skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe let someone else worry about it?

http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/persona/
http://janrain.com/
>I'm convinced is also the reason why they considered assassination.

worth re-reiterating perhaps... that never actually happened.
As a techie who is doing his own thing, I can see why jcampbell would assume English was not your native tongue. Copy writing is really an art form where it's almost a language of its own. Although your sentences may be grammatically correct, the nature in which they are presented seems unnatural.

To be honest, even if you involved an English professor, the outcome would probably be the same. Asking a native English speaker for marketing/copy writing advice is not the right thing to do. Find somebody who is good at copy writing or learn how copy writing works.
Simple: that premise isn't as fun to talk about on a message board, and so can't be true.
Agreed. If someone were planning the PR for Bitcoin, that'd be where they'd probably be working. It could be anything big, really...Heck, Starbucks isn't even that outlandish of a thought. It'd get Starbucks a lot of press, too.
>You can't sell "not bad" without an angle.

You'd be surprised.
Watch your mouth! I will not tolerate insults.

To answer your ramblings: you are wrong, currencies have to be compared to other currencies to estimate their worth. The Euro is compared to the US dollar. The Japanese Yen is compared to the British Pound. Etc. So it is normal to compare Bitcoin to other currencies.

The "contrived hash equations" are necessary to make it decentralized, which is the greatest property that Bitcoin has over other currencies. If you don't understand why decentralization is important, I suggest reading: http://bitcoinmagazine.com/7798/decentralization-key-to-bitc...
I open-sourced the algorithm of my WIP startup
Man, some of those are so bad I had to buy one!

The testimonials are well worth a click, BTW.
Without knowing (a) how long the deliverables are, (b) how many people will read them, (c) in what form they will be read and (d) the degree to which they will be repurposed, it's sort of hard to give you a single recommendation.

Many fairly large organizations use:

1. Adobe Framemaker (for long stuff)
2. Oracle Universal Productivity Kit (very popular if the company is also building documentation or training).
3. One of the content management suites using DITA (usually HP or IBM).

The two most common-used, however, are Word and (gag) Excel.
Wonderful work. How do you plan to sustain the site when it gets too big to fund privately. Is this a for-profit venture?
Indeed. Here's the full list of P&G brands: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Procter_&_Gamble_brands
Tell us more about your use case. I'm building a package manager so, I've spend a lot of time with the source code of all of those and read many of the comments of their authors in debates on ES6 Harmony modules/loaders and know a lot about their pros and cons.

My personal preference for webapps is component.

What is your back-end? What is your frontend? Any frameworks? How important is total uglified size to you? i.e. are you working for a company where every 100ms for each 100kb matters? How are you handling other assets like images, css, etc? How familiar are you with node.js and the npm ecosystem?
Why Bitcoin grows so quickly
This isn't for-profit. It's actually not even technically a startup. I'm paying for the servers out of my own pocket. We've got a big pipe and lots of storage, so we'll last a while.

Ideally, we'll eventually be in a position to run ads internally instead of relying on adsense, and then we can hopefully make a little better money off of that. We also get a surprising number of donations [1] that help keep us going.

By the way, does anyone know anything about marketing? That's one thing we aren't good at. We've gotten very little press coverage. We tell people "if you like it, tell your friends" and that's gotten us this far.

[1] https://mediacru.sh/donate
Really? I looked at all of them and only found one that wasn't an obvious copy. I've seen similar sites where lots of the accusations seemed sketchy, but these are all really blatant.
Doesn't seem to render well on Windows:

http://i.imgur.com/IthgtiK.png

Same results in Word and in VS using a non-dark theme at 10 and 11pt. At 12, the extra pixel at the top of the a goes away, but is back at 14.

Also, VS doesn't bold it in the drop-down, which I think means it doesn't detect it as a monospaced font.

