skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Polarisation doesn't require a high percentage of the population to give a damn; just for those that do to be really really loud about it.

There are also a lot of people who identify as ethnically Jewish (and are passionate and vocal about it) but not religious.
I'd like a co-founder for like.fm (Social music discover: twitter meets music). After ping launched I rode the press wave. Getting around 50 new signups/day now (up from about 1 or 2) and it's going up fast. I'd like someone technical. I've got code in c++, c#, php, python, JavaScript, and objective-c. Using mongodb. Will need to use lucene soon (non-search related use) and possibly solr for search. The last two I've never used so if you know them that's a huge plus. Also I have no CS degree so if you do, that would complement my skills. And if you've scaled apps before, another plus. Contact me at chris@like.fm for more info.
Whether you're old or young, you always wish you were 21. Old enough to have responsibility, young enough to have a lifetime of choice in front of you.
You are talking about temporary natural catastrophes, though, not the kind of disasters that develop slowly.

It's easier to give examples of that which people can readily see. For a "slower" problem, how about the general trend that people are living longer? IIRC, when social security was invented in the US (which you qualify for after age 65), the average life expectancy here was 67. It was intended to make life easier for folks in extreme old age. Now this country is in crisis trying to figure out how to deal with the fallout from supporting people for decades when it was only designed to do so for a couple of years.

Also, the last statistics I heard on bankruptcy in the US is that more than half of all bankruptcies here are due to high medical bills. Bankruptcy in the US is generally chalked up to "irresponsible behavior". In reality, it is more often due to devotedly doing whatever it takes to try to save the life of a loved one.

Then there is cystic fibrosis. The life expectancy in recent decades has gone from age 18 to age 37-ish.

As for people living in squalor: The US definition of poverty routinely places 12-14% of the US population under the poverty line. But one study I read indicated that less than 1/2% of Americans qualified as "poor" by the standards of India when measured not by income but by things like "number of meals eaten per day" and whether or not they had a roof over their head. Plus I currently live with zero furniture and no car and generally few possessions. I'm happy this way and healthier than when I had the stereotypical American lifestyle of affluenza. So I am not sure what you mean by "a huge percentage ...living in squalor". Perhaps you would like to clarify what standard you think "everyone" should live by? Given that giving up my possessions has been a keystone to getting healthier, I have my skepticism about (and objections to) ideas that material wealth is a terribly important measure of quality of life.

Thanks.
Web Application Engineers, IxD, Support, QA - Chicago/San Francisco, USA

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We are looking for developers, support staff, QA and interaction designers to join our team in Chicago. We will consider highly qualified remote candidates as well.

We're also working on starting a team at our sales office in San Francisco. If you're a Ruby expert with experience putting together teams in SF, please hit us up.

Buzzword bingo and further information is on our GitHub job post at http://jobs.github.com/positions/4463ed90-a175-11df-9567-22d... or hit me up at josh.davison @ [name of our company, above] .net if you have questions.
Yes, obvious standards costs of business, but the post above does the calculation: 2k x 30 = 60k salary. If you're arguing with someone who doesn't have the basics down, that's the place to start.
Doesn't Akismet work the same way as gmail's filter?
Maybe unrelated, but this made me think of "The Rise of 'Worse is Better'":

(NOTE: In this context, "PC" means "Program Counter".)

"... The PC loser-ing problem occurs when a user program invokes a system routine to perform a lengthy operation that might have significant state, such as IO buffers. If an interrupt occurs during the operation, the state of the user program must be saved. Because the invocation of the system routine is usually a single instruction, the PC of the user program does not adequately capture the state of the process. The system routine must either back out or press forward. The right thing is to back out and restore the user program PC to the instruction that invoked the system routine so that resumption of the user program after the interrupt, for example, re-enters the system routine. ..."

http://www.jwz.org/doc/worse-is-better.html
Android gaining on Apple iOS in mobile web market share
Thanks. I thought it might be, but I wasn't sure.
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The first question comes down to perspective. I totally agree that from the player/portal's perspective it's a full, polished game. But from his perspective, and given his ongoing business intent, it's acting as more of an internal prototype that he had the good sense to polish and sell.

On the second, my reaction is less about its novelty compared to the rest of the flash game biz, and based more on how it compares to web startups in general. Even a market as commoditized as display advertising still relies on a lot of personal contacts and haggling. It's a nice surprise to see a B2B market that can run so efficiently.
This would be a fine design for a personal blog, but no, it's not something that should be presented to a client.

Most design clients want art. They want something that is uniquely theirs; they want a combination of colors and patterns and graphics that are unmistakably unique. The designer's job is to reconcile art with function. What you built is all function, and no art.

