skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I did it for awhile, with some part time remote work to keep up a cashflow, while bootstrapping a startup.

In the end, the startup trumped the third-party work, and I focused on it exclusively. Still later, I moved to a city to continue. The city gave me better network infrastructure (not such an issue in Europe or parts of the US, but still a big issue in many places), plus - far more critically - access to a serious HR market and decisionmakers in partner organisations (telecommunications providers, government taxation bureaus, etc.).

Also, the clear "leave work and there is nobody who would have the foggiest about what it is you do all day" thing can promote a healthier work/life balance than inner-city cash-burning type startup environments, IMHO.
I remember interviewing for a job at a utility that gave a written test to determine aptitude for learning assembler. All I could think is, "Oh boy this will lead to a miserable existence." Then again, if I were born 30 years earlier, I'd have loved to learn it.
Indeed:

http://www.cps.usa.canon.com/about_cps/about.shtml

Summary: you only get loaners and and such once you've purchased "20 CPS points" worth of stuff, which seems to roughly amount to $12-15K worth of gear.
>> Lobster: v := [ 1, 0, 0 ]:xyz
>> C#: var v = new xyz(1, 0, 0); you'd actually have to define the constructor in C# to be able to do this

well, not exactly. You could do:
>> var v = new xyz{x:1, y:0, z:0};
Yes, I frown a lot at Fox as well, but not solely because of their grammar and punctuation. Many other news agencies have picked up the story.
I agree with the parent commenter: the fact that "don't be evil" was adopted suggests strongly that there is a motivation to be evil that needed to be overcome (and that users could identify with).

The company storytelling that goes along with the slogan doesn't matter, and nor does it matter that it's intended mainly as a jab at competitors in the same industry.
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Dude, it took me like 2 stackoverflow questions to get that working in pygame! (sadly not for a game, just a 3D visualiser for helping me debug my PhD code.)

This language is even more awesome than I thought :)
If it's a learning internship (as opposed to a "Get me coffee" internship) all you can trade for the teaching and money is enthusiasm. Many people treat interns like a burden from HR, and the way to win them over is enthusiasm. After you get the offer you can look around at how people work, and decide if it's worth staying long term.
It's not a big deal, unless there's another recall in quick succession. One vehicle recall may be regarded as a misfortune; two looks like carelessness. (With apologies to Oscar Wilde)
Thank you. I didn't know tracking users would be a problem. I will try to figure it out.
According to Snowden's leaked Prism slides, Google was brought into the NSA fold on the 14th of January 2009. So Firefox is well over 4 years behind Chrome in that respect as well. Get your act together, Mozilla!
Here's a TED Talk from Bonnie Bassler about quorum sensing in bacteria: http://www.ted.com/talks/bonnie_bassler_on_how_bacteria_comm...
It's not either specifically blocking the other, it's both. The two rules specify restrictions that are incompatible with the other. GPL says: no taking away certain freedoms. AppStore EULA says: no allowing certain freedoms.
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I'd like to know how the HN community submits their sites to search engines and gets them indexed? Besides DMOZ.org are there others which people would recommend?
From the publication dates, this could be what Thomas Maier-Komor got his PhD for; however, since he now appears to have a full-time job at BMW, I wouldn't count on this being developed further.

There's still Cil if you speak Ocaml: http://kerneis.github.io/cil/doc/html/cil/
Every NP problem can be converted in another NP problem, so you could probably try to convert your subset problem to a TSP problem (but it wouldn't be useful in practice)
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That's fucking awful. On far too many levels.

Right now I'm feeling very angry, I'm not going to write anything more other than to say: it doesn't matter what Georgia wore, it doesn't matter if she let that bastard into her room, it doesn't matter if she said something he might have construed as sexual. You don't rape women.

Georgia did nothing wrong here. To say otherwise is disgusting, and if you think it you're a worm. Less than a worm actually.
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The GPL says nothing at all about what YOU can do with YOUR copy. It says that you can't enslave OTHERS by limiting what THEY do with THEIR copies.
Does a child die of hunger every 10 seconds?
I really want start getting my hands dirty with Docker and give it a good evaluation. However, until they can support using a proxy server, it's dead-on-arrival for me.

I filed a bug report and even been on to the IRC channel to chat to the devs, but no-one seems interested.

Developers of the world: a large number of people will experiment with your products at work and a large number of work places use proxies. Don't forget about us when you invent a shiny new toy!
You are right, that encryption would be a problem, but you'd still get a giant amount of unencrypted traffic.

Also, not every company is a US company.

