skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, I think you are pointing out issues with clients in general. A well maintained and well managed WordPress site is going to be more secure than something custom built. Having said that, if said clients installs all kinds of stuff willy nilly, that is an extra burden I can see that (you could lock that ability down though). If you can fully satisfy a clients needs with something custom and do it cost effectively all the better.

That certain clients have unrealistic expectations because WP should be cutting dev time in half etc, that's an interesting point. I think client education factors in here.

You can be running another CMS or something custom and run into security exploits all the same though, if not more so. Something custom doesn't get the same amount of eyeballs from developers to ensure everything is secure. And even static sites can be hacked and abused if a hacker gains access to the server.
One of the original incarnations of Google Video was something somewhat similar to this (an index of closed-captioning data from a lot of different tv streams). What they chose to do with it was different though: they allowed you to search closed-captioned content and it would show you a few thumbnails and the time of day when those words were said on air.

This memory is kind of hazy, ISTR it's from 2005 or so.
Yes, buy an acre of land and start farming, problem solved. Quit your jobs and move to a more expensive area, problem solved. Cook over an open fire made from scrap wood in your apartment, problem solved.
> I care about results

The results are basically identical to the pre-DMCA situation except that the risk of monetary damages to content hosts is less -- most content hosts takedown material immediately on request by purported content owners to prevent lawsuits, and most content hosts don't care much about complaints from users (including counter notices) because the litigation threat is miniscule. The DMCA safe harbor provides a defense against litigation for content hosts who comply with notices and counter-notices, but it doesn't change the fact that, with or without the safe harbor, the only litigation threat content hosts are worried about is litigation by purported content owners, not litigation from users (because, in the first place, they already have an agreement with users, and content hosts are careful to construct such agreements to foreclose any litigation threat resulting from the host deciding not to host any particular content.)

Any imbalance in the perjury provisions that makes counter-notice more risky is irrelevant, because the user-side safe harbor is irrelevant, because a safe harbor only matters when, without the safe harbor, there is a threat of litigation that matters.

My point is, and remains, that the problem you are referring to in results goes far deeper than the DMCA safe harbor, and balance between the two sides in the safe harbor provisions don't matter, because only one side of the safe harbor has any meaning -- content hosts don't need a safe harbor against users.

That being said, I'd support much stronger standards on the notice side, not for some completely pointless idea of balance, but because the practical results of false notices are the suppression of speech; for that reason, I'd propose creating the following standard for liability for material misrepresentation in takedown notices:

Any material misrepresentation in a notice (whether knowing or not) would make the party filing the notice liable for actual damages to content hosts and/or users resulting from notice.

Any material misrepresentation in a notice where the filing party either knew the representation was false, or reasonably should have known the representation was false, or cannot show by clear and convincing evidence that they had a reasonable basis to believe was true with high confidence, will also allow punitive damages.

And the entire content of a notice should be under penalty of perjury.

But none of this is about balance between notice and counter-notice, which -- aside from being irrelevant -- shouldn't even be a goal in the first place, its about what the standard needs to be given the that what is being created is a government-provided incentive to suppress speech.
Photos and visualization of 120 years of SF Public Transit
LinkedIn's first Minimum Viable Product
http://mycelial.com and http://prtflio.eu to add to that list.
I don't think you're pro-cable, I think that you're not grokking the difference between a monopoly and a competitive marketplace.

For lots of reasons, cable is effectively a monopoly. They made big capital investments, and the benefit of those investments is that every human living in a particular geography (in most places) is a captive customer.

There are a few options here.

With telephones, the government forced AT&T to divest itself from operating inter-state and intra-state networks and cede control of customer premise equipment (ie. it was illegal to own a telephone pre-1984), and eventually required the regional bell operating entities to provide access to other providers.

With electrical companies, for the most part they are able to function as monopolies for electricity delivery in a particular geography, and in exchange for that privilege their rates are tightly regulated by the State.

The problem with these options is that they are solutions driven by the states, not the federal government. The states, for various reasons (Ars Technica did some good stories about this) aren't doing much. Ala carte TV is an effort for the Feds to get involved, which I think is a bad idea. There needs to be a compromise between forcing consumers to pay $20/mo for sports content that they don't watch and getting nickle and dimed for each channel.

IMO, I'm only concerned about this as it affects universal access to internet. Cable companies are much more effective at delivering broadband than the traditional telcos, and those big TV subscriber bases almost certainly lower the cost of broadband delivery.
Reference:

State University of New York moves 465,000 students over to Microsoft’s Cloud

http://www.winrumors.com/state-university-of-new-york-moves-...
If you like this beer, chances are you also like...
So innocent :) CEOs more often then not, are not essential to the company. Sales guy maybe, but plenty of them sell based on company inertia.

