skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Google already does this, by its measure of "useful" (to you).

If you don't like it, you can search those sites directly. For example search for "ehow:how to ask a girl out"

was that so hard?
Indeed. The most obvious interpretation of the slide, in context, is "this product is so great it should be illegal, hahahahaha."
How to solve level 5? :(((
I tried a lot with onClick and different js scripts on querry parameter... nothin' :(((
There is nothing substantive about the announcement of an announcement, so this post is off-topic for HN.
YouTube Video Quality Report Pits Your ISP Against Others
> if the programming language is your operating system then you're doing it wrong because programming languages are fundamentally verbs to express computation, not to express resource management.

But then how do you express mechanisms and policies for resource management? Would it be in some kind of... language?
Actually I disagree. The NSA is all about spying. If they can't decrypt what you do without going to you and asking you for the keys (or throwing you in jail) then I would say it -is- a major pain for them. Remember we're talking about an agency who routinely targets one person in the hope to find dirt on others.
Honestly, having worked as a developer for 15+ years and in IT (in other capacities) for 20+, I don't remember ever seeing (first hand) anything of this nature directed at any of the women I worked with. That's not to say it never happened, but I either didn't see it, or it was never mentioned to me.

And by and large, the male colleagues I've had over the years have never struck me as having any such attitudes towards female programmers. I guess that's part of why this whole notion seems so foreign to me.
I personally trust open source and audited system much more than closed-source system shipped with Windows (apparently).
You're absolutely right, and this very list makes me think: Just program any non-trivial script in Python and use "subprocess" + "argparse". Heck, maybe even use Python if it's trivial -- since things have a tendency to accrue complexity over time you might as well avoid the "management won't let me rewrite in $DIFFERENT_LANGUAGE" trap.
I wasn't disagreeing with the assertion he was making; my comment was intended to complement the point, not refute it. Apologies for not making that more clear.
It is not contradictory. They want profit but do not have private investors.
While Piketty is quite polite, there are some strong criticisms of the FT team in here. For example:

'The FT journalists evidently did not read carefully the technical research papers and excel files that I have put on-line.'
https://hn.algolia.com/?q=abject+weak+typing#!/story/forever...
DConf 2014 Opening Keynote: State of the struct – Andrei Alexandrescu [video]
I did talk about why you (and only you, a user with 239 karma, less than a quarter of mine) called me a troll - it's because you don't understand our guidelines and civil discourse. This style of discourse is frowned upon by this community and YC employs a full-time moderator (dang) just to make sure nobody like you is doing this where anyone is reading. He and others are doing a really good job, and you won't see a single comment like yours in any thread.
If you have any questions about the comments I actually made you can write politely to yc tech mgr @ gmail.com
* SPOILERS *

For #5 you can just do javascript:alert()
It might be possible to run piwik at 4chan's level of traffic, but I would think the cost of hosting would be pretty prohibitive for a 4chan scenario. That's assuming piwik could even handle 4chan's traffic out of the box. I think the largest known products using piwik are in the low to mid double digit MM pageviews per month, 4chan is at about half a billion pageviews per month.
Publishers play the role of venture capital.

Writing good books is often teamwork with writer(s), editor and publishing company. Traditionally good publishers have picked up unknown writers and nurtured them years and provided them with editors. For the public they do the service of selecting promising writers and marketing them.

Consumers can't recognize writing they like like they select music, listening just few minutes. Reading something is always an investment and publishers reduce the risk of that investment. Nobody reads first novels from first-time authors for fun. 99% of them will be bad and even if the writer is good the novel probably needs lots of editing to become good.

EBooks and print-in-demand don't help to solve this issue. Nobody wants to read crap or likes the 99% odds of reading crap even if it's free. Somebody has to be paid to read trough the crap and discover the good bits. Amazon just sings up already known writers who sell.

Maybe the only way left for aspiring author is:

1. write into literary magazines and journals.

2. get sponsorships from (wealthy) patrons of literature who read those magazines or do all the marketing and publishing work yourself (basically two full time jobs in addition to your day job that pays the bills)
For small apps, you don't need a "router", period. Routing is done by the file system and placing .php files in directories!
Thanks for the support axs89, I totally agree with you!

Glad to know that Ouibounce was helpful for your client work :)
I mean blocked on most major networks by Barracuda and WebSense by default. So, I'll stick with my original statement, thanks.
The whole message on the site makes no sense and I think that's on purpose. What likely happened is the US gov found the TC authors, then used their weight to try and get them to back door the binaries. Authors didn't want to, but couldn't publicize the letters without going to jail, so they made up the most ridiculous story for why they were giving up on the project, the best possible outcome so that they wouldn't go to jail and wouldn't subject users to the required back door.
Whoever set this pricing staircase at Google needs to be fired. :)
Find out what the native pioneer species are and start with those. They're typically fast growing things like bramble, birch, ... Once they get off they'll prevent soil erosion, top soil dehydration and dampen wind whilst adding organic matter to the top soil. After 5 - 10 years you can start introducing slower growing native trees.
I'm not at all convinced that focusing on _how_ to teach kids to read is ultimately better, which was apparently one of the reasons the show was cancelled. If you give kids a reason to _want_ to learn to read then maybe the hows will fall into place.

