skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I like responding with questions (or completely off topic statements) in a polite manner. This way police think that you're being cooperative and chatty, as well as bowing to their authority, when you're really not.

"Was your trip business or pleasure?": "Is there a difference?" (with a smile, or a sarcastic sigh).

"Do you know why I pulled you over?": "My friend was once pulled over and thanked for properly signaling!" (big "i'm clearly joking" smile).

"Do you have anything you'd like to tell me?": "My mom always used to ask that a lot... usually when I was in trouble. Am I in trouble?" (smiling! always smiling!)

This usually gets them talking back in a joking manner... or get straight to the point. Either way, you've established that you're smart and friendly, not a smart-ass. When they do get to the point, you can usually clearly state (with a smile!) "I'm afraid a lawyer friend once told me not to answer these questions when pulled over."

You might get some special attention, but you probably won't be put in the naughty corner and told to "cool down".
HN is one of about 10 feeds that I have running through Yahoo Pipes and then into my Safari RSS bookmark, which shows a count of how many new interesting things I have to read. The pipe pulls a feed of articles that have more than 20 points (newsyc20) and then filters out any articles about zed shaw, lisp, clojure, haskell, etc. (Nothing against these things if you're into them, but I'm not.)

The bookmark RSS folder also contains my other aggregated, filtered feeds which include Twitter friends that don't talk too much, mentions, a highly-filtered list of affordable VPS deals, and a couple of good signal-to-noise blogs.
Thanks! What options did you have in mind? To meet like-minded users in the UK, I think stringraycharles provided a great resource. http://hackernewsers.com/pages/map.html
The role of definitions in mathematics and theory
I don't love the logic at play here either but feel compelled to note that, like it or not, it is the logic that every court in the land will use. Your rights at our country's borders are limited. The Supreme Court has held these limitations to be constitutional. Disagree or not, your only recourse may involve a constitutional amendment.
That site appears to contain info only on people who have registered with it (unless I'm missing something; I don't seem to be there).

Also, despite the implication of the title, the OP is not interested in HN users in general, only business founders and investors.
I guess I didn't make a connection between "Tech Founder" and "Developer", as I didn't, and currently don't plan on, founding anything.

EDIT: Grammar FAIL on my part.
Premature and a little arbitrary. While Node.js certainly is useful, and Unix is a staple, why MongoDB in particular? Why not Cassandra, HBase, or another NoSQL effort? Why is it the "new LAMP", anyway -- why can't it just be a new(er) set of tools that people use?
Well, all you really need to know is how coordinates work, and how rotation about the x, y and z axes work, which corresponds to the rx, ry and rz parameters. You also need to be able to follow the control flow of the rules, which can sometimes be tough if you make them deeply recursive, referencing each other everywhere.
I'm nomadic. I can haz API?
Obviously medical experts disagree with you, so I cannot say that it is "overwhelmingly logical," at least not to those best equipped to understand this issue.

Surely, if enough agree with you, however, then we will consider there to be "clinical equipoise" and trials will be done.
Not all who are in tech are founders. Also, I know a couple people who would probably at first try to write themselves in as "Student." Maybe that fits best alongside non-founder techs?
> To me, this seems as if this change has nothing to do with
Google Instant. This has more to do with being able to
respond instantly to new content, instead of being able to
query the index quickly.

Right, this was part of the caffeine update, which happened months ago.

> But I bet that they in no way at all have dumped Map/Reduce.

