skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nope, still don't. People speculate about the domains of other professions constantly. It's just part of how people are wired.

OP got the advice he needed. A lawyer will correct misconceptions developed here, such as they are. And in the mean time, we will in all likelihood continue to feel free to jaw about what might happen.
This is neat. Where did the creator find all of the long form? Is it static or dynamically crawled?
Did you use TileMill for the styling or something else?
I agree! As a front end dev, this has frustrated me and clients for yeaaaaars. Can't believe they're finally like 'oh, I guess we better fix it'... but it's not even turned on by default for another two versions :/
>"I got sick of documents getting locked up behind login walls of services like Scribd."

Now thats a fantastic example of building a product around a real problem. If I even see domains like Scribd anymore I won't even give it a click. No, I don't want to sign up. I'd rather just do site:domain"thedoc.pdf" or some other way.

I hope your product takes off and everyone uses it!
True. We shape laws to approximate a vision of what should be moral. As views of morality change, the laws often fail to keep pace.
This was the Economist's original method.

From the article:

"There was one thing which bothered me, and I hope it bothers you too, the points from the 20th century are all positioned in or above Scandinavia which seems unlikely to be the center of anything in the world. You can find the reason for that in the caption on the McKinsey webpage. Their report looks at the Earth as a sphere and finds the economic center of gravity which falls somewhere inside the sphere. To plot it on the map, they take a radius through the center of gravity and intersect it with the surface."
I considered my initial post on topic :)

This is a very dificult and highly subjective topic. Free speech always ends where you start to hurt other people. So there is always 'censorship' in some way or another. The group of 'anti censorship' people (no censorship whatsoever) almost always neglect that point.

I think the only question is: how far should censorship go? Should we block sites? Should we block search engines (like in this case)? What material should be blocked? How can we make sure that the list of items that are censored does not 'overflow'?
On smaller screens, it should automatically move the entire sidebar to be a (relatively thin) footer bar instead. I should probably make the top bar shrink in height at that point as well. I suspect you might be just slightly above the cut-off for the small-screen layout.

EDIT: Here's a ticket: https://github.com/joepie91/pdfy/issues/13
So, PID is used as part of the CSPRNG?

If I get a block from /dev/urandom, then another one at some later time, what are the chances it's identical? Isn't that what you're saying here (or was the whole post intended to be comical and not just the last line).

[If only it had been raining it would have taken days longer for the raptor to attack, or something /random]
Any 'SocialCoin' scheme pales in significance to the prospect of a decentralized network that can prove individuality, which the author brushes off with a 'oh someone will figure it out'. This kind of technology would have huge, far ranging impacts, much greater than any impact that Bitcoin, Ethereum, or even Dogecoin could ever hope to aspire to.

If you have proof of individuality, proof of work goes out the window, proof of stake goes out the window. The entire thing that makes Bitcoin and any decentralized network hard goes out the window. Proof of human individuality in a decentralized network would completely rewire society and computer science in ways we can't imagine.

This SocialCoin thing is rooted in the world we have today, but the idea is predicated on a technology that would make it irrelevant.
Because Amazon (AWS), Heroku and Rackspace already give every YC company (and a lot of other startups) free hosting worth more than $100,000.
would be cool if we can edit pdf's
All of the above can be determined with 5 minutes of google.

No need for the chilling-effect visit to neighbourhood + knocking on neighbours doors
This is a neat idea. Why would i use this vs. Twilio? Just curious.
I think you might find China more hospitable to your views.
What is the license under which those hashes are distributed? Just because something is distributed publicly doesn't mean it can be legally redistributed.
That kind of discussion could benefit from some facts to discuss. For example, the list of sites being blocked. Unfortunately, the German government is trying to keep them secret, which hinders the discussion. Nicht wahr?
No, we actually hand-designed all of our styles in XML and generated all images from the pure data in python.
Actually I didn't. The mechanics of congressional corruption have been a long running interest of mine. But I think Ira Glass is great and if what I'm saying here is the essence of what he's saying too, that's a welcome development.

For the longest time, this stuff was of interests only to wonk's wonks. Now it's slowly seeping into common awareness. That's a vital step on the way to (eventual) change. If you've got a link to Ira's show, please don't hesitate to post it.
Six destructive myths about hiring software engineers
do you guys have any contact info? I'm working on a similar problem and would love to chat
Given things like the Debian OpenSSL fiasco and Heartbleed, can we honestly put as much faith into open source crypto as it's well-funded proprietary counterparts?

I honestly prefer open source and recognize the problem the author points out as clearly significant problem - as well as the benefits of LibreSSL, but I'm just not convinced there are enough eyeballs looking at open source crypto.
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/ezra-klein/2010/10/ten_thin...

