skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Our application didn't receive any hits either. I think they focus more on the people then the app. For example: how long have you guys worked together? How many times applied? I think the question about "hacking the world" plays a big part. As every founder knows, the application changes so much during development- that it's not really about the idea- it's about the parters. You need to have a history with your partners, you need to balance each other, you need to be creative and "think outside the box"(hacking). Lastly you need to show previous success. If they're investing time, money, credibility into you - they want to see previous success to know you have the right drive and you are a "winner". Just my thoughts. Good luck on your application!
Just for fun here are yours and mine combined: http://i.imgur.com/vpB4i.jpg (Michael Angelo have nothing on us!)
The upstream comment by AnthonyMouse mentioned "approval voting or the like"; in that context, ubernostrum's comment about parliamentary democracy is a bit of a red herring.

In the parliamentary system, those third (or fourth, etc.) parties are actually elected and have power, right? While a non-parliamentary approval-voting system would allow people to vote for a third party and also help elect their preferred major-party candidate. That could sidestep the "forming a government" parliamentary negotiation process.

How that would actually look in practice, I'm not sure. Would it actually help those third parties if they get votes but don't get elected? Would third parties be able to "extort" major parties just by offering pre-election endorsements? How many of those third party candidates would actually end up in the legislature? I don't know if it's been tried at scale.
The engineers who helped reelect President Obama
He was doing it for science.
Tweetro should be happy that Twitter is not blaming them for using their platform in a way they prohibit. They want to use what Twitter has worked hard to build, make easy money, and then also want Twitter to spend extra to help them do it (by allowing more API calls etc) - why don't they build something original?
No prob. Good luck!
A first step in the right direction. I don't think the fact that she formerly worked for Google is an issue though. The fact that she has sane views on patents is what matters.

I'd love to see the USPTO review some of the more silly patents they have granted, and start applying both the innovative and inventive criteria.
FYI: that's a copyright violation because the original source doesn't carry a license that would allow it to be modified and reproduced.
Nothing, if you don't mind using a centralized development model.

The BSD's tend to be ultra-conservative in regard to version control systems - for example OpenBSD is still on CVS and developed their own version: http://www.opencvs.org
Stopped reading at Kinect. They bought the Kinect.
Try AES.io, or SilentCircle, or HushMail. There are encrypted communication services available, the problem is that most Internet users don't think they need encryption, or do not trust it.
Finland is a wild outlier. The gap between Finland and the rest of the European (+ Euro heritage nations, e.g. Canada, Australia) nations is huge. By comparison, the Euro-like nations below Finland all cluster together.

For unknown reasons, Finland is special. Bringing up Finland is a bit disingenuous.

You could bring up more typical Euro nations, but unfortunately several of them get pretty decent outcomes with privatized school systems (e.g., Sweden).
That all sounds nice enough, but it doesn't ignore the fact that it is still the government stealing money to help save children parents decied to get when they shouldn't have.

As for removing risk, look at the bailouts. Look at what didn't work.
Its great on the positives, doesn't even mention the downsides.
Spammers started to hit GitHub?
Yep, that was me http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4744621

I think marketing your product by criticizing your competitor is fine, but constantly blogging about how bad/evil your competitor is can be tiring and people just don't care anymore "oh, it's X criticizing Y again to promote his product, how novel!".
It sounds touchy-feely, but things like school lunch programs are an enormous success... same goes for programs like subsidized preschool education, programs that educate young parents...

Do you have data on this?

More modern programs make it increasingly possible for not only young single people to go all in on a startup, but people with families, with less risk that a failure will put their children on the street.

Many nations have such programs. It might be worth comparing entrepreneurship levels between those nations and nations without such programs.
You are forced into uncharted behavioral territory. This causes anxiety and a strong wish to return to normal. The apparent kindliness and self-assurance of the salesman makes him look like a benevolent guru, a parent figure who will guide you out of the wilderness.

It is Stockholm syndrome in miniature. I have seen people thank the salesman who has just roped them into buying unwanted, overpriced junk. Hell, I have even seen people thank aggressive panhandlers and wish them well.
Its not an angel... is actually the Devil! http://new.weavesilk.com/?d2du
Live forensics are preferred to just reading disk; lots of problems with that and solutions to those problems on various types of machine.
Fast JVM launching without the hassle of persistent JVMs
Procmod - modify running processes in linux
How's this. Afghanistan field with issue hand blade in luggage. Four US airports later, pulled over. Phone calls, forgot it was there explanation. Says take it, standard issue, don't care. Waits till all clear. Whispers of spook as person leaves, thinking WT. Three scans and inspections missed it.

