skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wouldn't say it's the exact opposite, though it's not libertarian. It does fit into a Hayekian view that government intervention is justified to promote free markets and competition. That's not quite libertarianism, but Hayek fans are often found near libertarian circles.

It seems to be somewhat an ends/means disagreement. Many branches of libertarianism argue that government interference with private contracts is inherently wrong. Other pro-capitalist views (Hayek among them), though, focus more on the outcomes, arguing that capitalism is good because competitive markets with decentralized decision-making mediated by price signals produce the best outcomes for humanity. Those holding the latter view don't have as blanket an opposition to all kinds of regulation, but would allow some kinds of regulation that are narrowly tailored towards promoting competitive markets. Adam Smith is probably the earliest precursor of that view; for example, he opposed most regulation, but supported requiring employers to pay wages in silver, because he thought on balance, prohibiting employers from paying their employees in IOUs promoted a functioning market economy, so the interference with the employer's absolute freedom to negotiate payment methods with their employees was justified. Hayek outlined a number of kinds of intervention he felt justified as well.
Do your best to stay in classes and graduate early. At the same time, you can work on something on the side. Time management is something that they dun teach in school. If things work out for your side project, hire someone to run things for you. That's something that they dun teach in school too. School is the place for you to meet people, social and build network. They will come in useful in the future.
I tried Qwiki too. Frankly I don't get it. Taking a few sentences from Wikipedia and then converting that to speech is not necessarily an information experience. Wonder what the Techcrunch Disrupt panel found exciting about Qwiki. It seems to matter if a startup has founders with some pedigree or at least associated with people with pedigree. I am sure there were better start ups in Techcrunch Disrupt.
Initial thoughts on C# 5's async support
Yeah you would need to hash the contents of the request against the one-time string and then send the hash but not the string.
I don't think there is one, the only solution to fraud detection issue is to build something that will ultimately just become like PayPal is with all it's frustrations and shortfalls.

You are also up against regulatory issues (you skirt around becoming a bank = highly regulated) and the massive network effects PayPal/eBay have.

I heard that Square had to pause growth to deal with fraud, and they have the benefit of having Visa/MasterCard/Amex as intermediaries.
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Some of the rules in the mythology of horror movie mainstays are so entrenched, changing them is near sacrilege.
We always miss what we don't have and never see what we already have.
"Supercomputing is at the basis of many important scientific and commercial enterprises in the United States, and it is very important that we not relinquish our lead in this area."

Details, please. Otherwise it is just blubbering.
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What does he expect the users to do? Not use Facebook? Right...
Then I urge you to look at it again - who cares what the users believe? What matters is what you get out of it.
Google is the only company you listed that has failed at expanding it's revenue streams - too early to say for Facebook and Twitter, and Apple is killing it at new markets.
Are your "successes" here "responses" or "dates?"
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I didn't say I'm not worried, I just think it's counterproductive to promote environmentalism in emotional ways. If people think of nearly everything we do as bad, they'll make decisions based on good intentions instead of rational analysis.

I don't understand your analogy. Programs are human constructs. The Earth is a chaotic system, with or without us.

Do you have any evidence for our infrastructure being a ponzi scheme? (I think it would be hard to find, given that this same infrastructure will probably soon give us fusion power).

FYI: deserts are defined by the amount of rainfall they receive, not by whether they have plants or not.
So what was your suggestion was for then? I think I'm missing the use case.
I think American students should study, work and live in Chindia for at-least 2 years
I hacked a lot of CL back in 2002-2003 and I've dabbled in Clojure lately. Clojure has a lot of promise but I'm waiting for some of the rough edges to get smoothed out (stacktraces in particular).
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Yup, I'm heading there as well http://ausdroid.net/2010/10/01/android-australia-pro-am-get-...
Isn't it ironic that we're discussing it on a website that doesn't have https at all, not even on the login page?
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Reminds me of OpenDHT, "a publicly accessible distributed hash table (DHT) service", which has since been taken down:
http://www.opendht.org/
I do think being able to store information without too much hassle is pretty useful.
Taking write access to my Facebook account away from anyone who captures my wireless packets on their way to the AP.
Hi Mate,

I'm an ex bootneck now programming in an investment bank. The London Financial Python User group is a good meeting to go to - usually about once every two months.

