skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Perhaps your issue with the tag filtering is from an older version? When I look at lobste.rs in an incognito window, it appears I can set tag filters even without an account (they claim "Since you are not logged in, your filters will be stored in a long-lasting browser cookie."). That said, it'd be awesome if they allowed access to that feature through a url you could bookmark.
I use lemon pressed olive oil on almost all my cooking now and it's delicious.
yeah usplash is a popular/great resource, and that unfortunately makes it almost useless. Right now there is another HN post on the front page that is using an image from that same MacBook Air series (as a background image): http://www.codingjohnson.com/an-awkward-conversation
I was picturing Dr. Manhattan.
We were based out of Markham while I was back living in Toronto (free office space), but have relocated to Mountain View while going through YC. We haven't decided where we will be based out post Demo Day yet - I think it will depend on how the next couple of weeks play out.

Toronto/Waterloo area is definitely growing and expanding - I went to school at UW and it's crazy to go back and visit and see how much has changed. I'm also partial to the SF area, the energy here is still quite different than back in Toronto I've found.
I am informed because i gather both sides of the arguement when I watch CNN and fox news!
Damn, this is so simple yet so powerful I can't believe it's the first time anyone has thought about it.
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Definitely. And I wouldn't discount that bliss-period at a new organization. If it is happier, it is happy.
I think the main reason why any reasonably complex grader is not allowed to run after the course has officially finalized is cost(s).

While for users it's free to take the course, the offering company probably has to pay fees to whatever IaaS they're using to run the grader(s). I would imagine to make it 'cost-effective' for their purposes, they'd be interested in as many people as possible benefiting from the grader's functionality if they're being charged by the hour for example or some other block-allocation unit.

I would suggest giving Udacity a try as well. Most of their courses do not have deadlines.

For example, here is a great course they offer on web development: https://www.udacity.com/course/cs253 , co-authored by one of the Hipmunk and Reddit creators.
Anything you CAN do has no real effect on the matter and is just tiny noise - therefore you will have to learn to deal with it untill everyone who CAN do something WILL do it. Then the noise will overthrow the signal.
While I think the "War on Terror" has been mostly a huge waste of tax payer money and a threat to civil liberties, when comparing it to lighting you have to consider that the rate of lightning strikes are probably fairly constant over time subject only to slow processes like climate change.

Terrorism could potentially grow quite quickly so perhaps it does make sense to expend a bit more effort than protecting people from lightning. We seem to have failed to do that in an entirely rational way but the lightning - terror comparison seems invalid. Probably better to compare it with preventable deaths from some cause like car accidents or pool drownings (which is probably even worse for the anti-terror lobby) and which might get out of hand unless there is active prevention. Though again the cost benefit compared with preventing death from other causes doesn't help the authoritarians.
What can I do to make it clearer? Got any suggestions?

I mentioned 3 sponsors in that interview: Walker Corporate Law, Grasshopper & Shopify

Swiftype is not a sponsor. I've never gotten any money from them.
Why? What part of my site feels spammy?
I have always struggled writing a regular expressions. Even after being successful in writing one, I could not retain what it did once I returned to it. This library is definitely for people like me.
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Round Pond Estate has some wonderful olive oil with citrus aromatics, including one with Meyer lemon that you would probably love. If you're in the SF area, they also do tours of their winery + olive oil press/facilities.
In social network analysis, there's the concept of a giant connected component in a graph where edges propagate between nodes over time. That's essentially what I consider the internet to be. There's only one of them by virtue of giant connected component emergence in that kind of network. I've never viewed it as a proper name.
That's right. I didn't mean to imply otherwise.
Tor malware IP address linked to SAIC found to be in a block assigned to the NSA
At what level is this the case? If WaPo do a special optimization for Kindle? If they decide to order some laptops from AMZ? If AMZ headquarters installs a vending machine for the WaPo?
You do realize that you're posting this comment on the propaganda arm of Y Combinator and PG right?
What men are really thinking - So funny, but so true...
Anybody think this could be someone other than the NSA at work here? Maybe a good frame job from someone like Anon or the Chinese?
I'm posting this link [1] to the Forbes article (Hackers Reveal Nasty New Car Attacks) the second time today, but it is also relevant here.

[1] - http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2013/07/24/hackers...
I'm really surprised that there aren't more options on this front. I feel like every day I talk to a non-tech friend who, despite the sinking business ship that is RIM, _really_ loves (or loved & misses) their BlackBerry.

And every. single. time. I ask them why, it's about the keyboard and only the keyboard. There is a solid contingent of people who just don't like touch keyboards and there's very little anyone is going to do to convince them or train them otherwise. Which is fine.

