skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Of course not, but taking the previous comment into account:

"On a weirdness scale of 1 to 10, I think it sounds like this idea is hitting a solid 6 or so. Possibly some extra points for the glorified prostitution model of "Pay a ton to fly NYC girls, selected for their desire to spend 5 days out of town meeting rich men, to SF to meet super-rich tech founders"

I just want to point out that where we can look at this situation and say "That's kind of sleezy" we can look at a circumstances that are very similar but involve a different class (and education level) of people and see some extremely problematic behavior.

So yes, it's not sex trafficking, but I feel like it in some ways makes light of truly exploitive sex trafficking that's going on in a first world country.

That said, I could argue that it may very well be "sex trafficking" in the sense that a company is moving people from point A to point B for the purposes of sex and their own profit. It may not be exploitive, but it would take very, very little to make it that way.

Like I said, I don't want to be that guy, but as I get older I find myself appreciating more and more people's sensitivity to topics that are close to them.
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It's a nostalgia tax for my generation.
Props to davidu for skating to where the puck is going and not where it's been.
Except that isn't accurate. I get that's how you see it, but that's just not true.

It's ridiculous to say we broke things for many people. Our growth numbers tell a different story. Doesn't mean DNS nerds didn't like creating an account to re-enable standard nxdomain behavior, but it didn't cause issues for most people.

We made real money from ads, enough to be profitable with a decent-sized (20+) team. But we never saw a way to go from 5m to 50m or 500m with ads though. And we never loved the ads. I just never thought it aligned our interests with our customers in the right way. I get that Google has figured it out, and Facebook and Twitter sort of have, but we couldn't, and didn't want to.

Plus, at the time, you have to recall the browser landscape was wildly different. In fact, it's very possible that we may have created the eventuality of today by doing what we did. Chrome didn't even exist when we started. There was no omnibus. I demo'ed our service to Sundar Pichai back in 2007.
YouTube link for mobile users: http://youtu.be/HRDcdaQMRDc
Love it. Perhaps you'll like this nonlinear wave equation (in browser) http://puzlet.com/m/b00f0 .
Interesting post!
I don't think they failed to imagine a world without analog technology. They failed to produce a painless transition.

The had amazing technologies. I had digital cameras of samsung, Sony and Kodak and the Kodak product was the one I loved more.

Sony and Samsung were stupidly weak to sand, bad battery consumption and some other minor quirks. The Kodak camera was ugly as hell but it worked (thinking some parallel to Nokia products).

Kodak thought "our brand is what people buy so if we offer people will buy".

Fujifilm nailed it. Created a diversified products, put a hand to their patents in plastics chemicals and other things and started to sell technology. So they diversified.

Kodak released products over engineered at slow peace. They still biding in analog products, meanwhile their digital products never took off. Kodak was the mayor patent holder in its time in optical, chemical, plastic and other things. But they were a GIANT biding in sell products and never understood their clients. They never understood their technology value and never understood what the market wanted. One day they stopped to sell and Kodak went out of business.
The write up can be found here: http://blog.chewxy.com/2014/05/30/the-nanjing-taxi/
This is especially relevant now that Springpad is shutting down (https://springpad.com/blog/2014/05/springpad-says-goodbye/).
High interest rates like these are hyperbolic, not exponential. They may be predatory and they may run afoul of regulations, but that doesn't mean they grow exponentially.
If you annihilate one of the entangled particles, what happens with the other one?
The VCs don't always believe it'll turn a profit, a lot of times they are hoping for a big buyout payday.
Probably because someone else bought it and is asking too much money for it.
In France, everybody is an engineer.
Interestingly, this only appears to be true in Manhattan. In New York City, single men aged 20-34 outnumber single women. And according to this site, single men aged 20-34 outnumber single women 20-34 in almost every city in the US:
http://jonathansoma.com/singles/

I have several hypotheses for Manhattan, but my best guess is that a major contributing factor is that the average age of marriage (and proportion of never-marrieds) is higher in Manhattan than outside.
http://nypost.com/2010/01/05/all-the-single-people-in-manhat...
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A dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7818467.
TrueCrypt is undoubtedly stable, but it is getting rather long in the tooth.

