skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's worse than this case makes it look like.

In this case they (seemingly) reacted to an actual legal takedown request from a (putative) copyright holder. Google's required to follow that process by law.

What's worse is their "content-id" program. In which, google goes out of it's way to try to programmatically identify and block content that it deems in violation of somebody's copyright. Needless to say, such a scheme leads to boneheaded outcomes like this: http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2012/09/05/michelle_...
I tried to interview with facebook a few months ago. They wanted me to do a coding challenge. The said basically, "Here is a big glob of data. Write a function that takes that glob of data, parses it and analyzes it, and then returns it into this other formst. And you have one hour to complete this task".

It was on a Friday afternoon, and I really didn't feel like spending the next hour banging my head against the wall working on this problem. It wasn't really a hard problem, it was just really tedious. I figured if the interview question is tedious and boring, then the job must also be tedious and boring.

Maybe if they had given me a few days to work through the problem, I would have done it. But cramming all that code together in just one hour would have forced me to produce ugly code that would not have been tested, well re-factored, documented, etc. Thats not how I roll.
What?? No!! You should always have option to fart silently.

one https, and one make-private-ability please! :P

Nice project.
Regardless of how semantically we phrase it, the bottomline that the parent made is valid... (Housing is saturated in the places where people want to live) i.e., it is as saturated as it can be, with no immediately conceivable resolution to the status quo.
Agree, Org documentation is very good, and easy for newbies to start as well. Certain features like Org-agenda, export into multiple formats and its ease of note-taking are very good features
I think this fits into the larger conversation around what terms to take in a funding round. The anecdote about all the YC companies bragging about valuation post-Demo Day rings true - but what else did they agree to in getting that high valuation? Ensuring that those who have partial control of your company and your future have interests aligned with yours does seem much more valuable than wringing every dollar out of a cap rate.
For me, todo lists remove the mental burden of keeping track of what I need to do in my head, and allow me to easilly shelf a new task without significant interuption to my workflow on the current task. Becuase I am at a computer for almost all of my work, my todo app is just vim, but I don't see why I wouldn't get the same benifit from a proper 'app' if I was at a job without consant access to a computer.
> How many billions of NTLM keys can a Geforce crack in a second?

According to https://hashcat.net/oclhashcat-plus/ , it's approximately 2.5 B.

This corresponds to a one time pad message of just under 4 bytes long. The difference, of course, with NTLM is you know when you've found the right value. With OTPs, all decryptions are possible and equally valid.
Looks like this could be useful for planning out some potential mileage run destinations!
Another post on celebrating "I got some moneys" and yay! this time without YC, even though I was in YC.

Guys, get over it. Can some of you please post some inspirational articles on how you created a bootstrapped company?
Brilliant observation.

And of course, every second we twiddle with out todo application, is a second wasted, not spent doing the things on that list.

I cannot believe there is not a proper study somewhere showing that these applications waste more time than they save. Or perhaps the opposite!!!
When I'm mobile, I like to read with ihackernews.com because it has a button that uses viewtext.org to just show me the text of the article.
My favorite part:

Ford CEO Henry Ford II and United Automobile Workers president Walter Reuther are jointly touring a modern auto plant. Ford jokingly jabs at Reuther: "Walter, how are you going to get these robots to pay UAW dues?" Not missing a beat, Reuther responds: "Henry, how are you going to get them to buy your cars?"
> That was never a clear enough, coherent enough, or informed enough vision of the complete GNU project and, consequently, GNU has never really successfully gelled. You can grab some "100% libre" distributions, these days, but only barely. There is no sustainable culture and technical organization there ("yet", I hope).

Debian is a 100% free distribution, with a strong culture and high technical organization. It was the GNU distribution in the 90's until they parted ways.

Are there not dozens if not hundreds of distributions of free software based on Linux and the GNU core? Compared to the early days of Linux (and GNU as well), I'd say Free Software as a whole is doing pretty good. The very existence of those distributions and the amount of software based upon them is your sustainable culture and technical organization. Canonical and Red Hat could go away tomorrow and they'd still be there.
I always thought that economics was the study of how wealth/resources travel through the population.
Unfortunately it doesn't seem to support Asia yet.
The amazing thing is how often I can't even begin to read the page...

Cannot upvote this comment enough.
Research: an outsider's perspective
E.g., depart Chicago from O'Hare to Denver, then return to Chicago from Denver, arriving at Midway?

