skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You misunderstood the OP. He isn't saying that he wants to come and go at a whim; he's saying that what he's allowed to do by the HN software comes and goes at a whim. (In this case, presumably Paul Graham's whim.)
I'm presuming it is hanging out with poverty-unknown UK, racism-free France, politically-incorruptible Italy, and socioeconomically-homogenous Canada. Which is to say, right past the second star to the left, go straight on 'till morning.
This is a really silly reason for people to develop for the iPhone.

Yes, you can use the App Store to your advantage if you work at it, but you really should think of it more as replacement to the "download" link you'd have on a desktop app site. It's best to market things like you would on any platform (web, desktop, or otherwise) and spread the word. Just because it's an iPhone doesn't make it magical.
I would love to do something like that, but I don't think Hacker News provides any sort of API for accomplishing this. I'll look into it, though. Thanks!
If you program web i can give you a job too.
Depends on how much good you are $400 might be what you can get for working only 2 days a week
"The item is only a day old, so it's not the "stale-out" feature."

I was pretty sure that downvoting is disabled as soon as a comment is one day old. Check out the "bestcomments" list and you'll see that you can only downvote the ones that are less than 24 hours old.

I can currently downvote several of the <1-day comments on the healthcare story. But maybe I'm seeing something different from you, or it has changed since this post was made.
Ask HN: How do you choose an affiliate program for your site?
If you want to make some additional income from an affiliale program, how do you choose one?

Any recommendations on good programs to look into?
I read your quote before reading the article, and I was dead sure the quote was about the US :-)
I freely admit, I should have gone back and reread OKCupid's original post. I didn't, and that's my mistake.

But I'm really curious about something. You say that if OKCupid had not filtered their data for attractiveness, my comment would still be "pretty dumb". Could you explain why?
That's why it's great to place an abstract on top. I've been doing that for every long email or blog post with great results.

And link to sections of the body or external references, if need to.
I think that's a pretty astute assessment, but you mentioned the unspeakable: that America has become Second World. You'll be down-voted to oblivion out of an emotional reaction, but your analysis is smack on.
I agree that the numbers are pretty useless, but I decided to keep them to match the Hacker News theme. Maybe in the future, I'll add a second theme and let you choose between them in the options. Thanks for your input.
It usually is free if space is available and you don't annoy the professor. I've had several non-paying students; the only time I ever kicked one out of class was because we ran out of seats.

MIT is actually well known for making information free, but the credential is expensive.

http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/web/home/home/index.htm
What the author of this article doesn't seem to realize is that populations only become politically liberal as they can afford to be. Child labor laws didn't happen in the US, e.g., until families could afford to survive without child labor. These emerging middle classes still have a long way to go before they can afford to be as politically liberal as the US is today.
is there a definitive list of your projects out there?

AppSalesGraph, Art You Should Know, .. I'm just curious what else you're up to.
It's a pity, because

print "hello world"

is valid Perl/Ruby/Python, and the punctuation helps clarify in this case.
I wouldn't put it that way. Think of the subsistence farmer struggling to make ends meet after the social safety net got taken away. Or the factory worker whose newborn child has birth defects likely induced by hazardous pollution in the work environment. These people fall well within the category of "work pretty hard" but they are also the most likely advocates of reform.

I think the article got it right -- the "conservatives" simply feel they have more to lose. China's urban baby-boomer generation grew up during the Cultural Revolution in the '60s and '70s, where it was effectively mob rule by the Red Guards at a local level and many were sent to the countryside for re-education. They've seen what misguided "reform" can do and are not clamoring for it to happen again.
Honest question - why should we expect there be a correlation between "command of language" and entrepreneurial success? Also, curious as to why we should think someone only deserves to have money only if they had good command over language.
That's interesting because I wanted to sit in on the computational photography course at NYU and the registrar said it was impossible. Maybe I should have avoided talking to the administration? However, I did email the instructor and he did not return any of my email.

How do you even get into the buildings without an ID?
You say that if OKCupid had not filtered their data for attractiveness, my comment would still be "pretty dumb". Could you explain why?

Sure, here's the one reason I referred to:

Think about the argument for a second: it claimed that a pairwise comparison between black women and white women could explain black women's poor response rate as compared to all races. That doesn't make any sense.

For instance, your explanation that black women are more obese than white women doesn't explain why black women do worse than latinas.
I was seriously waiting for the reveal. (P.S. I have used the "Blah blah blah, blah blah blah, HAH, I was talking about X the whole time" shtick more times than I want to think about. It is practically "Hit this button to get your writing ability praised" in cultural studies. I got my degree before anyone caught on that I worked it into almost every other paper.)
Edsger Dijkstra had this to say:

"Are you quite sure that all those bells and whistles, all those wonderful facilities of your so called powerful programming languages, belong to the solution set rather than the problem set?"
I used to do a lot of offline marketing of online products and made some good money. What I mean by this is selling sites/hosting/newsletter hosting to small, local businesses.

