skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It still amazes me that some companies have, apparently, never heard of the Streisand Effect [1]. This was arguably forgivable in a pre-Internet time, but now?

On the other hand, I suppose this might work as a signal - a company that does not understand the Streisand Effect probably doesn't understand a lot of other things. And if said company deals in cryptography? As another comment said, run away.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect
I think you meant to suggest: {{log controller}}
Have you ever hired any technology talent in London? I have. It's exactly as I describe it. The city can afford to suck a huge amount of talent into is orbit by outbidding any startups - or most other businesses. It's not a factor if whether you have a great hiring strategy or not. It's the fact that you're competing against hiring managers with a good as unlimited budgets. This makes it hard to build a solid technology team without equally large budgets - whether you're a startup or a huge multinational corporation which just doesn't have the pockets of the City. This in turn makes startups in those places less competitive. Your rant notwithstanding this is something which makes it harder for those locations to create their own versions of Silicon Valley.
I think people tend to grossly exaggerate how many emails they really do get. Are you really that damn busy that you can't spend a minute or less writing a more natural and conversational reply that indicates to the other person that you're reciprocating the amount of thought and effort they invested in their message?

I agree with some others here in saying that this is awkward. You don't strive for efficiency in social interactions. You stay an extra couple of minutes to let a friend babble on about a story you don't care about because you're socially tactful and tact is the lubricant that preserves our social relationships.
Why do you need to write a long reply to say no? His example can be shortened to:

Dear John,

Thank you ..., I would be happy to ... but unfortunately I am unavailable. Please [....]

Sincerely,

A. Guy

This shortened version takes as much thought as the 'very short' version and doesn't require a new acronym. There are cases where the longer reply would work better, but most of the time you don't need to give your reasons for saying no to someone. I'd say his response is pretty formal, and that's probably unnecessary for 95% of the unsolicited email he gets. In less formal responses you can convey some enthusiasm (real or not) with an exclamation mark, and that removes the potential rudeness ("Hi John, Thanks for your interest! Unfortunately I am not available that weekend. Best of luck, A. Guy"). Translating emotion to or from text does require a little bit of effort but it's really no different than normal spoken conversation.
Do you mind me asking where you're doing your PhD?
Disappointed that someone hasn't already slipped in:

exec requests.get('http://http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=fun_harmless_social_con...).content
I'm surprised that Welsh argues that tenured CS profs still have to follow what publication venues want to see. Why not just say, "Fuck it?", publish on blogs / arvix.com/, and let the field catch up to them?

Because funding agencies don't like it. They'll look back at previous funding you've been given, and rightly or wrongly, look at the peer-reviewed articles that came out of it. If you're pushing everything to arXiv, then it looks like something went badly wrong and you can't be trusted with future money.

As the OP says, the problem is not just ideas, but how those ideas are disseminated and what that means to your funding stream. Saying "fuck it" is a really good way of screwing up your funding stream for years.
I don't know why I just realized tptacek == the Thomas Ptacek.

Can't wait to finish real work so I can focus on banging out code for round 1.
This is one of my main worries about my impending graduation. Right now, I work on what I find interesting, publish when I have what I think are good results, and have not found that anyone has tried to dictate what I should be working on. Once I graduate though, I'll lose that luxury. Unfortunately I don't know of any "real-world" job that provides such freedom; perhaps grad students are only afforded it because we're so affordable.
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> My team at Google has a pretty broad mandate which gives us a fair bit of freedom.

The other points might be fair but this would have to be the exception rather than the rule in private industry and even Google I would image would never give enough leeway to someone to "monitor volcanoes with sensor networks"
EFNet: #unix, #freebsd, #metal
GIMPNet: #dnalounge
FreeNode: #startups, #bhyve, #postgresql, and if you're interested in the adventures of derpyhackerspacedrama try out #noisebridge.

