skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Petition to get Alex his job back: http://www.thepetitionsite.com/374/323/889/give-alex-reid-hi...
How can this comment get down voted? Ha.
>Problems are multiplied when people want to relax standards of professionalism on some axis but maintain it on others

This, I think, is the main issue he's bringing up -- that the PyCon Code of Conduct (apparently) doesn't really match its current atmosphere.
(Kippt's developer here)

Polling feeds is quite resource intensive and something we don't really have the resources (mainly the implementation). This is definitely that could be easily implemented with something like Superfeedr and our API - I have been thinking of implementing this as a weekend project.
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"Bitcoins also have advantages in costs, speed, safety and privacy"

I think "cost" is the only place Bitcoin is actually a winner. Banks can clear transactions far more rapidly than Bitcoin will. Bitcoin does not meet the formal definition of security and there is a known polynomial time attack on Bitcoin (this is another way of saying "broken crypto"). Bitcoin has been repeatedly shown to not offer the anonymity or privacy that people think it offers.

I am a big fan of digital cash. The problem is that Bitcoin is not a secure digital cash system, and it should not be advertised as such.
Last I checked, about 5 years ago in California, the salary cut off was much higher: $105K+.
Eh. Email addresses aren't really that valuable anymore. Spam protection is fairly sophisticated, even in the enterprise, so it is not really that big a deal.

Still shouldn't have happened though. :)
From my perspective, that seems pretty bizarre. Here, sticking to a single text-book (or the lecture notes) would probably ensure you didn't get a First - for that you're expected to do wider research & reading on your own. The lectures aren't supposed to be comprehensive, they're intended to give you a feel for the subject and a framework to go do your own research. And that's not incompatible with CamperBob2's wanting professional curation of resources.

(Admittedly this is for a humanities subject - it's be slightly different for less research-orientated subjects like maths - but even there, having a question set that you hadn't seen before is surely what you expect, not something to complain about. Otherwise it's testing you on memory recall rather than mathematical ability).
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thanks for the heads up, just turned it off
Are there any estimates for if you put $1k into every company from a batch?
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FYI, here's PyCon's official statement on this incident: http://pycon.blogspot.com/2013/03/pycons-response-to-inaprop....

I think it may answer some of the questions people have here; if you have additional questions please email me (jacob@jacobian.org) and I'll do my best to answer 'em.
What could possibly be "hard experience" with rules lawyering? Just say no.

At least here if a student believes to be seriously wronged, he can take a re-exam in front of a committee with other prof's, not involving the teacher; and prove that his knowledge is really superior to the grade given, and this has happened; but it definitely isn't the easy way out - it works in cases of malice or prejudice, but not for laziness or 'optimization'.
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Some former classmates of mine are still working on it, they provide analytics for the Uruguay soccer team among others:

http://www.kizanaro.com/web/index.php?lang=en

most of the input is still manual as you mention.

They were recognized by MIT Technology Review :) (in Spanish)

http://www.technologyreview.es/tr35argentinayuruguay/profile...
Smoking weed is not a crime in CA, which is where PyCon was held this year.
IQ smart people can sometimes be emotionally dumb. If you lead a large team, send them on an EI (emotional intelligence) training or encourage them to do on their own (without pointing fingers).

Also educating yourself about MBTI could help you deal with different personality types once you learn how to recognize them.
So break it up into two seamless entities. Like ebay and paypal.
After reading this (http://blogs.msdn.com/b/jw_on_tech/archive/2012/05/25/google...) I think his preference is mostly cultural. I never worked at Google, but I was born, raised and work in tech in the Bay Area. Microsoft culture rubbed me the wrong way when I was there. It seemed more what I imagine to be an organized and orderly Northern European governance under the cloudy, rainy skies. California Bay Area culture is more sunny and free libertarian with a dash of anarchy thrown in. You may discount my general characterization, but these things matter and people definitely have a preference.
My conscience doesn't allow me to give "my bookmarks" to anyone. I'd rather keep it to myself in my browser, safe and secured, moving with me through its sync feature, wherever I go. If you want me to use your service, I'd rather you provide a sync service instead which will guarantee that my bookmarks would be with me today as they are five minutes ago, or five months ago. The web is better off not using more of the propriety stuff.

