skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm sure that maintaining your account is part of the original understanding too.

Just for the record, I think that anti-circumvention laws are absurd, and that EULAs aren't worth the RAM they consume. But I also think it's childish to buy a DRM-protected e-book from a company, terminate your account with that company, and then expect them to let you download another copy of the e-book for free.
I'm pretty sure the construction contractors have some skin in the "donating"-to-local-politicians game as well. Its not just one side that gets to hire lobbyists.
You choose an amount, that will represent a fraction of what the saved time and effort is worth to you. Professionals, we call them "Jobspotters", will compete with their recommendations, which are based on your description and their experience. If there is a recommendation that seems most valuable/fit for you, you can then assign the reward to that person.
You will end up with personalized recommendations of jobs/employers you might not otherwise have come across - ideally you now even have a personal contact to that company. What you make of it, will be up to you. But life will be a little easier for you. Gone are the days of endless networking and looking through job portals. Real people, who understand what you're looking for, helping you out. That's the idea.
>"They outlaw renting out their homes"

For what reason? I'm not engaged enough to do the work, but I bet the word "liability" comes up if you look into why these laws exist.

My point is, that there is more to the story than greedy hoteliers.
Great Story. Years ago i used to be the top affiliate of ServiceMagic (HomeAdvisor) supplying 8-10% of their entire lead volume. But instead of creating a sustainable web property leveraging my SEO skills i was concentrating on shorterm money by making throwaway sites...Still regret it!
Interviewing at Google took the same amount of my time as interviewing at Amazon. Why would it not be worthwhile to peruse all options, especially when one of the options seems better than the rest?
Yea good call. Do you think founder stash is better? Doesn't have that ring to it as much though
Here's a post from yesterday by me about my experiences with Linux on an ultrabook, I think it's quite indicative of the advances we've seen in the Linux PC world over the last 3-5 years: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4848375
Lots negativity here.

The guy appears to have enjoyed himself while exploring a fairly unique skill in the process of working towards a major personal goal.

Seems like a multiple win to me.
Also, think of ITT as a negative filter. If you go to ITT or Phoenix, rather than say, a traditional college, employers could make generalizations about your background almost immediately (destitute, not serious about schooling, bad background, high risk) regardless of your real capabilities.
yes and no. People increasingly have friends all over the world. I have decent friends in lots of major cities. I could see it actually being a lot of fun.

Would it be for everyone? Definitely not.
Yes, but if you fuck it up heads are gonna roll.
Linux's disk caching is good enough that I haven't been able to observe a difference when I change bs= on Linux. But it certainly won't hurt.
For the institute you have a situation where there's an institution regarded as objective and credible and someone who has a vested interest in the outcome donating money. This happens all the time. There's some form of regulatory capture in any industry, even if the regulation is something like "a general consensus among certain people that everyone in the industry respects that something is or isn't ok."

Like in government, sometimes there is quid pro quo and sometimes there isn't, but I've never heard anyone come out and say, "Whoops, you caught us! We're totally taking money to sway our opinion!"

The breadth of studies makes this look pretty legit. I just don't put much faith in obligatory denials.
I will second this. At the bottom of this article there is a reference the article I wrote a while ago when Amazon released this feature. I was planing on doing multipart uploading at that time using the FileReader but there was a bug in the way S3 did CORS so I didn't want to continue until that was fixed. They fixed it and I never came back to it. Maybe be a good time to try it again. Resuming a partial upload seemed like a good win to me.
Time. It's surprisingly difficult to order search results temporally, and according to Googlers on the search team with whom I've discussed this, a major part of the problem is the divergence between creation time, recorded creation time, and Google's discovery time. This would be particularly valuable for news, where Google has fallen behind an inexplicably fails to leverage its machine learning advantage to extract semantically rich information rather than doing relatively dumb string matching.

Yeah, that's sort of abstract. I like the hard problems :-) On a more conventional note, and in descending order of difficulty:

- search for musical data by musical sequence, eg searching for 'G-G-G-E' would suggest Beethoven's 5th symphony, but searching for 'C-C-C-A' would also suggest it as a transposed result. This isn't as difficult as it sounds, as there are MIDI files for most classical and historically popular pieces, MIDI and/or ringtones for popular contemporary ones, and polyphonic pitch extraction is a relatively well understood signal processing task. Easy win for someone with the interest and infrastructure: using the audio recording features in HTML 5 for tune identification, as already present in some mobile apps for both content discovery and contextual identification.

- Software error codes and the like. I find troubleshooting a miserable experience, especially when so many results turn out to be community-based forum support which fails to resolve problems.

