skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're getting a bit meta here. I disapprove of this post, and the post asking if you should post this. Just post it on your blog and that's it. Don't create discussion that contributes little - this is not a tabloid.
Are you serious?

In Venezuela, Chavez is nationalizing everything that shows a dissent voice.

In Brazil, it's a widely known fact that the government is using public companies' advertising budget to exert control over media outlets. Newspapers and TV stations that are pro-government "happen" to get the larger piece of the pie.

Argentina, Ecuador, Bolivia, Nicaragua - all populist, "left-leaning" governments. All of their leaders would like to follow Chavez steps.

The only exceptions would be Chile and Colombia.
I agree. It's like saying that a Porsche is 'better' than a Ford, but you own a Ford because the Porsche costs more money than you make in a year.

I think functional language proponents want to compare languages using one set of metrics, even though they actually pick a language to write software in on an entirely different set of metrics. I mean they must either do that, or be entirely all talk, since very little software is being written in functional languages.
Adobe’s Flash getting dimmer?
Today, Adobe is the principal. Millions of iPads later that might just change.
Are you using the one-handed Dvorak layout? Because if you're not, there is one. You might find it helpful to use a short stroke laptop-style keyboard and/or a mini-keyboard with smaller keys. If you're willing to spend some cash, you have quite a few options. There's the http://www.frogpad.com/ a compact, one-handed keyboard. If you're investing for the long term, http://www.maltron.com/ make superb one- and two-handed keyboards with phenomenal ergonomics.
I agree about the problem of bribing politicians and agree that direct donation/payments should be reported and controlled. This is a restriction on the candidate not on the individual or corporation, the candidates campaign cannot accept the funds.

I believe a person or a corporation should be able to spend their money in anyway they see fit and advertise anything they want to.

I've stated before in other comments that they way to remove corruption is to remove the incentive for corruption -- reduce the amount of money controlled by congress and the scope of it's control (to prevent regulatory capture). The easiest way to do this is to support action at the state level and only at the federal level for truly national/interstate things. For instance, federal pollution controls only apply to pollution that crosses state lines. This way lobbying is less effective since the amount of effort vs payoff is reduced.

We also need to stop trying ram through legislation whenever a given party is in power. Instead they should seek consensus and if none can be found do nothing.
They're neither, they're errors of "acting before stopping and thinking". The part of your brain that considers the effects of your actions in the future and on others doesn't develop usually until at the earliest 17, at the latest 24.

This is Exactly the type of error 17 year olds make.

>Adolescents frequently know the difference between right and wrong, but they have diminished capacities to understand and process information, to communicate, to abstract from mistakes and learn from experience, to engage in logical reasoning, to control impulses, and to understand others’ reactions. The psychological evidence suggests that immaturity of adolescent judgment is not under voluntary control.
>New imaging studies reveal patterns of brain development that extend into and beyond the teenage years.6,7

From: http://www.hhs.gov/opa/familylife/annualconfabstracts/brain_...
We've been running http://bln.kr for over 6 months and haven't had a single DMCA notice.
Chalk one up to "security by obscurity".
This seems like something better off with private results, right?
Who'se asking? :-)

Just wondering if this is for info purposes only? or, are you actually going to promote it somewhere?
http://www.hhs.gov/opa/familylife/annualconfabstracts/brain_...

Folks, he's 17. This is a 17 year olds type of mistake. His brain isn't fully developed yet.

In a past era, it would have just been covered up.
No, it's for funding purposes. Lots of angel investors are on HN. If it's on top for a while, people will see it.
Ask HN: Who's Hiring?
It's been a while since there has been a "who's hiring" thread. What companies out are there looking for hackers?
As a Rapid City native, I am surprised to hear this. I have not lived there in about 5 years, but I grew up there and my parents and brother still live there.

Sure, there are people on "tough times" but I can't believe that it's the "nastiest part of the state."

Of course, these are just my personal observations. I lived on the "good side" of town and my father (who owns a construction company) did fairly well.
Yes, you are right. Sorry; too late to edit my post, sadly.

I'd still prefer if no mention of the lesbians_and_horses folder would leave my computer, though.
It's for the HN community. Plenty of investors hang out here. Of course, I don't know all of them. Hence, public.

I kept the fields to a minimum so serious conversations could happen off-spreadsheet.
If you break out the numbers further, it's land prices that have been responsible for the housing price increases, not the cost of construction. The main culprits are zoning laws. It's simply not possible to build duplexes or more densely packed homes in most suburbs, and so all the land gets spoken for and no more housing can get built.
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Wouldn't it make spam impractical because you would all of a sudden need much more processing power to encrypt the messages (especially millions of them)?
I'd love to see some data on how many people buy a console due to exclusive titles. I've done it, but it's always been Nintendo. (My dog's name is Link so you can guess why.)