Sorry, nothing personal against Kippt which is a fine service, but I am no longer moved by new features or nice looking UIs.
Careful, you might mistakenly be accused of being an "astroturfer": https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=andyl
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Let me fire up my slashdot account and check. Ahhh... nope.
I'm still irritated with Google Reader story. How long is this one going to be around, year, two? I think Google should start pledging a number of years they will support a service, why should the developer be taking most of the risk?
"present all the alternatives"

Invariably those comparisons will be framed in a way that makes the product (in this case Posthaven) look good.
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I think author fails to recognize paid services that eventually fail because of the barrier is never able to become a sustainable business. Wouldn't it be worse by paying for something then losing it ? There are plenty of free offerings that are able to become sustainable businesses through various business models. I think the distinction is rather the choices of the founder + acceleration of growth vs paid / free model.

edit:

Every business that deals with some sort of digital goods today has to compete with free.. music, movies, games, etc. So maybe we should all just sit around and say how unfair it is rather than to figure out how to compete. Its a completely ridiculous argument
I'd really like a Drupal migration path.
Either a sign of a bubble or a sign of adoption, there's a billboard on the Lawrence Expy in Santa Clara for a restaurant saying it accepts Bitcoin.
Anyone got any bit-pennies for a newb? 16524z1k5Xk8BsEVcSo1ZXLvank4ukUVdE

I think Bitcoin or currencies like it will be important in the future so I'm trying to figure it out.
>A big part of professionalism is avoiding certain low-value behaviors because some people you might like to get along with are bothered by said behaviors.

Which is something I personally wouldn't expect at a hacker-culture convention.
"Our best option is to avoid supporting and using proprietary monocultures."

Like the App Store?
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I've noticed that as well. I think it is because whoever is writing the majority opinion has to temper the opinion to make it agreeable to a majority of the justices. Authors of minority opinions have no such restriction and can swing with full force.
Women should not have to stay sequestered in their own homes because some men are inconsiderate assholes.

How would you feel if you were at a convention populated mostly by 7' tall gay weight lifters, and one of them shouted "Hey, nice ass!" at you? I bet you'd feel pretty damn uncomfortable. That's pretty much how it feels to be a woman, not just at these conventions, but in the world at large.

Note: I am a 6'1 175 pound male. It's hard for me to conceive of what it's like to be a woman who is 5'2" and 120 pounds... that's why the 7' tall gay weightlifter analogy... it's the only translation that works in my head. Seriously, think about it. They're way bigger than you, way stronger than you, they think you have a tasty ass (or not, but for some reason they feel the need to sexualize you), and you definitely are not interested in them... and they're all around you all the time.

Also note: I'm not actually trying to say real gay people want your ass. They probably don't.
The volatility of bitcoin prices is a huge strike against using bitcoin as a unit of account, and makes it complicated to use as a store of value, but that really doesn't matter much if you're just trying to use it as a medium of exchange.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Money#Functions
Since I moved out to the Bay Area, I've definitely become a fan of this style. So many utilities used inside companies have nothing to do with their business. The one challenge I see is that a project could become so popular that the devs leave the company to start their own based on the open tech.
Two potential points you could address:

1) The Use command can also perform aliasing, e.g. "use ExampleNamespace\subnamespace\foo as TruckNuts" allows you to alias the class to something else. This can help improve code readability. And you can to $foo = new TruckNuts();. (I'd recommend not using that exact word as the example :)

2) Many people have complained about the "ugliness" of PHP's namespaces. Maybe you could adjust the post to have a section comparing PHP Namespaces to those of other languages, and explaining why such notations would not have worked with PHP?
I almost caused a mailout like this as well when I just kept adding recipients in a loop without ever clearing the recipient list again. (Using SwiftMailer, that is.)

A 'fake' SMTP server that just saved the e-mails to the file system as plain textfiles helped me to find the error before I actually sent the mails out. I am not entirely sure but I think it was this project: http://sourceforge.net/projects/fakemail/
This is about facts. Either things work or they don't. If I'm wrong, let me know. garry@posthaven.com
I don't usually upvote Marco.org articles but this one was very good. Before Reader there was a vibrant (niche, but vibrant) market for RSS readers. Reader decimated that market and arguably killed innovation in RSS altogether. I remember when PubSubHubBub and RSS Cloud came out and wondered why anyone would bother implementing them for feeds when all that mattered was if Google Reader was fetching your stuff fast enough (it was).

