skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's lots of good comments above, I don't have a lot to add beyond stick in there and for some reason this song and it's lyrics worked for me in similar circumstances: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bioYs6oAD8g&t=1m55s
Thank you to all of you commenters from the FarmLogs team! Your feedback helps give us a glimpse of things we haven't learned yet, and it encourages us when you bring up things we're already using to our advantage.

PS - We're hiring an awesome front end dev, and mobile, if you'd like to join.
Entrepreneurs Who Master Storytelling Win More
So my question… with all these posts we're seeing and complains, is there an official investigation that we know of? I know there's a petition and it seems to have passed but I was curious as to what was going on.
wait... this guy thinks the future is going to be simpler? when has that ever happened?

However, I largely agree on the right side of the big vertical network line in his diagram, and I feel this has been obvious for years now. The left side, not so much. I think the reduction of web services to JSON type data will enable an explosion of client side diversity, and that is a good thing.

Also there is nothing classic about "server-side" MVC : it is ridiculous and never made any sense.
Fantastic idea!

Broadcast TV distorts our model of the world by showing us only the extremes. Vinepeek puts normality in its proper place.
I felt that I wrote this article. This is my exact though process too.
Likes for hecker news
Nice playboys
webm is a defined subset of mkv. And it stays that way. Only a small, finite number of codecs have to be implemented (so far vp8, vp9, vorbis, opus).
This is good, I thought that itsthisforthat.com gives funnier results though...

Wait, what does your startup do?
So, basically, It's an analytics platform for aquariums.
Which Tony Robbins book you are refering to? That was amazing quote and I want to read that book
Doing "Nothing"
Apple says child labor found at suppliers
hacking: present participle of hack (Verb)

1. Cut with rough or heavy blows.
2. Ride a horse for pleasure or exercise.
That second link is down, what was it?
"Sometimes a law is just on its face and unjust in its application. For instance, I have been arrested on a charge of parading without a permit. Now, there is nothing wrong in having an ordinance which requires a permit for a parade. But such an ordinance becomes unjust when it is used to maintain segregation and to deny citizens the First-Amendment privilege of peaceful assembly and protest.

I hope you are able to see the distinction I am trying to point out. In no sense do I advocate evading or defying the law, as would the rabid segregationist. That would lead to anarchy. One who breaks an unjust law must do so openly, lovingly, and with a willingness to accept the penalty. I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law."

http://www.africa.upenn.edu/Articles_Gen/Letter_Birmingham.h...
A side project of mine is sort of a stumbleupon for knowledge. Sort of. It's more like a directed stumbleupon; you get web pages related to the page you're currently on. Good for research, but knowledge-stumbling works too: http://jellly.com
COO is "an employee", but not really "just another employee". i.e. there is an entirely different level of responsibility (legal and moral/professional) for a corporate officer at that level, vs. a regular employee.

I would counsel against but not fire engineers who were dating each other within a group (and, in a larger organization, if it's outside of a specific group, wouldn't be a problem. I think a good manager would give them each an opportunity to change roles so they're not directly working together.)

In the intermediate case of a manager dating a direct report, the problem is with the manager, not the direct report.

COO/founders/etc. don't get any slack for things like that, though, even if they are not directly managing the other relationship party.
I disagree. I bought the Two Scoops of Django book the other day, and I'm happy to have found out about it here. It's not like they were going to feature it on Google News.
Full article (if behind pay wall)

Apple says child labour found at suppliers - FT.com
http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/8af2a286-6754-11e2-8b67-00144...

