skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From the about page:

The Global Community is a content driven social networking site that has the functionalities of most common social networks. It is a place to share with others using pictures, music, and video. It is a place to chat, a place to find a date, a place to sell your goods or sevices, a place to host your photos. a place to buy and sell music, a place for blogging and more. It is not only a social network. It is a place for business. We have made it easy for any size business to benefit from using our site. Businesses can advertise their goods and services, sell goods or services, sell music, post jobs, search resumes, and even schedule events. Businesses can benefit tremendously by using our site by building their brand name right here. We have many things coming down the pipeline that are designed to help your business succeed. We encourage all businesses to be a part of the Gloabal Community. The Global Community is a site to help you connect with others and helps you do the things you normally do while online. Wherever you are in the world, use The Global Community Website to connect with millions, make new friends, search for employment, sell or buy goods, and keep in touch with others. The Global Community is open to everyone 18 years of age or older. The Global Community is your online social network! More than a social networking site. The Global Community is a place for business. We hope you will share in this journey with us. Your World...One Place...Global Community

Of course if Global Community turns into the next Google+Facebook+Amazon, we'll all look like fools...

But, I'm not holding my breath.
Actually, he has come up with an ingenious way of avoiding scope creep...start off intending to do everything!
There's a little Easter egg where goo.gl/e will go to Google. :)
Thanks Matt :)
The name is bad. When I first saw the headline here on hn, my first thought was "portable apps" followed by "live linux cd's."
Facebook Upgrades Photos: Look Out, Flickr
Google releases URL shortener and introduces new image format
I've seen similar mentions about problems elsewhere. I think it is mostly the availability heuristic at work - assholes and incompetents are simply more memorable than people who quietly go about their work without making waves or screwing things up.
Is Stuxnet an Israeli-invented attack against Iran?
> When you choose “Inspect element” or otherwise bring up one your browser’s DOM inspector, what you’re looking at is the document tree after the browser has applied its error correction and after any JavaScripts have manipulated the DOM.

Isn't this fairly obvious?

Being unable to inspect elements after you've fiddled with them via javascript would eliminate about 99% of the usefuless...
Mystery links!
check this two:
http://goo.gl/MTtd
http://goo.gl/jDpb
12 Natural Laws of Business
Let's face it, most places in Antarctica look pretty much alike.

They could pretty much just use a couple of frames out of Empire Strikes Back and nobody would know the difference.
When 48+ cores becomes standard Linux, as it is currently won't be relevant. When large multicore and distributed computing becomes more of a norm bolting on distributed parts to Linux won't be sufficient or will be so convoluted that simply creating something new will be easier. This is already happening with union mounts, lustre, ceph and linux checkpoint and restart.
Six Months After Leaving Digg, Jay Adelson Opens Up, Hints at Stealth Project
Why do people think it's more likely to be a government than an independent group of activists or single activist?
Every Wal-Mart I've ever been to has been crowded with loaded pallets and filled with sullen, unengaged employees. It's emphatically my least favorite place to shop.
Iterative Development in Gaming
I actually started my invoicing life with Zoho Invoice. They have since become available on Google Apps, which is super convenient for me, as a Google Apps user: http://www.zoho.com/invoice/zohoinvoice-for-googleapps.html
Why is it good that for several days his employee feels unable to talk to him about anything? Who does that benefit?

Agreed, I am completely uncomfortable with that. Once you indicate to someone that you do not trust them, why should they trust you?

The sad thing is that he is actually sounding reasonable to himself (and to others I am sure), because he is advocating against an even worse behaviour (like yelling at people).

