skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh dear. No rude word parsing.

http://bitch.willyougotoformalwithme.com/asshole
Ask HN for Information on "Ewing's Sarcoma"
A 14 year old kid in my colleagues baseball team is fighting Ewing's Sarcoma cancer at the Lucille Packard Children’s hospital. It started with a tumor on his hip and has metastasized (spread) to the lungs. Two different chemo protocols have been tried and not worked. Stanford is at a loss for a cure. If anyone can offer any help/insight regarding "Ewing's Sarcoma," please contact sam@callahan-group.com. [spread the word]

PS: Not sure if this is appropriate for HN, so please feel free to kill the story, but I thought this audience might have connections to medical hackers too.
http://news.ycombinator.com/ turns to http://5z8.info/how-to-build-a-bomb_s2t1_-49exploit-begin-- turns to http://5z8.info/startdownload_x5g2_blackmarket turns to http://5z8.info/molotovcocktail_m2x9_horse-slaughter... i wonder if this ever goes full circle?
Boston Lisp Meeting: A Sane Approach to Modern Web Development
I'm sorry, I spoke too quickly. On the other hand, it would actually have worked: every OS I'm aware of (Windows, Linux, OpenBSD) limits 32-bit applications to 2GB of memory, and 64-bit applications to some ridiculously large number well short of 2^64. In neither case could this actually overflow.

But that's system-specific; it's not defined to fix this, so sorry for spreading the misinformation.
Preparing for Cyberwar
I tried it in Photoshop which since CS2 (or so) has an implementation of the Knuth & Plass algorithm. I found it quite distracting myself. Granted, I was on the lookout for text jumping around and had hyphenation disabled.
Need an Affordable Place for Your Startup? A Few Spots Just Got Cheaper
9 Tips On Inspiration For Writing
Write on things, which you have got a inspiration and enthusiasm for. There are some tips that will inspire you for writing read them here
I am one of those everyday "content" people. I used to be "passionate"... doing startup work, personal projects, climbing mountains (literally), etc.

You know what? I'm happier now. I have more burdens, I'm in worse health, I have little personal time.

Yet somehow... still happier. Go figure.
Update, http://www.sourcingmap.com/cctv-passive-video-balun-utp-bnc-... looks like it could be on the right path. I may try the pull after all, though.
You think they'd write a story about this.

Oh... Wait...
Symbol Server: How Adobe Could Address Crash Issues
This means that Techcrunch is down, and @arrington is gearing up for a nervous breakdown after his 4th or 5th provider switch in 2 years.

Eventually I would think that they would belly up to the bar and implement a redundancy solution that involves multiple solutions. Then again, I am an infrastructure architect, not a blogger, what do I know?
http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/techcrunch.com

not just you
My point in this piece was that it's a mistake to think if this as a continuum and that these are actually 3 discrete classes. Misunderstanding arises for not appreciating this.
For a contrary view, see the facts: http://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2010/02/assessing-the-stimulus...

and: http://www.econbrowser.com/archives/2010/02/assessing_the_s....
We need landline-to-GV number porting, pronto!

The only problem is that we'll probably need to generate a whole buncha new phone numbers for the people that want to keep the old landlines for incoming Google Voice calls. C'mon. 10 new area codes can't be THAT hard!
In 2008 somebody in Germany got fed up with the high taxes on fuel. He couldn't afford to run his business (which required a car) any more. So he parked the car on a lawn in the city centre of Frankfurt, wrote "Fuel Profiteering http://www.acidware.de/ in big letters on it, and put it on fire.

I just want to say that there are other routes to explore before taking it this far.

http://www.spiegel.de/auto/aktuell/0,1518,562570,00.html
I thought they were using laptops on carts. My school does that too. Did they give every student a computer to take home?
Trick question. By the analogy of entering a black hole, the observer approaching the event horizon -- the accelerating point of no return -- can't tell when the threshold is crossed; things still seem normal locally.

