skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exactly. Take Facebook, Zuckerberg wasn't trying to be the next Zuckerberg at the beginning.

Take a look at this very early interview with him: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQ5otpv6kTw

Skip to 3:57, he is saying "doesn't have to be more" after being at 29 schools. He is worried about quality over quantity. If Facebook started with this mentality and landed a billion users, why anyone would think that think big has any relation with becoming big?
Ask: Automated Sensor Twitter Feeds
I'm looking for twitter feeds that are the output of automated sensors. For example, @BeijingAir and @ShanghaiAir tweet pollutant and particulate levels in their respective cities. @Earthquake tweets the time and approximate location of earthquakes with a magnitude over 5 on the Richter scale.

Does anyone know of any other such automated feeds?

https://twitter.com/earthquake

https://twitter.com/BeijingAir

https://twitter.com/CGShanghaiAir
Which is why the Bill of Rights in the Constitution is so important, because there is no way for the citizenry to force the government to act or not act. The armed forces and law enforcement swear to uphold the Constitution for that reason.
One day you'll join the rest of us and stop doing math like that.

Anyway, I still can't believe we're trade partners with Japan. I mean, after all, Pearl Harbor?
> If my wife has access to it, then I am not protected. If I live in an apartment, then the landlord has access.

Apartments and safe deposit boxes are actually an excellent example of my point. There are legal and cultural restrictions on how a landlord or bank may access your apartment or safe deposit box. So those are protected by the 4th amendment. There are no such restrictions when it comes to data hosted in the cloud. If your landlord or your bank routinely rifled through your apartment or safe deposit box, as internet companies do with your digital accounts, then they very well might not be protected by the 4th amendment.

> It's about your expectation of privacy. If you expect something to be private

No, it's about "reasonable" expectation of privacy. And it's about whether that expectation is objectively reasonable, not subjectively reasonable. The fact that people have access to your documents is not determinative of whether an expectation of privacy is objectively reasonable, but is a strong factor in the analysis. Your expectation of privacy is a lot more reasonable when you're talking about an apartment, which a landlord may enter without permission only in an emergency, then when you're talking about an online account your service provider routinely rifles through in order to target advertising.

> While the government can physically obtain such information, they are prohibited to do so by law. So it's not a fiction, it's the law.

Sure, the 4th amendment is a fiction in the sense that all law is a fiction. My point is that the boundaries of the law do not need to be coextensive with the social fiction. Just because many people treat Facebook accounts as "private" does not mean that doing so is objectively reasonable in light of how many people at Facebook have access to those accounts, and in light of Facebook's data mining of those accounts. The appropriate legal standard may well be higher. E.g. expectation of privacy is only objectively reasonable when online accounts are end-to-end encrypted and not routinely data-mined.
Did you ever click on a photo in facebook and wish you could zoom in and see a larger size (or even the original) in order to see more detail of a specific part? I sure have. The future where they maintain huge images is the future where enough people want to be able to do that and the cost of supporting it is small enough. It really isn't too hard to imagine.
I've been applying for various jobs for the past 2 years. I actually quit my current position a few times but they talked me into staying. I turned down the offer I had and that was the only offer I've gotten in the last 2 years.
You might want to look for 2.9BSD, a PDP-11 Unix variant which was more or less v7 with the TCP stack from 4.xBSD grafted in. Patching this into an x86 port would still be a bit of a project, but it's probably easier than starting with 4.xBSD directly, or starting from scratch.
It doesn't have a wide release for a couple weeks.
They're totally interchangeable so there's no reason you couldn't, maybe with no modifications. It's not uncommon to see a mix of Erlang and LFE (lisp flavored Erlang) or elixir when they're well suited (usually for meta programming features to eliminate repetitive Erlang.
I can't imagine how the Justice Sotomayor could have been any more clear in this issue:

I would not assume that all information voluntarily disclosed
to some member of the public for a limited purpose is,
for that reason alone, disentitled to Fourth Amendment protection.
[citations omitted]
Resolution of these difficult questions in this case is unnecessary,
however, because the Government's physical intrusion on Jones' Jeep
supplies a narrower basis for decision.

http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/11pdf/10-1259.pdf

When Ginsburg, Breyer, and Kagan feel surveillance is so obviously unconstitutional as to provide an even narrower basis than actual trespassing, and Sotomayor writes a separate opinion for the sole purpose of conveying she'd be the 4th vote, I find it hard to imagine how any judge could uphold this surveillance in good faith.
Why does anybody care what the judge thinks? Use Tor and crypto and tell them to fuck themselves.
Well when I say go to school I mean online somewhere full time after work hours. I don't see any other way to take care of my responsibilities and go to school.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1%25_rule_(Internet_culture)
Pointers can be null references can not, therefore if you use a reference then you are communicating nulls not allowed. You can't new or delete with a reference, so you are saying something about the lifetime of the object referenced(That this code absolutely refuses to manage it).
Not all schools are like that. My alma mater had no research program, and all the professors did was teach. Though the student body was largely comprised of partiers, so you may have gotten the same sort of treatment.