Also, how to deal with children is not a good framework for how to deal with adults

Agreed, but it's not like his childrearing advice is that great either. Yeah, you can threaten to take the lego away from two fighting children, but it's better to teach them the skills to negotiate possession.
Wait, if what you think they need to do is "gut the top" than why is it frustrating for you to watch the people at the top leave? Whether they're leaving of their own accord or not, the top is getting gutted. . .
Whenever I hear someone describe quantum physics as "weird" - whenever I hear someone bewailing the mysterious effects of observation on the observed, or the bizarre existence of nonlocal correlations, or the incredible impossibility of knowing position and momentum at the same time - then I think to myself: This person will never understand physics no matter how many books they read.

Well, that rules out Einstein.
I have reread my message above and do not see me stating the assertion you are arguing against. Mind to clarify your logic ?
Kind of reminds me of Dropbox's viral referral program. The spam-ish aspect can get annoying at a point, but the interesting thing is that it's not the website that's spamming you, it's your friends, so you can't really be mad at the website.

This makes me think the viral referral model still has some untapped potential.
Why I can't program
I am a college student has been wanting to begin to program and take on a project on my own. Although I thought I knew what I as doing, the more and more that I begin to put these ideas out into the www, I begin to understand more and more why I need a true programer. I have the ideas, the marketing tactics, and all the data and statistics needed to make this site a complete success.
I am currently a student living in San Francisco, CA but I did my freshman year at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. Thinking I was going to be living there for my second year, I was faced with the question: where do I live next year? Not knowing the ins and outs of every building and the perks and negatives of each dorm building it was a tough decision.

That is what led me to buy the domain "www.whatdorm.com" where, just like ratemyprofessor.com, students can go online and decide where they want to live on campus. Just like knowing which professor you want to select for that upcoming year. The principle of the site is that its extremely strait forward and student-run. Meaning, the home page is a map of the US, you click your state, that state enlarges, and all along the state are icons of your school. For example, you click CA and will find USC's mascot or emblem, etc. You then click that and it brings you to a page of all the residence halls, where student have commented about the perks and downsides of living in a particular area. We can even add little beer cans which indicate partying dorms, books which indicate its a more studious dorm environment, etc.

I am sure as a developer you have great ideas as well and I am more than willing to hear what you have to say. All revenue that's generated from this site, alike ratemyprofesor.com, is all through ads. The service is completely free for the students and, like I said, it is completely ran by students.
It's as if he hired somebody to find the top 12 most mentioned web sites on TechCrunch to form the basis for his business plan.
You can even watch a video from the founder on their "videos" section.

http://www.globalcommunity.me/videos/video/index.html
I'm very confused by this comment. Did you switch mysql and pgsql in this comment, or was this what you meant as written?

MySQL has always struck me as having a non-standard and quite strange type system (broken time/date types without microsecond accuracy, explicitly sized text types, ...). I've always seen PostgreSQL being marketed as a drop in replacement for Oracle due to superior standards support. If anything, PostgreSQL seems much more similar to Oracle than MySQL.

I'm also very curious what sorts of things I should avoid if you really do have a very long list of queries that PostgreSQL handles really poorly.
I think this is some indication of a continued push toward a social network/layer of some kind. Maybe just for Buzz but I think this is something more.
An electricity-generating turbine, not a jet engine, but still very cool technology.

I'm not sure if it has any advantages over a plain ol' internal combustion engine apart from looking cool for a concept car. And it certainly has disadvantages -- it'll be expensive and good luck finding a car mechanic to work on it.
A while ago I had created an IM bot to which you could tell, for example:

"Meeting with John next Friday at 11 pm"

with natural language, just as above, and it would send you a message to remind you of it at that point. I wonder if I should recreate it using notifo. It'd be more convenient than IM, certainly...
It's amazing what you can get people to do by sending them some flowers.
I'm guessing either Google Docs, or the Apps marketplace (http://www.google.com/enterprise/marketplace/).
They do if they want to be able to track clicks on your copy of that URL distinctly from my copy of that URL.
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Just a note to anyone using Adobe software to produce their web PNGs:
Make sure to run PNGCrush to remove all extraneous information in them! http://pmt.sourceforge.net/pngcrush/index.html
> On the other hand, I am getting tired of the way that Ubuntu is focusing so much on getting its fonts right, that critical aspects like suspend/resume are broken, but not fixed.

