skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I liked this comment , but instead of funding local talent ,wouldn't it make more sense to fund the best solutions for important problems ? Yes the direct financial gain might be a bit less(specially with today's thin startups), but better products and services might offer a lot more value.
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Check out http://www.feedsapi.org , it's one of the very best.
"Best" varies wildly from market to market, but if I had to pick, I'd start with folks whose job is creating and improving landing pages:

http://landerapp.com/

http://unbounce.com/

http://www.crazyegg.com/

https://mixpanel.com/

https://www.kissmetrics.com/

http://copyhackers.com/

This short list already covers a lot of different styles. Some may even look a bit dated, but you can be sure they are converting very well, because that's what they are optimizing for.
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So I'm the developer of the app. Some questions for other devs:

- Have you ever had this happen to you? What did you do?

- How long have copies of your apps stayed available, and did Apple or the other "developer" take them down?

- Any ideas on how to detect these cases, other than buying every new app in your category and checking it?

It's really frustrating that these are getting through the approval process; I feel pretty powerless to do anything about it.
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The Python Cookbook has been a great resource in both of the previous editions. I've been following Dave's pain in writing this on twitter, so I have no doubt that this one will be the same. This is a "must have" on any python hacker's bookshelf!
After what happened to e-gold, there's fuck all chance anyone running a similar service would want to work with the feds.
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Very cool advice. I'm try this out.
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Also, give a go to https://www.hnsearch.com/. There are plenty of good topics on this.
It's not an American phenomenon, most people who care about education (parents, students and educators alike) in Spain believe exactly the same thing. We haven't (yet) undergone a massive privatization of our education system, so privatization is not the core issue.

(I think this is the result of many factors conspiring to undermine the ability, energy and willpower of parents to be truly engaged with their kids' education, but that's material for an entire book)
Adds weight to the idea of the Blub Paradox: http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html
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Affiliate linked I see.
Twitter already has a huge infrastructure for SMS, reusing it makes some sense from an internal-logic standpoint..

For Apple's use-case, their users already have phones, and understanding TOTP would make it harder. Push notifications are already pretty straight forward, so building on top of that also makes sense.

For Google, for instance, I often use their SMS verification rather than going to the authenticator anyway - It's faster, easier, and gets me logged in. It still raises the barrier of entry versus just guessing my password.
I wonder why authors of P=NP 'proofs' won't attach a program that solves some NP hard problem for a collection of large inputs in reasonable time.

This of course wouldn't prove the work is valid, but should be enough to draw attention and have the paper reviewed by qualified people.
Annoying typo in the original article's title, faithfully reproduced here. Can someone fix it locally, at least? Thanks.
I just saw that. I def want to go through your tutorials. Very excited to learn ruby
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Perhaps writing a distraction-free writer now becoming a justified form of procrastination for writers!
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I didn't know this was something you weren't supposed to do. Seriously, if I could delete this link, I would.

If this is a problem, I'll donate all proceeds to the charity of your choice. I'll post images of how much is earned.
Choose from 2 extreme alternatives:

a. Treat this project as if it were your sick child on life support.

b. Treat this project as if it were a gazelle being ripped apart by a pride of lions.

If you choose (a), do anything and everything you can to save it. Be open and sincere and stop at nothing.

If you choose (b), prepare a resume and run the other way. No sense risking your own well-being on a lost cause.

The worst thing to do would be to make any choice in between these two.
The real question though... Is it su-doo mode or su-doh mode?
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Rare to see such insight here. Can't upvote enough.
But it isn't a routine culture of violence. It is a culture of shaming, violence and impunity against victims with very specific traits. Which actually do include things like intellectual ability, sensitivity or preference to be alone. It actually isn't equally applied to everyone.
And just when I'd finally flushed Sapir-Whorf out of my system...
O(n^10) algorithm is in P, but does not solve large inputs in reasonable time.
If the service already has your plaintext data, how would encrypting solve the problem? There is no way to know the service didn't just make a plaintext copy beforehand. The only way to be sure is to enter after encryption in the first place, but that would be impractical for the user and leaves the service unable to do any processing of the encrypted data.
I believe moderators can edit links, no idea how to reach them though.
work hard, complain hard.
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Correct me if im wrong - no computer out of the box can not open Australian Govt documents anymore?
I have a question about this. What happens if I lose my phone ? Do I lose access to the account ?
Thanks :) I enjoyed putting the e-book together
Let me see what I can do on my end. Again, I'm willing to give all proceeds to the PSF or whoever.

