skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A counter example might just be an outlier, I don't think he was arguing in absolutes.

<Super-Succeess> is typically the outlier. You could have 100 companies with these traits, and 98 of them could fail. Its not clear with that type of failure rate you can really differentiate meaningful information, because the overlap of explanatory "data points" is just too noisy.

Super success is typically more of a black-swan. This is essay is less relevant in that endeavor. But it probably is not bad at all if it was merely aiming for "nice/er places to work". Or, "avoiding a bad bet" type of argument. That makes it closer to describing a "white swan", which again is not altogether useless. Its just not really what the title is proclaiming. Not that Sam would be unique in that regards, thoug. I think its fair to cut him some slack on that.

Of course, it begs the question: Do "super successful people" tend to eggagerate? Which is even itself an enlightening question. It seems many people believe in "fake it to you make it". But on the otherhand, many people who have "made it" tend to revert to understatement. And many more become successful merely with true confidence. So again...who knows.
We're certainly hiring full time, and may be looking for interns more as summer approaches. Feel free to send a github/resume/etc. to jobs at our .com and mention the post.
Livefyre was one of their early users. Every comment submitted into any comment widget hosted by Livefyre was sent over to Impermium for spam analysis. Impermium had a pretty cool 2 phase process where they'd give you a rough spam score within seconds and then a more accurate score within minutes.

Livefyre had some sophisticated behavior as a result. Comments were always pushed live to other page viewers immediately while simultaneously sent to Impermium, then revoked (via live update) if either the first or second pass through Impermium resulted in a spam indication. Email notifications weren't released until the second pass indicated nonspam.

Not sure if Livefyre still uses Impermium today or what this buyout may mean for them, but I always thought the concept was pretty cool.
Maybe I didn't word it properly. It is in the sense that VC's say, well Amazon could do that too, we'll have to pass. They are more of a gate that does not open.
Rbutr is now available on Firefox
I've seen a lot of North Korean documentaries but I have never seen an overview like this of information and media that is being smuggled into and out of the country and how it's smuggled. I believe that spreading information about the outside world into North Korea is key in bringing down the regime, so I think this documentary really worth watching.
Which has a non-negligible cost. I'm thinking of dedicating an old laptop I have with XP to running some audio hardware, for which driver support ended with XP but which is otherwise in good working order. Of course I could find other products to replace it, but I'd rather use the money for something else.
Yes it is, I upon zooming into my area of the world, a sparsely populated area, but visited by tourists, the map highlights the road system, and all of the tourist trips that are undertaken on a boat, or on a walking/tramping track. This information is great feedback for tourist operators in my area, of which I'm not one. But I'll be passing the link onto them.
"The current rebellion has been led by Sen. Ted Cruz, a young fundamentalist lawmaker from the restive Texas region, known in the past as a hotbed of separatist activity."

Why shucks, that's the nicest thing anyone has said about my state in recent memory!
Multiple Regression as a Means of Discovering Causality Is Ready for Retirement
At a rough glance I thought it was world’s most photoshoped places. Now that would be interesting.
This is what I've been looking for, thanks a lot
Adam Johnson's article on Kenji Fujimoto, Kim Jong-il's personal sushi chef, is a great read and goes into a bit more depth than this PBS article.

http://www.gq.com/news-politics/newsmakers/201306/kim-jong-i...

One interesting tidbit is that Fujimoto introduced Kim Jong-il's sons (including Kim Jong-un) to basketball. He would routinely show them videotapes of the Chicago Bulls championship runs. Kim Jong-un grew to idolize Jordan, Pippen, and ...you guessed it... Dennis Rodman.
Yeah, a hardware switch for VPN/non-VPN. Two ether might make as much sense as one, and it gives you a lot of flexibility. Ultimately I'd like to see something better than dumb captive portals, too, so some kind of partnership with the roaming wifi pass providers might make sense.

For the power budget, I really want to be able to use this powered by my laptop's USB port (or a big usb battery) so when I'm at an airport or something I can safely use wifi without having to find a power socket. One option is using more power than USB, and having a battery which is charged via USB, but that would suck.

I believe everything except Tor can fit within the power budget, even with 2 normal and 2 lower power radios, though.
Ask PG: does YC have antidilution clauses?
Pro rata and first right to refusal is not what I mean. I mean literally terms that say you have to continue to reup to maintain a percentage whenever you increase a pool and/or issue notes.
Illumos is nix. Per wikipedia, "Illumos is a free and open-source Unix operating system. It derives from OpenSolaris, which in turn derives from UNIX System V R4 and Berkeley Software Distribution. "

When Oracle killed off OpenSolaris, Illumos came about.
This discussion overlooks proxies, macchangers, firewalls, browsers, and pseudo identity...
Yes, I talk to The Grugq a lot, although our relationship does not involve bonds of affection and/or personal obligation, and/or where the I and the foreign national share private time together in a public or private setting where sensitive professional and personal information is discussed or is the target of discussion.

