skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Huh? Why not just use web access?

I want my Dropbox stuff available to me in the office, but it's not my computer, so I'd rather not install the regular Dropbox. And going out to the web client is a lot less convenient than just having a file there locally. I've been wanting something like this for awhile.

It's not so much a thumbdrive, but disk space that I own in the office.
In real life, both founders and earlier investors get diluted.

The meager extra stock options given to the founders don't even come close of compensating from dilution for subsequent rounds.
Not to mention that getting the DVD is easier in the first place :(
KeePass in the office is exactly what I'll be doing with the thumb drive version! In my office, the IT staff actually runs scans of your system and goes through reports of what's installed. So to me, this is exactly what I needed.
His message could also be addressed to everyone else reading this thread.
Jessica Hische - Why you should not hire me for web design
I'm winning this at the moment 57-0-2.
Most investment banking analysts aren't doing the job for the pay (which is mediocre when the hours are considered) but the exit options, one of which is VC. Investment bankers are, on the whole, mediocrities if not outright idiots; the analyst position enables the talentless to trade in their health and well-being in order to have career options that would otherwise be way out of their league. Thus, many venture capitalists are former investment bankers.

Anyone see the problem here?
Hitler's job hunt experience
Nintendo wins 'battle' against R4 pirates
"I can only hope that the numbers quickly get too big to be white washed and ignored that the American zombies wake up and revolt; it will take nothing less. I would only hope that by striking a nerve that stimulates the inevitable double standard, knee-jerk government reaction that results in more stupid draconian restrictions people wake up and begin to see the pompous political thugs and their mindless minions for what they are."
Doug, Brian, and Andrew
It's becoming easier/more difficult to experience being an outsider
Well obviously everyone gets diluted as more money is invested. That makes sense.

But, founders do still end up with substantial stock.
Great! Especially like being able to buy a gift card to get a discount on a purchase I was going to make anyway.
Great. Looking forward to playing with this!
Two Chinese Schools Said to Be Tied to Online Attacks
I think this article is expecting VCs to do something that angels and founders do: take a chance on a crazy idea in exchange for owning a BIG chunk of the upside.

A VC is a later-stage beast. They want less risk, and are willing to accept less reward (and ownership).

There's a spectrum of risk and reward and not everybody is in the same position.
If I worked for the IRS, my wife and I would not exactly be sleeping comfortably tonight. And I think it’s fair to assume that Mr. Stack intended to provoke that feeling in every IRS employee.
I've often wondered if stores could make money selling discounted gift certificates with a time delay. It's 5% off, but not useable until 2 months after purchase. It'd probably be a hassle to handle, but I'd actually consider using gift certificates if they had something like that.
yea but this is a very concentrated list of extremely private information - for your whole life, a list of people you were interested in hooking up with could cause all kinds of harm.
excuse my ignorance, but is a "Formal"?
Thanks!

Agree about the lesson learned.

It surprises me how companies don't take full advantage of using the collective power of users to come up with ideas. Uservoice and GetSatisfaction are great initiatives, but they shouldn't replace 1:1 conversations.
URLs are much farther from everyday reality than objects like books

I should point out that the reverse is true for many people these days, and will be true for many more in the future. The digital revolution is creating a new reality, methinks, and it behooves a citizen of the times to learn how to get around in both. :)
If you are a Pirate this is what you sometimes get - http://www.boingboing.net/2005/06/17/engrish-hilarity-on-.ht...

And that was after 23 mins of bit torrenting what I thought was Snow White.
absolutely. we verify every gift card when we buy it and when we sell it, and will refund your purchase for any reason, even if its because the retailer goes bankrupt, leaves town, or you simply change your mind. we are creating this service to solve the problems with gift cards and the last thing we would want to do it contribute to it :).
The stuff about the human interface for musical instruments is just hokey. It lends no support to the author's argument. Acoustic instruments have the user interfaces that they have because the physics of sound production made more usable interfaces impractical to build. And, indeed, now that electronics have enabled alternative means of sound production, the design of more intuitive and usable interfaces for musical instruments is an active area of research and development. Likewise, musical notation is an anachronism that has survived more as a matter of tradition than on the merits of the design. If you take a look at the design of most MIDI sequencer software, you'll find that piano roll notation has largely replaced traditional music notation as the default interface because it is so much more intuitive.

