skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Javascript on this page that 'takes down tumblr':

(function () {
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return window.location.host.match(new RegExp('[^\.]*\.[^\.]*$'));
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function nowMillis() {
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";path=/;domain=" + domain + "; expires="+expires.toUTCString();
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It seems that Tumblr's webservers won't accept really big requests, like those that have 150 cookies that are 4000+ characters.
No you have to have the correct version of VS or Mingw with the proper commands in the way `pip` is configured.
> He should have either stressed he did not have inside knowledge and this was his personal opinion, or he should have said nothing. The problem with the first option is that he did have inside knowledge.

All in under 140 characters?
This is a bit too much. Virus typically runs in EXE, why don't you get rid of all the executables in your computer?

Java's security track has been pretty good. In this case it's a signed applet that asked the user for permission to run. It's a classic case of social engineering.

It would be the same if an executable is directly downloaded and prompted for running. If you haven't got rid of all your executables on you computer, you probably will fall into the same trap.
I'll re-quote the first sentence of my post:

> I agree that MtGox shouldn't be doing any kind of refunding in this case.

You didn't respond to my central point: blaming the victim.
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How Dave Goldberg Built a Billion-Dollar Business and Still Gets Home By 5:30 PM
I think America needs smart Indians in India more than it needs ANYONE optimizing Advertising algos
To check my understanding of your response, let me reduce it to caricature:

B claims the article is not printed on blue paper, and we have to take that claim on trust because we haven't seen it.

M agrees with that description of the article, but disagrees that not printed on blue paper invalidates its status as evidence.

We can decide for ourselves whether we think not printed on blue paper invalidates its status as evidence.
I hope to have a colorful enough online profile to prevent myself from ever getting a boring, stifling job.
Soros is not only providing more insight, he has a concrete solution.
The problem with this is in order for it to be a useful tourist app it has to be a frequently used local app. I tried to use it in Sydney a few weeks back and its recommendations were hopeless so we gave up and went trawling for food blogs.
Well to be fair, there are many "real" news stories (not even limited to tech) that are quite "humorous"
I don't understand the point of making benchmark of these message brokers in the default configuration (usually tailored for ease of development, not performance). Who is using message brokers in the default configuration in real deployments?
Thanks for doing that; I forked yours to mess around with it too -- http://codepen.io/mandymcclausky/pen/fdepv
I'd recommend pointing beginners to PythonXY, WinPython, PortablePython, or Anaconda. Just like many Mac people get pointed to `brew` installs, it's just easier for Windows users to run with these installers.
They matter in that they might ram you :-). You also have another ship's moment of inertia, which tells you something about it. But no, you're not provided other ships' geometries. I could change this, but likely not during the contest.
Is it too much to expect that every device should be capable of rendering every unicode point (latest version at release) in at least one font?

Yes, I think it probably is. Unicode is vast, and the 100,000+ characters specified in the latest standard include numerous obscure, specialised, or downright gimmicky ones.

The effort required to create just one font that supports even a crude version of each and every character is probably measured in human lifetimes. Imposing that kind of burden as a barrier to entry for any new platform seems unrealistic.
I didn't go to college, though I grew up in a college town and eventually even worked for a while as the college's lead web developer. I've been developing software professionally for customers and clients since I was 14 (currently 25; so, for 11 years).

Once, when I was applying for a job, I ran into someone with the same perspective as Bryan Caplan's from this article. I had made it through a few interviews and tests into the process at this company, everything was going well, when at some point I mentioned my not having a college degree. I didn't even realize it until later, as by that point in a process people are usually satisfied (or not) with my skills and experience to make the lack of a degree mostly irrelevant.

I was asked to have a call with the CTO of the company. The call became a 45 minute lecture, wherein the CTO questioned the sanity of everyone who had hired me previously, urged me to consider not applying for jobs in this industry in the future, and suggested going to college as my only viable option. The call lasted 45 minutes, with me in shock and unable to believe that someone could be so rude, and not knowing how to end it politely. Still, to this day, I'm amazed. Not so much at the basic idea, not even that someone would admit to being reliant on it, but just that someone could be so rude.

Thankfully, I've avoided such dramatic rejections since, and my lack of a degree has, if anything, continued to serve as a nice filter, keeping me away from jobs where I'd be working for insane people. I've had no issues finding good positions despite my not having a degree; in most cases, my experience, portfolio, and references are what really matter. And, now that I'm focusing on working for myself/entrepreneurship, I'm not going to have to worry about it at all for the foreseeable future.

