skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Okay that is fair enough, I love people who try new things but I am somewhat tired of those who just want to recreate an idillyc past that never was.
The death of theory?
"don't bully people into your ethics" is itself an ethic, which you are yourself attempting to get the parent to conform to.
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In case you don't have all the facts about Pandora, here are some interesting points:

Created the world’s largest personalized Internet radio service, with over 67 million monthly active listeners.
We have over 20 billions rows of thumbs up/down data on playlist side. For users and transactionally.
* On over 1,000 consumer electronics devices.
* Serve about 700 million songs a day. Currently. To over 20 million daily listeners. Less than 600 servers. Use hardware efficiently. Built our own content delivery network across 3 data centers.
* Top 5 most installed mobile app
* Making a difference in the lives of artists that don't get air time on mainstream radio
Perhaps the reason your answer is not allowed to be "captcha" is that there are numerous services that provide manual captcha answers for bots.
Sorry if it came across like that. I myself was one of guys who wasn't committed enough in a previous startup.
Confluence Security Advisory 2013-08-05 (Critical - Remote Code Execution)
These are so remarkably realistic that it makes you wonder.

Fabricated evidence could take a serious turn.
This sounds like a cynical effort to increase your pay at others' expense.

How do you make more money? Provide more value.
What a shock!
You don't even need to call _.chain or value – underscore already does this automatically. You can also write it like so, if you like:

var newArray = _(array).filter(function(item) {
return item % 2;
}).map(function(item) {
return item + 1;
});

Personally, I find this quite readable. And honestly, my comment was more about comparing CoffeeScript to its compiled JavaScript output, as is done in the slides. The compiled output is incredibly verbose and gives the false impression that JavaScript is always complicated.
Maxwell Health Raises $2M to Radically Simplify Employee Benefits
I don't think you understand how propaganda works. I also think you're an apologist.
> A couple doesn't need to have the _same_ direction, they just need to have compatible ones.

To the extent that its true, it equally true of partnerships (unsurprisingly, marriage really is a kind of partnership.) They direction must be the same within the scope of the partnership (profession is outside the scope of the partnership in marriage), and the direction outside the scope of partnership must be compatible with the shared direction within the scope of the partnership.
That "avenue to evidence" that has been opened is illegal dragnet surveillance.
It isn't equivalent to what they use now! How would a private cloud someone hacked together be as secure as the billions of dollars Google has poured into engineering elite, class-A data security?

Before someone accuses me of fanboying Google, recognize that (as I stated in a top level comment), Google as a company is probably one of the safest in the world for your data.

The only leg someone has to stand on in saying an open source alternative might trump Google is that the company willfully allows access to their data, bypassing the heavy security entirely. If you want to make that argument, fine, but you better have something else prepared aside from the NSA scandal regurgitation.
I have yet to find a single formulaic way for founders of a business to succeed.

That being said, these are my own findings/thoughts:

- Companies with 1 + n cofounders tend to be more successful

- Working (in a commercial manner) previously to the startup helps massively. You learn a lot about people's business behaviors when you actually work with them (business and personal relationships can be very different)

- Finding a good co-founding experience on your first time is extremely difficult

- Experience with project management (and more specifically stakeholder management) is very valuable

- No more how much you read about startup stories, nothing can prepare you for the experience of a business partner relationship. It's just like dating - it's all about communication and compromise.

- I like the Hustler (CEO), Hacker (CTO), Hippie (CXO) setup for internet based startups. It also helps when each one has a experience with each other roles.
Do they not have captchas? or are the bots beating them?
Is Googlebot trying to index my FTP?
> and unfortunately context sensitivity of operators became much more prevalent in Perl 6 than Perl 5.

What makes you think so? So far I was convinced of the exact opposite.

Examples:

* Perl 5 has the same operator for bitwise string AND and for bitwise integer AND. Perl 6 has separate operators, reducing context sensitivity.

* Perl 5's reverse() operator reverses lists in list context, and strings in scalar context. Perl 6 has separate verbs for these operations (reverse and flip), thus reducing context sensitivity

* In Perl 5, context flows inwards, so operator can actually be context sensitive in the classical sense. In Perl 6, operators know nothing about their caller, thus they cannot be context sensitive in the same crazy way that some Perl 5 operators are.
Honestly, you haven't presented a logical argument, or even a persuasive emotional one.
I think you missed the rather insightful point he was making entirely.

The DEA's use of NSA intercepts "sounds" a whole lot more sensible (catching 'drug dealers') than what may be potentially 1000s of other horrific uses the government is also using this data for.
We really need to come to the internalized understanding that our government is increasingly becoming a threat to its people and a danger from within; a saboteur, a spy, a traitor to it's own people.