That being said, it sounds like you're a proponent of the "alternative routes" that the OP suggests at the end of the article.
Yea, I sent lb1.net and dinr.org and I'm not confident I'll receive any in return... human01d.org was registered too recently, no word on faithfulpixels.com (that one at least could host a touchy feely technology or design blog). Ah well, worst case just dehording is a step in the right direction.

I say keep trading until value is maximized: http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2012/12/25/167976196/episode-...

Would love to see the final tally on successfully transferred domains.
It's more like driving in a 60 mph zone and multiple officers with radar guns that disagree whether you were driving 59 or 65 mph.
Hopefully SCOTUS will say something else, but I'm not holding my breath. Eventually the content of the phone calls will also be found to be not private as we are using a 3rd party to communicate, so in the end all electronic communication will thus be available for recording and interpretation legally by the government. What kind of world that will be is unknown, but it won't be one anyone wants to live in.
I'd say that most of the HN community has enough "skill" to make a million dollars. Unfortunately, skill is only part of the equation.

On the other hand, having a million dollars provides a significant amount of runway and/or working capital which is (arguably) more rare than skill.

So I'd argue that a million dollars is a far better asset than the skill to earn a million dollars. A million dollars can more readily earn you another million, it can afford you time to learn whatever skills you might be interested in and it also provides you with the alternative option of never bothering to focusing your effort on making money.
Is a warrant required to read the addresses on the outside of the envelope on First Class mail?
Have you read the debate between Andy Tanenbaum and Linus Torvalds from about 1992? It's a discussion of the tradeoffs between microkernels (Tanenbaum) and monolithic kernels (Torvalds). You can find it here:

http://oreilly.com/catalog/opensources/book/appa.html

The chapter by Torvalds in the same book is also worth reading:

http://oreilly.com/openbook/opensources/book/linus.html

The claim that microkernels improve portability makes no sense to me, since Linux itself is very portable, as are the BSDs (especially NetBSD and OpenBSD).
The difference here is: "Can the Postal System provision X-ray systems to scan all mail and hold a database of its scans up to 18 months to prevent unlawful activity?"
This is an incredibly suboptimal approach.

Postgresql (and even Mysql for that matter) lets you explicitly declare foreign key references when you create/alter a table and then the database will enforce integrity of those references for you. Which is great because when someone writes some kind of code outside of Rails to work with your db, and that code has bugs, and those bugs impact data integrity, there is a hard stop at the DB layer preventing dangling/invalid references that will blow something up later.

A side effect of creating these explicit foreign key relationships is that any needed indices are created on both sides of the key. [UPDATE: Nope, I'm wrong, see below.]

Here the author has a Rails setup that fails to declare foreign key constraints when it's making a table with relations. You can see this in the DB description of the `products` table which references the `categories` tables via a plain int called `category_id`. As a result of not having an explicit foreign key constraint this table also has no index on `category_id`.

So given a table with poor data integrity at the SQL/db level and lacking an index as a sympton of this problem, the author treats the symptom and advises the creation of an index on `category_id`, leaving the real problem woefully intact. And that real problem, to be clear, is the fact that the database is not being used properly but rather treated as a relatively dumb place to dump columnar data; things that Postgres gives you for free are set aside and pseudo-duplicated in Rails code.

Now I'm not blasting the author because I don't know if this is a tactical issue or an issue with Rails itself. Does Rails not allow foreign key constrains in the migrations?

Whether this is a flaw in Rails or how it's being used, this is a bad solution to the problem. The RDBMS is your friend, use it. (And if you're not going to use the integrity constraints of the DB why are you using Postgres instead of say BerkeleyDB or a loosely configured MySQL or Mongo or whatever?)
Which is why Richard Stallman was right all along.
Well I plan on using this for multiple plugins in that same iffe. I also like that I'm able to copy/paste it as a block inside other jQuery blocks.
This is only partially true. A C++ reference can outlive the object it references. A better argument would be Rust's borrowed pointers, which are statically checked to never point to an invalid object throughout their entire lifetimes.

To talk about lifetimes, you need linear logic in the core language. Merely having destructors is not enough.
Totally agree. Documenting and discovering an API is far from calling it an exploit.

