skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I thought I would reply to your comment rather than just downvoting you.

How would forcing porn sites and proxies into their own domain make it any easier (or safer, for that matter) for kids to use the Internet in classrooms? If this is even technically possible, which I assure you, it is not, why should such things have to be legislated at all? Internet censorship and regulation does nothing to hurt and inevitably harms the free flow of information.

The piece is silly. Advocating that a highly censored Internet would have contributed to a Semantic web is silly as well.
Sorry, poor choice of words. It brings the size down to almost the original and is probably irrelevant. Off course this depends on the site you have. It is possible that in some cases you will get substantially bigger files.
Ask HN: How many of you want to stay small, part-time, and manageable?
Hi HN, longtime reader, first time poster...

I've been bitten by the bootstrapping "bug" and I hope to launch my own micro-ISV in the next few months with a niche SaaS product. I've been inspired by many late nights of pouring over Patrick's (BingoCardCreator) blog, A Small Bear, Peldi's writings about getting Mockups off the ground and many others out there.

The thing I love most about HN is the diversity. There is the single-founder, bootstrapped "Shareware" guy with a handfull of lifetime solds having a discussion about sales techniques with a founder of a top SaaS firm and ego's never get involved.

With that said, I plan on being one those single-founder bootstrapped guys with a small number of customers. And I want to stay that way. I know I might be the minority here on HN and that is perfectly OK (each of us has different backgrounds, ambitions, and goals). A little bit more about my backgroud: I don't know what Series A funding is. I don't live near the Valley, San Francisco or NYC - I live in a small town in New Hampshire, USA. I don't Tweet, I'm shy, I've never met an angel investor and I don't have a blog. I provide these details because I hope they give you a little insight as to how much I'm not a loud, Twitter-happy founder ready to shake up the social media with a interweb 2.0 platform!

I enjoy writing software and also finding niche B2B voids to write software for. I've finally picked one and started writing some code. As I poke around HN and read the conversations, I'm curious how many of you are creating something small and manageable. I'm OK if my SaaS product, at $29/mo doesn't grow past 200 customers. Imagine that, grossing over 65K/yr to compliment my full-time software job! In fact, I don't think I want the headache that comes with 1,000 customers. At that point, you probably can't hold down your full-time job anymore. Then you're hiring, you're paying for additional accounting and legal fees, employees, taxes are increasingly complicated, multi-lingual releases, you need office space and your accountant wants you to become a Delaware corporation but some book you read said to incorporate in Nevada. My goodness!

Summary: Did you start out with small business plans but things took off? Do you sometimes wish your business was smaller and more manageable? Are a micro-ISV with just a few customers and absolutely love it? If someone popped up on HN and said they now have 200 SaaS paying subscribers and they are taking down the sign-up page to keep his/her business small and manageable rather than growing, would you laugh at the notion or, like me, completely understand his/her decision?
For one, it’s clear that these two are autodidacts self-taught people who easily learn what they need when they need it.

I can't speak for everyone, or even a specific type of person, but for me highschool was a huge distraction. I would learn more on my own, doing my own research. I've always found that your interests for specific subjects develop at different times for different people.

Our public education system (in Canada, at least) is among the best, but it faces many challenges. One being funding. Funding effects how quickly education is dispersed among students. The world isn't perfect, but we're sending students out into jobs with archaic information from 5-10 year-old textbooks.

If you have common sense about you, a Google search combined with thoughtful fact validation rivals your public highschool's education platform. I know I'm going to see some unhappy comments about that statement, again, my experience only.
> Europe had the Marshall Plan go into effect, Japan had very little reconstruction money.

Please have a look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall_Plan#Expenditures

Germany received less than half what the UK received from the Marshall Plan [1], and of course still had to pay reparations and some plans to dismantle German industry were also carried out.

Also from the same page: "Former U.S. Chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank Alan Greenspan gives most credit to Ludwig Erhard for Europe's economic recovery. Greenspan writes in his memoir The Age of Turbulence that Erhard's economic policies were the most important aspect of postwar Western Europe recovery, far outweighing the contributions of the Marshall Plan. He states that it was Erhard's reductions in economic regulations that permitted Germany's miraculous recovery, and that these policies also contributed to the recoveries of many other European countries. Japan's recovery is also used as a counter-example, since it experienced rapid growth without any aid whatsoever. Its recovery is attributed to traditional economic stimuli, such as increases in investment, fueled by a high savings rate and low taxes. Japan saw a large infusion of US investment during the Korean war."

Ludwig Erhard is still known and popular today.

