skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
tl;dr -- fiverr

1. Compose tactful email text explaining the bet. This is optional if you don't care about tact or a potential negative impact on your or your company image.

2. Go to fiverr and get a person or three to find teachers, administrators, and students who were at the same high school around the same time. Have them send the letter you composed to these potential teachers, staff, and peers. Track with close.io.

3. Get answers and try to confirm results.

4. With new data, iterate text of email and/or task request for fiverr if appropriate.

If you are skilled at chatting up gatekeepers (many sales folks are good at this), then you can call the school admin, explain the situation to her, and the answer would be yours in a few minutes.

There are some other options that are of questionable legality and/or ethics, but I will stay away from those.
We already have a copyleft compiler, GCC, and under the stewardship of the FSF it has turned into a total mess. The community has been wasting effort for years duplicating issues that have already been solved in GCC because the FSF refused to merge patches that would make it modular. On the other hand, you can download Clang and make your own tools from it now. Go ahead, I dare you to do either of the following:

* Use GCC's C frontend to write a code analysis tool of any sort,

* Write a new frontend to GCC.

FSF's damage to the GCC code base proved that you can still sabotage freedom while adhering to the letter of a copyleft license.

I suspect the KHTML mess is still fresh in the minds of many engineers at Apple.
I'm already very frugal (haven't failed to put away 20% of my monthly income in savings for... quite a while now), have a Roth IRA to which I make maxed-out yearly contributions, have savings and investment accounts outside of that... blah blah blah. My net worth is embarrassingly large for my age.

Thing is, unless I hit it big with something, that's going to eventually leave me the choice between being a financially somewhat secure singleton and driving myself right back into the Broke Zone by trying to actually have a family.

The fact remains that I cannot expect to be a millionaire by the time I'm 40, especially not if I want a family, and living in a van to make a below-poverty-line income and lifestyle sustainable is... giving up.
Care to cite a Khosla-gate?

I don't remember one.

I'm sure a Calacanis or a Wilson would have exposed a crooked VC with show & stow tactics.

Others have been flogged quite publicly.

Source:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=893845

http://betabeat.com/2011/12/pay-to-pitch-how-much-is-too-muc...

http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2009/10/paying-to-pitch.html
Well perhaps the pro-Putin youth group will take his words to heart.
And I would rather disagree with a case he made on American exceptionalism, stating that the United States’ policy is “what makes America different. It’s what makes us exceptional.” It is extremely dangerous to encourage people to see themselves as exceptional, whatever the motivation.

This will go over just as well as the malaise speech. It's a nice attempt at trying to make a great nation humble, but that's not going to happen. :(
Here's an explanation of how that works - it is a fairly long read that boils down to a bait-and-switch on the job classification.

http://www.cringely.com/2012/10/23/what-americans-dont-know-...
I would not insult Putin for not doing this, but your summary would seem to apply to your own comment.
No, the whole point is that this run on Perl 3. It's valid code.
Cognizant, Infosys, GlobalLogic, Symphony, TCS...
Not to mention providing good commercial advice to help people manage relationships with co-workers, investors, clients etc etc...

I can't believe there are people out there who with confidence can declare that 1 million Americans are doing something that adds zero value to society.
I can't say I disagree with a lot of what he says.

But I doubt he honestly believes in all of this. This rationalization just happens to coincide with his (and Russia's) interests.

I think he'd do better to stay silent and let me come to this conclusion on my own instead of feeling dirty for having him agree with me.
This piece hits the right spot for a very wide demographic. He evokes trust through previous collaboration during WW2, mentions cold war, pope and increasing trust between nations and then goes on to evoke empathy from the people using "we are one" kind of deal, and even manages to sneak in a reference to League of Nations tangentially hinting/threatening irrelevance of UN. I am fairly impressed. I wish I could write such an elegant Cover letter. Opening paragraph sets the tone, and finishing one solidifies it. A good piece, nevertheless, wherever individual opinions lie.
> she knew about it, was amused by it herself. No bad intentions.

her opinion and agreement apparently doesn't matter, the internet knows better.
If you build the code, your computer will write the novel
I'm surprised no one linked to Amy Cuddy's very relevant TED Talk.. Great watch.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ks-_Mh1QhMc
Hm. Well, I agree actually, and in fact it does have some media at least associated with articles, via the "wikimedia commons".

