skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Don't be so dramatic," says the frog. "The other pots are all much hotter."
A Shared Second Act: Why I'm Joining IBM Design
His sunk costs seem to be low. As long as he actually doesn't buy the apartments and do this, the risks are small.

Worst case scenario is he terminates his leases and he's back to square one.

This is a dream real estate scenario. No mortgage, and really high cash flow every month.

The risk is that as more people do what he is doing, supply will increase and prices will go down which will likely make his cashflow equal his lease payments.
Governments have different powers than citizens and different roles in society. Do they abuse those powers often? Yes, they have since this country was formed, nothing new here.

What does smokeyj's comment add to the discussion? At best it's emotionally charged and douchy way of saying you don't like the government.
How secure is your old and inactive user data?
Doctors command an astounding level of respect and trust, and both are necessary for their profession to even exist. If I cannot trust a doctor while I am unconscious or otherwise vulnerable, then I would be putting myself at risk by avoiding seeking medical help if it became necessary. That level of trust is so high, I don't think it would be a stretch to think many people would expect a doctor to put a patient's needs and wellbeing above their own.

These doctors may have risked their livelihoods or their freedom by refusing to comply, but they knew full well the actual harm they would do if they did comply. They should be held accountable.
> The stock is up $1.61 on the day, the stock did not tumble, what tumbled was wall street's interest.

Up $1.61 at the closing bell, then down $22 after-hours, equals down $20.

Quite a substantial move for a $176 stock -- at least, it was a $176 stock at 4 o'clock on November 5.
I'm pretty sure the original question had the sense "why do they say they want to do this?", not "why do they want to do this?"
Isn't it illegal to intentionally lie on an SEC filing?
did you make sure that you don't have the insecure package installed, that pushes the entire database to each client, and instead are subscribing to the data? this is reminiscent of how one one of proof of concept apps was acting a few months back and that was the cause.
Why do you imply that I don't understand it?
I've done these experiments myself as a child and know enough about the resonance frequency and the physics behind it. I just suggested that my initial idea can be improved and how, which doesn't use a metal plate, but a sound passing meta-material, which would result in more ordered shapes being formed, because the fullerenes include elements with different resonance frequencies and would probably self-organize into a structure. It would probably be boring, because it would self-organize like sediments of different density in water.
What's truly fascinating is how much faith people are willing to put in such canaries, even given this obvious fact, that their hosts could simply be unreliable.

Goes to show how little faith we all have in our institutions of so-called justice.
Well, it actually works ;)
Author asserts Meteor scales poorly, which inspired his script "demeteorizer" which helps only if the project is deployed to author's hosting service "modulus.io"
Twitter Book Offers Singular, But Fascinating Narrative Of Invention
Bitcoin price reaches a record high for the first time since April
Nokita plan: Outbid Microsofts offer on Nokia to make a secure mobile platform
Same here. I'm a big fan of Gnome Shell nowadays. Simple, fast, beautiful. No more hours of tweaking my default install of $FAVORITE_DISTRO until it's usable. Love it.
> Your friends and coworkers describe you as an "animal." You don't shower, you have a thick covering of fur, and you growl at strangers.
Reading Sam Walton's autobiography has had a huge influence on my life, I found it quite inspiring as a teenager. I grew up in Southwest Missouri, and remember Walmart being the "local" chain, as compared to say, Kmart, their bigger, national competitor.