I've noticed that there are WAY more channels that attempt to take themselves seriously (and fail on the seriousness or accuracy quota) on FreeNode so stay alert. EFNet is generally the best chat network :)
Another initiative along a similar vein that I tried for a while is called 5Sentences: http://five.sentenc.es/

I have tried to adopt the principle now, without including it in my footers.

In the environment that I'm in something like this would be great if everyone could adopt it - very few would in reality.
Really? Whenever I've been there people have been very rude, pedantic, sarcastic, and in general acting like /b/ rejects. Maybe I've been unlucky?
it is true. they're not.

as a father, i may go out of my way to disagree with him to justify my own past decisions. as an unattractive social reject, i may go out of my way to agree with him.

we are naturally going to have very intense feelings and be very egotistical one way or another about the subject of spreading our own DNA.
I'm not precisely sure myself - in CS, though, a lot of the research is digitized, and much of it is available for free online (if you know where to look - Google Scholar really helps), but as far as making useful research contributions goes, being able to provide citeable papers helps, and most of those are published at conferences.
"rizvup" according to a Charlie Brown cartoon -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRLhfL1UZoM#t=432s
Sent it on Friday. Unless you didn't RE:, it shouldn't have been spammed, but I have a habit of emptying my spam folder without ever looking at the contents, so we'll never know.
How To Run Bash (Or Any External) Commands From Ruby
eh, prepared to be trolled to no end in ##proggit. Also, the ops there are elitists and do whatever they want without consideration of the members wishes.
It is by will alone I set my mind in motion....
Cache-oblivious algorithms can be pretty wacky when you're used to not thinking about locality at all.

A mergesort can be understood by even a beginner after an hour or less in a language like Haskell. A funnelsort...? Well, I'll put it this way: even after reading the papers, I'm not sure how I would go about implementing it.
oftc has a smaller python channel, and I think freenode has #python-friendly. Less activity, but generally means less noise and fewer trolls.
And lisp will be there
James Randi is looking for the supernatural, not the superhuman. Usain Bolt is also not eligible.
Wow, their B2C portfolio looks really strong. If they got in in the "first round", as their name would imply, they've made some (paper) money.

I've also heard good things about them from a lot of founders -- particularly that they move fast.
I was often on #python about a 2 years ago, what happened? Is it bad now?
I am baffled.

OpenSans renders fine in IE and Firefox, but Chrome doesn't do it. Here is what I get on the WP page:

http://imgur.com/XgmEN9P

It is the same for every other site that uses opensans.

Windows 7, Chrome 26.0.1410.64 m, Font Size: Medium, Page Zoom, 100%.

Any ideas?
The service formerly known as Napster.fm is now Peer.fm
University of Waterloo. They've got some great research groups, the funding's good, and you get to keep any IP you develop over the course of your studies.
Bad headline. From the article: "...the group believes it can cut the cost of heart surgery to an astonishing 800 dollars." It hasn't actually done it yet.
Thank you very much! To your first paragraph, YES!!! :) There is a tremendous amount that is out of my control, which is not my favorite situation to be in, but sometimes it's the only way. I believe my idea is very big, and for reasons stated, I am concerned I need to go big out of the gate. I may be underestimating my capabilities, but I'm not confident two people (my partner and I) can pull that off. And anyway, eventually I will want to work with others, so it's either find good people now or find them later.

I ironically have recently, in a roundabout way, already done the live someplace cheap thing (very complicated to explain, though amusing, but I'll save that for another time). It didn't go well. Suffice it to say, I have a wife and son, and have found out my wife does not adapt to big changes well, so I don't want to move around frivolously.

I had bootstrapped using savings, and again it's complicated, but I am running out of runway. I'll need to feel really good about my plan to spend much longer without a job, funding, or mentorship. Maybe I could start small and grow, but I'm just not sure how long it would be take to grow revenues to cover my living expenses. SoCal is decided not a cheap place to live. :) Doing some freelance work is definitely a potential option and would buy me some time. I had considered that, but for some reason it fell off my radar, so thanks for the reminder.