I did this when I was tight on cash, since it can usually be done in a weekend: research a local group of businesses (ie. dentists or furniture stores) using Google Maps and grab all of their info. See which businesses don't have websites - and if they do check out how they look/work.

For the companies that didn't, I'd write a simple sales letter offering a discounted website. Something like the client that originally bought the site ended up bailing near the end, but I got a deposit out of them so I'm selling this site for cost. Since the other customer already paid (say, $1000), and costs were $1500, I can give you the site for $500.

That site is really just a cheap TemplateMonster design ($40-50) and once I get the payment I'll send over a word doc requesting all of the info they want for the pages and all the media they want uploaded. Probably a good 6-10 hours of work, for a decent profit (I typically charged them around $800 for the site).

Once completed you sell them on hosting (grab a VPS for $30/mo. and charge them $50/mo. to host their site - I put ~10 clients on a VPS (comfortably) since the sites get very little traffic). You sell them on newsletter hosting, explain benefits of contacting customers directly about offers for almost $0 cost to them. Email is huge to local businesses, set them up with mail@theirdomain.com and many will worship you. So many people still use xyz123@isp.net for their BUSINESS email.

For customers that already have sites, offer a redesign, better functionality (contact/quote request forms, email newsletter hosting, etc.).

There's also lots of money in local business directories, if you know anything about SEO. Offer them targeted traffic/leads at $XX/mo. - even more if they want a banner on the site.

So much cash offline, go and take it. It may be harder to do it based on the country, but I refuse to believe there isn't at least some need for it. If not - hit up craigslist in the US and start pimping your offerings ;)
I echo your thoughts. I thought YC new was a place where we appreciated the entrepreneurial spirit of creating something out of nothing. It was my sense that overcoming the odds was held in esteem. This guy surely seems to have done that. So, why call him a "tool" and downplay his achievements because he decided to put pictures of himself without a shirt on the net, or because he flaunts his wealth?
Agreed re: writing an ebook. If you have niche content and can package it nicely, you can make $300-$400 monthly. It helps to have some venue for marketing though (blog or other medium).
I know very little about it.
No, he just conveniently defined the terms to make a provocative statement about the US. Consider the fact that if you intersect the US's population with its per capita income, the US's rank is far and away number 1. You have to do some intellectual contortions to match an entity like that with the second tier.
"I doubt if anybody will actually read this book straight through from Chapter 1 to Chapter 28"

I will!
Look again -- V8 is faster than the regular Lua interpreter, not the Lua JIT, which is much faster than V8.
Steve Jobs says "No" to iPhone tethering on the iPad
You're not the user, you're a user. You should first verify if other users are pissed of as well. (i'm not for instance)
> You can't use traditional chroot kind of setup with nginx.

I'm curious why this is the case. If even a beast like apache can be run from a chroot jail, shouldn't it be easier to do it with something lightweight like nginx?
I try to steer clear of articles such as these but got fooled by the submission title. These attempts to paint the world in such broad strokes may seem to provide information in easily digestible forms but are useless, being just one step higher than black and white or good and evil.

No matter how appealing it may be to simplistically classify millions of people like that, the devil is in the details always. We can just begin to form some crude models with an in-depth study of the economies and sub-economies (and sub-sub) of the world (a humble attempt here: http://www.gapminder.org/ ), let alone their equally complex social and political data.

And despite the authors' beliefs, we are still evolving in all spheres - political, social and economic. Today's liberal views can yet be viewed as conservative in the future when better *cracies will form, very many of them from the so-called second and third worlds.
Simple Guide to HDR Photography
The entire source of news.arc is open - eg http://github.com/nex3/arc/blob/master/news.arc

Lines 1095-1098 control whether the downvote arrow is displayed or not.

So, to answer your question, yes, it bothers me that there's very rarely a clear enumeration or description of features.

On the other hand, it's been a wonderful opportunity to learn Arc.

(I'm only half joking - Arc was actually my first stab at functional programming and I probably wouldn't have tried it if pg had bothered to document HN's features)
> Memory management in Objective-C isn't nearly as terrifying as I thought it would be but it is very frustrating to see the non-descriptive EXEC BAD ACCESS. I always make a ton of mistakes when trying out new things. Luckily, I'm good at debugging!

