skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sadly, I'm not familiar with lots of securities. I've heard about that form trick and I'm kicking myself for forgetting about it and not mentioning it; however, you already knew so no harm there =p

Yeah. Captcha is an idea that I would have mentioned, but my ideas for captchas are insane. When I start talking about all of the little things I want to do I start sounding ridiculous. But I definitely suggest putting a basic one on all of your forms. It's quite simple to make actually. Php provites all of the necessary "image creation" functions you would need.

Indeed. However, a smart bot will still not fill in a form box with display off. My solution is to provide a blank form and literally telling the user "If you fill out this box, then the submission of this form will be ignored" or something of the like. Of course this wont stop bots which have been fine tuned to "attack" your site. Okay. I'll stop ranting. I just love talking about the subject.

The scale of the operation really is daunting. Sadly without setting up subtle things all over the place and then scrutinizing the data, it becomes hard to do anything at all. BTW that is a LOT of IP addresses. How many of those are actually confirmed bots?

As for proving google wrong. It would be very difficult. I'd love to help if I could haha. I'll throw out a couple of ideas that come to mind seeing as I'm talking about one of my favorite topics and well...you can't possibly stop me!

You can detect the site from which they just came from. If you can confirm the bot

(Yeah. Hard part, but someday if someone doesn't do it first- I'll make the software necessary myself -and of course make it free. Open sourcing it would be a tricky issue because then the enemy can read it! I don't like making a smarter enemy.)

and put that together with the site, you can investigate where the clicks are coming from. If they are coming from several sites with google ad sense or whatever, well. That can turn out to be pretty compelling evidence. (odds are) Furthermore, a lot of those IP addresses will be from Asia. Pretty compelling evidence. K. That was racist- but also a statistically proven fact =/. When you stack up similarities, like maybe even browsing time on your site- you may be surprised at the quality of the argument you can make. I mean. I am assuming the attackers aren't like me. If I were an attacker I would spend weeks forming the software so that I weren't bested by someone like me. But hey. No body is perfect. Find similarities. Get your money back! RAWR
I've been using it for about two days. I've been using Visor since 10.4 and was pretty excited to stumble upon this while setting up a new MBP and installing all of my staple apps.

Would I pay for it? I might donate and often do to FOSS projects I get a lot out of (my machines make my money, so it's worth it), but given the amount of open source you've got in this plugin (Visor code and now Chromium), I'd probably just pirate it if you started trying to force me to give you money, out of pure spite. I'm not entirely sure that you could even get around the licensing issues from the other code you're using (but maybe you can; I don't know).
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To add one to your list: I just pushed out CoffeeScript 0.2.5 a couple of minutes ago. (CoffeeScript is a Ruby/Potion/Python/Harmony-ish to JavaScript compiler, for those who haven't seen it.)

I'm doing a talk about it tomorrow (Thursday) night at NYCJS, and if you live in New York and work on a source-to-source compiler, you should come and discuss implementation ideas.

Resources for doing this sort of thing are hard to find on the web. There's hardly space for comparison between "serious compilers", and things like like CoffeeScript and Pharen, which are both well under two thousand lines of code.
Alright - check it out, I had the explanation at the top of the site edited to reflect the suggestion made here by systemtrigger. and we made the content not part of the image and made the logo a PNG.
what do you think?
My family lived through the 2001 earthquake in Gujarat, India which was of similar proportions. Based on their personal experience, the things immediately needed after an earthquake are:

1) Heavy earth moving equipment (to get people out from under the rubble)
2) Tents and blankets (it is cold)
3) Medicines
4) Food

Many organizations only focused on 2 and 4 in India. In the end, there was a glut of food, tents, clothes and blankets and not enough earth moving equipment and many people who could have been saved, died. The situation may be different in Haiti but they are an underdeveloped nation and I doubt they have as much equipment as is needed. I have already seen reports that there's a scarcity: http://www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/the-monitors-view/2010/0...

Obviously medicine is also in short supply.

It may be a tall order to organize to get this there but at least we have someone here who has done it before. If dariusmonsef (or anyone else) can vouch for a group on the ground in Haiti who can actually manage these things well, it may be worth the effort to try to borrow these things ourselves and try to arrange for comped air transport.

I know some folks in the airline industry who I can ask about transporting the stuff for free.