You do know that a company can work on more than one thing at a time, right?
I understand why you would be uncomfortable about it. But I firmly believe that giving an employee time to reflect on what went wrong & why is important. And they need distance to achieve this. If you're immediately chummy with them after a failure then this time of reflection is less likely. I know it doesn't sit well with everybody so I'm not asking you to adopt my style. But it is not manipulative and actually is quite effective.
Aroofromcorkayamaroo? Ha, nice to see a fellow Irishman here. I too have spent the last 20 minutes exploring the backroads of my hometown. Hats off to Google, the quality is really goood.

Having lived away from Ireland for years and not getting home too frequently, I find that Street View has the power to fully immerse me and make me nostalagic for places. It is up there with the list of Space Age Things I dreamed of as a kid and now almost take for granted. The future is arriving in wonderful ways and washing over us in waves. (But I'm still disappointed I can't hop into a suborbital hotel for a cheap 0g holiday)
What app did you make?
And to my knowledge none of them do direct distro maintenance to keep the laptops they've sold supported -- they just resell OEM (Sager-style) laptops that they spec conservatively so that all the hardware is supported when sold.
That's actually a free icon from a Twitter icon pack. I've seen it in a few roundups. Nice that he's using a creative commons artistic twitter rendition icon as his mascot.
Ask HN: How has the Internet changed your life?
I am just wondering about how the internet has advanced humanity as a whole by knowing about personal, individual experiences.

Im only 20, so most of my life has been with the internet, I can't imagine life without it. It is that profound and useful to me. I feel it adds a layer of consciousness to existence if used resourcefully and intelligently.

This is an open discussion. Just get involved.
They even have a micro-blogging service :D http://www.globalcommunity.me/blog/
They already changed it to the standard system...
It shouldn't be too long before Android phones start supporting WebP natively, and image-hosting sites like Picasa and Flickr already do re-encoding to lower the image size; adding WebP to that shouldn't be a serious problem. I can see this getting traction even without support from most digital cameras.

As for metadata, the container format is based on RIFF, which consists of tagged binary chunks. Metadata chunks follow the image data, and consist of null-terminated strings. No word yet on whether or not you can use Unicode.

http://code.google.com/speed/webp/docs/riff_container.html
Are you saying there's a scarcity of lawyers? Last I saw, the ABA said there were >1.2 million lawyers in the USA, or one for every 255 people.
Basically his 'one stop shop' is a website version of the browser favorites toolbar, only where the links take you to a shittier version of your favorite site with no userbase.
The extra inbox processing buttons are part of Plus (it's a forerunner to the 'create your own shortcut buttons' that we're working on).

If you're wondering, the background to that is that free gives you good email control and a full implementation of the essential useful features; and Plus increases your efficiency :)
It isn't an impossible dream. There are regular jobs available at McMurdo base and Scott Base and they need IT staff. I know two people who spend 6 months or so every year working down there and they are addicted to it, constantly drawn back to the beauty. They have a lots of amazing stories.
You can also of course just make the trip as a tourist.
A good spot, thank you - will get it fixed up tomorrow.
The country has a population of 50,000
I don't know how good their connectivity is but I'm guessing Google has quite a few more users than that.

Hopefully the ISP's DNS caches goo.gl and doesn't just send it all to root .gl to handle!
Why are you posting your own Twitter profile?
Same discussion under a less murderous title here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1744237
Non-embryonic stem cells developed from skin cells
"Scientists reported Thursday they had developed a technique that can quickly create safe alternatives to human embryonic stem cells, a major advance toward developing a less controversial approach for treating for a host of medical problems.

