skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Travelling is not a huge problem for me, apart from the fact that I would have to be in Athens for my exams. I had the impression that it would not be very easy for a startup to pay for travelling expenses for an intern. I would love if you could you point me at some. (Although, I have the impression that travelling to the US for an internship could be rather hard due to immigration limitations.)
Norway is culturally part of Europe, joining the EU does not really change much.
The Problem w/ PC Sales: Dell's Christmas SALE, After Christmas SALE etc.
That comment was there in the original.

My point was that the provisioning (or packaging of a VM) is the most crucial and discussion-worthy aspect of setting up Vagrant. At least in my experience, that's the hurdle for people to overcome when seeing the value of Vagrant, as they usually already have VMWare or VirtualBox VMs running.
It'll take more than manufacturers to kick start Win8. If you can appeal to developers as early adopters you can win.
I'm guessing most ad firms don't want to give out that data...if clients see the conversion rate, they would probably be less likely to buy a QR package.
I think this is a really interesting idea (and a great start), but I'm quite positive that you will need NFL licensing. Knowing someone that worked for the nfl and nfl films for nearly a decade, they protect their IP to obscene levels. Employees of the NFL can actually get bonuses if they report you and you are successfully prosecuted. This is the one thing I really despise about the NFL, they need to get with the times.

Here's a good response from:
http://www.avvo.com/legal-answers/do-i-need-an-nfl-license-o...

"Scores and schedules can be reported without obtaining a license from the NFL or NBA---these are facts, and copyright law does not protect facts. But be careful here---you cannot do anything to suggest that your application is associated with, or endorsed by, the leagues or individual teams. And you can only make limited, "nominative" of team and player names. Don't use logos or team colors.

Further, when you show scores and schedules, you need to be careful that you do not copy the format or template that others use to report the same information. While facts are not protected, specific approaches to reporting and organizing facts may be protected. For example, copyright law covers the organization of box scores-----the USA Today baseball box scores are unique when compared to those published in the NY Times and other newspapers---and if the NY times started copying the format of the USA Today box score, USA today would have a good copyright infringement suit against the NY Times. You need to develop your own, unique way of presenting the scores and schedules---if you copy someone else's format or compilation of this information you can get into big trouble.

Also, you need to make sure that you retain counsel to retain a patent clearance before you launch your app---there are many patents that cover applications that purport to present factual information regarding sports----and if your application infringes such a patent you could face an expensive law suit.

Bottom line----you need to retain IP counsel to guide you through the creation of this application--failure to retain IP counsel would be a major mistake---and potential financial disaster."
Although I agree in general, PyCharm has recently been adding explicit support for Vagrant and virtualenv in their latest betas, and it works pretty well.

Basically does what you'd hope. I've got Django installed inside a virtualenv inside a linux Vagrant VM, and PyCharm running on the host OS is able to start a Django server, do interactive debugging, autocomplete function names, install new packages to the virtualenv, etc, etc. It's really just like you'd hope, and in my view just as good as PyCharm pointed at a "native" python/django install running on the host OS directly.
If this was an antitrust investigation it might make sense. But nothing here indicates this is an antitrust investigation. First, the Attorney General of California is supposed to handle antitrust, not the Dept of Corporations. Second, to the best of my understanding, California antitrust law does not provide for the government to block mergers and acquisitions. Third, whether or what other offers Instagram received is not really relevant for an antitrust investigation.

This seems to be an investigation as to whether Instagram screwed their investors by taking a low ball offer. And I am curious why the state is investigating this to begin with.
I will probably apply this summer, although working for a commercial project, in a close-knit team would be really interesting for me :) Also GSoC doesnt offer a lot of opportunities for Rails development.
I feel I would just not get the candy..
I remember this as well -- there's a particular feeling in my gut that I recall, sitting down in front of the computer at 9am, feeling sick and drained already, to work on a task that would be both tedious and difficult and didn't interest me in the slightest.... I could force myself to go ahead and get something done, but it would feel like I was somehow doing permanent damage to my psyche.

You have to look for the opportunities (and sometimes make them, once you have the clout to do it), but it's quite possible to get back to the kind of schedule (and better focused/motivated work & life) that you mentioned. In the meantime, get talking with the people around you -- some of them can become friends, and they have some say in what you work on -- while someone probably needs to get this software fixed now, your next task may well be still undecided. If you seem happy with this kind of assignment (and do it well), you're probably going to get more like it.
I've lived on the US/Canadian border for several years and I've seen enough of US immigration to last me a lifetime.

The specific incident that made me decide to stop visiting the US took place at an airport but that merely made the bucket overflow, it was already pretty full.
Speaking as someone who has built this product before, I think you'll run into the same outcome that my product, Well, Bagcheck, Listly, Listgeeks, and others end up at:

It doesn't actually provide any value.