So if you can conceive the question, the answer may already be 'yes', and any definitive answer of 'no' is unreliable.
There does exist people who are passionate about family but I argue this is a seperate category from people who merely have a family. That you think of it this way is a reflection of you understandif the world through the lens of someone with passion. The "so what" of this piece is precisely to point out these misunderstandings.
Thank you for the reply. I was under the impression that the list was public by default. From the link you included this appears to have been the case.

The default behavior shouldn't be to make that list public. I think that is where people are taking issue.
Ah, it doesn't work for compound names (like Mary Beth). Hyphens and underscores still come through. :(
Flash vs HTML5 : Comparing Apples and Elephants
I suppose the super-intelligent beings could figure out he meant the POST method of the HTTP protocol, and probably either a url encoded or multipart form body...
"incidental uses, non-consumptive uses, and personal, non-commercial uses."
In our typing class, the teacher would give us each a floppy that stored our progress, averages, and what typing tests we were working on. I got tired of doing the tests (I was practicing typing at home on my own), and I wanted to streamline the process. So I looked on the floppy, and found that while the file with your progress and average scores was stored in some kind of program specific encoding, the files that contained the typing tests chosen by the teacher for that day were text files. So before each test, I would quickly open the file in notepad and change the text to be just the letter "j" and nothing else. The program would start timing you when you typed the first letter and stop timing when you reached the last letter, so as soon as I hit "j" it would instantly register 120 words per minute, since that was the fastest it could measure.

Needless to say, the teacher was curious as to why I started getting 120 wpm on every test, so when she asked me I figure I'd just tell her the truth, and explained how I editted the file. She thought it was funny and creative, and (after I demonstrated that I really was learning how to type anyway) just gave me an A in the class.
From the accepted PEP:

"We view reducing memory usage as a blocking issue for final merger into the py3k branch. We seek guidance from the community on an acceptable level of increased memory usage."
I recently put together a (very) basic website for my wife, that allows me to put little 'thinking of you' cards on it for her to see. It's fairly rudimentary, but she loves it.

When I went to her office to take her out to lunch the other day, I was shocked to see that she had printed out each of the cards (basically business card format) and taped them to her wall.

I've been thinking of expanding the idea and allowing for logins (as it currently has zero backend code, just HTML for the page and JS/AJAX to see browse the archive), but thought it might be fairly one-off.

This has just changed my mind.
melons -> squash, at least for the traditional meaning.
I think http://0install.net is a better solution as it handles updates and works on multiple platforms.

Regardless, unless a couple of major distributions support one of these alternative install systems they're ultimately a futile effort. This is something that's unlikely to change since from a distributions standpoint they don't offer significant advantages over the status quo.

As an aside, to anyone considering an alternative install system, please take heed of the PC-BSD folks and bootstrap your package system by generating packages from an existing system.
In Gladwell's article it says Gates is an investor.
This weekend's project: shellcompanyfinder.com
The thread that started it all: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1134813

I am soliciting ideas for shellcompanyfinder.com I'm going to build it this weekend. I'd love to have some help with it. It's a great idea and a way that we can start to combat some of the ridiculous behavior from corporations who hide their actions with shell companies.

For now, it's a list of companies with a many-to-many to associate them. We can add comments to companies to discuss whether or not they are actually shells. It also accommodates actions these companies have taken so we can roll up all the bad behavior for the uber parent "name brand company." These types of tricks aren't just perpetrated by corporations no one has ever heard of. Think Enron, MCI/Worldcom, ATT, and a host of others...

You can also vote on whether or not you think a particular company is a shell and provide evidence in the form of uploaded attachments that could be scanned documents or public notices for DBA's, etc.

Please share your thoughts. I want to have something up by Monday morning, so the sooner the better!

EDIT: The site is live now: http://www.shellcompanyfinder.com though obviously still a work in progress. If you are interested, create an account. We may want to set up a gotomeeting to run through how to make changes. Everything is behind the login wall right now.
The real question is what are the water, energy, and labor hour inputs.

