skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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network with people.
It seems rather more likely that in many of those cases, they will wonder why it was ever acceptable for governments not to do those things.

For millenia, human societies have drifted slowly but surely towards the left, with a constant increase in the quality of life for the entire population.

Your personal brand of Libertarianism - which advocates, at its heart, a return to feudalism - is uniquely peculiar to a current aspect of the US social situation. It has relatively little traction elsewhere, despite the relentless spread of corporatism in the last few decades, and will be seen as incomprehensibly barbaric within probably as few as 100 years.
I know that you can track whether a user has viewed an email with a 1px image; are there other ways too? Since a lot of email clients have been blocking external images for a long time, I figure either the quality of the metric must be pretty bad these days or a better method has emerged. Preferably the latter so I can learn something new :)
blogofile is a great project that is short on hands.

http://www.blogofile.com/

"Blogofile is a static website compiler, primarily (though not exclusively) designed to be a simple blogging engine. It requires no database and no special hosting environment. You customize a set of templates with Mako, create posts in a markup language of your choice (see Post Content) and Blogofile renders your entire website as static HTML and Atom/RSS feeds which you can then upload to any old web server you like."
Social Networking Euro Pop Sensational Video
I'm not really the Euro French rap kind of guy. But I really admire their use of the iPod and Facebook theme in this video. Note their use of familiar tones and buffering! Appropriate to the end...
Announcing OmniAuth: Flexible, Unassuming Multi-Provider Authentication for Rack
People have been working on interactive/internet-connected TV products for years and thinking about the sort of services you can offer to TV viewers when you have a fast back channel. Even I was doing this stuff different start-ups and one big cable company in the late 90's

For example, think about what you can build when you know what a lot of people are watching in real time, or if you know what your friends are watching. Or to get feedback from your viewers (You think CNN and every other live broadcaster's fascination with Twitter is bad? It's the tip of the iceberg!). Or you want viewers to respond to your adverts.

Which set top box you have plugged in to your TV will be at least as important as the battle for dominance in the mobile phone space.

And, more importantly: There's certainly the room for some scrappy young start ups to make huge amounts of money from Google and Apple TVs app stores.
My Notes from Jam Session Led by Gamification Guru, Amy Jo Kim 
I was recently given the opportunity to join the BigDoor team and a few of their clients up in a beautiful cabin in the evergreen forests of Washington to do a jam session on gamification. Thanks Keith, Jeff and team!

Leading the session was co-founder of ShuffleBrain Amy Jo Kim, who has been gamifying systems before there was even a term for it.
1. Physical products probably do need early announcements. The new AppleTV launched recently. Knowing GoogleTV is on the way, I'm definitely going to wait and compare.
2. Control the announcement. Since they had to tell developers anyway (to get apps and websites optimized), it's better to announce it then leave to techcrunch, gizmodo, and all the other rumor mills.
It's just 21st century map-making. Instead of plotting the location of physical landmarks, you'd be plotting electromagnetic landmarks.

I'm sure pioneer map-makers got in trouble for plotting perfectly visible stuff that was located on private property.
>I have always thought abortion an act of barbarism against which both the past and the future would revolt

Given that the use of abortifacients is well documented for the entire duration of recorded history, this seems unlikely.
It would be trivial for anyone with access to the webmail provider's server to steal your password and decrypt your mail. So you don't really gain much by having it encrypted there in the first place.
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Depends. Geeks might like to email you the queries they have but other would definitely want to call and get their issues resolved quickly.
> Oddly, the conventional argument--that the Soviets destroyed the bulk of the German army and hence saved Europe from German domination--shares with this theory the odd consequence that liberal democracy in the West was saved from brutal, absolute dictatorship by another brutal, absolute dictatorship.

If you're interested in this sort of thing, definitely look up "Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace," or at the very least go read a summary. Also fascinating stuff.

Basically, PWFPP's argument is that Nazi Germany would've been very weak and able to overthrow easily by resisting the Nazi conquest of Czechoslovakia - the Czech army was a decent fighting force, and with allied support could've dismantled Nazi Germany right there.

France and England do nothing there, but then declare war on Germany after Germany and the Soviet Union sign a peace treaty and jointly invade and divide Poland, and then inexplicably France and England don't attack. That was the stupidest possible way to declare war. You could've backed the Czechs, but declaring war without an invasion while giving Hitler nine months to plan and let him have first strike/blitzkrieg against France? Totally stupid.

The Western front of WWII was gravely mismanaged until Winston Churchill took over in England. Like, ridiculously so. They had quite a few opportunities to smash Hitler before he became a problem. When they finally did declare war, they just kind of skirmished a little while letting him build and prepare more, and letting him determine the time and place of battle (they overran the totally ineffective Maginot Line in one spot, spread quickly, and conquered France in three days).

