skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Posted this reply elsewhere, but SafeMonk encrypts your files before they hit your harddrive and keeps them encrypted in the Dropbox cloud. It's free for personal use: http://www.safemonk.com. Note: this is not my product, just using it after I saw it demo'd at a TechBreakfast.
I feel like Keurig would be a no brainer as a name for a Java micro Web framework.
I somehow feel that when your company is growing 1000% a week and you have lot of equity in that company, somehow you find strength to work that many hours without breaking sweat. I believe thats more enjoyable experience than just work.
It is a pretty simple rule of media: whoever the most controversial[1] member of your community is will be its representative as far as the media is concerned as long as the media is not part of that community. Which communities the media is a member in changes from media provider to media provider. No mainstream media is a member of the tech community.

1) for some definition of controversial including depraved, out-there, insulting-to-community-members, and click generating
And an even better feature would be monospaced font + code coloring. I bet there is some open-source lib that could do that.
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Yes, I see having to pull an all-nighter as a big failure on my part. I did once or twice, but I noticed it's just counter productive. I was adding negative value at 2-6am, it would have been better to sleep and continue the next morning, or just let it go.
Fred Wilson "Be Your Own Bitch", film at 11.
...and violate their TOS at the same time.
Its technically possible, all you have to do is put sleep in your task list.
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You can buy a case of it from the 2600! http://store.2600.com/clubmate.html It tends to sell out quickly though.
I don't think they should make such broad generalizations about the tech industry because of three 20-something guys from San Francisco, New York City, who aren't even employed by any large, reputable technology company.
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True, oddly enough. As is, famously, the demilitarized zone in Korea.
Totally agree. Just wonder why the focus seems to be on just the IT industry (maybe that's the only ones I'm seeing since I'm on tech sites).
Great post. Good practical exposition of Taleb's ideas. A lot of people mistakenly think he's theoretical.

Just chiming in to say that cargo cults were very real:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cargo_cult
It's so annoying when Google completely opens up archive files in Drive, too. Why would they do that?!
but would you have the self discipline to recognise when long hours are becoming counter-productive, and being harmful not helpful?
clang was develop at University of Illinois. Apple did not create it.
> what other choice do they have but to fetch it?

They could not fetch it and have a little blank bit in the thumbnail.

Chances are they're using a library they didn't develop and did not think of the possibility of external resources being loaded.

Edit: The most secure way I can think to handle preview generation is to have a virtual machine firewalled from the internet that previews a single document and is then reverted.
Yes, your last point is the key. It's difficult to get most people interested in a pure software project because you can't see it or touch it. As soon as it becomes real (connect some I/O), it's infinitely more interesting.
Most torrents at 720p (and seemingly fine quality to me) come in around a GB. So it's enough for almost 1000 movies.
Let us not forget how Adria Richards was fired by sendgrid for publicly expressing her discontent with sexism at tech conferences.
in other words: no wallflowers
Final tally - 51 votes here to the contrary.

Those who know avoid Khosla.

For all you new founders, tread lightly.
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How would it be illegal to remove pages from their own platform that alter Facebook's appearance? As far as enforceability, that seems demonstrably false based on this post.
Easy explanation is that there are a ton of people holding a STEM-related diploma but absolutely inept in this profession not even trying to compete. I know that from every class of software engineers in Russia, couple guys make a successful career, couple more become mediocre coders, couple more try for a while give up, rest not even bother...
You think that's sad? MSN Messenger had millions of users, complete with their "friends". And they failed to turn that into any social network worth anything. Duh.

(Same with Skype.)
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Use lots of nested martini shakers for parentheses?
This has been Facebook's MO for almost 5 years now. What Social Fixer was doing in particular is among a class of applications that Facebook has always deleted or banned as soon as they noticed them. I've had applications with 5-10MM MAU deleted without warning and know dozens of folks with similar stories.

That's life developing for Facebook. Don't be under any illusions if you decide to play in their sandbox.
I'm not a big fan of the content either. If you're going to imply Dropbox is doing something sneaky then I think you owe them the basic courtesy of a chance to comment or explain before you hit publish.
Please don't attack other users personally. It's never necessary, makes you look mean, and poisons the well for everybody.
If it wasn't a launch area it would probably not be a wildlife refuge, especially since there is already an existing refuge, Assateague Island, right next door.

It would most likely be packed with vacation homes, just like the rest of the Mid-Atlantic shoreline.

Disclaimer: I saw this launch from Assateague and it was awesome. I was too far away to see any flying frogs, but the mosquitos and bats did not seem too upset where I was.
You can step through all of Spring in your debugger with no problems, whether you configure it in xml or via annotations. Spring is not "programming in xml".