It sounds really harsh, but unfortunately, that's the reality. People show up, make a few lists because it sounds fun, but you don't give anything back to them. You don't end up getting information that isn't already more readily available (and more useful) in other forms. There's this notion that people will carefully curate lists of things they care about, and it's true that they do, but only for a few days. There's no incentive to come back and maintain them because they aren't getting anything back out of it.

You can certainly say that I'm cynical and/or jaded from having built this and seen it first hand, but I think there's a reason why none of these sites ever stick. I don't believe it's due to them being built by bad engineers, or being implemented in a way that doesn't work, it's just that it's a feature and not a product.
Super-cool! Cheers for that.
Because "antitrust" means more than being anticompetitive with other companies.
I thought the two top-ten lists were upvotes/downvotes until I realized there wasn't a way to disagree with the top ten Pro statements. :(
Well, its not very statistically significant anyway, but the number outside the US and Europe at all is very small. There are too many in Europe to say they are non existent... sure nothing like the US. Most European countries are very small which was what this thread was about.
I read that whole thing. Pretty amazing it got as far as it did, and from what I understood reading the article it was the children of celebrities that were going to be excluded. Which makes me wonder what would be considered a celebrity.
So whats so special about this?
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Ok a few remarks:
- You should add sound and/or desktop notifications.
- it sometimes causes flash plugin crash
- not important : the design is way too basic and there is no way to understand how it works if you didn't explain it here.

Nice project though.
Thanks for this. One thing that I noticed in my life, is that like you I have set certain things on a pedestal saying "if only..." then I would be happy. Sometimes those things come true, and you realize that really didn't change anything all. If you made alien contact tomorrow it would be a dream come true and alter your entire perception of the Universe, but would you really be any happier?
P(B|A) can be 100%, but if P(A) is astronomically small (and it is) and if P(B) very high (and it is), then P(A|B) will be so low that it becomes clear P(B|A) is absolutely worthless.

As an extreme example demsonstrating the necessity of considering P(A|B), suppose we observe that 100% the 9/11 hijackers had black hair (P(black hair|terrorist) = 100%). That observation is worthless because P(terrorist|black hair) is stupidly low.

Just because we can say something about the traits a terrorist will likely have does not mean that we can rationally use those traits to detect terrorists.

If you are proposing a P(B|A), it is on you to show that the P(A|B) is sensible. Just pointing at a high P(B|A) alone is worthless. That's how you make good "Tonight at 11', is [common household objects] killing you slowly?!?" headlines, but that is about it.
Less effective in what setting? If physical punishment is more common world-wide, that is rather telling evidence that our forebears found it to be the most effective way to bring children in line, and it has been done ever since; at least until western civilization decided it was improper or at the very least, sub-optimal.

My point is that who is the AAP to say how best to raise children? I seriously doubt the validity of any study that claims to be conclusive on how to raise children, and would make a bet that any research they did was localized to the US. Anecdotally, several of my friends were beaten as children and turned out fine. All this proves is that sometimes physical punishment works and sometimes it doesn't. But the same goes for "establishing a loving relationship with your child;" since you can hardly do that when they're threatening to stab you with a knife.
The post:

In October I attended an FBI conference, as part of my work to try to keep Tor on good relations with law enforcement. My first goal is to remind them of all the good uses of Tor, so if they ever find themselves lobbying to outlaw anonymity online, they'll understand what they're giving up. The second goal is to make sure they understand what Tor is and how it works, so if they encounter it in their investigations they'll hassle our exit relay operators less. (Here's a great way that one FBI person explained it to me: "I've got 10 leads, and 48 hours before this case doesn't matter anymore. If you can help me understand which leads not to follow, I can do my job better.") My third goal is to help them be able to use Tor correctly for their own jobs — remember that diversity of users is part of what makes Tor safe for everybody to use.

Overall, we've been doing a pretty good job at teaching US-based law enforcement about Tor. At the end of the conference, one of the FBI agents took me aside and asked "surely you have some sort of way of tracking your users?" When I pointed at various of his FBI colleagues in the room who had told me they use Tor every day for their work, and asked if he'd be comfortable if we had a way of tracing them, I think he got it.

