skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Having financed my last 6 cars - all bar one of them from new and having made a vehicle payment every month of my adult life, I've learned that financing new vehicles is a fools errand. What you get in perceived reliability (and it frequently is only perceived), you lose in depreciation the minute it gets driven off the lot. When I've paid the final payment on my vehicle this month, I will continue paying that same amount into an account until this vehicle dies or has a repair bill beyond what it would cost me to replace it. I predict (hopefully accurately) that if I continue to look after it well, I should have plenty enough money in the bank to purchase my next (nearly-new-but-used-and-still-has-warranty) vehicle outright with someone else having taken the depreciation hit instead of me. Admittedly, I got to where I did now with credit, so my picture isn't black and white. I could have continued to use my bike for a few years, putting aside the money for a vehicle until I had enough to pay outright, I didn't - but that was the impatience of youth. If I'd had no/bad credit at the time, I'm sure being who I am, I would have found another way.

As for a house, it definitely doesn't take 10-15 years if you think outside the box cultured by our society.
Net Neutrality:Insights from countries which have made it into a law
Kind of a weirdly link-baity title, really. If you're checking the comments to see if this is some sort of tedious lecture about some buzzword or other before clicking through, it's not; it's the results of a sort of weird/interesting social experiment, and it's at least modestly interesting. The "bulldozing" in question occurred only in one specific situation.
You two seem to not understand still, please re-read my comment.

The point is this is allowing code execution within the kernel of windows. It doesn't even reach the IIS userland process.
Make the backlog work for you
A better way to get film data than IMDb or Box Office Mojo
Quietly becoming mayor of the building where your friend lives... good times on Foursquare (3 years ago)!
It isn't a charity as far as I can tell (or at least does not have UK charitable status):
the only registered charity with Chagos in the name is the Chagos Conservation Trust[1].

This means that UK Chagos Support Association does not have to follow charity law (i.e. be open about their work among other things), have a purpose considered as "charitable" [2], be run my trustees that don't personally benefit and/or be run independently. However, they could still be doing these things but be unable to register as a charity due wanting to do things that are prohibited as a charity e.g. "benefiting interests of a narrow closed group" or "campaigning for a change of government" among others [3]

(Of course it is open to debate whether many actual charities properly fulfil the stated requirements)

[1] http://apps.charitycommission.gov.uk/Showcharity/RegisterOfC...

[2] https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/what-makes-a-char...

[3] https://www.gov.uk/how-to-set-up-a-charity-cc21a#step-1-deci...
I guess being able to code brainfuck is like understanding special relativity. You think it will impress the opposite sex, but it wont, unless you're a girl. :P

But it does however give you a better understanding on how things work.
Some background via gigaom:

The dark side of .io: How the U.K. is making web domain profits from a shady Cold War land deal
https://gigaom.com/2014/06/30/the-dark-side-of-io-how-the-u-...

UK government denies receiving .io domain profits
https://gigaom.com/2014/07/11/uk-government-denies-receiving...
I'm not sure how your post relates to mine.

I'm hiring a data team. Based on the applicant pool it'll probably be me and 3 Punjabi males assuming I hire purely based on ability [1]. My claim is that I'll get no marginal value out of hiring a Maharashtrian, an African or a westerner over an equally qualified Punjabi. I provide no special western perspective on Kafka.

I also don't know why it would be the "right thing to do" to hire a Maharashtrian relative over a Punjabi - but that might be because I don't believe in group rights. If you do, I'd love to know how you choose which groups are relevant - there are, after all, 2^{6 billion} subgroups of humanity.

[1] I take pains to do exactly that - I skip resumes and look at github, follow scripted interviews with objective criteria, etc.
Ah right. Indeed a very similar username. You sruley konw toshe mmees werhe txet can be raed if fsrit and lsat lrttees are rhgit.
> I've never seen a place with an undeserved good/bad reputation.

I've seen dozens. It happens in smaller towns, and smaller markets in large cities.
You are taking two very completely different situations to create a false equivalency.

