skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think that an expert is viral communications theory would have done any better.

Almost everything involving networks is a fad. Networks are an interesting mathematical structure, but on their own, they rarely enable one to build a compelling statistical model. E.g. people join Facebook for very complex social reasons, that go beyond local interactions between individuals. The image of Facebook has changed significantly since it started, and new products have entered the market, like snapchat and kik.
Hi pbreit,

That is a really good question. I know that in the case of Zidisha, we opted to be nonprofit because we did not want to have to charge higher fees to the borrowers in order to make returns for investors.
I don't think anyone is arguing the potential usefulness of the feature. It'd just be nice to know when its going to happen and have an alert box verifying that you actually wanted to add the user to the event. The alert box could even have an "Always do this" option.
Has this been fixed? The post is dated Jan 1st.
So lets say you take it as a given that snapchat is mostly teens. They look at their snapchats, there is a way to know they have seen them. Lets say you are the GAP and you want to get the latest "look" out there, so you pay SnapChat $.05 every time Snapchat shows a Snap of someone in the "look". Snapchat has to show 50 "Gap" snaps in every 1,000 to make $2.50 per thousand. Typical user will see them on one in 20 'snaps', if the average really is 30 snaps looked at in a day, that is one per day.

I'm not saying you are wrong, what I'm saying is that I can imagine how they would make it profitable should they need to.
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-You're parsing that sentence wrong; note the word "ago".

-"social network" is in quotes because while the social networks themselves have been around for awhile, they only became a buzzword and the kind of thing Google would try to clumsily emulate in recent years.
once you've fs access, it's rarely extremely hard, unless the systems are very well protected from within (such as with RBAC and what-not).

They never protect the systems from within that well because generally it's more effort than it's worth (well, of course, the day a company becomes bankrupt because of an RCE, they'd wish they spent the time - as usual with security).

Of course, it doesn't mean it's always possible. It's just likely.

Random scenario, since /etc/passwd is available, it tells me the php config sucks. you could just write a php shell and run it on the web interface. Or have the code within requests and read the log file (again, its all about config. if php let you read the file and doesn't only execute for .php files, bang. or if you can write a .php, bang again.)

The point really is that I rarely see people caring about protecting anything or following best practices once someone found a bug that affects the system (such as fs access).
How little "offsite" can one get away with? Could you put a waterproof (flooding), fireproof, buried (tornadoes) safe with a NAS (SSDs for earthquake protection?) in the barn in your yard? It would be easy to run Ethernet to that and have fully synced backups without ISP/cloud service charges.

What natural disasters/events will take out both your home and the hardened safe in your barn?

edit: An EMP may fit the bill. :-O
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Out of curiosity, how do you approach non-profits from an investment point of view? Is there some equivalent to equity? Is the goal to break even, or are you essentially just providing a large initial donation?

Really cool to see yc taking things in this direction.
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Show HN: Smelp
An extension that loads Yelp reviews and Foursquare tips/images onto Seamless.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/smelp/pcppjpmhpglhhbfopkmeohcpggngonah?utm_source=chrome-ntp-icon
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Bitcoin is only fixed at that now, it can change as needed.
This is because a programmer's contribution to the "20M profit" is not easily quantifiable and measurable being that he is mostly likely part of a team working on a feature that is a part of a whole.

However a lawyer who wins a case or a sale person who sells a big deal can easily point to the quantifiable win to a specific dollar amount.
I wrote something very much like fleet, only maintained and without the crazy RPC stuff.

I've got a branch started to integrate Docker into it. Want to join forces?

http://github.com/davidbanham/field-marshal
My responses should lead to more discussion, less flamewar.

I have strong feelings against Windows. I should have restrained myself.

I think you pegged me, but to my credit I'm no bigot, I just have a personal bias against Windows.
Hi 1dundundun,

Thanks for your message. Kiva was a big source of inspiration for Zidisha.

I would say our biggest challenge is finding affordable local payment options that can be accessed over the internet, without needing to outsource funds transfers to local intermediaries. We've had the easiest time in countries, such as Kenya and Ghana, that have strong mobile-phone-based payment services.

The language barrier is quite a challenge in our francophone countries and in Indonesia. We are lucky to have a wonderful team of volunteers who provide translations of content posted by the non-Anglophone borrowers, and serve as the first line of contact whenever they need help using our platform.
Have you ever been to a conference? A platform presentation, or someone standing in front of a poster explaining their research, is approximately 1000 times easier to understand than the paper they write a year later where they have to satisfy reviewers with a "dry" style.
No, you're right. As far as I know, standard vt100/ANSI terminals do not have any special escape sequences for control key combinations that don't map directly into ASCII.
So with our currency if it becomes wildly deflationary with a single penny buying a car--how do you buy a cup of coffee? That is the practical problem with deflation. With bitcoin it can always be made smaller.
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I really dig the chiptune soundtrack on game #5.
Yea 100mb's are a pathetic come on, but I think I need to see the fine print since that is the ONLY reason I bought the chromeb, now I can only call it a crumb.

