skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I previously assumed the cause was some marketing intern pasting email addresses into the wrong form. Better training (and a slap on the wrist) would prevent it from happening again.

But it's somewhat scarier knowing this was due to a bug triggered by a security patch. Who knows what yet-undiscovered bugs are still in there.

That said, there's no such thing as bug-free software and I still find GitHub to be trustworthy.
> How many $$ can your man throw away without incurring pauperhood?

Which tells me the woman is stupid, and not a keeper.
Eight lessons from successful business leaders
Early Apple exec Eilers passes away
Yeah, it seems even more useless or irrational though.
Just saw this posted here yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5395009

Interestingly, I fell for the sensationalist headline of the Register instead of clicking the original HN link entitled "Port scanning /0 using insecure embedded devices" (which I saw and ignored).

I wonder if it will be same here on HN!
:) My wife (also a PhD) accuses me of being able to formulate a theory for any data.
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Absolutely. I'm not saying it applies to everyone, in fact I'm completely on your side - disagreeing with (and demonizing) giving a diamond because it's not how you operate is silly.
You talk about oil and injustice, but there is no reasonable cost effective substitute to oil at the moment, while there are better alternatives to natural diamonds - man made diamonds - which could easily become cheaper too.

> "If you're an American, your comfortable life exists because of the American government's willingness to inflict violence on other people to maintain our status in the world"

There are few alternatives with our current technology, if the american way of life is not to be negotiated, so let's leave that aside. In any case, when north america becomes self sufficient again or even a net exporter of energy, things will change.

OTOH, for diamonds, there does not seems to be any change in sight. They are a massive hypocrisy, with the huge negative externality of fuelling wars and human misery - and they are controlled by a monopolist!

I'm sorry maybe I'm too heartless and an economist in the soul, but I just can't dig this idea. Diamonds are awful in any way I can see them. And I miss my life partner because of this IT WILL BE A GOOD THING: better splitting up early : both the costs and the emotional attachment will be lower.

EDIT: you talk about taking a train, walking, relocating - that's not acceptable for most people; also it will cause them undue burdens. Replacing a shiny rock by a purer shinier rock is possible and simple. It just requires some cultural or legal changes (think bald eagle feathers) which seems already underway.
A computer graphics tutorial for View, Projection and Model matrices
> What better way to prove you have lots of money than by buying something expensive that depreciates dramatically in value once you buy it?

A balance statement would be a much better way.
That's the implication when you say they need therapy.
That's probably what someone asked for. By the time it got approved, GSA signoff, and past contracts and vendor management, they have a micro instance in us-east-1 to run www.cia.gov off of.
> From some women's perspectives the diamond ring is 'proof' of your love.

I wouldn't want a woman so ignorant.
Yay! Nick: glad your employer changed their tune. Long live open source :)

The article I wrote for infoq is up now:
http://www.infoq.com/news/2013/03/chartjs-v.0.1-released
a little more on the incident http://chadscira.com/post/5148b1f0f93e934b550112be/Github-le...
Similar to how I don't come to Hacker News to read about the list of things people don't come to Hacker News to read about.
Pivot As If You Planned It
I don't really know. Something symbolic would be nice, but in my mind it would be like a tungsten carbide ring with my partner's name in binary or something. Economical, long-lasting... but I'm not sure. That's a bridge quite a ways away for me.

The lack of social traditions and traditional obligations seems daunting at first but it's kind of fun to be unencumbered (especially when I read reynir's replies and go white-faced from the ridiculous sexist pressure put on men and women to be macho and feminine still today).
Unless there are patents involved.

I seem to remember some one-handed keyboard projects (hardware and software) were killed because of patent encumbrance.

(http://blog.monstuff.com/archives/000021.html)
This is excellent advice, and I wish I'd read it 3 years ago. Jason Fried said something very similar a while ago, recommending learning to sell something, anything, before starting on your dream project.

