skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have been thinking about this a little and a lot of this is to do with weighting. THe simplest starting point I can imagine is the value of a like in the overall search should be weighted by the total number of likes given by that person.

So a like from Robert Scoble will be 0.0000001% of the value of a like from my maiden aunt who has only liked three restaurants in her home town since she was given a iPhone for Xmas.

What will really force this to take off is the ability for a like from Robert Scoble / Aunty Mable to be tracked to me liking the same restaurant -> and so there being a like-rank
value

I think it is this:

L = ((1/TotalUserLikes) / totalWeightedLikesOfRestaurant) * numberOfSubsequentLikes
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Once you stop complaining about how difficult it is to become financially independent in this economy and look in how you spend your money, the mustachian philosophy is a viable way of life.
The headline is implicitly related to the article, but at no point is that question explicitly posed.

However I think it's a good point so I'll bite.

There are many reasons for Agile and Lean and there are also differing interpretations for what it means. However, generally it does mean continuous improvement as opposed to blue skies type innovation. Usually this is a good idea since it removes product development risks. A lot of people aren't very good at getting things done, aren't that good at coming up with creative ideas, and given too much lee-way will hide inside the red tape you've created for them; for most companies it's more important to get something out than it is to innovate. Similarly this is the reason for closed-allocation policies, etc.

Of course, if you are in the top 20% then you possibly could be ultra innovative, creative and productive in a less restrictive environment...

Not that agile or lean are about process of course, but the interpretation by most companies is very different from the original manifestos.
Are you starting with no programming experience? If not, what programming languages or frameworks do you know? What is your ultimate goal for programming? Are you building a product, a consultancy, or a hobby?
(As some others have suggested--) I'm moving on from wireframing except when I can draw it by hand. Prototyping with tools like Twitter Bootstrap provides infinitely more value to the client and addresses most of your points (esp re exportability and responsiveness). It really doesn't take much longer (if any longer) than producing a wireframe. If it is, you're either doing it wrong or should brush up on your html markup skills. The need for your own CSS as you suggest to one response is minimal.
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>Why exactly do you feel you have to make lame excuses for the government?

Why do you feel the need to base your entire argument on a slippery slope fallacy? Either they are, and proof is required, or they're not.

The fact that we're talking about the government does not reverse the burden of proof!

>Those scans can be used to reliably identify tents of millions of people.

Have you seen the image output from a backscatter machine? While invasive (ostensibly because they include the genitals), they don't show very good detail. Somehow I efficacy of backscatter machines being used for mass identification purposes and the existence of such a program.
For anyone more interested in this topic, read "The Information", fascinating book.

http://boingboing.net/2012/03/06/gleicks-masterpiece-the.htm...
This is mostly the same vein of stupid as "Macs can't get viruses".

" The average period of time before a Windows PC (connected to the Internet and with a default "Service Pack 2" installation) gets infected is 40 minutes (and it sometimes takes as little time as 30 seconds)."

Ok, so let's plug a 10+ year old unpatched default Linux distro into the net and see how long that lasts?
This is a really fantastic, simple way of looking at it.

There are of course many other factors that go into it. One that may very well work in your favor is saving while living in a big city, then moving some place small later on. This could cut your living expenses by a percentage big enough to make a very significant difference in the number of years you have to work.

Of course, once you involve kids, the whole thing becomes a lot less predictable.
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Keep in mind the old saw, don't ascribe to malice that which is explained by incompetence. Any site with a bunch of scripting buttons and "partner content" and AJAXy stuff laboriously glued on by legions of mediocre and outsourced developers over multiple years will find itself prone to screwing up the browser history accidentally. And when it happens, it's not anybody's job responsibility to fix it or even care about fixing it.

That said, yeah Wired may be doing it on purpose, but we don't know either way, unless someone uncovers some too-clever-to-be-a-mistake behavior in the code.
> But Linus said she lied.

Strictly speaking, he didn't.

"Compare these two statements - one from July 2011, one from yesterday, and tell me Carmen Ortiz isn't lying.."

Perhaps Linus' words were "carefully crafted" too. He didn't strictly say she was lying, but he sure did imply that she was deliberately deceiving.

You said:

"If Linus said she made two _deliberate deceptions_, he'd be absolutely correct."

Hmmm...