As Peter Swire has pointed out in a PBS Frontline interview: "General warrants was part of the reason for the American Revolution. It was that the king's agent could go in and search a house everywhere, search a whole neighborhood with one warrant. And the Boston people said: 'We don't like that. [...] We'll fight you.' We said no." (redaction to avoid erroneous similarity)
Right, I should have mentioned that. There are also alternatives to Grunt, but regardless, some sort of task running tool is a must in my book.
It doesn't mention if the automated reservation takers are then trying to 'sell' them in other forums. I'm wondering if there is a motive there or not. There is a similar problem with getting camp site reservations even though there are charges for cancellation.
Minor caveat: the proof says something along the lines of "to de-obfuscate this code, you must be able to find the prime factors of insanely huge numbers, and we assume no one knows how to do that". So it's a bit inaccurate to say that "no advancement will solve this".
The vast majority of people who peddle Falkvinge's particular view are teenagers who just want free stuff. There are lots of people who support less aggressive enforcement, shorter terms, etc, but not so many credible ones who attack the very idea that content creators should have rights to control their creations.

E.g. Lots of people strongly oppose SOPA, on the grounds that it makes enforcement of copyright other people's problem in a way that isn't the case for other property rights, without agreeing with Falkvinge that there is some moral right to copy.
I think what I'd do is write a bot that issues pull requests along with a commit message explaining what was fixed, why it needed fixing, how the automatic fix isn't perfect and that they should really consider rewriting it to use prepared statements.

Include a check to make sure multiple bugs in a single repo are handled by just one pull request too.
I don't understand why he's getting thrashed, at first glance it seems a rather honourable thing to do?
Small nitpick - many bank robberies are initiated and concluded just by passing a note to the teller without any overt threats, and without having any weapons on them. If they're savvy, they'll even ask for the money to be laid on the table to avoid the dye packs.

The popular portrayal of a bank robbery is dramatic but outdated.
I don't see what the title claims.

First of all, too many readers say that "this is what they always do: buy reviews on blogs". Apart from the fact that they don't provide any kind of proof, most of the serious blogs don't get paid by companies for writing reviews.

Second: LG is indeed trying to buy coverage. Of course, John Biggs is being way too harsh (it's TC, what did you expect?) and this isn't the correct way to reply. But the PR company is not offering a device for testing, it's asking for a review/comparative in exchange for money.

And last of all, this article will make me doubt whenever I see a LG G2 review in a blog I don't know as much, so it was helpful for me.
FlightCar Offers Users Up To $400 To Rent Their Cars Out For A Whole Month
Yet another reason to use linux.
First: you're confusing "missing feature" with "weakness". Some people actually prefer not having 100,000 built-ins. IMHO comparing how you eat an apple with how you eat an orange is stupid. It's not the same fruit, and they work a little differently, and that is okay. If you prefer eating apples because you think the way to eat oranges is stupid, that is okay too.

Second: You don't have to use a module to find the largest element in a list. But you can if you want, and you may find the module does it better than you do. Also, List::Util has been shipped with core perl since 5.8.0, so you don't have to download it.

Third: Perl does have a small core that everyone can learn and use. The fact that you don't understand it or what modules are for does not discredit it.
Saving MS
Cloud based computing has eroded MS in several ways: a) one can live without MS desktop solutions; b) most of the software that runs the cloud based solutions uses open source software.

Here is a challenge. What kind of crazy strategy could MS pursue to beat Google? Or at least to survive. Here is my attempt at a solution.

I propose they solve one of the pressing issues of our time: Freedom. The rise of cloud computing has created Big Data and the temptation to use it to profile all of us. Yes Google can say they will do no evil, but the temptation is there. Absolute power corrupts absolutely.

To do this MS would have to embrace free software and become the type of company that RMS likes. They would have to abandon or even start opposing DRM. They would have to create a peer-to-peer solution to cloud computing that preserves our freedom and takes the temptation of Big Data away.

The fact is that MS could do well by doing good. Peer-to-peer networks would have to have a desktop component. MS would make money in two ways: a) running a large peer-to-peer network; b) becoming the lead maintainers of open source desktop solutions--hence the ones that companies will turn to first when they need something changed.
Designers make signs for homeless people
They've been doing this for at least a week in the UK, since I was directed to them by moneysavingexpert.com when I renewed my car insurance last week.
Taking control of image loading
Japan nuclear body says radioactive water at Fukushima an 'emergency'
The modern understanding of copyright is indeed a property right, both legally and and economically. And only in the US is it rooted in the idea of building a public domain. In Europe the basis is the idea of the moral rights of content creators. The Europeans have been a the forefront of extending copyright terms, because within their framework of thinking, there is no reason for copyrights to ever expire.
I would say no, I have tried satellite and the download speed is decent, but upload speed is not good. There may be a very expensive package that you can get, but from my experience, I would say you need DSL at a minimum.
Building on Google Docs was the best technology decision I’ve ever made.
LG's PR firm is just some junkie knocking on the door of a guy that doesn't "move product anymore"

He's legit now..

