skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Actually one of the most annoying aspects of HN is the people who comment on a subject as if they were "laying down the law", even though they're wrong. Speaking with a voice of authority when you don't actually really know that what you're saying is true could be called "spewing bullshit".
They had a fairly decent chunk of monetary stimulus: http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-04-13/singapore-centra...
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What I fail to understand is how a website knows if you have "agreed" to the TOS. I mean, a contract is physically signed, sometimes with a notary. FAFSA is "signed" by a multiple step process including a SSN, DOB, receiving mail including a pin#, and entering all of it with "agree" in box to assert information is true.

Where, and how can a website claim that an "agree" button is legally enough? Or perhaps, the TOS is just nonexistent(ala 404). Or, what are these "bypassing technical barriers"? Does that count reading the URL and changing it? Greasemonkey? Filtering/data modifying router? Post injection?

This suggesting is creating more confusion than it solves.
That's a good idea. There is also the WebTiming spec, coming soon to a browser near you. It's on GitHub, so....
"Because absolutely nobody wants to receive location-based spam?"

I'm not sure. Groupon sends people a "deal" for their city every day. Personally, I'd consider it "opt-in spam" and obviously people are eating it up.

I agree that an endless stream of text messages or background notifications with $1 off coupons would be stupid. But a single location-based coupon at the bottom of a Twitter client or a one-deal-a-day text message based on your location and preferences might work.

"And at some level companies with location-based services understand this, and are therefore reluctant (consciously or unconsciously) to build a one-click location-based-spam generator?"

I'm inclined to think it's more about the local business owners. Go to a chamber of commerce meeting or grab 20 random restaurant owners ... what will you find? 40 and 50-somethings who barely understand email and the web, let alone smartphones and location-based social networks.
I think it's more like breach of contract. It's not necessarily unethical, but if you violate the terms, they no longer are bound to provide the service.

EDIT: Although it's unclear whether a contract was really entered into. Real contracts have signatures to indicate both parties know and agree to what's contained. That's often not the case in web services.
Y'know what's strange? I see people with a particular political bent arguing that Singapore and the USA are apples and oranges, but these same people frequently compare extremely small, homogeneous Northern European countries to the USA in support of their political policies.

> I don’t know how useful comparisons between countries of similar size are, never mind countries which are so radically different.

Anyways, I agree, could you be so kind as to point out these population numbers next time someone points to the small Northern European countries as bastions of happiness, and instruct them to look at the more comparable examples that had similar policies, like the Soviet Union?

Just a thought - if we let people cherrypick when to use the "apples and oranges" argument, we'd be letting them get away with all sorts of intellectual dishonesty.
I'm surprised anyone even bothered. A "challenge" from some no-name security company isn't exactly going to bring out the best and the brightest.
A simple 3d benchmark in HTML5/Javascript
Having heard so much about HTML5/Javascript over the last years, I finally took the plunge, and after 5h of coding (mostly spent Googling for APIs), I humbly submit my first HTML5/Javascript app: a simple 3d benchmark that "stress-tests" the browser's Javascript engine. Run it and submit your results for comparison....
I must be missing something...

When I filled out my Google Profile I was told by Google that the information would be added to their search and would make me more easily discoverable.

Are people going to act all shocked that means it's indexable? gasp
If you're using Linux with compiz, just invert the colors with [Super]-[n]:

http://imgur.com/QgcgK.png

<3 Linux :)
There's another interesting project out there called the Boomerang Decompiler..
Disclosure works in the situations when one is unsure of one's facts. The question extends beyond that situation, though. When you say something wrong that you were sure of your credibility is damaged at least as badly as if you said something you were unsure of.

I appreciate the advice of disclosure that you and many others in this topic have given, and I will definitely be more arduous in disclosing when I am unsure of something, or just plain stay quiet. I would, however, still like to address not speaking incorrectly when I'm sure of my facts.
Sounds like the book MetaGame.
wealth is not a zero-sum game.

if you want to balance this feeling why don't you watch some reality shows? I do watch a couple of hours of them each 6 months, it really helps.
Yet another PR submarine (press release masquerading as a story). Surprising that The Economist fell for the "we held a hacking contest and no one succeeded" story, but maybe the reporter is new.

The "honeypot" is the extremely thin tidbit that "whoa, there are hackers in Brazil!" The rest is about how their product can handle opening attachments from lots of self-selected challengers without compromise.

