skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
THE ROLE OF FIRST NATION

Mancur Olson suggested offering generic benefits to attract people to his large groups.

The difficulty in that is where do these benefits come from? Small groups don't have the resources to put that together. So we came up with First Nation - something large and stable enough to put together core packages of benefits for any other Nation to offer to their members.

Then there's the problem of what groups should be able to get them? A group of 10 people? 1000? 10,000? First nation would have to set some kind of criteria.

It's a non-profit. There are a dozen ways you can set it up to avoid it becoming a king-maker.

We realized we could also use First Nation as a Watchdog group. They're not necessary for this part of the system to work, but it could be effective.

Congress voted on a financial overhaul bill last week, for example. First Nation would have polled the other Nations to see how they felt about what needs to be done, what they'd like to see.

The financial industry had lots of lobbyists involved in the bill, but there were few, if any, representatives from consumer protection groups or similar. In this scenario, I'm pretty sure at least one or two Nations would propose some new ideas or have some comment on what was passed.

They'd try to convince other Nations to lend support. This "encompassing coalition" of Nations could sway the direction of financial overhaul to something that's beneficial to the larger public rather than the bank lobby.

SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS

These aren't special interest groups.

I'd join a Science Nation, for example. What's their agenda in financial regulation? None. But I bet some of the people there might have some interesting and good perspective on what should be done. These are "general interest groups". If the bill being discussed were about funding a supercollider, on the other hand, then I think you could say they're biased. And the other Nations would know it.

GRIDLOCK

That's a terrible argument. If your car can only go 10 mph, then it might help you avoid fatal crashes, but it also makes it difficult to go anywhere. Take Immigration Reform. The system has been broken for 20 years. Did you see the bit in the comic about why negative campaigning works in a winner-take-all system? Immigration hasn't been fixed because right now all a politician needs to do is discredit an idea instead of proposing a new one. There is no "win" for anyone who proposes an idea.

WHAT'S THE 67,000 FOR?

Fair question. I'm running for office and using the campaign to pitch an idea that might help fix the system a little bit. Even if you don't buy Olson's ideas, the worst that happens is that you end up with groups that offer benefits similar to AARPs. I do need to fund my campaign. I didn't think asking for a dollar was so onerous that it would raise suspicion of impropriety.

TEA PARTY

Well, they really are bogeymen. :-)
Star names
Intuit lobbies against California's free tax filing service
Every time I read articles like this one I don't understand how they can measure the happiness of the students.

How happy are you?[0,5]
Paul Ceglia explains why he waited 7 years to claim he owns half of Facebook
Apple is run like a huge startup (and the remote app was written by 1 guy)
Pardon my ignorance, but I don't get it.

Why would you want to hire someone that "sprays" their application across 25+ companies?
If the only thing standing between you and a police state is the inefficiency of the police, you've already got big, BIG problems.
In-person interviews have an even worse problem: if your wife is rejected after one of those, she has to worry not merely that she looks lame in a video, but seems lame in person. But you don't find the concept of interviews disgusting, presumably because it is already a familiar one. Which suggests that your real problem with this technology is its novelty.
BlackBerry users running out of loyalty: 50% plan to defect to iPhone/Android
He's not. Any program code written today that solves an NP-hard problem without exploiting special properties of the input data will take exponential time. If we discover a smart way to do NP-hard problems in polynomial time, we'll have a better solution for the problem, but the old program code will stay the same.

If you want an analogy: sorting an array is clearly a task that can be solved in O(n log n) time, but if you write a bubble sort implementation (or any other O(n^2) algorithm), the program will still take O(n^2) time.
The point of the article is that on Android, you don't need to know what a task killer is either, since it's not necessary.
A CIO’s Guide To Open Source Licenses (suitable for cluefulness instruction)
"Now, it’s true that there are task manager apps in the Android Market. But they are not necessary. The Android system doesn’t come with one and doesn’t need one... There are a lot of things I like better about the iPhone than Android. The multitasking architecture, however, has been an Android advantage, and iPhone OS 4, I think, will pretty much put them on equal footing in this regard. There are technical differences, but they’re small differences, not big ones."

http://daringfireball.net/2010/04/mobile_multitasking
Linear Algebra for Game Developers - Part 4
The process as you describe worked for me.