Now a coach on the other hand...
They are entitled to release however they want. We are entitled to respond how we see fit. Who are you to say what our response should be.
Thanks for the feedback! Yeah, there is something about a dosage / acclimation effect that can be dangerous about any kind of positive action.

I think that using a variable reward system keeps the brain excited (because you don't know what you are going to get) and even extremely simple and low cost variable rewards have helped drug addicts stay sober: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16203960
No-go on metaclass, the received type for metaclass __new__ method's members argument is a plain dict.

Unless this is changed in Py 3, I still don't understand how this works.
Comparing gun deaths with automobile deaths to show that gun deaths aren't that big of a problem is silly. Automobile deaths are caused by and counterbalanced by the extreme usefulness of cars, where guns are mostly just for sport. So gun deaths can be easily reduced by reducing the number of guns, and the side-effects would be very minor compared to taking the naive way of reducing automobile deaths. If your goal is to reduce death rates, you have to take into account not just the death rate, but how easy it is to change that death rate.
Google drive seems to be down:
http://www.google.com/appsstatus#hl=en&v=status&ts=1...
No , there is something specific to MongoDB. Some NoSQL dbs are fine for some purposes ( multi-master sync for couchdb ,graphs for Neo4j ... )

MongoDB problem is that it promises too much and fail to deliver on a lot of levels. You cant expect to do all the operations one can do on a RDBMS on a NoSQL database and still scale horizontally,while maintaining data integrity. A good NoSQL db should have little features , but features that work very well. I like CouchDB for instance i use it in my apps to store customer infos that need to be synced accross multiple device, but i would NOT build an ecommerce app with it only...

NoSQL dbs solves specific problems. It does not solve the problems relational databases are for.

So selling MongoDB as a replacement for PostGreSQL or Mysql is a blatant lie.It will not work.
> "In general these will be young people who are out to enjoy life"

I feel the same way about the above statement.

My gut says there are tens of millions of middle age families living hand to mouth, struggling.
"Google's revenues from Apps/Docs/Email is still only a few percent"

As an example Google gives away service to education so their revenue from that would be $0. As does Office 365 (at least that is what we were offered).

Many copies of Windows and Mac based Office of course is still purchased as frankly Google Docs and 365 are only appropriate for simple use cases.
Pricenomics has been writing some interesting data analysis pieces for sometime now. Kudos!! Keep'em coming.

Are there any other blogs like that?
> They are a very inaccurate abstraction of how the world works.

No, they are only inaccurate software abstractions of the business abstractions they are supposed to model. People like immutability and reversibility of concepts and that's why they try to apply it in business, law, finance etc.

But the real/natural world, at least from our subjective perspective is not like that. Things in the world are not practically reversible or immutable - you cannot "restore" a deadbody. The real world is loosy and mutable, at least from an agent's perspective. The human brain is so efficient at what it does simply because it just "throws way* (irreversibly!) so much information every second, filtering for just what it needs. A small corner of the world is our "business/finance world" and using immutability and reversibility is great here, but there's way more to computing than implementing business/finances logic and processes in software!.

...if you think about it, classical OOP is inspired from cellular biology (can't find the reference now, some musing of Alan Kay I think...), so it's no wonder why it's such a trouble maker when used to model business logic, it was the wrong tool for the job from the get go. But generalizing that mutable data structures are a bad tool to model and understand the world in general is waaaay overstretched, the world is bigger than "business", and all modeling approaches are equally useful.
I hear this alot, and it's bunk. Shopping at an overpriced bodega is still cheaper than eating out.

It takes 20 minutes to cook a hamburger or piece of chicken, pasta/potato and heat up a bag of green beans. There are very few people in the United States that lack the means to own a refrigerator and some sort of stove -- most localities codes require both for an apartment to be code compliant.
Wrong. I'd love to improve the human, but the tech will have to be improved.
That's right-- an enterprising soul is working on porting us to FreeBSD (https://github.com/rethinkdb/rethinkdb/pull/688), but we are notably missing Windows support-- we hope to get to it after adding some more core features (secondary indexes, etc.)
Considering that the top 1% earners captured 121% of all income gains during 2009-2011 (yes, 121%, that means the other 99% of people's income went down)[1] it's also possible that many of these people used to be able to save money every month and not live hand-to-mouth before the recession and the sorry-excuse-for-a-recovery, but that their declining real incomes have squeezed their savings margins down to nothing.

