skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sounds like you had a great team. It takes a lot of blood sweat and tears (and time) to build a high performing team. Too often these teams just get broken up or disintegrate. Think of what you could have done were you supported as a team and allowed to move on together to the next big challenge. I know a lot of teams disband voluntarily as everyone's interests for their next project vary, but employers should do more to honor and value the achievements of teams like these and provide incentives to keep them together and apply them to the next big challenge.
>If Windows had a decent command-line (with decent documentation of course), I might convince myself to put up with less malleable tools just to play games without rebooting.

Isn't the point of a commandline that it makes basic tools far more malleable? For example, I recently was working with an OCR tool that took as an input 1 image file path, and an output name, and extracted plaintext from the image.

If this were a gui tool, I would be stuck manually running it on hundreds of images at once. As a command-ling tool, I can do:
`find . | grep *.jpg | xargs -n 1 -I{} | tesseract '{}' '{}'`
I find the term discriminatory against stools and benches.
Gotta get a gig: KC startups are buying homes to get Google Fiber
Perhaps the most eyebrow-raising offer comes from Wikispeed, makers of a custom, modular car that claims to be able to drive 100 miles on a single gallon of gasoline. On Bitcoin Friday only, customers who purchase a Wikispeed SGT01 with Bitcoins can get 20 per cent off the list price, a $5,000 discount.

As the November 9 sale got underway, your Reg reporter checked in with Holmquist to see how it was going. "It's going fantastic so far!" came the response. "We had so many hits this morning that I had to upgrade servers and add some DDoS protection."

So... did they sell anything?
That's a pretty terrible reason, especially when it is mandatory.

Let me put it another way: Would you rather have that $100 going to Mars for "entertainment value" or, oh say, perhaps school supplies to inner city children? Maybe it could be used to pay off the deficit? Perhaps it could go towards cancer research?

Sorry, but the idea of "well, wouldn't it be cool??" I know fascinates many geeks, but I think it's a horrible waste of our money.

If you guys want to see another moon mission, I say pass the tip jar around. You can all contribute. I don't want my money going to this project, at this point in time for our country. I'm not always opposed to this type of endeavor, but this one, at this time? What a waste.
I think if that car was real, there would be a video of it running or something.
For example, the RethinkDB coroutine engine is written in assembly. We couldn't come close to the same level of control in any other language. For systems programming C and/or C++ are still kings.
In my opinion, by linking a person's gittip account with their public persona (twitter or, worse, github) and then calling a person out as "suspicious", you are doing your user base a disservice. If I was trying to do the right thing by tipping someone I appreciated and then not only did you tell me I was suspicious but you also told the world, I would not be passionate about how great your service was. At the very least I would have a bad taste in my mouth, and at the worst I would likely flee entirely.

At a scale of a million people, 0.3% is 30k. Can you imagine a human trying to parse that page at that scale? I can't. You wave the magic phrase of crowdsourcing at the objections, but what person has the sort of energy, patience, and free time to sift through all that? Paypal can't hire enough folks to do that sort of thing; what makes you think you can convince them to work at it for free, month after month, year after year? Oh, you might gittip me fifty cents if I do that for you? Well, OK then.

I understand that the last thing you want is for gittip to become a money laundering site. If news got out that your pet project is a great way to get funds out of stolen credit cards, that could easily destroy you completely. Perhaps avoiding that scenario makes the measures you've put into place worth it. But it feels like you've limited both the rate at which you can grow and the scale to which you can grow.

Every now and again you read about someone's Amazon account being closed because it gets caught up in their automated scam dragnets and the customer service drone assigned to their case is monumentally unhelpful. Do you think that a system similar to yours (aggressively flagging accounts, exposing presumed fraudsters, relying on community volunteers and public transparency) would make their system better, at their scale? Do you think they could have reached their current scale if they used such a system?
Yeah, I inform my world view with Cosmopolitan and the The National Enquirer as well.
How to structure a neo4j-based system?
There are some great comments fom the last time this was on HN: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1987146
Agreed.