Choose Multi-city, and specify specific airport codes at the originating / terminating metro area. E.g., American 1017 ORD to DEN on 7 Jan and Frontier 534 DEN to MDW on 14 Jan for $211.
Some advances in science this year
A basic guide to SEO, by analogy with Jerry Seinfeld
>> Natural resources are virtually unlimited at least for the current size of the human race

I was sort of nodding in agreement at another comment you left elsewhere but this one is just not on. This belief is definitely at odds with mine (specially going in with Club of Rome studies on this topic, for e.g.).
So what you're suggesting is we should teach these people how to administer WordPress sites?
Neither Europe
If you do mileage runs, you probably know about matrix.itasoftware.com, but in case you don't - visit http://matrix.itasoftware.com/?showPricePerMile=true and then do your search to see and sort by price per mile.
I was happy that the first example with the dots looked like the second one was natural. My eyes felt better. With the student example my eyes struggled so I "reasoned" that the first one had more clumps and was wrong since the first dot example had more clumps and was wrong.

I guess I'm not a good randomness detective.
I know this is just speculative, and in fact I was joking, but to achieve that you either have to:

1) Configure a push hook on the master server, which you need access to.

2) Remove decentralized from DVCS, as your service becomes a new master which then mirrors.

3) Continuously poll (pull) the master server from your mirror service.

I can't seem to find any of these three options more desirable than simply adding a new remote, other than being automatic.
Or be very careful when you are analyzing the results

== This.

Certain types of stratifications work, as in this case. Pure randomization in an expanding universe? I'm not so sure its foolproof. Though In general I agree with your comment.
I'd like to use some static site generator, start with collaborating on a private repo, later release it on GitHub and accept contributions.
It doesn't matter whether it's in Ruby, but most resources around algorithms are not accessible to people who want something "in their hands" to play with, i.e., every beginning programmer, ever.

They're also introduced abstractly, rather than contextually.

I run into the "Good Will Hunting" problem with lots of people who have studied algorithms (or any topics) this way: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ws66aAdthE0

They can describe the Sistine Chapel every which way, but they can't tell me what it's like to stand in the middle of it. We take the opposite approach at DBC, which is why this resource was so interesting to me.
Six Harsh Truths That Will Make You a Better Person
Certainly tells a (disturbingly) good story, mapping areas with the respective number of incidents might tell the more vulnerable areas from the others
Could not disagree more. Education -- especially the University variety -- is clearly at the top of a multi-decade cost cycle, and will become much cheaper as it becomes more digital.

Health care will absolutely be much cheaper in 30 years than it is now. We can provide 1960s-style health care to most people for literally hundreds of dollars / year. The fact that we choose not to because technology has improved quality faster than it has reduced costs is irrelevant. At some point that trend will reverse, and when it does costs will drop dramatically.

Construction costs are mostly driven by labor costs these days, and as construction is mechanized those will trend towards the cost of raw materials. Obviously there's a sort of theoretical floor there, but even the cost of extracting metal ores from the earth has dropped substantially as technology has improved.

All of these things trends are pointing in the same direction; they are just moving at different speeds.
Monitoring at this scale would require tremendous resources that the Federal government has plenty of but individuals are unable (or unwilling) to invest. The article makes the argument for accumulation of information as a means to obtain power; in the case of individuals collectively accumulating information on the government, who holds the power? If the derived power is fragmented then no one would be motivated to take action.
Cause of Newtown, Connecticut Murders?
Surely this is geekier than Todo.txt: https://github.com/davidoc/taskpaper.vim

(I prefer it, in any case)
Close, but not quite. Think of something only a little more complicated to configure than Wordpress, but far more powerful -- something that actually generates sales and provides immediate value. Software that does for other industries what Wordpress did for publishing -- one for each industry. Wordpress for restaurants, Wordpress for dentists, Wordpress for auto mechanics. And not just a website, but a full web-based system that replaces whatever crappy CRM system they're using. Software that fixes their problems, not just software that gives them a domain name.

I don't want the dentist and the mechanic to be configuring this software -- that's what I want the "blue collar programmer" to be doing, after a few weeks of training. But I want the dentist and the mechanic to use the software after it's configured.

(Also, to do much useful in Wordpress, you soon need to learn CSS and HTML, if not PHP. That's still too complicated. I want these tools to require no coding at all.)
Good point. I'm not all that versed in US drug laws. However, having seen a whole bunch of signs when doing cruises, I imagine that telling the Customs agent that you have a bottle of medicine containing codeine isn't a good idea since Vicodin and the lot are only available by prescription. Either way, his point is still a good one, I think: Even if you're the most open and giving person on the planet, do you really want to court fate like that?
Yes :-) plus the bandwidth and storage would be overkill overtime
I have it on reasonable authority that at least one X.25 era hacker has exploited ye-olde travel provider interfaces to:
A) automatically detect and utilize cheap global routes
B) brute force discount codes for global hotel chains
For some reason they don't have pricing information for Singapore Airlines, but do have the flights which are mostly filtered out because "unknown" sorts as the most expensive.
We already have a system that's supposed to help people become high skilled workers, public education. Instead of producing competent workers, it churns out compliant cogs.
The Open Boat, by Stephen Crane. Ecclesiastes. Siddhartha, by Herman Hesse. All would be considered "classics", all have much to recommend them, and none is so long that you'd lose interest.
I think that copyright rights are less fundamental than physical property rights. The right to own/control a physical, tangible item is very intuitive to me. The right to control how other people use or share a piece of information is fuzzier, a step further removed. That's just me, but I find it reasonable to suppose that many others have a similar view.
What is a mileage run?
Hi Chuck,

