skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hey,

THAT's what we'll do. EVERY 404 is will accuse the reader of being a pedophile and demand they surrender. After all, some of the readers will be pedophiles and making them surrender is more important than anything else. The people who object are obviously sympathizers...
May be RT some good tweets from YC members, News, updates.
I have a little blogger gadget getting 2.5M impressions a day that runs on App Engine. I don't particularly care if app engine is down for an hour or not.

I can't wait until the day (if ever) that I am making enough money on my web services to actually be worried about these kinds of outages.
Please re-read it and you should hopefully see that you are wrong.

One is asking you if its okay for search-engines to index your content.

The second, says that once indexed by a search engine then they (Twitter) have no control over it.

Yes - they could phrase it better, but its not the same thing as what you are implying.
I would like to hear quality PG essays, or rather similar new content condensed to Twitter format.

Also, it's always good to retweet interesting things the people you follow say, or things that get said over the course of YC presentations and the like.
We do not store control panel passwords "in the clear". They are stored as a hash and in a reversibly encrypted form; access to the plaintext passwords is heavily logged. We are considering removing it entirely -- the only reason we currently store panel passwords in any reversible format is because we frequently get emails from users who have forgotten their panel password and want us to email it to them.
Not really surprised by this. GoDaddy is horrible on so many levels, selling chained certificates without telling you what that implies until after you purchase; ganking peoples domains at the behest of third parties without going through UDRP.

And if you've ever had to deal with them you may agree with me when I say that their website constitutes criminal negligence on the part of the UI/UX designer. Deceptive and high-pressure sales tactics are a bad sign; especially in a company that wants so much of your trust.
Can you guys put together a few basic questions (to filter) you would want answered? Or link to a best practice guide somewhere on the web and make it required reading prior to email pitching? Or a slide deck template? Something like Guy Kawasaki's 10 slide presentation?

Perhaps get VH to tell e mailers to use this?
I would definitely be interested. Sending you an email now.
I think the OP's point is not without some sense: Berlusconi is always criticizing the judiciary, and frankly, in this case I'd criticize the judiciary too, so perhaps it even lends a bit of weight to his argument. Well, I don't really think so, as I think he's up to his hair implants in corrupt schemes, but still, it bears considering.
Clickable: http://twitter.com/ycombinator
The R type system
Yeah, but your objection makes no sense and is probably rooted (apologies, and read this in a courteous tone) in the fact that you saw Kerry's name and had a gut reaction + ipso facto (FYI, Lugar's a republican).

The legislation proposed moves us from "no way, no how" to "imperfect system" -- if you're primarily for relaxing immigration policies for professionals, you should support the bill in principle, favor it over nothing, and probably have quibbles. This bill would mean more professional immigration for the purpose of starting companies -- along with the requisite amount of BS, hassle, unfair playing field etc that apply to all visa situations as things stand now.
A New Architecture for A Participatory Web
It's not about successful companies. You can have one of those without investing $500,000 into it. Make no mistake, this visa is about helping rich people make more money by enabling them to collaborate with other rich people around the world.

If that is not true, then entrepreneurs should be allowed into the country whether or not they've invested $500k into a business. What if you've invested 3 years into a business or 10 years? Why not let those people in too? They create jobs.

This bill is absurd. It's classist. It's contrary to the American dream where hard work and accomplishment is the ticket to wealth, not a check for $500,000.

Why don't we just remove the veil and call it what it is, "The Rich Man's Visa".
To clarify - the price of selling on Ebay seems right.
I believe the idea here is not that a single 1KW stack would be used to power a home, but that several homes would run off of a single 25KW module, so that you only need to accomodate their collective peak requirements
You may not need Blogger or YouTube to publish on the internet, but the masses do.
It seems to be overly complex and unfair for sure.

Why not just say.

As long as you can pay for your self and your family in the US you are welcome to stay.

If you can't same rule as any other H1 H1B etc applies.
Why Y Combinator’s Hacker News Is Flawed
Selection bias ;-)
WhySpam.Me is my latest entry in to the disposable email field. For free we provide many common features that other competitors charge for. Our goal is to be the authority on website legitimacy. We hope by providing an outlet to vent about corporations treatment of their customers email inbox, we can raise awareness and eventually hold accountable those same corporations.
With freedom of expression, and your "we don't. Well we do", it's really best to err on the side of too much freedom, even if we get stupid youtube videos and comments along with it.
"I would like to hear quality PG essays, or rather similar new content condensed to Twitter format."

Not impossible! pg's written one-sentence essays--he just noted once in this thread (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=554907) that "you have to attribute them to someone else". Oddly enough there is a http://twitter.com/taraploughman

I think this might be one of the best uses of Twitter, personally--one sentence essays. Isn't that what shitmydadsays boils down to?
Yes, the part about not overworking people. And, to a lesser extent, the part about not taking funding.
Note that the H1-B visa also created a raft of unintended negative consequences. I don't know if it's gotten better since I worked with BigCo's in the Valley in the late '90s, but it was appalling back then.
This annoyed my users and annoyed me. I serve my website and the Help section of my iPhone app from AppEngine.