Are there published guidelines on this or is this one of those unwritten rules I've stumbled into?
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Twitter doesn't allow me to ad 2fa because my carries (BSNL/India) isn't supported.
Facebook doesn't give me an option to add Login Approvals because its not rolled out to everyone.
I need 2fa, and I need it now!
In a culture like that appears to be, it's pointless to be that guy screaming about the upcoming iceberg. No one will listen. Far better to be the guy with solutions once fail happens.

Frankly this sounds like the sort of environment where introducing scrum would be a big step forward. As the developer, knowing a good scrum consultant to introduce to the company might be a good move, once the fail happens.
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I agree. I love the idea of TOTP. It is not tied to a specific vendor or app and it doesn't require a internet connection to work. The only issue I found was there is no way to change the default timeout of 30 seconds and 30 seconds maybe more than enough to brute force a 6 digit numerical phrase.
No worries. I think it's usually considered bad form on news aggregators.
If it were me, I'd ask for reassurance on my concerns, and if that didn't lead anywhere I'd start looking for another job.
> in my personal anecdotal experience bullies select victims that somehow respond in a manner that rewards the bullying.

And here we are again, blaming the victim. Substitute 'rape' for 'bully' and you get a readout of the same regressive mentality. The target of bullying or of rape gets the 'bottom' role; the kind of argument you are making is that they are more or less justly assigned that role for being inherently effeminate or oversensitive and that the solution is for them to toughen up. Because you didn't suffer that much, because you were so much better at dealing with the bullying. Sorry, it doesn't work that way. You are congratulating yourself for having it relatively easy.
I think they will make you go through the account reset sequence just like when you lose your password.
I'm not aware of how other services handle this, but google hands you "Backup Codes" that you can use when you don't have your phone. Google recommends to keep them in your wallet, but I keep them safe on lastpass, which helps when you are without both your phone and wallet.
Don't limit people to business or technical roles
Good stuff; FWIW, I've been playing with the Twilio (php) implementation and so far it looks like we may use this for a certain client...

http://www.twilio.com/docs/howto/two-factor-authentication
relatively low-tech advances that were made possibly by modern civilization, which was made possible by our expansionism.
It's likely not enough time, since the website you're logging in to can forbid that many passwords from the same token in a short amount of time.
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You can't really know unless you have their conversions numbers. Otherwise, it's just picking randomly. Landing pages Re not about beauty, but about conversions. The ugliest pages usually convert more.
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That's a good question, but always keep in mind that polynomial time doesn't imply that it'll be faster than the currently used algorithms on any real application.
I am not quite sure what is happening here. There are two different ways to look at this, the first being that the federal government knew about the illegal transactions happening at LR, and was unable though incompetence to stop them. The second being that the government didn't have the technical or legal ability to stop them. Either way it does not paint the government in a good light.
JFYI the whole dreamwidth.org is restricted, http://www.zapret-info.gov.ru should contain info what web resources are restricted in Russian Federation but it's taking too much time to load and times out.
That's hardly an iron-clad causal chain there. I'm pretty sure penicillin would have happened whether or not we deforested California and turned it into a giant collection of freeways and parking lots.
We use partychat extensively, and everyone who tried out the new hangouts faced the same issue: Our partychat bot won't even show up in the list. Messages sent from either side were lost. Ultimately, we have decided to ask everyone to "undo the upgrade" as of now.

We are looking for alternatives.
That's very kind. I have a better suggestion though: How about you distribute the proceeds in proportion to the total points of authors with upvoted posts suggesting that people go any buy the book? My comment above has two points already!

Even better - the algorithm you write could go into the 4th edition of the Cookbook :-)

P.S. Everyone should go any buy the book. (I want this comment to count too!)
Nice counter, but it would be nicer if it was directly connected to a coffeemachine such as http://moccapi.blogspot.it/ or http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/2975 and maybe to a "sandwich machine" ? :)
I don't think they should remove SMS support, but that it's not sufficient on its own.

At least for me, TOTP is much faster than SMS would be: request it, wait for it to arrive - if I have good signal, get to it on my phone vs. open the authenticator app and read one of the codes.
Isn't excel just a tool? The challenging parts are knowing what numbers to put in and the analysis of the results.
The battlefield is physical. It always will be. It only appears not to be because that side of things is remarkably well covered.

The day that a nation decides to not bother with the physical battlefield is the day they get slaughtered by a rabble with flintlocks, metaphorically (or perhaps literally). Being king of the cyber world will do you no good at all if you can't stop the other guy simply walking in and shooting you.
I have heard (anecdotally, I have no proof of this) that the most selective, high-paying employers are now asking candidates what prep schools they went to, because they no longer consider an Ivy League education a reliable enough marker of social class. If this is true, it's sadly ironic.
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Sure, people are bullied for having qualities that are inherent to being a geek, or very strongly associated. But not for actually being a geek.