My only user now is myself, though I have shown a few others. Perhaps I should get a MVP out and see what kind of traction it gets? I may be overly concerned about someone copying my idea and scaling it up faster, but only because I don't have a strong argument to counter the concern. Can you explain why I should not be afraid of that?

I guess that's the thing. I'd like to at least be able to know and choose the entities I am deciding to trust. By putting it out there for anyone to see, what stops someone from just ripping it off?

Is this a wise investment? I believe it is, for the right investor who can afford the risk, but I understand the onus is on me to convince would be investors. It's certainly costing me quite a bit to work on it, but then again my motivation is more humanitarian than financial. I was hoping to at least get an interview with YC and get some feedback from some people with major experience under their belt, either "yeah that could fly" and then we'd get to it, or "never going to work because of X and Y". But, I didn't get an interview, so I got approximately zero feedback. I'd prefer to have a tech-savvy investor/partner who would really be able to see potentially fatal flaws, than a non-savvy investor who might invest without realizing those flaws.
I used to frequent #anapnea, but after it shut down I lost all my data on the sever, and the newly resurrected anapnea seems to be less interesting the few times I've accessed it, so I haven't gone back.

It seems that most of the *nix related channels have been over run by 12 year old "h4x0rz."

The best channels are "Invite Only," and I'm not allowed to share their addresses.
This is one of those bills that seems like a good idea to the general public. But how do you even define what data is covered and what uses have to be disclosed and in what level of detail? If someone objects how do you identify them (if there is no login) enough to avoid collecting any data about them without collecting enough to identify them? The legally required compliance with the law is likely to be a giant wormhole. In the end it probably will result in making no difference like the recent EU cookie rule.
RIP Mike Culbert, iOS and Newton pioneer
Has Amazon EC2 become over subscribed? (2010)
Many people do eventually get so many emails that they have to think about how to manage them better. I don't think his solution is very good - he probably should just not write back to every email, or just write back curtly without some odd acronym. People get used to it, and if they don't like it, they email you less.
Here's a better version of this article with photos of the hospital:

http://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/health-fitness/no-frills-ho...
Freenode:

#fogcutter

#startups

#fedora

#centos

#trilug

#ai

#swig

#machinelearning

#grails

#opencog
It's not only you. The same applies to the #freebsd channels.
LOL D.C. Joins the Ranks of Reality Show Ratchetness, Benning Road Housewives
Linux Libertine. http://www.linuxlibertine.org/
I did fine a bug for Chrome.

https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=137692

Looks like the workaround is to turn off ClearType.
#2600 on irc.2600.net can be pretty good
Seems fine on Chrome 26 in OSX (10.7.5).

http://i.imgur.com/RTARq61.png
Ask HN: How do you test for a market for your idea?
Anonymous Calls for Internet Blackout Monday to Protest CISPA
If you give this a try, take note: the drivers include the <linux/config.h> header file which was removed in 2.6.19. You should be able to remove it from the source with no ill effects (a quick test of the "memory" driver worked)...
Freenode: #go-nuts #metasploit #phabricator #puppet #riak
'Hackathon' Events: Do They Really Help Anyone?
I know Dart is a language, I have installed the Editor and played around with it, but it is all compiled to JavaScript (at least for anything except Dartium). I guess it is conceivable that Dart and Angular might be used together, not sure what the point would be though since Dart has the WebUI packages. Seems a bit simplistic to dismiss the idea there any overlap between these projects.
I think that for a lot of the execs truncation is a well established way to communicate self-importance.
it just is either or -- or probability wise close to it. from the time and demand it takes to be a good parent, to the many things you have to do to afford children, to the fact that being responsible for somebody makes you largely beholden to people with money and health insurance, it just is.

at least for the salary earning classes.

people's range of behavior is narrowed by the hierarchy of needs. having a child amplifies this effect.

if you want to do something revolutionary that potentially threatens the status quo, it is better to be either independently wealthy or have much fewer economic needs and pressures.
Thanks for the comparison ... and the feelings of envy. lol

It really is a gorgeous looking font. For the longest time I just though trendy designers were picking the worst looking font.
#laravel-offtopic on Freenode is full of awesome (and intelligent) people.