[1] And we know how badly UK industry up until Iron Lady.
Did you read Chomsky's full response at the provided link, rather than just the quoted snippet? If you have, do you disagree with his comments on Derrida's Grammatology, on Foucault's work, or his general comments on the other works he's at least tried to read? It appears he at least did some due diligence, and took the time to speak with some of the authors.
Sidenote: that thread is more than one year old (mid 2009)
We laugh now only because we witnessed first-hand the very fast innovation that happened in 15-odd years.

And who's to say that the semantic data from the beginning approach is the right one? Because we didn't have that, we got PageRank and Google: non-semantic data became a constraint leading to invention.
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Android gopher client, finally
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John Searle, hardly an outsider, on Derrida:

With Derrida, you can hardly misread him, because he’s so obscure. Every time you say, “He says so and so,” he always says, “You misunderstood me.” But if you try to figure out the correct interpretation, then that’s not so easy. I once said this to Michel Foucault, who was more hostile to Derrida even than I am, and Foucault said that Derrida practiced the method of obscurantisme terroriste (terrorism of obscurantism). We were speaking French. And I said, “What the hell do you mean by that?” And he said, “He writes so obscurely you can’t tell what he’s saying, that’s the obscurantism part, and then when you criticize him, he can always say, ‘You didn’t understand me; you’re an idiot.’ That’s the terrorism part.” And I like that. So I wrote an article about Derrida. I asked Michel if it was OK if I quoted that passage, and he said yes.
in defense of the technique: Parsing an existing CSS file, extracting the images, base64-encoding and embedding them is something that's very easily done programmatically and a script that does this on deployment is very easily created.

Assembling a huge sprite image and emitting offsets is harder. Still very doable though, of course.
The problem here is secondary effects of default. I.e. it's widely perceived that a default by Greece would result in a lot of more northern European banks going insolvent and having your banking system break down is ... really bad. Its one of the things that made the '30s a "Great" Depression.

A general but not very satisfactory solution has been to drag things out for a decade slowly building bank capital so that they can finally officially realize their losses without closing down.
Traction, social proof, key customers for b2b, these are a few of my favorite things.

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This chart is pretty much playing on repeat in my head:
In general it's probably not a good idea, but it probably depends on the product. I have a web app that I charge a one-time fee for, but it only lasts for one year, so it's essentially a one-year non-renewing fee. It works because it fits naturally with how people use the product (it's for fantasy football so it lasts for one NFL season).

Most web apps, like project management software, fit nicely into recurring monthly/yearly payments. Unless yours is very different from that then it's probably better to do recurring. You'll have recurring expenses to pay to keep the site running, so you'll need recurring revenue to cover those.
Programming language authors really need to learn how to make a website. Look at Ruby's: http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/

No long explanations about what it means for Ruby to be a dynamic, object-oriented language. I don't have to read its author's paper or book to get it. Just a short code snippet to show me what it looks like and several links so I can learn more.
I don't know if anyone else is going to read down this far, but I have something to say. The argument that outsiders need to understand the jargon is a red herring against the ultimate point. Even if someone took the time to learn the jargon and find some intelligent thoughts, there is also language purposefully designed to be unintelligible in order to conceal an absence of honest thought - this is regardless of the jargon.

I can do it with jargon you already understand, for example,

The totality of the colour blue is the sum of all of the integrals from one meta-point to another meta-point, formed in to spherical husk that can be opened by neither being within or without.

Even though those words are all well-established with their meaning, they are nonsense when strung together.
For now a better guideline is: use Python 2. Even if you don't have any dependencies that require Python 2 today, at the start of your project, you might wish you could add them tomorrow.
The Big Bang of Crowdfunding: Startups as a Public Asset Class
That would be a priceless win-win situation. Either AP would have to take it on the chin and pay up to Woot, or fight the case, win, and create precedent that fair use of online material in a news report is not a copyright violation.
Jammit, the rails asset packaging plugin has had the option to do this for a while:

http://documentcloud.github.com/jammit/
Plexus
Ouch! Ok, I'll stop trying to be funny.
I recommend the man page functions at http://superuser.com/questions/52483/terminal-tips-and-trick...
Does the Chrome team think they need to reach version number parity with the other browsers? At least from a UI standpoint, the current version of Chrome that I'm using (5.0.375.99 Beta) is not enough different from the first Beta to warrant 4 full version numbers.

Version number parity is kind of amusing and silly because version numbers are arbitrary, right? But if version numbers are arbitrary, then on what basis can one say that a higher number is not warranted?
Interesting languages not on the list:

* io : http://www.iolanguage.com

Clean, minimalistic, prototype based OO.

* Reia : http://wiki.reia-lang.org

Ruby-like syntax on Erlang's VM

* Curry : http://www-ps.informatik.uni-kiel.de/currywiki

Functional logic language : Prolog+Haskell.

