skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'll grant you pointer craziness and give array overflows a pass, but I ran into a MemoryError exception in Python just a few hours ago. I loves me some higher-level languages, but they still run on a machine with lower-level limitations.
>the mafia will be the ones who break your legs

So it won't be Muslims that are doing the burning and violent demonstration then?

Perhaps it's a stretch but this is clear - someone drew a picture suggesting that Islam may not be completely peaceful and the resulting self-enragement led to Muslims causing many deaths and much violent destruction around the world.

IMO it was simply a decision to be offended in order to excuse violent demonstration and terrorise none Muslims into submission, and it seems to have worked well.

http://zombietime.com/mohammed_image_archive/islamic_mo_full... some Islamic depictions of Mohammed
http://www.dinocrat.com/archives/2006/02/04/shall-we-now-bur...
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Good questions, but I would go a step further: a lot of clients do not have a good feel for what a web site might really do for them. An important part of the engagement is to act as a facilitator to help the client identify what their needs really are.
Then the definition of open is pretty open-ended. It means Google has to cater to you? They gave you the platform to do with it what you want. That's a right to do what you want with the OS but not an entitlement to their services.

Or maybe I'm missing the point here?
The difference between good and great is usually pretty obvious to former colleagues who are now at a new company that's hiring.
Are you sure about that? Do you know the tax laws of every single country in the world? Or even your own? Assuming the site is owned by a resident of the US, is it legal for a Cuban to use the site to do business with a US company?

It's not that it's impossible or insurmountable, just that it requires effort that a start up may not be willing or able to put in at release.

Exporting isn't as easy as selling in your native country. People are able to do it because someone went through the effort of studying the laws of the country being exported to and determined that it would be profitable to export to that country.
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Sometimes clients are expecting you to answer these questions for them because they don't know. I suppose what's what's more important is to define your role as a website-maker?
> I actually think that personal computing is were it is today because Microsoft/IBM commoditized hardware, with all personal computers running the same OS.

That’s a vacuously true statement.

The question is whether “where it is today” is better (possibly cheaper) or worse (less innovative) for Microsoft’s/Intel’s bullying. Any answer to that is of course completely speculative. Personally I find the speculation behind the “worse” answer most compelling.

Having a super cheap/free software platform ultimately discourages innovation in software platforms (why spend a ton of resources competing with something free and “good enough”), and so I hope that projects like Palm’s, Apple’s, Microsoft’s, etc. continue for a good long time, if only to keep the pressure on Google, a company well known for abandoning projects.
there's no evidence to suggest that this applies to non-linguistic things

That seemed odd to me just going off (less than scientific) bits and pieces I've read over the years, especially relating to retail design where a popular adage is that "people tend to walk to the right upon entering a store" (so that's where you put the more expensive goodies).

But a cliché isn't evidence. So I thought I'd look for stronger citations. And man, it's tough. I haven't found anything on the retail thing yet but there seems to be evidence of preferences for one direction over another in studies. For example: http://bps-research-digest.blogspot.com/2006/12/satisfaction...

Reading direction appears to have an influence on the ease with which items are detected in different hemispheres: http://pss.sagepub.com/content/16/1/15.abstract (and sort of related: http://pss.sagepub.com/content/18/6/487.abstract)
Why?

Say I own a shopping mall. I decide that I don't want a porn store operating there, so I refuse to rent to them. They go open up shop somewhere else. Everyone is satisfied (although the porn store owners might wish they had a slightly more visible location).

That's the Android world now. In the iOS world now, if Steve doesn't want porn in his mall, they get cut off at the knees because no third-party distribution is allowed. Period.

At the risk of repeating myself:

Google allows third-party app distributors. Google allows third parties to freely use their OS under generous licensing terms, and allows them to use the Android branding and Google app store if they play by Google's rules.

Apple does not allow third-party application distribution or hardware. Period.

Google does a lot of things with Android that upset me (giving their preferred partners early access to new revisions, for starters) but I'm completely cool with what they're doing here.

Sorry for the rant. :-)
In dummy terms, it's a checklist for your programs.
I absolutely agree, for the average citizen of a first world nation who isn't at any particular special risk. However, when you face a credible death threat for your (principled, honorable) actions, you have the choice of backing down, running, or standing your ground. If you're going to stand your ground, it is prudent to be armed.