I moved from londonfgss.com to lfgss.com (as the users called it that anyway and it's nice and short for twitter URLs and for mobile entry).

Before the move I had 600,000 URLs indexed, 1 month after only 100,000 URLs, 3 months after 600,000 and 6 months later I now have over 1,000,000 URLs indexed.

The only thing that has happened is the pagerank hasn't apparently come over. But this is probably just the pagerank indicator rather than an actual loss of pagerank.

The 301's, the GWMT change, the 1 to 1 mapping... all worked really well.

That's just my experience, but anecdotally (for you) it does work.
Any entity can run at a budget deficit. There is this new-fangled banking instrument known as a "loan"
Especially if your business is web-based, you should probably be thinking of your designer as a team member, not a vendor that sells something called 'design.' It's really not that simple.
The turning/signaling will follow that of BRTs.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bus_rapid_transit

Basically the car traffic will be signalled to stop, giving the bus priority.
http://xkcd.com/192/

http://youarenotsosmart.com/2010/06/23/confirmation-bias/

For people that already have misgivings about interviewing for a position at Google, I'm sure this post was a god send.

I mean, after reading all those "google is great" love-posts, you read one that points out flaws, and all of the sudden that's the one to read? All the others go out the window? How does that work?
Sadly, Verizon insists that a task killer is essential to maintain free memory. I've tried to convince them otherwise--watching the ADB logs should be sufficient to conclude that the memory manager is doing its job just fine--but no luck. I do keep white killer around for debugging my own lock-prone services, but I can't say I've ever needed it for a published app.
Here's a screenshot of Apple as they announced their quarterly earnings:

http://ego.fm/screenshot.png

The red & green spikes represent individual polls of Twitter, and the overall sentiment regarding the ticker - the dotted line is the cutoff for which scores are used to calculate the leaderboard.

I live in Brooklyn, so Jersey may work.
The device that you own is irrelevant, a "task killer" kills tasks. If it were any more clear you'd be able to see through the phone.

Additionally, the point of the post is that using the task killer is bad and that "Google does the things they do for good reasons". At no point does Apple even factor into the equation.
500friends (YC W10) is hiring senior designer
500friends is a Berkeley-based startup seeking a senior
designer to help us tie social media to ecommerce. We offer online retailers a system of tailored incentives to encourage their users to share about their purchases on social media.

We have intricate design challenges and need to move quickly, so we seek a sharp, engaged UI expert. Your work will be live on some of the world's largest online retailers within days of joining our team.

We offer competitive salary, equity and bonuses, plus
health insurance and free lunch.

Please send resume, online portfolio and any
Linkedin/Twitter: jobs@500friends.com
That's fine, but the problem appears when people borrow money to finance such a hobby, not realizing (or not caring) that they'll never be able to repay.
Delivering Happiness by Tony Hsieh (Zappos CEO)
I'm a long time iPhone owner (just upgraded to 4 from my 3G two weeks ago) and just received a Droid X on Friday through work (my first Android phone); I'll be carrying both for the foreseeable future. I'm digging various aspects of the Droid, but WOW is it easy to end up with a ton of processes running on the thing - and it is very annoying to have to go over to my task killer frequently to shut them down. According to this article I've been "doing it wrong," so I'll let them all run freely for a while and see what is what.

At the moment I think I prefer iOS 4's version of "almost-multitasking-sometimes", but we'll see how I feel after I get used to the 'droid way of doing things.
At first we didn't realize how useful it was. We kept the optional-ness afterward because it is itself a test.
I'm not asserting that wages are being properly apportioned - I'm just pointing out that the fact that the top x% get a greater portion of GDP is not evidence that talent is underpaid. It could easily be the case that the top 10% is the most talented, and the talent gap/rewards for talent have increased.