Agricultural scientists and businessmen are no slouches. If this were truly an economical way to feed lots of people it would probably already be widespread.

Most "high yield" methods you hear about, like raised beds and square foot gardening, basically amount to upping the watering.
Wow, this is one case where a hijacking URL shortener actually comes in handy... the non-hacker girl will think it's just for her!
> I hear something from someone and immediately come up with ideas about it. It's what I do. It's what I'm excellent at.

That's not a rare skill. Lots of people do it. Many of them are also good at execution.

The latter limits your market somewhat. You're competing for the attention of good executers who don't have good ideas with all of the folks with lame ideas, not just folks like yourself. There are some very natural reactions to that situation that drive them to prefer working with executers who have ideas instead of going with "an idea guy".

The other problem is that there "we" have more good ideas than we can ever hope to implement.

Perhaps you need a story that isn't about you or your ideas in the abstract. Most people prefer stories about them.
I've begun a data model at yuml, you can see it here:

http://yuml.me/diagram/dir:lr/class/%5BActions|id%3bShellCom...
I think that the current consensus is that unladen-swallow was aimed at a short term performance boost, while pypy has more ambitious long-term goals. While the CPython branch may be the current "standard", there's no reason that another runtime couldn't surpass it and become defacto.
That's rather defeatist. I'd say humanity doesn't have a chance of surviving if it doesn't figure out how to address the concerns of smart, disgruntled people.

Keeping them in check just delays the inevitable meltdown.
Don't worry, HN will be the first place that gets a link to the site. Now based on your reply: ideas are only the seed. That is true, but what about if ideas are your product? If the value of an idea is in its execution, how are we to judge an idea itself? Is an idea worth no intrinsic value? (besides interesting/boring challenging/easy) How (or where rather) do we stop the inherent recursion that comes about by looking at an idea, looking at the barriers to it, having ideas about those barriers, looking at the barriers to those ideas and so on and so forth.
I am very interested in viewpoints from some of the people here (i.e. pg) whose job is to evaluate ideas for funding purposes. From what I can see, they don't evaluate the idea per se, they look at the surrounding facts: team, track record, traction, willingness and passion to succeed. I see lots of advice on here about YC entries and interviews, but nothing seems to touch upon the idea itself so much.
I can understand why, as I recently read something (paraphrased) "a bad idea with good execution will succeed, and great idea with bad execution will fail." It seems we know how to evaluate execution quite well nowadays. How to objectively evaluate ideas?
Now that is cool and a valid opinion on the "good parts" of Java. FWIW, I know at least one ActionScript coder who has a hard time going back to coding in Javascript because of its lack of a type system (even though they are both very loosely based on the same ECMAScript standards).
I agree, I almost can't remember the last time I even bothered to look at a url...two weeks ago? a month? For the most part, the address bar is a meaningless mash of characters I can pretty safely ignore 95% of the time.
Human-Centered Design Considered Harmful
Well, sometimes there is something that only other people can see. I think there are some opinions about my traits that I happily ignore, I know what's best for me, but certain things about me bother me, not just others. Particularly, being somewhat anxiety prone, things like, "am I worrying about this too much or not enough?".

I'm actually quite glad this is up, I'd considered that something like it would be useful.

EDIT: Oh wait I got it all wrong. This is asking your friends for anonymous feedback? Yikes, no, I don't want to hear what they have to say. I thought this was an anonymous Q/A thing. Like Vark for personality flaws.
"He says that he wants his act of violence to initiate change - I assume in the IRS specifically, but also in American politics in general. That's the definition of terrorism."

Tell that to Thomas Jefferson and George Washington...
Paypal is coming to Facebook
They have a link to the copy at the Smoking Gun, right where it's down; I'd say this was a question of keeping the FBI happy without actually impeding the flow of information.
Why Venture Capitalists Avoid Innovation: They Like Making Money
Ask HN: What's wrong with the HTML in this line?
A friend of mine had to take a test for a job as a TV presenter that, strangely, had some HTML questions on it. I guess the station has decided that everyone needs to know something about the web.

