skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not referring to her losing her job.

I'm referring to the threats of vigilante justice that seem to be going around, as mentioned by the linked article.
"It took a while, with this it wouldn't take a while." I think that inherently qualifies as easier.
Facebook 'Graph Search' mines 1 billion people, 1 trillion connections
sure, i get the "better way to work with facebook's site" aspect, and i'm sold on that, but that doesn't seem to be how either facebook or the press is trying to sell it

(I wouldn't be so harsh if it was just the press trying to sell it this way, since the press is always trying to generate clicks :P)
I was not under the impression that public sector employees are paid significantly less than private sector. This seems to be the most reputable source I could find:

http://www.cbo.gov/sites/default/files/cbofiles/attachments/...
It just sounds to me that you're saying it's tough for a guy that doesn't understand the cultural norm. The States seem to favor ambiguity over being very straightforward. I feel that there are definitely benefits to this approach, but if you don't learn to navigate it, things will be more difficult.
> If I go into the network closet at Lockheed-Martin and do the same thing, it's a big fucking deal.

Not if you're already using the network at Lockheed-Martin, and the "network closet" is the only quiet place that has an ethernet port and a chair because it doubles as sleeping quarters for the local homeless population. But presumably at Lockheed-Martin, they bother to maintain some physical campus security, including the locks on their doors, and don't have an environment primarily based on openness and exploration.

MIT is also a key piece of Cambridge, which is a key piece of Massachusetts, which is a key piece of the US, which is a key piece of the world. OMFG Aaron was hacking the planet!! And yeah I've no doubt the police thought that, partially because it's good investigation, but largely because they gain funding and importance by overblowing every possible threat. See also: small town cops getting helacopturs in case terrists try to blow up their water tower. But this is mostly irrelevant anyway, as it should have been sorted out by the legal system.

Now I know that over the past few days, you've been seeing a lot of tenuous reasoning based on blind emotional outrage. But buried in there, there's also been plenty of well reasoned analysis as to the actual causes of this outrage, that you have been ignoring (overly broad law which criminalizes every online activity, ridiculously harsh penalties for digital trespassing, denied right of due process due to immediate $1.5MM fine, denied right of jury trial under threat of multiplying his sentence by one and a half orders of magnitude).

If you honestly cannot understand that these things are major systematic problems facing all hackers, I question why you're even on HN. Wouldn't you be happier over at some lawyer forum where you can pretend that your system works, its errors are just "people doing their jobs", hacking (the breaking of abstractions) is a mortal crime against the state , etc ? I know that the world hackers have built currently looks an awful lot like your comfortable feudalism, but please just take our 'gifts' of phpbb and facebook and resume leaving us alone so that we may progress our world in peace.
What about Cloudera?
I have been searching for MMS API provider, but couldn't find any. I was hoping this news is about Twilio supporting MMS but it is not.

What is difficult about supporting MMS? No one seems to offer it.
Not sure if anyone has mentioned this yet, but if you watch the video on the bottom part of the page with Zuck, one of them explicitly says how this product competes with Google. Something about how if two people search for Apple on Google, they'll get the same results, but if they search Apple on FB Graph Search, they'll get personalized results. It's really interesting from a technology perspective the way that search is becoming personalized, and we've definitely seen Google eyeballing search personalization, but it's been limited pretty much to geo and the limited info on G+. Facebook is uniquely positioned to use the volume of data on each person to provide more meaningful results.

From a revenue perspective, I think this is definitely competitive to Google. Not saying it will succeed, but businesses will definitely see value in advertising to hyper-specific segments and personal groups. It sounds strange to say, but I do think UI and speed will be key components of whether FB GS will do well. Search is a convenience market, and if FB GS isn't convenient, Google is always one click away.
A whole $50?! Colorado: $1.00 for your Articles of Incorporation (Corp) or Articles of Organization (LLC). It's online filing.. takes a day(?).

http://sos.state.co.us/pubs/info_center/fees/business.html#B...
Looks like head-on with Google, and then why not? The results are specific to a user and his/her taste or surroundings. Something that Google also tries to achieve using history.

Would love to give it a sping. Waitlisted, uh.
You can downvote people? how?
Techcrunch gets crunched - Chrome blocks articles due to malware
Per google: Of the 6339 pages we tested on the site over the past 90 days, 122 page(s) resulted in malicious software being downloaded and installed without user consent. The last time Google visited this site was on 2013-01-15, and the last time suspicious content was found on this site was on 2013-01-15.
I forgive you. (No, seriously, this bugged me too, but it's the sentiment that counts)
I made Facebook Graph Search a year ago
That is correct. Ms. Ortiz is a political appointee, she can be replaced at the discretion of the President.

