt everything?

I only really know anything about writing server-side web code from using Play Framework, which provides a "session" object for storing information in the browser using the cookies mechanism. Everything in the session object is kept encrypted on the client in a cookie.

The most common use for the session information is to store a user ID and/or a session ID, but I believe it not uncommon to use this to store additional small bits of information if this will take some load off of your database and/or cache, and to help the server be more RESTful/stateless.

Edit: It turns out that I was not quite correct about Play. Like Rails, it seems to only sign the session cookie, rather than encrypting it. From looking at some benchmarks for the performance of HMAC vs Blowfish, it seems that signing with HMAC can be up to 4X faster than encrypting with Blowfish.
What happens when a HDD starts to go out? Do you have to pay & trust colo personnel to replace it, or do you have to pay to have your server shipped back to you?

I could see putting my own server into a colo if it were like a storage locker - carry/cart your server into the building, mount it in the rack you've rented, plug into the provided power and network connections, and lock the security door.
In that case it would just be Mr. Acosta being insensitive/inconsiderate. Twitter is understood to be public. Facebook is (wrongly) believed to be private to some degree.
I'm not sure why this is HN worthy news.

Every company that has (PRODUCT) Red products donate when you buy them. The whole range is here: http://www.joinred.com/
More itertools (Python)
Shedding some light on "dark social"
If bang for your buck is a concern, you might be interested in this offering from Hetzner: http://www.hetzner.de/en/hosting/produkte_rootserver/ex4s - you get double the RAM and a bit more disk space for a little bit less. I only have a month's worth of experience to talk about it, but other than the fact that it's in Germany (timezones) it's been great.
Hey Scott thank you - email me danielle at refer.ly and I'll help you get things going
Nothing. Similar to yourself my world hasn't changed in that time, and cloud hasn't affected me either.

Cloud is a great idea, assuming you're scratch-building for a particular environment (AWS, Azure, etc). Targeting one of those environments constrains my choice of technologies and tools, unless I have the cash for my own private cloud. I don't.

So the only real change for me in the last 20 years has been the switch to IP, and on top of that HTTP instead of TCP. My remote procedure calls still contain byte arrays, and I build all servers and their components myself.
I used to think that Mutuals would have their members interests first and foremeost. Certainly they never tire of telling people that. But my actual experience is that it's not true. Mutuals, commonly, are like any business where the owner (the membership) isn't paying attention and the result is a business that puts the interests of the staff first.
Service to members of a mutual society can be every bit as bad as any public listed company and is often worse because of the lack of a profit incentive means no one gives a damn
Hey CWIZO,

The second one is a phone call, not an email. I'd refer to it as being 'forceful' or 'insisting.' I'm interested in setting up a meeting and sometimes the person I want to meet with, sees the email, but is buried under 100 more important things to do and doesn't get a chance to respond back.

Giving a quick, direct phone call

> 'Hey, I'd love to meet, I'm Kai, I emailed a few days ago, would meeting for an informational interview this Friday for 20 minutes work for you? (yes/no)'

can be a great way to get a direct response and fast.

What's the worst case? They say 'Sorry, I can't meet.' I'd rather have that direct answer than wonder about unreturned email.

My success ratio is high enough that I'm happy with this method. I don't have detailed records of how it's performed, but I'd guess that somewhere between 10% and 25% of the emails and calls I make turn into meetings. I'm really happy with that math.

Feedback is either 'Hey, we'd love to meet, how about <time>' or 'Sorry, I can't meet.'

If they say they can't meet, I either ask them if they know of a similar company they can direct me to that I can meet with or ask if they have time for one quick question (generally I ask what skill they're looking for in applicants and candidates).

I'm moving to Honolulu in November and I'm excited to double down on using this method again.
In the press conference Felix stated that he pulled at 5200 feet, which was the planned deployment altitude (well, 5000 was planned, but the 200 feet difference is negligible at 170+mph).
Perfect Information is a misnomer, because even when people have perfect information they cannot be expected to act rationally.