I was more trying to illustrate that multimedia alone does not make a high quality resource, as proved the downfall of the "Multimedia CD-ROM" era of content production, which I feel these concept videos are rooted in.
There's a whole spectrum in there, you can't just say that all choices imply extreme perceptions.
Ethics are a constraint on your actions. The question is whether unethical people have any similarly strong constraint.
This double standard is what makes America an exceptional nation. ;)
At the risk of downvotes for commenting rather than merely upvoting, I have to say that that was masterfully framed.
Show HN: Formbuilder.js
HN is about anything that interests the community. It doesn't strictly have to be about hacking. (Witness the number of science articles here.)
For anyone wondering how Chinese/Japanese/Korean input works interms of DOM events check out the W3C's working draft of the IME API [http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/WD-ime-api-20130815/]. Specifically the sequence diagram near the end of the page.
Definitely recommend this site, it was a big influence in my early programming days, I found it way more interesting than Project Euler.
"The law is still the law, and we must follow it whether we like it or not." ... unless you are a rogue regime that wants to use chemical weapons?
It's a pretty common tactic. IIRC, the Nazis allegedly shelled one of their towns and used it as an excuse to invade Poland. The Soviets were rumored to have done the same with Finland.
I think the problem is that there isn't much evidence either way. The Obama administration thinks it was Assad, as that fits their model of the conflict, where Putin thinks it was the rebels, as it fits his model.

I'm of the opinion that you shouldn't go to war when the only reasoning behind it is evidence that you're fitting to your model.
The logic is that if the submitter is interested in it and also reads HN, then it's relevant to HN. It's a nice circular relationship.
Take it as an opportunity to separate ideas from persons. You may agree with an idea even if you dislike the person proposing it (and the other way around, of course).
True! But one neat thing is that, if you have a black-box abstract data type then you can force people to use the provided Monad interface if they want to do stuff with it. The IO monad does exactly this to create its "alternative realm"; there is no way to get "out" of IO once you get in , the only way to run an IO computation is to have it be directly or indirectly called by "main" and the only primitive way to compose IO computations is with the monadic combinators.
It sets the tone of world affairs. If things went slightly worse in the last few days, there could have been WWIII. I think "hey, we've backed off a bit from dying in a nuclear hellfire" is somewhat relevant. :)
And speaking of the Principle of Least Surprise, I'm curious as to why HN's comment system handles double newlines like a comment system, but single newlines like an HTML parser.
If this is the skill tree, is doing a startup a raid?
"we must not forget that God created us equal."

As long as you're not gay.
Putin (or his representatives) knows his audience. This piece eschews the normal alpha bravado that I would expect from Putin in favor of a coherent argument in favor of restraint. I found myself not merely nodding along, but inspired, and I hope that we can at least agree with him on this.

It is alarming that military intervention in internal conflicts in foreign countries has become commonplace for the United States. Is it in America’s long-term interest? I doubt it. Millions around the world increasingly see America not as a model of democracy but as relying solely on brute force, cobbling coalitions together under the slogan “you’re either with us or against us.”
I love this. We'll be in San Francisco this weekend and will definitely use it! I'd love to help you port this to work here in New York, too. Let me know.
There's always management. That's my plan when I'm in my 40s/50s/tired of coding age, at least.

Otherwise, don't worry about it, because there's lots of people out there right now jumping around companies from year-to-year, doing that thing. It's the norm for an industry, right now.

There will be some conventional wisdom you can glean from colleagues, The Market, and your own heart/personal development, when the comes time for that.

You're young. You don't need all of the answers now, nor should you try to come up with them which would inevitably cause you madness.

Plus, there will always be the Googles/Apples/Microsofts, etc of the world. When you're ready for stability, move towards that pack.
Here's a good read regarding the Syria conflict and how Russia and other world powers are involved:

http://www.reddit.com/r/TrueAskReddit/comments/1lw8yg/why_do...
You guys absolutely have written about her flirtations in this blog post, which everyone who saw that Facebook ad can now link back to her.

You said you didn't post any of her info online.. you ran a friggin Facebook ad campaign with her picture on it (which you obtained not from her)! Now you've just edited your comment to say you didn't post any other info about her that you obtained.

You did all this without her permission, according to your colleague. Now you're trying to weasel out of that too with ambiguous phrases like "she is aware". Yeah, after you told her what you already did.

Did it not even occur to you that it could be potentially embarrassing or invasive? What if she wasn't cool with it? What if she's just playing cool because you forced her hand? It's wrong of you to assume it's ok to cyberstalk someone for "fun" because your intentions are good -- your intentions being having a laugh with your bros.

The other point here, even if you think bro'ing out like this is perfectly acceptable workplace behavior / way to treat women, is that it's just incredibly stupid for a startup to tarnish their brand this way. Just don't do it.
Yeah, the statement is all well and good, but I'm no fan of being lectured about the spread of dangerous ideas by a man who thinks homosexuality is contagious and whose power was mostly gained by family ties and rank in the Kremlin pre-collapse.
These are the same guys that "accidentally" wiretapped the entire 202 area code (Washington, DC) in an election year.
I think the FSF explain it best: http://www.gnu.org/distros/common-distros.html#Ubuntu

Mainly, non-free software repositories, and the amazon integration in unity.
Or tech companies (big ones at least) can just open development centers in countries with lower cost talent like India, China, and the Philippines. That is already happening; getting rid of H1Bs would just accelerate the process and the high-end workers that would otherwise come to the states would still be working, they would just no longer be paying American taxes.
1) He did not say either group was 'good', and implied quite the opposite.
2) As someone who purchases things like enterprise sales software, this exercise does not entice me to consider your product. Ever.
Or if we work for the KGB, of course.
If you start your own business, certainly it's the education that matters, not the piece of paper.