I doubt that costs for such an operation would make any difference to the US government, considering how much it is spending per day on its military.
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My take away is that it's a child dies of poor nutritional education of the parents
I'd love to see an HN competition of AIs learning and playing UltimateTicTacToe.
Seriously? Can't there be one discussion on here that isn't about Snowden or Prism?
Physical write-protect switches on USB drives used to be common. I have 2 or 3 low capacity drives in a drawer with the switches.

A google search for

write protect switch flash drive

lists several drives that explicitly state they have a write protect switch.
The first point is odd. I got one of the original Cr-48 Chromebooks, and the current tab would always stutter when other tabs were loading. I installed stock Ubuntu and Firefox on it and I never had that problem. Just lately, in the past year or so, I've noticed the same problem in FF. With all the optimizations they've been making, I can't think what would have changed that behavior.
" But really, you can unplug the new Xbox, it's just that if the situation goes on for more than 24hrs you won't be able to play anything (Sony 'resolved' the situation within hours by removing the problem patch). "
not sure what you mean by 'resolved' when scores of people are complaining Sony just bricked their consoles.
Correct. Anything that had some kind of open source license (particularly for acquired products in spaces where Oracle had little actual experience) required justification for why the license had to be that way to maximize the business value to Oracle. Not a single penny could leak from the purse, even on speculation that it would generate good will and lead to a better market position etc.
It was solely about the money, and it felt like we were reminded of this every single day. This was in product management, so that probably had something to do with it.
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type safety in numbers :-)
For people who've found the prior 7-minute workout[1] too time consuming, I guess.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5704485
"No Multi-Process Architecture"

This is a feature, and I like it.

The rest is just flamebait.
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This bug hasn't caused any devices to get bricked either. The title is wrong. The recovery menu is accessible, so is definitely patchable.
I initially read that as 90% of the aftermarket HDD systems were affected rather than 90% of the affected systems were those with aftermarket HDDs.

These numbers come from looking at the problem reports on a forum.
I wonder if an Arduino could fill the role of the PDP-11. I know it doesn't come with any kind of interface, but I wonder if it's open source enough for them. That, plus the $30 price tag to swap in/out to replace a dead unit would be a benefit.
Chrome was years behind Firefox, too: https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=143 - from at least 2008 thorough 2012 there was no proper color management in Chrome, while Firefox had it. This was a deal-breaker for some users. Eventually Chrome copied what Firefox had for many years. It goes both ways.
You can install webapps from the marketplace on firefox desktop now (in nightly at least)

Firefox OS has a multiprocess architecture, I believe the main problem for desktop is plugins / backwards compatibility
I'd argue that China started the war, and the US is going to escalate it. At least a decade before the US had an organized plan for fighting a digital war, China had organized, very large, and very effective hacking efforts underway targeting the US government and US companies.
Does it apply to diplomats visiting the US? What about their families?
Why is "without warning" in quotes?
Did he get a warning but chose to ignore it?
Didn't they send a warning?

I'm also pretty wary about believing wat mr. Dotcom says without a different side of the story.
Repost from last week, but I accidentally posted it in the new instead of the ask thread, sorry! I'm particularly looking for feedback about how to explain the product better (aka creating a better sales pitch). Somehow I find it very hard to explain a simple product :). Now also available outside of Europe.
I agree, but I doubt they will have to wait weeks for a fix. Sony will have a patch within a day or two.
Jaguar does (or did when my parents had one). I think other luxury car dealers typically do as well.
Yeah, neither is good for PS3 owners, that's not in question here, but there is a big difference between being bricked and not.

From wikipedia:
"In one common sense of the term, "bricking" suggests that the damage, often a misconfiguration of essential on-board software, is so serious as to have rendered the device _permanently_ unusable."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brick_(electronics)
Does anyone have experience with what they call "app tender" sites like http://appcity.org/ ?

I've heard one anecdote about a guy who knows a guy who bought a very simple iOS app for 10K, did some marketing on FB and made like 20K within a month.

I'm more interested in any experience from the developer perspective selling apps on a marketplace like this. I've also heard the new iOS makes this easier to do.
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Just wanted to say that it's very nice of you to offer this domain to the creator(s) of lobster. I hate domain hogging.

On an unrelated note, Lobster seems quite interesting. Will spend sometime on it this weekend.
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Did you open any pdfs? I found out[1] that pdf.js encounters memory leaks that can bring the browser to its knees. Apparently image only pdfs leak (IIRC) and cause GB of memory to be used on 1MB file.

[1]https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=878397
how is this a feature?
Is a city containing a million humans conscious? If not, what is the criteria which rules out that city is not adaptive or complex and powerful enough?
Also, 50% of people are below average intelligence...
I can't believe Kim Dotcom stored the data on only Leaseweb's servers. I hope he has backup copies or mirrors from another storage provider.
> it is probably good to... treat “BigBird” and “bigbird” as the same username.