I agree that inside any company, purchases are rationalized and the process you describe is probably spot on. The reason I posted was that I've seen several cases where acquisition behavior in multiple industries was profoundly illogical in terms of what the same money would buy: either companies didn't pull the trigger on offers when they should have and a product would have been ridiculously cheap, or (more often with unprofitable companies) a sale was engineered by investors, and/or the purchasers did not explore the market and only considered narrow options before them.

Not intended as a complaint. I just really wouldn't advise anyone to do a startup that required any BigCorp to purchase them in order to have a successful exit, that's all. You could have a way to print people money and still have a hard time forcing it down their throat.
Sort by agony, LOL! I like the time charts, too.

Thanks. I didn't know about Hipmunk. I have been using mostly Kayak and, more recently, Google.
Your questions are confusing to me. What's being demanded? Whose costs are reduced "essentially to zero" and why?
Doesn't support New Zealand either
Without explaining what "System 1" and "System 2" are, this is a pretty useless reply.
I actually have a bachelor's degree in Computer Science from a fairly highly ranked AAU[1] research university. I had to leave the US right after graduation for some reasons, so here I am in Bangalore.

Most of my fellow graduates (and those that graduated the year before) are making from $60k on the low end to $150k on the high end. That's $150k with less than 1 year's experience (but these are really smart hackers). $85k seems to be the sweet point for fresh graduates though.

Not sure where I'll be next though -- I'm looking for an interesting startup-like work atmosphere, and Bangalore seems to be mostly populated with dull outsourcing companies.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_American_Univers...
GitHub major outage across all services following maintenance
Yep, its true. Maybe you should try using an animated gif.
The anecdote relies on it being possible or such a situation to occur.
> it's not hard to build more and more housing - there's plenty of room in most of the countries.

Building a house doesn't just involve taking a bunch of wood or bricks and making a big box.

You have to dig a hole in the ground to give a solid foundation to make sure the house doesn't shift. You have to have a variety of materials -- siding, insulation, roofing materials, interior walls, exterior walls, doors, windows.

Then of course most people expect new houses to have electricity, running water, sewage disposal, gas, and telephone and cable lines. A lot of this involves running stuff everywhere through the house.

Then you can't just take a square mile of wilderness and have everyone build their own house wherever they want. First the trees and whatever have to be cleared until you have enough space for a house. And most people want a yard to go with their house, not a forest or swamp or whatever it was before.

You can bemoan government regulation all you want, but those houses need to laid out according to a central plan so the lines for the aforementioned electricity and water and whatnot can be laid efficiently. Not to mention the roads and driveways, which people also generally expect houses to have, especially if they're new.

Needless to say, this all requires a ton of equipment and labor, and also tends to go a lot better if you have at least a few specialists on hand who have done this before and thus are familiar with the standard methods of resolving common issues that might arise during construction.

And then there's the pesky issue of building codes. Again, it's government regulation, but in this case I'd rather err on the side of knowing someone actually checked that the man or woman in charge of building my house knew what he or she was doing, and that someone else who is also a trained professional -- a government inspector -- looked at the end result of that work and made sure that all of the above things were done in a way that's sufficiently safe and structurally sound for human habitation.

Of course, all the best locations for building houses -- with the best access to existing roads, closeness to desirable locations, favorable terrain, etc., are already taken. In my area of the country, several new developments have been built in wetlands. Besides the environmental issues of building in wetlands, those houses are slowly and unevenly sinking into the ground, and have issues with water seeping into their basements.

I could go on and on. Neither I nor, apparently, you, have ever built a house. But at least I am vaguely aware of why it's ridiculous to say that "it's not hard to build housing."

As for "demand is inflexible" or "supply is artificially scarce..." In case you haven't noticed, the USA just got out of a housing crisis. In many areas of the country, there are still a lot of homes for sale on the market that can't find buyers. See my other comment elsewhere in this discussion [1] for more on this.

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4958251
Although patients generally have the choice of treatment and can usually opt out of parts of their care if they want - travelers have to be screened if they want travel.
I've been using it for a year (I know some people there); it is by far my favorite of the cloud storage products.

