skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this was a bit more complicated:

From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Karski

In the summer of 1942 Karski was chosen by Cyryl Ratajski, the Polish Government's Delegate at Home, to perform a secret mission to prime minister Władysław Sikorski in London. Karski was to contact Sikorski as well as various other Polish politicians and inform them about Nazi atrocities in occupied Poland. In order to gather evidence, Karski was twice smuggled by Jewish underground leaders into the Warsaw Ghetto for the purpose of showing him firsthand what was happening to the Polish Jews. Also, disguised as a Ukrainian camp guard, he visited what he thought was Bełżec death camp.[2] (It is now believed that he actually saw a nearby sorting camp of Izbica)

In 1942 Karski reported to the Polish, British and U.S. governments on the situation in Poland, especially the destruction of the Warsaw Ghetto and the Holocaust of the Jews. He met with Polish politicians in exile including the prime minister, as well as members of political parties such as the PPS, SN, SP, SL, Jewish Bund and Poalei Zion. He also spoke to Anthony Eden, the British foreign secretary, and included a detailed statement on what he had seen in Warsaw and Bełżec. In 1943 in London he met the then much known journalist Arthur Koestler. He then traveled to the United States and reported to President Franklin D. Roosevelt. His report was a major factor in informing the West.

In July 1943, Karski again personally reported to Roosevelt about the situation in Poland. He also met with many other government and civic leaders in the United States, including Felix Frankfurter, Cordell Hull, William Joseph Donovan, Samuel Cardinal Stritch, and Stephen Wise. Karski also presented his report to media, bishops of various denominations, members of the Hollywood film industry and artists, but without success. Many of those he spoke to did not believe him, or supposed that his testimony was much exaggerated or was propaganda from the Polish government in exile. It is possible, however, that Karski's descriptions influenced FDR to create the War Refugee Board several months later in January 1944.

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You can say allies did not care, Poles were antisemitic, but there are Jews on the list of people he contacted.
Looks like the MIT Media Lab stuff is coming along very nicely. I'll probably wait a few years for it to come on a pair of sunglasses though.

This is a follow-up to this video: http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/481
KeePass is what I use.

The password database that KeePass uses can be accessed from linux and windows. For Linux you'll need KeePassX.

Other pluses:

+The software is portable.

+Generates super strong passwords.

+Along with the password to access your password database, there is an option to have a "key file" required. You put this file onto something like a jump drive, making it necessary to have your password and the jump drive if you want to access the database. I have a spare keyfile on a CD in my deposit box at the bank.

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Addendum/Protip: If you know an alternative keyboard layout like colemak or dvorak, you can easily make pretty secure passwords for, say, a login screen at work: type your password on the Qwerty layout as if it were the alternate keyboard layout.

For instance. WeakPassword on Colemak is WkanRaddw;sg on Qwerty. Then, when the desktop loads, so will your alternate layout and everything will be normal.
1) Nobody moved away from XML syntax. You can still use it if you want.
2) In most cases XML syntax is pointelss.
3) HTML5 has nothing to do with CSS, and CSS is doing fine, far from being "massive failure".
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Uhm? Maybe you mean "unless browseres have predefined CSS rules for new elements"?
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Look at the funds involved. Return on investment may be higher, even if reddit was the only thing that came out of YC.
Both you and Anatoly are right: the paragraphs were added later, based on comments here and to the blog itself.

See this thread in the comments on the blog (from the author): "The comments here and on Hacker News reminded me I left out a step. I’ve added it." (http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/hiring#c9)

I just didn't want you two thinking you were crazy or somehow accidentally skipped two paragraphs.
The EU is about jobs for civil servants, not jobs in small companies.
Its a silly comparison to make in the first place.

The goal of SBIR is to give out a certain portion of the federal budget to small business. Its a great program. As to ROI: federal funding for R&D provided the entire basis for the early economy of silicon valley in which YC resides. No programs like these = no silicon valley = no YC.

YC is the ROI on federal R&D dollars :)
Would tarsnap be a solution for long-term archival of logfile data? I'm working on a data mining project of the "Let's store everything & figure out what we do with it later" type. My servers generate about 2GB of data (zipped) every day. We plan to store an 'analysis' dataset of the last 3 months on S3 and run a batch of Hadoop/Pig/MapReduce jobs every night on EC2.

My question: what would be the most cost-efficient long-term archival solution (I can live with slow access-times) of Apache logs? Does tarnsap offer any benefit here? Are there any compression solutions specific for Apache logs? Other ideas?
"I think nuclear fission combined with fossil fuels is probably enough to last until we develop fusion or hydrogen based power."

Problem is there isn't enough usable uranium on the planet to make increasing the number of active nuclear plants viable for more than a couple of decades.

That, and a lot of what there is, is in places that make Saudi Arabia seem enlightened (Niger).

