skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Indeed. I have no doubt people like Jobs, Gates, Ballmer and Ellison (among many others) oppose the freedom ideals Stallman stands for. Still, I think they rely (willingly or not) on the casual user and its disregard/unawareness of the freedoms they thrown away to reach their goals. Without uninformed users, they are harmless. Tools will be developed and willing users will free themselves from their power.
There's also some interesting supplementary material on the website for the book. http://highereducationquestionmark.com/
Regarding Keepass, how do you log in to some service when you're not at your work station? Is there some way to distribute the database it uses to mutiple computers?
I don't think the Fed is trying to generate inflation, simply because if they wanted to they could. If you look at their own reports, however, we clearly don't have inflation and aren't going to for a long time. About 20 trillion dollars have been wiped out of the money supply. The trillion dollars of printing so far is like hoping taking a piss will turn a tsunami. And most of that trillion dollars has been taken by the banks and put right back into the federal reserve system. Check out banks' reserves. Any money the Fed has given out hasn't affected spending in any way.

There is a way they could get inflation going: if the government prints money (i.e. not borrows printed money) and gives it away to people, e.g. by lowering taxes a lot. But they can't. And we all know they cant.
Complaining that professors spend too much time doing research and not enough time teaching is like complaining that basketballers spend too much time playing basketball and not enough time making advertisements for shoes.

Research is what professors want to be doing (at least in the sciences -- I understand it's a bit of a joke in the humanities). Teaching is what they're obliged to do. If you want to get some of the smartest people in the world and pay them a barely-six-figure salary to teach the same damn introductory-level BS to spotty-faced teens every damn year, you'd better be offering some damn good perks, and the number one perk is to be allowed to spend most of your time researching whatever you're interested in.

If you want to be taught by professors who aren't at the top of their fields, you can go to a community college, but your questions will be rubbing up against the edge of their knowledge pretty damn quick.
I don't spend all that much time at the beach, but I'm still sure as hell not going to buy a gadget for reading at the beach that can't be read in sunlight.
Are you aware of Koha
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koha_%28software%29
and Evergreen
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evergreen_%28software%29
open source ILSes? Those are complementary to your interests (albeit perl rather than python or ruby).
As others have pointed out, I have timeout errors with linode.

One thing of concern for me is that giving away my linode API key is not something I really would like to do. I don't use this key for anything at the moment, but my understanding is that it gives to the holder the right to delete my linode. not WANT. Arguably it's more a linode problem that it is cloudkick's
Ask HN: How was Angelconf?
It would be interesting to hear from anybody who was at the event for the rest of us who couldn't go. How was it? What were some highlights? etc.
The engineering courses I've taken have actually been pretty crucial at my current gig. If I had majored in liberal arts, I'm not sure where I would learn them.
Super simple: run M-x gdb to bring up gdb, and then run M-x gdb-many-windows to make it look like an IDE debugger. it gives you the gdb prompt, the state of variables at any breakpoints, current threads that are running, what is on the stack, where you are in your code... pretty much anything you need from gdb. Compiling your code with the -g flag is a must though, if you want line numbers etc. for your errors/debugging.

As far as setting breakpoints and stepping through, I personally use the gdb console. However, you can set breakpoints by clicking the left margin of the line you want to break on, and I believe there is a key map for stepping through.
Learn a little about 'democracy' and you'll see that in practice it doesn't really bring us any closer to true individual liberty than the old era of Kings and Queens.
I would appreciate it if you would stop requesting people to not use a harmless word just because there are morons in the US who misuse it. I find it extremely offensive.

Also, stop using the word 'black' please. Some of the definitions of that word on urbandictionary are racist, so therefore according to your laughable criteria the word is off limits.

If people start using the word 'salad' in a racist way, do we have to stop using it?

