skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's funny, because I always had the impression that on a personal scale he was an asshole to his friends and strangers.

But yeah, I like my iPhone.
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First of all, there is only one version of the document, so no one is ever unsure if they are editing an old draft. [...] Second, version tracking is built-in so you lawyer can see what changes you made, and spend time looking at those changes rather than rereading the whole document.
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Wow, sounds like lawyers really need to learn about Revision Control Systems. I suppose they don't work as well (diff'ing, etc) on documents that are effectively big binary blobs (like .doc(x)) - but that just makes me think they need to learn how to use LaTeX ;-)

Incidentally, am I understanding these online 'e-signing' services (e.g., http://www.echosign.com) properly? Isn't a user basically trusting their private-key to the service?
I agree, but the "summarised" version at "The noisy channel" was alright and I didn't feel it was "blogspam". It felt like it helped get me interested to read more, the original article has quite some more text than the summary - might have put me off. This got me interested.
There was some speculation back in January:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2009/jan/16/steve-...
Yes. I am a UK citizen, and run my US LLC from the UK. It's possible to do everything as a non resident alien, but complicated. I'll be posting more on leadthinking.com about how to get a bank/merchant account.
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Downvotes for "typical American greed lawsuit"?

That's what it is though. There's no other country where McDonald's could get sued for millions for serving hot coffee that's hot.
They understand revision control because it is built into Word... But my previous lawyer would send the document to me and to my CFO, each of us would make changes and I would talk to the lawyer on the phone. Soon there were three versions of the document, so there were threads going back and forth around "which is the latest document".

As for EchoSign, they authenticate that the person who signed the document must have at one point clicked through a link which went to their e-mail address. This is much better than the authentication of written signatures, i.e. that someone could scribble something on a piece of paper in the same way that you did it.
Ask HN: How should I deal with constant anxiety problems?
Well, exactly three weeks ago on that Saturday night, I had an extremely bad panic attack for the first time. I basically had racing thoughts that I was going psychotic and whatnot. I decided it would be a good idea to see a psychologist.

I went there and thankfully she assured me that I wasn't going crazy. I also went to a doctor and he assured me that I didn't have any physical problems. However, the anxiety still going on, and although it has gotten significantly better, peace hasn't returned to my life.

Since this place seems like the most educated place on the Internet, what should I do?
No, users explicitly enter their email password.

I blame this on user stupidity.
Unless you are a paid member, you cannot even read messages sent to you. Also, their homepage is always a gigantic advertisement, with a tiny little bit of text, "member sign in," up near the top. Old correspondence is deleted after something like 30 or 60 days. Pictures are limited in size.

Match.com is pretty lazy about retaining members and encouraging interaction and seems to prefer to focus on marketing rather than improving its core product. Okcupid is superior in almost every way. Match.com has made a few attempts at upgrading their services but they seem to have been mostly cosmetic or invisible/infrastructure changes. When I left, "recent views" was still questionably accurate, the send-email page still had no link back to the original profile (just a partial text dump of it), and generally poor use of screen space. Not as bad as eHarmony, but okcupid is better and free.

I met a few cool women through match.com, but finally got fed up with it. I don't care enough to sue but I have no sympathy for match.
yep, it asks for your email login and pw - pretty common; facebook and twitter also do this (or did). people would rather allow them unfettered access than manually set up friends/followers.
Very interesting! Would you use this for backtracking?
Try:
* daily exercise
* meditation
* new hobby - learning a new skill/hobby will provide you enough distraction to worry about anything else.
I don't believe "shame" is an emotional response we could expect from Microsoft.
I find meditation to be the best cure when I'm particularly anxious about something. At first I just spend a few minutes trying to completely empty my mind. This can take significant practice if it doesn't come naturally. Then I start into a visualization of the powers of 10 video (yeah, I know it's cheesy but it works!). During that visualization I try to focus on my minute position in the universe, and by the end I'm usually incredibly calm. Whole thing can take less than 10 minutes and I can go from being a wreck to calm.

That's just my routine. Everyone who meditates has their own. It's just kinda whatever works for you. I highly recommend checking out the hundreds or thousands of sites on the interwebs that teach basic/beginner meditation. It's well worth a shot.

