skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How To Identify a Fake Facebook Profile?
"...people started consuming a lot more."
Awesome feature requests - I've since added them both!
A few of the other projects that people are working on: GitHub for Mac, GitHub for Windows, libgit2, internal tools, ops, Gist, Git
$1.6 Million Tech Incubation Program Launched In Kenya
For those unfamiliar with Carl Malamud, he's a national treasure cataloging and open-sourcing the nation's legal codes, government videos, legal filings and other public documents.

He had Aaron's back many times, including when the FBI was investigating the Pacer liberation. If you want to support the kind of work that Aaron believed in, resource.org takes donations in many denominations.
I would donate more than that to any entity that wants to disrupt this overbearing copyright industry, and that goes especially for sovereign nations.

I'm hoping Antigua goes all out and becomes a data haven that refuses to extradite for IP infringement. Maybe then the industries that are innovating solely in the field of amount of money per lawsuit will then be forced to compete on the merits of their offerings.
The pages are also too wide. Having to do both horizontal and vertical scrolling is severe usability setback.

(I do not run my browser maximized, because too many other sites (e.g. HN) would use up the whole window, making text hard to read. Text is much easier to read when the lines are reasonably short than when they extend across the whole monitor width. And besides, I want to see other windows on my desktop than just my browser.)
Flat cities with a rigid grid are kinda boring and often downright depressing (standing on a street in some of Chicago's neighborhoods, with ticky-tacky little houses marching uninterrupted into the distance as far as you can see, is a soul-sucking experience)...

Limited horizons and change make things interesting. You don't want complete chaos, because things also have to "make sense" to some degree (so complete randomness, like a stereotypical suburban cul-de-sac maze, tends to be bad), but variation is a good thing.

[A nice city to look at for interesting approaches to urban structure which are both somewhat regular, but more interesting that a grid, is Edinburgh, which has seen successive waves of fairly successful urban renewal over centuries, resulting in one of the most beautiful and fascinating cities in Europe. In the "new" parts (150-250 years old as opposed to the older and more organic medieval parts), Edinburgh streets have such features as small localized grids, sized as to with care to avoid large-scale monotony, occasional "circuses" acting as focal points, streets in gentle arcs which are practical for transportation, and yet maintain a constantly evolving street view and horizon, terraces along the sides of parks, etc.]
I've had my account for 2 years with no problems; however, that doesn't ease me the fear that my account may be suspended and require government ID when I hit some limit.

I barely use Dwolla now. Coinbase (YC S12) has replaced it for me.
Very cool! Your jobs page made me think otherwise:

"You're interested in travel (and have ideally done a lot of it) but you're also adventurous enough to pack your bags and join us in San Francisco or Melbourne, Australia. (We'll be happy with a remote working arrangement initially, but we're after people with a willingness to relocate eventually if things work out.)" (emphasis mine)

But in that case you'll be hearing from me shortly :)
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I remember reading somewhere the average swipe fee is 1.6% for cards. Don't know how accurate that is but I'm assuming it's not far off.
This is a wonderful tribute, I was there just now and felt so inspired.
The natural language isn't as flexible as it seems to have been made out to be:

"We've had an an error.
Struggled to complete search: Couldn't find a place called "bali some time in the next 3 months"
Creating the “Decide the Election” Interactive Visualization (d3.js)
What's really confusing is that both are selling at (approximately) 2X sales (backing out Apple's cash).
Fair enough, in the US it apparently only affects the receiver if one can prove they knew they were in receipt of stolen goods.
A good talk, but I feel it's not smart to use the 'Army' definition, espacially because you're non-violent. You're definitely not an army, see Wikipedia: An army (from Latin "arma" “arms, weapons”) in the broadest sense is the land-based military branch, service branch or armed service of a nation or state.

The way this 'game' is played it's not even possible to defend yourselves (by design). And with regards to you're rights, I'm reminded of George Calin: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kgj4ARfAqI0 (from 4:23).
You're partially correct in that you would still be "paying" for the phone through your contract, but once you get the phone, you own it, but because most contracts state that if you were to cancel your contract before its completion, you would have to pay a cancellation fee, most of which would be the "subsidy" portion for your phone.