The standard procedure is to ask the official to resign.
However, I think people do get too wrapped up in superficial likes / dislikes as a filtering mechanism

And the nature of dating sites is to foreground this method of "analyzing" potential dates, which I think has to be a huge weakness in the whole model. This is to say, it's the only thing people can do on these sites.
Yes, things have changed. But the responsibility for updating the law lies with the legislative branch, not so much the executive.
Misstatement In Operative Report Not A Crime, Doctors' Group Tells Court
... Search is how a large portion of money is made on the internet. This is quite obviously a move to stop people from going to Google for some types of monetizable search queries (movies, music, local, etc).
So, there can't be a disagreement over what the definition of what a modern government is or what's required to run it? What if my idea of a modern government costs less than your modern government?

What if my modern government gives out free money taken from people, through high taxation, with screen names that start with j? Can I tell you to shut up because you are refusing to provide the funds necessary to run a modern government?

Keep in mind that different people have different ideas about what is needed in government. Debates over taxation is just simply a symptom of that.
Hi all, I'm Zafir from the App Engine team. We're trying to resolve these issues as quickly as possible. For updates, you can follow @app_engine on Twitter or the thread we are updating on Google Groups: http://goo.gl/wur3v
I think that difference is a given.
Do both: each layer and service in an application should be able to manage its own load. Helps prevent cascading failures too.

Read up on Netflix's architecture, where they've talked about this a lot. And the book "Release It!: Design and Deploy Production-Ready Software" (Nygard), though Java-oriented in its examples, covers the concepts well.
This is pretty futuristic, it's SQL for non-techies that pulls from Facebook data. The most inquisitive, but not enough to be a programmer and deal with FQL and code, will find this really useful since they can finally make use of all the objects they've acted upon and entities they've acted with.

It makes Facebook data actually... purposeful.

The next step is still to match purpose with intent to make that money.
LOL, ok, you win.
You will be tempted to tell them about things that you hope will happen (e.g. “I think we’re going to be able to get you a nice raise this year”) Don’t do it. Either it won’t come through and they’ll be disappointed, or it will come through and they will have gotten their hopes up for even more.

I read a good book once by a defector from the Soviet military, explaining the lessons he'd learned as an officer on the other side of the iron curtain (this one: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inside_the_Soviet_Army).

In it he described one thing he'd learned about how to lead people:

Always try to remember the golden rule of controlling others -- NEVER PROMISE ANYONE ANYTHING! If you are able to do something for another person -- do it, without having made any promises.

From this first rule there follows a second -- NEVER THREATEN ANYONE!

You can punish someone and, if you consider it necessary, you should do so. But promises and threats simply weaken your authority as a commander.

(The full text of that chapter from the book is here: http://militera.lib.ru/research/suvorov12/08.html)

This is true in civilian life, too. Promises and threats are just wind that people blow when they can't do what they really want to do. Leaders with real power don't threaten to fire someone; they just fire them. They don't promise to give raises; they just give them.

People understand this, and if you lean on promises and threats, it makes them subconsciously evaluate you as weak, ineffectual. Someone who it's not really necessary to listen to.
People make the same mental error with Ayn Rand's work.
Imo, this is a very smart move if the execution lives up. It gives an incentive to put up even more (structured) information to Facebook, such as Likes/people tags/etc., because now there is a more permanent point to it: it can be discovered by someone much later and become useful and interesting, as opposed to it being interesting merely up to a day on the News Feed and then disappearing forever somewhere deep in your timeline.

In other words, it makes building your profile feel additive and even useful.
I understand. My posts aren't really a complaint where I'm just whining that I can't do anything and I'm giving up. Its more a rant of stuff I have to work around.
Graph Search seems like strange branding to me. I almost didn't click the link because I thought "Graph Search" was a new API and not a user-facing product (to be fair, the context was a posting on HN so I was predisposed to think API). Graph Search's real focus appears to be on the use of natural language and the presentation of/interaction with data. The "Graph" is almost the least interesting about it.
More than half of the states in the Union have some sort of Castle Doctrine or Stand Your Ground law [1]. It's not just Texas.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stand-your-ground_law#United_St...
Facebook: We make you instantly findable by every person who has ever met you, and lots of people that haven't met you...yet.
I was on the dev team that put together the XML data type support in SQL Server. We had bigger dreams back then, and I still do. :)
Newer Macs hide the scrollbar when the pag is not actually scrolling.
You remember incorrectly.

There is no statewide plastic bag ban in California (though some California municipalities have restrictions on plastic grocery bags).