Even buying and reselling iPhones on eBay can teach you a lot of the basics - and you want those basics in place when you're starting to actually set up something ambitious.
Yes, you still haven't explained how to suppress Monsanto's political speech while preserving that of the New York Times.

The idea that a corporation must be organized for an "express purpose," declared in advance, that will determine that corporation's rights relative to others, is troublesome to put it mildly. A government that enforces things like that WILL enforce things that you and I don't like as well.
http://pastebin.com/JX1PdiMB
Yeah that line doesn't make a lot of sense until you realise it was copied from here: http://korynunn.com/resume.docx
Michael Arrington is a Limited Partner in SoftTech VC meaning that, he's an investor in the VC firm. He doesn't make the decisions on what they invest in that's down to their team who you can find at: http://softtechvc.com/team/. In otherwords a disclosure isn't necessary as he has no influence and/or potentially even knowledge on what SoftTech VC have invested in (some VC firms don't list all of their investments on their portfolio pages).
De Beers isn't a monopolist and hasn't been once since 2000, when key producers in Canada, Australia, Russia, India, etc, started selling diamonds outside the channels.

The negative externality caused by diamonds is tiny in comparison to the ones caused by fossil fuels.

For individuals, there are reasonable, cost-effective substitutes to reduce oil consumption. I take an electric train to work and walk everywhere else. I own a car, but drive it maybe once a month. People choose to drive, they choose to live in places like Silicon Valley where driving is part of the culture, they choose to live in suburbs, etc. We could use a lot less oil if people chose to life in places like New York. But the choice to live a car-centric lifestyle probably won't engender as much vitriol here on HN as the choice to buy a diamond engagement ring, even though in the grand scheme of things it's far more damaging.
> You cannot make loans denominated in Bitcoin

I'll give you 1 BTC on April 1st, 2013. You can repay me 1.5 BTC on April 1st, 2014, adjusted for deflation or inflation according to mtgoxUSD × CPI, as the case may be.

Problem solved. I give you spending power today, you give me more spending power later on, and we conduct the transaction in Bitcoins.

In the future, we will have our choice of price indexes that are denominated in Bitcoins directly.
But it's not as clear cut that this is a 'negative' aspect of human nature, and I would strongly argue that infidelity is NOT necessarily human nature, at least not as fundamentally as gift giving / signaling.

And you're moving the argument here - previously we were talking about buying an expensive ring, not supporting armed conflict or purchasing something you can't afford.
If you're just starting out, you don't need to run any scripts, battery tweaks, or do any overclocking. A ROM is just another OS for your phone. In order to overclock, do mods, or run scripts you need SuperUser, in Linux that means Administrator. In order to get SuperUser you need to root your phone. So if you want Cyanogenmod the process goes like this:

Root phone->Check if SuperUser works->Check if you have a Custom Recovery->Download a ROM->Go to Custom Recovery and Wipe Data and Cache then Flash It (Install It)->New OS on your phone.
I did the same. Network programming and embedded devices are both not my forte, but this headline grabbed me. Can't take back my upvote now!
Non-technical companies which do this tend not to apologise - it draws attention to the mistake which most of their (non-technical) customers never noticed in the first place.

I guess github doesn't qualify for the non-technical crowd :)
Very concerning - they accidentally distributed their entire customer list and now I have to handle the internal PR fall out re: my email address and that those of non-technical co-workers (board, accounts, finance, engineering managers) have been distributed globally and then subsequently pastebined. Times like this I'm glad that our code is hosted internally and access to it is controlled internally.

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/109905580/Screenshots/qg~abn4fl601....

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/109905580/Screenshots/73dw6%7Eq_h4h...
Rails security point release breaks apps by changing the ORM.