During the Civil Rights movement in the south, Rabbi William B. Silverman stood up for the rights of blacks. Some racists threatened him and his children. Instead of backing down or running away, he got a .38spl revolver (and became a deputy sheriff), and drove his kids to school every day vs. having them ride the bus; no one touched him.

From a practical perspective, is it a bigger sacrifice to change your name, give up your job, and go into hiding, or to spend a few thousand dollars becoming credibly able to defend yourself with a firearm?
They serve a couple of purposes.

1. That the code you have written or are using behaves in a way you expect, for the inputs you expect.

2. As the code changes over time, a regression test suite helps ensure that assumptions from an earlier point in time still hold true.
In another thread, someone from Pivotal said that they didn't really advise them more than just a few conversations during breakfast. They were just working out of their office.
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So an offended Muslim could also get a "gen 3 glock 19 and holster" too. Why does that make you feel safer?
I thought it was really neat!

First thoughts:
Would be helpful to have shadowed "username / password" in the first fields. I wasn't sure if those were for registering, or for logging in, or what. So that would be helpful.

Second thoughts:
Love the simplicity, wish I could do more. Maybe that's not what you're going for - in which case, awesome! - but I'd love a way to go beyond the simple functions and have a simple but subtly powerful ability to do more. Fine though, can move on from there.

Third Notes:
Your feedback logo is missing from the first page, just has the link. Intentional? Also, when I want to delete something, I would want something better than a "pop up" asking me if I wanted to delete it - a bit obtrusive. Better to have a fade out or something clever.

Final thoughts:
Does something very very simple very well, I just wish it were less simple for my own needs. I also wish there were some quickly user-configurable style sheets to change the colors, since the shades of grey kind of mask the tasks etc and don't quite pop out in a way that makes it skimmable.

But I really like it and it seems to definitely meet the need you wanted to address!
The Register is simply silly journalism for the tech set: tailoring shocking headlines and 'begging the question' far more often than they actually do research.
And if you are serious about relicensing your code under a commercial license in the future, there are legal reasons to do this. The gnu project is pretty trustworthy, but how much do you trust diaspora?
Searching for "cell phone public" brought me to this:

http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/business/a/cell_directory.h...

Cell phone numbers have been going public this month for the last 6 years. =(
A good, recent article about contributor vs. participant agreements. (Also a good primer on the subject)

http://opensource.com/law/10/9/copyright-aggregation
Given that the purpose of unions is to weaken companies' bargaining position by preventing them from "divide-and-conquering" the workers, I would guess...almost none? And it would be perfectly ideologically consistent?
I think those are more reasonable precautions than changing your name and going into hiding.

However, owning and carrying a firearm is a great defence against muggers and burglars, but a lousy defence against assassins. The thing about gunfights is that the guy who shoots first has a huge advantage.
If there's going to be an unfair bias between labor and capital I'll side with labor everytime. Besides, labor has been on the losing side for a decade now, http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2008/04/09/business/200804...
And if you wear a short skirt you shouldn't be surprised if you get raped? I mean, seriously, we've been down this road before. It's not a pretty place.
There are lots of subtle things they have already achieved that you might not know about because they are not covered extensively in the press because if they were...

For instance, Random House recently bowed to pressure and did not publish a novel about Mohammed's 9 year old wife.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=9350312...
You make your own practicality here.

Somewhere in backroads of the computer world, there's this thing called the Internet where I've heard you can find just about anything if search hard enough. Someone might be searching for what you have to offer even as we speak...
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Sorry, I didn't write very clearly in my post. What I meant to imply (and did poorly) is that many people, no matter what, would not be comfortable with the notion of picking up a gun in the name of self defense.

You sound like you would, I know I would, but there holds a large body of people for whom that is just not an option they would pursue. Those with a doctrine of non-violence, turning the other cheek, etc., are the people I have in mind.
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For a long time I've wished there was a simple guide to online security for people who really needed one, but really didn't care. This is my attempt. I'm posting it here to see if anyone has any feedback or recommendations they'd like to see included, and just to share it if you feel the need.

http://mackrory.posterous.com/5-things-every-computer-user-needs-to-know
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Designer to make logo?
can anyone recommend a good designer to make a logo? I'm thinking a cartoon animal... also, any ideas about what to expect to pay?
Nice. Now go to http://www.culturedcode.com, get a demo of "Things" and piggy back their award-winning design layout and make a web-based version of it. A good start is to one-up them and make sub-tasks within tasks or task notes, something they refuse to do for some reason.