My kids and I loved Reading Rainbow so I think whatever shape it comes back as is going to be a plus. If it's only a vehicle for LeVar advocating reading then that's good enough for me.
"If you need specific, rigorous domain expertise, hire somebody with a degree in that discipline of engineering or whatever. Otherwise, you're better off with a smart person who knows how to think and communicate vs. someone with an engineering degree who cannot function."

This is one of those cases where it sounds like you think you disagree, yet you just gave away the farm there. If you want a programmer, hire one trained in programming, you just agreed. As for whether you hire the functioning English major or the non-functional computer science major for a programming job, in practice, you hire neither.

As for it "applying to everything", actually, my last paragraph is a parenthetical because I don't feel like justifying it deeply in an HN post when it would properly take a book, but there is a difference. Postmodernism killed the humanities. Evicting the entire idea of "truth" and calling that eviction virtue murders all further academic thought. (Yes, I'm summarizing. Brutally. But that is more true than it is false.) Even if that is true, it's still not an epistemological framework under which any academic function can take place. Computer science doesn't have that problem, all the moreso because the compiler grounds almost the entire discipline; certainly everything an undergraduate will encounter. It's hard for the humanities to brag about their ability to inculcate logical thought and careful rational reasoning when at the highest levels those things are despised.
As a note, there's some very large and experienced firms in SV willing to take on a startup and do some amount of work for free at the beginning. I've had a major firm offer 10k of work plus introductions to VC's and other folks in their network. - Granted 10k is like 20-30 hours of some law firms, but still that can be quite a bit of work and likely your first 20-30 hours of legal advice can be your most important...
Regarding #3, the regulations were "blue sky laws," which are more appropriate for shady securities that scam elderly women into giving away their pensions to hucksters.

This wouldn't have happened if the friend attorney was used to dealing with startups.
I appreciate your point. It's nice to have subjects that everyone can discuss. The key is probably to find a healthy balance between personal opinions and evidence-based writing.
Most notably, it's really taken a hard hit to MetaFilter[1]; the site had been funded by a $5 fee to join (post/comment) and Google Adwords on AskMetaFilter[2]. Now they've had to lay off several moderators which contributed to the sites high quality.

[1] http://metafilter.com
[2] http://ask.metafilter.com
Check this techcrunch comment
It's a nice hack, but it's better to use external service for this. We run https://t1mr.com

One problem is you need separate infrastructure to host your monitor. You also need to monitor the monitoring service, or it is easy for it to be quietly failing until your real site fails without warning. We run a separate instance that only monitors the public instance of t1mr.

Attention to detail matters and you really want to be focusing on your product. We are quietly handling other stuff, like calling multiple people until someone really answers the phone, or checking if your ssl certificates are about to expire.
Nicely done Mr. Townsend. Nicely done.
Not real refunds, but fraudulent chargebacks where the person who sent you money unilaterally takes it back (via the credit card processor).
http://mywiki.wooledge.org/ParsingLs
Hoax: http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/hoaxes/googleearth.asp
Yes, excellent point. Multi-core changes how critical sections would be implemented and whether they'd be useful at all.
This is the most comprehensive list of gateways I've found:

https://github.com/cubiclesoft/email_sms_mms_gateways/blob/m...
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We use it for 2 (critical) node apps. Happy user for about 3 years now. There's a lot of FUD going around, beware. We are in the 1k+ ops per second and have never seen a single write error. Just make sure it's the right choice for your data model and app. We use a mongodb+postgresql combo for analytical queries (Stripe uses a similar schema).
Ah, thanks! Can we get that normalized by the system? If not, is there a preferred form?
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Across manhatten yes done that distance many many times in London its surprising how quickly you can get from a train terminus in the north over the river on a bike.

You can get kids bike seats and trailers I see a tandem with a kids trailer do a commute from my village to the local town (3 miles quite often)
It is impressive how local the results are. Comcast is rated as HD at my house (Natick MA) but SD at work (Boston MA).

I use RCN which performs well in both areas and costs much less.
how so?

CS is rooted entirely in the qualities he is looking for. English isn't.
That is because it is gender diversity that is the sexy topic (for obvious reasons). Then racial diversity often gets tacked on at the end as just some motions you have to go through to deflect criticism.
the Target hack was not a hack of the payment processor. it was malware that effectively MITM'd the swipes and stored them on target's compromised servers. so whether the cards were stored by the merchant or not would have been irrelevant.

