skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, but the arguments against are difficult if impossible to sell:

Define porn.

Travel to another country.

Define porn.

In the US, periodicals don't post pictures of naked men/women (at least not the defined "naughty bits"). The ones that do are considered pornographic and require the purchaser to be a certain age.

In Europe, nude women in periodicals is not unusual.

In Muslim countries ... well, if you can figure all of the nuances of the most restrictive Muslim countries, I owe you a beer.
Afaik it's unofficial --- the domain name is not owned or operated by HN, PG or YC. It could turn into a man-in-the-middle attack at any time.
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Check with a real immigration lawyer. I suspect that you can leverage your wife's work status, but IANAL.

I'm thinking that she can start a biz even though she's employed. You don't take a salary, she takes money out of the biz just like every other S-corp/LLP and puts it into your joint account. Community property can be your friend....
Non-sequitur? gzip != zlib
"Charlie Bit My Finger" is a specious example. It's a 56s clip like one you'd see on America's Funniest Home Videos, a program filled with viewer-submitted content and a counterargument to "By Moms, For Moms." Two questions raised here: How does "Charlie" stack up against American Idol, Dancing With The Stars, and the Superbowl in terms of total viewer-hours? More important, how many of us are willing to sit through 1.5h movies with "Charlie" production values?
This is the best april fools joke I've seen so far.
The most believable one, that is.

The best one would have to be reddit's admin free for all
DeZombification - How to get yourself out of autopilot...
No Mountain Dew at CERN's vending machines. But they do sell Perrier in cans the same size and shape as coke (33cl). After all, CERN is half over France too...

And in general, the most popular vending machines are coffee ones, much a more popular beverage than sodas. On the other hand, Restaurant 1 is open from 6am until 11pm for all your caffeinated needs, with freshly grinded coffee -the machine grinds in a JIT-fashion ;)-

EDIT: you can even check the menu of Restaurant 2 online (http://resto2.web.cern.ch/resto2/cgi-bin/dsr?menu). They used to have hilarious Engrish translations of the French names, such as "eat man" for "croque monsieur" -a kind of sandwich-.
It depends on how you read "non-technical".

Your personal example is the story of someone who was extremely sensitive to what they didn't know, made very careful allowances for it, and in the end found out that picking up some technical knowledge was pretty much an unavoidable side-effect.

When I read "non-technical", I don't think of a brand new manager who hasn't yet gone through that process. I picture someone who has managed to stay non-technical by not having that acute sense of what they don't know, not making those allowances for it, and as a result, completely avoided the osmosis of technical knowledge.
In gmail it did: the "friday night you are drunk and shouldn't send this email" feature.
What did you release?
Are there a lot of people who think getting an expensive MBA degree is worth something in the startup world? I'd never heard anything but the opposite until reading this article and now I'm wondering if there's some segment of the population that I've just never heard from.
Doctor Who, HG Wells' The Time Machine, Back to the Future, 12 Monkeys.

Did I miss any references?
New Eclipse logo: http://www.eclipse.org/org/press-release/20100401_newlogo.ph...
Isn't everyone's market everyone now?
You can file a tax extension. It defers your taxes by 6 months. You pay 5% annual interest on it.

http://www.irs.gov/formspubs/article/0,,id=98155,00.html
I don't think justin.tv can legally stream pro sports. I think that'd be an awesome way to add in some fremium though.
Would you have to revoke your US citizenship and become a European citizen to do this legally?
YC startup looking for short-term contract help
We're a YC-funded web startup doing a small launch in a couple of weeks. We'd like to hire 1-2 hackers for short-term (1-2 week), on-site contract work in the Peninsula. Skills we need, pretty standard = {CSS/Sass, jQuery} + {Ruby/Rails}. If you cover both sets, even better.

Reply with:
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- how much you'd like to be paid ($ per day or week, full-time)

Bonus:
- more work in the future for the right person
- we could arrange transportation
- chill work environment, well-stocked fridge.

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Ask HN: Recommend a Technical Virtualization Reference
Hi everyone,
I'm using virtual machines and the cloud as a resource for some of my work, and I'd like to have a better understanding how the virtualization technology works.

I'm looking for a book or review paper that explains the basics (trap and emulate, binary translation, shadow page tables, etc.). I don't have an EE/CS background, so the more basic, the better.

I googled around a bit, but there's a lot of noise, so I was hoping somebody could help me out.

Thanks!
I think it's more like this: If they stopped making payments, it's safe to say they might be cutting corners in maintenance as well.

"We just watched and waited until the crew checked into their hotel", Popovich says, "then we grabbed their plane and flew away."