Blast from the past: remember the 1995 Sidewinder hacking contest? At least that was a product somewhat deserving. 15 years later, we're still seeing the slow roll-out of MAC in commodity operating systems.
Ask HN: The Best Books to Keep the Entrepreneurial Mindset?
I am currently an intern at Qualcomm and went to the HQ for a speech by the founder (Irwin Jacobs). I went in feeling optimistic and excited to learn the growth of a large company like QC from a startup to a Fortune 500 company. The speech wasn't all that enlightening, mainly about how they stuck to CDMA in the face of a growing GSM market and their main goal has always been to try and push innovation (FLOtv?), but afterward I slowly but surely harbored a feeling of foreboding that I do not have the drive or capacity to sail the entrepreneur ship. In other words, I collectively lost my shit.

That being said:

What are some books that can reiterate the tangibility of becoming a successful entrepreneur?

Biographies, essays, novels, whatevz. Something to put some fire in the belly.
He was being a little bit sarcastic about it. ;)
You're absolutely right. This was the result of semi-blind redirection of my rss reader.
Argument-by-disaster is terrible when it's shallow and leads people to jump to conclusions too soon. Spectacular success and spectacular failure can both be illustrative in their own way.

The only problem I have with Therac-25 is that it's overused, surely we have other catastrophic programming examples?
Presence.
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Counter point: doing something of your own is going to involve lots of time, so you may get to spend less of it with your child. I think that's more important than the stability factor, although that plays a roll too.
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The latest issue describes using Hpricot for data extraction or scraping - but honestly I find Nokogiri better, faster, and more capable. Just my $0.02
I've experienced the same problem. I like to think its mostly fixed now. Here are some things that worked for me:

Don't shy away from the ones that call you out, at least if they are giving you friendly pokes rather than being mean. The way I talk (in casual settings), I grew to like saying stuff like "What?!? Really?!? Oh!. I'm full of s--- then!" The value of these people is that they help you learn to recognize the internal cues of when you might be going off the rails. They can probably sense it in your voice tone and body language before you even get the bogus content fully out. You can learn to recognize that in yourself.

Do watch out if you're one of those (like many of us) who likes to talk a lot about stuff we "know" and likes to talk excitedly and at length. Watch some old cowboy movies that feature smart, strong silent-type heroes. If you don't have one already, buy yourself a cowboy hat as a personal reminder. (Substitute any similar character type for "cowboy" - your style choices are yours.) If you feel like you just have to say every clever thing that pops into your head in a conversation, work on not doing that - even for topics about which your knowledge is definitely good. (As a side effect, this makes conversations more interesting.)

Careful if, like many of us, you find it friendly and fun to tell people "Hah, no, you're wrong there! Let me tell you...." Among some geeks/nerds, that really is fun and playful. Among many people, it's not. It's also one of the leading causes of spouting bogosity, studies have shown.

Remember that its just human nature, nothing new. What was it Mark Twain said? Something like "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble but what you know that just ain't so." Something like that, anyway. Close enough.
We wipe species off the planet all the time by accident. Sure, there would be some collateral damage, but you would save millions of _human_ lives a year.
More daily-tip twitter feeds from the same author here: http://www.johndcook.com/twitter/
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I agree that it shouldn't be the sole data point.

For example, one report that I heard said that some hardware was included in the $75,000. That information should be released alongside the code.

As you mention, there are lots of reasons that cause a project to go longer than necessary and become overly expensive.

I think there should be some sort of standard for reporting on these types of projects. A report was compiled at various points during a project could be very useful. I could see such a report including a status update from a project manager, costs to date, costs estimated to be remaining, code produced and impediments. (along with whatever I haven't thought of)

I think we, as technical people, should be pushing for this type of openness, although I'm not sure how to begin.
Reminds me of an excerpt from this book I saw posted here once: http://designinginterfaces.com
Except that facebook report their user numbers as users who have logged into FB in the last 30 days.

So either they are lying or you are wrong.
To answer your speculations: no, no, no and no. Here is the first result from Google for "facebook statistics".

http://www.facebook.com/press/info.php?statistics
He asked his 658 followers on Twitter to vote up this story on HN: http://twitter.com/emilepetrone/status/19265210087
You might want to try a crystal body deodorant, such as this (or an equivalent brand):

http://www.thecrystal.com/crystal_story.cfm

Costs about $5 or $6. I got mine at my local drug store (if yours doesn't carry it, try a health food kinda store). They're supposed to last at least a year.

I made the switch about 4 months ago and am happy with it.
Is there access to the info w/o registration? If so can you point me to it?
You got downmodded because not everyone holds that a TOS is legally binding just because it exists.

It's not the same as signing a contact. But even a contract can be invalidated if a court holds it's unconscionable.
Reversal test: If mosquitos didn't exist in the wild and some species of plants were dying off, would you be willing to reintroduce them to save the plants? Remember, around 250 million people get malaria every year. 1 million of them (mostly children) die from it.

