skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
gay marriage activists also favor

Ah. Have you talked to any outspoken pro-gay-marriage people, AKA activists? Like, all of the people in these threads who are telling you "yes, of course we're against marriage subsidies too, but pragmatically that has to be a future goal"?

You are not on a "team". You are making political statements (and probably actions, if you vote, canvass, or engage otherwise in the political process) that have real-life consequences for individuals with widely varying views.

"The Gay Marriage Activists" do not have weekly meetings that end with unanimous votes about how they hope the federal government supports tax cuts and special legal rights for married couples for ever and ever.

Maybe you just haven't quite explained it right yet, but I'm getting a strong fishy smell from what seems to be an argument that you'd "much rather join with gays and fight for fairness" -- except that you found out (somehow?) they all disagree with you on an issue that's, well, important but currently pretty irrelevant given widespread cultural norms.
Neat. I might start up my office hours again. For anyone thinking of starting their own, it's totally worthwhile. I wrote about mine a couple of years ago:

http://www.nextthing.org/archives/2008/10/30/office-hours
It works quite well under Opera 10.61.
Indeed. At very least there is a copyright issue to think through here. And if Apple does have the right to use the image for this purpose through some clause in their developer agreement then that makes it even more scary rather than less - think of all the content in every app that Apple would suddenly have been granted rights to use for secondary purposes.
HN Time Bartering 
Thought of this when I saw the HN Office Hour project.

It'd be cool to have a barter board where people can trade time/tasks in their own area of expertise for an area of expertise that they need but would rather not pay for.

It might be too clunky to be practical, but in building web apps, where many tasks have a clearly defined "delivery" and there is a history of entrusting tasks to hired developers, it could work.

Another thing it'd be good for is seeking very personalized advice in a specific niche. Maybe that's an even better use? For people to list their areas of expertise that they're willing to advise others on, along with qualifications?

For me, it'd probably be something like:

HAVE:
-real estate investment experience, especially pertaining to foreclosures(2 years experience, 20 properties bought at auction, 12 sold, 2 rentals)

NEED:
-legal advice on offering seller financing
But then you have to deal with the annoyance that is aardvark. I turned that stuff off when I got five questions in a row that literally were first page google results.

IRC room with a site mapping persons profile to their nick would be less bothersome, however then you have the distraction of yet another conversation in the background....
When people in the US talk about liberal media bias, the frame of reference is the average US voter's leanings. By that standard, dominant news sources (the incumbents, the ones considered most credible) are inarguably left biased. Some ridiculously high percentage of newspaper reporters, like 90%, vote for the Democrat (or other third party left leaning candidate) in every election. While this particular point isn't proof of bias necessarily, if we were to establish that Fox News' reporting staff voted 90% for the Republican, I feel confident it would be shouted from the rooftops in the online circles I run in.

Neither a Democrat nor Republican, but find the ongoing pretense by many otherwise brilliant people that the dominant US media isn't left biased to be an incredibly silly rationalization.
http://www.roulettehero.com/roulette/ashley-revell/
It's been a few years since I've really used Digg but how does burying something prevent other people from voting on it? My impression was that once something is submitted it goes on the upcoming page where all the stories are presented chronologically and buries only affect whether it gets on the front page or not. Do things get removed from the upcoming page after a certain number of down-votes?
Steve?
Some angel groups have some steep fees just to pitch and luckily there is counter movement to that. I hope with the shift towards more angel investment in the long run that this attitude of paying a high fee for presenting is not getting to a norm.
I read through the preview chapter. I like the flow of it. I will definitely get it when it prints.
Kinect is to Microsoft as multi-touch is to Apple.
REST APIs for Clojure Applications
Was going to be my comment too. Never put that much on roulette, but have done four figure bets in GBP before. Adds a bit of excitement to life :)
This exact technique solved the piracy problem perfectly!

But remember, the documents are supposedly already redistributed except without the decryption key. When the time comes and the decryption key leaks, there will be so many copies of the data around that the government won't be able to do anything about it.

Information wants to be free.
I like your approach; I really do. More than that, I admire your resolve in a more quiet resistance. I'm an outspoken person and have a hard time not opening my mouth. Believe me: I would love to have the same self-control you do.

I always find such assessments of me amusing. If I had some kind of admirable self-control, I wouldn't be posting on HN in between bouts of vomiting today on a subject that I know will get dismissed, no matter how nicely it is handled. I spent plenty of time being a blow-hard. I had minor "fame" of a sort in some out-of-the-way corners of the internet. Looking back on it, I likely had less of a fan-following than I imagined. Most likely, it was a vocal minority that made me appear "popular".

I don't have self control. What I have is a lack of patience for my own ineptitude and have made enough stupid mistakes to not feel like putting more energy into repeating the same mistakes. I'd rather go make all new mistakes.