Best of luck buddy... getting a grip on your anxiety probably won't be easy, but is absolutely necessary for good mental and physical health.
I blame this on developer negligence.
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I'm sure I selected it, but I didn't realize it hadn't gone into the list. Now fixed - thanks.
I read this as "Teach, you lawyer, to sign contracts electronically." :)
what if we use NGINX as a reverse proxy in front of apache? could this be a good workaround?
Facebook breaks RFC2045 with quoted printable
Typing in an E-Mail Adress and the associated password, and Giv... Wait, you did what ???
[quote] I can't believe anybody would be stupid enough to fall for that. [/quote]

It's not a question of belief; you've already got the proof.
As a European I find it interesting that blacks comprise 61 percent of both perpetrators and victims and Hispanics make up most of the rest. And even more interesting is the fact that ethnicity is reported openly -- that would never happen in my country, even if most people would understand anyway that the majority of perpetrators are Arabs and Africans.
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What separates the insane from the sane is the ability to function in society. Few people have zero problems so as we require ever higher levels of competence the idea of insanity has been diluted. Now days becoming medicated has lost some of it's stigma, because it helps people function in society. I fear the ever reducing range of accepted "normal human behavior" over time.

Yet, many people who have real problems can be helped. So, removing the stigma is a good thing when it helps people with real problems seek help.
Ask HN: Do you read math & hard science books? How?
Do you buy and read math books? do you read them cover to cover or do you just use them as a reference book?

I typically buy a lot of math and physics, hard cs books, etc., but they take a lot of time to read so I end up collecting them, while reading them slowly (because hard science books could take months to read, at least if you don't have a lot of time for that!). Is that a typical hacker thing or is it just me?

I'm asking because I keep buying books about stuff I want to learn, but I also look at my library and I ask myself: "why don't I read these first?" Who knows, maybe today I want to learn something different than yesterday.
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Actually, no, said sarcasm does not fall flat. A good friend of mine described the articles displayed here as a "rat's nest" which does not lead anywhere. At first, I thought he was crazy; then I began critically looking at said articles.

I signed up here looking for what the original post posits providing; what I found were articles about startups, business, marketing, the current/next great gold rush, followed by the token (recently it has been improving) programmer/hacker article. And the articles about startups, business, and marketing were not great on any scale; in fact upon critical review, said articles advocated rather bad strategies. Strategies which amounted to little more than legalized scams, strategies which optimize for the short term, strategies promoting win at any cost, strategies which advocate me first and to hell with the consequences; in short, strategies of which Phineas Taylor Barnum would have been proud.

Before joining the Hacker News community, I was interested in starting my own business. Now that I see what is advocated as "startup culture", I want nothing to do with starting a business in the United States (because my conclusion is the culture and laws of the U.S. have optimized for short term gain, with the resulting push towards the strategies mentioned earlier). What happened to a business (either startup or established business) having integrity in all of their relationships, being a responsible citizen of the business ecosystem it operates within, and providing a legacy beyond the generation within which it was founded?

In conclusion, I would be VERY interested in being involved with the community type proposed by jcapote (in any capacity: contributing member, developer, beta tester, et cetera).
Found here: http://daringfireball.net/linked/2009/06/19/ze-frank
First time I saw this happen was when my daughter signed up for doostang. All of us on her gmail address list got an invite, including some ex-boyfriends. She later sent an apology to the whole list. It was certainly a wake up call.

Software glitch, nah. Who are we kidding.
Well the match.com business model is a bit difficult. If their service is successful, two people meet and eventually take their profile down and leave match behind. There is no retention, because a successful experience removes two people from their customer list. In fact, there is a stage of dating that follows First Date: "I took my profile down".

So attracting customers rather than the long-term experience would be their priority. I met my wife on match, and many mutual friends met their now spouse there.
If they don't take a good bit of time to read, then you're not doing it right. These are books full of tools for the mind. The best way to read them is a little at a time, taking the parts that click in your mind and trying them out on problems that seemed insurmountable before. The first time you open a big box of strange tools, it won't be immediately apparent to you what they are all for.