The researchers published a series of experiments showing they can use laboratory-made versions of naturally occurring biological signals to quickly convert ordinary skin cells into cells that appear virtually identical to embryonic stem cells. Moreover, the same strategy can then coax those cells to morph into specific tissues that would be a perfect match for transplantation into patients."
It's like they've installed 10 different plugins (dating site, auction site, etc), each with their own user registration system and interface.
Yea, everyone always said that Python is no good for embedding in template languages because of its significant whitespace.

Weby Templates proves that whitespace is actually an asset. A number of Python templaters (like yours), lisp templates, and other language templates have a system like yours, nested lists. But they quickly become unworkable, lack the ability to do if statements (simple branching), and not having to put end tags ("))") is half the reason you use Python!

Python's whitespace proves to make a much better language for templates than any other.

My "success" may look enviable, but it's luck. Except not quite luck. When I visited California, I wrote a script to email over 200 companies. Only a few replied. Is that luck, or did I make that?
http://www.youtube.com/user/Cedrick751

More videos about the site in his youtube account. I feel a little bad for the guy...
Greenland's GDP is <$1Bn and Google is worth $50bn couldn't you have just bought them?

You could turn the entire country into a passively cooled data center!
Site's down
Nice one, I will look into this now.

Why can I not scroll on that bloody page, do we really need javascript just to scroll down a page? Nice one google.
2:30-3:00 Return to their desks and start looking for new jobs?
IPhone 4 scalpers prompt Apple Store in China to shut down temporarily
the new startup interview: beat the ceo on random race selection
Exactly, so today's email client broadly serves two functions: 1) to manage emails (which is to say, manage the flow of tasks that emails represent), 2) be a knowledge base.

Reference labels are essentially meta data - so you might create a general reference labels for invoices, receipts, meeting notes, etc. You can then use ActiveInbox's sidebar menu to drill into the knowledge base -> look for meeting notes for a given project, or invoices for a given contact.
also, what I have learned the hard way is that view source in FF is not exact source and is actually after some error correction

I trust only wget
Even if you have to go through the arduous task of typing a website into your browser's address bar to get from YouTube to eBay, it's still a fraction of the effort required to get from Ace Hardware to Target, no matter how close the stores are situated to each other. The Internet doesn't need a one-stop shop as badly as "real life".

If that was THE website to go to for all of the services they offer, saving a couple seconds of typing might be advantageous. But they're not. Why should people switch? It's not particularly superior, as far as I can tell.

I applaud the effort, but will most likely never use it, and I doubt I'm alone.
Same. Anyone know why they already changed it back?
I'm spaniard. Spain has been cooking its books for a long time. Brussels knew it, like they knew about Greece doing the same thing(their economic pros are not stupid) but they short term benefited from that.

The "Spanish miracle"(like Ireland) was created when billions of euros mainly from German and French savers came to Spain as loans. That made money to flow and prices to go up, anyone could buy a 60.000eur house(with a loan with 0%down) and sell it three months later as 90.000eur. That is 30.000eur of profit putting 0%, way more than working. Real state agencies grew like mushrooms after the rainfall.

I had friends that bought one house and later two with the profit they made with the first one!! thinking "prices are never going to go down, they had never been down, we are going to be rich".

That was good for sellers, good for politicians(they get taxes money proportional to the assets price), good for the banks that lended(they got paid), good to the construction workers and companies, good for the gov(less unemployment), so they tried to keep it. They all wanted to believe it was sustainable. It was not. Houses grew +400% but salaries only 17%.

Now our prime minister, Zapatero, thinks "confidence" is the most important thing for the economy to grow. He doesn't care about lying at all, he thinks he could fool all the people, all the time. Time will tell.
NeXT presentation [1990]
Off topic, but the Android Developer Blog's use of frames to always show navigation is really horrible. I've to use my mouse or TAB before scrolling with J/arrow-down. Haven't they heard about 'position: fixed'?
I'm sure they have more features planned.
Great point, it's also a lot easier to do a medical startup if you have an MD
Canonical announces Ubuntu One music streaming service
Geolocated photo / tweet mashup
I think the guy is a bit of an idiot, but lets not gloss over the fact that there was no appeal process ... Even Paypal, who are regularly demonized on the internet, have one.
> No word yet on whether or not you can use Unicode.