News at 11.
When they start taxing emails, those separate emails are going to cost a pretty penny :P
Okay, so it's not black and white. Sure, my android phone from 3 years ago can't run most newer apps. But it can still run the things I had on the phone at the time. I guess what I was getting at was that Apple (or Google) doesn't come and take the device away from you once the product line has been EOL'd.
Since Designmodo responded with a counter-notice [1], LayerVault would now have to take it to court.

[1]: https://github.com/github/dmca/commit/6a33a213e04e7fc5e74ce3...
I love the ending:

"And your good employees will leave you, and I can't blame them."
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5358720
Now you made her point valid. Thanks.
There is a second point of feedback that should be exploited.
He knows which services are used for fraud, it is not unreasonable to conclude that Yahoo (2x) has something wrong in their service (terrible security problem) that AOL doesn't (0.5x).
Bravo, Professor. He emphasizes two points very clearly: 1) depression is nothing shameful, and 2) he is Texan.
I'd rather just go with really traditional and give land. Like, say, the Duchy of Burgundy.
Ask HN: What options exist for an immigrant startup founder?
Hey guys,

I figured HN would be a good place to ask this, as some of you may have encountered similar situations. I've been living in the US since I was 14, and studied Electrical Engineering and Computer Engineering at Cooper Union in New York. My mother was a diplomat, and until I got a job, I was staying in the US through her with the A1 visa. Once I got my job at Amazon, I switched over to an H1B visa, and have been on that since.

I've also been working on my startup idea with a few others for the past 7-8 months, and we're getting to the point that we will soon be pitching investors for funding. I've been working on this for most of my available free time, but I really think it's shaping up, and would love to quit and concentrate on it full-time. And even if that's not possible, if somehow we're able to make this happen while I'm working full-time at the job that allows me to stay in the US legally, I'd certainly want to stop working my job and concentrate on making my startup succeed. However, I'm not aware of any options for an immigrant to legally reside in the US without an employer sponsoring him for the H1B (unless I get married of course, but I'd rather not explore that route right now ;D). And since I'd be a stakeholder in the company, I don't think I can sponsor myself.

Do you have any advice for my situation? I'd be incredibly bummed if I had to give up my baby to foster care.
Absolute nonsense. Therapy is very useful to many people who are not mentally ill. I would venture to say that most people who see therapists are not mentally ill. If you think "mental illness" when somebody says "therapist", you probably need to do some reevaluation.
Haha I work in the life sciences and I thought the GP was referring to the National Institutes of Health, which was confusing!
One of the most awesome things about this is that there is a tremendous profit reward from diamond consumption brainwashing— so tons of money flows into doing it.

Profit available from stopping it? Probably none unless you're going to just replace it with another kind of brainwashing.

Often the truth is simply out competed by manipulation in the market because the truth belongs to everyone and can't be monetized well.

After seeing my girlfriend's Facebook session plastered with wedding crap and her recently married friend's Facebook plastered with baby crap it became clear to me how potentially harmful to society as a whole this grand brainwashing infrastructure— all of these advertising platforms invading every moment of our lives— we've built is… and I try to stay as far away from it as I can. Because that is all I can do: I certainly can't outspend it.
I think it raises an interesting point: how many interesting links get overlooked because of poor titles? And how many titles are more interesting than the links?

Coming from a technical/academic background, good copy is not something that is emphasised - are we missing a trick?
What you are talking about is tangential to your point.

Purely for the sake of argument let's accept your premise for the moment that men are more concerned with pragmatism than women. It does NOT logically follow that men are less influenced by marketing than women.

You are pretty easily refuted by basically every beer commercial ever. Likewise the trucks you point to - show me a truck advertisement where an engineer comes out and explains exhaustively why this truck is better designed. That basically never happens, instead you get shots of the truck driving over mountains while "fk yea" rock music plays in the background and the truck is shown hauling giant weights around.

