skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also from the guidelines:

"On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity."

Note that the "off-topic" guidelines contain two exceptions. The first sentence provides an exception for interesting new phenomenon. The interaction between social media, traditional media, and the police in this case is interesting and new enough to arguably qualify. The "cover it on TV news" sentence says it is probably off-topic, not that it certainly is.
A single study that gave economists, and clearly an awful lot of politicians, the confirmation they needed to strengthen their resolve in the face of opposition.

Confirmation bias, at least in the politicians' cases, it just provided them with extra confidence to proceed with their agenda. Well, it may have also lent them some legitimacy.
hopefully that reddit is over and all reddit-users can leave the internet now ;)
Long-term: probably better. Short-term: worse. When you blow whistles and take moral stands, you're jumping away from a local maximum and the gradient is a very steep downward one.

If you recognize my name, you probably know that I have taken a lot of moral stands and have a colorful reputation.

It makes your life a lot more volatile. That is true. Over time, though, people respect you. See, the one thing you actually can't afford is low social status; you're better to come off as a moralistic but high-status person than a wimp.
At a treatment facility they will help you design a long term treatment plan.
The site has a "cyborg typology" (http://stopthecyborgs.org/2013/03/03/cyborgs-a-typology/) and seems to be completely supportive of "type-1" cyborgs like yourself. It's the other ones they have issues with, particularly type-4. I wish they would call the site "Stop the Borg" or "Stop the Hivemind" or something to make the distinction clearer.
This incident discredits the FSF's legitimate and usually very good flagging of internet misdeeds.

The FSF started out by saying Google was blocking some federation between domains [and the sky is falling down]. The implication being that because they are big there must be some malicious intent.
Google had mentioned the problem on the XMPP operators lists and, their messaging team are a pleasure to work with (we send a lot of buddycloud messages to Gtalk users over their XMPP network). This FSF post created a shitstorm for no reason.

Of course we should aim for full federation. But let's look at Google's position: When (I'm guessing here) 1% of your XMPP traffic is federated, it's in Google's interest to look after their existing users and protect them from a bunch of spam than to federate with smaller domains. It's a no brainier - not an evil plan.

PS: It's called XMPP. Jabber is a trademark owned by Cisco.
The Med Express/James Amodio Affair—What Not to Do If You’re an Online Seller
Don't want google to know everything that I'm doing. Especially when searching for porn.
Btw, Reddit folks should raise money to help Sunil's family finding their son. They owe it to the family, since they badly broke hearts on that front.
> Also - who on earth thought austerity was ever a good idea?

David Cameron, Angela Merkel and Paul Ryan to name just three prominent politicians.

Additionally EU central bank policy has been geared almost solely around this principle. This is why after identifying that the Greek, Cypriot and Spanish economies were the victim of cheating, malfeasance and incompetence, all of the rescue plans involved pretty severe cuts to social welfare programs and government services.

Remember, ALL Cypriots had to take a haircut on their savings in banks greater than 100k euros. International finance scammers fucked the Cypriot economy, and then the pro-austerity EU forced all Cypriots to choke down the bailout.

It's like robin hood in reverse.
The core value that has emerged is that everyone has something to teach, and everyone has something to learn.

You are awesome. I would really like to throw 99% of "management" out the historical window for good. It's a goddamn anachronism. The only genuine source of credibility is teaching. Show me why your idea is awesome, and if you're right and you teach it well, I'll believe you. You could be a 190 IQ genius or a Big Swinging Dick rain-maker, but the only way you add true value is by showing other people the way. "Because I said so" / "I can fire you, shithead" management (i.e. authority without teaching) can go die in a fire. It's 2013, which makes it about damn time for that.

I have no idea what you do, and I'm probably not a candidate for your company (machine learning specialty, plus need to stay in the US for the next 6 months) but I really hope you succeed.
Ok, you use this and now you can't even use solutions from Bill Karwin book...
More details here:
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Proof_of_work
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/FAQ#How_does_the_proof-of-work_sy...