Now, if you will excuse me I think I shall go puke some more. And if I have any sense, when I return to the computer I will do something more constructive than post here while feeling like hell -- like play Simcity or Master of Magic.
I don't know what it is, but I'm guessing it's MASSIVELY PARALLEL AND MUNCITONAL.
Farm subsidies are a serious inefficiency, yes. But I can't help feeling that getting rid of them would be worse, because they're there partly for the same reason many other inefficiencies exist: risk mitigation.

Nobody wants to put all their eggs in one basket, especially if it's someone else's basket. And from what I hear of high-yield food production, the good baskets all have problems down the line. Meat has disease and animal rights activists, fish has chemical pollution and overharvesting, fruit has pollination and insecticide issues, grain has crop rotation neglect and nutritional deficiencies.

Add to that the issues global trade is facing, such as rising fuel costs, treat of piracy, troublesome weather, looming threat of magnetosphere and solar interference, and politicians, and you can understand why I'd be reluctant to designate Africa as the world's breadbasket. Perhaps I've just watched too much TV, but food is one of the last things I want outsourced.
Indeed. I found myself doing the math to figure out how Trudeau could have been prime minister for almost half the author's life.
You're thinking of North Korea. In the US, we have actual laws that the government has to follow. Specifically, we are not entitled to perform summary executions, even if someone is redistributing copies of stolen documents (outside of our jurisdiction).

Honestly, the whole thing is hot air right now. The government can't do anything about this incident. They can ensure that they don't let it happen again.
Seems like they just did. Thanks Ravir for posting the link.

To summarize, they have no deal with Apple and they're surprised about the patent. They're looking for good affordable patent lawyer and/or looking for Apple Legal to contact/discuss this issue with them.
The post title still needs to be changed.
Why was this down voted? Rhino is a great location.
Because it's not highly visible as long as you stay carefully in the closet....

It reminds me of how "don't ask don't tell" seems fairly reasonable until I imagine a bunch of soldiers away from home sitting around together, waiting for things (which they do an awful lot). Then I try to imagine navigating hundreds or thousands of hours of those conversations while somehow avoiding revealing my sexuality.
It's definitely dumb, but people might be lulled into thinking it isn't necessary because the trend among other servers is to essentially include their own firewalling setup, with a default of blacklist-everything that you have to explicitly override by whitelisting IPs, or by having clients authenticate. For example, you used to rely on firewalls to make sure nobody was sending spam through your internal mail relays, but these days most MTAs handle that filtering themselves, taking whitelists of "relay from here is ok" IPs in their config files, even though in theory iptables/ipfw/etc. could handle that job just fine, and more efficiently. More relevantly, most RDBMSs have a similar setup--- they won't just let any client talk to them, even when bound to a public IP.

For efficiency, though, memcached explicitly decided not to handle that kind of filtering itself, e.g. by having the memcached config file take a list of IPs of other memcached servers to talk to (defaulting to none), or including some kind of auth mechanism, and instead relies on the system firewall for that. That's a reasonable design decision, but increasingly unusual. Most servers these days see the system firewall as a backup level of defense, not the primary one, and aim to be secure even when unfirewalled.
Microsoft is trapped in a classic innovator's dilemma.

For those who aren't familiar with the book, the basic idea is that well-managed firms are structured to direct resources toward the needs of their most profitable customers. In Microsoft's case, that's the corporate IT department. Licenses to home users are lucrative, but consumers only buy Windows with new PCs, and MS has little influence on when they upgrade. Corporate customers have more discretion. Microsoft is built to serve them.

The best proof of this interpretation is that the most successful consumer-oriented projects within Microsoft have been the ones that were incubated in isolation from the rest of the company - XBox and the Zune.

It's going to be extremely difficult for Microsoft to compete with iOS and Android devices, because their corporate customers simply don't care about them. As a result, middle managers in Microsoft largely don't care about them, and will never give those projects the attention and resources they would need to be competitive.
Step 1: Don't use threads for parallelism

Threads are a reasonable structuring tool for expressing concurrency, which is useful for laying out your code in a maintainable, easy-to-reason-about way.

Mainstream Python implementations have concurrency but really do not have parallelism.
One Night Of Sleep Not Enough To Make Up Deficit
To put 10k in perspective, that's substantially more than the pcc C compiler front end, and closing in on the compiler's total line count.

When I consider what I can accomplish using C vs what I can accomplish using HTML, that doesn't appear to be the expected result.
I stand corrected...
First of all, there are also -moz-transform and -o-transform.
Second, and more important:

http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-2d-transforms/

http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-3d-transforms/

http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-animations/
Have you down this? Are there sites on flippa that make for steady monthly passive income with minimal seo work?
Preceden's my work and if their design was based on mine, I don't mind at all. I tend to base my initial designs on sites that look aesthetically pleasing to me and then adjust it over time to be my own. The dark blue header, for example, was inspired by http://www.braintreepaymentsolutions.com/. I'm sure they're doing something similar.