* Oz/Mozart : http://www.mozart-oz.org

Multi-multi paradigm language, includes constraint based programming.

Some of them are not necessarily up-and-coming but rather out-and-going. Oz is interesting, but it seems to be dying. Some like Reia are making slow progress. Curry is more of an academic language. io is probably the most up-and-coming so to speak.
Path dependence matters.
What's really amazing is how right he was about how much was wrong at the time. The thing he missed is that a lot of those problems could be solved (and many have since been). But I think he can be forgiven for that. The people who had the insight to deliver solutions to those problems are mostly very rich now.
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"The openPDC is a complete set of applications for processing streaming time-series data in real-time. Measured data is gathered with GPS-time from multiple input sources, time-sorted and provided to user defined actions, then dispersed to custom output destinations for archival."
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Green startup in DC and San Francisco. Funded & cashflow positive. Feel free to email me questions.

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Scanning thru the comments here looks like there are two of us who think most of OP's points were and are valid.

I guess most of HN readers (including me!) are living in a comfort zone of carefully selected sites and services, but it doesn't change the fact that most of internet content is a pile of bullshit.

And of course, nothing can be a substitute of a human contact, and no, social networking is not a human contact.
Books by language:

English 26352

Russian 10124

German	1950

French	685

Spanish 31

Ukrainian 8

Polish	5

Latin	3

Bulgarian 2

Hebrew	2

Portuguese 1
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Does anyone else notice how all the top ranked answers address the technical differences between GitHub and Gitorious? GitHub certainly has a great product, but that is not a sufficient condition for being popular (it may not even be necessary). I don't know how GitHub got a head start, but the answer to their continuing success is the network effect.
He seems to have a much smaller number of normal nights out, when meeting his future wife is normal. (Since it can't happen very often almost by definition.)
I have been following #pocoo for the past several weeks and have found it to be very helpful and informative. I have seen a few terse replies to poorly-asked questions (such as questions asked with no context), but nothing unfriendly or ignorant. I have also seen conversations that started that way become quite productive.

And Werkzeug, I cannot recommend more highly.
This is totally false. We don't get a bonus based on traffic, and we never have (and hopefully never will).
Why?

For what reasons is finishing high school better than dropping out? Not that they don't exist, but you've dismissed his argument without listing any.
It's about finding under-valued opportunities, I'd imagine.

I assume that minority-, woman-, or veteran-owned businesses are similarly risky compared to businesses owned by white males. (Perhaps they're even less risky in some industries due to quotas, etc.) If these disadvantaged businesses are getting fewer loans because the bank managers are discriminating, it could be an opportunity for Wal Mart to make some money where big banks aren't.
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Unfortunately, a high school education and a college degree are some of the hardest, set-in-stone hiring requirements for most white-collar jobs (with some exceptions, of course).

Dropping out of high school voluntarily is a short-term rush with potential long-term adverse side effects.
No. I'm not involved with Google or Chrome but I follow a few tickets.

4, 5, and 6 are just milestones for project planning. Version 6 is about feature parity across platforms. They've been cranking on code quite intensely and therefore hitting the milestones quick.

This last v5 to v6 change was a little surprising as the browser skin changed, but there are no major features that make v6 wildly different from v5. It's just a continuum of tiny updates silently getting applied in the background.

It has nothing to do with Firefox 4 or IE 9.
Is Flattr the new Facebook Like, but this time with real money?
Here is a link to a PDF of the same report. http://www.haskell.org/definition/haskell2010.pdf
Yes, me too.

Meanwhile, back in reality, my wife complains when I ask her to mute the booming commercials in the latest USA Network cop show.

Sadly, legislators are not specialized enough to grasp the notions of loudness and compression in commercials so they could be legislated out of existence.
It's mostly true.

The point is that you belong to an enlightened elite who already know where to look for edited information.

Back in 1995 there was no Wikipedia and search engines were crap.
Major points of interest: Flask has been split into multiple files in a package, added support for per-module templates and static files.
I knew that author's name sounded familiar. I also read and enjoyed that book.

Your Wikipedia link is broken, try this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cuckoo%27s_Egg_%28book%29

edit: OP fixed his link
Perhaps they're even less risky in some industries due to quotas, etc.

Quotas are illegal. Some public projects have goals but those aren't firm (and are regularly waived).

Full disclosure: my sole proprietorship is a certified MBE/DBE in a number of states.
While his business is retail vs. B2B, you might want to check out Patrick McKenzie: http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=patio11
Two good places to start are http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Associated_Press and http://www.ap.org/pages/about/faq.html. As you mention, AP is a cooperative, owned by its members. Member organizations both contribute content to the AP (often by default), and get the right to re-print or re-broadcast its content.