"Anyway, the reason there's been no nuclear plants built without government action is because it's illegal to build a nuclear plant without government action"

I think you will find that in most parts of the world, building power plants in general, not just nuclear plants, is done by the government, not by the free market.
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I have to disagree here. It is the common document elements that represent the greatest improvement, in that they will provide accessibility cues that classed divs never can. It's all well and good for us to gripe (or crow) about what can and cannot be done with the element collection already in hand (in HTML 4.01 and in XHTML), but when it comes right down to it, we have no way of semantically differentiating the various parts of a document. Attributes within HTML or the implied extensibility of XHTML are not really solutions here, since even with namespaces and custom DTDs there is no way to indicate to a user agent the ACTUAL significance of any given class of span or div within the document context. A convention is NOT a standard.

HTML 5 (and its X counterpart) should mark an enormous shift in the usability and discoverability of web pages for users of assistive technologies, for indexers and cataloggers, and so forth. <canvas> doesn't turn me on nearly as much as <header>, <section>, <aside> and <footer> do.
I'm not saying DARPA/NSF are bad. They deserve the respect they get. But their job is to tackle problems that only might have solutions, way out at the edge of what's possible at a given level of technology.

But it takes a long time for the benefits of that kind of work trickle down to the average person, and there's no feedback to indicate what the private sector will want and what it won't. So for every Internet, there are a lot of ITERs: http://www.iter.org

Total cost of ITER has been in the tens of billions, and the project is projected to start producing energy about 40 years from now. In contrast, General Fusion, a startup with under $25M in funding, could be ready a lot sooner: http://www.technologyreview.com/business/23102/
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Why the downvotes? I don't know Munger, but the book sounds reasonable?
The confessions of a semi-successful author
I don't think the 'Draft' functionality works as yet. But from my experience using Wave, that'll definitely be something I will keep enabled for all business-related waves.
I think the idea is cute. But $6 apiece? You can go to Borders and buy one of their Piccadilly moleskine knockoffs for that much .
Frankly I am a bit surprised at seeing the hockey stick again. I thought that had been written off years ago. Which wouldn't mean that there is no warming going on. In any case, it might once again be nitpicking about unimportant details.
While its true that they only accept proposals that have technical risk, its also true that in SBIR at least, they don't do pie in the sky stuff either. Iterative improvements only.

Federal research investment stimulates private research investment. Its a symbiotic relationship.
We call it OPA
From the article

> If you don’t like this state of affairs join me in trying to develop a more reliable consensus mechanism on such topics: prediction markets.

It would be great if people were rewarded or punished based on the eventual utility and correctness of their statements rather than their immediate appeal. In a sense people are using their reputation as a currency in a prediction market of sorts just by recording their thoughts and opinions publicly. In the future this information should be easy to aggregate. You could imagine a public 'credibility score' much like a credit score. In this current debate it seems there will be substantial loss of reputation for those you nail their colours to the wrong mast.
I think you are confusing politics and science here. Apparently some scientists study the correlation between tree ring growth and temperature. This is a perfectly valid research area. It is OK to publish articles about, to announce to the world that at some time the correlation went away.

Climate research is research. It is not some know-it alls claiming one thing or another. It is making up theories and testing and aligning them with available data. It is trying to get new sources for data. And so on. It is an ongoing process.

Science never KNOWS anything. It only assigns weights and likelihoods.

We don't know if all history of earth is just an illusion, because we could just be a computer simulation that started 10 seconds ago.

So we will never KNOW if tree ring data at all times before 1960 correlated with temperature. All we can do is to collect evidence, make up theories and compare them with reality.

Disclaimer: I am not a climate researcher myself.
Well the anti-warming crowd does have enough of an incentive to search for fraud, I would expect?
How so - there were not even any names of "enemy scientists"? Nor were there any references to claims of anti-warming people, or were there? If not, how could there be any ad hominen?
I thought he had a great point on the technical questions some of the best developers that I have see, don't spend their time studying every trick question for the array of technologies they use, just so, on the off chance that if it comes up in an interview, they we be spot on. It is crazy, and it reflect poorly on the ability of the interviewer to competently understand the task they are trying to accomplish, which is hire a good developer that integrates into the team well, not a jeopardy contestant.
Microsoft's top coders talk about IDEs and Managed Code.
There seems to be a slight difference in that people who aren't in the normal influenza risk groups can also die, but the risk is still very small, and regular influenza still kills more every year than this one has.

But hey, at least the ailing newspaper industry can make some money on riding the hype and fear wave. The only problem is that the usual conspiracy nuts are given some time in the spotlight and this in turn makes a small amount of people more sceptical towards modern medicine, which is just sad.
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tl;dr version

Smart, affable, productive people with demonstrated ability make great employees.

