skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're right, we shouldn't clean it up quickly and effectively because its getting worse. We should wait until all of the oil is in the ocean and then clean it up all at once! That's much more effective!

No, seriously, what is your point here. Also the oil companies can't tell the more effective oil clean up ships to come operate because of the mentioned government regulations and directions. Oops.
But you didn't say that. You said -> It's a true security offering that also improves input accuracy to 99%. !!!1!11ONE!

If you want to plug something on HN, first you need to disclose that you are doing some advertising. (kudos, you did this) And second, you need to explain, without weasel words, how and why it's a good solution for the problem.

Example of me plugging mongodb despite it only being marginally to the topic: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1471516

[Deleted previous comment because I misremembered the thread I was replying to when I wrote it]
I don't really care if a company wants to be "hip" or whatever, but title's like "Chief Morale Officer, in charge of alchohol and fun activities" just make you look like idiots.
while not illegal, the direct marketing online yellow pages biz is shady as hell, comparable to online lotto's, online deals and foreclosures database purveyors, and "punch the monkey"-style advertisers (all legal businesses that employ many people). Not something I'd consider as a value-added business, more sucker-traps than anything else. The fact that "yellow pages" and the logo are up in the air makes that entire industry a massive gray area. I wouldn't want to be associated with that. What would we say if 37signals launched a bargain network service tomorrow? . . . not illegal, but goodwill down the drain.
I think the situation is different. If your browser expired, would you (A) search for a crack or (B) click the "update to latest version" link?
I don't think piracy is such a bad thing. Imaging there's a gigantic library that has every music title, movie, TV show, book and software made by man in their shelfs and everybody has free access. Sounds like a desirable thing.

Now the problem of course arises when content creators don't get paid anymore and therefore content creation becomes unprofitable or the quality of the products diminishes. But neither of these things seem to be happening. Not even in the slightest. Entertainment is booming, movies and games reach new heights of invest and profit each year and despite having now a generation of children that probably never bought a music album in there life, Apple will tell you the music industry is far from dead.

So it actually seems you can have both - a highly profitable digital content industry, while having said content available for free to everybody.
First off congrats, and well done on a nice looking and fairly clear site.

Unfortunately, your documentation link doesn't go anywhere, and that is one of the first thing i look at when looking into API's. What does it look like, and how do they do it.

I'm in the process of building a site where most of the interactions are based around game mechanics. I'm just getting into it, and hadn't really thought about using an outside API, but you've at least given me pause to think about it.

However, going after already existing sites which want to add an element of game interaction is a good market I think.

A few things on your site specifically.

I found that the cycle on the home page rotates way to quickly to absorb any of the information. I know it stops once you click on one of the buttons below, but I found the initial speed to be a bit distracting.

The screenshot in the cycle goes below the dividing line/bar and looks wrong to me.

The light blue font used in each cycle title on the light grey gradient background except the first is difficult to read. Going a bit darker would help, or just stick with white. It isn't a problem in the cycle controls though, and looks quite nice.

You have a prominent link to your blog, but no blog posts. How about something about why you decided to build the company, how you got into it, something interesting. A blank blog just doesn't say 'dedication' to me.

You quote 'Jim Miller', but don't say what his site is. If he is in fact a real person, and they're using your api, I think it would be nice to send people to his site, and if somebody can see your api in action, it helps cross the barrier of having people be the first to deploy.

A live demo would really be great, but if that is too much to ask, a video demo would be a good idea. Though people may understand something about game mechanics, actually showing what you do is very important (to me at least).

Also, your sign-up and get the whitepaper forms don't look nearly as polished as the rest of the site. I'd clean those up a bit.

my 2 cents.
Best of luck
Nobody trusts programmers to scale a Lisp codebase up as the company grows at rate that satisfies stockholders.
Why use reCAPTCHA if there are plenty of less obtrusive alternatives?
http://postjobfree.blogspot.com/2009/06/postjobfree-automode...
Ask HN: Why is hacker news so slow when I am logged in?
When I'm logged in hacker news is painfully slow, but when I'm logged out it's lightning fast.

Anyone have any idea why that might be the case?

FYI - I have karma of 442 if that is in any way relevant.
This space is hot. Someone should fund you.
Twitter to Publish Shopping Deals Through @EarlyBird Account
Honestly I can't see this going very far.

This will boil down to a debate on whether parliamentary privilege extends to being able to use resources of the state to advance goals which are not necessarily policy of the state or likely to become so, given where politician funding comes from.

Does hosting a server constitute "speech", in the sense that the writers of laws protecting MPs meant it?

Makes for a great headline though.
The first thing I did when I went to your site was to start reading the description of your product. The first thing your site did was take that description away from me.
Well, I guess that solves it then: 391 is the smallest uninteresting number.
I would love to hear more about how you started _you_ own social networking site and be updated on its progress.