You have to be trolling. I'm too flabbergasted to continue this discussion.
Big corporations led by big egos have the power to kill
products and permanently remove innovations from the market

They also have money to sponsor development: Sun (R.I.P.) and JRuby, Apple and LLVM/Webkit/CUPS, Google and Android, and many more.
Your mistake is in thinking that US Government is interested in democratic principles rather than 'democratic principles'.
We spent a considerable amount of time on the price point. As you can imagine, at nearly every interval there's a contingent of people that won't pay for one reason or another. So, your concern about the $45/month isn't unique, but the price is the one we found balanced best.

The other half to your lead-in is whether the service really rocks your world. For a lot of people what we provide today is very compelling. Of course, we plan on enhancing things so it rocks other people, too.

If you'd like to discuss more, please email me at kevin at mogotest.com. I'd love to hear more about what you think.
Who gets to decide if there is "no reasonable need"? Apple clearly believes (just like the microwave manufacturer) that there is "no reasonable need" to extend the iphones software.
What does this have to do with HACKING though?

Crap this site is going down hill fast.
MIT was not one of the 8 schools in that study, it doesn't discriminate against Asians.

It factors in the opportunities a student has and admits students who therefore appear to have less going for them (it uses other metrics, a big one is being project oriented). It has at least in times past actively recruited white working class male students from the Midwest because they were underrepresented.

MIT has a big advantage, for there are no legacies to speak of. Everyone has to pass one year of the calculus (first term is the AP BC curriculum) and one year of calculus based physics. So MIT admits nobody who can't do the work. Legacies will get a "second look" if they don't make the first cut, but that's all. (As it is, the raw odds of admission are 1/3 if MIT thinks you can do the work.) It doesn't take many students from the fancy prep schools (I don't think many apply, MIT never was part of the elite prep school to Ivy/Ivy imitator path). So it simply has a lot more room for working class students.

Anecdotally, it doesn't seem to discriminate against Christians or students who have made achievements in those institutions cited in the study where for the normal elite colleges their chances of admission drop by 60-5%. As you note, MIT has ROTC units (if you get an ROTC scholarship at e.g. Harvard you have to go to MIT for the classes and other activities...).

(BTW, Harvard is not a "hardcore engineering school" ^_^. Although they did try to assimilate MIT in the years before it moved to Cambridge, that even led to a street riot in 1904 or 5. Heck, Harvard is so unhardcore that the last time I checked (end of the '80s) all you had to do WRT math was to prove you could do algebra.)
I never requested anyone stop using any word. I said I found the word troubling for what racists have done with it and that I avoid it (and that many magazines and newspapers do the same).

Most offensive words are only such because morons use them as such. If you like it, use it. But don't get offended because someone shows you that people are doing this. To be clear, you're getting offended that I'm "troubled" by the usage of a word which is being used by racists to describe African American babies.

And again I didn't ask people to stop using it. I just said it's troubling due to what some folks have done with it. Nothing you or I say here changes the fact that racists are still (mis)using the word and that there's a controversy around it now. I like that at least we agree that these people doing this are ignorant morons.

And since this is off topic here, if you want to continue this conversation via email, I'd be happy to do so.
Ask HN: is blogging worth it for startup founders?
I've read many posts about why you should blog - it solidifies and clarifies your thoughts, helps with networking etc.

I'm very focused and busy with a startup though and am debating whether or not this is a distraction - I did it a bit in the past, but stopped to launch the new company.

I don't want to be a "blogger"; if I were to write it'd be more for my own learning and to share with those interested.

I'd like to hear from:
- The naysayers - I haven't seen any posts on why you should NOT blog.
- Startup founders - especially those running successful startups. Is this worth your time or a distraction from the ultimate goal of building a great company?

Thanks!
I downmoded you. Mainly because I see no freedom in Stallman's vision and phrases like "shiny toys" and "lock yourself" rub me the wrong way.
I want my freedom to use whatever I choose: open source, proprietary, free, paid, whatever, without some RMS telling me what to do.
And I see more freedom in MIT/BSD than in GPL.
Can you please elaborate more?
I'm working on a more professional networking website but can be reached at mail@gigafemtonano.com for now.
I used to work in the building next to the 2checkout guys and I've attended a couple of Perl user groups at their offices. I also know a few people whom work there and they are all good guys.

