skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes. Github, Twitter, IRC.
It will make sure that I only say things that I would say in real life. No matter how vile or vicious it sounds.

And then I will have to deal with the consequences. Also, my name is actually very unique.
Notice how most "racist" countries have different races/groups internally.
Agreed 100%! Leave ASAP because your time is valuable and you need to make the most of the limited time you have :)
Great! Thanks for the reply and your time! :D I will be giving them a call.
Even if you manually write the query plan, you are still subject to similar disasters. That's because your data is changing, which can cause the query performance to fall off a cliff without changing the plan.
There are a bunch of interval training apps on the app store.

This is a good free one I use myself:

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/interval-timer-seconds-by/id...
This is really great! I was telling my fiancé about this workout just today. I read the NYT article but it was very sparse on details. Where can I find more info? About the research, more details about the workout itself (for example, during intervals is it full-on 100% all the effort I can muster, how many reps am I aiming for, is it done every day), etc?

Thanks for this. I'll give it a try in about an hour!
Works on mobile devices which is perfect when on the go. Give me a pause button so the timer doesn't go before I'm ready or make the clicking sound. Then I'll be at the site every day.
Never ever ever EVER take non-science/engineer as co-founders. EVER.
I'm actually inclined to say not to hire either until you're profitable. Unless it's necessary by evil, like lawyers.

And by non-science, also include cultural science or political science.
The way you search on a key-value store with no secondary indexes is create the secondary indexes manually as separate tables.
I wish various sites were more supportive of this. Back in the day, Yahoo! groups supported multiple identities very comfortably, so you could be "yourself" in professional forums and "be" yourself elsewhere. I don't know about anymore since I haven't used them in years. But most other sites that support pseudonyms mostly still work hard to make sure you only have one, which does little to curtail the possible abuses thereof while making it painful to do so for good reasons.
Wow, sorry. I misspoke.

I meant to say constraint exclusion. Exclusion constraints would be pretty hard to implement in a distributed system.

That said - constraint exclusion wouldn't be all that rough, would it? The eventual goal I am thinking of is more effective query plans for UNION views over a bunch of federated partitions.
Same here. Just one or 2 clicks on countdown skipped loads of things and counter was all 18...20....15....14....17....

Using Firefox 21 on Win 7
Yes. And likewise on other fora.

It's interesting to take a 'time trip' and review my opinions on, say, the invasion of Iraq: against, for, against. Personally that doesn't bother me so much.

Sure, I think that some of my past opinions were wrong. However, they're timestamped: a thinking critic would know that I might not still hold them, and an unthinking critic is unreachable regardless of the effort I put in.
New Google Maps API
Yes, and it's unique. I have done that since the beginning on the internet and it has helped to build my personal branding (in Sweden).
I'm happy with Gmail. I don't think you could ever convince me to switch.
Wave was never federated. They announced plans to federate, and released a (severely limited) version of Wave as open source, but they never federated the reference implementation at wave.google.com.

The open source code doesn't include one of my favorite features, too... inline private messaging. If we want that back now we have to code it from scratch.
Not at all. When this story first made headlines, I thought: Why did the NZ government allow the US to do this on their land in the first place? I just noticed that in the states, sometimes you don't necessarily get treated fairly in edge cases until you make a lot of noise (blogs, videos, etc.).

Of course, IANAL and I have no idea how the legal system works...
Yes. I already pay for such a service from POBox.com (and have since 2002), as an example of just such a service provider. (I host my own email, too, but I like having this address as a more formal personal email address that isn't connected to any of my personal domain names, blog, etc.)
Yes. Tarential is me, and I am Tarential. I've used it for virtually every site/forum/game/system I've ever created an account on. I registered the domain for my personal site.

I completely understand and respect the need for anonymity in some people and some circumstances. For my own part, though, I think having everything publicly associated with me helps temper my somewhat extreme personality.
pip install pyyaml

fixed it for me
I pay for mail service at The WELL, an account with Pobox (I back up my Gmail there) and for SaneBox to try to keep the Gmail Inbox smart. I'd like to move the power away from Gmail (actually Google Apps) and to something I can control.
Yes, and for almost[1] all other things on the internet for that matter.

"We should try to be happy, if only to set an example." -Jacques Prévert

I try to be as open and plainly honest as possible, and I think using my real name keeps me from being inflammatory, and I think it also keeps other from doing the same to me (at least a little). Put another way, I think using real names makes an atmosphere of more empathy than otherwise.

So we should try to be sincere, if only to set an example. I think real names help with that.

Further, I try to make all my interactions on the web as public as possible. I set my Facebook privacy settings to 100% public, zero private stuff, because I don't like the state of what seems to be a selective illusion of privacy. I'd rather just be honest with myself: If I put something on the internet, it's there to stay.

