skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know what the order is, but it's definitely not the people that viewed my profile the most.
The problem was that the government prosecuted him for his illegal actions and for lots of frivolous made-up charges too.
I stopped using linode in mid February and I have not received an email. They also still appear to have my credit card attached to my account (and I had to change my password when I logged in).
You are correct. This is a very common scenario. The trigger is the cell phone's vibration motor, which is removed so the IED can be connected to the phone. A timer is set, the signal to the motor is sent and activates the trigger, entirely without the use of radio waves and obviously without needing a cell tower.
Until Google decides to close it a few years from now in order to focus on what matters.
I went through the first and the last ones, and it seems pretty accurate!
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I'm quite astonished by the disproportionate media attention and hysteria. For comparison 55 people died today in an Iraq bombing and about 80 people die every day on the U.S. roadways.
That say's the handled Mt. Gox going down, but not that they handled the volatility . I'd imagine they took some large loss moving as the price fell. Now thats the risk with that service and I'd imagine they have enough cash on hand to cover it. But if it happens too many times, i'd imagine they are screwed.
http://ycombinator.com/watsi.html

Per the announcement:

Y Combinator is trying something new this batch: we're including a nonprofit along with the for-profit startups we're funding. Meet Watsi, where donors can fund medical treatments for people in need. [...] I've never been so excited about anything we've funded.

If Watsi is not a portfolio company, that fact should be more explicit.
Although your intentions may be noble, it seems too soon after the tragedy to promote something you have a direct interest in. It comes across as opportunistic, in a bad way.

You may not have equity in Watsi, but the YC name is directly attached to it.

I understand you were targeting people's immediate feelings of repulse towards violence. I would have taken this a lot better had you written an essay about it a few days down the line. Right now its distracting from the task at hand - make sure the people we care for are ok.
Excellent summary. Home ownership will probably never in our lifetimes look like a better investment than it does now. Mortgages rates are extremely low, and because of all the quantitative easing, it's possible that we will see higher than average inflation over the next 10 years.

As a result you can basically borrow hundreds of thousands of dollars, long-term for free. Inflation offsets a fixed interest rate--and the spread is probably only about a point right now, with low inflation.

The housing market is recovering, and immigration reform could create millions of new legal customers for real estate. The only downside is that the mortgage deduction will likely be capped, reduced, or taken away as part of tax reform in the next decade.
There's no reason a site couldn't serve content along with the 451 code, just as HTTP200 is served with content.

In fact, that's a SHOULD in the RFC:

Responses using this status code SHOULD include an explanation, in
the response body, of the details of the legal demand: the party
making it, the applicable legislation or regulation, and what classes
of person and resource it applies to.
Of course. The real estate lobby is behind all these programs, and the propaganda about home ownership.

Many people would be better served renting. All of the incentives are actually causing us to spend a lot more on housing than we otherwise would have, capital that is being diverted away from building productive industries.

Which is fine, since we are letting China have all that stuff anyway. We have all the empty houses and the debt to brag about.
I think that can be easily generalized to: "It's best to be pragmatic rather than dogmatic."
Not to mention evercookies: http://samy.pl/evercookie/

(I'm still surprised that those don't show up often in the wild as it is...)
Just a general overview. He could give more details about "the dark" projects he has worked for.
Companies like Netflix are stuck between a rock and a hard place. They'd sooner do away with DRM as it adds significant cost and complexity yet only serves to inconvenience their users. However they're forced into using DRM by the content owners who argue that such measure are required to protect their content.

This is why their position on DRM is often left unspoken, they can't publicly discredit because they need the studios on their side. But equally it's hard to address the criticisms if they also agree with such criticisms. So it's easier to just avoid being drawn into the argument to begin with.
But, you know, on the upside, they were all convicted terrorists.

If they want to smear shit up the walls because they don't get Casual Friday then let them.
Where's the "none of the above"? I'd require substantial control over my own destiny and a fairly huge salary/signing bonus to even think about it.
I'm stunned that you, and plenty of other people in this thread, are taking the anonymous IRC person's word as the gospel truth.
We're in Boston and have successfully found people with this. Highly recommended if you can't get in touch with someone you know.
> Explanations for women's underrepresentation in math-intensive fields of science often focus on sex discrimination in grant and manuscript reviewing, interviewing, and hiring. Claims that women scientists suffer discrimination in these arenas rest on a set of studies undergirding policies and programs aimed at remediation. More recent and robust empiricism, however, fails to support assertions of discrimination in these domains.

http://ateson.com/ws/r/www.pnas.org/content/108/8/3157.full
The 'contrarian opinion' is a problem that really needs fixing. Every time anyone says anything there's always someone who says "ZOMG!! You're a bad person".