The top 3 Xbox 360 games are exclusive (Halo 3, Gears of War 2, Gears of War) and 6 of the top 10. Xbox has the 'Return of the King' exclusive franchise with Halo.

The only company with a massive list of successful exclusives is Nintendo.
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Limited slip differentials were apparently invented in the 1930s but were relatively exotic (reserved for race cars) until about the 50s. I suspect the makers of the film were just a little confused and didn't fully appreciate the problem.

Also, I can't resist posting a link to this video of a working differential built using legos: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOijFK7uh6U
I would say a definite yes. They did wrong. Having worked for many years in the Middle East where this sort of thing is endemic, I would say in most cases it is the Company's corrupt policies that take advantages of people's weaknesses to achieve their own goals. Pretty much like the KGB coercing someone to spy for them in the old days, because he was in need of money or had a weak character. Both parties are wrong.
This story is begging for a conspiracy theory.
Am I the only one wondering why facebook hasn't implemented a compression backend into memcache much like Reiser4 and ZFS has done?

They've made it very clear that they're RAM limited (in particular with respect to capacity), so why not just have the processor compress/decompress memcache operations back and forth with a highly efficient and relatively low compression algorithm?

It's not even like you couldn't tune the algorithm to detect duplicate/similar data and create atomic globs of data that represent multiple informational objects.

It seems like their big cost is putting together machines with tons of RAM for their memcache clusters, so why not bring that cost down?
The picture with the subtitle "Professor Abbi and Boa Sr became firm friends" is rather striking evidence of the diversity of human types present in that area of the world.

Some Google searching brings up an article with a descriptions of mitochondrial sequencing done on the Andamanese. Apparently they are of African pygmoid descent.

It's a rather good object lesson -- if you want to be a professor (the one on the right), don't let your ancestors get trapped in a genetic backwater for tens of thousands of years, missing out on all those good brain gene selection events.

EDIT: Not pygmoid after all. The pygmoid features are the product of convergent evolution. The evolutionary trend towards small stature seems to be due to resource competition from living on an island with barely enough space to support human habitation. It looks like they came through southern Asia.
I agree with those here who are observing that it failed because it was a lemon. No one should generate _that_ level of hype, especially not while the game in question is trapped in development hell to the point that they cut an entire "stage" of the game and any number of features from the others.

People have a high level of tolerance for corporate BS when the product behind it is good. _Spore_ only offers five or six hours of gameplay, not the five or six years it seemed to be promising; if it had delivered on its promise of the moon, I think we would have heard an awful lot less about SecuROM.
This prompted me to search for Feynman videos on youtube. Sure enough, there are many. This will probably cut into my productive time the next several days.
Microsoft makes productivity software, games, embedded OSes, hardware, business software, commercial suites.....etc etc etc. They can't focus with so many irons in the fire.

Apple makes well designed prosumer products....and thats it. They are focused on shiny, evolved high end consumer goods.

Apple will refine and refine and refine, while MS will dump things unless it's a huge money maker or they have an axe to grind.

Not an Apple fanboy BTW, I personally don't like anything Apple, and would be 100% Linux if not for legacy software that I need Windows for.

I am personally quite happy with the Windows 95 look and feel and set up all my machines, Linux or Windows, with plain vanilla UIs and remove anything extraneous.

As far as the tablet thing goes, most Windows tablets were well over 2000 dollars, so I really blame the hardware manufacturers for that one.
Who is behind iRosetta and where is it going?
Tyrants fear free speech.

...and freedom in general.
Ohh! I didn't know that.

Actually, that would be really awesome if more sites did that. I usually ctrl+ = my browser to reduce eyestrain, and a lot of graphics look ugly that way.
"In a past era" a 17 year old male would have been a married man with children and serious social responsibilities.
This is a follow up to: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1066716
I had found some reasonably scientific research done a while back in a pilot program showing 15% reduction by otherwise passive people. I can't find the study now, so I could be full of it :-)

Actually, shifting to off-peak is a good outcome since fewer spinning reserve plants (usually the least efficient) are needed. But, as you say, not really the desired outcome.

