skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Basically PayPal is the guy caught in the middle of a dispute (between Wikileaks/hacker community and the US Gov/Dept of State).

Well, then they should've stayed out of it. They haven't gotten so much as an official letter (which BTW would be extremely shady since the executive branch doesn't decide what's legal and not). Even if they did, they're under no obligation to do this unless there's a court order. They got involved because of the politics, they can deal with the blowback.
If it's any measure of consolation, your openness in being willing to admit and discuss this is inspiring.
It is fixed in QT.

"Each QThread can have its own event loop. You can start the event loop by calling exec(); you can stop it by calling exit() or quit()."
http://doc.qt.nokia.com/stable/qthread.html

I've used this successfully.
F# - Clojure - C
I guess I feel guilty when I'm not producing code and simply learning for the sake of it. There is no good ratio if I'm not sure what I'm studying can be applied to what I'm producing.

Also looking into Pomodoro (http://www.pomodorotechnique.com/)
Why WikiLeaks Matters More (And Less) than You Think
Ask HN: How do you dole out commission payments to many users?
Have any HN'ers here had to manage something like this:

You have a paid SaaS offering that allows users to earn referral fees for any new paid signups they bring in. How do you manage paying the referral fees, or in general how do you process payments to users?

Do you post the signups payment to your own merchant account, then post a credit to the referring users credit card?

Any reason to batch user credits or process them immediately instead?

Are there any tax implications?

Any unexpected gotchas to watch out for?
WordPress 3.0.3 released (security update)
The title is misleading; even he admits there is talent. Sure, it's overplayed how much it matters, but that doesn't mean it needs to be exaggerated from the other end of the spectrum.
also how does the Pomodoro technique work for coding? :
1. Choose a task to be accomplished
2. Set the Pomodoro to 25 minutes (the Pomodoro is the timer)
3. Work on the task until the Pomodoro rings, then put a check on your sheet of paper
4. Take a short break (5 minutes is OK)
5. Every 4 Pomodoros take a longer break
I was about the say the same thing, but about Infoseek.
I just wish I could be inspiring in some other way. ;) But thank you for that.
This has inspired me to send some follow up emails on some leads I've been chasing, thanks!
Programming Satan’s Computer [pdf]
I'm going to go against the grain here because I'd like a discussion, although I'll fully admit I'm not nearly as experienced in start-ups as many of you are. I also know this post and the HN post refers to a fairly large startup doing this, but from the comments here it seems like many of you believe it is /never/ justifiable to use warez software in a startup.

Lets say you are an early start-up,less than 5 people, that has no revenue and is still building a product, with money being little or non-existent. Couldn't it be partially justifiable to use warez software to give you the best advantage to achieve success?

For example, lets say you only bought Office for your PC (since you did most of the marketing, but not all) and installed Open Office on the other computers. Then after one of your co-founders sends you a document he created in OO(a sales document, I don't know), you find out that it doesn't render at ALL in Office as it did in OO. Now you have to spend time redesigning the document (for however long it takes), and you end up wasting time that you didn't have (and you certainly don't have the money). This is not to mean that this exact problem cannot be solved [Bizspark/MSDN, etc], only that this is one hypothetical out of many that could cause problems. When these start adding up, however, suddenly you are running behind the competition because you wanted to do the ethical thing.

I'm not saying you should continue this behavior once you get off the ground and running (and ESPECIALLY after you have broken even/generated profit), nor am I trying to imply that anything is justifiable if you need to catch up to the competition, but I feel like most people here are saying it should never be ok to use warez software in a startup, while I can see scenarios that would make sense to me (That are a lot less morally black than, say, lying to your customers or investors).
there's been no impact on their price that I can see so far.
clickable http://www.awisemoveinc.com
it's been changed from the "original" google groups link to an imgur link.

