skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's only the case if you have certain international keyboards enabled, which is why many people don't know about it and why it wasn't mentioned in the article.
It would be nice if all the interested parties could come up with a solution that involved public lending libraries.

If all print books were to (for the sake of argument) completely vanish right now, I'm afraid that we'd find ourselves in a world where books were less generally accessible, not more generally accessible. Given the relative ease of ebook reproduction and distribution, this strikes me as the reverse of the way things ought to be.
This is exactly why java was invented (IMO). So you could pay someone $10/hr as a cog to solely work on the SupportEmailButtonFactory's
Not really.

To take politics out of the equation, suppose this was a leak of all the documents from the Witness Protection Program. Now all the information about everyone who has ever informed on anyone within the US criminal underworld is out in the open. If they get shot then yes, the moral responsibility for that shooting lies with the guy with the gun, but that doesn't absolve the person who released the information from any moral liability.
I agree. For the last year I've been beating myself up because I can't code, and have tried teaching myself for years...something just doesn't click for me.

But, I have HUGE respect for devs. I honestly am amazed at the stuff my staff developer can do. At a certain point I just had to give and say, "Well, I just need to make sure I can attract good developers and treat them like the wizards that they are".

As a "non-technical" person myself, I hate when some frat-boy has a pizza/movie delivery service "idea" and is just looking for someone to build the website. Ughh. I never want to be that business guy.

I think that's why I love Hacker News. It gives me an insight into a world I really respect, and I want to understand as much as I can....without actually hacking.
You just made me looks at stocks in a whole different angle.
No politics, please.
Public Universities (which usually have names like "University of Florida" or "Idaho State University" are heavily subsidized by direct money from (primarily) state governments. Many "private" universities also get significant direct money from government. In addition, there are federally (and state) funded scholarship programs that give money for school directly to students, and student loans have their interest paid while the student is in school by the federal government.

I don't know how it compares to other countries, but there is a lot of government subsidization.
"And to respond to your statement, you seem to be missing the bigger picture: How many soldiers have been put in harms way and died BECAUSE the truth was hidden from the public? How many more soldiers will die because of that?

There is absolutely no justification for the armed forces to engage in unethical behavior."

If the guys from wikileaks actually cared about human life, they would go through all of the data and change the names (no matter how difficult or long a process).

Since they aren't, I just feel that they are using this as political ammo against the US military.

People here seem to get all pissed off when you point this out, but it's the truth. People may die as a result of this info and the guys from wikileaks don't care.

I am all for being more transparent, but not at the expense of anyone's life.
Does your customer care which programming language you use? The true test is if the application that was developed meets the requirements of the customer/consumer. I don't develop for other developers; I develop for customers that want the app to work.
While accompanying my father to his financial advisor, I had the opportunity to decide what to do with some funds I had inherited. The advisor had given me several prospectuses to look over, and I had ruled out some funds because they had Altria (the former Philip Morris) as one of their largest ten holdings. I told him of my choices, and he laughed, saying that there was no way to get away from such companies.

Quite sad, but that's reality.
G. Waaaaaaaaaaaait a second. People currently write books and software and distribute them free.
I carefully used the word "might" because this is clearly a complex issue, and I'm no economist.

As someone who would otherwise be classified as "pro-business", I have found myself more and more dismayed by the bad behaviour of the largest corporations and their influence on the government.

A corporation is a legal entity with rights equal to a human, but in an Animal Farm kind of way. Their influence over governments and lawmaking make them "more equal" than Joe Q. Public. I would like to see checks and balance to keep the most flagrant corporate/financial bad behaviour under control.
I would say it's pretty easy if you are technically inclined. When I implemented the first iteration of my text search engine using Lucene, I didn't even know Java but I was able to write my own custom tokenizer and get it to index and retrieve results from the index in about 6 hours.

I highly recommend you get the book "Lucene in action" as it gives solid examples that you can build upon.
Again,

If you are down voting me, at least give me a reason. I feel like the supports of this just want to brush the truth under the metaphorical carpet.
Can you warn us if it is a video, especially since it auto-plays the ad and cannot be paused.

Thanks
So, the reliability may not be there for that. If an instance crashes, or becomes unavailable, or is, at the whim of Amazon, turned off, you've completely lost your settings.

You can still use them as a standard VPS, of course, if you just take a little care and mount a static file system up front, then use that for all dynamic content/database store/uploads/etc.

The only real difference is that your persistent file store is completely separate from the instance, which threw me for a big loop when they were new, but has become old hat since then.

I don't know what the reliability is nowadays, but there used to be (when it was very new) complaints that the instances would crash or come offline without notice, and that as with all things, it would happen at very inconvenient times. With care, and forethought, it's preventable, of course; but what happened then was people trying to do exactly what you suggest, only to be thwarted by the unreliability of the system.