(But I like it.)
These do not work in IE! I tried.
An informational skyhook?
Are you saying that if I approach life in a happier and more satisfied mindset, odds are I will make more money? Sweet!
I think the CloudApp interface does an awesome job of being minimalist. For instance, check out this download page: http://cl.ly/e9dd6a48f2ef6bc63688

(If you haven't heard of CloudApp: http://getcloudapp.com)
Stimulus for Startups: Some Thoughts From a Seattle Startup Attorney
check the "What about NX?" at
xpra-faq [ http://code.google.com/p/partiwm/source/browse/README.xpra ]
There are adaptors. And he works at a Mac repair shop, so, he's got all the tools and supplies he needs available to him.
To be honest, the 80s Movie Tough Guy parody was derivative and already tired when DN3D was released.
Well, the idea that simply 'queueing the rest in userspace' is OK illustrates a pretty disconcerting lack of understanding in writing networking code. This is not an acceptable solution in the real world.

I want to correct that assumption right now - it's one of those places that higher level networking libraries often fall down - because simply 'fire and forget' is a leaky abstraction.

Let's say you're streaming a large file over TCP to a client. Generally, disk reads are far faster than you can send data over the internet. If you naively keep sending data, you'll quickly fill up the OS buffers - and begin to consume memory as it's queued on the client side. In an extreme case, if you're sending a multi-GB file, you'll probably end up with most of the file sitting in RAM (assuming you don't run of ram and start thrashing). And for what? You really only need to load additional data in from the file as fast as you can send it in the socket.

In a real-life case, streaming multiple files to multiple clients, you'll quickly run out of RAM with even moderate size files.

Some high level libraries provide an event to let you know that the OS buffers have been emptied out. For example, Node.js has a drain event. But this has to be handled explicitly, and isn't really highlighted in the docs. But if you write your code naively, you will definitely run into problems.

While it's great that many of these high level networking libraries have tried to abstract away many of the complexities of network programming, they're also a trap for the unwary. Just remember that they aren't a silver bullet that let you handle sending data over the internet as a simple function call.
Pocket Computer is the term that sprang to mind as well. Eventually we can drop the 'pocket' part when it becomes redundant. Alternatively, shorten it to PC.
So, is this one of the crappy ones or one of the good ones ;) ?

Agreed whole heartedly though, if you are a 'producer' there will be tons of stuff that is not fantastic but that might be useful to somebody.

The funny thing is that it is unpredictable, what will be appreciated and what not. Sometimes I fire off a 10 minute blog post and it gets retweeted for days or even weeks after, and sometimes I work for hours and hours on something and nobody cares.

I see the 'lower grade stuff' as taking a break from the other stuff whilst still keeping busy. Sooner or later you find yourself engaged with more interesting things again, if you 'broke the routine' just because you're not doing anything worthwhile you'd find your source of inspiration dried up pretty quickly.

So keep busy, by all means, and fail often, looking forward to the gems. Like this one: http://www.sebastianmarshall.com/?p=95
This is a weird piece of chart-junk. Where is the giant China ball on the graph? Why is Hinduism grouped under other? Why separate out Catholic and Protestant?
IE9 beta ships in 2 weeks. Microsoft is finally going to get it right.
http://www.lispforum.com/ is also a great resource. Very small but very professional and enthusiastic community.
All these posts about ASP.Net are getting in the way while I wait for the 500th article about Clojure or Node.js.
Not quite. If I'm, for example, naked in front of my computer, a phone call is not as big a problem as someone at my door.

Especially if there are windows next to my door and the only path to my clothes goes in front of the door. (Just speaking hypothetically here.)
The babel of incompatible CL implementation is going to trip this up right out of the gate.

The future of Lisp, if it has one, is Clojure.
i second the ajax hating. the site also doesnt degrade gracefully when javascript is turned off.
I keep pretty good tabs on most HN'ers that are more than just 'talk', and there are a couple that stand out, you guys couldn't hide it if you wanted to :)

There are others too though, maybe I should do a bit of a write-up on the 'hidden gems', it's very easy to lose track of who does what with the number of announcements here. Some people really deserve a bit more of the spotlight because of their achievements.
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I'm not sure who in HK they asked, but just about every shop and restaurant there has a tiny altar and they build giant holes in buildings for the purpose of allowing dragons access to the water. It seems way more religious in everyday kind of ways than the US.
Now compare that chart with most/least violent countries:

http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/cri_mur_percap-crime-murde...

The least violent countries appear to be less religious.
I've actually referred to my Droid as a computer a few times without context. (As in "I'll just check on my computer.")
Good article I saw recently on minimalist web design, might give you some ideas:
http://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2009/12/minimalist-web-desig...
Ruby and Python templating engines are better.
I'm a Rails coder with 2+ years of experience. My sister is giving birth soon (yay!) and my mom wants to take off a month of work to help her out, so I have to pay the mortgage & bills for my family for a while.