The people of Bangladesh fairly elected Sheikh Mujib but for some reason the government didnt want a bengali as the president and that was a good reason to overthrow the government.

If Obama won the election by a decisive victory and someone said "hey! that was joke - we are putting Mitt Romney in power". That would be a good cause to rebel against the government don't you think ?

My concern is that the american people are able to elect their representative and the same time seem to have a deep mistrust towards them. That is what I am brining up.

Having distrust towards your government is healthy - but just like everything, taking that ideology too far can be problematic as things needs to get done. Roads cannot be built if people think the government is up to something nefarious. I remember a paul graham article where he talks about "putting checks in a system" , it reminds of software systems that have validation set up. Do you think any software system can run with having validation every-time you pass an value to a function ? We put validation only in cases where the cost of putting it ( time-efficiency , memory ) is lower than the cost of security.

I hope that analogy makes sense.
I did read the docs, and that's the conclusion I arrived at as well. I assumed there would be a layer that generated the inputs and checked the outputs, and that I could just use that, rather than use the full code checks, but it looks like that's not the case.
I dunno about Apple, Unless Huawei or similar manages to grab the media attention in the same way but at a quarter of the price.

Hell, Samsung basically had to go on a marketing blitz to get where they are right now.
Security Theater: Metal Detectors at Sports Stadiums
Extreme Cycling for Extreme Living Ep 2
Wow that took a while to sink in. How much of what you read daily is semi-machine generated? Are smart editors using machine-learning text editing techniques about to bog down the creative/productive for eyeballs?
Here's an actual graph of Foursquare's popularity, showing growth in 2009: https://www.flickr.com/photos/wallofhair/4232092914/
Some of it is also accounted for in the deductions/exemptions (which will all count against the top bracket).

So if you have a couple that makes $50,000 and $100,000, they will deduct/exempt at least $20,000 out of the 28% bracket. Filing alone, the $50,000 earner wouldn't have any income subject to that tax to begin with. That's only $300 for those earning levels, so I guess it should only be a fraction of the difference (and it would not happen for many couples, for example a dual $100,000 couple would deduct/exempt roughly the same bracket single or married).
But '0' is not ascii NUL (0x00), it's ascii 0 (0x30).
If you had just come back from an overnight fishing trip and passed someone who lived 2 miles from you in 752 AD and didn't acknowledge them, they would probably conclude you were being possessed by some belligerent spirit. How are gonna not acknowledge someone after spending a winter huddled together in a barn eating salted fish and trying not to freeze to death.

If you happened across a stranger without at least thumbing your axe and giving him a good look it would also be very strange. Stranger = Danger. Strangers = Invasion.

The whole concept of people/strangers as a benign part of the background probably originates with cities, or whatever the earliest dense populations were.

What I am trying to say is that we're used to it now and its normal, but before a certain point it would have been extremely alien. The fact that you and some of your fiends can visit Lindisfarne without the locals heading for the hills is the remarkable thing, from a long enough perspective.
(continued from previous comment) The "secret" string to google is "/_temp/cork.png". People should be aware that once they post an HTTP log to pastebin, their "secret" URLs are not secret anymore.
It's a good lesson on just how difficult building a startup is.

- Crowley built this product before and sold it to Google.

- Foursquare was an overnight phenomenon and had great user engagement. People were addicted to this app!

- They raised a ton of VC money and were able to hire some of the best engineers in NY.

- They're still struggling to build a sustainable business model.
I've done some soul searching around my response to this. My response is everything that is wrong with sexism in our industry. Her request to stop using you guys is completely reasonable and makes total sense. I was wrong to try and justify my usage and make a woman feel like her complaint was not valid. I'm going to be much more careful about the language I use to try and increase the openness in our field. We can use it.
This wasn't a transfer game. There were bidirectional emails and phone calls. (e.g. vp of revenue calling me in response to an email sent directly to his email.)