Apple found 11 facilities across its supply chain using child labour last year, the iPhone maker said in its annual “Supplier Responsibility” report. The California-based company, which has stepped up its auditing efforts in the past year under chief executive Tim Cook, said it had uncovered 106 “active cases” of children being employed by its suppliers over the course of 2012, and 70 people who had been underage and either left or passed the age of 16 by the time of its audit. None of those individuals is still employed by the suppliers, after Apple worked with its partners to help them spot fake identification documents or falsified records. In one extreme case, 74 of those 106 under-16s were employed by a single Chinese manufacturer of circuit-board components used in Apple products. A large local labour agency “knowingly” supplied the children, Apple said. Apple terminated its relationship with the supplier and reported the labour agency to the local authorities, who fined it and suspended its licence. “Our approach to underage labour is clear: We don’t tolerate it, and we’re working to eradicate it from our industry,” Apple wrote in its report. “When we discover suppliers with underage workers or find out about historical cases … we demand immediate corrective action.” As Apple extends its audits deeper into its supply chain, prevention of underage labour and juvenile worker protection were the only two categories among its eight human rights auditing criteria where violations had increased since the previous year. Apple found improvements among its suppliers during 2012 in areas such as anti-discrimination, freedom of association and wages. The Cupertino-based company is one of the few consumer electronics groups to publish detailed audits into its supply chain. Overall it found that just under a quarter of its suppliers failed to comply with its labour and human rights standards, with other breaches including 11 facilities using bonded labour.

We don’t allow suppliers to act unethically or in ways that threaten the rights of workers – even when local laws and customs permit such practices - Apple As it tries to reduce excessive working hours, Apple said that 92 per cent of weeks worked by 1m employees tracked across its supply chain met its weekly criteria of a maximum of 60 work hours and at least one day off. That figure marks an improvement from 38 per cent a year ago, while Apple said that it had changed some of the ways it measured working hours to be “more meaningful and effective”. Overtime increased among Apple’s suppliers during September, October and November, when Apple was ramping up production of its new iPhone 5 and iPad mini, but decreased again in December. “We don’t allow suppliers to act unethically or in ways that threaten the rights of workers – even when local laws and customs permit such practices,” Apple said. “We’re working to end excessive work hours, prohibit unethical hiring policies, and prevent the hiring of underage workers.”
I hate to say it but after ridiculing that change in the design I actually realised that it would totally solve the problem that I have with some paperclips: if I pushed it right down to level the clip on a pack of papers, pulling the clip off can sometimes catch the outside arm on the paper as it comes off. It doesn't tear the paper but it leaves a weird ugly mark.

That new design would avoid that problem I imagine. I'd totally but those paperclips!
Left this on my second monitor while I work, so mesmerising . I didn't think Vine would be this interesting when I first heard about it.

Maybe they've found mobile videos sweet spot?
I've never had a comment about hacker news resonate more with me. I wish more folks thought about hacker news as "makers news". Show me people who are making stuff, cool stuff, novel stuff, trivial stuff. Building Businesses or movements. Interesting changing trends in society, culture, technology.
This had a bizarre reaction on me also, feels very disconcerting/jarring seeing things like this in color and I can't quite understand why!
Does anyone know of any live mirrors of these files?
Would be interesting to run some tests of them.

I wonder at the legal implications of possessing them though?
Sorry for the delayed response.

I was first told about this as a kid - the 'trick' was to bang your head (gently) on the pillow for the hour you wanted to wake - so 7 times to wake at 7am.

I tried it all the way through the summer and was amazed - then forgot about it.

When I went travelling I didn't take a watch and remembered the trick (though didn't bother with the head banging) and found I could wake when I wanted pretty accurately.

When I started university I used this method for nearly the whole first term - and never missed a lecture.

If you have been heavily drinking, or have been really run down then yes this won't work, but in normal life it works fine. It helps if the time is part of your routine (waking each day at 7.30 for example) but I've easily got myself to wake at 6 or earlier if I need to.

I find though that if I know i have an alarm then I just fall into a DEEP sleep, and find it much harder to wake. I do find that I feel far less sleepy when I just tell myself to wake.

