skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All of this may be true. What are you going to do about it? Remain in that hole of sweet self-pity until retirement? As the song goes: "it's not going to stop - till you wise up". It's easy and comfortable to give up and whine instead. I know. I've been there.

First, get a shrink. Yes, really.

Second, get to work! It takes ten thousand hours to truly master a craft. That's about five working years. You'll probably be working until you're 67 or so. If you start learning a new skill now, you'll master it at 37 - and for the remaining 30 years of your working life, you'll do great.

Sure, the ambitious 20-somethings may have a head start. But over the next decade, that'll even out. Just stop feeling sorry for youself and do the damn work that's needed.

(Note: The following paragraph assumes you're not supporting a family.)

If you hate your job, quit. Yes, I know you probably don't have enough savings to feel good about that. But there's no better motivation than impending doom. If you know your runway is up in two months, you'll hustle like mad thouse two months. And you'll get there. Really, what's the worst thing that can happen?

Is that really worse than where you're at now?
The CIA is blocking my way. I must get God to kill the CIA. Then, I prosper.

God says...

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An interesting documentary: "Helvetica" (free on amazon prime) http://www.amazon.com/Helvetica/dp/B002RIOGI0/ref=sr_1_1?ie=...
That wouldn't make a difference. What you're calling a scam, is actual law. He can do this. Part of being able to do this is admitting what you're doing. He has a sign on the front window explicitly stating what he's up to. Does not sound like there's anything to get him to admit.
A good start would be to put this on kickstarter.
Sadly, the best compression techniques are fairly obvious and have been patented. The economics of this space have always favored better codecs over licensing concerns. Savings in bandwidth often negate the cost benefits of a free codec. High end video recording/editing tools used by most content creators are expensive, such that a codec license amounts to only a small fraction of the cost. Pirates care about high quality and fast downloads. They don't care about licensing costs for obvious reasons.

H.265 merely standardizes on a set of the best known compression techniques that meet certain compression vs processing constraints. It just so happens that most of these techniques are patented. Which in turn is why MPEG-LA exists. This will continue to be true going forward. The only way to make a free codec viable is to fix the patent system. I'm all for patent reform, but as I mentioned elsewhere, I'd much rather discuss h265 tech here, and leave the patent debate for the numerous posts we're sure to continue to see on HN.
I ended up just setting up bind with a wildcard entry, and setting its log level for queries to debug. It is working now, but I need to build a little web app to generate the unique links. Also only one DNS server is running at the moment.

I can't wait to send some around in facebook messages and IMs.

Here's a maiden honeypot link:
http://hn0001.hnypot.info/Welcome-Internets!

...Though posting it publicly nearly guarantees I will see a hit, I can at least see if code running on HN resolves it immediately.

Edit: There is activity coming in on that name, but mostly it is from browsers pre-loading DNS to prepare for the next potential pageview. My browser did this (chrome on Mac). I suppose that is a form of information disclosure we often overlook. On a page you can inject a link into, you can get some very basic analytics.

In the 15 minutes following the posting of that link, there have been zero clicks, 36 IPv4 lookups, 6 IPv6 lookups.
I think, that would be a stretch to say so - in my opinion, it's not a good thing for the sole reason that it doesn't let you opt out of it. And it's not one of those cases when you would want to enforce discipline because renaming a method doesn't have to do with its contents.
Lessons Learned From My First Blogging Success
If I had to guess, it's because they seem to value their economic goals/principles over their social goals/principles, and the economic goals are not always the best of ideas.
Grant applications, fine, they are focused on research where the only goal is a paper, VC pitches though, those are predicated on a financial return on investment.

Consider the notion of addressable market and intrinsic value. Lets say you have a machine that turns dog poo into 24 kt gold. And you come to me asking for funding. If you can demonstrate it works, then you can make small amounts of gold already and collecting that until you get enough to get an arbitrary amount of money would leave you with all the ownership, all the cash, and insanely wealthy (until the floor fell out of the gold market)

Similarly if you develop a cure for cancer (or Herpes or HIV or all of the above) all you need do is show that it can work in humans and the next Steve Jobs who is dying of cancer (or HIV or whatever) and has nothing left will seek you out. If it does work they will pay you handsomely to be 'cured', and now that they aren't going to be dead the will probably fund productization. If nothing else, they provide a good example for the next wealthy sick person.

The trick is that its "too good to be true" which means that if it is true, a whole lot of expensive other stuff is now obsolete. That means that the proposed offering will completely replace the previous market. I don't know what the market for anti-virals are but just looking at the HIV drug cocktail market is in in the billions if not trillions of dollars.

