skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would take point #2 a step further. These types of environments breed cliques. These cliquish groups will unite based on social similarities that are not work related. The elements on which they will unite will effect their working relationships. Those who are part of the clique will facilitate each other's projects. The problem comes only when there are people that are outside of the clique.

Those who are outside of the clique thus be ostracized. Their projects will be held back in order to feed the power of the clique. The social friendships will become the decisive power in the company. This power is stronger than the CEO's. New employees will quickly see the unspoken pecking order. They will have to acquiesce or be at a huge disadvantage.

Such is the nature of cliques inside of a supposedly flat hierarchy. Families are generally flat hierarchies and thus can succumb to these kinds of clique problems.
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Would anyone have bought the bonds without this clause?

I'm not sure, but keeping in mind that these bonds were issued at a time when Argentina was considered extremely risky to lend to, I'd imagine this was more than just an oversight on the part of some lawmaker or beaurocrat. If this clause makes it harder for Argentina to reneg on their promises (as they have done repeatedly in the past) that strikes me as crucial.

It's quite telling that they structured the deal in NY and not Argentina. I don't know why a country would agree to that unless they knew it was the only way foreign investors would consider lending them money.
> IRC is not broken. And the IRC clients work just fine for everyone.

...if they know what an IRC client is. Most people don't, and most people aren't going to bother installing and trying to configure some extra software just for a chat room on one weird website that won't get with the modern world and put in a web client.
This kind of clickbait that contains absolute falsehoods in the title really frustrates me. Not everyone is going to read the article, or read to the end even if they click it, and people are going to come away with a misrepresentation of the facts.
House Passes Amendment To Cut Funding of "NSA Backdoors"
Since ours is a business SaaS application that will be utilized by other companies, I believe there may also be commercial benefits of having a WAF. Eventually, we may need to do a formal security audit and penetration testing but it seems to me it would help to tell customers that we are using a WAF as part of our infrastructure. Is that possible?
I wonder what the costs are, nobody seems to care about it? At least 3 different companies worked on this. A lot of work has been put into this, must be millions :)
Yep, the Federal Circuit court has a way of interpreting around SCOTUS decisions if they don't like them. The Circuit court sees a lot of Patent cases and they do whatever they can to avoid reversing past decisions. There are a lot of second and third order consequences to this judgement. Hopefully it will stick.
Well, yes, volunteering in Africa does not make sense from a cost-benefit perspective, unless you actually posses a skill that is in short supply over there (i.e. doctors). However, volunteering at your local homeless shelter, orphanage, retirement home or women's shelter, where your work does not incur any extra costs for the institution you are helping, is a completely different thing.
Machine learning isn't Kaggle competitions
Not warming-up to Terminal. Its foreign-ness doesn't recede.
I've worked a little with Terminal (via a Mac). Set up Linux boxes. Configured remote hosts. Even an Amazon EC2 instance. Basic, minor web hosting stuff.

However, I'm just not warming-up to the Command Line. I found the experience of using Vi/Vim ghastly <shudder>. I grew up with the GUI / Mouse Cursor / Menu paradigm, and the foreign-ness of Terminal just won't recede.

I've Googled around and found some GUI-oriented tools that replace some of the functionality of the Terminal.

I was hoping y'all could chip-in with suggestions. I'm looking for resources that:

1) offer GUI-oriented alternatives to achieve the tasks that one would usually use the Terminal to do.

2) could help me warm up to Terminal. Exercises, tutorials, philosophical lectures, 12-step program, anything.

Thanks.
Neat little service! I'd be careful about &&'ing commands together (as in the timing example) should one of the pre-command curl calls fail. It would be a serious kick in the pants if the service to monitor the health of your cron jobs was (indirectly) responsible for preventing them from running.
Cubeslam is so 10 minutes ago. My grandma plays Cubeslam.
Because the experience is not as good.

It's not as fast or as smooth or as fluid as a native experience.

It comes close, but there is a always a slight, yet perceptible lag.

In addition, each platform has specific strengths - and the LCD of web-enabled means that they can't be used.
This isn't a problem with volunteering, it's a problem with most volunteering.

It's the same fact as "most jobs are bullshit" As in http://www.strikemag.org/bullshit-jobs/

There's tons of waste an inefficiency in our world today, and most people fool themselves into thinking what they are doing matters. But if we just question things, we can find ways to actually help whether in our careers or as volunteers.
Destroying Bacterial Cell Walls May End Antibiotic Resistance Forever
Bangalore from the eyes of Swiss interns. What do you think?
> They've offered a better experience both for post and viewing a short soundless clip than could be provided by an embedded Youtube player.