For example, TrueCrypt can't encrypt the system drive if your computer uses UEFI and/or your boot drive has a GPT parition table. This is a major nuisance since nearly all new PCs have UEFI enabled by default. But TrueCrypt development has all but stalled for the last couple of years, and now there's zero hope of ever getting UEFI support.
I stopped using opendns when they added ads.
I might use it again then.
Check out Dovetail: http://arxiv.org/abs/1405.0351
There was a big debate on HN about the accompanying article yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7814005
Springpad is shutting down
They are in the sense that when you carry a loan balance and refinance it, the balance will be multiplied twice from the original advance. If you refinance it again, it will be multiplied three times. I call this exponential.
I don't know what you mean by "major city," but I look in Milwaukee every six months or so. There simply aren't any "independent ISPs" here with remotely comparable speeds or prices.
Definitely true, my younger version resented it. I can say with some confidence that no other group gets as much hate as Indians do in tech. Heck, There are whole message boards and websites like computerworld dedicated to cashing in on this hatred and insecurity that people in the west countries feel against Indians. And yet Indians seems seem to do well( infact thriving) desipte this massive backlash.
Which opportunities?
Curved screen televisions are nothing more than a gimmick
So if I suspect that someone else will steal from a house if the door is left open, (And I have strong evidence for this)

And I see that the door is significantly ajar (one can see valuables through the open door)

And the house appears to be empty,

And the doorway is flush against the sidewalk, where I am walking by on my way somewhere else (the door opens inwards and is not in my way)

If I knock on the door (holding it so as to not make it swing inwards further and hit the wall) and ask if anyone is there,

And recieving no responce, close the door,

I should be punished?!?

If I see someone injured and unconcious on a sidewalk, should I just walk around them in order to avoid infringing on their personal space?

What if I have relevant medical experience?

Am I to let them lie there?

If someone (a stranger) is unconscious from drinking alcohol to excess, and is lying on their back, am I to refrain from turning them on their side, and instead allow them to choke on their own vomit and die, so to avoid running afoul of laws intended to protect against pickpockets?

If someone has a problem and is in danger of significant loss, but is unaware of it, and I am unable to inform them of it, but I am able to easily lessen the danger, at no cost to them or any other person, through an interaction that bears some similarity with some action that would be reasonable to forbid due to causing harm,
Should I not help that person simply due to that similarity?

Edit:

It's possible that I misunderstood what was said somewhat. I'm not sure.
At a glance I thought the redesign was supposed to be a group of trees. It wasn't until I looked at the original I realized what it was supposed to be.
I think pointing at it is probably the most difficult part.
Damning praise on site populated by technorati.
Sounds interesting, but the use cases get me excited. It sounds like you are brewing an interesting platform/solution for an unknown problem. My advice is to stop right now, find a clear problem people have that they are willing to pay to solve.

All-encompassing platform plays are hard to do without a solid use case to build from. However niche, you need to absolutely smash someone's problem with this platform, and once you find success there, you can go horizontal.
It's also a good argument for certain security-focused DNS providers to block domains that are used to serve ads, at least on an opt-in basis if not by default for settings like public wifi.
Autistic Comedian?
OT: So I was in Marin County in 1991, all excited after my interview with Pixar. Drove my rented car back to the airport and hopped on the shuttle to the main terminal. Sat in my seat just as another guy struggled to get a box I recognized as a small computer onto the shuttle. He looked at me and I got up to help him but he had someone he was with who showed up and they lifted the box together.

The first guy was Ed Catmull in the video. I recognized him but didn't know what to say and he got into some deep discussion with the guy he was with.

I got a job offer from Pixar but turned them down cause my first child was just born and, at the time, I was concerned about Pixar's stability which turned out to be a correct belief back then. Instead, I accepted an offer from Silicon Graphics and sat next to Jim Clark in the lunch room as much as I could.
These things happen when people number things in sequence.
Why can't it be allowed to happen? I mean, nobody as far as I can see was forced, coerced, deceived or tricked into doing something that they did not want to do. Some guys wanted to meet some females that have specific qualities, some females wanted to meet some guys that have specific qualities. Things like that happen - both in RL and on specialized sites - literally every second. Do you have to like it? No. There's a lot of things that people do that I don't like. However I would never imply that should not happen - apparently, there are a lot of people that do like doing those things, and as long as there are people willing to do this and nobody is hurt, it's their business, not mine. So I wonder - why exactly should not it happen?

>>> But if this isn't insulting to women in tech

Who is "women in tech"? It's not a person that you can insult. Why "women in tech" should have single opinion about anything and be - all of them, collectively - insulted by something? And why, if some woman or multiple women are insulted by this, we shouldn't wait for them to tell us if they are insulted and listen what they are insulted by, instead of trying to guess it and wield that imaginary insult as a weapon?
The devil you know vs. the devil you don't... You really think these accounting products are that different?
I have a lot of respect for Terry Davis' work, I tend to prefer associating with outcasts and underdogs in general, and I've had family with mental issues so I'm sympathetic. I wish that he wasn't being treated the way he is here.

That said, I also don't think active participation from him would be anything other than a disruption here unfortunately. And, his behavior isn't completely excusable; he is intelligent enough to rationalize, at least somewhat, about his behavior.