All that said, I do not agree with many of the decisions the company has made sense Sam Walton's departure. I find many of the companies current philosophies to be in direct opposition to those that Sam Walton espoused in his own autobiography.
You joke, but nothing makes the landlord or the renter accept those offers. They can simply leave the original offer on airbnb and wait to get matched with a willing counterparty for the price they want.
that's how I feel about code.google.com
No he wouldn't. What happened was horrible beyond words, but that does not justify murder.
I think the author was only talking about how to make Meteor scale on any hosting service by making it into a raw node.js app, something that more people have experience scaling. The NPM package demeteorizer, which was written by the modulus team, can actually be used to turn any meteor app to a core node.js package, which can then be hosted as you would any other node.js apps and can use any node.js hosting service (nodejitsu, heroku, appfog, modulus.io) or roll your own on bare metal (dedicated/aws).
Your partner, just upthread, explained why you tabled the idea of using a browser extension to house all the logic for your app. I think your argument is with them, not me.
WOW.. the sandbox show passwords in URL !!!

http://sandbox.influxdb.org:9062/#/?username=ankit&password=...
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(many of which were about what to do about you)

What does this mean? Is this as an attack on the author's credibility, character, skills or otherwise?

It seems like there should be a distinction on whether he shouldn't have written this because he didn't have the full experience of a founder or because he is not a credible witness because he was an employee that was going against the grain and that the founders were struggling to deal with in some capacity.
It's a bad thing. Here's a true story:

Not long ago, following an interview with a company, I emailed the hiring manager (with whom I had spoken and emailed previously) with a short thank-you for having me in for the day.

Time goes by and I don't hear back from said hiring manager. I follow-up with the HR recruiter a week later, and he'll find out why I haven't heard a reply.

The hiring manager follows up with me a day later, saying among other things that they felt I was trying to "game" their interview process by communicating directly with their team, and was trying to influence their evaluation.

I thanked them for the follow-up and wished them good luck filling their role. The manager then states that they're still considering which candidates to pursue for a final conversation. My reply: I likely wouldn't be a good fit for their culture, but appreciated the consideration.

I'm not sure it ever dawned on the manager why I declined at that point.
Sure, thats Meteor 101 ;) Still, as a developer you need to decide what collections you want to publish (and which parts of each collection) so as to make the application run blazing-fast but also make sure you're only publishing stuff when its needed. This, IMO takes some finessing to get right.
Office 2004 is a PPC app and stopped working in Mac OS 10.7
Well, the taxes/theft thing isn't quite appropriate.

Seizure, impounding, eviction, even fines, ...these might ring truer, since they're generally harsher, require less sophistication and such effects are more immediate. These things are often unavoidable, and inflicted without option or recourse.

Meanwhile, taxes, tolls, tariffs... eh, not so much. They're slow, often legislated amidst varying degrees of democracy (in our modern times) and in some cases can be met with degrees of flexibility, where a real slippery individual might be capable of avoiding them.
I've been in it since the first bubble in April and it's surprising how resilient Bitcoin has become to negative news such as the seizure of 5% of all Bitcoins recently. There was a drop of 20%, but it had recovered from that after a few days already. Since then it has been on the up and up.

I think it's pretty likely that 1 Bitcoin will be worth $1,000 within the next year and $10,000 within the next 3 years.
Why are so many people fretting about not getting into YC and why do crappy stories like this get upvoted? If getting into Y-Combinator was your idea of validation, your startup is doomed anyways.
I'm a big fan of coffeeme...it's been in seattle awhile and i've met a few people from it
I agree with your views, but i am a little confused by something (probably due to my lack of experience in web dev). When i log in to any site, don't i always transmit my password over SSL? I know good security systems match the hash of my password. But that means they store a hash, right? or does that mean i also transmit a hash? I think we transmit the actual password because this way, if someone breaks into their servers, and steals the passwords, they'd only have he hashes and not the passwords. And that point is moot if the server takes the hash as input.

Please enlighten me.
If you turn on "Show Dead" in your profile and look a the Newest page, you'll get an idea of the volume. I try to go through and flag for spam every time I submit something.

I'd estimate that usually about 20 out of the first 100 posts are already dead, and I flag 2 or 3 more. I'm not sure how much of this is automatic and how much other users.