<pedantic>

Are you clear that "anti-semitism" carries some meaning other than "prejudice against jews"? So if you use it to mean "prejudice against jews" it is a euphemism. I can give you the history of the term if you like.

</pedantic>
Does Aderall make you less creative?
Why I prefer PayPal over Stripe
Hi, here to answer question number 4.

Short answer:
Our configuration data is most similar to git. Any machine can be used as an administrative node via the WebUI or the CLI. It will make changes to the metadata which then get pushed to the other nodes. If 2 nodes make conflicting changes you get a conflict which the system will help you to merge.

Long Answer
Cluster configuration is stored in semilattices which are a neat mathematical structure with a few very desirable properties. Semilattices support have a join operator. For our cluster metadata joining is the means by which metadata is updated. When one server connects to another the two swap metadata and each joins the other's metadata into his own. In essence learning what the other knows.

There are two properties in particular of the joining that are nice. First off joining is commutative. This means machines can exchange data in whatever order they want and get the same result at the end. Secondly they're indempotent. That means machines can resend their data without fear. The value doesn't change if the same value is joined in twice. These help us with a lot of the worries of distributed systems.
thanks zer01, I just fixed that.
(x^y)&1 is good for checkerboards.

My problem is an obscure override I put into my flood-fill. If you do BLACK/WHITE dither, it checks if low color is same as background under starting point and reverses it to WHITE/BLACK. When in vector mode, background is screen window -- WHITE. When converted from vector to Bitmap, however, background is TRANSPARENT. Therefore override is used or not used.

I forgot why the override is there, but surely I had a reason.
Unless you know that those users actually manipulated the post, your post is relegated to gut-based conjecture.
Yeah, China tightens up things a lot around important dates and arguably this Party Congress is the most important for a decade due to the leadership change. My guess is that this is to prevent rumours/gossip from spreading quickly via channels they don't control.
I really think this is one of the bigger hurdles of bitcoins. Whether it really is secure or not, the infrastructure around bitcoins just doesn't really seem like it is.
Small correction to this. There actually wasn't a library for JS we had to write that for ourselves.
It's actually not really optimised for micro transactions.

The popular gambling site satoshidice is responsible for the rapidly increasing size of the blockchain, now around 3GB.

Bitcoin has two main utilities, firstly it is very hard to prevent a bitcoin transaction from taking place, it can potentially be tracked after the fact if you aren't careful though.

Secondly the fixed limit means that it should become a safe store of value, assuming that bitcoin is successful in the longterm.

Bitcoin isn't really designed to scale up to VISA levels of transaction processing, instead it is more suited to be used as a clearing house, to track deposits and withdrawals.
I absolutely love the website. Congrats on the public launch. In the FAQ, I would suggest a "How do you compare with Mongo?" I've read the intro, the faq and a couple of quick guides to find out what was different (read better). If I'm a happy mongo user, why would I switch to RethinkDB?
Well...the suggestions sound good - but they are a bit outside of what I am trying to capture.

All I am trying to do is to get a sense for the absolute demand (especially relative to other types of gigs) for web development gigs.

I think the only way to get a sense of Wages/Salaries would be to start looking at 'Jobs' - which is outside of the scope of the analysis I am doing.

One flaw with the 'post removed' though is that sometimes the posts are removed because of spam (i.e. it was created by a spammer or someone with fraudulent intent). So I am not sure how much of a valid proxy that may be here...especially given that another real assumption for people removing posts is that they get inundated with unqualified leads - so they remove it to stop the inbound flood.
So is RethinkDB written in Lisp?
Linkbait for the rest of us
Hash-flooding DoS vulnerability for Ruby 1.9
Z77 Motherboard Showdown
Liquid Incentive More Startup Employees Sell Shares Through SecondMarket
Matplotlib 1.2 released
I suppose it's meant to be March 2013?
Simply put, I was an idiot. I did not understand the power of the board. I also thought we were friends, until the very day they called the emergency board meeting.