I met a nice man from the DEA who worked on the "Farmer's Market" bust. This was in the news a lot back in April, where apparently some people were selling drugs online, and using a Tor hidden service for their website. At the time I thought the news stories could be summarized simply as "idiot drug sellers accept paypal payments, get busted." It turns out they were pretty smart about how to accept paypal payments — they just had random Americans receive the paypal payments, take a cut, and then turn them into a Panama-based digital currency, and the Panama company didn't want to help trace where the money went. The better summary for the news stories should actually have been "idiot drug sellers use hushmail, get busted." Way before they switched to a Tor hidden service, the two main people used Hushmail to communicate. After a subpoena (and apparently a lot of patience since Canada still isn't quite the same as the US), Hushmail rolled over and gave up copies of all the emails. Many more details here:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/89690597/Willemsindictment-Filed-0...

I should still note that Tor doesn't introduce any magic new silver bullet that causes criminals to be uncatchable when before they weren't. The Farmer's Market people ran their webserver in some other foreign country before they switched to a Tor hidden service, and just the fact that the country didn't want to cooperate in busting them was enough to make that a dead end. Jurisdictional arbitrage is alive and well in the world.
Standardised, platform independent, easy to install and configure tools. If you've got a somewhat complicated dev environment, it's really really easy to tell new developers "look, just install virtualbox, install Vagrant, clone the repo, run vagrant up, and then vagrant ssh". A few minutes later they'll be sitting at an ssh prompt at a fully installed and configured dev server, which is pretty sweet.

Sure, you could do it all with slightly longer and more detailed instructions and more hand rolled scripts, but it would be slower and more fragile. Vagrant doesn't really solve any new unsolved problems, it's just a bit easier than the alternatives.

(Also, I'm not sure I understand your argument against vagrant. Part of the point of vagrant is, yes, to try and maintain the same deployment tools for dev and producton. Why do you think using vagrant makes that harder?)
Googled for beer labels and found at least dozen choices. Is there something wrong with them that I don't know about?
Actually Flickr is not free if you use it more than a few pics a month, which I do. I've been paying for Flickr Pro since 2006.

Here's the doc that explains the difference between the free version and the for-pay version.

http://www.flickr.com/help/limits
I have a Dell Android device. It's the worst device I've ever owned, even with the marvelous contributions of various amazing devs creating custom ROMs.

Good riddance.
> I'm a little taken aback by the parent post's "I was like that, but fixed myself with Linkin Park" attitude. It came off to me as rather dismissive

Almost as dismissive as summing up his post as, "I was like that, but fixed myself with Linkin Park."
Analyzing the Veracity of Tweets during a Major Crisis
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I agree with you. I began my corporate career (explained a few posts below) with the mentality that if I worked hard and worked smart, I would be rewarded. Well, I worked for 3 years, and was only promoted once. That promotion just moved me from the first level to second level developer (in a big company, a promotion essentially just means a raise and title change from <bla bla> I to <bla bla> II). That promotion came with a slightly higher salary, but it also came with ineligibility for overtime pay. As a result, my overall pay-per-hour kinda sank. I didn't care though. I still thought doing a good job would pay off well in the end.

Well, one day I asked my manager for a private meeting and asked for a promotion. I was performing at the level of people several levels above me, and I thought I brought more value to the company than I was being compensated for. What he eventually said echoes in my mind: "Sometimes it's possible for you to grow too fast in your career." The idea that there was some sort of meritocracy came shattering down, and it started dawning on me why they had mediocre software even with so many developers. For those of us doing the actual work, there was no real reward for being the guy with the solution. There was no motivation. This wasn't a place for anyone who expected to be appreciated for hard work. They probably just looked at me and thought, "Hah, that's cute that he's trying so hard."

So I ditched the corporate world, took a slight pay decrease, and now I work for a great startup. The end. ;)
To be fair, the Nexus 4/7/10 devices are being sold at or near cost. That model isn't really tenable for manufacturers who aren't getting support from Google.
Like Apple, the arc of their phone business follows the arc of their music player business.

http://www.ilounge.com/index.php/news/comments/dell-quietly-...
stormen, send me an email and I'll give you some original ideas to implement. I'm starting to get depressed seeing a well designed, well coded (probably) yet another list aggregator, music service, social whatever.
Thanks for the reminder. It has been pointed out elsewhere. However Flickr was sold to an American company. But I'm in favor of it being a Canadian and an American treasure. Hell, make it a Lithuanian treasure. Everyone should love Flickr, but please don't break our apps. Thanks again.
I want my DM archive.
Ex-Jekyll and Octopress user, been very happy with nanoc as well here.
This is a slight side issue, but this section really struck me as interesting:

"Facebook has tangled with regulators before. What it does with its customers’ data attracted the attention of the F.T.C., which accused it last year of 'unfair and deceptive' practices. The agency’s settlement with the company required Facebook to submit to privacy audits for 20 years."

