skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I thought it would be really cool until I realized the whole credit thing. It often takes many permutations of a search to find the results you're looking for. If each attempt costs money and the whole thing might be a waste in the end then it's hardly worthwhile.

I've always been annoyed that Google won't search for symbols. As a programmer that makes searching for certain things anywhere from difficult to impossible. I was hopeful that this would be a search engine I could use to search for code snippets or queries that involve symbols.

Let's say, for example, that I was browsing through some PHP code and saw a double dollar sign ($$) and wanted to know what it was used for (yes, I already know, it's just an example). I might try searching for something like 'PHP $$'. This search engine is useless for that. That's the real problem I need a search engine to solve.
Or, the more likely theory: one of the animators was bored and thought it would be neato to give the pizza truck a cameo appearance. Of course, he pointed it out to a few of his close friends and a free of the people he worked with. As Pixar continued making movies, someone would always sneak the pizza truck in, to the point it's become an integral point in their corporate culture. A Pixar movie wouldn't feel the same without looking for that cameo appearance - for the employees just as much as the consumer.

So yeah, you're right. They do all take place in a unified universe: ours. Where people are people and they do silly, fun things for the sake of them being silly and fun. Like discussing unified universe theories of movies as if there's been any shroud of evidence that would lead anyone to believe one should exist.
We don't have the same problem then. Personally what I hate when I include HTML in my JS is that if I want to include/exlude an attribute/node/text based on a condition/variable, it become a big huge and ugly. This make it a little bit prettier.
I don't get how to use the seo search. How do I search for all websites that have a certain name in their title for example?

<title>name</title>

Just returns the exact match.

And how do I search meta descriptions and meta keywords?
Reporting that something happened is not sponsoring it.
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Point 4 will apply to Ubuntu as well... they're using the Google/Android style FOSS where they work on major releases mostly in secret and then do a large code dump.
" I think that at least 50% of all employee hours is wasted on politics and sherades"

Only 50%? I believe 80% or higher is a better number.

I remember a post here about only getting 2 hours of "real" work done each day in a big bureaucratic company.

I'd quit my job in a heartbeat if I wasn't saddled with debt. Don't be me, don't get in a big debt, else you'll live in bureaucratic hell. Hopefully I'll get out by next year (and I do have a few side projects).
Having been to tech ed, I can tell you that the more popular sessions reach capacity and they start turning people away. So expecting your unannounced +1 to be seated is not reasonable.
What are they thinking?!?!

They clearly aren't.
Are you sure this is not only due to the fact that you've flashed a new rom (you say flash so it's not OTA, I suppose) so the system is freshly installed?

I should try it on my Nexus S that has become sluggish as hell (and I've tried different custom roms)
Ask HN: Should I hire an engineer?
Well.. this seems a newbie question. As a hardware start-up should I hire an engineer? Or outsourcing the jobs would be fine? There have many product development service companies nowadays. And I do not know if there is any hardware engineer willing to working for an unknown small company.
Be more arrogant
You keep saying things like "so many non-standard ways that a package can decide to not start" and "whatever the packager thought up". Can you provide examples of what you mean?

In your blog post you only mention one way of controlling startup- via an environment variable sourced from a file in /etc/defaults. This is the standardized, documented place in Debian for controlling the behavior of init scripts. Offhand, I can't think of any other ways I've seen packager maintainers controlling startup. I'd really need to see more evidence before agreeing that things are "ridiculous", "nuts", or "wrong".

http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/maint-guide/dother.en.html...
Years ago, Linux distributions defaulted to installing everything and the kitchen sink and enabling all those services automatically.

After years of "OOTB pwnage", they started to make things a bit more secure by default and they eventually got to the point we're at today (where most installations are relatively secure by default, OOTB).

(Side note: I believe it was RHL 5.2 that shipped with wu-ftpd enabled out of the box. By the time it shipped (or shortly afterwards, I forget which), there was a remote root exploit for wu-ftpd. Thus, if you installed RHL 5.2, you'd likely get pwned in short order.)
This would be a very good tool to find XSS vulnerable websites.
I think this could get legs.

Are there any other like this issues where the government is blatantly thumbing its nose at its own people? I'm running a survey right now and one of the elements is support for the NSA surveillance, and almost nobody supports it. Like, 85% just say it's flat-out wrong.
As someone who does research and builds infrastructure, it's not all government funded stuff. In fact, I'd say that governments indirectly fund a very small part of my research and none of my infrastructure.
Yes, of course I have evidence. Refer to Google's experience in 2010 when they switched Gmail to HTTPS by default [1]:

> On our production frontend machines, SSL/TLS accounts for less than 1% of the CPU load, less than 10KB of memory per connection and less than 2% of network overhead.