Cracking passwords would require finding data which hashes to an exactly specified value,

Bitcoin's proof of work requires finding data which hashes
to 'any hash with the given rare property' (given number of leading zeroes, smaller than the target)
There's nothing wrong with combining, say, technical and expressive aims. In a way, that's kind of the holy grail of making stuff. That's not the problem though.

I have spent a great deal of time interpreting, appraising, and creating works of art myself, and when I read the OP pdf, pretension and self-absorption ooze through every page. Hollow writing. Whimsical and heartfelt? I say arbitrary and jejune.

It's because the community that follows him is so desperate for an existence proof of the above mentioned combination (hey look, we're arty too!), that they neglect to really look at the situation objectively.
Do you mean Windows 8 debacle ? AFAIK, IE10 is a good browser and IE9 is not so bad.
That's true. I'm Norwegian, but live in England now, and I make a lot more here than what I would in Norway, and my neighbours make a lot less here than what they would in ordinary "blue collar" jobs in Norway. But I think also the novelty wears off very quickly. It was fun to "spy" on friends and neighbours once or twice, but then it just starts feeling a bit icky.
Actually, it's been like this a really long time. I just noticed, that HN stories which have nondescript titles fare better, so I decided to conduct a little experiment. 1st spot on the front page seems to confirm my hypothesis.
I love how nobody at GitHub considered the possibility that a project might not use GitHubs issue tracker - any project not using it will still have the stats displayed with links to the open/closed issue that result in an immediate 404.
My guess is this makes it easier for them to prevent 42 blog posts in a week about solving Challenge n.
I'm ashamed to say it, but I can live with the threat of terrorism. Statistically, is nearly insignificant next to all of the other risks in our lives.

What makes my blood boil is the overreaction, fear, and fear-mongering that goes along with it.

Add in the incessant calls for more intrusive security measures and I feel like we are living in an nightmare.
I'm ashamed to say it, but I can live with the threat of terrorism. Statistically, is nearly insignificant next to all of the other risks in our lives.

What makes my blood boil is the overreaction, fear, and fear-mongering that goes along with it.

Add in the witch hunts and the incessant calls for more intrusive security measures and I feel like we are living in a nightmare.
The digit at the end of the link can be 0-3, and you still end up at the `drunk mum' video. I don't know if this is interesting or not.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShpcjWG_Me0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShpcjWG_Me1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShpcjWG_Me2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShpcjWG_Me3

Edit: ...probably not, other video ids ending with a zero show the same behavior (see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtKZKl7Bgu0)
More accurately: Job postings - except from YC companies or in the monthly "Who is Hiring" tread - are considered spam on HN.
Is this the same moral ideology that has lead him to drone brown people?
I'm not from America, but, as an Internet citizen, I still care deeply about the issue. Can I just call American politicians to express my dissatisfaction? Does it count if I don't have a social security number? I already donated to Fight for the Future, is there something else I can do about this?
It is the difference between buying a shirt or suit (for men) that comes in Small/Medium/Large and buying one that is designed for a certain body type (broad shoulders, slim waist or short but fit) initial design. You can alter both, but a design that is more specific than S/M/L will usually look alot better after altering than a generic one.

I have both range of suits, and I can say there is a world of difference, even after altering between high end suits in fit than generic ones.

A very specific example a couple years ago when I got married, I ended up buying a really nice suit. That year trend by brand: Zegna suits were usually designed for the average man (height/weight), Ralph Lauren for more short guys and Armani for tall slimmer folk. As far as I've remember buying a suit, RL suits were always the better fit before and after alterations since I'm short, specially their more italian line that goes for short/broader shoulder/slim men.
Gamification is the friendly scout of big data
Depends what your borrowing situation is.