Some were talking about Amazon. The seller should not be liable. How can they just pull your promised data. A contract is a promise to pay or give a service. They broke a contract. Where is the fine print. I want to see it. I told them I would be calling back.
I work with Z but we do have some people who also support iSeries on our team. It looks like it has a pretty cool architecture software wise.
It looks like I have the following upgrade options:

On-Demand
Day Pass 500MB $10
Week Pass 1GB $15
Month Pass 2.5GB $30

Monthly options
500MB $20
2.5GB $30
4.5GB $40
6.5GB $50
8.5GB $60
10.5 $70
12.5 $80

I have plenty of wifi at home and at work, and even on the bus into work (AC Transit in the Bay Area), so chances are I won't be using it all that often. I can tether to my phone as well (Verizon). That said, I can see it coming in handy now and then, and if I were out of town or something I wouldn't hesitate to try one of the on demand plans. Not sure if there is a contract on the monthly plans.
I'm not sure if it's the same for lawyers, but with a lot of doctors, they have to buy out the guy that's retiring/buy in to become a partner at a practice.
I believe O'Reilly auto parts has an AS/400 at each of it's stores.
(jmpq (@ .SPBUILTIN-TIMES))

So, this is going to be really slow inside a loop. Would the compiler be able to optimize it into a single multiply instruction if it could prove that the input had to contain integers?
I think you have a certain narrative about how the world works that you'd like the facts to fit into, but the facts - at least in Silicon Valley - don't actually fit into them. I doubt I'll be able to change your mind, but for bystanders' benefit:

The reason that programmers don't dress to impress is that their work product - the value that they add to other people - has nothing to do with their appearance. A programmer is paid for the software she creates; the user of that software has no idea what the programmer who wrote it looks like, and they judge the quality of it by what it does. So programmers have developed other metrics that they use to form a status hierarchy, notably the quality and difficulty of programs that you've written, but also things that are somewhat fuzzier like the technologies and tools you use.

Contrast this with a lawyer or salesman, where your buying decisions are directly influenced by how they present themselves and you often cannot directly determine the quality of their product. People in these professions have a strong incentive to present themselves well because customers have no other information to base their purchasing decisions on.

Certainly in the one metric shared across all professions - money - engineers at top tech companies are not being taken advantage of by management, nor are they "cheap grunts". A senior Google engineer makes more than all than about 2 of the salaries listed on the first page of a GlassDoor CEO search [1].

[1] http://www.glassdoor.com/Salaries/ceo-salary-SRCH_KO0,3.htm
client security is about enabling your clients to be secure. Securing yourself from your clients is a totally different topic. If a client goes out of their way to break client security, the only risk is to themselves.

Headers like these are somewhat analogous to reminding people to lock their doors at night. Not everybody is going to listen to you, but you might help those who do.
Seems strange that non-profits have to "pitch" to validate themselves. If they have a mission, and believe in it, why do they need a bunch of money from men in suits?

Looks like easy PR and Goodwill for YC. Reminds me of all the big banks who take out full-page ads every Christmas and send out press releases touting how they're helping society by taking part in a Christmas fund raiser.
You're certainly right about the hyperbole of the title, but I think that the point of the article is to identify these kinds of oppressive judicial and law enforcement patterns while they are in their germination stages, before they begin affecting millions of people and severely threatening civil liberties.

In that sense, it seems like a good idea to be on the lookout for the next incarnation of the war on drugs/war on terror/red scare/etc. so we can do something about it before it gains momentum. Hyperbole may not be the best tactic to accomplish this, but I suppose it beats being ignored by everyone when you have an important point to make.
Remember when Facebook started aggressively poaching Google employees and Google responded publicly by giving every engineer a substantial raise and privately in ways substantially more expensive than that? And Facebook pretty much just laughed and matched offers? And every engineer in the Valley figured out simultaneously that $100k was a floor not a ceiling?

That strikes me as persuasive anecdotal evidence of what happens when a tech titan feels threatened by poaching that they cannot resolve by a gentlemen's agreement.

My recollection for the timing of those opening salvoes in the talent war was mid-2010. This would have been right after the DoJ told the cartel to knock it off.

I'll acknowledge off the top that that may be purely a coincidence.
They are actually a tad bit easier to deal with than Newegg for purchase orders. They also have a pretty good group in customer service. We order a lot from them and cdwg.
I don't think of Java of as a language that makes concurrent operations like this simple, but I do think there are libraries that make it easier. Hystrix's async command comes to mind: https://github.com/Netflix/Hystrix/wiki/How-To-Use#wiki-Asyn...