Any suggestions?
or even Legend of Zelda! or Bomeberman!!
Does this remind anyone else of I Want to Draw a Cat For You, made famous by Shark Tank?

http://iwanttodrawacatforyou.com/
Oh, lots of people have opinions. You don't need to do any research or bother yourself with facts or thinking to have an opinion. In fact, it's much easier to have one if you don't.
Even if you are a native speaker, some outside advice would help.

> "Recruit Top Developers with Feedback-Driven Interviews"

That doesn't make logical sense. Recruiting is about finding candidates. "with interviews" makes no sense in this context.

"Feedback Driven Interviews" means nothing to anyone. Google doesn't know what it means. It is not an industry term. It is bullshit bingo. That never works.

Why not start with "Improve your hiring process by ..."?

I am no copy writing pro, but you need to learn to invert. Become the customer and sell yourself. Write in the active voice.
I can't imagine how this will not result in a lawsuit, if Microsoft is actually behind this.

They're using the Chrome logo alongside a message that Google will find very objectionable.

The claim that Chrome "steals your data" seems a massive overreach. I'm trying to imagine what Chrome does that would be closest to that claim, and the best I can come up with is that searches in the omnibox are sent to Google by keystroke (for search suggestions) rather than upon Enter being hit.

That said, the claims are so comical that I am tempted to order something. They're ridiculous enough to seem cool.
I try to personalize the situation. Government officials are not magical unicorns. They are people like you and me. People, like your next door neighbor. What if your next door neighbor could scan through your email, credit card purchases and call transcripts without your knowledge? Now imagine that they actually are doing so right now.
You're probably right - my post was assuming that the psychology of a committing a terror act was the same as a petty crime or assault. Maybe not the best assumption to make.
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Doesn't the use of check constraints add an overhead and possibly negate the slight performance advantage that was gained by using text instead of varchar/char?
> would it be an effective preventative for aortic dissection?

Even if it could measurably reduce the chances for known risk groups, would it really be prudent to perform open-heart surgery on a patient without a current condition?
I've very rarely seen Bitstamp come up in any of these conversations. I know nothing about them...but, looking at their site, I can see that there's no way they will be preferred for first time BTC buyers from the US. It's not even a contest, because Bitstamp isn't even in the running for US buyers. Coinbase will fund your account via ACH from a US bank. Nobody else will. Thus, anybody wanting to start with Bitcoin in the US is going to go with Coinbase.

I'm gonna assume you're outside of the US; the difficulty and expense of sending an international wire from a US bank is rarely grasped by people outside of the US. My bank charges $40 for a wire transfer in US dollars, and more for one in the destination currency. My first BTC purchase was only ~$300...the wire transfer would have been more than 10% of that.

I agree that Coinbase running out of coins would have had an impact. But, I noticed that they were replenishing them relatively quickly...I tried to make a buy one evening, was told the daily coin limit had been reached, and an hour later was able to buy, and bought a little more the next morning.

I suspect they were sitting at their computers all night during the run up to $1000, trying to manage fraud while also trying to buy and sell as many BTC as possible.

Anyway, I'd be surprised if there's another big spike...but, a gradual climb back up to $1k and beyond does seem entirely realistic to me.
Entrepreneurship: Everything won't be OK
clickable: http://www.flotcharts.org/
I'm not really sure you could call the engineers that work at Google in MTV not a reputable group?
How about this....

Every Senator or Congressman that votes to continue this Metadata BS program release all of THEIR Metadata. If you have nothing to hide why not release all of the following:

Every Phone number they called in the past 5 years with a date and time-stamp attached from their Home, Office and Cell numbers.

Every email-recipient they ever sent e-mail to in the past 5 years from all their addresses - personal address, Official address etc

Every website visited from their Home IP, Smart phone, Office and desk computer.

IF even ONE of the 535 US esteemed legislators in both houses agrees to this...lets say that Swine would be airborne in record numbers.
Totally unreadable to me. To each their own
It's called a "Viola Organista" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viola_organista

Precious little detail on the construction and the only website of a builder seems to be down intermittently. https://web.archive.org/web/20121031145914/http://obuchi.mus...
this one by a wide margin

http://www.logothief.com/jose-cant-think-outside-the-square/

also some of these are different enough to very easily be reached independently.

http://www.logothief.com/the-great-international-coffee-cup-...