Apple's clearly a lost cause, but it seems to me that a well-designed, BlackBerry'esque piece of hardware (with a physical keyboard) running and properly mated to a smaller-screen Android OS would do quite well.
It's $250mm for the WaPo brand. Empowering the ordinary citizen to contribute to the global pool of community information is the future. Blogging was the first attempt in this direction, but it has failed because the distributed nature of blogs doesn't support content discovery.

As far as I'm concerned, AMZN already has plenty of brand recognition to talk about any technological innovation they might integrate with the WaPo brand. I look forward to AMZN playing its cards in the space and seeing if they can compete against a truly focused and unencumbered competitor.

Production is easy, discovery and profitability are the problems.

Best wishes, Bezos!
> I would love to see stats on how many people who have taken Mattan's class have gone on to actually having a career as a developer. I'm willing to bet it's 1% or less. But prove me wrong, please.

I think the question is even broader than that: how many people who buy into these programs will be working as developers in five or ten years?

I'm a self-taught programmer, so I know first-hand that you don't need a computer science degree to learn how to build web applications that provide value to real people. But I think some of the programs out there aren't realistic about what it takes to become a decent developer over the long haul.

In my opinion the viability of the 0-to-$120,000 in x months pitch is primarily a function of the current market and little else. The bad news: the market is not static, and when the next downturn arrives, a lot of jobs that exist today will likely go away, even if the tech industry doesn't see a precipitous drop in jobs overall.

A couple of points on this:

1. A lot of people in tech today didn't live through the first .com boom, or if they did, have chosen to forget it. There was a very similar dynamic: tons of people rushed to learn HTML, web design, etc. If you lived in the Bay Area and knew how to, say, code an HTML table, chances were you could land a high-paying job at a startup. Post-crash, a good number of these .com refugees left technology, moved into non-technical roles or went back to school.

2. If you're serious about a career as a developer, it's wise to consider what you choose to learn. From what I see personally, a lot of the demand for Ruby on Rails developers comes from "startups." There's nothing inherently wrong with that, but somebody just starting out who hopes to be employed as a well-paid developer five years from now shouldn't assume that knowing how to develop a Rails CRUD app with a Bootstrap front-end is a perpetual guarantee of a six-figure salary. As you note, there's more to development than a framework, but frameworks do so much these days that new developers often see little incentive to go beyond the framework.
Let's all hope that this day we have witnessed the birth of the anti-Murdoch.
It's not. I'm getting it too.
If everyone had switched to vegetarianism at the same time, we probably wouldn't be in a situation where scientists are trying to develop artificial meat. In fact, I would suggest that if you want to do your part to prevent this from becoming a reality you should go ahead and switch to vegetarianism right now :D If everyone does it, it might not be viewed as cost-effective to continue this research.
Scrum masters, jira, process. It's even infecting startups now.
Quite amusing, the original author should do an update for C++11.
Seconded. Plus, I don't really buy the 3 year thing. Once you know what to look for, it isn't hard to detect serious problems. Horrible source code? Engineers that don't know how to use SCM? Politics? Cargo cult processes? I don't think it is that hard to figure out. You will have annoyances in any job, but there are broken cultures, and then cultures that continually try to do the right thing, and fix themselves when something goes wrong.
I worked in many different parts of Microsoft over 10 years and I can tell you that the culture doesn't change enough from team to team to make up for this sort of thing.
It's worth noting that some classes do actually disable access to the lectures and course site for students after a cut-off date. I can't speak for all of the classes from these schools, but all the classes I've taken from Princeton, Johns Hopkins and U-Penn through Coursera do that.

They do allow you to download the videos, so if you're planning on taking a class from one of those schools at your own pace, just be sure to download the lecture videos and slides before the end date.
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Should read "suspected" -- suspects seems to mean they are being investigated for criminal activity. I'd be interested to hear what an editor as to say.
You're exactly right. I'm not naive in thinking that I won't ever be faced with problems and imperfect situations - but I'd rather do everything I can to shape my future in a direction I want. Being able to work at a company I co-founded is the best possible outcome for me (and I'm absolutely loving it so far).
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Play poker, gotta know when to fold.
Who are the most powerful or wealthy people in the world who are NOT Bildebergers?
In a way, this is mostly in line with what I'm talking about in that the question we're posing together is whether the government must necessarily be smaller, or is merely buckling under the weight of an outmoded model and infrastructure that a technological solution can resolve via greater transparency and accountability.

Perhaps a more ambitious goal would be a marriage of both. Fewer laws through greater empowerment, visibility and accountability enabled only through technology. In order to get there though, I think we have many issues we will need to solve before making matters worse, like who holds root access to the the government servers?