Anyway, one of them was "what's wrong with the HTML in this line:"

<p>(<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Flip-MinoHD-Camcorder-Minutes-Black/dp/B001HSOFI2" target="_blank">Amazon.com</a>)</p>

As far as I can tell, there is NOTHING wrong with that line. But am I missing something obvious?
Where the lines are drawn as to what activities done off-campus that can be punished on campus (such as talking badly about your teacher) is a legally contentious issue right now. Here is a basic writeup of one currently ongoing case: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2010/02/student-susp...

(And obviously, IANAL).
Apparently disabling Buzz does not actually delete your suggested/previous followers which, for those of us hit with the opt-in diaster, is clearly the biggest privacy concern. If you go to re-enable Buzz suddenly all that information is restored. So moral of the story seems to be un-follow before you un-Buzz for now. This has been a complete diaster for Google if not for the simple reason it has shown people new ways in which their privacy can be violated by people who almost certainly did not intend any harm. I think it's making a lot of people reconsider how much data they should be giving any one company. I was previously using GMail for both personal and work stuff and I'm seriously reconsidering it. I'll probably move one of them over to another mail provider just to be safe.
TechCrunch Down
Geez... with all the negativity on here (I realize he's asking for criticism, but would it hurt to throw in a tad of positive feedback as well?!) I feel obligated to tell you that I think what you've created, while it still needs a bit of polish and refinement, is quite impressive and useful (especially made me think of it's application for all those DIY sites). Granted I know jack about Flash, but your plan player wowed the pants off me and performed without issue in Firefox.

As for suggestions, I agree with most of the others that the landing page could use some work in order to be more engaging and clear as to exactly what the site does. Also, I think it really might help to change the background image to something less cartoonish that comes across as more practical, useful, and more visually representative of the site function... perhaps a design incorporating various planning-related graphics such as arrows, bullets, step numbers (1., 2., 3., etc.), times, clocks, check boxes, percentages, etc.

Good luck and I look forward to seeing its progression!
I can't help but be swayed somewhat myself. While I can't agree with his methods, I'd be surprised if there wasn't a lot of truth in his message.
Model United Nations IBA Karachi ( Munik 10 ).
Do you remember where you read that? I've heard about the positive experience of facebook from somebody else and I'd really to read the source. A URL or title/keywords would be helpful.
I have two invites left to google voice. Let me know if you want one.

Offer extends to anyone else who also wants one.
I think your confusion comes from the transition the world is undergoing WRT communication.

Currently, there are so many ideas out there that the issue is to filter the ideas, rather than generate them. Perhaps when communication was much more difficult, the problem was generation of ideas (this makes sense to me: people had less diverse knowledge. I believe diversity of experience/knowledge is crucial to idea generation). But now? There are too many ideas -- and good ones -- out there for me to pay attention to others' ideas.

Also, there's the sexiness factor. Fact is, it's fun to generate ideas. You get to estimate, assume, project, modify, and change. Actual execution? That's the boring part, or at least the less-sexy cousin. I'd love to just sell ideas, but the fact remains that there's much more of a supply than of demand.
What if my Avatar is Diabetic
I know it's hard, but the right thing to do is to listen to the doctors. Be wary of anyone offering a miracle cure - sadly, there are many scam artists out there preying on the desperate.
I don't disagree but the FA does say: "In Australia, where gardeners have grappled with droughts for a decade, aquaponics is particularly appealing because it requires 80 to 90 percent less water than traditional growing methods."
Three Tips For Getting Started In the Indie Gaming Biz
Music Data Confessions of a Tagaholic
One theory as to why China never underwent industrial revolution in the 1700s was the high efficiency of manual labour, which got them stuck in a local maximum.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_level_equilibrium_trap
http://emily.willyougotoformalwithme.com/%3Cmarquee%3EWooo

Edit:

<script> works to some limited extent although I've discovered Chrome will refuse to run such scripts. Can't seem to get the error message to show up again, something along the lines of "script contents seen in location. Will not run".