- Hurf durf semantic web grumble grumble.
Props to the zurb team for referencing Asimov. (Elijah Bailey was the detective protagonist in the fantastic early Robot series.)
Is this going to require new GPS receivers? I don't really see it addressed on the wikipedia page.
Ask HN: What do you pin?
I'm curious: do you use chrome's tab-pinning feature? What sites do you pin?

(background to my curiosity, I had completely forgotten about that feature and had never consistently used it before. Today I rediscovered it and like it (a bit), I wonder how widespread its use is).

Thanks!
As someone who works at Google, this seems like a grossly excessive amount of effort to get past interviews which just aren't that hard. It would have been much easier to browse through the first few chapters of an algorithms textbook, set up a simple network between two linux VMs, and (optionally) brush up on C++/Java/Python syntax if those aren't languages you use often.

The reason Google has a reputation for hard interview problems is that before they came around, the standard technical interview was "So, $NAME, tell me about what you did at your last job". They were one of the first silicon-valley companies to have technical interviews, and so it frightened all the unqualified candidates who couldn't just coast in on good conversation skills.

Before Google, the company with a reputation for impossible interviews was Microsoft. Like Google, I strongly doubt that their questions are anywhere near as difficult as the rumor stream claims.
I'm a little confused as to who exactly "us" refers to in your post, could you clarify please? "We" as generic consumers, "we" as developers, other?
keep up the good work. btw you forgot to tweet it on @foundationzurb, only on @zurb.
If you told me 10 years ago that people would be auto-executing JavaScript upon SSHing to a server..

what have we done.
Yes, you enter it once and let Opera remember it. After that, you don't have to type it in anymore, but you can use alt-enter.
BB10 can flag emails! Can Windows Phone do that?

Er, yes.
In addition to bcbrown's comment, trust/security is a factor. Neighbors may allow their kids to play in the hallway or go down to the lobby and check the mail on their own. But if there's a sense that the neighbors aren't known, then parents may feel uneasy about it.
If every cable was cut to the United States (and Canada and Mexico I guess) would we even notice a problem?

Are enough servers located in the US that our Internet service, while certainly diminished, wouldn't be all that different?

Is there something about the design of the Internet that cutting all those connections would damage the ones internal to the United States?
I drink at about 8 8 oz cups of coffee a day during the week plus a couple cans of soda. I also poop once a day, withing 45 minutes of 4:30pm. I am scared of what the implications would be if I stopped consuming so much caffeine
I'm not saying this to be mean, but I think it's important to point out that Dave Asprey is a quack, and his "Upgraded Coffee" is snake oil. Asprey is happy to cherry-pick studies to support his products, but the fact is that there is simply no good reason to believe that mycotoxin levels in ordinary coffee are high enough to have any measurable effect on humans who drink it. (And if you look carefully at his citations, you'll notice that he does not bridge that crucial gap between "mycotoxins are bad for you" and "my coffee has lower mycotoxin content").

This guy's combination of scientific literacy and alarmingly poor reasoning really makes me nauseous, because I can't simply write it off as mere incompetence. For instance, look at this infographic: http://www.bulletproofexec.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/Bu... . Specifically, look at the part comparing 1910 and 2000. That's not just a case of spurious correlation. It's like something I would make up as a wacky example of spurious correlation.
Even if not real, this anecdote is cute. The sad truth, however, is that she will learn from other places that without a college degree she is less likely to be employed...
I second on the "moody". I've never seen it written about, but, even apart from alertness, caffeine makes me extremely emotional. Bouncing happy to sad in ways I otherwise wouldn't. And at high levels, I blaze with inspiration... with ideas that all turn out to be garbage on later review.
Poll: I have a startup idea.  How should I pursue it?
I've had an idea for a startup that has been kicking around the back of my mind since 2007 (that's when I created a Google Doc describing it in detail and registered a bunch of domain names for it). It is in the education sphere, and it seemed a little outlandish 5 years ago, but now that MOOC's are very common, it seems like an obvious evolution for online education. A little background...I am currently working as a software engineer for a stealth mode startup in the social/big data space, but over my career, I've worked for some big names in for-profit education (Sylvan, Kaplan, The College Network, Veritas Prep). The idea solves a problem for all of those companies, and for universities as well, so it could make a profitable startup but I think it could be more impactful with a WordPress-like model. How would you pursue an idea like this?
Forget it, because it's just an idea
Pursue it as a side project on nights/weekends
Launch a KickStarter and open-source it
Apply to YC and quit my job if accepted
homakov meant that the vulnerability still exists, and I was saying that it's better in Opera than in any other alternative.
Hackers, get off your high horse
It's only quite recently that Maps seems to have developed a (basic) understanding of 'home'. When I'm looking up directions and type home without any other qualifiers, it shouldn't be asking me if I mean 'Home Depot'. Especially not since I give permissions to Google Latitude and my phone and computer are in fact being operated from my designated 'home' location.