That certainly doesn't sound like they're doing a lot of inspection to ensure a safe return. Granted, it's only their hind-ends and they are aware of the risks, but I think this guy and his crew certainly deserve a brass balls award.
Stack Overflow made everyone's profile pics into unicorns. It was the only one that got me today, 'cause I just noticed my own at first.
IMHO, if there is a safety net allowing failures (condition to creation/experiments), I call it creative destruction. Otherwise, it's a question of threshold: will the system collapse or not.

Edit: of course, those are not totally orthogonal notions, and those can be quite interleaved at different levels. (e.g. a company collapses, but it's employees aren't supposed to be left dying under a bridge and can integrate/create another one)
The JooJoo is here... seriously
That shouldn't be necessary though - the site should serve up HTML5 video to all Safari/Chrome users instead of just those on the iPad.
To be honest, as much as I love the iPad (well, as much love as is possible without ever actually having used one), it is even getting a little overdone for me. :) Still, it's not going to go away for awhile so you better just accept it (or spend the next 6 months annoyed).

That said, I do believe it's a revolution in computing - but, perhaps ironically, it might be one that hardcore geeks/power-users will not participate as much in.

The industry is changing.
man cat
Links are so HTML4
I no longer worry about the backbone sniffers - that's like drinking from a firehouse the size of 3 Gorges Dam. You can't surreptitiously consume that much I/O.

I'm much more concerned about small targeted stuff in data centers and colo cages, sniffing just a few backend servers, behind the SSL terminator. Or, you know, just 'select * from creditcardinfo';...
Yes! I've been using that feature for quite a while now, and as far as I'm concerned it has completely solved the accidental sending problem. And even better, it does so in a way that seems perfectly intuitive and consistent with the rest of the Gmail interface.
No Mountain Dew because he took it all!
I'm not going to claim that you've missed the point since I can't speak neither for the article or for you, but my take on his argument and example was different.

It's not that Charlie is just straight off replacing Dancing with the Stars. No one is saying that people will spend the same amount of time they do watching TV now watching crappy youtube clips. It's that maybe, there just isn't a market for the kind of entertainment Dancing with the Stars represents - it's just becoming too expensive. I'm not sure that's true, but I do think the market for traditional TV/entertainment in general is shrinking. That, I think, is the core argument: That maybe, there is no way to answer the question "so, how do we continue making this much money?" without letting people down. Perhaps there is no way for these big organisations to make all their money doing what they do. Perhaps people like the guy who posted "Charlie bit my finger" will find some way of monetizing that, in small scales. Perhaps not.

The thing that people don't like to hear is that things change. So maybe the days of entertainment are over, maybe no one can work in show business, maybe copying that floppy really killed the radio star - yes, maybe. That's what progress does - new opportunities grow from the corpses of old businesses.
The irony is that I (and countless others I am sure) would rather be stuck in an elevator with Stephen Fry than Steve Jobs. However anybody who has followed Fry's tech writing knows how big a deal this must have been for him, so I am happy he got to do it.
I would argue that canvas is another HTML5 technology that is notable for its ability to replace Flash.
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Cisco IOS QoS configuration guide - flesh tone recognition to classify and monitor suspect pornographic images

http://packetlife.net/media/blog/attachments/413/nbar_flesh_...
Announcing "Friend": Adding Fine Grained Visibility Semantics to Ruby
It is necessary. I had to change my user-agent string to get the HTML5 video page (without it, I just got the regular "please install flash player" message).
I think they do the inspection and whatnot ahead of time. They don't want to accidentally repossess engines that are not theirs.
Damn. I keep falling for it.
I'm not sick of it. I really, really want one.
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I could be completely wrong, but even if you hate the iPad down to its core, you have to at least recognize it as one of the next "development" frontiers. I think people are interested, at least initially, at the different way people are developing for the iPad.
There are emulators on the App Store (a Commodore 64 one, for example), just none that can run arbitrary code. Each program that can be run on the emulator has to be approved (some built-in to the App, others available as in-app purchases).
guest@xkcd:/$ top

It's up there --^

guest@xkcd:/$ nano

Seriously? Why don't you just use Notepad.exe? Or MS Paint?

guest@xkcd:/$ vi

You should really use emacs.

guest@xkcd:/$ go down

On our first date?
guest@xkcd:/$
The business is the website.
> perhaps ironically, it might be one that hardcore geeks/power-users will not participate as much in.

I'm also getting tired of that strawman, most geek articles I've read said they actually loved the iPad. And yet, everytime I read an article from mainstream media, they say geeks hate the iPad. What's with that? iPad definitly sucks for hacking (it simply can't be done), but you don't need to be a genius to see that it's a good format for couch computing. Can you find me articles from geeks that actually deny that? I'm starting to think the iPad is advertized as something the elite hate but real people love, this is simply not true from all the articles (from geeks) that I've read here on HN and elsewhere.
online there seems to be a bit of buzz. At work, where there a quite a few iphone/ipod users, there doesn't seem to be much interest.