The document is also concerned about SnapChat's relationship with investors and the person of the founder, which is odd in a security paper.

GibSec's other work is another SnapChat analysis, which I find odd. Maybe he/she wants to work there? :)
Quick reimplementation in the desmos graphing calculator: https://www.desmos.com/calculator/brjshfkaof

Press play next to t_0 to animate.
Why some people respond to stress by falling asleep
I think the problem is that students aren't even thinking about the job market (or at least the kind of student the OP refers to in the article). They assume it as a given that they will get a job. All the children are above average, and that sort of thing.
Scaling Agile @ Spotify with Tribes, Squads, Chapters & Guilds
That's basically what I'm trying to figure out. I usually get up between 5-7am and I'm done work most of the time by 6 or 7pm. After that I got to the gym for 1-1.5 hours and I'm ready for bed.
Generally, new stuff that is successful does not compete head-on, unless it's got some kind of "unfair advantage" like a big company behind it. In other words, it does something a bit better, but also differently. Rails was better organized and cleaner than PHP, but less bureaucratic than Java.

Chicago Boss can't compete with all the users and plugins and everything that Rails has, head on, so it's probably best used where it has an advantage on Rails: stuff like websockets where holding a lot of them open is a piece of cake for Erlang, but more of a resource hog for Rails (at least it used to be that way, has 4 improved things?).
As for Apple II, the gameplay of Armor Alley holds up pretty well. So does Choplifter, though it's pretty lousy for replayability and the emergent "slow-mo" effect could be pretty inconsistent.
UNIX-like is known to work. That is not the same as "good", but it may be close enough.

UNIX-like includes philosophies such as "almost everything is a file" and "use human-readable (and writable!) plain text formats by default" and "there will be a stdin, stdout, and stderr; use them all". More than anything else, I think that a UNIX is defined by the idea that any end-user might decide to become a programmer at any moment, and this is OK and perhaps even desirable.
but this is bleeding edge stuff ( never mind that it will work perfectly given past experience).

What did hackers (not whole development + ops) teams do before 9.3.2 ?
with all due respect, is this the reason why startups still default to mysql over postgres ?
Sure, Your Honor, and what about JSOC assassinating American citizens. Why even bother with warrants or legal process the rest of the time? Throw it all away. Just let the executive branch do whatever the fuck they like (contrary to the intention of separations of powers) with their own mercenary army that's beyond the law. The only problem then is why should anyone respect the law if said executive branch doesn't?
that didn't last very long...
Just wanted to comment on this tidbit: "However, if by some miracle they raised above the cap, the investors would get the same % they initially agreed to, but would also get higher liquidation preference."

This isn't necessarily true. If I recall correctly, the default language in Clerky's notes or the YC Safe provides mechanisms for getting around this, either by (a) issuing a different class of stock to noteholders with a different liquidation preference (e.g. Series A vs. A-1 shares) or (b) issuing the extra shares resulting from a discount or cap in common rather than preferred.
Ask HN: Best Movies you saw in 2013?
My favorite movies of the year:

1. Gravity

2. The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug

3. The Wolf of Wall Street

4. Iron Man 3

5. Despicable Me 2

6. Mud

7. American Hustle

8. Man of Steel

9. Elysium

10. Monsters University

Whats your?
What other OO languages? Ruby is Lisp-influenced for sure. :)

Anyway, the context is explicitly Java vs C++, not Smalltalk or Ruby or Python. I imagine if Smalltalk were the dominant platform this would've turned out differently. So let's do a compare and contrast.

Java has the following properties: methods are all virtual; single inheritance; inheritance isn't public/private; final instead of const; GC and references w/o memory alloc or pointers; a package system exists; generics instead of templates; no operator overloading. And Java 6 does have a limited form of closures, believe it or not-- you can access a variable declared as final with an anonymous inner class.

None of that is true of C++, and just about all of those substantially increase the complexity of the language. I don't even like Java, mind you, but after reading Effective C++ the influence of higher-level languages like Lisp was pretty obvious to me, even if Lisp might not have been the only or even primary influence on Java.
I don't think that the standard Lua implementation is especially fast – it's the LuaJIT implementation that's so impressively fast.

Programming language implementors do seem to be even less fond of writing comments than most programmers, don't they? I think one of the issues is that internals can change a lot fairly quickly and dealing with comments just makes that worse.
If you're talking about submission karma, clearly no. I follow the submissions of a selection of HN users I've known for awhile, all of whom are karma leaders, and their submissions are often as not buried on page 4 or 5 with 2-3 votes.

