skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wrote that in response to another HN article that used that term.

May I suggest: http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=george+carlin+se...
F.C.C. Indecency Policy Rejected on Appeal
It is somewhat shocking to see this editorial in the wall street journal of all places.

I have to say I strongly disagree. Subsidized press will just encourage more conflicts of interest in coverage of politics, will waste taxpayer money, and is unlikely to result in better journalism.

About newspapers losing money, I suspect the main reason for this, and the reason nobody mentions is that newspapers and media companies in general borrowed through the nose to buy out other papers to reduce competition. It is the interest payments for all that borrowing that is causing most problems in the top papers.

Otherwise a paper that gets large viewer ship online should not have any problems funding news gathering.

But nevertheless, it is disturbing to see this in the WSJ. That means it is seriously being pushed. I hope Obama does not support it, there will be no profit for him in it, the right wing papers will use this to once again call him a socialist while still pocketing their subsidy.
I was going to make the headline "F.C.C. Indecency Policy Rejected on Appeal. Fuck Yeah!" but thought better of it...
I didn't think of this soon enough to add it as an edit, but it feels like a very relevant and succinct aphorism:

Just as courage is not the absence of fear, extroversion is not the absence of social anxiety.
Loved this one:

Hofstadter's Law:

It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law.
This video shows how that Old Spice ad was made --- minimal CGI! And incidentally, another Eric was involved.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDk9jjdiXJQ
(They smell like redditors...)
Why the downvotes?

I thought I was being honest. To me, the fact that I did upvote the link without thinking made me curious/interested. I didn't realize that I was so simple.

I wasn't making a joke and I was sincerely sorry.

I think it probably shows you, no matter how clever all of us think we are, most of our actions are automatic and non-voluntary.
It'd be great to hear more about your experiences over years. Do you have a blog or anything?
Please expand on the Headline instead of "Ask HN:". Maybe "Ask HN: Use Microsoft products for your startup - Costs Vs Other Factors?"
I did use the word 'technically', and I made it fairly clear why I think the situation is comparable.

Now, to point out why it is even more comparable than what you get out of it, I could liquidate those assets and have FU money (for want of a more elegant term) in a relatively short time, but as I wrote I'd rather have cash flow than cash so this is a conscious decision.

Weight Watchers and a few others have angled after the domain name for serious cash but I'd rather hold on to it for now since I'm better at managing my money and my free time when I have less of the former.

If I ever decide to change that I will probably arrange for an auction house (probably moniker) to sell off the domain and/or the rest of the assets.

That's a long way off though.

The value of those assets outweighs my debts 20 to 1 or better, in the mean time, by not liquidating the assets I've managed to make more on them than I would have ever made if I had sold out years ago. Sometimes selling is not the right option. The downside is that you have to maintain your assets, but in my case that is probably less work than it would be to maintain a pile of money.

Also, the single stream of revenues is the one associated with one website, in one corporation. I own three of those and quite a large number of websites and have a stake in a few others as well as some investments in reasonably successful startups.

On another note, I mentioned my divorce in passing, FYI, I left all the easily liquidated assets (two debt free houses and a bunch of money) with my ex wife (voluntarily) because I think my income potential is higher than hers if it should come to that. Our son lives with her, I figure if it makes his and her life more secure that's the right thing to do. So I already was out of debt and chose to go back in to it out of my own free will in the fairly sure knowledge that it would be a temporary situation.

Recently I bought back the half of the company that she got as part of the settlement as well so now the situation has slightly changed from the way it was before and I still need to work out all the implications of the change.
Posterous looks fascinating. Many blogs are using it. I was considering switching from tumblr to see if there were compelling benefits.

But this campaign turned me off; Posterous, by claiming it is the successor of all blogging software, makes me suspicious how they will react when someone comes along to obsolete them. If they're in it to win, how do I have any assurance I'll benefit from their service if they "lose"?
Pinkkisses - neat little website to monetize breakups
I've been really impressed by the way Matt carries himself when talking about WordPress.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1457253 is a good example. If you go through his comment history here, you'll see a really good exchange talking about WordPress security as well.
Poll: Help me decide my next start-up
I am trying to decide what to do next. I have coded both of these ideas already, and unsure which to dedicate 100% of my time too, as I will not have time to do both.

Perhaps both ideas are too saturated?
GeoApi - Like geoapi.com
Feedback Widget for websites - like uservoice.com
Neither, I will leave a comment, or suggestion below.
The video was done in the iPhone simulator using Phone Finger:

http://www.wonderwarp.com/phonefinger/

Thanks for the comments.
IPhone Apps with Great Interface Design
When is it ever desirable? I'm open to it having a use, but I don't see one. The only thing I've gotten from it is mismatched types that made it past some unit tests but blew up in the real world.
Rules for displaying error messages from a user experience perspective
Sorry, If I appeared hostile. You seemed to be quite the renewable-only supporter and hadn't taken into context alternative nuclear fuels.

