skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The existence of r/4chan is met with scorn every time I've seen it mentioned on 4chan. People seem to either completely hate Reddit itself, or meekly admit that they follow a few tiny subreddits. Given that (and the response you received to your question), it would seem that r/4chan is composed entirely of people who don't actually browse 4chan! One has to wonder what proportion of these members of the "Hacker News Google+" community actually participate on HN.

The more I think about it, the more strange the existence of these offshoots seems: The average 4chan user hates Reddit, and the average HN user seems to not care much for Google+, either (though I'm not sure if that has more to do with its community or the way Google is currently shoving it into everyone's faces).
I love Kubuntu right now. It's everything that is good about Ubuntu without the new undesirable additions.
I was getting my hopes up... :p
As someone on a work visa, how did you quit your job exactly? What's the grace period before you need to find someone else to sponsor your visa? (I'm assuming your startup can't afford to do so, but I may be wrong)
Turning it off: Super > search for 'Privacy' > under the 'Search Results' tab > switch 'Include online search results' off
What you just identified is precisely what Peter is criticizing here. The whole point is that maybe technology can make this fiction less fictitious.

You may think that the law is necessarily more like politics, and that there's little room for code. But I don't see any reason for that in your comment, which is more just a reaffirmation that the status quo exists.
I can see it being useful for things that HN is not well suited for such as idle conversation, better visibility for random questions, etc.
I have a deep, abiding, and life long love for dictionaries, though I have found their use as a tool to find meaning more valuable than their use as a cudgel to silence comment.
On the flip side of the coin, lawyers can also mediate between the big egos on the business side that can cause a deal to fall apart over relatively small issues (this happens very often--executives are a lot more personally invested in the process than their lawyers are).

Ultimately, the fact is that you don't need a lawyer to negotiate a contract. Yet people use them almost universally in contract negotiations. Is it for irrational reasons? I like to think not, but who knows.
Is there a way to see how long he has owned the domain? From there, estimate a yearly cost to him (12$ * years registered) + 10% profit and start from there. That seems reasonable.
OP here.

I think this is a good point. There's definitely a risk of dogmatism when we start defining ourselves through a certain process.

I wanted to use the post to explore how a process like pairing influences company culture. I don't mean to imply that the process IS the culture.

I think it's fine, and probably very helpful, for development teams to be opinionated about process. But opinionated is not the same thing as dogmatic.

I mentioned this in a reply to comment on our site, but we also worry a little bit about creating a monoculture and groupthink. We try to fight this by leaving room every week for people to spike things out on their own in open dev time: https://www.braintreepayments.com/braintrust/walking-the-tal...
One advantage is that Goolge+ is a social network. Hacker News is not.
Paying Google to make email problems go away (and get nice features to boot) is worth it on $ alone if you plan to need even a handful of hours of outside help/year, plus equipment. Plus the peace of mind (and your saved time) of not even worrying about it.

Email is a solved problem that is totally worth it to outsource or pay someone else to manage in-house. If you feel comfortable setting up your own mail server, managing spam, updating it, etc., and WANT to do it, then you're probably not Google's target audience, anyway.
U.S. patent office tentatively declares 'the Steve Jobs patent' entirely invalid
Here is another example of patent sclerosis: patents used to hinder development of steam engines in the late 1700's: http://mises.org/daily/3280/ . Patents have been a hindrance to technology for over 200 years.
Seriously Kudos. It makes me sad that you had to put that much effort into an explanation of something this straight forward, but the result is a very nice, well-reasoned argument that is hard to argue with.
Quite relevant: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2009/03/the-ugly-american-p...
Hey guys, one of the founders here. Would really love to hear your feedback on the site if you have a moment. Thanks, Stuart.
Pycoder's Weekly Issue #43
I think most of the responses here regarding the crypto are missing the point. It doesn't matter if the key is not totally random. It just has to be good enough so that they can plausibly deny that they know anything about the file contents. It is their attempt to absolve themselves of responsibility for the copyright issues concerning the content. It is not about making your files more secure.
Why is the in-text photo that of an Indian girl with a hindi vowel?
God, it pains me to click the "upvote" button on a comment that begins "Richard Stallman is absolutely correct", but the second sentence was so correct that I had to. ;-)
>The Israelis even treat the Gazans they bombarded the day before.