What are you into now?
Lots of sites declare + to be an invalid character in email addresses. It's rather frustrating.
That's the point. It's empirical (albeit, not scientific) evidence that even when presented with the risks, users will still choose to do things that are dangerous.
Privatize profits, Socialize losses.
What is your favorite cloud based project Management software?
Dell contracts out the bodies that go onsite to service their warranties. I once did a few of these contracts. When you get onsite you're just supposed to call and do everything you're told. You're literally just their eyes and hands. If you try to figure things out on your own you'll just be ignored and if you persist the contract will be canceled and you wont be paid.

I was looking at the PC of one of these poor customers, Dell was having me do a couple of power checks. At the end of it they said "we've ordered a new power supply, you'll have it in 2 days". When I hung up the customer says to me "they didn't say power supply did they? This will be the third one. Why doesn't someone actually figure out what's wrong with my computer?"

I've never touched a Dell product since that day.
It isn't according to OkCupid's exposed stats. Average reply rate to messages sent by males is between 1/3 and 1/4 (varying by age). If you hunt through the OkCupid blog archive, you can find the relevant stats. (I think they were released this year.)
>This is generally the point where the bank or the health insurance industry gets blamed for your predicament, sadly.

Shouldn't the banks get some of the blame? They make it so easy to get the credit, it should be no surprise that some people will over do it.
Have you used the service? I've been using it for close to a year, and I love it.

I've been using it to manage sponsor payments for Hackers and Founders for some time. It's wonderful, easy and simple to use.

And, the reason that they are building this is because PayPal sucks.
I really don't want to restrict myself to enterprise grade apps. Java is too enterprisey I would say just like .NET. It's just my opinion. Meanwhile, frameworks like Rails are what I'm interested in. Fun and for personal projects. Doesn't matter whether it fetches me a job or not. After searching through HN, Django and Rails are what looks to be dominant recommended frameworks here.
So? If Apple wins it doesn't mean that Microsoft has to lose. In fact, it looks like they're both winning.
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I'm not sure why my comment has been downvoted, it answers the question and to my knowledge is accurate. Perhaps I can expand on something for you?
I remember a story about a business owner (in India I think) whose employees could get loans but he could not. They were employed after all.
Yes. If they are part of your "group", then you can transfer money back and forth. It takes an extra step, but it's definitely possible.
As an aside, I have a list of "holes" in my knowledge that I am systematically working to eliminate, partially derived from: http://www.indiangeek.net/wp-content/uploads/Programmer%20co...
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Surely he could have just get himself employed as a director of the company?
I can't say much about death punishment but..

"He said he was carrying them to Australia for a Sydney syndicate to help his brother Khoa, a former heroin addict, pay A$30,000 ($31,460) in debts."

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=a...

See how drugs forces people to do "dumb" things?
it's always possible to bypass whatever ORM you use by using plain PDO/SQL, but then all the features an ORM provides are lost.

but mixing ORMs with custom SQL would be a challenge, because the results couldn't be mapped to relational tables anymore.

by the way, you can reuse dumbledORMs PDO-instance - $conn = Db::pdo() - and even the query method (preparing, executing and fetching) is public too.

i didn't look into the hydrate method, but it seems it is possible to map results from custom queries to ORM objects.
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I'm with you bhiggins
ReadyForZero connects with people and empowers them with the right information...

"Empowers them"?? When Obama said to Jon Stewart that Larry Summers had done "a heck of a job" fixing the economy, Jon laughed and responded: "dude, you don't want to use that phrase". (Obama then said "pun intended", but still).

Same here. If you're going after credit card companies and big corporations, please don't try to "empower" anyone, because by now people have learned what it's like to be "empowered" (hint: it hurts).

Also:

- most of their data seems to be from 2006 -- that was a long time ago

- many problems listed, not many solutions

- it seems highly improbable that people are drowning in debt because they don't know better; people have debts because they can, because they enjoy it -- they enjoy the goods the debts help buy, and the debt, they forget about it.
This happened to me a while back, I had to change the password to the server as every domain on it was vulnerable. How do you smoke adderall anyway?
Your post brings up the real issue: if you sit still you're going to die.

Apple now makes something like 60% of its revenue from products that didn't exist 5 years ago. I'm sure they realize this and will continue. When they stop they wont be center stage anymore and they probably know this.

Google has been trying almost everything there is to try. It's been almost exclusively failure but their pockets are deep enough that they'll probably get a hit eventually. I guess in that sense they are the closest to Microsoft's current position but they haven't built up nearly the same amount of bad blood yet.