Even I designed a logo like that once for a coffee shop at my university.
tolerate it -- http://www.phauna.org/papers/freecoin/freecoin.pdf

i hope the next bitcoin scammer who tries to change my mind doesn't send me to "Bitcoin Magazine". That's like Amway convincing you they're legit by sending you to the company site. Plus I have no issue with the decentralized aspect & some of the finer points of digital currency. It's just that this wild value swing is absolutely not a sign of Bitcoin's success. It's utter failure.
Why use Memory Mapped File in Java
Hmm... did this site get served a secret warrant last week? Or did they just forget to update their warrant canary?

https://mediacru.sh/transparency/warrant-canary.txt

(Note: the date 08/11 is written European style meaning November 8th, as you can see if you go up a directory.)
Oh, I don't know, quite a few live up to the sales pitch.

http://www.horriblelogos.com/hay-wire/
Honestly, I don't think this is stealing in more than just a technical sense. This is little different that a mashup or a cover of an older song. And some of the newer versions are a little better.

Not a big fan of the concept of "intellectual property." The site itself is kind of fun.
If you combine Scala, Clojure and Groovy, you still don't have enough momentum on the scape of what Java had or even Python.
>> One of the biggest deterrents to committing a crime is the certainty of getting caught.

No, for a suicidal terrorist it is not. He'd be dead anyway, who you're going to catch? Of course, there's a risk of getting caught before, but that is known and they are sure they can avoid it, it doesn't deter them.

>> but I assume even the appearance of security would make it seem like less of an appealing idea to a would-be terrorist.

To a very stupid terrorist that can't understand it is only an appearance - maybe. However, you can deter very stupid terrorists much cheaper and without destroying civil liberties. And those who can add two and two, you'd do nothing by playing theater with them except wasting resources that actually could have gone to catch them. Every minute NSA analyst spends on spying on innocent people he doesn't spend watching terrorists. And even in the NSA the resources are finite.
While designers like myself often think of ourselves as the victims here, often the companies are victims as well. Many of them spent money, good money in some cases, to end up with a shady designer or agency ripping off work and selling it as their own. The client is not only left without a mark to represent their brand, having to start all over but they've lost the money they already spent and risk lawsuits for the infringement. This is another good reason to find a reputable designer you can trust. A local designer you've met face to face and know a real name and address will help tremendously as many shady "designers" like to hide behind the anonymity of the internet. This is also the reason why many crowd-sourced services and competitions have been caught with blatantly stolen logos for sale.
I don't think yelling anything in public is protected by free speech, but it's hardly going to cause a panic or hurt anyone. If he yelled "BOMB!" that would be different.
Compared to 14" standard resolution no, it will not look any worse. You would definitely notice on a larger, higher resolution screen the minute you had something to compare it to though.
> this Metadata BS program

It's not just metadata, they collect full audio & text content as well. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A
The Joca one is definitely "inspired by", but likely not rising to the level of copyright infringement. Same with Milagros Urbanos.
Are you real?
Ack! My other half is responsible for the warrant canary. He keeps forgetting it. We may as well not even have it. It doesn't mean much without a signature, but I assure you that we have never been served a warrant.
I wouldn't be surprised it Picasso hadn't ever said it at all. Even if he had, Picasso created his own genre of art. Actions speak louder than words.

It really doesn't matter where the quote came from. Even when put into proper context (which has rarely happened in the past) the logic behind it is shaky.