"10 things we think we know, but really don't

1. Money buys the votes of the general public. (Maybe savvy donors just donate to candidates who will win in the hopes of influencing them.)" [edit: quote moved]

Money is necessary but not sufficient in order to become elected.

Politics is not about good ideas. Jim Crow laws existed for decades.
Could you elaborate on some of the "completely rewire", &c?
Does anyone here use Sourcegraph? It would be extremely useful to easily find example uses of libraries etc.
Here's my advice. As a PhD you have access to certain positions that are unavailable to the rest of us. But you're also cut off from the majority of positions in the industry for better or worse. You've got to market yourself on your quality, find a place you can stay with for a while, and build a legacy you can take to your next place.

For folks like me, we hop between jobs every 1-3 years because I can come in, understand the rather mundane issues facing a codebase and rectify them relatively quickly from my extensive real-world experience before moving on to the next spot with a modest-to-sometimes-significant bump in pay. But I can never get access to the sorts of positions you will have access to.
I'm a PhD in industry, and interview many candidates. Their attitudes and expectations are irrelevant to me. I only try to answer one question when interviewing: can they actually program a computer to do something non-trivial?

I've seen a lot of PhDs whose answer is "no." They didn't build that skill, and they do poorly in interviews. They may have weaker skill than they did before they started their research. All the other knowledge they have is irrelevant if they can't express it in code for a computer to run.

It's not like there aren't a lot of CS PhDs in industry, they're usually just quiet about it.
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Legal_FAQ#3a._I_would_lik...

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Our requested attribution is "© OpenStreetMap contributors".
You must also make it clear that the data is available under the Open Database Licence. This can be achieved by providing a "License" or "Terms" link which links to www.openstreetmap.org/copyright or www.opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl.

... This credit needs to appear in a place reasonable to the medium you are utilising. In other words, you should expect to credit OpenStreetMap in the same way and with the same prominence as would be expected by any other map supplier.

... For a printed map, the credit should appear beside the map if that is where other such credits appear, and/or in the "acknowledgements" section of the publication (often at the start of a book or magazine).

---

EDIT: looks like this only applies to OSM maps, not data. What's the difference between a "Produced Work" and a "Derivative Database"?
The risk is that in some situations (it should not matter how often; the environment might be somewhat attacker-controlled) two processes produce identical random numbers. This is bad, because this breaks the assumption that random numbers are independent. A program may reasonably fork into two processes, one which uses random numbers to generate RSA keys and one which outputs random numbers to anyone who wants them. LibreSSL's flaw may allow these two processes to destroy each other's security guarantee.
That's the method from the original article. It distorts the ratio between the economies in the North vs. South hemispheres.
That's strange, maybe the binary compile was not optimized for WP? Can't imagine why json serialization would end up being faster otherwise.
Reminded me of the discussion about "The 'underlying' unity of nature" in the Feynman Lectures on Physics:
http://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/II_12.html#Ch12-S7
Your Big Doubts About the 10,000 Hour Rule Are Well-Founded
> Is this what you meant by answering to lots of people, or something else?

Yes, this is what I meant. I dropped out of my PhD (CS as well), but when I was a student my advisor (who was still an assistant professor at the time) was spending most of his waking hours in department meetings, writing grants, finding a way to make $RANDOM_OLD_PROFESSOR happy, and so on. To me it seemed very much like he had 10 million voices telling him what to do (of course he got to choose what he would actually do and what he wouldn't, but it didn't feel to me like he was much more "free" than he would have been in an industry job).
Say I have 3 iPads in the office, and I want to load a build on each of them. I know I can use Testflight or similiar, but the easiest is to just plug them into my computer and press the play button. If I do that, it increments the build number, so iPad #1 gets build 4031, iPad #2 gets build 4032, etc.
I would agree that we don't know the details in this particular case. OTOH, I think we hear about similar cases often enough to safely assume that at least a fair number of them wouldn't need to be taken as far if a little bit of common sense was utilized. (But maybe it's just that we don't hear about the ones where it was.)
http://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright

This seems to indicate that yes, OSM must be attributed in print.
Then don't redistribute it, just distribute the step-by-step directions required to reverse it [1] (as is done on a site linked by the original article)

[1] - of course, directions could be just source that does it for you, a la DeCSS
Ever hear of BSAFE? They took a million dollars from the NSA to implant a backdoor. How do you evaluate code you cannot see?
A threading interface was standardized into C 2011, so pthreads should eventually stop being necessary. In a sense, not just POSIX, but C proper has adopted a threading interface.
I'm upvoting this because coffee should cost fifty cents a cup.
Man Sues Feds After They Target Him for Photographing Rainbow Art
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yikes I did not know that. I generally link directly to the imgur image itself and bypass the image page. will be on the lookout for this.
At this point, I guess I'm honored to be downvoted. This community is trending toward pathetic.
I can vouch for the fact that in Chicago at least, there seems to be a shortage of quality developers. Or perhaps rather, our company (and every other tech-focused company I know of) has a continual burning need to hire more quality developers than they can find.