Also, Python has decorators and Python 3 will soon have function annotations.
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Yes. What editor are you talking about?

The reason I ask is because in vim, I can move the cursor with my arrow keys when I'm in insert mode, and if I wanted to, I can select blocks of text with my mouse, without pressing any key to change mode.

In addition to those features I can move about more efficiently without moving my hands from the keyboard, by changing mode. I touch-type, and I write for a living, so this is quite important to me, but assuming the features you mention are the most important ones to you and that you don't want to change modes, you can still do the things you say you can't. Well, I can. Not sure if you can, but I'm fairly sure it's not due to any limitation of vim. I'm curious how you appear to be mistaken in some very basic facts.
Best line in the caption: "...the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has an agreement with NASA to use the NASA-owned portion of Wallops Island for research and management of declining wildlife in special need of protection."

Hope that frog wasn't one in special need.
She should :)
This x 10. If opening doc files is a planned feature, doing a request to these embedded URLs doesn't sound too good at all.
I love it! Just whipped up a couple of toy web services in 15 mins using Spark. They will be part of a technical interview coding task.

True, Spark may not be better/more concise than JAX-RS, but fun to try anyway.
Nice isn't synonymous with clever.
The guy says that he wasn't doing any work. He was just a warm body.

Thus "You'll have to be at your desk for insane hours. You won't be doing much work. You increase the chance of fat-finger[1] errors. We know you'll probably have to take illegal drugs to stay awake that long. We're borderline illegal. We're opening ourselves up to serious legal liability (eg, causing harm to our workers). But hey, you'll get a shitton of money. (Where shitton is not that much, and less than you'd get from other more normal jobs)"

It's a perverse incentive because there's money slopping round in banking, and there are not adequate controls on how that money makes its way from A to B to C.

The bank does $SOMETHING, and the customers are happy and pay, and the bank pays $BONUS. But there's randomness in the system and often the $SOMETHING has very little to do with actually making any money.
One of the most important lessons I've learned during the growing-up phase of my being an entrepreneur -- and one of the first things I'm doing with my next startup -- is putting together a list of "doomsday scenarios" right off the bat.

What are the _single_ actions / events / scenarios that could kill your business overnight?

I emphasize single because every business is going to have the potential for a series of unforeseen events kill them (i.e. Microsoft would probably not have seen 'Apple releases a phone' as a business/Balmer-killer), but every business should be keenly aware of the single-points-of-failure (SPoF).

It seems obvious, but so many folks either willfully ignore or choose to pretend that SPoF don't exist or rationalize the scenario away.

Examples:

* You run on AWS in a single availability zone, and that availability zone goes down for a week ("The cloud is super reliable. Amazon won't go down.")

* Your CTO is the only person on the company who knows the product, and he quits overnight / gets injured / becomes incapacitated. ("He's my partner. He'd never abandon the business. We're in this together.")

* You rely solely on Facebook / Twitter / Apple App Store and are at the mercy of their changes in policy ("Oh Facebook would never just shut us down.")

* You're built solely on the Foursquare Places API. ("Foursquare won't just kill all the companies that rely on their API...right?")

Etc. etc. etc.

Now, this isn't saying that you should be paralyzed by the potential for SPoFs to hurt your business -- it may make sense to proceed even with them around (i.e. lots of people have made a lot of money building FB apps).

But you MUST be aware of what they are, and you MUST have a plan in place to handle the continuation of the business if one of them comes true.
Sounds like they are trying to be this, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ko-r4gpM3Rc

Except Stremor has a Query Language so you don't have to do anywhere near as much heavy lifting.
I wrote this exact game as a high school project, but instead of Venus, I think you had to get to a Stargate / wormhole
Your understanding is not accurate; I was 5 miles away from this launch and the low rumble was not loud enough to drown normal talking.

Most launches from Wallops are sounding rockets, which are much smaller than the Minotaur. Which is itself much smaller than the Space Shuttle was.
I tend to have a lot of problems with the way Facebook operates (mostly involving how they treat their users), but they seem pretty reasonable in this case. How is it draconian to not allow a Page on your platform that (among other things) blocks your source of revenue? (social fixer allows blocking Facebook ads)
> Shrek, Spongebob Squarepants and Mickey Mouse

Nothing of value was lost then
Declare what victory? I have no* stance in superiority of the whole modal vs. non-modal deal. Whenever I have a choice, I pick a modern GUI editor, just like you.