Anyway, your mileage may vary, but try it - it really does work - remember that farmers etc have been waking before dawn to start work for thousands of years before the advent of clocks.
Bountiescape
Rikoscape is het zelfde als runescape
En even chill als runescape
Looks like youtube finally have something to worry about...
Not a quote, but a poem:

You are the man who used to boast

That you’d achieve the uttermost,

Some day.

You merely wished to show,

To demonstrate how much you know

And prove the distance you can go.

Another year we’ve just passed through.

What new ideas came to you?

How many big things did you do?

Time left twelve fresh months in your care.

How many of them did you share

With opportunity and dare

Again where you so often missed?

We do not find you on the list of Makers Good.

Explain the fact!

Ah no, ‘twas not the chance you lacked!

As usual – you failed to act!
Show HN: P2P microblogging over Bluetooth to avoid government censorship
You are comparing apples and oranges.

This was not a protest in rural China where corrupt local communist party officials are going to come and disappear you.

This was an attack on a US Federal Government website. Whoever defaced the site might get prosecuted for their endeavor, but the only purpose for anonymity here is for the instigators to avoid official reprisal and prosecution (.e.g to get away with it).

Nobody in the US is going to persecute you because you think academic articles should be free (they'll largely just ignore you).
Worms propagate by finding vulnerable hosts using search
I'm not a programmer, though I have some knowledge of programming.

I do think I have a hacker's mindset. That's why I read this site.

When I've posted comments explaining how I created my sidebusiness self publishing books, they've been well received. People here want to know about it.

I make around $1,000 per month in physical and ebook sales. The way I've done it could easily be replicated in a technical field. And from what I've gathered, how to do it is not common knowledge.

So while it's not programming per se, I don't think this site is about programming.

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How I Did It

Since I've alluded to how I've done it, I'll give a top level overview. My book is Hacking The LSAT. Irrelevant to almost everyone here, highly relevant to law school applicants.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0988127903

Createspace allows you to easily publish a physical book on amazon, and keep around 35% of the print price, before discount.

Lightning source lets you sell on other sites such as Barnes and noble, and potentially cause amazon to discount your book.

ELance let me find outsourcers to proofread, format and design my books.

Blogs in your niche are good potential affiliate partners. About 50% of my revenue comes from one affiliate blog.

Relevant forums are a great marketing venue. Hacker News and subreddits may be one of them. Make useful contributions. I created the lsat subreddit, and have an ongoing ask me anything at the other main lsat forum.

While writing, the internet is not your friend. Consider disabling it while writing. I did this for a month by moving to a country without Internet, and my productivity increase 50% (measured in good words written)

Reviews are important on amazon. Give away review copies, and ask people to write honest reviews.

All of this only works if you write a good book. Consider doing it, a good book or e-book can reall set you sort in your niche, even if it's self published.

I haven't gone deep into cross formatting, but calibre is a great conversion program, and liber writer does formatting for kindle. If publishing a kindle book, buy a kindle to test it. Kindle formatting is finicky.
If you want to simply practice coding, check out Project Euler. Essentially, it's problem solving for programmers.

As for building a small product, try automating a simple task that you do every day.
For one, it leaves a paper trail. Assuming that HR says "OK, thanks for telling us"...now you have a third party that can nominally monitor the situation. Right now, it's just Keith's word (he claims to not have any impact on his partner's fate at the company, but how can we ascertain that he's not being misleading?) against his accuser's.
It also comes off as a cheap publicity stunt (because that's what it is).
> If you really think about it, the Web is the entire universe

_their_ entire universe
This is going to blow up. Coolest thing I've seen in quite some time. I love how there's no wait and it jumps from clip to clip.
It's worth pointing out that Coulton claims that he bought a license to distribute his version.

Source: http://www.jonathancoulton.com/2013/01/18/baby-got-back-and-...
I had to change the ciphers in nginx a while ago, and was absolutely amazed at how much faster it became.

Good tips.
Yeah, I expect that's why they did it. Or at least to keep people in the Rogers ecosystem.

