skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've got a Note II and if you look on Wikipedia[1] you'll see there are 16 different models. Mine is one of the two designated as "International" and it was factory unlocked.

I think we need to hold judgement until all the facts are in. It's very possible that they will create an unlocked international version of the Note III as well. From the outcry, it sounds like it would sell well. Only question is if it will have the same limitation as the international Note II: no LTE.

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galaxy_Note_II
I think nonchalance is arguing more to the point that this was not a "lottery winner." It was a good idea from the start, because it filled a need people actually knew about, instead of filling a need that people didn't know they had yet.
I remember the post that launched imgur.

It really was a scratch your own itch kind of thing. So many redditors complained about the crappy image sharing sites...lots of them were verboten to use on reddit because they were so spammy, or slow, or whatever. There was no clear leader in the image sharing space. Facebook was impossible (because it wants to own every user and won't let you show someone something without logging in), even if it were an acceptable place to upload weird random pictures (I know many people who do, but they just don't know about reddit and imgur yet). So...imgur's founder saw a very clear need, and humbly pointed redditors to it.

It took off because it was amazing in its simplicity and sincerity. imgur's founder clearly wanted you to share funny pictures in imgur, even if he couldn't figure out how to make it pay him money for every image. He just wanted to solve a very real problem that caused millions of people tiny amounts of pain. (When picking a problem, pick one that causes either a few people a lot of pain, or one that causes a lot of people a little bit of pain. You're unlikely to find a problem that causes a lot of people a lot of pain, since those are already usually very competitive.)
We have VERY rapid dev cycles, and often have to solve things as a team on the white board. We are starting to have some stuff that could be done remotely, but it is very hard to get someone remote up to speed on the vocabulary of the product.

We build things like Search Engines. Which have a Crawler, an indexer, a few dozen scorers, the front end, the Natural Language processor, the content extractor....

And all of those things have to talk to each other and be set up to run on your personal dev environment. That often means borrowing some know how from the guy next to you. That is much harder remotely.
New nose grown on man's forhead in China
No, seriously, it's such a common talking point that if you google the words "monopoly of force" you'll find the argument hashed out, extremely we'll, by both sides, thousands of times. So there's literally I reason to do it again, instead of just linking to one of those.

My question was also literal, not rhetorical: is a free-market for force what you intended to advocate? If not, what are you advocating? Explain how force should be divvied up, if a monopoly is suboptimal.
The quality of living is different.

I am working mostly in Python these days. When I was in Silicon Valley I could go talk to Guido. When I had questions about AppEngine from Google I met with the PM's.

Phoenix doesn't have that. Also the place I rent in Tempe is with in 10% of the price of the same thing in San Jose.
True, but saying "Compete anywhere remotely in the world" on the page is misleading since it gives the impression anyone could participate.
As much as I agree with you, the judge in the case is just bigoted, not stupid. Judges frequently punish individuals they don't like by putting them last on the docket. Somebody has to go last and it won't be recognized as punishment as a consequence, even though it really is. Most sessions can run 5 to 6 hours, that's quite a long time to wait.
The VR Jam the Oculus folks put on also did this.
Why Does a Fancy Purse Say “Stay Away from My Man”? [pdf]
Node is a run-time for JavaScript, much like what is available in the Chrome console. Its usage is very similar to that of a command-line python interpreter / REPL.

Angular is a front-end framework for organizing large JavaScript projects. It requires a JavaScript run-time (such as a browser).

They're pretty wildly different.
Play with the http://TLDRStuff.com tools there is zero learning curve over there.

One of the API's takes a URL, one takes plaintext or HTML, not sure which one you hit, but the TLDRStuff.com will make it really easy for you to play.
Well, they are either very competetive or extremely hard to solve. Think cancer.
And what about the poor bastards who are judged to be "average" employees by whatever metric?
A sprint with "hands on deck" to finish wordpress themes?
Most of you are too young to remember, "Buy now and we'll send you CD's each month for just $9.95 per month, keep only the ones you want, cancel anytime"

This is the same thing. It may feel scuzzy, but they do tell you this up front, and while they hope you forget, it isn't a scam, it is just preying on the uninformed.
I remember having that itch a few years before imgur happened; I shared a lot of screenshots with friends.

I wrote a PHP script that did fast upload with a minimalistic look and popped in on a server and bought a domain name for it; it got used pretty heavily in my group of nerdy high school/college friends.