I agree that's the best course of action, and have been trying to get to that point. But the principles of the company have been unwilling to repay the personal debt I put into the company, unwilling to stop a vicious smear campaign amongst other things.

It's been over 40 days since the board meeting and this is still not resolved, because they had a lawyer the entire time while I did not.
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Thanks great, I'm glad you found it useful
Aargh. I'm leaving for a vacation in China in a week and a half. I guess I'm going to have to set up my own VPN tunnel to ensure that I can still access my email, etc.

I'm assuming I can set something up through my dd-wrt router at home. Off to read the docs...
Please feel free to send pull-requests. There are some cool features to be done; supporting wildcards and/or regexes is one of them
Cray agrees to buy Appro for $25 million cash
Another discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4764376
I, too, hate what Apple is doing. That should cut that crap. I think all patents should be abolished.

I, however, also hate cheap polemics, distortion of reality, cynicism and conspiracy theories – so this is sort of where all of that meets. And Apple very clearly didn’t hide anything. That’s just dumb polemics.
hstore is great, I won't hear a word against it, but it doesn't deal with complex nested objects like JSON can (I would love to be wrong about this) - it's just a key/value store with indexing of the objects inside.
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Take pun threads to Reddit, please.

http://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/12wy98/viagra_pat...
I am trying to move on. I offered a clean break with terms suggested by YC the very first day of my termination, this was 40 days ago. I am building my own things, in fact will release a pretty nifty chrome extension for hacker news in the next couple days.

It is the company that is refusing to make a clean break. The situation is quite complicated, as I currently live in a house leased by the company and I am the only one affiliated with the company that lives here. I also spent over $20k on company expenses early in the summer before the convertible note, this needs to be repaid. I did not take a salary, while everyone else in the company did. I could go on, but this isn't the place.

I'm not trying to prevent them from presenting, as I have already accepted that they will likely present. I am trying to help my batchmates and other yc companies, who know only of me, understand how and why this happened.
Exactly. In March 2013, (Possibly 1st and 2nd of March) Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey.

A good reason to see Istanbul and its beautiful view :)
Isn't there an issue with the date displayed on the website ?

It says that the conference will take place in March 2012.

Oh well, I guess I'll have to go grab my time machine ^^

PS : Not many people are as lucky as I, thus they may not have a time machine sitting in their closet, I think it would be easier if a time machine wasn't part of the requirements to attend ;)

(Please correct the date on the website :) )
"Then he happened to be having breakfast with Sting, a friend from his days in the music business."

Ahhh... that was easy.
Yes, set up a private tunnel, don't rely on Tor, Google blocks a lot of their exit nodes, so it's just unusable most of the time.
Sorry, I was too blunt :)
Zara should be closed and owners go to JAIL. It used slave labor (including minors) for YEARS in Brazil.

I've been to a 'camp' myself in 2011 just before the scandal broke. This is how they did it: a coyote paid by Zara would go to Bolivia and give some money to Bolivians that wanted a 'better life' in Brazil. They paid travel expenses and brought them illegally to Brazil. After they were here they would work for no salary - just for the promise that Zara would 'give the papers' to work legally. It never happened.

To mask the operation they opened a number of ghost companies in Brazil and hired those companies to manufacture their products. When hell broke loose, they stated that those companies were guilty, not them.

I hope Zara burns in hell.
>I don't see any easy solutions to this, but I think it's a problem.

Computers are complicated. Most users have no idea how hard. You HAVE to be willing to learn. I honestly have no idea what you expect and I don't think you do either. I don't honestly think there's anything to do.
Looks like a neat idea, but I see a few technical problems with it:

- afaik, <meta> doesn't work properly if injected via js (e.g. try the viewport meta tag to control screen width in an ipad)

- <object> (for Flash fallbacks in IE) and a few other tags also have DOM API composability issues (i.e. you need to innerHTML an entire snippet rather than using appendChild's)
1. If you are a happy mongo user, we'd still be happy to hear your feedback about RethinkDB.