In short I'm biased - but I will tell you that over at 2checkout their customer support is very nice, and they are all very helpful.
and Streaks.
Surprising discrepancy between automated and human operators in opinion polls
I learned the one handed bowline a few years back, and in the process actually forgot how to do a 2-handed bowline. Now its only useful if I'm drowning...
Keep in mind that just because the SEO is employed there doesn't mean they are responsible for the rankings. :)

In general though, I agree with you, and it will get better.
Because doing so creates a bigger market for free programs,
and reduces the market for proprietary ones.

And this protects consumers how exactly?
Well you've come to the right place! Would love to read them here.
Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.
- Earl Wilson
I think that Gate's work of software and philanthropy has been both beneficial and detrimental. Call me a sick kid, but I would deeply question some of the so-called "philanthropy" of the Gates Foundation. http://www.lavidalocavore.org/diary/3059/gates-foundation-mo...

Stallman has given us GCC which is free in the many senses of the word free. The Microsoft C compiler has been good too, but it comes with strings attached, just like vaccinations and bio-tech.

"Alone, I have seen many marvellous things, none of which are true."
Also, I agree that trying to refactor (say) C++ with awk would be hopelessly quixotic. I'm not an idiot. (I have written parsing and static analysis tools for an in-house language, though, just not one as screwed up as C++.) I was explaining the historical reason for vi lacking such features - grammatically ambiguous, overloading-heavy languages that combine static typing with OOP hadn't been invented yet.

I think it's bad design to have refactoring tools be a part of the editor, proper, rather than as a standalone tool the editor calls. It's more a matter of static analysis (or runtime introspection) issue than editing per se.
Yep, I'm one of those.
The fact that you got down voted and he has 12 up votes (currently) has really kind of changed how I see the hacker news community. Socially I always knew i didn't "fit in" with the people on this site but the one thing that connected us all was learning about technology and a love for sharing what we learn. Because of that I thought that there was enough general respect amongst us all not to use a word like "niggle" or "niggardly" and certainly not to defend it's use. I know you all wont agree with me but lets be honest for a minute; I am a black male and if you were in a conversation with me face to face you would not use that term because if you did we would have a problem.
Yeah, I think ideally any code sample they ask for should be something that any programmer competent for the position would be able to bang out in an hour. A twelve-hour project is unfair on the potential interviewee, but an hour is what you'd probably spend in travel time to an interview anyway.
I would assume this is a chicken and egg problem if they're bootstrapping the startup. On the one hand, they probably need the fee to be this high while the amount of users is small so that they can sustain themselves and grow the business. On the other hand, something seems fishy to the end user when they see that such a huge chunk of their donation isn't going to the target recipient.

Some things that might make users more comfortable: 1)the declaration of what type of corporation they are and/or 2) whether they plan to reduce their take of donations as they reach certain milestones.
Hey Google: Please Don't Create Another Facebook
This book is a great start.

http://www.amazon.com/Myth-Rational-Voter-Democracies-Polici...

Other than that, I defer to the "Democracy is two wolves and one sheep deciding what to eat for dinner" quote.
If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.
- Theodore Roosevelt
How would you know? - for all the 30 days you have been listed? Knots are pretty interesting. Why? Well skills for one. Get stuck, practice a new skill - one knot per session. Knots are also pretty useful if you get stuck outside ~ http://www.flickr.com/photos/bootload/sets/72157623445003205... hiking ~ http://paulgraham.com/addiction.html

Knots are also pretty interesting maths wise ~ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knot_(mathematics)
What I love about these things is that we tend to go 'ooh look at what that clever designer did!' when the reality is that anyone who has ever used a toaster has invented the "A Bit More" Button and then stuck it on the shelf with all the other minor improvements we come up with and then never act on.
This guy has a cool job and tells good stories!