> If you stop reading now you only need to remember one thing: SSL/TLS is not computationally expensive any more.

1. https://www.imperialviolet.org/2010/06/25/overclocking-ssl.h...
Ask HN: Starting company w/ non dev. How to divide profit/revenue/shares?
Hey guys. I met a guy that wants to start a company. His idea is to go 50/50 on the company. He promises to bring in clients and work. He seems like he knows what he is talking about. We vibe together well.

We're meeting for a longer talk today. The problem is I don't want to give him 50% of profits from our early freelance projects just because he found the clients. I want to split the company 50/50 and profits on projects 75/25 (in the beginning while im the only developer).

How would you go about this HN?
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I would have thought that it would worsen big business yet be great for independent consultants setting up their clients' own private email and file sharing operations. A net positive for the economy, I'd guess.
How Microsoft killed off a massive botnet, with trademark law
Sorry to nitpick but MIT/BSD licensed software is free in the FSF/GPL sense. To be free software, you have to respect freedoms 0-3 as defined here: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html . This is the case for MIT/BSD licensed software and both those licenses are considered acceptable free software licenses by the FSF.

The cheklist for Open Source software can be found here: http://opensource.org/docs/osd. They are slightly different but in practice, most (if not all) free software licenses are also open source licenses and vice versa.
But why? Why not stop time instead?
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Of course it has some impact. But it's not significant at all. Take a look at the link in the other comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6102983
People had plenty of prior evidence to fear mass surveillance, but even with these new leaks, most Americans still do not really care. "Nobody can look over my shoulder, the mullet blocks their view."
Or find all sites with a vulnerable installation of wordpress.
My understanding is that even if it had passed with flying colours, Obama would have vetoed it. So all of this process is just for show.
But how do you know it was the physical changes you made that cured your RSI? It could just as easily have been the placebo effect. From what I can see, there is no good evidence that RSI is physical at all, and your 'cure' certainly doesn't bolster your case that it is physical. Example: how could good sleep and food possibly help a physical injury in your hand?

I'm wondering why you are so convinced that RSI is physical ("It's not")?
This is really well written. To be honest, I'd had a hard time vocalizing how I felt about the whole thing. Though I definitely agree with everything said in the article; I've got people in my own family (my own wife, for shame :P ) who are pretty adamant about the whole "I have nothing to hide" viewpoint. On the surface, I couldn't really disagree with that. I don't have anything to hide.

But this really helped me realize that it has nothing to do with "me" ... privacy is about protecting others from abuse. Good stuff.
That's generated using Pandoc targetting S5/slides.js. You can get all the slide content as one plain HTML page by navigating to the bottom right hand corner and clicking on the large "Ø" that appears.

I guess there will be a Beamer version of the talk as well.
BigCommerce announce $40 million Series C Round
They could have tried to work a deal with indiegogo/kickstarter for a lower rate for such a high value target.
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Have you tried iMediaShare?
much simple and support DLNA and Airplay
Whoa... Searches must be based on IP. Shared with a co-worker and they can see all of my searches, and I can see theirs.
Is this a new writing style I'm unaware of or just plain laziness?

Get to the point blog writers!

Make your assertion clearly and right at the top, explain it if it could be misconstrued so that we know what the hell is being discussed.

Then go on to write about it.

It seems like every second blog post linked to here is a long rambling missive that only reveals the point somewhere minutes into reading it long after my eyes have glazed over.
The thing is, for all its supposed power, government is really bad at marketing. People tend to see only what they don't like about government while simultaneously enjoying the benefits from various services that are provided by the government.

As in those "get the government out of my medicare" signs that were seen in the US.

(Cue the "blah blah markets can do it blah blah" responses - no, I'm sorry, but even economists disagree with you.)
Ask HN: Who is doing cutting-edge work in network security?
New DDoS prevention mechanisms, DNS security, phishing disruption, worm propagation observation and detection, IP address spoofing prevention, etc.
Have no doubt about it, this marks the beginning of the end of online privacy. Now that even the U.S. govt is asking for the TLS Certificates there is no country that has the moral high ground on this issue.

I'm from India and when I heard that the Indian government was asking Blackberry for its encryption keys I thought "Hah these people are so ignorant! They don't even know how public key encryption works!!". In hindsight it doesn't look very foolish. In fact they're openly building a surveillance system called CMS which has no checks and balances even on paper. Unfortunately in a country like ours with has so many other pressing issues it isn't a big deal yet.

Recently some governments tried to orchestrate a power grab of the internet via the ITU but it was vetoed by the US. "Its better to let the US govt. have a monopoly on the internet", or so I thought. What with all their constitutional protections and all. Recent developments have shattered my hopes.

