skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm curious what if anything can be done given the ToS.

I have an android phone so I'm sitting here looking at my apps, at least the ones that I occasionally use, and thinking about glass.

I really want a geocaching app but the premium account at geocaching.com costs money so thats out.
An ancestry.com account would be handy when I'm looking at paper records but that cost money so thats out.
All the "personal assistant" apps would seem to be a natural fit, but again they all want money.
Most game devs are not going to work for free.
I cant use an evernote client because that costs money.

Dogcatcher would be awesome but the dev is probably not going to work for free.

Radarscope has the same issue as above, high res nexrad radar is cool but the dev isn't going to work for free.

Same problem with proweather alert.

Amazon.com mobile client, well I guess we can forget mobile shopping in general.

Unclear:

Amazon kindle is a pretty tough decision because there are free ebooks from amazon and its not a bad reader in general.

Runkeeper... the app works with the free account, in fact I'm not sure there is any difference between a free and paid account, at least from the app point of view, is there?

Chant got kicked off the play system for idiot neo-puritan censorship reasons but other than that would be OK.

Ambling books player... They do sell audiobooks, but I mostly listen to free libravox books, its far better than the libravox apps. On the other hand the "nice" version of the ambling player which I have cost a little money, not free.

Tunein radio cost money and the only purpose is to listen to stations most of which deliver ads as part of their stream. Some don't.

My credit union has an android app. Technically they won't open an account unless you toss $5 in a savings account, although they claim you own that $5 and will get it back at closure so I don't know if google would shut them down over it. It would be kinda interesting to get notifications everytime I (or someone else) does something with my account, or be able to see my balance if I'm paying at a store. (whoops edited to add the killer problem is the Goog TOS require full access to all features for all free downloaders, but I just realized my credit union only provides service to people in a limited geographic area by charter... so they'd have to give free houses in their area to anyone downloading the free app so they get full access to the system by opening an account, this is a killer problem which moves this and any other app like it to the dead zone)

What I could do:

I think the newsblur client works with a free account so although I have a paid account I think I'm OK.

Same deal as above with the dropbox client.

Baconreader, I guess thats OK. Its free, isn't it?

So for about $1500 I could use a newsblur client, baconreader, and maybe a couple others.
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I recently blogged about what I look for when considering where to work: http://henrikwarne.com/2013/03/26/what-do-programmers-want/

The three main criteria are "the product is software", "great colleagues" and "challenging problems". Small/large is not on the list, but maybe I should have added "having a high impact".
Ironically, the first two of the "four livelihood-threatening fundamentals" that the Lean Startup methods distracted them from are pretty much verbatim parts of the Lean Startup method.
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What does the War in Iraq or having to remove one's shoes before boarding an aircraft have to do with justice?

I don't think anyone is making the argument that there should be no justice. Prosecuting the criminals who commit murder for the purpose of terrorism is clearly a "no reasonable person could disagree" sort of a thing.

But the question remains, how is justice won? In theory we could impose martial law and suspend elections, or permanently shut all the roads and trains and prohibit gatherings of more than five people in the same place, or nuke the entire middle east. Perhaps doing those things could bring justice to more terrorists.

Well before we reach that point, we come to a line we should not cross. We come to a choice that will cost us more of our humanity than it gains us in justice. And whipping the public into a frenzy is how popular support for crossing the line we should not cross is manufactured.
Many people i talk make the same mistake with lean and custdev.

And i have to say i did the same mistake.

We try to things the lean way and hope therefore we do it the right way. Eg. building an MVP that should validate our business assumptions.

All of the methods around lean and custdev sound perfect in theory. But validating that you do the right thing (apart of a super obvious strong market pull) is extremely hard.

A common mistake i see is when people speak about 20 different hypotheses or experiments - and usually none of them is related to a real make-or-break risk of their company.

They try to validate that they do the right thing. Which is extremely hard.

As entrepreneurs we are in charge of a strong product/customer vision. Any method we use is only in charge to check if we are lying to ourselves.

But many of the techniques used in custdev/lean are very strong tools for minimizing the downside.

And this is (imho) where we should use them.

Our main goal is not upside optimisation (waiting for the go) but downside minimization (avoiding the no-go)

Or differently put: They are very good to double check if you aren't doing the wrong thing, if we aren't lying to ourselves.

The other main mistake i see is "trying to do it the lean way":

There is no "lean" way. Lean is a reverse engineered model largely based on survivor bias and wrong self-reflection. But that's completely ok. We must not forget how young fast-growth oriented product-centric entrepreneurship is. Even custdev which is more fullstack than lean is mostly academic and best used only as a frame of thought. Not as a blueprint model. Lean will be replaced by other models using the same or improved stack elements.

