skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That would have made a pretty funny punchline to a sketch. Suspicious looking guy (better band of suspicious looking guys) getting the full TSA workup/cavity search etc. Finally gets on board, everyone watching him suspiciously etc. Some sort of minor tussle with obvious plain clothes security who's reseated next to him by a concerned stewardess. Etc. When it's time to take of he fakes turning on airplane mode/powering down when placing it into the seat pocket. He smirks knowingly, closes his eyes and dreams about his field of virgins.
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"Well, I guess Eqifax is not that accurate" and "Oops. Thanks for letting me know I don't want to work here" would both be reasonable responses. Most companies are not doing this.
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Here's one thing I've learned about knowledge/implementation of technology:

I've gained a lot of trust from clients for being knowledgeable in the field of emerging tech. I've earned a lot of money by actually using it to provide solutions.
UA Study: Your Brain Sees Things You Don’t
Leb geeks is a nice forum however it's very local.
Personally, I'd want to get a PhD to be able to work in such places as Microsoft Research. I don't want to become a teacher/professor. Other than that, I really hate some perils of academic world - bureaucracy, nepotism/favoritism/elitism, ...
Google: Our transparency reports aren't enough; blame the U.S. government
All of your examples of non-terse syntax were wrong though buddy... And it's clear you haven't read the documentation :)
Why not post her original comments? http://vihart.com/
Can you help me beta test this? I'd absolutely love your feedback along the way. I'm at tolarewaju3@gmail.com
As is clear from the article there are many dangers of sticking with outdated technology. Resist change enough times and eventually it becomes virtually impossible to find anyone with the knowledge or the willingness to maintain your ancient systems.
I'd go back to Austin to build my next startup if they fixed public transportation. I can't stand cities that require you to own a car.
Linux Back Door Uses Covert Communication Protocol
I'm probably taking Feynman out of context here, but I think philosopher is almost right, and Feynman is being a tad pompous. I think it's necessary to some extent to assume that the same conditions always produce the same result in order to do science. Otherwise, why do experiments? If the universe deviated slightly from determinism, it probably wouldn't make science impossible to do, and since I don't think science can actually test determinism, it's outside the scope of science and must be assumed. It seems a bit pompous to say that we've set up electrons the same way and observed that they go in two different directions for no reason. You can't eliminate reasons that you don't know about.
>>> The "Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences" came along in 1968, therefore it is not a 'real' Nobel Prize.

People keep saying this like it's some profound insight or knock against economics.

The Nobel Memorial Prize is still one of the highest possible awards in the field. It doesn't diminish Schiller's standing just because it wasn't one of the original Nobel Prizes.

It's sort of like pointing out that "Best Animated Feature" is not a real Oscar because they only started awarding it in 2001.
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Google Code was running out of there for a while until they stagnated and let GitHub steal all the cookies.
I don't get it. I often search for technical information and get to stuff indexed from within books on books.google.com - that's really awesome, and I'm not sure what you find sad here?
Microsoft reportedly picks its next CEO
I don't see anything particularly wrong with that landing page. They have separated the two and if you do a search, you don't get any Play results. Seeing as they have two products related to books, it makes sense to list them both at books.google.com
I think you must have been doing it wrong, because I don't think this has ever been the case. In any event, it's plenty fast now: the branch is a "copy" operation on the server (which takes no time since Subversion does everything as copy-on-write) followed by re-pointing your local copy. Since there are no changes, it fetches no new data.
It's certainly something everyone should keep in mind; obviously it's sometimes true.
Given a fair percentage of hotels seem to do rooms with two double beds, calling it 'sleep with strangers' seems a little odd. Room sharing at conferences is pretty common IME, usually facilitated via the conference's mailing list. Not sure how successful this'll be, but 'find people to share a hotel room with' would better describe what happens in practice.
They do officially support anonymity, up to 50 anonymous G+ identities on one Gmail account: https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/2848323

Even made a video explaining how to do it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKBGsu0TxnY