This is to prevent people from getting iphone 5s for free and then running off with them and selling them on craigslist or china for $1000 (which you'd probably still make money even if you paid the $600 or $700 cancellation fee)
I have a thing for insights. Sometimes simply flipping the normal order of things can make one see life in a completely new way[0] and that fascinates me no end. Eventually I started collecting these at my blog, vjk2005.tumblr.com, which has since expanded beyond a collection of insights[1][2] to include design[3][4], my ideas and thoughts[5][6][7], Photography[8][9], Japan[10][11], Travel[12], pithy quotes[13] and tidbits on technology and nature[14][15].

[0] http://vjk2005.tumblr.com/post/31520538726/the-foundation-of...

[1] http://vjk2005.tumblr.com/post/26155332078/the-power-of-char...

[2] http://vjk2005.tumblr.com/post/23733095311/sunnyballiette-ni...

[3] http://vjk2005.tumblr.com/post/31465598591/fractal-kitchenwa...

[4] http://vjk2005.tumblr.com/post/30946005549/how-to-draw-a-3d-...

[5] http://vjk2005.tumblr.com/post/31581467714/the-difference-be...

[6] http://vjk2005.tumblr.com/post/21642976591/does-time-stop-wh...

[7] http://vjk2005.tumblr.com/post/4615308706/gyrotasking

[8] http://vjk2005.tumblr.com/post/31453294194/qiu-yang-and-colo...

[9] http://vjk2005.tumblr.com/post/31319652284/breathtaking-orie...

[10] http://vjk2005.tumblr.com/post/26159184468/tokyo-1960s

[11] http://vjk2005.tumblr.com/post/21494313892/digital-fishing

[12] http://vjk2005.tumblr.com/post/23339995775/semporna-malaysia

[13] http://vjk2005.tumblr.com/post/39569214423/genius-is-an-afri...

[14] http://vjk2005.tumblr.com/post/30247705546/vladimir-lukyanov...

[15] http://vjk2005.tumblr.com/post/36638052985/the-most-beautifu...
That's good move. OSS software should be written only by passionate engineers for self-realization, not by [outsourced] corporate drones for salary and position.
We didn't make out that we could accept any time string - yet; the power is in the ability to handle flexibility of dates and destinations.

But yes, among many things we need to improve, the search parser needs to be more capable, and we'll be improving that as soon as we can find the time.
Make it even harder for companies to find good programmers?
Low margins, per se, isn't a strategy. Amazon is pursuing a cost advantage [1], and it's choosing to keep its prices very low, hence the low margins. With a cost advantage and low prices, Amazon gives away a lot of value to customers (instead of capturing a lot of value for itself in the form of profits). Its primary objective is to gain market share (i.e., both new customers and a greater portion of existing customers' everyday shopping). With an increase in market share, Amazon can further reduce its costs through economies of scale (i.e., spreading its fixed costs, such as infrastructure and R&D, over a greater number of customers served and products sold).

Amazon's cost advantage and low prices explains why most other online retailers have been unable to gain significant market share and why Amazon is posing an increasing threat to companies like Wal-mart, Target, and Costco.

-

[1] I'd argue that Amazon is actually pursuing a dual advantage, both a cost and value advantage (at least for customers that favor convenience over impulse buying). The value advantage stems from the ability to shop at home, its product reviews, its excellent customer service, extensive selection, etc.
Microsoft study: Linux migration cost Munich €60.7 million
Travelling in Kathmandu right now on a slow connection and haven't managed to load the page after 2 minutes. I guess the target market isn't already traveling...
In what way is the recession caused or exacerbated by a lack of workers?
Fowlt - a free open source context-sensitive spelling checker
Really good work . Was reading your code to catch up on some javascript , but didn't understand what you're doing here . Surely this is a bug ?