I'm not a fan of wind or solar as a form of large scale energy production. They have there place in certain locations but I think it is downright dangerous how a large majority of people seem to think that they can satisfy our energy needs.

Loved DavidMacKay's book.
Booyah Announces Nightclub City Game for Facebook
> Work for the government or government contractor. Closest thing to a guaranteed job you'll find.

I think that's a thing of the past, as plenty of people have found out in the last two years.
AT&T CTO claims US leads in mobile. Paging Truth Police?
America has a prohibition problem. They are constantly ill-legalizing things the people want. It's a holdover from the Pilgrim days, Christian Whabists, 'fun is bad'...

George Carlin said 'Sex is legal, selling is legal, why is selling sex illegal?'
"Fuck You Money" is a well-known and well-understood term. He didn't make it up.
I could see another company call posterous a dying platform due to lack of revenue.
But higher-level languages can write the machine code that "exploits caching in general and optimizes for locality in particular" for you

Are there any in existence that do this particularly well (ie, at least as good or better than a reasonably experienced C programmer might)?
"One million" sounds like a lot, but "35 thousand" doesn't - the daily load isn't as scary as it seems, unless you are doing a lot of heavy lifting or it's verryyyyy bursty.
Not at all. If you start with a dedicated server you can't offload peak traffic as easily. Always going with a virtual server allows you to scale on the fly and cuts costs when not in use.
Good point but over a long term, markets simply aren't that volatile.

@fookyong's comment contains a lot of truth. If using Kissmetrics on a "Kissmetrics-optimized" site generates diminishing returns, surely that is a cause for concern.
The original author's change rapidly enough to suggest that your experiments will yield increases in ROI
>> Perhaps both ideas are too saturated?

I'd say so. Unless you have something that really differentiates your solutions I'd try to come up with a more unique idea.
Top 6 Job Search Sites in the U.S
Job Search sites have gained a lot of popularity among job seekers in recent time.
There are thousands of career sites on the web, but only a few of them are really good
Are you "the" captain crunch aka John Draper?
As a Wash U student, my mind was blown to see that this is right on the Loop, rather than somewhere in San Francisco. Good sign for the STL developer community.
OKCupid's usually pretty good about data, but they blew it on a couple of these. For example:

Their method of controlling for income only takes into account zip code. There's another obvious source of bias: the fact that these people are on an online dating site probably indicates that they are time-poor, have decent computer skills, and are in professions that value introverts. Many of these jobs are in high-paying fields, eg. software. People who work 9-5 in blue collar jobs often go out to bars to pick up women instead. It's no big surprise that the average OKCupid user makes more money than the average person in general.

Side note: there're a couple interesting things in the raw data for income. One is the big dip in response rates for 23-24 year olds that say they make $100K+. The other is the same dip in response rates for 29 year olds. I wonder if those are people assuming that the other person is lying.

The bisexual angle is also easily explained by looking at the profiles of the people you're aggregating. Many girls say, as the top line of their profile "NO MEN! I'm married, but looking for a bi or lesbian girl to have fun with on the side." They are bisexual, but they found the partner they want for one gender already, and are only looking for someone of the opposite gender.

The height stuff was interesting though, particularly since I listed myself as 5'11" despite thinking that I'm only 5'9". I finally revised my estimation of my own height upwards last year, when I found out I was at least an inch taller than my sister's boyfriend, who she swears is 5'10".
The conflicts of interest for a corporate-owned news outlet are worse than those for a news source that receives some government support.
Related; breaking up as a service...

http://www.idump4u.com/
Larry may not be the nicest guy around, but he's no idiot. He just spent a ton of money on Sun and something like this would put that much more momentum behind commodities he cannot control (like Linux)
Google launches new web site for high-speed fiber project
It'd be biased. My guess is that the "Rather not say" distribution has fat tails. It includes people whose income is abnormally low, because they don't want women to know and hence be scared off, and it also includes people whose income is abnormally high, because they don't want to attract gold-diggers.
Check out the Lambda Lounge user group (http://lambdalounge.org/). Great people and exciting technology.
That's an interesting idea, but doesn't that mean the government has to regulate what is and is not a real "news source"? Otherwise folks could just spend the $50 on a style magazine or such.
I've found linux to be the best environment for doing programming work. The command line is a powerful tool. The key is scripting repetitive tasks, so you only have to ever do them once. Most stuff in windows can't be scripted very easily.
That might be true, but I've gotten the impression that a lot of people who've made FU money aren't necessarily super skilled, but happened to do the right thing at the right time.

