skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Google Sydney has servers on site, but they may well just be to be local productivity aids (mirrors for development etc). Google generally don't publicise where their servers are or what they're for. Even if the servers are just like any standard office's servers, this exploit could result in some serious issues.

When I was at Google Sydney a few years ago for an internship, the AC died prompting an interesting response. The server temps were rising to unsafe levels and the AC wasn't expected to come back in time. The MacGyver solution was to buy portable AC units and pump the heat into the coder's workspace. That was a distinctly unpleasant afternoon =]

If the machines weren't important for production or productivity I'm certain they'd save us the hassle and shut them down. If nothing else, abuse of this office's AC system could severely impact the productivity of the office and spring dozens of people into action.

Whilst not under the usual purview of the rewards program, I'd still think it's noteworthy of recognition.
Getting Into Open Source as an Inexperienced Self-Taught Programmer
Confused -- Why all the rigamarole, instead of going RIAA-style after the thousands-to-millions of actual porn copyright-infringers?
I think the part that's the laziness tax is specifically the money being left on table -- from the business's point of view -- by using auto-canceling subscriptions. By definition that's money that you're collecting from someone despite them no longer using your service. For most services there's no possible explanation for that other than laziness (or something similar like cluelessness, or at best the user valuing their time too highly to think about it). In one way or another, the user is paying that money because they're not as on top of things as they mean to be. You can fix that for them with one line of code:

charge(user, amt) unless last_active(user) < time() - 1.month

You can get away with that charge and they technically/implicitly agreed to it, but, well, it's revenue that doesn't represent value you're creating.

Imagine a friend/friend version of that business/consumer relationship. You would not keep taking your friend's money!

Anyway, yeah, I think we're on the hook now to follow up on this in a few months or whenever we have enough data. :)
Can anybody reach the American Dream?
" I never achieved much and there's nothing I have done that I'm especially proud of. I just got by as best I could even when the world decided I wasn't good enough anymore."

This hit home... I wish to change it though.
This is awesome...just tried to install it but needs Django 1.5 and django_crispy_forms>=1.2.3.

I am on Django 1.4 and it is kind of a pain to upgrade (lots of deprecation stuff I haven't dealt with yet).

Anyone up for a Django 1.4 to 1.5 upgrade party? haha
I'm pretty sure it's an anonymous post .. on purpose.
Ask HN: How do you manage your startup ideas?
I personally use Evernote and Notational Velocity.

I'd love a system that would let me input free form text, and tag the notes with different projects or categories and then automatically organize them - currently what I do is either scroll down my notes and enter the new note at the right place, or just include a keyword so that I can search my notes. Neither are ideal - I'm sure there's something that does this already though.
Unlike many people in this thread, I loved living and working in San Francisco.

And I live on the other side of the world, where house prices are too high, it causes massive problems, and nobody complains about it.

In fact prices in my suburb are about twice what they seem to be in parts of SF where it is quite safe to live:

http://www.zillow.com/homedetails/720-722-34th-Ave-San-Franc...

Here a big fall in house prices is seen as a risk rather than a good thing.
I know that this is about as useful as the people pointing to ipython, but gqlplus really does do wonders.
Microsoft’s Strategic Blunder with Windows 8
Boy tries to rape mom, kills her, over Call of Duty ban
I saw an topic earlier about if more arms makes americans safer? I mean c'mon who gives an 11 year old a weapon? More guns = More bullets fired = More people dead. I feel like this is logic, is it just me or anyone else agree?
Your case, buying the most expensive product Adobe offers and then upgrading with the greatest frequency possible, is about the only thing Creative Cloud is cheaper than.

At $600/year, it's roughly competitive with upgrading to a new version of one of the Premium collections every 18 months. It's more expensive than upgrading to the latest Design Standard has been on that timeframe.
And I wish I could delete this. I don't really want this negativity to be the top-rated comment.
Google/Facebook employees don't work anywhere near SF. They live in SF because it's hip, and endure huge commutes (on the comfy buses) to do so. Maybe if G/F stopped subsidizing ridiculous commutes with the comfy buses, employees would live in the low-cost housing areas near campus.
They sound nothing like the commit messages I've ever seen. I suppose I haven't seen much.
Because the porn industry doesn't have the representation in DC; it doesn't have the centralized power to pursue highly expensive legal warfare; it doesn't have any sympathy vote; it has very little power; it has relatively little money compared to Hollywood or the recording industry (to attract K Street lobbyists). There is no porn industry equivalent of the RIAA.
I'm a lot like you, so I hope you'll believe me when I say your entire problem is that you allocated 1/4th the time you needed for getting a new job.
Dear lord this is a bad idea
I have checked all the configs - remember it work fine when I switch my ISP over to my cell phone from FiOS. I am not implying a conspiracy - just trying to get a solution
Who gives a 11 year old a gun? I saw an thread on HN a couple days ago about if arms save (american-)lives. In my mind this is the logic, more guns = more bullets fired = more people dead. There are better ways to protect yourselves than using guns people. Anyone else agree?
Apple cracks the Fortune 10
> The difference between SF and NYC is in SF the homeless never freeze to death.

