skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Woah. This article went from relatable to really fucking creepy towards the end there. If you and an ex have a shared account, unshare it. Don't snoop around in it, looking at pictures and notes and shit.

Anyway. The part of the article before it goes to creeptown isn't so bad. I don't particularly like seeing exes on Facebook, especially when I don't really want to reconnect with them. But on the other hand, I don't really want to unfriend them. Somehow that seems really cold.

Strangely, this also results in some internal struggle when dating someone new. "We should be friends on Facebook," he says. "Yeah, but odds are we're going to break up, and I might not really want to be connected to you after that," I don't say, but think.

I always seem to end up adding the person to Facebook anyway. Or breaking up with them right then.
Senior Developer - Django, Frontend/Backend, Javascript, Python Rockstar

Job Description

Funded startup in US Cyber Security transforming the landscape of cyber warfare. Are you an unbelievable python developer who can rapid prototype great products over night or enjoy refactoring code to high performance asynchronous design? Want to develop the weapons and defenses of the future all in code?

* Must be based in the US and able to quickly relocate without VISA requirement to Washington DC, Austin TX, NYC or San Francisco (preferred)
* Able to work 30+ hours per week - if you need to start out at 15-20 and ramp up to full time, that is fine
* Detail oriented. Together we will plan a project and create a road map and you should then follow the plan completely and precisely.
* Able to provide valuable feedback to the team about architecture decisions.
* Work fast and efficiently
* Keen eye for design and usability
* Want to defend your nation from evil hackers and nation states

The skills you will need are:

* Django / Python
* Javascript / jQuery
* HTML and CSS (design is not needed)
* A little bit of Java and/or C/Objective C
* Database
* Testing (Unit tests or similar)
* Basic Linux (esp Ubuntu Server)
* Git
* RESTful APIs

These are nice bonuses:
* Backbone.js (or similar client side mvc)
* Mobile or responsive dev
* Tasty-Pie
* D3.js / visualization / charting skills
* UI/UX design

Skills Required
django python javascript jquery html css design linux ubuntu git mvc mobile

http://www.ziprecruiter.com/job/Senior-Developer/95a5683a/
Ideas Don't Matter
Another example following your unenforceable laws logic, drug laws. Look at how many civil liberties have been tossed to the side in the ever expanding drug war, even though most applications of these laws these days having nothing to do with drugs. No-knock raids are pretty much the standard on serving a search warrant now.
Chrysler made a turbine powered car in the Sixties. It would run on nearly anything. Unfortunately, Chrysler never pushed it to mass production, then the oil embargo put paid to that idea. But it was one of those beautiful futures of the Sixties.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chrysler_Turbine_Car
I might be a nitpicker, but I really hate it when people say (or in this case write) "calorie" but mean "kilo calorie". There is a difference.
-Stumbling on Happiness
-Free Software, Free Society
-Masters of Doom (not finished, just started reading it, great so far)
Hi, thanks for the reply, but my problem is that I live in Portugal, which isn't listed. Despite the news, some of us can still afford the odd laptop :)
Because the "visited" link color is so close to the body text, the titles may confusingly butt into the site name, i.e. "Why HN was down self"

I understand that adding another delimiter there, e.g. "Why HN was down | self" adds undesirable noise...maybe the visited-link color could be more obviously blue?
Le men discovers a way to live, must be the truth, must save everyone.
Puts cape on...

Still, opinion, opinions are fun :)
> or is there some other mechanism to encourage uptake?

Yes, that's what I'm saying: empathy. There are plenty of ladies and gentlemen who do have it. I know a lot of people besides myself who would like an external airbag, if it is shown to be effective at reducing the severity of injuries and preventing death. If you really want to have a purely Randian viewpoint, consider this: empathy is something that people have evolved to have because it benefits them, and we're stuck with it even if not having it would be a benefit to themself in a particular situation, just like we're stuck with the tendency to become fat even though it may not be the best for you nowadays (not that I'm saying that empathy has become less evolutionarily useful over time -- just that humans do not make optimal selfish decisions all the time).
You know, I can't possibly imagine why they'd have more deaths despite better cars ... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9w7SODzoa8
Rework: http://37signals.com/rework/
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Idiot Sales Guy- Monetizing a great startup
Hey gang,
Sales guy here. Wanted the true experts opinion ( not stuff from another marketer) on a debate we are having. We are in phase two of launching our concept flashissue.com we have created a simple tool to help small businesses create newsletters (in about 5 mins).

