skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nice link - thanks for that. (the link to the article is broken but easy to find)

Another interesting question is to look at the relationship of atheism and belief. Actually science does not approach real atheism - it never exceeds agnosticism (one of Feynman's points).

Real atheism is very close to deep religious belief. Look at the great mystics - St John of the Cross, Teresa of Avila, Kabbalists - they reach a point of blackness, emptyness where there is nothing but a completely baseless faith to sustain them.

William Blake in the 4 Zoas discusses 'experience'. I won't quote it here as it is too long - but it is here:
http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-four-zoas-excerpt/

a remarkable passage that begins:

What is the price of Experience do men buy it for a song
Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No it is bought with the price
Of all that a man hath his house his wife his children...

What I personally have always wondered (and I ask this as a half-assed, weak, too lazy to get up on Sundays, lapsed catholic) is if there is really a god, an omnipotent all-knowing, all powerful entity. Then how could we possibly know anyhting about this entity.

Somewhere is the Hebrew scriptures (part of the Moses story) is the phrase "no one who looks upon my face lives". If one really believes in such a god (and I am in no way looking down on this) - how far is that from atheism?
> Readers digest oozes out of its every sentence.

Definitely in the way it's told. But that doesn't automatically mean that the story isn't true. I'm sure RD could report on Barack Obama's election and make you doubt it really happened..
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i used it for gaming
But without a hurdle-laden merchant account they can't process them.
wanted to point out a comment in the article that notes http://www.remobo.com/

looks quite similar to what hamachi used to be. anyone have experience with it?
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I just checked the users of the posts on the first page. All users that have (almost) no karma have posted junk.

Not all posts by high-karma users are good, but a base level of karma required for posting can't hurt. If somebody does't spend time on the site commenting to archive e.g. 25-100 karma, why should we expect that user to provide a lot of valuable links within the sites focus?
Andrew Warner is the Charlie Rose of startup founder interviews.
did you mean "quality of Google's search results"? Otherwise I can't see the argument for Google donating in your comment.
There's a reason why people use framing devices like 3/4 views or coverflow widgets
PLT already has ephemerons too:

http://docs.plt-scheme.org/reference/ephemerons.html
Sheep May Safely Graze http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jEXDPzqo2g

A modern version of this story could include links to all 12 recordings, so you could follow along at home, as if with your own personal Einstein. It makes me think that the internet must be helping to accelerate technological advancement, singularity-style. Although, it might be mainly at the dissemination stage, rather than the cutting-edge. And... the same thing was probably thought of for television...

Of course, the key ingredients here are not informational resources - but someone who is profoundly interested in your growth, who is profoundly capable, and... someone you'll actually listen to.
IIRC they did this successfully on MythBusters although their process was much more elaborate.
I think many businesses on HN should be doing their SEO in-house rather than contracting out. My reasons at length:

http://www.kalzumeus.com/2008/01/28/why-you-shouldnt-pay-any...

There is also the factor that to be good at SEO, really good at it, you have to integrate it into your ongoing operations. It is like marketing: you can't put a firewall between the product and the marketing and just toss stuff over the wall and expect it to work.
I agree with all this, but most important is get rid of that 'important information' message.
As a start-up, you probably don't have enough users to have that as the main thing we see when arriving on the home page.

You could probably add a little message or something near a 'login area' with a link to 'changes to user accounts' or something to that effect.

I still have no idea what you do and why.
Let me be the first to say the obvious here: huzzah for spamming social media!
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Meeting every Tuesday at the moment :)
Trying it now, will update later when I get back in the office and setup the other machines =)
Yeah, I can't say I feel all that sorry for this guy. He got his 15 minutes of HN fame, if that's what he was after.

This is a more interesting to me as a Pitchfork copyright/trademark issue: http://pitchforked.com/ (Context here: http://twitter.com/zachklein/status/9188476155 )

I hope the guy doesn't get the smackdown after just building the site, but who knows. (A lawyer knows.)
I think I understand what you said there up to the word "use". Can you provide a translation for the UX-impaired?
allow merchants and consumers to accept card payments without a conventional merchant account

Isn't that called PayPal? Square is PayPal, but on the iPhone; it doesn't seem hard to understand. And it's surprising that PayPal themselves missed this opportunity, given that they started on the Palm.
Tree style tabs is pretty much the only thing preventing me from switching to Chrome. I suspect it will never get such a thing.
So then when I pay for my meal at dinner and the suspicious waiter pulls out their iPhone to swipe a $5 transaction I might never notice? Not that I'm especially bad at watching transactions, but I am sure that this could be a problem.