There certainly are differences in the way men and women think about things (in a general overall sense)...and I have no doubt that the WAYS in which things are marketed differ between men and women (in a general overall sense)...that doesn't mean women are somehow "more susceptible" though. The fact that advertising to men is just as common as advertising to women suggests they are about equally effective. If you want to suggest otherwise you need to provide actual evidence.
This is the kind of thing I was hoping to inspire. Sure, use jQuery, but use it wisely. That said, literally never make DOM in it, for so many reasons...
For individuals, there are reasonable, cost-effective
substitutes to reduce oil consumption.

That may be true in Europe and the East coast but it is not true for large remote country areas etc. It's certainly not true for where I live -- there are no bus/train routes that can get me to my workplace from my home, and I cannot re-locate because of my financial position. I know of countless others in similarly tied positions with not much freedom of choice.
Self-Reliance
> Clearly, this thread demonstrates that lots of people still feel that their ability to say whatever they want, whenever they want, trumps all. It makes me sad, to say the least.

I'm unclear what you mean by this? Could you clarify what you mean here?
I wouldn't normally consider my email address a secret. I assume the concern is over spear phishing?
Yes, you can put an item into multiple boards (basically, top-level folders), and assign multiple tags in notes #like #this.

I've been using it for a few months and my only real disappointment is the lack of an API.
> Okay how do you distribute child-bearing according to participant interest?

Adoption.

> How do you distribute child-rearing according to participant interest, bearing in mind that an infant just wants to suck on a breast and doesn't care about your views on gender roles.

There are some limits to what can be shared. I advocate going right up to that line. A woman who wants to raise a baby at some point has to make tough choices about formula, breast pumping, bonding, and her other priorities in life. There is a qualitative difference between the handful of hard limits imposed by biology, and the many limits imposed by compulsory monolithic gender roles.
I think I'm missing the connection to the "legitimate" publisher. Is the publisher paying the scammer for traffic? How are they doing that? unless they're in on the scam as well.
By DMCA, the repository must be restored between 10-14 days in the event of a counternotice. Today's the 14th day.

EDIT: Technically, it's 10-14 business days, and today's the 10th business day.
Roberts and Sotomayor on one side, Scalia and Ginsburg on the other. Not really a right/left split.

If you had to draw some line, you might notice that the dissenters, Ginsburg (80), Scalia (77), and Kennedy (76), are the oldest on the bench.

I wouldn't read too much into that, just thought it was interesting. We probably already make too much of the "right/left" line in the court, since cases like this--where people don't cleanly line up according to political ideology--are fairly common.
I was thinking the same, actually.
I thought it was an interesting statement so I looked into it a little. I personally was less curious if there was a difference in the way men and women react to a constant advertisement, but I wanted to know the % of marketing dollars spent marketing towards women vs men. I did not find those exact numbers, but stumbled onto :http://www.she-conomy.com/facts-on-women

There are a ton of crazy figures to digest on that page, again none addresses which sex is "swayed" more by a given advertisement. For example, "Women account for 85% of all consumer purchases including everything from autos to health care"; "Senior women age 50 and older control net worth of $19 trillion and own more than three-fourths of the nation’s financial wealth"; and "Wealthy boomer women...make 95 percent of the purchase decisions for their households".

Assuming it is true, women making 85% of consumer purchases is kind of mind blowing. This does not necessarily mean women are swayed more by marketing, but I think it is safe to say women as a whole are targeted by marketing campaigns more than men - at least after reading these numbers that is how I would market a consumer product.
Apart from the request of removing their logos, Amazon also requested that "[you] shut down the site". Is this because of the specific business model you had, or only because of the domain name? If it is only because of the domain: Do you have any plans on continuing this service?
I've been using my old Eee PC for the same purpose - as a VPN and git repo host. And I've been thinking about taking the (broken) monitor off as well. Got any tips from how you did yours?

As to the concerns discussed below about running one of these 24/7, I can say mine has been up for 58 days straight with no issues so far. Ubuntu should shut the thing off if it detects overheating.
haha, I like this post.

