skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Which of course is the wrong question. The right question is "what are the odds that someone will acquire this company so that they can do something wrong to all its users?"
Only guessing in the sense I haven't actually checked :)
"Bait and switch" is stronger than I really mean.

Don't get me wrong: I'm not pissed. Nor do I really feel cheated. I am just leery and perhaps oversensitive to freely contributing to paid content, which is what my example about SO and the evil hyphen site was about.

I also take responsibility for not asking (which I didn't) nor doing more research than the cursory glance that I did. So even if I were pissed (which I'm not) it would be at least partly my fault.

So let me just say for the record, in case anyone is under a misconception from what I've written so far: you've dealt with me courteously and professionally so I certainly wish you well on this.

This is simply more about how my own philosophy in what I want to contribute to. Think of these comments as me thinking out loud (about that).
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the New Axis of Evil (Oracle)
So not even original made-up words!
"if you’re a consumer, you are, by definition, not a hacker."

Does this not make sense to anyone else?
I remember reading a paper about marking with respect to software patents - since marking is required in order to enforce software patents, if a patent holder fails to cite patent numbers on applications that use the patent, there are limitations the enforcement of that patent. This would mean, for example, that for Amazon to fully enforce the One Click patent they would have to note "Pat." or somesuch on the web page.
You are ducking the question by picking holes in my specific example (which might have been poorly chosen), so I'll phrase it in the abstract.

Consider any low skill job which serves rich customers. Under what conditions should we pass a law restricting supply, making an unlucky subset of those workers unemployed but raising wages for the remainder? All commodity services (including, but not limited to landscaping, taxis and maid service)?

Should we only do it in cases where we already do it? (I.e., should we simply maintain the status quo?)
I'm still skeptical, but I have always wondered whether the idea that life originated on Earth might be the last geocentrism.

Maybe life is everywhere and it's just something that matter does... like solid, liquid, gas, plasma, etc. The only thing special about Earth might be its relative abundance and complexity here. So Earth might just be a place where conditions favor a lot of life. The sun favors a lot of plasma, and Jupiter favors a lot of gas, so again... nothing particularly special. :)
The site definitely feels snappier than earlier versions!

I'm excited to be able to this for more US domestic flights. Keep up the good work!
How Trendrr Developed Their Sentiment Analysis Engine
> Do you realize that most of those "made-up words" in Anathem were just lightly mangled Latin?

It still felt cheap. Give me another book like Gene Wolfe's _Book of the New Sun_ where all the made-up words were English words! (And obviously often Latin-derived.)
I didn't. It wasn't subversive, like the parent comment. It just worked out that way because of technology acquisitions. Customers wanted to hear their data was "on Oracle."

My take is that the overhead of maintaining and using Oracle means that you have to cut resources somewhere else. I'm pretty sure a competent DBA and developers can ensure atomicity and integrity using Postgres (instead of Oracle), and have a lot of time left over to create more features in the application.
The Grand Unified Model
Well I didn't agree or disagree with one hour, I said "some reasonable time frame" explicitly because the expected response time needs to consider what the real risks are.
Best quote from the article: "Alan Kay always said that any problem in Computer Science could be solved by adding another level of indirection."
It still assumes that the teacher has the most influence over their students, rather than the parents & the environment.

No it doesn't, since VAM measures deltas. Why would a poor environment cause a group of students to do well in the 3'rd grade, but poorly in the 4'th grade? If environment is the determining factor, then the value added should be close to zero for most teachers.

Some individual students may have their environment change, but this will average out over many students (with high probability).
Here's economist Tyler Cowen's response, which was a good one:

http://www.marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2010/07...
My First Day Working at Gowalla
I often remove the socks, too. Depends on the temperature.
Why my posts do not show up on HN?
i have posted several posts in the past few weeks. all posts point to legitimate reviews done by professional companies. NOT ONE post showed up. WHY? this is not a spamming attempt!
Defence chiefs spend £12m on anti-Taliban bomb disposal droids that topple over
So what happens between 2007 (when they were discovered) and 2013 (when manufacturing starts)?