Edit: Not that I don't like this idea as a business invention, because it really does ease taking payments for service-based companies.
If I'm trying to order food from them, and their entire business model depends on me buying food from them, yet they're making it hard for me to find what food I can buy from them, they are either idiots or sloppy people who hire idiots to design their website. Either way, they're worthless.
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You mean "on their own subdomain", right? Subdomains are domains and tumblr.com is a subdomain of com. And com is a subdomain of " " for that matter. RFC 1034. So why misleading?
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Usually, when I'm working at any public/not-my-own computer, I start holding Escape right after opening any browser windows.
On the other end of the spectrum, you could be awarded $20 million dollars in stock options by Red Hat and VA Linux. And of course, there's everything in between, including getting hired and paid by the company that likes your open source project.

Companies also contribute back to open source [1], lobby the Supreme Court of the United States to fix software patents [2], and provide open source project hosting to thousands for free [3].

[1] http://www.redhat.com/truthhappens/leadership/osdevelopment/

[2] http://press.redhat.com/2009/10/01/asking-the-supreme-court-...

[3] http://www.ubuntu.com/news/canonical-open-sources-launchpad
Try http://www.bkmks.com: (Google) search box at the top; organize your favorite links below via drag & drop. Fast and simple.

I just wish it had tabs and easy/multiple delete (I hacked together a javascript bookmarklet to work around the multiple-clicks-to-delete-a-single-link issue)
You're right on both counts, and it is indeed a poor idea unless we can figure out a way to efficiently implement arbitrary precision arithmetic in hardware. I was just quibbling that the implementation of the binary search wasn't strictly wrong. :)

Having said that, I do think that such pitfalls might be easily avoided if a check for the values being operated on were built into the language implementation. That way, we can all write simpler code without having to take into account the min/max values for types specific to the language.
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What's the market cap of red hat compared to microsoft, or oracle
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If it was for the later, I think Wide-Area Bonjour (DNS-SD) is a good substitute. Bonjour handles port-forwarding via NAT-PMP or uPnP as well service discovery. I have a bias or two though (see profile).
An IP address is only assigned to one computer at a time. If you have a (recent) timestamp, you can resolve the IP address to a MAC address (and customer account number/address) by subpoenaing the ISP. You might get a router/gateway/proxy, but that's still "one computer" and you've still found it. It's just not the one you wanted.
Explaining the joke would have been far less funny. Context is everything.
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From the video on the square site it seemed like person to person transactions are encouraged. I'm guessing turn around time for money transfers are going to be longer and maybe a secondary online approval process for some transactions for non-merchant accounts.
Excellent interview and inspiring story. Always great hearing about companies like Woo Themes who have grown organically from self-funding.
Really appreciated this one. We've been guilty of spending too much time on stupid things, mostly business related to date. Time spent building features, building tools to measure user engagement, revenue, and ways to optimize conversions, all good uses of time. Talking to a potential synergistic partner about a cross promotion and significantly disrupting workflow for a day or two? Not worth it. Actually, I would add to this and say that if you are just starting out, avoid partnering if you can, especially with bigger companies. It takes forever, and what you really need to answer isn't something they can offer up front and that is: will the partnership make us money soon? At this point we still get partnership offers from folks but instead of having big discussions about it anymore, we tend to just shoot back and say "That sounds cool, why don't we try something out next week and do X, measure results and see from there." It weeds out people who want to discuss their six sigma with you and selects for people who want to make money and get stuff done.

Boy, we wasted a lot time. Thanks for sharing the Snaptalent lessons.
You do realize that this is pretty much what record labels do, right? Only they call the investment an advance and wrap it up in a 360 deal. Within the past ~5 years, this has also increasingly become what artist managers do.
My understanding is that PayPal originally was intended to be that and now is the most sophisticated fraud detection and combatment system ever created.

> Just as Napster allowed people to directly share music online, PayPal enables people to exchange money instantly without having to open expensive merchant accounts to accept credit cards. Yet to Levchin's surprise, advanced cryptography has had little to do with PayPal's success. Rather, the company's rapid adoption by millions of small businesses and individuals operating chiefly on Internet auction site eBay is largely credited to Levchin's more recent obsession: developing financial surveillance software that closely monitors PayPal's customers and almost instantly alerts both the company and law enforcement officials to any suspicious account activity. "We mine millions and millions of transactions in real time," Levchin says.

http://www.paypal.com/html/mit-1201.html
How many financial software companies open source their software, if you've got something that can make a business money, they won't care about paying. Many developers trap themselves in meager areas where the only way is down (open source or ad supported) because they refuse to learn new things and compete in domains with huge opportunity (accountng/erp, finance, electrical/civil/mechanical engineering, computer graphucs animation, medical/legal expert systems).
Which is a large part of the reason new PC games don't support LAN play.
I used it for playing games in LAN mode.
I'm not sure if you're making a joke here or not, but that sounds like the traditional model of signing a band, more or less. Thing is, most bands that can make money are probably already making money or on their way to making money, without having to sign away rights to their output, or percentage points to a label.