And there is no federal lightbulb ban (there is a federal rule providing energy efficiency standards for certain categories of lightbulbs which sets increasing standards including ones which many currently-popular incandescent bulbs would fail; the intent of the bill was to encourage development and sale of more efficient lighting devices, which it has done.)
"Saying they should eliminate one of the better benefits public sector employees get is stupid"

It's not stupid to them, they want labor compliant, they don't want better options available to compare to.

"Why worry about retirement? You should be lucky you HAVE a job..."
Sorry, it's not what I think. I am basing my analysis on the many polls I have seen on what government services people expect. For example a large majority of people expect to have Medicare available to them when they turn 65. I am not talking about European style socialism.
In a clean, private window of safari, I'm seeing 4 videolan results before cnet and others of varying levels of crapitude.
I tend to drop contact with these types very quickly. However in some locations they can very well outnumber the non-manipulative types.
Indeed. Which is exactly why you're better served using a dataset that includes people you don't know (and ideally who aren't like you or else everyone will segment off into the same couple spots like middle school). The wisdom of crowds doesn't mean the wisdom of your rolodex.
I am deeply worried about this too.

I suspect that the data driven Obama administration has full capability to estimate the likelihood of citizens rioting, and determined that providing a "lazy" outlet for frustration would undermine real protest.

It's like how facebook lets you complain about some horrible injustice, which makes you feel like you've done something even though you've done next to nothing.

Very worried.

Especially since I see it happening to me too. When we went to war in Iraq, I was out in the streets marching and holding protest signs. So was almost everyone I know. If we declared war on Iran, would the same happen? My bet is you'd see lots of complaining on facebook, and a petition to not go to war. Maybe emailed letters to representatives in congress. But actual street protests? No way, we can just let anonymous annoy some people for us.
"First of all, I don't know about you, but I don't come to HN and try to have a somewhat intelligent conversation just to be called stupid for expressing an opinion."

He didn't call you stupid for expressing an opinion, he called that particular view stupid.
And Peter Detkin coined the term patent troll and now runs a company that's one of the worlds biggest patent trolls.

Irony? Or just people being willing to do anything for money. There are worse motivations.
Solving the problem was never Columbo's biggest challenge. It was "How can I spend several days or weeks sadistically tormenting the perpetrator before he/she makes some massive blunder?". The thrill for Columbo was in toying with the suspect, fostering FUD, provoking their conscience to eat away at them. In some ways, Columbo was a much sicker person than many of the criminals he brought to justice.
I say this only to help in the future: (Life Pro Tip style)

Do your writing/editing in a separate app/editor window, and then copy/paste it in. This applies to important emails as well, to prevent hitting send before your final draft is done.
> Anecdotally it seems women 28-35 are much more willing to try different methods of dating than younger ones (or are even looking to actually date in general).

This is hardly surprising, because by that time, they're well on their way to becoming "invisible" to men.
I did at one point organize my FB friends into groups like Family, Close Friends, Acquaintances, Distant Friends, People I Know From That One Club, etc. If I were going to use this, I'd probably just filter it to use the Close Friends group. Or if I know I have similar taste to one or two friends, I'd just limit it to them. I dunno, I'm not sure how I feel about this yet, but I can certainly see some ways I could use it.
>No State shall... pass any Bill of Attainder, ex post facto Law, or Law impairing the Obligation of Contracts, or grant any Title of Nobility.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ex_post_facto_law#United_States

This situation was instigated by a successful lawsuit against the FTB. I wonder if another one is on the way. According to this, however, courts have ruled that retroactive tax laws are not considered ex post facto.
If I installed it at the system level, then anything that linked against libxml/libxml2 would have the enhancement. Which is also the biggest reason I'm not going to do it...I'd invariably end up distributing XML with the sugarfied close tag.
Population-wise, Sweden is about the same as new york city.
In the very long term, Mathematica needs an open-source equivalent. Someday Wolfram might open it; it would be a gift to humanity.
There's a difference between just having a Castle Doctrine and being allowed to use lethal force. Because if you are not allowed to use lethal force, you always have to worry about the consequences of killing the intruder.
Have not tried it yet - AppEngine works well enough at present. However, AppScale is just an API shim over memcache and a number of different databases such as Redis or mysql. I don't see any reason why it should not work just as well as building directly onto those, and the strict limits placed on the AppEngine DS should make it easy to shard mysql instances.
>It should never take two years and millions of dollars to have a case like this settled, one way or the other. It seems a basic violation of human rights that it could happen. This is the general problem that needs to be solved in the US.

>There should also be a push for better use of discretion and 'common sense' from the US judiciary.

