skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As tommynazareth commented, the socialization in schools is mostly negative....

REALLY?

I beg and plead with anyone having kids to really examine this statement. The vast majority of interactions we have are social. Our social communication is literally key to survival. Of course much of the learning here that kids do could be percieved as negative "teasing, bullying" etc. but it's absolutely essential to becoming a fucntional adult... an adult that WILL BE HAPPILY EFFECTIVE in the tribe of humanity they live amongst.

Any parent not savvy about the incredible level of real life social networking literally essential to happiness is simply creating a huge hurdle for their offspring, not helping them test out of high school exams faster.

the road to hell is paved with good intentions hackers.
The policy encourages fathers to share their leave...

The way the policy was originally structured, every couple was forced to pay for a pool of 180 days of leave, to be split between both parents as they saw fit. Every day the father spent with the child is a day the mother didn't. Under this policy, women spent 15x more days with the child than the father did.

When people made choices the bureaucrats didn't like, they changed the policy - now the father is forced to pay for 60 days of leave which the mother is not allowed to use. Further, if the days are split unequally between parents, the couple is financially penalized relative to couples who split their days equally. Even with all these restrictions and penalties, less than 25% of parental leave is paternity leave.

But I'm sure Swedes are mostly bad parents and make poor decisions for their children. Luckily they make better decisions in the voting booth than they do at home.
What happens when the Adult Services posters just start posting in a different area of your site? Just because you turn it off doesn't mean they'll leave.
I kind-of agree with the idea of no damages -- where I assume you mean compensation to the aggrieved party -- and instead a fine (or other punishment) for illegal activity, collected and kept by the government.
One thing that makes the transition to the living-room difficult compared to iTunes/iPod, is that iTunes showed up at the beginning of digital music, so there wasn't a leader to deliver music to your home.

Whereas TV channels have been coming to your living-rooms for decades. You buy a TV once and the channels are here. For the most part, you still had to go out to buy CDs.

In other words, the Apple TV is trying to replace something, while iTunes was providing something new.
I can't tell if you're being sarcastic. But in this case, it's not some sort of picayune hair-splitting going on. The word "theft" has visceral, ancient connotations for most people. Those with a horse in the much more abstract copyright infringement race would very much like it if everyone would please ignore any and all subtleties and call it "theft".

Squatters also deprive landowners of the potential use of their property, may cause damage or other economic harm, but unless they're taking items from the land and not giving them back, we don't call that theft. We call it trespassing, maybe vandalism. If my neighbor opens a sewage plant in his backyard, it certainly would deprive me of potential sales or rentals of my property, but we still don't call it theft. In fact, we have to make up special zoning laws that restrict what people can do with their property to address just this case, because no preexisting concept works. (Sound familiar?)

These distinctions matter. If they didn't, we wouldn't be arguing about it, would we?
I've had F.lux installed on my main home PC for a couple of months and I really like it.
Nope, that comment was purely in the context of sorting. I doubt it would have much impact on literacy.
Imagine this scene from pre-history:

Woolly Mammoth: Raaarrghh!
Caveman: Hang on a second while I warm up
Woolly Mammoth: Om nom nom nom

Cooling down, that's another matter, but there are sound evolutionary reasons for humans to be able to go from a standing start to full power at the drop of a hat.
'Green' buildings hurting cell phone service @ CU-Boulder
Well... that actually removes one part of SO I like - sometimes I read a question that seems interesting in some way, even though it's not from my area of expertise. It makes it easier to find out new trends, sometimes discover some cool libraries / ideas I should look at, etc. I like the randomness of the frontpage. Or actually, I liked it before half of the page was grayed out.
PayPal creator recalls early days
The Minimalist’s Guide to Cultivating Passion
True, though I think another site with less-hoops-to-jump-through-to-post-adult-ads would become dominant with time.
Ask HN: Best Legal Entity to Create for a Single Founder Non Profit?
I have been working on a startup over the past 2 years now. After a lot of consideration, I have decided that the success of the startup is
more important than monetizing the startup. Because of this, I want to start some type of non-profit legal entity for my startup. I have done research on non profit organizations, and they require a board to be formed. I have a very distinct vision for this start up and don't want to give control away to other people. Also, I could not take a developer's salary if I were to start an NPO. I have no want of monetizing this startup. I have no plans of running advertisements on my website, as they would actually be detrimental to my vision for a startup. I don't plan on trying to get funding
from capitalists or angels because they usually want a stake in the company and I'm not after money. I do plan on taking donations.
I want to use the donations on hosting, and if the site takes off, a developer's salary for myself, so I can work on it full time. I plan on running this startup until my last breath, and there is not an amount of money it can be bought for.

What is the best type of legal entity to form for a person in my situation?