What work has to be done that takes that many years? I'm genuinely curious why bringing something to market takes so long. What are the tasks involved? What are the labor and time-intensive points?
I actually assume that expectations will change, rather than behavior. People who grow up in a world where it's obvious that anyone who cares to can find out almost anything about them and their life will simply stop having any expectation of 20th-century-era privacy. The middle ground between secret and public is shrinking fast, and I think it will mostly cease to exist soon.
I think the article was spot on. This vague idea of elegance you mention is the "magic" that Steve Jobs refers to.

To make that happen on the Linux desktop, a really talented developer with good design skills, have to start over from scratch. Leave the legacy toolkits.

He will have to be a dictator, uncompromising in the design vision. Good user experiences cannot come out of a committee, or the "open source development model". GNOME and KDE is great, I use them, but they sure do lack the "magic".
Marketing costs are only directly related to the new customers you acquire the same month (or sometimes the following month - as long as you're consistent). This isn't always strictly correct, but it should give you a good average CPA value.
Thanks for the investigation.

Perhaps the Romans started out squatting, and later changed to sitting. I predict this is the point in time when the rise of the Romans stopped and their fall began. (Tongue-in-cheek.)
Startups, Be Proud – How Policy Is Not Helping Us
After RIM success, India wants to monitor Skype and VPNs
Unix How-To: Checking responses with ckyorn
Syllabus for course on Data Science offered at RPI
It makes perfect sense. Consumers consume. Hackers create.

See also: iPad vs. Netbook. iPads are strictly for consuming other people's creations. Netbooks are open-ended.
Your account is two minutes old. That smells like spam to me.
You should add the feature of search for multiple cities at once. For example depending on the price I have flown out of the Cincinnati, Dayton, Columbus, and Indianapolis airports. Believe it or not, it takes me about the same amount of time to get to each.

EDIT: It appears you include nearby airports as well in your search, but I would still like to be able to chose which are included. Dayton is included in Cincinnati searches and Indianapolis is included in Columbus searches, but I can't search for all four.
Is there a single download file/button somewhere?
From the comments - "Did I read that well, "6,000$ per founder"? What is that for, for buying toilet paper ?
And they take 6% of your company? Excuse me but this is laughable." - totally agree!
> My expertise on the laws regarding consumer finance and debt collection is not that of a lawyer (and owes itself to a funny story about the difficulty of disambiguating names in a database)

Could you share the funny story with us? Now I'm curious ;-)
warehouse makes a nice front-end to your personal git server http://github.com/drcapulet/warehouse "Re-Written from the ground-up for use with Git"
Google's 'fate' so far is to be an immensely successful super-corporation that dominates the search industry and has hooks into just about everything tech-wise.

The only complaints in the article is that it isn't increasing at the rate it used to, and it's getting harder to find new developers at their usual level of awesomeness.

Sounds to me like Google's 'Fate' is to be approaching the best it could ever be.

I don't think I'd try to avoid that, even if it were possible.
What is generating the "not optimised for mobile" message popup? Is that Flash detecting that the video isn't hardware acceleratable on your phone's hardware and falling back to CPU? (And in the Nexus One case it doesn't have Neon SIMD instructions like Samsung Galaxy S or Motorola Droid so that's going to hurt more).

If it is, then that's interesting since iPhones (including iPad) before the latest version don't play the high profile H.264 at all, even if served via HTML5. So any site that falls back to HTML5 for iPhone already has suitable video.