For that matter, my contacts in Android and google+ let me classify people as friends, work contacts etc., but I've found no way to explain to it that Mrs. Anigbrowl is my wife as distinct from any other family member.

BTW please upvote threads like this when you reply to them. Many interesting discussions fall off the new page unnoticed despite having promising replies.
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ive used nixnote in the past but overall am not fond of evernote, and have switched to a combination of a personal wiki and google docs.
I'm reminded of the John Gnagy art lessons where you make everything out of boxes. But the flow tended to be like:

Box -> Two boxes -> Three boxes -> Horse!

I guess it made it seem plausible that you can draw things just fine with rectangles. Never got the hang of it though.
I have lived in three different continents - South America, North America and Australia ( santiago, san francisco, new york, dallas, sydney, canberra) , spending roughly 4 months in each country using this 'housing' cloud.

It was not really planned as such, but rather where my startup took me. But,it was amazing. You meet great people and understand the human race a little bit better.
If you email is hacked you likely have bigger problems than a package or two going missing.
Enable offline notebooks and your problem is solved.
Here's a recent piece on LifeHacker that helps outline several different use cases:

http://lifehacker.com/5964285/whats-all-the-fuss-about-evern...

Hope that helps.
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There's overdosing (to the point where you risk it being lethal) and then there's general ill effects. Even as someone very light (OD dosage is based on your weight, unsurprisingly[1]), it would require me to take multiple caffeine pills before I'd have to potentially go to the hospital: I simply couldn't do it through coffee alone - it's just too much liquid to consume in too short a time. Even with crazy-strong coffee (250+mg/cup) I'd need to drink 30+ [2] cups.

But you can bet your bottom dollar that drinking a dozen cups of coffee by lunchtime will have some pretty interesting results. You'll feel your heart racing and probably experience something like extreme ADD. Probably headaches, nausea, crazy jitters. The severity depends on your tolerance to caffeine, of course. I get nasty headaches 6-8 hours after waking if I don't get my morning coffee, so it takes me quite a lot to get into overdose land.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caffeine#Caffeine_intoxication
[2] ~150mg/kg for LD50; I weigh about 50kg
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The DMCA forbids circumventing an encryption system. Photocopying the words on an ebood screen would not seem, to me, to be circumvention since the content was decrypted entirely as designed to put those words on the screen.

It might be copyright infringement, but would almost certainly be covered by fair use assuming it was not then distributed to others.

I've never heard of a DMCA case prosecuted against someone who photocopied the screen of a ebook reader. If you know of one, I'd be interested to read it.
Interesting. I imagine if courts decide that ABB+lessors do not run afoul of housing/renting regulations and establish some precendence, it might make economic sense for someone to build an ABB hotel where only people booking via ABB and its decendats are booked, thus avoiding the regulation which runs up the price of other hoteling models.
Go for it man. Sounds like you've already kind of decided (your question seems a little leading) but you want someone to tell you the answer you're looking for. Just go for it. If you have a passion for it then there's no reason not to.
It is currently so small scale I also came to the conclusion this was just to make Ingress a better real life game.
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This came at a perfect time for me as I've spent the last week working on designing newsletter templates.
It depends on what country ... really.

If you cut the single pair of fibers who link New Zealand to the continent, I guess their traffic is gonna be really slown,

If the country has a total centralized control over the communication systems, I guess it would be very easy too.

Pretty obvious actually.
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Misguided. For some people, Coffee is probably okay. But I have noticed that after drinking it for a few days, I suffer from general exhaustion, and I don't think I am alone. There is also some research that in some individuals, coffee can affect adrenal function. I think the key is to be mindful about usage of any substance; with respect to our person and how we feel, we can sometimes be the best scientist.
Only one 30" monitor?

(My stock of Google-issued hardware now consists of 3 24" monitors and 5 computers. I use 'em all, too.)
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I could see patenting the process to extract the sequence, process it, sequence it, etc. but I don't understand how the sequence itself can be patented.

Taking the notion to its logical and absurd extreme, would such a patent mean that all humans must properly license the sequence before attempting cellular mitosis or is that fair use? Are babies considered pirated copies?
The biggest issue for me is that I respond very negatively to caffeine withdrawal (I get extremely cranky and it often triggers a migraine). What keeps me from drinking more is that I don't want a missed dose to ruin my whole day.

Second biggest issue is that I tend to get hypoglycemic an hour or so later if I don't have a carby snack at the same time.