Anyway, I do buy that theory. Germany wasn't so strong when they invaded Czech, and the Czechs are strong, tough, proud people. Declare war there and WWII basically doesn't happen. As an added bonus, the Soviet Union couldn't have absorbed Poland, East Germany, and the Baltics as a result. Man oh man WWII was grossly mismanaged in the start of it...
...we have a biased set here, though, with average+ developers participating on this site. If that is correct, you'd end up with a result set that is biased towards the upper end of the salary range as well..

Since notimportant is a random member of this biased sample, we should also assume he is one of the average+ developers participating here.
NYU Startup Week
I'm one of the students behind an organization at NYU called Tech@NYU. We're hosting our second startup week. You may want to check out one of our events if you're in the NYC area. They're all free to attend.
+1 for 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing. I purchased it after Tim Ferris cited it as one of his top books and I learned a lot from it.
Instead of calling people out, why not out offer to help?

If they lack capital, point them towards VCs, Angels, Super Angels, etc, or useful resources on how to get off the ground with out much capital, Google App Engine, Dreamhost, etc.

If they have capital point them towards sources where they can get labour, craigslist, rent-a-coder, etc.

If they still have a job point them towards people who talk about the transition, etc.

I think according to jolie's definition until recently patio11 would be considered not an entrepreneur. Yet, he's a prolific poster, has his own thing going on, etc. (Not sure if he describes himself as an entrepreneur, but I definitely appreciate his business and tech insights).

Simply put instead of chastising people for using the wrong term, help them to be 'entrepreneurs'. A post on how to transition from 'wantrepreneur' to 'entrepreneur' would be far more helpful. It's a difficult transition from FTE to entrepreneur, and I don't think we should be kicking people when they are down for having the dare to dream.
Do one thing, put it on your website for a month or two and see if sales goes up. You will have your answer.
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Of the specific projects suggested in this thread, this seems the most interesting to me. Thanks for the link.
Amount of Ink vs. Amount of Spend in Technologies
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information-theoretic_death
If you're looking for a boolean answer, there isn't one.

Web apps are superior for the reasons you mentioned. As a developer, it's just easier to deploy a web app. That being said, I think you ought to be thinking about the users experience, not the developers.

App store approval processes mean that users have to wait longer for fixes. Using a particular device API means that your app just isn't available to a lot of users.

On the other hand, native apps tend to respond faster, be more in line with the users expectations, and offer the developer a slick way to accept the users money without asking them to put in all their credit card info.

You also have to look at how users expect to install apps. At least on iOS, every web app I've seen has to include install instructions because users don't think about installing them.

I think I can give users a better experience with a native app, and that's what makes the choice for me.
If this gets popular enough, maybe we should standardize a new <link> element to point to the JSON data file that search engines should index. Maybe even a standard schema for it!
While I like the initial concept perhaps the founders could tell us something about the vision for the company. Will the products be limited to simple objects?
I'm one of the students behind an organization at NYU called Tech@NYU. We're hosting our second startup week. Feel free to check out our events if you're in the NYC area.
If I had a tenth of cent for every time someone in business used the word 'exciting' to describe something that really isn't, I'd be a googolilionaire.

Honestly, wtf are MBA schools teaching these days, how to use the most generic, overused to the point of meaningless language to inaccurately express your thoughts in the interest of expediency and/or buzzword compliance, even after you finish writing your resume? They should assign some Melville and Hemingway in their marketing and leadership courses.
No matter how easy you make programming there will always be an irreducible complexity in creating a tool for a task. What form that task takes and the difficulty involved may change but ultimately there is a kernel of "programmingness" that you won't be able to get rid of. More so, making easy projects trivial and making hard tasks easy merely makes previously impossible tasks possible, so there will always be developers pushing the envelope programming at the maximum level of difficulty that humans are capable of. No different than any other skill in history.
Google search came before adsense, btw.

Also, you could say the same thing about facebook. It's not a social network, it's an ad aggregating company who merely used the vast network of people for enabling it's business.

Also, magazines, newspapers, tv, etc.

Basically, it's a tautology for anyone running ads.
Strange that out of all the TV makers Sony is a partner with Google on this. Google is only showing off media apps in the video but games are coming soon, so Sony will be selling Bravias with a built-in Playstation competitor.
look for things around you. see which things you wish there was an app for to make it easier.

Think more about how you would want software to do it.

and go for it.

Dont worry if you dont reach your goal. You will learn a lot.
Unless you are somehow already tied to Microsoft I don't see how it is at all sane to go with .NET for a greenfield project.