(I work for a different company in Memphis)
There's a bandwidth check type. Click on the monitor tab, then click on new monitor, then select Bandwidth in the check type drop-down.

We don't support alerting on bandwidth usage yet, but that check will alert if the interface is down.
Ummm, you are aware the author is discussing and quoting this study http://www.amazon.com/Longer-Separate-Not-Yet-Equal/dp/06911... that was done by a couple of Princeton sociologists??? Is this a riff on "The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose"?

Whatever. It was the Princeton types who said "Excelling in career-oriented activities is associated with 60 or 65 percent lower odds of admission", that is, having a leadership position or having achieved something significant in e.g. 4h, FFA, JROTC was crippling for your admission chances.

Let me finish by quoted the final bit from the two eeeevil Manhattan Institute scholars (Neili is from Princeton as well and wrote the first of their two articles on this study):

"As Nieli wrote: "The lower-class whites proved to be all-around losers... Having money in the family greatly improved a white applicant's admissions chances, lack of money greatly reduced it." If you read the whole book, the prejudice of the elite schools against poor whites seems clear. As a political issue, this is a sure bet to gain ground."

America's ruling class likes to pretend it's a meritocracy but studies like this show it's anything but. And that's indeed going to continue to be a major political issue. Discrimination has ugly consequences.
Language features at the Emerging Languages camp
There is a formatting issue in #12. It becomes ambiguous what parts of that section are RMS and which are the question-asker.
Absolutely! The basic element is the same: you just need to figure out what part of the process you enjoy doing. The writing is one part, but there's also arranging, mixing, mastering, etc.

And it can help to have a basic understanding of an instrument but it's not specifically a requirement. For example you could download a software synth and start messing around with that. If you're sufficiently motivated, you could pick up an M-Audio USB keyboard for cheap.
Should that say 'indispensable', or is it a word like 'inflammable'?
At this point we might as well say that the sheep is too busy watching American Idol to even realize it's hungry...
That's nicely said and very polite.

Fortunately, I am not affiliated with your company, so I can afford to be a bit more blunt:

One can spend a lot of time on testing. Time is very valuable. If one's time is worth $45 an hour and you spend more than one lousy extra hour per month to save the cost of this service it is probably a mistake.

Too many services price themselves by telling amateurs what they want to hear instead of charging for the value provided to professionals.
Steve Ballmer: 'Apple sold more iPads than I'd like them to sell'
If you don't care about the performance of recursion in that context, why do you care about it in any other context? Recursion doesn't magically become different when there are file system calls involved. Surely adding other things to the function would only confuse the benchmark.

Your objection is like looking at a floating-point benchmark and thinking, "No real program just crunches doubles. It should include networking code and exception handling."
Your features page should be very well done and professional because it's how people will decide whether or not to sign up. Here are a couple issues:

spelling error:

The home screen of your project is the first page your will see. It shows an overview of your team’s work with:

"Your" should be "you"

Also use PNG instead of JPEG for the screenshots. It's a big deal.
It was #11.
Ask HN: Resources to learn more about cryptography
I really don't know anything about cryptography and I am rather curious about it, I don't mind math and mathematical concepts but I would like to start learning from the ground up, perhaps just resources about using cryptography are available.

But I'm open for any suggestions.
We confirmed it works in Opera 10 -- I got scary faces made at from the webdevs me when I suggested supporting Opera 9!
Always wondered: press control-r and type ls, it shows the last command where I used ls.