Most people who attempt to learn to play an acoustic instrument take lessons for a few months and eventually quit because the user interfaces are so difficult to learn. The idea that software should in any way emulate this sort of design is incomprehensible to me, since the design of software is not nearly so constrained as the design of a physical instrument. On a trumpet, you have to hold down the first and third valve key and extend a slide by a precise amount with your ring finger to play the D above middle C, but the fingering for D an octave higher is completely different. If you're playing in any kind of a group, you also have to be aware that your instrument is really a B flat instrument and transpose the notes accordingly to play along with everyone else. If your software had a bizarre interface like this, nobody would buy it unless absolutely no other alternative existed.
Thanks for the pointer! Mylyn does look similar.
Good food for thought. I'm just as guilty as the next guy when it comes to doing some of these. But seeing them written out like this makes it easier to keep a mental checklist of miserable habits unchecked
Schizophrenics are also ideas guys. An idea is just a fragment of thought. It's one step above the sparkles you see when you rub your eyes. Having lots of ideas isn't a skill as far as I'm concerned, just and indication that you have an inflated sense of your own importance and ability.

Knowledge and experience are humbling, they teach you just how hard people had to work to get us to where we are now. I'll bet dollars to doughnuts that if you did have a sound base of mathematical knowledge, you wouldn't have many ideas because you'd realise just how hard it is to create a novel proof.

Ideas aren't worth squat because the overwhelming majority of them are complete bunk. Ideas are like a big pile of dirt - the value comes from the digging and sifting and smashing and polishing that gets you the gems. Action is what creates value.
Definitely some connections to Up in the Air, which deals with video redundancies as a cost-saving measure but questions the social contract that impacts.

(On a related note, see 25 cell phone vintage gadgets of annoying TIME news links)
Funny, iTunes and Quicktime are CPU hogs on Windows machines
The messages, emails, and IMs you send around, not to mention your credit card/address/etc., are equally as sensitive.
Fair enough. I don't know what other people do. If the link is very fresh, I scan the site manually. If it's older, I search first using Google. I grant that this may be more effort than it's really worth.

Rereading it now, my post reads a lot more aggressively than I meant it. At the time, I thought I saw this post (or the reply I linked to) a few times recently, but obviously that's not your fault. Apologies if I came off dickish.
Google gets buzzed with a class-action suit
Thank you; I noticed that but it must not have stuck.

Fwiw, the national student loan default rate for 2007 was only 6.7% (http://www2.ed.gov/offices/OSFAP/DCS/default.html and http://www2.ed.gov/offices/OSFAP/defaultmanagement/2007state... for per-state rates).

The low interest rates on Federal loans (hovering between 1.5% and 2.5% last I checked) make them far more attractive to the alternatives, especially since the vast majority of students pay off their loans. Scrapping Federal student loans entirely would only benefit the people who default.
I don't leave every tag open; just a few: tr, td, p, li.

To me, it's intuitive that when the next row/listitem/paragraph begins, the first one ends. So I think this is perfectly readable:

<ul>
<li>Item1
<li>Item2
<li>Item3
</ul>

<table>
<tr>
<td>Foo
<td>Bar
<td>Baz

<tr>
<td>Foo
<td>Bar
<td>Baz
</table>
yeah the colour cycling one starts to look like ripples in water, kinda freaky!
Some People Can’t Read URLs
This is it, government cannot accord him any attention overtly. Therefore, no labeling as terrorist.
WP.com downtime summary
It will be the Twilight Zone if the mobile market gets a more capable, better browser market share breakdown than on desktop. Hrm, I wonder what Microsoft will use for their new Windows Phone?