Site looks great though--wish you guys the best.
How are dominant news sources liberal when they were notoriously non-critical of the Bush administration's war efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan up until Iraq was in the midst of a civil war (Which the "liberal" media was so kind as to refer to it as "sectarian violence"). The New York Times and NPR even refused to use the word torture to describe water boarding - despite the fact that if you dug into their archives they certainly called it torture when it was done to Americans by the Japanese during WWII.

The only issues where I'd say the news media is genuinely more liberal than the average American is gun control, and I'd say that has more to do with the fact that just about every person in the news media lives and/or works in a major City where gun violence is a problem. Considering gun control hasn't been a major platform issue of the Democratic party since the mid 90's, and is of little interest to the modern progressive/liberal movement (they are far more concerned with social and economic matters), it's hardly fair to classify them as across-the-board liberals.
How's the parking situation there?
California Supreme Court: age bias case against Google can move forward
pay some teenage kids minimum wage to run sausage sizzles all over town.
How is this a problem?

Is it also a problem to do work for a religious Web site? A pro-gay rights site? An anti-gay rights site?

There's always someone somewhere who's going to take issue with who you work for or what you do.

It's problem to the extent that just living your life as you chose and believing what you chose to believe are problems.

I.e., that's life.
No they didn't. This is the same thing that happens any time anyone gets riled up about a patent. Someone glanced at the title or an image (in this case) in a patent application and assumes that is what the patent is for. In this case it is not, which is clear if you read the actual claims of the patent. The image is one of many existing third-party app screens used in this patent application to show apps where the invention in question (location-based notifications) might find use.

Apple did not "just do some Evil" here. This is simply bad reporting about someone's mistaken mis-observation. I don't know why, but when it comes to Apple, a lot of people's normal inhibitions for shoddy reporting become spectacularly lowered.
I need 18 months. I would go to courthouse foreclosure auctions, partner with other investors, and buy the property for 70% of market, fix it up, and sell for market price.

30%/70% = 42%. Take away agent fees, closing costs, and repairs, I could have 25% if I'm careful. Turnaround is 6 months each time.

1.25 ^ 3 = 1.95.

1 month time horizon is silly. I assume you're looking for serious, practical, reproducible ideas. You won't get any that reliably returns 409600% annually.

If I were really held to 1 month, I'd go to Vegas and put it on red.
I agree about having the students create a real business venture instead of learning about theory. Theory is useful if you are experienced, but boring and uninformative if you are in high school.

In high school I made $2000 building and repairing computers for people. This is something that HS students could easily do. Building an eCommerce site is another one. Doing web design for local businesses is also a great idea because most rural businesses have terrible web presence.
Amazon CloudFront Adds Default Root Object Capability
As I recall, Tone Loc used to do the wild thing on telco networks.
In Australia HSBC offers foreign currency bank accounts, but I can't see that on the US site.

I work for a fund manager not a bank. Would an ETF for high yield, first world, countries fixed income products work?

http://us.ishares.com/product_info/fund/index/FI.htm
You make it sound like it was a conscious decision. Most of the complexity comes from the need to tolerate the janky markup that older browsers processed in a reasonable way.
Big news – this has been a request for S3 from Day 1. What this means is that you can now put your whole website on S3/Cloudfront by setting up an index.html file as your root object, and pointing a CNAME at your Cloudfront domain.
Tolerant native speakers make a huge difference. Backpackers and people from Couchsurfing are great for this. (Also it helps if you can tolerate people cringing when you talk, some.)
You can download the bounds of each US county (and many other political subdivisions) as shapefiles from the Census TIGER/Line repository. http://www.census.gov/geo/www/tiger/
Pay attention to this part:

All browsers that implement the HTML5 parsing algorithm
should parse HTML the same way, which means your web page
should parse the same way in Firefox 4 and the WebKit
nightly, even if it contains invalid markup.

Parsing perfect HTML5 would be easy, but one of the features of HTML5 spec is that it does that no spec did before: it defines how parsing should work exactly, even in the case of invalid markup. Also, the parser hast to deal with deprecated elements no longer in the spec (such as infamous <font>). I assums most work went into this "how to parse tag soup" part.
With EC2, you have to opt-in any ports open to the public.
Jeez, read my comment. I'm happy it was overturned, so the answer to your question is obviously no. My comment was about a democractic system and how it doesn't always work to give the majority what they want. I never said the majority should get what they want or that they're correct when they have a majority.
C compilers don't have to deal with users that expect purely random garbage thrown at the parsers to have a "valid" parsing that's consistent across every implementation. Unfortunately, making a language simple to use by not requiring that users get everything right makes it very hard to implement.
How can people not run a restrictive firewall on their externally-accessible boxes? EC2 even has this built in as a network-wide feature. Our production servers run with the following setup:

* block everything from outside internal network

* open port 80 on web server

* open port 22 on all boxes, but only allow key-based authentication. Oh, and only allow connections from an ip whitelist.

