skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was at home here in Italy, around 3pm or something like that.
I was making websites back then and I used to work from home a couple of days a week, with my boss constantly on the phone.

After some talking he went like 'Have you seen that plane in NY? With all the possible places, the pilot manged to crash it into the tallest tower. It's on TV now, they even interrupted the programs'

So I switched on the TV to check it out, and then we quickly recovered our discussion and kept talking for another few minutes.

Then, all of a sudden, he went '..shit' in the middle of a sentence, and then silence for the next 10-20 seconds. The second plane had crashed into the other tower, with the whole fireball on live TV. I was watching it too. All I heard then was 'I call you later' and he hung up.

That night I was really expecting serious troubles.
Sounds like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KISS_principle
Reminds me of the ifixit team on Apple product release day.
The only creepy bit I find about that is that "young, clean-looking, and attractive" was included in the logic they used to look up her dress.

If I were writing the report I would have left the bit where "We decided to look up her dress because she was young and atractive".

Personally I'm guessing that your demeanour upon aproaching the customs desk tells a customs officer a lot (which is why they ask you some harmless questions about what you were doing while overseas). If I had a million bucks' worth of cocaine stuffed up my dress I'd probably be nervous enough to give them the idea that something was up, if they're cleverly trained to notice the signs of nervousness among people who are trying to hide them.
I knew that answer! but there is something else for we, the mortals:

- Try, and try, and try, and try... producing goals in the world championship cup is not easy... but keep trying. Also, a minor league can be enough for you or for me.

- If you want an epistemologic suggestion, think in bounded rationality and context bound realities, balancing (don't know how!) rules of thumb, thinking and ignorance is good.

- Maximize information (customer feedback, clicks, A/B tests) and talk with different kind of people, don't believe in the wisdom of crowds.
If they're annoyed enough, they can find something you did do, and charge you for it. Depending on how visibly you live your life, this might be easy or difficult, but ultimately they can just "remember" something you said that you didn't say, and then you could go to jail. All this is chancy, since the jury, should it come to that, may be sympathetic to you, but if you're habitually confrontational, that might be less likely. Basically, the Martha Stewart conviction destroyed what remained of my faith in the "justice" system. Here was a woman who, in theory, had the deck stacked her way... money, fame, etc. What was she convicted of? Lying to a federal officer, not under oath, about not committing a crime that they couldn't convict her of in the first place. The conclusive evidence basically boiled down to one or more officers' word that she denied wrongdoing.

Let me recap: if some police are determined to put you in jail, you can go to jail for lying to an officer, when you assert that you didn't commit a crime. They do not have to prove that you did commit the crime. Just saying you didn't do it is presumptively a lie, and a federal crime. If you give them reason to be mad at you, you're gambling with your freedom, no matter what you have or haven't done.

Note that not talking to the police is not sufficient to save you from prosecution, since the vast majority could be considered guilty of misprision of felony -- http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/18/usc_sec_18_00000004----... -- which is itself a federal felony, so if someone tells you they saw a felony committed (possession, say) and you know they didn't report it, now you're committing a felony unless you report them.
UK also here - I don't think I've ever used the word "sir" outside of a humorous context.
"Not every X is Y" is almost never a relevant or meaningful argument. It certainly doesn't answer "Position X promotes Y-like behavior, and so many "decent, average people" in position X will be Ys."
It's an American thing -- I've found it's very common in the US to address random strangers as "sir", and it's used among people on the same social level.

In other English-speaking countries I've been to, "sir" is a genuine sign of subservience.
I agree. This guy is trying to apply an abstract principal to something that in reality doesn't really make any sense.

However, I don't think they have a blanket suspicion of everyone.

It's pretty clear to me that people like the border patrol, or anyone else who has a similar job of trying to find that needle in the haystack, the one person they should rightfully be suspicious of, is looking for certain telltale signs: dark skin, non-affluent dress and/or nervous behavior.
You have all sorts of rights. The main one you don't have is the right to get into the country, and that's the only one which really matters.