I find the hostile reaction to your tweet baffling.

To be clear: constructive criticism is useful and valuable and desirable and all those other good words. But the level of harshness aimed at some things is just weird.
Because studies have shown that people who think they are evaluating conference papers (or pretty much anything else ever) on technical merit alone often are not doing anything of the sort, and are reinforcing their existing gender biases through their selection process. Two quick examples off the top of my head:
- http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/A94/90/73G00/
- http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2012/09/14/1211286109#aff-...

It's not some kind of man-hating reverse discrimination, it's an attempt to correct very real and very pervasive institutional inequalities.
They are probably trying to prevent breaking their contracts with the content providers, which, somehow, think DRM actually hinders things.

We'll see how quickly the new Netflix-only Arrested Development ends up on The Pirate Bay.

I have a Netflix subscription, but sometimes I still prefer to torrent. I can force HD, I can load proper subtitles (ones without all caps), I can fix audio or video issues (levels).
Also, a mouse is quite handy if the screen being displayed to is far enough away that one can't, in some common use cases, touch it comfortably.
I have a different experience with bikes.

I had done serious mountain biking and my worst injuries are not from doing extremely dangerous things like hard dropping from a 3 meter slippery stone, witch is something you prepare very well, but for really really stupid errors when being physically, and specially mentally exhausted.

I was 2centimeters away from losing an eye, with itching and hurting wounds in my face, some fractured bones.

On retrospect it was like part of my brain disconnected for most of the time when exhausted.

I could understand the man whose legs stop supporting him with the blast, hopefully he recovers.
I don't think that quite explains it. Someone who calls himself "ryan" on IRC makes unsubstantiated claims, and in response many dozens of people say loathsome, sneering things about the security practices of this company. The appearance of a mob emerges after a thread exists, it doesn't create the thread.
I Got this response:

"Hello,

Your credit card / financial institution should have a mechanism in place that protects you from occurrences of fraud. While we have found no evidence that payment information of any customer was accessed, you're welcome to reach out to your financial institution for clarification on this policy for personal assurance.

This is still an ongoing investigation and in the event that any additional information fruitions which negates our preliminary investigations, we'll be sure to advise customers accordingly."

I feel this is arrogant
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I agree. It seems like a good strategy to me, a good way to channel feelings of anger and helplessness into something productive.

So what if it's affiliated with YC? It's a charity that pg trusts to help people effectively, which is the point.
No 'more equity'?
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Someone actually does interesting computer science in the field of ruby and it's crickets around here. Huh.
It's got a few naked breasts in it, and they are mostly covered with mouse pointers now.

Are many people legitimately shocked by that sort of content in 2013?
When you have something to show I'll happily look at it, right now you don't seem to have anything to show. While other have suggested spiffy new web tech's to show your data, your commercial competition fell back on good ol' fashioned youtube.

http://matterport.com/

Seriously though, hackernews is littered with links to one-pagers with scant information and a newsletter sign up. Be part of the solution, not part of the problem.
Thanks to modders, gamers can play Super Mareo Bruhs inside Counter-Strike
Thanks for the heads up. How slow are we talking here? And is ssh 100% necessary all the time? or only when it's time to push to production? Sorry if these seem like pedestrian questions; I've never done freelance work before, so I need to understand what I'm getting into.

Also, what do you mean it's the other way around for you wrt taxes?
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It's not that uncommon in other parts of the US either. In Raleigh, they commonly referred to part of Fayetteville Street as "Fayettevill Street Mall".
I'm not the original poster, but I find that integration tests have a far larger payoff than unit tests, in general. A good release process that tests differences in behavior between a test system and the current version of the service in production is also valuable.

Being able to test that the whole system works as intended gives a better return on investment, in my experience, than testing small bits in isolation. The errors are, often as not, in the glue between the small bits.
@djstein9, agree but seems like encryption is demanded by Hollywood,

in time Hollywood and others (e.g., people who believe in patents) will see the stupidity of trying to block content, but this seems like a bridge to that path.
All Nazis? Like all of the 400k of German soldiers that were forced to work in the UK after the end of WWII? Every single one had a full trial? Wow.
We're not looking to leave the airport vertical actually. About half of all rental volume takes place at airports.
> It's not some kind of man-hating reverse discrimination, it's an attempt to correct very real and very pervasive institutional inequalities.

