skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just a quick note on the page design: I see the influences of both the Pinterest-style "pins" and the MS-style "metro" look here.

Honestly, I find both of those styles incredibly difficult to navigate and I think they offer poor UX. My eye just doesn't know where to fall on the page. I know this sort of design is trendy and contemporary, but frankly I hope this fad passes soon.

That being said - the office looks cool, the company sounds cool, and the more gaming startups out there that do well, the more fun there is to be had in the world (and that is a Good Thing(tm) in my humble opinion ;)
NK bought their nuclear technology from a Pakistani, who is currently living comfortably in a house in Pakistan, protected by the Pakistani state (because he also gave them nuclear capabilities). He stole a lot of the technology from European companies where he worked. This guy (AQ Khan) provided resources to Iran as well (directly and indirectly via NK).

The science isn't actually that hard (I'd feel comfortable I could design/build a gun-type fission weapon myself, given budget and resources, from open sources, with basic engineering education). The hard part is the smuggling, front companies, etc. to get the equipment and materials.

I'm pretty sure by the time NK was looking at going nuclear, the SU wasn't particularly happy with NK. NK was closer to China, and SU didn't really support Chinese proliferation (there were substantial divisions on the SU-China border, after all...)

China didn't really want NK to go nuclear, either.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but:

1. Third party statistics sites like Alexa and Compete are horribly untrustworthy indicators of reality.

2. Growing traffic isn't the best way to foster a community. I believe pg has written about this a few times, with regards to communities in general and HN.

I think the Quora community is amazing. It's very populous and the quality of answers is generally on par or better than specialty interest sites/forums from a wide range of topics, all in one place. Of course, it has its strengths and its weaknesses - for example, a strength would definitely be reading an answer from an actual CIA [something] analyst, former Foreign Service Officer, doctor, etc. on a relevant question, but it falls behind in areas like technology IMO.

The site is annoying and I hate a lot about the community (surprise, it turns out "mature adults" can use shitty memes just as much as the teens everyone blames for them on reddit), but I think they've done a great job at fostering the kind of community they want so far. If anything, it's being threatened by the pressure of growing.
Crack a book? That's a wikipedia link, I'm not sure what I'm supposed to be looking for? Maneuver warfare is 3GW, yesterday's war. How does maneuver warfare fit in with counter insurgency? Do you see a lot of current TRADOC referring to maneuver warfare and the use of swift armored forces to defeat an insurgent force armed with IEDs? You don't think increased use of SOF is a clear indicator that large-scale maneuver warfare is a thing of the past?

Why the tossaway account?
I noticed problems with Heroku's router too.

However, contrary to the author, I'm serving 25,000 real requests per second with only 8 dynos.

The app is written in Scala and runs on top of the JVM. And I was dissatisfied that 8 dynos seem like too much for an app that can serve over 10K requests per sec on my localhost.
Turns out to be a great queueing problem. Please check out my analysis of much simplified version of the random routing algorithm that fails with near certainty: http://www.win-vector.com/blog/2013/02/randomized-algorithms...
The article isn't saying what your comment implies. Your comment implies the credentials are useful as a form of external validation for others... the article implies it's a form of external validation which is useful for the credentialee... sort of a social 'hey, way to go to college!'

In this way, 'hey i'm dropping out of school!' is frowned upon... but perhaps 'hey, I'm dropping school for yc' is a different external validator. Again, for the person seeking the credential.
In general the moderators in SO make useful contributions. Many of them are downright annoying as well.
> the office looks cool

I agree it looks "hip." I also happened to like the friendly shots of the employees who looked like real people I might want to know.

However, that's an office for sales people. I wouldn't want to be a developer working on hard problems in the middle of that.

...also didn't realize that Hollywood was part of "Silicon Beach," although to someone out of state I guess it's all beach. There's another startup on that corner, named Pop-up Pantry.
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I think you are right.

I had to create a quick sim but it does pan out.

With round robin it's going to chose the dynos most likely to have the shortest queue given the simple information available. (longest time since it got something) so it's biased to putting stuff on empty queues.

Where as random picks randomly, so there's no bias to empty queues, so random should be less efficient.
Note that there are 2 common variants of the BSD license: "2-clause" and "3-clause". Don't forget to specify which one you mean.

I'm using the ISC license (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISC_license) which is equivalent to the 2-clause BSD, but does so with fewer and simpler words.

Also, the MIT license (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_license) is quite popular. It is also equivalent to the 2-clause BSD, but not quite as short as the more modern ISC license.
> it's just important to understand than Rails doesn't get any special treatment on a PaaS done correctly

Why is it only "done correctly" if it does not account for specific properties of the technology used by a particular customer?
I personally have no moral problem with overthrowing corrupt states -- it is individuals who have rights, not states. I don't believe humans born in North Korea are less deserving of freedom than humans born in Norway.