Erm...
Frequency Trails
It's nice to see a Firefox vs Chrome article that doesn't mention memory usage.

The App store idea isn't that dissimilar to the add-ons Firefox has had essentially since it was born (along with a central repository), especially since Firefox add-ons can do so much more with the browser. Admittedly, there's no concept of money with the add-ons, which makes them almost useless as a way to build a business.
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I'll have you know mozilla was very involved with Prism some time ago.

https://mozillalabs.com/en-US/prism/
Unfortunately they currently have 2 loaners, a p85 and 60, in the entire DFW metroplex. I took mine in for service and they gave me a Yaris from enterprise because the loaners were being used. I'm just glad I got something for free, although a p85 would of been fun. :)
Lower memory usage (I think).
I will try that out, but just like the parent, I really struggle using DDG because it truly is not returning the results I am looking for.
It think that this is, on balance, a good idea.

It would even out the information imbalance and provide equality-at-arms between the individual and the state (which is an unabashedly good thing).

On the other hand, it would entail a huge cultural shift, which many people would be uncomfortable with, and would take a while to get used to. However, once the shift is complete, I think we would be more honest about ourselves, more at home in our skins, with all of our flaws and weaknesses made public. We might expect a little less (false) perfection from each other as well, which can only be a good thing.
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> The NSA expressly claims the right to store and even disseminate such domestic communication if: (1) "it is reasonably believed to contain significant foreign intelligence information"; (2) "the communication does not contain foreign intelligence information but is reasonably believed to contain evidence of a crime that has been, is being, or is about to be committed"; or (3) "the communication is reasonably believed to contain technical data base information, as defined in Section 2(i), or information necessary to understand or assess a communications security vulnerability."

Does #3 say what I think it does? That the NSA thinks it has a right to record and disseminate my email if I talk to a coworker about our servers' security?

Edit: For context, "domestic" communications in this paragraph is defined as communications 100% within the US: "Those guidelines specifically address what the NSA does with what it calls "domestic communications", defined as "communications in which the sender and all intended recipients are reasonably believed to be located in the United States at the time of acquisition."

Second to last paragraph of the section, Warrantless interception of Americans' communications.
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It's the really small things that annoy me about Firefox. For example, in gmail, when writing an email, I can't hit cmd+right arrow to go to the end of a line. And because links are set to open in a new window, I can't cmd+click them to open them in the background.
With all the nice items recently implemented in Chrome and all the lagging behind and alleged slowness of Firefox, I still see "aw, snap! crash!" in Chrome an order of magnitude more frequently on my screen than Firefox crash reports.

However the slowness of Firefox when Firebug is on when loading resource-heavy pages starts really bothering me.
> No company have ever increased the revenue by changing an insignificant detail like a button color. None. Zero. Get over it.

This contradicts the article about A/B testing by Wired, which used the Obama campaign as an example.

http://www.wired.com/business/2012/04/ff_abtesting
Non-free software, don't think about using it for anything real.
Admit it, you just needed an excuse for the company to buy a nice espresso machine for the office :)
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Especially with what being caught means. It's a secret program so no one will know and I doubt the analysts risk jail time.
A startup is a company meant to grow quickly. They grew, quickly. From 2011 to 70 employees and turning down 8 digit figures? I consider them a startup, they scaled very fast.
Tax loopholes are usually used in the context of money that was intended to be taxed but cannot be due to technical reasons, such as language of the law or inability for the IRS to execute enforcement of the tax.
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Could share a twin room? I'm in Bristol.
This is a seldom known fact that catches people out because most assume that if you have the map locally, it will help you traverse it locally. My personal story on this is going across the border to see an NFL game in Detroit last year, turning off data because of the usurious rates Canadian carriers charge for roaming. When leaving I couldn't navigate at all -- despite the relevant map being available -- so I had to turn data on for a couple of seconds just for Google to get the route. $20 for 3MB of data. Someone relying upon it when they're out of cellular range would be in a much worse situation.
I was under the impression that the megaupload servers weren't paid for after Kim's assets got frozen. Leaseweb was forced to keep the data for the duration of the investigation, and had to eat the losses. My guess is that Leaseweb reached the point where they just want to cut their losses and move on. I highly doubt Leaseweb wiped the Megaupload servers "just because".

This looks like an attempt by Kim to create outrage and bad PR for Leaseweb.
I haven't really kept up on McAfee news, isn't he wanted for murder somewhere? But I thought the vid was hilarious!

I have to say, the McAfee AV on Windows is pretty much as described. I have to support it for clients, and often, when I get complaints about PC slow down or freezes, one of the first things I do is to disable all the McAfee services.