2. We're putting together some comparisons, hope to add them to the site soon.

3. There are already a couple of answers to this question on this thread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4764137

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4763939

alex @ rethinkdb
It is clear to mathematicians, but maybe not so clear to citizens. Better to make it clear. Does new York have personalized plates, and how would they be handled?
Google's Brad Abrams On The Future Of The Cloud
'it' being the embedded component or the whole page?

My guess is that it would depend on whether the old sychronous code or the newer async GA code was used. Not sure if the former is even still supported.
To most people zero equals to "nothing" - something you usually don't try to divide. No wonder, that most people struggle when they are asked, if it is odd or even.
Amateur astronomers may only contribute a little on an individual basis (it is not their primary job, after all), but collectively, they contribute massively in some sub-disciplines. Two fairly prominent examples:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Association_of_Variabl...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galaxy_zoo

As a side note, astronomy is not simply about discovering objects. Furthermore, many amateurs have access to pretty impressive hardware; they are not as limited as you might think.
I am very excited about this. The RethinkDB team is rock-solid and the market is only going to get bigger.

I particularly like the perspective of an easy onramp to get started, knowing that I will never have to leave because of scale or reliability.

Please, please give me a SQL adapter! My marketing team needs SQL. My business app developers need SQL. Give them an adapter and I will get them to use RethinkDB - knowing that 1) my data is safe and I'm not 6 months away from a painful re-architecture and migration, and 2) as my developers hit the limits of SQL they can gradually (gradually!) peel the paint off and start using your more powerful query language.
Hey, thanks! I fixed it just now. :)

There will be a conference about "writing time machines with python and javascript" in March 1978, next year. Haha :P :D
I imagine the problem he's addressing is what you're going to do in any instances where a member lost money and you'd like to reimburse them.

In a traditional company, this might cut into your profits, but might simply be the cost of doing business. In your case, if you have no profits to cut in to, how will you reimburse people if that sort of situation were to arise?

I think Gittip looks really cool, and the concept of an "open company" is intriguing. I'll definitely be interested how you guys tackle these sorts of problems.
I find Bitfloor (yeah, that one) to be pretty painless, and basically no fees to deposit.
How a single person can make a huge difference to your startup in 24 hours
Ask HN: Famous entrepreneurs/developers who started on college newspapers?
Hi HN, I need your help.

I'm an alumnus of San Jose State University now working at an arts and technology nonprofit in SF. Over the last two years I led an overhaul of the Spartan Daily's online presence, building a new site, new workflow tools, and new technology platform from scratch to put us on a solid foundation for at least the next ten years.

I'm graduating this year, and we're looking for someone to take over for me, but finding a person in the journalism department with the requisite tech skills is difficult.

The Spartan Daily offers the only thing close to a real-world tech job you can find on the SJSU campus, and we pay our senior staff members, so we think it should be easy to recruit from the CS department.

However, to make the position more enticing, I want to compile a list of (relatively) famous programmers or entrepreneurs who got their start working on their college newspaper.

The only one I know is Yehuda Katz, one of the core contributors to Rails, but I know there are others. Can any of you help me out?

Also, if you're an SJSU student interested in the position or know somebody who might be, please get in touch, my email is in my profile.
When I was in China for a year, I just used a company dev server with a ssh socks proxy. It worked well, and it is one command in the terminal, and changing 1 setting in network preferences.

This is much easier than trying to find VPN service that isn't blocked.
I don't think the author meant to imply that asking for a discount is toxic. I think he was saying that if combined with several other behaviors, it may be a red flag.
This was the interview I was recalling, thanks pflats!
The only banking details it needs are you routing and account number. Granted, you shouldn't give those out to just anyone, but it's the same info you give out every time you write a check.

