skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My view on governance has evolved as I've gotten older - these days I don't believe in one best form of government, and I think people should generally live under the government that they wish to.

Truly, and this too is at the heart of our form of democracy - that our inalienable rights trump any government's power, and that we as a free people have the right to choose the government that best serves us. As our founders made clear when declaring our independence, it is a self-evident truth "that whenever any form of government becomes destructive to these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness."

That we continue to have, as a people, the natural right and ability as protected by the second amendment to abolish our government when we see fit, is (to me) evidence that our founders chose well. That is not to say, of course, that their choice of government will always be the right one for us.

I'd prefer a lot more decisionmaking to happen at local levels and state levels in the USA, which gives people more options for where they want to live and the kind of government they wish to live under.

I agree, and this is the reason for my comment on abuse of the commerce clause. The states, and their localities as they see fit, have complete control over their governance except where contradicted by federal treaty and law in pursuance of the constitution. Unfortunately, through the commerce clause the federal legislature, with precious few rebuttals from SCOTUS, has long managed to interfere in purely intrastate concerns.

Large scale, broad legislation almost always winds up with devil's bargains that don't quite suit anyone really well, special interests working in coalitions...

Yes, agreed. The constitution makes it clear where authority really lies - but short of SCOTUS revisiting their commerce clause rulings, we'll have to effect this change on the soap box and at the ballot box, by finding, supporting and electing national representatives who want to govern us the least.
Unfortunately, IMAP is a mess of a specification that is not consistently implemented between different vendors. Gmail itself is not built on top of IMAP at all, it just has a layer thrown on top for compatibility. This path seems to make a lot of sense.
That's a neat trick. Thanks for pointing that out.
I really like the idea, but part of your concept concerns me. Having pronounceable short urls is always a plus, but having them expire is sketchy to me. It means 1 of 2 things in my mind and maybe you can put my worries to rest. I will also preface the concerns with 'I did notice that the time is variable and user chosen'.

1 You are going to litter the web with non-active(broken) links and that sucks.

2 (more likely) As you reuse words in urls there will be links that will point to things that are in no way related to the context in which they were originally used.
Recruitment, monetization, and investor relationships are all part of a CEO's core responsibilities, and totally unrelated to building products or attracting users. If Ev wants to focus on those activities, it seems totally reasonable to hand over the CEO role to someone else.
It doesn't. It only contacts imap.gmail.com and l.google.com
I've had the same issues--it's not perfect yet but they've done some great things in terms of software and service UI. Card reader is a little janky though...
For programs that sit in the background (ie. Dropbox), the menuling is better. However I prefer the black "Leopard" style menulings. I disable it if it has color because it's distracting.
Ulysses And  Woman: Tennyson vs. Angelou
Isnt that a Fresnel lens ?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fresnel_lens
They have been around for a while. I remember some plastic ones come free with books that have very fine print.

So was the novelty of it all putting them on eye glasses ?
10 Questions for Skype's new CEO
It would only support the IMAP subset of Gmail, which every other client does.

Having conversations is one of GMail's USPs, and I've been waiting a long time for a mail client that supports them (was amazed that Outlook 2011 only went half way towards them as well).
Whenever I hear the phrases "rock star developer" or "code ninja", I think, "Oh, they want some young fresh-out-of-college full-of-himself developer who thinks a language named after a rock is the wave of the future."

Jokes aside, those phrases raise red flags in my mind. I think maybe it is that from such an employer, I would expect to see the occasional presentation with swear words ("We're all adults, here" -- "Sure, but you act like you just left your parents' house, and with your first taste of freedom, you express your naughty self."). Ah, that is the word I am looking for: professionalism. I have a hard time taking them seriously.
No, you are mistaken. The discrete is an approximation to the continuous for large systems, just as Newtonian mechanics as an approximation to the relativistic for slow speeds and low gravity. It is all perfectly well understood, and there are no contradictions or paradoxes. There is only a publishing industry that finds it profitable to promulgate the myth that there is something mysterious going on.
What I think of when I hear "Rock Star Programmers"?

I think how most musicians, signed to a major label, who perform as "rock stars" still get a net zero payoff after two years.