But I never gave it any more thought, and just open sourced it a few years later (it's on my github I believe).
Doesn't look like the ISO standard is used much. Is there something useful in ISLisp which is not present in CL ? If there is no standard FFI interface, threading model..., then why bother ?
Ahh poor reading on my behalf. Valid point, although many people build side projects that fulfill a valid need that never get adapted. You usually don't have the luxury of a marketing budget or the time to promote your idea effectively when it's just your side project. Then again that's the beauty of Reddit - 1 front page post = 10's of thousands of hits.
I think it is definitely fraudulent on the website's part, but I am intrigued by the fact that you girlfriend did not notice the charge on her card for 8 months? May be she was away from her home and busy with her studies but didn't keep a tab on her finances? Where the money is coming and where it is going? Didn't she get her credit card statement in email or she can't see it online on her card issuer's website?

I really don't understand how can one fail to notice a monthly charge, month after month after month. I think this kind of gross financial negligence on part of the customers is what bolsters these fraudsters and their business model of charging a monthly subscription.
> So essentially everything is on-topic

No. Which is why we have voting. "Everything" does not make the front page of HN.
The Common LISP committee didn't have any representative from Europe and I think it should have people from the other side of the Atlantic.
Ask HN: What do you mean when you use the term "big app"?
Total scam.
I read the bad reviews and the reasons for the negatives.

If they add up, I'll take note. If they don't, I'll presume a fake.

The failure of review services (Amazon, Yelp, and others) to police their reviews adequately really hurts these services. Otherwise they're little more than a yellow pages or directory.
Huh, sounds like a rebill scam with the lent legitimacy of VC funding.
> Seems like the guy requesting that certain data be collected is due some measure of academic credit for having the foresight to know what question to ask, even if someone else "scoops" them on the analysis.

I'd agree, but my knowledge of the academic community is that credit goes by published papers and, secondarily, how often you get cited. This seems like one of those things where we just don't have a great system for giving people credit, and the one we do have is problematic.

(Wealth is like that, too. Also, resumes.)
Clearly indicated on:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JustFab

Obviously the VCs did diligence - however they must have considered the shady business as an acceptable risk factor.

I think the answer to what you are asking is many businesses start in the grey zone. Recently many folks made huge bank with recurring billing with no notice. Ring tones and internet games both went that path. Justfab seems to be breaking into a new industry with that same business model.

You should consider that most people consider this nonsense the fault of the purchaser, 'buyer beware'. Gym memberships are a classic example of this.
We have the groupings and we can use sentiment to get the importance. The API is somewhat limited compared to our full bag of tricks, mostly because we don't want to give away all of our secrets, but also because we change things pretty often and would have to let others know when we made changes if they were consuming an API.
Because VCs aren't interested in building a sustainable business, only something they can dump on a greater fool in 3 - 5 years for 10x return.
Leeching money off people this way is a time honored tradition - record, cassette, cd and book clubs etc, arguably AOL dialup, any "free trial" that discretely rolls over into indefinitely charged accounts till you realize and go back and cancel that service you barely tried once.

They can raise money because it works, it's legal if not ethical or tasteful, and in their particular case ... they've figured out how to scale enormously.
Yes, being a US citizen requires you to pay the US tax, even though you live in a different country, work in that country and already pay tax in that country.

It's been like that for a long time already, pretty rediculous of you ask me!
Actually, I think you could save yourself some trouble and use scikit-learn's built-in text preprocessing utils:

Word counter:
http://scikit-learn.org/stable/modules/generated/sklearn.fea...

Hashing vectorizer if you want to trade off explainability for speed and scalability:
http://scikit-learn.org/stable/modules/generated/sklearn.fea...

TF-IDF weighing:
http://scikit-learn.org/stable/modules/generated/sklearn.fea...

Also, if you transform bag-of-words vectors into a dense form, you're gonna have a bad time (insert appropriate meme picture here). In large corpora, dimensionality grows quite substantially - if you work with news corpora or Wikipedia, you're in the 100k-1M dimensional space pretty quickly.

Great to see an approachable explanation for NLP. As they say sometimes, when you know how it's done, it stops being "Artificial Intelligence".
France was also trying to do that recently, since the government there spends way more than they can hope to "steal" from their citizens. They thought it was a good idea to try to tax citizens living abroad (on top of the taxes paid abroad).

If they ever did that, I can tell you a number of French citizens living abroad would just drop their French passport without hesitation.
you want to be in a moderated subreddit (e.g. r/askscience), there's too many people for an interesting discussion otherwise.
If you guys do want an alternative, I'm struggling to get MediaCrush [1] more popular. It's a lot better [2], but imgur is imgur. The hardest part is that Reddit (admins and moderators, that is) is actively supportive of imgur and actively hostile towards alternatives.