The whole situation made me wonder how much revenue would Shopify lose if they stopped charging expired credit cards. It must be material if they're willing to engage in a billing practice that essentially no upstanding SaaS company engages in. Or at least it must've been material at the time.
This is a really cool showcase and kudos for being so open! I'm currently writing up an article on about 18+ (simple) points of what founders should be looking at before pitching.

But many times it just boils down to the same and only point - and that's the beginning. Just directly start with the problem, and then naturally move on to the solution. Like 50% of startups we watched at pitch events just failed at that - and the crowd was left wondering what they're really doing.

It's like the most important thing. Drop everything else, just throw the problem out there - to make people think about it - and then how you solve it.

But this, this was a step harder - no slides to back you up, and an investor in another data tool grilling you on the spot and not letting you off the hook to validate his own investment - that was a tough cookie. Usually you can just leave a comment or two about competitors and move on, but here you had to stay and explain details. So it's not a black and white fail for sure.

( Another point that helped us internally was to pitch in front of the team first. Because there the fails will become evident much faster, and it's a crowd you don't care too much about failing in front. Pitching in front of your team = unit tests before the event )
Glad to see a Canadian tech company going public, but has an investor, I'm not thrilled by the following:

"Its total revenues have doubled from $23.7 million in 2012, to $50.3 million in 2013 and to $105 million in 2014. However, it experienced net losses each year, losing $22.3 million in 2014"

I looked in the F-1 form and saw:

"We had net losses of $1.2 million in 2012, $4.8 million in 2013, $22.3 million in 2014"

The losses quadrupled in 2012-2013, while revenue doubled, and increased almost fivefold in 2013-2014, while revenues only doubled.
That is correct, revenue is increasing, but that increase is coming through increases in ad inventory on the core sites, and paying for more traffic (aka Paid Distribution) as more and more people don't bother to switch off 'bing' or 'yahoo'[1] on two big platforms (Windows and Firefox).

There is a limit on how much traffic you can buy, there is a limit on how many ads you can put on your pages before those ads push people away. And when those work arounds lose their effectiveness (my guess is Q3/Q4 2016) then revenue will be flat year/year. If people decide that Google isn't a "Growth" stock, they will reprice their value based on current revenues rather than projected revenues, and call for the elimination of everything that cuts into profits. As the original article points out, there are many previous examples.

[1] Currently also Bing :-) but will no doubt change when the agreement expires.
Because they need contributions(direct and indirect) to get (re)elected or even able to be a candidate?
And there are other ways to use money to influence this?
Of course this is a story filled mostly with anecdotes, but as a Canadian I would like to believe that generally we are a "nice" people as a whole and take pride in it. However, I would not say we are necessarily passive like the movie theatre anecdote suggests in the article, except when it comes to our politics.

As there was no mention of it in the article, I would love to suggest that people check out Atlantic Canada. Full disclaimer, I am an ex-pat from Nova Scotia, but I still love the place and miss the feeling of community and hospitality. Things seen to happen much slower, then the hustle and bustle of Ontario. Although, as Canada is such a spread out nation I have so much more to see!
The episode is explicitly mentioned in the article.

Also, just curious, is there any other kind of podcast besides an internet one?
Fun with malicious email attachments
Is it really the leadership that failed? Their product was popular, but I can't see any way they could make money on it. I don't think that means the leadership was bad, I think it means the product was inherently un-monetizable.
'0' != '\0'

'0' == 48
I have the same experience in trying to read the classic English philosophers. The language feels the same, but isn't. Funny thing is that you can find 'the Greeks / Germans / ..' in a side by side translation to modern English with notes, but that it doesn't exist for many of the classics. It's easier to get to understand Biggie than Thomas More (which I own in an ancient English translation of the Latin original, kind of my point...).
I started with the same attitude - i was relatively tech savvy and felt ahead of the curve coming out of my bachelors. Even when i was working in industry it seemed like a PhD was too much time to invest in details when i thought i already grasped the big picture. I was so so wrong.