Income inequality is simply not evidence either for (or against) the claim that talent is underpaid, at least not without information on the distribution of talent.
Android shuts down the processes at the end of the task queue if it needs more system resources. Running a lot of apps isn't a concern - this isn't Windows.
Learn You A Haskell For Great Good -- the book -- coming soon
Many moons ago, I worked on an FPGA-based platform that was among several research projects targeted at the Genome Project. The general idea was to offload BLAST-style sequence alignment to purpose-compiled FPGAs, such that sequencing across the entire dataset could be performed in order of magnitude less time. It really wasn't all that complex (I just implemented Smith-Waterman directly, as a demonstration), only intended to perform fuzzy matches at Gbps speeds to winnow the working dataset down to a size more palatable to a desktop workstation.

My understanding is that all these projects (mine included) were cast adrift when the funding for them evaporated in the post-9/11 climate. In the intervening years, I was aware that Perl was being picked rapidly at the Genomics labs in the nearby university hospital (i.e. since we never delivered them the FPGA platform), and I'm happy to read Perl has risen to fill this niche.
Based on the site http://learnyouahaskell.com/
Tournaments theory
seems they can leverage their distributed cluster to do the work, so in theory, things that can be parallelized would be.
I certainly want something like this to work, but I still don't understand your explanation why these aren't special interest groups. I'm a member of the ACLU, which is already a large group that lobbies heavily to retain basic freedoms; what benefit would there be to them becoming "ACLU Nation"? I'm a member of NARP (Nat'l Assoc. of Rail Passengers), which is a somewhat smaller group that lobbies for better rail policy (both Amtrak and more local commuter rail and mass transit), AND they've negotiated a 10% discount on Amtrak travel. What would NARP Nation be able to do that NARP can't now?
School should be about a lot more then just the in class learning. While the social things are not as easily defensible, without them a student does not become as well rounded a person.
The point of this is that you don't need to shut them down. The android system does that for you.

The idea of processes consuming resources is a mental model people developed on desktop OS's that they need to shed for Android. When each process is assumed to correctly serialize its state and can be killed at any time without consequence, the OS can keep the system perfectly snappy without the user having to worry about it.

This is a user education problem, not a technical problem. This is why android doesn't make it easy to see what processes are actually running.
The iBooks app, too, with all the sexy page turning animation was written by one guy (before it became big).
It's sIFR, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sifr - I'd probably go with Google's webfonts if you really want to lock down the font used, http://code.google.com/webfonts. TBH I don't think it matters so much in your design.
* Bouvard & Pécuchet - Flaubert

* The hero with thousands faces - Joseph Campbell
It seems likely to me that this is the result of the massive success of Windows 7 - users are just upgrading from XP where they may have been using Firefox or Chrome after a friend/relative/coworker suggested they switch and are now using the default Win7 browser: IE8.
Beyond Locks and Messages: The Future of Concurrent Programming
I thought at Google most people, regardless of salary or rep, were just "Software Engineers". If so, how do people know you got a promotion?
$67K is irrelevant (to his argument). $$$ from 67K supporters is relevant---it would mean he can claim more donors than the tea party, and hence that he is significant.

At least, that's his argument. I'm not sure that it would work out that way; as it stands right now, tea party rallies can get media coverage even when they're much smaller than some other kinds of rallies that can't, for a whole bundle of reasons that are mostly not very rational.

EDIT to make clearer where I'm restating his argument and where I'm arguing with it.
proud to have you on the team. let's crush it.
http://gs.statcounter.com/

StatCounter tells very different story..
No decrease for Chrome, Firefox.
Decrease for IE and Safari.
Exactly the opposite of ars version.
http://www.startuply.com/Companies/E_la_Carte_802.aspx

Shhhh....
Just finished The Restoration Game by Ken McLeod, I recommend it.
If you like SciFi, I really recommend Ian M. Banks and his Culture Series.