If you're talking about comment karma, clearly yes. I could write a comment consisting of randomly chosen names from the Chicago phone book and someone would upvote it. Name recognition has that effect, as does a small group of people who seem to follow my comments deliberately (as I do for the list of people in my profile).
What Happens Inside A Battery
This has nothing to do with a monopsony. In a perfectly competitive market, wage == marginal product.

A monopsonistic situation can drive wages below the marginal product. A monopolistic situation (e.g., multiple school districts, 1 union) can drive it above the marginal product. What I described is simply the ideal situation.
I suspect that you'll find it to be some kind of power law distribution, which implies that measures like Standard Deviation won't be so useful. A quick look at the top 1000 that you provided suggests this might be the case. But the top 100 users don't dominate the top 1000, let alone the entire population. There does seem to be some leveling off, though it's unclear how steady that will be.

Net - domination is too strong a word. Dominated might imply 20% of the karma in 20 users, and this clearly isn't the case. Even defining the Elite as 100 doesn't get us this.
I really need to adjust my lifestyle for that to happen. As it is I can barely afford my house, cars, and student loan debt on my current salary. I've actually considered bankruptcy but I'm not sure I want to try that.
Autonomous vehicle testing now allowed under Michigan law
The other major issue with convertible notes are that entrepreneurs can end up giving away a lot more of the company than they realize. For example, if the company does a priced round with a pre-money valuation less than the cap (or with uncapped notes, less than expected.)

The median pre-money Series A valuation for all WSGR startups is ~$8.0m [1], which is likely on the higher end.

Also, uncapped notes do not get diluted when raising your Series A, which is additional dilution for the entrepreneur.

For example, let's say you raise $5m uncapped notes with no discount. If you then raise a $3m Series A at a $8m pre-money valuation, you'll end up giving away more than 50% of your company, not counting interest or option pool. At a $15m pre-money valuation, you'll be giving away over 40% of your company.

Entrepreneurs should be equally careful with SAFEs.

[1] http://www.wsgr.com/publications/PDFSearch/EntrepreneursRepo...
What about pandodaily and their layout which takes up half of the screen with a sidebar or the whole of qz.com?
This is an interesting concept. I suppose you could do similar things with USD as well. You could declare, "Anyone with a dollar bill with this specific serial number now has control of my company." I would argue that the dollar bill still has a value of $1 by itself, but you can assign arbitrary value to it by making it representative of another thing.
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Developer Competition is Heating Up
FYI, they photograph the outside of every envelope (to/from addresses).
The government does need to subpoena AWS etc if they want access to my s3 bucket, or ec2 instances. The NSA siphoning off unencrypted data in transit via backbone providers en masse is entirely different.
Ask HN: Do companies have better code than the open source community?
Looking at github lately, I'm struck by how much decent code is made by individuals. I've taken it on faith that they know what they are doing, and have created libraries that are close to some nebulous notion of purity or elegance. Generally the code does something in a straightforward manner, like I could extrapolate where the unfinished parts are going (an indicator that it's close to optimum).

Contrast that with corporate code, where it seems more rigorous, more institutional. It's often entrenched in company culture and whatever process the higher ups have deemed important. I've written much of it off as overhyped, over-trusted and over-utilized. Some things work remarkably well for containing the chaos of an ever-changing market and workforce. But others seem archaic and I can't believe that companies depend on the logic equivalents of toaster ovens (that unwieldiness must be a warning sign).

Could my intuition be wrong? Imagine an idea you have, and that instead of having to write every line, you can outsource it. And that process is hierarchical, so you can reach as high as you want to. What kind of power would that give you? What could you learn that would be out of reach to those with fewer resources? If one person can write good code, what happens when hundreds or thousands of people work for years with million-dollar budgets? Could Google or Amazon have code that runs circles around ours, like if map reduce is the low-lying fruit of the big data world, not even worth protecting? Are we locked outside the pearly gates, dealing with tools that can never give us the leverage that companies enjoy? Is an MIT or GPL license a sign that code wasn't good enough to make the cut?

Or maybe the darwinian evolution of the open source world runs circles around the intelligent design of corporate think tanks. Is there any evidence one way or the other?
Good point. Any benchmark can be co-opted, that's why it's useful to have multiple benchmarks. There's a Dilbert that tells the story on it well. [1] This is true for a lot of fields. If you over-optimize on individual player scoring in basketball, your team might play worse even if there is a correlation between individual scoring and team scoring.

[1] http://search.dilbert.com/comic/10%20Dollars%20Bug%20Fix
Because the original link won't play on all devices.