So definitely do not try this trick if you're a foreigner attempting to enter the US.
1) once a day, for five minutes
2) http://news.ycombinator.com/news opening articles/topics in tabs, things which I find interesting I look at the comments and possibly comment myself.
Ruggedness depends on what you're asking the car to withstand. I'm hoping mine will withstand 150k-200k miles without unplanned maintenance :-) But right now I'm in the embarrassing position of trying to borrow a car from my mother to drive to a trailhead my Prius can't get to, so I appreciate your point.
I don't mean to cherrypick, but Reddit's database situation is highly abnormal and not desirable. They hacked up a spitshined Postgres-driven KV Store that is little more than cpickle->textarea plus an index.

Their database infrastructure is a major source of their pains and why they have to be creative with the caching side.

It doesn't help that the content is low latency and write heavy, more so than Facebook streams would be, I imagine since people aren't screaming into the void, but actually carrying on a conversation.

It's a damn good thing Reddit has a proper queue setup.
Then just thumbs up the other comment ;)
These tools are pretty intensive, but they're not getting THAT much traffic. After being on Mashable and TechCrunch, while it's getting a LOT of activity (so much so that my CDN is stressing out), it's probably a VERY small number of Google's total requests.

I will look into Flickr :) Thanks for the suggestion!
So you think it'd be exactly the same as bundling the VM and code for a .app bundle?
while it offers no true insight on CPU vs GPU, let's be real, that gun was feakin awesome.

I'm impressed by the fact that someone actually took the time to build that thing.
>>“Why were you in China?” asked the passport control officer, a woman with the appearance and disposition of a prison matron.

>>“None of your business,” I said.

That's not being polite. Being polite would be to say "Just visiting for fun".

It sounds like he didn't want to get through passport control.

Much of life is about jumping through silly arbitrary hoops to get what you want. In the case of getting through customs+immigration, you just keep quiet, don't cause a fuss, and tell them what they'd like to hear.
Apparently they used an etch resistant pen in the reprap to draw the design directly on to single surface copper plated board, and the reprap will drill the board as well.

The little boards in between the sandwich boards are 'pololu' stepper drivers.

http://www.pololu.com/catalog/category/11
I don't know about the Prius specifically but I feel like people underestimate modern economy cars. I've taken my 96 Saturn and my friend's 00 Sentra through some improbably bad terrain, and the combination of light weight and front wheel drive means that you can generally slide across a lot of crap that would technically high center such low vehicles, if you have some momentum.

Despite common perception cars are not designed to fall apart.
Looking for a CTO co-founder for a new music startup.
¿What's up hackers?,

My name is Vincent and I'm looking for a tech co-founder for a new music startup. I've got domain expertise on the music side and the part of the space I want to dive in on is almost untouched (huge growth opportunity).

Future partner should know (or have insanely strong desire to learn):

•	Ruby on Rails
•	Html/css
•	Javascript
•	Objective C
•	Jquerymobile
•	Web 2.0/AWS/Cloud experience
•	API/mash up integrating financial services.

=-=-=-=-=

1. Looking to submit this business idea to next round of Y combinator/TechStars... so I really need help building the framework to pitch it.

2. I have already done lots of research, have business plan, and have tons of graphics for what I want site to look like.

3. If you're down.. I'm a super friendly musician/music biz guy who knows the space intimately. Working with me or getting people to use product won't be the hard part. Plus, the lifestyle will be awesome!! Festivals, concerts, conferences... all if you want that, but cool if you don't.

4. It really kick ass if you lived in Los Angeles so we could work faster and more efficiently, but I've read 'ReWork' from 37signals... I'm not trying to sweat too many meetings or the small stuff. I understand stuff can be done remotely.

5. Perfect for a young cat just out of school... but if you love the music space and are a skilled, "wise," and comfortable house cat (with a job), moonlighting is cool too.