I cannot agree with your comments more. When people can't afford justice, justice may as well not exist. And there needs to be a better mechanism in place to thwart over zealous prosecutors from bullying defendants who are, almost by definition, weaker than the prosecution (as they are either less informed about the rules of the game, or have to pay through the nose for the services of someone who does.)
Most people stop reading something after the first few sentences. In that crucial 10 to 15 seconds, a book (or essay, or article, or blog post) has to make, and win, a subconscious appeal to your attention. Your reader's attention span is like a snotty doorman at a hot club. Your opening sentence needs to grab his interest and sneak the rest of the piece into the door.

Consider the following examples from fiction:

"It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen." --George Orwell, 1984

"It was a pleasure to burn." --Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

"As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect." --Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis

Or these examples from nonfiction:

"Air-conditioned, odorless, illuminated by buzzing flourescent tubes, the American market doesn't present itself as having very much to do with Nature." --Michael Pollan, The Omnivore's Dilemma

"I like to take my time when I pronounce someone dead." --Jane Churchon, "The Dead Book"

"Out of nowhere I developed this lump." --David Sedaris, "Old Faithful"

This is not to suggest that opening lines should be pure gimmickry, or that they should be conceived entirely apart from the rest of the piece itself. Provocation for provocation's sake is a game of diminishing returns. Rather, the opening line should immediately intrigue the reader by establishing a compelling tone -- one that the rest of the work will follow.

Compelling does not necessarily mean brief, though in modern practice, the two are frequently corelated. That being said, some of the best opening lines in literary history are long and winding. The key is setting up intrigue, however many words that may take.
How much information on sushi places in Palo Alto is your grandma pumping into the system to dominate that sector? Is she checking into multiple sushi places dozens of times a day? It's like supplementing every google query with -site:4chan.org on the off-chance a search for a camera lens spec or node.js tutorial would lead to 4chan.
Navy's $670 Million Fighting Ship Not Expected to Be Survivable —Pentagon
Sobering Thought: If you can go to jail for slightly misstating your procedure on a operation notes 2 week after the fact, many Doctors will stop taking Medicare Patients out of fear. This is the opposite effect of what the Government should want Doctors to do!

New Technology needs to be introduced into the operating room to record everything to the point where operative notes are deemed primitive.
Copyright “Strike” Systems Are Modern Witch Trials
Electricity is being worked on, as that press release indicates. On the hottest day or two of the year, the power might go out for a little bit. It's not a big deal.

Water is going to be the biggest issue this legislative session. California has similar water problems.

Schools... are complicated. That one might not get fixed, but performance is better correlated with household income than education spending.

Roads are easy. Tolls. The people who use the roads pay for them.

Texas is my home state as well. I went to California for a few years, then came back. I don't plan on leaving.
Of course. The American system is in dire need of reform in the direction of actual rehabilitation, but adopting a carbon copy of the Norwegian system overnight would be a terrible idea. The current economic system of the United States pushes millions of people into a level of poverty completely unheard of in my own country. To this class, pursuing a lifelong criminal career may seem to be a reasonable option.

You face the same issues in the gun control controversy. I'm very much in favour of liberal gun laws in Europe. But there is a huge difference between giving guns to hunters and recreational marksmen - and giving guns to inner-city youth participating in organized crime, impoverished lumpenproles or xenophobic, rural jingos.
Check out Enthought http://www.enthought.com/

They create some of the most used open source scientific computing software, and still manage to make money (also, a great place to work in, lots of really smart people)

While this model might not work for everywhere, its possible, it just takes more effort though.
We're investigating. It will take at least a couple days,
because we'll need to meet with the founders in person.

FWIW, the install window Patrick overlaid on top of InstallMonetizer's site in that screenshot is not actually InstallMonetizer.
As a quick follow up in case anyone's interested (having just bought and spun up a 4GB instance), the raw vm performance is fantastic but the control panel functionality is fairly basic in comparison to Linode.

AFAICT, you can't:

- Choose different kernel images

- Resize or alter the disk and swap partitions

- Setup a private network interface

- Specify what action to take if the vm hangs (watchdog)

- Run IPv6

- See machine mem, cpu and bandwidth usage from within the web panel

- Setup IP white lists and security email alerts

- See the progress of queued jobs (e.g. taking a vm snapshot)

So, it's fast but pretty basic. For the price I think it's a great deal and I'm sure some (or all) of the missing features above will be added over time as the service matures.

Edit: I've just discovered you do get a progress bar when taking a snapshot but only if you access the snapshot feature from within the server panel (rather than doing it via the "Images" link on the main left hand menu). They also mention the vm gets powered off while the snapshot is taken but mine stayed up...
Cloud-based deployment automation system for .NET web apps with SQL databases