skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think part of the reason why such things don't work can be explained with this experience I had with finding a startup partner:

I wrote this definition of what I was looking for in a startup partner so I would be able to recognize the right person when they appeared on my radar. So I went round looking for that person. After meeting a whole bunch of people I ended up spending more and more time with this guy who violated a number of the rules of my definition. Over time it became apparent that despite these violations, overall he greatly exceeded my requirements. He just brought so many over unexpected benefits with him. Things I couldn't ignore.
I thought you bought a large bank on credit, paid off the creditors using the banks funds and then asked the gov for money to cover you.
I thought for sure the "embarrassment" they were going to discuss was the Goatse thing around the o.
When forced to wait, wait
and you can see them by the thousands on US-1/9 in Newark just south of the Pulaski Skyway. They started piling up there when I was an undergrad in the area 10 years ago, and the pile just gets larger.
Quote of the day:

PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES ARE LIKE GIRLFRIENDS: THE NEW ONE IS BETTER BECAUSE YOU ARE BETTER
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As one who tried to capture a cofounder in the past, I would insist on listing the primary area of interest (i.e. social media, search etc) and also what obstacles you from progressing on your own (i.e. lack of particular skill, lack of money etc), as it greatly streamlines the further interactions
I don't understand why a Lisp hacker wouldn't match parens properly when ending a parenthetical statement with a smiley:

(commentless, of course :)

Hasn't he seen xkcd: http://xkcd.com/541/ ?
The stuff I want is still expensive (Frutiger, Myriad) or not there (Gotham).

There is much out there (no doubt, some great cheap or even free stuff), but the stuff that makes me giddy is generally too expensive for me.
I have nothing against the data set as such - I think it is great if such a complete data set exists. All I am saying is that a data set from one location is not sufficient to calculate the climate of the whole planet. It is one data set among many, which happens to be especially complete.
I hope you don't mind, I added a "comments" column.
watching this being edited in real time on the spreadsheet is fascinating.
If you torrent font files you still have a problem. Sure, redraw them, spend hours working the hinting out (probably not as good as the foundry did it) and then torrent all you want. But hardly anybody is going to go through that trouble.
It's a bit trickier than that. Ignorance is not a defense to prove innocence. Essentially this is on tautological grounds: I did not know it was illegal to do X. X was done, by you, therefore you are guilty of X. Knowledge of the law carries no weight when arguing fact. However, when it comes to repercussions: ignorance can be used toward motive: "I would not have done it if i thought it was illegal", should probably be punished less than "So what, it is illegal, I will do it anyway". Manipulation of such sentiments is out of the scope of my statement.
Wow, what a metaphor.

I suppose we could get China to accept them for recycling.
History is Bound to Repeat Itself
There's a reason for that!

http://byrnehobart.com/blog/linkedins-seo-strategy-own-names
Answered in this thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1048301
Very chaotic with 33 people inside. I'll wait my turn for a while.
Maybe. In my case, it would have definitely made the miscreants move on to the next car. At least if the offender breaks something, insurance will pay for it (if you have insurance), and you have something concrete to file a police report on.
well. I inferred "inferior" from the fact that you were "disgusted" (your word) by the presence of an easter_date function. I assumed that you would not be disgusted about other languages that don't provide the function.

If one is disgusted by one thing and not by another, it's IMHO save to assume that the non-disgusting one is superior to the disgusting one.

If I have misunderstood you, I apologize.
Single, but not by design.I am anxious to get going and am working with an outside team of developers as I have no real tech skills of my own. I have deep vertical knowledge, content creation, connections and some good biz dev. But if I found a tech equivalent who shared and could contribute to my vision, I'd love to have him/her aboard.
pg: "A couple weeks ago I added a recency threshold for the leaderboard. It's currently 100 days."
Finally we're starting to see speculation about who some of the at least 20 other companies are.
http://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm?bay=search.summary...
Just pick an empty row and start editing!
Some people are going to be bent on stealing enough that not much is going to stop them. A locked door will stop some people; an unlocked door will stop no one.
This has been possibly the coolest use of Google Docs I have seen
I would say that he has an enormous amount of experience with several languages. He lists on his webpage: "Programming languages used over the past 39-years include C/C++, Common Lisp/CLOS/MOP (and other Lisp varients), ALGOL, FORTRAN, PL/1, SNOBOL, numerous assembly languages, and others."

So, he probably could have written it in C++ (or SNOBOL ;-) ), but he chose to do it in Lisp.
Flagging this for the bizaare misrepresentation of the article. There's no suggestion that Adobe was the culprit (i.e. "implicated") and that's not the article title or even the main thrust of the article.
Hmm, this could be a webapp. A way for people who are a pre-seed startup seeder, if you will. Startups.com (or something similar) might want to jump on this.
I have worked on a lot of projects solo - and really recommend going with a founder if you can find a good one.
Editor wars are an insanity that's not temporary.
Xkcd “Self-Description” solved with python+pygame
Flag whatever you want.