=-=-=-=-=

Bottom line... I'm a good guy and this is a good idea that will make artists happy. Let's get together and live a cool life amongst creative people.

peace,

C. Vincent Plummer
Email = c.vincent.plummer@gmail.com
Twitter = @vintageredmusic
Am I supposed to reply to that? I chose hackerbra.in over hackerbrain.com (which I've also got) because after a while, you learn to ignore the dot. :)

Here's the logo: http://hackerbra.in/upcom4.png
-- no bra, no India (If India was concerned, they would've placed proof of business entity requirement, like with .com.au. And, big props to India for that wise decision.)
It's been a while since I played poker, but surely to do this you'd have to shuffle an out-of-order deck into the correct order while in public view? That sounds like enough to make it "incredibly hard to cheat".
In Islamabad. Got back to the hotel to flick on CNN, just moments after the second plane had hit. Al Qaeda were already being suggested as the perpetrators. Was flying back to London on BA the next morning (was evening-time in Pakistan) and had to get up at 4am. Popped out to the bazaar to buy an alarm clock - there was quite an eerie atmosphere in the city. The next morning at the airport everyone was glued to TVs watching footage of the planes hit in a repeating loop. By this point Afghanistan and Pakistan were also in the frame. There was a flight to Kabul so a lot of afghans about too - everyone seemed genuinely appalled/shocked.

That flight was the last out before BA cancelled all flights for like 2 months out of Pakistan. Was a bit nerve-wracking.
Gaming Foursquare with Perl: http://compbio.cs.uic.edu/~mayank/4sq.html
Shotlink system has recorded 7 million golf shots since 2003
I was just entering the newsroom of the paper where I was a photojournalist. I walked in and saw the first building burning on one of the TV's mounted around the room, the second plane had not yet hit. At that point it still seemed like a horrible, one-off accident. Then the second plane flew in and it got very quiet in the normally loud room. A brief moment of shocked silence and then the newsroom erupted as reporters and editors started reacting.

I started with some local reaction coverage and by that evening was in a car on my way to New York City. Drove all night taking turns with our reporter and was within site of the smoking southern end of Manhattan by dawn. It was horrible to see the thousands of family members wandering around like zombies, many carrying pictures, still hoping for a miracle.

One side note from that day, my then 3 year old son asked my wife who was watching the news coverage, "Mom, why do you keep watching that show? You've already seen it."
Reverse Craigslist - Allow a user to enter an anonymous Craigslist email address (that they had previously replied to) and their city, and then return the post that contained the email.

The reason being: When looking for something on Craigslist, I often send similar emails to several potential sellers. But then, when they reply, I have no way of knowing which posting was theirs (and the link to it). (Of course, you could contain the link to the posting you're referring to in each email, but that's a hassle that I'm sure most forget to do.)
That's because it is one. Of a sort, at least. It was a product/platform conference presentation, and what you were seeing was the C-level summary keynote (and an adrenaline generator for the devs attending the conference).
Thanks for the rules. Despite your claimed attachment to one provider, can you please recommend some specific providers?
We can't make lightbulbs in the U.S. Just stop and take a moment to think about that fact. Apparently there is no way to make a cost effective lightbulb in the United States of America. We need hundreds of millions of bulbs to keep the lights on. The new green bulbs cost something like 5$ each.

And we are supposed to be a super power? Don't get me wrong, I love this place and still think we are the best country in the world and best all around place to live but I really don't know how much longer I can say that. I've gone on about our long slow deterioration into the abyss and here is yet more proof. It's a crying shame.

Before some db posts a "Why does this belong on HN" comment, let me say that manufacturing, operations and logistics are all ripe for hacking innovation. Reading on in the article you will see the phrase: "With new automation techniques". The fact that there is dwindling manufacturing in America means there are no new automation techniques being learnt. That knowledge is reserved for foreigners who we pay for the pleasure.
I am really excited about RepRap. I hope I'll be able to play with one next week, therthere are a few up here in Sweden!
Interesting, today I just read that the court's Conservatives are the most likely to side with the defendants, on average:

http://reason.com/blog/2010/09/10/when-criminal-defendants-f...
RepRap is making good progress, but this is (yet another) pretty misleading headline. It looks like the RepRap performed 5-10% of the manufacturing steps.
By the way wouldn't be a good idea if our HN profile would have a location field?
A friend of mine, who I will not name, used to get pulled over a lot, for a variety of reasons (often deserved).

