skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I like the non-flat approach to social networking. Most of my facebook friends are there because we went to high school together. It would be nice to be able to group them apart from my 10 or so current friends, so I could not snub my acquaintances but keep in touch with those who sould be kept in touch with.
single page: http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/04/ff_lost/all/1
> American ideal of personal liberty

Community control has been an ideal just as long. Go re-read your Tocqueville.
Ask HN: What's the best way to get started with Vi(m)
The title says it all. It's one of the things I've been meaning to do, but never quite did. Any suggestions? I'm a TextMate power user currently.
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> "you're supposed to get a card specifically for Blippy purchases".

Ah. Now I get it.
Why would a state agency like REACT not have jurisdiction in a city that's in California?
He also mentioned that the CTO of Mahalo quit. The CTO of a technology startup does not normally quit after 3 years! That would be far more shocking to me than a programmer quitting after 1 year.

Evan Culver as much as said Mahalo was a shitty place to work (http://twitter.com/evanculver). If the CTO is quitting it can't be that great for a programmer.

My impression of Jason is that he underpays people, overworks them, and doesn't hold himself to the same standard. Does he take a significantly below market salary (or no salary?) Does he actually clock in 9+ hours a day on Mahalo? Is he the first one there in the morning and the last one out?

From the outside it seems like he spends a lot of his time playing around on his side projects. Hanging out with cool people. And generally taking it easy. No one wants to kill themselves working for a guy that seems to be having fun doing unrelated things. VCs are even less okay with that, as far as I know. How long will they put up with him launching/running side companies?

My guess is that within 18 months he will not be the CEO of Mahalo. He will be much happier doing things he genuinely likes and is genuinely good at, such as This Week in Startups.
Actually the charge takes place hours later, but I think the authorization happens immediately.
To me, it boils down to my belief that many people wouldn't accept this statement by P. C. Hodgell†:

"That which can be destroyed by the truth should be."

Some people seem to be afraid of truth. I've noticed this when I've turned down cheese, and upon being asked why, saying I think it's unhealthy for me. Often they start saying why they can't live without cheese, or why eating cheese regularly doesn't increase the risk of disease unless you have a certain risk factor (like high blood pressure or a sedentary lifestyle). This happens without me doing anything except turn it down. I find people have an easier time accepting it if I act like I'm turning it down for moral reasons rather than nutritional reasons.

As for how truth-avoidance leads to this: I think that people don't want to accept a certain truth often don't want to accept justice that's based on that truth. In this case, the truth is that, even though he's gay, Turing deserves fairness just like everyone else.

† I got the quote from http://yudkowsky.net/rational/virtues and am surprised not to be able to find it on one of the major quote sites.
My brother agreed to try it once school is out in a couple weeks. I think he's a pretty good candidate: computer savvy and uses a mac, is interested in what I do but has never tried to learn it before. I'll definitely take notes and pass them along.
Am I the only one that thought this was some parody post by Jason or DHH (when you see the 37signals.com in brackets), before realizing it was just on the jobs page?
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What? Microsoft and OS X have rich libraries of cost-based applications and they don't require any licensing or DRM embedded in the OS. Why on earth would an operating system that hinges itself on openness take a more Draconian step than any other major OS distributer has (mobile OSes aside)?
The .rpm vs .deb debate is a fallacy. The real issue is that when packaging for say debian and RHEL you have to care about different glibc, different compiler versions with potentially different ABI, different filesystem conventions, different scripts for post install, etc... The format in which the files are packaged is the least of the issues compared to that. For example, packaging for opensuse once you have a package for RHEL is as much of a PITA than packaging for debian, really.

Once you standardize on what makes packaging difficult across distro, you basically end up with the same system. I think systems like the build service from Suse, etc... are much more useful than wishful thinking on packaging format.
Just to be clear, subjecting someone of lesser brilliance (99.9999999% of the population) to Turing's treatment would be equally immoral. Seriously destabilizing a suicidal person is murder and on a moral level I don't believe in claiming that a particular murder is more or less immoral than another. Murder is murder and I don't think you can compare magnitudes. So if he had been an ordinary guy, his murder would still have been wrong on a moral level. I'm simply arguing that in addition to the usual costs of murder (felt in large part by the deceased family), society has borne an additional cost.
Indeed, when I had to make my personal 'vi or emacs' choice back in the day, I chose vi because I played a lot of nethack.
Believe me, middle managers in big businesses never dream about being more agile or flexible. They all dream about the empire they will build. That is in their DNA.
Well that's certainly the way it ought to be, if you ask me.
17,000 words is not a long book? was that supposed to be 170,000? Or just in the sense that she wrote a long article and is trying to pass it off as a book?

http://www.brandonsanderson.com/article/56/Splitting-AMOL has a description of what happens when a book gets too long (400,000 words)
School administrators were overhead talking about how they liked the cameras because it was a mini drama of the personal lives of students in their building... how is that not clear intent? They were looking at the photos for fun. Sure you can't prove their cornea lined up with the image, but come on, have you ever heard a pedophile say 'I took the pictures with my eyes closed and didn't look at them, I just made them available to others'?
This is true but that utility won't let you remap Caps to Esc.
> Nonetheless, it's a tenet of polite, modern society that slight demographic variations are not turned into generalizations over entire demographic groups.

