skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Don't want to beat a dead horse, but you said something that interested me.

I know several Political Science majors.

Do you view Political Science as a hard science, much like physics? Because from what you've said, you seem to feel that certain issues are settled. Or do you view it more like sociology, where there are competing theories and hard science is difficult (if not impossible) to perform?

It sounds like you were saying that it should be treated as a hard science, but that can't be right, can it?
For an all day interview, sure some feedback would be nice.

For a phone interview, I'd probably think you're a bigger asshole if you went into details about how I failed the interview, what's wrong with me, why I'm unqualified, and how I can go about improving myself. Imagine someone going into the details about why we won't be going out on a second date.
A working implementation of fully homomorphic encryption [pdf]
Bootstrapping technique: http://eprint.iacr.org/2010/145.pdf
I have wished for this several times in the past. Thanks, node-canvas folks!
As long as you stick to mathematics and numbers, quantum mechanic is really robust.

Just don't start interpreting that monster. There be dragons.
Bootstrapping technique: http://eprint.iacr.org/2010/145.pdf
There are indeed a ton of Evernote books in Japan.
It's more of a focus thing for Android - not all people put the ability to play Rage HD as their first requirement when buying a smart phone. So when Sony-Ericsson decided to do a portable gaming machine that can also act as a phone - 2.3 focus shifted to fixing up the gaming portion of Android. It's an organic, grow-as-you-go growth. In a way it is more sensible.

The other thing is that there is lot of choice with Android - $29 LG Optimus to the upcoming Playstation Phone. People who just need a phone that can browse and email and occasionally play Angry Birds - LG phone is for them. People who want a portable gaming device which can be used as a phone - they can get the PS Phone and it will come with Gingerbread.

I don't think that Android not having this or not having that is a real problem. If there is demand, some vendor will fix what is required, push more capable hardware etc and people will have more choices. So far the Android users don't seem to be demanding RageHD style games - that's all.
Thanks for you immediate response.
If you're able to start today it would be awesome!
I am not sure but I think they can't show ads in HTML5 version of the player - thats why they have it as opt-in, I might be wrong.

But what the hell Adobe.. for every new device that flash runs, they need 2-3 years to optimize it. Flash needs to die!!
Kudos for doing research before diving in. If it sounds like there is enough interest, one option could be to use a whitelabel daily deals service like Tippr.com. Although it is tempting to hack together a groupon-clone, in the end the software on the consumer end is generally the easy part when building a basic daily deal site. The time consuming part is everything that goes on behind the scenes. The support, writing, deal scheduling, deal sourcing, affiliate marketing, reporting tools, etc. This stuff often gets overlooked when creating a deal site. Tippr can handle as much of this overhead as you need which allows you to focus on marketing and helping source deals for your niche. If you are curious how the end white-label product looks, we've recently launched a white-label with BusinessInsider that they call Pipeline Deals (http://pipeline.businessinsider.com). This site runs similar types of deals - except targeted for business folk instead of hackers.

Disclosure: I'm a designer at Tippr. If you want to learn more, I can get you in touch with one of the business people.
How are the deals discoverable? Since the deal is "Liked" on your site, will you aggregate all deals in general product categories (Apparel, Electronics, etc.), creating a merchant/deal directory?
I use my CC to pay for rent and utilities and whatever other necessities, nothing extra. I've racked up 108K AA points (and counting) simply through that.

So I'm not questioning that the flights could be $418, however I do expect living expenses for the next 9 months for him to be massive depending on how he plans on handling himself (which he doesn't talk about in the article much).
It's basically just not considered release-quality yet, as far as I know. The Flash player is mature and YouTube has been fine with it for a long time.
Sometimes I get the feeling that the Flash codebase is probably a huge clusterfuck. You know these doomed projects, that were never properly written at the beginning and then more and more stuff gets added on top of it. Then you change developers and even more stuff gets added. Instead of rewritting the whole mess, you do silly things like trying to port it to 64bit. At the end you got some completly ridiculous binary, that went through several dozen QA cycles and appears to be somewhat stable, but nobody really know why its actually working anymore.
Aspiring photographer snaps photos for some Rejection Therapy
It's because we need the techniques and tools to handle the ever-increasing amount of information in our lives.
Ask HN: Which startups are hiring Product Managers in Silicon Valley?
My point was that if you started with no parties at all, then developed parties, that there should be an even split -- if no other factors were involved.

Of course, there are many other factors, and we can endlessly speculate as to what they might be. But for purposes of the relationship between one group and one party, whatever the group or party, my example holds.

Of course, a fine counterargument to that is "but there is nothing like what you describe, so your thought experiment is useless" To that the best I can come up with is to take at look at early American politics, when the parties first developed after the founding of the government. At that time it was a pretty even split (as far as I have been told)

There is a lot of correlative science going on in this area, and I would be very careful not to confuse correlation with causation. I would also be careful (and I know you know this if you know anything about politics) about exactly how such studies are conducted: the questions used, the implied bias, etc.

