skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fun way to generate a reasonably complex password: pick six+ words out of a favorite song, take the first letter of each word, turn to CaMeLcAsE, pick a letter or two and replace with an ascii equivalent (e.g. s becomes 5, a becomes @, etc.), and wrap it with $'s or ^'s or one of those top-row characters.

$JuNa5t5$ ==> Join us now and share the software
Why? Your reaction seems sort of knee-jerk to me.

Most people are perfectly ok with advertisements on web pages.
I would guess that it wouldn't sap your resources more than downloading an advertisement or two.

In fact, for the average user, it might be less noticeable, given that you can load the page first and start loading the code/data for genetic programming afterwards.
And, Yahoo Answers has some of the poorest questions and answers on the Internet. The only site that is worse is Experts Exchange.
Ask HN: What's your Google profile URL, vis-a-vis Buzz?
Hi, I was wondering what readers of HN use Buzz and if they could place their Google profile URL below or in their profile (so people can follow it on Buzz). I've placed my url in my profile.
TL;DR: overlay comments like this onto webpages, and allow the community to vote for the best summary.
Ask HN: Streaming widget 
Anyone know a cost-effective technical solution to stream mp3s and photos to an embeddable widget(like a YouTube Player)?
If you're hiring more than one person with investment money, then I give your company 1 year before you have to reorganise the company. You have 3 people already, add one more engineer and optimise your resources. Hiring more is going to be money wastage.
If you really take a look at it, it does not matter what religion or belief you follow. Once that belief includes someone taking power and ruling over people: The Pope, Stalin, Hitler, and take any modern dictator and add them to the list, the belief is up for corruption.

Remember power corrupts, and absolute power is just more fun. -- Benny Hill
Remember that not all people have the same goals as HN readers. We self-select for people whose goal is to found a successful startup. For many other people, their goal in life might be to be a good parent, or to be a professional sports player, or to be a tenured professor. It seems like she was well on the road to success by our standards, but that doesn't mean she was successful by her standards.
"(God would know the difference)."

I frequently refrain from nitpicking when dealing with children ("yes, the internet is how robots talk to each other"). It wouldn't be too much to expect an omnipotent being to do so as well.
Airbus had massive state support - hardly an even playing field. They're an example of what a good state-private collaboration can do, not of productivity of the private sector in general.
I think Fox news did the same.
http://www.google.com/profiles/103110545840570448381
Do they cap the amount that you can give per month? If not this sounds great for money laundering.
> what's a "strenght meter"?

A pretty good password.
If there is one thing I've learnt recently is this: Most people don't really want to do stuff. They want to read stuff, talk about stuff, plan stuff, design stuff, but they don't want to do stuff. People have come to me and asked me for advice on some stuff I know after I wrote about it. I tell them what to do, but most of them just don't do it.

People are afraid to compete because they prefer to pretend they could have won if they played, than to know that they played and lost.
No, unless the author had proven themselves in other contexts to be narcissistic and immature, I would have given them the benefit of the doubt.
I think it was implied that the type 2 and 3 civilizations are intentionally avoiding us.
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ASKHN: Advice regarding my wiki project
Hi.I operate wikiaudio.It doesn't garner that much traffic but regardless I would like to explore the possibilities of making it a multilingual project. The problem is I only speak English so I would need to find incentives to have, at the very least, one multilingual moderator per language.So, I was wondering what kind of incentives do you think I could present to attract anyone who would possibly want the role? I have a loose idea for a "business model" but it requires high volume traffic and a reliable community of audio fanatics.At this point I can hardly get anyone to contribute to this thing in English let alone another language, but personally I'm ok with that because I enjoy building it up myself and see the long term value in doing so.I thought I would ask for perspectives.Thanx
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Very similar, if not the same concept as Seth Godin's "The Dip" http://sethgodin.typepad.com/the_dip/ (very good read)
1. I dont actively use Apache extended status or req/sec monitoring because it slows down serving requests. Instead I look in the logs every minute and feed the count into ganglia.