The restrictions on port 22 are probably a little overkill, I admit.
You can see replies by hitting the "threads" link at the top of the page.

Reasons (from my understanding) that you had a bad experience:

1. You used a development, unstable version of software in production.
2. 32 bit Mongo cannot store more than 2GB of data, this is a very public, known admission.

The reason that 'nobody seems to like your opinion' is that your post got real famous, and while mistakes happen, the internet was in a bit of a frenzy at the time over the whole NoSQL thing, and so you became sort of a poster child for various sides that people had chosen. Sucks, but it happens. I had a similar experience with my first blog post ever, so I feel your pain...
Android apps generally have faster release cycles than their iPhone counterparts largely due to the ease of releasing updates, and tracking custom metrics is a very important part of the release cycle. Glad to see Mixpanel making it easier for Android developers.
Apple opens "Try Before You Buy" section in App Store, Step to fight app piracy
I'm going to print your comment out and sign it in blood. I'm still shocked I have a 6GB iPhone data plan that includes tethering. That's a much better deal than the 20GB cable Internet capped at under 5mbit, p2p traffic shaped, with inconsistent speeds and service, for more than I'm paying for the tethering plan.

And don't grt me started on Amazon MP3, Hulu, NBC, Hulu and others being unavailable. It's like they want me to torrent every single thing over 3G.
Put the existing 25K in the bank. Bid on a fixed-bid web project for 25K and get it done in a month.
Now if I read a book a day I'll have read every (currently available) book in the world in around 350,000 years. I guess I should start with the classics first because otherwise I'd be dead before I finish the A's.
Punk Mathematics
Tom Henderson (the quieter half of http://mathforprimates.com podcast) has started a Kickstarter project to fund his new math book - Punk Mathematics. If this is what he can do for his pitch, I can't wait to see what he does with a whole book AND online community.
Gmail's SHVA parameter
noted.

so actually i imagined it as being available to people who wanted to do 1-off office hours, "I will be available tomorrow from 5-7 CST."

theli0nhearted and i had a short discussion on IRC where I think we've concluded that it makes sense to have a "Currently available/unavailable" flag anyways even for people who do have regular office hours, so I think you'll be pleased with the plan.

Basically even if I have office hours, I need to be able to mark that I'm currently occupied with someone, so I'll turn off my "available" indicator.

That could work for you as well. Basically you're usually just unavailable. If you feel like talking you can be available.
There you go, I stand corrected.

Are you able to make requests between instances on non-public ports? As someone else pointed out Memcached infrastructure typically won't sit on your local webserver.
From the article: According to Mike Sego, a former Gmail engineer, "shva" is an acronym for "should have valid authentication". Apparently, the parameter is only included after a successful authentication.
> In the US, we have actual laws that the government has to follow.

Not that this is really appropriate here, but the government is increasingly either not following laws, or not following the spirit of laws. For instance, Bradley Manning is being held outside of the country and isn't allowed to talk to a lawyer, or Gitmo, or this whole "videotaping cops" thing, or the storing of airport scanner photos... the list goes on and on. I don't think they'll outright kill Julian, but don't think the government is actually bound by the law.

(EDIT: tptacek has corrected my statement about Manning, but my overall point still stands.)
I would prefer that the parser just failed when invalid code was encountered, personally I saw this as a strong point of XHTML.
Last time I went into a casino I put 5 dollars into a machine and walked out with 500. I would be scared if the same happened if I put in 25,000!
Just for kicks, I am going to try and implement these two algorithms using using the State Machine Compiler (http://smc.sourceforge.net/). I expect that my "code" will be much less than 10,000 lines, although I don't really know how long the code SMC itself generates will be.
For some reason, when I click on their link (google.com/accounts) and login, I am directed to "how to clear cache and history" page.... So I searched for multiple sign in, and I'm back to the clear cache and history page again... WTH
Google's anagram easter egg
Last time I was in a casion just over a week ago I'd been on roulette for about two hours, was up an ok amount, and had been putting a fiver on 29 every now and then... The friend I was with picked up two £50 chips of mine and pretended to put it on 29, we laughed then put them back in my stack... ball landed on 29 :(
Website Review of GMHBnews.com
Even if Wikileaks doesn't have a stated agenda, the organization is run in a manner that's very consistent with anarchism. It's sort of amusing that 'an anarchist organization' can mean two things...

I don't think they'd ever admit to being one, there's too much stigma in the 'a word'.
The Greatest Catch Ever?