Just like me, too many people are obsessed with the theory behind lean and see it as fullstack solution.

Instead of looking at lean as a fullstack, we should pick parts of that stack that make sense for our business - as we do eg in software engineering or ux.

E.g. MVPs tend to be a problem with b2B relationships. Agency like concierge code-for-hire models tend to work better. Also customer interviews work gold for B2B - by far better than for b2c models.

Simply put: We need to pick stack elements of lean and custdev as we would pick elements of software stacks, depending on our business's risks and challenges.

If you are interested what i mean with stack elements, take a look at
- customer interviews http://www.slideshare.net/andreasklinger/actionable-customer...
- metrics in early stage http://www.slideshare.net/andreasklinger/metrics-for-early-s...
- jobs to be done http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/6496.html
- and several other aspects: http://www.hackertalks.io/robfitz/why-bother-talking-to-cust...
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A) It wasn't account passwords. It was LISH (no better but I thought I'd point that out)
B) Not all passwords were in plaintext
C) Judging from the above, I would say that there was some stuff up where passwords were written to the logs when they were changed but that's just speculation.
It's a risk reward thing. I'm one of those company town people. You put up with a certain amount of nonsense in a big company, but you get stability, career path, great benefits, etc.

Small companies aren't nirvana, and if there are few small companies, you're taking a big risk that you're stepping into an organization where the owner's dumb nephew will be made an SVP over you. In the valley, you jump ship. In the "company town", you need to uproot and move.
Seriously? You're getting bent out of shape over this??? Despite being very likely true, the statement was funny and targeting just the right people for it to be funny.
start dropping the f-bomb repeatedly

It means she's serious! and angry! Take her seriously! Now!
> So the content producers are in the clear, right up until someone comes up with a user-friendly interface for doing Netflix -> DVD rips.

Such programs are already available and are quite user-friendly.
... And none about chemical weapon's first use in Siria "yesterday" with a lot of innocent people running with burned flesh in the streets, yes I can understand what you are trying to say. Sad times.
> The problem is that most companies make it a lot harder to move internally than they advertise. They have ridiculous "headcount" issues and it's almost impossible to move in most firms without a top-20% performance record... but impossible to get a top-20% review unless your manager sees you as having staying power. So you have to play dishonest political games, in most companies, to get the one big-company benefit (lateral mobility) that actually matters.

>In fact, most companies are so fucked up on the matter of internal mobility that the only genuine time at which transfer's possible is shortly after a promotion, but managers rarely promote people who seem to have any interest in mobility.

This was the driving reason I left my prior employer. I had no internal mobility without some sort of advocate, despite the large number of open reqs. At the end I got hit by the political double whammy of not having any support for a lateral transfer from my manager[1] and being on the 800lb gorilla project that was trying to draw people in from elsewhere at the time I was trying to leave. The company got away with shit like this, though, because most people thought that was just the way it was at large companies, and small companies were too risky and flaky.

[1] I even got labelled "disloyal" in the heat of the moment for expressing the desire once.
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Well, he does suggest, at the end, that there are probably better representations.
How is the hot new field of "Data Science" different from marketing research?
I'm a bit surprised that people find this new or interesting.

Many sites have played the "dozens of links inward" game for some time. Almost every business site will provide links for every business or stock mentioned, all heading inward into their site further.

Here's an example: the first article I clicked on on the first page I knew behaved similarly: http://www.cnbc.com/id/100644923

Looks pretty similar.
It's a silly strawman comment from an author who has made a career out of making himself controversial.
DataStax Enterprise 2.0 shipped with Cassandra 1.0
DataStax Enterprise 3.0 shipped with Cassandra 1.1

DataStax Enterprise is a different product than Cassandra. Cassandra is one of its components, but there are more things bundled, e.g. Solr and Hadoop.
Instead of asking this more than once, if you search:

https://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=title%3Are...

... you can find this submission:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5556092

One of the comments there says:

"2. On April 16, we'll invite the groups that seem
most promising to meet us in Mountain View between
April 26 and 30."

They are quoting from http://ycombinator.com/apply.html
Political stories have long been a part of HN. Sometimes they do get deleted, but many times not.

I'm personally happy that they're on HN. They make it harder for the tech community to bury their heads in the sand and remain in a self-imposed apolitical bubble.