I expect most widely languages allow for libraries to make this easier, if it isn't integral to the language.
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Ask HN: best cloud for a early stage startup?
Use your own criteria, for example: price, facilities, easy to config, easy to scale, support X technology (like mongo or ruby).
If violence is on the line, I think it's important to listen; even they're morons.
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just because your experience was 1/10000 doesnt mean your true risk is 1/10000 . You could have tossed 9999 heads and 1 tails, there's still a 50/50 chance on the coin... Similarly you could be overstating your risk..
For a 101, you may want to direct readers to install Haskell Platform as an easy way to get GHCI and all that set up.
Probably wouldn't provide reliable data. One of the major factors that would have driven up tech salaries was if some of the biggest and most profitable tech companies (indeed, some of the most profitable companies in history) such as Apple, Google, etc. were openly competing to try to lure talent to their companies through financial incentives.

Likely, compared to other industries tech workers were nevertheless handsomely paid, but I think this is still an example of abuse of power.

It's all the more worrisome because the changes in the nature of the stock market and so forth have made it that much more difficult for top tier tech workers to become rich. That used to be the pattern in the '80s and '90s, there are thousands of millionaires who worked at apple, microsoft, etc. for only a decade but were around during those companies' crucial early growth phases. Today I think that phenomenon is much less common except with extremely early stage employees. A lot of startups are the brain children of the sort of top tier techies who made it rich working at various vast growing companies. That variety of wealth is, I believe, very important to the vitality of the industry. But for various reasons it seems to have been significantly curtailed in the last decade or so, but if there is a more competitive marketplace for salaries in the tech field then that would go a long way toward bringing it back.
I keep a crap laptop in the closet where its unlikely someone will look... plus they'd have to be idiots to steal it.. If you tried to sell it someone would say "Well, You can throw it out, or you can pay me $10 to do it for you..."
well, we can play that same game and form an engineers' union
This is why, as bad as this scandal is, I'm thoroughly opposed to 'professionalization,' and unions in software. Keeping the barriers to entry low is our best bet across the industry. As someone mentioned, a few major SV companies is not the whole tech industry. There are software engineers in every sector of the economy, and if it's payscales we are talking about, the Big Banks can match it.
Web crawlers? People still figuring it's part of some game? Broken browsers? Nukerolling?

There is only one possible sane answer, and in this hypothetical it is quite pronounced - assume the Internet is full of malicious noise, and fully blame the person who hooked the missile up to a web page. Anything else is an exercise in responsibility laundering.
Implicit conversions aren't really part of Rust's philosophy, but writing things once is.

At the end of the day any file-opening function is gonna be reduced to passing a string. Currently, to open a file, we take the path that you give us and call .to_c_str() on it, but that method also exists on strings. With Rust's trait system, we could tell the file-opening function to become generic over any type that implements .to_c_str(), and bam: now it works on both Paths and strings.

In practice it might be a bit of work because I don't know if we actually have a trait for the .to_c_str() method, or if it's currently just implemented in an ad-hoc way on types that need it. Also if you think it would be wrong to allow one to attempt to open a file using any type that can be transformed to a C string, then you might want to think about having a tiny wrapper trait with a more semantic name, like .to_path_str(), which would be generic over .to_c_str() and simply call that method on itself. Lots of little details.
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7012832

The original link was filtered/blocked on Hacker News. 19 days ago. :-(
You can sue in small claims. They have to send/fly in a lawyer to respond.
If you know what the corp lawyers charge, you can't possibly lose by filing, playing tough and negotiating at the last second. The judge has to believe your losses if you don't bluff.
> If you are a student, I would still recommend moving to SV.

<snark ratio="0.5">My advice would be to make sure you could find a place to live there first</snark>
Even better. Thanks for the tip.
plug: I wrote a minor mode that's similar to this: https://github.com/dandavison/minimal (hi bzg!)
That's what India is doing it's allowing other businesses to step in and compete in production of the drug. If the original drug company can't compete then that's not the governments fault.

Obviously that isn't what you mean though, your talking about the competing from start to finish of a drug, well lets say a company invests in producing an equivalent cancer drug that doesn't infringe on the original patent. Now we have these two drugs that are effectively the same and they both compete and the price lowers down to the point were they are both making enough profit to support their business without over the top profits on that drug. Congratulations you've got to the point that the Indian government wants and all it took was a huge investment in an otherwise redundant drug.