The next phase of our project is injecting content into the newsletter so they are ready to go for the customer. (i.e drop an RSS feed from there existing blog or supplying the content for them from reputable sources via content curation.)

The challenge we are having is we get lumped into the Email Service Provider template bucket. Which is not what we do. Any suggestions on potential channel partners or how to tell the story better via our home page? (it is currently in development) what would you like to see from a UX perspective to clearly define the value proposition? (Ready to go newsletters but not canned)
It's not immediately obvious from the exterior that the feature exists or not. You'd have to market the hell out of it and that costs money, which puts the price up, etc.
Sure you can understand the basics of a compiler from a college course on them. But what sets apart industrial level compilers is all the accumulated knowledge built into them. Students are expected to understand the whole compiler they build for class. But how many people understand every single optimization that GCC can do?

My point is, there's understanding how compilers work, and then there's understanding all of GCC. I wouldn't like it if someone made the former sound too intimidating for me, but I don't mind feeling intimidated by the latter.
Paginas web economicas pero con garantias
As far as I'm aware, their strategy is based on a scenario where the US can and does defeat it in a nuclear war.

And hence that strategy works to prevent that attack, not defeat it...

Have a bunch of relatively large (much larger that the US's) warheads strike American cities exclusively. Forget about military targets.
Windows File Confusion: Masquerading Unsigned Binaries as Signed Ones
I'm down 14kg in 120 days on a keto based diet. Works brilliantly, sustainably and enjoyable. Carbs are also full of empty calories, better to eat more nutrients like fat! I'm healthier because of that.

The chart isn't particularly useful, but it's still interesting imo

Whatever works for you of course is the best. Regrettably I've been a bit preachy about keto diets before, but understand now that some people prefer calorie counting better and it works for them, so fair enough!
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Ubuntu for Tablets trailer
Yes, but this isn't a property unique to nanomaterials -- it's a generic risk common to all materials that can produce fine, abrasive dust. My point is this doesn't represent a nanomaterial risk, it's an ordinary risk in which the source happens to be a nanomaterial. Otherwise asbestos could be classed as a nanomaterial risk after the fact.

Is lunar surface material a nanomaterial? It's certainly nasty stuff and it gets everywhere. It's regarded as one of the primary risks in lunar colonization. Does that make it a nanomaterial?
That's a very concise way to say it, thank you! Never read it explained that well.
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the recommendation if you're lifting to gain strength from a number of sources is 1g to 1.5g of protein per lb of body weight. for me that's 190 to 260g/day. it's A LOT...
You are mostly correct. We are primarily regulating access to a all@university mailing list, but we also have restrictions that prevent mass emails being sent via gmail (though I'm not the authority on this). You are correct, nothing prevents a compromised account, that I know of, from sending out emails one at a time to an list of users, though we do have control over all email accounts and can disable a compromised accounts. If the traffic is internal we have other ways of preventing it. I'm not saying our solution is an absolute substitute for all combinations of possibilities. Just that if we were to be blocked we'd have to deal with it in some other way then to disable google forms. We just couldn't get away with it, and according to some of the comments, Oxford couldn't get away with it very long either.
lol paleo

I've been losing weight lately without any fad diet. I just cut my caloric intake by 20% and boosted my caloric output by 20-30% with regular exercise.
I'm not sure what exactly OP is referring to, but there is a difference in the nutritional data of, for example, raw chicken breast (which is marked on the packaging) and baked chicken breast (which is what gets digested [unless you actually eat it raw]).