From the article: "Such attacks, most often delivered using Adobe PDF documents sent by e-mail, secretly deposit a software file on a user's hard drive allowing the computer to be remotely accessed. Typically, top personnel with access to high-level information are targeted with such software, known as malware."

That (plus Adobe's insistence of adding scripting to PDF) is why I used the word implicated. Adobe may not have any bad intent on this, but they are possibly partly responsible.
also skipjack.com
> I'll argue that it exists - not everybody who torments a baby has an excuse for it.

[citation needed] -- It's practically a tautology that people take actions for reasons, even if they don't consciously know what those reasons are.
Does anyone know a board like HN with a designer bent? It looks like more than half of the people filling out the spreadsheet would like to meet up with someone with design skills. It might be worthwhile to share this link on a board with designers.
From the article they seem to be based on cable style technologies.

There's a company called playcast media who's active in trying to get video games to legacy cable set-top-boxes over video. My guess would be them or something like them.

Article here
http://www.itvt.com/interview/6329/itv-doctor-deploying-cons...

Also I'm very bullish on this but there are likely more issues with bandwidth around this then just the video streaming. Upstream over Aloha (which is what most Motorola based systems use for a backchannel) is nasty. Not to mention having to dedicate a stream per-user. Though that can be mitigated with moves to switched digital video.
People aren't "good" or "bad." Actions are.
i work out every single day, + it's part of a diet for people fitter than I am and was designed by a nutritionist.

I figure these guys know what they are talking about.
What's far-fetched about it? It seems self-evidently true-- it's not as though the equation even makes claims about the probabilities involved.
I'm pretty sure that what you are saying is true with regard to satellite Internet, and I had the same thought you did in reading that point. I do wonder though, how do sat-phones work?
Grep for "Being killed does not make the Natives good but the Europeans bad."
and a way to hijack all of our gmail account names
Not at all, I was pondering about that earlier and decided to defer the decision to the public ;)
Decision makers fear their employees will catch them clueless.
China silent on Google, welcomes compliant internet firms
i find this very extreme that someone hacked google i givw them a 10 on this work
doesn't have to be gmail - I added my HN username and @twitter. (Plus, you can obfuscate your email yourself)
You're quite right that they could be telling their honest opinion. The point is, we can't tell anything about their honest opinions based on what they say. If they think X, they say X. If they think ~X, they say X. Therefore, when they say X, we gain no information.
Maybe I'm just not creative enough but what could be so bad about folks knowing my gmail account name?
Keep fighting the good fight, XML-RPC needs to die.
Schneier on Security: Body Cavity Scanners
This highlights the fundamental problem of social bookmarking/voting sites: the more people that join the site, the lower the common denominator of the content gets. I've seen it happen to Digg and Reddit, and it is bound to happen to Hacker News at some point. It makes me wish that there could be groups formed within these websites that are kept small, and you would only see stories that are voted on by those members. This would be different than the sub-reddits solution because it would apply to all content, not just a specific category.
Wow. That's a good point.
All things being equal, lisp was in use much more back in the 70s and 80s than it was in the 90s or 00s. It makes sense for the majority of people who would think to use lisp to be a bit grayer.
Twitter – totally worthless
I think Edwards actually has a completely different approach. The book referenced in the article uses the idea of making an object out of basic shapes: put together some squares and circles and you have an elephant. The only problem is that that approach only works for making a kind of stencil image of an elephant and totally fails for realistic drawing. Edwards' approach is totally focused on convincing the brain to drop its preconceptions (like the squares and circles) and transfer the reality of the actual lines and shadows that are in front of the eye to the paper. You actually have to stop the mind from trying to substitute it's template of an idealized "elephant" (or the idea that I should draw a circle because someone told me to draw a circle) and let the pencil just follow the eye.
You can always do less
Makes me wonder if there is an upper limit to the number of people who can concurrently view/edit a google doc
Fortunately, since 2000, a new generation of young hackers has shown increased passion for Lisp.
Just create a new column, I think it's a good idea too
If you do it the double-chinned XKCD way, it messes up your auto-balancing text editor.
Lisp is a beautiful language but I think the biggest problem with it is its proponents failing to explain the merits. I'm sorry, this post would have probably made a bit more sense 15 years ago, but definitely not now.

> (a) Very fast development that is enabled by CL (e.g., everything
from hash tables to string-operators to memory management is
automatically included - there is nothing that is not included).

Name a modern mainstream language that doesn't have these things.

> (b) Excellent programming environments - e.g., parentheses-savvy editor.