And while getting to the point where you can say it does or does not work on humans can take time, as the inventor you either know or don't know, how to get there. If you do, then you figure out a way to earn the money to fund the development internally (since that gives you complete ownership) and if you don't, especially if you don't and you're not really sure if you ever will, you try to find someone else to pay the bills while you beat your head against the problem.

So the VC sees risks in execution (can you get it to market, can you negotiate the right contracts) but they generally shy away from risks where you need a new kind of science even to get to the possible stage.

I always have high hopes but low expectations for these sorts of proposals.
All the available evidence says "no". This is just how our our system treats absolutely anyone who presents a prosecutor with a chance to shine up their resume.

The only reason we seem to be hearing about Swartz, Manning, the Duke Lacross Team, et al. is that they have a socio-economic standing that most of the victims of this particular brand of "justice" do not.
but it is hilarious to read zsh logs.
I upvoted you. I agree that a lynch-mob has formed around calling for Ortiz's blood. I'm not sure if this is good or bad.

It's bad for exactly the reasons you say.

It's good for the same reasons that they came down so harshly on Aaron--to make an example. The thing is, she represents the old guard--the old "I'm not good with computers but boy am I afraid of them" lobby. There is real money behind the internet now, and one of the perks of that is you get to demand representation and power. Just as Aaron made the mistake of getting into politics, so has Ortiz. Some examples need to be set that if the government expects us to bail them out in the future, they need to stop trying to put the best of us in jail.
The problem is, some people here on HN have been very aggressive in their attacks over the past few weeks - far worse than simply saying "she should resign".

In addition to that, I've seen people sulk and get visibly agitated for long periods of time after poor performance reviews at work. Now, compound that by thousands in the public doing that - and then some. Think about the effect that has on someone's mental well-being.
Not sure if you've read this, but it might help a little: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desiderata#Full_text

Specifically: "If you compare yourself with others, you may become vain and bitter; for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself."

My personal advice: go exercise until you can't take it anymore...you'll feel great.
Brace yourself, here come the hardware startups
Forget everyone else's "success". Forget the past. It's irrelevant. What do you want to do now and into the future? What are your dreams? Life is fairly short and not fair to many people, but most of us are quite fortunate to have good health and opportunities to seize our dreams. What are yours? Start with realistic dreams you can achieve now and work step-by-step towards larger ones. You can do it. Failures are the footsteps of success. Just keep dreaming towards that door. It will open one day.

http://youtu.be/hzBCI13rJmA
What are the Deadliest Sins of Software Patents?
One million trees just died. The problem with some of the earlier HP printers was that they would accept unsigned firmware updates, you could literally reflash the thing with an update instruction in postscript.

Some work was done at Columbia University with developing trojanised firmware, i recall a firmware that could transmit CC# over tcp when it saw then in the print stream.

Extreme care must be taken if connecting printers to the Internet. It's at best a horrible idea and I'd say that most of these are unknown to their owners.
Hopefully this gets some MSM coverage and people address the connected printer problem forever. (not likely)
This is similar to how the system at Oxford works (I think this is how the rest of the British universities do it as well.). Your degree class (essentially your GPA) is solely based on tests you take at the end of every year of your degree (three for a BA, four for a MComp). There are practicals (lab sessions) and tutorials (conversations with tutors about problem sets), but those don't affect your degree class, unless you do terribly.

With all the testing in American universities, the British (?) system is quite refreshing.
http://zenpencils.com/comic/89-stephen-fry-ultimate-self-hel...
Neat, I've passed that along! Best of luck, it looks like you guys are doing good work and I really hope you succeed.
The need is to prevent a situation as described in the post -- one where the party in a lower power position can charge that the party in a higher power position abused that power to force them into a relationship they did not consent to.

The more disclosure, the less likely that it would escalate. At the very least, there would be records that either party could use if something improper happened. For instance, there would now be written records if later on the person with more power did attempt to influence promotions that they should have explicitly not been allowed to be involved in that process.

I don't know why the UK would be different from the US from a legal standpoint, except perhaps just generally that the US is a more litigious society lately.
Excellent advice. It's an even bigger problem for those who are still using mpm_prefork with mod_php on a RAM-limited system such as a Linode. In that case, you can only have 10-20 children. Although most Linux distros install mpm_worker by default these days, an alarmingly large number of people are still using this grossly outdated setup.
And to elaborate more: The reason for this shift is that the current-gen consoles (xbox360 and PS3) are really, really bad at random access into memory.

Chasing pointers on PC is bad, chasing pointers on them is suicidal. With them, it's better to do a linear copy of ~3kb than it is to reference one more uncached pointer. And this is especially bad because they don't have any kind of decent prefetchers -- if you haven't actually touched an object, it's probably uncached.