Since the Indian government can't force the company to sell the drugs at the appropriate price they have to rely on the threat of letting other companies sell the drug at an even lower price and hope the company plays ball. The whole point behind intellectual property is that both the creator and the public benefit, if the public isn't benefiting then they will not respect intellectual property.
Have you tried "M-x ansi-term" ?
Well, I never thought it made much sense, but: What's the point of "two-factor", when the second factor isn't actually ever required? I mean, what is "two factor" about that setup?
defense contractors did the same to stop engineers from bouncing around as well.
What are you talking about? A "free market" encourages exactly this behavior! If it weren't illegal it would go on indefinitely.
> especially the kind of hobbyist software I like to monkey around with

I suppose you've tried Linux, too? :)
The name is "Hawthorne effect".
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Let's see if Carmen Ortiz and Stephen Heymann get this gig. I'm sure they'll exercise great judgement.
I cold call for a living. By cold calling I mean 40 outbound calls and 15 emails or LinkedIn InMails on a regular outreach day.

Result: 6 figure income on a 70k base, for 4 years.

I also do Customer Development-type emails for my own side business, and for others (as-a-service).

Summary: it works. If you learn how to do it right.

Top tools: Stephan Schiffman's Telesales and Basho Email System.

Also: for cold calling to work you must have something of value, that solves a real pain/problem. Not something ephemeral like an app that, say, splits the dinner bill amongst friends.
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I'm a Google Code user myself. I prefer it (and inDefero) over the likes of bitbucket, github, savannah, berlios, etc. But that doesn't make github any less popular. I don't understand the analogy you're trying to make by bringing in the debian repositories into the discussion. It seems to me like you're saying making friends on Friendster are more legitimate than friends made on Facebook because it was an initial innovator in the social network. Here's a 2013 that states github has 50% more projects then the next repository (sourceforge)[1]. Here's a 2011 that discusses when github turned 1 million accounts [2].

My argument is that many young developers don't care where they get their code, what license it has, etc. They just want to build, create, collaborate [3]. A secondary argument is that many people feel the GPL is a barrier to collaboration.

When it comes to gifts and beer, I would hope my friend wouldn't hit me with it nor would I put poison in his beer. They're (implicitly) allowed to hit me with it, but I don't expect such a thing to occur. Nor should they expect me to put poison in it. That's all a matter of trust. And the GPL, proprietary licenses, DRM are instruments of distrust.

In the end, you always have choice. I choose to live by the philosophies that "Givers Gain" and people do want to be good people. I understand not everyone has as altruistic intentions, heck, I work for those people. But I also understand that if I want to see the world change, I need to start by changing myself.

[1] http://software.ac.uk/resources/guides/choosing-repository-y...

[2] http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/2076108/github-domi...

[3] http://developers.slashdot.org/story/13/07/16/0220240/github...
Sort of yes. OSM maps of thickly populated areas are great.

I don't know about routing / navigation, though.
Yes of course because servers aren't and won't continue to be extremely important for providing everything on the web.

What exactly do you see as the automobile in your analogy?
I can definitely see how trying to touch the icon could've hit the 1/2 star rating instead.
If multiply operator weren't such a big issue, the creators of Numpy wouldn't have attempted to insert a new operator for matrix multiplication into Python. For a dynamic language such as Python operator overloading for such closely related types is a big trouble. If I write a function that uses multiplication, either I use member methods such as "dot" or check for type explicitly, otherwise there is no guarantee what would happen. The worst part is that errors are strictly logic and only way to debug is to trace from end result all the way up to the point of object creation; it isn't pretty.
Box jump is great, really addicting. Thanks for ruining my productive evening!
Bitcoin on digital channels, obstacles loom.
It should be trivial to report hardware as stolen and get it remotely disabled. We've already pretty much given up on privacy and signed up for all the apple/windows IDs possible - might as well get some benefit from it.
> I don't need to [...] work ridiculous hours

And yet sometimes it's seems the norm to do so anyway, even if there is no apparent reason why they would "need" to do so
Could something like LastPass help? Passwords are kept on server in encrypted form and accessible from all computers after giving one last pass.
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Hrm. Networks are not my strength. I know enough to setup and secure my home network, but would never consider myself a guru.

So, after running this, it said my IP address was 192.168.2.250. Which it is, since this computer is using my wireless router which is connected to my DSL, which has its own IP address. Interestingly, it did the address for when I use a virtual box at 192.168.56.1.

I guess I'm not seeing quite what the issue is. Would someone enlighten me, please?
Thanks for this, I added a link in the bottom.
The site seems to be down, here is google cached copy
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:s-e6m0J...
I would rather have Eric Schmidt's answer. It's not always something to take at face value but it almost always is more revealing.
It would seem the Harvard Face Book team is having a bit of fun with you, chum.
As a complete and total haskell noob, I am unable to even get through your syntax examples:

Prelude> sumOfElements [] = 0

<interactive>:12:18: parse error on input `='
Part of the reason it's crazy is because the collusion in other industries is even worse.
I don't know if google is evil, but I'm pretty sure they're kinda stupid. Seriously, how many UI whoopsies are we going to hear about this week?