I don't know what "for startups" has to do with it, but if it matters, I work for a 90-person company that calls itself a "mature startup." :)
Well, it's more like "Imagine that you just finished working your ass off for a half decade, and are finally looking to reap the rewards." It's a normal human response to want to see a quick reward after having spent so much time in research.
I'd add to this that SQLite is a great choice for learning the basics of an orm like sqlalchemy.
> Offering a lower price to consumers than your competition is not coercion against a competitor.

It is if you are offering a price lower than your costs which you offset by cash from earlier deals, which the new upstart cannot do. When the new upstart is bankrupt you push the price higher, because now there's no competition anymore. That's the reason such stunts are forbidden (at least in civilized countries).
Seems like there is wiggle room there, but we're not opposed to dropping the OpenStreepMap copywrite into the bottom corner of the map.
I'm surprised there's anti-homeschool sentiment here on HN were we (supposedly) value learning to think for ourselves, doing what we're passionate about, having side-projects, and thinking differently.
This looks like duplicated effort to me. Upload the pdf to Google Drive, set the permissions to "people with link can view", and share the link it gives you. Alternatively, there's a publish to web option - they're identical in this use case. I already do something similar on my portfolio page - I have a link that downloads a pdf version of my resume on Google Drive.
> All of the above can be determined with 5 minutes of google.

Yes, because everything on Google is factually accurate.

Edit: Why am I getting downvoted for pointing out the obvious flaw in using Google?
Secret censorship list, just like one whe got in Finland.
> chacha adds entropy periodically and folds it in. You need entropy in the chroot.

If that's the case then the fix will not be as simple as I envisioned it. Still, the point stands that LibreSSL should allow you to initialize the PRNG once, before you chroot, so that you can use the PRNG safely once inside the chroot. This could be accomplished by keeping a file descriptor to /dev/urandom open.
Great work @joepie91_! I wish your service the very best and hope that would scale against the DMCA brigade.
This is equivalent to what The Economist did. Average of the cartesian points, extend along the radius to the surface.
In theory, if your maps help advertise OSM, contributions will increase, helping OSM and ... your future maps :)
This is really sweet, but if I may, what's wrong with using existing solutions like Dropbox or Google Docs? Neither shows a paywall or login screen when accessing the shared links.

Unless you don't use either service, which is totally valid.
Judge rules US search warrants still apply to info stored overseas
yes, but I'm talking about RNG from likes of Microsoft or Apple...
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Potentially, yes. We're going to go ahead and print the attribution on the maps just in case. Thanks!
Sadly there is hardly any correlation between your PhD skills and interview skills...once you get to the interview, all the previous stuff is out. Only how you handle the interview matters. Not saying this is optimal, but thats the brutal truth.

So if you go in thinking you will impress anyone with your credentials, you will be humbled. Learning to interview in relevance to today's practices is often skipped over - and people are stunned that their brilliance was not recognized. If you spend 10+ years getting a top class education, might as well spend an extra 6 months understanding the interview stuff too.
You're right about the problem, your solution is off.

> It doesn’t matter if retailers don’t accept the coin, users can just exchange the coins for bitcoins or local fiat currency for immediate real world use.

No entity would give fiat currency for these SocialCoins unless they had some real or speculative value.

> The basic idea is that 10% of the profits that miners earn from mining this coin is pooled and distributed to every member of the network on a bi-weekly basis.

Are these "profits" from inflation or a transaction fees?
there are three level of trains. baby bullets go from san jose to sf in about an hour with very limited stops. there's local express which have more stops than baby bullet, but don't stop at every station (gross oversimplification). And then there's the trains that stop. at. every. single. s.t.a.t.i.o.n.
You sound like a Free Software zealot and GPLv3 fan, congratulations and welcome to the club!

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html
https://www.fsf.org/blogs/licensing/gplv3-lockdown
http://faif.us/cast/2014/jun/19/0x47/
Selling my first company (Vender mi primera compañîa)
"No entity would give fiat currency for these SocialCoins unless they had some real or speculative value."

Or the entity had some other interest in keeping the scheme going.

Not that this necessarily seems likely/sustainable/advisable...
Postgres still doesn't have upsert either. Neither does sql server or Oracle. I hardly see that as a knock against SQLite. All of the above have various levels of hackey workaround so for this though.
"But even if Swift remains an Apple-only thing, it’s impact could be greater than any other language that has sprung up in recent years, and it may achieve mass adoption faster than any language in modern history. "

I don't even like Node, but it is hard to imagine that Swift will get adoption faster than Node.

If 100% of Objective C users switch the adoption could be fast since you'd have a new mature-ish language as the preferred language for a large install base. But I don't see the libraries and modules being there to allow most devs to just switch right away.
Dropbox and Google docs rarely if even show up in Google search results.