[1] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/12/top-one-percent-inc...
My son will be 7 this month. We started Scratch probably 1.5 years ago. He loves it. Of course, I used to come up with projects and we did them together. But recently he started doing them himself.
From Davis and Hersh's excellent book "The Mathematical Experience":

Professor John Wermer tells the story of how, when he was an undergraduate, he took a course in projective geometry from Oscar Zariski, one of the foremost figures in the field of algebraic geometry. Zariski's course was exceedingly general and Wermer, as a young student, was occasionally in need of clarification. "What would you get," he asked his teacher, "if you specialized the field F to the complex numbers?" Zariski answered, "Yes, just take F as the complex numbers."
Also this shows DeltaBlue as faster on Java when warmed up: https://github.com/xxgreg/deltablue
An acre of land, a scrap wood fire.... Are you for real? We're talking about poverty in the UK here, not your frontier life fantasy.
I really wish free trials were available for some of the more expensive iOS software. Even for things like Garageband or Pages, I'd like to be able to compare them to other music software on the app store. I don't even consider some task managers (omnifocus) because their price is prohibitive without a trial, even with glowing reviews.
I wonder why it was the soviets who launched the first satellite, and not the americans.

I don't want to troll, but I'm wondering why this did not happened in the US, and instead in a communist country.
Of course people used to work much harder to prepare their food. We've replaced harvesting your own food with working to pay for your food. The complaints of preparing a full meal being difficult are coming from a context of somebody who already spent 8+ hours working for their food that day, not somebody who is just being lazy.
MVP is used to get funding; which extends your runway so you have time to make your product correctly.
By users, do you mean Python 3 programmers?
1) I think that reminding people a month in advance that their credit card will expire next month is better than telling them the payment failed and giving them 3 days to fix it or lose service.

In fact, there's almost no reason you can't give them a week or two to pay since it's SaaS we're talking about. They may need time to get approvals, to get the new company CC number/expiry, etc. 3 days is super short.

2) I like the idea of picking customers who are near the upper limit of their plan, and pitching them a small incremental upgrade to a (not advertised) higher level plan.

So if someone is in the 90 rabbit range, they may be intentionally trying to say below their 100 limit. If you offered them a 200 limit for an extra $X a month, < than the next higher plan of 500 rabbits), they might bite and that would be free revenue.

3) What about ABC? Should you or could you pitch another product as part of the cancellation/update your cc emails? That is an important customer touchpoint and a time to remind them what else you sell.

4) What about offering a pause option? I've had companies (like Audible.com) who contact you when you attempt to cancel and ask if you would rather put your account on hold for a few months. Maybe what they need is more time to make a decision.
Shipmate, I'm in the DoD. Maybe you're talking about OSD, JS, Army, Air Force or something else though.

Edit: Also, doesn't Google Docs have controls to limit sharing of online documents to certain persons, groups, or teams?

The big concern I can think of is PII spillage, but honestly I think I trust Google more than I trust random GS-13s with their externals and laptops. DoD at least has PKI but in the Navy we're recommended to also use a password-based certificate for encrypted externals in case the CAC is lost, which kind of defeats the point since I'm sure the password is not going to be high-entropy.
Update on Cloud 66 Service Incident
> There is always some amount of money

BS.

Happiness as a function of wealth is not a linear curve. After the first few millions, a hundred millions or a billion isn't that a big deal.

Therefore, if the price to justify some headache or discomfort is above a million or so, just getting rid of the headache is more valuable.
Bloomberg reporters allegedly used financial terminals to spy on Wall Street
Yep. I recently launched PiMAME.org - Most of the info is on http://blog.sheasilverman.com, but this weekend I plan on updating the main site.

Right now includes AdvanceMAME, GNGeo (NeoGeo), and PCSX_ReARMed (Playstation).

The installer is available on github: http://github.com/ssilverm/pimame_installer

I'm planning on adding AdvanceMESS, SNES9x, and MAME4All this weekend.
Interesting proposal, I have to wonder though:

Why do they have to be off-planet? Assuming a civilization reboot -- by the time the next civ is at the point where they could discover it, wouldn't they have advanced beyond us in many respects? At least in space travel capability.

Why not store it underground, or in orbit and continuously transmitting down to us? The first people to rediscover RF would basically win the lottery.
I'm not claiming anything, other than you are a troll.

I stated originaly my experience and you called me a lier, then you said it is impossible and I proved you wrong, deal with it.

My estimates are not estimates and you just can not accept that people are different than you, I pitty you and those you touch.
The says that a big barrier to adopting 'open source science' is the prestige that comes with publishing in heavy weight, closed journals. It then draws the comparison to software, and why open source software is quite successful:

> Addressing this issue, Toni references the open spirit amongst coders working on open-source software. “There’s no reward system right now for open science. Scientists’ careers don’t benefit from it. But in software, everyone wants to see your GitHub account.”

This got me thinking. First, I think a large reason a lot of people (read: people in my bubble, mostly students / recent CS grads) use GitHub is precisely because of the prestige. I'd say the people who use GitHub without ever contributing to an open repo vastly outnumbers the people who do contribute. Instead, many people start using GitHub as a way to show-off their own projects -- the whole "GitHub as my resume" idea. But as more people do so, having a GitHub becomes a standard, and you get a positive feedback loop.