Now at the tail end of my PhD, remembering my earlier years is like looking back at a bad hair-style - how could i have been so stupid. If you view a PhD as writing papers, low pay/lobbying for funding, a few classes, and a big project then you are missing what's between the lines. The biggest thing i've gotten out of my PhD is learning how dumb i was and how dumb i am now.

A PhD is definitely not for everyone, and maybe a M.S.C. is enough. Though just as an anecdote, i'm currently at a top university (think MIT, CMU, Stanford, etc...you may be able to figure out where in my previous comments, i can't remember if i've listed it) and in every single machine learning, computer science, and engineering class i've taken the projects/papers/presentations from the masters students is largely very poor quality. I'm definitely not saying they're bad students, or whatever, most are probably overworked from taking too many classes each semester, but it was very surprising for me to see such a low level of polish (and sometimes effort) being put into their work. And if their work is any indication of what they're taking away from their M.S., then the M.S. is definitely not enough.
And as more people go mobile, more towers and backbone is needed to further subdivide the cells to maintain bandwidth.
They even claim that PHP is a language..

Seriously, just assume they mean technology stack or something.
Standalone, "s-q-l". In compounds--SQL Server, SQLDeveloper, PL/SQL, MySQL--usually "sequel". But again "s-q-l" in PostgreSQL and T-SQL.

Do I feel strongly about it? No.
I also find dark matter to be "inelegant". A slashdot quip from a while ago summarized it for me:

Dark Matter is the Phlogiston
of Contemporary Cosmology

Of course, just because I find it inelegant doesn't mean it can't exist. The predictions of quantum mechanics, verified by the behavior of the billions of transistors in the very computer I'm typing this on, are way "crazier" than what is postulated for dark matter.

I'm looking forward to new theories that can explain what we now observe as "dark matter" without having to invent a new kind of matter specifically for it!

Carver Mead is a very famous guy who also wants to shake things up[1]. Maybe he's turned into a crank in his old age, but, to steal from Ghostbusters: "the usual stuff isn't working".

[1] http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/02/20/carver_mead_on_the_f...
A friend of mine pointed out: 68% growth in # of merchants using the service last year, yet losses doubled. Could this mean their VCs actually want some money back?

Aside: I have used Shopify to develop e-commerce sites and its lack of local development frustrated me a huge amount. Saying that, I also appreciate what they are trying to do and have a lot of respect for them as a company.
One of the stronger (in terms of product offering) competitors to google were shopping comparison sites. They dominated the search results. Then google pushed an update that pushed them down. However, the manual reviewers really liked them, so in the end, comparison sites resurfaced. Then google changed the manuals, which the reviewers used, so they had no option but to downgrade shopping comparison sites.

So, how is this not malicious altering of normal search results, so you can push out competition?

How about insurance? How about travel? How about google+ imposed on youtube? How about changing ToS of android for OEMs?
I'm still confused why that happened. I walk in lots of crowded places and am perfectly capable of not "trampling children" without a need to vocally warn them about my movement... Like, just if you're going to run into a kid... just Don't do that?
I'm familiar with orchestral blind auditions and the effect they had (though not from the article, my mom is a classical musician). I favor using blind auditions to eliminate bias. I favor the same in tech.

My claim is that most activists in tech don't really believe that bias is the cause of underrepresentation here. As evidence for that, observe how few such activists actually favor purely meritocratic hiring.
Homewreckr: how well are you matched to your home?
The archipelago was first settled in the 19th century, only about 1500 people were displaced, yes the British government mistreated these people by not properly compensating them because the US and NATO needed a military base in the region.

However there are urban restructuring projects every day in western countries that displace more people without proper compensation than this incident.