I'm not interested so much in who to hire -- I think that's a no brainer, frankly. I'm more interested in where to find these great people to hire. Really. We are having hell finding great developers.
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You quoted the exact same line that grabbed me as well. Sorry on this one, scientist are held to a different standard than the rest of the population. Any other scientist in any other field, would be summarily discredited for a fraction of the ethical violations that these individuals engaged in. All of their work should now be subjected to scrutiny and should be re-validated by a independent party.
I've personally felt that asking obscure tech trivia questions is meaningless. There is no use in asking someone a question, the answer to which can be obtained by a quick Internet search.
Edit: Grammar
Why code listings are empty?
Behavioral interviewing techniques are supposed to be designed to induce stress well above and beyond nervousness when meeting someone new. The stress you feel from a deadline or a critical bug is also social stress. The deadline/bug are not able to care whether they are dealt with. The humans who expect you to deal with them are the source of the stress, whether they are your boss, management from other departments, or if you're running the show, your customers.
> The Poles were just as virulently anti-Semitic as the Germans

There is so much wrong with this sentence, I don't even know where to start. Ok - maybe here: Jews were living in Poland on mostly the same laws as locals. They were separated and killed by Germans just because they came from Jewish families. Do you see the difference? I could write many things about families in Warsaw trying to keep runaways from ghetto in hiding, etc. but that doesn't even matter at this point...

Jews may have experienced lots of extreme nationalism in Poland (before the war) simply because of their numbers - but they were not put in death camps then!
Why not just let them use whatever language they want?
i've been a paid subscriber at salon.com for years now, since they first started asking for money. it seems they have a lot of interesting articles like this one that never make it to the front page, most of which i miss. i wish they had better filters in place.
Easylist, the standard list for Adblock plus, contains the rule:
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You might question whether the race/ethnicity box makes any sense if you don’t know the country that the person is from. If you are only interested in the US to simplify your comparison, you could say that.

Other options? Maybe: classical, other, none.
If I can make one comment, hard won from painful experience: if there is just one of you, there are only two acceptable answers as to when you'll have something done: "It is already done." and "It is not done." Customers tolerate missing features surprisingly well, and if they don't there are more fish in the sea.

Missing promised shipping dates, on the other hand, costs you tremendously disproportionate amounts of goodwill. Making them often requires stress wildly disproportionate to the business value involved.

Example: When I started (and was stupid), if a customer asked me "Does the software do $FOO?", and $FOO was in active development, I'd say "I'm working on $FOO right now and it should be ready on $ESTIMATE." Often $ESTIMATE was about a week away. Now that I'm older and wiser, I say "$FOO is not ready but it is planned for a later version of the software. Would you like me to email you when $FOO is ready?"

This happened not two weeks ago with an enhancement to the online version of my software. It didn't support consistent columns yet (some users to call bingo games by word and column, which cuts search times for players down drastically, especially important when you're playing with older folks who don't have great eyesight). I've implemented that in Java before and thought it would take me less than one day in Ruby, and had a Saturday free. When I was young and stupid I would have said "I expect to have that done on Sunday." Good thing I didn't -- Friday I got enough overtime piled on to totally exhaust me, and I didn't get up until 3 PM on Saturday, with a planned social engagement at 6. But its all OK because my customer doesn't know any of this! It just took me until this weekend -- I sat down, banged it out, and just emailed her about it. If she buys, great, if not, none of us is worse off.
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"Eastern Standard Tribe" by Cory Doctorow, well written and free. Also free as an audiobook. Funny and smart near future prognostications. I loved the part about industrial sabotage through plausible sounding bad advice. Have a good trip.
This works well as a second interview, in my experience (and yes, use an NDA). It's still helpful to have a first interview, specifically as a reality check to weed out people for whom the day would be a waste of everybody's time.
No wonder this woman didn't make any money. Anyone that writes a book every two years can't make enough money to survive, unless if the book is a blockbuster. I think even Dan Brown writes more than a book every two years.
Background - spent 23 yrs in the US (Stanford undergrad, built start-up from zero, through dot com bust, with F500 customers and revenue and sold it 9 years later) ; moved to India about 12 months back to build businesses here.

While many of the comments can be accurate based on the individual's context, the take-aways/conclusions (both in the article and for most of the comments) are mostly WRONG.

There is tremendous opportunity in India, and most of the issues mentioned actually make it easier to exploit that opportunity. The article and the comments should not cause any trepidation about coming to India, but re-double your resolve. It's like "shooting fish in a barrel" if you figure it out!

