skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ziff Davis had/has a half a dozen employee shill accounts at different times for extremetech.com, geek.com and pcmag.com.

This is a great illustration another HN user (DanBC) put together:

http://imgur.com/a/EfzHB

They have almost no natural submissions to HN.
Hypothetical is hypothetical. Why not deal with the real instance at hand?
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If you broke it in such a way that it made their site massively unprofessional or completely unusable, then they'd be forced to either redesign their site or take it offline. Either of which results in those sites no longer feeding off copied code.
Recruiter here. I think managers do have a careful balance between helping candidates (providing full disclosure as to why they rejected) and potential exposure (being sued or coming across the wrong way), so they tend to err on the side of caution. But having dealt with many managers, they too are in a time crunch, especially if they are being fed lots of unqualified or unvetted candidates (the numbers game you allude to) and also fear the risk. This is more prevalent in the contingency recruiting market.

The manager should have the incentive to provide great feedback to the recruiter, as the recruiter will hopefully hit the target better on future candidates if they are aware why their candidates are being rejected. The recruiter has little incentive to share that feedback with candidates other than goodwill and keeping the relationship strong with the candidate. I always try to get feedback from managers for my own purposes and for helping my candidates improve, but it isn't always as easy as you'd think.
XNA != DirectX. XNA is a very thin wrapper over DX, but it's not tied into the OS itself by any means.
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They are going to get exactly what they do not want by continuing this kind of reckless behavior.
Fair enough. I haven't noticed submissions from them either. Then again, I just browser the first 2 pages and hardly dig into the new submissions area.
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I guess I'm confused why you need 24x7 support for a "social game". What would happen if it took 48 hours to respond? Very few companies that I deal with respond much quicker than that.
Reminds me of a funny South Park bit, wherein a bunch of people wind up in hell. There's a demon serving as sort of a welcoming committee, and he tells the crowd he will answer any questions to the best of his ability.

"So...which religion was the right one?" someone asks.

"Mormonism," he replies. It turns out Mormonism was the correct answer. Sorry."
I would be flattered by them copying you, validating that you're at the top of your game!
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The slogan on dapaticalglobal.com is grammatically incorrect. If I were looking for a firm, that would stop be from going any further . . .
"What makes THIS particular climate change so different and more significant from the previous ones?"

The speed at which it's occurring and it's correlation with man-made CO2 emission levels.
I've wanted a multiplayer game where I could script most of the day to day activity for about as long as I've played games. I think 0x10^c will be super popular.
I have to disagree with the author. Had plenty of good ideas while riding a bike, showering, etc. I would call that 'inspiration' and it didn't come from working, it actually came from not working.

I would agree that it's foolish to wait for inspiration to strike, but the fact that it's foolish to wait doesn't mean there is no such thing as inspiration.
I just tried out NUI this weekend (https://github.com/createch/bullrunnerapp), and ended up abandoning halfway through. My code became worse because of it. Some of the style code is in the ViewController, some of it is in the NSS file. Going to have to test nativeCSS.

Looks like this could be better than NUI. Unlike NUI:

- You can have multiple selectors, like in normal CSS

- More css-like names, border-radius (rather than border-width as NUI calls it)

- Shorthand properties border: 1px solid #fff;

- Shorthand color codes: #fff

textview,textfield{
border-radius:0px;
background-color:#fff;
padding:5px;
border:1px solid darkgrey;
margin:auto;
width:90%;
}

Also, $10/app is much better than Pixate's $199 license.

https://github.com/tombenner/nui
http://www.pixate.com/
So what? Percentage is the statistic that matters in discussions like this. Unless you are suggesting that there is some upper limit on the number of women that can ever be involved in programming at one time.

How does notion work to you - is there some sort of cosmic female hive-mind that determines the quotas of them that can be part of any given activity? Is it some sort of feedback loop so that we as a species are approaching the limit of $MAX_FEMALE_DEVS?
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The Einstein quote comes to mind:

"We can not solve our problems with the same level of thinking that created them."

There are a whole host of assumptions that your arguments rest on, from our ability to predict and control non-linear dynamic systems, to what we even mean when we say "cost" or "quality of life". It's great that you're optimistic, but I fear this is more of the same arrogance that got us into this mess in the first place.
The direct copying by other sites is definitely lame, but I don't see anything here I'd want to copy. The crazy load time makes the site almost unusable (as I write this, the page is frozen, and still loading... maybe use fewer http requests and compression?), and the design is nothing to write home about (it's decent though).
I think we're actually in agreement. Let me restate my argument, and, I think, Berners-Lee's:

"I don't always send data over the network, but when I do, I use an open-source browser that uses open protocols."
I mentor at startup events and advise a few startups, and too much planning is definitely the most common problem.