Operational problem I'm guessing.
I think you should add a breadcrumb: when I click on any element on the left navigation list I'm kinda lost.

Otherwise, great idea and great execution!
The following URL http://www.anfractuosity.com/2012/11/05/playing-with-the-jvm... shows how to use it to modify a running JVM.
We have had such a platform in France for a few years already at http://fr.lolix.org/ :-).
With beauty and brains, new MySpace seems too good to be true
Meh. This site looks better than 99.9% of sites on the web. Craigslist looks like garbage, yet that is where most people post jobs now. Something tells me design isn't really make or break here, as long as it's usable
I eventually figured it out, but there was no AHA! about it. I had to slowly pick it apart every step of the way, like working through an obfuscated C contest entry.
Bitcoin does share some those properties with cash. That's the whole point.

Cash (in volume) is currently treated with suspicion for criminal activity, and is the center of attention for policing crime/drug money, financial fraud and money laundering. So bitcoin should be as well.

And it can be regulated in the same way as cash - you can ask financial institutions to report any bitcoin deals above $xxx (as they do for cash), you can regulate any intermediaries/payment services to follow the existing money laundering laws also for bitcoin - a core provision is know-your-customer, i.e., no anonymous customers allowed.
On the contrary - you have to at least admit that if you power off a compromised machine, the attacker could have installed all his code in RAM only so that powering off erases evidence.

If you disconnect, you can still try to examine the current memory content and do a forensic analysis.

Of course what you really want is a memory dump via a trusted channel while the CPU is halted (hardware hypervisor or something like that) and then immediately power down. This is usually not supported on COTS hardware, so you have to choose the strategy that will erase the least evidence (power off, disconnect, suspend to disk, VM snapshot, whatever) depending on what you suspect the attack to be.
If you don't have the resources to take a snapshot of memory without disturbing the operation, then power off is the right thing to do.

For all you know, the trojan might uninstall itself or otherwise delete all evidence after a short while without network connectivity to a control center ("a dead man's switch").

Or, it patches the kernel so that it is "invisible" from the inside.

What you want to do is take a snapshot of the memory (from outside the kernel, if you can) and then power down.
It's my understanding that that's an upgrade price, not a new installation. They're doing it, because so many Windows users are saying they'll keep using Windows 7, an actual computer OS, rather than upgrading to the new "post-PC" Windows 8.

You could be right, and I could be wrong, though....
But the OP also admitted he had no particular interest in sales - a cue to the huckster that he was dealing with a clueless innocent who could easily be manipulated by the tricks of the trade.

This leaves open the question of why the OP approaced the salesman in the first place.
Taxing discourages an activity while subsidizing encourages it. Do we really want to discourage investing in companies? Seems very short sighted. Also, I thought capital gains were at a lower rate because profits have already been taxed at the corporate level. I might be able to get on board with a capital gains rate increase if we abolished corporate income taxes. The government should only get one bite at the proverbial apple.
I noticed some spammers a couple of weeks ago, they occasionally create repositories too.

I'm not sure if there is a way to report them, there is nothing no the GH contact form.
This must have been a problem for some time, considering how popular GitHub is. There is no way around spam when running a popular service where the users can create their own content.
Proper etiquette would be to let the github people know for a few days before you alert the whole world.

Have you notified them before posting this?
I'm quite confident a story on top of HN is a good way to reach them :D
Reported the blogspot link as a spam blog. Not sure about Google's response time on these things.
The technique of answering any question with a positive is also extremely useful in job interviews or sales.
Hmmm ... anyone for some passive resistence?

I think we need to start a public education campaign that encourages everyone to bunch up their socks before entering the machine. That's a pretty powerful statement about the quality of the scanner's results ... something everyone should be able to understand.
I suppose it is... it's not like it's some security hole that everyone is going to exploit. I'm sure they're already working on spam filtering and reporting.
One of the things it took me a while to get my head around was that there kinda was no overarching nation at the time in question - at least not in the way we think of it today. The Ottoman Empire was defunct; nominally there were laws of the nation, but it was in no position to enforce them, and many of them hadn't been popular anyway (as they were secularizing).

In practice the people in the area operated as 'millets' - micronations unified by religious belief, governing themselves according to religious law. When the British took over administration of the region in 1917, they didn't try to change this.

So for the most part, the landowners that the Jewish Agency was buying from were the governance. The trade wasn't like one citizen of a nation selling to another citizen of the nation; it was like one country selling land to another country (and so moving its borders).
True that.