Howver, a corollary of this tenet of modern society is that unequal representation in a given field/endeavor is prima facie evidence of discrimination, regardless of differences in group median ability. I trust I do not need to provide examples of this?
That could be so much funnier if it weren't a lazy translation. It needs some interlude image-only slides, single-word slides, "Fin" slide, etc.
I'm skeptical. What cues? Are you thinking a girl learns how she should act by emulating a mom, and the same for a boy in relation to his dad?
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Ok, two things that bother me about Blippy:

The first is mild. Why do I want other people, even my friends, to know what I buy?

The second is: which creepy "friends" of mine want to know what I buy? Maybe the only reason to create a temp account with Blippy. Any friend of mine that looks at that setup account, ain't gonna be my friend any longer. Can I find out which creep looks at an account I set up?
Thanks for the posting.

I'm currently looking for a remote work opportunity with a company developing interesting products. Where did you find your remote workers? Was it through word of mouth or did you post job postings somewhere?
There don't seem to be many toxic effects in that link. A lot of correlation, but not much causation.
Yeah I think they were pretty dumb to disclose all of the details of the story, they should have just taken it apart, taken their pictures, given it back to the seller and washed their hands of it. Telling everyone how they got it, who it came from, how much they paid etc is only going to get them into trouble.

On the other hand, with the police knocking down his door, at least it's totally clear it wasn't a fake
Wait, Mahalo is trying to "crush" Yahoo..?!
Some weekend comedians think less is at stake if they make the joke easy. Going for the joke and accepting that many people will not get it takes some guts.
This is beyond offensive to me. I'm a hacker, a Christian, and a gay man.

Dude, I'm a hacker-herding atheist straight female, and that was beyond offensive to me too, so I figure between you and me we have all the bases covered :-)

First time I have hoped that somebody was trolling on HN though...
Type `vimtutor` on your command line and hit enter.
Assuming you're on Mac you'll need to set up a decent .vimrc to enable syntax highlighting, indentation and some other bits. Vim is a different beast depending on how it's set up.

The built in tutorial is a decent place to start. I think that's the only thing I did apart from editing code. It takes a while to get over the hump but it's worth it.

I also suggest remapping your CAPS LOCK key to ESC. PCKeyboard Hack is free and simple to set up for that purpose. I've never liked the role of ESC in vi. It's too far away from the home keys.

If you learn to love the efficiency, I'd suggest looking at Komodo Edit or another editor that has vim key mappings. I prefer Komodo because it's vim plus code completion (I'm not aware of a vim solution for that) and a bunch of other bits that will save time.
That's true, but his opinion is probably worth more than some random guy at least in this respect
I switch between vim and textmate. My favorite textmate/vim feature is column select - in vim, its ctrl+v (http://sethmason.com/2007/09/27/vim-tip-select-column.html) in textmate it's option+click.

Also, fwiw, Macvim may help retain vim usage.
Type this into your terminal: emacs
We're both wrong :)

they're not a state agency, but I thought they were just in Santa Clara county. per their website, they serve Alameda County, Santa Clara County, San Francisco County, San Mateo County, and Santa Cruz County.

A partnership of 17 local, state, and federal agencies, with the Santa Clara County District Attorney's Office designated as the lead agency. The REACT Task Force is one of five in the State of California and authorized under California Penal Code 13848. ... Established in 1997 by the California state Department of Justice.

I guess they went for the nearest target first, then. I think they'd still need a warrant in each county, or they'd have had the state Attorney-general's office procure the warrant...but I'm too tired to go back and look at it now.
Blippy seems like one of those services that people would use only because other people are using it (not because it offers a particular benefit). It's like the UGG boots of internet startups--someday, people are going to wonder what the hell they were thinking.
What? Being theist or atheist is not a moral issue, it's a philosophical issue about the nature of the universe.

The notion that atheists are less moral than theists is a common misconception.
I don't think any amount of human suffering is really worth some perceived progress. Not only because the progress will likely come around eventually anyway if it's for the better, but if we're trying to better humankind we shouldn't start by harming even a single human.
I think with something like Vim it's best to get a grasp on the very basics (saving/opening documents, moving into and out of insert mode, navigating with hjkl) and then add one of two things at a time as you get comfortable with those. If you try to do everything at once you just end up getting overwhelmed.