I read somewhere that it is good to misspell words so it makes it look like a non-form letter. Not sure if I agree with that... but they seemed to have used that strategy even though it wasn't a form letter.
Your edit says it all... you assumed it was a "right wing" piece so you assumed it was terrible evil lies. Good luck with that.
How much do rocketeers make?
Okay, let me clarify. I do not support releasing the footage. (I've argued both sides of this for an ethics class in college, I'm definitely against) I, for one, am definitely not sexy enough to be innocent on TV.

If footage is ever to be released that guy had been damn well be guilty. (I'd disagree with releasing footage that involves a plea bargin)
Yes, its just one man's opinion against another that the world's largest oil skimmer does not seem to be operating in the Gulf. Almost like those poor saps who think we didn't land on the moon. Didn't they see Obama walking on the beach! The man is trying!
>> seem to do a lot of Lisp programming

However, the puzzles seem weighted to requiring a solution using Java.
First, I don't mean to sound overly negative and only wish the best for Bank Simple.

But really, haven't any of you guys ever dealt with the private banking groups of consumer banks? They'll give you a rep, will bend over backwards for you, and generally kiss your ass.

Bank Simple will not be able to deliver this sort of personalized attention if they succeed in getting a large number of customers. Personal attention is expensive. Run the numbers and you will see why it's simply not possible for 99% of customers.
I don't know enough about the chemisty and ecosystem impacts of this but from what I do know I can think of one possible reason, at least, while the EPA's position makes sense. If a certain volume of oiled water is processed by a machine that has reduced filtering standards -- essentially, only removing the bigger or easier to capture materials suspended in the water -- it may make it harder for later cleanup operations to further address the remaining pollutants that were released back into the water. Either because they become much harder to detect (harder to see/smell/taste, or react to chemical sensors) or become harder to "bind" with cleaning agents. In other words, while at a logic-only level the EPA position may appear stupid, it's possible that from a chemical & logistical standpoint it may not be.

Regardless, I think it's reasonable to expect BP to be moving heaven & earth to clean this shit up as fast as they possibly can, since they made the mess in the first place.
No, I promoted myself by writing insightful pieces and voicing my opinion in an interesting way which got lots of people talking while also creating either interesting or useful projects at a faster rate than most people.

People like you however seem to like to only focus on my humrous rants as if that's all I've done, but whatever, I'm having fun and making awesome shit while getting to play guitar so if it pisses of a whiner like you then rock on.

<devil horns>
What's technically interesting:

http://www.bizyellow.com/ looks at first view like a .NET app (.aspx) but after a closer look it's definitly a Ruby on Rails app.
Why ever would this be true?

I've never heard this as a claimed problem for Lisp, and given the extreme plasticity of Lisp code it doesn't make any sense at all (granted, you can write FORTRAN in any language, but...).
http://www.shoemoney.com/gallery/v/misc/adsensecheck.jpg.htm...

I think this is what you want to see. It is Jermey Shoemakers check for $133k generated from Adsense.
What does a Random Forest look like?
Visualizing catonkeyboardinspace's solution to the Yahoo! Learning to Rank Challenge
Is it inevitable that every major science publication written for non-scientists out there is going to give in to sensationalism? I wouldn't mind reading about this on someone's personal blog but Scientific American? Really? Looking forward to their hard hitting expose on Big Foot next month.
How is it going to be economical for you to offer this for free? Is it ad supported? Is there a limit for the type of site that can add this? You might want to specify pageview limits or something.

Also, more screenshots showing badges, demo site, etc..
Yeah the slider delay could use an additional 60 seconds. But as far as explaining what the product does very straight forward and I could tell what it is after reading the first slide, something that has been missing on most of the recent startup review posted here on HN.
1) Hashrocket has absolutely nothing to do with the criminal complaint

If the people named in the complaint are executives of Hashrocket, then it has something to do with Hashrocket, however indirectly.

2) In the USA people are innocent until proven guilty

In the US criminal justice system, there is a presumption of innocence. That doesn't have much to do with whether one is actually guilty or innocent, in the USA or anywhere else.
Video of Diaspora pre-alpha
You need a one sentence tagline, as not too many people are familiar with this market.
That's an interesting technique, but it seems like the human-detection is based more around it being a flash-based solution than any sort of obfuscation. e.g., if the text is always red, and always the same font (judging from the examples only), a screen capture of this would be far easier to decode than a regular captcha™. A flash-running bot should have a pretty easy time breaking it.

Granted, the current state of the captchas™ is kinda bad.
I'm not quite sure myself. I'm finding that I seem to be in some sweet spot where my opinion and views are odd enough to be interesting, but also close enough to what everyone else is already thinking but can't articulate. It probably won't last forever, but it's been that way for about 4 of 5 years now so I just keep doing my thing and having fun.