Is creating a successful startup without any goal for riches just a pipe dream?
Yes. Ok, we will.
Google recalculates most things that matter in close to real time these days. Toolbar PageRank is not something which matters. Updating toolbar PageRank on a once-in-several-months schedule is largely for historical reasons, does nothing for your website, and is kept around virtually entirely to placate people who know just enough about SEO to hurt themselves.
> Is it fair for software developers to make money by mass producing and distributing at almost zero cost?

Well, what about simple Econ 101? In a competitive market, prices tend towards the marginal cost of production. Wow! Someone just invented a technology that allows the duplication and distribution of recorded music to happen at almost zero cost!

Is it fair for the people whose livelihoods are changed by this new tech to lobby/pay for laws to maintain the price of their good at pre-new-tech levels? Is if fair for that new technology to be legally limited by highly unpopular, and un-democratically-created laws? Is it fair for me to be deprived of the use of that new technology for un-infringing uses?

And yes, I've taken advantage of the new technology to mass produce and distribute some of my own software are near zero-cost: http://www.stratigery.com/acl.html Have a copy, for free!
SandB0x, what you describe with your father, his encouraging you to follow your interests and providing materials and support as requested, is indeed what the most common sort of unschooling is like.

Now imagine that you are doing that rather than attending an institution, and also your father is not worried about you having to cover any particular subjects at all because he knows that eventually your natural interests will branch effortlessly into all needed fields of knowledge and skills.

And then imagine, that after 10 years of this you apply to the college of your choice, get in easily, and ace all your classes because you already know what it is to be a self directed learner. Or perhaps rather than go to college, you start your own business, or maybe you move to China to teach English. One thing you probably aren't interested in though is working for a corporation and being told what to do every day without questioning, which is what traditional schooling would have tried to indoctrinate you to accept.
This is a good argument (from the hacker-founder point of view) for open-sourcing all the non-`secret sauce' parts of the code from the beginning (i.e. from before you have any investors with the power to stop you from doing this).
Stealing an idea is metaphorical. And generally speaking, I'd say it refers to taking credit for the idea, not simply taking it and understanding it for yourself. Credit as originator is scarce. Instantiations are not.
I highly recommend grabbing "On Writing Well" by William Zinsser.

Beyond that, write as much as you can, and read your writing immediately or later. Is the point you're making as clear to the reader as it is to you? Are you using extra words that don't add to the content?

I find myself even revising my long e-mails, with the final result being more succinct and easier to understand.
The people at the very bottom actually have more time to spend with their kids. 80% of our poor (roughly our bottom 15%) are not in the labor force, for example.
Cool analysis here. I think it's a bit too superficial to serve as the last word, though.

If I were the sound engineer on this type of album, I definitely wouldn't worry about autotuning parts where only one vocalist is singing. With enough takes, professional singers can be pretty dead on.

More important are sections where you're trying to perfect harmonies, where tweaking a note that's a few cent sharp can make a big difference to the end effect. Unfortunately I don't have the skills to separate the vocal parts during harmony to check for this sort of thing.

edit: To my ears, that intro doesn't sound autotuned, although the reverb effect does feel artificial. http://www.amazon.com/Chick-Corea-Songbook-Manhattan-Transfe...
Designing a Better Subway Map
I didnt see the show, but I think I am making the point. There will be an influx of legal , non-cartel, growers that will drive down the price. Unlike tobacco and alcohol, the taxation opportunities are limited because you can grow your own. Even so we are probably in agreement, that there is a lot of tax money involved, just not enough to erase past financial sins.
I agree that the editing and production was typical of the CNN I know and hate. But the questions strike me as fair, and it's been a contentious issue long enough that anyone at the top of CL should be well-prepared to deal with them. As much as I hate CNN (and I do, with a passion), it's not their responsibility to coddle millionaires who charge money for sex ads, regardless of how likable, well-intentioned, or geeky they are.
Agreed. And the emotional payoff at the end is truly fantastic, especially for a non-fiction book.
Your Own Hot Spot, and Cheap
> Maybe I am missing something, but this should mean that the US can afford to do more. No?

It implies that spending a larger fraction of GDP on healthcare can be acceptable, but you suggested that spending a larger fraction of gdp on healthcare was a bad thing.

So, what do you have in mind by "do more"? (Of course, being able to afford to do more and actually doing more are very different.)

> >No, military spending doesn't account for the difference.

> I didn't say anything about military spending. Where is that coming from?

"military spending" is the typical reply when someone points out that the US govt spends as much per person as "high tax, high service" countries yet doesn't provide the same level of services.

Spending money may be necessary, but it isn't sufficient.
I think the point of the above comment is that companies are already on board with iOS. MLB already has an iPhone app that streams video. If an AirPlay API is added, MLB releases an update and BOOM! Your TV now has baseball diamonds* .

