skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I saw her say it on the news last night. I just spent a few minutes searching for the clip to post it here, but I've been unable to find it. I would think something like that would make bigger headlines, so I'm willing to admit I might have been wrong about Clinton saying that---perhaps I misunderstood something I saw last night.

But in my searches, I did uncover a lot of press (such as the one I linked to in my post above) about other members of the government lobbying to have Wikileaks declared a terrorist organization. It's not quite as frightening as having the Secretary of State say it, but it still serves my original point. It will be a dangerous precedent if the government goes through with what the congressmen are asking for.
If Craigslist is getting killed, they sure are making a lot of money doing it.
Article is pretty inane. Isn't forbes a so-called financial magazine? Why would such nonsense appear there.

On one side, we accumulate the total cost of some countertops purchased over a decade by 307 million people of whom a certain percentage pay for these kitchen remodels that benefit their life, and which are paid for using their hard earned salary.

On the other hand, money stolen from the same people going to fight warns that are less than useless, they create other wars, and bailouts that benefit a very small number of financial elite.

And then the implication is that the people remodelling their kitchens paying for it with the fruits of their own labor are greedy bastards squandering what should have rightly been the governments money.

What a twisted perspective and insidious state propaganda. Complete madness.
lol at Sean Parker as President.... well that didn't last long.
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Thanks, Martin - yeah, I have a ton of work ahead of me, but I'm having a blast so far.

I'll definitely be seeking input and feedback from the HN community every step of the way.
Launched a Windows Phone 7 App that is now in the Windows Phone Marketplace. http://bit.ly/ezZv2t
I already know C# so making apps for Windows Phone 7 comes naturally.
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My weekend project: Your weekend project
Actually, no... you have to be pretty ignorant to be subject to them. Use bind variables in your queries and you are done. That it's still one of the top 2-3 exploits tells you how horrible most developers really are.
> So what’s the total damage? The granite-countertop
> craze got rolling in the late 1990s, so even using
> Reis’ much lower figures, we’ve spent $12 billion.
> There’s a pretty good argument to be made we spent
> $15 billion.

But that's money that has been put straight back into the economy. It's not as if the money were burned (and even if it were, it would just make the existing money worth more), but it's been put into circulation and created employment.

Is that bad?
Remind HN: Start building discipline and brainwashing yourself (if you want)
In reference to http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1937231

Like @edw519, I pledged to start on Monday, and even read up to the second scroll over the weekend, and didn't actually read the second scroll (the one you're supposed to start on Monday morning) until just now.
This site is hilarious. Every successful business idea I've had was met with derision by every respected professional I encountered.
15/19; missed JavaScript, Groovy, Scala, and Erlang.
Google to buy Groupon for $6B...
A Comprehensive Glossary Of Gifs
considering that the current president at one time shut down tv stations and radio stations serving the opposition, this is one of those offers you just pass on.
http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/country,,CPJ,,ECU,,48a57540c,0...
Vitamin D: A dosing down?
I've posted some ideas here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1954992

The Bitcoin approach that I've mentioned looks basically like the following:

Basically, you use Bitcoin's block chain described here: http://www.bitcoin.org/wiki/doku.php?id=block_chain However, instead of using the chain for monetary transactions, you store new domain registrations in each individual block.

Now you just need a mechanism to fend off the domain squatters. Again, we can use an approach similar to Bitcoin (and to Hashcash): If you want to store your registration in a block you need to "pay" for this with some CPU power. So if you want to register a given domain you need to calculate SHA-256(domainname + data), where data is chosen in a way that the first X bits of the resulting hash are zero. So basically you need to use a brute-force mechanism to find appropriate data. If it, e.g., takes on average 1 week to find this data, this is acceptable for an individual who wants to register a domain, but (hopefully) too expensive for a squatter.

However one problem with this approach is that there's no incentive for someone to participate in the block generation. In bitcoin participation gives you Bitcoins which have a real monetary value. But I think creating some incentive shouldn't be too hard. E.g., it should be possible to couple the block chain to Bitcoin, so that generating blocks for the secure domain system also gives you Bitcoins (as a side effect).
Really encrypted or "BitTorrent encrypted"? It should be noted that what most BT clients call "encryption" is really only protocol obfuscation to attempt to bypass filtering or throttling of the BitTorrent protocol. The packets are still transmitted in the clear and the content of the torrent is not obfuscated at the metadata level either.

In short, "encryption" was a really bad thing to call this, because many people believe encrypted BT connections are safe and encrypted in the traditional "you can't tell what I'm doing" sense.
Groovy and Scala but no Clojure?
lol, pwned twice in 7 years, "incredibly talented hackers" lololololo
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I always thought a sports version of techmeme would be useful. Voila! http://sports.rawsignal.com
It's about time someone wrote this post. I'm currently working full time, going to school, raising 2 cats, married, and bound to a mortgage as well. Even without the startup it's hard. I couldn't imagine doing all of that while starting a business.