(yeah...)
UX For Good
You're misreading my statement. Part of the solution is betterment, but it's by far not the only part. The second major goal of prison is punishment (nb: not revenge), effectively deterrent. However, the punishment must be adequate to the crime committed and human. Making prison as cruel as possible does not serve that goal. The punishment consists in loosing your freedom, not in getting raped or tortured.

Btw: In such a future you're describing we surely have ways of preventing crimes just as effective as the pill that turns a murderer into a good member of society.
I agree that it is exhausting. I'm 2 months into a solo founded startup and the mental fatigue is not what I expected. Reflecting on it now, it certainly makes sense, but I just didn't know that it can be so taxing.

I've told myself that if I make it to a next round of funding I need to find a partner stat.
We need more of this in mainstream press. But for a reporter, you could see how this kind of blacklash could have a chilling effect. Easier to go back to rewriting press releases.
"The truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth."
Forget about electric. Here's the future:

http://www.coolest-gadgets.com/wp-content/uploads/mr_fusion....
Pixel Density Converter
I don't care whether it's "flat" or not. I'm fucking sick of "mystery meat" UI. Undistinguished words and graphics that have associated actions -- or don't. Varied by individual designer/developer tastes -- or some committee, I suppose.

I can stumble my way through. Worse is having to support "ordinary" people, e.g. family members. (I'm increasingly done "supporting" people to whom I don't have strong ties. Time for them to instead complain to / boycott the people creating and perpetuating this mess.)

Form follows function, damnit.
The image is, indeed, amazing. But, IMO, nowadays the uncanny valley lie mainly in moving images.
We already got to the level of near perfect visual detail. It's the movement detail that we're missing. The problem comes from micro expressions and little twitches that ehat er're not consciously aware that exist. We're not aware of them to put them in the model, but our brain notices that they're missing.
Happy 50th Birthday, Cassettes
I love me some dead cow once in a while and have a problem with waste, pollution cruelty etc... and I have concerns about GMO. But this ain't "not cow".

It's still the genetically identical counterpart to the pasture-raised variety without the pasture so how is it "dissonance"?
Fixing toxic behavior in online communities
fortunately, nobody is really using Perl 6. The perl community is continuing to support and evolve perl 5 in a reasonable direction.
It is possible; the IP address only is not a sure indication of the origin.

Google does indeed indexes public ftpd. No problem here.
Reddit AmA from the Ubuntu for Android team
I've had similar experiences about many things I used to think were paranoid becoming provable fact. However the other day the news about the google search for back packs and pressure cookers I thought was completely false and it was.

What I've realized is that the things I thought were paranoid and came true are things that I thought were paranoid because I had "trust" in various organizations not to abuse power, not because the actions seemed out right implausible.

With the backpacks and pressure cookers story, I was skeptical not because I trusted the fbi, but because it seemed implausible given the way the fbi typically acts and strongly against their interests.

So my updated rule is that 'trust' is no longer a valid reason to rule something out as paranoid. This is an ethos that the security world has long held as obvious, that many technical people formerly not particularly interested in security are waking up to.
A New Approach to Insider Threat
It's more of a social courtesy akin to not prosthelytizing or shilling commercial products. HN is not a very good place for those kinds of things, nor is it a good place to tell people they're not emoting correctly in a bid to bully them into caring about factory farming.
> People who have already graduated with non-programming backgrounds are feeling (either outwardly or subconsciously) inferior, handicapped or vulnerable in some way relative to their code-trained peers.

I wish this was true.

Most non-coders (mostly "business men") think they are superior and "just" need some code monkey, who can transform their "brilliant" ideas into a product. Like coding was some kind of stuff they could do, but they don't want to waste their precious time with...
Yep, I definitely see that as an issue. Once you have someone that's "responsible" for something it's easy to blame them instead of doing something about it yourself. If you're a solo founder there's no one else you can blame for the mistakes..
Provide Value and a Business Will Choose You
My main point in the original thread is that, probably, effort for Turing and other geniuses is a different thing that effort for the rest of the mortals. Also, that effort is overrated for geniuses because many of them can do it in a natural way like people walk.

Take my other comments as a decoration. I don't think writing a comment in HN is the same that writing a formal proof.
Agreed. I tried to explore this issue a while back: http://branchandbound.net/blog/web/2012/11/unify-server-side...

Turns out that using script-tags is somewhat problematic, but as a comment points out, data-attributes could work.
The comments section of the TC article seems to be what the title of this thread is referring to.
I'm not so sure Hacker News succeeding is the top thing in the world of important priorities to me.