The loop you talk about is known among Lean Startup people as the build-measure-learn loop: http://lean.st/principles/build-measure-learn

The folks I see doing best are the ones with a clear vision who iterate as frequently as possible, testing their assumptions in order of risk. The right amount of planning is the smallest amount to let them learn frequently.
Businesses have to worry about themselves before the ecosystem. It's for legal concerns that they don't give feedback.
This is very good advice. You may not be maintaining your script later on, maybe someone who is new to unix will be asked to go change it. Having the intention much more obvious will save them some hassle. Hell, even someone who uses unix a lot may not know every flag of every command you use. With no other context, it's pretty hard to know if -r is recursive or reverse sort, or something else entirely.

And god forbid you think you know which one it is and end up being wrong... you might not realize until it hits production (scripts not always being the best tested things in the world).

Yes, they might not be supported on BSD.. they're also not supported on Windows, what's your point? It's a lot more likely you'll have to read and/or change the script 6 months down the line when you've forgotten everything about what's in it, then you'll all of a sudden need to run your script on BSD when you've never had to in the past (obviously if portability is a requirement from te beginning, then that changes how you write the script from the start).
Objectively, not that large :) ~100MB CAD drawings for instance.
How is it slander? It's pretty obvious that these companies did steal the design (JavaScript and all).
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A much simpler solution is to comment your code:

# Invoke curl in silent mode (-s), pipe the output to grep

# and use an extended regex (-E) to only show the resulting

# digits (-o: only print matching text, not the whole line):

curl -s checkip.dyndns.org | grep -Eo '[0-9\.]+'
While I'm not a "denier" per se, the IPCC has made some monumental errors (hockey stick, anyone?) in the past that have really hampered their ability to be a source of non-political "good science".
As other commenters have pointed out, 500 is way more international than YC. Over half of the companies in the current batch (of which I am one) are international. Dave McClure, Paul Singh, etc spend HUGE amounts of time travelling the world looking for the best trends and startups. In that sense, they select from a much wider field of applicants.

500 itself has no problem giving money to international companies - however, most companies flip-up or establish in the US to make it easier for other investors. It does depend on the company though. Some companies come to the US to enhance their network, not necessarily to crack into the US market, so setting up shop here legally doesn't make sense.

For visas - they provide references, etc that are needed and are very quick and responsive about it. That said, they will not "sponsor" you to come in on an H1-B or anything like that.
I think there's a mile long road between "being ridiculed" and "having their egos stroked." The nature of their discomfort has more to do with respect, or the lack of it.
Isn't your design inspired from http://www.spotify.com/se/ ?
Hey, if we have execute of JS on all those clients, why not REDIRECT them to your site? Free traffic. All relevant.
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The parent never implied either of those things. All he was saying was essentially:

"The fact that the climate is changing does not lead to the conclusion that humans are causing that change"
Thanks for the opinion, I'm well outside of that but would love to find good sources with more signal than noise.
What's with the silence?
Partly it's brilliant (progressive tax rates on corporation profits encourages corporations to split themselves up)

Partly it's not thought through (tax on gross income not profit - but that would tax Dell on a thousand dollar laptop when they might make 20 bucks)

And partly it's plain crazy - taxing a company till it becomes smaller is like having agent provacteur for cartel prosecutions
The greatest factor in projected sea level rise is the average temperature of the oceans--warm water takes up more volume, and there is a lot more water than ice in the world. Melting of land-supported ice is a fairly distant second.

This is not a direct response to you, but it's a fact that few people seem to realize when discussing ocean levels and global warming.
Definitely waiting until tonight to jailbreak. Last few times my phone got slightly screwed up when I jailbroke right after it came out, followed by a couple updates/fixes to the jailbreak program the same day.
For those having trouble getting past the paywall:
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"...hiring managers are by definition experts at hiring"

Ummm, I don't think so. Many if not most companies suck at hiring. If you get hiring right, you just nailed the most important factor* to building a great company, and great companies are the exception, not the rule.

*arguably, the only factor. The rest is what the people you hired do.
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All land is stolen. What in your opinion is different in Sweden?
Clojure has a YAML-like vulnerability but is waiting on fix
Should you quit? Probably. Should you start your own company? That depends. What's your background (beyond "I only have 1 year experience in programming")? Do you have any contacts with people who would potentially want your services, or do you think that you could make them quickly?