I think how if programming degenerated to the level of music or motion pictures, the average programmer would labor for nearly nothing in a start-up "hoping to be discovered" while handful got a fake buy-outs with no long term money and a much smaller handful became actual multi-millionaires.
No downvote from me, but I doubt drug dealers will like this much. This thing creates email receipts, tracks date, time, and location of transactions, and holds your money in an online account that is connected to your bank account. I'm pretty sure that people doing illegal stuff will stick with cash.
More than enough as long as this doesn't get insanely popular, because the words expire after 5 minutes.
That's exactly the point, they aren't. It's just a buzzword to draw attention to a job posting just like "senior" or "experienced" were before it. No reason to start the hype machine up over this stuff, if you ask me.
Kinda depends on who you are. There's a high ratio, say 1 to 20, of people who want to build their own media center versus people that just want to buy something cheap that works well. I've built my own media centers before, but honestly when the first Apple TV came out a few years ago it answered pretty much every problem I had. I was able to buy tv shows and rent movies right from my TV. The interface was pretty straightforward. I used to pirate movies and shows, but that was a lot more complicated than just spending a couple bucks to get something to watch right now. Didn't have to worry about poor quality anymore, etc.

I really like to reverse your question: why would anyone want to build their own media center now-a-days?
Thanks for pointing this out, indeed we did not think of HN at the time, but I'll add it to the list.
Thanks for the reply Peter. I appreciate it. Leanpub was obviously under considerable traffic stress, as I was not able to get to the books on your site. Hopefully you'll be fully up and running soon, and I can take a look.
The title is misleading. Can this be edited to denote that this is only for Gmail and not a generic mail client?
these shorturls are not meant for actually linking to anywhere online. just for IRL sharing with others. hence the pronounceable aspect is a big part of the utility.
Your interpretation seems natural, but it doesn't fit the context here, where bonestorm and bronado are evidently antonyms. The Urban Dictionary definition, on the other hand, does make sense.

Noah Webster, I might note, is currently spinning in his grave.
I am an atheist because I don't have god in my life. I live without god. It's not a non-belief in god. It's simply that I don't believe in this thing that someone claim exist any more than I believe that we are living in the matrix or that advanced aliens created us.

You accuse me of spouting nonsense, yet you actually make two contradictory claims:

1) "It's not a non-belief in god."

2) "It's simply that I don't believe in this thing" (thing referring to "god")

Statement #2 is clearly an admission that you hold a non-belief in god.

I think part of the problem here is that you do have a belief in God. You believe "God" to refer to some specific thing, and it is that thing that you choose not to believe in. Whatever that is, I don't know, but if you assume that the word "God" has a clear and singular definition, well, then you don't know very much about religion, do you? :-)

But that doesn't seem to be the case, it just sounds like you might be a little confused, as in your last sentence, you demonstrate an understanding that there are in fact multiple definitions for the word "god".

So, what is atheism then, really? Wikipedia gives the following definition:

Atheism, in a broad sense, is the rejection of belief in the existence of
deities.[1] In a narrower sense, atheism is specifically the position that there
are no deities.[2] Most inclusively, atheism is simply the absence of belief that
any deities exist.[3]

We must then investigate further, because this definition begs the question of what is meant by the word "deity". A click and we get this definition:

A deity[1] is a postulated preternatural or supernatural immortal being, who may
be thought of as holy, divine, or sacred, held in high regard, and respected by
believers, often religiously referred to as a god.

Here I think the relevant word is not "immortal", for there may in fact be something that is immortal (the universe is immortal), but rather "preternatural" and "supernatural".

And that is were the crux is. For the mystics do not believe that God is supernatural or "preternatural". This is not the notion of God as understood in Hinduism or Buddhism, for example. In those religions, God is natural. God is nature.

So, if you identify as an atheist, and by that you mean you disbelieve in a God that is outside of nature, then I think that is just fine (and fairly unremarkable), but if you disbelieve also in the second type of God, the one who is one with nature, then that is another thing entirely. You may in fact believe in God, but you just might not have known about the various meanings of that word.
That's not Silverlight. It doesn't work on Mac. IE makes you download a setup file for "3D Bing Maps" app.
AnonymousChef's comment is pretty helpful in explaining this, but there's one thing I don't get -- why would the NYT choose to pay back the loan early if they have to pay both the interest and the 5% early termination fee (larger than most cell phone company's ETFs)? I assume it wasn't Slim's choice to have them pay it back early, so they weren't forced to.
My experience is "Rails, small team, git or hg, won't mind you reading programming blogs during work hours, office environment will look fun, telecommuting unlikely."
Since it's such a loaded subject, I'd want to consult the philosophy literature on the subject. I don't think I'd make a good choice without giving it a lot of thought.

With my bets hedged this way, my feeling is that the mere potentiality of the future existence of a person is not enough to condemn the abortion of undifferentiated clumps of cells.
I'm fairly sure that as soon as it's no longer POD (plain old data), it can no longer be passed in a register, though, as it MUST have a permanent memory address. A struct or class loses its POD-ness by having constructors, a destructor, being a derived class, having virtual functions, public/protected/private sections or a bunch of other very strict conditions. Simple iterators may well be POD in many STL implementations, though.
Well I can understand why you think some templating languages are hideous, because they definitely are. Many are overly verbose.