During the financial crisis, irrespective of our level of public debt, the bond rates were actually such, that people were basically PAYING the federal government to borrow money.

Instead, we had politicians on an austerity tear, and ranting about how we needed to reduce the national debt. We could have borrowed a big chunk of money, earned the interest off of it, and then just turned around and paid back the principle.

If Republicans actually believed in running the Government like a business (they don't, but they say it), it's almost criminal that we didn't take advantage of the opportunity.
Thanks for your reply and clarification.

1. So your stance is that Anthony, the CEO and Founder of Kaggle, is mistaken about the rules and execution of the 2 phase competition that his company is running, even after 8 days of his company communicating back and forth in email correspondence with you?

2. In the forum you initially state:

"As I have been saying over email repeatedly over the past 8 days, and yesterday on the phone with you and the Sorkin, there is no checkbox to check!"

..then later state:

"What on earth is a checkbox doing on the submission screen of a two phase competition? There is no ambiguity - there is only a single file type that is valid for the final leaderboard file. Why on earth is your software not smart enough to figure that out?"

and later:

"I submitted exactly one final submission. At this point the checkboxes should not matter"

and in your reply above state:

"I did not check a checkbox because I did not believe it applied"

While I'm not familiar with all of the intricacies of the competition, conflicting statements like those have me a bit confused over this whole thing.

3. $30k is a lot of money, so I sympathize with you for missing out on that given that your algorithm is better than what the final results suggest. That being said, the other entrants that won competed using the same submission process that you did, was it just bad luck that your entry was not accepted in the manner you had expected or why did they not also encounter this submission bug?

4. Is this your first two phase competition with Kaggle? Was this competition executed different than other competitions? I ask as you seem surprised/confused about this "checkbox" that appears to be at the center of the controversy.
> How quaint. You think processors, issuers, and banks do fraud management for the merchant. Sure, they _can_ do _some_ stuff, but it costs an arm-and-a-leg.

Don't be a condescending dick, please.
> I just find it bazaar and I'm trying to figure out why.

Sometimes I find a lot of bazaars =)
I suspect that without their co-authorship people wouldn't have read it. I'm not in the academic field but isn't it a signal that they back his work enough to put their name (and reputation) to it?
Turn your Raspberry Pi into a Scan-To-Cloud Device
Sounds cool, but worth pointing out that the Parallela is Zynq based, and so comes with a Xilinx FPGA built into the SoC that includes the dual ARM cores. The FPGA provides the "glue" for the Epiphany chip to talk to the CPU, but there's plenty of spare capacity.

The more the merrier, though. I wish I had time to play with FPGA's - I have a Minimig (Amiga reimplementation where the custom chips are all in an FPGA) and I'm on the list for an FPGA Replay (targeting FPGA reimplementation of assorted home computers including the Amiga, and arcade machines in an FPGA).
The sad thing is that SCOM can monitor for pending certificate expiration and validity. If Microsoft dogfooded a little more, they might have seen this.
Life in a digital health Start-Up
Can you show me some examples of abhorrent behavior? In the few reddit threads I skimmed about the bombing everyone was surprisingly mature, especially when pointing out 'suspicious' people.
New Yahoo Weather App
Java 8 will be late
One way to look at is is that they validated your idea.
Using Jasper Reports to create reports in Java
That's a very interesting idea, Simon, and one that didn't even cross my mind.