There's the additional problem that HN isn't really a "community" anymore, so much as some of you oldtimers might think. There are going to be a lot of people who would see his comments, and not know who he is, and I think that would draw a lot more abuse.

It sucks, it's a bad situation, I wish it weren't this way, but I don't think HN is the right place to host someone with his problems -- and that has as much to do with HN's flaws as Terry's.
Personally, I'm looking forward to Soylent being available at grocery stores...
Giftoppr helps you sync your favorite GIFs with Dropbox. The UI is so much better.

And FOSS.

https://github.com/desktoppr/giftoppr
In Canada, yes. It takes about 4 years of school and 4 years of work experience to become a software engineer. If you call yourself a software engineer without being licensed, you might face a lawsuit from your province's engineering association.

In much of the United States, however, the term is not protected. You may be able to call yourself a software engineer without having any training or experience whatsoever.
It's not based on the presumption that the author knows better than the VCs. It's based on the very real fact that profitless VC-funded startups are competing based on unsustainable prices with the goal of raising prices in the future once their competition has been starved out.

It's market manipulation (but not the type that rises to the level of impermissible market manipulation).
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I havent followed too closely the state of secure email delivery, but I would guess that even today a huge percentage of people both send and receive email in clear text over easily intercepted links.

this option only makes sense if email delivery can be guaranteed to be secure, and the recipient has non-password-based (two factor) auth.
I'm confused about how this comment applies. In this controversy, who is it that is failing to understand something, for salary-dependent reasons?
where do you see the demand or even asking that this practice be banned or even disallowed ?
Pun intended?

I once shot myself with a nail gun. Pro tip: Don't hold whatever you're nailing in your hand.
These days you would be asked to draw a picture of a hammer pounding in a nail on a whiteboard. The interviewer would say, "this isn't about drawing," but if your hammer looks like a dinosaur you're not going to get the job unless you learned carpentry at Stanford.
I've owned my own web development company for 10 years. In all this time, I've never had a problem with any of my client's sites scoring well in Google search. They have never lost their rank, never been de-listed, never "disappeared", never felt Google was out to get them or that Google was trying to kill them off.

Google has always been helpful, given us free tools, told us what to do and how to do it, what is good and what is bad and how to do good by them.

Then you run into people like this guy.

I must be doing something wrong.
I'd never consciously noticed the smile before, but now that I do I find it frankly unsettling (something like http://img1.ak.crunchyroll.com/i/spire1/b1bd605b2f1f69275d4f... ).

I wonder if the subconscious mind is less discerning when it comes to smiles, or if I'm just reading it weirdly?
They are having fun wrong! (C) Sheldon Cooper
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Not to mention that the Agile Manifesto doesn't actually say anything about meetings, standing or otherwise.
Again, though, if an ad blocker is the only thing standing between you and a zero-day, you need to immediately stop what you're doing and patch your browser.

It's true there are bad actors taking advantage of ad networks. There are bad actors hacking Wordpress installs too.
I've been wondering what it tastes like. Glad to hear other people describe it!
Well, currently almost all password resets work over email. If you can read my email, you can reset all passwords for my bank accounts, shopping site accounts, etc. this solution is no worse than others.
I've had job offers - none that I've taken though. But there have been other conversations that have been useful.
Plausibly valuable, or even inevitable someday. But would require much greater adoption of home-automation, and a few more-compelling must-have benefits, to seem a good business.

Considering your example, are there any automatable bathtubs yet? Or is making such a thing part of your idea? (The cost of retrofitting such installed plumbing, and the electrocution liability, suggest to me it'd be a long, slow quest.)
At the very least, we didn't want users being infected from ad blocks that we, were ourselves, serving up! :-)

But I'd argue it's one less vector for infection, and an important one at that.
This App seems to work
> How could they destroy hundreds of small businesses, if they themselves were not profitable?

The same way venture funded startups destroy bootstrapped, profitable startups: by massively outspending them.

Venture backed companies can get away with it for as long as investors will support them, regardless of how profitable their business may or may not be.

Even if they're not ultimately viable and fail, the pressure can be enough to crush the viable but not venture-funded businesses in the interim.
Dammit. I misread this as "The Makings of Great Lego"

Yet another disappointment. Sigh.
Oops. Thanks and sorry.
Nate Silver willed them into existence.

I often wonder this about newspaper ones as well. I guess graphic designers custom make a fairly large amount.
I agree, but that's only because VCs generally demand that the business be incorporated in Delaware.
That's a silly analogy. The effect of a logo is the impression on people. The layout of a city has concrete effects that people will notice regardless of whether they are aware of the layout itself or not. It's questionable whether an arrow in your logo that nobody notices will have any effect apart from designers talking about your logo.
I should have said "they don't all have private investors". The article, as I read it, is making the argument that Kickstarter should only be used by entities who do not already have enough money to do whatever they are planning.
I don't understand why Soylent receives the press it does, meal-replacement shakes have been on the market for quite a long time. The entire phenomenon seems to just be a marketing gimmick around some misguided notion of it "replacing food".
Because age.