Will PDFy submit lists of content to search engines or be easily crawlable?
> Perhaps too many false positives and you get canned for not being able to do your job competently, then subsequently replaced by someone who can adequately assess threats?

That would be a great policy. Too bad the reality is nothing like that -- probably the opposite.
Both require accounts to upload files.

EDIT: And both are more involved than just dragging and dropping a PDF.
FYI, bart starts running at 4am, and google maps is pretty good at giving public transit direction in the bay area. the only caveat is to choose when you want to arrive as opposed to depart (duh), and if you plan to drive part way, choose the start to be where you start taking public transit.
Clever project that shows how access to data, normally behind massive paywalls, can be used for really creative projects that otherwise wouldn't exist.
I can't help thinking it's a bit tasteless, and at best arbitrary, to name your maps of New York, a territory brutally taken from the Lenape by the Dutch, after (unrelated) Native American populations.

See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kieft%27s_War

Edit: I see now it's the color schemes for every map, in which case I'd say it's perhaps a bit tasteless to name the colors of maps of colonial cities after exterminated peoples.

Otherwise, really lovely project.
Yes! That would be great. So much more consistent than handsolder.
Have the start-up write down all the attributes they want their product to have. If you were selling magnificent trained wolves, for instance, you would want the customer to think, upon seeing the wolves: "What proud, mysterious, noble, cunning, ruthless, snow-dappled, and primeval creatures." You would neither want nor expect the customer to generate such adjectives if you were selling, for instance, hamsters.

At that juncture I would repair to a high mountain top, away from the start-up client, one hand lazily petting the head of my fearsome trained wolf, as I mused to myself on the adjectives I had just collected. What colors would they inspire? What noises, what textures, what tastes? I would write all these down in a second list.

Then I would descend back to the company of my human friends and ask people not in the start-up what the second list made them think of, as a cross-check against the first. If you start off with "petwolfco: proud, mysterious, ruthless, loyal", and come back from the mountain with "petwolfco: confetti colors, Comic Sans, merry polka music, Shirley Temples", you had better go back to the top of the mountain to reflect some more.

When my impulses and my third party's impulses at last concurred ("petwolfco: grey, ragged, minimalistic, narrow sans-serif, stunning small highlights in stunning blood red"), I would craft my new logo, working all through the night into the early dawn. As the sun rose pink and gold over the sleeping world, I would deliver that logo into the hands of my start-up client in the form of an extremely high resolution image they could shrink down later if needed. The start-up would gasp in marveling wonder, and clutch the SVG file gratefully to its chest. My pet wolf would nod gravely, and we would stalk wordlessly back into the mountains.
The latest DDoS attak
I have a CS masters from Stanford. I work for Google, and other top tech companies frequently make it clear they'd be happy to have me too. I don't think finding out I had a PhD would cause any of them to change their minds.
Wait... are you actually, genuinely afraid of being downvoted? It's okay to be wrong sometimes, dude! Sometimes being very wrong is the only way to learn and help you further down the road. You win some, you lose some. If you're afraid of being wrong on the internet anonymously I can only imagine what it's like in the real world...

Maybe this speaks to the timidity/introversion of many HN posters but remember we are also entrepreneurial -- gotta take some risks!
This comment is almost identical to one posted when Dropbox first premiered on HN. They were saying Dropbox was duplicated effort. Interface matters a lot.
I'm just going to wait and see how things go. I generally improvise; there's not really much prior work (let alone documentation) on the way I run projects, so it's mostly just a matter of figuring stuff out as I go along. One thing that's certain is that I have no intention of shutting down the service. I've run stuff that attracted more abuse :)

I have no intention of acting as a 'shield' against DMCA requests for this particular service (if they're valid, they'll be followed up on, as described on the TOS page), so ideally there shouldn't really be a problem. We'll see how it goes.
If you go through the list, 99% of them are porn sites.

However there are some glaring exceptions I saw:

DailyMotion, a popular YouTube competitor with more lax content rules.

main.htm - Not sure what this accomplishes!

Ogrish - A shock site dedicated to gore and other types of extreme content.

A relative link to a page which appears to be on a torrent site where you can download an Xbox game.

And quite a few neo-Nazi or nazi sympathasizing sites (e.g. http://ihr.org). Germany has banned all literature and symbols promoting national socialism, but the sites in this list are certainly not exhaustive.
I don't get the overreaction. If some stranger is walking around the neighborhood, doing something legal but suspicious or out-of-the-ordinary, a cop should have the right to stop him and ask questions. Cops should have the power to stop and ask questions when someone is doing something that is not normally done. Sure, he has the right to do things that are legal. But at the same time, cops should have the right to investigate. They weren't saying he did anything illegal.

[I am assuming there is not racial or religious profiling going on].