skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have seen similar email "storm" a couple of times when I was working in HP. It was not the whole of the company but a large business group probably a tenth of the company. It would start with a mail send to a large email list. People would start replying to all asking to be removed from the list or saying that they are not the intended recipient of the mail. After that it would be the "Please dont reply to all" mails. And that will go on and on . I remember a particular one that went into over a 100 mails.

It is interesting how a large group of smart people end up doing this.
Poorly stated, I agree. I meant only to contrast that with the squalor of where I might have grown up instead.
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Isn't there a postgres foreign data wrapper than lets you do this?
Isn't that, like, the "American Dream"? Don't tell people how to spend their time and money.
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>I wonder what it would be like to be born in a low-income community in the US where social mobility is difficult.

I fit that description.

In short, my personal, anecdotal experience says immigrants often place a greater value on education, recognize more viable options for success, are more supportive of each other and have less fear of stepping out of their comfort zone.

I saw no shortage of people hamstrung by each of those things growing up, particularly the de-valuing of education.
What you describe is not supposed to happen on Reddit either. But idiocy takes over whenever a group of people gets large enough.
It isn't a conspiracy theory to say that media interests did the lobbying for DMCA. I cannot even find a reference to an ISP lobby that promoted it. Was there one?
At least Google's process has a bit more benefit than Facebook's: you can see the location data they collect from your phone by turning on Latitude and its history app. They also use this data to improve traffic and map data and (if you have WiFi on) to improve their coarse location data.
The problem with that is your friends indirectly tell Facebook. Facebook can fill in the rest.
That's a great read too. Is the paraphrasing of Peggy McIntosh intentional? Her "Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack" (http://ted.coe.wayne.edu/ele3600/mcintosh.html) is a classic in sociology and race studies literature, for anyone interested.
DOSBox was SourceForge's project of the month in January.
It's symbiotic, though. WordPress helps keep PHP relevant. People can choose better hosting if they really want to run killer apps in other languages.
Blocking the location permission or going into airplane mode would be another option.
i think Skydrive currently doesn't do that...they may not even have plans to implement that..
I had no one to teach me the values of intellectual property. :)

But I think we can agree that while I harmed Adobe not at all through my transgression (they have been more than paid back in licenses bought since), that store lost real money.
Wouldn't a label for this suffice? Who's going to read a manual only to find out that this is connected to the internal plumbing?
But that's the command-line shell (it's a 32-bit Windows process), not 16-bit DOS with optional Extended/unreal mode. This is no longer supported since XP (one of the reasons to keep XP, or have it installed as Windows XP mode on Windows Vista, 7, etc.).

There are plenty of good games for DOS that I still play - Heroes of Might And Magic, Star Control, Archon, Alley Cat, Digger, many others.
At which point this NPE dissolves and reorganizes around a different patent to troll a different crowd. And the pool is still out a non-zero sum.

We need real reform. This is a job for Congress, not the courts.
I'll put it to you like this: I may have run in the race, and that was all my effort, but someone needed to first put me on plane for me to even compete.

Sure, but they worked hard to be able to put on that plane. That you recognized the opportunity and took it is a tribute to you and them.
It sounds like you're the product of a lot of hard work (and maybe
a little luck). Why minimize that by calling it privilege? It does
a disservice to you and those who've helped you.
as if Git can be used by all people..am sure except us developers, all others would prefer Google Drive over Git anytime..
That's not really DOS, but the command-line (shell). A little geek cries in me, everytime coworker calls it DOS (I loved the DOS back in the days... Anyone remmember unreal mode, DOS4GW, Quemm, Process Killer, etc.)
Python's hash, for example, will generate lower collisions than a "good" hash function. 'file1', 'file2', and 'file3' will not collide, but end up in sequential boxes, which is very efficient. Of course, you can send python web apps a "cookie of death", in which all cookies collide. There's a patch, but I think it's disabled by default.
I use cygwin but with FAR Commander (midnight commander-like app for the console mode of Windows). Sometimes I use it under the CMD.exe shell, but I have an additional one that uses the /bin/bash.exe as one (from cygwin).
Well, that's the important point about this.

It is privilege because not everyone got parents who gave a damn.

Not everyone got parents who would bother to teach them things or buy them a computer. Some people just aren't getting those things in their lives. And as long as that's true, these things are privileges.

So I am grateful. But I know that you can't universally pick up any given person with my background, tell them to work hard, and have that be enough.
He's right, though, buying McMansions is dumb.
security/surveillance. the little mini-turbines could be used for propulsion or to chew you to pieces.
To be protected by the safe harbor provision of the DMCA, a service provider must not only promptly disable access to material upon receipt of a notice, they must also promptly re-enable access to that material upon receipt of a counternotice.