However, the Extensions library [-1] (which is not strictly speaking part of Flask) provides quite a lot of functionality - apart from your referred SQLAlchemy (which does the job well in our backend), there's a nice API generation factory [0] [1] and other neat stuff. For quite a lot of intents/purposes, flask extensions will do the job. But in the end of course it is a microframework. (From limited personal experience, a very neat general-purpose microframework nevertheless!)

[-1] http://flask.pocoo.org/extensions/
[0]
[1] A particularly sexy example that simply uses models from SQLAlchemy (from the quickstart in [0]):
manager.create_api(Person, methods=['GET', 'POST', 'DELETE'])
manager.create_api(Computer, methods=['GET'])

where Computer and Person are DB models easily defined with the help of SQLalch.

(This is not to counter (there isn't anything to be countered, just providing links / luring people..)
All-Female Species Survives by Stealing DNA of Other Animals
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Compiler-driven language development
An educated population is a public good; especially in a democracy.
> I think the gay community, despite their ongoing struggle, has at least managed to make it almost impossible to receive a similar kind of media report that consists of nothing but stereotypes.

Are you kidding?

Yeah, I get where you're coming from on the offensive tone in some articles, but I think it's absolutely ridiculous to compare the portrayal of nerds in the media to the struggle for gay rights and equality.

And on that offensive tone - I don't think it's really present, here. I felt flattered as this article hammered home the importance of being up to date on tech, and employing the kinds of people that'll get great work done.

I've noticed a tendency, not just amongst others but also something I catch myself doing, for people like you and me to be a little over-sensitive. I spent a big period of my life being ridiculed over what I liked, and what I did, and what I looked like. I got used to confusing insults being thrown at me veiled under sarcasm, and felt like the whole world was laughing at me and I didn't even hear the joke.

So I got mean. I stopped trusting people, and I always assumed the worst. If someone (particularly someone matching the profile of former tormentors - bigger than me, cooler than me, better hair than me, plays sports better than me) said something that was maybe sincere, but possibly a sarcastic insult, I took it as the latter. These people were out to get me and if I gave them the benefit of the doubt, they would set me up for a fall!

Of course, the real world isn't high school, and more than that, the world has changed and attitudes have moved on. But any geek who is still carrying around a defensive attitude has turned the tables: now they are the ones judging others, being exclusionist (see: people crying about "fake" nerd girls), judging people on their appearances (many of us are anti-suit) or what they do (and many of us are anti-sports).

> self-content righteousness in making fun of those people who created everything modern society cannot be without: facebook, twitter, the internet, apps, you name it

On the one hand this sounds arrogant; I think as a developer I'd be remiss in not including many other people in the credits (product managers, finance, legal, designers, ux experts - many of these people are not nerds). On the other, whenever I speak to people about what I do ("What's a software engineer?" "I uh.. make websites") the reception is generally positive and enthusiastic - most people acknowledge that they enjoy the fruits of technological development, appreciate the people that bring it to them, and often aspire to learn more of the inner workings.

Of course, there are some bad articles - but they aren't representative of people's opinions in the wider world, in my experience, and the number I read that are flattering versus insulting is improving all the time.
- the username adds more value than the name associated with the account

Well; username is actually the ID; what you use to follow someone, reply someone, promote someone, etc.

- 140 char was a great thing to launch with just as facebook restricting to college campuses was a great hook

No, the limitation is actually good in the long run, you _have_ to be concise, very useful for most kinds of massive streams of information. In my view it would be like Youtube hosting pics and users having to navigate through both kinds of media.

In the other aspects I agree with you; Twitter haves many many problems and hasn't really improved much in years. The back button is extremely broken.
If the deal appears to be too good then you can be charged with handling stolen goods, which is a loophole closer for people palming off stolen items to friends for almost nothing. If you pay what is considered a going rate for an item that turns out to be stolen you are most likely not breaking the law, though of course that doesn't mean the property is yours or that you would be compensated for it's removal from your ownership. Note this is relevant to UK law, no idea about other jurisdictions.
Ask HN: News Site Application
Hello there,
A group of my friends want to create a news site and asked me for help. I've looked up for some web apps in google but none of them seems to fit the bill. Do HN users know a web app which provide newssite features out of the box?