I prefer back end work, since I'm not much of a designer (but I have a design guy as well). I'd take on a gig only if the client and I mesh, and the work could be contracted out in small chunks, since I already have a full-time gig.

haml/sass/jQuery/RSpec preferred.

Discount for a Rails 3 project!

gmail me @ username
The Lean Startup Circle is great, but there are lots of local Lean Startup meetup groups:

http://www.google.com/search?&q=+site:www.meetup.com+lea...

If there's a local Lean Startup Circle in your area you're likely to benefit a lot, in addition to the Google group and HN. I've been an organizer of the Chicago Lean Startup Circle for the last couple of months and it's been great for learning and networking. We're having Mike Evans (cofounder of GrubHub) this month talk about MVP and unit economic models:

http://www.meetup.com/Chicago-Lean-Startup-Circle/
Quoth the article:
I think that investors in companies ought to be able to obtain a full and immediate tax credit for the entire amount of their investment to the extent that the funds are used to employ people. This would cost the Treasury (because, for example, an investor's tax bill would be reduced by the amount of a $100,000 investment by $100,000, and the payroll taxes collected on $100,000 paid in wages would be less than $100,000), but I think it would be a simple and wonderful way to encourage direct investments into companies and create jobs.

Am I misunderstanding this, or is it really as loony as I think it is? He seems to be saying that if I would have a $100k tax bill, I can decide to hire my brother to weave baskets and pay him $100k instead of paying it to the government.

Aside from supporting nepotism, how is this any different from the government hiring people to weave baskets?
Hightower: If You Don't Fight for the Middle Class, Kiss It Good-Bye
Hmm, this actually works just fine for me with only NX client. What advantage does Xpra bring to the table?
It is quite amazing what totalitarian leaders are willing to say, but its always quite the opposite of what they will do. It always awes me when they speak, I think to myself "Yeah, exactly, they finally get it" but soon realize that its just talk.
There's the Ogre bindings, but they are unfortunately incomplete. I think the problem here is that of critical mass. For real nice game development, you don't simply want OpenGL or even an engine like Ogre. You want to extend the engine to include physics and collision detection.

So, there would need to be either a large enough crowd able to maintain the bindings for the engines and their extensions, or we need a more generic approach to C++ foreign library access. Since there are people working on better C and C++ FFI's,

I'm hoping for the latter. But that's probably mostly because I'm no good at C++, and such a layer would be my only way to use external libraries without available bindings.
Hi.

I'm located in Mountain View and looking for a co-founder for an app in the local social space (like Message Party, i.e. connecting people to people near them physically in space). I could use a mobile developer or someone to help on the web backend.

But really I'm just looking for someone to help steer this project and to share in the trials and joys of putting together a new product. It's okay if you don't have a ton of experience - we're both learning as we go along.

My weakness is making things LOOK good. I could use a designer. But mostly I just want a second to make me be accountable to someone and feel like I have a real startup.

Drop me an email. It's in my profile. We can meet up at Red Rock.
What brings you to the conclusion that it's based on his work? In the source it says "© 2000-2010 deviantART, Inc. All rights reserved."

I also did pressure sensitive drawing for Colorillo: http://colorillo.com/blog/2010/07/pressure-sensitive-drawing...

What would you like to know about it?
Do they?

Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Greece, Indonesia, Tunisia, Italy are all quite religious but near the bottom of the murder chart you linked to.
Also, as an aside, I wish I could expect more of the HN readership than a cowardly downmod with no response. If you disagree with somebody, say so and take the time to formulate a counter-argument. Save the downmods for things that are offensive or completely off-topic.
People believing that the prostitution issue will be solved through craigslist section shut down, should learn what 5 whys root cause analysis is...

This sounds like first level solution, what about the other ones?

Emotional topic. Difficult (half)-solutions.
Rise of the Anti-Content Farmers
Wow, thank you Jacques. You're one of those really smart guys as well.
Mark is a genius, awesome guy, and can build a product like nobody's business. Sadly, I've had opportunities I can't pass up come along in the past couple months. Genevine is going to be a hit and I hope someone great can come along to fill this role here. I'll still be heavily advising and involved to a good degree as well.
Adult services censored on Craigslist
What's it called when you think for example "Everyone else are sheep. I'm the only one that goes against the grain."? I think that line of thinking should also be included in the list.