[1] https://mediacru.sh
[2] https://blog.mediacru.sh/2013/07/19/MediaCrush-for-nerds.htm...
The link at the end to concrete recycling is fascinating - having demolished 100 ton of concrete and steel in the back yard in the last year, it sounds great to have a largely mess free system.
Whether or not this is a scam is unclear and dependent upon how clearly they tell you this upfront. We've seen enough evil UIs to know that there are many, many ways to hide this information such that a reasonable person would miss it.
This has been the case for some time and has been getting worse year after year. It is pretty shameful the extent to which the US tries to attach itself to the income and wealth of people who are not even living in the country solely because they are American citizens. In some cases, compliance with US tax laws (even though not in the US) are in direct conflict with laws in jurisdictions where people actually reside. In essence, a US citizen is indentured to the US state regardless of where they live.

US law should not have jurisdiction beyond the border. It is creating a growing amount of complications for US citizens that are not within US jurisdiction but which can be held criminally liable for not following US laws even when those laws are in conflict with local laws where they actually live. The indifference of the US government to the consequences to US citizens of their overreach is typical these days.
Fair enough, I missed that originally. I seem to automatically skip header images, they are usually full of useless marketing messages that I scroll down a few ticks instinctually any time I see a full-width "hero" image.

(Edited to correct Firefox's dictionary suggestion.)
Yes, although there is a high deductible (~$80k, as I recall). It's never been something I needed to worry about, but FATCA most definitely will be. I don't know the answer to your last question, but I've never personally heard of another nation with similar policies.
5 Tips before you submit iOS7 update in app store.
Yes, I do. It's called "Share" where the only options are Facebook and Twitter.

Why can't Apple let iOS users use the underlying universal, open protocols directly to do file transfers (data export) without installing a hodgepodge of third party apps which barely do the job?

You could argue Pizza Hut is the only pizza that Galaxy users will ever need. You could also argue that posting to Facebook and Twitter are the only means of data export that iOS users will ever need. You could also make a fool of yourself by making such arguments.
I probably shouldn't respond, considering the (very stoner) name of "throwaway420", but the employer is in a position of power, so it is not unreasonable to want laws that draw bounderies around your commitment, especially with salary workers.

Fortunately, we work in an employee driven industry, so employers who demand extraordinary commitment can't find employees.
This doesn't make sense to me. If you give up your citizenship, then presumably you have citizenship elsewhere, so why not just open a bank account under your foreign citizenship? How is the bank to know?

The only thing I can think of is that maybe people are avoiding taxes in the US and their adopted country as well. After all, many countries Americans move to have such high tax rates that after deductions, their US tax liability would be quite small.
>This is very very far from the "haha, morons, 4K; morons, 10bits" comment you did...

Uhh, what? I have not written something like that about the new version anywhere on the internet.

But for the record, I do think marketing VLC as "4K-ready" is silly - there really shouldn't be anything special to 4K besides the bigger resolution, meaning that if you have the resources to decode it, you should be able to play it, and it has been very much possible with other playback solution (and likely even with older versions of VLC? I haven't checked). In a way, it's similar to this[1] - what it's advertising is actually nothing new but because 4K is the hot new marketing term of the day they're going to plaster it all over the damn thing.

[1] http://i.imgur.com/NMN9b8p.jpg
The credit card was issued by China Construction Bank. China's financial & banking system is not as advanced as the US, many Chinese people don't use online banking at all.

Her father was the main card holder, and she was using the second card, her father paid the bills every month as soon as he received the paper statement, he didn't notice anything suspicious.
> So what other problems do Redditors have?

Ironically, content discovery.

Reddit's biggest problem is that the big subreddits are incredibly homogenous, and the small ones incredibly slow. If you want to read good, in-depth analysis of world affairs, then you'd better agree with the popular sentiment on /r/worldnews or /r/truereddit. If you don't, you're SOL.

Often, the good content you find is in the comments. However, this necessitates digging through thousands of comments that are generally low-content. This causes pain.

Want to solve a problem redditors have? Find a way to separate the wheat from the chaff.
According to Wikipedia Eritrea also has a citizenship based tax system. They do however use the metric system over there.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_taxation
Just go through an open source mailing list and find people who seem to know what they are doing. Somewhere they probably have a consultant page, or git profile of work. Done, hire them remotely. If they need extra people tell them to find somebody they know who's competent and hire them too. No office, no recruiters, no insurance/rent to pay and no investment needed to buy hardware.
And search results (the data they have obtained via crawling others' sites) is not among the data that can be crawled.

What are you suggesting?
The bug list [1] doesn't look that tough. Seems like a great way to grab more contributors.