It's also worth pointing out that the outage was preceded by horrible performance issues, and I wonder why they didn't take a cue and prevent an all out outage. This mailing list post doesn't even begin to explain what happened, and that peeves me a bit too.

I felt like a stooge telling my users yesterday that this was AppEngine's fault and I couldn't do anything about it. That's always a terrible thing to have to say to a user. I'm thinking about moving this site to EC2 with my other.
There was a recent article by Martin Fowler (http://news.ycombinator.org/item?id=1131664) suggesting that the "view now is that msysgit is good enough to make comparison with Mercurial a non-issue for Windows."

(edit change link to the YCombinator discussion)
Well, a bunch of things are specific to me. I care more about screenshots than pitch decks.

OTOH, a "I'm a high school student and entrepreneur, and I've got an idea that is going to change the world! Let's meet to discuss" gets tired pretty quickly. Given that I have an enormous load already (day job, plus the other incoming requests) anyone who can't figure out that lowering, rather than raising, other people's transaction burden is necessary is probably someone I wouldn't invest in anyway.
The EB-5 visa (the "investor's visa") has been in place since 1990. The article mentions that half of the available visas under EB-5 go unused, which is where this bill is suggesting additional visas be allocated.

The bill that's just been introduced doesn't require the entrepreneur to do anything except start a business and be funded. After 2 years they either have to garner more funding or have over $1,000,000 in revenues.

I'm more than a little confused as to how you see this as being "the rich man's visa", especially in light of the fact that the existing EB-5 program fits that nickname much more accurately.
It sounds like we have similar interests; I've been working on a library for Clojure which wraps OpenGL and allows for shader programming in an idiomatic DSL. It's been a lot of fun to develop, and I agree that graphics programming has a tremendous amount of incidental complexity. Trimming away the fat is a deeply satisfying experience.

I don't really have the same commercial ambitions as you, but a few things to consider w.r.t. your first option (developing a graphics engine):

* Lots of people have a vague ambition to create a game. The number of those who will spend money towards that end is much, much smaller.

* Any graphics engine worth purchasing will need to implement a lot of "boring" stuff. You can probably punt on AI, but fonts, audio, and menu systems are non-negotiable.

* It will be pretty hard to sell a graphics engine if there's not a prominent success story to go along with it. That means you'll have to create a popular-ish game, or convince someone else to.

If you can support yourself on part-time consulting, go for it. But make sure any work you do on your own time is worthwhile in and of itself, rather than with respect to some future payoff that may never happen.
random probably impractical suggestion, but if you like scheme, maybe you'd like smalltalk (they're both "purist" languages). and, if so, maybe research at wherever alan kay is these days. at one point that's what he was doing (interactive 3d worlds etc).

[edit: ps, also, if you don't have kids and are experienced you can actually do pretty well at a day job plus your own projects. i do it, and as far as i know the people i work for are happy. my day job is contracting, but on long projects and it's typically a mix of "the usual" and stuff that requires fairly serious thought (typically numerical). at the same time i have worked on side projects pretty much constantly - on the python parser "lepl" for over a year, most recently. obviously if you have a partner they have to be understanding (and/or equally obsessed with their own thing). i think one helps the other - when work is tedious, side projects stop me from going crazy; when work requires effort side projects get work on web design... i enjoy both. i may be the very lucky expception, of course.]
Last of the Wild
I guess it's ok if they have local access. For cheap, crappy hosting it might be even ok if admins had access to passwords (but if they don't know about ssh keys, what can they fix really?). It is NEVER ok if some random support person can request your password because they need it, then write it on a piece of paper and log into your host as root once they get back home.
(what are you doing allowing root access via ssh anyways?)
John Doerr On Bloom Energy Launch: “This Is Like The Google IPO”
I canvassed Toledo for Kerry in '04. I got chased off someone's property for knocking on a door doing GOTV for ACT without noticing that the guy was flying a Confederate Flag. I donate to liberal political causes. I'm not just liberal: I'm a Democrat.

You're doing your argument a disservice by engaging with personalities (rightly or, here, wrongly) instead of ideas.

This isn't a personal criticism, because I demonstrably don't occupy the high ground on this point on HN. But you may want to be aware of it.
Most of this reported gain in life expectancy is due to reduced infant mortality. A better metric is to look at life expectancy of those who live past the age of 10.
Ask HN: Access to PG?
I'm a longtime YC fanboy, entrepreneur, with a sincere question.