Mary Kay and Tupperware tapped into the western womans' need to meet in person and converse with friends. Referly is trying to tap into the broadcasting phenomenon, or "bragging", that occurs over social networks, which in this instance translates to spam.
Google 'to be told by EU to unravel privacy policy'
http://underscorejs.org/#throttle
This all started a few years ago on .NET 2.0 originally, the NodeJS rewrite began before the 4.5 beta was even announced.
Dropbox are genius at marketing their product. Absolutely genius.
Front-End Developer - Using the Latest JS Libraries (Remote job)
This is very helpful and the no jQuery dependency is very convenient. Thanks!
Of course his right to say hateful things must be protected. But as a member of a community that values insightful comments, I feel obliged to point out that his opinion is based mostly on his personal hate and ignorance.

Asking for a limit on immigration from islamic countries to or developing alternative energy sources still is pretty objective to me. But adding the " the Arabs will just go back to what they were before - a bunch of desert nomads with no real power" makes it obvious where he is coming from.
Yep, have used Hetzner servers too for some things and would use again, but for our customers being 90% in the US, and OVH offer a canadian location (and we may need some EU servers in the future).
I thought I was losing my mind when this happened to me the other day while at a trade show trying to access Google Analytics from my iPhone.
This looks very interesting but why is the start date november? Its a little inconvenient. Why not make it January to start at the beginning of the year?
Nobel Prize in Economics awarded to Roth and Shapley for matching algorithm work
And there was this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Monte_Cassino where my (ex) Father-in-Law was part of. They returned to the site in celebration for many years.
> power of friends selling to friends

That's one of the reasons I will never buy any product of theirs. You don't get to me through my friends. I consider abusing private friendships for commercial gain un-ethical.
IP Analyst Takes to Indiegogo to Expose Patent Troll Intellectual Ventures
This is a pretty cursory look into some other possiblities of refererless traffic. Given an ordinary browsing session or interaction from an end user, what else could be leading to HTTP requests without the referer header?
I guess you're missing the respondent's POV - don't put anything, ever, in facebook, because ultimately they don't give two shakes about you or anything else other than making money.

Total answer to this is if the person wasn't on facebook, none of this would have happened.
Except it doesn't really. You still have to deal with the important things. All that's removed is the tediousness of the physical server maintenance. You still need to architect for redundancy, deal with latency, client/server caching, etc. Your app cares just as much about the server as it always did and your server-side code needs to be as robust as if it were running on dedicated hardware (perhaps more robust).

And as wmf pointed out, we already have plenty of buzzwords for this. PaaS, IaaS, "Cloud computing", etc.
You spammed a million people for this? Enough that over a hundred thousand people spent the time and energy to write an email reply? Please do justice to the collective time you took up with the survey.

Could you break down the data by name and/or gender of both the sender and the respondent? Test multiple hypotheses simultaneously? For example, in page 1002 of the referenced research article (http://faculty.chicagobooth.edu/marianne.bertrand/research/p...), they break down a whole slew of other qualities that may have affected response rate.

It's entirely possible that the name choice for your study has more of an effect than the perceived race association of those names. The "99.9% confidence" cited is really not that, and is subject to various biases which are hard to discern.
Sorry to hear that spooked you, we keep the email address of the user for two purposes 1) it is the unique identifier of a referral 2) so we communicate with them to pay their rewards. I'll take a look and see what we can do to make it more clear that we're not marketing to these folks.
CIA: Flying Skyhook wasn’t just for James Bond, it actually rescued agents
One of the issues I have with tmux is that like xterm, but unlike screen, it doesn't reflow text when you resize. I understand doing that probably is not an ideal default, but it would be nice to have the option.
I don't really understand what's going on here. Could someone please explain this to me?
I think a lot of the "startup hubs" are missing the need for a "top notch university". The ~4 year talent turn over and resupply is key, it provides an ongoing top up as talent churns. Does it work in startup hubs that don't have a "top notch technical university"?
No. Obscurity is not the only or even any of the protection keys master or otherwise provide. Regardless of whether attacker knows of the existence of master key or not. They still need a key.

A master key represent reduction of security (by bypassing depth of security and putting more eggs in one locked basket). Both security trade-offs for convenience.
Yes, you could indeed leave the only world you've ever known, destroying your ties to everyone you've ever loved and respected. You could also kill yourself.
> they put the information on Facebook

Except they didn't. Someone else did.
I'm sure there will be more courses in the future. I think they wanted to get their first cohort started as soon as possible.