I didn't really start to like Vim until I started playing around with my .vimrc file. There were too many minor irritants and things I wanted changed. An Ask HN on the subject came in very handy: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=856051

Mine (along with a few other minor customizations) is at http://github.com/samdk/vimconf/blob/master/dotvimrc if you'd like to take a look.

Some other good resources:
http://dotfiles.org/.vimrc
http://www.vi-improved.org/vimrc.php
It's not blanket-true that there are more adopting families than orphans. For healthy Caucasian newborns, demand outstrips supply by factors of 100 or more. For HIV+ African-American 13-year-olds, adoption is basically never going to happen.
I think what Linux really needs is to embrace some way of getting software outside apt/yum. Having to go through the package managers forces you to be an administrator to install software, and the developer and user have no say in which version of the application you get.

I think Linux distributions should be platforms which developers can develop applications for which they can distribute however they wish. Then users can choose which applications and which versions to install and does not have to go through the AppStore like package management system.

I also think applications should be stand alone. If they need anything outside the platform, these dependencies should be delivered as part of the application.
Yes, but only if they know there to be an encrypted partition. Because all encrypted data passes a Chi^2 randomness test you cannot (really cannot) distinguish between empty space on an encrypted partition and a different encrypted partition inside an encrypted partition.

So when they find a drive that passes the Chi^2 randomness test they know there has to be encrypted data on there, so you give them the key and they decrypt the outer ring (which contains nothing important). At that point they're stuck. They suspect there's got to be more to it, but they can't point to anything and say "decrypt this!", because there isn't anything to point to. So technically, they have to let you go. Or so I heard.
Check out vimcasts.org. The guy who makes them even occasionally refers to how to do things in vim that he likes in TextMate.
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I'm prototyping click-to-call functionality for Android and wanted to test the waters and see if this concept would be popular in the hacker news community.
That's fine if you take the word "homophobia" at face value, but it's become a politically overloaded term, and it's not right to accuse people of mental illness just because they disagree with you.
Do people ever get into serious arguments about using one or the other? At work we jokingly take jabs at the other camp, but that's more making fun of the fact that it's been such a hyped up feud.
>“Some problems in the world are not bullet-izable.”

Anyone else tickled by the (presumably unintentional) pun here?
And let's not forget $600m or so in profits last year.. hardly "dying." Like PHP, Yahoo might not be cool amongst geeks.. but it works.
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Ask HN: How to follow up on promising investment leads?
Hi everyone,

Background info: I was a finalist in my college's business plan competition. Tonight the winners and losers (us) were announced. During the night's events though I got a ton of great feedback and praise. Several local prominent investors expressed a ton of interest in meeting with us further.

Question: I was looking for some good resources for what the best way to "stay in touch" with interested investors is. Should I send an email right away? What if we're not quite ready to take on outside investment?

Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks
I didn't see anything in the what you linked to that stated that marijuana was toxic. A lot of "might be" linked "to certain things" but nothing substantive.

More people die each year from OTC painkillers (aspirin, tylenol, advil) than they do in deaths caused by marijuana (0).

http://drugwarfacts.org/cms/?q=node/30

Mikuriya, T.H. "Historical Aspects of Cannabis Sativa in Western Medicine," New Physician, 1969, p. 905.

Grinspoon, Lester. Marihuana Reconsidered. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1971.

Nadelmann, Ethan A. "Drug Prohibition in the United States: Costs, Consequences, and Alternatives," Science, Vol 245: 943, 1 September 1989
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Hi, grellas here - thanks to all for the kind words and glad the articles are useful.

On the specific point of legal costs, it is important to use one's legal budget wisely because good startup lawyering is not cheap. A few pointers: (1) even if you bypass the lawyers, it usually pays to do an initial meeting with a lawyer just to get a strategic overview of your legal options and likely costs (this is usually pretty inexpensive in itself); (2) when you do use lawyers, be proactive in managing their time by getting estimates for key tasks or even fixed-fee pricing (not all projects lend themselves to this but many do, especially in the contract and corporate area); (3) never pay for a big name as an end in itself, as the vital ingredient for a good relationship with any business lawyer is that of trust and confidence (I have relationships going back 20+ years with many of my founders and entrepreneurs); and (4) don't lose heart on legal pricing, for, even though the laws are unfairly stacked in this area such as to unduly restrict cheap legal services, the modern information age has enabled many such services to be gotten at prices that are much less out of line than they used to be (e.g., typical "complex" setup with a founding team, restricted stock, IP assignments, etc. for, say, $2K; friendly angel funding for less than $5K, etc. - none of this is cheap but it is a lot less than it was a decade ago and is normally quite achievable for a startup with a founding team and clearly beats getting whip-sawed with a botched setup or funding that can so easily happen if one tries to wing it in this area).