But yeah. Grugq's doing a lot of other cool stuff now too.
Great work so far. The tool was very intuitive and easy to use.

My suggestion: once I've defined an API, let me apply it to multiple targets that I supply to you programatically.

The use case driving my suggestion: I'm an affiliate for a given eCommerce site. As an affiliate, I get a data feed of items available for sale on the site, but the feed only contains a limited amount of information. I'd like to make the data on my affiliate page richer with extra data that I scrape from a given product page that I get from the feed.

In this case, the page layout for all the various products for sale is exactly the same, but there are thousands of products.

So I'd like to be able to define my Kimono API once - lets call it CompanyX.com Product Page API - then use the feed from my affiliate partner to generate a list of target URLs that I feed to Kimono.

Bonus points: the list of products changes all the time. New products are added, some go away, etc. I'd need to be able to add/remove target URLs from my Kimono API individually as well as adding them in bulk.

Thanks for listening. Great work, again. I can't wait to see where you go with this.

Cheers!
Forbes did it:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/haydnshaughnessy/2014/01/15/goog...
Would there any way to fake the beginning of an OAuth session with Facebook, Google or any other OAuth authenticated site? Kind of like replaying cookies to hijack sessions?
Is there an ability to scrape more than one page of data?
Yeah, it would be kinda cool to see what it is you guys sent them.
Thanks a ton for the feedback. Getting data from multiple similarly structured URLs programmatically is something we're working on now. We love hearing about the use cases you want to use this for so we can make sure we build out the right features to make kimono useful for you.
Wow thats a never ending list.
Couldn't find a link to the project in the article, so here you go:

http://www.chrisfenton.com/homebrew-cray-1a/

Also, gigaom has a much better article up here:

http://gigaom.com/2014/01/14/the-search-for-the-lost-cray-su...

.. with a link to an interesting walkthough of the emulator in-progress:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=D6R8F...
I've met the mistaken form of identifying an "ad hominem" fallacy here on HN more times than I can remember. Usually, when one participant here quotes an "expert" to prove a fact about the world, and then someone else calls into question the "expert's" basis of knowledge (a very legitimate thing to do in a court case, for example), a third participant will say "That's an ad hominem argument." And often that last statement is simply wrong. Blind people with their eyes closed in the dark are not reliable witnesses to the color of the suspect's clothes. Deaf people with their ears stopped up next to a waterfall are not reliable witnesses to what someone said in a whisper. People who are idiots about science are generally not reliable about subtle facts of nature. And so on.
How is async.js a language extension? If it's a "language extension", then isn't it arguable that every library is a "language extension"?

At the very least I'm unsatisfied with the rationale provided in the page. Other items generally explain what makes them worthy of this list, but async.js is just, "Async utilities for node and the browser" which is, while immensely useful, doesn't change JavaScript in a way that is shared by other items on the list.
The promise was that the bloated console industry was ripe for low end disruption akin to what the ipad had done to pc sales. The 2012 Tegra 3 hype train was also full steam ahead and it's easy to promise your games will look awesome on kickstarter.

The reality was that console makers were not bloated -- they were already selling at cost and the Ouya was just another console and a bad one. The games library wasn't compelling and new top Android games were already incompatible with the underwhelming Tegra 3. Performance on the whole was bad, PS2 quality. It was certainly cheap at $100 but with the hands down superior Wii at $150 (and probably somewhere behind most users tvs) it just wasn't cheap enough.

On top of all this is was marketed exclusively as a console when it should have been going after people buying the Apple TV.

The potential is still there though and maybe Ouya has enough cash to regroup and be the company to deliver a compelling product. This news doesn't exactly bode well on that front though.
>Paint still struggles with images above 5000 pixels square

Really? Just checked, created 6000x6000, painted some lines, made transformations to selection, resized actual big photo to this size. Everything is responsive.
Not yet, but it's our #1 feature request, so we're working on it now. For now, you can make multiple APIs (one for each URL). If the URL takes query parameters though, you can re-use the same API and programmatically cycle through query parameters.
> Turning normal people into assholes by giving them small powers and prestige doesn't mean that prestige cannot be undermined by denigrating them.

I think it's funny that you think your Internet comment on a nearly 100% anti-TSA forum counts as undermining by denigration. If anything, you're reinforcing their view that people like you are dangerous and should be controlled.

> It's a perfectly good hypothesis that calling a petty tyrant a knave, poltroon or asshole could deflate them.