The old way of doing calculations on the web graph was giant iterations on the adjacency matrix via map reduce. In the new system, they are probably doing local walks in the instantiated graph. These local walks are simple iterations, not map-reduce.
Understandable. That was a ignorance on my part, I swapped founder with "Users".
I just blogged about Caffeine. To address your questions: they have moved to a continuous update indexing scheme that uses something like Big Table so their index is now in a data. From an end-user's perspective, calculating search results using this new data store and more caching is faster because search results are displayed while I type. I can't wait for technical papers on Caffeine to be released.
HackerNewsers.com is already supposed to be filling that desire.
Reference: http://www.theonion.com/articles/new-techsupport-caste-arise...
Ask HN: We're building a real-life, location-based MMORPG. Will you play?
Dear HNers,

Here's what we intend to have when we're ready - a game that borrows elements from World of Warcraft, Foursquare and Mafia Wars, playable through the browser and eventually via a mobile device. No graphics engine for now, we're thinking compelling visuals + text.

Chapter 1 - Architecting the world:
We pull in your check-ins from a popular location based service (Foursquare/Gowalla/Facebook) and reward you for checking in (with virtual currency and 'artifacts'). We build a mystical, medieval universe atop these real places. You then compete to purchase these venues and start upgrading them, fortifying them for the impending onslaught. (Yup, this bit has certainly been inspired by Booyah's MyTown, but it's also pretty much where the similarity ends). [Status: Nearing completion]

Chapter 2 - Learning the ropes: You begin exploring the universe through your check-ins. Play simple browser-based, click-driven missions to earn more currency / XP / karma / health. Head out into the world, either alone or with a band of cohorts to complete quests that require you to carry out recon / defend your properties / deliver packages / sabotage or booby-trap venues / attack other users and properties. [Status: 3-4 months away]

Chapter 3 - Choose your Adventure: Races/allegiances that reflect you and your style of play. Richer gameplay that you can influence (think swarm badges in Foursquare). And much more that we haven't thought of yet.

- Overwhelming is a mild word for how daunting it'll be to string together a playable MVP for this, so if you think you'll play, please let us know - IT'LL SPUR US ON!

- Please give us suggestions for gameplay elements you'd like to see. What we really don't want is for this to end up being another mindless social game.
I intend to have as many HN users as possible contribute. I switched the legend containing "Founder" with "Users" to make the markers more versatile. I apologize for the confusion.
You live on Satellite Tracking Station Road?
The good thing about app stores is that if someone rips off your app you just send a DMCA takedown notice to the app store and the app is gone.
I'm not sure about US citizens but of all the places I travel to, the experience of entering the US is the worst of all. I'm a UK citizen and we supposedly have a visa arrangement that should negate any hassle but it frequently takes more than an hour to clear border control.

During which time you have sniffer dogs almost clawing you and really aggressive questioning. I'm sure this must have a negative effect on the tourism industry as most people I know have had similar experiences.

I've just come back from traveling around Asia and they seem to take the opposite approach and employ polite and helpful people to work in border security, often when you're traveling this is the first impression you get of a country and bad experiences really leave a bad taste.
Hacker news mentioned :)
Not to be spammy but i've compiled a few services onto one site: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1682068
For these and other reasons, the Census makes it quite clear that they treat all information as confidential and do not report it to any government agency. There were ads explaining that for literally months prior to the last census. The census taker who stopped by to speak with me helpfully noted that Japan would be quite grateful if, for statistical purposes, I would mention all of my illegal relatives, too, and that he would absolutely not speak to Immigration about them.
Sounds fun, but the world's first?
Isn't http://www.parallelkingdom.com already doing this?
Well, there goes trying to hide my identity on HN...
I was about to post this myself.

Here's my problem: theoretically, the video makes sense. I shouldn't every speak to the police.

Practically, if I'm pulled over for a speeding ticket, saying "I refuse to speak" is going to get me in a lot more trouble than just playing along.
The Redditer in me perhaps is impressed, the Y is disappointed that it offers no real insight.
Its easy when you don't pull the engine apart first. :-)
That's a vintage military jeep. These are available to civilians, if you can hunt one down. Based on the tires and the model, I suspect it's WWII era. Even modern humvee's are way more complex. I doubt you'd want one as a daily driver though.

If you get a jeep made since 1995, it's definitely way more complex. The jeep in the video doesn't have the same emission controls and safety requirements of a modern vehicle.