My baseline use tends to run at about 300W. We first did obvious things like replace some of our lighting with CFL, and we got rid of an old chest freezer we didn't need. We changed behavior through learning to turn off lights when we left a room. There were some no-brainer things (my stereo apparently allows multi-room hookups, and if you have the buttons turned on, it uses several hundred watts to do nothing. I replaced a fileserver + routers with an Apple Time Capsule and saved 100+ watts. We use the dryer differently. And we installed a few BITS smart strips. The reason our savings are high is partly because I live in the Boston area, where our electricity rate is currently $0.19/kWh, I think. Bottom line was that we made a lot of little changes. I have written about most of them in my personal blog, called fivepercent.us if you're interested.
Which is exactly why it is an article people here should read. It's a decently reasoned argument against a view most people here (myself included) support, and it's important to understand why we disagree with it.
Not just that, all helpers now spit out html5, and things like unobtrusive javascript use some of html5's more interesting features.
they already did..see update blog post pointer
Humm. The apology is not fit to be here, true. The submission should probably have linked to the techcrunch article. But the issue I think is worthy of attention because of the hacker aspect, not because it's technology. There are many review sites out there, on pretty much any subject possible, and the way a high profile one deals with open corruption is interesting stuff, imho.
I see you've made the spreadsheet uneditable. A wise choice! (Users that have seen the previous posting will agree)
If you're bothered enough to do this sort of analysis on the display font wouldn't you choose an @font-face font?
Read his book "The monk and the riddle". I promise you it will mean a lot and quite possibly change your life.
Normally the biggest thing people screw up is the colors. Use a color generator and then always pick colors from the theme. Two of my fav sites for this are

http://colorschemedesigner.com/
and
http://kuler.adobe.com/

The next step after color is Typography. You don't need to get into all the nitty gritty crap about it but choose some good fonts normally something very clean and simple is your best bet. ie Arial, Helvelica, Verdana (used on this site) and Georgia. When you get into other fonts its very easy to use them incorrectly. For example you do not want to use Georgia as body text its to hard to read but it makes great headlines.

After those two changes the third is the hardest, making things feel well designed. Take a look at how other people have done similar things. A great site for this is http://patterntap.com/

Just because something is simple/spare/plain does not mean it cannot look good. For example take a look at these minimal sites

http://www.fedthread.org/fr/today/
http://mattbango.com/
http://www.pixelhavenllc.com/
http://bobulate.com/
"You know your startup has made it when..."
What do you mean by "a statist believes the sovereignty of a nation lies with the government and not with the people"?

It seems to me that the word "statist" implies a context/framework in which the state, as a coercive institution, is separated from the rest of society which is non-coercive. In this context, a statist is one who favors the state or equivalently, a statist prefers to solve social problems by relying on force rather than cooperation.

It seems to me that most people don't think in these terms. They don't distinguish between the state and everything else. Rather they think pragmatically: "How can I have a better life?" or "What's good for my country?" Lessig seems to fall in this group. So for example, he sees that copyright law is not encouraging an innovative society, and therefore he wants to change the law. Or he sees that government is acting in the best interest of corporations rather than "ordinary" folks and so he tries to change that. He's not thinking in terms of strengthening or weakening the "coercive institution of the state."

Analogous situations: Most web developers think in terms of solving technical problems, "how can I get this page to look a certain way?", rather than being standards compliant. Most general consumers think in terms of comfort, convenience, value, etc, rather than "green" (what's good for the environment) or patriotically (buy American).

So when Lessig is called a statist, he is being characterized in the framework implied by the term, which is not the framework in which he thinks.
I think this is much more common than you might expect. I don't like the idea of asking for compensation for a favorable mention, however is it all that different from when a company gives away their wares to someone unsolicited? I suspect that most people in that position will have their opinion slightly altered by the act of getting stuff for free. Many bloggers get stuff sent to them by various companies, some keep the items, others give it away to the readers.

So is asking to keep the item, or asking for an item all that much different? I guess its more overt from the author that they are after something, but if the author still maintains an objective viewpoint what harm is really done?

Can you really trust the product opinion of someone who hasn't put out their hard earned cash to acquire it? Amazon reviews in my eyes are much more powerful than something like Consumer Reports. What about you?
I agree with gridspy, and would add that the WattVision solution is considerably simpler than others: fewer wires, fewer connections, fewer components than (for example) the TED 5000, which I also have.
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Big thanks Rail3 team. This is a truly worthy next iteration. Can't wait to tinker with it this weekend.
The author of this has clearly never worked in the UK civil service where promotion is not based on merit but according to arcane rules of how long you have worked there and what you "deserve".

What you end up is a slow lumbering mess. Unable to achieve much (except maintain the status quo - which in fairness seems to be the purpose of the civil service), the cost of doing anything tends to be immense and people spend more time worrying about whose fault it is going to be than making things happen.
This is an excellent question - one I've been trying to answer for myself for quite sometime.

You certainly don't need to go graphics heavy, but having an eye for arrangement, matching color palettes, typography, flow, etc... are all crucial to an elegant design. I've found you don't ever need to go graphics crazy if you can master all of those fundamentals with what HTML+CSS provides you.

Graphics and graphic design should just "add" to it. A lot of designers I work with use graphic design as a crutch for their inability to understand true elegant web design (hence why I will never subcontract a designer that "does primarily print work and web design on the side").