[1] https://github.com/apc-io/apc-firefox-os/issues?labels=Free+...
And while I can appreciate their caution, changes in regulation are how new markets are made and the early movers become the winners. Fundersclub has the opportunity to be a first mover here, and instead they're ceding the opportunity. The hubris in the blog is amusing: You can only 'carry a big stick' when you're big. 7 digits is at least two orders of magnitude away from earning that level of cockiness.
I hate slide decks with no context/speaker. I have only the vaguest idea what this is trying to say (and no idea why the internet has allegedly failed), and came away with no "call to action" other than to go click on something more interesting.

Edit: oh, I see that I missed the original thread pointing to the useful URL: http://www.urbit.org.
yep. sigh...
You can spend over 8 hours a day, average, writing code? That doesn't seems sustainable to me .
I just went through it, on the buy page it says

"To become a JustFab VIP Member, simply purchase any JustFab item on this Site and you will be automatically enrolled in the JustFab VIP Membership Program (including the monthly, automatic purchase feature). As a JustFab VIP Member, our experts will send you a customized selection of JustFab items on the 1st day of every month. You will also receive emails, newsletters, special offers and other updates to maximize your shopping experience."

That is pretty clear to me.
Heh, yeah. There's a class action against them filed in 2011, though not being a part of it I haven't heard anything since.

I wonder sometimes if the corporate shield isn't too strong -- that is, if someone (say, Adam Goldenberg or Don Ressler, the co-CEOs (that always goes well) of Justfab)) is executive of a company which conducts deceptive practices, why shouldn't they be personally responsible? Where, exactly, do we draw the line? I would argue that once the Notional Reasonable People learn about the fraud, we have not only a responsibility but a duty to admit justice. More specifically -- if you know about this deception, but you do nothing, you are complicit. You are now responsible. It's not a matter of choosing to ignore it -- as a participant in the venture economy, you have an obligation. And it would be entirely legitimate to punish you for failing to live up to it.

Specifically, the executives and funders of the VC companies that invested in JustFab should be held personally accountable. The people who reveal the names and home addresses of the executives of those companies will be fulfilling their obligation and doing the world a service -- permitting these individuals to hide behind layer after layer of legal protection is tantamount to personally committing that fraud. Individuals must fear the punishment for them and their families that comes after the commission or effective endorsement of fraud; they must know that we, the technical community, will not protect their abandonment of ethics.
Encrypted tokens might help against CSRF, but if I have your session ID, it's game over. The best you can do is restrict the user agent used with the session, but that's an obstacle that can be overcome. You might try to restrict the IP address used with the session, too, but those change often even without attack that it's not practical, either.

The robustness of the public CA system is a legitimate problem, but it's not a concern for most of us. People like to complain that the public CA security model is not perfect, but we have to remember that the CA ecosystem was not designed for perfection; it was designed to enable ecommerce. We now have different goals (well, some of us) and have to change our approach accordingly.

MITM attacks using fraudulent certificates are very costly and make sense only against very high-value properties. If you're legitimately worried about them, you should consider using public key pinning, which effectively deals with the problem. (But, alas, only works in Chrome today.)
I've met Alan a few times - he told me he was in college when he started it, and the original imgur was run off of a server in his dorm room, and he later moved to a CDN run by somebody else he met on reddit. He's a cool guy, really humble on the rumble.
Wow, they have a lot of negative reviews.

http://www.consumeraffairs.com/online/justfab.html
He said he also tweeted at them.
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It's the stuff behind the curtain that makes me love git. It doesn't just seem like version control software - it seems like the software is an interface to a much more powerful version control engine. Git just makes sense under the covers.
If you look at the edit history of JustFab wiki page, you'll see most of the stuff related to their shady business practice was added after last year's discussion [3]

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4592778
Do you have a team of coding mercenaries? I am now quite curious about your company. Did you assemble a team to execute ideas for other founders? That seems like a pretty solid industry, if that's the case.

Edit: just saw some of you other posts, thanks for the info.
Others tried and largely failed. Min.us, photobucket, ... were all OK at 10 or 20 viewers, but when you hit the front page, the top-rated post was an Imgur mirror that [usually] responded to direct .png/.jpg links without fault.
What you just did was "blame the victim" and basically green-light the asshole company's behavior.

You're shifting the blame away from the scammers.
Evernote, OneNote, OfficeMobile, are all "big App".

They are "Suite sized" apps for "off desktop" platforms (tablets, phones, TVs, Consoles).

A big app is typically productivity software. Typically not something built by 3 guys, but rather a team. Typically not free.
It's not quite that bad. The 39.95 ends up being a credit that can be applied to a future purpose. And they are pretty upfront about how it works without one needing to "read the entire 2,500 word" TOS.

I don't love the model but I don't think "scam" or "fraud" is accurate.
Paid app is better or free app is better as your first app
Hi, I have finished my first iOS app and put it as a paid app for $.99. But I am still not sure is your first has to be paid or free. How should you conclude it price to the audience.
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