This happened often enough, and his lawyer always advised him to not say a word, but especially when he'd been drinking, the act of getting him to talk long enough to say that he was invoking his right to silence would usually reveal that he'd been drinking.

To mitigate it, he printed a laminate card, that he kept in his wallet, which very respectfully and politely invoked his right to silence. When pulled over, he would simply remove the card from his wallet and hand it to the officer.

I don't know that it ever got him into or out of any trouble, but at least he had a routine, and it prevented him from talking unnecessarily.

Perhaps the author could have made use of something like this?
Ask HN: Why is iTunes difficult?
I dont get everything about iTunes and syncing my iPad.

I have Movies, Podcasts and misc footage that I have downloaded. I sync content to my iPad.

An Example: I have about 30 TED talks (hey show up under the PosCasts section) that I have on my iPad and when syncing them, they dont all sync to a single TED Talks item and when I click TED Talks it shows all the ones I have...

However my Apple Keynotes and events do sync under a single item and when I click it I see a list of the ones that I have.

It is sort of counter productive in my opinion. I use my iPad for a log of items. It has become me new device to carry around, have access to all of my stuff. I don't longer lug my laptop anymore. However I miss some organizational features.

How can I make iTunes allow me to group things my way?
TweetDeck for Android Beta 8 Now Available Enjoy
is it just me or is there no sound?
Interesting link. Didn't read the whole thing, but the first few paragraphs seem to suggest the opposite of what you're saying: flashbulb memories are valid (i.e. not made up, although not necessarily complete) and are remembered so well as a result of the event triggering surprise or emotional arousal.
Yep, he's still a douchebag.

"CBP officers are not your friends. CBP officers treat returning U.S. citizens as potential criminal defendants. You should likewise treat them as if they were corrupt cops on a power trip, targeting you to goose their arrest statistics. The best way to protect yourself against their depredations is to refuse to speak to them or to answer their questions."

I wonder what he would say if he ran into an equally pedantic border security dude who pointed out that yes he can arbitrarily choose to exercise his rights to remain silent if he feels like it, but border security can also arbitrarily choose to exercise all its rights, including eight hours' detention, thorough searches of his baggage (including confiscation of some items until their legality can be determined) and of course the old body cavity search.

In theory, this guy should support them doing that too. After all, if you're legally entitled to do something then nobody else has the right to complain if you choose to exercise that right, right?
He was being a dick for the sake of it.

You don't answer an officials first question with "None of your business" unless you're being a dick, trying to get in trouble, or trying to pick a fight with them.

Just tell them what they want to hear in wooly non-descriptive language.

She only asked "Why were you in China" for god sake. Just answer "I like China".

These moral crusader 'principle of the thing' types irritate the hell out of me.
I've long wanted someone to build and sell a dead-simple car like this today. With modern emissions and safety standards, it might well not be possible.
I dont know, I hope you're not advocating allowing parents to beat their kids with machetes like the first news story there. Logicalmind was talking about letting his kids roam free outdoors, that would be an outrage if government stepped in for that. I've been outraged by the nightmare child removal stories just like everyone else, but those stories don't appear very often, I've maybe heard of ten or so ever. It seems to me if it was happening everyday the outrage would be constant and people would be up in arms.
the best repeated advice I've seen so far is "build something that entices one or more cardinal sins". If your game/tool/app tickles jealousness, pride, gluttony, greed or any other major sin, you're in for a good start