I've read a lot about YC, have seen plenty interviews with PG/YC founders and often hear that PG provides nuggets of invaluable advice to YC startups at their earliest stages. Often times on the spot, with little preparation (just watch PG at TC50 for an example).

I'd love to access that advice through YC (if I were lucky enough to get in), but I'm also single founder and aware of my chances of getting in as one. (Despite that, my startup, a "JDate for South Asians", is pretty close to being ramen profitable, so I feel like I can make it alone - or at least survive until I can hire someone.)

So my question would be: can still I access PG?

If so, how? Would he be willing to chat for 5 min? Just wondering if anyone else has been in a similar situation.
This would just allow the rich and connected to choose thousands of people to budge to the front of a 3-5 year long line that other green gard applicants (EB-3) are waiting in. If there are resources available to process more EB-5's and EB-6's, then put them to use accelerating the process for the people that have already waited years for their applications to be approved. Accelerate that process and you'll accelerate the creation of startups by our friends that are already here.

Edit: Above I said "a 3-5 year line," which is inaccurate. The current line is 7-9 years long.
Aside from keeping him in the news, how does this help Lugar? More to the point, how does this help Lugar in Indiana?
I'm partial to the Nocturnes, Etudes and Ballades
I certainly hope so. Though Napoleon's recommendations are a very high level theory of what happens in reality. It is therefore necessary to have low level knowledge about both your own software, and the market you are trying to enter.

As most of HN will agree, there is no substitute for experience.
Another article in which academics illustrate how completely out of touch they are:

Neoliberalism set universities "free" in the market to be able to charge higher tuition as students took on more debt in a deregulated banking system....Academe overproduced Ph.D.'s,...answers to these structural issues...Take universities out of the market by federally financing them.

Universities overproduce one of their products? Solution: subsidies.

Universities overcharge? Solution: subsidies.
> People will eventually get radicalized, wont they?

Young people get radicalized. Then they get married, have kids, get a career, get debts, etc. Radicalness over. People eventually sell-out, cop-out, or join up. They rarely stay radicalized.

That is SOP for humanity at least last 80 years or so that I know about.
FCC Broadband Penetration Results [pdf]
Interesting, is your Clojure code released?

You are right about the boring stuff. It's overwhelming, of course, but if I truly went down the route of developing a graphics engine, I would take the risk of investing lots of money and time for implementing both the "interesting" and the "boring" parts. Fonts, menus, etc. aren't that hard, but it just sucks to be doing it instead of the interesting stuff. Doing both would be alright.

But in the end, you're right. For now, I'll probably start implementing my ideas purely by themselves. It'll be great fun doing so, and if I think any of them are worth pursuing, I can flesh it out with the boring stuff.
Actually, they already do : try to find an original version of Castle Wolfenstein. For all the press freedom we have over here (Germany), swastikas are still a big no-no.
This is just crooked. They increase the risk of driving fatalities, just to increase revenue. All because they are scared to increase taxes because it's not politically convenient!
There is also @hkrnws ( http://twitter.com/hkrnws ). It posts 1 update every 10 minutes.
Any comments, or thoughts? From UI, to usability, to economics. I'm interested in what you have to say...
Hive and Pig are not SQL though. Yes, they're SQL-like, and do go some way towards solving that problem, but you won't be using things like standard DB libraries with them anytime soon.
Check the 13 dwarves of parallel computing - http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/2006/EECS-2006-18...

Just look on google for:
"13 dwarves" parallel
or
"13 dwarves" berkeley
Just to be super-clear, in his first sentence ("interesting companies"), Josh is talking about StartupList where we send hand-picked startups to investors.

In the second sentence ("pretty bad"), Josh is talking about AngelList where anyone can contact him directly.
Why can't you compare apples and pears? They're both fruit that grows in trees and they both have similar use culinary purposes. I can make cider out of both, and the results are actually quite similar.
this is nothing new. google "yelp extortion".. has been going on for quite a while
Ah, I see. That makes a little more sense then.
@shitmydadsays is my favorite twitterer :)

I also like @kurt_vonnegut... he is a bot my friend set up that tweets quotes from the dead author.

Other good people are @ev, @kn0thing, @raganwald, @jwc, @jeresig... people you might expect would be good. @kn0thing keeps me on top of my reddits :)
Yeah I worked there too at that point, pretty bad. But at least the rules where simple.

Out of sponsor, out of the US.
Is that the same Adam Smith essay I keep bringing up at every opportunity?
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1118334
Startup Visa Introduced: Is it a No-Brainer?
Should a Copyright Infringer Pay $21 or $675,000 for Downloading 30 Songs?
Lugar is an institution of his own. He's been in the Senate for 33 years. When you reach that level of incumbency, you stop having to worry about how each bill of yours affects your re-election chances.
Yes, this is just the "slightly poorer than the EB5 man's visa", with the added stipulation that they have to create jobs, which seems like a great side-effect.