I've since moved on to a new project. If anyone wants to talk about taking over the site, shoot me a message at bretwalker /at/ Google's email. It's Django and has some branding and a domain: http://static.nyquistrate.com.s3.amazonaws.com/media/certcia...
>I still don't know how to program in Ruby

That says something, although I'm not sure exactly what
Which protocols do you support besides https? imap or pop with tls perhaps?
Why Won’t the IRS Deploy Basic Web Security?
Poor guy, this is sad. I did have to laugh at, "He asked for a pencil and a piece of paper so he could write a program down.", however.
Reddit, Boston and the missing student
Off topic - but how does one downvote on HN? I only see a small up arrow to the left of the commenters' names. No down arrow.
Could not have said it better, thanks matey!
Is the oprah thing he refers to real?
I don't really understand how this paper could be claimed to have 'destroyed the economies of the world' when it's in the aftermath of the GFC. 'Not made it better', sure, but bad fiscal practices causing deep financial problems were there before 2010.
The ISS is really packed with lots and lots and lots of things. Here's a tour of the space station: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afBm0Dpfj_k

The first half hour, I though "Cool" about pretty much everything, after that my head's starting to hurt thinking about all the things the astronauts need to know where is, what is, how it works, what to do.
Try googling / binging "L1 interference".
The problem with Google Glass is its recording abilities. If I invite a few friends at my home, I don't want them to come with all of Youtube. My home has opaque walls for a reason. I know there will be a LED on while filming but it's way too discreet and can certainly be broken or covered.
Pure in this case means that you can use Python syntax in order to query a database. This way a database query looks identical to an iteration over a list of Python objects.
I'm familiar with corporate personhood but not state personhood.
wow cool! I haven't used Firebase in a project yet but I have looked over the docs. I may try it out, thanks for the recommendation.
Have any lives been ruined by Reddit? Do you have proof of this?
While that's a fair statement, an OS--mobile or otherwise--doesn't really need to be among the top few in terms of adoption to be valuable. Lots of people still use their N900 and N9 phones and want something to be a successor to them. This is likely the way I'll be going next.
Rejecting a new thing out of hand because it isn't the current popular thing is a classic example of "middlebrow dismissal".

Android is not perfect and was not always a popular thing and there is room for more than one mobile platform.
Interesting blog post, "digital health" seems to be getting a lot of media attention at the moment. Only time will tell whether or not this attention is deserved. From my perspective the regulatory barriers seem too high at present, its difficult enough launching a product without having to get 10 different types of approval.
there's so much everyday news hitting hn that I only ever read the new section. the hn community has become too large and its interests too generalized. the lack of focus on personal projects and introductions to new technology is destroying the once highly specialized community. if mods don't start guiding the topics I'm afraid hn won't have anything left to offer. topics like the events the unfolded this week are important, but their discussion is more suited to Reddit. it would be hard for anyone to argue the same level of discussion doesn't happen on Reddit, though I conceed you won't get any karma for it.
I've had my rejection letter as well and I was actually surprised how human and respectful was this letter. They're very good at marketing, it's like breaking up: it's not you, it's us! ;)

I think it's obvious that this rejection letter should not put a stop to your projects but rather keep improving them, that's what I'm gonna do.

I already applied to techstars and I will apply again at Y combinator. Next time I'll be ready!

I'm looking for a co-founder in order to launch a new mobile advertising platform for hyperlocalized marketing.

You can support my application at TechStars at the following url: http://www.f6s.com/geome#main/ajax-summary

I'm still at an early stage but if you're interested, PM me and I'll explain you what this is about.

You can also follow me on twitter: @Nicrogo

Many thx!!
There is a JQuery plugin to build your own using pusher,
http://html5-ninja.com/item/Pusher-Chat-jQuery-plugin/7

Most live chat products also allow you to integrate with your GMail account easily and give you a small js to add to your website. We do at http://gaglers.com
Mandrill has also had this problem for months (I notified them, but still broken) https://www.mandrill.com/
Boston has about 60 murders per year. 56% of murders in Massachusetts involve a firearm. Therefore, Boston sees about three murders involving a firearm per month on average.

This does not, of course, include justifiable homicides.

ETA: So as not to scare anyone remember that in major cities typically between 65% and 91% of murder victims are criminals, and most of the killings are gang related.
Hmmm, it was a year after I left the area, but in 1992 a student was stabbed to death in front of the main library by a local juvenile sociopath (who only served 10 years, Massachusetts "justice" being what it is), see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Yngve_Raustein. And that was not much of a surprise based on the dozen years I'd spent in and around MIT before I left.