I'm not sure that's always true, as there some very noticeable problems with GIFs. Most significantly they're often huge, and must be entirely loaded to play properly, which can result in long delays before they can be viewed (usually with no obvious indication to the viewer) and massive resource usage (besides the problems related to size, animated images also usually don't benefit from the sort of acceleration and optimization that videos do). A page with a bunch of embedded GIFs (not at all uncommon), can completely kill a browser.

[There are other problems, of course, e.g. the complete lack of user control over playback, but the size of GIFs seems to be one of the worst.]
In commieland all data streams of any kind are inherently valuable to each and every man on earth regardless the point of origin or destination. In the real world certain data streams are of higher value to certain people based on their route and content.
This is a bit gimmicky. They should build market share through earned reputation.
The article mentions this, but it certainly bears repeating - the best kind of volunteers are the ones who have developed their 10,000 hours of expertise in their profession, and then volunteer their time.

Back in 1998, a small group of us volunteers took the Red Cross in Palo Alto and wired it up for Ethernet Networking in a single weekend. I'd had about 6 years of pretty intensive IT training, so was able to manage the Network Stacks on the Network/Desktops (They were using Novell networking in the Red Cross, and trust me when I say it was not a foregone conclusion that your workstation would be able to talk to your NIC, let alone your Network back in 1998. IRQs, himem.sys and such).

The guy leading the cable plant, and punchdowns had been doing so for close to 8 years, and had every type of cable plant certification you can think of. He also got his Cabling company to donate a truckload of brand-new Cat 5E cabling, tools, etc..

Ironically, the least skilled volunteer on our team, (for this kind of work), was a guy by the name of Ed McCreight (though he was still pretty damn handy, and certainly held his own when running cable) - who I only learned later was a fairly Sr. Scientist at Adobe working on their PDF engine, and, oh yeah, had co-invented the B-Tree.
DataStax Enterprise integrates Solr with Cassandra. The Solr docs are stored in Cassandra. Solr and Cassandra occupy the same JVM. As a result all docs inserted into C* are indexed using Solr, and Solr get's the high availability/linear scalability of Cassandra. I successfully deployed it as a customer, and I know of several clusters in the many hundreds of nodes.
while the decision is pretty tightly tailored, it seems like it's SCOTUS' way of opening the door for subsequent arguments regarding pure software patents. take google's page rank patent[1]. one could argue that assigning scores to, say, academic papers based on references cited and then doing that repeatedly is an "abstract idea" and google's recitation of "apply[ing] it" using a computer is not enough to enter into patent eligible subject matter. if you read/listen to the oral argument, the counter argument that doing so on a massive scale is impracticable was flatly rejected. indeed, a million monkeys counting the citations of scholarly pubs could probably perform that method on a decent sized corpus. is the method therefore inherently abstract? will be interesting to see if Alice alters the analysis (albeit slightly) for these types of questions and whether we'll see a pure software issue (without the negative financial/business method clouds in the background) sooner rather than later.

[1] http://www.google.com/patents/US6285999
It depends how short-sighted your goals are. If your goal is solely "build a house in rural Angola", then yes, hire local talent. If your goals include "making our youth more worldly, exposing them to other cultures" or "extend soft power by building bridges between citizens", then it's very worthwhile.

The author of the article strikes me as a 'worth of everything and value of nothing' type person, only seeing the literal end goal.
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Edit: Well, at least I hope we're trying to dialog about this, our community needs it. I can't believe some of the stuff I'm seeing on Twitter right now: can we please just admit there's an issue here, and work together to resolve it?
My guess is also that the organisations the author mentioned actually mean "we don't want more volunteers" rather than "we don't want volunteers at all". It's an important semantic difference, since the value of a volunteer in the former statement is not nil.
You mean you saw something new today? Now that's fantastic!
House votes 293-123 to rein in the NSA
You are a psychopath and ignorant of the facts.
just about every decision its made on patents in the last 2 years overturned upon appeal to the supreme

The Federal Circuit sees 1000 patent cases a year. The Supreme Court has amped up it usual zero or one patent cases reviewed per year to five this past session. And those Supreme decisions have been largely 9-0 against the Federal Circuit. But about 99.5% of CAFC decisions utterly escape Supreme review.

Remember that WildTangent is still on the books as good CAFC precedent holding the exact opposite of Alice. The CAFC can pick whichever it prefers.

The Federal Circuit court has been, essentially, ignoring the supreme court

This is true. It will continue to do so. It will continue to be a corrupt juggernaut focused on bleeding our industry for grifters and trolls and the patent bar.