Facebook I have much less faith in. Everyone I know who uses it only does so because they can't find a good alternative. That's a bad situation to be in if you're going for the long term

I don't know enough about Twitter to make a comment.
Junk food may be "the cheapest option," but if you insist on eating a meal that actually provide the nutrients that the body needs, you'd have to spend a lot more money eating junk food than just cooking yourself.

Saying you just don't have enough time to cook for yourself is almost never true.

Just one meal example: Pressure cook for 6 minutes (plus ~5 getting up to pressure) a large volume of potatoes, carrots, onions, some ginger and chili pepper for flavor. Drop in some canned tomato and canned fish, and you can easily end up paying less than $1 for a totally balanced delicious meal, and you have produced in one swoop enough food to feed an adult for two full days.
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German is my first language, so I get along really well - but I've a couple of English-only speaking friends, and they seem to stay happy :)

Judging from what I know, there are quite a lot of English-only speakers in Vienna. Most of the young people in Austria speak English - so you won't have any trouble ordering food, going out partying or getting to know people (at least in an age group < 45).

If you plan to move to Vienna and are interested in any technical stuff, you should definably check out the Metalab to meet some people - I believe 90% of the people there are able to speak English (some are English-only speakers) and they might also help you meet other English-speaking people..
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Why would you expect most people to do otherwise? I fully know the risks of using open hotspots on many websites and I do it anyway because the convenience outweighs the risks for me. Obviously I'd think twice about logging into my bank over a non-secure connection (though I'd be mad to bank with a company that doesn't secure all connections by default, of course), but open-wifi Facebook? Sure, why not?

This behavior extends beyond Internet usage. I (and probably most of you reading this) hand my credit/debit cards over to waiters several times per month knowing full well they could jot down enough information while out of my sight to make illegal charges on that card (if not do far worse via more elaborate identity theft schemes). Risky? Yes, but the extreme convenience outweighs the potential pain due to the low chance of actually being one of the people that gets exploited in this way, and thus it is with open hotspots and most Internet sites.
No conversation about GNU screen alternatives is complete without mention of Dustin Kirkland's Byobu. https://launchpad.net/byobu

It's a user-friendly screen wrapper with intelligent defaults (key shortcuts and tab indicators with the title of the screen session inside them) and a myriad of status indicators for the bottom of your screen
> Singapore Airlines is notorious for discriminating age, sex, and looks for its flight attendants.

That's kind of funny considering the opening of the article was written from the perspective of Hollywood, which isn't exactly known to foster the careers of talented but less attractive actresses, let alone ones past their 30's.
Tianhe-1A: 4702 TFLOPS. Made in China. (And New World's Fastest Supercomputer).
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This is in response to the comment here:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1834508

My next item will be on the 1800 dimensional space problem I mention.
It depends which users you're talking about. I'd guess (based on the lead-user theories of Yochai Benkler) that a ridiculous of amount of innovation is going to come out of Android, because of it's toolkit nature combined with the type of people who would buy a phone just to make it do something that currently can't be done, who have no other suitable platform.

We've already seen a wave of innovation from "users" building apps for iPhone, Android just continues and expands this into the next level down.
Could it be that the persons thought it was some kind of automatically-generated message? Maybe a you're wearing a red shirt that says ... would get the point across?
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It has been talked about so much that only authority links pay good returns. How exactly can one procure authority links? Links can be of poor quality as well as of high quality.
Ask HN:My former co-founder is threatening to sue me 
Hi all,

I am from a third world country and my fomer co-founder is a u.s citizen.

We have been working since last 3 years on a ad network start-up which closed earlier this year.

I started a part-time project and i need some money to sustain myself so i decided to ask for 500 USD for
6 months and also 2 - 4 hrs commitment everyday from my former co-founder the project kicked off really well and
we generated about 6K income in 1 week after the expenses our total profit was about 4K.

My co-founder paid for 2 months thats 500x2 after that the venture was profitable so he never paid and he didnt commit any
time in 6 months he only spend 10-15 days avg 1-2 hrs on advicing and i myself spend 18 hrs a day in coding and business
development.

After repeatly warning him i dedicided yesterday asked to not to do any futher business with him and pay him for the
expenses and he got mad hearing this he threatened to sue in U.S court and file a grandtheft against me he says i will never be
able to step in US or do business with a US company if i dont give him 2000 USD right now plus 50% of the company.