Somebody who was not careful could take reams of this "science" of correlation and string all sorts of theories about people, such as right-wingers are more happy yet stupider and more authoritarian. Or whatever. I'd be very careful walking down this road, and not simply because of the flaky nature of the science. It's beginning to look like scientists are making an effort to explain why people could be so stupid to be conservatives, and that's not a good place to go. Not because you'd piss off folks, but because there is a great danger of political science itself becoming an echo chamber. Once you box-up any opposition, you can lord over the poor unwashed masses, whether you mean to or not. And that is really bad for both the science itself and the way the science is conducted.
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Cool idea man! Thumbs up!
Everybody please calm down regarding WikiLeaks and Julian Assange
As others have pointed out, it's funny how this is a problem for Democrats and/or scientists. Shouldn't _Republicans_ be worried about that? I guess this presupposes that you believe in all that "scientific method" nonsense as opposed to, say, Intelligent Design.

I should also point out that, if anything, an inquisitive, questioning turn of mind would indicate _more_ willingness to explore alternative ideas, not less! The assumption here appears to be just the opposite: scientists are, for whatever reason, categorically unwilling or incapable of considering alternative political ideas. It takes a special kind of chutzpah to suggest that an entire class of people that disagrees with you is guilty of dishonesty or shenanigans.

Bonus hilarity: he won't come right out and say it, but this sure does sound like he's asking for Republican affirmative action in science and universities. lol, as the kids say.
At least several, maybe all, of those were directly inspired by rails migrations.

Actually most of them (except datamapper and postfacto) have existed before rails was created.

And I'll argue strongly against "matter of taste" when it comes to error-prone routine procedures.
That's exactly what I said. You can't just give it a different name and do a clean-room implementation, because it still likely violates some patents.
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Fast Iterations: How Napoleon Managed the French Army
Your "test" is ridiculous. If you went to Oracle, Apple or Microsoft and asked for a free license so that you can teach your daughter, I bet they'd tell you to get stuffed. Why should a small business be any different? Ask for what you need.

Also, please use paragraphs. Rambling monoblock responses are another classic sign of a toxic customer.
But remember who the action is towards. Private organizations. Not the government. Just private organizations who chose to disassociate themselves with another private organization. When you step outside of this media frenzy/bubble we're all in that's what it boils down to. Then some people didn't like that and they committed a crime against PayPal, Visa, and Mastercard.
At the end of interviews when they ask "Do you have any questions for me" I make a point of asking what they felt was good about my interview and how they think I could have improved it. Most of the time, they refuse to answer that question. I think it's probably a bad idea for me to do this.
Your comment would have been more valuable if you had left the toxic political barbs out of it; I say that as a liberal opposed to the war in Iraq. This comment made me groan out loud.

The inevitable meta-argument that is going to result from me pointing this out will also be annoying and it will also prompt groans, but at least we'll be arguing about something relevant to Hacker News: whether "off-topic: most politics" actually means anything.
I'm digging that 2! Cool idea man!
Same here. Though I did only fill out the form yesterday, so here's hoping that I'll have one tomorrow. Fingers crossed!
Now the cpu needs to be about 3x faster so there is no perceptible lag (it's pretty obvious right now).

Very nice of Microsoft to back down on the anti-hacking threats, this is great for everyone.

I wonder how long until someone hacks it to help certain disabilities.
To me this separates the "business" people from the "product" people. I'm one of the latter.

I also feel strongly that the point of view you choose here drastically affects your day to day performance. Being "passionate" about your work you are more likely to get it done right. I think it's always better to start a business with a community (demand) rather than a business model (supply).
Mamma mia! Nice shot! Shows you you can get when you get out of your comfort zone and ask.
How many packets are a crime? I understand if you want to arrest the RBNs of the world, but unfortunately it's more frequently some random person who are made an example of. I don't think the question is if what these people did was wrong, but if it's reasonable to punish them for it.
I'm pretty sure no one has argued against the right for anyone to work for two centuries. (There were laws against that before.)

What is discussed is what kind of property rules make society better, just like for copyright: absolutes don't work so well. Even if a man should be able to “do what he pleases” with his money, he can't buy nuclear warheads, or his last competitors. In some context, letting one person owns too much can be damaging; whether its his responsibility to do good, or society's role to enforce better ownership should depend on the cultural context and innovation. The economists who lead the study of how those interact won the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2008. Liberal property rights like what you advocate works best in extensive context like the original rural USA; within cities, evergetic rules seem preferable; when there are decisive, irreplaceable common goods like irrigation or seaport, more inclusive system, that let a community influence individual decisions are preferable.