Not quite!

There is a re-enabling procedure. But it comes with a mandatory 10 day waiting period before the material can be put back up.

10 days is hardly "promptly".
What? I don't follow.
I actually gave a talk with a very similar title back in December at API Days and I'll be giving a second iteration at the API Strategy Summit at the end of the month in NYC (http://www.apistrategyconference.com/).

My thesis is that the problem lies in the disconnect between the goals that we think hackers have and the goals that they actually have. If you want to know more about that, watch the video below. But the point where I think we intersect is about direction and the benefits that it can have. Great hacks solve real problems. There's no doubt about it. You should do everything in your power to to put real, visible problems into the hands of developers because they will solve them.

Anyway, good writeup.

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"Saving Hackathons": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocY70UORNsk
Anterior vision!
Murmurs main issue (in an attacker controlled context) is how it incorporates the seed in to the hash, not unexpected collisions on non-malicious data.

Further, _any_ hash, even cryptographic, will not protect you if it is not used with a random seed unknown & unpredictable to the attacker.
We're using the hosted version of Sentry with out Django app. Absolutely loving it. Started playing around with the free version a while back and really glad to have the hosted service now.
In addition to the force of the impact, a significant difference is the form that you employ in making a tackle. In football a common technique is to put your head in the center of the opponent's body in order to help stop their force. In rugby, not wearing a helmet means you are _likely_ to receive a concussion if you do this (mostly from knees). As such, in rugby a proper tackle technique involves you putting your head to the side of your opponent, and using your shoulder as the primary point of contact with the opponent.

The upshot of this is that your head is involved in significantly less direct contact (though there's still some).
my guess they are intentionally doing reply all just to piss off people, and it's fun!
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Of course there's potential for abuse -- that's a feature, not a bug.

By taking the patriarchal power dynamic and turning it on its head, systems like these create radically better environments for collaboration and collective empowerment.

If you're a man who would avoid talking to any women at a convention where women calling you out for harassing/threatening/misogynist behavior, the real problem isn't the system that allows women to hit back harder than their abusers, it's that you have far too high a probability of doing something harassing/threatening/misogynistic, and you should take some time to reconsider your behavior-patterns.
Yup, spot instances would surely fit. And yes EC2 is awesome too. No point in changing the thread to a different discussion altogether. Even if Rackspace is #2, this is not what was expected of it, right? Changing the provider to EC2 is an option that everyone has but that has enormous overhead too!
I view them as a gimmicky way to make users return and interact, but I think this perspective has some merit.
Why are you blogging when you could be out there curing cancer? It's a much more worthwhile undertaking.

See? I am also right, in a vague, generic sense. But it's the sort of advice that doesn't contribute anything to your life, and only makes me feel slightly superior.
One of the issues here is the Apple settled with 'Personal Audio' and handed them $8 million -

http://www.engadget.com/2011/07/09/apple-coughing-up-8-milli...

Small change for Apple, but could now establish a precendent for judges who don't really understand technology and have to go by patent law.
Pure curiosity from the perspective of life hacking: Does this mean we can have e.g. 3 tasks parallel in a day where 3x4hours = 12 hours? Say you want to write high quality code, mastering piano and write symphony at the same day, until you reach 10k hour each (=mastery).
"a brief hand-crafted manual"

You deserve your problem if you use that terminology for whatever people are not reading.
Unbelievable, 40+ comments and not one contrary opinion.

Alright, I'll be that guy. I have no trouble doing more than 4 hours worth of mentally strenuous work in a day, and neither do most of the people I work with. Frequently enough I've put in sustained 12-16 hour days for weeks on end to meet a tough deadline.

You'll generally find that the most successful people who are best at what they do have no trouble with this either. I'll go further and say that a large number of the people who complain about having to work more than a few hours a day are doing nothing more than rationalizing their lazy HN and/or reddit habits.
Congrats! It's exciting to see people's hardwork translate into success! Keep it up! The world is yours!
>A great argument in favor of funding for public libraries, or their 21st-century equivalent.

Yeah, I think about this often.

The public library was a huge part of my life from as early as I can remember - my window to the world.

That hasn't changed for a lot of people, but the method of delivery is different. The library is now a place to access the Internet. It puts things in perspective to see people line up at the library for a time-limited shot at the kind of access to information I've grown to take for granted.

This leads to be a strong supporter of efforts to spread cheap/free Internet access.
As someone so experienced with DOS, may I ask you something: Which script interpreters do you run from it? Is it sane for doing python development for example? And how do you glue that stuff together, using batch files? Isn't that ugly as hell?