From a purely practical perspective, it would be difficult for an external power (other than perhaps China) to force regime change in North Korea. "If you strike a king, you must kill him" -- attempting to change the NK government through force and failing is worse than doing nothing at all, since it puts Seoul at risk, and would also make life worse for North Koreans, including innocent conscripts to their military.

About the only places I could see raising enough private force to successfully execute regime change against a corrupt government are in Africa: Equatorial Guinea, Zimbabwe, Swaziland, etc. But it's also immoral to force private citizens in a place like the US to support a state effort to regime change (and, it's proven to be politically and militarily inefficient or ineffective in Iraq and Afghanistan...)

Maybe anonymous currency will give us kickstarter for coups ("Assassination Politics"), someday soon. Combine that with drones and private special operations forces and things can change.
yea, its a good case using just
30. item1
999. item2
2. item3
for numbered lists

but it can possibly "break" in some later versions of markdown, as said by the man himself:

"If you do use lazy list numbering, however, you should still start the list with the number 1. At some point in the future, Markdown may support starting ordered lists at an arbitrary number."
-- John Gruber / Daring Fireball
(http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax#list)
Our free plan has been an important channel for us. Not all, but most, of our paid users first tried the free plan, liked the product, and then upgraded for the larger feature set.
http://blog.intercom.io/if-its-important-dont-hack-it/
It seems impossible to be anything but hyper-religious or an atheist after surviving a concentration camp.
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Not the end of the world. Cross platform (and "architecture") hooking libraries exist for this very reason[1]. It's not a hard issue, and symbol lookup for callstacks is not an issue either[2]. I wouldn't say it's trivial but it's certainly not novel.

[1] http://www.gamedeception.net/content/193-Cross-platform-x86-...
[2] http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/online/pages/man3/backtr...
Read his comment again. He's describing the same frustration I and apparently many others have experienced clicking on a link (from a search engine, a blog, etc.) only to hit a wall. At this point I'm not a user of the site yet. The gist of your argument is how we're using a service, etc. That's fine, they can setup their service however they choose. And we, as potential users, can point out what a poor setup they have chosen.

The irony is I have an account... linked to my Facebook profile. But I can't log in with that from work. There may or may not be a way around this (perhaps a new account or linking my account to an email login), but I'm so irritated by their antagonistic approach that when I see the wall appear I just close the browser tab.

It's now gotten to a point where I don't even bother using Quora from home because I so strongly disagree with their policy.
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Is the "whining" particular to web developers either, or have developers always complained about the platform and legacy problems they've been forced to dick with (look at the angst over Android fragmentation for example)?
YC is only arbitrary to the extent we are stupid, and though we certainly do make mistakes in deciding who to fund, we have some fairly smart people expending a lot of effort on the problem; I don't think we simply fund whoever's best at tricking us into funding them.
> But of course people asking for more state will tell you that North Korea is not a good example of communism and that Argentina is not a good example of socialism.

The Workers' Party of Korea attends the International Meeting of Communist and Workers parties along with the ruling parties of China, Laos, Vietnam, Nepal, Cuba and many other international communist parties. The DPRK definitely is affiliated with communists but its ideology isn't communism it is a combination of Korean nationalism, Juche, and self-reliance.

Since you equate communism with statism you don't know what it really means. Communism is a broad category of societies that do not have classes of social relations to the means of production. Three of the most important types of communism are primitive communisms which existed before the development of means of production, collectivist communism which is based upon common ownership of the means of production, and individualist communism which is based upon personal ownership of the means of production such as 3D printers and distribution on a free market.
I know how you feel exactly. I had a business in the same position except in the payment industry: we were processing roughly $1m a day until one day we had a frightening call from the bank. Two weeks later we were in liquidation and I was facing bankruptcy. Like you are saying (in an essence): the rug was being pulled from under you.

Thank you for sharing your story - by sharing, it it helps the whole startup community :)
I agree with this argument, but not necessarily the tone of it.

Quora is a business as much as it is a consumer facing service with a strong mission to uphold. But the reality is, if Quora didn't keep its numbers out of the red and into the black by doing "annoying things" like forcing app downloads or account creation, then they would run out of capital and cease to exist. So, take your pick. Or better yet, just stop complaining.

Also, their mobile website isn't fully functional or in some cases usable. I beta test it, and it's riddled with bugs and missing features. Frankly, a lot of services today are skipping mobile web all together, and focusing on driving app downloads to provide a richer experience.