Groups link was: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.sys.next.announce/browse...

edit: and from the monthly archive for Aug 1991 it looks like the TBL message dated 20 Aug 1991 has just... gone!

http://groups.google.com/group/comp.sys.next.announce/browse...
alright, alright, you win. 4chan is CIA's covert operation to install New World Order.
They use -webkit- to ensure that, when the relevant standards are finalized, the namespace isn't polluted by experimental and development mistakes.
Yes, do that! I now send status check emails to all of my consulting clients and prospects with great regularity.
> In which cases is such an "upgrade" slowdown acceptable to the customer?

In exactly those cases where the customer cares more about the added benefits (e.g. security, maybe more features) than speed.

For example, I use firefox even though I've noticed that Chrome is snappier because Firefox comes with addons that provide features that I cannot do without. In this case, I have made a tradeoff between speed and features.
More Ovi horror:

http://www.forum.nokia.com/Distribute/Packaging_and_signing....
I'm a firm believer in the value of learning for learning's sake, so I don't worry if the things I am learning can be directly applied to what I am producing at the moment-- as long as I am producing at the moment.

What's your general situation? Self-employed? In control of your schedule? If so, why not start with 7.5 hours a day on production, and half an hour a day of research/playing. Give that a couple weeks, and adjust if necessary.
Yep. Some things have to be done face to face.
Illegal file sharers 'Robin Hoods of the digital age'
I know I've had experiences in life where I look back and say 'what was I thinking?!?'

As difficult as it is, nicely done on recognizing the situation, holding yourself accountable and chalking it up as a lesson learned. No doubt about it, this experience will help you somewhere down the line...

I'm really impressed with your articulate re-cap of the story.
And when they fax you back it'll be at an online service that mails you a PDF. And they're none the wiser.
Prospective acquirers will often pursue potential targets simultaneously and, if they go silent on you, this may have little or nothing to do with whether you followed up diligently or not. In my experience, when an acquiring company wants to move, they know how to do so quickly, at least to engage in sufficient due diligence to see whether they might want to do the deal. Thus, when you do get in a situation where you are getting slow or evasive responses after an initial expression of interest, or where things go silent after an initial set of exchanges, I am not sure there is much you can practically do about it unless you have options to sell to others and use this as a lever to speed the process. You can be as aggressive as you like in such cases but, if the acquirer is simply trying to keep options open, you won't be able to force things absent a credible threat of going elsewhere.

That said, this one may have simply fallen through the cracks owing to the early failures to follow up more aggressively. Only the Google people can know for sure.
Perhaps I don't understand the question, because I can't see that the answer is variable.

In all countries today, the power of the government, or an individual politician, exceeds that of a corporation. That's obviously true, or why else would the corporations be contributing to political election campaigns? Corporations are (despite popular complaints) at the mercy of their customers; look at the OP for an example of how corporations are held instantly responsible for any perceived action, contrasted to politicians who "launch an investigation" and then the problem is forgotten long before the next election, or who use demagoguery to convince voters that they are the lesser evil; if the opponent wins the country will fall apart.

Similarly, in all cases the government controls far more money than any corporation. What portion of the GDP does the government's budget make up? Compare that to the revenue of any corporation.

EDIT: OK, guys. I'll take a down-vote, but please give me the courtesy of an explanation as to why I'm wrong.
And in fact it has been contextualized as such in the past: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_Disturbance_Theater#...
A lame attempt by the EFF to get publicity and gain new members.

Instead of selling buttons or memberships, how about offering to host the documents on eff.org?

Action > words.
Stanford CS Book: Mining of Massive Datasets [pdf]
"It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves" - Sir Edmund Hilary, first man to conquer everest
That's about the size of it. The basic idea is to work with focus and discipline for 25 minutes, without distraction-- and then reward yourself with a five minute break.
http://sowhyiswikileaksagoodthingagain.com/
It's all true, but please take the lesson from rails and use timestamps rather than sequential id's.
That's because the EFF exists to promote free speech, not WikiLeaks. Hosting WikiLeaks would do nothing to further their goals, and in fact would probably significantly undermine their cause.
World's Dating Police
I always forget the argument order of the `ln -s` command
Best way to say "You're Fired"
Internet's World War 1.
Why is this new? Post-it has had poster-sized dry-erase easel paper for years. We used to do JAD sessions on them.
One thing you need to realize, is that "hard problems" and "important things" cost money. That's just the cold hard reality of life. Now its one thing to go to the frontiers of knowledge, and push your way through the edge like Einstein, or Feynmann.. and if you can do that, its great, and 1000% respectable. Most of us aren't a Feynmann though.. and instead of pushing through in denial, we recognize that and move on. And the reality is, that you can do waay more with money than you can do with raw intelligence alone.

