skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The good news is that an Indian student from an American college has a much easier time getting in to good American graduate programs (with 100% aid) then an Indian student from an IIT. This was definitely true at University of Rochester EE Dept when I was on the admissions committe, and I would be surprised if it were not somewhat generally true. In the sense of getting in to an American graduate program, you are "hacking the system" by going to American undergrad. (Of course, you are hacking it for an Indian admit. Americans get that advantage for free, which in pg essay lingo is a form of corruption).
StackOverflow could never have served the China market like this project can.

i18n is a technical issue. It cannot solve the issue of "community". There needed to be a Chinese StackOverflow (not a language-translated UI for the same site), and now there is.

If your server isn't in China, it may as well not exist. You heard me right. If you want a regular user base interacting with your app in China, you must have a server in a data center in China. To run such a server in China, you must have an ICP (Internet Content Provider) license. These licenses can only be held by a Chinese national. If you are running a U.S. or EU based SaaS and do not understand this and do not partner with someone in China that can run your Chinese version of your service, you may eventually get copied. Its not about right or wrong. Its a matter of access for your users.

There is nothing devious about this Chinese "StackOverflow". Its clearly a copy and the writers open sourced it. I have seen devious. This isn't it.

Congrats again!!! This is a great step forward for the China programmer community.

...and congrats to StackOverflow for making something worth copying.
Don't worry, I enjoy this kind of threads :-) I will contact the programmers of SO and offer my help to translate CNProg to other languages now I know it's an Open Source initiative.
"Your concept of a woman needing to be 'pure' and fitting some set of standards you impose on them is a recipe for disaster."

You have got to be kidding me. He's imposing standards on women? Since when did being selective about people who you start relationships with become an act of imposing standards on other people?

When you selectively choose your co-founders, are you imposing your set of standards on them? Is it a recipe for disaster? When an interviewer for a popular company is more concerned about false positives than false negatives, is that a recipe for disaster?
Peer-to-Peer, personal web platform: Tonido
I'm no security guru but with a little sensibility on the website itself could lessen the security risk from dictionary attacks.
If you allow 3 login attempts before requiring a captcha, or set a maximum number of attempts per hour, giving your users more memorable passwords shouldn't be too much of a risk.
I use song lyrics as passwords. I pick a song, then take the first letter from either each word, or each line (depends what works best).
Tonido offers personal web applications that run from your desktop without relying on 3rd party servers.Our business strategy is to position Tonido as an alternative to online services(cloud) and emphasize privacy, control of data and online freedom etc. We believe in it too. Is it a right strategy to become a purple cow and get traction among subset of internet users? If you think we are wrong what are the alternative strategies that we can employ? Enlighten us.
Hmmm... Using the UNIX word list for password resets may lead to passwords like "oversexed#asshole". May not be the best password to send to your users.

I would suggest trimming the wordlist before use, if you plan to use it for handing out passwords.
edb is skeptical (as am I) because people are good at deceiving themselves, e.g. I'm not racist/sexist, I can quit drinking/smoking/snorting anytime I want, all my relationships fail because the other person is a jerk/bitch/slut, my code contains no bugs. Until the test coverage is high, your confidence at how correct your code/assumptions are should be low.
And if it happens on television it clearly is indicative of real life?

"Friends" also happened on TV, in New York, and i'd say it's got a decidedly different view of the world and relationships (and it was certainly at least as popular as Sex and the City, if not more so).

And the problem is not whether it's intrinsic or learned behavior. You are ascribing things that are questionably true in the extreme to people who you do not know, and can not know the disposition of.

Pop culture certainly has some influence on the real world, but i'm afraid you are either very shallow, or very naive if you're buying your world view from a television show (or in opposition to it).