Modern jeeps still shars some of the same design principles. For instance, tub on frame -- they lift the tub off of the frame. The cabin of a jeep is like a bathtub on a wagon.

The suspension in modern jeeps is far more complex in order to give a smoother ride -- the jeep in the video has leaf springs on front and back. Modern jeeps typically don't have leafs in the front.

Jeep CJ's were the first consumer models available. Some of the older ones may be close to that simple.

I drive a jeep. I think it's awesome. For the same reasons I like it, most of my passengers hate it:

- it's loud (soft top or top down you basically have to yell to hear each other, forget listening to the stereo on road trips)
- it rides rough -- you get thrown around
- it has almost no features. I have a heater, headlights, three speed wipers (off, too slow and too fast), manual windows/mirrors and a button to reset the trip counter

Also, it's a bit of a money pit. It's super rugged, but when you take it into the bush, you push the machine to its limits. I'm not really an expert in vehicle repairs (spent my teen years on computers instead of with my dad in the garage), but I'm definitely getting more into it as a way to save money.

I get about 15 L/100KM (~15mpg). It's as aerodynamic as a brick flying sideways, so you can't really do anything to improve gas mileage.

That all being said, I love my jeep. I can't see myself not owning a jeep in the future.
I'm glad that some people assert rights that are a pain to assert most of the time, because it reminds everyone that they exist.

However, this guy seem like kind of a jerk as well. It sounds like they largely treated him respectfully, and calling them "thugs" makes him sound like a misguided hippy.
One way to raise the bar is to download critical pieces of code from a trusted code server in runtime. The client code authenticates first with the License Server using its public key and gets back an authorization token, which expires with time. It submits the token to download the code from the code server, which checks the token against the License Server.

To raise the bar even higher, make the downloadable code expirable or embedding the public key to re-authenticate once downloaded.

Of course a persistent cracker can still run a sniffer to capture the runtime code, reverse engineering it, remove all the checks and stitch the code back together. It just makes it harder.
You've got your Charles' mixed up.

That site is owned by phpnode.
http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=phpnode

I know they both have a link to their hackernewsers page, but phpnode is the guy that built it.
Four Demons of Search: Part 1
In lawsuit, AT&T blames Cambridge, Mass. for crappy wireless service
It looks like a CJ-5 to me (may be an older model though), which is a pretty basic old design. You can see it does not have power steering, power brakes (actually I am not sure it it has any brakes), or much of anything for the instrument panel.

It is really just a frame and basic drive train with a body tub on top. Cool video though.

(I drive a '84 cj7)
Ah, thanks for the clarification.

BTW, the article still says

> My aim is to map out all of the founders in the Hacker News community, distinguished by four qualities: Tech founder, business founder, VC/investor, or a mix of the previous three.

That's going to scare away a few people. Change the first two appearances of "founder" to "user"?
Re: Fun/Imaginative gameplay.

Jason Rohrer

http://hcsoftware.sourceforge.net/jason-rohrer/
You obviously have some human rights. They can't (legally) harm you physically without any reason, afaik.
Does this guy realize how much it sucks to go into a computer lab in the middle of Boston winter to code up your assignments instead of sitting at home?

Having your own reasonably performant dev enviornment at home is amazing. You could always ssh into dialup machines, but generally the public ones aren't the best for working.
Hello guys,

I just launched my geo-location chat web service.
Chat with the people around you. What do you think?

You can play with it on iPhone/iPod too

Thanks!
It looks like a fun piece of technology to use.
Got a job yet?
Why not extend paypal the same courtesy?

From my previous post: "keeping the money for yourself (as per the link)"
I use Fivefilter's full-text rss(http://fivefilters.org/content-only/), which scrapes hacker new's rss and convert it in to full-text version. I can then read all articles right in my Google Reader. And I also jump to the actual post on HN to read the comments if I find the topic interesting.
I suppose one would need access to the HN server, but it would be cool to see this sort of thing - http://forums.digitalpoint.com/usermap.php
That's a 'willys'.