What? That's a meaningless distinction.

Of course bullies do not necessarily use the word 'geek,' that word is a product of people trying to carve out a measure of societal and self-respect by claiming the label (like others have claimed 'queer' - a closely related concept given that all these targets are lumped together as bottoms for the purposes of imposing domination with impunity).

It's far from true that nobody is attacked for having qualities encapsulated in the word 'geek'.
In the end, connections still matter then...
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I have a Dell Vostro 2420 I got with Ubuntu for around $50 less than the same machine with Windows ~6 months ago.

However, it seems this is no longer possible. I've searched Dell's site and the only Vostro 2420 I see with Ubuntu has different hardware (i3 vs celeron). Very disappointing. I will not pay the MS tax.
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> Pause. This doesn't make sense. If you have a polynomial algorithm then it's in P. If you've reduced HC to MSP then you've already shown MSP is NP-Hard.

This actually makes sense, although it wouldn't be necessary to point out.

If the author proves that P=NP, then all problems in P are NP-complete (because every problem in P is reducible to any non-trivial problem in P).

The paper doesn't look very promising to me, but the basic logic of the argument makes sense.
Perhaps you need to change the way you think about the PC industry and the way it produces integrated machines?

Even if you skip the huge cost of qualifying parts for a different operating system, and sell PCs without any hardware or software support, there are still extra tracking and stock-keeping costs, and probably extra marketing costs. These will be high, in unit terms, because of the small number of units shipped.

Not being a lawyer, I've no idea whether an OEM could get away with refusing to support the systems it sells. If it can't, you'd have to add the cost of testing and qualifying parts, and I'm not sure how you'd do that. Could you do it for a single version of Linux? Would you have to test for _anything_ the user might install? I don't want to open that can of worms....
I agree with you. I also think it's somewhat pointless that a bunch of people have to move to a high-COL area when they really don't want to be there.

There are plenty of people who'd love to have the same jobs as they can get in the Valley in smaller towns. They move where the jobs are. That'd be fine, except they get taxed to death by the landlords.

Location should, in truth, be completely irrelevant. It's not so much that I see a virtue in funding "local talent" as I'm averse to the conditions that require such talent to be elsewhere, in a place where they have to compete with housing against Russian oligarchs and parentally-funded dipshits (i.e. "funemployed" hipsters) with effectively infinite resources.
The funny thing is that "meritocracy" was never supposed to have a positive connotation. It was satire.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2001/jun/29/comment
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The article touts Belarus' monthly salaries of $650, but in Bangladesh, you can hire people for $60. And besides, multinationals don't operate their own factories in .bd, they just contract out to the lowest local bidder.
Whilst more passwords (and indeed more attempts to add ad-hoc features to HTML) are the last thing we need right now, a simpler answer to all of this (including hosts storing passwords insecurely) if we absolutely must stick with such authentication for now, has always struck me as adding authentication which only relies on trusting one's browser/local OS.

I'd be curious to hear criticism (tptacek?) of, for example, an attribute on <input type='password'/> that caused the browser to hide its plaintext contents even from the site in question and to only expose a hashed/<>crypted/MACed form - granted this would require periodic updates to bring it in line with newer standards, but it would centralise the implementation of such password securing schemes (we could even have a stab at proper zero-knowledge!) and subject to the field being implemented sanely (secret set, non-empty, using MAC) the field could perhaps be indicated secure by the browser in a way hard to emulate in HTML (changing something in the window chrome upon entering the field? I know this is difficult.)

(something along the lines of <input type='password' expose='hmac-sha1' secret='...' /> (taking the example from the Matasano article) - I grant that in the case of a server compromise this would allow this field to be a chosen secret, but as before, an empty secret could be noted by the browser as insecure, for example - and no, in this instance I haven't sat down and gone over the primitives for this yet to check how they would behave in the face of a chosen secret).

Granted this is all wishful thinking (and certainly thought upon by others before), but I'd be curious to hear criticism.
Run your own XMPP server?
> Why is it a problem to discuss consensus if the consensus is from educated parties and founded on empirical evidence supporting the consensus?

When people talk about general relativity they don't refer to the scientific consensus behind the theory? It stands up to scrutiny because there are numerous reproducible experiments lending to its validity along with some very solid mathematics to back it up. The science behind climate change is very hard to create experiments for, however, and so we must lean heavily on computer simulated models (which, by the way, are rarely used to prove much of anything in the hard sciences). Thus, you hear a lot more about "consensus" than you would otherwise.
I read it the opposite way - your chances of having a big impact are low, so stop worrying and start a company anyway. This might sound paradoxical, but for a lot of people (myself included) being told "don't waste your time on something trivial" can be paralysing. You end up questioning every idea and never being able to settle on one.