I'm personally more interested in getting an e-ink device but none of them has really caught my eye yet, they all seem to be pretty industrial looking. And keeping an eye on the qualcomm mirasol technology.
Did he have an IBM 5100 with him?
for laymen, startup is synonymous with business, and an MBA is a business degree.
It's not like I was out-of-the-blue busting her balls.

Say I see this in a woman's profile: "I've mastered the art of unwrapping a Starburst in my mouth."

You can be sure you'll find something like this in my first message to her: "Awesome, I hear it takes ten years to master an art...." That actually has me cracking up right now.

So, it's not like this particular person had a precedent to conclude that I was more likely trying to be a dick, rather than having fun in accordance to my previous messages. Something made her completely miss the fun side of it.

And the few times this "unpaid phone bill" joke didn't get me the number, the woman was polite with something like: "sorry, it's too soon. I'm just not comfortable giving my number to a guy on the internet yet." Which is absolutely fine.

I know what this looks like (I'm an a-hole), but I also know how women generally respond to this stuff; I have empirical evidence that shows a strong correlation of success. Her response was not normal and pretty low-class, and really left me blindsided. She did say some pretty ridiculous stuff that wouldn't even be true of a dog with down syndrome. Quite unbalanced, even if you read my message at face value: with no evidence other than her not giving me the number, I was asserting she couldn't pay her phone bill on time, and that I was willing to share some of my raman.

Besides, I had never met a person who didn't think raman was funny in itself. Who hasn't lived off it for a few days? It's like an inside joke we all share.

I'm not going to abandon everything that actually works because one person got offended. It has worked before, and it is very likely that it'll work another 50 times before I come across someone who is even mildly offended by my general manner.

Also, and I feel really bad mentioning this, she is one of the lesser looking girls I've spoken to with intentions of dating. I'm starting to think the whole thing was because she had less experience with jolly bantering. But, this may be me unjustly rationalizing.

Thank god for nested comments. Waaaayyyy off topic.
The Persistently Stupid Idea
I didn't say I hate it to its core, I actually think it's a good devise, but I think it's getting overblown just because people are afraid to miss that one like they missed the iPhone.
No, there's also some guy over on Reddit who doesn't care, apparently.
Hi Sam,

I'm the technical co-founder of http://postabon.com (the crazy guy who wrote the entire thing in Lisp ;-)).

Based on my experience over the last 6 months, I think most MBAs start out thinking that they'll be fine at doing a startup with no domain expertise, and can just 'throw money' at that problem. This is true whether the domain is manufacturing, fashion, tech, etc. However, after they've been at it for N months and have nothing done, the smart ones realize the error of their ways ;-)

Business savvy (just like technical skill) is a necessary (but not sufficient) requirement for being a successful entrepreneur. Having co-founders with disparate skill sets helps you cover all your bases.

I think just as many engineers think they can build something cool (with no thought to marketing, capital, strategy, etc), and build a start-up.
Dude, make yourself like it, cause it'll change everything.
I see you are getting some real work done there in your terminal...
That is a very typically Mac way of using screen space, and is something that I do all the time on my Mac computers. However, from what I have seen Windows users seem to like to have their applications filling the whole screen. (I'm sure there are plenty of exceptions to this, but I'm just stating what I have seen as a general trend.)
Only if the emulator needed net access. An emulator with a 100 bundled ROMs is no trouble.
I would be really happy if all the articles stopped. They say the same exact stuff and its REALLY annoying.
Geeks aren't just the hacker demographic. In fact, most techie blogs I've seen are at the very least cautiously optimistic about the iPad. If you only look at bloggers and hackers, yeah, we don't have a gigantic hate-on for the iPad.

But take a look at the comments section on Digg, Reddit, Engadget, Gizmodo, etc. The iPad hate there is at a fever pitch right now - these are the "geeks" the mainstream media is talking about.
I bet they sell dozens of them.
You're correct that there is gray area. There's also a ton of stuff way beyond the gray area.

Moving depictions of sex off into a .xxx domain would not be very hard. Just because something isn't perfect, doesn't mean it's not a good idea.
If you're a startup founder, I don't think it matters if you give a crap ... I think it's more important to find out if your customers or potential customers give a crap and if it makes sense to pay attention.

We've had several dozens inquiries from customers this week. Granted, we're in a niche industry and YMMV but, frankly, I think it's foolish to simple ignore a technology simply because you personally don't care.
Am I the only one who thought this was an April Fool's Day joke at first? It is a bad time to be launching a serious redesign or new feature.
Count me as well. I'm fed up with so much hype.
:) someone wrote some of the base functions for it in scheme once, but the concept is a bit incompatible with hygenic macros.
http://www.engadget.com/photos/joojoo-unboxing/#2855943

This thing reeks of unprofessionality:

"...anywhere, anytime. Now, the internet is yours to enjoy on the go..."