https://github.com/jakiestfu/Behave.js/blob/master/behave.js...
I think it is great what you are doing. Of course, this is what travel search should be like. Though, I'm genuinely curious, what are you really trying to achieve? Sure, more flexible nice is great. But it is definitely not a killer feature. Low price seems to be key when it comes to mass air travel. As far as I can tell from the responses, all you do is show fares from airline aggregators (I also got a timeout when I tried). Is this really a viable business model? I'm sure they will eventually come around to offer the same search features that you have. In the meantime, there are already many competitors that offer improved search interfaces (e.g. skyscanner.net, which I have used for my last trip). How are you differentiating yourself from these services? Also, while I think that improved search is needed, I would suggest reconsidering which aggregators you include. For my last trip, I found a great fare on cheapoair.com (through skyscanner), but at the last moment, I was having second thoughts, and decided to google them. Well, to say the least, they do not appear to have a very good reputation. Similar with edreams. But I never booked with them, so perhaps, they are not as bad as some of the online reviews suggest. However, one thing that's pretty vexing is that they often will advertise a fare, but then when you go to there site, and try to book it, it is no longer available. I know that you're just providing their data, but as far as I'm concerned this is a major annoyance. Just yet another reason that makes me doubt your current business model is viable. Not to mention that you are up against sites like travelocity, which is essentially owned by the airlines themselves...would love to hear your side of the story, though!
Dysfunction! The prefix comes from dys- which is the Greek for adding a "bad" sense to the word.

Dis- is from the Latin for "apart, between".

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I see your point, but "Army" in context here doesn't seem threatening. I.E. Salvation Army. Of course, that wouldn't stop those who insist on taking things out of context to fight dirty, which is inevitable.

This was a lot of pent up frustration with not only lawmakers, but also with the rest of us who were blissfully obvlivious.
The XML format is that used internally by the Parliamentary Counsel Office, and is documented here: http://www.pco.parliament.govt.nz/assets/Uploads/lenz-8-dtd-...
The Writing Idiomatic Python eBook is Finally Available
Dear Facebook: Please learn how to design Android apps that don't suck
Being able to "afford" n children all depends on your definition of the word. Consumption per child is much higher now than it has ever been.
+ wife those on H1B can work: currently regulations successful discouraged many europeans and let to abuses in other countries: http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2004/10/20/dangers_of_the/

+ cap increase for H1B

+ easier green cards for US STEM students

- easier for established companies, not startups and smaller ones

- still fails for many of this founders:
http://techcrunch.com/2012/06/10/startup-act-2-0-great-for-f...
var editor = oh Behave({
Whenever I used to replay the original Half-Life (I think I've completed it 5 or 6 times), I would get as far as Lambda Complex, pretend that was where the game finished, and promptly stop playing.

I think plenty of us hated the Xen levels, and the BM:S team knows how challenging it will be to modernise. I'm looking forward to see what they do!
I like it very much. Simple and elegant solution. Will try to find a use for this lib.
http://www.copyright.gov/title17/

The punchline, http://www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap5.html#501, is you can't do any of these things, http://www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap1.html#106, or you're in trouble. Mere possession is not listed, the author is not granted an exclusive license to own a copy.

Then there's http://www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap6.html#602 in the event you're downloading internationally. I'm not sure downloading counts as importing, but even so it specifically excludes people importing a single copy for private use.
Carl really is an amazing person.

If you haven't seen it already, please participate in Operation Asymptote, and tell others to as well:

http://www.plainsite.org/asymptote/

I'd like to have every U.S. Attorney's full case history on PlainSite by March 31, 2013. I paid for Ortiz [1] and Heymann [2]. There are a lot more.

[1] http://www.plainsite.org/flashlight/attorney.html?id=69049&#...

[2] http://www.plainsite.org/flashlight/attorney.html?id=73864&#...