2. Again apache logs into ganglia. New Relic for rails. Firebug and yslow when testing.

3. Exception notifier in rails, ErrorDocument in apache that triggers a php script which notifies by email. Log4j in java.

4. Redis, OpenMQ for queueing, Resque for background jobs

5. MySQL only because at the time postgres did not support replication.

6. AlertSite

7. Monit

8. Monit

I am always on the look out for better ways to monitor the servers at work. I never really liked nagios. Monit is extremely easy to use and is very good at what it does. MMonit is a management console that can centralize the monitoring of all servers. Ganglia is great for metrics, flickr can vouch for that one.
I assume for a Russian, roulette is easier to spell. :-)
this won't work unless a blogger is going to use it as a paywall instead of implementing his own.

the problem this is trying to solve won't be solved until the ISP who charges the customers to access your blog start handing out a slice of their cake.

it won't be network neutrality or tiered service that wins, but it could be an ISP "slice" economy that will work.

If my host could send a "bill" to every ISP that accessed my blog, then this could work.

The money won't be much though, what is single click worth? 0.0001 cents maybe.
"People are afraid to compete because they prefer to pretend they could have won if they played, than to know that they played and lost."

Wow - it would have taken me pages to explain that observation (that I see in myself and others).

I resemble that remark.
I will be omnipotent? Huh, that's a stretch. I can barely understand the relatively simple programs I write. If there is a human being who understands his own code completely, in a large system, I'd like to meet him.
That article kind of makes being a loser appealing.
It could be that Mr Wadhwa was willfully ignorant. Hard to believe considering his CV.

So, perhaps the fault lies with those who were pitching to him during the conversation that you overheard. Perhaps they failed to explain sufficiently what business and/or social need was being addressed. Or, perhaps there really was not value to their service. Hard to say from the information you provided.

To varying degrees, everybody is ignorant to new opportunities. The key for entrepreneurs is to identify for their audience what level to communicate, educate and compel, and then follow through effectively. Even then, there are no guarantees.
Second comers to markets tend to do very well, since they can learn from the mistakes and the experiences of the innovator. Apple was hardly the first company to make an MP3 player, after all..

Look at fads in music for confirmation of this. Lady Gaga got big last year.. and now we have Ke$ha basically playing a similar card. Boy bands? Crap, when they come out, you end up with 101 boy band clones within a couple of years.

Get in on the fad, but execute in a way that makes you distinctive.
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The Coming Post-Platform Era
Some Of Your Privacy Concerns With Gmail Buzz
>All else being equal, capital punishment is a great deterrent: 100% effective at preventing that person from committing that crime again.

Deterrence isn't preventing a person from repeating a crime, but ever doing it. The idea is that they won't do it to avoid the punishment -- a sort of sociopath's substitute for morality. I've yet to see any actual evidence that capital punishment is a more effective deterrent than long-term imprisonment and have heard claims (though no evidence) to the contrary (that the psychology of such large punishments leaves them effectively indistinguishable)... I've never researched it but I probably should.

As for preventing repetition, so do many other things, such as imprisonment.

>More to your point, though, I think that a justice system which was ultimately based on retribution would have all the positive qualities you speak of as valid motivations.

I'm sorry but I have to disagree.

You'll notice I said that I mentioned protecting the perpetrator from society... Killing them kind of defeats that. Also, they can't achieve rehabilitation if we kill them.

Essentially, I want a justice system based off compassion for _all_ parties. Call it naive altruism if you wish. This isn't to say we shouldn't make protecting ourselves from criminals a priority, but after that we should be trying to help them. As we do, in providing counseling, etc.
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"Ms. Bishop, a grant-winning scientist"

That is like saying, "a salary-earning division manager." I don't know of any serious academic scientist who isn't funded by grants. Seems like the writer really wanted to put "award-winning," but there were no awards.
Except, really, it's more likely to be because Russia is not in the Visa Waiver Program that makes it super easy for most Europeans to head to the US on a whim.
Quite cool. Image -> ascii converter, including color in html, in Clojure.