They also treat the Gazans who bombed Israelis a day before:
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/08/world/in-israeli-bed-faile...
Smartphones as seismometers intrigue Berkeley researchers
It has been this way as long as I've been cognizant of his views; he has always been something of a radical. It just used to be that there was one predominant party at which to take aim (Microsoft). Now there are dozens of targets that have sprung up, which legitimately deserve some of the criticisms he levels against them: the walled gardens of cell phone ecosystems, rampant DRM, and opaque social media sites for which your data is their primary source of revenue. As more of our lives continually revolve around digital media, there are more opportunities for abuse. Stallman has been rigidly consistent in his basic message over the years, and he has never been particularly constructive.
We're talking about issues reporting here, if there's a bug with a file being able to include the file itself (by the original reporter or somebody else) is valuable.
I don't see how such an attack would be possible on a piece of software which does RSA-key-generation and is seeding the random-number-generator with input from the user. How would you get multiple samples? You wouldn't get any sample at all, apart from maybe the public-key (probably not even that).

To do such an attack based on the pseudo-random-number-generator, someone on the outside of the key-generation-process would need to be able to guess the prime-numbers used on a specific account just by the predictability of the rng. How should that work?

Again, if having the choice, I will always use the conservative option when dealing with crypto-stuff (using an approved crypto-library). And really: Not saying what you say is wrong. Just don't see the attack-vector here. Would you like to give me a hint?
Technically it was irony, and the only sentence that wasn't obvious was the second. In this situation there is no risk to being taken at face value so Poe's Law is meh.

However, this does tell me that my phrasing needs work. Ever notice how some people's writing perfectly conveys intended tone while some (myself) are misunderstood? I think improving in this area is valuable so I do appreciate the feedback from you and the GP, even if there were plenty of upvotes on my comment.
Truchet and Mondrian
Naive is a particularly strong word here. What part do you think is naive? Thiel is talking about both a 20-50 year vision and a 1000-year vision, and he is pretty non-committal about the 1000-year vision. And I don't think his 20-50 year vision is clearly wrong or naive. Rather - as a lawyer and as an engineer - I actually agree with it.

US law is supposed to be an axiomatic rule based system, but it is not consistent or complete, and in practice it ends up looking sort of arbitrary. But I don't think this means it is naive to assume that automation will make the system more consistent, or that it will help to simplify much of the complexity.

I am not suggesting that law will not always have some complexity and fuzziness - in fact I think it will - but I don't hear Thiel as explicitly saying the opposite - that we will ever get to a point where there is no complexity or fuzziness.
I don't follow the video game industry at all, so forgive my ignorance. After looking up 'attach rate', I'm not sure I agree with you, though I do believe I follow your logic.
I think the parent was referring to his full name. "Guido" appears 7 times on that page, "Rossum" appears 0 times in text.
They don't need to fork Ubuntu, because Ubuntu itself is just a fork of Debian.

The distribution that is officially recommended by RMS is gNewSense which also exists for a while already.
'Spyware' is an appropriate label for software that remotely logs your local searches. What is there to tone down?
> But mansplaining refers specifically to men who feel like when they're in a conversation with a woman, they have to explain the basics of whatever topic they're discussing

I've seen situations where some woman apparently interpreted this as, "any time a man explains something unprompted." As far as I know, Dunning-Kruger isn't skewed by gender.
The difficulty that you're having wrapping your brain around the concept of empathy is good evidence that that assumption should not be made for conference attendees.