I know end users won't understand all this but the guy making the video should (and maybe does?). This response from the comments seemed a bit more even-handed:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cb9jfdltkUU
What we can learn from data, 3-D and a globe
lol, don't forget that whatever time you put in will pay dividends. You'll be a real programmer! And although this project won't be making you money, you'll have the expertise to turn on a faucet for apps in the future. I'd say, do it yourself- don't listen to the people who say you can't learn to program in six months. Just build your program as you go, grab books that give a thorough step-by-step process to building apps, read other people's source code, and make friends with some successful iphone app developers. A web-app would be nice, php would probably be the easiest way (TONS of example, and php.net is a definitive resoure), so you may want to prototype in php, but don't stop trying to learn Objective-C, you'll still be one of the first on HN to 'get it', and 'use it' to build their own ideas out.
I have php-fpm running behind nginx in a production environment for over a year now, it's been very stable. The graceful restarts and statistics (slow execution log) far exceed what other fastcgi or mod_php implementations provide.
As a Linux user I wish what was missing from Linux was elegance. What's really missing is drivers. Or at least non-buggy ones. I, and I'm sure many other hackers and "normal" consumers, could live with a slight lack of elegance if sound, 3D graphics, and WiFi all consistently worked without hours of fiddling while reading wikis and obscure forum posts.

I quake in fear every time I approach a projector for a presentation because I know the chances of it Just Working with my Ubuntu laptop are slim to none. Few people are willing to tolerate a UX like that.
International Center for 9/11 Studies Secures Release of Videos from NIST
yup

J.O.B. -> contracting -> online business -> 4 hour workweek
Where did it say retailers were responsible also?
There is a whole line of See 'n Say products still produced. e.g. http://www.amazon.com/Fisher-Price-See-Say-Learning-Letters/...
No, Android knows when it needs to update and when it doesn't. Verizon had two OTAs. The first contained Froyo. The second contains the Flash "accelerator" and enables you to actually download it from the Market. Do the update, you really do need it.
Wait... what's this about a band before Wings?
This should be rather good. I miss Boston already. Jason and Mark are good guys and I trust that this will be a solid event.
A Rubyist's Guide to the Twitter OAuth Dance
Agreed. For that exact reason my main dev machine now has hourly local backups through time machine, local HDD clone backups every 4 hours and a separate offsite backup with Mozy.

In addition to the remote repos on Github and my normal local copies...
halfbakery?
"I and another soldier ... are going in a little nearer, forward, to confirm the kill ... Receive a situation report. We fired and killed her ... I also confirmed the kill. Over," he said.

Palestinian witnesses said they saw the captain shoot Iman twice in the head, walk away, turn back and fire a stream of bullets into her body.
Uh no. Most of the devices on that list do not have updates yet. Several of them will never see an update to 2.0 ever.
Mind the Grid (Robert Wright on Mindfulness & Tech)
WebInnovators (Sept 10 i think?), anything at Betahouse, tech cocktails, boston mediamakers, barcamp, Venture Cafe. Check out the other coworking places too, but since I was a betahouse guy I'm biased.
I stared at the animated example for nearly two hours last night. I did get the one leg inside of the other donut, but it didn't /look/ like the animated example, so I disregarded it. Thank you -- "not symmetrical" did not occur to me -- it was bugging me. There's a lot of this same sort of visual thought that goes into designing various garments, but the surface is not a torus.
Massive solar storm to hit earth in 2012. | I Didn't Know That
That is an interesting piece of advice. Credit yourself in areas that you are capable but be humble to recognize your weaknesses, and you'll have a clearer picture of whether you can make it on your own.

In the words of Sun Tzu, "If you know your enemies and know yourself, you will not be imperiled in a hundred battles."
Jeff Jarvis on The Facebook of 1784
That's an interesting take coming from you.
So what did you do in the end?
Future Generations Steal from Themselves
Mattel should perhaps be encouraged to remit the fine, but they are not obligated. The suit itself is justified; I have repeatedly found myself applying the standard that goes something along the line of "You seriously expect me to believe that when you named your toy SORT AND SAY that the See'n'Say never once crossed your mind? You seriously expect me to believe you weren't trying to ride the coattails?"