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
Agreed, I am constantly endorsed for things I have no skill or experience at, or by people who hardly know me.
"Pandora" virus - covert threat from space?
>I think if we're going to do extensive foreign SIGINT --- and, sorry, we just are going to do that --- we should at least firewall it off from domestic law enforcement

A personal question, sorry: legality and constitutionality aside, are you comfortable with ample surveillance of other countries? If so, why? From your posts on HN since the PRISM leaks, you've stressed NSA's mandate to spy on other countries. NSA exists and has this function, yes, but why is it acceptable for the US to spy on all foreigners?
Thanks for that link, I guess the days of cutting the brake fluid lines are gone, these days a modern wise guy would just connect up a device to tell the brakes to stop working when the conditions were right (high speed, up coming curve/cliff etc.) I expect to see this in the next Bond film.
off topic but there is a brand mix-up here, did Cove http://getcove.com/ rebrand to kivo?
Read a history of them and decide for yourself.

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Bilderberg
I've owned several android devices, from the original g1, to a Stock Galaxy Nexus. As far as the actual hardware goes, the G2 was my favourite.

Touch screens are well suited to very specific things. Typing is not one of them.
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Then again, Larry Lessig got invited this year and reported that it was in fact like any other boring conference.

Unless they got to him. Run Larry Run!
The problem with that is not all of them actually stay open when they're completed. I've tried that too but have found a couple have actually closed when I was finally ready to take the lectures.
A data ETL tool. Now that lots of companies are moving to MPP databases like Vertica, Redshift, Teradata, and Netezza, it's incredible that there is still no straighforward way to do so without extensive systems and data engineering experience.

Every time a customer asks us to recommend a tool to do this, we are baffled that nobody has taken this on yet (and wonder if we should do it ourselves).

The opportunity to build the Stripe for ETL is only going to get bigger.
Ah in the era of new "scandals", it's a good reminder of the old age of dirty tricks. Although I suppose the more things change, the more they stay the same.

I forget if this was put in the Robert Redford movie or not...
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At first, I liked LinkedIn because it provided some transparency into peoples' career trajectories. One could compare what one was doing at a certain age to well-known people and see if one was on a right track, or should be trading up jobs soon. It had value. There was data there. "Hey, at age X I should have title Y." Granted, it was focused around something that's total and utter bullshit (job titles and professional status) but it made it easier to decode the bullshit.

Now, though, everyone's polluting the channels with nonsense. Why would I care that Bob has 37 endorsements for "APIs"? That doesn't mean anything.

Besides, social proof is for malakas. If anyone turned me down because I didn't have enough endorsements on a website, I'd laugh that person off the fucking bricks.
Well, back to carrier pigeons...
"Production is easy, discovery and profitability are the problems."

I agree, and that is what makes this so interesting. Lets say you had a 'kindle store' like thing but it was "News for You", and it had a search box kind of like a search engine box, but you could pull up your Kindle, any time something was happening, and type "Boston Bombing" into the search box, And poof you'd get all the stories about the Boston Bombing available to read after downloading them over the cellular network. Can you buy "inches of news" like you buy cellular minutes? With a roll over plan?

There are some tremendously disruptive businesses here.
The idea that representatives should care about the prosperity of people who aren't their constituents strikes at the very heart of republican democracy.
But it's good for trolling. Endorse your friends for ColdFusion, PASCAL and ... :D
They will fall in line if they want to keep their job, just as they always have.
Given that users can hide recommendations, I'd never expect to see a negative one.
Super helpful comment, tptacek
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http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2013/06/10/inside_the_...

This link is worth reading for context.
wow! great spot. We used to be called Verse(.io) and wanted to change to a .com. Cove was one of our options but we didn't go with it in the end. Need to add a redirect. How did you find the url?
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Depending on your age, it's entirely possible that that was back before the incentive structure was setup to encourage asset forfeiture under duress.
To play devils advocate, pretty much every new CEO or owner says the same thing.
Yes, I got a bottle of good Greek stuff from an in-law who got it from her dentist who imports it in small batches from Greece. "St. John's Iapetra" or something like that.
I don't think you could pay me enough to go back

or, as I am wont to say, back up the dump truck filled with money and then we'll start talking. It has to be worth it (however you measure what "worth" and "it" are) to go back to something that goes against your principles. :)
Once you reach a certain level of notoriety, you can be an opinionated jerk to dissenting opinions. It's one of the perks!

And in Linus' defence, the guy attacked design decisions without much critical thought or validation for his opinion. These types of people need to be beaten down brutally or they cause all sorts of destruction in projects.
my limited experience fits your theory - we just noticed that one particular make smelt awesome when we opened it. turns out it was locally produced (i was living in the north of chile at the time; i suspect i bought it because it was cheap!). we've now found someone who sells it down here in santiago (not so cheap, but no more expensive than the imported stuff).
It's actually probably best, from the point of view of dealing with the NSA wiretapping, that we forget about Snowden and focus on what the NSA is still doing.