4sq/gowalla work on vanity (people like doing things/going places to impress/make their friends envy) as well as gluttony (the 'badges' concept - eat all you can eat), and to a point, even sloth ('whatever, I'm _here_ and too lazy to call every one of my friends individually')
Call the ACLU and sue. At the very least, you'll waste some of the ACLU's time and money. (ducks)
Added the embed part. Thanks for your feedback! :)
Request: make an ode to Inception movie using it!
Due to the way the body processes fructose and glucose, fructose leads more directly to being 'fat', as it's stored as adipose tissue more readily/rapidly than glucose.
Fructose, in HFCS and other solutions, is becoming extremely common in food where it did not used to be - this is leading to the huge increase in metabolic syndrome/etc.
tl;dr: sugar makes you fat, but different sugars do it at different rates.
I think that it's called "cold deck" because the trick is to replace the playing deck with another one, that was perviously "prepared" into some specific permutation.
I'd file this under things which are unwise to do because they create more trouble for yourself than otherwise, with no real upside, only downside.
http://www.apple.com/support/contact/
ha, yeah are you going to wish me luck?
Hi Vincent,

So you have an idea, are a cool guy, and have some domain knowledge. You'll have to pitch yourself a bit more before you list your demands in a partner.

As a technical person, the first thought I had was "so you expect me to do all the work and you tell me what to do???"

Beyond the idea, what else do you have to offer? Business connections? Funding? Passion? Why is this market untapped?(novel businesses die quickly). What is the idea(ideas are cheap, execution is everything)?

Serious questions. And if you have good answers you'll probably have better luck finding a cto partner.
I wrote a Windows application which reads in all your email files and creates an SQL database/index, along with a Lucene index for searching the email body.

You can do an SQL wildcard search like SELECT * from mymail where SUBJECT like "%Gmail%", and the results are more-or-less instant.

I use it all the time for my own purposes, but nobody wants to beta test it.
Roald Dahl—the Storyteller As Benevolent Sadist
> inalienable right to re-entry as a citizen

Yes, for which he cites a trial court in Puerto Rico. Very convincing...

I'm not saying he's wrong, but isn't there binding authority on this point? Instead of just something that's only relevant *inside Puerto Rico"?
On the Insanity of Computer (in)-Security
I've heard it said that you can't fully understand how a thing works until you are capable of completely taking it apart and then reassembling it back together again in it's original working condition.
>About 5-8% of our payments ended up rejected by Amazon

I'd be interested to know what the Amazon response was to this support request.

Surely, if Amazon Payments can't process it then Amazon stores can't be purchase from with these cards either and some not insignificant value of purchases are failing at Amazon's card verification stage?

Their revenue is according to WolframAlpha approaching $30Billion .. 1% of 5% of $30B is $15M USD.
PayPal doesn't keep money it freezes for risk checks. If they determine fraud, then the money is returned to the sender (usually by force, as the reason it was held was due to a chargeback or bank reversal). If there was no fraud, then it's paid out after a 6 month hold.
Anyways...
While on the face of it this sounds outrageous, it is probably a symptom of PayPal's anti-fraud measures.
Agreed. He's an idiot.
This article is prominently linked from the article posted here:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1681721

This is therefore basically a dupe. Flagged.
One would think that one would be seeing more and more them!

Full self-reproduction seems to be getting closer and closer.

The next step after self-reproduction is self-improvement: make smaller, stronger and faster self-reproducing machines. The possibilities, uh, seem to multiply here.

And RepRap is just open source 3D printer. MakerBot is another.

Yes, it all sounds pretty exciting.
Because "we" have interests as a society that do not necessarily intersect "his" interests.
> Could you do one for Flickr creative commons?

Here you go: http://bigfishsonar.com. It searches: Flickr, Twitter, YouTube and Google News/Images/Blogs.

I built v1 and another guy polished it up.

EDIT: I just realized it's not "instant" in the sense others are using the word. Guess I should've removed the search button and sent the ajax requests after every keystroke. Ah well, it's still pretty good.
I think the "Google, follow link, read, follow link, read, Google, ask friends, email knowledgable-sounding strangers, ask on forums, etc." approach works pretty well. I like simple approaches that are effective and work in a variety of situations.