skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The part that makes this story different from the other stories about starving children is that the girl in this story was the daughter of a doctor. Where else do you find a doctor's children starving but in North Korea?

We Americans don't speak nearly enough about the suffering of North Korean people. As someone who grew up in the second worst communist dictatorship in the world I can say that the worst part about living in such a country is not lack of food or shoes or clothes and not even lack of freedom. The worst part is lack of future. Their system is totally frozen. Nothing moves. Most of the work that is done is just for the sake of appearing like people are working. Every intelligent person looks around and sees that something needs to be done to change the situation but nobody knows what to do, let alone find the courage to actually do something. It has been 23 years since I lived in a similar situation and I still feel out of breath thinking about it.

If the North Korean regime falls today we are likely to witness one of the worst humanitarian crisis we have ever seen. We can just hope that the current North Korean leaders find both the desire and the ability to do a transformation like China did in the 70's. U.S. played a large part in that transformation and it could play a large part in helping North Korea too.
Does anyone have any more info on getting a business line of credit? What kind of cash flow are banks looking for to give that? My company has recently started generating some solid revenue, and I'd love to take some of these opportunities since we are largely bootstrapped.
Being able to run a site using less memory on average, and much less memory in the worst case (traffic spike for a site running a dynamic language module like mod_php), is a major reason to switch to Nginx from Apache.
This reads like one of the countless anecdotes about atheist professors that get bandied about Facebook.

Berkeley is a top school, and I don't think you'll find much of any evidence to the contrary.
You may be right about happy talk actually preventing meaningful action.

You are definitely right that the "war on drugs" cannot really be said to be over until armed violence against nonviolent drug (ab)users by the state is halted, and the prisoners of war, so to speak, are freed.

Perhaps a better title would be, "President States Intention to Make Drug Policy Somewhat Less Illogical and Immoral".
A great point not mentioned here is that if you've hit the ceiling where manual scaling no longer works...that's a good thing! That probably means you have enough resources due to successful hustling to devote to making things more efficient.
I think the hole idea of raising money for free via Kickstarter and similar sites is very odd. It feels like high class panhandling to me. Maybe I'm just too proud to ask for money and don't understand why it's so popular. Still, I spend money on some stupid stuff. If the cast of Stargate wanted to make another movie or TV type show, I'd back it. I guess the world is changing and I haven't caught up yet.
More on selling to enterprises (I know you did a newsletter on this earlier)

How to convince them to use your off-the-shelf product instead of demanding a bespoke solution that requires you to essentially fork your entire code base.
Again, I'd like to point out how useless anecdotes are. Your arguments only reinforce that point.

Business is just as prestige driven as finance (management consulting, Fortune 500, etc.).
>As an employer, I'd never ever play these games with a prospect.

Exactly. Who is going to spend time with someone in-person to swap pieces of paper with salary numbers on them? The employer that the author talked about asked to be counter-offered. They were basically asking for this kind of interaction.
Should it not be Adam and I?
I've heard similar things about President Bush's ability to memorize information, I think its even mentioned in W by Oliver Stone. President Clinton has a "photographic" memory. What interests me is how they are able to use that memory to supplement their charisma. People are certainly enthused when you can remember their name, now what about where they are from and what they do and what they contributed in the last meeting and you are able to weave that into a conversation next time you see them. Suddenly you have something to discuss with someone you've only met once.

As liberal who grew up in New York and has lived in Boston since, I completely ate up the Bush as dunce narrative a few years ago. Ironically because it doesn't necessarily paint him as a genius, W by Oliver Stone framed arguments that changed some of my opinions about President Bush. His father's actions, his being born again which helped end his drinking and his staff in the white house very much influenced him, and probably contributed to some of the biases.
This brings up another question. Just how far are these things verified? What would happen if I checked the box marked "African American" - would they ask for documentation? If, somehow, someone decided to look into my ancestry, and they didn't find any other people identifying as the race I checked on my admissions form, what would be the consequence? Would I get in trouble or something?

There's gotta be case law on this...
What incentive does a department have to hide an attack they helped prevent?

Operational security. Announcing that you've foiled a Bad Guy plot lets the bad guys know you're onto them. More to the point, it gives them valuable, actionable information on what parts of their operation you've likely compromised.

See also: the Coventry Blitz.

Granted, that motive implies a much higher level of coordination between these agencies than TFA suggests exists, but it's among the reasons for these folks to keep mum about having done their job.
This isn't the problem. In fact SAT scores were "re-centered" in 1995 to boost scores.