Also, help us with extending RECAP:

http://www.plainsite.org/aaronsw/
Surely currencies are nothing but tools for exchange, and their value is as a medium of exchange?
Valve's problem with Windows is that they perceive them to be going after a more closed system. Snubbing Windows for the far more closed OSX would be ridiculous, so that's never going to happen. The Linux market for games is absolutely tiny compared with Windows, so there's no way they are going to release a major title on Linux first either.
I like your blog dude ! I found your's and nathanbarry.com very intersting. The web app challenge is a great idea. I'm Australia for an internship and I gave the link to your blog to my boss for inspiration.
Initially, i thought it had shortcuts and syntax highlighting. Anyway, i don't think it will be too long before they will add these features. But it's true, now is kind of useless.
Is it hacker newsed? I'm having 502 bad gate way.
You are absolutely correct, but this is bigger than people with computerknowledge. The use of language is a (PR) tool of the how you are being framed and how the public will see you. Words like 'hacker', 'Lone wolf', 'Army', 'Anonymus'play right in to the 'other side's' cards.
Benevolent dictators strike me as the best form of government at any level so long as they are capable, just, and benevolent - a rare combination it seems. National geographic had an article a few years ago on Singapore that provides some perspective on this - http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2010/01/singapore/jacobson... .

All that aside, I don't see why SF can't move in a more technocratic direction. There was apparently no lack of Google/Facebook/startup engineers and programmers willing to jump in and help out the Obama campaign on a massive scale - do those same people have no interest in local politics?
You probably skipped the abstract. (I agree that it looks weird to put extra-information in the abstract, but in that case it is done for a reason: the text of the paper is exactly the text submitted for the contest.)
Debt Collectors are infiltrating Facebook to track down delinquent borrowers
Never said I wanted SF to be flat :] just that the comparison is not as black and white as there are circumstances to consider.

I definitely would not trade hilly SF for a flat SF.
What do you have against ROOT ?
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That depends. There has been low-power CPUs along the history[1], if you manage to find a box with one of those then I wouldn't be surprised if you get way below 50W. Of course that probably is still significantly more than what an embedded solution would consume, but on the other hand you should get better performance and more flexibility. You could use the same box for eg NAS.

[1] Intel ARK finds 108 =<35W desktop CPUs, from the original Pentiums to modern day i5 Ivy Bridges.
The same could be said about blog engines that rely exclusively on using MySQL.
That's one of the ideas :)
Move in before you buy the furniture: Design vs UI on the web
It absolutely crashed Firefox 18.0.1 under Mac. I typed

hgjj]{return}{return}{return}{return}

and it just beachballed. I had to force quit the browser. Happened the second time I tried it too.
BitTorrent links don't work without installing a BitTorrent client?

I'm not entirely unsympathetic, but ignorance of the law has never been an effective defense (for any law), and neither has the "but I was tricked" defense. This is not peculiar to copyright law or computer law. There have been some cases where people did succeed with "I had so much malware, I didn't know what my computer was doing", but that's something you'll have to argue in court.
I hope they post the video of Carl's memorial speech somewhere online, it was passionate and inspiring! Text on a webpage conveys his message, but everyone jumped up applauding when he finished speaking tonight in SF.
Perhaps you haven't found "You Are Not A Photographer" yet. Some photography communities have a similar level of snark and calling out others, sadly.
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Ah, ok. Do you think it would work okay with a distributed setup, with different apps on different servers, and so on? I'm imagining lots of RPC calls just for authorization. (Like, if the apps do defensive role checking.)
IJOBS gets it totally wrong, Woz says
great idea; I wonder if this might cause some trouble with Amazon, though. Is it ok to "rip" their design? Any web-store interface would have done I suppose.

anyhow, he's certainly getting a ton of attention this way.
Cow-orker of ldbrandy (and nbm!) here, and one of the clients of FXL. We definitely make use of machine-learned models to catch some kinds of spam. They're good at keeping old attacks at bay, and some are pretty good at catching new attacks before they have a chance to evolve.