In .NET you are paying Microsoft for whatever they deem suitable to bequeath down to its licensees. There's been a lot of hand-wringing in the community over slow uptake on new web tech, and general problems that go unresolved because it's not an open source model. On the plus side, you get a nice IDE and documentation.

In Rails on the other hand, v3 just came out, allowing both sensible defaults, and unprecedented modularity. If Rails is too heavyweight you also have Sinatra. Everything is built on Rack which makes things much more standardized and interoperable amongst a range of web server options. You even have people doing work to integrate Ruby backends with bleeding edge tech like node.js that has huge world-changing advantages for certain types of applications over the monolithic and antiquated MS stack. In general the Ruby world is well integrated with the Unix and Open Source worlds where you are free and able to solve your own problems as well as take advantage of rapid progress by the community.

Given Microsoft's lack of success on the web over the years, and the amount of lock-in that Microsoft imposes on its developers, it just seems like a no brainer to go with open technologies (whether that be Rails, Django, or some PHP framework). The counterpoint is if your most talented developers are .NET guys, or you have a bunch of legacy MS stuff to integrate with.
If you are willing to hack either C++ (or autotools -- their build system is hurting), may I suggest Octave, the Matlab compatible programming environment? GNU considers it high priority, it is fully useable, but just needs some TLC to get it fully competitive. www.octave.org.
Would you mind expanding on this? Suppose I have a body of text, and I want to adhere to the guideline of having some 10 or 12 words per line.

How would you recommend I accomplish that?
BlueGlass Interactive Snatches Up 3 Dog Media
It also has multiple backends. I think a debian dev had coded a llvm backend for it. And a cambridge student coded an ARM backend.

Edit : grammar. Also forgot to mention that the ARM backend run on n900, my precious.
Groupon co-founder: Chicago needs more 'ego'
Does it progress towards zero -- like my karma seems to be doing from this post?
Time to fork? Yes.

Practical to fork? I hope so, but the pessimist in me doubts it.
HN Tip: Redirect HackerNews.com via host file
At least once every few days I type HackerNews.com into my browser's address bar expecting to end up at news.ycombinator.com. Of course I never do. So today I fixed that.

If you're using OS X Snow Leopard.

1) open Terminal and type:

2) sudo nano /private/etc/hosts

3) add 174.132.225.106 hackernews.com to the bottom of the host file

4) cntrl+x to exit and save the host file

5) flush the DNS cache with this command: dscacheutil -flushcache

Maybe someone else can post quick instructions for Linux & Windows.

PS. I'm sure HackerNews.com is a fine site. It's just not one I visit. Well, except on accident when I'm trying to get here. :)
According to my wife men have this capability built in...

Kidding aside, really good earplugs, the kind they wear where really loud machinery is in operation, effectively gives you that. Get the foam one that you roll between your fingers to squish them and then they expand to fill your ear canal. They block out a lot of noise.
Its hard to tell if they see the future as being a toy/game company or if this toy/game is a proof of concept for a broader API between the physical and digital worlds. My hunch is the latter, as it better fits in with Foundry's "Glue" theme and this doesn't seem like a very compelling toy.
Thanks so much for the comment. I am hoping to monetize the site through both affiliate programs and advertisements. While the ads will be minimal, I strongly encourage our users to support the artists they enjoy by purchasing music through our affiliates.
I think he's missing world poverty. Whilst noone really supports it, it's entirely morally reprehensible that we don't do more as a society to eradicate poverty around the world.
I've started a poll on this:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1756193

Only 4 votes so far, but 75% have never heard of it.

ADDED IN EDIT: And now over 87% have never heard of it.
How does this compare to a linux-backed roll-your-own media center? Obviously it supports netflix, and you can't install your own applications, but what else?
5 Tips for Unlocking Innovation
Maxim is 95% advertising, either direct or indirect; most of the articles/columns/etc are about things you should buy. Throw in a few pictures of a scantily clad woman, and a badly written sex advice column, and that's all it is.

As another poster said, it's mostly about advertising and I suppose if that is what you want to learn about, go ahead.

I have to disagree with the OP. It is not a window into the world in which "normal guys" live in by any sense. Perhaps, the world "normal guys" wished they lived in - with expensive gadgets and super models. (What is a "normal guy" anyway? Do most male hackers not like gadgets and attractive women?)

If you see an article comparing beers to pick the season/year's best, you might think it is appealing to the beer-swilling masses, but really it is there to sell beer.

I was very surprised to find Playboy a far better read, but it is. Yes, it has nudity, but it has articles I find good reads too.