Your position also assumes that the parties performing evaluations have existing gender biases -- itself a form of stereotyping, discrimination, and bias.

Evaluating papers anonymously solves the problem you claim, while avoiding any issues with quotas or "man-hating reverse discrimination".
I wonder the reasons of doing this.
Precisely. If its more expensive to rent the money than rent the house, there is no gain.

Of course, the tax deduction is worth something, inducing people to do things they would not otherwise do. And no capital gains tax on profits. And first time assistance. And whatever else there is running up government deficits.

Its a big ponzi scheme. It blew up once and I guess they know how to profit on the way up and on the way down. Its Mr. and Mrs. Joe Average who get skewered.
I received one in Pittsburgh for that alert for Philadelphia.
I'm not sure if you're including that quote because you think it contradicts what I said or reinforces it, but just in case it's the former: A portfolio company means a company that an investor has stock in, i.e. that is part of their portfolio of investments. We don't own any stock in Watsi. When we fund a for-profit startup, we trade money for stock. In Watsi's case, we simply gave them the money.

A lot of people seem to have been confused about this. I feel like I've explained several times in HN threads that we have no financial interest in Watsi. We thought it was clever idea to start including nonprofits in YC, but it seems to have been such a left turn that it threw a lot of people off.
Can't you keep prisoners of war for the duration of a war?
I'm sorry, but I've seen both sides of the coin here and think that in the right situations, having a suite of automated-tests to give you confidence in an application is invaluable. Especially when you consider the alternative, which is hours wasted debugging. Sure writing tests can be hard, but it will make you write better, more modular code.

If you really do need to just get something out the door that quick, then you should just be prepared to accept the consequences of no tests, or put some in later for maintenance sake.
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Test early to minimize the cash investment you are worried about in test.
My experience is that you can write an essay like this about any development practice. You can cite your experience ignoring it, you can say some nice things about the importance of experience and priorities and managing trade-offs, and you can satirize people who are dogmatic to the point of becoming cult-zombies.

It appears as if such an essay providing great advice. But it it?

What is the reproducible, objective process or behaviour this essay is advocating? If I give this essay to five teams and then look at what they are doing to follow its advice, will they all be doing the same thing? What results does this essay suggest we will obtain from following its advice? How can we be sure it will be better than the results we would obtain from mindlessly chaining ourselves to the red/green light?

For better or for worse, the red/green light protocol is specific. As such, it can be criticized. A specific protocol has edge cases. You can argue slippery slopes. It's a stationary target. Whereas, vague and nonspecific generalities are more difficult to criticize. There are no details, so how does one identify edge cases?

It's great to hear about this one specific anecdote. beyond that, what am I supposed to walk away with besides the knowledge that slavishly following a process can be bad?
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As far as I can see, the potential is not so much about the airport rental stuff, because that market is "quite" small, but a very strong use case to launch out of and to get momentum to become the AirBnb for cars and to surpass getaround, relaycars, DriveNow etc.
The key, to me, is determining what needs to be tested. That doesn't change with larger code bases. Note that I didn't say that tests were pointless or that you shouldn't write tests. That's incredibly shortsighted.

Originally I was going to title this "Tests are overrated" but that both seemed like linkbait and distorts my actual opinion.

I've been on projects where they tested to make sure that certain values were unique in the database and I couldn't help but think they: didn't understand the framework; didn't understand what tests are meant to do; didn't understand database key constraints; or all of the above.

Tests have their place. But they are a means, not an end. And I see a lot of people confusing them for the end.

But, again, I don't dislike tests. I just dislike what I perceive to be a current overemphasis.
To be a prisoner of war, rather than an enemy combatant, don't you have to be the soldier of a recognised state, rather than a terrorist organisation?
pg nailed it. In the model you described above, you're still shelling out dollars from your bank account rather than leveraging an under utilized asset of your's.
How feasible would it be, instead of encryption/decryption in the browser source code (which can be defeated easily), to do decryption and rendering in javascript, perhaps with emscripten + asm.js optimizations? That should provide a reasonable amount of security through obscurity.
This is a really awesome problem! I tackled this for my work at TempoDB and ended up going with the Q-Digest algorithm although I took a good look at CKMS. Really cool to see this implements merging streams, I remember reading that CKMS was more difficult to merge streams than Q-Digest.

If anyone is interested this was my write up for algorithm selection: http://blog.tempo-db.com/post/42318820124/estimating-percent...
I said nothing about UK politics, merely US politics.
> I'm still not sure whether to buy this argument, given that history has more than a few examples of state currencies crashing like there was no bottom, too.