Also, if you honestly don't think politics belongs on HN, why do you keep participating in political discussions here?
Right. That's why everyone here on HN cared as much about the black guys who get railroaded by overzealous prosecutors each year as they did about Aaron swartz and weev. Relating to people like yourself is a totally outmoded concept and doesn't serve any useful social purpose at all. That's why everyone is so happy that "world citizen" billionaires have overcome such trivialities like national loyalty and figured out how to export American prosperity all over the world. We totally love that.
The entire blog seems to be 404ing now.
I was looking at the pictures on the site. The first image and the fifth. The fifth, specifically, makes Microsoft's campus look like a dime-a-dozen corporate/suburban landscape.

Granted the images don't show any parking structures or buildings that appear to have integrated structures. So it's quite possible the images aren't representative of the build-out you're referring to.

And, aside from the ballpark, the 'greenery' surrounding the buildings is exactly the sort of glorified berm I'm talking about: that's hardly functional greenery. It's better than none, but far less desirable than a proper park with functional spaces for laying out, taking walks, playing frisbee or catch, etc.

Kudos to Microsoft for having the ballpark though, and more is due, if it's one of several such spaces. The rest of the campus though, as characterized in those pictures, does not look great.
What a sickening comment. I don't know anything about you beyond this one post of yours but so far you seem like a disgusting human being.
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Pretty hilarious that almost all the comments on that page are related to native support in Linux.
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Why do you think companies can only do one thing at a time?

Amdahl's law. Recovering from a catastrophic hack isn't parallellizable. Nobody can draft a press release before the security audit has been performed. You can't inform anyone before the security audit has been performed. The software engineers can't go to work before certain parts of the security audits have been performed. Certain parts of the security audit can't be performed before other parts have been performed.

And where have you worked where software engineers are
drafting press releases or conducting security audits?

A bootstrapped startup? Depending on the scale of the company (and I have no clue how many people work at Linode), the work may be sequential simply by lack of manpower.
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It's trivial to memorize an entire sonnet. Actors and actresses memorize many times that amount. It's also trivial to write a sonnet. How many bits of entropy do you think a sonnet has?
Fair enough, but I can imagine a scenario in which a user takes a picture with Glass, shares it on a social network, and the Glassware appends a message like 'Made with Supercoolapp, click here to download for your phone or tablet'.
"There were occurrences of Lish passwords in clear text in our database."

I think that this is what's most criminal about the whole event. It's probably safe to assume that "there were occurances of Lish passwords in clear text..." is a euphemism for "we stored all Lish passwords in cleartext."

Simply invalidating these is probably not enough. It's very likely that people reused their root login passwords as their Lish passwords, meaning that Linodes running without firewalled sshd are potentially vulnerable.

I hope Linode communicated who had "the occurrences" of compromised cleartext Lish passwords, so that those users could take appropriate action.
I don't get that. Who ever did this is getting caught, so showing what they could do is pointless. They won't remain free long enough for a repeat performance. What other motivation could they have had then creating terror? Hundreds of dead is a lot more terror than three.
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You mean the site has long been plagued with political submissions. The site guidelines say: "Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, [other stuff]". It's literally the first thing he thought to write for "off-topic".

I wish he'd have written it more clearly, so we didn't have to endure pointless discussions about what the word "most" means, because any definition that accepted this posting must degenerate to "all" politics.
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"This still addresses the underlying problem -- insider trading by members of Congress."

No it doesn't. Because the only people who'd know about the trade would the government itself. Sure, I suppose a citizen like myself could sue to get the information.

Look, if the law effected CIA officials stationed abroad then a simple change in the law excluding them would've made more sense.
And yesterday:

> The summer ice melt in parts of Antarctica is at its highest level in 1,000 years, Australian and British researchers reported on Monday, adding new evidence of the impact of global warming on sensitive Antarctic glaciers and ice shelves.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/04/15/us-antarctica-ice-...

It's a complicated topic, I guess.
Agreed (edit: though I thing the title of the post indicates awareness of not doing it right). Jumping from:

> Our inaugural customer couldn’t access the software

to claim:

> the minimum viable product [...] has limited practical
> use. Customers aren’t interested in funding your “learning.”

and blaming the MVP concept instead of the broken software?
This benchmark is pure marketing. Cassandra clients can be token aware and can do connections directly to the right node.

If you want a scientific, independent, peer-reviewed NoSQL benchmark, read this:
http://vldb.org/pvldb/vol5/p1724_tilmannrabl_vldb2012.pdf

Cassandra is a clear winner here.
I find it incredibly dishonest of Adapteva to equate it to a "theoretical 45 GHz CPU". There are much better ways to talk about the performance level of their hardware than that metric, especially given the rest of the text in their Kickstarter pitch is aimed at people who need to inherently understand the hardware's execution model in order to program it effectively.