Anyway if you want an insight into an untapped segment, watch daytime television. What kind of person watches daytime television? People do, and they have a lot of free time they could be spending on your site. What are they like? I don't know. But that's more insightful than something that throws advertising at basic male instincts.
So implementing the JVM under the GPL is legal and patent free? A group of companies could get behind an independent JVM already in progress, refine it and back it, without Oracle interference?
"It was great! I had a new experience, got to meet some excellent doctors, and saw the inside of a state-of-the-art hospital too!"

this is interesting, if we leave out the company/marketing context - for an individual seems like a very optimistic way to look at undesired events that come by in everyone's life.

You just switched on a eureka bulb in me. Thank you!. I am going to do this at every 'opportunity' I face.
Lessons from Mike Evans of GrubHub (another awesome Chicago company)
Contribute to project(s) that you use and write features that you miss (or fix existing bugs or improve documentation).

Contributing to project(s) that you don't use is stupid and you'll be bored by it sooner than you realize... In the end you'll just waste a lot of time on something that won't be even committed.
Definitely not true in my experience. The only difference I've noticed is that the Sun one forces you to manually download some jars in order to get strong crypto because of some outdated US legal BS, while openJDK bundles them.
A setup like this is written up in detail in the book 'RFID toys' by Amal Graafstra. Using this same rfid reader, maybe even an Arduino, or maybe it was one of the other projects in the book that used an Arduino. The disadvantage of this setup is that you need power at the door, unless you want to replace the batteries on your door every couple of weeks. I still want to make something like this but for a hidden door - I've got an rfid chip implanted in my hand and I want to be able to unlock a hidden cabinet by waving my hand in front of it :)
Why not fire off a quick prototype app on Rails or Sinatra and see how it feels? Ruby/Rails is $0, and committing your team's time to a decision made without any context is not.

There's no need to make that decision in a vacuum.
Pretty simple. This does the trick:

body{text-align: center;}
Reminds me of this: http://snltranscripts.jt.org/03/03jdynacorp.phtml

"DynaCorp. The Kangaroo Rat of the Billiard Room. "
Much of high performance modern VMs (not just JVM) are built on Self project and StrongTalk acquisiotion by Sun. I think Oracle would have quite a few key patents due to this.

Though the Visual works contribution to VM technology cannot be discounted. And it is owned by IBM. So probably IBM and Oracle will not use these patents against each other.
PicsEngine - beautiful new Cappuccino app for storing and sharing photos
Isn't this just a special case of "someone oughta do X?" syndrome? If it's not important enough for you personally to make the effort to do it, why do you think anyone else will?
Kernighan and Pike's _The Practice of Programming_ covers a lot of the similar content better, IMHO, often with more concrete examples.

(Also, _The Pragmatic Programmer_ might have more impact if people hadn't been systematically ripping it off for blog content for years.)
Too bad, Minecraft just made me respect java a little bit!
This sounds awesome!

Man I keep hearing about NYU in the news -- Diaspora*, hackathons, venture funds, etc... Good stuff!

Sounds like they're cementing themselves at the east-coast capital for tech.
See, I'm not particularly interested in the plugin part, because I want part of working with other coders for the experience. A plugin would be just another thing done by me on my own in a vacuum with no feedback.

As for open source programs I use on a daily basis and am interested in, they're mostly huge projects in C/C++ (Linux, Chrome, etc etc). Wordpress is the exception, but I haven't came across anything I need them to do that hasn't been covered in some plugin somewhere.

Which is why I asked here, in case there was some interesting project I would be interested in that I have the capability to actually do something useful for.
What is wrong with http://harmony.apache.org/ ?

It is a from scratch implementation of the JVM. And is backed by IBM AFAIK.
Twitter gets a new CEO
I don't know, but do you have a suggestion for another limit?
JavaScript templating may sound scary, but if done properly they can be so ridiculously powerful that at this point I think it's inevitable that server-side generation of HTML will eventually be obsolete.

Imagine being able to throw away all the hideous and incompatible JSP, eRuby, PHP (smarty etc), and Django templates with a universal template language.
Listen to FireAngel. He built one of the greatest Drupal sites of all time (fire, how's the science news game these days?).

There's an abandoned Drupal project called Memetracker that would leverage your Python skills AND make the world a better place if someone took it over.

Http:// drupal.org/project/memetracker

It's an open source reverse engineer of the Techmeme engine that gathers, filters, clusters, and ranks news. The original maintainers got it 50% finished before leaving for a startup. I've managed to get a private instance running that keeps me up to speed on what's in the news in Chicago. Even in it's primitive state, it tells me new things about the world I live in every day.

Imagine if anyone could start a techmeme for their neighborhood? They're industry? Their interest? The world would be a better place. We'd all be smarter for it.

We just need a good hacker to pick up the pieces.