[1] For posterity I use a different name for some games, because long ago someone bought a Warcraft 3 account name (Saint) as a gift, and I want to honor him, or find him again if I could, on the dim hopes he'd mention the name if he ever saw it.
Couldn't you have multiple accounts?

I'm guessing that a few people on HN do this. Not mentioning any names.
What kind of performance are you getting, and how many nodes do you have?
Can you make an amicable exit with some rights to the code? Seeing as you haven't been properly paid the copyrights or even the non-exclusive rights to it could be a fair exit and you say that you are proud of the technical solution. It's only relly worth it if you can see a business in it though or can pivot the work you have done.

It sounds like you have had an expensive lesson in picking partners, try to exit as cheaply as possible where the costs factored in include family relationships as well as your time. Others may also see the end but not want to be the one to call it but it is worth having a story for what you will do instead.

As others say forget about the sunk costs just optimise for the current situation and the future.
I believe this was the paper on which the NYT article was based:

http://journals.lww.com/acsm-healthfitness/Fulltext/2013/050...
Awesome. Andrew Mason built an impressive 5,000+ person sales force from 0-60 in a matter of years – something very few people have ever done. I'm hoping he brings this experience to YC so sales-heavy YC companies with similar growing pains can benefit from his experience.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmanuel_Goldstein
It is splendid, something I was looking for. You could now concentrate for a better UI/phone app. A suggestion, You can also look for customizing/substituting workouts for the exact duration.
Had to check, yes but limited.
If the email service has anti-spam filters as powerful as Gmail and the UI/UX is as clean as Outlook, then yes.
DBLink connects to remote PostgreSQL databases only.

FDW extends that idea to arbitrary data stores. Wrappers exist for Oracle, MySQL, Redis, Amazon S3, text files, etc.
Depends on if I can get my desired nickname or not. Having a relatively unique combination of 3-letter initials helps in this regard.
When you say "Google Apps", do you mean both email and other services like Google Drive because you're using a personal domain?
> I've invested too much time and energy to bail now.

this is all in your head and they're using it to keep leverage over you.
Yes. 2 million users already pay Rackspace Mail (formerly MailTrust) for that. I pay $10/mo for ten 25GB mailboxes there with a 100% uptime SLA, 24/7/365 phone/email/chat support and configurable backups.

http://www.rackspace.com/email-hosting/
You gotta bail if you don't have faith in your co-founders. It's really the only thing that matters at this stage.
"Spam and phishing sites are not usually found on HTTPS pages"

That's actually a lie, making people think a website is safe just because they see https:// in the address bar.

In fact, automated link visits is a common practice used by many email spam filters, and it makes sense to implement it in other messaging systems such as Skype.
I don't have any first hand experience with your issue, so take what I say with that in mind.

Looking ahead, you don't like your plan or your partners. I don't know how much of the IP is yours legally, but you can try to find a new partner or work on your own if you strongly believe in the product.

If you want to quit and don't want a "normal" job, consider going back to school. You might be able to quickly patch some holes in your education and meet potential cofounders for new projects.

One quote I like: "when all else is lost, the future remains." Good luck!
Is contributing to Open Source projects anonymously frowned upon? 
I work for an enterprise software company. The work that I do at my job as a software engineer has no overlap with the OS projects I'm thinking about contributing to.
Can someone explain this to me like I'm a 5 year old and have no idea what any of it means? What will it help me do that I can't otherwise? What tech does it compare to, if any (direct competitors)?
I'm confused. The above poster asked what a good chat program is for communicating with other people (namely non-technical users) where the user can't get spied upon.

This isn't so much a "how can I be secure" question, but a "what alternatives to Skype do I have that work on Linux" question.

Which is one I'm also interested in, since I also want something thats (1)linux compatible, (2) easy and accessible for "average users" of any OS, (3) and secure. And I'm hoping for those things in that order.
I have to agree. It's not that he 'failed' in many respects he was wildly successful.

You can do a whole lot of things right but if their is something rotten at the core that undermines everything.

Groupon was rotten. The accounting was shady [1], in my view inexcusable so. I profited handsomely from shorting it, they sold the market what can only be described as a lie. The smoking guns were lying all over the place. Maybe if you tell yourself something loud enough often enough you can come to believe it, that doesn't make it true / right.

[1] http://blogs.smeal.psu.edu/grumpyoldaccountants/archives/742
If you are inflamed, your speech should be inflammatory.

No. Being inflammatory is by definition an attempt to cause others to become inflamed. Should those others also then reply with inflammatory speech? Where does it end? Value of the thread drops to zero rapidly.

I've appreciated my time on HN specifically because I notice many replies to "inflamed" speech specifically eschew further inflammation and focus on the mindful discussion. Bravo.
Does he code?

(I have no idea about his background.)
So a lot of his crimes are pretty far in the past now (20 years in some cases).

