skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Out of curiosity, did you start as a company? I always thought the way you're "supposed to start" as a software consultancy is like this:

1. Work part time as a freelancer.

2. Get enough work that you can quit your job.

3. Get so much work that you can't meet deadlines without hiring an employee.

4. Repeat step 3.

Is this what you did? Regardless, is this a bad plan?
white hat.
You would be surprised at the volume of true organic links a site like rap genius could generate due to the fact it's actually link-able.

RapGenius is cool, people share it. Azlyrics is not cool. (In my best Justin Timberlake voice)
How to improve my genius android app?
If he did, they'd just yell that he put everyone in life-threatening danger, like they did with Manning and also Wikileaks. I guess he wanted to avoid that level of accusations, although people like Mike Rogers still say that about him anyway:

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20131223/02311625673/rep-mi...
Wealth, by definition, is what other people want. Therefore, by making what other people want, you're making wealth. Making more wealth is what drives society forward.
This was a sign that they didn't know how to measure what you were doing, or possibly didn't even understand what you were doing.

The best job I had, the manage was a technical guy, every week we would have a meeting to discuss what needed to be done, what we were going to do. And as long as the projects got done, he didn't care if he saw you at all the rest of the week. He could measure your progress by looking at the project, or by talking to you.

One of the frustrating aspects of working for a big American company was that they had this policy of moving department heads around, so they all got experience in working and understand all the aspects of the company. No doubt this was great for the managers, but the idea that the head of IT could just as easily work as the head of marketing is ridiculous.
So, should we never talk about things without also talking about the people? Do we need to word every discussion about computers as, "When a person using a computer accesses the hard disk..."?
It's on the front page of the Guardian. Not fake.
I most certainly didn't mean SO. I have nothing but <3 for your work.
Well, they are 'balla-sourcing' now...
Same boat. I started a django project to learn more about python for the web.
No doubt true in general, but how about land mines? That seems fairly close to a "defensive weapon".
This sounds like a really bad idea.You'll end up with a bunch of mediocre people and a few that carry all the weight. Soft skills are great in marketing, but in development, give me competent developers over ppt writers any day.
Not to mention that using something like Disqus to manage comments is years beyond moderating the comments yourself using the WordPress admin panel...
Plugin Development and Fear of Change
Yes, of course, that's how the algorithm is derived. I have to say I prefer the "un-de-obfuscated" version, though it wasn't intentionally obfuscated--the code is the way it is in Kaldewaij's derivation from a matrix multiplication.
Oof, that video is cringe-worthy ("baller-sourced" please no..). Moreover, they're dressed and acting _exactly_ like CollegeHumor's The Startup Guys.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMmdl4VltD4
I feel like the title is looking for drama where there is not. Anyone who has had to deal with growth knows that you need backlinks to get a higher rank in Google.

Sponsored blog posts are a thing since blog has been a thing.
NSA Spying: Whom Do You Believe?
In my opinion, AngularJS should not be seen as a complete replacement of what already exists nowadays, it's just an additional tool and should be used only when appropriate (the right technology for the right task). Making a full website from scratch with AngularJS and creating all the useful features already available in the current WordPress ecosystem (themes, plugins, responsive design, ...) would just be too time consuming for a website providing examples and would not give much advantage. I'm the site creator and since I don't work on it full-time, the time it takes to make it is an important factor. I just hope I can provide some useful information on AngularJS. This is just my opinion of course :-)
While patio11 has undoubtedly made a vast contribution to HN, your posts are consistently exceptional and always worth the time taken to digest.
I will accept Uber's argument when they zero their own commission (or perhaps lower it to whatever it costs to keep the lights on) whenever surge pricing is in effect. Then they have the ability to say, "we're also suffering here". Right now, they make more money when surge pricing is in effect and, since I don't have a view into the algorithms, I can't rule out that they more aggressively surge-price than is reasonable. In fact, I'd believe it to be almost certain that they do.

It's the fact that Uber profits from misfortune (not surge pricing itself) that is making everyone hate them.