As with most cooperatives, the AP is a separate (not-for-profit) corporation, with its own board of directors primarily comprising executives from its members, and its own CEO, Tom Curley. Given that, I would expect that the AP, as an organization, acts in its own self-interest. One could imagine that this includes defending its IP against re-use by those who are not paying for it.
I do a little obsession-fest at the start of each month where I pull down income reports for the services I run, update some spreadsheets, and roll around naked in piles of virtual money.

If I could have the bank deliver it all in the form of one dollar bills spilling from canvas bags with dollar signs stenciled on the side, that would help the process immensely.
You may also want to have a look at links (or links2).

(They even support displaying graphics. If started with "links2 -g".)
Use a credit card that you can dispute the charge with.
Its not so much that the errors were small and likely didn't change the outcome of the report. Its that the errors existed in the first place. If they screw up the details, how much confidence can we have in the rest of the report?
That's why I linked to the whitepaper, instead of the author's site's entry on the language. Other responses have linked to the project's main page.

Wondering why I got downvoted? Should I have vacuumed it into scribd?
Also evince runs on Windows, now. Works well.
That was what struck me about the article. He saw problem after problem with existing technology. But rather than trying to fix the problems, he just threw up his hands and said "this is obviously impossible".

Meanwhile, a long list of now-billionaires saw the same problems and decided to address them.
I thought that we decided that "separate but equal" was an awful idea, that never really leads to equality, a long time ago. You are never going to get the same experience in two completely separate, segregated groups. Sure, there's a chance that the Girl Scout experience could be better, but it's not likely given the lower prominence, funding, and cultural norms that say that girls aren't as into the outdoors as boys are.

From Brown v. Board of Education: 'We conclude that, in the field of public education, the doctrine of "separate but equal" has no place. Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal. Therefore, we hold that the plaintiffs and others similarly situated for whom the actions have been brought are, by reason of the segregation complained of, deprived of the equal protection of the laws guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment.'

Now, as a private organization, sure, the Boy Scouts should be allowed to discriminate as they please. But they shouldn't be funded by taxpayers if that's the case, through free or discounted access to public buildings, classrooms, and parks.
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I don't know what your experience is with #pocoo, but in general I have found the members courteous and helpful.

If anything you seem a bit ignorant for rejecting a framework you otherwise seem to like because of an IRC channel.

If you are going to call a whole lot of people - some of whom are among the best coders in the Python community -ignorant, I'd suggest coming up with some examples.
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Unladen swallow's JIT is coming to Python 3 a lot more quickly than 5 years.
Not a right, but it's not illegal, either. "Subject to written consent" seems pretty reasonable since the landlord does own the place.
It would be great to get some idea of the categories, titles and authors...I'm intrigued as I can't view anything in work.
First, congrats. But I think he meant household name successful. :-)
Adobe should have kept PostScript (or the clear-text based first versions of PDF.) Shortening PostScript, not to speak of going the binary route, was premature optimization.

.PS.GZ is usually smaller than .PDF, try it!
This site rocks. Some pirated books well worth reading (buy the book if you can afford it):

Witten, Moffat, Bell.	Managing gigabytes: compressing and indexing documents and images (How to build a search engine)

Aho A.V., Lam M.S., Sethi R., Ullman J.D.	Compilers: Principles, techniques, and tools (Dragon book)

Anyone else have any suggestions?
Wow, talk about Streisand effect. A minor bad review, which would be seen by few, and they explode it into a big, messy pile of bad press.
I'd never heard of the .djvu (Déja-vu) format before trawling through that site. I grabbed a few books to test, got a DjVu viewer (MacDjView) and was seriously impressed. Small file size yet you get the "as original" experience. No horrible plain text or HTML conversions, just renderings that look like the original book (if a little cruftier after scanning).
Cheers man!

The Core Team's work is a dream for maintaining my various Python code.

Python 2.x is so solid, I'm still relying on 2.5 but I'll definitely go freshen everything up for 2.7 (if only to get rid of my hand-rolled ordered dict implementations).

I tinker with 3 on new projects and am looking forward to using it more, but don't at all mind the reasoned thought and caution applied by all before trying to use it everywhere.
I was extremely bored in high school. What did I do? I negotiated agreements with teachers to let me go to the library or gym instead of class, as long as I still aced tests and didn't cause trouble. I took calculus my freshman year. I substituted in a couple classes at a community college.

I was lucky to have parental support, and top-class school administration, but working out this sort of arrangement seems less extreme and more practical than dropping out.
Can someone please explain the "chicken breast decorative wall" and its relevance to this programming language?