Which is probably a good thing.
I'm highly amused that the last name of the guy who wrote that piece is "Henchman."
You can just do the fast algo. first, and do the more sophisticated one, when your browser is idle. (The text will jump around a bit, but it does so anyway while loading.)
I already know what it is and how to use it. I just want an account. I'm been waiting for my invite for a while now.
Wasn't that kind of his point? With guidelines like "Don't ask for instructions from the hiring firm about how to do your job." it's just silly and you never know on which side of the line you are currently... There's just no way to be sure and even if you are right, you might be notified too late to protest.
Chase’s completely insecure and broken “secure” document exchange system
I wondered if the future self-aware google will laugh at that before updating it. If not I'm afraid all the efforts of Larry and Sergei would have been worthless, no humor in an AI, what a loss ...
Wow, I'm surprised TechCrunch is included in this, you would think they have a bit more of a redundant setup.
Not everything is reliably tested a couple days after manufacturing. many people have had capacitors gone bad right after warranty, and just because the manufacturer wanted to save $2-3 dollars. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitor_plague

If your suppliers are like this, there is no telling what they will do to cut costs. A cursory test right out of production is not panacea.
I love the idea. It's very good for people who can take criticism. It's up to you after all which criticism to ignore and which to take seriously. It should be made easier for other to post opinions about you by integrating this into some famous application (e.g. facebook app, blog widget, etc).
Poor Teen Sleeping Due To Lack Of Blue Light?
Actually, this guy's goal was not to incite terror, hence not a terrorist.

I'm not necessarily defending the way the government labels different crimes, though. AFAIK the Unibomber was pretty much like this guy.
Cassandra graduated at the same board meeting at svn, btw. Just need to move the project page now.
Alan Kay, and his colleagues at vpri.org

Gilad Bracha, and the newspeak crew at newspeaklanguage.org

Terry Jones, at fluidinfo.com
Why? This isn't the hosting company's fault.
I remember using it to make the Earth revolve around the sun in a presentation about Copernicus. Good times.
I'm pretty confident that this is the nail in Python 3's coffin. It just shows how out-of-touch GvR and Google are with Python users. For a while, Python 3 was on a track to becoming a more mature language, but this is a huge step backwards. Politics at Google have ruined the future of Python 3. In contrast, Python 2.x just keeps on getting better and better.
I think this enlightened patent office you are seeking is a mirage. The people are never going to be disinterested enough, educated enough, or smart enough to award patents in a reasonable way.

I think the ideal of a very good patent system is great. I'm all for protecting the little inventor against the evil corporations, but the current laws have the opposite effect. Moreover, any law grounded in subjectivity, which is then argued over by spending money in court, can never help the little guy. As long as having a patent requires having a lawyer, patents offer no protection to anyone but the uber-rich and large corporations.

If you want to help the common inventor, I think the surest way is to just abolish patents all together and let people compete. Inventors can still keep secrets if they so choose.
I doubt any future rants will get clearer. Rants of these types are big, sprawling, disconnected tales of tragedy and woe with the point heavily obfuscated or altogether absent. This makes it very easy for other people will similar unbalances, but possibly unrelated motives, to write their own motives into the gaps. The problem is, to these types of readers, their own motives are blindingly obvious in what they're reading, so they don't even perceive the lack of clarity that you and I do. They can just hold it up and say "this is exactly what I've been saying!" not because the post says anything, but because it doesn't. It's big and empty, which makes it a great echo chamber.
640K FTW!
Yes, and after he expresses his reluctance to ever enter an accountant's office again, he says that he did, out of desperation, and then got screwed again.
> rambling, narcissistic screed

Maybe to you. Most of his rant just sounded honest and true to me.
I think this is a clear indication that we need an IT code of ethics. Yeah it's cute that as a programmer or administrator you have all this power, but we don't have the right to invade people's privacy.
How is this a huge step backwards?