Ultimately it's about trade-offs, not absolutes. Is that 5x price hike saving me (compared to how long getting a cab would take) two hours, or 20 seconds? That would be worth knowing. If it's 2 hours, the supply-and-demand argument makes sense: apparently, that's how high the rates must go to compensate drivers for the unpleasantness. If it's 20 seconds, then that's a case of me getting screwed for a minor convenience priced unreasonably.
Another important reason for using a PRNG is when you don't trust your hardware RNG, what've become way too common lately.
My Struggle with Ruby Blocks
There's still far more engineers out there building bridges than there are who work out how to blow them up. On balance, I think that is a good thing as otherwise there would be a shortage of bridges.
That's probably a correct observation. DHH, Bjarne Stroustrup, Rasmus Lerdorff and Anders Hejlsberg all moved to the US.

Seems like all we have left is Poul Henninng Kamp (Varnish and BSD)
good point, will improve word choice
This isn't really SEO (i.e. "Optimization" ). It's trying to "hack" search engine traffic artificially. Sure it may be a "legit" move made by many SEO companies, but dumb manipulation like this screws up search for all of us.

Where's Matt Cutts? Any comments on this? This is obviously a departure form create great content that others will organically link to. I'd argue that this is just a step above Fiverr SEO.
Getting an elite MBA for free: It's possible
Minecraft - Where's the Modding API?
Every space mission as of 2009. There have been a few since then.
it's neither of those, but if you had to say on which side it is tilting, then I would say black hat. It's obvious that he's using Google tricks (get good backlinks to get a higher pagerank). That's not white hat SEO at all.
I have found this can be pronounced in RVs as well. Totally trashed RV with < 10K miles selling for much more than a expertly maintained one with 50K miles.
Ask HN: late YC applicants - how much of a long shot?
Any "late" applicants that got in? Could you share your experiences? I applied late and to make things more interesting, applied as a solo founder. Just curious to hear from late kates and how they fared through the interview etc.
I don't see the way they are dressed relevant here. Why are people upvoting stuff like that more and more on HN?
I think you're being a bit hard on yourself here.

While patio11's post are certainly worth reading your posts are more like essays. Complete with references and all. They have obviously taken some time and thought to compose, and I'm sure I'm not the only one that appreciate them.
Anywhere up and down the services chain (from solo freelancer to large consultancy) should do this.

There's a cost to vetting potential clients and service providers in the form of time. The sooner you can tell whether everyone is on the same page with regards to financial expectations, the better.

I learned my lesson a long time ago when traveling for several hours to meet with a client looking for what amounted to $150k worth of work, and eventually telling me/us that they only had $5k.
The idea is also to attract young users. They're the future of the company.
This will be interesting. Payment gateways in Australia need some competition - the main ones are ezPay and Westpac (a bank).
Thanks for the tip. I'll see what I can do. Most of the CSS and JS come from the WordPress theme and plugins actually.
Because you expect to buy any product at any price and for everything to Just Work — fantasy.
Apparently there's a difference between a Royal Pardon and a Statutory Pardon. Parliament would have been debating the latter; this is the former (which the government had previously ruled out), it seems.
I really doubt GOP will just lie down and let five more extremely democratic states happen.
As Rui Barbosa said: "Justice that comes too late isn't justice."
Cool! That's better than what I had before.
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Please, have inclusion of our website in ycombinator.
Chicago's technology sector: Start-up city
This simply does not apply to music, where each producer has the monopoly on their music. Only once you take piracy into account does that change. But then your thesis also changes from "you can't get people to pay for recorded music" to "you can't get people to pay for recorded music because it so happens they can steal it", which are two different things altogether.
I'd say being on the top you HN will get you in Matt Cutts' radar real quick. Really hoping he chimes in on this thread
OTOH, the fact that the delivered code had a bug rendering it unusable suggests whoever requested it didn't really need to use it – or they'd have discovered the bug earlier. That's vaguely suggestive the client may have paid for its inclusion for mere show, or as a favor for another entity.