Far from "[asserting] all possible viewpoints", I mentioned specific keystrokes that you could try out too. If you are in insert-mode, and use arrow keys to visit a different location, you'd continue to be in insert-mode. Is it implemented as a secret hack to quietly enter and exit the scroll mode when arrow keys are pressed? I neither know nor care. However, in this usage scenario, modes are not exposed to the end-user.

* actually, I do like modal behaviour, but in very few cases. In MS Windows, it used to be the case that Win-space z would put the window in resize-mode. One could then use arrow keys to resize the window. There was a similar sequence for moving windows too.
That right there seems like reason enough for $FB to remove the application.
This is great! Very cool project. The fact that it's open source makes it all the better. Definitely a tool I wish I had while I was learning how to code.

Seems like you can port this to almost anything, not just a Raspberry Pi.
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>>if an entrepreneur is regularly pulling all-nighters for no good reason

I imagine most of us do it because we think it's for a good reason.
Exactly. I've interviewed recent UC Berkeley EECS [1] graduates and found they couldn't write a line of code, and Berkeley is a top 10 engineering and top 10 computer science school (or at least was a the time; haven't checked rankings recently).

[1] Electrical Engineering and Computer Science; their B.S. degree in computer science. I think they have a B.A. as well.
The most amazing thing to me is that nobody stood up during these presentations and read these idiots the riot act. If I were sitting there with my daughter and some fucking moron got up on stage and started showing a masturbation app, well, let's just say the presentation would have been interrupted. He would not have left that stage without a solid public shaming. Very loud and extremely intense.

So I have to wonder. How many people were there? Why didn't the dad with his nine year old daughter get up and raise hell? Why didn't the organizers? Why didn't women?

Aologizing after the fact is one thing. If you want to send a solid message you have to publicly shame these morons then and there. Te problem is that a lot of these young guys in tech are still, mentally speaking, teenagers, which makes them socially inept and, in some cases, complete idiots.
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This is a straw man argument (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_man).

No one is saying that startups are for everyone. People just say that they're undervalued. The upside is ignored (probably because of scope insensitivity [http://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Scope_insensitivity]), and the risks are misunderstood.
Thanks! I understand now. Convinced.
By default, Adblock Plus "Allow[s] some non-intrusive advertising."

You have to go into the settings and opt out to stop all ads.
Ask HN: How many of you are building data-intensive applications?
Data-intensive: doing a lot of data processing in the back-end. What do you use? Do you have on-premise Hadoop infrastructure or Amazon EMR in the cloud? What are your pain-points?
If you ever have a flare up I would suggest getting a colonoscopy, they can tell somewhat accurately which one you have. There is an additional procedure (don't know the name) where they fill you with white liquid and perform an abdominal CT scan during a flare up. Since the ulcers are in different locations for each disease they can visually see where the problem is.

Also treatments are not always the same, for example in Europe they sometimes treat Colitis with nicotine (if the patient is a smoker or has recently quit), but doing so with a Crohn's patient would have a negative effect.

I agree that the steroid use is typically the same (and asacol), but Colitis seems less affected by diet than Crohns, if you have a severe case the only help is medication and diet has little to no effect outside abrasive materials.

I'm not being negative about the site, I do think it is great that people can come together as a community, I just had some concerns.
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Yes, you're right, I got them mixed up, thanks.
I'd like to disagree - at least for my university, which to be fair is notorious for being brutal in terms of workload. It's not unusual for me and many of my friends to have so much work for classes and extracurriculars over the course of a week or month that there literally isn't enough time to do all of it and also eat and sleep in the 168 hrs/week that you have.
Yes, judging from YT videos of drag soldering, this was what he did, except unlike people in those videos, he did it holding the circuit board vertically and hence it was one very quick move. Bear with me: this was almost ten years ago, I had nothing to do with electronics since, and I am not a native speaker of English!
<insert random language> when used in a badly designed project, maintained by 10+ dev's in 15+ different styles using 20+ different external dependencies written in 25 days.

Seriously: I'd go for befunge or malebolge.
I really hate board games. Seriously, I hate them, and I don't understand why so many people in my social circles enjoy them. I can't count the number of times I've been at a party and everything has been going nicely, and then all of a sudden, game time.

You think maybe I should write a long-winded self-aggrandizing blog post about this culture of exclusion?
In retrospect this was a very well done ad for HoneyDocs... I checked out the service and thought it was novel... wouldn't have looked if not for this.

The article is written in a such a way that they are saying a lot by playing dumb... so hard to say it's misleading... but I know few security people who'd write something up with this tone.
When judging what's 'fair', people tend to look upwards. At best they look to their peers. No one ever looks downwards. Which is why you have people with medical care, housing, and college educations protesting against the 1%.
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The original concept will be modified in the future, reading it back I can make some changes that will make it clearer.