At some critical point, Objective-C/Cocoa stops being the problem (EXC_BAD_ACCESS, IB gotchas, CoreData mysteries) and starts becoming the solution. Highly recommend "Cocoa Design Patterns"

I really like Leah's tone in this essay. It sounds like she is having fun with the jump-in-the-deep-end and start treading code method of learning.
I don't think it's that hard to come up with a different headline for each interview. That said, the headlines don't take anything away from the interviews.
I guess the "How a --- made a $1 billion by ----" headlines are part of Mixergy's brand.
Yes. A few days ago, an interesting article on this very subject was (re-)posted on HN (written in 2001!):
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1156481
http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/3030/keeping_the_pirat...
> IT says police will have that power, not that they will do it

If you think someone won't use (or abuse) this power, you are extremely optimistic.
Behavioral economics and the energy crisis
Summary: PHP developer obsfucates his proprietary frameworks to prevent clients from unauthorized modifications.

I'm sympathetic to his need to get paid for his work, but I couldn't help wondering if the benefits of open-sourcing his frameworks would outweigh the loss of control? He could still charge clients more for hosting on their own servers, and I bet most of them would still turn to him for maintenance and upgrades.
Visualizing America's Debt
The US probably belongs in its own category, since both mentalities are strong here, but between 1980 and 2008 we've clearly been pulling in the Second World direction. What's going on now is less clear, but we certainly haven't seen the miraculous change we'd hoped (but not expected) would follow Obama's election.
> Maybe the vast cinematography, scoring, voice acting, etc., aren't what gamers really want, and the "big budget" games are really throwing away money.

I was referring specifically to big-budget blockbuster titles. The major publishers have divested portfolios. If the big budget PC titles aren't profitable they'll be dropped and the investment will be elsewhere, like facebook games or whatever.

I'd argue that a lot of people do want these games though, because although PC sales are very low, millions of people play them.
> The problem is that if you're going to make an inflammatory argument

It's not really inflammatory. The statistics say black women are generally more obese. It's just another suggestion for the difference in responses (which has been established as being wrong for the statistics OKCupid are using - it could still be generally accurate..)

> implying that OKCupid is censoring the real reason for the apparent bias against black women on the site: they're just fat.

Nah.. I can't see any suggestion that OKCupid was censoring information? I think he means the blog post this links too.

Also: there is not implication that "they're just fat". Apparently statistically Black women are more obese than White women (I assume those are US stats); it's a reasonable suggestion that the OKCupid community mirrors wider society.

> it claimed that a pairwise comparison between black women and white women could explain black women's poor response rate as compared to all races. That doesn't make any sense.

Well we are mostly comparing this to the response rates of white women (at least that's how I am reading all of this) so I see no problem in the conclusion. White women have the highest response rate so it makes logical sense to use them as the comparison point. If we want to consider other races, such as Hispanic, then, yes, we would need the data for them too (who knows; it could match or it could mismatch - therein is the beauty of statistics).
Welcome to the real world. Your country is nothing more than a really big corporation. If your big corporation can not control and predict the money flow, your big corporation will be susceptible to bankruptcy.

This article is just an erroneous generalization. The "middle class" culture and politics aren't the same in these countries.
Are 80% of Harvard Students First Borns?
Reverse Rental Directory
I'm in the process of finding a house to rent and have been struck by the fact that it is universally a listing of houses and not of renters.

Does anyone know of a site which allows renters to post their requirements, rooms, rent / buy, down payment etc... ?
probably really helpful if you are trying to optimize your time to degree - I did my undergrad with a double major in 3 years, it's a lot of work setting that up and it requires special permission. I'd setup a DAG of class dependencies and look at which classes to ask special permission for - this is easy in early CS classes in particular, you go to the prof and go I want to take X as a coreq with Y instead of as a prereq because I have basic competence and let me show you how. <blahblahblah about X and Y>
You can chroot any user process. Some processes are harder to chroot than others.
Motivation oriented towards others, and, an affective response more appropriate to another's situation than my own (Empathy).
I read Pugh's original paper in the late 90's and thought skip lists were a heck of lot simpler than red-black trees. Ended up using them all over Second Life's original code base. By 2004 or so we switched the code over the STL and the LLSkipList class was retired to the dark depths of the CVS/SVN repository.
It appears that you're right - good call. I thought it was 2 days, perhaps that's been reduced of late.
To be more specific. Something like this; http://www.reddit.com/tb/b9yyc
There are cultural differences in our country, to be sure, but I would hesitate to compare a red state to Russia. Journalists are assassinated in Russia. There is institutionalized corruption in many of these other countries.

And don't be so quick to blame the (latest) US militancy on some 'second-world component' of our citizenry. The actions of our government don't often line up with public opinion. I don't remember people clamoring for an invasion of Iraq. Quite the contrary.
> Every American has the right to adequate medical care without the life-destroying mess of individual medical billing

Bullshit. Someone has to pay for the adequate medical care - and it should be the person receiving it. If you want protection against "individual medical billing", you can always buy insurance - if you don't do that, you should be willing to face the consequences.