You need to make sense of the context that gave you the values that you care about, otherwise you end up either defending inappropriate non-sense, and forcing it onto others (case in point: Acta) or, lost (like all my fellow countrymen who wonder why our national anthem is so hateful).
Seems like issue here is more of a flash code which is optimized for windows(aka other netbooks) vs flash code on linux and multi process architecture they have in chrome.
Poll: A year from now, which language will you be writing mobile apps in?
I'm writing an article on mobile web development and testing trends, and I'm interested to know.
JavaScript (Native "app store" app, e.g. PhoneGap, Titanium)
JavaScript (HTML5/Mobile-optimized web-site)
How about the extra pages? Are you only doing one per client? Or can we ask for other pages at a lower/same price?
I agree that it shouldn't, which is why I described it as "murder", but police in most countries enjoy a strong public-opinion presumption in their favor, since they most often fight against criminals, not innocent people. This means that they almost always get away with murder when they commit it, which attracts thugs to the police force and stabilizes police corruption.

Keeping the police accountable is a very difficult task. I don't know whether the Netherlands is succeeding in doing that, or whether you're just unaware of their failure due to never having been treated as a bad guy.
"A new WikiLeaks" revolts against Assange
The OP mentions that they spent a lot of time on making the app and putting in the secret movie. But, yes from where I am sitting it may be a success. There was a story on HN a little while ago about how Angry Birds is projected to make $1m/mo on Android from ads alone. There is no way that it would be self sustaining. But who cares? As long as expense < revenue, you've got income and you made money. Look at the million dollar home page or the red paper clip for brilliant examples.
it's the role of any society, that intends on keeping updated, to nurture comprehension and development of such issues. unhappily, governments and traditional media don't do it. thanks Pio.la for providing such experience ;)
I have an impression that today too many programmers use engineering 'trial and error' approach in preference to formal reasoning. While the laws of nature does not change, runtime environment of a program changes rather frequently with every update of OS and libraries which is why the prevalence of the 'trial and error' approach results in the overall poor quality of software.
Some countries value what you can't buy. Peerage works well in the UK, and is rather cheap. In France, the possibility to spend a career working in central historical buildings makes the best minds cram for decades.
You're unlike me in that you would spend a couple of extra weekends to save $5.
For the American press its greatest humiliation was on Sunday, September 8, 2002
This seems to be more of a play into the enterprise and public sector markets. Startups have budgets that can vary wildly from month to month, but enterprise and educational departments usually have fixed budgets for the year for each department, and there's little "discretionary" budgeting.

$800/year represents a known quantity that they know won't change in price, and thus it's a lot easier to get approval to get it in the budget.
I find it far easier to parse the current implementation as a reader. I have a bit more trouble parsing it when I'm writing a script that scrapes Hacker News. Speaking of which, if anyone wants some Clojure code that converts a Hacker New's timestamp into a date, let me know.
I do feel that Google is sending out the message, that "your" app will do better in sales, if it's provided for free. I don't think it's healthy for a developer who wants to start a company writing Android apps. This is what gruber is saying (at-least a bit). Every app we write has a value to it. I don't think 99 cents is the right price but free is definitely wrong. What happens when someone writes an app that blocks ads on the Android phone. Now, the developer is not making any money from his free apps. If giving things away for free becomes the norm in the Android app store, then it will end up hurting the developer and Google in the long run.

There is a safety net to selling an app for a price (not free), because the sales give an indication if the users like it or not and where to direct the energy.

Also, 37 signals doesn't believe in giving away apps for free.
Sad panda here. Applied early, worked from home today in the hope it would arrive. Just read the Ars Technica unboxing review, and a bunch of others. Oh well, there's always tomorrow...
There are many more options than the above listed. You should add an option for "Other".
I agree, but to go off topic a bit: judging by some of the responses to your comment, people seem to think that one of the criteria that an act has to meet in order to be legitimate civil disobedience is that it is followed by a passive acceptance of government punishment. Of course this is tautologically true depending on one's personal definition of civil disobedience, no true Scotsman and such, but would exclude a lot of history, such as the Underground Railroad.

The article did have a nice quote directed at that point of view, though:

"There may be many times when protestors choose to go to jail, as a way of continuing their protest, as a way of reminding their countrymen of injustice. But that is different than the notion that they must go to jail as part of a rule connected with civil disobedience. The key point is that the spirit of protest should be maintained all the way, whether it is done by remaining in jail, or by evading it. To accept jail penitently as an accession to 'the rules' is to switch suddenly to a spirit of subservience, to demean the seriousness of the protest...In particular, the neo-conservative insistence on a guilty plea should be eliminated." --Paul Flowers
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It's cool that this on HN now, but we open sourced node-canvas a while ago over at https://github.com/learnboost
BTW: This sub-comment thread is a testament to how good HN still is at bringing together reasonable/thoughtful people - thanks guys.
Thanks. Good point. Added. :-)
Just one person walking in to a store: not a problem. Just one person blocking the door to that store: problem.