Thanks
Z3 : An LLVM backed runtime for OCaml
Anonymous: Israel and Palestine Need to Find Common Ground, Violence Must End
What about old-good CAPTCHA? There are many ways, but all are annoying for normal users.
Adding Streams to Java 8 as part of project Lambda
Crazy watch, oversized shoes, funny shirt... It's official. The war on clowning has begun.
Why? It's not like they're disclosing something sensitive, like a security vulnerability.
Even the best captcha methods can be circumvented by farming them out to poorer countries for only pennies.
> for me its kind of too unprofessional looking

For me, I don't care. I want to be able to see the info easily and I want the pages to load / render quickly. I suspect this is a common sentiment among the site's target audience.
There were a lot of patents in VR, as it was a boom area. Most will however have expired now, without making any money. You could take a look to see how bad they were, although I do not think they were as bad as grabbing objects, a lot of the patents were still physical devices like controllers and glasses.
Honestly, who boards a plane "for fun" in this day and age? We know it's a hassle. Where is your letter of interest from an investor? What other reason could you possibly have for travelling when you are a "founder", meaning you are unemployed? This just does not add up.

The chances that one "founder" is really travelling instead of creating a company are miniscule compared to the risk that this is a cover story and this layabout intends to blow the plane up.

I hope you will agree that the only reasonable course of action is for you to be jailed until you can come up with the truth. Honestly, dia80, why would you even fly?
Super! I'd love the option to change the color of the background. Any way to do that?
There is a way to bring the start menuback without the hot corners, why is everyone bs'ing

bring up charms bar and click the start button

I have no problems with usability when remoting on from my windows 7 pc
Ah now, that is an interesting point. Any language that only supports looping by recursion could, in principle, avoid that problem regardless of stack size by transforming recursion into iteration. But CPP can't do that.

Thanks, that's the first clear distinction I've seen for why this is "more" Turing incomplete than C.
This isn't a security flaw, it's just mundane crap that every web app goes through. They'll delete this today and tweak their filtering, and tomorrow the spammer will try again (or in twenty minutes, who am I kidding?).

I'm not sure why you say prior notification is proper etiquette in this circumstance. It's equivalent to pointing out a grammar mistake in a blog post. Not particularly interesting, but not malicious.
No.. they have "contact" page and they are very quick and responsive.

https://github.com/contact
Looks like git needs the equivalent of a downvote: Something like
% git nuke https://github.com/quartzjer
Hell, you could farm it out to minimum wage workers here in the US. I've seen it done, although I think it would only really work on a large scale if you have a constant stream of captchas.
> for me its kind of too unprofessional looking

That's the case with most open source projects, unfortunately, unless they are led by a big company.
Internet Explorer 10 For Windows 7 : I Uninstalled It
The amount of time and energy and cpu cycles wasted on spammers is truly a crime against humanity.

I still do not understand how it makes them money, I think it's just an endless chain of people falsely thinking others are successful with it so they try to do it too and the cycle continues.
It's probably over $100 this year that I spent on copywriting books, and almost that the year before.

I will pay for information if it will help me, but the examples I've given is very basic information that's been written about for free so many hundreds of times, I'm surprised anyone would buy those ebooks.

They are ripping off the very startup community they say they are helping.

I think there's a pricing bubble going on with startups. Many monthly subscription rates are too high, especially when there are so many choices available to the consumer, and at a time when the budgets and attention span of buyers is so limited.

There seems to be no imagination in pricing, only to charge more and more. It's bad advice and I'll bet its mortally wounding a lot of young startups and impressionable kids that are trying to make a go of it.

Again, it's a con game and it's trying to gouge and profit off the start up community they say they are helping. It's shameful, but its only time before the herd snaps out of it and realizes what is happening.
"Appsbar plans to enforce this patent where companies using similar systems (that infringe on their Patent) will be required to license the technology and pay a royalty fee, or potentially be sent a letter to cease and desist."

Patent trolls.
Apple’s stock price falls to lowest point in six months
That's a very simplified view of things. Microsoft still had a ton of work to do to adapt PrimeSense's technology to their use case.

http://www.wired.co.uk/magazine/archive/2010/11/features/the...
By the way, a designer has joined our team and has made this design:

http://www.weezeel.com/test.jpg
http://www.weezeel.com/test2.png

What do you think?
anewguy, I think you've been hellbanned by a mod... which means no-one can see your comments, he wrote: "You'll find a lot of good ideas (and some bad ones) from Republicans if you hang out in right-wing circles. If you get your news from left-leaning outlets, then they are caricaturish bad guys. Of course, the same is true in the other direction."
The line between web apps with offline capability and native apps with online functionality is non existent.

Unless by native you mean written in a language that only works on a single platform.
Because it's an unofficial workaround. Twitter didn't assume people would want their followers to see their @replies.
Twitter, Deal with it.