So the comment was both off topic and toxic towards what it wanted to advance.
You can use Kubrick's lens, but it doesn't come with his skills :)
I find those software contolled cars very dangerous. I posted a question about them being used as murder weapons [1] 9 months ago, but nobody was interested. And today we have this [2] discussion about the strange car crash resulting the death of Michael Hastings.

[1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4709014

[2] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6162450
It ranges from large companies who say "this is an important issue, let's meet next month to discuss" to small companies who say "I was worried about that, so I made a fixed decision an hour ago." There really are different cultures of ... not really so much failure, but dysfunction. Companies can succeed while being dysfunctional at the same time.
You would be sharing a house in a less than salubrious area for that.

when I worked in Holbourn last year of the 3 young members of the team living in central London 2 of them lived in family owned property on the other had well off family (a first from oxbridge)
Well yeah, that's my point--both of those sources claim to be unbiased, and neither of them are intellectually honest.
We will be offering self hosted deployments behind the firewall. All we need is a Git server and you're away. Would be good to chat more, I'm zefi@kivo.com
OSH is inevitable economics; IBM saw the trend, and Dell is in play right now.

Also, it would be interesting to see OSH go as far as processor on up, in the vein of OpenSparc but actual layout not just vhdl/verilog for FPGAs. Requires EDA and layout skills obviously, but it's not impossible.
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Yes, it may be a reason. You don't need something "catchy". If you are useful, people will work with you no matter what. You are there for money, not for fun.
Is there a scale somewhere where I could calculate the expected percentage a very good negotiator with appropriate leverage would be able to extract in the best-case scenario, based on employee # and some metric of value-add?
One of my biggest concerns around this, speaking about my own cameras would not be the case where someone has obviously dropped my body/lens and it's smashed, but where it has been dropped or treated rough and has intermittent problems.

especially glass - it's high-precision stuff, and even though it may look fine, it could've been very lightly scuffed or bumped around and will never be the same. That's a really hard thing to solve.
>>>> the technology could also help to keep state secrets secret.

Not so sure about this one. As long as you have humans in charge, episodes like the Edward Snowden affair will continue to occur.
If Bezos, in his capacity as owner, directs them to do something.

Think of it this way: Jeff Bezos is a majority shareholder (at least according to reports, he is not taking on the chairman/CEO role).
Normally, the only control a majority shareholder has is to elect/remove the board.

If he attempts to effect other control, particularly by suggestion to the board/whatever, they need to make disinterested decisions.

So the short answer to your question is "always". Every board decision needs to be made by disinterested directors after full disclosure of the facts by any interested directors. Anything else would be a self-dealing transaction, and would possibly subject them to personal liability.
Verizon, BT, and Vodafone reportedly assisted UK's massive Tempora spying effort
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I only found one exploitable example browsing the first few pages, whereas the majority of the OP's results looked fairly exploitable.
Stock recommendations are not really analogous to resume/linkedin recommendations. People expect stock analysts to provide unbiased, objective assessments of stocks. There is an expectation of positive bias when a person shows a recommendation on his/her linkedin profile.

There are two sources of "signal" in this case: The content of the recommendation as well as the very existence of a recommendation. Not recommending people only addresses the first.
Well bless your kindly heart. :)
But technical and engineering roles salarys have historically been very poor compared to the USA.
It doesn't seem at all unlikely that we'll be seeing more of this over the coming decade. With the paywall experiments showing mixed results, and not coming close to the old (and still declining) ad revenue, and no magical replacement for their lost classifieds, a new "journalism patronage" model may be what allows many of these organizations to stay afloat. Whether from altruism, ego, a feeling of public service, or a desire for a "propaganda" arm, as some other commenters have stated (which seems very unlikely to me in this case), those with the means may well be what keeps institution-backed investigative journalism alive.
maybe he has some personal issues.
I noticed it was published in the future (August 13, 2013). I wonder how that happened?
The netflix prize touched on one of many areas related to recommender systems.

As mentioned already, very simple methods can be really effective. Things such as the UI are also known to have a big impact on how 'useful' people find the recs.
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It could be that it was a personal acquisition because Amazon isn't making a much of a net profit, and buying the Washington Post would cause Amazon stock prices to tank.
It would be far more honest to give a real starting salary rather than almost CTO ones.
What did you imagine newspapers were owned by?
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Labor's startup share scheme "too narrow"
ping linode.com

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Or its just me?