I talked to the EFF and they couldn't explain why the circuit was so fucked up

It's simple. Courts with general geographic jurisdiction get disinterested generalist judges who try to do a good job being fair and applying the law. Even if they get bad judges, the others on the circuit balance them out because they don't all belong to the same interest. Specialist courts with exclusive subject matter jurisdiction get judges beholden to special interests that promote abuse and parasitism for their own benefit.
Right, I wasn't disagreeing with the article, just giving it a different frame.
Sent you an email, along with a story about the horrible industry I'm working on.
Great marketing move. Consider how much more press/mileage T-Mo gets for this, versus raising data caps by an equivalent amount (E.g. back in March when they bumped caps up by 0.5GB/mo on most of their plans [1].)

[1] http://www.phonescoop.com/articles/article.php?a=13758
I'm always impressed when I see people who have spent such a large amount of time on a single project. Me personally, I keep flitting from project to project, creating a prototype, or a proof-of-concept before I get interested in something else and pursue that. I think a lot of people fall into these categories, breadth first vs. depth first. It's probably best to seek a balance between the two, as then you will still devote enough time to polish the outcome, while still having the time to explore many completely different projects.
So who should control the Internet?
Show HN: Search all of your social graphs
This website allows you to connect all of your social networks and execute searches across them all. Think of it as Facebook's search but across websites.
well, it loads quickly because contents are provided according to your user agent and black magic with js pinging your nearest best CDN possible near you and with optimal bandwidth, and then, according to a complex choice in a matrix of supported codec(your SW)/compression(CPU)/bandwidth(the net) a video is chosen through painful trial and errors, where every choices in the matrix (growing at the power of 3 and more) is almost made by humans.

The "progress" we could benefits from these new techniques is so complicated and resource greedy and provoking a lock in of customers that I don't think it far outweigh the cost of the poor compression/control of the gif.
Very cool. It's been ages since I did anything with DOS, but are you limited to 640KB of memory, or can this use real mode/etc. to get access to more memory?
Feeling Othered
1. How long have you been using command line?

2. So don't use Vi/Vim (or Emac for that matter). I always use graphical editors unless I'm on a remote host or just wanna make a real quick edit in which case I use nano. It is, by far, simpler and much easier to use.

3. Help? ... Really, depending on how long you've been using it, the best way is practice. Try doing an Arch Linux install or an LFS install. Don't be intimidated by either, they have excellent documentation. Just... use a blank machine so you don't break nothin'. :)

3.5 Alternatives: This is where google needs to come in. What exactly do you need alternatives FOR? Firewall? gufw works. Otherwise... idk, what do you need? If it doesn't exist... you could write one yourself? (that is slightly hardcore though. lol)
Be an example to others by becoming an expert, instead of by sacrificing time that should be optimally spent doing something useful for a large number of people.

10,000 hours in days to become an expert = 416 full 24-hour days. 1 week in days in developing nation helping out = 7 full 24-hour days.

Helping out somewhere doesn't make a dint in that 10k hours; it's not like it's an either/or.
But if they theoretically could get every sound broadcaster now matter how small, then you would support them taking a stance that music is more valuable than other forms of data? Is that neutral?
I wonder what the author thinks can be done to improve volunteerism?

Here in the Philippines I met a troop of British deaf-assistance volunteers, visiting for three months, who don't know sign language and happily admit their own uselessness. Clearly this is suboptimal. But the only solution he presents in the piece - make money and give it to NGOs to hire professionals - sounds, well, not exactly surprising coming from a grant writing consultant. The authors of books like Dead Aid [1] and White Man's Burden [2] would have a few research-backed criticisms of what his suggested approach does to NGOs' effectiveness.

I was hoping to find some in-trade NGO hacks for travel volunteerism, or Doctors Without Borders for Everything, but without any new approach presented, this piece is just complaining about a pretty obvious problem.

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[1] Dead Aid https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6184317-dead-aid
[2] White Man's Burden https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33513.The_White_Man_s_Bu...
I've volunteered almost every week for the last 6 years running free STEM programs in local schools in Brooklyn. The robotics program I started runs entirely off of volunteers, most of whom I've never met before their first day and certainly aren't robotic specialists. About 40 4th graders from 3 schools get ~40 hours of free robotics classes every year. Not bad for a bunch of unpaid volunteers. To be clear, the robotics program wouldn't exist without us, and everyone--the kids, parents, school--are all very happy we do it.

New York Cares is a non-profit that organizes volunteers for all sorts of community organizations. Knitting at senior centers, arts and crafts at transitional housing centers, cooking programs at rec centers. Again, the programs wouldn't exist without the volunteers, and the intended recipients definitely enjoy them and benefit.