Of course, the beauty of it, if planned for, is that it doesn't NEED to be reliable. If you use the Elastic Load Balancer, you can spool up pre-configured instances at the drop of a hat that service demand, and if one crashes, it's easy enough to replace with a brand new instance. The instances can all share a persistent file store, they can all be dynamically registered with the load balancer. They can all function on their own with relative autonomy (which is how businesses like CloudKick make their money.)

If nothing else, I'd advise you take advantage of this deal and play around with it. It's a neat little system, and their elastic IP addresses are something of a thought exercise at the beginning, and nothing short of brilliant after you've figured it out. You'll learn something, and that's always worth something.
Politics is the whole purpose of the leak. To take it out of the equation is to remove the point of argument.
B2C startups have bigger caps because the network externalities allow for bigger bubble valuations (1MM users who never pay for anything, because the internet is free = $1B valuation). As PG has said- the value of such a firm is basically the chance they're the next google; therefore, no need to be profitable.

B2B businesses are much more defined, much more down-to-earth, and make good money. Whilst it won't be as sexy, it will make you money- possibly even without ever needing an investor.
I did not downvote you, but since you are still asking, I found your original post very confusing, and it added nothing to the conversation.

> As we've seen with earlier releases, it's better for a few innocent people to die than keep some of this information secret.

Why/how is it better?

"Some of them probably even deserve it"

It's an inflammatory statement, I'm not even sure what you are trying to say.
Without more context, I find your statement that "Some of them probably even deserve it" offensive. If I had enough karma I would down vote you for that. Which human beings are you saying deserve to die? What facts and which code of ethics did you use to conclude that some people that you've never met deserve to die? If I am misinterpreting your statement, please correct me.
There may be a "selection bias" here with so many of us likely wanting to start a company.

This didn't used to describe me. I was quite happy being Mr. Fortune 500. The 5 years or so back, I went after one startup, then another, then I just applied to YC. I must have some kind of flexibility, determination, etc. to have gotten this far. Time will tell how much of the qualities described I have.
what kind of site? Can you just host it on Posterous? It's free.
Up voted for Tron. But product looks sweet.
I have been contracting for a company that has an in-house version of this tool. We are able to push about 10 million emails a day, including processing bounces, click, unsubs, etc, with a fairly straightforward set of python scripts. Its not about the custom logic, its about choosing the right basic building blocks.

Based on my experience, I doubt they need their "highly sophisticated" PHP to do this -- plain old normal PHP would probably be fine so long as they choose the right out-of-the-box software to pair it with. (nginx, postfix, certain non-sql databases, and the right mysql setup)
> Apple's CEO doesn't unofficially announce Java OS X from Oracle

Where on earth did I imply that? What would be wrong with:

"We intend to offer whatever assistance we can to third party JVM providers ensure that Mac users still have an excellent Java runtime available to them"

Instead we have a bold and inflammatory headline saying "Java Deprecation" and on information about whether Java will continue to exist on Macs at all in the future.
People want to maximize utility, we'll use money as a proxy, people want to maximize money. I suppose there are economic schools of thought that use other proxies for utility, but you seem to be agreeing with me insofar as the primary stand-in for utility is money, and it is a poor one.
"So instead of spending two years building a friendship to apply to yc, just go build the business. Inevitably, someone will want to join you when it is finished built."

I just connected with an old friend who saw something I just built and wants to join in. If you build something that's cool, people will indeed want to join in.
Marketing is still going to help a lot of guys.... that stuff takes experience and money that an indie guy or small company might not have yet.
As long as the publishers have a say, this feature doesn't matter. Don't believe me? Look at the Nook. I've bought over 30 books on it, 2 of them have the LendMe feature.

For books I expect to share and re-read, I'm back to the physical copy. The only new ebooks I'm getting are the disposable fiction stories; which is probably the business model Amazon/BN have in mind and why we're still years away from a reasonable digital reader solution.
Given that Amazon was founded in Seattle for tax reasons, I suspect Bezos is just as smart as Google in this case.
I wasn't saying it's not a worthy cause, just that the FSF has cried wolf before. Nobody has time to read every page of every bill being considered, so it's not clear without further research whether it's as bad if they say it is.

I'm kind of irritated that Leahy (my former senator) is sponsoring the bill, anyway.
Then, it’s ridiculous that there is no way to close an app without saving its state. The iPhone is easily the worst when it comes to clutter in the app manager, and the solution would be all too simple. How about a long-tap on the home button to close an app, fellas?