The number of actors and / or actions are not the criteria by which this will be judged, but their intent.
We make sure our sites work and display perfectly in IE 7/8, Firefox 3+, Chrome, Safari. For IE6, Firefox 2 and Opera, we just make sure that all the information is accessible and that the main functions work and don't worry too much about how it looks.
Are you joking ? How do you distinguish this "leaked oscillation" coming from radar-detector from all other pieces of electronics your car is stuffed up with ? Say, from your car stereo ?
Attempting to hook up a monitor to the VGA port, attempting to use an external hard drive, attempting to get photos off his phone onto the internet, using an app (Aviary), using a calendar that can't be trivially moved to Google, and printing are all things he tried to do but did not have great success with. Except maybe the first one (hard to tell, though I would think if the port is there it ought to work), this still seems like enough stuff to me that is a planned use case that it is clear that this is UTTER DOOMED TR.... errr, ahem, obviously still alpha-ish level stuff. I don't think it was that unfair of a test; for instance, I would imagine "hooking up the house backup USB drive and sucking off the files for the cloud" really is a core use case.

Also, I think this isn't necessarily a bad test of what happens if you push the cloud concept to the extreme. Personally I'm more a hybrid kind of guy, where some things make sense "in the cloud" and some things make sense locally and am a bit skeptical about pushing the cloud "too far" just because it's convenient for a company, rather than necessarily the user, but YMWV. (Though, actually, the fact that YMWV is actually part of my point, that the balance lies in different places for different people and 100% cloud is rarely the solution.)
A book like this has never been more important. Would love to see schools wake up and embrace something like this, and perhaps Atlas Shrugged or the Fountainhead, among other philosophical masterpieces.
The real problem here is attaining that "full, proper site and a reputation." Getting those two elements in place could take years of work, some of it completely unpaid. I suspect the OP doesn't have either of those, and is using this as a way to build up some kind of portfolio (and certainly a lot of online visibility, which can be surprisingly hard to come by) as rapidly as possible while still pulling in some income.

Not that he needs to use any of the $15 work directly in his portfolio -- but if he hashes out lots of designs in a creative way, he's going to end up with some obvious winners that he can polish up.
Hugh MacLeod's legendary "How To Be Creative" article had a great point which is meant mainly for artists, but I think applies to entrepreneurs as well, at least when you talk about passion.

Don’t worry about finding inspiration. It comes eventually.

See no.24 - http://changethis.com/manifesto/6.HowToBeCreative/pdf/6.HowT...

Sorry the blog post seems to have disappeared, all I could find was the PDF.

It is so good, I must quote all of it:

Don’t worry about finding inspiration. It comes eventually.

Inspiration precedes the desire to create, not the other way around.

One of the reasons I got into drawing cartoons on the back of business cards was I could carry them around with me. Living downtown, you spend a lot of time walking around the place. I wanted an art form that was perfect for that.

So if I was walking down the street and I suddenly got hit with the itch to draw something, I could just nip over to the nearest park bench or coffee shop, pull out a blank card from my bag and get busy doing my thing. Seamless. Effortless. No fuss. I like it.

Before, when I was doing larger works, every time I got an idea while walking down the street Iʼd have to quit what I was doing and schlep back to my studio while the inspiration was still buzzing around in my head. Nine times out of ten the inspired moment would have passed by the time I got back, rendering the whole exercise futile. Sure, Iʼd get drawing anyway, but it always seemed I was drawing a memory, not something happening at that very moment.

If youʼre arranging your life in such a way that you need to make a lot of fuss between feeling the itch and getting to work, youʼre putting the cart before the horse. Youʼre probably creating a lot of counterproductive “Me, The Artist, I must create, I must leave something to posterity” melodrama. Not interesting for you or for anyone else.

You have to find a way of working that makes it dead easy to take full advantage of your inspired moments. They never hit at a convenient time, nor do they last long.

Conversely, neither should you fret too much about “writerʼs block,” “artistʼs block,” or whatever. If youʼre looking at a blank piece of paper and nothing comes to you, then go do something else. Writerʼs block is just a symptom of feeling like you have nothing to say, combined with the rather weird idea that you SHOULD feel the need to say something.

Why? If you have something to say, then say it. If not, enjoy the silence while it lasts. The noise will return soon enough. In the meantime, youʼre better off going out into the big, wide world, having some adventures, and refilling your well. Trying to create when you donʼt feel
like it is like making conversation for the sake of making conversation. Itʼs not really connecting, itʼs just droning on like an old, drunken barfly.