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

Probably a post-war civilian version, but definitely not 'modern' by any standard.
Thanks for the link! Edited the title of our post. Here's what we think will set us apart:
1) We plan to build this on top of LBS APIs so you can get into the game with minimal effort and check-ins via your favorite service earn you points.
2) This will primarily be browser playable - we don't want to be yet another mobile app jostling for your attention when you're out there in the real world.
My fiance and I are purchasing our wedding rings from an Etsy jeweler. It's the largest online purchase I've made, and it's a testament to how well Etsy manages its reputation.

Also speaks to how irritating going into local jewelry shops was though.
I'm astonished at the number of folks who are sincere in their belief that politeness and respect make one immune from abuse at the border. The belief seems to be based on their own politeness and lack of hassles thus far.

I crossed the border more than a hundred times over ten years with no difficulties whatsoever. I grew up in a police family and am unswervingly polite and respectful. That did not protect me from 12 hours of interrogation in a white room and a deportment (reason still undetermined and undisclosed: a Freedom of Information Act request brought a document 75% redacted) when I happened upon the wrong, bored CBP official.

Just because you've affirmed the consequent a few dozen times doesn't mean politeness will help you.
The problem is, if lots of US citizens behave like him, we people from other nations will have a hard time (as if it's not already an unpleasant experience) entering US because officers will be pissed off and someone will pay for it.
Australia too. Though you have to have done an "Honours" degree which is an additional year with a research thesis that is roughly equivalent to a Masters by research. You can also have done a Masters though to get into a PhD if you didn't do Honours.
Be pragmatic and polite and don’t answer questions. If they ask you whether you know why they stopped you simply say “No, why?” (For the love of goodness, don’t admit that you were doing something wrong or even worse say you didn’t do anything wrong when you did.) If they ask you for ID provide them with one. It doesn’t seem that they would ask you any more questions, they can just hand you over the ticket. If they really do continue asking questions you can just politely say that you would rather not answer any more questions. That’s behavior very much consistent with the video.
Yes, thank you for the correction. The mentions of "founder" have been edited.
More recent Jeeps are much more complex- HOWEVER, they remain on of the simplest cars money can buy from what I've seen. In an era of huge plastic coverings in your engine bay and twenty thousand different gizmos, the engine bay of a 6-cyl Jeep Wrangler still looks to me like an engine from the 60's.

I have been considering getting a Jeep for much the same reasons. I figure a late 80's model.
The point of the pay is to illustrate how far removed the person the author is being a douche to is from the people who make the policies. People in low level jobs like that are generally just trying to get through the day.

If it is not a legal requirement that they detain entrants who do not answer questions entrants are not required to answer, then someone who does so anyway does not get to use the "just doing my job" defense.

Asserting that "The CBP goons want U.S. citizens to answer their questions as a ritualistic bow to their power" is douchebaggery in it's highest form

Except this is precisely what distinguishes them from CBP non-goons.
One of the things I miss about academia is the ability to do whatever the hell I wanted too outside of work. This allowed me take on some fairly lucrative consulting jobs during the course of my PhD. Although I haven't looked too hard, it seems to me that once you get into industry it is very difficult to work on anything on the side without having to worry about things like IP restrictions. I think in California it is illegal for companies to try and restrict you from doing extra work outside contract hours, but from what I gather it is hard to find companies anywhere else that will agree to such a thing (well at least here in the UK). Actually it is one of my pet theories that this law is a significant contributing factor to the number of companies started in Silicon Valley. I'd be interested in hearing about any experiences people have had in avoiding such restrictions on after hours work, especially in the UK.
Actually, I've not bought a new Apple laptop in years - but have bought several refurbs (~10% off). Never had one I had trouble with (or could tell was not 100% new).
Stanford CS PhD has few or no course requirements, or at least they did back in 2002.
Yes, when a recruiter is saying that. It's different when it is the CEO saying it.
Update: What happens when you refuse to answer passort control questions
Driving to work outside of Boston, listening to the Howard Stern program, then on WBCN. He reported on a small plane hitting the WTC, but mostly was doing his usual schtick. Then the second plane hit and he concluded that it was a terrorist attack. He was a better source of news in those first minutes than the local NPR station or anything else I could find on my car radio.