You should be able to use UTF-8 since it doesn't include embedded nulls.
Since Live Spaces is migrating their users over to Wordpress, they just got a new #2 competitor. Look out!
Not a bad idea. But why does it say "selected items"?

I haven't added the numbers up myself, but one of the comments says that the listed things add up to only sixty-something percent of the total. Where's the other money gone? One might almost think they're trying to make a political point with their careful selection of items (eg. "Combat operations in Iraq and Afghanistan" somehow got to fifth place on the list while "bailouts" and "stimulus" are entirely missing despite this being 2009).

Anyway, I certainly wouldn't trust the government to give me a receipt which said "selected items" -- deceptive information is worse than no information.

Also, since the US federal expenditure is currently about 25% larger than tax receipts, how is this taken into account?
Perhaps better suited for the redditors?
Universal Consciousness --- Realizing we are all made of the same atoms, cells, and revolve the same star. Also, seeing that we are all looking for the same things: Freedom, Wealth, and Love. The meaning of each is subjective but, we have biochemical need for all three to reach universal consoiousness.
It's still a router. It just doesn't do NAT.

FWIW, NAT is typically done by the firewalling code, whereas routing is done in separate code.

So "router" is always correct, but "firewall" does not always apply
The kicker is the classifieds page:

http://www.globalcommunity.me/classifieds/flashLander/gc_lan...

Some people should not be allowed to own a computer.
Actually, scraping only links from shorteners would be a a good strategy form preserving what is worth preserving.
Yes, but it has to have some significant effect. For this to happen, the gain from the format conversion has to matter for the porn sites use case, this has to be a certain percentage of bandwidth (wonder how that's for video sites), and then the amount of browser who support it (not just advertise it, cf. IE and its PNG "support") has to be high enough.

Anybody got some statistics on browser distribution on a major *tube site? I guess we'll see a lot of Internet Explorer there, although it Chrome's "incognito" mode may have found some fans.
Not clicking that.
That sounds interesting. How did your friends go about getting those jobs? It sounds like the kind of thing i'd do. I'd prefer not going down their as a tourist; I'd rather be involved in something if I were spending time there.
When generating a QR code, it's important to keep the URL short, as the size of the QR is proportional to the length of the URL.
Yeah, like that -- in some extreme cases, it's impossible without the credential. I bet in most of those cases you could slightly redefine your problem to get around it, though. Surgical devices, for example: you could probably develop the technology without a credential and once it demonstrably works, collaborate with surgeons to continue as a business.

It's probably much easier if you've spent time as a doctor yourself, and you're much more likely to get the time of day if you borrow on the credibility of an institution you're affiliated with, but not impossible. Just not the path of least resistance.
Sure, but I'm worried about the guy who decides that his decoder will use ISO-8859-1 by default, or UTF-16 if that's specified in some meta-metadata chunk somewhere. If this were written down in a spec, we wouldn't have to fret about it.
You have a point, but lets be glad Larry, Sergei, Zucker did not let that stop them.
IP absurdities: the battle over chocolate milk iPhone apps
A co-worker who had to work with the Facebook API in a previous job had this to say about it. Working with the Facebook API is like poking yourself in the eye with a fork, repeatedly. It is interesting to see the problems he described confirmed and explained in more detail.
IPv6 on iPhone 4: http://www.fix6.net/archives/2010/06/22/ipv6-on-iphone/

For the learning: take a look at http://www.6deploy.eu/index.php?page=tutorials - they seem pretty nicely readable, maybe you can use those materials.

Curious about the 90% part - care to tell more over mail ? If yes - then ay at the general direction of your cough ;-)
Take it one step further and let people specify what their money goes to. Automate the politicians!