It's an offtopic chat for the Laravel PHP framework, however the offtopic can contain a variety of languages - usually we talk pretty much everything, from Python to Go, C++ to CSS (and weird life, or rather the no-life related topics). As far as trolls go, I personally haven't seen any yet.
Fun fact of the day, in the Simpsons Mr. Burns always answers the phone 'Ahoy-hoy,' which was Alexander Graham Bell's preferred greeting.
I'm a fan! I'll be using this.
> "c for ruby programmers"

Most, if not all, of this book would be "How To Use Pointers" with large sections on how to structure your code around correctly allocating and freeing memory.

A (fairly brief) appendix would be "Weird Stuff C Programmers Actually Do", for the 'dark corners' stuff that's actually used outside obfuscated code competitions. It might be hard for someone who's actually a C programmer to write this; things stop looking weird after a while.
I think two key parts of what you said are "most people" and "normal people". This normativity is taken for granted here. Preference for terse messages is ultimately a matter of taste and I've yet to see evidence that one belongs to a clear majority.
anyone want to help with the merges? hit me up - sri [dot] umd [at] gmail
How about VSRA. Very short reply accepted. VSRE can come off a bit harsh both for the sender and receiver. By using VSRA you're saying "hey, if you're real busy I won't be offended by a super short response. As others have mentioned here, the idea of VSRE can be socially awkward. By making it optional you avoid that. I suggest this not as a replacement but as an alternative. You could use VSRE with people you know well and VSRA with anyone else.
In general any public channel that reaches a critical mass eventually gets overwhelmed with noise/trolls/elitists. It really just takes a few bad eggs to ruin the experience for everybody.

That's just the nature of things though, it's hard to keep a handle on huge channels unless the channel ops are eternally vigilant. I was in #python some time ago, and there were good moments but there were lots of bad moments.
The Straight Path
ad 1: Please also do keep in mind that there are career steps after obtaining tenure. If you say "Fuck it" right after getting tenure, you are almost certain to never make it thus far.

I also do agree with the other comment regarding funding agencies. Another problematic way that NSF does business (inviting professors for peer review that is) is that this virtually guarantees that some of your peers know exactly what you're doing, which reduces effectiveness of double-blind submissions substantially (to the point where it is hard to believe it works at all; didn't it ever occur strange to anyone that the same people from the same top schools are consistently successful? [with grants and publications in the top venues])
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MosaicLayout: iOS 6 UI component to display images as mosaics
Baseball scoring software not prepared for player running bases backward
Interesting point, had a look at the github page and looks really engaged, you've convinced me to try it out on a project. Thanks.
On a related note, apparently the earthy smell that appears after it rains is caused by actinomycetes: http://birdandmoon.com/intheair.html
What's really awesome about this is that it doesn't appear to be an easter egg. WA simply interprets this unusual question as being a reference to something it knows about.
Approaching the CEO question
I've cofounded a company, and I do more work than the other guy i'm working with. Currently we have it as a 50/50 split. I'm wondering how you approach asking the other partner to be CEO.
I won't argue that a venture capitalist can't be a useful ally, but it's a mistake to overestimate how much assistance they can really provide when you need it most.

Venture capitalists doing their jobs owe their loyalty to limited partners. So long as things are going relatively well or there's reason to believe things are going to go well, their interests are probably aligned with yours. But when they diverge, don't expect disinterested advocacy on your behalf.
As he says in the comments, he didn't choose the title.
Great work! loved the vid too
They'll quit breeding (or at least slow down considerably) if we cease to subsidize their reproduction at the expense of our own.
Thanks for the feedback. I've got a family, so it's less cheap. Plus, health insurance and health expenses alone cost me more than 15k.