Based on the evidence available, I think the benefits of eliminating mosquitos outweigh the costs. If some plants have to die to save lives and reduce suffering, I'm fine with it.
This is fun.
Concluding remarks:

Rather than spending another misguided year trying to "engineer" viral
campaigns that will propagate themselves, regardless of consumer intentions,
it’s time to refocus our marketing efforts to align with the way that people
actually behave.

It’s time to accept that all of our marketing efforts should start with
an understanding of the needs and motives that guide consumer decisions
and social behaviors, and not clever creative executions. We
need to stop thinking about a mass audience that can be influenced and
guided, and start thinking about the individual people we want to engage,
as well as the people they want to engage. And we need to understand
that effective marketing is no longer about making consumers serve
our agenda, but finding meaningful opportunities to serve theirs.
I'm stuck on Windows at work (sue to Flex development).
How is this better than Slashdot/Reddit/Digg/whatever if it has less users and I have to wait until someone is actually online and willing to chat about a particular topic, instead of just posting a comment and checking back later like I'd do in one of the sites I mentioned?

Also, how does it deal with spam/abuse/hate speech, etc?

And if it's a start-up, how is going to make money? (I assume ads, so where will it be getting users from?)
There is this great article on Make Magazine called "Why Those Kids from Podunk Are Keeping You Down"
And it says something in the lines, "So they made something cooler than yours, so what? It wasn't you anyways".

And I belive its true, most Successful guys are just "lucky" (paraphrasing Sarah Lacy's book "Once you are Lucky, twice you are good") so there is no point in comparing yourself to them, you should use them as inspiration and not exacly as role models.

For example, I really liked this Dustin Moskowitz (Facebook co-founder) answer when asked about the Social Network Movie:

"It is interesting to see my past rewritten in a way that emphasizes things that didn't matter [...] A lot of exciting things happened in 2004, but mostly we just worked a lot and stressed out about things"

http://www.quora.com/What-does-Dustin-Moskovitz-think-of-the...

So at my 27 years old, I may not be Mark Zuckerberg or even the more cooler and loved Matt Mullenweg, but I know that reading about them and how they think make me think different too; that somehow by entreprenurship there is a way to change this world and though it's really hard, I know that now I can't stop trying.
Ayn Rand evaluated by one of her own:
I've completely changed my mind about mosquitoes. I now think they provide a really important, fairly unique ecosystem role and it would be a disaster to get rid of them.

What is it? Well they help recycle the food chain. Those that feed on us are taking energy from the top of the food chain (us) and they then are at the bottom of the food chain. The amount of animals that directly feed from mosquitoes is vast - insects, birds, fish, bats - who then also are part of the food chain themselves.

It's a great role, for a bottom of the food chain animal to feed off the top of the food chain one - especially an animal (ourselves) that causes such ecosystem problems.

If we get rid of mosquitoes what happens to the animals that feed of them? They need to eat something else, something that isn't getting part of its nourishment from the vast, untapped population of top of food chain animals.
I believe a corollary of this is that a good leader should be working to maintain this state in those being led - both by removing things that might displace the good ideas (pay, rations, IT, politics ...) and by keeping the important subjects intriguing.
Has nobody at Nature ever read "A Sound of Thunder"? Seriously?

http://www.lasalle.edu/~didio/courses/hon462/hon462_assets/s...
Lately I have been reading the biography of Grace Hopper which is essentially about the genesis of programming/programming languages/compilers etc. Super motivating to read about the passion and belief that was required to create out of the ether an entirely new world. http://www.amazon.com/Invention-Information-Lemelson-Studies...
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Uhm, I don’t know how similar the policies of Scandinavian countries are compared to those of, say, Soviet Russia. Not very is what I would guess. Also apples and oranges.
Also check out DreamPie [ http://dreampie.sourceforge.net/ ], which is damn good, and has a comparable feature list.
Start your own company and do your short-term projects through that company. Then you can say you worked for one company over the past 14 months instead of saying you worked for three.
I would love to be able to use this for TekPub - being able to have people quote our videos and share it would be awesome marketing.
I've been loving Grumby recently.
"users who have returned to the site in the last 30 days" facebook.com/press/info.php?factsheet
I think the consumer market for this doesn't care how their files are backed up. They just want it to work.
So many questions...

1) Does it work well with huge files? 1GB+ etc? Will a 1-byte change mean complete download to all devices?

2) Does it work well with 100k small files in deeply nested folders?

3) Will you charge for software and/or support?

4) What happens when one of the devices doesn't have enough storage? 4GB SSD laptop vs. 100GB HDD.

5) Will any of my computers have to be up 24/7?
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Sure, Facebook is the 3rd largest nation, but how many of those accounts are multiples belonging to the same person?
"Each AeroFS device has its own 1024bit RSA key pair, which is certified by us to be authentic."