So test your hypothesis. We have a very long history of petty tyrants who keep court fools. How many of them turned into states of happy freedom?
Thanks, worked perfectly.
Looks like that's true for jobs:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7061752
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7060928
https://news.ycombinator.com/jobs
Ask HN: Multiple awesome work opportunities - advice?
So, I currently have a couple of amazing opportunities (that I'm incredibly thankful to have) and I'm hoping some fellow HN'ers who have been in this situation can give me some advice.

A few facts about me:
- Under 25
- Engaged
- 1 year-old son

I'm a senior-level front-end developer, mid-level Node.js developer, senior-level designer (UI & UX/web), and have a decent amount of auxiliary knowledge and experience (enough to be a successful freelancer before joining my current employer).

I'm happy with everything about my current employment but the pay, and it doesn't look like that's going to change soon.

I have been contracting with a startup in San Francisco for the past couple of months, with the intent of joining them full-time once they raise more funds. I live pretty far away from SF, so if I moved there it would be a big deal and I'd like to be there for a long time (at least 2-3 years). I'm worried about how much time I'd spend working at this company (I've been made to understand there will be a LOT of burning the midnight oil) but I also believe this company has serious potential.

My other opportunity is to co-found another development shop with a co-worker. We've worked closely and pair-programmed on several projects at my current job (with great results). We both have pretty sharp business acumen, and I'd consider us good friends. We plan on growing into a products company along the lines of 37Signals/JetBrains/Atlassian.

Both have decent risk profiles, but I'm confident that if either didn't work out I'd find a way to keep food on the table.

Just the act of writing this down has helped me clarify my thoughts, but I'd really appreciate any advice you guys/gals can give (and don't worry about my feelings - if I sound crazy, tell it like is).

Thanks a bunch!
How is Derek the co-author for all of those books? Is it like how celebs co-author books or did he really write parts of each book?
There's a couple in my area, so they can't be that rare. They're on arterial roads with small side-streets or shopping center exits, and after a certain hour at night, the signal never cycles unless a car trips the sensor on the smaller road.
I'm curious how you plan to avoid/circumvent the inevitable hard IP ban that the largest (and most sought after targets) will place on you and your services once you begin to take off?

I could have really used a service like this just yesterday actually, I ended up fiddling around with iMacros and got about 80% of what I was trying to achieve.
"Educated guess… he probably tortured kittens"

North Korea (and its leaders) may be strange and unfriendly, but this is not the kind of comment that belongs on Hacker News.
It might just be some poor editing, I think they are talking about the leading large farm software, which I believe is this: http://www.fbssystems.com/ - written in VB.net and Windows based.
Frontline has won a total of 57 Emmys
I think if you spoke to people who grew up in an authoritarian regime you'd be surprised by how large a role the totalitarianism of ideas and complicity of the population plays in comparison to direct violence from internal security forces or control over food. In fact it is likely to be a quiet source of shame, much as abused children might be loyal to undeserving parents.

As for "Americanized fiction", what country's foreign policy community do you believe is a more credible source? China's, South Korea's, Japan's? Of the four, the US probably has the least identifiable motivation for biasing accounts in any particular direction.
There are definitely face to face benefits, so I wouldn't recommend pursuing the route of arguing that there isn't. Rather, arguing that working remotely also has benefits, that there are tradeoffs, and that the gains from remote working can outweigh the losses from no face to face time.
A long advertisement for a pile of books. Not to mention the article states the obvious - different cultures are.. you know.. different.

Am I missing something? Was there anything more to this?
> (see the Stanford prison experiment)

The principal investigator for this ended up writing a book on the subject: http://www.amazon.com/The-Lucifer-Effect-Understanding-Peopl... He goes into his own culpability as the person who designed the system and then talks about his expert witness testimony at Abu Ghraib.

There are several sibling comments who seem to feel that removing a couple of individuals, or even massively overhauling the payroll in a conscience-clearing fire sale, will have a significant effect on the behavior of the TSA as a whole. This is exactly the mistake that colechristensen is pointing out. You're busy sniping at symptoms rather than addressing the root cause: it's the equivalent of visiting every customer for your web app and opening up their Javascript console in order to temporarily fix a bug rather than actually debugging your app.
My guess: In France everything concentrates in Paris, while other popular sites are 'diluted' (there is not the spot in Provence, Normandy or Bretagne where everyone takes pictures).
> No, personally identifiable information isn't public information.