I've definitely enjoyed a few though, Django's being one of them.

I think Javascript templating is great, and it's certainly helpful in many ways, but it could never flat-out replace server-side template engines for me. In Django for example, you almost always pass whole ORM objects to the template. On someone's page of a list of friends, I'd loop through a collection of User objects and generate an html list of usernames and permalinks to their profile pages. If I passed the whole collection of User objects to the client they'd get access to a lot of sensitive information. Which would require me to white-list at the ORM level exactly what fields I might need ahead of time. That might work, but I'd always be worried that I didn't clean the objects sent to the client's JS template enough for every page I'm writing.

Unless of course you were going for the idea that we'll be using one universal templating language both for the front-end JS as well as on the back-end in something like node. In which case disregard everything I just wrote.
It is the complete opposite of "senior" or "experienced". It's 22-years-old, thinks the web is all of the computing world, and thinks fleshing out a framework is all there is to programming.
I got picked up by http://www.killerstartups.com/ a few months ago. They have a submission page (though I didn't actually use it)

I actually got about 200+ referrals from them, which was nice. In addition to multiple PR offerings.
you mean internet scamers?
Do people trust Goldman? To me it's nothing more than a rigged casino.
I completely agree.

When you have a private conversation with someone, you get a lot more of the shading and subtlety of their experiences.

In a public forum, people are most likely to share things that are safe. In private, people are more likely to share their opinions, impressions, and half formed ideas; all of which can change, but all of which give you the necessary context to form your own opinions.

If you shared everything publicly, I'm pretty sure you'd come off as some sort of a crank, flake, misanthrope or worse... Especially given the unforgiving nature of Internet memory.
it's especially calming if you haven't lived near any of them.
First Mover: 47% failure rate
Fast Follower: 8% failure rate

This last statistic is a bit misleading. It implies that you can increase your chances of success by waiting until someone else enters the market. But it fails to account for those who declined to follow because the incumbent market leader held such a strong position.

To put it another way: followers only follow if they have some reason to believe they'll succeed. So yeah, they still do well. It does not lead to the conclusion that you should avoid being first.
Exactly. These links are not meant to be posted online or meant to last forever. The main use-case is to share them aloud with other people in the room (or write them on a whiteboard at a hackathon). I mention quite clearly that the links are temporary, so people that use them otherwise are missing the point I think.
If you were managing, say, a catering business, then it would be your job to know.
They claim "coming soon" status for imap. Presumably the title reflects the developer's intent for it.
Science is the study of the fundamentals. Algorithms is clearly a science as is compiler design and even
electronics ( someone has to create new types of components, transistors, memristors, etc... )

Building things with those fundamentals is not science, it's engineering.
Cool stuff. How are you grabbing the words? Did you download a dictionary?

When I submitted my URL I got "constituent", which seems unnecessarily long. You should consider having a list of short adjectives and a list of short words, preferably with both being one syllable. Then you grab one from each and you get short URLs that are still easy to remember like "redbear" or "fastbulb". The best part about this idea is that it reminds me of the monster names in Diablo 2.
Aiming to Learn as We Do, a Machine Teaches Itself
It seems like your app is simple enough to work well inside a fan page tab. Perhaps require the person to LIKE the page in order to use it, generating a viral "discovery story" in their friends' news feeds. We get a lot of requests for that sort of thing from our customers at fanbldr.com (plug!) and it works well.

Some users might also like their matching news stories delivered to them in their Facebook feed, but that is another issue entirely.

p.s. I signed up for your service. Seems like a great resource.
Well, the dock takes up a lot of space and for a lot of people it's not always visible. The menu bar is always there, ready to display information.
It's not that arguments are passed in registers that makes it so complicated, but the fact that there are separate register files for integer/pointer and floating-point types. Most classic RISC architectures have only one register file.
Ok, Did their lawyers tell them to write that.
First of all a Rasta can't cut his hear, Nazarite vow. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazirite

This is something that some Rastafarian take very seriously. If you did cut your hair depending on where you live and what the Rastafarian believe there, it could result in a leg or hand being forcefully amputated.

So seeing that statement by the employer makes it seem they are ignorant of the religion. And, somehow they think a little hair off the head wouldn't hurt. At this point if I was the lawyer, I would look to settle.
This seems to be an incredible opportunity for students to get a taste of the NYC tech/start-up scene. What a roster.

Congrats and thanks to Tech@NYU for putting together this event.

I'm currently studying abroad in Shanghai -- any chance of the panel discussions being recorded or broadcast in some way?
Stuxnet Under the Microscope
Well, stick with a winning strategy, then.