The NSA's worst case scenario has already happened. Other than some modest outrage on the internet nothing much has changed. In a sense it shows a tacit acceptance of mass surveillance by most of the public. Hence my opinion that recent events mark a turning point.

With noone having the moral high ground its quite likely that all world governments and corporations are soon going to come to an agreement on permanent mass surveillance . What then ?
A near-even split on the first try over a high-stakes issue is a pretty darned good showing. Lay into those supportive of the state violating every semblance of privacy, and then try again.
They have the active cooperation of many governments and they have a lot of 0 day.
In order to determine who wants X the most, you have to ask credible commitments. Getting up at 4AM to make a booking when it becomes available; or waiting in a three-hour queue; or spending time writing a bot is just as significant commitment as paying some extra dollars, so all of those will work to allocate the scarce thing.

But there is a major difference - if you spend three hours in a queue, you lost those hours and noone gained from that. If you spend three hours writing a sniping bot, noone really needs it. But instead if you spend those extra three hours even sweeping streets at minimum wage, and pay that extra money for more expensive tickets - then the seller has gained extra money, which (on scale) increases supply and the world has gained some useful work.
The United States, for all it's faults, is not a totalitarian state. Read a book, FFS.

How about we start small, and read the posts we're replying to, hmm?

"Totalitarian", "Fascist" and "Communism" have real, historical backgrounds.

Yes, and? Where did I mention any of these? Books may be too heavy to me, but I can parse single sentences from Wikipedia, such as this one from the page about totalitarianism:

The term 'an authoritarian regime' denotes a state in which the single power holder - an individual 'dictator', a committee or a junta or an otherwise small group of political elite - monopolizes political power. However, a totalitarian regime attempts to control virtually all aspects of the social life including economy, education, art, science, private life and morals of citizens

You see, the difference is basically that you put down slave uprisings, but don't care what color their underpants are, or wether they like you, or what they think - only in so far as that affects performance. Not sure where "making people wear flair", nodding to buzzwords or Japan fit in there, but at any rate totalitarianism, in comparison with simply controling the jugulars and assholes of golden gooses, is a silly and ineffective thing. It even sucks as strawman.
My view of libertarianism is that it's not a movement to 'fight government'. It is just a system of views that once productive forces of society achieve certain level, government at least as we know it will become redundant. And there is little 'new ruler' can do to establish himself if people don't need a ruler.
Just because they put 3+ years experience on the job req, doesn't mean that not having 3 years experience will preclude you from consideration. Job reqs are often a wish list, and they'll hire someone who only fills some of the reqs.
This is based on my fuzzy knowledge of quantum physics:

- electrons exist at varying levels of excitement "around" a molecule. These states are discrete; an electron can only have certain values of energy

- photons can "collide" with electrons and impart more energy, provided the photon's energy (correlated to the wavelength of light) plus the electron's existing energy puts it into an allowable state

- when an electron falls back from a high energy state to a low energy state it will emit a photon

- crystals have low electron mobility; it's hard for an electron with a lot of energy to escape from a molecule. The molecules also don't move within the lattice.

- in this experiment, the first laser raises the electrons to a higher energy state, where this new state + the wavelength of the light is also an allowable state

- the second laser excites the electrons into an even higher state. These electrons can't escape from their position (they're fixed in space), but they encode the energy of the second laser. When the first laser goes away, the distance the electrons now have to fall back to their natural (ground) state is very large, so it takes some time. This is what limits how long you can keep the light "stopped" for.

-the 'Reader' is just a photodiode (or a hemisphere of them) which emits electricity when hit by a photon. So you pulse laser #2, then wait for the diodes to 'light up', which means they've been hit by light. The 1 minute figure is the time between turning laser #2 on and seeing the diodes turn on.
European snooping agencies seem to be quite happy to cooperate with them, so that argument doesn't really count.
If it had passed with flying colors, pressure on the Obama to not veto it would be tremendous.
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At this point, I'm thankful that we have Free Software.

Me too, which is why I'm worried about hardware. With enough effort, literally anyone can decide not to trust a binary and check the source. Unfortunately, the same cannot be said for hardware: you can't print your own microchips.
I think its quite the opposite: he is humble to realize that he alone can do very little.

Steve writes so that others can be influenced in the direction he believes is the right one. See, for example, his stuff on why marketing is important for engineers.
I have my reservations about this, because it feels like B2B SaaS is now going upmarket by reaching for the familiar Enterprise, high-touch sales process.

We've all been through this, and we know where it leads.

You have to bring on dedicated high-touch sales people to "scale" the business.