See http://nutritiondata.self.com/facts/poultry-products/701/2 VS http://nutritiondata.self.com/facts/poultry-products/703/2

Make sure you line up the serving sizes.
OneNote

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.microsoft....
I am both a front-end and back-end coder for a digital agency.

We have some huge clients that require legacy browser support (IE6 and above) so it's a mix of typical front-end stuff, a ton of VM's for testing and if we're working on a new build website with no history or few existing users using legacy browsers some Backbone.js, Modernizr and LESS/SCSS. Like most developers, we use a lot of jQuery and custom JS on our sites, but we also make sure our sites function correctly when JS is disabled.

The back-end stack is ASP.NET using C#. As we have a mixture of inter-agency work and our own stuff we use a bit of everything really. Sometimes we use Entity Framework, sometimes we're limited to .NET 2 and sometimes we're working on large-scale websites using Sitecore. The main CMS of choice is Umbraco, and over the past couple of years I've really started to enjoy using it. The IDE of choice is, obviously, Visual Studio 2010, and with ReSharper installed I'm yet to use anything even remotely as good.

For personal projects I tend to use Python and Django. I've toyed with writing some tools using Google App Engine as the primary store, but I usually work with PostgreSQL. Version control wise, at home I'm a Git guy, whereas at work we use Mercurial. Most of my code is written using Komodo Edit and PyCharm. I've got a few desktop projects I'm looking to start soon, and I'm hoping to either use F# or Haskell, depending on whether I can fix my Ubuntu box or whether I'm limited to my Windows 7 box.
I offer something similar, and I do have a pricing page: http://kbsportal.com/pricing :-)
What you are referring to is known as 'sweat of brow' copyright. The US rejected this doctrine in the supreme court case Feist v. Rural Telephone Ser­vice. The UK also rejects this doctrine under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

So no, these scans are not the rightful property of whoever took the trouble to scan them.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweat_of_the_brow#US_copyright...
This link from the article on his analysis of preventing the Super Bowl power failure is pure gold:

http://perspectives.mvdirona.com/2013/02/04/ThePowerFailureS...
Mandiant revealed Chinese APT1 Cyber Espionage campaign
Ketogenic diets are more trouble than they're worth. There's nothing inherently wrong with carbohydrates.
You are Capt. Quinton D'Arcy, J. P. Sevenoaks, and I claim my five pounds of small potatoes.
I'm of the opinion that you can eat as many fruits and vegetables as you want and it shouldn't hurt you. You might not lose weight eating too many fruits, but you'll be a lot healthier.

When I need to lose weight, my go-to is Okra. A bag of frozen okra is, IIRC, about 150 calories and eating 3/4 a bag will have you over-full.
The Stanford NLP tools are very good, and also GPLed, which works for a lot of projects. If the GPL doesn't work for you, the Apache OpenNLP project is also good.
Ubuntu on tablets
It is harder to make a bolt action rifle than an AR-15. The skill and time involved are substantial in both cases, but creating a heat treated bolt gun receiver that works is no joke.

But what is much more interesting to me is the interplay between technology and the law. The lower receiver, the regulated part, will be printable (usefully so) within a decade in my view. That makes it possible for someone with basic skills to own a proper semiautomatic rifle without the government even knowing about it. Would that cause regulation of other parts like barrels? Maybe, but barrels are expendable parts...I'm pretty sure the NRA would blow a gasket over that for more than one reason. Triggers? How? What's a "trigger?" Guns, like information, want to be free.

It all puts gun control advocates in a bit of a pickle. In fact, it puts prohibitionists of all kinds in a pickle. And that is a good thing.
Could you give more examples of films in the past you've seen that you considered "stupid"?

I haven't seen "Jack Reacher" or "The Last Stand", but both garnered pretty lukewarm reviews, and at first glance, seem like the typical uncreative blockbuster fare.

How many independent studio films have you seen? How about foreign films? I've always been a fan of Kurosawa flicks, but a lot of Western movies follow in his thematic footsteps. After watching Park Chan-wook's films ("Oldboy" being the most internationally famous), I started to realize how formulaic Western blockbuster films were and have generally stayed away from them.