In all honesty, a programmer is more capable of devising and creating an elegant and magnetic site design for one primary reason: a programmer grasps the underlying technology and capabailities (hell, it's programmers that made Photoshop possible!). Just adding in a classical eye for aesthetics will make your ability to arrange and select out of what you already know much more efficacious.
Fabulous. We can now expect an entire new crop of 419 letters.
May be they cannot censor twitter. But they may be able to identify opposition in twitter and take action against them. He always speaks in the name of the people, but he is clearly against the people.
Ryan Singer of 37signals gave a great talk at Windy City Rails last year about this very topic.

http://windycityrails.org/videos#4
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Andy Rutledge's blog has lots of good stuff. His five-part introduction to gestalt principles is about the basics of graphic design:

http://www.andyrutledge.com/gestalt-principles-1-figure-grou...

http://www.andyrutledge.com/gestalt-principles-2-similarity....

http://www.andyrutledge.com/gestalt-principles-3.php

http://www.andyrutledge.com/common-fate.php

http://www.andyrutledge.com/closure.php

For typography, Robert Bringhurst's The Elements of Typographic Style is a must-read. http://www.amazon.com/Elements-Typographic-Style-Robert-Brin....

You mentioned the looks of your sites, so the above are about visual and graphic design, but good interaction design will also help making people think your site looks better, is faster, has more features etc.

Be careful whose judgement you trust. People here on HN sometimes seem to have a caricatured view of users as only being attracted to visuals. In reality, visuals can't do much more than support (or ruin) an otherwise well-designed site.
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Oh - sorry, comrades, to offend the 'collective'.
Really? The beta is supposed to be super Rack compatible, so that's surprising... maybe you should file a bug.
Yeah, I was very disappointed with that posting, which I ended up deleting after 15min. Every cell I wrote was deleted, and at least one person put up porn on it.
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Cost per square foot relates to both the building height and land costs. A ten story building on cheap land costs a lot more per square foot than a once story house. However, as the cost of land goes up that shifts.

PS: I spend 1700$ a month on a 1br apartment because it's in a 20+ story building and on expensive land (great location). The problem with apartment buildings is they are only reasonable in expensive areas so their minimum price is even higher than the premium of building the building.
Just a data point: I'm in the top 100 (though not top 10 likes jacquesm!), know a couple of people at RWW (not the person involved with this, though), and I've never been approached by anyone randomly at RWW or anywhere else with the intention of gaming or posting to HN.
Interesting fact that I learned from Time Team recently: the UK has apparently had 7 completely separate waves of human habitation, with the population being completely wiped out by Ice Ages in between.
I might be looking for a subcontractor if a contract comes through.

Looking for a good all around programmer with database and web development skills (Python a plus). Ideally I'd like someone in the MD/DC/VA area but remote work might be possible.

Email me if interested.
To add, the use of the less restrictive license allows the creation of tools using clang like a library. For example, you can now use the same parser the compiler is using to do syntax highlighting or refactoring. This will allow both commercial / non-commercial interests to build tools that do interesting things without having to build a parallel infrastructure.
I am pretty sure you are mistaken about firings being illegal, having witnessed firings. Yes, in France.

Employment is certainly not "at will", but employers can fire for the usual reasons: economic causes, performance problems, incidents, the last one causing the employee to lose the safety net. I have witnessed mass engineer layoffs at a startup for economic reasons, and the employer was not on the hook for much. I have witnessed firing "for personal reasons" which can include differences about work tools or methodology. The ridiculous amount of money you cite is not huge at all, 20% of monthly salary for each year of work at the company (5 year with the company = one month of compensation).

The employee can contest the firing at the French equivalent of the work board, but it's usually cut and dried.

If that is what you are actually complaining about, about employment not being "at will", I do not have a good answer, other than it being a cultural difference that turns irrelevant in practice.

I am wondering what is going on around here, relative to France. Both in HN and Times comments I have witnessed only ignorance (not a single knowledgeable comment) on French employment, laws, and worse, attitudes. It's not a worker's paradise, and nobody feels unnaturally entitled to their job.

About the overhead, yeah, the patronal taxes suck badly.
Google stores video and pics as well. They also use caching. I think your analogy is incorrect in this case.
The civil service is a meritocracy - they just don't use sane metrics for what merit is.
"who paid", the poster wonders if TC should tell you the company that accepted to pay, not the guy that accepted the gift.
I've always seen posts like this here on HN and was always too shy to share this early-on in development. I keep hoping for the day when I can do "Review my app: Blah" but the difficulty for me is actually getting to that stage because of time/motivation reasons. So I'm hoping that by sharing my idea early on, I can work more on it if others like the concept and feel it could be worthwhile. Even if you think it isn't practical/fund-worthy, feel free to let me know.
Ah EBITDA, the truthiest measure of earnings, before "bad stuff."