One problem is that too many people think the SAT is some amazing indicator of applicant quality. In fact it has biases. In fact it can be coached and responds to test prep and experience.

Another problem is that it's easy to lose the forest for the trees when you feel you're being discriminated against. There is a great society wide wrong that affirmative action is meant to partially redress. Some Asians having to go to Columbia instead of Yale is not an equal wrong to kicking in the doors to provide opportunity.

Finally, diversity does matter. I learned a hell of a lot from the hispanic and black students I lived with. And they certainly would not have been there without affirmative action. The same thing in classes (although there's less certainty on whether they were beneficiaries of AA).
I'm not sure that I agree with him about the widespread existence of this attitude, though.
It would be particularly odd to reject it over solely that, because it's just a fixed-dollar difference. One easy way to overcome a finite difference in one part of a term sheet is to offer more dollars in another part.

All Spark is doing here is offering to cover the first $25k of legal expenses. The startup is still liable for anything above that. That's an offer worth at most $25k in additional implied investment, relative to the case where they asked the startup to cover all legal fees. Actuarially, probably somewhat lower than $25k. So maybe you should value the offer at $15k. Not nothing, but not worth overriding everything else.
Yeah but you've got to appreciate the irony in America. America has a very selective elite who have a very narrow definition of what that elite is (ivy-league, "entrepreneurial", rich, democrat, ...) and is regularly accused of having -very- little tolerance for anyone outside of their core group ... I wouldn't say that's true for the whole group, but there's a significant portion of them that certainly do this.

And this elite is blasting everyone else for not having an equal system. Seriously. Of course the French aristocrats did the same. I'm sure many elites, present and past, liked to claim their superior status was due to "inherent" but ill-defined characteristics : nobility, chivalry, scientific accomplishment (like the Roman elites did) ... are all words that come to mind. None of them held up their own ideals. The majority of French noblemen were cruel drunks. So were most Roman elites if Cicero's anything to go by. I'm not saying America's Ivy-league elite is a bunch of drunks, but they certainly don't satisfy their own rules : they are not social (in the political sense), they do not advance equality (quite the opposite), and most importantly : it is not the case that they're the self-selected best and brightest. Like all other elites, the reason they get in power is that they are in power and get pulled in by their buddies (which, granted, beats why French noblemen were elite : because great-great-great-great-great-granddad managed to get a command position in the king's army. The first generation of French noblemen were probably very capable people who genuinely meant well).

The only distinguishing characteristic that matters in members of America's elite is friendships and other associations with other members of the elite. As for "best and brightest", you could say that there's a (low) lower bar that they need to hit. That's it.
Four classic functions of marketing teams at product companies:

* Product management: the feature/function/benefit of the product and (most important function in all of marketing) pricing/packaging.

* Marketing communications (marcom): what you've defined "marketing" as: promotion, promotional writing. Also, advertising.

* Sales support: awareness campaigns and events and, particularly, lead-gen. This is what the CEO see as the most important function of "marketing".

* PR/AR: relationship management with publications and analysts.
> Thought experiment: suppose you wanted to kill as many people and cause as much chaos as you could. How would you go about it?

I was about to answer this and then realised how stupid it would be to give people ideas on how to kill vast numbers of people with off the shelf equipment. I will say that it doesn't seem like a hard problem to me, and I can see ways you could achieve rates in the hundreds of people a month.

> And how easy would it be for the security apparatus to catch you?

Pretty much impossible beforehand. Depending on what one did and where, it wouldn't necessarily be that hard. Some of the ideas I had seem long-term viable though - the sort of thing you could repeat with little chance of getting caught.

> Would you be able to, evading capture, perform another attack a week later? How long could you go on?

Some currently vulnerable infrastructure would probably harden over time but I've put like five seconds thought into this, I'm sure there are other things that one could do as well. And even if the number of deaths might not be huge - 20 people here, 20 people there, maybe a few hundred with a higher concentration target - the fact that you could strike many targets at once, and how difficult it would be to secure against you.... I think you could do very significant damage.

The fear you'd induce in people, every day knowing that, for instance, if their kids go to school, maybe they never come home again. Or if they go shopping, or.... It's a horrible thing to think about. If that sort of crap was going on, and the police weren't catching this guy, I'm not sure I could bring myself to send my daughter out in public even knowing that statistically the risk per person would still be very low.