I had heard windows 7 might use OpenGL ES for graphics (http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=2752) which would be amazing... But latest news is that it won't. It would be very nice if Microsoft also went with Webkit, but that will never happen. However the mobile gaming and browser standards are starting to be established, will Microsoft become the IE6 of mobile by not supporting OpenGL ES and WebKit or HTML5 capable browser?

It will be much harder to port games to Windows Mobile the way they are setting it up. And web development for mobile would be nice with mobile market supporting an html5 browser before desktop across the board.
If they started charging money would this cross the line into prostitution?
Sounds like The Pragmatic Programmers Magazine: http://pragprog.com/magazines
Not on average. As marciovm pointed out, this is highly concentrated. It's also the kind of information you might be unlikely to put in an email or IM.

Trusting people with email and credit card info carries legal and financial risks, but this carries a social risk that can have a much longer-lasting effect.
I think I'll recognize all of my friends with their writing styles and ideas...
Christkv's node-mongodb-native
http://5z8.info/enriched-uranium-supply_h4r1_inject_worm

go on click on it I dare you!!
I guess I shouldn't be surprised at how many people look down on these actions, but I am. No american is "innocent" when they legislate thievery so they can continue eating nachos while wanting to expense thier medical costs to the rest of us, have us pay for their poor judgment with money. Ignorance of the consequences isn't an excuse. Most Americans are vanilla enough that they never find themselves outside the american comfort zone, otherwise they would find just how small the room is. Cryptic and meaningless to most but I couldn't stand reading all of these other comments. Downvote away.
isn't the database itself a file?
No sneakiness here! While we track visitors and users in order to look out for abuse, this data is not and will not be made available to profile users.
What a great idea! Who hasn't got an unused gift card lying around somewhere!?

Although, it would be awesome if they offered digital delivery of gift cards that can be redeemed online in addition to delivery of physical cards.
She seems to have a better understanding of web design-related issues than most "web designers". Now I want to hire her.
(A) involve acts dangerous to human life that are a violation of the criminal laws of the United States or of any State

So an attack designed to destroy an unoccupied building would not be terrorism under the structure you describe above.
total fucking crap. mike mann is an idiot who got lucky as a speculator.
Open source is dangerous for computing education?
This place is turning into Digg.
True. Which is why I'd think twice switching email providers.

Obviously you make a decision every time you give another entity any information, and storing data with Google/Facebook/et. al. carries risks as well.

But, as others have pointed out, the concentration and nature of this information matters too.

I'm reminded of the Veronica Mars episode about the "Purity Test" -

Step 1: get everyone's socially valuable data
Step 2: Hilarity/blackmail ensues

Just to be clear - I'm not accusing the site of doing anything nefarious, just pointing out the difficulty of establishing trust.

I suspect there's a lot of money to be made in figuring out how to bridge that trust gap (of course, that's a little bit like the various authentication or email trusted-sender schemes that float about - IF ONLY we could will some universally trusted and known-good structures into existence, certain problems would be that much easier to solve...)
Does any online dating site that charges?
Well, it's certainly not for everyone, but shortcomings are only shortcomings as long as you agree with them and don't care to work on them.
That just means that they would get company paid bodyguards.

Yet more of people's hard-earned money going to perks for jerks rather than health-care for those paying the premiums.
I understand her point. However, if I am offering one thing but people keep repeatedly asking for another thing, then maybe that other thing is what I should (also) be offering. Seems like pretty good feedback from the market.
A problem I see in a big company with judging people on their output rather than closely monitoring their hours is that if you do have an employee that is only doing say 2 hours work a day but is getting as much done as some of the people putting in 8 you want to identify them and give them adequate compensation so that you get the full time out of them and as a consequence get more done.