So I'm thinking that "never forgive, never forget" is the motto here? Rehabilitation is not possible? I think you are forgetting that many "praiseworthy" individuals in history have dark pasts. Whitewashing your past to present the most favorable version of yourself has a long and honorable tradition. Recent examples would be Bill Gates and Steve Jobs. Older would be people like Rockafeller, JP Morgan and basically anyone having anything to do with the railroads.

Personally though, I am attracted to people like Kim and Jobs not because of their "good image" but because they have a dark side.

To use a super-hero analogy... I find Iron Man a much more compelling hero than superman. Why is this? Superman is basically the perfect person, he has few real moral dilemmas, nor does he have any lengthly struggles. Superman never has depression, dark thoughts, a dark legacy to overcome, and so on.

Compared to the way Iron Man is portrayed in the recent movies, Iron Man/Stark is very human, has tons of flaws, but still manages to do good all in all. Stark has a dark legacy, both in his family and personally. He suffers from depression, anxiety, obsessive behavior, grandiose and offensive behavior. The interesting part comes from the struggle between the dark and the light.

Only by embracing the light and dark sides of ourselves, can we truly grow past the dark parts and do good out there. Given the way our brains work, its practically a given that we are going to screw up in our younger years.

Embrace your humanity.
How is the spam filtering? That's what drove me to gmail.
Should have been titled "Andrew Mason arrives at YC... in order to sell his hawt business music album"
"As part of this, my wife and I are moving to San Francisco later this summer. ... Chicago is developing quickly as a technology hub, and I hope to continue to find ways to support the amazing community of entrepreneurs here."

So stay! I understand you probably get nauseous every time you run in to someone from Lightbank, but we could really use you here. The city has gotten behind entrepreneurship, there are great mentors and accelerators. Tons of businesses are getting started. But what we sorely lack is people who have gone huge, took the big risks, learned a lot, made a bunch of money and now want to dive in and give back. Obviously you want to do this, and YC is great, but TechStars Chicago could use you a whole lot more.
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Snowplow adds MaxMind geo-IP lookups
> Sure, I think that some of my past opinions were wrong. However, they're timestamped: a thinking critic would know that I might not still hold them, and an unthinking critic is unreachable regardless of the effort I put in.

The same is true of posts relating to "correct" or non-controversial opinons though. Should then a thinking critic not assume anything about you or your current thinking on any subject based on information posted on the Internet? That seems unreasonable.
Yes, you are missing something. :) This is trying to provide polyfills for and build on top of Shadow DOM and Custom Elements.

While some of the features in them could be provided just by templating stuff (though it would be mildly to very inconvenient), at least the visible DOM / shadow DOM separation and scoped styles wouldn't be possible.
Couple points:

You need to determine if the product/idea is actually viable and the problem is in fact that the other founders are failing to execute, or
the is is something inherently flawed with the business model. Have some entrepreneurs or VCs you trust and respect review the business and give you their opinion.

If the problem is the other founders, you could start talking with them about bringing on someone to turn the company around or about selling the company to someone else.

If the problem is the idea/product/business model, you should move on ASAP.

In either case, if there is some useful technology that can be repurposed for another idea/business, make sure you get a unlimited license or if the company folds, take ownership the IP assets as back unpaid salary.

Make sure you get the transfer of IP in writing, ideally reviewed by a lawyer. If you do build something successful with the IP, you don't want "the idiots" coming around and claiming they own part of it.
Excellent. Thanks for the link!
My username is obviously a pseudonym, but my real name is in my profile. It wasn't always.
Mod Lang: What are the features of a modern programming language syntax?
I do agree, but to be fully pedantic,

L1 and L2 are hand-wound microwave chokes with
very high self-resonant frequency, mounted
perpendicular to one another and clear of the
ground plane. Wind 14 turns, air-cored, 1mm
inside diameter from 7cm lengths of 32swg
enamelled copper wire. Checked with the tracking
generator on a Marconi 2383 SA, these were good
to 4 GHz.
What annoys me is it's become a bandwagon for karma. Half the people bitching at Google for shutting some service down probably never even used the service.

Companies kill unpopular or bad products. Google is not unique.
This is a great philosophy, I'd love to see it applied more broadly.
So is a spell checker in an IM client equally a problem?
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Not really, this deals a lot more with lifecycle events, constructors, inheritance, scoping of styles, etc. To do so it's operating at a completely different level, very much in the DOM.
I never see spam in my mailboxes. It's first-class. The only false positives I've had were occasional HARO (Help-A-Reporter-Out) mails. With all the ads PRWeb injects into what's already a list of links, it probably should be called spam these days.
MOOCs, and MOODs?
Their attorneys did draft the letter. I'm not sure how serious they actually are in this case. They're claiming that we dilute their family of marks.
This is great, thanks! I'd like to hear a ding or some audio notification at the end of each section.
Similar to AngularJS also a Google project.
If you are talking to an average user (implied by #2), then there are short odds that at some point their machine will be compromised, at which point it doesn't matter how secure the communications channel is.
Ed Bott just doesn't get it, does he?