Any other UK-based celebs who might be interested in the Engine?
Ask HN: what's a good Google Prediction API alternative?
I have no previous experience with machine learning. I have a personal project where I have some historical data and would like to see if I can get any good predictions out of it.

Of course I would like to start from the beginning and learn the proper math for this field, but for now I don't have the time.

Google's Prediction API is pretty much exactly what I'm looking for to start with, however it is still in preview (and won't accept requests for accounts from outside the US).

Can you recommend a way to start off with this that does not require me to first spend a year or two studying theory?
Already here:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1746832
It's just semantics. The term rock star was involved in the recruiting process of my current job, and those who used it included a great hands on CTO and a CEO with above average tech knowledge. I had no illusions as to some kind of huge salary or RIAA like treatment.

It's cliche, yea. But sooner or later you'll miss out on a great opportunity if you run away when you see "rock star".
Cool. BTW just a little spelling mistake from the Pricing page: "It’s almost impossible to lost them."
this has been a settled issue in the US since 1964

Here's a case since then about hair length in the workplace:

http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?navby=searc...

tl;dr: your employer does have the legal right to tell you to cut your hair.
For real rock stars, records are a loss leader for concert tickets and t-shirts.
People who already have a lot of media they would like to be able to easily access on their TV screen, or people who are not interested in paying for content. I find Google TV more interesting since it adds an entire new layer over current television, apple TV isn't as exciting to me. I don't think people want to make a purchase decision every time they sit down to watch something.
I don't know where I read this, but it does seem like MS got so obsessed with Google and the online advertising market that they sort of forgot about their core markets. Where I would call making good software that runs on devices a core market. Hence they utterly missed the iphone and ipad markets. Because really, those markets where theirs to lose.

I wonder if this is just a symptom of a complete lack of imagination in the executive offices at MSFT? It does seem like going after online advertising was just flailing around looking for a market big enough to be relevant to their revenues.
Constituent is much better than redbare. There's nothing wrong with being long. Homophones on the other hand defeat the purpose of the service.
> What's wrong is that Oracle won't (ever) allow Harmony to be called Java Compatible, even though it is.

The same can be said of a fork. It will not be allowed to run the Java test suite (I forget the name) and certify itself Java.

Edit : Typo
I recently discovered this site. Seems relevant:

http://imarockstarninja.com/
If you were managing, say, a high-end restaurant kitchen, you might end up on ICA and judging Top Chef despite your dreads:

http://www.worldhum.com/travel-blog/item/interview-govind-ar...

You're just not going to get anywhere with this argument. There's nothing inherently wrong with dreadlocks.
Interesting.

Here's the original blogger's post (rather brief, but also more condensed) that is cited with "Huge thanks" but no link to the actual post, but rather just the blog's unqualified URL.

http://pascals-puppy.blogspot.com/2010/04/braided-streams-of...
How do you think the parts of the computer work and are developed? Especially processors. There's a lot of chemical and material sciences behind the scenes.

I suppose this is also why "Computer Engineering" as a discipline is somewhat growing in popularity.
Ask PG: How to delete an (old) HN account?
Often, I write something which I later find inane, particularly when I was emotional at the time.

When I first found HN (about 2 years ago), I read your essays, got an account, and left a puerile comment. The stupid thing is that I had used my real name for the handle. I later forgot all about it and used only this account. Today, I "binged" myself for the first time and the old account, including the comment, reappeared out of oblivion (it never did on Google).

Is there a way to kill this account for good? I don't want potential employers to associate me with that kind of tone. Let's just say it was a bad time for me.
http://www.blogreviewed.com/ (In beta - I believe i saw it on HN previously but can't find anything searching now) is an attempt at this. I think the product needs a lot of work - the tips on pitches and the way they evaluate sites all seem to have been done quickly/formulaically. The idea, as you mention is a good one. If they could improve the execution it would be useful. It's not a common app, but it makes pitching a repeatable process in an automated way (in theory).

I don't know if it was random or not, but it seems like they start with really easy (and in often case worthless) targets and then just work you up to say a VentureBeat. We (GroupTabs) had already been covered there, along with a couple other of their suggested pitch spots - so they definitely are not looking at that, which would be a nice feature.

That said I'm not sure a common app would really work. If you want coverage it's more than pitching the right publications, it's pitching the right people there.
I didn't submit my info on their site. They actually just picked up my site from somewhere else. Looking at my analytics I realized they were the ones responsible for the sudden spike in traffic.

But now that you mention solicitations, I was contacted by three PR companies in that same traffic spike. It appears to be a hot-bed for PR companies scouring for new clients. I just wonder if the site isn't run by one of these companies.