So another and probably more realistic choice is to take cues from Elon Musk, or Mike Lazaridis, or David Shaw: go make mint with a stupid web application, or finance or whatever, and then go use that money to work on important problems, such as:

Space X
http://www.spacex.com/

Tesla Motors
http://www.teslamotors.com/

Solar City
http://www.solarcity.com/

Perimiter Institute
http://www.perimeterinstitute.ca/

DE Shaw Research
http://www.deshawresearch.com/

That's how you get things done
I ran the site through an SEO analyzer, and found that you did pretty well on the basic stuff, like you mentioned above. See the full report at http://www.seoworkers.com/tools/report.html (enter your URL).

The big areas to focus on are your copy, it seems. SEO Workers said that your keywords were {move,wise,birmingham,storage} and your 2 word keywords were {wise move,move offers,birmingham area}. Not bad, but I would try to rewrite content so that "birmingham move" is a top term, for example.

The other thing is your internal site structure: you have none. Build a few other pages, so that you can link internally to yourself. This boosts page rank a bit, makes google like you a little more, but more importantly it gives you control over what anchor text you use in your links. Your internal links are totally under your control. I'd recommend adding a link that says something like "see a map of what areas of birmingham we move to". Adding more pages will help a bit.

Other than that, work on link exchanges with other people who have page rank. Make sure you're listed in DMOZ. Basically, follow the checklists offered by many of the SEO sites, and work in the interim to get backlinks with your targeted keywords in them.
Android Google Maps to get a whole lot cooler
Voronoi Tessellation (implementation in JavaScript)
Quantitative Easing Explained
I wish that _why didn't leave potion behind. One of the coolest thing about potion is that everything is a function. For example, if you have an integer named a that has a value of one, the a() will return 1. I hadn't seen that in any other language. Are there other languages with this feature?
Photoshop skills do not directly map to GIMP skills.

However if you are hiring a professional designer, they most likely will have their own copy of the software.
That's presumably why all those cell phone companies handed over all your calls to the police without a warrant.

Only one called their lawyers to ask if it was legal.
Chris Hedges said it near the end of his talk on The Death of the Liberal Class at the Sanctuary For Independent Media this Fall[1]. He attributed it to his brother-in-law, if I recall correctly. However, I am sure I've heard it before.

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYCvSntOI5s
Not that it will necessarily help much with SEO, but.. tables and spacer gifs? It's 2010, almost 2011?

Furthermore, an @yahoo.com address is hardly professional. Just make info@... or movers@... an alias that sends on the e-mail to the yahoo address.

Next, I'd split up the main items (Moving Service, Delivery, Storage) into individual pages, which opens more possibilities for some light SEO, eg. moving-services.html (or moving-services-birmingham.html, tho not sure if that's considered black-hat-ish)

Also, consider the fact that there's more than one Birmingham, and the only two places you mention Alabama are in the title tag, and in meta tags. Oh and a third mention at the very end of the page, abbreviated, which doesn't really help too much.
I do a lot of work with very large graphs (100s of millions of nodes), running similar sorts of algorithms, and also have found there's a lot of benefits to going with a single machine with lots of memory.

I'm happy to read that article, because the conventional wisdom at the moment is very much to go down the road of hadoop, and large scale parallelism; but from experience, there's certain graph tasks it just doesn't work well for.
Show HN: hipchan, an anonymous sharing site built with 1 page js
URL: http://hipchan.com/

The story: after seeing this on HN http://news.ycombinator.net/item?id=1940089 and seeing a comment about 4chan, I decided that I could build something that embraces the 4chan idea. Even though the story today is 'social' I really think that anonymity will continue to have a place in future communities.