I press up to get the second-last command where I used ls, and instead it shows me the second last command used, full stop, outside control-r mode. How does one cycle through ctrl-r results?
Actually in many democratic nations more than 50% (due to first past the post style voting) did not want the ruling faction in power. If an unelected government can achieve the same percentage of satisfaction (without violence of course) then I fail to see how they are any less legitimate.
It's a shame this is for webpages only. I would very much like "focus follows eyes" in my window manager.
* - Ask a question. Define the nouns.*

Would you explain this, please? Where you means 10ren, or anyone who has an explanation, and this means the quoted sentence.
The only thing you really should be worried about is fear itself. Do what you fear and fear disappears. Fear is the greatest barrier to success.

We fail because we fear failure. Stop fearing and live the life of your dreams.
Google computer reports China blockage, all humans report otherwise
If you missed any of it, the archive is here: http://www.justin.tv/ycombinator/b/267534289
In reaction to the fact that I adore the idea despite the fundamental privacy problem (see earlier comment), here is my spin on the theme in the form of two really simple Unix shell scripts. :)

http://www.khjk.org/log/2010/jul/journal.html

Thank you for the inspiration!
GNU/Grow Up hasn't reached a stable milestone yet. Someday.
I really enjoyed this book:

"Crypto: How the Code Rebels Beat the Government Saving Privacy in the Digital Age"

http://www.amazon.com/Crypto-Rebels-Government-Privacy-Digit...

Doesn't really teach crypto methods, but it gives a solid (and interesting) lesson about the history and thinking behind cryptology. A good read even if you're not a developer, IMHO
Palo Alto, CA

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Looking for a non-technical employee (possibly co-founder) with experience in sales, marketing, social media, and promotions.
Clearly the success of the app store shows that there's a desire to extend the functionality of the phone. Apple just doesn't believe that there's a reasonable need to do it beyond a certain point or to do it without their permission.

However, no one is clamoring to write apps for a microwave. A microwave really just has one function and as long as it does that one thing then it doesn't really matter how the software works.
Ask HN: Can this be viewed as 'stealing'?
I am building a webpage that will rely on user generated content, and I am banking on its success to make me a couple of hundred dollars so that I don't have to work part time, when I get back to college this fall.

To initially get the site going, I plan on using posts from various twitter users' tweets (which show up in keywords that I search for). Say, for example I search for #high and use the relevant tweets, would it be a copyright violation of any sort?

Also, this is based on some topic that is similar to some random highly followed twitter user's account (but he doesn't have a website associated with it) / and there is room for users to generate similar content. Would it be technically incorrect to register that domain, and create a website for similar content ? Should I ask that guy to partner w/ me ? (The domain is free, so i am assuming that there is no plans on his part to make such a website).

I feel that this might be viewed as unethical, but it all seems legal ?

This idea is inspired by the guy that created thathigh.com, so if you are that guy, I'd love to hear your thoughts too.
Ahh, insight...

I just assumed asking for code was stupid, since fakers could copy good code -- but I hadn't thought about the required taste in knowing what code to copy!

Obvious in hindsight, you have to think like a user (here, interviewer) to understand their problems.

An idea -- a web application that helps with hiring/interviewing? That is, keeps track of CVs and runs code examples through standard analysis, integrated with GMail, etc.

I am obviously not competent for doing this (see start of comment :-), so take it if anyone want it. (I assume it is already done?)
Oracle get sued by jusice department for fraud
Today the Justice department it is joining a fraud lawsuit against Oracle Corp. related to software contracts worth hundreds of millions of dollars. The agency accuses Oracle of overcharging the government on a contract that ran from 1998 to 2006, and not giving the government the same deals that commercial
Their argument seems to be that you should get a four-year liberal arts degree and then an engineering degree in addition. Sounds great as long as you're not paying for it.
Strange. I'm on 10.50 and it's still 403.
Updated to Opera 10.60: 403.

Edit: nevermind, I got it to work. Must have had referrers turned off. I rarely see that cause a failure, so it wasn't on my normal checklist.

Sorry for the noise!
Reminds me of an automatic door I once saw, with a sign over the button that said "activate switch to operate"... or "operate switch to activate", I can't quite remember.