(Glancing now, it seems to be considerably fewer. It varies quite a bit over time, and I might be remembering the highs more than the average)
ah ok :) interesting, could you share some of the code in question, or is this a closed source app? I'd be happy to take a quick look
That site, while beautiful, really frustrated me. I kept clicking to get something to happen, but couldn't. I tried to scroll and each time it would put me back at the top of the page. Let's say that I'm intrigued by the product, but not enough to fight with the site, unfortunately. :(
Thanks for the feedback,I'm one of the other founders on this, totally agree with you. Funny you mention it, we're actually in the process of getting a copy writer on board to help with a lot of this stuff. That point about the phone screen is interesting, it seems difficult to convey what the user is missing out on in a single screenshot. Do you have any suggestions for this?
Might not be a bad idea considering the user presumably still has their pictures on disk when they want to browse the whole collection.
Eh, perhaps my point would be better phrased as:

Of all the new technology companies... my perception is that Tesla has rather more 'fundamental value.' If nothing else, they are one of the very few companies that doesn't rely for revenue on a relatively new kind of advertising.
What Long Hours Really Mean
That sucks, what OS and browser are you using?
This was definitely my biggest scaling painpoint. I used meteor for an app that throws a lot of data points at the client (interactive realtime timeseries data) and it required trying a few different approaches until I was happy with the amount of data I was sending over the wire on first load vs making the client's first experience as interesting as possible.

My current gripe is with the spiderable package and phantomjs for seo bots, but that is a different beast...
Are there any open source variants of this? Would love to play around with different possibilities (saxophone or cello setting, piano on your laptop, slappin da bass, etc).
Well for one, we could make a standard query value that would say whether or not, the URL is evil.

http://try-sql-in-your-browser.io/?evil=true

It works well for IPv4.
Yeah the site is pretty annoying to use. It kept forcing me up when I tried to go down.
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I'm one of the other founders on this. We're tracking using mainly google analytics. Would love to take you up on this offer, mainly just to get your ideas on what tools are the best to use for this kind of thing (I've investigated a lot, mixpanel, kissmetrics, etc. and none seem to really do the job). What's the best way to get in touch?
The idea of a "World Champion" doesn't make sense in boxing, either. It doesn't make sense in most professional sports, in which "championship" status is essentially the result of a random walk through a succession of games or matches over a given timeframe. But fans prefer randomness. Fans like upsets, underdogs, unexpected outcomes, turnaround stories, and changing fortunes. Fans would hate long-term statistical regressions across N population of teams or athletes.

A lot of sports need champions. More accurately, they need the idea of champions. Fans and enthusiasts have an intrinsic desire to know where everyone stands. Competitors need something to strive for. And that something has to be in constant contention. Someone has to occupy the throne, but his seat needs to be sufficiently precarious.

Chess has swung in and out of the public eye over the decades, but by and large, it's occupied the fringes of pop-cultural obscurity. Take away the Garry Kasparovs, Bobby Fischers, and Anatoly Karpovs of the game -- or rather, the idea of these people as "champions" -- and chess would be even more obscure in the public eye than it is today. Chess, to put it bluntly, has never had a great PR plan. The championships, flawed though they might be, are the fraying threads tenuously holding the game above the abyss of public irrelevance. Chess insiders need the wonkiness of Elo ratings and normative comparisons. But outsiders and casual fans need the romance. Chess needs to strike a balance between these two groups and their oppositional desires.

The point of the "world championship" in any sport or game isn't actually to determine who's the best. It's to determine who's currently on top over X timeframe (by a mostly arbitrary arrangement of circumstances and outcomes). Fans won't articulate it as such, but that's what they like about championships. Championships satisfy the human desire for narrative.
Acer's CEO Is Out, Another Victim of the iPad
> Can we stick to topics that actually raise discussion please.

Is everyone trying to be ironic?
Can someone explain to me why we should trust Apple's declaration about Section 215?

It seems to me that, were they given a Section 215 order, said order would also additionally compel them to lie publicly about the receipt of the order itself, by having Apple explicitly say that they had not received any such order.