Makes me want to learn Clojure.
.sarcasm {
-webkit-transform: skew(15deg);
-moz-transform: skew(15deg);
display: inline-block;
}
Please excuse the tone of this post. I have spent a lot of time thinking about potential performance issues, and rationalising my choices.

I'm a ACM ICPC (programming contest) finalist, and have competed in the Google Codejam, so I know about big-oh.

Anyway, who implements a sorting algorithm in pure Python? I use the builtin sort() function, which is implemented in C (making callbacks into python for comparisons for some types). It uses TimSort - an approach designed to minimise the number of comparisons.
http://svn.python.org/projects/python/trunk/Objects/listsort...

I thought you were going to point out that I should ensure that my system is modular (stateless, partitioned, etc) and I can spread the load across several machines - I can.

You are right that I could make a screaming fast bubble sort and still end up with major issues. Fortunately I already have had that epiphany while solving ACM practice problems.

I appreciate your advice, there are far too many who haven't yet understood it.
"Server/hosting wise, I leave everything to Heroku."

Heroku is great in that it commoditizes the hosting. It's nice for a first side project but if you're planning on doing multiple side projects I would recommend Linode.com (or some other VPS). For just $20/month you can host as many apps as you want (which is a lot if your side projects don't get much traffic). For Heroku, it's $36 per month per app, isn't it? I have a side project on their free version but it seems that if it gets two web requests at the same time it's too much traffic and an error page is displayed for the user.

Using a VPS like Linode.com is a lot more work but it's actually a plus because you get to increase your skills while having fun. :)
His two usage problems - reading in the bathtub and in bed are easily solved.

Bathtub: Zip lock bag. x2 for the safety conscious.

Bed: bent wire hanger http://blog.xkcd.com/2009/04/13/the-pursuit-of-laziness/

The bigger thing to me is how the cell modem in the Kindle changes the dynamics of books. An example: In conversation, one of my friends tells me about a book they recently read.

Rather than a quickly forgotten mental note to look into it the next time I make it to the bookstore, I can download the sample (if available) and start reading. If I'm enjoying it, I can buy it and simply continue reading.
@sachinag, thanks for feedback. good point on not requiring anonymity.

@tom_ilsinszki, I will add int'l support shortly. In the meantime, please go ahead and create a profile and choose arbitrary location. I can update it for you later.
You're basically dismissing everyone outside the US since it's not possible to pick country in the sign-up. That's a lot of market potential you're wasting.
Not sure whether this ought to be done or not. Certainly abstracts [that's the traditional word for "TL;DR" and it also has the advantage of not being pejorative] would be a useful addition to the web, but I don't know whether a browser plug-in would be the best way to do it.

Off the top of my head, encouraging authors to provide their own is a Good Thing, but they can easily incorporate that into their own websites, so no plug-in is needed. What is really needed is a culture that encourages such things (as, for example, the culture surrounding academic writing has, for decades).

As for off-site abstracts, might including such things in sites like HN (see the comment by sorbus) be an effective way of presenting them? And sites like HN already include the voting.
Well, I think the use of the word "leisure" is really what set me off here. Most underemployed people aren't underemployed by choice. Given that we just went from 5% to 10% unemployment by the official numbers, a whole bunch of people are underemployed through no choice of their own. They may own a home but they're probably having trouble making payments and living with a ton of anxiety, especially if they have families.

What I consider "ridiculous" about the statistics is that they aren't indicators of anything -- they're just ways of slicing things so that they appeal to the mindset I described above. In reality, many of these people keep trying harder and harder but good jobs are fewer and farther between -- not everybody is in technology or the service economy.
What gave her the idea that being a tenured professor is better than a founder of a successful startup?