Remember there's an element of deception in trademark infringements, too; this company is in some sense representing itself as Mattel, or Mattel-sponsored, or in some way connected to Mattel. It may not be a fully literal sense, but it's still a real one. When it gets down to it, that's the very meaning of a trademark infringement, which is a large part of the reason I'm much less sympathetic to trademark infringers than people who have problems with the other forms of IP. (When confusion can not occur, and suit is brought anyhow, that's trademark abuse.) Regardless of how sympathetic the company may come off as being, they are lying to their customers for their own gain. Whether or not it was deliberate isn't much of an issue to me; if it wasn't to start with, the proper response is to graciously concede the point immediately. A graduated response may be called for, but not on the basis that this company is somehow behaving entirely morally purely.
Target to sell Facebook Credits gift cards
Good post, it reminded me of this one:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1649260
"Compilers are perceived to be magical artifacts, carefully crafted by the wizards, and unfathomable by the mere mortals."

Then everyone with a cs-degree must be immortal.
> I can already hook my phone to a tv via HDMI. [...] now I just want a bigger screen.

Bigger than your TV? What are you planning on doing?
"So, what if he is wrong and you know that you're right? Listen to what he has to say and try to understand why he raised that objection. Perhaps, there's a gem hidden beyond the surface."

That's a gem right there.
Nice to see the patent system is working.

If corporations want their patents to be protected, patents must be protected. Selling an item with an expired patent number is akin to fraud, and undermines the patent system at large.

Congress to the rescue!
Moved to Columbus, Ohio - Help me connect with the startup scene
I just moved to Columbus, Ohio (my girlfriend is attending OSU for her PhD) from Boston. My job is remote, so I don't need a new job.

I was fairly active in the startup scene in Boston and I'd like to get to know entrepreneurs, hackers, VCs, companies and events here. What/who must I go see here? I know in Boston I'd have a pretty long list for people.

Anyone have any advice? My lunch and drinks calendar is wide open.
What is missing from Linux:

* Auto-configuration that can avoid requiring the users to manually fix rough edges.

* Innovative or at-least consensus following UX designers.
It's not a national custom, but a lot of people do take off their shoes when entering a house. It's the first thing I do when I get home - even more so if it's been raining because we have cream coloured carpets throughout the house and my wife would rip my balls off if I was to walk mud through the house ;)

That said, I quite often take my shoes off at work as well.
>It makes perfect sense. Consumers consume. Hackers create.

So if you write your own OS then you build your own computer from scratch, dig out your own toilet, build your own house, make your own clothing, grow your own food?

I'm certain that most hackers are also consumers.
I thought about getting a PhD at one point. It seemed like a neat thing to do. Talking to a friend of mine who is a professor disabused me of that idea quickly. Too much obedience, maybe, but the real killer is the politics. Lots of politics and politicking and stroking ego to get a PhD. No good. That's not what it should be.
"it’s effectively a locked, proprietary database"

Nope. It's XML.
Java vs C performance - again (2009)
Elastic Search: Distributed, Lucene-based Search Engine
Would be much obliged, my email is in my profile.
Here's a link to the actual pdf:

http://scheme2006.cs.uchicago.edu/11-ghuloum.pdf
I would agree with Grove's anslysis of the problem and that loss of manufacturing technology leadership will give lead to eventual loss of technology leadership itself, because manufacturing technology is a critical component of high end technology. Its like giving off potential competitors some of your chips, not realizing that those chips might enable your competitors to get more chips in the future, enough to give you more serious competition.

But at the same time, the solution he suggests could backfire very badly. If it were a case where the US was the only technology leader, then protectionism could have been possibly used to re-establish local manufacturing. But thats not the case, there are competitiors there too, japan, Korea, Taiwan, not to mention China.

If the US does resort to protectionism, it would put at stake the massive revenues that american companies are getting from foreign markets. For many of the top American companies, the foreign markets are the fastest growing markets and in many, they have started being more than 50% of revenues.

The moment American companies start being 'idealistic' or the government starts protectionistic, that would set american companies at a massive disadvantage in foreigh markets. Japanese, Korean, Taiwanese and Chinese companies would be more than willing to take advantage of those disadvantages that American companies would face.

The evntual losers would be the investors in American companeis, that includes the multitudes of Americans who invest in them through pension funds, mutual funds, 401s, etc. Of course, they will lose in other wasy if they keep losing the manufacturing jobs too.