Second, how could we shift the status quo for science to associating prestige in an open system? I'm not familiar with the history of open source software, but I wonder if there are any parallels from how OSS grew that we could apply to science publishing.

Finally, there's a big systemic difference between doing collaborative science and writing open source software I can think of:
the barrier to entry to software is much lower. A lot of hobbyist programmers contribute to open source projects (or at least have a GitHub account, which feeds more attention / prestige to the ecosystem), whereas it's pretty hard to contribute to science without both a graduate education and (in many fields) expensive equipment.
Interesting points you make. The last night, one of my friends who is in college did an analysis in python on a couple subway lines in NYC to tell people whether they should wait for the express or not depending on time of day and etc. He published it online via google sites, but not on github or bitbucket, which surprised me.

I think the gap is closing (at least it was posted online), but I can't be certain because institutions still want to maintain control.
Did you read the full article or just the data?

1. The author assumed NO sales.

2. Aside from bananas everything else will easily last a full week. If you wanted to say you are only shopping once a week then that means you either are willing to eat very ripe bananas by the end of the week (some people do this), or if you are like me then you would have to just eat bananas the first part of the week and not eat them the end of the week.

3. Including transportation costs is beyond the scope of a diet - the author already minimized costs by limiting things to a single supermarket (as opposed to the original article which would have required multiple trips to multiple stores to track sales and get deals).

4. The assumption that there is no waste is explicitly discussed by the author as a drawback that needs to be addressed in subsequent iterations

(Edit: formatting)
I guess this is new to Py 3k? Thanks for the tip!
Another CDN that has it: http://gcdn.org/
"I don't think this qualifies as disproportionate by any stretch."

Here are the actual facts:

A) US Population per the 2010 Census (i.e. the survey that determines levels of representation) ~ 308,400,000.
B) 1.4% of this population = 4,317,600 (i.e. the number of car dealers that would need to exist for their current level of representation to be proportionate).
C) Actual number of car dealers in America < 20,000.

In other words, their level of representation is not only disproportionate, but wildly so. Like, by a factor of 215.
Your own link shows that 5 of the top 10 mid-career median salary schools are Ivy League schools. Only Brown (more arts-focused), Columbia (no clue why this isn't there), and Cornell (only Ivy with public ties, and the largest Ivy) aren't included.
That's the best technology there is :P but you're right, there should've been "infographic" in the title, that would make trolling so much harder
>There are thousands of companies that host Exchange for you. Or you have Office 365.

But so many small business owners believe (and are reinforced by their IT consulting companies who profit from that belief) that everything must always be hosted onsite.

>Why should "someone" else waste a huge amount of their time and effort on something that you think should be done and given away for free?

For the same reason any open source software exists. It'd basically be the Outlook component of LibreOffice. And no, I'm not saying "someone make this for me for free!" I'm saying this is a gap open source has yet to adequately fill and I'd be interested in filling it.
Do you have a five step plan?
What LinkedIn is Good For (hint: not getting a job)
And an image format with support for looping through multiple frames, so we can even create animations without resorting to CSS and JavaScript!
http://ayende.com/blog/153026/embracing-ravendb

The points in the blog post apply to most non-relational databases.
>And by wherever possible I don't mean that some users might be "inconvenienced" by some menu change. I mean when an open source alternative actually exists.

I don't understand what you mean to say here.
My favorite command is pg:mandelbrot
If you're interested in biomedical papers, I'd be willing to set up a proxy for you to share my institutional subscription.
In the US around 2.25 million times a year a gun is used in self-defense. In way over 90% of those incidents the gun is never fired, just a display of it and the willingness to use it are sufficient.

Anecdotally I'm personally amazed at how well many untrained people successfully use shoot guns in self-defense situations. I would guess that after centuries of incremental ergonomic improvements they turn out to be not so hard to use, and use safely (in terms of accidents they're lots safer than automobiles).
Replying to your first edit. Trust me I don't care. I'm relatively sure I'm not going to apply to YC so I can tell here. I know what it feels like. The hyperbole and half post resonated with me. Things are happening, I know they are happening, but I don't know that these are symptoms for something. If you've been through depression, I think you know what I'm talking about. You can just see, nothing matters. Why am I getting up? Why am I poking a fork on a grape and eating it? I'm washing a plate... what's going on. The water is running from the tap and hitting the sink and making a sound. What's the point of that? What's life anyway? Just a bunch of random chemical reactions. Basically I'm ending up think (paraphrased) "What the fuck is actually going on in this world?"

I didn't know that was called depression until I read that post...