I wonder: is the client which paid for the non-functional implementation, which if I understand correctly is now scheduled for deletion rather than fix, entitled to a refund?
That's a lot of "eventually." Uber is a software company that runs cabs, basically. Their competitors - the old school, that is - are cab companies who are now faced with the challenge of writing good software. The track record in general of industries where long-established players find that they have to become software companies and put out a polished product there, in addition to whatever they were already doing, suggests to me that the timeline for old-school cab companies putting out an app that doesn't look like total garbage next to Uber's, is likely to extend so far out that it might as well be never. They may turn around and subcontract the work of creating and maintaining the app, but that has its own problems that we're all familiar with.
Yeah, very cool. It only works because the rootfs is mounted as read-only or else they might end up messing it up if the system was writing to the same block. But then again if it wasn't read-only this wouldn't be a problem.
> I think it's unlikely the evad3rs actually included a backdoor in their payload

They agreed to bundle an app store who's only purpose is piracy (0xabadidea and Paul Haddad worked to remove their piracy system previously) without in the slightest wondering what it would be used for. From what I've read there's still bits of the Chinese scumware installed when you jailbreak in another country, and given the opinion of the Chinese company involved.. I wouldn't put it past them.

I truly hope that geohot or another skilled developer repackages their jailbreak with a copy of MobileSubstrate that actually works and a Cydia build that's built properly by saurik. The evad3rs have completely lost any trust they have, and from pod2g's tweets they're extremely aware of how badly they fucked this up.
I moved my personal blog from posterous to pelican long ago and hosting it over heroku for free. Optimized it for exceptional performance and got 99 page speed score: http://www.i.com.pk/exceptional-performance-without-mod_page...
There is already a link in the statement to this letter, which is quite detailed:

http://www.thinkcomputer.org/20120209.pacer.pdf

Furthermore, many at the courts have read this blog post:

http://www.aarongreenspan.com/writing/essay.html?id=84

They are well aware of what is going on.
It's pretty sad actually. If they are resorting to this to keep their business afloat, they must be pretty desperate.
> why would you expect RSA to be a major component?

Now that everything is public, would you choose to trust your data to EMC hardware and software?
> only to realize how disgusting it is to move a WordPress website from one place to another

What? If the domain is staying the same, it's dead simple: move your database and files. If not, it's one step short of dead simple. There are also plugins that handle both cases even more easily if you don't want to move the stuff manually.
How did they handle the release? I don't have an iPhone so I haven't seen much, but I know there's some hubbub around this.
So what is so great about ember? I hadn't really heard much about it before?

And also what's so bad about angular?

(I'm ready to meet my JavaScript framework)
So is the author of the article; I hope she writes a follow-up whenever it becomes clear how her strategy has worked out!
Royal pardon for codebreaker Alan Turing
Demonstration by Indiana Jones of how determination is really the only difference between the two:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DzcOCyHDqc
ANYTHING that raises awareness of her shadiness is better than nothing

I disagree. Wasted effort is worse than nothing, it's a net negative. I suggest a Kickstarter to fund a lobbyist.
I work for a company that prevents credit card fraud. My experience is that no one really gets in legal trouble. The banks will do what they can to prevent fraud, but they are not willing to spend money prosecuting fraudsters, let alone the mules.

Over the last year, I have only heard of one case where our banks even started an investigation into a fraudster, and this guy has cleared millions of dollars. Unfortunately, this big fraudsters tend to be overseas and extradition is not a possibility.