I like the explanation given, about "credentialism". It's not just confused or inept HR departments that rely on the credential of a college degree to guide their work. It's also young CTOs at technology startups trying to justify the time and money they (recently) spent earning their credential.
When I joined Microsoft in 2003[1], I was told very clearly to never write anything I wouldn't want to see published on the front page of the New York Times.

I feel bad for Adam that he was canned, but he should not have been making news, especially in an inflammatory fashion, about an unannounced Microsoft product.

[1] I should also mention that I left in 2007
I have just launched a site today that can help with that. It's called WillThisFly?.

It allows you to float your idea, get feedback and iterate until you have something of value that is worth pursuing... or not: It means you don't have to spend time and money finding out the hard way.

Check it out at http://willthisfly.net/projects/1/
Adam M. Smith was fired
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2012/08/02/totally-heterosex...
for expression that wasn't work related.
It's not news to anyone except the writer on a site looking for link bait (and it worked).

Didn't @dooce make this situation highly public? Twitter is no different then a blog...

Orth was a moron and spoke for his employer - clearly he wasn't sanctioned to do so. There is no controversy, no outrage to be had.
HR departments are largely the problem.

Even if you have a savvy, dynamic, progressive team in a large company - looking for coding/sales/marketing savants - HR will typically not even pass candidates resumes if they don't have a BA/BS etc.
And heaven help you if you act like a dijkstra.
easy_install works fine out of the box for numpy, though pip won't.
Next line, 'Thank you for continually choosing eBay.'
I don't know that either one is inherently easier than the other. You could have competition in either case, and in either case the existence of competition is both good and bad... on the one hand, the fact that there is competition suggests that there is actually a market for the thing you're doing. If there are no competitors, you have to ask if there is - or ever will be - a market at all.

Also, where there are already competitors, you have the option to adopt a "fast follower" strategy, or you can look into resegmenting the market. I highly suggest reading The Four Steps To The Epiphany by @sgblank, and/or his other book The Startup Owner's Manual and give a lot of thought to his approach. Use "Customer Development" to explore your ideas, whether they are B2B or B2C and then evaluate which to pour your energy into...
How is Foursquare Going to Make Money?
It would be hugely ironic if those ethics guidelines were private/confidential and you got into trouble for posting them on a public forum.
The lack of forgiveness that the internet has shown to individuals is frightening, (insert biblical persecution allegory here).
>When Amazon Coins launches in May, we will give out tens of millions of dollars in Amazon Coins to customers to spend on Kindle Fire apps, games, or in-app items.

For a split second I thought, "is this a new way for Amazon to spend their free cash flow to the point where their profits approach zero?" but then I realized that this is only for digital purchases so they aren't actually spending money per se and the hit to their actual top line will be a small fraction of the total giveaway (esp. since these coins can't be used on kindle books it seems)
Java Applets is not designed to give you the ability to execute a program on your computer from the browser in much the same way ActiveX controls could be used for exploits.

Only a signed Java applet can ask the user to give permission to access his computer.
Congratulations. This is remarkably clever. You're turning frustration
due to bugs and the urge to shake the darn thing into something both
actionable and useful.

Hooks for something like this should be in every operating system with
accelerometers. I doubt adding an audio profanity detector to my text
editor will happen any time soon, but that might also be useful for
getting bugs/feedback.
We're serving up static iCal feeds - Google Calendar etc can be configured to poll them for updates.

Here's an example of one of our public feeds (of Ruby on Rails events in Europe) - you can paste this in to the "Subscribe" menu in your calendar.

http://lanyrd.com/topics/ruby-on-rails/in/europe/ruby-on-rai...

You can see our subscribe UI in the right hand column on this page: http://lanyrd.com/topics/ruby-on-rails/in/europe/
The browser version runs in a WebWorker (each team gets one). I didn't even know what WebWorkers were before I programmed this. The server side runs in a NodeJS process (each team gets its own), and your code runs in a fresh VM context. These both provide commonly expected JS such as Math and Date, but not other stuff such as console (which I provide in the webworker case and send messages back to the browser).
I think the STOMP plugin was still pre-production a year ago. You may want to try using RabbitMQ 3.x.

Cool, thanks, I'll take a look and see how we go :)
Well, I have said before about secrecy that "neither extreme is a good idea":
http://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=1185168...
> including Fire tablets

With Amazon starting up with their own store, this may soon be a thing of the past.
Seems more like a case of the cement truck that broke the (possibly already strained) camel's back.
How is it from a stability standpoint?

The only issues I encountered were been due to not assigning enough memory to the JVM. Other than that it's done the job admirably.
I've been wanting to see social networking for business conferences really take off for a while.