Do you guys think this is doable and worth the effort?
True. I don't think any of my pet projects will actually make me money... that's what my day job is for :)
We could also stop treating mobile devices with internet connections as something fundamentally different than little computers. The app store is OK, but really, why not have an official store, and the ability to add external repos too. I call this the debian model, as thats how debian and the *buntus have done it forever.

Im not against a place to charge, I'm against an artificial central authority controlling the content.
I'd like to point out that your comment itself is telling. "I'm still glad I now manage it".. implies that it is still a problem that requires an active solution (your "management" as it were.) I do not want to belittle your struggle or minimize your accomplishment of successful management, but most people who go on anti-depressants will end up back on them again later in life.
The fact that donations get processed on a different domain than hodr.org is a huge red flag for me. I already donated to UNICEF, but if I hadn't, I would have really thought twice before giving to HODR online.
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In other words, computers didn't turn out to be the legendary invention that transformed human enterprise into mathematically precise processes. I guess the futurists of the 40s and 50s oversold the promise of computation just a bit. But hey, at least we have job security.
Hit ESC at the right time and it should work for you.
"100% of donations made to the Red Cross right now will not end up in Haiti"

If you mean that "Not 100% of donations made to the Red Cross right now will end up in Haiti", you should say so. Phrasing it the way that you did is pretty misleading.
Supplies? Food? Shelter? I'm guessing everything else except for the wages of the volunteers since, they are volunteers.
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I think that a person can decide they have had enough suffering in their life.

I agree that often people are able to gain hope.

It is unfair to categorize the problem of Depression as temporary because ephemerality is not an intrinsic quality of depression; the opposite is frequently the case.
Perhaps, but how many libraries in the U.S. would allow installation of developer tools on their machines?

Furthermore, if all the machine has IE6, web-based developer tools might be limited as well.
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It's reasonable outline of the quandary of standard software engineering.

It's a kind of dated argument, since it doesn't deal with the client being able to look at the web and get an idea of what's possible or not possible.
CEO pay means nothing. What matters is how much good they do per dollar. I'm sure the amount of money they receive each year is available somewhere, and they'll be happy to tell you what they've accomplished with it. Compare that to other organizations instead of assuming they're ineffective because they think it's worthwhile to pay their CEO well.

The magnitude of CEO pay in the private sector is similarly a non-issue, but please keep my opinion on that to yourselves, lest the pitchforks be redirected toward me.
My running list is at twenty-nine, of the ones I thought were good enough to write down. I'm working on one at the moment and really want to get working on two or three more. The rest are just "might be nice" to work on someday.
> bullshit. the real reason "nothing to hide" is invalid is that it refuses to recognize that we don't cede all moral responsibility to the government.

You are assuming that the only entity that has an interest in having access to 'private' data is 'the government'. Without disabusing yourself of this notion you can't really understand the article properly. In reality we all have an interest in having access to as much information about others we interact with - whether it be a business deal, a personal relationship or just being in the same physical place. As technology allows more of your personal data to be recorded and verified it would not be surprising that those who were prepared to divulge more private information would gain an advantage over those who did not. We are more likely to end up in a world where your girlfriend demands access to your lifestream than the 1984 scenario you are thinking of.

A recent example of the opposite of your thinking is police in Boston arresting people for people recording them arresting people because it 'violated their right to privacy'.

http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2010...
That's a bit over-zealous - even if I hadn't been the author of the article, noting that Fortuna PRNGs can be thought of as "buffering" entropy would have been worthwhile in this context.
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Depositing checks IS supported, at least for customers who have a "Electric Orange" checking account with ING Direct. We don't go out of our way to encourage people to do it because processing checks is expensive for the bank. But you can find instructions on our FAQ page: http://home.ingdirect.com/faqs/faqs.asp?s=Deposits

Depositing a check by snapping a photo with a phone? That's pretty fancy! But perhaps it's something we should take a look at.
I volunteered with Hands On in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. They do an amazing job, and unlike the Red Cross they do not spent millions on administrative costs but instead provide just enough to comfortably house and feed volunteers while giving their most to those in need.

edit:
Just for more info: the group I was with stayed in a church that allowed us to use their spare space to set up bunks for about 100 volunteers. We ate entirely off of donation giftcards from the local Winn-Dixie supermarket. Home Depot donated most, if not all, of the tools and a truck. An Americorps team(who brought several minivans along) lead several teams of volunteers in the actual work. The entire operation had almost 0 expenses and was very well run.
It was quite clear to me.
I've used csvjdbc quite a bit over the years - thanks!
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The depression IS the problem though, and calling it 'temporary' is what you're doing when you say 'suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem'. These people contemplate suicide every day of their lives.