Really the underlying problem here is that "Google+, the unified platform/identity system" has the same name as "Google+, the social network which lives at plus.google.com". People just blank out anything they do/say due to the assumptions which arise from conflating the two.
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Fiverr is fun for this. Don't expect brilliant work, or even anything that looks as good as the samples posted, but you can get a ton done for cheap to at least inspire some ideas or use as a placeholder.
That doesn't really scale does it. I imagine the tax man, however could set up some very nice cloud-based big data trawls for documents containing evidence of undeclared income.
Is anyone using Dart in production? I'm not really a front-end guy so I don't keep as up to date, but it seems like this hasn't made much of a splash.
Wow, I didn't know about that. That's ridiculous. I remember watching this comedy bit from Chris Rock about the end of the 'innocent bystander', and I never thought it would actually happen one day.
I worked full time through college with minimal breaks so when I graduated, I needed a major break. Quit the job I had been at through college and spent four months in Central America. It was the perfect reset before jumping into a career right out of college.
most likely due to adblock, I will try to reproduce it and fix. thanks for you help,

what did you think about the site and concept?
Basically you just have a pointer:
p1 -> [Object 1]
And someone holds access to p1 even after you free p1, so now:
p1 -> [Junk]
The security flaw is when that memory is reclaimed for some use, so now:
p1 -> [Object 2]
And the malicious holder has free access to the properties of the new object.
META: 84 upvotes and no comments? Something smells fishy...
> All of your examples of non-terse syntax were wrong

Cool. Send a pull request to the dartlang.org maintainers and they might fix it. ;)
Most Udacity courses use Python, but seems this data science series will use R. Python also has lots of data analysis tool. Just wonder why they are choosing R.
As an alternative to spending on a logo, consider buying a really nice theme at themeforest.net or somewhere similar. This will rapidly give you a slick-looking design for the overall site/app, and then you can get away with some text in a nice font for a "logo."
Think about it. Ants can carry six times their weight, while larger creatures could never accomplish that. I don't know the physics behind it, but it's not hard to see that small things can have greater strength per mass than large things.
Javascript. Then Rails.
Possibly better: you don't have to actually work at Google. 80% of the benefit minus 1% of the opportunity cost.
As an European, I've never understand how is that possible that South Bay is such a bad place to live. Everything interesting like night life, public transport even groceries and restaurants are all either non-existent or so far away that you always have to drive. No wonder everyone wants to live in SF because there's nothing to do in the South Bay. What is the problem really? There's a lot of money in there, lots of potential customers, good geographical conditions, creativity and yet it's so badly planned and organized. This year I moved to London and there are lots of things to do in virtually every district. Public transport is amazing compared to the Bay area and you don't even need to own a car. That's completely impossible in the Valley and I have no idea why isn't there someone who tries to change that.
Yes, the situation seems much better than I thought. I didn't realise Angular.dart was unrepresentative.
I would like to see any large scale products or startups that are using dart. Can anyone point me in the right direction?
Amazon wants you to run Windows 7 on its cloud with WorkSpaces
I'm not sure why you'd say that. G+ has some valuable communities. It's no different than coming to this site or going to reddit, twitter, tumblr etc.
Yes that image is heavy, I've converted it to png compressed but still not good... I will surely check it out...

what did you think about the site in general and concept?
I see your point, but I sure wouldn't want someone to expect me to not make decisions that best meet the needs of my business, and that would include discontinuing or changing my products or services.
However, I can see how when you are a company the size of Google that there should be some kind of responsibility to those that utilize your services, particularly since there is an exchange happening that benefits both parties.
why? the best thing about HN is that normally if someone doesn't have an informative/useful comment about a topic, they don't say anything.
This is just the conclusion, link should be http://www.polygon.com/a/ps4-review/
>The decision also comes as a major volte-face for Judge Chin... that the higher court (on which he now sits) wanted him to acknowledge fair use.

I find it very disheartening. The reasons given by the judge are very fair and convincing. If it's true that he ruled this way because higher court wanted him to acknowledge fair use, judge was not objective.

I wonder if his stance, now or previously, was politically motivated. Let's wish that the judge came to this decision solely on the merits of arguments for/against "fair use". The alternative is depressing to think about.
> Pitching itself as the "Airbnb for hotels,"

Isn't Airbnb the "Airbnb for hotels?"
JPMorgan cancels Twitter Q&A after tirade of abuse
Now they just need to fight off the TPP agreement, just like they did with SOPA, so it doesn't nullify this win for them.
Wait. Santa's not real?
Just wondering, why isn't the announcement page on Dart's website on the front page as opposed to an add-ridden .bz page?
If you advertise for "consultant for hire," it's probably a waste of time. If you have a specialty where you have domain knowledge and experience in a niche, it might be better. For example if you advertise for "invoicing workflow solutions for law firms" or something equivalently narrow, your leads will be of higher quality as they are more self-selected.
Why Identity is critical to APIs and the API Economy
hmmm... sure, I will a/b test out that...
More discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6731322
There's an issue with switching between using a password and a certificate: the password will end up being forgotten. You can probably solve this with email resets, but it's worth thinking about.
> more than 2,000 people — mostly men and women in their 30's and 40's — have signed on to use the service

And, as expected, there are some neat, undocumented ways to make full use of this service.
> Chin also rejected the theory that Google was depriving authors of income, noting that the company does not sell the scans or make whole copies of books available. He concluded, instead, that Google Books served to help readers discover new books and amounted to “new income from authors.”