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Your concession that men could be equally unfit is rather hollow in the context of what you've said, particularly given the things you cite. Sex and the City in particular is a show with an entirely female main cast, and the show is about their lives. :p So i'm not all that mollified to be frank.
Its not borderline fraud. Fraud is an act of deception. There is no deception here.
What I like more than anything is that you're 1) creating your own tools for collaboration and 2) trying to solve design problems. It makes me think of 37signals and how basecamp was born, and also makes me a bit jealous because I fall into the mindtrap that programmers have more fun problems that they can hack on.

So yes, even if it's not for me, well done!
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Yeah. I addressed that in the post. The odds are low, though, and come on, most users would have a good laugh ;)
barredo, I understand this is what it "seems to be".

The "Copy western things, making them cheaper due to their lower salaries" may not be true in this case.

There have been many cases where your view applies. I just do not think so in this case.
The odds are low, though, and come on, most users would have a good laugh ;)

Not very reassuing to anyone with a business. It wouldn't be hard to filter potentially offensive passwords, especially given that false positives don't matter.
I was just rereading this and thought of some more interesting context:

This was the KDE project. Harri got in and first wrote ... a modem dialer. Non-trivial, but not exactly mind blowing. A couple years later and much learned, as HTML / JS support was being added, he wrote the JS engine.

I came in and wrote a crappy little flash card application since I was learning German at the time, then an MP3 tagger. The tagger went on to become a full-fledged music jukebox, and I rewrote the ID3v2 and meta-data layer to become TagLib, which has now become more or less the standard ID3v2 implementation (used by most OSS software, Last.fm and a handful of proprietary apps).

In both cases we started small, bumped up our skills and then wrote something with some staying power. When people have done hard projects, it's easy to think it's because they were just born that way, but most of the time, they just kept learning, kept getting better, and eventually had some significant hacker mojo.
DDoS would be gang-rape
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I do not think this new site is fraudulent or confusing to its users. I'm sure the vast majority of Chinese users will know this new site is a clone of StackOverflow.

Here's your litmus test:

If both sites exist and users in China overwhelmingly chose the new China based one, doesn't it prove that this new site is providing something that the original did not or could not provide?
Oh yeah! Let's take some random product and add 'Google' to it.

Google chewing gum!
Google soft candy!
Google mortgages!

I thought this nonsense ended with AllAdvantage.com...
Maybe a little OT: there was a time when you would get complete schematics for hardware you bought. I remember getting reams of circuit diagrams for DEC computers and peripherals. DEC also had great little handbooks with info on how each I/O register in the interface cards worked. Of course, those were also the days when their field service engineers would show up with an oscilloscope and a soldering iron to fix your computer.
I find it can either harm or help. One tends to be happier in a relationship, which makes one do better work. But it also takes time away from work. So the best case (for work) is a relationship that makes you happy but doesn't take up too much time.
I disagree. I've found that if you rock their world, women (and men) will overlook many problems. So instead of trying for a higher score than her, which doesn't improve her life any, just be the most fun, interesting, exciting guy she's ever met, and not worry about the other stuff.
To bring up the even more obvious, maybe you shouldn't be "passing judgement" at all.

"The worst side effect of casual sex is its cultural effect."

Mere speculation.

""Hookup culture" is extremely debased"

In your opinion, perhaps; I have no problem with it, and seems natural enough. Let people do what they will.

"and elevates deviant behavior to accepted status, if not a social requirement in some circles"

I would love to hear why you think sex is "deviant". It seems natural and healthy to me; after all, we were all born with the equipment built right in.

"being inexperienced, even for moral reasons, is looked down upon by many women in New York"

Being inexperienced in any important skill is good reason to be looked down upon. Your "moral reasons" are likely baseless. Why don't you try going and getting a job and see what they think of your inexperience, "even for moral reasons".

"However, if the sex is entirely private, and doesn't involve the woman I end up marrying, then I don't know about it, it's none of my business"

Even if you do know about it, it's still none of your business. Who do you think you are?