One thing that I've come so accustomed to in unix environments is the ease of creating CLI tools in a nice language like python and then glue it all together with bash scripts. I can't really imagine being so productive in DOS, but maybe I just don't know it enough, hence the question.
> Health data is so sensitive that it is protected under various laws

There is no reason we can't pass laws preventing Facebook from tracking and using such information. We don't have to settle for "don't use a cell phone" or "don't use Facebook."
It is a nice perspective to see that other people also live "The American Dream".

I am brazilian, born and raised in Brazil, but had the privilege of coming here twice (Disney) when I was a teenager. This was when I decided to eventually move to US at my first opportunity (20 years old).

It was for sure, the best decision of my life since the opportunities and lifestyle that I have here in US are simply just short of impossible back in Brazil. 7 Years in US gave me the opportunity to really grow professionally and personally.

I think my story is the similar to Danilo's…. Great parents, great support and education when growing up but ultimately, after age 17, "you are by yourself", which also includes paying for you college education if you want one.

For enabling me to get amazing education with scholarships and free content made available by US Colleges and Universities, also to accepting me as one of your own, THANK YOU AMERICA !
They have numerous Firefox problems, use Chrome for quizzes.
I guess I'm different to the target audience for this article. I go to hackathon for fun and a change of scenery. I don't expect my hackathon project to turn into a new startup. I use them to test out new ideas. With the bigger better organized ones like TechCrunch Disrupt I get to meet useful people in companies with APIs I may want to use in the future. I usually go with buddies and we stick it out and produce something at the end.

I've learned lots under the pressure of hacking fast and loose to get a product built and will continue to go for that reason. I'd love to hit a big idea just right and have something sustainable to follow up on of course but I'm okay with just having fun, meeting interesting people and learning.
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Come to think of it... what would it take to convert HN in to a true forum/community discussion website? I love the compact, get out of the way UX without mug shots of people sprinkled all over. I love the fact even more that there is no way to post LOLCats pictures inline with text that would take away attention and occupancy unnecessary space on screen real estate (you can of course link them). It has all the necessary elements (threads, karma and so on). I think only thing we need is to be able to tag posts, search, TeX and it could be far better forum website than feature bloated Discourse.
brainfart. :D
Clojure runs on .NET AFAIK.
Am I the only one here who feels like they're missing out on something with Bitcoin?
design feel incredibly busy to anyone else?

Yes. My first impression was even worse than the usual PhpBB mess that you see every day.

At least your average PhpBB layout is relatively static.

In Discourse everything constantly flickers, pops up, slides out... The information I care about is buried under all sorts of noise; What are the 5 avatar icons in the thread-list supposed to tell me? Why is the thread-information below the first post? Why on earth are reply-quotes hidden by default and reveal with a painful sliding animation?

I love the simple interface of Stack Overflow. They added a lot of crap over the years but managed to keep it on the right side of the screen where it can be safely ignored (I'm only talking about the actual "question"-page, I haven't used any other SO-page in years).

Please make this look more like SO and less like someone trying to use all his favorite javascript widgets on every page...
You're missing the analogy by a country mile.
I have a question about bitcoin -- let's assume that it actually starts becoming popular. What stops any country that's adopting it from simply forking their own version? Specifically, why is everyone investing in this particular instance of bitcoin?
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Looks great. Are there affiliate options coming?
> I know with certainty that having access to America – the mainland, the honest-to-god US of A – was the most crucial part of my privilege.

Simply being an American, even if from a non-state, was your biggest advantage and privilege.

I was an illegal immigrant living in Texas until I turned 19 or so, when Nicaraguans were granted amnesty. Since then, my quality of life has only gone up and up.
Have a fine mesh on a 45 degree angle that will allow the whole beans to slide down the mesh, but that water will pass straight through. The beans slide into a permanently covered bean receptacle that is impossible to add water to without disassembly (which should be an option for cleaning).

Beneath the mesh you could have a catchment to collect small bean particles and any water that the user tries to add, and the design and placement should be quite obvious that water poured onto the mesh isn't going anywhere. Conversely, let it collect there and go nowhere. If that catchment overflows, it goes onto the counter.
I participated in an "extended hackathon" last spring called the Boston Innovation Challenge. In addition to the unusual format (2 weeks from kickoff to demos, with mentor office hours offered in the intervening weekend), the best part was the fact that several community representatives showed up with real, specific problems they needed solving. A musician talked about the difficulty of having people serendipitously discover local live shows. The American Red Cross of Eastern MA brought up their problems in connecting with younger, more itinerant citizens to spread disaster prep awareness. Both of these representatives had several teams form around their problems, and a few useful applications actually came out of the challenge. Were they "start-ups"? No. But real problems got solved, and everyone had a blast.
Ask HN: DIY Home Security Systems
There may be a zillion DIY systems available via google. Does anyone have experience building a DIY home security system, a la Links/ADT? I want to filter this through HN rather than google. Is it worth a DIY project or paying for a pro system? FYI, I live on the south side of Chicago so this isn't paranoia just trying to take care of my family. Thanks.
They are also offering the first year at $49 for beta users.
Why would any country want to adopt Bitcoin? What incentive does any country have to do such a thing?