And while overly emotional topics are certainly bad currency in a large group -- no doubt about that -- I find it weird that we think we can talk about helping people suffering from starvation, slavery, lack of electricity, and all kinds of other problems and not be able to discuss the impact of the technology we create in the privacy and anonymity realms. I'd go so far as to say it's purposefully myoptic. Seems like all sorts of things are fair game -- as long as it doesn't show us the results of our own work too closely. We'll talk about any problems but the ones we helped create.

I wish HN the best of luck, and I certainly don't want flame wars or policy advocacy here. But hell, we're not morons. Or robots. If you want all that gossipy SV crap on the front page, you're going to have to take some other stuff you don't like as much. People vote based on emotional impact of stories. I can't see how you "fix" HN by continuous tweaking, making the system non-intuitive and frustrating.

Perhaps the best thing to do is go back to just tech and business. But even then, I find it impossible to believe that we can continue to live in some kind of artificial bubble where uncomfortable topics from the outside world never appear. If that's the plan, good luck with that.
For context on this, Gothamist recently posted this article about a company that "pre-books" reservations at hard to get restaurants. Customers pay $1,000/year for the privilege and then $45/$90 on top for especially hard to get reservations.

Article: http://gothamist.com/2013/08/02/wealthy_foodies_can_buy_hard...

The Gothamist article came from this Food Republic article: http://www.foodrepublic.com/2013/07/30/man-gaming-new-york-c....

In other words, companies are starting to farm restaurant reservations to sell them, similar to the way that the market for event tickets has been corrupted.
He didn't misread the story at all, what on earth are you talking about? The government is hiding the initial evidence. That means it's "not public". You are wrong.

No one but you thinks it's OK to start investigations with "tips" based on excludable evidence. The rest of us literally consider that something we are protected from by the Bill of Rights. Investigations handled according to the excerpts in the article are precisely what we consider to be disgusting and evil.

Most of us do not support the government trying to find loopholes in the Bill of Rights. We want the government to follow the constitution not only technically, but in spirit.
You can also dislike both Big Pharma and alternative medicine. That removes the philosophical inconsistencies and just leaves you bitter and disappointed.
Excellent slides. thank you. Is the recording perchance available somewhere?
Hybrid vehicles have a significant advantage over PEVs when it comes to battery life, which is that they don't need to utilize the full capacity of their batteries. The control system on a Prius tries to keep its main battery at an average 60% charge, which significantly lengthens its life. That's not such a big deal when you can recharge the battery at any time off of the gas engine.

Depending on heat, a fully charged Li+ battery will lose between 15-30% of its capacity per year. If you keep its charge between 40-60%, it will lose only around 4-10% per year.

Tesla estimates that after 5 years, their battery packs will still have 70% of their original capacity, which would seem to indicate that this is indeed what they're doing (70%^(1/5) = 93%, or 7% loss per year). That sucks for a car which is entirely powered by its battery, since it means that a Tesla could, at a long-term cost to total capacity, potentially have at least twice the range its control system will allow. It seems like that would be a decent feature to give for people making occasional long trips.
Get a secretary.
It's been long established in international law that the crime occurs where the harm occurs. That's why the Lockerbie bombers were tried in Scotland.
This glosses over the fact that "they", the government, is a hugely multi-faceted entity, the vast majority of which is benign in both purpose and operation.
Severe disabilities, like e.g ADHD or autism, will definitely make it harder to successfully partner with someone. But they do not make it impossible to partner well and as you pointed out there are people with disabilities that has partnered well.

However, for a person without such problems it is probably better to avoid this extra complexity unless there is a huge upside to the partnership that compensates for the downside.
Just because it's dirty doesn't mean someone else can't use it and make it clean.
Control-W for ‘delete word’ entered Unix in BSD 4.x, along with changing to ^U for line erase (Bell Labs used ^X), ^R for refresh (consensus has reverted to ^L), and ^T for status (which Linux annoyingly still doesn't have). These came from Tenex / TOPS-20, which also had a fancy command completion scheme whose vestiges can be seen in ftp(1) as well as Cicso gear.

Job control (with ^Z and ^Y) entered at the same time. At least Linux/SysV saw the usefulness of that....
No, by fully homomorphic he means the usual meaning of this phrase: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homomorphic_encryption#Fully_ho...
"I can assure you, you'll get over your bank account being empty."

So you're willing to give up your amassed fortune to the people who have had their bank accounts wiped clean because of these scumbags, then?
don't think PLDI records tutorials (it was 3h long)
First off, many vegetarians don't eat junk food out of the freezer; there are many wholesome and delicious alternatives to "flavored tofu." Second, many celebrate lab meat for its potential reduction of animal exploitation, but that doesn't mean that they will eat it. The preference for it is often lost early on.