> If processor is hacked and their credit cards on file are stolen, yours will not be one of them.

i'll put my money on the merchant being hacked before a payment processor whose business IS data security.
They also don't give a breakdown of what colleges they hire from. (Which is a good heuristic for social class) Not everyone had the privilege to be able to go to Stanford.
Url changed from http://www.nytimes.com/video/science/100000002906469/collidi..., which points to this. In general HN prefers text to video.
I actually think that Washington Post has some other interests they are not mentioning here, in order to write this article against Reading Rainbow.

WP writes say "neither WNED nor PBS wanted to pony up because both believed that the show was no longer the best way to teach kids reading skills. "

However if you google a little bit these two, you can find that PBS has a partnership with Washington Post. PBS said in their website: "We’re very excited to announce this partnership because the Washington Post is an ideal partner for many reasons." Read: http://tinyurl.com/mj48log
Like most software, period, past a certain age (and possibly even unqualified).
I'll repeat my question, which you ignored in favor of quibbling with a tangential point: What makes you think U.S. law treats makers of products any differently, assuming TrueCrypt's creators and maintainers can be identified?

Something must be wrong because this is 100% the question I believe I responded to. I will attempt so again now:

* Statute gives the government the right to compel certain service providers to actively assist in wiretapping. Example law: CALEA

* There is no U.S. law that gives the government the right to compel arbitrary third-parties to modify their products to make wiretapping easier.

You give a long list of bad things the USG has done, but none of them involve vendors being compelled to modify products.

(In another domain, banks have to report transactions over 10K, but that's completely the result of statute, the Bank Secrecy Act.)
Facebook Ad Super-Targeting Hack
Why doesn't Rails use SemVer?
This article might not be partial at all. WP writes say "Reading Rainbow was cancelled abruptly in 2009 after nearly three decades on the air. Per John Grant, the content director at WNED Buffalo, which co-produced the series, it would have cost “several hundred thousand dollars” to renew the show — i.e. far less than what the Kickstarter is asking for now. But neither WNED nor PBS wanted to pony up because both believed that the show was no longer the best way to teach kids reading skills. "

However if you google a little bit these two, you can find that PBS has a partnership with Washington Post. PBS said, in their website: "We’re very excited to announce this partnership because the Washington Post is an ideal partner for many reasons." Read: http://tinyurl.com/mj48log

That lead me to think that Washington Post has actually some other interests they are not mentioning here, in order to write this article against Reading Rainbow.
Response in full (pdf):
http://piketty.pse.ens.fr/files/capital21c/en/Piketty2014Tec...
In this age of metrics everywhere, evidence-based everything, big data...

I think what this story actually is, is a reminder that just because something is based on quantitative data, that doesn't make it 'objective' or automatically 'truth'.

Quantitative analysis rests on so many choices, as to how to measure, what measurements to use, what statistical formula to use, how to interpret what they say. Each of those choices can be mistaken -- _or_, even more troubling to the worldview that quantitative==objective truth, be subject to debate among reasonable and well-intentioned people about the best choices to make and the implications thereof.

I'm not saying it means there is no 'truth', and all research conclusions are equally valid. I'm saying that research conclusions based on quantitative data, no less than those based on qualitative information, are subject to debate and argument, not physical objective material reality simply because there were measurements and numbers involved.
As a non-American, I am slightly boggled by the bit about Delaware.

I kind of, sort of knew about Delaware, but the idea that every startup incorporates there? Are all the SV startups nominally Delaware businesses? Can someone point to a nice potted summary of why a startup should incorporate there?
If it becomes clear that areas served by a single ISP get worse performance than those in areas with choices, than that too is useful to know and promote, right?

Or maybe Google just wants to publish charts showing Google Fibre areas are consistently at the top of their lists so that other municipalities will want to make it easy for them to enter their local market (and/or ask their local monopolies why they can't be more like a Google-town).
Perhaps you causality arrow is reversed. I think the assertion that flagging is for articles that a flagger believes should not be on the site (which might correlate strongly with articles the flagger doesn't like).

As the population of the site grows and evolves different people "like" or "dislike" different things. I've argued in the past for more of a 'compass rose' rather than an upvote/downvote. Something where left and right arrows meant "more like this (right)" or "less like this (left)" and a center dot for "on target".