Fire up your torrents. We have a new precedent for the legality of file sharing. As long as the pirates aren't selling you the files, they're helping you discover new movies!
I like this idea. its the push version of the traditional uptime monitoring pull mechanism (i.e. ping endpoints).

not sure I'm a fan of using this specifically for background jobs though, as we have airbrake and splunk and other tools that detect these failures cheaply.
If you're making user interface decisions based on how easy they'll be to code (or design) then you're doing it wrong, and if you end up with a great app then it's down to luck rather than your ability.

To use a car analogy, no one has ever sat down and said "Let's build a blue car" and then designed around that goal. Nor have they said "We have an amazing V8" and then designed a car around it.* The experience comes first, then you choose the right engine and the right color.

Design an amazing user experience. Work out what pain you're taking away and what flow will work best for the user. Then work out how to build it - what language to code in, which libraries to use, what to develop the design assets in, what illustrations you need, etc.
Start at the end and work backwards.

* They probably have actually. But whatever.
I can think of at least two employers who gave me the job because of my honesty when admitting to my ignorance of certain job-related knowledge during an interview. It's a really great trait for recent graduates, many of whom will nod along and say, "Oh yeah, I've used such-and-such before." My first two jobs out of college the boss told me after giving me the gig that a big part of me getting hired was that I didn't appear to be over-stating about my abilities and it was clear what they were getting by hiring me. So if anything, young developers should just remember to be honest and that you can't be expected to know everything right off the bat. Employers will appreciate the honesty.
Pinterest Announces First API Integrations
I wasn't aware so many people cared about YouTube comments.

I'd actually forgot they existed after installing a plugin to have them removed a couple of years back. When I did notice comments, I can't remember an instance where a comment added value to the video.

They always just seemed to oscillate between the "yeah, awesome!" variety or quickly devolving to name calling and borderline hate speech.

I think I'll leave the plugin enabled and not bother with it at all.
I am not sure I understand how is that important or helpful.

In simulations of physical systems, there already is a barrier of what we can do (chaotic behavior) regardless whether or not the underlying physics is deterministic or not. In other words, even if the question ("is universe deterministic") remains unanswered, we can already simulate all we need to the way it's possible to do it.
Getting clients abroad means you have to attract eyeballs to your work abroad.

The first thing is to work on shifting your mindset from being a dev shop. Your question here is of a business nature and I think that might be worth thinking about.

FEW businesses have technical problems. Most have business problems they want solved through a collection of policy, process and technology. As much as every business is becoming a software business, you have to stop seeing your value only in your technical skills, because they alone are only a part of any solution.

The real value is being a bridge between business and technology. A hybrid who can understand business and technology. There's no shortage of business consultants, and developers don't always get the whole picture. What is always in high demand is the few who get both, being able to put together technology with business in a way that magnifies and grows the competitive advantage of a customer, not reinterpreting how a business should be run.

This in turn means you have to find and have the conversations, be it on your blog or in your portfolio that shows your ability to understand and solve business problems.

Last, but not least, your opinion of odesk or elance is not ideal. Yes, it sucks to compete with developers in other countries. Learning how to compete doesn't mean you'll be there forever, but it's a necessary skill. Learning to differentiate yourself as a complete end to end solution provider is what most desirable don't do well, Craigslist, odesk or elance can help you with very quickly.

If you're curious, the majority of my long term customers are in another city or country, I have never met most, and the projects I'm trusted to work on are often central to their business.
It was initially, "uploaded to youtube"

It was from a youtube statistics at,
http://www.youtube.com/yt/press/statistics.html
mattgreenrocks it's never too late! But, I agree without a PhD R&D jobs are difficult to come by.

It sounds like you know what you want to work on. My advise would be to do some more reading in the area and find research papers in your field. Soon you'll know how to extend or improve on prior work. At this point it's a good idea to identify schools and supervisors you want to work with, especially those whose papers you've read or reach you are interested in extending. You might even propose a research collaboration with them based on the papers you read. This is a good way to open channel of communication and get your foot in the door.