Sales people can rarely bring the same passion or insight as the original founders when approaching each lead. So they start doing more dastardly things (See Zed Shaw:http://zedshaw.com/essays/control_and_responsibility.html).

Going up market means compromising more on the scope of what the products do. As individual deals become more lucrative, the incentive to close them grows. As this incentive increases, the products often suffer and you get the Bananas in the Lasagna problem (See Jason Fried: http://entrepreneursunpluggd.com/blog/37signals-jason-fried-...).

So my question to the folks advocating this "new" approach is, how are you going to avoid all those things?
Kickstarter: A Farm System for VCs
A lean, mean, “Startup” machine
Having a bad day? Read this. Having a great day? Read this too.
Pretty bold claim:

"At Next Jump we say: 'We use business as a platform to build people of higher character.' When we got this right, our turnover in engineers went from 40% down to 1% and has held steady for nearly 18 months."
I started doing something similar to help me with my work as a freelancer.

My approach involves scheduled popups with questions that are really quick to answer. Right now I'm only asking myself "are you being productive?".

I just put it on github an hour ago: https://github.com/bbonf/productive
It's probably too raw to be helpful to others, but I plan to improve it soon.
Your understanding is incorrect. This was an amendment to the NDAA. Basically the bill that Congress has to pass every year to authorize the government to maintain a standing army, and fund said army. Without the NDAA, our military would effectively cease to exist.

It would be impossible for President Obama to veto it.
Anyone tried comparing to http://searchcode.com/ ? I haven't - just ran across it right now doing an unrelated search.
I called both of mine (FL), one voted one way and the other the other. Do I thank the one, and what would I say to the other?
He's already been reelected, so he doesn't care what the general public thinks of him.
No. The trust model of HTTPS was always broken from the start. This whole story "only" reinforces the point that key distribution and management is hard, and a central list of certificate authorities is not a good solution.

This story has exactly zero effects if you use some public-key system with different key management.

On the negative side, good systems don't really exist. On the plus side, this story might help push the development of good systems.
Not sure who would know how to fix this, but the tweet button only puts half[1] of the message in. (URL maybe too long)

[1] - http://imgur.com/z7JDuXV
> MIT/BSD are fully supported by the FSF and are GPL compliant. They are free software licenses in all aspects.

To be clear, GPL compliance is not a prerequisite to being a free software license. There exist many free software licenses which are not technically GPL compliant for various reasons: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#GPLIncompatibl...

However, while freedom does not imply GPL compliance, I do believe GPL compliance implies freedom. I'm not 100% certain of this, but I can't think of a counterexample or how that might not be true.

(I know you probably know this, but I want to make sure others reading your comment do too).
How Novell peaked, then threw it all away in a year
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I think many in Europe have a disdain for governments because our countries have experienced tyranny up close and personal, if not experienced it directly. Many European countries have at some point in fairly recent history have had governments that have gone too far against their own people (Spain, Greece, Turkey, Italy spring to mind for example, but also to a lesser extent France, the UK, East Germany, Poland etc.).

In many European countries there's been a history of oppression and a state controlled press that spouts untruths, which makes people quite skeptical and untrusting of governments. Indeed, some countries still have this or a notionally free press that's hampered through other means.

There's an almost brave new world-like contrast in the US whereby having the illusion of a free press and free democracy has lead many Americans to believe they're free, even though they're supporting things that work against them collectively.

I'm not bashing America, there are many free-thinking Americans (on this site especially) and there are many non-free-thinking Europeans, I'm just trying to highlight some of the differences.
Isn't this just inevitable with social networks? Over time they become sleazier and sleazier in search of revenue?
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Would you say he wasn't promoting it?
It's a neat argument that the Feds have.

If you send traffic unencrypted: 'You have no expectation of privacy, because you're broadcasting information publicly.'

Turn on encryption: 'Clearly you have something to hide, and deserve additional scrutiny. It's still not a fourth amendment violation because we are just compelling a business to give us your keys'
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I always assumed "zombie apocalypse" was code for "civil uprising" anyway.
Technology changes and so does the world, whether we like it or not. The question is always, who will come out on top

I'm not really trying to be snide, but it really is an issue that's been sort of hanging around since the before I was born (1980s), who's going to control the internet and how, and whoever does is probably going to have a lot of power
You mean, we have a new paradigm, an unprecedented new perspective and ability, so the first thing we're gonna use it for is to try and kill as many people as we can before they kill us?
FYI for those in Boston this weekend: http://pydata.org/bos2013/

Cam (the author) will be presenting an overview: http://pydata.org/bos2013/abstracts/#46
Can you recommend any those web tools please?
Well, I want it to get to that. I want it to be on Obama's desk and see what happens.

I prefer that to just sitting around.
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