I mostly don't have an agenda other than I don't take this internet stuff nearly as seriously as everyone else, and just want to use it as a medium of expression before it becomes too hard to do it. Whether that's writing, music, code, or just making funny sites poking fun at obnoxious blowhards, I'm enjoying it while I can.
http://isitrails.com/ says it's "very sure" that bizyellow.com is a Rails app.
I still have a hard time understanding what this does. I suggest providing more screenshots of each feature you have. Without an idea of what this looks like, its hard for me to sign up for this
I got pretty happy when I saw you had support for my New Zealand bank, which even Xero (an NZ startup doing the same thing) does not have.

But I'm incredibly wary entering my internet banking details into your application, no offense.

Someone with my internet banking details could pretty much run off with 5 years of savings, screw up my investment accounts, run up huge credit card bills.

Are you planning on adding an API? Since I'd happily write my own scraper to pull transactions out of my online banking to submit to my account with you.
Of course there should be a cleanup effort ongoing. But if new stuff continues to spill out every day afterward, there will be more to cleanup the next day, and the next, and the next, forever, until we reach the point where the leak is totally stopped and/or contained the source. It's weird/naive to criticize a cleanup effort that's been going on for months if the leak has also been leaking unstopped for those same number of months as well. It can never be totally cleaned up or restored until, at a bare minimum, the leak is stopped.
Good point, Scott. Thanks!

I've changed the timeout to 6 seconds—hopefully that does the trick.

It was always a nonissue for me, because when I load a page, I have a tendency of clicking around quickly.
Nope, people can talk about me quite a lot since I'm a public persona.

For example, peetercooper's obsession with me probably means he has a little drawer where he keeps a picture of me under his socks so he can look at me late at night. He's a weird little dude.

See? You can take any public persona, and since nearly everyone is these days with the internet, and say anything that's obviously not true, or mostly true, or a parody.

But, it cuts both ways. In order to say something about me, you have to then become a public persona, which means you're also fair game, and, well, I'm just better at this than most people. :-)
> I feel sorry for him and this situation.

I do too.

>I guess "The Rails Maturity Model", the Hashrocket Way and BizConf includes taking scam money and pretending to be profitable.

Snarky, unnecessary, and unfounded.

This has nothing to do with Rails, and probably just as little with how Obie ran the company.
I don't get it, did a moron write this piece?

In 1965...[the Supreme] Court found that cameras had a prejudicial impact on pre-trial publicity, affected the truthfulness of witnesses, and generally impacted (negatively) a defendant's fair-trial rights.

2 paragraphs later, without even trying to tackle any of these 3 points:

Why, then, the ban?

Um, read your own story man.
Maybe we should require all video be run through a cell-shader pass before it airs
If you're really concerned, the solution is simple. Don't tell your friends the same name that you tell the government. If a bunch of people tag you as "John Smith" on Facebook, and "Bill Smitthers" is the person that is behind on his back taxes, face recognition with data bought from Facebook is not going to find you.
If this can correctly parse my credit cards, bank accounts, and merchant accounts I will be a lifetime customer.

At the moment though, it does seem to be having some problem dealing with understanding PayPal transactions.
Ask HN: Feedback on Mixest, my HTML5 ironic indie Pandora
Well, I guess it's blog post time.
I'm certainly not saying deforestation should not be addressed but there also needs to be practical solutions to fix the enormous areas of land have already been logged.
Apple PR says recent Steve Jobs emails are fake
Why would you incur the risk of making new cows if the old cows are just as good?

http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/lessig_nyed.html

http://www.ted.com/themes/tales_of_invention.html

and stratospark's excellent response a couple messages back
I did read the article. I guess I missed something.
I don't know the details but what the article is reporting seems pretty bad. Why did that person receive an invoice from your partners' business book, if he was not signed up for it?

Or are going to say that it was not really an invoice, but an advertisement? In my opinion small business owners do not usually confuse an advertisement with an invoice, or otherwise they would not stay in business for long.

So if that person says it was an invoice, it probably looked like one.
What sets this apart from Elance, oDesk, Rent-a-coder, et al?
I'm really not sure how the fact that BP and Transocean are to blame for the disaster (a fact nobody, including BP, would dispute) means we can't criticise the screw-ups in the US government's response.

In your police/murderer analogy, of course the murderer bears the sole responsibility for the actual murder, but if there's a serial killer on the loose and you find that the entire homicide squad is focused on a four-week intradepartmental tiddlywinks tournament then you're allowed to be pissed off at the police too.
Oh my god that's an absurdly terrible idea.