It is meant to replace Markdown and yes, I have grabbed some inspiration from Markdown itself and Textile.

All I'm doing is basically combining both of these and making it more powerful with less and clearer markup.

Of course it's going to be developed to output the most recent HTML5.
Content is modified by the context. Someone trying to raise warnings about a competitors product should make you question the motives.
Thanks you, I did not mean to be negative and think this site is a great resource to build a community, I just had some concerns.
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I think there's a decent opportunity for someone to build for a combination of a static site generator with a clean web administrative backend and API for dynamic content (forms, discussion, social network stuff, etc). Of course, the admin backend would be a target but would at least be a smaller attack surface.
The problem is that you typically build your habits in your first few years in your 20s. Many (not all) investment bankers build the habit of being consumed by work, neglecting exercise, eating unhealthily, and substituting money for happiness.

I worked in a financial software startup my first job out of college. Our CFO was a former investment banker, one of the determined ones who got out. He said "Everybody in investment banking has their number, the amount they have to make before they get out of the career and sit on a beach somewhere. Very few actually make it, because once they hit their number their number just doubles again."

My girlfriend used to work in finance (in proprietary trading, not IB) and said the same about many of her IB friends: they all want to get out, but very few of them actually do. (The ones that do have a nice chunk of change, which is good, but it requires really knowing yourself and your goals and acting on that, which few people can do.)
They don't evenly reintroduce their money into the market across the board (a consumer does much better at that) and they are not reintroducing money for the purposes of goods exchange but they are exchanging money now for money future. And they actively try to avoid risk (such as bank bailouts, golden parachutes, guaranteed dividends, etc) so you either make a little or a lot, and rarely lose your shirt.

That means inevitably you have more money than you started with, just siphoning more and more off of the populace. Even if you keep cycling the money back in and people get to use it in a theoretically good way, you still concentrate ownership of resources, businesses, and workers as your reinvestments give you ownership of all these things that make you more money to own more things in perpetuity.
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IMO, if you're not going to enable comments or use hosted solutions like Disqus or Livefyre, static content generation really is the way to go and WP is massively overkill. I would say though, static content generators need to be far more user friendly - essentially idiot proof (at least idiot resistant?) - for them to see mass adoption.

It would be better for the overall health of the web if more independent publishers moved to static content.

I would also say, WP is not a blogging platform. It's ventured into the "Content Management Framework" realm with blogging "stuff" bolted on at this point. But PHP is still is the most ubiquitous and easiest environment for the novice (for better or for worse) so that's something to keep in mind as well.
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> Its because they don't think women in general have the fortitude nor the willingness to not shower for days and be content with not going outside while living off cold pizza.

Sorry for being harsh. This has to be just-about the stupidest comment I've seen on HN in quite some time.
> painkillers due to migraines for years

I meant "months". Obviously, not everything's back where it should be. (And this is the truth. After my injury, my brain is not the same tool it used to be. I troubleshoot in the reverse order I used to. I skip items in checklists that I remember reading clearly and damned well know are there. Even though most things came back without much struggle, I'm having to re-learn certain small things that used to be second nature.)

Wear your helmets, kids.
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At the very least, TFA has come to find out what it's like to exhibit dumb, pleonastic writing style. "I have found out..." would be more idiomatic and sensible. "I found out..." would be better in most contexts, but tense is due more to authorial taste so I could have ignored that. Actually for a title that entire verb phrase could be omitted: "What it's like to be dumb" or "What being dumb is like". A good editor would whittle that down to "Being dumb", but then the polished title would contradict the claims of the rest of the piece, so perhaps the current title is best.
hehe, I actually did build that... it was called exes4all...
It makes more sense to have it fetch them via a proxy.
+1000. That could be a disaster. Some people in Nokia really saved it before the rest of Nokia sunk.
But just think of all the important and valuable work they are doing...oh wait...
vivek haldar....
Though the article isn't pointedly about ticks and Lyme disease, I want to share some advice on them, as the disease can be truly debilitating and have long term consequences.

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Java's drink is surely the Bloody Mary, the world's most complex cocktail. A blunt and simple central ingredient (cheap vodka/Java the language) surrounded by an ornate spice rack's worth of ingredients and preparation.

http://blogs.laweekly.com/squidink/2010/12/theres_got_to_be_...
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one alternative would be to have a phone with a cpu that can be desoldered and replaced easily and in a more voluminous case (maybe a nice cnc milled alumin(i)um case)