To put another way: the only way of ensuring "adequate medical care" to someone without the means or unwilling to pay for it is to force other people to pay for it. Do you think this makes sense? Let's say I eat healthy food (which most people don't), make exercise every single day (most people don't) and pay (insurance) for proper medical care (most people don't).

Why, exactly, should I be forced to pay when someone that eats crap every day, spends 4 hours a day on Television, does no exercise at all, etc, etc, gets sick?

And even that is besides the point - even if a perfectly healthy person gets hit by a car - why should I be forced to pay for it?
Compare LuaJIT, PLT, V8, Lua, JRuby, Python 3, Ruby 1.8, Perl, PHP -

http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u32/which-programming-lang...
If you click on the user's name and look at his profile you'll see that he's a long-standing and frequent contributor.
Labeling this article a list of "Nginx" security best practices is probably a bit misleading. Of the 20 tips listed, only half really deal specifically with Nginx (and half of those feel like filler: hotlinking, for instance, is decidedly not a security issue). The remainder are more general-purpose *nix-lockdown mechanisms. That's not to say that they're not worth reading, as there are some interesting nuggets in the list, but it's not what I was expecting from the title.
I figured it was because the second and third born were too busy working their butts off in the military and the clergy to have time to spare.
Do IE developers at MSFT just suck really bad or they don't care? I am interested to know how can they fail so bad when much smaller team of developers like Opera does it so well.
I don't agree with his "of course I still own the source code" attitude. If he uses his own framework to create the application the customer wanted, he'll have to explicitly tell them about that part.

If it's an engine that presents courses in web-form, the engine is still his, but the content belong to the customer.
I would have to conceed that point. But if the ruling elite use the promise of expanding prosperity to stay in power then sooner or later they either won't be in power any more or there will be greater prosperity.
Poor management is no excuse for failing to meet the promise of a nation.

I'm sure 7,000,000 people were hard to manage in 1810 by largely horse messengers.
As opposed to the other countries in your list, in which you are clearly well-versed :)
Huge congrats to the Posterous team. I'm a total convert after I started to use posterous to keep track of Startup related news in the Mission District in SF. Absolutely love the simplicity of the experience and can't wait to see what's next.
Monopolies, Retransmission Fees, and Screwing Customers
Relax. The central thing about HN is not the ability to up- and downvote, the central thing are the submissions and their comments. Be annoyed if HN randomly disables your ability to submit or comment, don’t be annoyed if you randomly can’t vote.

Voting helps to create a useful structure for the content but it's not why I’m here. It’s not what’s fun about HN.
I have to say that I am impressed every time I read a comment from you - you manage to be relevant and drop some innovative new idea you're trying for your own business.
Vivek Wadhwa: Replicators, Innovators, and Bill Gates
Software patents
It's certainly a very interesting data structure. However, I don't think this level of an optimization should show up in your code often. I prefer coding to Map<K,V> and constructing the particular instance in some function that starts with a hash table and gets optimized later depending on exactly where performance problems are.
This is a puzzling result for me to read. As someone who studies international relations theory, the Realist tradition of thinkers (Machiavelli, Hobbes, E.H. Carr, Morgenthau among many others) associate power and consequentialist thinking. It was stated most clearly by Weber in the Politics as a Vocation lecture, where he contrasts the ethic of responsibility (consequences) to the ethic of conviction (deontological). Weber's Realism favors an ethic of responsibility against the more idealist thinkers of politics. E.H. Carr makes a similar distinction between deontological idealism and consequentialist Realism in his classic The Twenty Years Crisis.

This fits in with the tradition of Realism, going back the Machiavelli, who argued against actually following moral rules, but instead maintaining the appearance of following moral rules. He also links power, the use of power, the gaining of power, and the maintenance of power to a willingness to abandon moral rules. It was will and virtú that determined the prince's effectiveness in the face of fortuna.

Hobbes is probably the most interesting thinker on the topic of the link between power and morality. He makes very explicit the link between epistemology (what we can claim we know) and authority and force. In order to avoid the kind of civil wars he saw around him when writing The Leviathan (the Thirty Years War and the English Civil War), he thought that the ability to make claims about truth/revelation/values/morality had to be circumscribed from the public sphere. The ability to resolve disputes about moral knowledge had to be located in a single figure, the sovereign, who possessed authority and the power to back it up. But Hobbes is not making a descriptive argument--he's not saying that the powerful follow moral rules deontologically. He's making a normative argument--that only the powerful sovereign can make moral decisions for the public, because if anyone can make deontological claims what results is the type of religious civil war that he saw all around him.

So, for most of the tradition of Western (realist) thought, the relationship between power and morality/consequences runs the opposite way. The powerful operate (or should operate) according to consequences, not to deontological rules. The idealists--the "unarmed prophets" in the words of Machiavelli--operate on deontological rules and end up being ineffective, overthrown, or conquered.