Here is a link to the "first" in the series:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consider_Phlebas

Basically to give you a flavour, imagine a utopian society where energy is basically free and run by super intelligent benevolent AIs. So basically the citizens have nothing to do but live a completely hedonistic life.

Whenever they encounter "primitive" societies, they try to make them more human and civilized. Basically the opposite of the "prime directive". The organization responsible for that is called Contact. Unfortunately, in order to make these societies more humane they sometimes have to resort to some dirty tricks (like assassinating evil dictators, instigating civil wars, etc etc). The organization responsible for that is called "Special Circumstances".

Another author I find great is Sheri Tepper.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheri_S._Tepper

SciFi with a feminist bent. Examples are Grass / and the Margarets.

If you want something more acid, anything by Victor Pelevin. Buddha's little finger is brilliant.
Why OSS projects are treated like "products" in .NET OSS
Not to discount the size of the launch, but it's estimated that 77% of iPhone 4 purchases were upgrades from earlier-generation iPhones. Still an impressive launch, but Apple didn't grow their marketshare by 3 million handsets.

http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2010/06/25/77-of-iphone-4-sales-...
Because of the Remote App was written by one guy, Apple is a huge startup?
Recently finished The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition - An extraordinary true story and possibly the best book I've ever read.
Maybe the Brown students took the survey S/NC:

Are you happy?[undefined,true]

http://www.brown.edu/Administration/Dean_of_the_College/cour...
Personally I don't think the vendor management part is that useful. Tracking expenses yes, but getting more detailed than that is probably unnecessary. Another thing to track is deposits!

Re pricing make sure you make that clear to users, but things like seating plans are normally done right at the end so it is a good tie in for you to get the recurring income (and the month they forget to cancel whilst on honeymoon) but personally I would still prefer a fixed price part.
Suggest HN: popular submission HTTP addresses become links
When a submission is upvoted by a suitable number of people, which could be weighted with a trust metric, HTTP addresses in the submission become proper clickable links.

Currently someone comments the link after a little while and people then have to notice the comment or copy-paste the link or such like.

Mentioned this idea before, just came up again (someone complained the OP hadn't put in the link) on the "marrily" post.

Could be just the first address that becomes a link.

Thoughts.
Make a blog, make sections, make RSS for each section and a ALL RSS.
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, by Jonathan Safran Foer.
I may be wrong, but it seems like the idea is to be a group against special interest groups. That is, to monitor the pieces of legislation that could be pushed through by a small but passionate minority, that could potentially be detrimental to the majority. Who knows if it will work though...
How fairy tale romances usually end [funny]
The reality of an applicant is that there is extremely little information about a startup and its reputation, and what little there is is almost always identical to every other startup (free food, have an impact, big challenges, blah blah blah).

You only really discover whether it's a good fit or not after you've worked there for months. If you're really lucky, after you've had all the interviews. But really never ever before you've even applied.

During the application process, I'd argue that the employer has the best idea whether the fit would be good or not.
I'll rip out the sIFR headings to make the site more anti-flash-friendly. I don't use AdBlock or Flashblock so I didn't test the site out without Flash. Thanks for the good catch!
I see the value for some jobs, but audio seems like it is just as good as video, much cheaper, less intrusive, and vastly more accessible.
Rapportive looks cool but I wouldn't be surprised to see something similar or 'good enough' appear in Labs at some point. It reminds me of url shorteners on twitter.
Wow... -1. I suppose HN doesn't appreciate Little Duckies the way Ze and I do.

http://www.zefrank.com/theshow/archives/2006/05/050806.html
Aha! 42 characters!