The robotics program was recently written about in a Brooklyn local paper: http://www.homereporternews.com/news/school_news/sunset-spar...
You seem to be arguing against net neutrality in general.

Set aside the law... isn't it self-evidently a bad idea to have your ISP picking winners and losers from among the internet services you can use?
but its docs used to be of the frustrating variety

I hope this doesn't sound like a knock on open source technology, but when a company's only revenue stream is providing training and support for an open source framework, doesn't writing laconic documentation seem to be in their interest?
Yeah, for example, see MailChimp's feature table for their Mandrill service that allows prospective customers to compare Mandrill to SendGrid (the market leader?):

https://www.mandrill.com/features/

I definitely prefer pages like that.
You prominently disclose that it is priced on a monthly basis and then charge your customers as agreed. Very rarely, a customer will be very surprised that SaaS which is priced on a monthly basis means that they will be billed a second time in the second month. You will apologize to them for the confusion and ask whether they'd prefer a refund or your software.

This question suggests you may not be psychologically OK with taking people's money, since approximately every SaaS handles this identically, without drama, in a fashion which doesn't even seem to be in your solution set. You run a business. I would counsel coming to the realization that, if you're providing value to people, it is in fact OK to take their money.
Is there even a precedent for a lower court blatantly ignoring the decisions of a higher one, at this level?

Jim Crow era Southern courts and practices like lynching had a lot in common with the CAFC's software patent jurisprudence.
Microsoft Research has great projects for everyone
Not really. I'd definitely prefer they treat all bits equally for all services. But it's much easier to see the potential harm from picking winners and losers among a set of direct competitors than between apps in different categories.
The beta interface is significantly better: See http://next.scrollback.io/mozilla-ph?tab=threads

It splits up chat logs by conversation rather than time - that's a step up from most IRC logs.
The issue is that it was initially presented as an "up front" scholarship, but it is in fact a reimbursement. The difference is significant. Even the quote from your preferred article mentions that "up-front costs could be problematic for some students".

If you get a $10,000 scholarship, enroll, then decide somewhere along the line that your workload is too much and you have to withdraw, you aren't out $10,000.

With this program, if you don't hit the 21 credit mark, you are screwed.

No one is arguing that Starbucks isn't paying for school. The argument is that they were misleading about how they are paying for it.
The apartments I've lived in have both used laundry cards instead of quarters.
Is there code to look at?
They're very different in terms of implementation, but actually have somewhat similar bottlenecks.

RAM, SSD and HDD, all have penalty for random seeking of data and benefit from pre-fetching sequential data into faster memory.

The differences we do have in SSDs have been solved by the SSDs internally remapping blocks to facilitate even wear, and by "trim", which now all major operating systems support.

If you will push forward a new FS, you'll need a better reason than the switch to SSD.
Comparison of Zynq boards
Physics has found lots of naturally occurring fractals.
Even in a multiple-thread scenario?
My early stage employees and partners are too busy interviewing customers, writing code a getting shit done (or commenting on HN) to waste the time looking at inane things posted by GP.
im sorry, i dont think i have the answer to that?
Depends who you ask. But the point of my reply was to try to show why the people here claiming it isnt fair is saying that.

If you ask me i dont think anyone should have full control of the internet.
The other way this illustrates a massive problem is the idea that we are supposed to be impressed by this functionality.

I'm not speaking specifically of the functionality that the grandparent poster used in his example, but just the general idea, for example: "Look at this classic console emulator, running in a webpage! (At 80% of the speed it would have run on a circa-1990s 90 mhz Pentium if it were a a native app!)"

To be clear, it is impressive when people create such things given the constraints, but (even ignoring the fragile compatibility problem between different browsers) when the platform you are using makes doing something that was impressive almost 20 years ago impressive (again) today, I'm not sure that's something we should all be that proud of as an industry.
I am perfectly okay with taking people's money. In fact, in the past I managed $20,000 of monthly recurring revenue. In that case, it was set to auto bill. However, I found that many customers, rather than coming to the site or emailing support to cancel, would simply submit a chargeback on their credit card. Obviously that did not stop recurring billing, so then they would submit another chargeback the next month. Sometimes this was compounded by the fact the credit card was also stolen.

The problem was likely due to cancellation requiring an email to support, rather than a way to do it on the site. That business was selling proxies to SEO people. I eventually let it whither because 1) I was not happy with my customer base's use of the product, and 2) chargebacks got out of control due to the above fact, combined with fraud. At one point it had a chargeback rate of 14%, and close to half of those were stolen credit cards. I'm now starting a VPN business, which will face many of the same problems, so I'm merely wondering the best way to mitigate this one particular reason for chargebacks.