The great thing would be that you have video on-the-go all the time, and you now have the additional option of viewing it on a bigger screen at home. It'll be hard for content providers to say, we're providing the video to users on the iPhone but we don't want them to have the ability to see it on their TV.

*Memes not required for API compatibility.
Yes, I do think it is a bit rich for people who are using luxury goods without paying for them because they disagree with the terms they're being sold under to complain about the specific words the sellers use to refer to them.

Just be happy they haven't wised up and started calling pirates "content rapists"; rape is also pretty hard to quantify in dollar terms.
It comes down to money. Yes Facebook is gracious enough to allow third-parties access to its data via API, but when the third-party is as large as Apple it is going to want some money from them to cover the costs of serving up all that data.

In my opinion, Facebook has every right to ask Apple for some cash. Hopefully they can work something out and we can all move on abandoning our last.fm accounts :/
My experience with "What happens when PageRank rises/falls" does not mirror what you said and I've been doing this for 4-5 years at a "basic" level. When a PR change occurs on our site, we definitely see traffic shifts both in terms of the number of visitors and in the quality of traffic. No question. The most recent one I remember having a big impact on us was May, 2010. We had about 3 pages go from a 4 to a 0 (still don't know why) and almost immediately our traffic numbers + quality for those pages was #$&%.

Note that the change in traffic was right at/around the time of the PR change - not a month before, two months before, or even a week before.
I'm not really sure how Craigslist is supposed to stop these ads. I believe they require a credit card, which should only be available to people over 18.

As someone noted, you can't just look at the ad and determine age. And while prostitution is illegal, escorting is not, nor is a massage from a naked lady.

To me it would seem there are two main cases where Craig could report an incident:

1) An ad openly states that the person providing service is under 18.

2) The person in the ad is known to be under 18, e.g., previously arrested.

But short of that, it's not clear to me what Craig could do here. Although, if I were Craig, I'd probably remove the sections altogether. It frankly just doesn't seem to be worth the hassle. I can't believe they make much money from it, and it does cast a slightly dirty tint on the site.
Simple command line timer:

remind() {
[[ $# -ge 2 ]] || { echo >&2 "Usage: $FUNCNAME time msg"; return 1; }
local sec="$(($1*60))"
( trap "echo \"\$sec seconds left\"" QUIT
while ((--sec > 0)); do sleep 1; done
say "${@:2}" # OS X only, replace with your favorite notifier
) 2>/dev/null &
}

$ remind 30 get the laundry

Query time remaining with kill -QUIT %jobspec. Good for systems that don't have at(1).
Interesting idea, very fast load times which was a delighter. One thing to think about is the name. When I first heard talkMiner I had no idea what to expect and now that I know I'm not sure if I'm loving the Miner part.
Google it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_buying
Don't Track Me: Anti-Google Video Plays on Times Square
Even among those of us _with_ the technical acumen, piracy is just too much of a pain. $36/year for Pandora is far worth the dozens of hours I'd save, and I have accounts on a few private trackers.
Well, I work on other aspects of the business. Some things I know whether they work because I can see them in the serps. Others - like trying to increase PR - take longer.

SEO isn't my #1 priority right now so I'm not really focused too much on it ATM. Right now, I'm heavily getting content together. I've only done a few things here and there for SEO in the past 3-4 months.
I charge $100 because I really feel the effort is worth $50 to me and the client won't pay more than $100. Think of it this way: The lower bound is set by how much I feel the effort is worth after taxes. The upper bound is set by how much I think/know the client will pay. If half of the upper bound is less than my lower bound, I don't do it. This way I don't under-charge.

By over-charge, I meant to say that even though I feel my effort is truly worth $50 after taxes, I don't have to worry about charging $100, because I'm not really over-charging the client since half of $100 is going to taxes. Without taking 50% taxes into account (which is what a lot of people do), asking $100 for something I truly feel is worth only $50 feels like overcharging.

Over-charging new clients is never a personal issue because they can always say no and walk away. But over-charging existing clients can cause you to lose a steady stream of income, especially after you've invested time and effort to establish a relationship and understanding of their needs.
Bombs. Lots and lots of bombs. And, apparently, we love to use them. Prisons. We're good at those. Oh, and flags. We like to wave those a lot, too. Especially about the fact that we are "free" compared to those "socialist" menaces around the world. So, we pay an average of 40% in taxes, but does that pay for your higher education or your kid's higher education? Not likely. Does it pay for your health care? Probably not all of it (in some cases, none at all). Does it pay for daycare? Good retirement? So, when you factor that and a lot more into the equation, some countries don't have it so bad. The sad thing is, we could be doing SO well here if we just tweaked things a bit. Tweaking, apparently, is out of the question,
Ok, so I've got ~15K pages on my site now (it's a directory for mobile notary publics) - how long would you wait in between page-level tweaks?