Anyone know why Lanyrd doesn't have more traction? For any given conference, I find that it's rare for more than 10% to signal that they are going to the conference.
I found Anaconda (https://store.continuum.io/) to be the easiest way to get people setup with Python on nearly any system. It has the added benefit of bundling ipython, pip and numpy which is notoriously a huge pain to get working on Windows and Mac OS X.
Pretty neat, but I don't and won't have iOS. I'm also nervous because ebay is hiking their fees. That makes THREE markups to absorb: credit transaction fee, ebay fee, Sold fee.
Foursquare is largely used by cool urbanites. There aren't that many cool urbanites. The use cases for Foursquare in middle America are laughable. People want to humble brag: share cool coffee shops, countries they've been to etc.

I wrote a sizable piece on the future of Foursquare and monetization today here. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5533949
This is a very impressive (yet simple) methodology in that before this there was no understanding of where certain neurons were projecting in the brain, due to the fat tissue blocking any imaging possibilities. After this many connections were uncovered that were not well understood for years.
The R guys do a really easy to use package of mingw for satisfying compiler / linker requirements youll find you need (and all the other bits and bobs required).

Another thing worth mentioning is "user site packages" directory for those on locked down corporate machines. Pip install --user <package> will pop the package in %UserProfile%\Python\Python2X\site-packages\ - which is automatically on your $PYTHONPATH saving a little setup hassle.
I'm also reminded of a great FedEx or UPS ad - a new hire walks into a company, and an employee is showing them their shipping system.

New kid in suit: "No no no, you don't understand - I have an MBA"

Woman: "Oh? Oh. Then I'll have to SHOW you how it works."
There's still many popular libraries that haven't been ported over. Django has recently been taken off the list but PIL, paramiko (and by extension, fabric) and other libraries that a beginner might see mentioned on python tutorials are still not ready. I recently gave python 3 another try and had to switch back to 2.7 pretty quickly.
Same with A-Max on the Amiga.
Just like Loopt though, they have inherent value (some company will buy them for at least $100m). I shared some of my thoughts on the transaction here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5533949
The one piece of data that having a college degree communicates is that the person with it did something they didn't have to do, it took longer than a few months, and it involved a wide variety of tasks. As such its a useful way to prove you can do something that takes a long time to do.

I agree however that there are people who haven't chosen to do that who have shown that ability in other ways. And there are people who have neither a college degree nor any long term project in their history which often indicates they are unwilling to put up with any inconvenience.

But the message that there is no silver bullet that will make sure all of your employees are "great" is true. If you assume that credentials are that bullet you will eventually get populated with a bunch of highly credentialed and ineffective bozos who will drive out the good people and leave behind an empty husk of a work force.
How do they make money at the moment? I'd love to get hold of their data
> Your "genius" central banker Ben Bernanke may print and print and print and who gets hit by inflation? China does

Inflation has been painfully low for years. Many have said it needs to be higher actually.
ETA - user site packages is a 2.6-onwards feature. Rtools: http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/Rtools/
I am working with symfony Framework along with Backbone.JS for last 3 years. I love to work as a remote employee. If you can offer me H1B then, i will be pleased to accept that.

I checkout your requirements for "Web Developer" and i am very much comfortable with the requirements. so can you please tell me, how i can proceed with you?
Package managers are great until you want something that isn't provided. I used numpy as an example, but our users are just as likely to work with web scraping, SQL, or REDIS as with numerical computations; in that case, they still need to know how to manage packages themselves.
> > He should have either stressed he did not have inside knowledge and this was his personal opinion, or he should have said nothing. The problem with the first option is that he did have inside knowledge.

> All in under 140 characters?

Well, the second options works well in under 140 characters (since it takes exactly 0 characters), and the first option (as noted in the grandparent post) has problems unrelated to character limits, so, yes, "all in under 140 characters."
"... individual faces deportation ..."

Is there a "grace period" or is an immediate deportation? (Obviously, I have not personally dealt with these issues so any information is greatly appreciated.)
If a consumer purchases something then wouldn't Amazon be losing 70% of that as they have to pay the developer of the app the consumer made the purchase on/for?
Saying nothing is really easy with 140 characters. Anybody should be able to manage that. ;)
Sure, he could have easily inserted "I am not speaking for Microsoft".

Just one tweet saying that before the stream of stupidity would have made things a lot better, though he probably shouldn't have commented on the situation at all on an account identified as belonging to a Microsoft employee and he especially shouldn't have been such a huge jerk in his responses (eg. his why would I live there? comment, etc).