That would allow people to vote in two dimensions, site appropriateness and interest. Doing data analysis on the votes/voters could also provide local nexii of interests such that if you wanted to, one could create a 'front page' that would be ranked according to your nexus rather than a general ranking.
what happens if the big content providers pay the small (to them) amounts of money being asked?

if end users don't see a change in their content's speed - or if it comes FASTER because other data is being penalized, the problem is magnified. average joe says 'hey the internet has gotten much faster since they ended that pesky regulation' - and doesn't see the 30 media startups that couldn't get off the ground, because for them, the money asked to provide faster access is very pricey.

a startup average joe hasn't heard of won't have the money to outbid their competitors for the limited 'media bandwidth' the isp is willing to send through. average joe doesn't care about a company he hasn't heard of because he doesn't know what they have to offer.

my guess is that's what the ISP's want. they give the users a better experience - prioritizing video packets over email, for example, at no perceived cost to them. in doing so, they set up a huge barrier to entry that takes a long time for average joe to understand. he won't take the time to understand this, because the harm caused is a huge loss on possible new things in exchange for a small benefit to existing things.
Why does React scale?
Is there any reason this cannot just be forked?
by fixing the bug you tell everybody what/where the bug is and if anybody has a copy of someone else encrypted disk (think external backup, amazon etc..) they can decrypt it.
Here’s the entire Internet live, in one real-time infographic
It is an interesting font although very different from the Sinclair Spectrum font. (I added a bunch of those to Cathode)
I'm highly interested in all of this, but I can't understand a damn thing from the article.

How does Quasar implement fibers? How is code transformed to CSP (is it at all?) Where are the yielding points, etc?
"I don't know, my ISP requires me to buy the video sites package in order to show video on YouTube ... but the good news is, it would give me access to Hulu, Amazon Instant, and Daily Motion too!"
so how many comments exactly ? This 'avg' field has nothing to do with my 'karma' ?
CSS Regions no longer  available in Chrome 35
Even if Stanford were a public school with a well-developed CS program, it's still the nearest notable school. Is there a shock that Amazon and Microsoft hire a lot of UW grads?
Uber will eventually replace all its drivers with self-driving cars
I'm not sure what you mean here. In almost every circumstance, a Delaware incorporation is the best choice. As the author said, if you don't start there and don't fail, you're likely to end up reincorporating there anyway.
The original link suits me better, as I've hit the article limit. The video link works fine.
That's effectively the same thing as releasing details of the bug. It would take time to take the patch and figure out the bug from it, but it would be fairly easily done for a determined attacker.
Yes, and never forget the BMI opcode.
Random Question: What is the altitude of "enemy airspace"? Is there some cutoff or threshold recognized by the UN or some other int'l protocol? (Presumably one isn't infringing on enemy airspace in actual earth orbit.)
You can look up pretty much any lawyer in the United States on PlainSite (http://www.plainsite.org), which I run, and get a sense of the work they've done, whether on litigation or intellectual property. Incorporation data is harder to come by--but it's at least more than firms will give you. I'm hoping to add lobbying data soon as well.
Why the OS X Look and Feel Needs to Change
> Results are not available on your location

I suppose having net neutrality as a law helps, then?
* MORE SPOILERS! *

#6 looks like: https://xss-game.appspot.com/level6/frame#//rawgit.com/hhaid...
Basically just "/listing/<a number>/<some ignored text> goes to listing.php", multiplied by a thousand pages or so.

There's overhead associated with doing the bookkeeping necessary to compute the route lookups. In practice, it's not that awful to just write a function like "get_url($listing_id)" by hand, and debugging this later is much more straightforward.

We didn't need to restart httpd (in development at least) to add to .htaccess. For production deploys maybe we were configured to do this, but that's hidden from development.
There's a lot of information on the blog[1] and in the documentation.

While fibers support CSP just like in Go (and can run Erlang-like fibers), in the code here they don't. They simply use fiber-blocking (rather than thread-blocking) IO. So the servlet container assigns a fiber per request, and the call to the microservices (via Apache HTTP client) blocks the fiber but not the thread.

[1]: In particular: http://blog.paralleluniverse.co/2014/02/06/fibers-threads-st...
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I cannot possibly say enough good things about choosing WSGR for my startup. Unbelievably generous and knowledgeable. Contact me if you'd like an intro to the people we worked with.
That was awesome. APL was my first language, and I've used those IBM selectric terminals, as well as Decwriter APL paper terminals. The "computer room" was a noisy place. Game of life animations didn't work well.
FWIW, this result came out in 2012[0,1]. This NYT piece seems like it's just trying to use the non-event of the Swift/BAT detection[2] in M31 with with some other random M31 information to make a story. Unfortunately, there's not any new information in this NYT piece.

[0] (Nature summary of results) http://www.nature.com/news/andromeda-on-collision-course-wit...

[1] (preprint of results) http://arxiv.org/abs/1205.6865

[2] http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=5211327&cid=4710...
Reasons why dating a geek is worth it
I didn't say "logically." I said they thought it was a logical thought process, whereas what really happened is that they made their decision first ("women are inferior") based on some gut feeling, and then rationalized it.
Edward J. Snowden email inquiry to the NSA Office of General Counsel