Great artists do imitate, as students they copy the techniques and methods of those who came before them, in order to learn and master the skills they will need to make their own art. When they are ready, the truly great artists then proceed to create things that we've never seen before.
I'm no expert, but here are my two cents:
1> Spread the word manually on HN, 4chan and the like
2> Add basic social media presence (twitter, FB ..). This will let you communicate with your fans/early adopters, and let them talk to you too.
3> When the audience in #2 is big enough, launch on kickstarter et al.
4> IF you have a successful kickstarter campaign, the media will cover you, given the big pain points you solve

What I do not know is how you will sustain when you get BIG. The "donate" method works well for someone like Wikipedia, BUT your traffic/costs are generally higher given that most of it pertains to media, as against text for wikipedia
Sounds interesting, but I don't have a FB account.
Good on Facebook for being honest. Kudos!
Oriscript: an origami based writing system
Is there any form of recourse if you discover that a designer you hired actually stole a logo?
Direct link instead of 3rd-generation rewrite:

http://www.theage.com.au/entertainment/music/leonardo-da-vin...
This is an amazing point of view. Can you please provide any reference for further study?
I up-voted the story not because I like the message or because I'm for it but because I want it to be seen. I'm against any kind of "attack" advertising and I'd like to see it discussed, not ignored.
Are you just fantasy?
Ha, I don't live in the US, I live in a some times worse nation - India. We don't pay as many taxes though. I made my comment as an assertion of the fact that people blaming corporations must also blame the participating government as well.
Good to know you're a dollar vigilante! I always wanted that lifestyle; can't get it, not yet anyway.
A couple of the coffee cups might not be direct copies, but the majority of them clearly are. The proportions and shapes are all nearly identical.

If you described this logo to ten random web designers and asked them to draw what you described, you would end up with ten considerably different looking cups of coffee. With these logos, almost all of the coffee cups are the same.
Boycott eating processed shit, no problem.

Looking through the list of P&G brands, I can say that I haven't bought anything from them in years, even when I lived in the US.

I do agree though that boycotting every company that engages in questionable behavior would be near impossible. It's better to change the system, but if in the meantime you can avoid giving money to the most heinous companies then why not?
Regarding 2, we have @mediacru_sh [1] and a subreddit [2]. Not many folk follow that, though. We have a problem with Facebook, though. Considering that all the devs are very pro-privacy [3], none of us have one!

As for Kickstarter, I'm not sure what we'd be raising money for or giving to contributors as a thank you. We are pretty featureful as it stands now, and I'm very against the idea of making people pay for certain features.

[1] https://twitter.com/mediacru_sh

[2] https://pay.reddit.com/r/mediacrush

[3] https://blog.mediacru.sh/2013/07/19/MediaCrush-for-nerds.htm...
Most chain grocery stores in the US have equivalent generics that are cheaper. This boycott is not only trivial but it saved you money.
In case you don't read the sentence right before you quoted one:

> by using a specially crafted request.

It means you have to manually purposefully make an RFC2616 invalid HTTP request. Period.

Which means, even for a folder name with a trailing space, normal user wouldn't trigger this vulnerability, an attacker must use lower level tools/libraries. For example wget will auto encode URL for you, while cURL won't.

I tried to reply to ams6110, this vulnerability only works if you have dir with a trailing space and the attacker handcraft an http request packet, bypassing encode and sanity checking which is required in most HTTP client implementations.

And the vulnerability is not cause by or about trailing spaces in dirs, we can deal with those dirs fine. It's about how to make nginx config rules apply to obscure invalid URL s. It's a pitfall in nginx rule checking engine. Are we clear now?
How is that the same at all? The NSA presumably already has all of that info. The Senators who are saying "I trust the NSA with my data" are trusting the NSA with their data. That doesn't mean they want everybody to know their metadata.
The comment is the only thing in a monospace font. It's a criticism, and a valid one, of your choice of programming font. Nobody in their rightest of minds programs in Times New Roman. I'm convinced you must be trolling us.
Love the font! I've been using Inconsolata-g for my Objective-C development for a while now, but will try this.