If you're worrying about "clutter in the app manager", you're using your iPhone wrong.
Exactly this. One thing I've learned from launching projects is that customers don't just come to you. Marketing is a huge factor in getting any traction.
I am well aware that technically those are the same. My point is that it does not matter because the intent is different.
"We explore... and you call us criminals. We seek after knowledge... and you call us criminals. We exist without skin color, without nationality, without religious bias... and you call us criminals. You build atomic bombs, you wage wars, you murder, cheat, and lie to us and try to make us believe it's for our own good, yet we're the criminals."

I've heard this manifesto used many times to defend behavior that is just as wrong.
You don't think that once established, the Apple software store will quickly become the preferred way to distribute software on the Mac? Any time a platform owner gives their official blessing to 3rd party software it gives a huge plus to that software. Hence why we have all kinds of Microsoft certification etc. you can do to have your app blessed.

"Deprecated" may seem a little strong, but they are Job's own words that he used to simply describe the fact that Java will be provided by a third party:

http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#releasenotes/Java/Ja...
Or just subscribe to the RSS feed of all the jobs from any Y Combinator company: http://www.linkup.com/rss/?feed_id=chfx2co1yjrzl7now3papp2w
I'm terribly sorry if this is an ignorant question but does this somehow apply to manually solving a, say, 5x5?
There have been a few threads on HN about Fridge and in at least one the question about the magical "Profit" step was asked. I'm genuinely curious how a platform specifically targeted at people who want to maintain more definitive boundaries in their group memberships makes money.

Maybe I'm just not savvy enough to get it. The only thing I can think of is targeted advertising but even that seems a little sketchy given the premise that Fridge is ultra-private. How do you capitalize on a social graph without seeming to cross the line with privacy?

I guess the other option is to eventually charge for features in a sort of Freemium model.

Anyone have any other ideas how you monetize such a thing?
Are you sure? In a war, disinformation is common. And mistakes are made. And names aren't unique. Even a noncombatant thousands of miles away, with no allegiances to either side, could get confused with a conflict principal.

Of course, this tangential risk doesn't suggest all info should remain confidential, any more than the existence of some crimes means all operational info from a war zone must be totally public.

It just means tread carefully if revealing info that's prone to misinterpretation, or info that might be used by combatants to direct indiscriminate retaliatory violence.

If Wikileaks came across a list of confidential informants in domestic murder cases under investigation, would it be a good idea to publish that list?
I agree with you.

I would add that in addition to having that low-level understanding, they should also care about what their code does and how it performs.

That's where it tends to break down for me. For a lot of people in McProgramming jobs, they don't care, and rely on Moore's law to handle the rest, or mark it off as technical debt that can be paid off at some unknown time in the future (and that time never seems to arrive).
Out of the books I've read in the last 5 years, I believe the only ones that were free were those whose copyright had expired. Yes, there's lots of good free software, but that's most often because the software, once written, scratched an itch for someone. The same phenomenon doesn't really exist with books: nearly nobody writes books for themselves; we write books to share our knowledge, stories, and opinions with others.
I didn't mean to jump into a startup with someone that you've only been in a relationship with for a short time. I was just trying to point out a way of meeting a cofounder that others may not have considered.

While it's clearly not a good idea to cofound a startup with a new significant other, I completely disagree with characterizing a new relationship as a "green sprig." If the relationship is so tenuous that it can't handle a little stress and strain, then is it really worth trying to "tend" into a long-term relationship? From experience, that just delays the inevitable breakup.

Characterizing a new relationship like that also carries the implicit assumption that it's the last relationship you're capable of having. While I do my best to avoid hurting anyone, if a relationship is not working out there are other relationships to be had.
Kids, take notes: Slipping in that NYTimes.com $50,000/$50 price-point disruption is what turns an otherwise boring PR reword-reprint into a killer article. Too bad TC buried the lede and too bad they wrote YC-backed.
For some applications you can configure notifications and turn "sounds","alerts","badges" on or off. Messages does not have this config option for some reason :(
What format would the homework documents be in? I know I've seen several apps that let you annotate PDFs with "ink", but I haven't personally used any.
First, you don't always have the options of using a wired signal (think web access in a coffee shop).

As for your example, it is indeed contrived: the criminals are doing something illegal at that moment, so most usual expectations as far as privacy goes become moot, especially w.r.t. law enforcement people.

I don't see how that's relevant at all: the key points is that you are doing something that is legal, may be looked at by anyone who has the skill to do so, but you do not indent this thing to be known. By your argument, anything that is not hidden can be looked at by anyone ? If you have a letter, or some private packages that you loose by accident, are you ok with anyone looking at it because you did not encrypt it or protect it well enough ?
Might want to update your mind, your information is outdated.
That's exactly what I said (!)