I think flexible work hours are great in a motivated group with clear goals but they could be costly if you have an unmotivated group doing it for the paycheck.
I'm completely torn about this issue.

On the one hand, I know very well just how incompetent many people are with computers. A random example: last week I nearly bit off my own hand while watching someone use a browser while giving a presentation. Every time she wanted to go to a different webpage, she would fumble around for a minute, get confused and then quit the browser. After restarting and letting it load her homepage (not Google), she would use the search bar to look for her goal.

So, ok, computers are tricky. Programmers are unhelpful and unkind. Designers focus on flash and not helpful visual cues. Blah, blah blah. But c'mon, why would anyone think that you need to quit the application to get somewhere else? You don't quit your email program to read or write another email. You don't leave your house to visit another room. You don't unplug the refrigerator (or even close the damn door) to find a the cheese when you already have the mustard.

Sometimes I feel sympathetic, but often I think people are just stupid and lazy.
Those who work for the IRS? Politicians and bureaucrats? Anyone who ever dismissed Joe Stack as a bitter has-been?
By that token, law is also trivia. The thing is, how successful do you think the internet is going to be? It has, within a few decades, permeated almost every aspect of our lives, and it seems set to get even bigger. An analogy in human history would be, say, society itself. Before that, people lived in isolated subsistence-level, hunter-gatherer tribes. When bigger societies emerged, a member of such a tribe could have made the argument that knowing the rules of such a society was useless trivia because it wasn't really useful, as opposed to knowing how to hunt and recognize berries that aren't poisonous. These tribes either integrated into larger societies or became extinct.

Needless to say, I do not know the future of human civilization or whether the internet will continue to be important or even retain the same structure, but it seems reasonable to suppose that it will, because as more technology is built on top of it or that utilizes it (all our computers and mobile devices, web apps, etc), it becomes more indispensable, subject to the emergence of disruptive substitutes.

Forgive this rambling comment, but I have a point, which is this: I think that as more widely-used abstractions are built on top of a basic structure, this structure becomes an increasingly important reality unto itself and the mechanics of it become deep knowledge, at least where us humans are concerned. Also, I would point out that though I agree with you on math, physics and chemistry, to most people, those are useless trivia too.
Unauthorized protest ? Unlawful and possibly violent. Definitely trying to influence government and the civilian population. Therefore, terrorist. See how that goes ? The definition is so ambiguous it can be applied to anything.
True, but that assumes she's not achieving her measures of success via her current offering. Listening to feedback and iterating is great, but if I want a $10M business and build a $10M business, that doesn't mean I should listen to feedback that could make it a $20M business.
Her typography is absolutely beautiful, that's for sure.
Nice idea! Would be great if you mention that the service is US-only; you are not using a country-specific TLD, so it's not obvious.
I helped co-create this site and was surprised to find it linked here. It started as a fun project with a friend: a humorous idea that, as the attention it's gotten has shown, is apparently controversial, as well.

I have to say, though, that what's surprised me most about its reception is that anonymity doesn't make users as vicious as many might think. I've been pleased with how many "failings" posted are sweet compliments; playful inside jokes; and well-worded, well-meaning suggestions.

If anyone would like to try it out, I've made a promo code, "HACKERNEWS". We'd love any suggestions and/or feedback.
Student loans are also related to universities raising their costs substantially. I think it would be very hard to pay full tuition at Stanford, MIT, Harvard, etc without student loans even working full time in college. Part of the blame can be an educational system that has costs spiraling out of control
Well, I guess it's official, people have lost the capacity for introspection.
The site is in very, very early beta. It's a side-project with a friend, but we're trying to work on features as we can. Facebook Connect and Twitter OAuth are high on the list, but so far, users have had enough of an attention span to meet our requirements :)
I would add, for the benefit of sixteen year olds like myself: you will almost certainly not ship a game as your first well-done piece of software. Get some experience and come back later. (cough Or never. cough Games are a terrible industry to be in for the overwhelming majority of programmers. Starting a business is hard enough without handicapping yourself that way and competing with a virtually infinite population of people willing to work for nothing. But I didn't want to hear that at sixteen either.)
What exactly is inhumane about allowing an individual to take on personal, non-dischargable debt in exchange for an education?