for(int x[99]={1};++x[++*x]?*x=1:!x[98];);
No. Nobody said that. It's an example of how Apple works. Rather than having large teams with hordes of managers, Apple has a bunch of engineers who are trusted to be competent and work on whatever's needed. This way of working is more akin to a startup than a typical BigCo.
Yeah, that's not how it works. I feel like we're talking past each other. The nature of state and federal fiscal policy is complex, but this article covers an introduction to it http://www.ncsl.org/IssuesResearch/BudgetTax/StateBalancedBu.... You'll note that there are ways that states can run deficits in practice but there are a number of restrictions which affect how appropriations work in practice.
Technology spawned the obesity plague. It can also provide a cure.
Not to be biased, since I know the guys, but eTacts (YC w2010) is a much more powerful solution for making my inbox life better.
Why not jump on the url 2.0 bandwagon and get http://marri.ly? It's not registered ;)
The core idea is that there's a lot of useful context about the people you email, but email clients right now don't give you any of that context. We serve it up right next to your email, so you don't have to hunt around for it. We want to help you engage more meaningfully with the people you email.

We've found different people find it useful for different reasons. Founders, journalists and BD people get a lot of mail from people they don't know, and we've had a lot of love from that demographic because we help them put a face to the email. But as you say, a lot of people get mail mostly from people they already know.

We've got some ideas coming up for that which we think are going to be incredibly useful. Right now, if you get an email from a friend, you can see their recent tweets right there in your email - I've found this really useful, as I can refer to their tweets while replying to their email, or see who else they've been talking to. There's a lot more coming along those lines.

Is there anything we could do that would make it indispensable to you?
I think there needs to be some sort of middle ground. Brides are a very unique set of users and quite a bit different from the average user set of any given site. They will picture themselves in your pictures if possible, and pretty pictures absolutely do sell to them, so keep that in mind with the photos you choose. However, as parent has noted, your front page should show something of what the product does.

My opinion here stems from substantial interaction with brides, especially pre-wedding. I do a lot of wedding photography.
What happened to wanting to work on a product you (can) love?
Understanding Mankind with 30 Awesome Interactive Designs and Tools
Among the large number of data-visualization designs that seem to grow everyday, the Interactive Infographics are my favorites, specially because of the incredible amount of information they can represent.
Ask HN: What's with the .ly domains (or, A Name Is Forever)
The first .ly domain I accessed frequently was bit.ly. For a URL shorter, a .ly domain is arguably a functionally sound choice, to minimize character strokes. Same goes for .to.

But lately, a libyan domain seems to be practically a requirement for trendy startups. Don't know what to call your company? Just tack on a .ly.

Invoice.ly; Post.ly; Embed.ly; Status.ly ... etc.ly

The problem with these domains is that they make terrible trademarks and business names. A good trademark generally doesn't directly describe the actual services, because descriptive terms are not registrable without secondary meaning. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trademark_distinctiveness

Assume for a moment that .com scarcity doesn't apply. It might be just my opinion, but CheapAirlineTickets.com doesn't become more desirable if you just change it to CheapAirlineTickets.ly.

The biggest question in my mind for .ly entrepreneurs is what (if any) plans have been made for your brand 2,5, and 10 years out? Perhaps all the .ly domain registrants expect to have made an exit before the domain becomes stale, but isn't that just pushing the problem onto the prospective buyer?

When I think about the "big dogs" that command the lion's share of traffic today such as Google(.com) or Amazon(.com), I see quality names that can stand alone from their domain suffix. Those brands have staying power.

Can you really say the same for GenericServiceName.ly ?
Heh. Yeah, saw that. Not sure that counts ;)
Perhaps you should be able to select only the companies you know you're interested in. Some people have specialties that would suit certain companies more than others.
I think I was 6 months from finishing for several years.
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Indeed I have not, in fact I usually disable file deletion confirmation prompts and also delayed deletion mechanisms like Windows' Recycle Bin. ZFS snapshots are more useful to me as a kind of system-wide version control; I don't use them often.

The few times I have deleted things accidentally - perhaps 3 times in the past 5 years - I've recovered in a few moments from backups. I've lost more data to hard drive failures with somewhat stale backups than accidental deletion. The redundancy of ZFS raidz / raidz2 / mirroring etc. is useful to reduce the risk disk failure, but of course offsite backup is the gold standard.