Bottom line: Services valuable to end users are also running a businesses. We must learn to give and take.
I put thought and care into putting a few answers on Quora. I regret it now. I never would have done so had I known they were going to go Full Retard like the reviled ExpertSexChange.

I hope this pattern of bootstrapping with domain experts and later ditching them for leveraging volume users doesn't portend the future. Or maybe I'm just a little slow to catch on.
Well, the first thing that comes to mind is fairy tails as old as dirt and from the world over occasionally feature a figure in search of eternal youth. E.g., the fountain of youth.
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Maybe.

MUMPS has a hierarchical data model. What the genius' at Intersystems call n-dimensional (arrays of arrays, or nested arrays). The reason MUMPS is still used is because the implementers still have hierarchy on the brain and believe that kind of work is best done in MUMPS.

I think they're wrong.

Either way, I can't think of a way to compile generic Java (or equiv) to generic MUMPS. The data models just don't line up.

The HL7 view of the data, which is just a tree graph, can be well supported in languages like Java. I wrote a code generator that compiled HL7 specs to Java code. It was awesome. Because it catches coding errors at compile time. Versus using a dynamic programming language. Or even worse, something like a declarative schema thingie, like all the ETL tools I've seen. (Think Hibernate style ORM for HL7.)

But having done that, I also think that's wrong.

We spent a lot of time reading HL7 (eg lab results), decomposing it for storage into a RDBMS, creating wicked joins to recreate the original hierarchical data, and then send it along (to a data feed or web page report).

I now think medical data should mostly be stored as documents and indexed using something like Lucene. Completely skipping SQL. Using an HL7 code generator & parser like the one I wrote, it's trivial to pull out the bits you care about. And when you have to mimic the single source of truth (eg what medications is the patient taking today?) you can tackle that with a map/reduce strategy.

That idea is a freebie for you, the world, or nobody. I'm not doing any healthcare work any more, so no longer have a dog in that fight.
I am involved with, and have started, a number of companies. Feel free to send me a email if you want to chat. Contact info in my profile.
I can only speak for the batch I was in (s12), but there's a lot more skill in my batch than just social engineering. Although a good portion of my fellow batchmates have academic credentials there would be no better way for myself to have a similar situation to a college's alumni network without Y Combinator, as I haven't attended college. The same is true of two of my other cofounders.
The thing about Google Checkout is that it's more of a "credit card processor" than the merchant. They consider the developer as a merchant (maybe because Google might have first designed Google Checkout to be payment processor, like Paypal) which basically makes transfer of goods between a customer vs. developer, as opposed to customer vs. Play store.

Aside the argument if it's good or bad, it seems to be consistent with that notion -- if Google is considering Google Play to be more of a promotion service with payment processing built-in, as opposed to curated content store.
HN can afford to go ahead and foster a community, but then again it hasn't taken $61 million that investors are expecting a return on.
Thanks for the tips, for the sake of this advice the intention is just to start another good regular conference in Australia (there is a serious lack, and the few which do happen are very well received thus far).
Thanks for that, even more reason -not- to use PayPal. I've had some bad experiences myself and know enough people who have to not risk something of this scale for their relative convenience.
Somewhere in Nigeria there's a legitimate Pfizer sales rep who's having a heck of a time getting his emails delivered.
Huginn is a system of event pipelines, kind of like Yahoo! Pipes, that I use to monitor events of interest in the world.

http://cl.ly/image/1e3C053r1713

http://cl.ly/image/3a3X1J401d0i
A randomized algorithm that fails with near certainty
This sounds interesting. Does anyone have any more links explaining about just how a compiler can even get infected?

Edit: Actually I just looked up and found these:

Some more background info analyzing a c compiler: http://cm.bell-labs.com/who/ken/trust.html

How a compiler gets backdoored: http://scienceblogs.com/goodmath/2007/04/15/strange-loops-de...

A possible counter: http://www.acsa-admin.org/2005/abstracts/47.html
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I disagree with your point but also disagree with the downvotes. (are people downvoting commenters who disagree with pg?)

Anyway, you're forgetting something important: We're completely entitled to not use a sucky service and blog about it. That's what going on here: there's people who decide to vote with their feet, and tell others about it.
That's a really good question. I wish I knew the answer.

Such projects have in fact happened. Windows Vista development started in 2001 and did not finish until end of 2006, with a much larger team than we're talking about here. Of course it's not clear to me that this was _planned_ to take 5 years...
I cant stop myself from saying this. You wrote all this instead of doing what?
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> Heroku claims that a global request queue is hard to scale, and therefore they switched to random load balancing.