This is like a highly complex Game theory scenario with multiple players, multiple possible strategic moves, with gains and losses for each move. A simplistic or idealistic answer would not solve it

I think what the Gates foundation is doing, spending on education to increase the supply of more highly qualified people within the US, in the future, is definitely a move in the right direction.

As for Grove, I think he is just doing his best to serve his masters the best. Earlier his masters were the investors in Intel, so he was making sure that it was profitable and keeps surviving. Now, that he no longer has to serve those previous masters, he has decided to serve his primary master, the USA of which he is a citizen

(Please note, my use of the words 'masters' and 'serving' is not meant to be derogatory, he is just doing his patriotic duty now that there is no conflict with his corporate duties. I am not going to judge him based on that, life is not black and white, and he still remains very high in my list of idols.)
Consumers are to Hackers =/= iPads are to Netbooks.

Hackers can still be consumers. In fact, I challenge you to find a single Hacker who doesn't also consume.

Consumers can be hackers. Hackers are consumers.
I like the article. A good comprimise between pragmatic cynicism, and good advice.
I've learnt a lot from this discussion. Hope you have too... Thanks guys, and I certainty did not mean any disrespect =]
It was originally designed for surveillance and reconnaissance operations: it was very light and very fast. A soldier could carry it in a backpack, throw it into a second story window or have it chase a car up to 30 mph.

Now they try to retrofit it for an entirely different use scenario; it's no wonder it's a bad fit.

Also, I found it interesting that article did not mention the company that makes them. Originally, DragonRunner was designed at Carnegie Mellon and commercialized at the lab director's start-up in Pittsburgh. That company was bought by Foster-Miller, which was bought by Qinetiq. Qinetiq happens to be a spin-off of the British Ministry of Defence, which certainly explains the lofty contract ($185K per unit!)
Techstars' track record
Huh, I already have flash, too. But oh, well, here goes... worse case I'll reinstall.
Snarkiness aside, it's a fair point. I'm a solo founder considering applying, and was wondering if any TechStars alumni can speak to this.
It's interesting that the latest Java does not include the var keyword, as JavaFX (which is modeled after JavaScript) uses the var keyword and does type inference on regular Java types.
Shameless blog plug.

http://itgoon.blogspot.com/2010/05/i-want-online-persona-man...
the paper's been discussed at least once before on hn: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1408241
CRTC hands victory to smaller Internet providers (Canada)
Sorry, I didn't explain clear enough.

Chartbeat acts as an early warning system as to what those pages will be. so, if we are watching out big winners and suddenly see a new page jump into the top 50 pages we can double down on that THE MOMENT it spikes.

this is uber-powerful.
I doubt there is any professional endeavor free of "politics and politicking." Universities are large bureaucracies, and come with all of the institutional morass present in other organizations of such scale.
In case you were wondering...my first day was yesterday Tuesday the 31st.
I agree with this (optimistic) opinion a whole lot. I'd like to see that world come about.

The interesting part is when it comes to people who are already public figures. How do political, religious, or any other charisma-derived leaders cope with the fact that their public images can be ruthlessly criticized?

Even more optimistically, I hope for acceptance and a greater understanding of the narrative of the changing personality throughout life. I hope for a public realization that some politicians even under total transparency are good enough to be leaders. I also hope that this transparency actually becomes a valuable filter on good leaders.

So it's in those hopes that I sort of am happy to hear that our online personas are slowly eclipsing our generative, "real" personas.
Indian gov, IIT and X prize foundation announce clean cookstoves competition
MIT Startup Bootcamp Video - Robin Chase (Zipcar / GoLoco)
Your Physical Constant May Differ
i think you're over-estimating the abilities of the average cs grad if you believe they all understand compilers.
Apple's Special Event: Seven and a half things to look for
10 Old Tech Ideas That Are New Again
The schoolyard comeback is appropriate here:

"I might like it. Doesn't mean I want to marry it."