Finding a good math book is like stumbling into that room full of all of the weapons on your first time through Doom...
Unlike many blogs, at least this one will easily have enough material to keep going for several years.. ;-)
Perhaps you just like the idea of reading all these books rather than the actual reading of them.
Thanks. I'm sensitive about parasitic blogging--in fact, I've blogged about it: http://thenoisychannel.com/2008/12/20/fair-use-and-seo/

In this instance, my genuine hope was to get people to read Jeremy's post, and an unsolicited email from Jeremy about his spike in traffic--which is how I found out that HN had picked up my post--assures me that I accomplished that.
The advice about Delaware and Nevada isn't necessarily good advice in terms of liability and in terms of taxes.

If you're sued, you may have to go to Delaware or Nevada to defend yourself, and even if not, you may be subject to the laws of Delaware or Nevada, which will be different from the state you are operating from. From a book I have (called Asset Protection by Adkisson and Riser):

Under state law, having a registered agent in the state of incorporation creates nexus sufficient to allow the corporation to be sued in that state. This fact alone may affect the decision where to incorporate. A jurisdiction where jury verdicts tend to be very conservative may be preferable to one with a reputation for runaway jury awards. The cost of defending a lawsuit may also be a significant factor in this decision. Defending a lawsuit in the owner's home state will be substantially cheaper than defending the same lawsuit across the continent [or as one person here says, across the world]. This may be a factor in deciding where to incorporate

Delaware also imposes different laws on the roles and duties of directors and treatment of Shareholders. Do you know what these are?

Further you do not avoid taxes by incorporating in Delaware! You have to pay taxes in the state you operate in. So even if you are a Delaware corporation, you would pay taxes in Pennsylvania if that is where you operate (and you have to operate in a different state to not pay Delaware corporate taxes).
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Funny. :)

But really, the book betas were released months before Clojure 1.0, so it's likely Rich saw issues/confusion and adapted the language as necessary.
Basically, this is just a classic inventory control problem. If the inventory is piling up, you need to either decrease the rate of acquisition, increase the rate of consumption, or (preferably) both.

I can't say how typical the situation is, but it's definitely not just you. I have quite the stack of books on my "to read" list, but I keep working my way through them (and adding more to the pile.) So it goes.
Does this mean that I can incorporate there and run the business with a physical presence from some other country?

Yes, but you will still pay taxes in that other country. In fact, most states other than Delaware will also not charge you income taxes if you incorporate there but not not earn money in that state.
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Sorry, most of that is wrong :)

1. No, it's not the simplest approach. The attacker can trivially send perfectly credible set of headers, then start receiving the response, acknowledging 1 byte per 30 minutes. It's routinely seen in the wild, too. Header-based approach completely misses the point of anomaly.

2. Blocking originating IPs is perfectly effective as soon as all existing connections from the blocked IPs time out. Which is fairly soon.

3. connlimit approach doesn't just block originating IPs, it prevents anyone from opening a lot of connections.

4. In any real DDOS scenario attacker does command an order of magnitude more resources than the target servers.

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Ah, so that's why people pronounce it "SuckMail".
I often buy books and read some chapters that interest me. I get most out of such books months or even years later when I can appreciate their content better. It's good to know that I've the stuff at my hand, often there are explanations, algorithms, concepts in a depth one rarely finds on the net.
I tend to collect lots of books, usually at times when I'm not really reading much. However, I eventually (usually a matter of weeks or sometimes months) get back to reading and will crunch through endless amounts of books. I've managed to get through 500 page books in a day, every day for over two weeks before.

As for specifically science books, I tend to read them slower so I usually read a chapter or section of one and then read a chapter of a fiction novel. If I keep switching I find I can get through both quite quickly as reading the fiction novel will usually give enough motivation to read the non-fiction hard science book quickly too.
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Microsoft marketing has gone from uninspired and mildly disingenuous to outright pathetic lies.

This should come to no surprise to anyone, they feel the heat building up from multiple directions (the web slowly replacing the OS, apple gaining more and more marketshare, oss quality steadily increasing, drastic measures imposed on them by anti-monopoly organisations in the EU and many more). They face this heat, as noted by multiple commenter above, with their usual embrace/extend/extinguish tactic. Wonder if it will work on HTML5, the stakes are unusually high on that one.
Iran ready to fight cyberwar against its own people
That's the power of exposure.