Becaus of this, if you use traditional OoO to structure your code, you leave an order of magnitude or more of performance on the table. And since the CPUs are slow as it is, you can't afford to do this.
Moving Past Brogramming
1) Those using popular open source players often do. Podcasts and vodcasts should have an RSS feed you can subscribe.

2) Yes, full screen works since the JS API was implemented in all browsers (albeit prefixed until recently) except for IE.
yes, but once you depend on native extensions it's suddenly not as trivial anymore.

which is why i had stage file with gentoo prefix instead of all the other stuff, while i was still fulltime osx

http://reza.jelveh.me/2009/05/20/gentoo-on-os-x

i'd be surprised if that stage still works though.
News sites would probably be the ones that would make you flip over to Chrome, as well as MP3 sites I guess. The Verge falls back properly, as do pretty much all YouTube videos.

Most browsers (at least Safari definitely does) do proper full screen too.

I'm not sure if the experience would be as good with Firefox as I'm not sure if they support H.264 yet. But I heard that was planned.

I'd encourage you to try it for a while - it's free and pretty quick to re-install Flash if it gets too annoying.
http://www.jamesaltucher.com/2011/09/20-ways-to-deal-with-re...
We don't use GETCO's infrastructure at all. They help us with expertise in the field and advice on how to build software for traders.
Fair point but although it's tempting to go an eye-for-an-eye with Ortiz (and the federal government) after learning of Aaron's fate, I'm just not in a position to judge her actions. This is not my "holier than thou" moment, it's just that these situations are often far more complicated than a 500 word opinion piece on a blog.
I had two internships over two summers, and each one was worth $18k for the duration.
Stop it: http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ow0lr63y4Mw

You cannot change the past, so do not trouble yourself with what is past. Look forward and plan where you want to go from where you are. Use what you have and keep on keeping on.
Congrats on a great site, and the exciting news around joining YC! One quick question:

<< If Watsi didn't exist, many of the patients on our site would have likely died. >>

If a surgery isn't funding in time to save a patient's life, would you fund the remaining amount of the loan out of your own funds?
Link for the lazy 'Julian Assange at the Oxford Union': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vQNWYnQjUE
It sounds to me like that what you want to work with is the more traditional charity model. You don't know who your funding will support generally, you can subscribe, they have staff that steer the funding toward the most urgent needs.

So have a look at the Medical Partners that Watsi uses. See about donating there.
Distance learning has always existed, it's not a new thing invented by internet people.

The problem has always been that University branding matters, so a Cambridge degree counts as real in a way that an Open University degree doesn't.
(http://www.open.ac.uk/)

In the same way, the new online courses are not good enough.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disruptive_innovation)

This problem has been bad because some people are hardworking and talented enough but are excluded from places like Cambridge and Harvard for socially damaging reasons: the are from the wrong background, too poor etc etc.

It would always have been saner to separate the credentials from the expensive on-site-tuition, so the poor kid from Madras would find it easier to get his Cambridge degree
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Srinivasa_Ramanujan)

But the University prestige has allowed places like Harvard and Stanford to jack up the list prices of their fees, and their competitors nationally and internationally have followed along. The top US places have been able to do so, I have been told, because of the expansion of student loan availability, leading to a pricing level that may not be feasible.
(http://www.theonion.com/articles/man-has-alarming-level-of-p...)

The result is that colleges may have priced themselves out of the market
(http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,2116059,00.ht...)
(http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-10-22/five-reasons-colleg...)

I hope more Universities do the right thing, and respond in an accommodating manner, as Wisconsin has done, as a way to climb down from that tree. It's about time.
(http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/01/25/public-univers...)
For the lazy: https://github.com/search?q=extension%3Azsh_history&type...
Also, do one thing really well, but be serviceable in a lot of other things.
Hi. Sorry you're hurting.

A professional specializing in cognitive behavioral therapy might be especially helpful to you, in just a few sessions. You need to break the pattern of thought that leads you to fixate on your regrets, shortcomings and other negativity. With all of this taking up space in your mind, you'll have a hard time finding the attention or energy for the many exciting options open to you.

Put another way – with your hand full of the whip you're using to beat the hell out of yourself, it isn't free to work on real things.

Meanwhile, tonight, right now, take a moment and write yourself a letter. Write from the perspective of the kindest, dearest, most understanding friend you can imagine.

As this friend, express understanding and compassion for the hardships and missed opportunities you've endured. Offer encouragement. Catalog all the disappointments of your history if that's what you feel like doing – but do so in a way that says "Hey dude. That hurts. I totally understand why you're feeling bad. It's cool."

In short – give yourself a break. And repeat the exercise any time you're having a rough night like this one.

There's no time machine. There's nothing you can do to go back and change things. All you have is right now. Today. This moment. In any given moment, you get to decide your stance and attitude. You can't reverse your past, but you have full control over how you dispose of every single second between now, as you're reading this, and when you die.