I can't give a comprehensive survey of everyone who's made FU money, but take Tim Ferris for example. He's not a whiz at building websites: he just knew to cash in on selling brain supplements online when that stuff was taking off.

Edit: I should point out that I don't think FU money is exclusively about being able to say "FU" to a jerk. I emphasized that aspect just to invert the comment I was responding to. FU money can also just be about ditching a career you're not that interested in (but may be highly skilled at, and otherwise locked into).
Hands-on with Hulu Plus: is it worth $10/month?
I look forward to this meetup and meeting any hackers that are interested in sports.

I'm the founder of StatSheet (http://statsheet.com), a newly VC-backed startup in RTP. It is possible to raise money in the Southeast, but it is definitely more challenging than Silly Valley/Boston/NYC.

There is a growing influx of new startups in RTP, especially in the American Tobacco District (LaunchBox and Joystick Labs just launched there).
Hi Cindy,

I'm a subscriber to your blog and I love your work. I was late to the beta test run so I missed out. I've been waiting on the sidelines for the big launch and whilst I think the pricing is pretty decent and fair (after all, it is pretty close to our pricing at Trafficspaces - http://www.trafficspaces.com/plans/), I instinctively predicted this sort of backlash, especially because there was no free entry plan, however limited.

Having said that, I'm sure your decision was well thought out. After all, you are in the funnel optimization business.

A quick shout out to Neil Patel - a very smart chap.
Three reasons for hope: energy, fuel and food
Ask HN: Feedback on a friend's SEO tool
I've been advising the guys at Pear Analytics and helped convince them to throw away the 1.0 product because it was simply too complicated.

They've gone back to a simple SEO tool that gives you actionable items to resolve. Feedback?

www.pearanalytics.com
But... the results for "lose weight" and "how to lose weight" are not the same. Nor are the results for "earthquake" vs "what is an earthquake". In both cases if I'm after the latter then it is the more verbose query that yields the better results.
Techniques for WCAG 2.0 accessibility guidelines under review
Once this is merged into the main dev branch of Firefox, I'll build that and switch off of Chrome. The main advantage of WebKit at this point is that their JavaScript implementation is an order of magnitude faster.

Considering Chrome's GTK integration is god awful (on my box anyways), I can't wait.
I was of two minds about it. On one hand I thought it was rude. On the other hand, there's a saying that no publicity is bad publicity, even bad publicity. The only thing worse than having some people saying bad things about your business is if nobody anywhere is saying anything about your business.

That said, I like Posterous and want them to succeed.
Windows 7 SP 1: You Don't Need to Wait
Thanks! I'll put these things on the to-do list.
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7 Personality Types of Clients Today
For the past 2-3 years, I've been using Salesforce almost exclusively... once I feel like I need a CRM, that is.

Prior to that stage, I stick to email and Google Docs. Highrise doesn't really work for me and I guess I just like my personal process better.

SFDC may be expensive, but:

1. Every (good) sales person you hire was probably using it at their last job.
2. It's one less thing you need to manage -- trust me, you don't want to risk losing your customer/lead data.
3. Why innovate on the sales process? SFDC may be clunky, but the lead -> opportunity -> account process is pretty straightforward.

Feel free to ping me directly if you want to discuss further. I've walked a bunch of companies through this process over the past few years, happy to help if I can.
Haha - the road to economics hell is paved with public goods.
Early Tests Pin Toyota Accidents on Drivers
Small Business Email Marketing
What is the best small business email marketing platform service? (iContact, Constant Contact, Vertical Response, or Emma) Or is there a better alternative?
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Btw, Chapel Hill is ranked on Money Magazine's Best Places to Live list. http://bit.ly/bkgwga
Porn purveyors claim fair use in record labels' lawsuit
Defcon password cracking contest
Another sizeable quotes collection: http://quotes.cat-v.org/programming/
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If you nail price-points (UV & Gsfn charge a lot), feature-sets, and UX (Only Gsfn has this really down), you could shake up feedback forms a good bit.
Web surfing/media computer is ubuntu lts

My wife's dell laptop is Vista because it breaks when I touch it.

My shop computer is XP because I run expensive proprietary software on it.

My netbook is also xp for the same reasons.
I would like this freedom also. However, generally people do their best work when they are in adverse circumstances (e.g., they are broke).

Perhaps by the time one achieves this freedom, their best work is behind them.
Most stuff in windows can't be scripted very easily

I agree, though Powershell is quickly becoming the most powerful Windows tool I've ever used.
That would guarantee a minimum level of aggregate news production but not specify the particular producers.