There's a great deal that can be said on how to get into a PhD programme. Let me know if you want to continue this discussion offline.
What decides your cyber security?
Bitcoin Foundation's Law & Policy Chair is pushing blacklists right now
Same here, since domain name is "dbus hell".
I'm in two Pinkie Pie fanclubs now
I think the Army likes it because it reinforces the idea that Army officers are an elite, and it exposes more future leaders to a little bit of Army life, so they're more positive about the Army when they make decisions when they're running a business or a government department.
List of companies using it in production (from the blog post):

* Blossom

* Montage

* Soundtrap

* Mandrill

* Google's internal CRM app

* Google Elections

Companies that started to add support for it: Adobe, drone.io, and JetBrains
> willing to cheat

Defeating a voodoo ritual is cheating? Isn't it more like protecting yourself from false accusations?
It is for me; if you want to wade in that particular cesspool, that's your choice. I go to Youtube to watch a video and leave.
"or make whole copies of books available"
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Why not grab some public domain data sets and build something on that? There's some really nice sources that can be discovered at data.gov and other places. Much of it could be used to inform and educate the public. You probably could build a small business or consultancy if you choose correctly.
Well, on one level, yes, but in practice there are many organizations and governments that would step in if a national currency were headed towards a value of zero. Bitcoin doesn't have the same level of institutional support (yet?), and so if it's value starts crashing hard, it could turn into an unrecoverable death spiral.
It depends. There have certainly been times where I've deferred some necessary purchase in favor of a frivolous one, eg choosing to pay a bill late so I could go out with friends and have beers. Now that's not so bad if you know you're going to be able to pay the bill next week, and arguably there's some psychological benefit in being social and and consuming some alcohol to de-stress, not to mention the signaling value of apparent economic liquidity.

But if you discount the future too liberally, then pretty much anything can be spun as a rational choice, eg drug addiction, being a hobo, taking up crime or whatever. I smoked fairly heavily for about 20 years, which I'm sur is going to have some negative impact on my future lifespan/quality of life, if the way I felt by the time I quit is anything to go by. For all that I liked smoking at times, it was basically a symptom of nictotine addiction and I can't say my life was improved by having been a smoker. This is certainly one case where I discounted the future too heavily.
Nope. If your torrent only contains a single page from each chapter maybe, but wholesale copying is still against the law. You can't read entire books on Google Books.
The entity that leases the car does get the benefit - but then passes it on to the consumer in lower monthly payments.
An interesting discussion taking place over on Bitcointalk. We now know that some core developers are for a blacklist system (Mike Hearn) and we know some core developers are against the idea (Gregory Maxwell)

This could become a politically sensitive area and could derail or advance Bitcoin.

See also https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=333586.0
Google did not "make whole copies of books available."

Not a precedent.
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>More than 4,220 units of housing began construction in San Francisco in 2012 — following a year in which just 269 net units were added.

Is that enough additional housing to cover all the new residents? From 2010 to 2012, the population grew from 805,235 to 825,863: http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/06/06075.html

It seems like demand is outpacing the supply, driving prices up.
Going forward, the Dart team will focus on improving Dartium, increasing Dart performance, and ensuring the platform remains rock solid. In particular, changes to core technologies will be backward-compatible for the foreseeable future.

Today’s release marks the first time Dart is officially production-ready, and we’re seeing teams like Blossom, Montage, Soundtrap, Mandrill, Google's internal CRM app and Google Elections, already successfully using Dart in production. In addition, companies like Adobe, drone.io, and JetBrains have started to add Dart support to their products.

Congrats to the team on releasing 1. Now to find a project to try it out in...
Smart remark. Comments probably increase retention and re-visits.

A feature does not have to create a better experience for viewers with IQ above room temperature, in order to increase ad revenue.
You won't miss it if they trim a few minutes of dialog from the Phantom Menace. Boom, MPAA legal team out of business!
I think it would be helpful if HN allowed an optional inclusion of author name along with title which could be displayed next to the title. The author of an article is more often than not the only additional context needed to make a link title interesting or relevant. You could simply append "by Paul Graham" after the actual title of Paul's posts.

I know HN doesn't want us to continue to discuss this issue in threads that are not directly related to talking about HN's title policy. However, there will be literally no stopping this discussion from popping up again and again because it is an actual problem for readers of the site and it will take every new reader of the site being told why things are broken in this way before they stop asking about it in unrelated threads. I find it interesting that Paul continues to hold to his position that it's an acceptable problem to have when there is a constant stream of readers signaling it is a real problem with the site. This post is one very clear example of exactly why it's a real problem.

I can see at least two ways to address it without spending more money on moderators. 1. Allow volunteer moderation and trust those moderators like Stack Overflow does. This is a solution that has been proved workable time and time again. 2. Give users a way to add some additional context to posts. Author name being included in the title is the bare minimum needed but I can think of a few other helpful pieces of contextual information as well.