Are you gonna leave it? I must admit, screwing advertisers doesn't feel so wrong, I'm certainly no fan, but you can't ignore that it's not very ethical.

Given that it's not technically your fault, you'd very likely never get blamed, and your actions will likely not change the world in any way, what will you do?
Out of genuine interest (it's hard to convey tone via comments sometimes), can you expand on this comment a bit?

What do you consider mental illness to be? And what is therapy in your view?

The term 'mentally ill' in my view has been stigmatized quite a bit, and being 'unwell' mentally does not mean you are crazy, but that you have issues you feel you need to deal with. Isn't that the point of seeing a therapist?

An interesting blog on this topic here:

http://www.theage.com.au/executive-style/culture/blogs/all-m...
> "each professor should write their own textbook", since an extensive series of notes intended to be used in a course of study, along with practice problems, is pretty much a draft textbook.

This isn't really true. A majority of my math text books at UW were written in note form by the professor teaching the class. They were just very efficient...and hey, its math where a glossy text book really gives you nothing.

> Currently it's typical to budget quite little, because the assumption (and sometimes requirement) is that you'll be teaching using a standard text in the field.

This is definitely not true in math and barely true in computer science. I think it is true in physics and chemistry, but only for entry-level courses. It also depends on the university.

Open sourcing material between professors could go a long way; each could simply collect what they want for the course and then easily publish it in electronic (free) or paper form (students pay printing costs). I think this is how it mostly works already in upper division courses.

Sometimes there is a very nice up to date book; but just as often, say in computer science, everything is out of date anyways (computer architecture, compilers, ...).
This is just flat-out untrue. VC firms put in a significant chunk of their own funds into this - we're not talking peanuts here, we're talking about millions from general partners in some cases. This obviously differs from firm to firm, but the semantic about angel investing vs VC is just wrong.
Recognizing that it is not politically correct in these parts to pose this question, I sometimes wonder if the Github team (which seems like a highly-skilled, competent team) regrets building on Rails.

It seems they have been able to use their high skill and competence to laboriously steer a bulky and (dare I say it?) heavily-engineered framework to serve Github as the modestly fast and fairly reliable site that it is.

But would not they be happier had the efforts exhausted on scale, reliability, and repair been available to spend building features had a faster, less confusing platform and framework been selected?

I know, it's antithetical or heretical to imply that Rails is anything but a model of efficiency.
I doubt the point is to demonstrate financial security: Spending three months' salary on a single ring would seem to indicate financial irresponsibility more than financial security (unless it's like a rebate and you sell the ring once you're married? /s).

I'm inclined to agree that you're right about the price being the point. I think it has more to do with "You're worth it to me". I still think it's utter bollocks.
Yup. I just read the Atlantic article a few days ago. This piece gave me the feeling the priceonomics author did too.

I'm not much of a fan of simply rewriting content for one's blog.
Not necessarily a tenth, but most people here don't buy houses outright. It would be a significant investment towards a down payment or month' of mortgage payments.

The silly/sad/stupid thing is when you put it in context of a ring+marriage ceremony. The same way many college students are starting out life with debt, they often go and add 25-30K of extra debt between an expensive, value-less ring and a wedding ceremony.
Sure, but what about all those people who have a choice? Where is the Atlantic article excoriating Silicon Valley and companies like Facebook, Google, etc, for not moving out of the suburban wasteland to a place where it is possible to live a life that causes less violence to the environment?
The marginal cost to deliver a web service like Google Reader is near zero (which actually begs for it to be priced near zero). Every feed reader I have ever used has been free. The vast majority of Google's services are free.
Would it be possible, with this, to display files in your Google drive as read-only to people visiting a website?

I'm thinking this would make a killer back-end for certain kinds of websites.
Exec (YC W12) is hiring full stack engineers to redefine the future of work
Now this is the nerdy approach to diamonds that would be totally worth it. I would also love to read more about this.