You haven't seen XCode, Delphi or MS Visual Studio, where, for example, you can jump to the definition of a symbol with "one click", allow interactive step-by-step debugging with variable watch, disassembly, stack trace, etc - I shouldn't really name all the things that are possible in a typical modern IDE. And I don't know any text editor which is not paren-savvy.

> (c) Excellent compiler, especially with declarations, enables very fast code.

A compiler which doesn't "enable very fast code" has no place under the sun nowadays.

> (d) Excellent system stability with no random crashes at all.

Very exciting, although GC-based languages (i.e. those usually lacking pointers) should not crash at all, or if they do crash that's a shame. Stability and robustness of your compiler and your runtime system shouldn't really be mentioned as a merit. If it doesn't meet stability standards, it shouldn't be released.

> (e) Macros and all that.

Finally getting to the point and you say "and all that"? Btw, "all that" includes unification of code and data - something no other language provides, let's say, idiomatically. This is an amazing feature, and in fact Lisp macros are Lisp macros thanks to just that - unification of code and data and symbolic nature of the language.

Memory footprint: megabytes do matter because of the CPU cache. A 30,000 LOC program should take a few megabytes at most and fit a modern CPU cache entirely. Compared to a 50MB program the performance gain can be enormous.
Old truth, but it never hurts to remind ourselves.
In the context of the past few days, your wording implies to me that Adobe was implicated for perpetrating the attacks. That was not your intent, but that's how it sounds to me, and I suspect to most people.

A better title is "PDF possible vector for Chinese attacks on Google."
OK, you are right. I didn't want to encourage anyone to post copyrighted material here in full (although I don't see much difference between copying it and provide a google trick, but that's not important.)

So far so good, if many HN members are WSJ subscribers, of course let's them to discuss that stuff here, no problem from my side.
It's third person, but with a visual frame of reference fixed to the piece, at the time the piece appears on the screen. I don't see how that's even close to first person.

It's also really fun.
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Oil Drop Navigates Complex Maze
He's not referring to the data entered. When you share a doc you can see the Google username of everyone viewing it.
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Ask HN: How do you do your Press Release?
I am getting started on marketing for a personal project, and would like to announce it to the world. I've never written a Press Release and would like some first hand experience. Tips, tricks, anecdotes...go wild!!
…which you obviously use to write your e-mails.
one of the more popular hangouts on the net for designers is MediaBistro - it has a bulletin board that might be an appropriate place for this: http://www.mediabistro.com/bbs/
As someone who is considered sane, with no known issues of depression, and a parent, I can say unequivocally that under no circumstance would I let a child die, regardless of circumstances. Finances, mortgage, whatever don't factor for a second into that decision.

Once you have a child, you realize this world isn't about you, and absolutely all you have left when you pass is your offspring and those who you impacted in life.

This is a tragedy but in no way should they be condemned for trying to save their offspring. Everything is not black and white as you would like to believe it is, and even if it defies your logic, there is definitely more than one perspective here.
Honda CR-Z Hybrid Coupe - is Honda falling behind in technology?
The first answer that comes to mind is tooling. At one extreme you have SOAP, where your IDE can make complete proxy objects from a WSDL file. At the other end is REST, where normally you're in luck if there's a nice client library to translate request/response into objects, but otherwise you're left with API documentation. (Is anyone really using WADL?) Somewhere in between is XML-RPC, where you're more than likely to find some kind of reflection method to call such as client.get_methods or something similar.
Of course! I take it all back.
Sure: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Encryption_Standard#Se...
a good friend, Tristan, is working on something like this: http://startupsquare.com/
The first half of life's continuum tends to be viewed by those going through it as "up" (so to speak) and the second half as "down," with an inevitable midlife adjustment (crisis, in extreme cases) in between.

This may be half-addled philosophy, or it may be common sense, but I think it is fair to generalize about people in this sort of way and about how this might color their perceptions of age and youth. On the "youth" side of this, you do get a tendency to say, "the world is ours and we can conquer it" in every generation and this tends to lead to a brushing off of those who are not in the same position. Call it what you will and, if "arrogance" is too strong, pick your own word. It is not meant to come across as biased. Bias, I think, manifests itself not when we try to make observations about what we see as attributes of age or youth but rather when we treat the individuals we interact with according to type and not based on their individual worth.

Your point about young people often being unfairly discriminated against is well taken - all too true and essentially the flip side of the ageist coin. The lesson is to treat people fairly as individuals and not arbitrarily according to type.
Fine, changing "Adobe implicated in Google security breach?" to "PDF possible vector for Chinese attacks on Google." (adding this comment so the above discussion has some remaining context). But I still think Adobe needs a bit of heat on this issue.
The "person" in this case is the person playing tetris. But since the screen rotates with the piece it desroys the FPS effect, unless people rotate their heads like that when they are playing tetris :)
"Excellent system stability with no random crashes at all"

This holds for pretty much any language you care to use.
The place is not arbitrary. It's one of the very few places for which we have good "long term" data. Climate scientists on all sides of this debate rely on datasets like this one because they have no other choice. That may be a statistical problem, but cherry picking it is not.