Pretty much my needs are something like AeroFS, PLUS some kind of local SAN/NAS (big, fast), PLUS something like Sharepoint, Kerio Workspace, or Atlassian Confluence. None of them really cover all my needs alone.
It's not useful to just say you disagree. You ought to say why.

The fact is that matter is virtually unlimited, and it is not against the laws of physics that we can transform matter into more useful kinds, that we can deploy various means of collecting energy from the sun (even extraterrestrial), that we can learn how to fuse hydrogen, etc.

Edit: I guess you sort of did indicate why you disagreed, but referring to "Club of Rome" is just argument from authority, and anyway their study flies in the face of common sense. We know the Earth is brimming over with energy and resources, that the main difficulty is collecting and transforming them. This is a technological problem not a fundamentally unresolvable problem.
Kids Projects Put The ‘Fun’ In Crowdfunding
It sounds like what you're describing is something like a cross between a pipe dream and what already exists.

Wordpress already exists and there are many folks, and many or most without CS degrees, who will happily develop and administer a site for you. The pipe dream comes in when you expect those sites to generate sales and provide immediate value. If every dentist in my community uses your magical Wordpress site, will sales and value magically increase for all of them?
> Instead, if you could eliminate a variable from the system by preselecting for people for whom the variable doesn't apply, it would reduce the time to experiment

... if the goal is to reduce the time to prove that your drugs work. That goal is different from making drugs that work.

For an analogy - in order to prove that I'm smart, I must compete with those others who're known to be smart, not with those who've (by some agreed on measure) demonstrated a lack of the required aptitude.

Even this article keeps emphasizing throughout that Kaptchuk is at Harvard, he got praise from scholars, etc.

So the real proof of a drug's worthiness ought probably to be that it works over and above the placebo effect shown for those who respond very well to placebos. That would provide more data to help evaluate the risk of a drug to a patient, given placebo predisposition can indeed be measured. That would be important particularly if the drug has significant unwanted side effects.

edit: And fwiw, preselecting for those who would respond well to placebos would also reduce the time to experiment .. but, I think, it would do so in the right way.
Looks great; but doesn't support trips originating in australia... wtf
What do you mean? I can book a flight from the US to Rome, Italy.
Zero day holes found in popular online games
The difficulty in getting it to work with CentOS/RHEL is another problem for me. Focusing on Ubuntu is nice, but we run CentOS on our servers and even trying out the software on that distro is quite difficult.

Or at least it was when I tried it last week. Anyone have any success with that?
Simpson's Paradox ftw!
Only supports flights originating from US and Canada at the moment. Destination can be anywhere in the world.
Already had the repo up and running elsewhere, thanks. Just needed to do some non-git stuff on github (create a new repo on GH to push it to, add team members, and so on).

I've been doing private DVCS for years (mercurial) but this is my first project that's on git and I've been looking forward to the opportunity to host it on github and see what I've been missing.
A new type of search engine. We call it an information engine, but just think of it as a seach engine that covers much more meta information than anything out there. nuuton.com to see the landing page. If you want to get an early look at it just email me.
Avid frequent flyer miles collectors hunt for abnormally low cost fares which travel long distances (often due to multiple out-of-the-way stops). This results in a great cost per mile for them.
Why would anyone ever want to leave Australia?
(Jokes the Aussie with the travel startup.)
The elite few who own the world.
> Either of the above solutions are for your compsci professors who are clued-in enough to be comfortable with CLI in general and Git in particular.

I'm a visual design student, and most of my professors are clued in enough to know how to handle git. I'm lucky on that regard.

>Of course, all of these solutions (except email attachments and printouts) require running your own server, which is actually a great learning experience.

I do have my own VPS, Amazon AWS. I just dumped in an ubuntu server image, LAMP stack and python, and it's just vanilla unix after that—it's great. I'll check prgmr out though, thanks for the recommendation.

Gitlab looks good, but I almost exclusively use git CLI, so I don't need a fancy interface. I'll take a look at gitolite. Thanks!
> BitBucket. It's essentially the same service as GitHub, but allows private repositories for free. And with an academic .edu email you get unlimited collaborators. Much simpler than running your own git server as others have suggested I think.

> So I've been using Bitbucket, which is fine and all, but I would have loved to be a part of Github community.

I already have Bitbucket edu plan, as I've said. It's pretty great, but it lacks community.
You obviously have a better design sense and much more experience than someone who has been at Apple for the long haul designing UI/UX and has won the Apple Design Award! I hear that's not credible at all.
You still need to know at least a little PHP/HTML/CSS if you want to do any substantive customization.
This is awesome. I love what Daniel is doing with RailsAppComposer.

I am using the Stripe version of this app with an app I am building at the moment.

RailsAppComposer has become an integral part of my toolchain. Can't speak highly enough of it.