Once I got to work, we watched TV for the rest of the day. It was the strangest, most surreal work day I've ever experienced. There were lots of rumors going around, with great uncertainty over how many planes were taken over.
Ah, ok. I've had similar ideas as well. But a game more similar to http://tribalwars.net or http://lordofultima.com on a real map.

Good luck, let us know when you have something we can play.
Even if you want a position at an undergraduate college (which is by no means certain if even if you get a PhD), getting the PhD still requires doing research.

In fact just the other day HN linked an article by Matt Might who cited "aiming low" as one of the reasons PhD students fail.
So your starting position is that "medical experts", lacking trials, are de-facto correct. That's not logical in and of itself. There are countless examples throughout history of "medical experts" majority opinions being revised down to the level of barbaric - yet at the time they were considered by most people, similar to you, to be de-facto correct.
That's pretty amazing. Worked great for me!
You can do that, but nobody believes your nameserver is authoritative for questions about google.com, so it will only affect someone whom you can persuade to use yours as their default nameserver. Everyone else who asks the "com" top-level domain nameservers who is authoritative for google.com is going to be sent to GOOG's nameservers, not yours, so names you define will be invisible to them.
...Though some effort is more valuable than other effort. "Success or failure" is usually a false dichotomy.
A programmer's modifications for efficiently operating a Mac
It's funny how people are using the ".in" domain to complete english words. I always read them as "hacker bra in india", though.
>If you’re pursuing a liberal arts degree, you really don’t need a brand new computer just to write all the papers you’ll write.

Well, if you're an undergrad and your school is inflicting Blackboard or Desire2Learn software, you find the sluggishness on older machines to be agony. In my humble experience.

Related FWIW: when I, as instructor, am perusing student records or developing a course, I am grateful for a 27" iMac. Tiny screens add to the BB/D2L sluggishness. [/rant]
Completely pointless drill.
If you get a jeep made since 1995, it's definitely way more complex.

Did you mean 1945? If not, were Jeeps made before 1995 comparatively simple?
Perfection (in design) is achieved not when there is nothing more to add, but rather when there is nothing more to take away.

-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Do you really think they have a blind suspicion of everyone? The vast majority will go through with minimal questioning, and these types of questions try to tease out suspicious behavior. I don't think it's a "you are guilty by default" type situation.

How would you rather the border patrol act? Keep in mind there are various types of illicit behavior that are not desired within society--this is a fairly inevasive method all things considered.
Don't Talk to Police
I would settle for GMail to be usable again, let alone improved. As of right now, I can't send or reply to any email's from any account[1], I can't search within my emails, I can't view emails that aren't on the front page anymore or are archived, etc.

Its not a matter of it being slow; its a matter of clicking a button before lunch, and the page still not being loaded when I sit down again afterwards[1]. And it happens on three different accounts; one @gmail, one free Apps and one paid Apps.

1. Wired connection, its not timing out or anything like that.
How'd you measure metricality of text? http://github.com/darius/versecop was my own hack at that using the CMU pronouncing dictionary -- I'd like to come back to it sometime.
This is oversimplified. The whole demonstration plays like an advertisement.
If I was an officer and you gave me those answers (with the possible exception of the business or pleasure question), I'd be more annoyed than if you just said "no". Smart-ass is exactly the vibe I'm getting from them. I'm probably not like most police officers, though.
True, but someone who just wants to hurt someone is going to pick on whoever stands out.