Notice the extraneous comma after "Now"? A professional would have caught that before they printed their materials.

"joojoo. Our name means magic.
Experience it."

Sounds like a 12-year-old saw an Apple ad and and wrote this second-rate copy.

http://www.engadget.com/photos/joojoo-unboxing/#2855958:
Notice the unsightly arc that makes room for the audio jacks? Apple doesn't put ugly lines like that into their physical products (old brushed-metal Quicktime player aside). Betcha that the joojoo bozos thought they were being clever when they came up with this horror.

I should also say that Arrington probably wouldn't have done any better (he's a bozo too - just an "idea guy" with no ability to actually contribute anything substantial).
I'm glad someone started this thread, as I've been looking for somewhere to vent/rant a little.

I know this thread is more about being bummed out by the hype, but the hype seems like Apple Gush instead of honest reviews. I saw clip on Hulu for Good Morning America where a lady said that you can't run Flash, but don't worry, people are making apps, so it should be here soon. Huh? People don't have a CLUE what they are even buying. It's just Apple and shiny so they are jumping on it.

http://www.hulu.com/watch/139237/abc-good-morning-america-fi...

The reasons I would not buy an iPad:

1) I don't want to have to hold my computer like it's a clipboard for everything I have to do. And I don't want to buy a tacky "stand" of some kind so I can sit back and watch or use the thing.

2) If I want to use 2 hands to type, or play a game, do I lay it down on some surface and lean over it like a piece of paper? Sounds like a back breaker.

3) I purchased an EEE PC thinking it would be great, I could use it everywhere, and for anything. Turns out, it's sitting in a drawer because I have no use for a limited PC that's too small and hard to type on to do anything of value.

You CANNOT tell me that typing on the iPad will be better. Typing on my iPhone is already the worst typing experience imaginable. I used to email all the time from my blackberry, now I don't even bother.

4) It's a handheld iTunes store, and I can't even download and try apps that aren't approved by Apple. I'd be more interested in an Android iPad honestly.

5) Is that a glass screen? If so, anyone with kids should back off now. I don't even let my kids carry glass plates to the table for dinner. Or maybe you'll be able to buy a giant Otter Box protective case for it, lol.

Thanks again for the rant outlet.
Apologies about that- I'm trying to write the book to the best of my abilities so it's taken a long time.
IFixit successfully fools Wired reporter
Did you resolve the word?
I must have pretty low standards -- I think it looks very professionally done. Way beyond my expectations based on all the negative press these guys have gotten.
same here. I was looking forward to april because of this book..
But is it as fast?
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Your low standards don't matter. The question is: how does this product compare against Apple's iPad?

It doesn't compare very well at all. If they botched the details that I've pointed out, what does that say about the rest of the product?
You're welcome, and I agree with all your points :) That being said, the iPad will probably be a hit. Given how it's being pushed by the old media that hope to be saved by the iPad. Look at how the NYT is hyping the device.
Nice article- But it is missing an obvious possibility: Smart ideas that sound stupid on the surface.

Building a "giant iPod Touch" might fall in this category. (Jury still out)
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I could not believe how out of touch this article is, but it should legitimately worry us when it's posted in the Harvard Business Review
What's the point of spitting into the wind? Huge waves of hype create opportunity. Reframe and benefit.
When you put it like that it's even more of a marketing coup for Apple. Being known to be hated by the "elite" is a huge draw for consumer product, whether it actually is or not.
Quake 2 ported to HTML5
3) I purchased an EEE PC thinking it would be great, I could use it everywhere, and for anything. Turns out, it's sitting in a drawer because I have no use for a limited PC that's too small and hard to type on to do anything of value.
You CANNOT tell me that typing on the iPad will be better. Typing on my iPhone is already the worst typing experience imaginable. I used to email all the time from my blackberry, now I don't even bother.

This is where we differ---the whole reason to get excited about the iPad is because it promises to make typing (and mouse wiggling, one of the most unnatural things to do ever!) a whole lot less relevant. That's something to be excited about, IMO.
If the USA didn't have a functioning democracy at the time of the industrial revolution, there would have been a Marxist uprising here as well.
I would not want to repo a plane from the wrong people. They could sabotage it every time they leave it. I don't know how easy/hard it would be to unplug something on a plane,something that will not look obvious.
I'll be honest, I wish it didn't exist. I'm happy with one less platform to support. It can't be ignored though now that it's here.
It totally depends on what industry/vertical you are trying to take on. For web apps, yes an MBA is not vital since you can bootstrap w/out funding (as the author alluded to). However, I'd argue that the connections you get with an MBA can be worth their weight in gold.

Case in point: Gilt. Don't tell me that these MBA's are failing (http://www.gilt.com/company#team). I'd happily trade shoes with them :-)