That said, these policies are not even about you. They're there so that people who might be victims of harassment can feel safe in the knowledge that there are procedures in place for addressing it in the rare event that it occurs, and that conference organizers will take it seriously. That benefits everybody too. Don't assume you will never be harassed. I'm a straight white male and I have been made to feel unsafe and uncomfortable before by another person, at PyCon even. I'm not an emotionally fragile glass doll that you and others in this thread seem to be strawmanning. It really doesn't take much to be made to feel unsafe by another person's behavior. If you've never experienced that yourself it's because you simply aren't as likely to as other people.

In my case it was minor enough, and I felt in enough control that it wasn't worth reporting. But I'm glad to know I could have done something about it had things escalated.
Challenge: Use this algorithm to make a Piet quine:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piet_(programming_language)
Thanks. The article states "If a user buys something from Amazon as a result, money is sent to Canonical in the form of affiliate payments." Is the article in error, or has the behavior changed in response to criticism, or do the amazon links have Canonical affiliate codes?

The last seems to be the correct answer - affiliate links are used. I see no evidence Stallman is incorrect and the Shuttleworth blog article does not say they don't use affiliate links.

http://askubuntu.com/questions/192725/how-do-i-make-sure-tha...

> The Amazon affiliate referral happens if you've arrived at the Amazon property via a 'tagged' link. Both links clicked via the dash which go to Amazon sites, and the shortcut in the launcher will add the tag. The tag adds a cookie which lasts for 24 hours. If you buy anything during that period, Canonical will get some affiliate revenue.
It looks like someone took the liberty to add Matz to that list since your comment, although the reference they used is just to Ruby's wikipedia page which makes no mention of him being a BDFL.
I love this news letter. Of the 4 news letters I subscribe to this is the one I actually read.

Every week there are at least a few articles/projects I take a closer look at. They do a great job at curating.

Thanks for the hard work!
Well, I thought about it for a while, and realized it wasn't worth it waiting N years to get a green card. I filed a petition to go from H1B status to B2 tourist and asked for 3 months to stay in the country to finish up my affairs. After that I left.

As a Canadian, I may enter the US for up to 6 months at a time without requiring a visa, but am I not allowed to work. So when I do visit, I make sure to only visit friends and I make sure not to do any work. I am currently in Toronto, but next month will be taking a vacation to the USA.
Also, survival rate on those colonization trips? Not so great. And that was with things like DIRT around that you can PLANT things in.

Early colonists didn't know much about desalination and hydroponics.

Ain't no new society coming out of that

You very well may be correct as far as probability of an outcome, but your cynicism and lack of imagination are so very wrong... and sad.
Sorry, my statement was more generic. I wasn't trying to say that Guido is motivated by money, just that these are common ways to get someone to stay if that is indeed the issue that makes them want to leave.

On the issue of challenges, maybe Guido has more pull on this, but there were recently some articles/discussion on HN about Google's hiring practices. They might hire you based on your PhD in databases, and then have you writing shell scripts for work because some randomized 'sorting hat' tells you what group you end up in. It's possible that even Guido doesn't have enough pull at Google to overcome this. :-\
Haha. Exactly what I was thinking. I am sure there's a "Vaccinated by Larry Group on Google+" group coming soon.
Core dumps and lengthy stacktraces spring to my mind.
Its not for liking of machines. I am in favour of gun control, but that does not stop me from admiring nice weapons, and watching people enjoy themselves shooting. But that does not mean I will buy a gun for myself.

I think cars have come to be seen as an ecological dead end, and that expensive cars are a pretty heavy burden for most people. That said, renting fast cars and driving them on a free loop is not such a bad idea! :-)
That's not what I said, I'm not sure how you took that. There are plenty of people who don't mean over 100K that are neither poor, nor have any stake in the wealthy getting tax cuts. I don't understand what you're fighting here, this is a well documented phenomena of delusion.
Optical fiber with solar-cell capabilities
Patents undoubtedly hinder the development of certain technologies. They almost surely incentivize the development of other technologies (e.g. drugs, chemical formulations). It is far from clear to me that the complete abolishment of patents would be a net positive development for society.
> TL;DR: dear Microsoft, don't try to be hip.