It was supposed to be a weekend hack, and it was! 95% of the features were worked out in the weekend following, but somehow testing lasted till today...

Primary feature: The ability to have * boards.
For example: http://hipchan.com/#hn

The Tech: Mongolab/jquery/pusherapp
There's only 1 html page and everything is done via ajax.

For the niche I'm targeting/Branding: Still a little uncertain how that's going to work out or how it'll be in general. Advice on this would be great.

You should try out the site:
http://hipchan.com/
Thanks! I just did and got a cool t-shirt.
Ask HN: Who's hiring.. Sysadmins?
I've noticed an occasional job posting for Operations roles in the who's-hiring threads, but it's very easy for them to get lost in the sheer volume. Who are the startups specifically looking for System Administrators, Network Engineers, DBAs, or any other kind of Ops-focused people?
Clickable: http://hipchan.com/
Best way to manage fonts on OSX?
Hi - I'm looking for a good way to manage fonts on OSX. I'll download a bunch of fonts while working on a project, but just using the font manager in Photoshop/Illustrator, I forget about the ones I liked. What I'd really love is an app that ran locally on my machine (OSX) to let me view the fonts I already have by tag, but then connected to a web database to provide the tags for each font (tagged by other app users), and let me preview other fonts available for purchase based on tags I entered. What's the closest thing you guys know to something like this (or is there really just not much)?
I don't want to get into a language debate here, but... if you put random people's anecdotes above objective measures than you can pretty much make any point you want to make. Alioth may be flawed, but it's not necessarily synthetic in the sense that the benchmarks are real problems or are very similar to real problems. More importantly, it's actually an objective measure of language performance, compactness, etc. rather than people's "impressions".
Let's be realistic here: Code wrapping graphic toolkits will not be a hotspot. Any heavy graphical computation is likely to be done in the graphic toolkit (or rendering engine, etc.) and called from Racket. That's the whole point.
Unlikely. Development speed is an inverse function of company size after a certain point. Startups will eat Salesforce's lunch at developing something new.

Then Salesforce can just buy them.
> The problem is that 90% of open-source libraries ARE small-to-medium size projects like the ones I've built.

What's your definition of "small" and "medium"? I'd say a small project takes about a week to go from nothing to a working prototype, and medium might take a month or two.

I might be misreading, but "I completed the first version in a day or less" makes it sound like the releases are basically just a few small utilities.

> Are you saying that someone could build a fork of Diaspora (say Facebook forked it and rewrote their entire site on top of it), made it available to the public without releasing the source and it would be compliant with the AGPL?

I don't know anything about Diaspora, so I can't completely answer this question. However, assuming their protocol library is separate from the user interface, Facebook could indeed build support for Diaspora protocol into their site, using the AGPL'd Diaspora libraries, and not have to release source code.

The AGPL is IMO poorly considered. The authors wanted it to behave as you describe, eg, as a sort of super-EULA that covers how the code can be run. However, since it's a copyright license, it doesn't have any action mechanism. If I modify an AGPL'd server, then run it on a publicly accessible host, I'm not doing anything that requires copyright permission and thus am not subject to the code's copyright license.

Note that some cases (such as JavaScript-based applications) will require copyright permission for me to host, and thus, be covered by the AGPL. However -- and this is a funny part -- they'd also be covered by the GPL! In other words, anything the AGPL can do, the GPL can also, and the GPL doesn't have aspirations of EULA-ship.
I like the idea, and I believe you have a market, but your prices are too low. More importantly it won't scale with inflation. In 10 years, that $15 will be worth around $10 but you will have all SEO links pointing to a domain that is most likely in need of change (You are stuck with a particular price with the domain name you have now).

$15 is way too low. I don't know where you are located, but you need to do some market research to figure out what you want to make per hour, how long the average project will take you, how many projects you can do a week, and what your overhead is per week (to figure overhead per project). Once you have those numbers, you will have a better price point.