In the grand scheme of things, I think he's probably getting dumped on a bit too much and is taking some flack for becoming the public face for a poor decision (always-on console) that I believe Microsoft as a company fully intended to deliver on(though they may attempt to change course on this if possible given the backlash). But he really did show some poor judgement throughout the whole thing.
Are they trying to capitalize on current Bitcoin hype on the mainstream?
Whole organ decellularization is not new - we've had transparent heart ECMs for quite some time. By loading the brain here with monomers, they kill the organ, whereas you can still use the transparent heart if you reload it with cells. Similar thing, different purposes.
With a bit of investment you could have some funds in all the exchanges and thus you could buy low on one exchange and sell high on another within milliseconds. Then you just balance the funds in the background to prevent running out of some type of resource on an exchange, but it doesn't have to be instant because you already have all types of funds on all the exchanges anyway.
Could you explain why, in 2013, we need more physical immigration when we have remote work solutions like VOIP, instant messaging, e-mail, and video-conferencing? I'm a US citizen and I use these tools with my US company daily - why can't people in other countries use them too? Why MUST they come to the US?

People are not being denied opportunity. It is not our fault that Facebook et all can't be bothered to recruit or recruit well in foreign countries. The opportunity to work for Facebook is still alive and well. Facebook could say "Hey Bill in India, we want to hire you. You can work at our India office." but for whatever reason Facebook would rather have Bill relocate to the USA. Why can't Facebook open an India office, scout for talent in India, and move them all to their India office?

I scoff at your line about competing with the middle class. This has been happening for years: call it outsourcing, offshoring, whatever you like but it's been a thing for over a decade now. I KNOW I'm not privileged because I've watched big chunks of my company get outsourced so I understand I need to do my very best to keep my job.

You can harp on "selfishness" all you want but that's the way the real world works. If you want to be the selfless one post your position, your salary, open it up for bids and see how long it takes for someone (US citizen or otherwise) to do your job for less.
We don't need sympathy or regulation. A simple market solution like voluntary bitcoin insurance would do the trick.
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I understand that a lot of people prefer and/or are stuck with Windows, but people who can't or won't move beyond that just are not likely to get much utility out of Python.

If you're looking to learn it for any actual, practical application, e.g. any kind of development that will be deployed on the web or any kind of native system scripting, spending time setting it up on Windows is a waste of time you will need to spend at some point anyway learning to use an operating system that's actually suitable for such a purpose.

It's good that Windows users have the option of installing Python, I suppose, but something like this seems aimed at people who either are not actually going to do anything with or learn anything from it or are likely to simply give up after hitting the quirks and limitations of the platform.

A far more useful article that would accomplish the same purpose more effectively would be on setting up a free virtualization environment in Windows, then pointing people to the normal doc on using Python in some flavor of Linux.
By far the most aggravating aspect of MS Points are that its not a 1:1 conversion rate. I don't think there's anything inherently 'bad' about an internal payment currency (beyond the fact that consumers generally dislike it.)
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Why would they do that in immediate future?
I don't think that this is all accurate. Foursquare will survive or get bought out like Loopt. I think they'll be in the retention business soon. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5533949
So I'm trying to work out why?

And off the top of my head it's probably combination of:

1) Helps with micropayments for low value in-app purchases

2) Creates a disconnect between the real cost and perceived cost

The latter helps Amazon create an artificial incentive that they can use to build their store. For example: Buy something physical off amazon.com and earn 100 free Amazon coins to spend on something digital (implicit: with Amazon).
* A foreign student can get a U.S. undergraduate degree, go on to get a Ph.D. at a U.S. university, all the while paying federal, state, and other taxes.

Not exactly, depending on status these students are going to be tax exempt.

For a portion of this time, if they switch employers, they get to start the process all over again, from scratch.

AC-21 portability allows those that are on an H1-B to transfer jobs even if they've applied for permanent residency with a few minor restrictions. For example, you can't change jobs within 180 days of applying, must be changing to a job within the same or similar type/classification (not well defined), must be paid a similar wage, and a couple of technical eligibility questions must be true in regards to form filings.
I don't think I've ever laughed at a Borowitz Report headline. In all fairness to him, the New Yorker (otherwise my favorite magazine) is kind of a stupid place for things like this. Part of what makes The Onion so funny is how ruthless they are at playing as a straight news source. The New Yorker doesn't have any pretense as a straight news source, so there's just no surprise. So you know it's a joke before you get to the punchline. I don't know, or maybe he's just not funny.
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