A lot of the smaller guys didn't work in my area, or on my iPhone.

I just wanted to highlight that a big company encourages you to unlock your phone and deface their sim cards. Chatr reps directed me to the sim cutter.
First interesting thing I've seen in a while. It works.

Reminds me vaguely of the videos in William Gibson's Pattern Recognition.
Yes, sadly, most cases of whistle-blowing in the government sector end up in retaliation and prosecution of whistle-blowers themselves and little to no change in the relevant agencies.

Wikileaks had a great potential. It's like a startup set out to disrupt the market of public/government relations. But it was washed away into near-irrelevance. And not only because the forces they stood up against are immensely powerful, but also because most people, really, don't care.

Nonetheless, I'm glad whistle-blowers exist and have guts to speak up. The case of Wikileaks and others did reveal how deeply corrupt are those in power and how grand their appetites are.
That's the future of universities, they will be centers for research and certification. Learning is a 24/7 activity nowadays.
Answer: Yes

As for your own experience, note that you've observed open relationships between different level employees. Keith's was not open....so not sure what point you're trying to make.

Put it this way: if everyone knows that senior manager Alice is in a relationship with first year employee Bob...how easy do you think it is for Alice to pull the strings to make sure Bob gets promoted past his merit? Sure, it can happen, but people aren't as likely to not notice it. And so Alice just may not try to pull the strings.
My two cents:

I think it's because understanding recursion involves a good understanding of a bunch of stuff. You have to know about the different scopes of variables (global, local), how the variables are stored, how does a stack work, etc.

It also challenges you to understand why it's not a good idea to use recursion and to find an iterative solution to your problem.

Most interviewers like to cover more areas with one question.
Clicking the link I thought it would be a website covered in video tiles showing everything going on at once. That would be cool, maybe add a second page for this?
SSH Backdoor accounts in multiple Barracuda Products
I stopped using Youtube's customization features years ago.

I don't want everybody to know what kind of music I listen to and what my interests are like. Google does not seem to get that. In fact I might stop using Youtube completely soon, except for watching linked Videos. As we all know a login is necessary to watch Videos that are not for children.

In fact Google search has become weird since they more or less half-publicly track which sites I'm visiting from Google. Seriously, this has to stop.
It reminds me of memories. Whenever I try and remember something from years ago, it comes back in snippets like this.

Sarcastically, "from the makers of twitter, information free video!"
And yet PE certification is - under a different name - apprenticeship.
MongoDB: How to limit results and how to page through results
5nake.com - Play Classic Snake in Your Browser with HTML5
I think this change is because the clause removed made the agreement unenforceable.

"[business name] reserves the right to update and change the Terms of Service from time to time without notice. "

That is a poison pill.
What, you've never left the United States? Continental European universities are often organized like this. Or have been recently; I can't speak for right now.
Perhaps skip videos by users who just posted one? Saw "duplicates" a few times where someone uploaded the same video more than once
This, specifically.
If they want to deal with ownership do some kind of leasing agreement... otherwise, let's not have public enforcement propping up the business model.
Google+ encourages Blog-style postings. (I don't know how they do it, but it seems natural -- more natural than on FB.) After all Google+ is pretty cool for people who don't want a private life, unfortunately I don't belong to this group.
The Libertarian party has had some embarrassingly bad presidential candidates. My assumption, as a registered Libertarian, is that they know they're not going to win and select candidates based on who will get the most votes from non-party members while not pissing off party members too much.

I personally find this extremely disingenuous considering one of the LP's slogans is "The Party of Principle."
Stop motion masterpiece
So, here's a free piece of advice: Put away the Guy Fawkes mask, turn down the RATM and read a book. You live in a real democracy. Not a perfect one, those don't exist, a real one. That makes you more free than most people alive today and all the dead ones. All of them. Your frustration shouldn't primarily sourced in the brokenness of the system, but in how the vast majority of your co-citizens disagree with you that it's broken - or, at least, fundamentally disagrees with what the solution is.