Has it really gotten a lot safer. not counting this unique sort of incident?
The brown student's name was mentioned by a woman on twitter in response to looking at the released photos. Apparently it looked like a friend of hers that had gone missing a month prior after dropping out of school and becoming depressed. There were already a few articles about the missing person case, predating the bombing, and those were being linked by reporters in twitter feeds. The name mentioned on the police scanner was yet another person, also not correct.
Algorithm to Reduce Millions of Network Alarms to Thousands
* for any successful business that doesn't care the slightest bit about security, i.e. remains the lowest hanging fruit.
For a minute I thought you were talking about England there. Just replace "Americans" with "Brits" and the post still makes perfect sense.
Android is completely different, everything runs inside a version of the JVM called 'Dalvik'. Linux is incidental and nothing Linux-related is accessible to apps
i'm impressed with your belief in google. You can't just do it. It's a giant institution with rules and hiring process is formal and can't be done by the team.
The main problem I see is that IE9 does not work on windows XP. How long will we continue to see Windows XP machines in the wild?
A national currency being used as the international reserve and trade settlement currency affords the US quite a few unique perks, doesn't it? And has so for decades, indeed.

The USD being the international "yardstick" other currencies are measured in, "valued" against allows for a surprisingly large trade deficit. Why have inflation at home when you can just "export" your fresh paper for real goods the world over?

This is not lost to the rest of the world, but for the sake of the lesser evil they've played along as necessary. All the while creating a new supranational currency (EUR) and central banks the world over turning into net gold buyers.

I agree, the US should milk this situation for all it's worth while it lasts, which is incidentally exactly what they've been doing for the last few decades.

Global US debt is not a worry to them as it's denominated in the same currency that the US can "print" (to use the simplified wording here).

Austerity (delevering) is not a worry, they'll rather buy failing debts with more freshly produced notes --- this way, no one loses their "savings" in nominal terms, no cascading defaults etc.

Shouldn't this lead to (hyper)inflation? Not as fast as you might think --- if/as long as the rest of the world still takes them as viable reserves and for settling international trade..
120-hour week for a few months? Shipped at the end of it?

Is that a real project you worked on?

If so, and if it happened a couple years ago in Colorado -- I was one of your coworkers.

And I left just a couple weeks after the rest of you guys.

That was some crazy shit but in the end we did ship. And on time, even.

But I can't even pass that freeway exit any more without feeling a sense of dread.
Avoiding Rabid Penguins: Common Guest Posting Mistakes
The Disentitled Generation
My MacPro desktop doesn't have a lid (or wifi).

I run Ubuntu on a Thinkpad T500 though and power management and wifi are flawless. Never have any issues there.
Arduino or Raspberry Pi?
I'm thinking it is more of a DeBeers situation. Keep tight control over the supply.
I sincerely hope that this not some sick and twisted joke by Microsoft.
Stackify created this exact thing after the last time this happened with MS Azure about 2 months ago. It's called certalert.me (http://certalert.me) and is a free service.

It's not a huge business, but it was almost trivial to setup with all the advanced monitoring & diagnostics that stackify typically does anyway.
How "modern" technology makes developers cheap?
If I don't want to be covertly recorded everywhere, that doesn't make me a "Luddite".

I don't attack Open Source, or extending your body, or nifty Android gadgets or whatever. That's all fine. But I do not accept being recorded in a bar. Can you understand that this is not some sort of crazy reactionary idea?
Look for a technical co-founder. A good developer would get to a minimum viable product quickly - probably in a fraction of the time you are estimating for the overall project. Find someone who will buy into your product and work for equity.

Don't let your existing programming skills restrict who you hire or the technical spec for the new product - you should concentrate on the marketing and sales end so that you have eager customers waiting for that MVP