"Studio time" isn't quite what it used to be - anyone with a computer (doesn't even have to be a decent one), a fairly inexpensive multichannel sound card ($150-$500), and (unfortunately, typically pirated) audio software can put together a mix with high enough fidelity that most people would be happy with. Bands already invest in their own equipment, so use the mics they have, the equipment they own, and you've got a 'studio' for maybe $1000 more than what the band already owns on account of being a band.

Distribution is easy, post your music to Bandcamp and iTunes. Then you need promotion. This is the one remaining area where traditional labels still have a decent amount of control, but that doesn't mean you can't hire your own publicist. Just like the labels do.

The method you propose is more conducive to launching the 'career' of a pop star who burns out after one single. You don't need to hire instruments, but you will need studio time with session musicians, and will have to hire songwriters and a costume department, and all kinds of things to put enough flash on ultimately uninteresting music in the hopes that you trick enough people into buying the album so you can at best break even, which only happens because you're scamming the original 'artist' from the start.
How much employment. Oracle employs 100,000+ people, How many open source developers at IBM?
That's the most useful "under construction" page I've ever seen.
I don't get what Square understands that merchant account providers do not. There are tons of merchant account providers whose best interest is to give you an account, yet they still make you jump through all kinds of hoops to get one because fraud is so costly to them. (Chargebacks are expensive).

If it was profitable to make it easy to get a merchant account it seems that this market is developed enough that it would have figured it out by now.

Square makes it sound like they are effectively "merchant accounts for everyone" Makes me wonder what they have figured out on the fraud prevention side that nobody else has.
I'm not sure what argument you are trying to make with this fragment of a sentence. If you're trying to imply that Microsoft is a larger company than Red Hat because Microsoft takes advantage of open source developers and Red Hat does not, you're wrong. Microsoft had its IPO 5 years before the Linux kernel was written. If anything, Microsoft has benefited more from ripping off developers of proprietary systems [1].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Computer,_Inc._v._Microso...
No, Wufoo and WooThemes are not related. Other than phonetically, that is.
Synchronous or Asynchronous? Honestly I don't have use for more than 10mbps or 20mbps downstream. I'd kill for 100Mbps upstream, though, so I could either back up all of my media on a remote server, or just store all of my media on a remote server or (sigh) "the cloud".

My camera currently generates raw photos that are 22MB in size, and if I get shutter happy, it's not too difficult to fill up a 16GB card, especially at a concert or a big event. Keeping my media reliably backed up is pretty difficult, and currently involves two hard drives, one of which I bring with me to my Seattle datacenter whenever I can. And forget about Video, I have 2TB of high-res home video just waiting to be lost in the event of a dual spindle crash.

The other thing would be to use some sort of telepresence service for chatting with my daughter, who lives with her mother. All of the normal video chat systems (skype, yahoo, google) are pathetic imitations of what popular science promised we would have had 20 years ago.
No, I wasn't joking but thanks for your edifying and interesting response. I guess my stereotype of how the record biz works involves a lot more micromanaging/execs dictating every move and decision the artist makes.
This part in particular really stuck out for me as it's a point I've been making (in lesser words) for quite some time when it comes to why I am an atheist:

"For instance, the size of the universe is very impressive, with us on a tiny particle whirling around the sun, among a hundred thousand million suns in this galaxy, itself among a billion galaxies.

Again, there is the close relation of biological man to the animals, and of one form of life to another. Man is a latecomer in a vast evolving drama; can the rest be but a scaffolding for his creation?

Yet again, there are the atoms of which all appears to be constructed, following immutable laws. Nothing can escape it; the stars are made of the same stuff, and the animals are made of the same stuff, but in such complexity as to mysteriously appear alive – like man himself.