Your arctic example makes no sense because climate is not the same as weather.
Is there a site dedicated to finding a cofounder ?
Hm, what would be a story that would deceive a HN user? Maybe something about starting a company?
I apologise unreservedly.
I do not use reddit, and found this on some IRC chan to distract me for a few minutes... I figured it would die like all my submissions have with less than 20 upvotes and a few comments about similar implementations or pros/cons of such a drastic change to user interface.
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"twisting the deep inner guts of Rails to make it do things it was never intended to do"

If you use a framework and then fight against it, you are probably using the wrong framework (or you shouldn't be using a framework)...
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Why are most researchers not a fan of standards on "responsible disclosure" (?)
There is a problem with the link...

Btw Settlers is amazing. I also recommend 'Puerto Rico' and 'Dominion'.
Looks like the site has had yet another rewrite:

https://www.cdbaby.com/login.aspx
It is often taken for granted that you can seriously challenge the US government without any retribution, by people who have never seriously challenged the US government.
A few months after a Chinese friend of mine came to the US in 2004 I asked him about some things like Taiwan, voting in China, and the free movement of people within China. The answers he gave me sounded like straight up propaganda (e.g. Taiwan is just a problem caused by the US government).

About a year later I asked him some of the same questions and his answers were completely different. I think he had come to realize that in the US he could say whatever he wanted without worrying. It was rather eye-opening.
Apparently iRobot also uses Lisp in an embedded context.
On the other hand, each single-founder company results in 1 vote for "yes", while each 2-founder company results in TWICE AS MANY votes for "no"...
Wait, so if this oil drop is solving an NP complete problem in N time, couldn't we map other NP complete problems onto a maze, and have the oil drop solve them for us?
> To me it's odd that someone as accomplished as Dave Winer doesn't feel the same way. Then again, maybe it's just state of mind

Keep in mind that Winer doesn't seem to be talking about ageism that's directly aimed at him. His examples are public figures and general cultural attitudes.
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I'm going to take this opportunity to shamelessly plug an open source project I've started for easily turning requests/responses into .NET objects: http://restsharp.org
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When I was younger, I also was discriminated against for being too young. In ANY profession, some one that has spent 10-30 years doing something in an inefficient and incorrect way doesn't like to be told so from a young upstart who figures it out the first week on the job (or in class).

I think there is plenty of pain to go around caused by the inefficiencies of cultural divides.

Advice: go where you are needed and appreciated.
Thanks!

On further experimentation, the approach is maybe too aggressive in trading memory for speed... It runs out of memory on my 32-bit machine if you try to run it for the range 1-10 instead of 1-9.
That makes it legal, but:

It obviously doesn't stop an abusive law enforcement agency from ignoring the law, e.g. the New Jersey State Police were notorious for doing that until they got slapped down enough times.

The FOPA provides a defense; legally, as a matter of procedure, all it does it allow you to get a case dismissed.

And as noted, it has specifically has not stopped travelers in the cited airports from getting arrested when they were forced to take possession of their luggage en route due to a diversion or whatever. (In fact, if you were to take gun to a hotel in such a situation the FOPA wouldn't protect you at all, would it?)
This guy wasn't distributing child pornography, making hate speech, or even being personal.

His worst comment was that the poster was 'lying round drunk' which is, unfortunately, a large portion of the London tech scene for some people.

Using a security exploit in Disqus in some kind of revenge on the critic is more a reflection on the person who would do such a thing.
I'd be interested to see what fraction of the leaderboard users' karma comes from comments vs. stories.
Ask HN: Should I submit paywalled links?
There's an article by Malcolm Gladwell in The New Yorker that says that, contrary to the popular notion of entrepreneurs as bold risk-takers, successful entrepreneurs are actually more risk-averse than most people. The article can be found at http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/01/18/100118fa_fact_gladwell, but unless you're a New Yorker subscriber, you'll only be able to read the "abstract."

Is it worth posting something like this to Hacker News? HN readers who subscribe to The New Yorker probably caught the article anyway; for others, obtaining access is costly. But the article, if it were freely available, would clearly be of interest to the HN community. And HN readers who do have access to the article might enjoy using HN as a forum to discuss it.

Another possibility is to wait to post the article until it's made freely available; Malcolm Gladwell apparently posts everything he writes for The New Yorker to http://malcolmgladwell.com/ six months after first publication.