I'm not sure that people could get used to the idea that every month a few hundred of them were going to die. Maybe we'd just learn to live with it but it'd require a major shift in how we reacted to visible risks.
Cool! I wonder how one could combine the best of both worlds... what we're really talking about here is a hierarchy of graph plots in which you can drill down to each node = graph at a lower level.
"The federal government added the name of the dead Boston Marathon bombing suspect to a terrorist database 18 months before the deadly explosions, U.S. officials told The Associated Press on Wednesday."

http://bigstory.ap.org/article/officials-dead-bomber-name-te...
This is true but there are complexities. It's something that people can easily run afoul of if they're not paying close enough attention. If you charge someone for a pre-order of something that doesn't actually exist yet and has a risk of not existing at all then you can be in violation of Visa/MC TOS quite easily. Typically the way most pre-orders work is that there's a deposit and then the actual charge occurs within some window of time prior to the thing being shipped.

If you want to do crowd funding you can do that but you need to set up the expectations differently, to make sure that people know that they are donating to a project and maybe receiving a reward. Also, when purchasing things like plane or concert tickets it's important to note that you're not pre-ordering anything you're buying a reservation, you're purchasing a place on a list which will be used to allow entrance to that event or trip.
it doesn't matter what you saw there. the point of TFA is there are many equally (if not more) hardworking candidates that don't find their ways to these schools because of existing prejudices and non-transparent admission policies.
On a related note, PBS had an episode called "Top Secret America" in 2011 [1] - it's pretty good. Overview: "A two-year examination into the massive, unwieldy, top-secret world the government has created in response to 9/11".

[1] http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/topsecretamerica/
You see, now your arguments are just devolving into non sequiturs. Do you have any evidence to back up your claims?

The Ivy Leagues, for example, have a strict policy of not giving out merit scholarships or even athletic scholarships. That is a fact.
I'd say it's not scalable not because of the money, but because it's incredibly difficult to find people for whom the Fellowship is the right thing:

The 20 fellows chosen in each batch are people who are not only sharp, but have projects and visions that they are already tackling. They tend to teach themselves what they need to learn to make those things work, and have the resourcefulness and skills to make their projects at least somewhat viable.

That doesn't quite capture the whole of it, but my point is that there aren't huge numbers of people who are a good fit for the fellowship, and my experience thus far has been that the fit criteria are narrower than you might expect.
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There are literally more Heroku folks in this thread than unaffiliated commenters :P well played.

Personally I'd just be happy with a master-master postgres db or sharding, for $money, where money is some amount enough to make that happen without me worrying about it.
Ask HN: Where can I get some tasteful desktop wallpapers?
I'm finally sick and tired of the default OS X wallpaper, but I've no idea where to find a tasteful, non-intrusive alternative

Any suggestions?
> Why do your PD friends care so much about protecting the rights of their "clearly guilty" clients? It's because protecting the guilty's rights ensures the innocent's rights are protected too.

It's not a matter of protecting the rights of guilty people or not, but determining how much to protect them. Every procedural protection has a cost. If a procedural protection might be invoked by a person who has a 10% chance of being innocent, then maybe it's worth the cost. If it's more likely to be invoked by a person who has a 1% chance of being innocent, then maybe it's not. Looking only at media reports gives you a distorted picture of what those probabilities are.

> The trope here is the suggestion that criminals are getting off on technicalities.

I didn't say they were getting off on technicalities. I said they were trying to get off on technicalities.

"Better to let a 100 guilty men go free than 1 innocent man go to jail" makes for good rhetoric, but even such flowery language implies a point at which its better to let 1 innocent man go to jail than let a certain number of guilty men go free.
Did they end up in finance/management consulting?
The image of the immigrant as invariably hard-working, noble, and law-abiding gets taught and passed along too, not by parents and peers but by business interests seeking cheap labor and political parties seeking permanent dominance by means of electing a new people.

When you label something as confirmation bias, make sure you're looking through the right end of the telescope.
Maybe for catering all of the multiparty meetings?
"Buy" and "sell" are typically called "bid" and "ask", respectively.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bid%E2%80%93offer_spread

Edit: I see you log them as bid and ask in the stream.
One of the main confounds seems to be "large immigrant group". For example, even ethnically-100%-Spanish Latinos in the U.S. are considered different from "Anglos", in significant part because it's a large group. That sometimes leads to significant differences between countries. I'd say that for the past 50 years or so, Greek-Americans have been considered part of the undifferentiated majority "white" population. But Greek-Australians are still considered different in Australia, not really properly white, or at least white with an "ethnic" asterisk.
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There are a couple of ways that it can be worked around for jsfiddle (assuming you use the "External Resources" tab). One is to pull the file in through an AJAX request and then eval the result. The other is for the backend to pull the script and serve it with headers stripped. The latter approach would be preferable, because then they can use a reasonable caching strategy and not drain github's resources.
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You mean VAT in EU?
I'm typing this on a late 2011 Macbook Pro and I'm confused. Do I have a power key that is different than my power button? The power button seems too far away from the keyboard to be usefully remapped.
That does nothing. You just swap out "my" arbitrary definition of "diversity" for your equally arbitrary one. Any definition that doesn't have a 1:1 frequency map with "objective stuff we otherwise use for admissions qualification" is subject to the same thing. And of course those objective measure are themselves subject to debate and (gasp) subjectivity.