You can (and should) get a sense of which ideas are worthwhile, but you'll never know for sure. Maybe your potential cure for cancer won't work. Maybe your todo list app will help 100 medical non-profits each be 5% more efficient, in effect having 5 non-profit's worth of impact. With that in mind, the best you can do is pick something that you can probably make work, that people probably want, and that will probably have a positive impact on society. Whether or not you change the world is up to the gods.
Sorry, but you are completely wrong about this and you are justifying bullying. No, bullies are not physically fit, many of them are obese children and a lot of the time the attacks are by a mob of kids and not just one strong, fit one.

This and homophobia are actually well related, as bullied victims are often shamed as "fags" and accused - by people like you - of meriting the treatment due to their weakness or effeminacy. And it is also of one piece with blaming rape victims for the way they dressed. It is all one role, that of the passive-receptive 'bottom' which society despises.
Check out her talk as well - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPGpZp1pfQQ
I think you should post that comment as an answer, it is very graphical but helpful!
they end up doing endless iterations of designs which mostly never end up in production, microsoft was done by paravelinc btw. Here's a real story of one of those big corps: http://dustincurtis.com/dear_american_airlines.html
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Spot the error or shut up. If Ramajuan would write a paper himself he could only cite some rather obscure mathematical encyclopedia, he still uncovered wide areas of mathematics unknown to his contemporaries. There might be one Ramajuan for 100 000 cranks, but it still sucks to dismiss someones work based on the fucking bibliography...
I'd be hesitant to raise concerns, on what appears to be a relatively small project, in case you become the scapegoat and a way for either the manager or your colleagues to point the finger at you for not being a team member and hence the reason the project failed.

Since it's only 6 weeks to the deadline it is probably worth pitching in and trying to make it work. If failure is going to be a big deal then you'll all be looking for jobs anyway. Alternatively it might turn out that the deadline was not so crucial and you will be able to sort out the mess.

Always remember that rats are first to desert a sinking ship - you don't want to end up with being labelled as such.
I find this whole deal very amusing because I suspect that most answers on this survey is wrong. I think we are not giving the students enough credit. I know that I was given surveys like this when in high school and I never answered them correctly, nor did any of my friends. Although the issues with punishing the teacher who is looking out for students is a problem, we should also be looking at why this survey was given in the first place. It seems like a complete waste of money and time by the school district.
Teachers should probably not dispense legal advice, but school admins should not take on the role of pop psychologists.

Were I a parent, I would expect the school system to secure my permission to ask my child questions of a personal nature. Which I probably would grant after a discussion with my child.
Pop quiz, hot shot: if you're looking for an export powerhouse next to the EU, what's Belarus got that Turkey doesn't have?
> Am I just seeing outliers here?

They are 'outrage posts' - stuff that gets attention because it makes you angry.

I do not think they are very healthy for the focus of this community because the number of outrageous injustices in the world far outweighs the number of good posts about startups and hacking. Also, they attract pretty much anyone because it's not hard to have an opinion about them, whereas "Clojure vs Erlang for a distributed system" is likely to attract a far more restricted group of people.
To be fair, I'm willing to see this question posed as "Can Marisa's Yahoo!" as opposed to "Can pre-Marisa's Yahoo!", and I see them potentially being two different things. In some ways, like Apple before Jobs can back, and Apple after Jobs came back.
"always". What is this always scenario look like if MS decides to drop the "must allow legacy boot / disabling SB / enrolling key" requirement and only enroll theirs?

Not saying that will happen, I honestly don't think Microsoft cares that much (my own opinion, speculation based on Linux's market share despite my own love of it).

Just... "always" is a strong word. People used that word when talking about secure bootloaders on devices like Droid2, etc. Things that were ultimately only circumvented by kexec. Something that would be much different in a SecureBoot scenario.
neat, and a nice clean demo of django.

myself, i wrote a HN clone one afternoon (when HN was down for several hours) using flask. since i'm the only user, i feed it with twitter. what i did was set up a twitter account - @hacktweetnews - and have it follow most of the top twitter users from the HN community [1] and then score it reddit-like. no votes aside from what people post as duplicates, no comments - so it definitely lacks the full features you have, but then again it's just me. however, like your django example, it was super easy to set up in a framework. yours is definitely far more feature-filled!

1. http://talkfast.org/2010/07/28/twitter-users-most-followed-b...
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I don't know partychat .. is that an XMPP server or a XMPP client/bot?
A bit strange that it costs $28.91 on Amazon.com but £38.50 on Amazon.co.uk.