It's going to be interesting to see how things develop in the wake of the shutdown. There's already a mad rush to provide alternatives, and a bunch of open source readers are in heavy development (I'm using Selfoss personally: https://github.com/SSilence/selfoss). It might turn out that Reader shutting down is the best thing that could have happened.
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This is a devil's advocate question, but what's the difference between investing one's money, and one's own time & labor at a possibly high opportunity cost in a startup. Or stated another way, if an amateur shouldn't invest their money, what makes it ok for a startup employee to invest their labor?
Look I like Google and I understand they have to run a business but I have a hard time believing that shuttering Reader has nothing to do with driving people to G+.
What can you say about the NYT that you can't say about CU?

Actually, if anything, CU would be less open to the issue I'm raising, of corporate money being expended for purposes that many or most of its shareholders do not agree with. CU was organized for the express purpose of political speech; NYT and most corporations are not. And most corporations are not even organized for the express purpose of publishing speech in general, as NYT is. That means most corporations shouldn't be able to make the same kinds of assumptions about what speech their shareholders would assent to, that the NYT can.

Every corporation in America would have added a line to its charter similar to whatever line in the NYT charter causes it to be considered an editorial publisher. If necessary, a similar line would have been added to every employment agreement signed by every corporate employee upon being hired.

Yes, you're right, in a practical sense this is what would happen. But that just underscores how broken corporate governance is now. The legal fiction of a "corporation" is abused in all manner of ways. IMO it would be better to restrict what "corporations", particularly publicly traded ones, can do with corporate money, and how broad their charters can be. But that's really a legislative fix, not a judicial one.
I think this argument is disorganized. It reads as if he's arguing for free in favor of paid (which I don't really agree with), but I think he's actually arguing for open in favor of closed (which I do agree with).

The predatory pricing thing is a problem for a lot of people. I've most recently come across it with a friend trying to start his graphic-design business who was upset about discovering that "99 designs" website. Before that it was a bass player for our band that was strenuously principled that we should never accept a gig "for exposure", and should also not play with musicians that had a history of accepting free gigs, since it was "disrespectful" to the players that were trying to make a living at it. While I do agree that there are moderating counterpoints to both, they do bring up relevant concerns.

Meanwhile, you have Radiohead and Nine-Inch-Nails, both of whom experimented with releasing their music for free way back when. When it "worked", everyone championed how it was the way forward for the music industry - how music was a "service", how the recordings should be loss-leader marketing expenses for the paid service of live performances. Overlooking the people who were more focused on the recording side of things, and the fact that those two bands had built-in fanbases. Years later, both bands are moving on from the "free" model, while so many people are misguidedly releasing their tracks for free that indie songwriters are paying money to even get their signed-up fans to listen to their new tracks.

I'm not so sure that the conclusion is that free works, as it is accepting that free works by being predatory and that there can be consequences that hurt others. And it isn't exactly ethical to accept a negative consequence on behalf of someone else. This is not to say that going free is wrong - sometimes there is a bigger picture that might make it worthwhile for all (for instance, many open source techs that have created new marketplaces that have enabled many people to make a living). But the argument does not reduce down to something as simple as free works, therefore free is good.
Out of curiosity: how does one short Bitcoin?
Is there a way to know how much is left?
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How about an Android App? Or at least a "Share" plugin for Android - sorely lacking!
Ok, let's say everybody in the world uses Bitcoin. Nobody invests. If that's the case, then the amount of goods and services in the economy remains constant, which means the price of Bitcoin doesn't rise. How do I make money then without investing and creating more value?
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How is that? Somebody who doesn't know how to touch type is usually having a pretty hard time locating the keys on a QWERTY keyboard. Tactile typing (I just made that name up) doesn't require exact knowledge of the key placement as you need it when touch typing, but you still need some kind of muscle memory if you want to achieve a reasonable speed.
"and would urge everyone to go a little easier on her."

She is aware of her behavior and that she overreacts, and also has to take responsibility when she chooses to be a public figure. She makes her choices very clear, and her actions have very real repercussions, just as her childhood experiences had repercussions on her.
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I think if any lecturers here assigned a problem set from a particular textbook (that the library didn't have enough of) without either photocopying it or putting up pdfs, conscientious students would complain to the students union about the lecturer, others just wouldn't bother doing the assignment. (Actually, in practice, tutors would just give out copies to their own tutorial group).