And while i understand that some people might feel they've been stripped of their homeland, but considering that the Islands were populated for the 1st time in modern history less than 200 years ago and remained populated for a period of only about a 100 years it's not exactly the strongest backing for a claim to a nation.
Wsky.js – Lightweight JQuery CSS Animation Plugin
Why Philanthropy Is Good Business
CSS Vertical Align Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Display: Table
Agreed, but the formula is more like (CTR x CPC x # Searches) - Paid Distribution. And "yield optimization" (which is code for increasing CTR) is all about tricking the clicks.

The two negative forces this employs then is that if they bump their CTR and yet people who click don't buy, this further depresses CTRs as advertiser value the clicks less and less. And by paying to send them search traffic that money is paid if you search for "new car insurance" (very valuable) or "Pythagoras theorem" (basically worthless).
The first thing I thought of was this bit from 30 Rock (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7eq7O4SbJk): "All of humankind has one thing in common: the sandwich. I believe that all anyone really wants in this life is to sit in peace and eat a sandwich."
> However there are urban restructuring projects every day in western countries that displace more people without proper compensation

Such as? Most western legal systems require compensation in such cases… at least in theory.
Not really. There is this list [0] of security considerations for ports, which is a good starting point.
Everybody writing in the same style [1] doesn't hurt either.

[0] http://www.openbsd.org/faq/ports/guide.html#PortsSecurity

[1] http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi/OpenBSD-current/man9/...
(continued) And now, somebody has deleted that pastebin page. Because they want this hoax to thrive?
About elegance (or the lack of it) as requisite to a particles model, you may find interesting the book Imperfect Creation, by Marcelo Gleiser.
Microsoft's power was reduced because of a huge anti trust suite. It was later won on appeal, but they got the cue.
> webserver component running inside the kernel (yea right, great idea!)

Actually an idea shared among many OS, including GNU/Linux.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In-kernel_web_server
The site pointing out the dark side of .io is ironically on .io TLD.
EU Formally Accuses Google of Antitrust Violations
I was a bit sleepy when I wrote the comment above. Please consider the following function as an example of what I'm talking about, instead of the confused "chevron" function above. This is make-believe C:

MaybeInt bind (MaybeInt a, (function : int -> MaybeInt a) f)
{
if (a.maybe_value == JUST)
f(a.integer);
else
nothing();
}

MaybeInt chevron (MaybeInt a, MaybeInt b)
{
bind(a, lambda(x){ b });
}

/* Just 5 >>= (\x -> Just $ x + 1) */
bind( just(5), lambda(x){ just(x+1); } );
GitHub takes down Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 source code
> these kids are in the top 10% of the top 1%

And the unit is... ?
Ask HN: What unusual limits or behaviours have you seen from browser vendors?
I build webapps and have noticed a few limitations and unusual behaviours in browsers, mainly Chrome and Safari. I tend to actively follow the relevant issues, and can think of at least two Chrome bugs/features that deliver some very minor benefits toward Google. I don't mean to attribute to malice what is almost certainly closer to incompetence, but thought it would be interesting to hear from HN participants about unusual browser limitations. For issues I've found, I've been surprised by how little known they are among web developers.
Seoul to adopt urban agriculture by introducing ‘vertical farms’
While I'm not anxious around others, I don't relate to others easily, and I also feel that her actions and the effects on and reactions of others describe pretty well those times when I am a bit down or depressed myself. What's also interesting is the notion that one loses the ability to define oneself and is at the mercy of others' first impressions and moods, with very differing results depending on the situation and person... People seem to just reflect their own moods or insecurities off of you.
One of the biggest things people seem to miss is the discounts offered by business through Foursqaure if you checked in at the right time or X amount of times. How FSq didn't exploit that or at least leverage that successfully is beyond me. To me, that was one of the coolest features at the time. Check in at so-and-so restaurant, get a free this or that or $2 off. In addition, it made an easy way to see where other people were at downtown at the bars in college.
I find that distinction somewhat trivial, I would wager most users shared in my experience, and that was one day Foursquare just stopped doing what they wanted it to do. Regardless of whatever timeline Foursquare followed, there was still one day when it just stopped being what it had been up to that point.