(FWIW, I think deliberate deception is the same thing as lying)
>I've stopped buying myself a new computer every six months or so.

Err.. why would you do that to start with? Even my hardcore gaming friends can make machines last for years.
This shocking new revelation no doubt completely undermines the integrity of Y Combinator. I for one am off to update Sendmail accordingly in disgust ;)
Well, I'm a nerd but I do agree with the bully. I don't think that the severity of a crime should be judged by a victim's reaction to it. While I see how a suicide might bring notoriety to a problem, I don't think it changes the nature of what was done. It's similar to the Tyler Clementi case, who killed himself because he was being videotaped in gay acts by his roommate. I never thought it was fair that the bully in this case would be held accountable for essentially the entirety of our society's homophobia just because his actions were the final straw. He should have been punished the same that anybody would be for video taping their roommate in a sexual act and publishing it online (which I do recognize as severe bullying and very wrong). I believe that his official charges were along those lines, but it was clear it was being taken more seriously because of the suicide.

The other thing I hate is the concept of "The" Bully. It's easy to imagine a sick, hateful person, most importantly someone else, and individual bullies certainly exist, but I think the far more common situation is where the bully is a group of people. I think one way to 'Stop Bullying' is to help people understand when they are bullying, instead of just imagining it's something someone else does. I doubt there that many people that never had an adolescent moment where they 'ganged up' on someone (verbally) to feel like they belonged more in a group, or just to give an outsider or a 'runt' of the group a hard time, because it's such an instinctive thing to do. So much so that it's a huge theme of Lord of the Flies, a book everybody reads in high school, but rarely views within the context of their own life.

The most ironic thing about these stop bullying campaigns is so very, very often they reflect the same group bullying mentality they purport to be fighting. All these people 'ganging up' on the prosecutors in this case are example of that. I'm not saying this wasn't a failure of our justice system that should be fixed, only that it at times this is seeming awfully like a witch hunt.
What I am struck with is the complete and total waste of my tax dollars. Academic journals? Funded by, overwhelmingly, public funds? The only people who read these are academics and they get them through University libraries. The whole business model behind these journals is to get money from the authors (essentially tacking on their publication fee to the grant proposal, thus more suckling at the Federal teet). These publications should be free. I don't normally like the idea of law being written from the bench, but where the hell was the judge on this?
> This is vitally important because it means it's impossible for a significant percentage of people to retire early ...

Actually the ugly truth is that this impacts retirement at any age. Whatever way you're preparing retirement, if too many people retire at the same time they'll have to share a smaller pie overall because they'll live on wealth created by those still working, and the purchasing power of their retirement funds will necessarily be re-evaluated (or devalued) to reflect this aspect of reality.
So you made your comment without having even seen the movie? That seems to give you even less of a position from which to call something "brainless crap" surely? If I've mis-spoken because I haven't fully appreciated your decision making process, it's because you didn't make enough of an effort to articulate it in the first place.

But whatever. I think I'll take a lesson from The Hobbit myself right now, which is don't feed the trolls, for nothing good will come of it.
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Forever, since nobody cares about it.
Scholastica had this functionality 11 months ago: http://blog.scholasticahq.com/post/17592143685/arxiv-integra...

What can a small startup do to bring attention to our solution?
It also mentions that this is a "gene therapy".

That implies a whole mess of biological and regulatory hurdles to jump that will exponentiate the time before something like this would be available.
I laughed at the "No more Crapware" and thought of Ubuntu.

How bad is malware? I bought a Dell 3 years ago, and there was virtually no crapware on it...just the Dell service software I believe...
Key point regarding Aaron: "It is hard to imagine Morris doing anything like the Internet worm again, so the need to lock him up is anything but pressing."
Ask a lawyer. I'm guessing you don't have to sell if there's no contractual obligation to do so. Selling may be a good idea anyway, but that's a different matter.
There seem to be two camps on HN, on this issue and on the case in general.

One camp says: "The total penalty possible was 35 years. In general this scared Aaron Swartz. In specific Carmen Ortiz now saying that they weren't pursuing this penalty is a lie, since it was always a possibility."

The other camp says: "Forget the total that was theoretically possible. Every knowledgable person to talk about this case has said that Aaron would almost certainly have gotten only a few months jail time. And this is also what Carment Ortiz meant when she said 'We're only seeking a few months in jail'. Never mind the theoretical maximum that her office published, that's what was actually on the table".