Your mission as a citizen in a democracy is to convince your fellow citizens that this is wrong and that it should be fixed. The second you pick up a weapon, you lose. Game over.
Metal backsplash
Oh horrors, what if she got depressed and killed herself.
If it's true that the copyright to the derivative work becomes the property of the original copyright holder, then it would seem as if a simple hack could be used by cover-song creators to avoid being Coultoned:

Nominally release a version of the song with the original arrangement and original, throwaway lyrics prior to releasing the version with the original arrangement and derived lyrics.

That way, the cover song is a derivative of two original works, and in order for an entity like "Glee" to cover your cover, they'd need permission from both of the copyright holders -- you (for the melody) and whoever owns the copyright to the lyrics.

Lawyerly types, am I on to something here?
Every goddamned time an issue of plagiarism comes up, some clever person comes and says "I thought you guys loved piracy! How is this different?"

And the difference is about as profound as the difference between downloading a file and stealing a bike. The main reason that this is so appalling, while file sharing is not, is that it's a case of someone taking credit for someone else's work. There is a huge difference between taking someone else's work and saying "Hey, listen to this cool cover that JoCo did" and taking it and saying "Hey, I wrote this cover of Baby Got Back!"

Another big difference is profit. I think most of people feel like downloading a song or movie for yourself and maybe some friends and enjoying it is fine, and that a site like The Pirate Bay covering their bandwidth costs with ads is totally understandable. But I think most people also think that a guy who burns movies to DVDs and sells them on the street corner is an asshole.

Finally, especially in light of that latter point, you've got one of the big media players, all of whom have lobbied hard for stronger copyright law, refusing to play by the same rules that they want to impose on everyone else.
Crap, didn't see that. Though, I also partially doubt they would actually enforce that rule.
A Right to Unlock Cellphones Fades Away
Seconded on Lenovo - I've never had a bad experience with them. A cheaper alternative to the x220/x230 is the X131e; It has a less powerful ULV i3 processor, but I find the performance perfectly adequate for web development once upgraded with an SSD.

Ebay is usually full of lightly-used Thinkpads and you can find some real bargains.
That's actually quite a nice harmony.

Of course, the reason for the harmony is because the vocals align so (almost) perfectly, creating an effect familiar to most musicians, who rely on it for ensuring that their instruments are in tune.

That's how perfectly the two align. Damn.
"That's just like...aa.. your opinion man." - The Big Lebowski

Spoiler: every set of instructions you code is an algorithm.
An algorithm is not something magical, it's just a series of steps that lead you to a result.

Knowing different algorithms and knowing which one is better for you allows you to create the best solution for a problem.
For example, having to display a sorted list of contacts or a list of geographic locations can be achieved in many ways.
Depending on what algorithm you use for sorting that list you can have a result in 1 second or 2 hours.
Says that you can be a programmer without the use of algorithms or pointers is like saying you can be a chef without knowing how to cut onions.
This project has really shown me what Vine is all about! Good stuff!

A "pause" button would really improve this project. Not for the video but for the transition between videos. A 5 Tweet buffer and a back button would be even better. That way, if I see a Tweet that I want to look at more closely, I can go back to it.
Interest vs Required Work vs Accomplishment
Agile Video Series Kicks Off
A Dramatic Reading Of "Rails Is Omakase"
>Also, there are plenty of other laws to cover that. IANAL, but I'm thinking of plagiarism, forgery etcetera.

Actually, plagiarism is not, as far as I know, a legally recognized concept. If you want to go after someone for plagiarism, you're going to have to pound that screw in with the hammer of copyright law.
YouTube for the Attention-Deficit Generation?

I unfortunately find watching these jumpy snippets jarring. I can see the appeal for getting tiny slices of someone's day, but I'm finding it hard to enjoy it.
Web inventor says governments stifling net freedom with cybersecurity deal