As the article mentioned, the mules are generally getting duped. They are the ones with all the exposure, but they usually just got roped into a 'work at home and make $$$' scheme or a love scam (I met someone over the internet, I am helping them move packages for their company). Often the postal inspectors will be the ones that notice something out of order and tell the mule they are part of a scam. Again, the banks will work to shut down mules, but they will not prosecute.
I'd love to hear the story behind this image of PG with the RapGenius guys: http://instagram.com/p/XTLO9UH66L/
Is there a single woman on this list?
I haven't done a detailed analysis of the political impacts, but just looking at the map and having some knowledge of the political geography of the State, it looks like it would probably be a win for Republicans in the Senate and Presidential elections -- going from one solid Blue state to a either a 3/3 or 2/4 split of Blue and Red states; the Blue regions of California are largely concentrated in "Silicon Valley" and "West California".
How would this compare against something like Ghostery? Use one? Use both? They are the same?
I just moved to CA for the last election, and I voted for her. This was after already sending her mail saying she was doing a bad job. But as much as I didn't want to vote for her, the opponent did not look like a "moderate Republican." Stood for a ton of things I disagreed with. Maybe it's just party lines, but then they should have strayed from those lines if they wanted broader support to capitalize on anti-Feinstein.
I, too, migrated from Wordpress to Pelican (http://calebmadrigal.com). I love not having all of my content inside of MySQL tables. I also love writing in Markdown in vim instead of the Wordpress editor.
Very cool. I was doing a pretty straightforward website a few months ago that I would've used something like this for if I knew about it.

It would be helpful if there were a page on the site that described how it works in more detail, or maybe just a FAQs page linked to in the footer with answers to questions like "What kind of website files does Yoozon support?" and "What do you mean by dynamic? ...will Yoozon support my Ruby on Rails site?"
Here is an optimized Wordpress install, with caching turned on and a lightweight custom theme: http://imgur.com/j16xIY0

You can see that there's virtually no difference from your static blog.

For me the main selling point of Pelican is the Markdown syntax and the ease of running it on any host. I hear some even run it from Dropbox.

On a side note: where can I fork and improve on your theme? :)
In short:

• evad3rs released an iOS7 jailbreak unexpectedly due to a leak

• it became apparent that it bundles some Chinese piracy store with no other legitimate purpose [0]

• information is made public that the evad3rs were paid $1M USD to include the piracy store

• evad3rs say they weren't aware it was for piracy (and never bothered to check)

• evad3rs aren't even sure if the Chinese bundle is malicious, it sends home encrypted something [1]

• evad3rs remove the Chinese bundles from their server and activate their kill switch [2]

• pod2g promises to release a clean jailbreak [3]

The end result is that the jailbreak ruined the trust of the community by including crapware and possibly malware, enabling mass piracy, ultimately not even bothering to check the binaries that they were paid to include. They've burnt Geohot's exploits for a 7.1 jailbreak, as the release timing means that they will be patched by Apple and be completely useless in the future. The jailbreak they released is worthless for the moment due to them not bothering to include the proper Substrate releases from saurik.

[0]: https://twitter.com/pod2g/status/414810029376933889

[0]: https://twitter.com/pod2g/status/415114461473964032

[0]: https://twitter.com/pod2g/status/414820772931067905

[1]: https://twitter.com/pod2g/status/415116127292108801

[2]: https://twitter.com/pod2g/status/414942393830756352

[3]: https://twitter.com/pod2g/status/415125262989557760
That's not the impression I got from reading the article. It says:

"Instead of interviewing everyone on the planet and trying to optimize, I set a goal to hire the first person who met all of my criteria."

If one of her criteria is "must be a competent developer", then she's going to get competent developers.

The kind of criteria she can easily compromise on are:

- Some kind of mythical perfect "cultural fit" (e.g., must like to have beer with co-workers after work and eat lunch with them every day).

- An exact match on salary requirements (instead of finding someone who will work for $100K or below, pay them their asking salary of $110K; time is money, and if you hire someone today, you'll get to market faster).

- Must know every single open source library you're using (if they know 5 out of 8, they can learn the other three faster than it would take you to find the "perfect candidate").

- Attended a fancy college and got a 4.0 GPA (if someone has a few years of work experience, that stuff doesn't matter much anymore).
there was a Coursera course on GGP this fall:

General Game Playing: https://www.coursera.org/course/ggp

they were using java/javascript for their players. And there were other issues making their framework a little bulky
Looking forward to it! We've been experimenting with early builds and the improvements are enjoyable.