"What I don't like is living in a culture that engenders distrust and dislike between the sexes"

I have the feeling that the "distrust and dislike" you are evidently experiencing has nothing to do with culture and everything to do with women learning about your ridiculous beliefs. You've certainly attracted your fair share of "distrust and dislike" right here, and most of us aren't even women.

"and encourages dishonorable behavior in young people"

That's your opinion, and yours alone. I doubt you can back it up with anything other than "gut feeling".

"It seems like a lot of young American men behave unscrupulously and rack up a number not because they want to do so, but because of social pressures"

This is just laughable. I assure you, guys sleep with women because they want sex, not because of social pressure to "rack up numbers". And also, I love how you give a free pass to men (peer pressure!) but women are "immoral".

"they know most women won't respect them if they aren't at least as experienced as they are."

That's right. Women want to be treated right and they aren't interested in some hopeless n00b who doesn't know what to do. Like, say, you.

What a bunch of confused, regurgitated nonsense. You need to stop making foolish excuses and just go and get laid already.
You could always setup your own (the Arc source is available) - I have a feeling branching out like reddit could dilate the quality here (not that there's that much wrong with reddit (in comparison to places like digg), but it's just different).
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Start off by taking a look at the 'Coke' group on facebook. They have more that 3 million facebook users who have joined the group. Each of those users invites other users to join the group. Now Coke can 'push' a message to everyone of those 3 million users without any cost at all. It's advertisement, but there is no budget at all!

But it's more than that, Coke can actually look at what its biggest fans want. They have a 3 million strong userbase against which they can run surveys, see what the feeling about marketing campaigns is, etc.

Also, everybody who searches for a particular persons name on google will likely see his facebook page appearing. The public search listing for the person includes the message 'Coke'. This is akin to a personal recommendation from one person to another, that coke is good. This is a dream scenario for a brand.

Twitter is useful when the brand is a personality. People want to interact with brands who are personalities, and twitter offers a direct way to do so, and create personal nuance in the brand.
Academic Hacker News: it's like reddit.com/r/compsci

http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~ad/news/
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sho, you downvoted me, but do you see what I mean now? Maybe I didn't lay it out as clearly as you did.

But my personal theory is he just posts this stuff to stir up shit, and see if he can convince some other marginalized guys to swing to his worldview, rather than any kind of actual question he wants answered.

Every time the topic comes up (or he brings it up), he goes on and on about how American women are worthless this, and Sex and the City that.

It's a twisted attempt at pedagogy (translation: trolling, with a purpose), not Hacker News.
I think every sunday is supposed to be Analog Sunday. Not just on 4/20 (which is a Monday this year).
Regardless of reason, the parent has the ultimate right to decide for his and her children. The government takes a back seat. True liberty lies in the capability to make decisions that the majority disagrees with.

Besides -- if these children do catch communicable diseases, and your children are vaccinated, what are you worried about?
Does anyone know if something like this exists for C? It would be nice to be able to call it from $LANGUAGE.
In the right bottom corner there is a CC-wiki logo with link to creativecommons.org
If you only immunize 50% of each generation against a virus, then you slow the transmission rate of the virus, but you also allow the number of susceptible individuals to grow over time. Eventually, the number of susceptible individuals reaches a critical threshold, and outbreaks occur.

Because this process takes years, by the time the outbreaks begin, the average age of the un-immunized population has increased. On the other hand, if nobody is immunized, most people will acquire the virus at a young age, become naturally immune (or die), and the average age of incidence will be low.

Here's a link to a slideshow that explains the concept in greater detail (I've started it at a slide that discusses the Greek rubella outbreak, but if you want the mathematical models, go back to slide 1):

http://www.pitt.edu/~super1/lecture/lec1181/023.htm
After a number of relationships with women all over the creative spectrum, ie. a working artist to someone who could care less about any creative endeavor; I can say that the deciding factor in my productivity has always been me. This is despite my best efforts to abdicate the responsibility many times when things aren't going right (productivity or personal). Creativity needs inspiration, if you can't get it one place then get it from another.