Sort of hard to explain to people who are not in the thick of this battle. And, talking is not how you figure this out. But, if you are a startup type* - tenacity of a bulldog, super hard-working, high integrity, passion driven - I would be happy to offer you work opportunities that will enable you to figure out the formula of how to take advantage of all of this. Note:
1) only way to figure it out is to jump into the war (say 6 months)
2) for these 6 months you'll have to work on my projects
3) it will be all about execution, not talk. so it's imperative that you're a get shit done type. 4) in these 6 months, whenever you run into "india issues" being discussed in this thread, I will work with you (show you) how to overcome them with relative ease.

*most Indians educated in ivy-league-type schools and then having worked for blue chip corps like msft, P&G, etc are NOT start-up types imho

If interested, email me udai00(at)gmail.com
I still have to use javascript as my programming language. I know there are cross-compilers to javascript, but it is really disappointing that we sorta standardized on a language instead of a bytecode.
It looks like a work-in-progress.
Maybe this is tangential, but sometimes when I go into the bookstore, I ask myself how many of these books were really necessary. They're filling some sort of need, it just isn't for information. The shelves with the most new books are invariably the topics that nobody knows anything about, like business or love.

I guess I'm asking how many authors we really need. I still haven't gotten around to reading The Brothers Karamazov.
Although I love the idea of prototype-based languages (NewtonScript was fun), it is a language and not a standard bytecode. We spent a lot of time learning to optimize it and we are stuck with it. Cross compilers are a poor substitute for a standard vm and bytecode.
You're right - Guile has its own license. The LGPL has similar concessions to linking to non-GPL programs, though.
Honestly thank you so much for that information. That's the first and the last time you'll see content such as that from me posted to HN.

Stay in touch and best regards.
Yes there is. There's plenty of uranium in seawater. See here:

http://www.withouthotair.com
I am waiting with baited breath for a 27-inch stand-alone LED display based on the new iMac's display. As my eyes age, I appreciate more and more large-format displays. I am using a Dell 2709WFP on a 13" Macbook Pro 2.53. The very beautiful (both aesthetically and technically) Apple 24" LED-backlit display is somehow too small after seeing a 27" with the same content. (How're you gonna keep 'em down on the farm after they've seen Paree?")

I am actually one of those liberal, Obama-voting hybrid Mac users who has used Macintoshes since the first Bloom-County classic Mac in 1984. I also have always had to use both platforms, because as much as I would like it to be otherwise, business runs on Windows, very probably because of the misguided belief that cheap hardware makes their IT solutions cost-effective. Every single day of my life I have had some unwelcomed anomaly happen on my Windows computer. This is great for those in IT who make a living chasing Windows bugs, but is false economy for business in general. Even to this day, Microsoft Word runs better under Windows that it does on OSX. Too bad.
In addition to viraptor's post. I want just add that for sure some Poles we're anti-Semitic. But labeling whole nation like this is a terrible mistake, which lead humanity to at least one holocaust.
In 1930 Jews were 11% of Poland's population. There we're 116 Jewish newspapers.
In September 1939, around 120k Jews fight with Germans in Polish Army (as officers as well, please find officer in Whermaht or in SS) against Germans and Russians. All pow's with Jewish ancestors we're murdered by Germans :-/, only because they we're Jewish.

Well what my point is, you cannot say things like this, it's just wrong. You're harming a memory of wonderful and amazing cultural contribution.

I would gladly show you Łódź or Kraków in Poland, so you can witness with your eyes, how wonderful we're coexistence of Poles and Jews.
I have heard variations of this story quite a bit (two members of my family nurse on-again-off-again dreams of going into the business, and I read a lot). The industry is very, very overdependent on outdated, inefficient methods of moving books because it is the only thing they think they have -- basically, there are no options between getting approved by kingmakers like Oprah or the New York Times and doing book tours to have the author hand books to readers directly.

This is insane. Can you imagine how little work I'd get done if, after being rejected by the New York Times, my marketing effort was going to little collections of teachers, giving a speech, and trying to persuade them to play bingo with their classes? And I make a lot more off a marginal sale than the average midlist author does.

Thankfully, some authors are finally starting to get clueful. They're doing things like having a blog and an email list. (I will bet you any amount of money that the anonymous author cannot identify her hard-core fans by name or contact them in any way. What the heck. Screw the New York Times, these are the people who you should be most worried about getting your next book to because you know they will love it and tell everyone they know about it.)

I think that is pretty much the way forward for midlist authors: do your own marketing, talk directly to your readers, cut out the middlemen wherever possible. Midlist authors don't make a lot of money or sell a lot of books in the status quo. You can probably do better just being a micro-celebrity on the Internet: beloved by the "thousand true fans" that know and talk to you, and selling to folks a bit wider than that social circle.

It beats sitting at the kitchen table waiting for rejection letters.
Why not, it is a standard and a "bytecode" (Javascript sources being the bytes). Not a very efficient bytecode maybe, but still. You could write a scheme interpreter in JavaScript and have it execute your scheme programs in the browser.