It is guaranteed that your experiences are 100% unique to you. It is impossible to know what emergent qualities will arrange themselves to suit your unique success.

The other guarantee is that for as long as you spend time thinking of the past instead of building the future, the unique value of your experiences will remain locked up, unused.

The mind is an incredibly powerful yet fallible pattern matching engine. It can find anything, from any input, it seems. Just the same way you can make a face or a zoo animal from a pattern of water vapor in the sky, you're making a failure out of a pattern of events in the past. In both cases, it's illusion.

There's no instant fix. Patterns of thought take time and effort to change. All I can tell you as that only you can decide to change course. It'll be hard. It won't always be fun. It won't be overnight. But you can definitely do it. And anything is better than this feeling, right?

Here's Dave McClure's blog on his late bloom, which perhaps will give you some perspective on just how much road there still is ahead:

http://500hats.com/late-bloomer
And many of us are wondering if he's working on x265.
I don't care about the rivalry between two companies producing similar products... but this line really hit me hard:

> Ideas are limitless and patents expire for a reason: to encourage competition, innovation, and the evolution of new ideas that ultimately benefit the end user. If patents never expired, we would have only one car company, and the cars they develop would likely not be readily available and affordable to so many people all over the world. Imagine that.

Good show.
Ask HN: I'm a 17-year-old with $700. What's the best laptop for me to get?
After a freelance project I'm left with $700. My laptop broke weeks ago and I'm borrowing a friend's. What would be the most cost-efficient laptop for a developer to buy? I know absolutely nothing about hardware. I don't play games or anything; I just need it to (a) be portable, (b) be powerful enough for a web developer, and (c) have a long battery life.

I'm also getting into Linux and plan to install a distro on the new laptop; feel free to suggest a particular setup X to go with laptop Y.

(I only mention I'm 17 to show that I don't work full-time; I'm still in school; I have few living costs; etc.)
Past > Present < Future

I cannot change the past. I cannot change the future. I only have choice in the present, so that is my point of power.

Past > POWER < Future

This simple little framework helps me avoid regret, and also becoming lost in fantasy-land about what my future may entail. Note that it doesn't absolve me of responsibility to learn from the past or plan for the future - but both learning and planning are 'present' actions!
Wait, Klout's nickname for its employees is "Kloutlaws"?
Think of 10 things that you would NEVER EVER in a million years actually do. Do one a year for the next 10 years.

Usually the thing you think can never be done or won't ever happen is exactly the thing that you will do.

The way to break the thought cycle is to step out of it. Take action. Just an attempt will cause enough chaotic energy that something will happen.

I tried to go a whole year by saying YES! to everything.. even if it meant to lie, to fake, to break someone's heart. (I know you might think Yes Man, the book or the movie, but honestly it's true and it really helps)

We respect people for their attempts and subsequent failures sometimes more than their successes.
Yep. Take a look at their transparency document [1]. It links to all their patients so far, and also provides information about treatments postponed, status updates, etc.

In one of the updates, the patient passed away before treatment [2]. Funding was refunded.

[1] Transparency Document: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/pub?key=0Ah3wJ9CRQzyHdDZ...

[2] Update info: http://us4.campaign-archive2.com/?u=4ee1aaad2e315a0de585af61...
I too found the article to be interesting. The main takeaway for me was the importance of community support -- give people the tools and the means to build upon and improve your work and they will do just that. Opensource software has this feature baked in, as does Minecraft to some extent through decompiling the java bytecode.

I too am working on my own voxel game and this article reinforces my thoughts on providing a server-side scripting API.
Woman, who was stabbed and beaten by a man, sues Match.com
You said "Unfortunately, this comment will probably get filtered to the bottom but this has to be said:" and then when it actually happened you flip out? I wasn't one of the ones to downvote you, but after seeing your reaction, I would have to say you most definitely deserved it. Also, allow me to point you to the HN guidelines that specifically frown on these particular behaviors:

Resist complaining about being downmodded. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.

Please don't bait other users by inviting them to downmod you.

http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
This is a great and compassionate answer.
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"Success is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm." - Winston Churchill
Hmm. The article I wrote for them does not appear when searching for my name. Finding it again through Google, it looks like they lost the images that went with it. :(

http://alistapart.com/article/accent-folding-for-auto-comple...
Ok, but IP logs would throw down their assumptions. They wouldn't be able to prove a thing.
Not sure if there's recursion yet. Will the movie touch upon this particularly meta plot point?

(Okay, trying too hard on that one, heh?)
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Ah, Teddy. Definitely a favorite of mine as well.
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Also, if someone really wanted to do something bad at least they would do it from Tor or a shadowy proxy from eastern Europe...