It is a great adventure to contemplate the universe beyond man, to think of what it means without man – as it was for the great part of its long history, and as it is in the great majority of places. When this objective view is finally attained, and the mystery and majesty of matter are appreciated, to then turn the objective eye back on man viewed as matter, to see life as part of the universal mystery of greatest depth, is to sense an experience which is rarely described. It usually ends in laughter, delight in the futility of trying to understand. These scientific views end in awe and mystery, lost at the edge in uncertainty, but they appear to be so deep and so impressive that the theory that it is all arranged simply as a stage for God to watch man's struggle for good and evil seems to be inadequate."

What he doesn't say is the point I attempt to make after explaining my version of Feynman's quoted text: If we are such a small speck in the vastness of the universe, what right do we have as human beings to claim we KNOW what created us and everything else? Why do we assume the universe is merely something for us to look at in the sky?

In my opinion religion and certain belief in deities is simply arrogance and a great crime by humanity as a whole.
- We've been matching questions using an a sophisticated algorithm since before Aardvark launched.

- We've been using real-time interaction also for years, and more recently added IM notification and chat (not saying I don't think parts of Quora's interface is slick, just we were doing it first).

- We have similarly distinguished backers and advisors:
http://techcrunch.com/2009/09/24/fluther-raises-600k-from-to...

- We have a large, thriving community and a healthy amount of traffic (around 800k uniques).

- And at the end of the day, we have a lot of smart people giving great answers. Try asking a good question good question.

- Having talked at length with some of the other co-founders, ceos, and investors of these very companies (and others not on the list), I can say pretty confidently, that we are indeed, "in the fray"

Not trying to sound defensive. I love how our company how's grown, where we're going (we have some amazing stuff in store for this year). More I'm saying how it can be frustrating to not get included in discussions like this (which can shape opinion over time) that are written by people who don't actually have serious insight about the space.

Quite frankly, we're a lot more in the "in-crowd" than some of the other Q&A companies, but I don't think that makes them irrelevant.
I don't use Dropbox, but this sounds like something that can be easily solved with a symlink. And Windows actually (sort of) supports them: they are called junction points.
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It would be nice, but the overhead would likely be unacceptable, since most code is dominated by integer arithmetic of one form or another. There was a StackOverflow question here http://stackoverflow.com/questions/199333/best-way-to-detect... that has some good suggestions. As for hardware support, many (but not all) architectures have some support for trapping or jumping to a specified address on integer overflow. The problem is compiler support. It has been a long time since a mainstream compiler for a mainstream architecture has supported it. GCC still has a -ftrapv flag, but it appears not to work anymore.

There's a cool paper on a static analysis tool to detect possible overflows here: http://www.isoc.org/isoc/conferences/ndss/09/pdf/17.pdf They used it to find real bugs in open source projects.
He's saying you should alter your screenshot to make it more obvious that it's not the real thing. Frame it with an image of a monitor, give it a drop-shadow, etc.
That was their model, for a long time anyhow. The problem was that recording was very expensive (you can do OK on a shoestring now), and it's a very blockbuster driven industry- it's hard to make much money off modest touring.
Linus Torvalds was given enough stock options in RedHat, VA Linux to buy a house in California. These companies wouldn't have existed without him - they were just trying to pay him back for the network of value he created. Yes, the creator of Linux is not super rich (in the let's make a $200M+ America's Cup contender sense) but can you imagine what it feels like to have created a software industry?
This, of course, is why you always use size_t for array indices. (unsigned int blows up on amd64, too: a 4GB array of chars is huge but not impossibly large).
OTOH, we now have programs routinely run in homes (e.g. games) that occasionally require computing power orders of magnitude higher than what was available ten years ago. I expect that if we have orders of magnitude more power deliverable to our homes, innovative people will find uses for them.
I'm just pointing out that microsoft and other companies have much larger equity than red hat, and have made a lot more developers rich than red hat.

In general I believe that open source transfers wealth from developers to the rest of society, and the same applies to web companies that choose a ad-supprted model. In certain segments, such as search, this makes sense. But in others, people like richard stallman and jimmy wales, have single handedly destroyed potential industries that could have formed and employed many people.
Heh. I used to use that trick when I was a kid, to see the refresh rate of the television.
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I made the same mistake by submitting this version of the article. It's inter-TechCrunch blog-spam. A one paragraph teaser that leads to the full article: http://eu.techcrunch.com/2010/02/16/guest-post-how-we-built-... which has already been submitted to HN http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1130074
One possibility from the video (n.b. I had it muted): Requiring a photograph of the buyer, as well as their signature, might help quite a bit with fraud prevention...
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I would venture in the mid-hundreds. To get a real answer, I'd have to correlate the active contributor database for Apache with LinkedIn.