Fundamentally US immigration needs reform to a points-based system. But this is a relatively quick and simple tweak that would create a lot of jobs.
What does TC mean by 'One potentially disruptive feature of the technology is that it works both ways: fuel can produce electricity, but it can also go the other way so that electricity produces fuel.'???
How can it produce fuel from energy? What format would that 'fuel' be in?
"Let's say we live in "the matrix" and that there is _absolutely_ no way to get out of it or anything that could hint its existence. Given that assumption, what is the point of debating whether it exists or not ? Even if there really was a matrix, how could it be useful for us to know this piece of information ? That knowledge wouldn't serve any purpose as the said matrix wouldn't in any way interfere with our universe and even less with our mere human lives. Of course, if there was any way to escape the matrix or if it would even subtly interact with our universe, that would be another question."

The standard answer is that all of our naive beliefs about the world would be false. You are not actually sitting on a couch, your simulated body-projection is simulated to be sitting on a simulated couch. The very fact we can't tell whether or not we're in the matrix undermines all our knowledge.

The more insightful answer is that even if we're in the matrix, everything about the physical world is still true, there is just a metaphysical fact we are unaware of--namely, that the universe happens to be a simulation. You're still sitting on a couch, and the couch is still made of atoms, and the atoms are still made of subatomic particles and so forth, but it turns out all the subatomic particles are just data structures in the matrix and we didn't know that before. Nothing is undermined.
Tweets in Yahoo search + poll on whether people want tweets in search results
If Apple was receiving complaints for apps that had women in bikinis cleaning your phone, imagine the deluge they'd get offering "Explicit" material. Perhaps the verbiage would be more finely tuned before release, but they already have "Mature". What's it going to take to get bumped up to that notch that won't piss off the same complainers from before?
Fill in the Blanks: Using Math to Turn Lo-Res Datasets Into Hi-Res Samples
I'm just presenting a method that's worked for me, not saying it'll work for him.

(I know that feeling of being an impressive procrastinator though. I think I fuel on guilt due to my catholic upbringing, that's why it works for me :)
It sounds interesting and I like the idea. However, in your videos, you talk a lot about spam, but with gmail, I really don't have that much.

I could use the app when a site ask for my personnal email and I don't want to give it, but then, I already have "trashes" email serving that purpose.

As I said, I like the idea but I think it misses the killer feature which would really force me to use it.
Nathan Myhrvold- Brilliant inventor or patent troll?
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Perhaps ask VH to create an 'email requirements' section?
In which you could state "Meeting in person probably won't happen, let's start by you sending me screen shots"
There is a lot of smoke here, and by smoke I mean business owners saying this is true and multiple law firms circling. This is getting ugly for Yelp.
Well, I suppose I'm just massively misunderstanding your objection here.

It seems that we share the goal of increased immigration of professionals and enabling them to succeed in america, shared prosperity and all of that..

This bill, to me, is incremental progress towards that goal but flawed on some specifics.. do you agree?

Is your opposition a case of "not good enough and hold out for better"? The specifics about VCs controlling the visa are the deal-breaker for you? How is that so much worse than H-1B where the employer controls the visa?

Honest questions, I really don't understand the argument.
I assume this was meant to be a clarification as opposed to a counter-argument because I totally agree with you. My point was that there is absolutely no use in knowing "metaphysical facts" as long as they don't change anything about our knowledge of the physical universe.
Perish the thought, but are you somehow implying a Senator is attempting to be a wise and responsible statesman? That kind of nonsense will never fly in this country.
Yes, that's a credible source.
Agreed. But --- who heats with electricity? (Heat pumps can be a good idea, though.)
The decision for tenure is a critique of a person's entire life's work within a field. As such, many of those in the process take it as an objective value of their life's worth. It is not much of a surprise then that the decision to deny tenure always leads to crying, outbursts, resignation, and often lawsuits.
Patent troll.
Something vaguely along these lines would be a reasonable action. If local laws make the sensible operation of a legitimate website criminal, then the operators of that website would be smart to block all traffic from that country.
Students launch protest of AT&T coverage
I just moved out to Philly from central PA and the drivers out here are driving me nuts. In the 10 years of driving I did back home, I think I saw 1 person run a red light. Today, I'd be lucky if I got to see only at a single stop on my way to work in the morning. I've been here for 4 months and I've already seen two accidents from people running red lights and stop signs.
True Knowledge (Semantic Question Answering) Public Beta Release
This seems like a horrible blunder on Google's part. They certainly appear feckless after posting such a strongly worded public statement, and then doing nothing for weeks.

I bet the founders are stewing and angry, and the money people are talking about how half a billion dollars a year is a lot of money to give up, particularly considering that number is likely to rise rapidly for years.

If I were a Google shareholder, I would want Google in China. As a Google user and believer in democracy, I want them out. Google can't make everyone happy.