It seems all the arguments here are about which point is "more true", but everyone seems to agree on the basic facts.

The only fact we don't know, is how much the potential, theoretical threat of 35 years in jail affected Aaron. And about that, no amount of internet arguing will help get to the truth.

Personally, I'm in the second camp - I don't see a reason to keep bringing up the 35 year figure, because I imagine that in a similar situation, I would be listening to the many people who know more than me telling me that 35 is not even close to a realistic possibility. And I certainly don't think it's lying for Carmen Ortiz to state the truth: her office did NOT seek the maximum penalty, and this was known to Aaron Swartz.
It really is a great read, and it shows the other side of the story: When there was very little, if any, idea of computer crime enforcement in the Federal government.

Back then there was an a hacker running amok on the Berkeley (yes, that Berkeley) network. Even when they managed to prove that the hacker was coming from overseas (definitely making it a Federal case) they were met with a big giant MEH from everyone they talked to. FBI didn't handle it. USSS didn't care. And on and on it went, until they managed to drag the government (and other parties besides) kicking and screaming into helping them out.
You're right. I'm not a native English speaker and like kghose I was a bit surprised by this number (hence my search for the arXiv budget). After reading your comment I see the ambiguity there.
Oh my. Why would you need to install things? Update all your software with a single click! Mostly! Need new software? Linux searches the web for you! As long as you know roughly what you want anyway. Too many workspaces?! Use windows! No big mess in your start menu! Unless you've taken our advice and let Linux install things for you. Use IM protocols in a single client! Linux only!

Ridiculous.
Disclaimer - I am a foreigner not living in US so I use the most reliable sources to educate myself about US culture - Jon Steward and Stephen Colbert.

By liking I was referring in the way most guys also like powerful cars or F1. Or battleships, planes, carriers, ICBM and the Death Star. They are outstanding pieces of engineering combining some of the best thoughts of some of the smartest people on the planet.

Sadly because it seems in the last 15 years the US Congress is the place where moderate opinions and sanity go to die, due to the wild partisanship and the toxic pollution coming out of the media and the ability of everyone to be outraged about everything all the time the moderate voices have hard time being heard, or even existing because they are pushed to the extremes.
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That's ok until you fuck your back up one day or hurt yourself in some other way.

"What do you mean access denied - I've just got a back ache!"
Jobs and Wozniak were phreakers. America relied on the phone system at that time.
> There are of course many other factors that go into it. One that may very well work in your favor is saving while living in a big city, then moving some place small later on.

That's how I've been doing the math (over, and over, and over) ever since I found this article last night - calculate savings based on my tech job in sf, and then calculate expected expenses based on what it'll be like to live basically anywhere else and maintain the same cost of living (sf is 72% more expensive than portland[0] and a whole lot more expensive than living comfortably off of $10k a year in thailand).

[0] http://www.bestplaces.net/col/?salary=30000&city1=541590...
Or a bum-standard card reader. The DoD CAC is actually supported on Linux too (w/ Firefox) if you know the right incantations.
cf. baby boomers.
Rank them by how far left their ideas were on IP? That makes absolutely no sense. The biggest copyright trolls are on the left. Unless you mean "left" to represent the ideology root of the copyright trolls today.
It is a physical key but with a format that makes it more like your car keys. Do you always leave the keys on you car ?
Ok, so let's plug a 10+ year old unpatched default Linux distro into the net and see how long that lasts?

Yep true, but SELinux is 10 years old now, and with it enabled? I bet it would do a lot better than an unpatched Windows box.
Pwning Linux boxes is big business, since there's a good probability that it's a server with some nice bandwidth behind it.
Yes, I know.

So I guess if you meant subset, then you didn't mean to write "quantum ___non-deterministic___ Turing machine in P-time"?
I was annoyed by georgeorwell's self-righteous tone as well. Pejorative or not, the homelessness in San Francisco is a substantial social and economic problem that does require something different than what we have right now, and whitewashing the language certainly isn't going to help matters.

That said, you're also completely out to lunch.

> "Especially when these people have all the resources in the world to get out of their situation.