Anyone recommend better competitors to McAfee?
Those cookie law popups are even worse than ads. And what's even worse they don't really do anything - a lot of Slovenian websites just added the popup, but the use of cookies hasn't changed.

I do have to hand it to the people who run https://slo-tech.com/ . There is no cookie banner there, because they decided to simply remove all the cookies, awesome job!
Here's why I don't care: I like Firefox better.
that's what you get when you store data "in the cloud"...
Without all the add-ons that make browsing useful, it doesn't really matter how far "ahead" chrome is.
Maybe this could explain why hackers love to code late at night. I'm definitely more productive at night then in the day time.
At least with Packer shares you know in advance it's not a good financial decision, because they don't appreciate or return dividends. It's basically just a certificate of fandom.

(I still almost bought one though.)
I'm inclined to say there are already a few simple AIs that play perfectly, so it would likel not be that exciting :/
Good to know. After reading stories of several folks unable to get SIMs at Apple Stores, I ordered a SIM off eBay for $4.99.
>It's radically easier to invest $100 into hosting ($10 or $20 / month at digital ocean), build a service, and make $1,000 a month (a huge return on the invested capital) - than to earn a mere 10% per year in stocks.

But the stocks can happen with no effort from my side. Just invest in some fund and let it ride. Building a service that will make $1k/mo isn't "racially easier", it would take many hours of work to accomplish which means I can't be using that valuable time for something else more interesting.
You know what would really be cool? If Netflix would use that money to get History Channel content, I'd never leave Netflix.
There's some good observations here, but I would stop short of the claim that "for viewers, this can only be good." It's not good that some great movie libraries have already been stripped from Netflix because the contract renewal was going to be too expensive. It's not good if Netflix goes all-in on original programming and fails, potentially taking the rest of the company down as well. It's not good if Hollywood feels little pressure to make it easier for consumers to access their content because they're getting great contracts with traditional distributors.

It's also interesting that this article makes no mention of Netflix's 3 other original series that are not as popular as House of Cards and Arrested Development - Netflix is probably making as many flops as hits at the moment, and that adds an important qualification on the risk/reward calculation of its strategic investment in original series - the headliner shows have to not only justify themselves (as the article describes), but carry the duds as they come along as well.
"They informed us TODAY that servers were deleted on February 1st, 2013." https://twitter.com/KimDotcom/status/347346908462841856
Unfortunately, I don't know of anything. http://database-programmer.blogspot.ca/ is good for learning about how to use a database as a database instead of a persistent hash table, but it doesn't really address the why of it so much.
I just switched back to Chrome again from Waterfox. It's crazy how even with only a few tabs open(Facebook, a few HN threads, some reddit and YouTube), Waterfox alone will bring my Core i7 with 8GB of RAM to a crawl. Even before I switched to Chrome, I was using IE 10 in tandem with Waterfox so that it wouldn't bog down my system so much.

Edit: Maybe it's just me? I'll have a look at my settings. Thanks!!
So I could play the same game and say that Chrome is years behind because it usually shows up as the top memory hog when benchmarked against other browsers, including IE.
Search engines have changed. Although my 2004 response might be something like goto www.google.com/addurl and submit, in 2013 you need to up your game. Focus on getting a link to your site from other high authority sites. Look at guest blogging with a link to your site. Better yet, create some awesome content that gets picked up by HN or some other popular news sites. Sharing is caring :)

Good Luck
The first comment on the issue is "It fails in Firefox 3 for me, working in Safari 3 though.", so the feature was copied from Safari?
Or in the UK. Belgium is OK.
I have more than a 100 tabs open at once, it DOES add up.
This is precisely the reason why I still use Firefox. It's impossible to use Chrome on wide gamut displays, everything looks oversaturated. http://cameratico.com/guides/web-browser-color-management-gu...

Chrome now supports ICC profiles for images, but still fail to color manage page elements, which is a deal breaker for me.
Also: Firefox seems to discourage you from messing with cookies. For example: I can't select cookies by TLD. I have to painstakingly go through the list, clicking each host and clicking "Remove". Compare the cooking management functionality with the next tab over, password management. There you can filter the list as you want. So it is possible.
He claims that they informed him today that the data was deleted in February.

https://twitter.com/KimDotcom/status/347346908462841856
So long at people get karma for lazy low-content references to whatever cause everyone is swept up in they won't stop posting them.
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I more or less agree with the second half of your post.

Regarding the first part, I've seen a couple places the claim that the government can't force people to lie - I don't know of any support for this, but also haven't conclusively heard that it's not the case (certainly not from a lawyer). I'm highly skeptical, but wanting to know what support the people claiming this think they have. The fact that you can name another potential constraint that doesn't hold is irrelevant, isn't it?