There were plenty of homeless in NYC in the 70s and 80s. I don't think you can just explain away the problem using the weather as an excuse.
Yes, I can get to every other URL I tried that is inside the firewall, including other similar servers
Thanks for all of those who helped or tried to help.

I read the Wikipedia, Reddit, Youtube, articles and videos. I find that the Internet is full of misinformation, people with fake degrees and false experts, logical fallacies, bad grammar, poorly written articles that make no logical sense but are passed off as authoritive. I mean I did research before I came here to ask my questions because nothing on the Internet made any logical sense to me, and I failed to understand it.

Each one of you has a different explanation, and some of you instead of explaining it keep linking to Wikipedia articles I already read several times and have posted they don't make any sense to me and I don't understand them, continuing to link to them won't help me, explaining them in simpler terms will.

I asked Hacker News, because you are supposed to be experts here who can explain anything in simple terms and help people out. I see now that I made a big mistake in that, and I feel like I am being trolled here and been given links to joke sites and misinformation and Wikipedia Word Salads posing as academic journals.

I mean I appreciate the efforts, but now I am even more confused than when I first asked my questions. This is why Computer science isn't that popular anymore, and why more people are not studying it as much.
Getting Your First 100,000 Users: How Successful Startups Did It
I wonder if there was ever a movie in which the Cavalry came calling to the rescue, but went after the wrong target? I seem to recall a Twilight Zone episode (or maybe it was a Stephen King Short Story) in which an infantry platoon razed a village, only to discover that it was actually their own hometown, somehow masqueraded as some foreign land.

I willing to wager that if we looked at it with objective perspective, 95% of the time the Federal Grand Juries are doing work for good, it's only 5% of the time that they are misguided - but it's that 5% that we all seem to remember.
> The use of WebGL and shader programs may improve the power efficiency somewhat, but they are still inferior to the dedicated motion video hardware found in all modern GPUs.

Um...what? Last time I checked WebGL ran and "shader programs" ran on the GPU. What am I missing?
Depends who is cleaning the area -- government, or shop owners?
I wouldn't say they survived being nuked. One hitched a ride off the planet, infected a dog/cow, and was later killed; and apparently another hitched a ride inside of Ellen. Since neither were present for the nuclear blast I wouldn't say they survived it. Ellen/It were later cloned to recreate xenomorphs, but I don't think there is anything in the canon to say that the xenomorphs which were nuked were able to survive.

Nuking xenomorphs from orbit does seem to be a very good way to be sure.
> Well my bookshelf is stocked with the classics...I've read most of them

He's able to digest heavy tomes of abstract and concrete methodologies (for some value of "understanding"), but not create anything with it that he isn't told to? That sounds like a bad developer trying to pump up his image, to me.
I feel your pain. I had a new-ish car I was taking on its first road trip, about 4000 kms into the middle of Australia and back. Ten kilometres out of Melbourne, and a car coming the other way threw up a small stone which hit the windscreen and caused a six inch crack almost right in the centre of my field of view. I had to put up with that crack for the next 3990 kms and three weeks. Aargh!
This could potentially be an interesting thing to incorporate with Wikipedia.
Great strategy!
Come on! This is one of the most remarkably run companies around today. They never do anything halfway. If you balk at $350, you either aren't their target market or you don't think very highly of Dropbox.

$350 is about an hour and a half of work, at $215 per hour. That's chump change. Most significant conferences are about $300, such as ConvergeSE which happened just a couple weeks ago.

Dropbox knows that people will buy tickets because they believe in Dropbox, and then Dropbox will make it awesome. Then everyone will know that when you've got a company that does things right, you can trust them with a tiny percentage of a typical webshop's daily paycheck, which they already knew anyway. And if $350 seems like a lot per person, when you add up all the costs involved it's really not that much. Money adds up quickly when a conference is done right. Most conferences pay a full-time employee for months just to make sure that the wifi won't melt under the load of hundreds of conference goers. There are a huge number of things to think about and make sure that everything goes right.