But any time we get good enough at catching an attack on a given channel, the attackers will switch to a different one - often times one where we haven't seen abuse before, and maybe don't have much good training data. In this case, it takes time to gather the right data and train new models, whereas analysts and engineers can do a reasonable job of stopping the attack in a faster timeframe.

Though interesting, all of this is somewhat orthogonal to what this article is about, though. FXL is the way we define features that are fed into classifiers, and its engine does all the data-fetching necessary to get the values of those features for classification. It also works for just putting rules on top of or next to the ML.
I did find myself thinking "this has to be a solved problem" as I was writing the socket code. Thanks, I'll look into those.
Contrary to popular belief, H1B is not about money. It is more about power and control. Businesses want to be able to bill someone out at 300 or 400 dollars per hour and know the person can't quit or start their own business. Whether or not that person is paid 25, 50, or 75 per hour is not as important as keeping that person working long hours for the company for years.
This site is the maximum you should pay, as its what travel agents & aggragators pull data from. I've regular found cheaper flights from onetravel.com, but I use the Matrix site to find flights (for years now), as all available flights & code-shares are usually on there. Some rare exceptions. I normally flight to/from or in Asia and any airline I care to fly, except for a few that only sell on their own website, are listed on the Matrix site.
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Yea, what would be really great would be to be able to put in a total budget for flight plus hotel. I'd love to be able to search for flight to large European city sometime in September with 4 nights at a central 3-5 star hotel for a total of less than $X. That would be a killer feature.
I don't get what's so special about this as http://www.fact-finder.com/semantic-travel-search.html has been around in Germany at least for two years.
In defense of Chicago, its grid is amazing for being able to efficiently travel around the city. The street numbering makes it trivial for any local to find their way to an address like "X00 W Belmont" without a map, and obviously the lack of hills makes for easier biking and public transit. It skews more towards beautiful architecture than beautiful landscapes, and has its share of decrepit neighborhoods (as does SF), but I don't think many people would describe it as a "soul-sucking" place. Different strokes.
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Er, how would paying someone 25/hr pass the required market rate salary component of the H1B application? There is now a list of H1B jobs an the average pay which the petitioner must prove they are paying above.

Also, how does a person become trapped working 'long hours' for the same company 'for years' when there is a porting aspect of the H1B where the visa-holder may port the visa to another employer after 6 months. If they don't wish to work for that employer, or another can provide them with a better option then they are free to port.

Sorry, but respectfully your comment is utter bullshit.
In my admittedly anecdotal experience, long-term San Franciscans can't stand startup employees -- the dot-com crowd is blamed for gentrification and high rents. Getting involved in local politics would be like hanging a 'vilify me, I'm an oppressor' sign on your back.
Wow, you actually stated something that was wrong enough to force me to comment. The beauty of these tools are that they are small, fast, ubiquitous, AND easy to replace with other tools if they fit your problem better. Unix was built exactly for swapping in these small one-off programs and to deny that is to deny the beauty of it's design and to basically ignore the fact that the system is built to string arbitrary programs together to solve complex problems in simple ways.

One advantage of her Javascript replace is that she can drop it on any machine with a Javascript runtime and it will work, unlike sed.

And the real truth is, she wrote something that solves a problem she has, which is the measure of her success, not someones arbitrary comments.
Well, there's São Paulo.
These are very pretty visualisations. I agree with others here that the page is "interesting" and seems to lack detail about the process.

The visualisations reminded me of the book "Computers, Pattern, Chaos, and Beauty" by Clifford Pickover.

http://www.amazon.com/Computers-Pattern-Chaos-Beauty-Graphic...
I think I prefer the iTunes visualizer.
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I have a friend who is in a halfway house after finishing a two year sentence for manufacture. He's lucky, and I hope to get him working soon. He's made emulators since he was 12 (now 28). Good luck and god bless.
Usually a H-1B transfer is doable. If the person came on a H-1B visa that is capped, they can amend the petition and switch employers: http://www.uscis.gov/ilink/docView/AFM/HTML/AFM/0-0-0-1/0-0-...

The H visa is a pretty bad deal though.