A cup a day (with a cup of tea in the morning) is the best balance of enjoyment versus drawbacks that I've found. If I want more I brew up a cup of decaf.

Also I find an Aeropress is easy enough to be convenient but not so easy as to trigger overconsumption (Cf. K-Cup). It doesn't hurt that it makes a great cup of coffee.
Caffeine sensitivity is highly variable between individuals. I am both sensitive and a slow metabolizer; if I had 6 cups of coffee in one day my guts would be churning and I would not be able to get anything done.
It seems like international traffic to/from the US is heavy enough that cutting down several of the largest international connections could flood the remaining ones to the point that they are mostly unusable. That would not be an "off switch" but could potentially really mess things up.
There is a good reason for someone young in their career to work at Google: Studying how large systems were designed, built and how they handle cruft. Sure there are hot Startups where you get to reinvent the wheel but those opportunities come once in a while. These statements probably apply to any big company but Google is one of the most palatable ones in the bay area.
Just for argument's sake, think of it like a college application process. Google might be MIT and Amazon somewhere like RPI.

Why try so hard to into a school that everyone is applying to when you can instead much more easily get a position at a lower profile school?"

RPI is easier to get into and could still give you challenging and rewarding work, but that doesn't mean it isn't worth the extra effort to get into the more difficult and sought-after position.
Is plausible deniability an actual legal concept at all?

I see it used here and on other technical forums in topics like this, but aside from that I've only ever heard of it in political, not legal, contexts.

Any lawyers able to shed light?
I resonate with this, its fine to say "I am passionate about productizing a self driving car, and Google is the only place I can realistically see doing that." It is another to just want to "work at Google."

So now that he's checked the box (do they still do slotting? If so the box isn't actually checked yet) what is his motivation, eat at all the cafes? Get a months worth of t-shirts?

Hope he is wildly successful, and sad that the interview would be such a barrier.
I think there should be a clear distinction between learning for getting a job and learning to enhance your knowledge.
> (I assume this is the same for other payment processors, not just Stripe.)

AFAIK, this is correct for other systems that allow you to accept a credit card number directly; however, this is not true of all "payment processors": things other than credit cards often have more security that becomes the responsibility of the bank or customer; third-party payment networks also often take this on as "their problem" (as a specific example, Amazon Payments eats chargeback fines under the belief that they are handling fraud issues; PayPal, however, does not, although they do seem to be quite good at the fraud protection angle, so it matters less).
what do you think is the largest thing that needs serious improvement in education?

Being aware of what is possible. Most people, by my observation of online discussions, think their own education was pretty good, and it's the "other guy" who might possibly have a poor education. But it just might be (as I think, after living in more than one country) that a great many people, perhaps including me, have plenty more to learn that they COULD learn. Maybe the current system is underpeforming more than we imagine, and more than we CAN imagine after receiving the schooling we each received.
Yep, clarified a bit below in my response to nickkthequick that I was talking more about my personal experiences with what I would call minor caffeine overdoses, not the clinical definition of caffeine intoxication. My main point is that the notion that massive amounts of caffeine injestion is consequence free, especially as it's usually paired with sleep deprivation, is laughable.
Highly recommend picking up this book. As a former local colleague of Nick Montfort, I can say it's going to be a great read.
It's eerie that you posted this just a few minutes before I posted this: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4856307

One thing that I think is missing from both online education and education at the university is personalization. At UCLA, I sat in lecture halls with hundreds of students, and we all got the same words. It would be nice to sign up for the lecture from the professor who makes movie analogies instead of sports analogies. Or maybe I prefer a professor who writes on the board instead of using a powerpoint.

As a Kaplan instructor (SAT, GRE, GMAT, LSAT), I would explain a question differently depending on the student. Was this a student who had pacing problems? I might emphasize elimination strategies or guessing intelligently. Was it a student who consistently fell for trap answers? I'd advise them to try to think like the test maker and anticipate the traps. The best part about online classes is that you can capture this data pretty easily. But so far, no one is using it to deliver a more personal online learning experience.
Rule of thumb: Never trust a study funded by someone who would benefit directly from a certain result. It doesn't matter how sound the science seems.
Who at Google is doing due diligence? I just searched for "Atlanta" in the locations page and got a 500.
The key is that your validation is not about "accepting addresses you know are good" but "rejecting addresses you know are bad." If I enter foo@gmail@com as my email address, it's bad user experience to make me sit around refreshing my inbox and wondering where the confirmation email is.
That's sort of what I was feeling, can you have empathy without a concept of emotion? (Honest question, I have no idea here)
The floating Social Media Integration Station covers the words of the piece on Safari.