In my personal case, I care about the education I received. I don't have the diploma framed on my wall, and I don't know if I could even find it in the basement. Maybe others care about the paper, but I don't.
It's not impossible to "find out" about something before it's over, you know. The white knights in this thread need to calm down just a wee bit.
It may be many things but a common tactic it is not. There might be famous examples in history but their fame is indicative of just how uncommonly it is used.
Atwood's Law hard at work.
I wrote a (valid) Python poem a long time ago:

import calendar as usual
StandardError is usual \
or not usual. month is long

try: not coerce
finally: quit

(help for me in range
(usual. MONDAY))
Will the Future Need Doctors?
I'm with you. I bet these guys though 'titstare' was fracking hysterical, complete with fistbumps. They certainly have the whole "whaaaaaat...we didn't do anything wrong...allow us to rationalize this away" thing down.
In the original (ST and desktop GUI centric) MVC, controller and view were essentially interfaces. View is something that can draw window on screen and controller is something that processes/redistributes events from input devices. On the other hand model is simply something that can be hooked up to that, ie. stores state accessible by views and controllers and notifies views of state changes.

The idea of view directly modifying models comes from fact that in many cases there was class named FooView, that acted both as view and controller (which generally makes sense because the low level GUI logic is same for both). Also models represented not only the actual data but also various parts of GUI state itself (eg. position of scrollbar).
I remember this -- I swear this was in one of the Perl books (the Camel book?) way back when.

It's valid Perl 3, but it is not supposed to do anything useful. The idea is simply to show how expressive you could be in the language.
Can anyone explain what happens to all the undefined vars to someone unfamiliar with Perl?
Also, he created Tern[1], a code analysis engine for Javascript, which provides smart code completion, Function argument hints, and other features

This tool is crowdfunded at indiegogo[2]

[1]http://ternjs.net/

[2]http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/tern-intelligent-javascrip...
Yea I meant "I usually" :-p
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> I'm already very frugal (haven't failed to put away 20% of my monthly income in savings for... quite a while now)

Try to bump it up by a few percent every month (cook at home, buy less useless shit, sell stuff to buy stuff, etc.). On a developer salary, you can easily put 50%+ aside every month if you're without kids/mortgage.
Don't worry, the richness of Vladimir Putin saying that "the law is still the law, and we must follow it whether we like it or not" is not lost on me.
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How are you finding ceph?
Mark Zuckerberg on NSA spying: 'The government blew it'
"There is every reason to believe [sarin gas] was used not by the Syrian Army, but by opposition forces, to provoke intervention by their powerful foreign patrons, who would be siding with the fundamentalists."

Obama asserted something quite different in last night's address. He stated that the Syrian army distributed gas masks to their soldiers before the attacks, that documents show Syrian generals reviewing the results after the attack, and that they planned to continue and expand the attack after the initial wave of gas was used. I would tend to believe Obama because he is much more credible than Putin, and has much more to lose if he can't produce evidence to support his claims.

Despite Putin's call for transparency, the fact remains that he is unwilling to tell the truth about what happened.
Syria broke one of the most important international laws that we have, which is the ban of chemical weapons. If they aren't punished, then we are telling the world that it is OK to use chemical weapons.

Putin claims that the United States' position with Iran will be weakened if we intervene. The opposite is clearly true; our prior negotiations with Syria over their acquisition of chemical weapons in many ways mirrors our ongoing negotiations with Iran. We told Syria there was a red line and they crossed it. If we don't intervene in Syria, we are effectively telling Iran that our word is meaningless.

Putin's claims that an intervention will cause an escalation of the conflict and more terrorism are simply not true. The goal would not be to upset the balance of power or to cripple the Syrian army in any way.