I'm shocked at this thread. Utterly shocked. Someone else actually complained that the three letters DBX are already taken. Come on! Every possible three or four letter acronym is taken. This thread is crazy. There is nothing of value here, at all, period. Not sure what happened to HN here.
How about JavaScript is the fastest dynamically typed language?
A good text editor/ftp client/terminal
Do you mean having a reputation system on Wikipedia, or the ability to put data-sets on Wikipedia?
Why does it matter? They aren't getting very far.

http://reporting.sunlightfoundation.com/2013/tax-preparers-l...
Ya good point. I guess I would expect more considering this is basically the most popular software in the world for creative work. The sad part that I didn't mention above is that not one piece of the software is optimized for Retina. It's runs like a dog and is easily the worst performing piece of software on my Retina, which I find to be crazy.

All they did was simply update the interface to support it...
Yes, read the bill. It's shorter than the wikipedia page about it.

http://www.marketplacefairness.org/bill-text/
Go 1.1 RC2 is out
Aren't you clever!
Those are half-adders, not gates or flipflops.
Adobe.com: Release Adobe Fireworks to Open Source
Reddit headline:

<Superlative adjective> <Emotionally charged adjective> <Popular noun> <Politically charged context>

HN headline:

<Single noun that is completely meaningless without context>
They're perfectly usable as daily drivers.
It merely assumes that his co-workers, who did not fluently speak mathematical notation, should somehow learn a foreign language to keep up. I find the idea of being obtuse toward a co-worker who does not speak the same language someone I would have reservations about working with, myself.
Indians starting to ask for a more independent CBI & Police
In India the CBI (the top investigation agency) and police are mostly pawns in the hands of politicians. In fact after every elections there is mass transfer of police, as local / state and central govt elected officials bring in the cronies to make sure they have complete control of police in all levels. Indians have started raising their voice against this as scams and scandals plague the country.
Going to have to ask for an example.

I am yet to have seen a basic CRUD app that had performance issues due to a bad coding algorithm. Certainly from poor queries but never from an bad algorithm.

Keep in mind I would say that a simple CRUD app with millions of entries is no longer a simple CRUD app.
Both I suppose, I think it would be interesting to browse Wikipedia and have access to actual peer reviewed science (with all the accompanying data). I am aware the wiki articles are supposed to be sourced, but that can be hit and miss.
From the site FAQ, they just took the list from code-in without having a lawyer vet it.
The funny thing is, I never considered when I posted that that there would be violence beyond the usual getting in your face that I've seen at left wing protests.

Why does the fact that these people are upset make their cause any more just? Why do my rights (and more importantly the rights of any tech employees who might happen to pass through there) end where their feelings begin?

Also, how sympathetic would you feel towards a Black man who "antagonized" white people by passing through a White neighborhood, and was attacked by Whites who were already upset by the civil rights movement.
What's wrong with "256bit AES"? I'm not well-versed in this stuff.
Graduate student myself: This a cry for business that will fall on deaf ears in academia. Nobody would ever publish half-baked code that 'does the job', for the fear of getting judged. And none of us have time to prettify the code.

Academia.edu started with a lot of promise but is frankly a useless placeholder of your name and Email ID now. ResearchGate has surpassed them long ahead in useful features and Mendeley is already very good. They are just making some money from the academic jobs ads and I frankly don't see a future for them if they are happy being almost the exact same product for the past 3 years I have used them.
Knocking designed emails has been trending recently, and I don't see that much justification for it.

Yes, I prefer text when images aren't warranted, but it seems to me that presentation matters when there are competing contexts in the same message.

For example, I just for a response back from a renter on AirBnB. Because of the presentation, I could tell which user it was from, which apartment it was for, exactly what their message was, a helpful hint that I was "pre-approved" and more.

Design and layout introduces clarity with content by providing context and relationships.

Plain vs Pretty emails are both terrible if done poorly, but I'd argue Pretty can accomplish much more than Plain when done right.
U.S. Directly Blames China’s Military for Cyberattacks
Let’s talk about enterprise
a post-it note is nearly impossible to hack -- only a high-value unsecured physical space can compromise a post-it note.

Sniffing a password over the Internet/LAN is far easier.
While I sympathize with the disdain everyone has for these guys, this judgement is the result of some lawyers that took several possibly illegal shortcuts. This case sets no precedents about the viability of copyright trolling going forward, and in fact the judge's obvious bias may serve as grounds for a successful appeal in this case. So, while this makes for amusing reading, at the end of the day it won't mean much. Everyone should still CYA when downloading torrents.
a standard PDF is ugly to the 99% of readers who aren't going to print it out.
Adobe Rethinks The Power Of The Pen With Project Mighty
The author works for Microsoft. The proposal to use watermarking is in direct contrast to Microsoft's PlayReady DRM implementation. Passing off a conflict of interest as news.
We haven't run into this, should be a configuration/version issue then.
Google owns a large display-ad network.
Yes, I've seen it Clojure, where the documentation is extensive, giving great coverage to its standard library... but still haves you reading the source and searching the web for examples after reading the description, especially when speaking about macros (so... does this receive a vector? Does it take its arguments as a list, or what? A mixture of both?)