Perhaps this is the result of societal pressure on intelligent people rather than her own thinking?
An online tool to test how much info your email/webmail client exposes about you
@mismax, I hear ya and getting similar feedback from many others as well. I will def build in int'l support asap!
The Braintree police don't seem to think that it was an accident. To be sure, they seem to be operating on "oral history".
Agreed. If it was paired it with a darker color (foreground or background) it would be easier to read.
Privacy Is An Anomaly
LOLWUT. Why is "money" less strong than "business", while "abc123" is stronger than "qwerty"? Fluff.
Free will is an elegant answer, if we accept it... But what about natural disasters?

Well, if you are going to assume the existence of God (Jehovah - the Biblical deity) to make your argument, then the simple answer is that yes, we are responsible for our own suffering, starting with Genesis 3. A perfect world would have no suffering.

No, but Jehova seems to have gone a lot farther than that in the OT. Killing innocent children -- infants even -- for being first-born comes to mind...

Ok, but yet again in your argument, you are assuming the existence of God (who is both all-knowing and all-powerful) and then questioning His ways. Morality is relative to the information one knows. You, not being an omniscient deity, do not have all the information available to make a perfect judgment.

I never understand arguments where people temporarily accept the existence of an all-knowing God, question His divine motives (in their limited capacity), and then conclude that he simply could not exist. Even basic logic would tell you "God Exists" does not lead to "Therefore, God does not exist." in the same argument.
On a sidenote, going to bobparsonsucks.com will redirect you to godaddy.com
The rule is pretty much to format and run a clean install anytime you get a new computer.
good feedback! I'll go for a darker orange and see how that is.

I like the black and gold b/c it's kinda unique. looks different than most other sites.
Having recently read _The Age of Wonder_, about British science in its overlap with the Romantic period in literature, I have to say that a lot of authors and publishers seem to imagine that _any_ book will be read with the attention commonly given to popular fiction--not much. Lots and lots of sloppy stuff.
Why Nicole?
Thanks for the mention and compliments. I can only say test, test, test.

Another hack to is to do testing in student centers (as opposed to bars) so you can get people on their own computers.
But god doesn't exist anyway, so this point is pretty moot.

Well then, it is solved! And to think, we've been wondering all these years!

I hope your open-mindedness and skepticism (forgive me if I'm wrong, but I believe science is one of the biggest champions of this quality), translates well into your other pursuits for knowledge.
Gym price discrimination
Your definition of benefit is different to mine.
Congrats Ben! I think there's definitely a need for this type of thing. Good domain name too.
All simple ideas are wrong at least some of the time. But they are easy to reason about and catch the imagination, which is why they are popular.
With regards the first item on his list, in the UK we have things called "Washer-Driers" which both wash and dry clothes. I find it hard to believe that the USA doesn't have such a thing, but the evidence suggests this to be the case.

Curious.

And it's been mentioned before on HN http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=602515

For some reason the comments there suggest the models used don't work very well. Mine works beautifully.

And regularly.
Some design feedback:

* "What is Wappr?" -- the font size and style should be the same for the whole phrase.

* The slidedown should be much smaller. Wrap it in a differently colored box with rounded corners (perhaps a background darker than the page background).

* Add another color besides the light blue.

* Increase the contrast on your Wappr logo (either black letters or darker blue background).

* You have too many font sizes. I would pick three font sizes and stick with them (and make sure the font sizes aren't too close to each other).

* The "sign in with twitter" animation when you click "vote this" is really cool.

* Make the previous/next/page links more prominent (or change them into image links).

* The twitter icon at the bottom of the page needs to breathe (it touches the fat footer).

* I really like the light, simple, zen-like feel of the design.

* Your fat footer spans the whole width of the screen. If your header did the same it wouldn't feel like the page is completely squished into the middle of the screen with unused space on the edges.