It reminded me a lot if that scene in Ghostbusters where the regulators showed up to inspect the facility and clearly had no idea what was going on, even though they had suspicions of something nefarious. With such a complex, proprietary system like Facebook I just can't see the efficacy of external security audits. Kind of scary territory.
"rumors tend to be questioned more than news by the Twitter community... it could posible to detect rumors by using aggregate analysis on tweets."
It's not even slightly a joke.
Thursday night's a good time to test stuff like that, obviously. A live development site can help too.
[nsfw] AO Rated Game of the year announced
Reading over that again, I realize 3 years and one promotion is pretty good for some places. At the company I worked for, it was expected to be bumped through early levels rather quickly (or at least so I thought).
I am involved in a bunch of smaller things, each with different people that I met along the way of doing other things -- serendipitiously -- and I never felt the need to drop everything to do a big, risky startup around a "great idea" or a "great niche market". None of the smaller things I do, actually has a full-time person working on it. That's the beauty of websites. They are always there, but there is no need to attend to them on a full-time basis. It's all running on solar power and wind energy ;-) I may do something bigger one day or another, but I don't see the pressing need to actually make that happen. It will only happen by serendipity.
If you need any help with that, give me a shout
Allowing to picket/speak IS the solution to the problem. They will continue to alienate themselves, reduce the chances of of the younger church members making friends/other contacts in the real world etc. Eventually, once the media stops broadcasting their every move, they will be reduced to the man/woman on a soapbox you see outside your university cafe.
> alter the binary that interfaces the client

Which, in case it's not clear, is exactly what Hushmail did/does.

http://themonetaryfuture.blogspot.com.au/2009/05/pgp-creator...
I am not a lawyer but... I think that timeliness also comes into play with this sort of copyright. There may be different issues in live updates vs next day results.
I've experienced some quirks with nanoc as well, although my site is ultimately simple enough that I don't have to mess with Rules that much. I'd still be interested to try it out. How painful was porting nanoc to middleman?
You can safely move to them, I have several servers, no problems so far, every support request is answered pretty much the same day, and the prices are just ridiculously low. No provider has 100% customer satisfaction rate.
Right, sorry. I misinterpreted the parent.
I had seen this before, but I can't recommend it enough.

I very much like resources like this that explain things by explaining how they are implemented. Once you understand the basics of how a database is implemented, a lot of the performance implications of your queries make sense.

It also really helps in the understanding of what is going on in EXPLAIN output.
You have a point about logos, and I'll remove them if someone complains. The rest, though, I believe is unique enough (and I do disclaim affiliation/endorsement at the bottom).

Ultimately, this is a continuation of a school project, so I'll take it down if it's a problem.
It looks like you don't escape content of submissions, allowing XSS attacks to be made.
Drop me your cv by email dennis@pressdoc.com
Email us at internships [@] crowdtilt.com. There may be a unique opportunity to do something remotely with our API (just launched to the public this week).
And copying characters as they appear on your monitor probably isn't a great idea. You want to see the flow, fonts generally are not cursive, and the letter aren't really how you'd want to write them (less loops and too many serifs). The 'a' in pretty much every font looks completely different to the 'a' I was taught to write.

It's gonna be super weird when we get a generation which has terrible handwriting - it'll probably be soon.
The fact that he's not just reporting the scores, but using logos and mentioning the players is what I think could be a problem. The advise of consulting with an attorney is the safest route so at least there is some understanding of what the boundaries are.
Look for other people who are new -- new to town, new to the company, etc.. They'll probably also be more open to new connections.

The trouble with everyone else is that they already have their daily routine, their set circle of friends, possibly spouse & kids... they may well find you interesting, and even good friend material, but they'd have to shuffle up their lives to make space for someone new.

Lots of people live their entire lives in one area -- they may have best friends they've known since they were 7 years old. You're not going to displace something like that, and that has nothing to do with who you are.

Be patient & don't go negative -- it certainly takes more time (and more looking) than making friends in a university setting, but it happens just the same.
Let me add to what ctide has to say by asking this:

"What problem does it solve?"

Seriously, what problem are you solving? It has to fit in 2 sentences. If you can't come up with a concrete problem that this is solving, no one will pay for it.
Depends on where you look. Last year (this year, actually) I saw several openings looking for Rails experience I think.

Besides, the projects are pretty open about it. You can approach a project and come up with your own ideas. Not only this makes you more noticeable, it gives you the flexibility to do what you really want.
Of course a culture that emphasizes education leads to people from said culture to eventually take a majority share in jobs requiring high levels of education.

There are of course secondary effects. If you are a highly talented person in China today, and your parents have the means, you will try and go to an American college.
Feel free to drop me a line (My email is in my profile), I'm a great listener.
Oh right ok shame. Would like to know more about the backend.