My colleague's reference for developer-facing changes in Java 8: http://www.techempower.com/blog/2013/03/26/everything-about-...
I highly doubt that, at the level that EMCs deals take place, this news will have much impact. Only once have I tried to deal with RSA, and their software was so difficult to use (this was around 2006), there's no way we'd choose it by technical merits.

And something RSA did before EMC bought them doesn't really have any impact on EMC or VMWare anyways.
I know that hn likes to keep original titles but think a more accurate title would be "how iron maiden found the people who buy their albums, and gave them the finger."
Alan Turing receives royal pardon
> Feinstein has been like this forever, but she's in a seat where the electorate would rather vote for a Democrat that eats babies over a moderate Republican.

Like all Senators, she's elected by the State as a whole; there hasn't been anything like a "moderate Republican" run against Feinstein since she was elected.
It's never been clear to me to what degree Jack is coming up with good ideas versus being very fast at adopting other people's good ideas. But I guess the distinction may not really matter- most of us don't even recognize good ideas until success is already certain.
I'd have to disagree. For instance at my old job for several years they ran a large news site (10M+ monthly) on Escenic (http://www.vizrt.com/products/vizrt_online_suite/), which is essentially a static site generator - user content pages is all pre-generated. That's a $xxx,000 enterprise product that was used by (at the time) the newspaper arm of Cox to run a few thousand websites.
The whole thing is a Jedi mindtrick. NSA, TSA, Patriot Act, Guantanamo not closing, Afghanistan, Iraq ... all because of said Bedouins with slippers taking over planes (how believable)
> Recalling her is the only option

To recall a US Senator, first you have to pass an amendment to the US Constitution to make that possible.

So, its not really an option.
I was wrong. Unflagged.
That's partly why so many folks don't use linux. We love our nice UIs. I tried Elementary OS[1], but even that had really rough corners, and poor application integration. It's a real chicken-and-egg problem.

[1] http://elementaryos.org/
Agreed — and, budget permitting, I do generally buy upgrades to software I use on a regular basis. What I'd like to see is more companies (1) offering maintenance plans that include perpetually licensed upgrades and/or (2) adopting Apple's model for products like Logic and Final Cut (minus the "hardware discount", of course), namely, reducing or eliminating upgrade/educational/volume discounts and unbundling ancillary tools in exchange for significantly reduced single unit retail pricing.
Hello!

I wasn't aware of that, good to know. The blocks are useless and easy to bypass with a proxy. I've noticed recently though they've started to block some of the proxies specifically setup to help people flout the blocks.
The app itself is not Genius but the technique used to memorize information is very effective.
Oh wow, thanks for that summary, very succinct. It sounds quite the cl*sterfuck...
Even this, 61 years late and only applying to him, is only a sort-of pardon legally:

http://www.newstatesman.com/david-allen-green/2013/07/puttin...
Wow weird. I have never been even a partial subject of a blog post: Cool!

But I've also relocated to the Bay Area in the last 6 months so I guess I am conforming to the hive mind...

Oh and I am 42.
> A recall will never happen.

True.

> California is too big of a state

If the size of California were an issue, it would prevent recalls of the governor, as well; the reason it will never happen has nothing to do with that, it has to do with the fact that US Senators can't be recalled.
In 2013 I should not need to manually search-and-replace the database or install a plugin to do the same.
Thanks code_duck - is anything horribly broken and which device?

It's Bootstrap 3.0 but which in theory is 'mobile-first' but haven't done the work to make sure it's responsive and works on all devices.

There is an iPad app in the app store for what it's worth but it's an early beta... welcome any comments/suggestions.
Thanks Gennady!
The queens christmas message 2013
We're investigating this now.
These "Snow Fall" type stories definitely look good, but taking over scrolling is going too far. You've got to let browsers be browsers! Playing an animation before you can see content is very 2001.
He should get a Royal Apology as well, even if the PM already issued one.