While I am programmer, my first love was animation. I had done some cluster computing with thought experiments around huge render farms. When screamline came online a bunch of years later it caught my attention immensely. What a perfect combination of the both!

Aside: I tried doing EC2 type stuff in 1999-2001, it was really hard, too much resistance for running anything "sensitive" in the cloud.

What a great way for Intel to sidestep the artificial scarcity and release cycles to the world instead of chips! They could prototype new hardware, use "crippled" cpus that they couldn't sell, I thought it was a great vertical integration play that sidestepped many of the ridiculous economic factors at the time. Eventually it will get there when we have massive bandwidth, AMD and Intel if they are still around will sell mostly cycles.

I was really bummed to see screamline go out of business. It was like a sad canary.
I think you are way to harsh on the author. Nobody expects "War and Peace" from a personal experience report. It's like a blog, it is supposed to be self-centered and we-did-this-then-we-did-that - that's the whole point. You could have guessed it's not a deep analysis of comparative dating scenes and societal mores of SF vs. NY just by looking at the title. For once, the title quite adequately represents content, a rarity in our days of linkbait.
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Tests are generally for making sure your code appropriately handles cases where Foo behaves a certain way. That could be returning a certain value or throwing an exception, whatever types of branches you might have. Foo's implementation doesn't matter, therefore it gets mocked. If Bar doesn't, for example, throw the same exceptions, you've changed your method behavior and it makes sense to also update your tests/mocks.
>I don't even understand the theory of how there is a
>profit motive here.
>
>How does Google make more money by asking webmasters to
>hide parts of their site from the indexer?

Maybe they get paid by competition. After all removing competition with clever TOS tricks is right up Googles alley:

http://pando.com/2014/05/29/after-google-bought-nest-it-remo...

Looks like google saw what bookface was doing and copied. Remove from existence and charge for exposure.
I'm ashamed that I read WWF as the wresting version rather than the wildlife version :(
White's moves #10 and #11 make no sense to me.

Move 10: he could have taken the advanced bishop with a pawn and that rook would have still been up for grabs in step 11.

Move 11: again he could have taken the bishop, this time with his own bishop, instead he opts to move it out of the way. Why on earth?

Perhaps he was just baffled by his opponent's apparent total disregard for losing pieces?
Here's investor Keith Rabois' bold new home-selling startup: OpenDoor
"bye bye passwords, hello blocking IP addresses from viewing our blog"?
The article implies strongly against your argument. Google didn't want or care to do it, just that people who care about this silliness got in their face...

"But public campaigns have stepped up the pressure — just this spring, Jesse Jackson visited Google’s shareholder meetings in Silicon Valley. Google officials told the NewsHour that the company had been “working toward disclosing this for the better part of the year” and said Google invited Jackson to its meeting last month where the company promised for the first time to release the numbers."
You need the DSM V, the newest edition. In prior editions, psychopathy was not distinguished from sociopathy. I imagine that you could find it by looking through the index, however I do not have a copy of the DSM V.

I'm not sure why you bring up the characterization of homosexuality in older, long-since discarded versions of the DSM. The DSM is merely a reflection of the current state of consensus regarding psychological diagnoses. It's not an authoritative guide. As consensus changes, so does the DSM.
You pretty clearly have no conception of basketball at the level he's describing.
the aim would be to build an api for event detection that broadcasts events that can be hooked up to actions.
>>> it may very well be "sex trafficking" in the sense that a company is moving people from point A to point B for the purposes of sex

By that definition, significant number of flights to Vegas is "sex trafficking".
No, not as far as we know. The no-communication theorem states that you cannot communicate information between observers via entanglement, at least assuming the laws of quantum mechanics hold.
> Your company's logo is the fundamental foundation to your business branding

sage. OP is a faggot.
It hasn't been WWF for more than a decade for this reason.

(I've never watched wrestling before, I swear)
He apparently didn't read your post. I don't understand why the hate. Your post was very clear on why you did what you did.

PS: I would suggest you get additional DNS addresses that are easier. I mean, google's are so conveniently easy: 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4. I can readily add them without giving them much thought after any installation.
Are you judging by results or by your own subjective taste? Because I find results more interesting (and persuasive).
We used OpenDNS until we sent out an email that linked to SurveyMonkey - the URL was wrong, it said surveymonkye.com

The problem was our QA never caught it, since OpenDNS 'fixed' the request during testing. 24,000 emails later, we were instantly alerted to the bad link.
thanks, our goal is to expedite the hiring process