Given how information is dispersed and consumed these days, there are literally thousands of information producers (or at least sources to view that info). In the world of $50 vouchers, there are either thousands of producers competing for pennies if the system is open or a few big producers specified who can receive the vouchers. If it's the former, information producers will probably still be in the sorry state they are today. If it's the latter, I think people might have a problem with the idea of getting their news from an oligarchy of producers.
haha no
.htaccess for Word Press
Do you have any good resources to understand how to best configure .htaccess files for WordPress? Knowing that the .htaccess is highly configurable AND I come from a Microsoft background.
if you've coded them already you should probably at least trying doing something with one of them. Which one interests you more? Which one do you think could be extended in some particularly interesting directions? that should help point you in the right dir.

and as for the other of the two ideas, check out what scott heiferman of meetup did w/ fotolog (sp?)

-a
Sorry. I was speaking generally, not specifically, in regards to why people who don't own Apple products react to them the way they do, or at least one reason. I was addressing the specific question in a general sense.
Any idea on the percentage of cracked passwords one would need to win the contest, or at least be competitive? I was thinking 20% (about 10,500 passwords) but that's just a wild guess.

Also, some suggestions on what hash types to focus on. Unix crypt has so many variants it's hard to decide. I can handle most of the other hash types (ssha, nt, md5, etc.) no problem. I have my own tool that I wrote. I am not using JTR, ophcrack, etc. Nothing against those tools, but it's more fun to write my own code to see how it compares.

Any tips are appreciated.
I installed FreeBSD a couple weeks back just so I could play around with ports and ZFS. Getting ZFS to work with the bootloader is kind of a pain (should be fixed in FreeBSD-9, I'm hoping) but otherwise I was blown away by just how intuitive ZFS is to use and how ridiculously powerful. ZFS was introduced in 2005(!) and I'm still amazed by how far ahead of the pack it is. It's really a damn shame that we can't get ZFS into the Linux kernel because of licensing.
That changes with time. Some people that make it have a tendency to take some time off and do those type things. A portion of people take time off to restore an old car, teach themselves art, music, woodworking, go back to school for something unrelated, build a house by hand and a multitude of other things, but eventual a good portion finally return to some form of work. Sometimes a new interest turns into a business venture or an interesting idea peeks their interest and they build a business around it, but if you are young chances are you will return to work at some point. To me this is the greatest advantage of FU money, it gives you the time to recharge your battery and really contribute something to a project instead of just slinging code to ensure that you family is fed. It allows you work to have a greater purpose, if not to society in general then at least to yourself.
It would be one thing if news organizations were independent entities, arguing for government subsidies to remove any conflict of interest from accepting advertising or corporate ownership. With complete transparency, I would be fully behind this idea.

However, the suggestions of subsidies that some news organizations are beginning to float really boil down to "we're losing money in todays market, and we don't like it.". Aside from keeping their profit margins, it would be business as usual.
I was making a glib joke, but to answer your question this is the tradeoff of using a not-so-strongly-typed language. Weakly-typed languages often save you some typing (if you'll forgive the pun) and implicitly convert in ways that can make it difficult to prevent those mistakes.

It's just like Duck Typing- you're trading the need to explicitly specify an interface for the potential dangers of letting your interpreter "know what you mean".

If this is frequently a problem, well... there are a lot of strongly-typed languages out there waiting for you to give them a try.
Sorry. I was speaking generally, not specifically, in regards to why people who don't own Apple products react to them the way they do, or at least one reason. I was addressing the specific question in a general sense.

I will add this, however. When you purchase Apple products, you are beholden to them. They have a certain standard they need to live up to. If I am dissatisfied with a Dell, I have options with HP, or Lenovo, etc. If I'm not happy with Apple, I'm stuck. I have no other option for a Mac.
Yes I would define FU as not having to rely on anyone else for financial security. I would say conserved and invested well FU money starts at 2M USD. It is different from the mega rich.
He lost me when he admitted to having been involved in the Howard Dean campaign. He clearly has a very favorable view of governmental entities and aspires to be favored by those in power.
He's not grandstanding to protect peoples' identities, but to reduce the risk of his being disappeared by a government.
i'm a chinese,it's too complicate to offering a web service in china,because you have to get a bunch of licences from the government,and the censorship,you know.
so,it's better hosting your web at like ec2,linode or something.
or you can check this out http://www.net.cn
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You are completely missing the point. By becoming a bit of a public face he reduces the chance that he can be portrayed as a fugitive, etc. If there are dozens of articles about his antics, people have heard of him before they hear his name in an announcement that he was apprehended for terrorism.