State currencies usually crash when the State isn't doing to well, (not infrequently as a result of losing a major war.)

Which is actually consistent with Krugman's point.

Ultimately, value of any good used as currency (and, really, pretty much any good at all) comes from two sources: (1) what is it good for without trading it (use-value), and (2) what do I expect I will be able to trade it to others for in the future (trade value). Pure currencies, like common fiat currencies and bitcoin, tend to have no (or virtually no) use value -- sure, you can use pennies to weight something down, or burn banknotes for heat, but that's most irrelevant. Their value is all trade value. Having a government that you expect to have to deal with that expects payment in dollars (or pounds, or what-have-you) for fines, fees, taxes, etc., and which denominates damage awards in civil cases in the same currency, and makes tendering that currency a legal attempt to pay a debt which is given weight in court (what "legal tender" means), provides a baseline demand. Of course, when that State becomes weaker, the support its backing gives currency becomes weaker.
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I've worked on quite a few different large code bases. I agree with the author 100%. Tests are a tool. They are a particularly useful one, but they are just a tool. Unit tests are significantly less useful than TDD folks would have you believe when compared to things like integration tests. And integration tests are vastly more costly than what TDD folks would have you believe. Personally, I much prefer gold file tests with manual inspection when it comes to test automation. I've seen large compiler projects that get by pretty far with just that. Never mind things that make no sense to test: Like "Is this game fun?"
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Let's say I take out an $80,000 mortgage to buy a $100,000 house--which then appreciates to $120,000.

If I sell the house, I walk away with $40,000 in cash, which I can keep tax-free (a special privilege accorded the capital gains on your primary residence).

Now let's say I want to buy a home the same size--it's $120,000 too. But I only need a down payment of 20% to secure the mortgage--that's $24,000. So now I'm back in a house the same size as I had, but I have $16,000 tax-free in my pocket.
Certainly if you read the left-wing propaganda from the Guardian it will./
Like working part-time? What's the difference?
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For all the people who rail against quotas, the reason they exist is because of institutional sexism (or racism, in other matters). An overly simplified way to explain it is where there isn't any one instance or person that is sexist, but where the overall result of the system is sexist. A quota is a non-ideal blunt tool but it is one way to try and make up for the institutional sexism - not with the intent of giving improper advantages to a particular person who may be unqualified in a limited view, but by shocking an overall system to reduce the overall levels of sexism.
Probably our fault for not getting the press involved with the C&D. :)
Figure out what they do and who their customers are, and start a company competing with them on price, because obviously his practices add a huge overhead that you can avoid.
Not really. These are most likely the people you interact with the most. That way the chat list can prioritize who is most important to me. While profile views may be a factor in determining the list, it is most likely who you chat with the most, who you post to the most, etc.
>What would Lincoln gain by splitting the country in half?

Do you understand that this is the single most successful way to political success in a historically bipartisan political system? This is how American politics works (and always has worked). Political parties make a big deal out of what are small issues in other countries in order to try to polarize the American public. The emancipation proclamation was simply one of these polarizing tactics.

Here are a few Abraham Lincoln quotes you might enjoy:

>“I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the states where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so.”

>“Negro equality! Fudge! How long, in the government of a god, great enough to make and maintain this universe, shall there continue to be knaves to vend, and fools to gulp, so low a piece of demagogue-ism as this?”

>"there is a physical difference between the white and black races which I believe will ever forbid the two races living together on terms of social and political equality."

>"My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it"

>"In the course of his reply, Senator Douglas remarked, in substance, that he had always considered this government was made for the White people and not for the negroes. Why, in point of mere fact, I think so too."
Famously there is also the National Mall in DC; the area between the Washington Monument and the Capitol.
From what I've read, it's Python and "heavily modified" Django. I recall one of their engineers saying that, if they were to do it again, they would've gone with a more lightweight Python framework because of how many heavy modifications they made.
Straw man. The woman who wrote this articles agrees that there is a problem in the industry, but that quotas are not a solution.
My approach to tests is that where you control all dependencies, do tests for core functionality and any tricky parts. After all, you can always hot-fix any breakage since everything is under your control. However, where you have external dependencies (eg: an API that third parties use) you should have fairly robust tests to ensure you are not introducing any regressions.
Successor thread:

http://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/1cf17c/boston_marathon...
@pg: That's a helpful explanation, because I was confused myself on the distinction. Unfortunately, Twitter users many not be aware.
Playing Devils Advocate - could it be that Airbnb is making all similar ideas seem like good ideas?