That said, blockbuster films can still have a predictable end but still be very entertaining. The first three Indiana Jones movies are the best examples of that -- i.e. you know Indiana Jones is not going to die at the end, and yet each (literal) cliffhanger is shot and structured so well that you suspend disbelief.
I have to say it looks pretty darn sweet. Super clean and fluid...but then again it is a promo video.

I do want to know how well it'll play with other services and apps. The video chat part of the video looks awesome but if others have to be on Ubuntu to be able to take full advantage of it's feature I'll be disappointed.
Sometimes I wonder what the world would be like if it were illegal for institutions to block sites. It shouldn't be too hard to imagine. No one can block postal mail or telephone calls (except as a user). And, the FCC has banned wireless jamming. In spite of those guarantees of service we manage to survive and, on the whole, protect ourselves from fraudsters.

I think it is too late now to guarantee service through legislation, but the upsides do outweigh the downsides.
How were the calories counted? It seems that many common foods are mislabeled since they are using older forms of calorific calculation that don't include fibre. See http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2013/feb/18/food-retailers...
"We recently felt it necessary to take, temporarily, extreme action for the majority of University users: we blocked Google Docs."
That really depends on why you think Priuses (Priusi?) sell. Certainly some sold because they 'help the planet', but I would wager that a lot sold because a Prius was an external statement about a fashionable cause. Brad Pitt drove one! Look how responsible I am! Etc.

A hybrid is immediately obvious from the outside: a Prius is obviously recognisable. This feature is completely concealed, which takes a lot of the social cachet and signalling away from it.

Musk recognised that, to really sell electric cars, you can't rely on the altruistic goodwill of a purchaser who wants to help reduce dependence on oil and reduce emissions. You have to make the absolute best car. So, how do you sell this without relying on altruism (which some do have, but not all)? I think reduced car tax and reduced insurance rates may be good guesses.
As the author points out, Apple is fairly unique in its command of vertical integration. Its products are unique not on their feature merits, but because of the way they are conceived, designed, built, sourced, manufactured, shipped, marketed, sold, opened, held, and used.

There's another part of this: Apple is fairly unique amongst it's (asymmetric) competitors (e.g. Google, MS, Samsung) in that it only focuses on one customer: The Consumer.

In my experience the behaviors and culture of an organization (large or small) that focuses on the Consumer as a customer is diametrically incompatible with the behaviors and culture of an organization that focuses on Business as a customer. (I feel super strongly that this is a key reason Microsoft's products are often good, but not excellent; the consumer ones and the business ones).

EDIT: I decided to write a full blog post as a response: http://ceklog.kindel.com/2013/02/19/why-nobody-can-copy-appl...
Learning more about the author might convince you that it's worth reading: http://www.wired.com/medtech/health/magazine/16-05/ff_woznia...
good luck trying to sustain that
At the same time I have seen autovectorization to fail on things that would look like obvious candidates or to generate still sub-optimal code. I would prefer autovectorization over hand-written SIMD code everyday but that key here is reliability. If I cannot guarantee that the performance is going to stay the same across different compiler releases (which is often that case with autovectorization) it is much more convenient to just write the optimization myself and be sure that it is going to happen regardless of the environment.
Solid write up. What were the advantages/disadvantages to writing a DB engine in Golang vs C++ or Java
> They have a relatively high self-discharge (or leakage depending on how you measure it) compared to say Li-ion/NiMh cells which means basically they piss capacity away slowly.

Your claim is premature -- they haven't chosen an insulator yet. The graphene sheets are the conducting surfaces, not the insulating layer. Your claims are about the properties of the insulating layer between graphene sheets, which hasn't been selected yet. It looks like this:

Graphene (+) ---------------------------------
Insulator ------------------------------------
Graphene (-) ---------------------------------
Nathan isn't selling anything related to copywriting. His article is about copywriting and it's using the landing page for his new app as an example. The prices you see are for his app (yet to be released) which doesn't have anything to do with copywriting.
I have come to love the strong typing of VHDL (very similar to Ada but for hardware design). After using it for a while, in my uninformed opinion, I think it can drastically reduce bugs because it assumes nothing and makes the programmer define exactly what they mean.
Almonds are mostly fat, and not very satiating either.