That said about lawyer pricing, I am also a proponent of founders doing what they can without lawyers whenever reasonably possible, and that is why I did this series - to help people understand how things generally work so they can make their own best decisions on such issues.

I hope to do more posts as time permits. Happy reading!
I think that's an oversimplification. For example, most people do not associate Unix processes with a single address space. In any case, the paper is not asking for a revolutionary threading model.
I was made acutely aware of this the other day when out with my girlfriend to pick up: a replacement iPod for her and a cordless phone. After playing with an iPod nano for a couple of minutes while settling on colour/features etc, we then went to look at the cordless phones...

The contrast in design choice just left me depressed. All the phones were crappy, ugly things, with user interfaces that were just awful. Maybe they had really good features but I didn't care, because it looked to me as though the designers didn't care about their product. And this was something I was going to bring into my home and use everyday!

The whole experience left me bummed. I left with just the iPod.
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The fall in the US dollar IS the same problem. When the Federal Reserve pumps too much money into the economy, the value of the dollar drops and prices rise. Inflation is the economy overheating.
I completely disagree. I use Linux because of how well it works and would gladly pay money for it, and I think most long term Linux users stick with it because of how well it works. In fact, most Linux users I know purchased a computer with Windows already on it, and completely wiped it off to put Linux on there. So they've already 'payed' for Windows, but use a different OS anyways.

I'm also not saying people should pay for bad software in hopes that it will become good. I'm saying that we need to make it easier to pay for software so that software that good that already exists can be purchased.

Android is an example of how Linux and payments can work. An open source operating system with many free pieces of software, but an App store where products can still be purchased.
What office software do you use btw? I've been looking for some linux-based powerpoint replacement (impress does not cut it)
i think tumblr is better for "sharing rich media"
they support most credit card/debit cards already though
This is the cheat sheet that I used to get started:
http://home.uchicago.edu/~gan/file/vim.pdf

Learn the basics first:

1. Basic movement (h l k j)

2. Insertion mode (i), deletion (x), selections/visual Mode (v), copying/yank (y), pasting/put (p), and exit insertion mode (esc)

Once you learn those the rest is pretty easy to pick up.

I should warn you though, once you get used to the key commands it's hard to go back to another editor.
Go with Dell XPS or Precision laptops - they are usually fully supported by Dell and are quite good hardware (USB 3.0, 16GB max RAM)

Dell has incredible compatibility with Linux - somehow a lot of Dell specific utilities have ended up in Ubuntu (e.g. firmware-addon-dell for BIOS handling, dell-recovery for creating Dells specific recover ISO, etc.)

Dell's support pages have a lot of info on advanced processes (bios flashing, etc.) from Linux - http://linux.dell.com/projects.shtml
Here's the logic of a non-homophobic argument I have heard of. The majority of research on parenting and raising children has been done with heterosexual parents as a base assumption. Someone who is extremely supportive of gay rights who is also a rational thinker might be cautious when considering the issue of adoption by homosexuals. Why be cautious? Because it is necessary to take reasonable measures to guarantee the children will be raised appropriately. It is a human right of the children. In American society we place an especially high value on protecting the rights of people who cannot defend themselves, including children and the disenfranchised. Yes, homosexuals are a disenfranchised group as well, but there are homosexuals who serve openly in Congress. It's not quite on the same level as children, who do not yet have the ability to speak English.

I'm not up to date on the literature regarding child development. It may be that there are studies that suggest that homosexual families are no different than heterosexual families in terms of impact on the child. I'm just throwing this argument out there because it is one of the few non-homophobic arguments against homosexual adoption that I know of. I don't personally have an opinion on this issue because I'm not qualified.
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Ah, I gotcha. I do agree with the rest of your reasoning.

I've had this debate before (strangely enough, at a faith-based LGBT family meeting with leaders of the Willow Creek megachurch in Chicago), and that particular point has been a sore sticking point. In its weak form (as you've presented) it does nothing to address the matter of LGBT parents, and in its strong form (gay parents are worse), it contradicts pretty much all available evidence.
Attach this to a visible surface near your desk: http://r00tsecurity.org/db/cheat-sheets/SOFTWARE/Vi/vi-vim-c...
tldw? Anyone?

sigh It's so annoying when you have to sit through a hour-long video for what would otherwise be a 5-10 minute read.
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Blippy seems to be all about conspicuous consumption. I can see how it has a chance to be very profitable, I just don't think the world needs any more of this.
I like that they admit they're just not going to explain certain things. I wish they had told me this six years ago - would have saved me about 200 hours of my life.