Frankly, the existence of courts that secretly compel citizens or companies to actively conceal and/or lie about the State's behavior seems to make every declaration of innocence by any person or business that can reasonably be expected to have been used by the State in that capacity suspect. Trust simply is not there no matter what they say or don't say, and I don't see how it can be given the actors involved and the legality of the situation.

I'd like to be wrong. Are there flaws in my reasoning here?
I believe sound is disabled by default - makes it honestly not very different than an animated GIF from an advertising perspective.
I've caught Crunchbase employees blatantly copying and pasting content from AngelList - which is not Creative Commons as far as I'm aware. I'm surprised they're up in arms over this.
It seems that Bitstamp has been much more stable than Mt. Gox lately, and interestingly hasn't hit its all time high just yet.
It's incredible to me that an amazing service like this, solving real problems would fail while stupid (let's be honest and call them what they really are) social media startups are prospering all over the place. It's quite sad.
Coursera had a great Computer Network course.

I think you can still register and download the videos:

https://class.coursera.org/comnetworks-002/
1995 is when the American economy began recovering from the financial upheaval of the S&L crisis. Rising Interest rates led to an influx of investment, further fueled by the Asian Financial Crisis in 1997.

Or it was the start of the housing bubble.

Anyway, like the Dow - but perhaps to a lesser degree, the S&P 500 is a river. Poorly performing companies are replaced with better performing companies, so comparing one year to another is not Apples to Apples.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_S%26P_500_companies
I think that a random spammy site is not going to afford burning such a zero-day.

There is much lower-hanging fruit for them, and your system does not look like their target "difficulty level".

That said with a level of paranoia like yours (that I'm not critiquing) I'm not really sure Windows is the best choice first of all.
The troubles the company had with him don't reflect on his credibility as a witness of the things he did see. My point is that there was also a lot he didn't see.
You can selectively unsync particular folders in your Dropbox Advanced Preferences; that's what I do with my Camera Uploads folder.
The hot split problem is an example of a poor grow/shrink algorithm, and the contiguous stack would exhibit the same behaviour if the growth and shrink thresholds are the same.

How about avoiding hot split by changing the deallocation algorithm to allow empty blocks and see what happens?
Nope, but we are discussing releasing the sensor code as a open source library. It's pretty modular already, and wouldn't require a ton of work :)
Yea, I notice a certain amount of freedom when I'm not walking around with a any hardware.
Does office space for 7 employees in SF really cost ~10K/month? I know in midtown Manhattan a previous startup I was at had over 5K sq ft for that price.
How the NSA Exposed the Media's Biggest Bias
The project was based off of the CMS I've been building in my spare time: https://github.com/mcrider/azimuth. There are probably a lot of things I could do to optimize collections with lots of data but i've been focusing more on functionality for now.
For clarity, raghus' disclosure was about working for Shutterfly, who acquired ThisLife earlier in 2013.
Reasonable use of DMCA? Or another brick in the walled garden?

These questions aside I find use of DMCAs to be a bit egregious lately, with little protection being afforded while much has been done to raise the unworldly punishments wrought on copyright complaints increasing fines to the point where they mirror court settlements for financial firms.
I simply don't understand the obsession of founders with getting into YC. If you are a founder and you are really passionate about an idea, you simply don't have time to think about "how to game the system and get into an incubator". You have more important things to think about - like product-market fit, hiring the right people etc. etc. In Aileen's Lee recent article about unicorns or billion dollar startups - 2 out of 39 were YC companies, the rest 37 were not.
Has anyone actually had any luck getting this working? Seems like such a revolutionary idea that I'm dying to try it, but no luck so far.