For some reason I hate making phone calls to people I don't know. Logically I don't, but for some reason my body gets anxious about it. So I don't make many phone calls, so it's not resolved. I bet if I had to make 100 phone calls to strangers every day I'd have no issue with it after a few weeks. Same issue with this dude and getting bombarded with questions.
Definitely best to sift through them slowly, get the most out of them. No use hammering through a good book then taking nothing from it at the end.
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My mother is better than your mother then, she had the good sense to use a throw away email account.
In my student days, before I became a working programmer, I was desperately poor and couldn't afford all the books I wanted to buy. So I got into the habit of buying books when I had money in my account to avoid a future in which I have to look longingly at a book and not have money to buy it. So, yes your "buying a book and reading a few years later" situation is something i am familiar with.

So anyways, I ended up having a few hundred technical books (and a couple of thousand non technical books). The future of not having money to buy books never came (yet, touch wood) and the biggest advantage of having this huge collection of books is I can cross reference them to get better info on what I am looking for. On the other hand, moving is a huge pain :-)

EDIT:(example of buying a book and then using it years later) I am now (slowly) working through Cormen et al's "Introdcution to Algorithms" (second edition) book. The idea is to do all the exercises and proofs and so on. Should be done by the end of the year I think.I bought this book a few years ago and am using it(seriously) only now. (There's a third edition out now for anyone planning to buy. second ed is good enough for my purposes)
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No, I really like reading them. But it's easy to buy them faster than reading them if reading them takes you so much time (for the hard science ones, not divulgation, fiction, etc.).
I had this same inventory control problem with cookbooks. I solved it by making a rule for myself: No new cookbooks until I cook 30% of the recipes in all the ones I already have.

I have this same inventory control problem with computer science books. Good textbooks are expensive. If you implement a utilization rule like this, you can save yourself a lot of money on books you never end up reading. B&N, Borders and their ilk have liberal return policies, as does Amazon. This will help save lots of money. Also, the utilization rule prevents you from disadvantageous conditioning. The retail pleasure of acquisition can drive you to buy books faster than your actual reading rate.

I have quite the stack of books on my "to read" list, but I keep working my way through them (and adding more to the pile.) So it goes.

I have the same phenomenon with Irish Trad tunes I want to learn. The list is ever growing. (There are at least 30,000 of those.) My solution? I only learn the tunes I fall in love with. Life is short, so why waste time with something that's just "nice?" I think I'm going to apply this to books and other contexts.
> If they don't take a good bit of time to read, then you're not doing it right.

Thanks, I needed to know this. I was starting to feel silly, thinking "maybe I don't understand them quick enough, people must read them faster or something".
Nice rules. I started to do something similar to your "only learn what you fall in love with". For some of the older books I bought once and I never read, now I know I will never read, because now I know better and I know they are garbage (or I know of better material now). So I won't waste my time reading those just to remove them from my todo list.

I guess I shouldn't have bought them either.
anything that deflects the TDD crowd is very useful! (and so not boring!)
Buy older editions of textbooks and also the "Eastern Economy" (read: china/india printed on cheap paper) editions. You will save a pretty penny, and thermodynamics hasn't changed much since 1975.

(Obviously this won't work for machine learning.)
I knew him mostly through his usenet posts; he always seemed to have interesting opinions, often expressed very bluntly.

I really like his essay, "The Long, Painful History of Time":
http://naggum.no/lugm-time.html
See also local-time, a common lisp package based on his ideas:
http://common-lisp.net/project/local-time/
"One bowl of rice, two bowls of rice. One tatami mat, two tatami mats."

That's a Japanese aphorism I saw in translations of "Lone Wolf and Cub." It means, as a mortal creature, there's only so much of life you can enjoy, no matter how rich you are. You can only eat two large bowls of rice before you feel bloated, and you probably don't use more space to sleep than covered by a couple of tatami mats.
Ah, maybe that's why. When a child I was desperate for books, it was hard for me to get those (I had books, but I read them a lot faster than I could get them, I was always re-reading them). So I guess when I started having money I just started buying them, like in a rush, to compensate or something. I should realize it makes no sense anymore. Thank you.