I just don't make the assumption that all Apple's choices === good user experience.
In fact the rails3 release is mostly ready. There's a rails3 branch in the customer git repo that will be merged into master in the next week or two.
How to be a data detective
Didn't Apple hire the guy responsible for WebOS' notifications? Hopefully we'll see some progress in this area.
That's because profit isn't part of their bet. This is a get acquired bet, plain and simple. Surely they will spin a yarn about charging for premium features, etc -- but that's just because they have to.
Congrats, I think it's a great improvement from the first version. I'd love to see a post on your blog about the sales ;)
I think I get where dangrover is coming from. You really want to support an organization that looks through the bills or at the situation and determines if it is really a threat and how much. Most people don't have time to read the bill or the RFPs the Federal Gov puts out (Lord knows, I had to do it for quite a few years and it was time consuming and painful). This is one of the reason people like to find experts who can do the research.

// link-bait type headlines have an effect on belief https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2010/08/steve-jobs-watching-yo...
Delayed in 2008, Google restarts Data Center build near Tulsa, OK
I've never really understood this limitation. It doesn't exist for physical books (of which I've bought plenty), and it's the one thing that held me back from buying a Nook.
Look how quickly people moved from Myspace to Facebook.

Facebook is a much better product than Myspace. I can't say the same about bing.
These are the warning shots. As commerce increasingly goes to the web, hungry states will be tapping more companies for a piece of the action.
That's excellent! So why did you say having a co-founder is the hardest part? Surely there's some way you can help the world doing something that interests the both of you.
The project was delayed in 2008 with the slowing economy. This is a good sign for the economy as a whole, not to mention the NE Oklahoma region.

Quote from Google:

"We always intended to make the Mayes County data center operational at some point. In 2008, we determined that we already had the server capacity to meet current demand, meaning that it was unnecessary to bring the Mayes County data center online at that time. Google’s traffic has continued to grow since then, and we believe it’s time to make this site operational so we can meet greater demand."

More links:

* http://www.google.com/datacenter/mayescounty/faq.html

* http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2010/10/21/googl...

* http://www.tulsaworld.com/opinion/article.aspx?subjectid=61&...
Additional Thoughts on the New MacBook Air
Politikxxx
"Why/how is it better?"

I don't think you got my point. My point is that the people from Wikileaks (not me) believe that it's better to bring this information to light than prevent innocent lives from being lost.

"Some of them probably even deserve it"

It was a quote..as in I didn't say it or believe it. Look at some of the comments in this article. Many people believe that this info should be brought to light and to hell with the consequences.
Because the state audited Amazon. FTFA:

"Amazon.com was audited for sales tax covering the time period of December 2005 to December 2009. They were assessed a liability and billed in August 2010. The company has requested a re-determination which means this is an ongoing audit and could be decided as part of the administrative hearings process. The company would send documents and this process will continue."
My personal view is that the three most interesting phone GUIs are iOS, WebOS and Windows Thingamajiggy 7.

They take slightly different, yet opinionated approaches to the smartphone use case. I'm probably going to get flamed for it, but Android's UI to me seems to be lacking a concrete "design opinion", so to speak.
Key quote from the article: "Kaye cautions not to confuse wealth with income. Some people can make a million a year, but be spending a million and a half. They are not rich, said Kaye."
"Without more context, I find your statement that "Some of them probably even deserve it" offensive. If I had enough karma I would down vote you for that. Which human beings are you saying deserve to die? What facts and which code of ethics did you use to conclude that some people that you've never met deserve to die? If I am misinterpreting your statement, please correct me."

This is what many of the wikileaks supports believe, not me. By releasing info that could harm the people involved, you are letting people know that you don't give a damn about their lives.
argh... sorry about that! we had a bug we introduced recently that we thought fixed that... email repairman@frid.ge with you account and we can fix it?
Probably not worth the effort on such a small system.

They specifically target large systems, because their approach (I think) iteratively approximates the matrix, then uses the solution of each simpler version as the initial guess to the solution of the next closest one to the original.

Presumably all that overhead pays off in the long run, but not on small systems.
I could do a lot of things, but it looks like only have to do this thing because my job postings will be repurposed for someone's side project.
Halfway through the article this encoding / data compression algorithm I learned last semester came to my mind:

Huffman coding
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huffman_coding

It was really simple, based on a file with a given number of symbols, it would rewrite those symbols as length-variable unique binary codes, so that the symbol with highest number of occurrences would become the code with the smallest possible bit-length, and so on with the other symbols so that it would spend most bits on the symbols that occurred less times.
Do'h, I checked the size some months ago - but I must have had them compiled in debug mode. Still 30 MB is quite large to download over an average commercial internet link.