But good.
Every WORKING moment. Not every moment.

Big and very important difference. Hell, I'm a founder and if all I spent my time on was my startup I"d go insane, stop having good ideas and so on. It would ruin everything.
Why do people read it? Probably because most people search for approval, maybe?

Reading the Apple FUD is important, give you an idea of what might be appearing more aggressively a months down the line...
Offended but law-abiding armed Muslims are fine. (and I think some of the EDMD cartoons were offensive, and if I were a Muslim, more of them would be offensive to me).

Non-law-abiding potential-assassins aren't going to have difficulty becoming non-law-abiding armed potential-assassins. Armed but historically fairly incompetent assassin vs. somewhat trained, alert, armed target has a lot better odds for her than vs. an unaware target. She would get more value out of training than the weapon itself, in that it would allow her to spot threats, but there are definitely situations where then being armed would be the best response to a threat (particularly in the hope).
Neat app. Good work.

Things I would change:

(1) The top navigation at the first sight looked like some problem with your markup -
<home
You may want to change it to something prettier.

(2) There should be some way to directly navigate to other lists from the the list detail page.

(3) The design looks good, but I would play around with the colours a bit more. (Too gray-ish now)

edit: (4) Ability for adding sub-tasks is important.
Friends have had good luck with http://99designs.com. You pick the investment you want to make up front, and pick the best design. You also get to give feedback during the design process.
If you have an application that has a lifespan of years, developers will come and go. The unit tests provide some provability that is abstracted from the developers.

A developer leaves, they've left behind tests that demonstrate that the code fulfills the requirements and perhaps shows how the code interacts with other areas of code.

A developer arrives, they can see the requirements and how an area of the codebase works by examining unit tests.

Of course, this presumes well-written tests that are actually thorough.

Unit tests also give you a measure of confidence that allows a freer hand when refactoring code. You can change code all you want and if the unit tests still pass, you haven't broken things (again - if the tests do cover all the expectations).

Some level of sanity is required around test-first, test once the code is written, how many tests you need, what level of depth, etc. A one-off app to fulfill a quick-and-dirty need doesn't need as much testing as a core platform that will be running business critical code for years.
Genuinely newsworthy? Yes.

Worth thinking about? Absolutely.

Toxic to Hacker News? Unfortunately.

Count the unproductive conversations we're bound to have here. Flag burning? The actions of moderate muslims in response to crazy people? Comparisons between Islam and the mafia? Gun rights? Al Gore? ASCII art of Mohammed? Short skirts and rape?

It's almost, when you look at it, as if there's some sort of Bayesian classification you could use to detect toxic articles without even having to know that the actual article was about politics or religion (or in this case politics and religion simultaneously).

In the meantime, I flagged this, and you should too.
good point. I didn't see that.
Indeed. And while ultimately the novel doesn't matter (well, except maybe to the person who spent ages writing it) what does matter is that every time this happens they're learning one very important lesson: violence works.
RE: First thoughts

I agree. Or if you populate username/password and click signup. The details you've entered are already there.
In the absence of market research, here are my immediate thoughts on ways to make this work:

Try to find some of the Tooheys New tv ads (Australia) - they're currently promoting themselves as "the official currency of the beer economy", which is basically what you're talking about - beer as thanks.

Payment system will need to be easy - even things like selecting a beer and writing a note might make it too hard, so offer 'random' selections of premium / boutique / foreign beers and random selection from a page of sample thank you notes (these would be short, funny, grateful, and blokey - the sort of page I might share as a link even if I don't use your service).

I think thanksbeer, thankbrew etc are all good. Something incorporating 'Cheers' could be nifty, as Cheers means both 'thank you' and 'bottoms up'. Cheersbeers.com?

I wonder what restrictions / limitations you encounter selling alcohol over the internet?

Definitely not part of the MVP, but being able to login and create my 'wish list' would be awesome. Then when a mate says 'I'll get you some beers' I could say 'Go to Thanksbeer, look me up and it will give you some ideas'.

Having 'different' beers is probably critical. I assume it would be cheaper for me to buy a friend some beers locally rather than use your service for the same brand, but I'll gladly pay a premium for a beer I've never heard of or tried before.

And final thing which is relevant to all business planning - how much gross margin can you realistically make? (Say, a couple of bucks per beer? $10 per carton?) How much do you want to make from this (Say, $5000 per month)? And then is it realistic, and if so how do you, go about building this so you can sell 500 cartons a month?
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