Side story, A guy set down his notebook and walked away for a second, I glanced over and noticed that it was mainly introspective writing similar to the writing that I had been engaging in a day earlier. Made me think of fact that other people are very similar which is contrary to the special snowflake mentality I sometimes feel.
I'd be interested in a business/communications female co-founder since my product is women-targeted. I'm the only founder-developer and it's still in the early stage so plenty of time to make collective decisions. The business model is real, but bootstrapping doesn't accelerate getting to profitability. I'll consider applying to a seed program.
Is argc really a const in C++'s main? I can't imagine why it would be, given that argv++; argc--; is a very standard idiom in command-line argument processing.
I will second this recommendation. I watch that video every time I need a motivation to keep working hard. I've never been much of a Starcraft player, but the way he explains his passion for the game and the dedication he has put into developing his skills is amazingly inspiring to me. Most of the points he makes about training for Starcraft can be applied to any other field.
Evidence != data. Evidence = data and/or examples and/or anecdotes. Evidence is also most effective when backed up with analysis/logic (otherwise you get ping-pong debating, where both sides toss counter-examples around, proving nothing)

Note too that I said some evidence.

>I think the whole "Apple just works" thing is majorly overblown.

I suppose the simplest way to prove this is to consider the alternative: of what other operating system, taking into account everything that a non-technical user needs, can this be said to be true? Perhaps it is not true of all our current operating systems, but if it is more preposterous to claim that Windows or Linux 'just works', then Apple takes the cake and my point is justified.

Whether it is overblown or not is not my concern - it is currently the best that we have, and I have to make do. Perhaps iPad-like devices would prove to be better, but that future is still two-three years away.

Anecdotal evidence seems to support this: I wince whenever I see the Macs my friends and family use - the desktop is cluttered beyond repair, the dock is stretched across the screen, and they don't know how to use various core features (expose, frontrow, etc). But they don't complain, and they don't ask me for as much help as they did before, and this is the only metric that matters to me.

I'm happy, they're happy. What's not to like?
The whole point of search result rankings is to be non-neutral.

Of course there's a bias, towards useful and relevant results. A completely neutral search engine would be absolutely worthless.

Besides, don't people adhere to the caveat emptor philosophy anymore? If you disagree with the manner in which Google organizes their search results, you are free to choose another service, and in no way hindered in doing so.
How Git shines above Subversion at Merging
My bank stole 9 cents
Debian release names are taken from characters in the Toy Story movie series.

Wow, okay, that never struck me!

(Debian 7 will be called "Wheezy", in case there are folks who don't want to click thru to read a single word..)
It's similar to this chart, the world value survey:

http://www.worldvaluessurvey.org/wvs/articles/folder_publish...

Northern Europe in a corner, and the U.S. an outlier among the western countries.
I'm not saying every case... but the difference between the United States -- the most advanced, richest country in the world -- as compared to say Denmark, Switzerland, Hong Kong, Ireland etc. ...
I'd be interested to see how the US would appear on this chart divided up by state.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_gun_owners...

Countries that have prohibitions on firearms have fewer firearms. It's a huge difference in the numbers and that's an example of prohibition working.

I don't know that countries that have prohibitions on drugs reduce drug taking by the same amount, or countries with prohibitions on prostitution reduces prostitution by a similar amount.

Mexico is an outlier because of its large porous border with the US. Switzerland is just an outlier.
I can't understand the motivations for this.

Several state attorney generals find out there is are people going to a web site, and for all intents and purposes advertising they are going to commit criminal acts. The public is outraged.

A rational person whose job is to enforce the law at this point would be dancing in happy circles, because the criminals are not only advertising their crimes, they're doing it in a single, easily searchable location. This makes his job much easier than it was before.

So what does this person do in order to score political points with the outraged public? Arrest all these people in sting operations? No. He gets the site shut down. Out of sight, out of mind. And the public is happy about that.

For the life of me I can't understand why people do the things they do and feel justified about it. Prostitution is either so bad that it should be illegal and those laws enforced, or it shouldn't be illegal at all because all that does is create problems. There is no middle ground here.
IANAL, but an agreement (EULA whatever) that cannot be read probably is not enforceable other than by legal bullying. Doesn't do any of us any good, but it is a chink in the Apple armor that may be useful in the future now that EULAs are beginning to fail (even if for the wrong reasons...)
I hate plots that don't have labeled axes.
Web retailer gets one day Google boost that money can't buy.
See also: http://www.google.com/
Firstly I'm glad we don't have attack ads like this in the UK.

Secondly I was curious as to how a consumer group managed to get enough cash together to make this. A quick search reveals http://techrights.org/2009/05/04/consumer-watchdog-exposed/ which suggests that Consumer Watchdog is a for-hire astroturfing organisation hired by Microsoft.

Certainly Google aren't completely innocent and raising awareness among people about privacy on the internet is a good thing. But this ad doesn't seem to have come about from the goodness of someone's heart.
There is no such thing as "search neutrality", good search is subjective, also the sites in question seem like spammy link farms, nothing I would miss in my search results.

And why is a Texas AG conducting this investigation? not Google nor any of the other companies involved are based in Texas.