As for being productive, a relationship is like any other engagement that takes up time. It works best if you can block off time for it, then actually do something in that time for the relationship. Just sitting around and watching tv with your honey-doo is neither productive for your work nor the relationship - go out and take a walk together or something. Just my 2 cents, not that I would dare claim I know enough about women to make a definitive answer on the subject.
I used it recently for analysis of PDF articles.

It's quite good, though as it is written in pure Python, it's rather slow (especially compared to command line tools written in C/C++).

I strongly recommend using Psyco [1]. Adding few lines of code cut my PDF->HTML conversion times by half.

Also, be warned that markup it produces can be very heavy. Depending on how PDF is structured, you can finish with huge amount of DOM elements.

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[1] http://psyco.sourceforge.net/
guys... if you were hackers... you'd be getting the source and studying it not complaining about the ethics or ability to monetize or how much time or money they spend on it.
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When I was single I hacked for hacking's sake. Really hard sexy problems. Didn't care for the world. That also meant keeping a dull, soul sucking job for the sake of bills, and rushing home in the afternoons to do what I love.

Now that I'm in a loving, supportive relationship; we decided to pool our resources and each of us pursues our dreams. I am working on my start up, she is a singer, we have money coming in and we're saving allot. Sometimes I freelance on the side, other times she does a corporate gig. It's good to have someone coming home to you to ask you "honey how was your day".
Good point. Having rich parents seems to be a big ace in the hole here.
http://www.youthoughtwewouldntnotice.com/

(More for art, but same idea.)
It is reducing the search space drastically: Word (about 30% of the total length, and might be capitalized) + number (15%) + symbol (1 character) + word (50%).

The search space for a length n is: 2 x 26^(n/3) x 10^(n/6) x 30 x 26^(n/2) = 60 x 26^(5/6 x n) x 10^(n/6) = 60 x 10^(5/6 x n x log10(26)) x 10^(n/6) =~ 6 x 10^(1.17914n) x 10^(0.16666n) = 6 x 10^(1.34581n)

So that's about a 6 followed by 1.5n zeroes of search space for length n, approximately. Using only 100 characters of the ASCII code tables, you have a search space of 10^(2n) possible passwords, which is about n/2 orders of magnitude larger than Haddock's search space.

Disclaimer: I'm a HS student, no crypto folk, so the above might be wrong, but it's basic combinatorial stuff. And that's just theory, in practice, with just "password1", "letmein" and "123456" for a dictionary attack, you can hack into like 3% of the accounts of a site that doesn't use Haddock.

Edit: Oh, I didn't even think of this: THE WORDS ARE ALL VALID ENGLISH WORDS! That makes hacking in a lot easier.
Netflix needed a formal measure for their contest, so RMSE is a useful one while "making people happy" is not. A business that relies on recommendation can plug a new algorithm with better RMSE and get improved results immediately, it is an important part of the puzzle.
I'm not just being flip by saying this: You went to the wrong school.
I have often wanted to set up a HN for the humanities.
"how would you defend yourself against a particularly cheeky content stealing jerk who claims that you stole her content?"

I defend myself by embedded comments, and sometimes by fictitious entries

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fictitious_entry

that mark my work as plainly my own. I learned a story about this when I was in school. In World War I, the Heast newspaper chain appeared to be copying Associated Press stories from the eastern front, and the AP started running stories about a Russian general Nelotsky who was enjoying great success against the Germans. Pretty soon the Hearst newspapers picked up the story too, and then AP revealed that "Nelotksy" was a completely fictitious name of a nonexistent person, based on a reversal of the spelling of the word "stolen." I was able to catch a plagiarist red-handed with a similar technique.