(I notice that Google crawls about 500 pages per day... So, should I be waiting at least 30 days in between tweaks to let them crawl everything?)
The "outside the defense department budget" numbers are sketchy at best.

Interest on debt for past wars isn't something that can be cut.

"State Department financing of foreign arms sales" is diplomacy, not military spending. (It may be dumb diplomacy, but it's diplomacy.)
MSP is only in BC. The rest of the provinces just include it in their tax base and don't do the entire unnecessary exercise of an MSP bill.
Affero (the A stands for Affero - http://www.affero.com/) was the first business to use it and they even designed the license. This is not a "traditional business" but the company still exists.

Status.net (the company behind identi.ca) is relying on the AGPL and they got some funding.

FooCorp (who is behind the libre.fm project) is also using the AGPL.

The difference between the AGPL and GPL is somehow minor as this is just a standard GPL version 3 + the conveying modification for the network transport. It's funny how discussion about the AGPL is similar to the GPL misinformation propagated by Microsoft in the early 2000 :

http://www.foo.be/photo/ms-pres-lux/img_0223r.jpg

Software for an online service is just a small part of the overall business. So you still have competitive advantages with the infrastructure in place or your user base/community using your service.
Adornoism - first generation of Critical Theory
The author of this article makes some naïve assumptions about modern auto-tune systems, including but not limited to Antares Auto-Tune. His primary mistaken assumption is that an auto-tune system will snap a note perfectly into alignment with an ideal pitch. This is not true. A sophisticated automated system (like Antares Auto-Tune, in typical usage, not for the Cher effect) uses heuristics to find a more natural, imperfect pitch to use as an alignment.

And this is just for "fire and forget" auto-tune. If you work an auto-tune by hand – and most skilled engineers will do this, when it's called for – you can use your own judgment as a musician to figure out what to do. Antares Auto-Tune lets you do this by presenting a sort of X-Y plot of pitch over time which you can manipulate. Melodyne does something similar, with a little more sophistication (it actually pioneered this technique.)

Another one of his incorrect assumptions is that auto-tune still behaves like that patent from 1998. While some of the algorithms involved are the same, the systems of today [1] use lookahead on the audio source, so that the pitch correction isn't constantly playing 'catchup' (it takes at least a coupe of cycles of an oscillating wave to determine its pitch with reasonable accuracy.) So you would not see something start wrong and then deviate towards its ideal pitch – in fact, you might see it start too accurately.

The primary destruction auto-tune wreaks on vocal performances isn't just too-perfect pitch: it destroys the subtly and intonation that good performers can impart. A real vocalist doesn't hit the ideal pitch at the start of each note, because it's hard to make the human voice do that. They use the imperfection to their advantage. There's a lot of subtle complexity that auto-tune can just wipe out when you use it.

Of course, if the vocalist isn't that good, then there's not any real loss.

As for his article, even assuming the methods he used to analyze the songs were not based on a misconception, the resolution is too low. Perhaps surprisingly, the human ear is capable of distinguishing pitch much more finely than the graphs he plotted.

Edited addendum: here are a couple of screenshots of the actual Antares Auto-Tune software that will illustrate what I'm talking about.

Here is a picture of the Auto-Tune software set in fire-and-forget 'auto' mode. http://www.antarestech.com/images/ATEvo_Auto_mode.jpg

Notice the prominent 'Retune Speed' adjustment knob. This is how you used it in the late 90s and early 00s, or today when you want the robot or Cher effect.

Now here is a picture of Auto-Tune in use in Graphical mode, where you adjust the pitches directly. This is how most engineers today will use Auto-Tune when it's not for a deliberate, noticeable effect. http://www.antarestech.com/images/ATEvo_Graphic_full.jpg

Notice there is no retune speed adjustment knob. Instead, you edit the pitches directly in a graph.

[1] In a non-live-performance setting, anyway. It introduces latency, so if you used this live, it would add 'lag' to the performer's input. Bad.
It really depends on the extent to which it is "legalized".

The issue you mentioned regarding taxation applies to both tobacco and alcohol as well - you can grow your own tobacco and make your own alcohol. Many people who smoke marijuana may have no interest in growing their own - the same way many tobacco smokers don't grow their own. Although, the point could be made that marijuana is probably a much easier plant to grow.

Furthermore, legalization does not necessarily allow people to grow for the purpose of selling. For example, it is legal to make alcohol for personal consumption but illegal to sell it.
Google's Android logo boosted from Atari Lynx game
You steal an idea by passing it off as your own.
Debunking Myths of the Medical World
Journalism is journalism, it's part of democracy. You can't be upset with her for fiercely going after a story that seems plausible.

I don't think Craig/CL are profiteers, but I also don't think they should have that section. It's clearly being abused regardless any original intent.

Their defense that plenty of other sites and magazines/newspapers have the same content doesn't fly with me. Take the higher ground.