How would the world be a better place if no one had access to this (generally very low-interest) source of funding for their education?

I may be biased because I put myself through college on a combination of ROTC and loans, both of which were in different ways using my own time and labor (present and future) as a way of investing in my future. There was no other way I was going to be able to attend MIT, a dream I'd had since I was about 8 years old and saw a PBS special about the 2.70 design contest.

Sure, some people take loans and don't spend the money wisely (fail to graduate, choose an expensive school for a very low paying career, max out their loans and gamble or fritter it away). Those are all personal choices and I don't have a problem with those people suffering the consequences in exchange for what I perceive to be the greater good: that a motivated kid from middle or lower income family (such as I was) is able to attend MIT, thrive there, and as a result go on to have a substantially more fulfilling life. Oh and by the way, as part of that life, you'll have to pay back that money that someone fronted you when you were penniless, unemployable outside a mall context, no credit history, no significant employment history, etc.

Taking that opportunity away from all such kids, in exchange for having no one be able to make a poor choice specifically around student loans, is not a good trade, IMO.
There's JavaScript embed code for blogs, and links for tweeting and posting to Facebook, but we agree, and we'll be working (as we find time) on better integration with other services.
Moneyweb: visualizing contributions in 2008 elections.
3 easy steps for scheduling regular backup of your MySql database: Be safe
Answer: Because her text is so small (10px Georgia!) and low contrast at the standard size that it's painful to read. Probably looks lovely in print (like most of her portfolio) but no decent Web designer would ever set type like that online.
You should check out Groovy then. It has optional typing. Put in enough type annotations, and it's compiled Java.
Try "HACKERNEWS".
If this completely keeps out all piracy then it's a good move on their part. I think though if the game does manage to get cracked their should be some kind of update that removes it, it's unfair for pirates to get a better game play experience than paying customers.
For future reference, do

ssh -D 1080 unixhost.yourinstitution.edu

then set your browser’s SOCKS proxy to localhost:1080.
Based on his work for Coders at Work, I'm really looking forward to this.
They copied my content - what can i do?
If someone just copies your content and posts it as their own, what do you do?<p>Pls help !!<p>Original news item:
http://iptiam.com/?p=241
Copied by: http://www.abouttheipad.com/news/the-economics-behind-apple%E2%80%99s-ibookstore/
Decision made by committee can lead to really crazy things
Taking away student loans would remove some of the upward pressure on tuition, but frankly those schools would have the luxury of accepting only rich kids. (If you're turning away 90% today, and your applicant pool is cut in half, you still have to turn away 80%.)

I won't go so far as to say that arguing against student loans is directly arguing to reserve elite colleges for the wealthy only, but I am one kid who wouldn't have been able to go without loans. Perhaps that makes me "too involved" or "too passionate" about my own experience to be fully objective, but I'm glad every day, workday or not, about the choices I made and the fact that loans were available so I could make that free choice to take them.
The standard of each application doing things in a slightly different way, and of tolerating a bit of legacy cruft on the side. This is a far cry from the Windows registry hell; even gconf is a far cry from Winders registry hell.
This is definitely a concern. We're working on a lot of anti-abuse features that will roll out, though, before it leaves private beta.
No. The root user's configuration and the systemwide configuration are distinct. /root has the former, and /etc has the latter.
Not a substitute, but a complement.
I'm surprised that no one's commented on what Jon Stack was talking about — the laws affecting Indie Contractor's tax status.

http://synergistech.com/ic-taxlaw.shtml

"20 Questions" of the IRS to determine status
http://synergistech.com/20qs.shtml

Has anyone had any trouble with this? As an early indie contractor, I'm pretty damn concerned about this.
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