I wish Heroku would tell us more about what they tried. I can imagine a few cock-a-mimie schemes off the top of my head; it would be good to know whether they thought of those.
How can any president not spend their retirement reflecting on their decisions? Many decisions have a lot of collateral damage even if they are the right decisions.
If you buy a TV via Amazon Marketplace, the seller of the TV certainly gets similar personal information (otherwise they can't ship it).
There is some evidence that terrorist activity has been a CIA modus operandi since its inception. Operation Gladio was a post-war communist resistance network composed of 'stay-behind' fascists in various European countries. The CIA was formed in part to manage the operation, which according to some of its members went on to orchestrate false flag terrorist attacks across Western Europe in the decades that followed. The stated aim was to drive voters into the arms of more authoritarian, neo-fascist governments. See below for a fascinating BBC documentary from 1992.

Similar stories emerge from Latin America in the 1980s. And the notorious Operation Northwoods proposal from the Joint Chiefs of Staff in 1962 suggested domestic false flag attacks to drive support for an invasion of Cuba. An argument can be made that the CIA is the primary terrorist organisation of the post WWII era.

http://m.youtube.com/#/channel/HCmAQAgin1usY?&desktop_ur...
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I for one am not too happy about this. What do you think HN?
Does anyone else think there might be a correlation between the amount of anti-user stuff at Quora and Charlie getting kicked out?
> Charlie Miller did an analysis once, fuzzing various engines, and Adobe's actually came out on top

The CanSecWest slides I found had him fuzzing standalone "PDF applications". This whole problem is because of handing random stuff from the internet to third party native code! Nowadays the browsers are in a class of their own wrt security.

So use the PDF readers built into browsers, Chrome has one tended to by their security ninjas and Firefox has one running in their battle-hardened Javascript sandbox.
This reminds me to get around to removing my account
Back to your cube, rube! This is the whiz-bang kind of kick-ass office great developers LOVE to work in. I'll bet only a real square would want to be able to hear their own thoughts.
The StackExchange network does very well without resorting to any of these tactics.
To be honest, I mostly use websites, not apps.
Let me assure you that there was no insinuation of any Apple vs Google flame war in my comment. While breach of trust might see over the top to you, the interpretation was supposed to be quite simple, let me explain:

Most financial transactions do involve exchange of identifiable information; that remains true for online as as well as real world transactions; you are absolutely right about that. However, in all those transaction, you 'choose' to share some amount of information. One of the reasons services like Paypal became popular was the implicit lack of trust in an online transaction; people were more willing to trust an intermediary to keep their credit card information secure, than using it with any and all online merchants. Similarly, I trust Google as a company more than most other companies with my data and that's a 'choice' I made; however, them sharing certain parts of my identity with a multitude of app developers does seem to be something I didn't 'choose' to do. That seems to be a decision that Google took on my behalf and therein lies the "breach of trust" that you seem to have taken an exception to.

There is no flaming involved; I just think Google can do better.
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Good communication 101 in my books says they should write a statement about it, especially since they've indicated that it should be out before the watch. Or atleast comment on the questions.

I think people want pebble to succeed and there is lot of love for the product. And telling about the dragons and delays creating the SDK would just improve the image of fair and open culture they have.

I can imagine they've had a crazy year but an hour spent on commenting this would be time well spent in my oppinion.
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I understand that point, and agree. Just seems odd to use the news of Opera adopting WebKit as a platform for complaining about vendors not fixing WebKit bugs.

As far as I can see, Opera's adoption of WebKit can only result in more bug fixes submitted for the framework.
Scopely creates addictive, multiplayer mobile games loved by users around the world, and it also provides a platform for independent game studios to publish mobile games of their own.

Looks like they've got a conflict of interest there? Likely one model will flourish without the other.
I don't agree with the author's opinion on the New York times's block being inherently evil. I am unsure of how else they could make money. The block is not hard to circumvent if you know enough to clear cookies. It is designed to give you just enough discomfort that you will probably cough up and pay for the articles (which are incredibly well written) than the Quora style which makes me want to rage and delete my account.
Hah! That is brilliant, love that idea, there is a certain sense of poetic justice.
Personally, I went to a very traditional private high school and received a great education. There's nothing fundamentally wrong with education. I think the three current problems are 1) education is expensive, 2) people are too poor, and 3) people of average or below average intelligence probably aren't served very well by the high school curriculum.

We should close all corporate tax loopholes and send the money to schools and require that school funding is not proportional to property tax.

We should institute a minimum wage of ~$12/hr tied to inflation to fight poverty.

The high school curriculum should have alternate vocational and tech skills tracks.