I will say that I like the post-Google era better than I liked the era of the hand-edited Yahoo directory, as Yahoo's original directory pointed to my site in one category, but also pointed to a very blatant plagiarist of some of my best content from another category. Since Google page rank has ordered search results, generally people who search for content on the issues I write about best are able to find my site first, not the plagiarists.
I suppose I should provide more warning in the documentation itself. It is an easily resolvable issue, though, as you point out.
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You say you're a cultural conservative, and your comments are about women in NYC. NYC is one of most anti-cultural-conservative places in the US. It's not surprising there aren't many women there who share your perspective. Perhaps you should go to a more balanced (with respect to your wishes) part of the country.
A very good point, though I would encourage something closer to 25 or 100 login attempts. Don't punish clumsy users for having a secure password, but prevent brute-forces by all means.
Yes, that's the best way to prevent account hijacking, in my opinion. Or block the IP for 30 minutes after 5 failed logins, that renders any dictionary attack terribly inefficient.
25 or 100?

First attempt: quick typing, conscious mistake.

Second attempt: quick typing, wrong password again.

Third attempt: okay, I'll type it in carefully now. Wrong password.

Fourth attempt: oh, yes, that was my Yahoo! password. Remembers password and enters it cautiously, because he/she knows that he has a maximum of 5 login attempts.

Five are enough for me. Or at most 10. 100 seem ridiculous. How often does it happen that you mistype your password 99 times and get it right on the one-hundredth, before you're tired of being shown the "wrong password" message and click the "forgot password" link?
I upvoted you on your next comment. Of course I agree with your sentiments (in this instance), I just don't like the use of labels in general. Nothing personal.

Even so, I don't think "sexist" and "mysogynist" really cover it. It's more just general confusion and misguided thinking, the women-related stuff just seems like a sort of byproduct or artefact. I won't speculate on reasons, I'm not a psychologist.

Anyway, yes, I also suspect a single-issue pedagogue with an axe to grind. Ah well, c'est la vie. And no, it's definitely not Hacker News.

(edited to remove badly-explained, extreme example of voting standards)
Go look at yourself in the mirror. Do you see a number stamped on your forehead? Unless an individual has been monitored 24/7 since (s)he hit puberty, there's no way of knowing how many persons that individual has slept with. Women aren't interested in numbers per se, they're interested in meeting confident and socially savvy men.

If you're a guy who's social, cool and fun to hang around with, people will tend to assume that you've slept with more than a few women. If you on the other hand come off as a bitter and angry person, most people will think that your "number" is low or non-existant, because you're displaying some very unattractive traits.
What exactly is the problem? The original stack overflow is CC-SA. This website: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/ says what it is meant by that:

You are free:

- to Share — to copy, distribute and transmit the work

- to Remix — to adapt the work

Under the following conditions:

- Attribution ...

- Share Alike ...

The Chinese cite shows that it is CC-SA (right bottom corner). Furthermore it freely acknowledges that it is based on stackoverflow. You can look at the blog [here](http://translate.google.com/translate?prev=_t&hl=en&...)

Here is an [answer](http://209.85.229.132/translate_c?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&sl=...) to what the relationship is between cnprog.com and stackoverflow:

The creation of CNProg are stackoverflow inspiration comes from (see "Why CNProg.COM create?")

SO once made to us, but because of Jeff and his team are currently no plans for localization, so we have created to serve the Chinese programmers CNProg. And our platform is already open source code, welcome like-minded friends to join us, millions of programmers to provide a domestic major technical Q & A community.

I can not see that anything morally wrong was done by creating this site - and it serves a useful purpose (by helping those people who speak Chinese).

> The language argument is a red herring that appeals to an outdated, pre-communications revolution worldview

This is the typical view of an English centric person. There are billions of people for who English is not a first language and whose second language English is not up to the standard that they can communicate with.

But who cares? I am sure that there are enough Chinese -speaking people to make this site a success.
Nice stuff. So many public documents are released in PDF format instead of an easy to work with plain text format.
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