My suggestion would be to keep the job solely for income while you hunt for another one. Ask questions during interviews like "What tech stack do you use?", "What version control do you use?", "What kinds of workflow automation do you have?"
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Not everyone who wants to run RT apps on non-MS devices is trying to avoid MS in every aspect of their lives.
Thanks for that advice. Was thinking of writing a weekly column, or a small book about mistakes I wouldn't repeat in my next venture. Like you said, it would make it easier to remember the lessons over time - completely agree.
I would have preferred that you just gave the URL (plaintext) with screenshot and some code snippet. I wouldn't want those sites getting clicks.
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Are you allowed to install software on an On-Demand Cluster GPU Instances or you must use what is provided by Amazon ?
Why worry about the meaning of the terms you use when there is an opportunity to call somebody who disagrees with you names?
I'd say they both feed into each other bidirectionally.
It seems they are just being petulant.
Most of these seem pretty egregious, but am I the only one who thinks that Gear Tree studios did enough work to differentiate their design?

I mean, it's one thing to complain about some of those direct copies. You should. But it's another entirely to not expect people to lift your code out. That is the way the web has been for a long time, and it's not going to change just because of some practically unenforcible laws unevenly defined internationally.
Will you guys please stop this? You've allowed yourselves to be sucked down a rathole of incivility.
Why? They are distinctly different, and unless I missed it, are copying none of the assets.

Are you merely referring to the fact that they both "scroll" the same way, a way which is not unique to the OPs website?

Be careful when calling people out.
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We've already got what they do not want.

I'm not arguing that this is an effective strategy, but the standard argument against radical action simply doesn't hold water. Even terrorism (or what was labelled as such) has more often then not had the long term effect of putting reforms on the agenda.
the propeller one made me lol. ripped off a design without any attempt of fitting the design to the brand.
Naming your product
omg. can't wait get to my ipad to do this. christmas once again.
Against DTLS it appears to practical, both because the connection isn't destroyed and because the difference can be amplified by the researcher's Heartbeat trick from http://www.isg.rhul.ac.uk/~kp/dtls.pdf.

Against TLS it's tougher. The paper is suggesting a difference of ~10000 cycles, which may be ~5us. So, yes, you need to have a good connection to the server to be able to measure that difference, but that's not unthinkable to me. I know that you could get such a connection to a Google server if you were willing to pay some money to get a machine hosted in the right place.

But it also appears that it's fairly easy to get a process instantiated on the same EC2 host as a target application. Or maybe your server is running on a small ARM device and so the difference is much larger.

Don't get me wrong - this is a trivial issue compared to, say, the Java vulnerabilities that we've seen recently. But it's huge compared to the level of security that plain TLS should be providing. Saying that it's secure as long as you don't allow the attacker to be close by, or you don't run it on a slow machine isn't good enough for me.

But I admit that it's unlikely to anyone will ever actually perform this attack in anger. Although I would have said the same about MD5 collisions at the beginning of 2012 :)
It's because you weren't a good fit for the position.

Want to know more? No, because then you will threaten to sue us. The legal action is frivolous and will lose in the end but it will cost money time and attention to deal with.

But forget all that, seriously now, what's the real reason, the applicant asks? For us, if we didn't make an offer it's either because the applicant is a jerk, a liar, or incompetent. One or more of these covers the situation with the majority of applicants. Salary is not an issue, we pay what it takes for the right people. I can't say the same for other companies, they often want to find someone cheap. Jerks don't change, the incompetent can't improve, and liars only use feedback to make their lies harder to detect. This means all feedback is either useless or counterproductive. There is one exception. The rare case they are a sweet genius with severe BO. In this case little can be gained from feedback since there's little chance one is not aware of it. If one suspects BO might be the reason, then it is and it should be fixed before the interview.
I am really trying to make sense of this reasoning, but it's not working. Maybe someone could help me out.

It seems like this is saying,
1. (implied) Humans are affecting the climate, but
2. Humans can't direct the change of the climate, and
3. The climate will change, regardless of Humans.

Therefore,
4. (Implied) Negative affects that Humans behavior has on the climate is irrelevant, and
5. Invest in Human survival.

Maybe I'm misunderstanding the argument. It seems to assert that individual or collective behavior which may negatively impact the welfare of others is irrelevant, because those others should have been anticipating overall negative impacts and adapting anyway.