No! It's fun to watch them try!
I don't know the details of the email SLA, but for infrastructure: power, networking etc. on our hosted Rackspace servers, we have a 100% SLA. And it's not a lame prorated thing: they pay 5% of the monthly cost back for 30 hours of downtime.

So 99% power/network uptime in a month would cost them 70% of what we pay per month.

http://www.rackspace.com/managed_hosting/support/serviceleve...
Tim Bray rolled his own blog years ago and has continued to, last I knew, manage the comments himself.

http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/

It may not be what your after. And it may/will not be specific technology. But as an example of method, for someone who's reasonably well known and gets some decent traffic, it might be of interest.

Aside from or in conjunction with this, I'd lean towards plain text and no linkification. Those who are going to communicate well, will do just fine with this. And competent people know how to copy/paste or drag a link when there's an interest. (Although, I suppose, "mobile"... ah, well.)

P.S. Rereading your post, I better notice "HTML5" and things that lead me to believe you may be after a more dynamic interaction.

Nonetheless, I've been increasingly of the opinion that "less is more" when it comes to commenting infrastructure particularly with respect to e.g. formatting and "fancy features".

HN is kind of an example of this. A minimal "Markdown-ish" set of formatting features, and basic linkification; beyond that, it's up to the comment author to make things work. And identity is more by established reputation than by a specific, on-site mechanism.
Zeroth, that's terrible to hear about your daughter. I sincerely hope that she's better. First, there is no answer to a zoonotic infection as mutable as influenza. There are only degrees of remediation. Finding a cure for flu is almost certainly impossible.

Second, nobody disputes the seriousness of nosocomial infection; but to baldly state that you face the same risk in an outpatient vaccination clinic as in e.g. the ICU or the ER is just flat out bonkers.

Finally, I was intemperate in my original language. I apologize.
Cool. Here's to hoping this will be good enough to make ispc and cilkplus (and their like) unneeded.
Between working at a huge company with rigid structure and payscales (what the author seems to be describing) and being a founder, there is a spectrum of jobs, with different risk/responsibility tradeoffs. When companies go public, it's not just the 2-3 founders that make out well.
Why You Shouldn't Listen to Buzzfeed's Takedown Of The Oatmeals Mathew Inman
If he owns the domain before you setup your business and do the trademarks he can keep the domain.
Your logic is very flawed because you don't understand the process.
No, it isn't snobbery. First, they're guidelines that trigger heightened scrutiny, not an automatic exclusion. If you had an important CS result, and could point to a credible CS community accepting your result, you'd have no problems because you could survive the scrutiny. If you couldn't point to a credible CS community accepting your results, then it's perfectly appropriate for TEDx to turn you down. They're a popularizer of current scientific consensus, not a publishing avenue or outlet for new discoveries.
If you're worried about ssh brute force or just don't like all the noise in your logs, moving the port tends to drop off about 95% of them. In addition, running iptables tarpit rules (or your OS equivalent) tends to kill the rest fairly quickly.
I'd like to apologize to the OP (and to the rest of you) for my language. It was pointlessly argumentative and basically abusive.
Boilerplate-free Functional Lenses for Scala
Google's Vic Gundotra Told To Stop Tweeting By His Boss
One of my professors just gave this exam [pdf]
Ha, never realised it was a Chrome only feature... mainly since I only use Chrome these days. But was about to say the same thing!
Does it support CERT records?
Science is falsification, not some kind of dogma. Questioning assumptions leads to progress, although many scholars have forgotten this inconvenient fact.

http://guscost.com/2012/12/06/falsifiability/
So they know when you are searching to disable it, huh?
I want a screensaver that turns this feature on, generates tons of fake queries then turns the feature back off so i don't accidentally send them anything real. :)
Care to elaborate? I'm curious to hear why this might be.
Death by algorithm: counter-terrorism using social network analysis
I am not a crytographer (by any means!), but my understanding from conversations with folks in that space is that it's very possible for a bad PRNG to generate primes that pass the standard tests but are still very breakable. I really don't have any more information than that; I should read up more there.