They can? Have you been homeless, or worked with the homeless? What do you think is a sufficient upside to convince someone to be hated by everyone around them, be addicted to all kinds of dangerous chemicals, shit on the streets, and sleep in their own filth?

Do you also realize that the majority of the homeless population suffers from severe mental illnesses - severe enough to make them effectively non-functioning? Do you know the proportion of the homeless population who are veterans suffering from PTSD?

So you have a group of people who are, predominantly, suffering from a wide variety of mental illnesses that prevent them from functioning in life, and they have "all the resources in the world" to get out of it. Right. That's like chaining someone up, giving them a nail file, and asserting that they have all the tools to get out of it.

Hell, even if we institutionalized most of these people the bulk of them won't ever "get out of it". There are two distinct classes of the homeless - the situationally homeless, and the chronically homeless. Most liberal-minded people like to believe that all homeless are capable of being returned to "normal", where in fact a large portion of them will never escape their mental illnesses enough to be functional members of mainstream society, even with the best of help.

> "Often they have better apartments than the people they are begging money from."

Citation needed on this. There are, of course, some people out there scamming a quick buck by taking advantage of the homelessness situation. Did you watch that one NBC expose on that one woman in Queens, NY, and extrapolate this to all homeless?
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"it would surely mainly be used for military/political purposes"

in the same way that roads were built for military purposes, and the Arpanet was built for military purposes?
Christ, many of us on this site could likely get away with retiring now & moving to Thailand, if you really can assume 5-7% long(long!)-term returns on the stock market.
One could probably say the same about a well hardened winXP box.
With the caveat that a huge proportion of lawmakers are lawyers.
This is somewhat misleading, because the primary thing that allows these accelerated numbers is an extremely low spending rate. IE you can retire in 2 years if you save 95% because somehow you are able to live on only 5% of your take home pay (in his 50k example, this would mean you could live on $166 per month).

I completely agree with his philosophy of living below your means, but just realize that whatever level you are living at when making these kind of savings is the same level you'll need to live at in retirement given these terms.
Many people need to work for someone they don't want to work for.
Is this book going to be finished any time soon, or will it sit in the 'Alpha' state until you guys need more money? (cough John Resig cough)
> There was something else going on in his life that we don't and most probably won't know or ever understand that lead him to take his own life.

And you know this how?
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Sorry I focused solely on Windows, but to my knowledge all platforms we support have similar architectural niggles in terms of the GPU process being able to read anything that's displayed.
>it's impossible for a significant percentage of people to retire early unless the remaining workforce becomes correspondingly more productive.

This is an important point that's often hand-waved away in discussions of retirement, future earnings, and the aging population. However, productivity IS improving and its effects over the long run dwarf all these concerns.

I think productivity improvements are difficult to "feel" because we all think about productivity in terms of our personal lives day-to-day, but not in the long term integrated over the entire economy. I certainly don't feel like I'm 16% more productive than I was 10 years ago, but that's because I'm in a different job category with more experience etc. But a hypothetical worker today doing the same job I did ten years ago probably is much more effective than I was.

Here's a good overview of productivity improvements: http://www.cepr.net/index.php/blogs/cepr-blog/the-nonsense-a...
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Graham also lists Morris as one of his personal heroes, saying "He's never wrong."[citation needed]

Haha, it almost looks like [citation needed] is the part of the quote.
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I don't see way I can't update this hypothetical heuristic collection. :)
This seems like an interesting solution to me. Obviously we have gotten to a point where our computing power has rendered the kind of passwords that most people can easily remember and use fairly trivial for many password cracking methods, and so there is a clear need to develop a convenient method of using more complex methods of authentication.

The idea of using a smartphone as a central area for things such as identification and payment(Google Wallet) has been something i've been interested in for a while, and something I think could be amazing if we manage to work out a few kinks that are in the way of making it a viable option.

For this to become a reality i think there are 3 main things that would need to happen:
1) Battery life on smartphones would have to become a lot better, I don't want to have to worry about if I'm going to have enough battery at the end of the day to pay for dinner, get into my car, etc.
2)The ability to remotely clear data on a device that may have been stolen need to become a standard.
3)There need to be some sort of authentication between the user and the device in order to approve the use of stored authentication.
I'm pretty sure that since his sorcerers apprentice moment RTM learned a thing or two.