There's no winning here. Don't fool yourself into thinking you know the right way to do education selection, and stop sneering at all the people who want different things than you do.
Also, to give more context, that was not too long after the initial launch of Cuil and the feeling on reddit at the time was that Cuil search results where pretty bizarre. So reddit did what it do best and made a meme of the whole thing.
Ask HN: "We've limited requests for this url"
Does anyone know why this shows up on some pages on HN:

"We've limited requests for this url"

You can check it out below:

https://www.google.com/search?q="We've+limited+requests+for+this+url."

Google has only indexed a few pages but there are perhaps thousands more like it.
Fox (and, indeed, at least one other Rupert Murdock property: the New York Post) didn't help, but if I were in Salah's place I'd be most concerned about the ar15.com nutjobs who were trolling him:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5573281

In any case, no number of intermediaries would absolve "the subreddit" of responsibility if something went tragically wrong as result of their actions. Mob psychology and the diffusion of responsibility certainly makes people feel like it would.
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It's not. You couldn't beat programming ability into the vast majority of incompetards.
Clickable: https://www.google.com/search?q=%22Weve+limited+requests+for...
Since reading Peter Thiel's excellent essay on secrets [1], I've been more constantly thinking if what people _seem_ to do or say, is actually how it is.

For example it can be good for Apple that public (and competition) saw Steve through the great man theory. Public loves heroes, and competition where thrown off with the possibly false explanation for their success ("we can't beat the great Steve").

I've been wondering if the same thing is happening with Elon Musk today. He plays the loveable underdog hero part well for PR (whether it's true or not) and doesn't never mention his staff or anyone by name or what they have done.

(When your hero dies, it can be a problem. Except if you make people believe that the hero's ideals still live through the others that we're close him/her.)

[1] http://blakemasters.com/post/22866240816/peter-thiels-cs183-...
This article was written in 2010 as part of a series. Also, for a single-page view,
http://projects.washingtonpost.com/top-secret-america/articl...
Any downside to just adding this to add responses from a server?

Only problem I could see is if some images were sent with wrong mime types (or none at all).
Theres a shortage of good everything. If there wasn't a shortage it would not be good.
Credit card data can be stolen with a wave and an app
Best bet is to look at local credit unions and regional banks.
I'd say that the fellows returning to college aren't taking this as a resume builder, but as a useful series of experiences that they've learned from. From talking to them, many express that these experience have focused/clarified what they hope to gain from college, intellectually and personally.

As a fellow, I personally don't see this as a complete alternative to college, but more a support system for working on my project at this point in my life. I still value college and am excited to complete it; I have outstanding intellectual pursuits left there. There just aren't enough hours in the day for college to compete with my project (and vice versa) right now.

I'm not sure I need or want more padding on my resume, just more hours in my day.
I do hope that is sarcasm. MIT has the reputation of giving a world class, rigorous, education. People who attend MIT attend it because they know they will have the opportunity to receive that education.

Any school that is capable of giving an education of similar quality has a similar reputation. Claiming that the point of an education from a school like MIT is the "old-boys-network" is in essence confusing the effect with the cause.
tl;dr (or watch the video): The software used looks like: http://sourceforge.net/p/nfcproxy/wiki/Home/

Pretty cool to be able to back up and keep your cards on your phone in a usable way.
This is called a honeypot field. Basically spam bots are stupid and try to fill in every field (especially ones with phone, email, website, etc in the name). The honeypot is a hidden field that if filled out causes the form to not submit completely. There are some plugins for Wordpress that handle this for contact forms (Contact Form 7) and for comment forms. If you search Honeypot from the WordPress plugin directory, you will find them.

Also, many spammers hit the wp-comments-post.php file directly. Since they hit it directly there is no referrer passed like there would be if a POST was sent to it from a page on your site. This page: http://goo.gl/n5VHm on WordPress.com has information on code that can be added to your .htaccess file that will crush bots that POST to wp-comments-post.php with no referrer present.
Amazon has over 2800 open jobs in Seattle:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/jobs/ref=j_sq_btn?jobSearchKeywords...