I've done the paleo/lowcarb fad diets too. They just trick you into eating fewer calories by forbidding most of the food you ate before the diet. Not to mention some versions of these diets are based on incorrect understanding of human physiology. For example, despite what the paleotards will tell you, carbs are very rarely converted into body fat. But when you eat any food in excess of TDEE, the dietary fat you eat is stored instead of used as fuel. Even if you eat zero carbs, if you eat more than your TDEE, you will gain fat.
Ask PG: Isn't it too late, historically speaking, to apply?
Last year Y Combinator was reported to have a 2% acceptance rate with an incoming class of 80.

Imagine that you have 50 concise filled in forms with 1 minute videos attached, behind each of which are two-three personalities, and you have to choose 1 group who has this unique amalgam of traits which will allow them to devise, build, grow, and run a successful tech company. To what extent your decision will be a product of a well-grounded analysis or at least reasonable hunch and what will be the share of mere chance in it? Is there a limit of this share after which we can be saying that the process is largely arbitrary? Or the original rule that all YC founders read all applications and then find common denominator is no longer in power?

But then OK, you're an applicant and you've been admitted. A class of 80 teams is a hell lot of people. And if you're smart, you applied not only for the money, ties or VCs' attention. When it started YC' tiny team were litereally mentors for the startups hand-crafting and guiding them gradually translating to the would-be startupers their experience, skills and wisdom which you cannot read in a book. Now a crowd of sturtups is baked simultaneously with dozens of YC alumni involved. But honestly speaking, you'd wish to learn in a mild pace from Paul Graham, not from his apprentices. Judging by the figures YC has never been more successful and one can say hence there never been a better moment to join. And maybe you'll indeed make a lot of smart friends, participate in a line of dinners with speakers, get serious VCs' attention and even money. But can you be sure that you'll get everything that Drew Houston got which made Dropbox possible in the old days? And is there a limit of class size and all the surrounding ado after which all this might become pointless?
Ah :) - I'm not the OP, but as an Uruguayan, that actually sounds like too little ! :)

We do eat a lot of meat over here though (I believe #1 per-capita in the world).
Archaic regulations. Takes a long time from start to finish to produce quality bourbon. There are technical reasons (barrel size, surface area to liquid ratios) you might want larger batch sizes. So it's hard to start small. Which is what you have to do, because getting a new liquor product onto store shelves involves tremendous capital outlays.
Cloud 66 now fully supports Rackspace with native load balancers
#1 No. The moment you stop waking up and looking forward to work its the moment to do something new.

#2. If you're going to be selling a service or product obviously make an e-commerce store
Liking or disliking films is, more often than not, independent of intelligence.

Just because you now enjoy films doesn't necessarily mean your intelligence has changed. It's more likely to mean that your personality has changed. Remember that there are almost certainly many people that are smarter than you whom absolutely love films.

Please don't be the guy in the room who thinks that they're really smart because they have different/non-existent consumption habits than other people. This is dumb social signalling because others will think you are being pretentious.

You seem to have some kind of hang-up about being seen as being smart by other people...
BromBone: A Headless Browser as a Service - build on PhantomJS
GOOG now trading above $800 for first time ever
Ubuntu for tablets arriving on Nexus 7, Nexus 10 this week
Chad Fowler joins 6wunderkinder as CTO
Carbs are NOT "empty calories", there is no such thing.
Was it ever open? Can you give a link to the last open version if it was?
The joke's on you, sir: I have successfully repealed the first law of thermodynamics!
I don't see any press release from OpsCode, which makes me think this is not a joint venture with them, which in turn makes me wonder how dangerous is to be part of the AWS ecosystem...

If you prove a market around AWS, what are the odds of getting this market gobbled by AWS themselves? They have a level of access to their own infrastructure that you don't have, let alone the access to their own (huge) customer base, integrated billing and branding.