It can be, for a plurality of reasons. Phone books, court records, etc.
I'll probably end up deleting my facebook account. Wait, is it even possible to do?
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I think is ridiculous you can't see a Linkedin profile without an account.
Your blog breaks responsivity on my phone. Horizontal scrolling somehow got in there, you might want to take a look. Nice article BTW!
Tennis Quant’s System Doubles His Money Without Knowing Players
Interestingly, I consider the lack of such a firewall to be one of the benefits of working from home. If I am having trouble getting into the swing of work during the day, I can go play with my dog. If I'm thinking late at night about a problem from work and have an idea, I can go try it... no need to setup the computer because it's exactly how I left it earlier.
Steam controller adds a D-pad
Well this one is ok, since he is going to pay for that one hour. Then again, if you do know how to program in the programming language but don't know the APIs used it can be more than one hour to get something done..

I was interviewing with someone that wanted me to make an example sentiment analyzer for twitter and facebook to get hired. But he wanted someone to do it for free, I of course wanted money to do that.
I do. I also have pains sometimes, but I don't take pills every time. And when I have to take antibiotics, I go to a doctor. What is the problem with that.

Ok, in the US, the people oftentimes have no adequate healthcare, but that is an other problem in my opinion ... The US seems to be rich enough to handle it ....
I'm just going to leave this here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6661282
sounds like every starbucks in manhattan.

i've seen people with desktops in manhattan starbuckses.

if these people go into a cafe as a group of three or something with a laptop, nobody would flinch. Once the group becomes 6 or 7 people or more, it becomes a bit too conspicuous.
Flip a coin and see if you feel you agree with the result internally.

Also I'd like to remind you that there are other fancy choices other than the two - think what you would like to have in your life first.
Your WiFi network isn't 12mbps?
Yes, sure, those things are hard, and they have nothing whatsoever to do with the quality of passive components like cables, as long as they are not in the failure range. Or anything to do with working-transceiver quality except when it comes to the clocks that the transceivers are using.

When you talk about jitter introducing significant distortion based on packet timing, that's something that can only happen in two ways: either the audio receiver is using an absolute garbage clock, or it's using an absolute garbage and shortsighted algorithm for adjusting its clock rate, and not trying for a stable sync. The quality of transceiver and cable components is not a factor.
Actually Kim Jong Il himself was a huge NBA and Bulls fans and his son probably inherited the love. Madeleine Albright gave Jong Il a basketball signed by Michael Jordan.

Kim Jong Il's grandson was seen enjoying a K-pop concert. Perhaps one day external culture can bring upon change where diplomacy has failed in NK.
It's cool, most of the time you can't see a Linkedin profile with an account also.
It's a great question. What we're really trying to do is make data accessible programmatically and at scale. We want to connect data providers and data consumers with APIs in a way that's mutually beneficial vs. being a tool for data theft. Our hope is to (once we scale) actually work with data providers directly on the on the distribution of their data so the IP ban becomes a non-issue.
It's great that someone is finally disrupting the squatting market.

The contracts that these so called guardians have seem strange though. Are they standard rental contracts, because the conditions described wouldn't be legal where I live. I wonder if courts will at some stage decide that there people really are renting, and are therefore entitled to all the legal protection of renters.
"Seymour Cray's first computer, the Cray 1, debuted in 1976"

No, that was Cray Research's first computer. Seymour Cray was designing computers for Control Data Corporation long before that: the CDC 1604 (in 1960); the CDC 3000 series; the CDC 6600 (the first commercial supercomputer) and its successors.[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seymour_Cray
“Node.js Doesn't Work When Javascript is Disabled”
This is how retail people think the category bar corresponds to aisles and shelves. Customers stroll the aisles (i.e. browse) to find the product they want.

Categories match up with internal structure as well, as individual people or whole departments are responsible for the products in each category. Performance of each category is measured individually and budgets and bonuses are produced.

The dirty little secret is most of e-commerce site traffic is driven by search. A good search function out performs category browsing. REI.com has a great search, for example.

About 8 years ago A/B testing starting to make retail marketing departments very excited. No longer would the whims of designers drive site decisions! We can test and pick the most profitable! We can prove that the most familiar appeals to the most common denominator! We can kill innovation, end risk taking and protect profits.

And that's the moral of the story - retail has a terribly thin margin and when your closest competitor is one tab away no one is interested in creating something new.
Maybe it has something to do with the background service Firefox has to bundle with their Windows installer now. You know, because Windows registries and Windows user policies are borderline retarded. But I agree, I'm really not sure why you decided bring Firefox into this discussion either.
I've got a Kobo Touch that I bought on clearance at Target a year or two ago and it hits all the wants.

I don't even use their app to add/remove books, it seems to just mount as mass storage over USB no matter what I connect it to. After disconnecting the Touch it rescans it's flash and there we go. Even works with un-DRMed epubs. It's not a perfect reader, but I've been happy with it.
Video about the END OF TIME. UNIX time that is, and it talks about the Y2K issue. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJQ691PTKsA
This article is literally advocating a cargo cult. I've seen sharks jumped, but never this high and this obvious.