Maybe someone could give me an analogy to another uncontrollable phenomenon where it makes sense for Humans to ignore the consequences of their actions which may indirectly (or directly) affect others.
It's an untethered jailbreak (allows the device to reboot on its own without using a desktop tool to help it boot), if that's what you mean by permanent. I probably wouldn't call it "permanent" since you can easily remove the jailbreak by restoring the device with iTunes.
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I agree. Even for design agencies and web shops, it can be a difficult task to work on your own site sometimes with client work being the top priority. I've seen first hand web agencies basically cookie-cutting other sites that offer similar services. Which is silly, especially if they want to stand out.

Now in this case, I think you have every right to feel upset that they pretty much jacked your whole website... in some cases even the raw HTML and CSS. Some of those examples didn't even change anything and almost all used your icons.

I do agree with @robomartin though, might wanna take the nice-guy approach first and give them the opportunity to admit their wrongdoings. Good luck, your site looks kick-ass by the way.
If you want to cobble something together, an old PC running Bacula and USB drives might even do the trick. Together with VChanger, you have can have a full backup plan in effect without much investment. Just remember to rotate the USB drives and store at least one of the full backups offsite (e.g., in a steel casette in the basement).

From there you can add cloud storage as another pool.

Just never forget to save your catalog, too. Full backups are always usable, even without a fully set up Bacula installation, but incremental/differential backups need a catalog.
> The test in science is whether findings can be replicated using different data and methods. More than two dozen scientific papers, using various statistical methods and combinations of proxy records, have produced reconstructions supporting the broad consensus shown in the original 1998 hockey-stick graph, with variations in how flat the pre-20th century "shaft" appears.[12][13] The 2007 IPCC Fourth Assessment Report cited 14 reconstructions, 10 of which covered 1,000 years or longer, to support its strengthened conclusion that it was likely that Northern Hemisphere temperatures during the 20th century were the highest in at least the past 1,300 years.[14] Ten or more subsequent reconstructions, including Mann et al. 2008, have supported these general conclusions.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hockey_stick_controversy
"Were they a private family with private holdings, the people of the UK would pay more taxes than they do now."

Death duties? Capital gains tax?

Actually I have no strong feelings either way and tend to view the monarchy as part of the tourism industry.
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Why should you care who makes Game of Thrones? Isn't that immaterial to you as a consumer; you just want to watch Game of Thrones, right? Why must we choose certain producers of content and not just choose the content? If shows were more competitively priced, say .99 for rentals, 9.99 for season passes, this would all be a non-issue.
I'm pretty sure i've already seen those tiles somewhere aswell, is http://www.studiodvi.com a candidate too?
"ignorant executive mandates that companies must have apps simply to be able to say that they have them"

This seems to be the case more often than not. Company executives feel pressured to release an app, any app, because "that's the future" according to whatever self-styled expert they listened to at XYZ Conference. So they crank out a useless app or two, and they get to tell their colleagues, peers, ad agencies, and Wall Street that they are forward thinking.

Such a strategy completely ignores the customer and his/her needs, of course. Publishing an app just to publish an app is pointless at best, and damaging to one's brand at worst. A company without a solid app strategy would be far better served just not releasing one at all. There is a negative ROI associated with a bad app, and not just in terms of the development and marketing dollars burned.
I am very glad to learn of the Humans Invent website — I was not aware of it. I love to read about innovation, science and the like. It reminds me that in the midst of many challenges in the world there is great work going on that could address some very important issues.

Long live human ingenuity!
Well said. I came to the same conclusion back in 2000 after we worked with Microsoft on BizTalk (of all things, this should bring hoots of derision from a few readers). Luckily Linux was on the rise in the server market so I jumped ship to start writing Java and later Python and never looked back.
I know this comment is meant sincerely, and it is well-written, but silly nonetheless. Given that these people ripped off the author so lazily in the first place, there is no reason to think that the time spent contacting these people one-by-one would not be wasted. Also, let's not shed too many tears for the people "shamed" in this way. Come on.
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I would assume that's why it was worded the way it was, instead of "We have spent in excess of $40,000 on computer time."
I have one full-time CS employee and he works 39 hours(ish) per week during weekdays and one hourish over the weekend. That was in the job description and we talked about it during interviews. It was a deal breaker, for me, if the candidate was unable to commit an hour over the time between "Friday and the next work day" to manage answering tickets and helping customers.

But going from zero employees of any kind to two full-time CS employees so that you can save time is foolhardy, at least in the short term. If you think you have no time to code now, just wait until you have employees yet have no training plan/manual for them to follow. I'd suggest you find one "all around" person and have them do CS as part of their job. The other parts of their job are various admin duties - mail, filing receipts, etc. If you find that, after 3-6 months, you need another employee, then you have a built-in trainer for the new person.