The computing industry has established language and metrics to discuss computing performance and, while the waters often get muddied when the hardware is wide, that's a step too far.
As much as replying without reading TFA is a "comment".
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To be clear, there are only example apps in Java and Python, but an assortment of client libraries are available.
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Seconded - I've found and played some of the King's Quest remakes by ADG and Infamous Adventures, then started wondering if there are more recent games along these lines.
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What you are missing is that the Fed will never adopt a currency because it does not issue one. The Fed is a totally private entity that provides money at a rate to banks. They do not print money, they do not regulate it. They set the inter-bank rates.

The fact that the central bank of a mega-economy would adopt a supply-limited, not peer-reviewed, federated "currency" is absurd.
How can you publish an article like that and not include a graph? Anybody know what data they are taking about?
Very true, but the whole idea behind the blog post seems to be that the representation of data is done wrong.

I would rather the author go into a bit of a discussion about what the data represents and what different ways this could be presented. I can't help to get the feeling that the choice of a scatter plot is more or less arbitrary.
To add to this, a quick search produces many pages that are saying more-or-less the same thing in more-or-less the same way. They differ a little in detail, and a lot in presentation. Here are some:

* http://www.ucl.ac.uk/internet-grammar/adjectiv/ordering.htm

* http://www.learnenglish.de/grammar/adjectiveorder.htm

* http://www.gingersoftware.com/grammarbook/adjectives/order-o...

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adjective#Adjective_order

* http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/1155/what-is-the-...

* http://web2.uvcs.uvic.ca/elc/studyzone/410/grammar/adjord.ht...

* http://www-users.cs.york.ac.uk/susan/cyc/a/adj.htm

* http://www.myenglishteacher.net/adjectivesorder.html

* http://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/en/english-grammar/ad...
good idea, I'm gonna build upon that !
You're making assumptions. I am not saying anything about the objectivity of the grades given to anyone. I am simply saying that you know someone with a 'B' average was picked over you, when you know you have a 'A' average, you are probably going to be irritated over them picking someone who appears in your point of view to be inferior.

What I said was nothing but perception.
EDIT: Expanded my question about Mike's opinion of FP.

This perspective from a compiler developer lends credence to Stanislav Datskovskiy's rants about the importance of the underlying CPU architecture. Stanislav has done some work on a new dataflow-based CPU architecture (http://www.loper-os.org/?p=846).

I wonder why Mike considers the usual blend of concepts provided by FP languages to not be worthwhile. After all, FP languages that don't allow reassignment of variables are in SSA form already, unless I misunderstand what SSA form is.
Attacker claims to have done so in this irc log: http://pastebin.com/7WXRDyAg

> 07:52 < HTP> the CCrypter class of the linode application context was accessable from outside the wwwroot using undocumented ColdFusion methods. i was fully able to decrypt the ccs using the in-memory privkey that they supplied the password for.
> 07:53 < HTP> coldfusion runs as a single process, and its memory can be accessed using the ColdFusion wrapper
Here are some graphs which make this seem less interesting.

http://www.planetseed.com/relatedarticle/temperature-change-...

PS: This is the kind of article that ignores error bars in predictions. The point is to create interest and sell articles.
Thanks for summarizing. It seems like you have a lot of useful info here and I appreciate your contribution. However, I'm really having a hard time parsing this; it seems like you're repeating the same thing several times. Any additional effort you can invest in further editing your post would be greatly appreciated!

Edit: Might look at a higher sentences-per-paragraph ratio, I think that's what's throwing me off.
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I'm looking to buy a new mouse. I've been wholly unsatisfied with any mouse produced in the last 10 years. To date, the best mouse I've ever used is a Dell OW770 that I got with a computer in 2003.

There must be something that satisfies:
- USB
- No extra buttons (just left, right and middle on the scroll wheel)
- Feedback on the scroll wheel (i.e. not "smooth" scrolling)
- Wired
- Decent size and weight (not an "ergonomic" design, just something nice to hold)

Can anyone recommend something? I'm willing to spend about £50 for a mouse that really satisfies me.
How many megahashes this hardware computes?
Thanks for reviewing!

Async approach could be better, for some cases, but I have chosen synchronous approach for simplicity (or even to be close to other implementations).

Only WS to be used now, but I'll add other http libraries support(I think about Apache HttpClient) to avoid lock on PlayFramework (in case of using Play, WS is awesome). It's easy to implement other options though(you need to implement HttpApiClient trait functions).
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>What we've seen so far is the evolution of their attempts to bridge that gap.

Examples? You mean like 9/11?

For true believers like yourself, what would the "end game" look like? What would have to happen before we can stop thinking about this bullshit and consider terrorism a thing of the past? Is that something that could ever happen or will there always be "bad guys" that require us to bomb weddings, assassinate american citizens and so on?