Also, keep have a plan for what you want to do if there is more demand than you can support. Do you hire others? If so, will others work for that price and if so, how much do you need to make to pay them appropriately?

I hope above all you do not find my post discouraging. Instead, I hope you continue on with what you are doing, tweaking it to make is sustainable for as long as you wish to do it!
While I agree 100% with the premise (arguing over definitions is dumb), that article gave me a headache. Get to the damn point already.
Man, the death of the IPO market and the increasing oligopoly in the tech marketplace is so depressing.
No, just use open source equivalents where possible.
Falcon 9 Returns Successfully from Orbit
Cloud Awesomeness with Tropo and CouchDB
The shootout is pretty much a worst case for Racket, code size wise.
Seeing as "Political Affiliation" isn't in that list of protected classes, does that mean that a private (i.e. non-government) corporation can legally say "I won't sell to you because you're a {Republican,Democrat,insert-your-party-here}"?
"Racket, not Scheme! 30k of Scheme wouldn't have been nearly as useful." — Shriram Krishnamurthi
So anyone who attempts to build a "better" mouse trap is a wannabe?
Speeding Up The Linux Kernel With Transparent Hugepage Support
The Future of High-Speed Rail in California
I know I mean thats like thinking 12 guys back in 1776 could really stop the British Empire with their silly little tea parties.
I guess the Heroku guys didn't have porsche. Way to sell out your users at the drop of a dime!
Justin Peterson (the author) was an FBI informant who helped put Kevin Mitnick and Kevin Poulson in jail. I believe he escaped a large portion of his jail time by selling out friends.
Another approach I've seen used is to map the hash of your schema to an upgrade script (which would be an empty script for the latest version):

while(true) {
string current_version = <sha1 of the dictionary table contents>
if (!upgrade_scripts.containsKey(current_version)) {
complain_loudly()
exit(1)
} else {
string script = upgrade_scripts[current_version]
if (script.empty())
break
else
execute(script)
}
}
Note: I am not a fan of Assange. I think his indiscriminate leaking of everything, however inconsequential, harms the whistleblowing process and makes it all too easy to gloss over the real abuses exposed.

But he has not committed a crime in the US. Even if disseminating state secrets is a crime (and the jury's still out on that one, to boot) he didn't do it here.
But how many web apps (or any web sites) are actually useful when reduced to a width of 640px? Almost everything on the web these days is designed for a width that's far more than half of the 1280px that is the widest reasonable estimate for the Cr-48's screen. I've measured GMail, Picasa, and Google Docs as needing 795px, 813px, and 889px, respectively, and Pandora with its ads wants a window more than 1000px wide. If Google's going to show off side-by-side multitasking on a ChromeOS notebook, they'll have to use somebody else's web apps.

If "the cloud" starts to tread on more serious territory and people reach the point where they're willing an able to do things on the web that they would previously use a $1000+ computer for, then Google will have to revisit Chrome OS's basic paradigm. But until then, the main purpose for Chrome OS is to make a true netbook.
Hm. There needs to be some sort of throttling on the channel- if you open a console and run

"while(true){
$.post('/shove/updatepos',
{
'x':50000,
'y':50000
});
}" you can really ruin people's good time.

I'm going to have it spelling my name by the end of the night.
Hey, I used to be a pomodoro user too, just switched to Vitamin R for OSX - it's awesome. It asks you for a clear objective before you start the timer, auto kills distracting applications when you start, and then after the time's up, asks you to rate your focus and records it. Like a pomodoro, with a lot more handholding, which is helpful for me.
Yep. Apple is one.
Benchmarks are so 2003.
WordPress 3.0.3 -- Security Release for Privilege Escalation
I used to have this problem. Then I realized that if I want to really copy a file, I type

$cp file_from file_to

and that

$ln -s link_from link_to

has a very similar effect to the cp command above. I haven't messed this up ever since.
Dell To Launch Social Media Listening Command Center
Go to Southern Poly, just up the road in Marietta. You'll be able to transfer in about a year AND have the Hope scholarship.