I could build part of it myself, and am already on my way. I probably could do a MVP which could possibly get traction. But for reasons stated already, I'm not sure starting small is the best option. But I would certainly appreciate it if someone could ease my mind about that.

Also, please see my other responses related to your questions, so I don't pollute the comments with repetition. Thanks!
IMHO, the only thing blocking ipv6 adoption is the ISP's, like Comcast. Many of the datacenters support it, the devices support it, we're ready to go just waiting on the pipes. T-Mobile is already using ipv6 for mobile, so our old ISP's are dropping the ball as usual. Carrier grade NAT will be rolled out alongside ipv6, and ipv6 adoption will accellerate exponentially as everyone will want to avoid the performance issues that NAT has, all the devices already prefer ipv6. Markets are demand driven, as soon as the clients support it, the servers will fall in line surprisingly fast. I'm not worried, ipv6 is happening, we just need to give the ISP's a kick.
"I still end up having to explain eom half the time.. kind of kills the intended brevity."

this is why i posed the question. how many people can the author honestly expect to reach through hn and twitter or blog to make this new acronym widespread enough to actually save time. if you want a short reply just add it to your signature, "please reply briefly"
ROT13 would provide the same function, though.
If you want to do something revolutionary that potentially threatens the status quo, first you have to be born.
> Bing Maps looks like a potential alternative

why not openstreetmaps?
I was a big fan of ProggyClean but Source Code Pro converted me. And it works in more places. (If only there was an italic version. Syntax highlighting can look weird.)
"80 percent of success is just showing up" — Woody Allen

Use conferences to make connections and get inspirations and recommendations from talking to other researchers in your field.

Being present + papers > papers.
Get him to sign a document reincorporating the company without his knowledge. Dilute his shares in the company. Kick him out of the building.
It's not so much that AMD "stuck" it to Intel as Intel shot itself in the foot. The only reason AMD was successful was that Intel made a gigantic mistake in NetBurst ("10 GHz or bust!")

When Intel finally rectified that mistake and released Conroe it was game over for AMD. AMD simply can't compete with Intel whether in architecture or fabrication.

What AMD could've done was to concede the PC market to Intel and focus on the emerging mobile device market - the classic disruptive attack. ARM went that route and now has a market cap that's 10X bigger than AMD. Qualcomm adopted a similar strategy with Snapdragon and now has a market cap equals to that of Intel's.

Lesson: never fight a dominant incumbent in its own game. You will get killed. Play a different game. Better yet, invent a new game where you know the rules best.
Hrmph. Not according to my mother-in-law. As a father I'll never understand the bond between mother and child.
I still want to work with him :P
Intention.js: Rewrites your HTML based on the user's context.
On the first part, that's true, but you don't have to actually care about those further career steps. Tenure you have to care about, because you're out of a job if you don't get it. But a tenured professor in CS has a permanent position with a good salary, regardless of whether they ever get another promotion or not. Some people do really care about the Full Professor title, but it's not mandatory that you take those further career steps particularly seriously.

A bigger issue post-tenure is the money side of things. Do you need significant funding to carry out the kind of research you want to do, e.g. because it needs reasonably expensive equipment or employee/minion labor? If yes, you do have to care what people with money think, whether it's funding agencies or corporate donors, and that constrains the research you can do. If no, e.g. because you work on your own projects and don't particularly need equipment or a large lab of minions (common in areas like theory and logic), then you don't really have to care about the funding agencies, either.
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Unless someone manages to figure out what the save the world button is.
in a language of your choice sounds best to me.
I reformatted the story for better readability and included audio, read by Henry Goodman:
https://googledrive.com/host/0B2j3XwTC5tA6dUg5QXBTQVNtV2c/Th...
#clojure on freenode
We have already quite a few alternative suggestions [1] including VSRA but we probably have to do a poll to settle on one. I have not enough karma to start one but the idea is probably doomed if several alternatives start to spread.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5586653