Our objective would be to prevent the Syrian army from using chemical weapons again, and show the world that chemical weapons are unacceptable. Intervention would lower the risk of chemical weapons being used in the future, help discourage nuclear proliferation, and prevent the U.S.'s credibility in the region from being destroyed.
Wasn't stack ranking in use during Gates's tenure as well?
Thanks for that link. The fact that they provide a version that only contains FOSS repos makes me think that calling Ubuntu non-FOSS a bit of an overstatement. That Amazon thing seems a bit icky, though.
But what if I gain a new skill? The URL won't update if I have posted it somewhere.
Having had a chance to experience Larry up close at a YAPC, I firmly believe he's one of the most quirkily brilliant people in the industry (for whatever industry means in this case).
Which American city will the CIA nuke to push us all into war?
Guy's a far right 'neoreactionary.' Fuck him.
Thanks for your reply, but that's exactley what I don't want to do. I know about psql and I know how to write SQL statements, but what I'm looking for is a text-based interface that let me perform tasks (similar to what you can do with phpmyadmin) without writing SQL statements.
Having followers redirect to the leader is how the paper describes the algorithm.

But I don't think there is anything stopping you from having followers service committed log entry reads, provided you're willing to live with being out-of-date.
I think it's a good example.
It would be interesting to know the poll results if we weighted the votes by karma or time-since-created. (Come to think of it, it would be interesting to know what the front page would look like if we weighted the votes by karma or time-since-created.)
So Larry Wall is a black metal artist in his spare time?

kill them, dump qualms, shift moralities,
values aside, each one;
die sheep! die to reverse the system
you accept (reject, respect);
Thanks I have not heard of DRBL. After reading it sounds pretty much like PVS, though PVS does have some additional features I don't see on it. Will have to try it out! DRBL is a free software though.
The block in the UN is Russia. If Putin wanted action in Syria to carry the UN imprimatur, he could make that happen tomorrow.
Brace expansion is great! My understanding, though, is that you'd need to write:

cp file{,.bak}

Was it a typo, or is there some feature/special-case I don't know about?
Fuck Apple and iPhone. I don't care about it and I don't want to read about it. Apparently most people on HN agree. Now you can kick and scream or read other site. It is just how it is.

> and is entirely argumentative speculation with no real benefit to the discussion.

Like a chat by the water-cooler you mean. I would love more Snowdens and leaked documents to come out. Unfortunately there aren't at the moment, so we are left discussing what is there. Talking about the future, the implication to US businesses, implication to what it means for this country, the Constitution, privacy, and so on.

I understand that is not interesting for most people, especially non-Americans. Well c'est la vie, a good majority of HNers are Americans.

The rage and indignation about this is quite strong (and it should be so). These revelations, have shattered the perceptions many have been brought up and believed in for most part of their lives. It is hard to deal with that so well you get lots of discussion.

You have the downvote button, click it if you don't like the topic. But stomping your feet about hoping maybe moderators will notice and will start pushing Apple related stories higher might not work.
I find it intriguing how close yours was to what I came up with quick for myself (http://www.dungeonsanddevelopers.com/#_a2b2c2de3hi2jklmnopqx...).

I wonder what percentage of web developers on HN fall into the same broad category.
The US claims to have evidence (a phone call, I think?) within the Syrian Army saying that they used chemical weapons. Not sure if it's ever been released, though - I certainly haven't heard so.
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I agree with what he says here but I wonder what his true motivation is. You can see that he wants a strong and stable power in Syria. Easier to deal with and less risk than all these rebels, who in all likelihood will turn out to be either pro-US or fundamentalists, neither of which is good for Russia.
Perhaps she was doing a presentation, so was alone at the front of the room. The photographer, being in the audience, would obviously know which presentation it was and from there its a quick look-up on the list of presenters.
I was hoping to see your thoughts on this case, and I will keep reading the thread in case you have additional comments, but related to the 1st Amendment issue, what does it matter what the charges are?

Whether the charge is distribution of stolen information or threatening a federal authority, does the Defendant have the right to defend himself publicly in the media? For example George Zimmerman did Fox News interviews prior to trial (and did not have to testify as a result). Obviously this can be distinguished from the Martha Stewart case where she used media to maintain her innocence for the insider trading charges and she was subsequently charged with artificially maintaining the price of her own Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, Inc.(MSLO) stock vis-a-vis here "innocence media campaign", although the commercial speech standard was applied in this instance. Thoughts?
You have to have an idea to do something, genius.
This is actually a very generous account of how Putin rose to power.

See: http://www.amazon.com/The-Man-Without-Face-Unlikely/dp/15944...
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True. It certainly hasn't changed my mind on the Syria situation, though it has perhaps stated a lot of what I was thinking a lot more eloquently than I could.

I'm not sure who this is trying to convince. People who agree with him like me, it probably won't affect much. People who want to invade Syria are the type of people that will see his name and only feel vindicated in their belief. You know Fox News, et al. will spam their viewers with "This is what Putin says, it must be wrong."

I don't know if there is really a lot of people sitting on the fence on this one, other than the apathetic who won't read it anyway.
Look that's great and all, but if you make like 7 comments in a row spouting the same thing over and over and over again about Khosla, I'm inclined to think there are some personal issues between you two and you're looking to spread FUD.