That suspiciously reads like the AeroFS people get a copy of your key. If that's the case then it's only marginally more secure than DropBox. Hope I'm reading that wrong...
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Thanks a lot edo, really great feedback. I am the creator of that site.

1. Any specific suggestions out of curiosity?

2. Realtime Digg is not really unique, if you have any other suggestions, lol I would love to hear them because it takes me forever to think of these things, and I really want to involve intelligent people like yourself in the building process.

3. If I remove the login requirement, don't you think it could get way too chaotic, and invite spammers to have their way with the site?
I can't confirm its a platform issue, but I will provide you my experience using the surface I felt leg for many parts of the application.
I've been programming for X years ... now what?
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I think Eclipse + PyDev has more to offer.
We don't get a copy of your private key (neither should anyone else, ever). We do get a copy of your public key, to certify it (we use OpenSSL's CA)
The point was, if you want to compare a state-run economy to a market economy, the larger Soviet Socialist Republics are the better comparable to the USA than Denmark, with its population 5 million and massive amounts of energy reserves.

Actually, the more important point is people cite statistics when they're convenient, and ignore them when they're not.
As if government stimulus was the only cause of economic growth.
On another note, without yet seeing the software, I'd assume the Mac and Linux ports are both using FUSE. Is there a FUSE alternative for Windows yet?
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Matt,

You're still planning on moving out to Mountain View (based on your Twitter feed), right? When are you planning on doing that?
Very interesting application of ecology models to marketing contrasting an r-strategy of seed scattering or fast reproduction with a K-strategy of high niche fitness and high nurture of young. Best line:

If you behave like a disease, people develop an immune system
So how do you "invite" someone? Swap public keys?
"you would save millions of _human_ lives a year"

...and that fact, in itself, has long-term implications that we can't possibly understand.
* Not every website is a startup. I don't really see anything startupesque about the site.

* I can't figure out why I would use this rather than Reddit, Hacker News, Digg, or one of the various StackOverflow sites.

* "You cannot collabrr at this time" Just call it posting already.

* Links on one page are the same color as non-links on a different page.

* I find the interface in general to be clunky

* I'm not sure what you mean by "drag" content during post creation. It didn't work for me in Google Chrome at all.
> Agreed, but the main point still stands: there can definitely be factors outside of our knowledge and control which we will simply not be aware of until it is too late.

There are always such factors.

Take the choice whether to have a child. Said child may be the next Hitler, so clearly it's wrong to have a child. But wait, said child may be the person who stops the next Hitler, so there's almost an obligation to have said child.

Pointing out that there are unknowns is useless. More to the point, it isn't an argument for or against anything because it applies just as well to all options.
What causes cancer outside of factors brought about by human intervention?
I agree with edo that it is very busy and difficult to read. Way too much going on.

However, I think my biggest issue is in the diverse or lack of focus of the site.

Sharing content, and collaborating on ideas is two different things. There are TONS of ways to share content. Digg, Facebook, Twitter, HN, etc. Where does this fit into the picture?

Note that when PG created HN, he didn't just make a space to share any content, it had a focus. Is there a niche collabrr should be targetting?

then there is the 'collaborate ideas', again very broad, which is good for some things, but to collaborate on ideas I think requires some domain knowledge of those ideas. Is there any site today where people collaborate on any random idea.

Do I go to collabrr because I want to collaborate? Or do I go there to discover content? Maybe it's a messaging thing that I'm not getting. At HN, Digg, Reddit,etc. you discover and discuss. You don't collaborate.

So how is this site enabling people to collaborate?
geez, a little harsh...
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I agree it's basically shoehorned. Springboard in particular isn't optimized for the form factor. But iOS makes for a very energy efficient OS with excellent touch UI conventions and a great app ecosystem. That alone makes it the best tablet UI to date. I think they'll make better use of the form factor over time.
Yes. We use CBFS (http://www.eldos.com/cbfs/) for Windows.
Zap Colors, the second item on the list at https://www.squarefree.com/bookmarklets/zap.html, is a bookmarklet compatible with any browser. It makes the page background white and links blue.
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Actually, it's really not. A capitalist economy with a 50% tax rate, more generous pension, health, unemployment benefits and a larger public sector is still fundamentally a capitalist economy. That's without even getting into the political, speech and rights differences. Little things like "being allowed to trade with other countries or get on a plane to paris if you want". Denmark is still far more similar to the US than to the USSR.

EDIT: Not to say comparisons between the US and Denmark are always apples to apples of course. I'm just so sick of repeating to people that no, a slightly larger public sector is not the same thing as collective farming.
For those who are downvoting me, care to explain why I deserve it? Where am I wrong?
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