Trivializing the problem like that by calling it temporary is not helpful.
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Regarding "The Red Cross Is $600,000,000 in debt", this comment from another thread seems like very important context:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1051934

Smart people both inside and outside our network have recommended Partners in Health --- www.PIH.org --- they're on the ground right now in Haiti and working to get surgeons from the states set up to handle Port au Prince victims. They have an absolutely painless donation page. PIH spends the vast majority of its revenue on programs, has 4 stars on Charity Navigator, and pays its chief executive less than many QA engineers.
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I like it, but here's one big issue: Using ! as the command char is a pain. It's two combined keystrokes to produce that character. If you used a dot (.) or a space ( ) as the command char, you would reduce the overhead of entering a command by at least 100 %.

If you could allow the user to specify the command char, it would be awesome. Great work, though!
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I voted you up, not because I agree, but because for me, this was more a reminder as to why JavaScript is a tricky language, and not one that should be jumped into as mindlessly as many of us do.
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Yes I meant, NOT 100% will end up in Haiti. Not 0% will end up in Haiti.
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Nice start. I was considering something simliar, but I just didn't care enough about PHP to work on it.

Stuff that I'd like to see improved:

1. if/elseif/else syntax is pretty ugly. What are the chances of getting if/when/unless/cond?

2. Nicer array syntax. Maybe coopt the vector literal syntax, since PHP doesn't have anything similar: [1 2 3]. Failing that, quotes: '(1 2 3) -> array(1, 2, 3). Not sure how to handle cases where you would have something inside the quote that would eval, though.

3. Not thrilled with the superglobals/array syntax, which are more verbose (or the same, in the case of superglobals).

4. It isn't clear if/how this interacts with objects. Does it work like: (object->method arg1…argN)? What about static methods?
We're a lean organization. We have a few paid staff who work for reasonable salaries. Our executive director takes a $0 salary. We solicit donations year round to help cover our operating expenses and those expenses are largely covered by a few private donors who appreciate what we do. When there is an event like this and we're fundraising for that event... 100% goes to the event.
Thanks for the link. That is a big difference and I appreciate the information. With that being said, RC is still a bloat of an organization that spends hundreds of millions of dollars every year on overhead... and will not give 100% of the money they're raising right now for Haiti to Haiti.
what a horrible idea... top-down initiatives to turn young kids onto being over-smart and underpaid.
I'm glad you found it useful!
A good alternative option for a larger web based donation is Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières, they are already on the ground and operational: http://bit.ly/7anR0x
Hmm,

Did he ever imagine that rigged markets, corruption, nepotism and repression might go together?

Obvious, China had become a market that Google finally decided wasn't worth all these costs (moral, financial, security).

But was it hypocrisy to leave in a fashion that was far more courageous than virtualy other major corporation?
My favorite coincidence in this vein involves feet, nanoseconds, and the speed of light. In special relativity, physicists typically work in "geometric units", where c = 1. Measuring length in feet and time in nanoseconds yields

c = 0.983571056 feet/nanosecond

This is close enough to 1 for most practical purposes.
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Well, ING Direct tries to make it reasonably easy for our customers to make these sorts of transfers. For instance, once you set up a "linked" account (ie, prove to us that you own an account at another institution) you can transfer money between them at any time with a click on our website. If you have "Electric Orange" (our checking account), then you can also do things like sending a payment electronically (pick it up by email) or having us mail a check.

In a way, I think we HAVE said "here's a new interface" and let people "go for it".
In all of your examples, you are depicting suicide as a short-sighted or cowardly act.

An alternative explanation is that suicide is often committed in the pursuit of pain relief. It may be seeking relief from a terrible situation, a chronic illness, cultural damnation, or any other source of suffering.

If your example of a warrior committing suicide was meant to refer to seppuku then the warrior would not kill themselves "because he can't face the shame". I suggest you learn more about the ritual here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seppuku

I don't think that it is right for one person to judge the level of suffering another is willing to endure.
Really? How are they in IE6 and IE4?
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Do you really want to be copying entire Murdoch articles?
Balance. I end up working fourteen hour days when I feel motivated, burn out on those in about 2 weeks and then have a hard time getting myself back to getting anything done for another week. Over long-term, I would probably get a lot more done and be happier if I limited myself to being productive 6 hours a day every day rather than the other way, but getting the self-discipline to stop working and walk outside when you are on a roll is probably the most challenging thing.