It took me a few tries (and a couple hours) to get one of their preconfigured AMIs provisioned, excruciatingly extract the GUID from Win2k8 (people actually work this way?), but now their weird HTTP bouncer endpoint doesn't seem to be connecting at all..
That's what people said before the crash in April. Not that I disagree--I don't really care one way or another--but I think it's impossible to predict its price in a year, let alone 3. Anything can happen at this rate.
This case involves basically a serial rape, by licensed medical personnel. Short of the death penalty itself for all of them, I see no punishment that is too severe.

Making a very very public example of them is plenty of deterrent value for future "medical professionals" who may be dragged (or otherwise) into any further situations like this.

The firing and blacklisting of every law enforcement officer involved, and yes, up to and including the chief of police, is again a solid push back against this sort of abuse of power everywhere.

Too bad the judge won't see anything but perhaps a slight remembrance of this circumstance when the next election comes. His name should be posted at every polling place, end of story.

Tired, so damn tired of these stories.
I'm in Australia and see the same results as ryanjshaw.
What's the best Bitcoin exchange to buy with? In the early days I stayed away because a lot of the exchanges seemed to have really poor security, but it looks like it may be time to invest somewhere.
The only way for Bitcoin to not go up is for a different cryptocurrency to come to fruition that has significant improvements over Bitcoin, like zerocoin, and subsequently can not be integrated into Bitcoin's blockchain.
Worked fine for me. Nevertheless, I generally dislike sites like these because they rarely seem to function as intended.
This is just a shakedown to get some dollars for the upcoming election season.
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This sort of comment that makes me uncomfortable. I don't understand the insistence that everything you do has to be harder than everything else, or that this doesn't have any meaning because modern engineering is harder.

You see, you should be bragging that modern programming is easier. The whole point of evolving engineering is to make things easier -- what would be modern science and engineering good for if we had to build things this complicated from scratch?

People (rational people, that is) don't choose a framework or method of doing things because it's hard; in fact, quite the opposite, they obviously go for the easier ones! The merit should be -- look what I can achieve with such beautiful simplicity. It is trivial to conceive a harder way of doing almost everything.

In fact, if you look at the automata shown here, almost anyone with a tiny bit of programming knowledge and some hardware knowledge could build something similar with an arduino and some stepper motors.
I never understood this. Shouldn't the salary be relative to the amount of value I add? Two people doing the same work, but one decides to rent a $3000,- apartment in SF and the other lives in North-east Veszprem. Why would a company pay the first guy more? Or the second guy less? Would feel very unfair if you're the second guy.
I've gotten spiderable to work okay but yeah it does kindof suck. According to the Meteor roadmap, MDG is looking for a better solution but its slated for a 1.1 release (i.e. server-side rendering).
I certainly hope so. It appears as if the one big difference between today and the first crash is Chinese investment. I'm worried we will see a Chinese based crash similar to the one we saw earlier this year.
I'm happy about the rise, but I'm not fully counting this as a record yet. The Bitcoin exchange ecosystem has changed since April. MtGox started massively delaying dollar withdrawals, so the price there diverged from other exchanges. I'll be watching Bitstamp (now at $254) for the real thing.
We were going to have this in Seattle, but then Comcast bought us a new mayor.
Is CrossFit Killing Us?
> Governments have different powers than citizens

I disagree with this. If an individual does not have the right to do something, neither does a collective. We all individually have the right to defend ourselves, for example. As with most things in society, it's more efficient to "outsource" the task to specialists like police. However, if individuals do not have the permission bits to do something like administer non-consensual anal probes, neither should law enforcement.
My experience: I signed up there out of curiosity a few years ago and I believe within a day received a request to build a tool for comment spamming.
There was recently [a paper][1] published in ACM Transactions on Computer Systems where the argument was that if your instance is scheduled out by the hypervisor during TCP traffic, the latency in ACKing packets would reduce the network throughput of instances, because of the slow start mechanism.

Given that distributed network rely heavily on network latency and capacity, I found it very interesting to see the effect of busy CPU propagate to slower network IO.

[1]: http://friends.cs.purdue.edu/pubs/SC10.pdf