Using Flash for a Captcha seems like overkill. They couldn't come up with a more lightweight Captcha?
I think that's what Yodlee is for right? Yodlee is what mint.com also used for their integrations with FIs.
I know, it's my app ;)
Screw Multi-tasking: How To Make Your iOS 4 Apps Exit For Real
Agreed—would love to people's suggestions on this.
You can ask http://www.duckduckgo.com first now and get the best of both IMHO, since it started to integrate SO answers into its zero-click area.
I don't mean to imply that ignorance is the cause of their homosexuality! Only that Giraffes are mostly indifferent to gender relative to their "horny-ness" (is there a better word I could use?) which is far different than human homosexuality.
Hi HN, my friends and I have been working on this app for the last few weeks. The audio is handled by jplayer, and we've really enjoyed working with it.

We'd really appreciate any feedback you have for us!

Edit: I almost forgot - the app should work on the ipad and iphone browsers - let us know if it is horribly broken!
When something obvious isn't happening all you have to do is go look for the people that have a vested interest in preventing said thing from happening. In the current oil spill fiasco there are way too many powerful groups with opposing interests and politicians don't want to step on their toes because all politicians need large sums of money from these opposing interests to finance their campaigns. So it's no wonder the bureaucracy is moving at a snail's pace.
Links of London Pink Butterfly Charm
Why not use both anti-spam technology and CAPTCHAs?
I've got the grinder covered. I'm just looking for a solid, dependable machine.
You're actually very wrong about foreign STEM students

Am I?

(every US graduate school is filled with Chinese grad students and post-docs), but that's neither here nor there

What happens immediately after they graduate?
Then compare to Australia.
I like it. It's very simple and if I enjoy the music, I can see myself coming here when I want something fresh to listen to.

That being said, the text and icons are really hard to see. They blend into the white background too much.

*edit: The password is showing clear text. Why?
Nope. I did not assume that. And I don't assume that everything said by a politically so-called right wing source is evil or a lie.

However, on the other hand, I've seen so many lies (both blatant and subtle) and so many anti-humane, pro-rich, pro-aristocratic, anti-health, anti-education, pro-superstition, anti-science, anti-environmental, anti-empathy, pro-military, anti-fairness actions supported and advocated by right wing folks that yes I do come to expect it much of the time. Are those positions "evil" in the same sense that say Hitler was evil? Hard to say, and that's a can of worms to even try to debate. But my operating principle is that it is approximately equivalent to evil, at least by quality if not by magnitude or directness.
This is great reading for any young engineer graduating from school and considering where to place his talents.

I would draw such attention to the 'death march' that occurred - where people knew the project was a failure but the company continued to build and ship because of a contractual obligation. This is the stuff of big enterprise, where the costs of shipping a failed product are less than the cost of missing an obligation.

Even if you have decided you don't want to work at a startup, there are big companies (SME's) and and there are BIG companies (massive corporations). Microsoft is obviously one of the latter, and so you gotta ask yourself whether this is a situation you would want to risk finding yourself in.

It's fine if you are a middle-aged "9-5 career programer" who doesn't really care what he is building and just wants to earn money to give his family a comfortable life, pay for his golf habit... but it is not an environment any young aspiring engineer should end up in.

Sadly many do and I fear this very eventuality for friends who tell me how excited they are to be applying to Microsoft... :(
Exactly. This post is absurd.
Right.

"Facebook unveils one of history's most powerful recommendation engines"

This article is an attempt to garner eyeballs by making a loud statement full of dramatic words ("unveil", "history", "powerful") at a time when Facebook vs. Google is considered a hot topic. Nothing more.

This article is a supposedly impartial discussion from one of the web's (supposedly) informed sources that consists of nothing but value judgments. This article, though it rambles mightily, manages to say almost nothing about Facebook privacy issues, nor does the author seem to be aware that the few "recommendation engines" that exist share one thing in common: they all suck, they don't inspire users, and nobody has figured how to change this. Including Facebook.

So when I say it's "misleading", what I mean is that what the title promises, the content doesn't deliver. The headline reads (no offense to the author) like a high school newspaper editor's first attempt at a headline that "grabs".

That's all I really meant.

[Lengthy rant edited into oblivion.]
Eh, not really. Companies like Zappos has titles like this, but nobody thinks the author of "Delivering Happiness" is an idiot.
If you not only block problematic comment, but also block abusing IP address from for next couple of months -- it would be pretty hard to figure out what exactly your anti-abuse system checks for.
Especially if your system check for several red flags.
Money as Debt [vid]
I ask because most people looking in this price-range tend to under-spend on the grinder. In this range, the grinder should cost nearly as much as the machine to achieve good output.

At the volume and price you want, the Silvia is likely the best choice. You don't get great precision/consistency, but with some practice you will get great shots, and it will last a long time. It should be paired with a grinder like the Rocky at the very least.