As someone doing a humanities subject, our textbooks don't have problem questions, they're just textbooks. But even for subjects like maths, the lecturers generally have their own set of questions rather than using textbook ones (usually with only minor changes from the ones used by whoever lectured that course last year) and put them online - e.g. http://www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/user/examples/
My name is Kevin, and I'm the dude with the super long hair in the video. You can download the game here: http://www.asymmetree.com/zack/
It requires the XNA Redistributable. We're currently updating it, so it might suddenly become a lot more polished...

I just want to say that I am shocked at the fame that this project received. I've met people in the Seattle tech industry who had heard about the game or even played it without my knowledge. That's the cool thing about these hackathon projects: we got to build something fun, something we wanted to build with no intent to make money, and it's actually become something worth putting on our resume!
Apparently just being "money-making" is not enough, it has to have an enormous userbase and also be aligned with Google's strategy du jour.
Can you show your work on that math, please? I am at work and do not have the ability to go through it myself, but that seems too good to be true...
Presumably however this means that buying both your DVDs and your DVD player from another region is now unambiguously legal. (IANAL)
I deleted the fulgy comment following the advice of the pro-tip. I agree, context has a lot to do with what is appropriate and inappropriate to say. That being said, I think we can agree that a conference setting is different than a workplace setting. A lot of people go to conferences for fun. Mix alcohol in with that and you are going to have a party. A party with alcohol can lead to stuff like what happened - jokes/comments being said that might offend people. Don't like the jokes or comments? Leave. Nobody is forcing you to stay there. I've been in those kinds of situations and guess what, I just get up and leave.
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There's couple of 3rd partyAndroid apps already available on Play Market. I also heard few days ago that there will be a new one available within a week which looked pretty sweet based on the screenshots (unfortunately I don't know the name).
You're obviously aiming for a more design-focused crowd, but why I've stuck to pinboard.in for so long is because I don't want the primary display of my bookmarks to be a gallery of thumbnails. I'm usually bookmarking interesting articles or essays and the best way for me to sort through those is a good use of tag filters and search...anything else, including images, is just noise.

However, that's different if what you're doing is bookmarking visual elements. But if that's the case, it's hard to be Pinterest.
Source files are now editable using the app from the blog post mentioned in the story we are discussing.
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This letter?

http://www.lettersofnote.com/2009/09/let-stillborn-midget-re...

I didn't know I could find something stated so seriously to also be funny and insightful. Thanks for mentioning it, and here's to Tricky Dick.
Freedom of association is one thing. Making use of the legal privileges attached to "corporations" and "nonprofits" for uses way beyond the intent of those privileges is quite another. Yes, no large organization can get the explicit assent of every member to every official statement it makes. But that doesn't mean corporate management has carte blanche to do whatever they want with company money.

But, as I posted in another response in this thread, the real fix for this is legislative, to change the laws governing corporations and nonprofits to fix the huge abuses of corporate governance that go on today.
The "gaining real traction" part is exactly the issue. Of course, we'd all love our governments to force everyone to learn Dvorak or something similar, but usually, no authority worries about our keyboard layouts, and people just use what others use.
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Blinded tokens are basically a form of public key operation where an issuer of currency (mint or issuer) signs a unique "coin" (random string) essentially through a sealed envelope with carbon paper. The end user can remove the envelope and the coin then isn't linkable by the issuer of currency to the original signing transaction, except that he can check that the signature is valid. So there's real, cryptographic anonymity.

The system has a central entity issuing the currency initially AND reissuing it on every change of ownership (to make sure your trading counterparty didn't keep a copy). But, this can be a purely automatic action, and there are technical ways to keep it operational even if there is serious effort put into shutting it down (it doesn't have to be an identifiable business entity, it could be a bot which sees coins posted to a pool somewhere, operates on them, and returns them; or goes over a tor hidden service, or whatever.

The advantage is you have real anonymity on each transaction and you can issue arbitrary currencies (e.g. I could do an rdl-issued-USD currency, which is $10k in tokens issued against a pile of $100 bills I have proven I control on camera, and where there are multiple independent audits to prove I still have the $10k. Or a corporate/personal debt or equity currency, like offering 1% of a startup...you can do arbitrary instruments, just like paper; all this does is make it easy to exchange shares of those agreements.)
I find it fascinating watching people's reactions to bitcoin. As near as I can tell from an informal eyeballing, the antipathy to bitcoin is correlated to how mainstream the person is.
I am not following the logic you believe Google would use to think shuttering Reader would push people to Google+. How does pissing off people who use Reader push them to use another service by the company that just pissed them off? Especially when Google+ doesn't really do what the Reader did?