I feel cheated to work with someone who cannot commit time and effort as much i do in the venture.

All agreements we had were via chat and voice and not in legal sheet.

The company is a not us company but must of our customers are from u.s.

Please advice

Thank you !
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this reads like what the Japanese did in WWII: racing to build the largest battleship when naval warfare had shifted to carriers and airplanes (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_battleship_Yamato).
>Why am I being down-voted?

Probably because your post would have a hard time being further from reality. If this were back in the open source heyday it might not seem so out of place but at the end of 2010?

For some people open source was some sort of religion but the form it actually took was nothing more than loss leader. You can't break into the OS market because MS is too embedded? Then give your stuff away and make it up on the back end. This is what you're seeing, not some "power of open source" nonsense. Google doesn't care about open source, they care about getting an OS they can leverage on as many phones as possible so they can't be locked out on advertising. Unix vendors used to give their OS away because it was the hardware they made their money on.

Today the tides are changing. Now you can use micro-payments via the various application stores out there so developers no longer need to try and make some free source app in the hope of landing a job through it. Now they can take their shot at the market place and hopefully become self sufficient. Personally I'd rather become financially independent than land a "great job" working for someone else. I don't see how open source can offer me this.
I totally get where you are coming from with this. If I have a bag with me in a public space, or if I left my email open on my laptop and left the room I would not expect anyone to help themselves to the content. It's a trust issue. I guess the difference here is that someone could go unnoticed in our midsts.
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Not a very 'green' solution!
>Everyone who talks about the death of Xerox PARC has never met any Xerox PARC engineers.

It takes more than money and good people to avoid "death".
> All agreements we had were via chat and voice and not in legal sheet.

Sounds like the whole thing is pretty much screwed.

> The company is a not us company but must of our customers are from u.s.

Who owns the company?
I mean, the disagreement certainly isn't over if certain government interventions can improve market efficiency, since they certainly can. But I disagree that the disagreement is really as principled as you say, over if the ends justify the means. The disagreement is most likely over if you can somehow give a government body a few powers (like those Hayek outlines) without ending up with something like we have now.

Great post.
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Are you an ecologist or other relevant professional?
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very carefully?

I don't think it's really visual, it's just like metavisual thinking without engaging the phonological loop.

I visualize graphs most of the time, sometimes with colors or textures but usually fairly simple planar graphs.
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There is also a part 2. Very well written sir!

http://blog.hawkhost.com/2010/07/02/tmux-%E2%80%93-the-termi...
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I've heard the story from a Russian guy whose father works at Gazprom.
What relevance does this have to the discussion? How is this not spam?
I own the company at the moment i repeatedly request to form a u.s corporation with the money we got he was avoiding to do so bcuz he wanted to make sure we make 50-100K before we make any company which sounded fishy to me.
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To be fair, they also built a crap-ton of carriers and airplanes.
SSL does not necessarily need one IP per server.

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Server_Name_I...

Unforunately, support is not sufficiently widespread at this time.
1) I changed text colors to make logical blocks. I also rearranged order of fields according to the priorities you suggested:

http://www.postjobfree.com/Job.aspx?id=69531a3762d0430cb0615...

http://www.postjobfree.com/Resume.aspx?id=4c6bea8dec2e45a4b6...

Does it look better or you had something else in mind?

Does it make sense to use something like Crazy Egg to find out what's the most popular attribute on the page and rearrange fields accordingly?

2) Google Maps snippet gives user instant hint about the location.

I have couple of users explicitly mentioned that having maps on PostJobFree was nice.

Nobody complained even when I asked if the map was unneeded distraction.

Google Analytics indicate that for every nine (9) Job page views there is one click on the map.
Does it look like useful feature now?

3) "Posted Date" is a date range, because it includes original posting date.

Does it make sense that way?
Been one of those entrepreneurs - Being employed as a director is not seen has employment. My employee just got loan of 2.2 million rupees to buy a vehicle (depreciating asset)and banks are not clearing my loan of 2million to buy a house (asset) when I am paying other 2million. True story.
Such a sad US vs THEM post.

Americans are just going to have to accept that the playing field is becoming more level and eventually a country with 1 Billion people is going to be more productive than a country with 300 Million people. It's just arithmetic.

And it's not the end of the world. It's ok to just live in a country and have a cool life.