A country would be more likely to introduce a Chaum-style digital cash system, where the government would act as an issuing authority for digital cash tokens.
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Try a passive aggressive note yet? Humiliation is a fantastic break room tactic.
Nothing. There is no reason not to fork it. There are papers on using blockchains to pass on titles and ownership of physical goods.

It's just one market, that happens to currently be worth over $200,000,000 though.
I have to wait how long to ascertain what exec is?

The landing page should say "Exec will do whatever you desire for $25/hour, such as:"

and then carousel through examples.
One really simple change could be altering the wording to be "What are the different..." when its very high level and "what is the best.." when they have scoped it enough. It's a small change that reflects your points.

If its scoped enough that in the topic description they have defined their requirements, I think "What is the best..given these requirements" could be suitable and the votes would work.

>If it's not clear, or accurate, it should be edited!

You should be writing our copy... :) (Side note: I wrote the entire about us, FAQ and contributor guidelines in the usual Slant format so the community can edit and discuss them. My hope is to get this level of meta-discussion consistently improving our approach to these issues)

> Another option is to abandon a simple upvote system in favor of qualified thumbs-up

This could work, I'll sleep on it and think about how that would play out.

I also guess my beer bribe didn't hit home. Scotch?
You bet... Wacom C++, Softice, etc. Good old days but I have even more nostalgia for AmigaOS and the C64 ; )
Ah, now there's an honest response. Thanks for the thoughtful reply.

I'm not sure why the comparison between bitcoin and HFT, however. My admittedly limited knowledge of the former informs me that the purpose of using compute intensive operations to mine bitcoins is to prevent arbitrary creation by limiting the number and means of creation, thereby attributing value to bitcoins.

I will allow that my understanding could be off by some degree but, in any case, there is no comparison. There is nothing in the design, purpose, or function of the market that is served by accruing advantage to whomever simply has the best hardware. Hence, I am really missing the leap that "well, if it works for bitcoin it should work for anything". The market is designed for economic purposes such as raising capital and allowing broader participation in the economic output of society via investment opportunities. To see how counterproductive HFT is to these purposes, one need only take it to the extreme. That is, what if all transactions were performed by HFT algos? Would the market continue to serve its purpose and function the same? Or would it simply become some strange self-serving system that benefits an entirely different group with entirely different agendas and objectives? How would an IPO even work in this scenario?

Now, going back to the point in my original post, one can argue that the new system is better or fairer, or whatever. But one cannot honestly argue that it is the same or, worse, better serves its current purpose due to HFT.

Your argument that HFT is no worse than the good old days is a straw man, so there's not much I need to say there. I will add though that whether spreads, prices, etc are manipulated by major brokerages or "anyone capable of getting the cash and talent up front", it does subvert confidence in the market and its core mechanisms.
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Thanks for taking the time to spell this out for everyone. You've a real knack for putting things in a simple non-offensive manner.

I try to bring up the concept of privilege once in a while, but I find it really hard to get people to think about it. On one hand, it can come off as an attack on your sense of self. And I think it is a blow to certain aspects of your ego. But the intellectual gratification of understanding yourself and how things come to be should make it worth the reconceptualization, even if it didn't tend to make you appreciate your own life as well as the people you spend it with more.
> There's a finite amount of programmers needing (sometimes great) answers to dumb question and hence nearly all the other StackExchange sites tanked...

I don't see this as the reason the other sites tanked at all; there are a limited number of fields where someone without much knowledge can verify whether or not they got a correct answer. Shell scripting? Hell yeah. Statistics? Not really. (I used the stats stack exchange for a little while and it immediately became clear that most of the questioners had absolutely no ability to figure out if an answer was correct, since you can't just type it on the command line and see if it worked).

I don't know how much a discussion forum changes that problem.
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Did you work with Kris Pister by any chance?
I'm quite ecstatic about this. I invested in bitcoin early on when it was around $1-3 a coin. I try to buy goods with it at legitimate places like bitcoinstore when it's up, and buy more when it's down. I just, you know, actually believe it's a great alternative and want to see it succeed.

I do have concerns about it scaling to handle massive amounts of transactions, and what will happen with transaction fees and mining rigs as the mining reward is reduced, but it's step in the right direction for currencies.