Either way, that's by no means the biggest issue here -- some browsers already have CSPRNGs -- but rather that the code is coming from their server and is considered to be compromised by default. Browser-side crypto without very strict security boundaries on key generation and access is just bad news.
Here’s where tech jobs are concentrated in the U.S.
The Art of Asking for a Customer Reference
Stop Wasting Plastic This Web App Tests the Printability of Your 3-D Designs
I'm actually not sure after reading both again -- Shuttleworth seems to imply that they're not doing this for money, but he doesn't explicitly say it.

Either way, these search results are distinctly different from the ads in the launcher that people were talking about a couple weeks ago, but everyone seems to be mixing the two up.

Both can be easily disabled, though. And searching your own machine is still an option.
Realy? you think some start up is going to produce some software or that you could represent you effectively in court for non trivial cases?
I'm glad to see this Code of Conduct. Seems to me that most men are unaware of what women endure in terms of harassment, both from people they know and from strangers.

Putting everyone on notice that such behavior won't be tolerated is a big step in the right direction.
Beanstalk Data is Hiring: Account Supervisor, Technology Operations Specialist
I agree on both points. Sometimes its just nice to go to one place and have all sort of interesting discussion. Reddit is a very good place for that. On the other hand, community efforts are unnecessarily divided.
The Pope vs Justin Bieber Twitter smackdown: who's gonna win?
Can use Gist for these.
I totally agree with you, which is why I tried to list out a bunch of things I noticed. There are lots of different approaches when your job starts to sour, but for me, it wasn't just about finding a new job.

By the way, I was actually describing an extremely successful 20-25 person company.
I think he was implying that there is a correlation between size and evilness and that if namecheap grows too large, it could potentially turn evil.
That actually isn't what he said at all. He did not say "you should trust us". He said "you do trust us". There is a considerable difference. Here is the full question and answer.

Q: Why are you telling Amazon what I am searching for?

A: We are not telling Amazon what you are searching for. Your anonymity is preserved because we handle the query on your behalf. Don’t trust us? Erm, we have root. You do trust us with your data already. You trust us not to screw up on your machine with every update. You trust Debian, and you trust a large swathe of the open source community. And most importantly, you trust us to address it when, being human, we err.

http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/1182
>There has been an oversupply of legal gradutes for decades now. Today, half of law graduates don't get a job, and 90% can't get a job at a big firm.

This is true, and if anyone is curious about this issue and the data behind it, take a look at Paul Campos's recent book Don't Go to Law School (Unless), which you should also thrust into the hands of anyone you know who is contemplating law school.
If you're wondering what this is:

http://www.cyberdyne.jp/english/robotsuithal/
I'd seen the elevator example, but didn't know the airport one. Sort of diabolical but I guess it works.

The agony of waiting also extends to software. One thing I truly despise is waiting for web pages/apps to load or update, but I've noticed that I'm measurably less irritable when the app I'm using includes an "interesting" waiting/loading indicator (eg a hamster running in a wheel).
Guido's last commit?

http://code.google.com/p/rietveld/source/detail?r=f66cc90304...
1) CPython is written in portable readable C code.
2) CPython has been around since 1991, and thus people have had the time to port it properly.
3) Python have shown an interest in supporting both Unix and Windows for a long time (and later OS X), thus every new change has to describe how it will interact with both systems.

You as an python developer don't have to worry much about different platforms since every new library and language feature tries to work the same on all supported platforms. (of course this doesn't always happen)