Skype was originally marketed as having end-to-end encryption. Now, we know that since Microsoft bought Skype they've added wiretapping support, which works by making themselves a man-in-the-middle. They claim they only do this temporarily for people they are actively wiretapping.

This, however, shows that Microsoft regularly MITMs you, for the purpose of evaluating whether links are dangerous. This means that basically all of Skype's former privacy claims are no longer true. They simply regularly look at your unencrypted traffic, which means that they are a target for attackers, governments, and pretty much anyone who wants to eavesdrop or read your messages.
One thing that's missing from the timeline is equivalent services that Google have launched/purchased. For example, Google Video didn't so much 'shut down' as merge with (the arguably better) Youtube.
I am naively optimistic that the positive parts of his character and experience can be gleaned from the whole, even if the whole was rotten over all.
I have to turn off the spam filtering from Rackspace because it loses a lot of real mail.
I find I am (a little) less of a jackass when I post with my real name.
No, I made an id before I realized that real names are more common. However I see no reason to swap out, its not like people who know me cannot find me

Would I change to my real name, not really, giving the current job environment I do not see the benefit
you really need hmac or similar. someone else already said, but in more words: in a practical system (that has error handling etc) your current approach can allow someone to provide fake data. if they can trick you into repeating the same message (random iv doesn't help) then they can use padding to work out what bits of iv to flip to give any first block. and you including length in message only makes that easier (no second block error).

better: why not implement a lower level without crypto then layer a known good crypto on top? so just go for datagrams (udp), then add reliability (tcp), then add, say tls. I don't know much about this (sorry), but I bet once you have udp there are libraries to do almost all the rest.
Relying on a eCommerce company like Amazon, you're going nowhere fast.

I too can make blanket ignorant statements. Google is not just an advertisement company anymore. Haven't been for awhile.
I find the two-column layout hard to deal with. I think I have figured out an algorithm for visually determining the chronological order of the posts, without having to read the timestamp in each post. But my algorithm requires considerable visual and intellectual effort. Is there an intuitive way to see the chronology of the posts? BTW, I'm not a huge fan of facebook's two-column layout either, but at least the arrows pointing to the time axis show the order of the posts.
I voted yes. I'm Fuzzwah (or Fuzzy, or Fuz) here and everywhere else, even away from the keyboard. The name which is on my birth certificate is easily discoverable.

I just wanted to note that being known by a nick name out in the real world is for the most part a wonderful thing. It is always interesting to see how people react when I introduce myself as Fuzzy.

On one other note, apparently Facebook considers "Fuzzy" to be a bad word or something as I'm unable to include it in any part of my name or nickname on the site. It has always bothered me. So much so that I've sent many emails to support trying to get an answer as to why. Never had a response. Shrug.
Honestly, the conferences are still 99.75% awesome. The CoC was called for because people wish to get the 0.25% under control too and there is a lot of prior art in other hacker communities.
OK, so now we get to play "compared to what?"

OP is about murder rate, not gun violence rate.

(2011):
National rate: 4.7
Northeast rate: 3.9
MA rate: 2.8
NH rate: 1.3

MA's rate is lower than the national average and lower than the Northeast regional average, but more than double than NH's average.

My argument is that NH has a particularly low murder rate because it doesn't really have any big cities--the populated areas are mostly suburban. High murder rates correlate with high population density (and poverty). If the nearby metropolis of Boston were inside NH's borders, then I think NH would have the higher murder rate. Do you disagree with that assessment?
Are You Cynical Enough To Build a Good Product?
I think we've always had multiple public and private personas. Many of us are not the exact same person around strangers than we are at home, or with friends. It's just that what's seamless and instinctive in physical space is often hard to translate into the 'net, and the big sites don't help at all.
Oh thank-you, thank-you, Slackwise. You're my new best friend.
Are the indices based on reql expressions updated incrementally?

How about making indices based on map-reduce? Would that work? Would they be updated incrementally?
I am appalled by the lack of respect Andrew Mason gets on Hacker News.
Sure Groupon is the not the most impressive piece of technology built in the past five years, but you can credit this guy for creating a billion dollar Company with millions of customers in a pretty short time frame. They have made mistakes along the way, but who doesn't?
I also find his blogging style refreshing compared to all the semi-famous startups CEOs pontificating about stuff they have done. Next batch of YC will be lucky to have him around.
High-Performance Server Architecture, Software Scaling
Yep, he was coding for one of Eric Lefkofksky's other companies when he took the idea for ThePoint to Eric and got funded to work on it.
I trust if Facebook did the same thing you would post the same snarky comment? (Sorry for the snarky comment)