Also, worth mentioning, here's the list of best programming fonts for those who're interested : http://www.slant.co/topics/67/~what-are-the-best-programming...
Depends on what you're looking for. For design, search on 99designs or Dribbble. You can pay extra for top notch guys. I'm not sure where to look for top hackers. Topcoder?
I glad my music collection was on physical media when tornadoes knocked power out to just about the entire county. I had something to cure the boredom besides drinking and rioting! (Well, once the weather stopped trying to kill us all.)

I'm also glad my music is on physical media every time I don't have to pay insane rates for a couple hours of wifi on a flight just to listen to my music, or when I'm killing time somewhere where cell service is spotty at best.

I don't yet live in the future where access to the cloud is a given, and I prefer my devices don't become completely useless without a data connection.

Edit: My primary physical media isn't a pile of CDs—I have plenty of those too, but stopped carrying them the moment I got an MP3 player. Now I carry almost my entire collection on my phone and a whole lot more than that on my laptop. I see nothing wrong with having copies of things in the cloud (remote backup FTW), but I'm not about to take a shotgun to my local disks.
Would love to hear what's your next plan, if you don't mind.
>Sure it is. Lack of diversity means lack of understanding about other uses. It also means that biases can go unchecked, and can develop into accepted wisdom.

But if "lack of diversity" in the ratio of men/women working on IT is an issue _for the reasons you mention_, it means that you accept that men and women have different interests/thinking (uses/biases), and can bring different perspectives.

In which case you should also entertain the idea that women might just not like IT style jobs and the kind of problem solving people do in programming. That's a different bias/perspective too, after all.

>Have you looked? I'm not sure about fishermen, but there are many programmes to increase the number of men in nursing, or women in construction.

Citation needed.
But how do you know the terrorists aren't praying to Zoltar "Oh Mighty Space God Zoltar, please allow Lagged2Death to become complacent in his security"? :)
heavy sexuality is way too able to psychologically scar someone at a young age

Evidence? Not sure what you mean by "heavy sexuality"... rape porn, sure, I'm inclined to agree, but anal sex, scat, orgies, etc. I'd need to see some proof. I saw all that when I was 8-9 years old, and anecdotally I have a healthy sex life now that is free of any destructive fetishes (or really any fetishes in general).
Plex is the only solution that I have found that seamlessly plays video on my flatscreen through my mobile with the content being served from my laptop.

Before you ask - yes I used to be running xbmc, minidlna, etc. previously. No, they are nowhere as good (actually, to rephrase, the client-server model is not xbmc's focus, which is completely wrong IMHO).
Is k-means really what people are doing in serious production machine-learning settings?

Yes, that is one option. Ask me over Christmas and I'll tell you a story about a production system using k-means. (Sorry guys, not a story for public consumption.)

More broadly, a lot of machine learning / AI / etc is simpler than people expect under the hood. It's almost a joke in the AI field: as soon as you produce a system that actually works, people say "Oh that's not AI, that's just math."
Being listed on the site is a specifically enumerated feature of the purchase, so that shoud be accurate.

I am buying the $5 logo, myself.
"Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed."
Its kind of not surprising that Microsoft's anti-Google strategy looks like a needlessly desperate negative political campaign since it started when Microsoft brought on Mark Penn[1], whose go-hard-negative strategy was so successful for Democratic then-front-runner Hillary Clinton in 2008, to lead its messaging efforts.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Penn
It sounds as if http://www.software-carpentry.org might be something to join for most participants in this thread - a non-profit organization that runs bootcamps for scientists to learn proper coding, version control etc. I think they're always looking for more volunteers.
Why we ask for other people’s opinions
I don't mean that their solution will necessarily be better than Google's, but it looks like it could produce top-down imagery that is about as good. Being OpenStreetMap, it will likely be liberally licensed. With the data freely available, the barriers to everyone creating Google Maps competitors will suddenly be minimal. Currently those barriers are very significant (data creation/licensing costs), so them being lowered so dramatically will be unfortunate for Google.
demos: http://files.nikcub.com/finalengine/

some work, some don't. i'm fixing them as I go.