* I like the subtlety of the divider separating the list from the header.
I recently moved away from Evernote for this reason and the slow client. The one thing Evernote has is the websync and webclient but between Dropbox (latex in text files), Gmail and Google Docs I get pretty much the same functionality.
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If, as is likely, you pay with a credit card, any applicability to money laundering seems far-fetched.
Meaning? Gmail is also free.
Don't use these guys for hosting: http://nodaddy.com/.
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Hey, you could combine the abusive terminology and talk about "postal-track professors".

But the need to "help the victims grieve" by labeling every killing "inexplicable" and so casting maximal moral unction on the killer is also just a variety of pop-psychology.

However, this doesn't seem to be an "inexplicable" event. There's probably no single, easy explanation but there seem to be a variety of causal factors we can trace.

"People with a history of violent behavior don't do well in situations of all-or-nothing achievement".
Just flag it, I did. That's what flagging's there for.
Look into Emacs / org-mode. It supports literal LaTeX, and exporting full documents to LaTeX, HTML, and probably a few others.

If you don't like Emacs, you probably won't like Org, though.
See also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irony_mark
> Because this penalty is irrevocable, and all possible legal systems are fallible, the closest we can get to this ideal is life imprisonment.

Life imprisonment is irrevocable. In fact, many "not life" sentences end up being death sentences. Innocents die in prison infirmaries every day. The death chamber, not so much.

If you're actually worried about killing innocents, you want more death penalty convictions because they typically get decent review. Folks who get other sentences typically get squat.
Yeah, I think it would be more fun if you could limit it to a community. Say, people that come from the same referrer get joined to the same "room". Then people on hacker news could have a link and we could all talk to each other randomly, and other communities could do the same. Would probably get much fewer penises.
> I find it interesting that they have a 6 year rule, when the average is around 10 years to get tenure.

Please name some schools at or around that average.
This brings me to the point of this post. What if we challenged these students and Silicon Valley to build businesses that do good for the planet and make a healthy profit doing so?

What if the writer stopped writing utter drivel on TechCrunch and instead got out and volunteered to make the world a better place? If you're going to preach high and mighty, you should be coming from a place of height and mightiness.
Crock. How many women compete in mass, let alone lean mass, or in reach with their boyfriends? How many have even gym-class experience of contact sports?
"Many _small_ streams will form a river." Många bäckar små...
:) Not large streams. That doesn't make sense.
Technology is everything, in terms of quality of life. Without the invention of technologies like the wheel, masonry, the printing press, electricity, sewerage, the light bulb, the computer.. we wouldn't be as safe, warm, educated, and sanitary as we are today.

Is it really that hard to turn a handle for 10 seconds?

No, Mr I'm Not Disabled. It's not hard for us to get up and change the channel on the TV by hand or to walk a mile to WalMart and carry our groceries home each day either.

Do we really need computer-controlled robotic can-opening devices?

Did we really need to go to the moon? Not really, but the effort of doing so spawned a number of significant industries.

Did pg really need to set up a small system for us to post links and stories? Not really, but the relationships and knowledge that have come from it greatly eclipse his plans for it at the time.

Did Linus Torvalds need to play around with making his own small operating system? Not really. We all know what came of that, though.

With technology, intentions don't count for much; the unintended results can easily reach a long way. Perhaps the e-book or the robotic can opening device will inspire unrelated inventions.
The author seems to think that saving the world is a technology problem.

It isn't.

Technology can make it easier to save the world, but technology is neither necessary nor sufficient for saving the world.
I love the story of the logo. And I love how that logo story contrasts with this blog post: http://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2009/01/how-not-to-design-a-...
"At an Academic Pressure Cooker, a Setback Turns Deadly," tells a simple little story. She was under great emotional stress, lost her bid for tenure, and snapped under the strain.

"Going postal" is comparatively mum. It's a hybrid of "Going crazy" and "disgruntled postal worker," and suggests only that we think the perpetrator is not sane -- that we can't understand why they would do that. Where is the pop psychology?
Any suggestions for good domain name registrars?