I am not yet at a point where I can collect money from users; I suspect that once I get to that point, the hardest problem will be "how do I get more people to pay?" This seems to be completely different - it seems that right now I am my own enemy, whereas later it will be actual external forces.
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Being on anti-depressants IS managing it. Deep depression--the kind that makes you commit suicide--is like being a hole so deep that you can't see any way out. You lose all motivation to do anything, even things that would help you out of it. You can't see through the darkness. Anti-depressants are just a tool to help you out.
Congrats Patrick. I'm planning to do the same soon, maybe in about 4 momth.
The whole process of planning for it does feel like
running off of a cliff for me.
You have been a source of inspiration !!
Thanks! Makes sense to avoid multiple keystrokes wherever possible. Maybe in a future version we could do this.
Mac software company donates revenues to DWB in Haiti
Ask HN: How many days in advance to contact bloggers before launch?
I'm wondering how many days in advance should we contact bloggers, journalists, and start doing PR (press releases, etc..) before a launch? (so they have time to review the service, write the article)

Also, what is the best time/day for launch? Most people say Tuesday at 10AM (pacific time).

Any advice or experience that you guys have about conducting a successful product launch?

Thanks!
Charity Navigator profile of Partners in Health:

http://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm?bay=search.summary...

Link to Partners in Health's Haiti information page:

http://www.pih.org/inforesources/news/Haiti_Earthquake.html
I think the Omnisios got rolled into YouTube in various technology and product roles, but I'm not 100% sure. (They were in the same YC batch as I was, but I've only talked to them a couple times since the acquisition.)
"This doesn't belong on Hacker News is signal?"

(Even less signal-ish is this post. But I don't care about signal-to-noise. What I care about is when there's no longer any signal, like Reddit and Digg.)
In my individual case, working on open-source software would be opposed to paid work (with interesting as an orthogonal concern,) but I am trying to remedy that aspect.
This is a sight more readable than some much more sanely formatted C++ programs I've read. What I've learned from this that it's often the simplicity of the program that's more important than the formatting. (Although formatting is of course still important and anyone who inflicts code like this on their coworkers doesn't reach my standard of "decent human being.")
Hmm, to me, pet projects aren't usually meant to make money. I consider them more just things for fun, though I suppose they might at some point become profitable.
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Maybe there could be something akin to a programming language for contracts, and also for statute law.
Congrats Patrick! Excited to hear whats next.
I'd say so. http://github.com/alex of those at least 7 are ones I've worked on lately, plus some others that aren't on there. <3 open source.
James Fallows, The Atlantic, says "For Chinese readers, let me emphasize again my argument that China is not a 'threat' and that its development is good news for mankind. But its government is on a path at the moment that courts resistance around the world. To me, that is what Google's decision signifies."

Well said, and very true.
I have close to 40 pet projects and businesses that I oscillate between throughout the year. Most of it is on my TODO for learning purposes, others as a gift to friends, but a good chunk of them as support projects that I use in my other projects. I do A LOT of niche software: Arabic applications written in Common Lisp. I am pretty much my own tool vendor :-/
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Hello,

Trying to build on some traction that got started by iseff in this thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1037797

Any other Los Angeles area hackers around? I'm in the South Bay, so west side would be ideal, but I guess beggars can't be choosers.

wiki here: http://losangeleshn.pbworks.com/
That is so much easier to read than PHP. Wow, consider me "sold".
False, people will just have to buy less stuff.
Yeah, the IF paren'ning is a nightmare on the scale that keeps a lot of people away from LISP.
I have seen a similar pattern where learning new ancillary skills have increased the quality of my core competency.

I think side-projects are a decent proxy for curiosity and industriousness, which I try very hard to evaluate when interviewing candidates. However, my line of questioning for this has to do with what complaints people have with their tools and what they have done to overcome them -- this shows a similar desire to have internally-motivated programming tasks and a desire for understanding more than simple project requirements.
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Battling through the downs makes me feel better about myself. Lots of people actually never feel depressed to any significant degree, and that fact that you can push through it means you're made of pretty solid stock. Quite motivating for an introverted dweeb like me:)
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using the word "but" was unnecessary because you didn't disagree with anything i said, and it just makes you come across as kind of an argumentative asshole
Why so arcish? Lisp used def* forms from day ONE, like God/McCarthy indented.
No it doesn't. But, refusing to keep people on perpetual life support and letting them pass on (not making them die) surrounded by loved ones is human.