If you wanted to be really paranoid, you could set up a checking account just for stuff like bitcoin, and only load small amount of money into it right before making purchases.
Vanity plates that don't have numbers are considered odd-numbered plates.
Microsoft patent spies on consumers to enforce DRM
What Programmers Want Is Less Stupid And More Programming
I don't doubt that some people like GNOME 3. I'm just not convinced that, given all of the feedback that I've seen, that this is a very large group of people. I would not be at all surprised if the number of people who like GNOME 3 is much smaller than the number of people who have, silently or otherwise, switched to Xfce, KDE, or some other environment.

Like Nursie mentioned in another comment, the negative sentiment toward GNOME 3 isn't just present here. It arises essentially wherever GNOME 3 is discussed. Having followed many open source projects for many years, I've never seen anywhere near this level of outright hatred on such a scale. Yes, disagreement is common, but when it comes to GNOME 3 it's far beyond that.
When does shaming racist kids turn into online bullying?
very cool looking company.
The Limits of the Virtual: Why Stores and Conferences Won’t Go Away
You need actual airplane headphones. A Bose would be around 2k USD. David clarks are cheaper but they are a bit heavy.

You can stand in front of a V6 engine at full throttle and will barely hear it.

Those are the ones I have:

http://www.bose.com/controller?url=/shop_online/headphones/a...
Richard Branson (of Virgin Group) got his start by publishing a magazine targeted at students, called The Student.
Use Facebook Camera Or Messenger? You’re a Zuck Guinea Pig
Here is an article detailing the valor of the Squarespace team. Honestly I'm a little startled by how many sloshing buckets of fuel their infrastructure must consume per day.
http://techcrunch.com/2012/11/01/squarespace-fog-creek-peer1...
People that "stopped reading" after some point, but still went on to rant about an article, rarely provide any useful insight.

Case in point.

Oh, and "those two things" are not unrelated. His argument is that Firefox never drove UI innovation, and almost all the good things we now take for granted were copied from other browsers (Opera and Chrome). Left to itself, Firefox had (and would continue to have) a subpar UI.

Your point is that being a late adopter of UI goodness doesn't preclude you having a good UI. But "good UI" is relative. If you are a late adopter your UI is always worse than the competition.
From Slate back in July: an interesting background piece about the campaign's approach to staffing for data analysis.

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/victory_lab/...

What the debacle brings to mind is the consequences of putting "idea guys" in charge of software development when there is a hard deadline.

"Orca had been conceived by two men—Romney's Director of Voter Contact Dan Centinello and the campaign's Political Director Rich Beeson."

I imagine them saying, "We shall have an app," while thinking, "How hard can it be?" While the developers were rationalizing, "Well, a web app is technically an app...and a lot easier to complete than an iPhone app, an Android app, and the web app we will still need to build for the old people with a Windows desktop."
Relevant blog post by the author: http://mflux.tumblr.com/post/29879318929/generativemachines
Why is there a "donate" paypal button on a car maker's website?
Ghost: From Fiction to Function
I rememer Firefox primarily for being a snappy browser, they got rid of the kitchen sink Netscape/Mozilla suite bloat. Sadly Firefox is now far behind in regard to performance compared to webkit-based browsers, for which the XUL/Toolkit, the feature creep and the legacy support are probably responsable.

Using Firefox nowadays just feels too slow, even though it's addon ecosystem is unrivaled.
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Hopefully Rust will soon become a viable alternative.
>In Corporate America, the TV watches YOU.

Fixed.
Something similar to this has been available in Saudi Arabia for quite some time now.
It's a subscription based access to google services with no data caps.
http://www.mobily.com.sa/wps/portal/personal/mobily-connect/...
MOOCs will eat academia
I believe you mean all of those capitalist countries out there that are unable to use this software due to this stupid clause.