Racket goes full in the other direction, to a fault, even though it's much preferable.Racket's documentation is at times hard to wade through because it's so extensive. You have to scroll through the treatises and descriptions of options to find an example usage which will get you out quickly, but it's, for once, all there in the manual.
FB is happy to sell ads that use President Obama's photo without his consent.
I hope all the people who paid to settle get their money back with extra damages.
A friend of a friend was recently fired from Github. I don't know where you got this information from.
This got me thinking of a webpage as a city with streets, hills and other topography stuff
I got The West, which had a very similar description. I'm from PA, fwiw.
You're right to focus on rewards. The rewards have to be there for academics to share their data-sets and code. The feedback loop needs to be closed, so that if you share your data, and that data has an impact, that impact is reflected back on you. You can then take that impact and show it to your tenure/grant committee, who can reward you for it. There are a bunch of startups, Academia.edu being one of them, that are very focused on closing that feedback loop.

Mendeley and ResearchGate are both great companies, but if you look at Quantcast/Compete/Alexa, you'll see that Academia.edu is noticeably larger than them in traffic. Academia.edu also has more users. I'm sorry to hear that Academia.edu doesn't satisfy your use-case though....
You are able to capture something that I have thought about for years. It really plays into not just adoption, but retention of users. The MVP might get you some adopters. The MLP gets you users for life.
Journey as an Entrepreneur : Brian Wong
It makes perfect sense to do this. If they're not continuing on with development they should either open source the code or sell it to someone who is willing to continue its development. Surely someone is interested in continuing on with the development of this amazing application?
From your post you sound like a nice fellow and I wish you the best and want you to find happiness and job security. However, also based on your post, I am sad to say that I think you're right, you are a bad developer. I strongly urge you to lower your sights and aim for a job that has a lower skill requirement.

So as not to leave you guessing, here are the red flags that jumped out at me in the post:
<em>I don't remember the particulars but I know that for every recursive form there is an iterative solution.</em>
This is not a fact to be memorized and referenced, it's a consequence of a fundamental understanding of how programs execute.

<em> I still draw a blank when asked what the magnitude of complexity is for the guests function I just wrote</em> ... <em>damnit, of course calculating the permutations of a list is n-squared, but this is an interrogation of the random trivia I can manage to recall</em>
This also sounds like you are trying to apply memorization to a problem that requires analysis. When asked for the complexity of a function, you don't compare it to algorithms with known complexities that you've memorized, rather, you look at the code and reason about what it is doing proportional to its inputs. There are certainly insanely hard algorithms to analyze, but I don't think we're talking about them here.

<em>I really like joint semi-lattices</em>
I don't point this out to be pedantic, but as another instance of memorization vs. understanding: they are called 'join semi-lattices' ('join' one of the fundamental operations you use when working with these).

<em>I still blunder my way through an exercise to write a function which returns a boolean in response to the question of whether sequence A is a sub-sequence of sequence B</em>
I ask a warmup question like this to cut the interview short if the interviewee has problems. Good programmers will absolutely get nervous, stutter, and make mistakes; that's fine; but this is simpler than that.

I once had a friend who did fantastically on Biology with little effort but did horribly on Physics, despite immense effort. After trying to help her a few times, it was clear that she was trying to apply memorization (which worked well for her in Biology) to Physics. To do well in Physics, you have feel comfortable enough with the math and physical concepts to derive your own answers. The same goes for programming and I wonder if some of your latent unhappiness with your original job wasn't caused by a fundamental impedance mismatch with your approach to programming.

I'm sorry if this was blunt; if we were in person, I'd try to be much more delicate. But you did post on HN, presumably for advice. Best of luck!
Why should people put their data here rather than Dryad (http://www.datadryad.org/), which assigns DOIs and doesn't require registration to download data sets, and is a non-profit organization, governed by a board including PLoS and Science and powered by completely open source software?
Is there now any way that Judge Wright might turn his eye (and hopefully his hammer) on patent trolling? The arguments he makes against Prenda's process in general - not the illegal parts, but the intent and procedure - is pretty much what the patent trolling industry does. If he sees something that he pass commentary on in a legal capacity, then I'm sure courts can and should take note that they're being played in the patent game too.