This is a gem:

"So, next time you read an article with the media glorifying somebody starting a company and working 168 hours per week, don’t assume that’s the only way or even the best way. It’s just one way. It’s just as possible to have your startup and friends and family too."
For those on Linux and without Flash, may I recommend http://vminko.org/it_notes/video-dl to play the video in mplayer:

wget http://vminko.org/storage/video-dl.sh && chmod + x video-dl.sh && ./video-dl.sh vm 17158963
See the comment I left on the parent -- usually, "encryption" when referring to BitTorrent does nothing to prevent the public or government from being able to see what you're doing, it is merely protocol obfuscation, installed to bypass BitTorrent protocol filtering or throttling.
“But he has nothing on at all,” said a little child at last. “Good heavens! listen to the voice of an innocent child,” said the father, and one whispered to the other what the child had said. “But he has nothing on at all,” cried at last the whole people. That made a deep impression upon the emperor, for it seemed to him that they were right; but he thought to himself, “Now I must bear up to the end.” And the chamberlains walked with still greater dignity, as if they carried the train which did not exist.
Marvel Still Fighting For Ownership of Its Characters
> Most girls aren't that interested in recording details of their dates, and definitely don't want other people knowing about their dating life

Publicly, I assume you mean. As far as I can tell, women talk with their friends about their dates and their dating / sex life in far, far more detail than men do.
I'm guilty of #4.

Made this but never followed through with it.
http://brandonpaton.com/demo/
Playboy Puts Every Issue on 250GB 'Cover to Cover' Hard Drive
Maybe David's next project can be Infomercials for Hackers: How to Overcome Your Fear of Marketing-speak.

I think that a lot of people leave money on the table because they think that everyone else on the Internet has the same spam radar that they do.

Then again, if the audience is hackers, then the marketing has to speak to them.
Cross-reference: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1937231
My background is general back-to-front development. However, I've always worked on teams that had dedicated designers so I never had to actually make something look good. I have pretty strong CSS and HTML skills, but it was always for implementing someone else's design, not doing anything on my own.

I've recently been doing some of my own projects and realized that pretty much everything I make looks like ass. It's the one piece missing from my ability to do a complete website by myself.

Plus, for personal philosophical reasons, I'm growing more appreciative of visual aesthetics in every aspect of life, so being able to incorporate that into my chosen profession is important to me.

There are some good resources out there, and I feel that learning even just a few things about design makes a big difference. Learning to recognize different font families, the importance of alignment, etc. have all made a big difference. But I still feel there's something lacking - I still find it difficult to cross the boundary "doesn't suck THAT bad" and "beautiful." Aside from getting a degree in graphics design, I'm still not sure how to get the knowledge and techniques needed.

I suspect part of it is that I just need to practice a lot more, and design lots of sites just to see what happens and develop my style. But some "hacks" to make the process faster would be very welcome.
Oracle making a mess of Java; community, JCP, partners rebel
This is a very real problem, especially in Manhattan, and especially at the lower end of the price spectrum (that's where the scammers are all fishing).
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Please, do change the font on http://www.wheelbarro.ws/ as it’s really not legible. And maybe you could explain with less jargon why and how people can use your service.

Good luck.
Absolutely true. I know this becuase my girlfriend just went through a long search for a marketing position relatively similar to this one. Never once did we think of putting the word "hacker" in her title even though she will end up doing a lot of web development work.

The ad might mean something to them, but it really means nothing to the people looking for jobs outside of those that read HN a lot and/or read pg's essays on redefining the term hacker. That is narrowing your search to a section of the echo chamber, which is even worse than the echo chamber.
I believe it's more that they are a visible target, being in the media and spreading their message as much as they do. Were they a small company that hosted internal webapps (for example) they probably wouldn't have been targeted as much. Imagine, for a moment, if these two attacks in seven years were successful, how many unsuccessful attacks there were as well.

Most, if not all, software after a certain point of complexity has vulnerabilities (yes, even mine). This has absolutely nothing to do with how talented their hackers may be and more with the inevitability of someone, somewhere, working hard to find, and abuse, exploits.

edit: I typed more than I intended to here, but my gist is that you're really taking light of the situation here, trivializing all of the work that has gone into gnu projects when you quote "incredibly talented hackers" and follow it up with a useless throwaway phrase like "lololololo". I thought HN was better than this.
Someone might argue that giving all that money to Halliburton and other private war profiteers does the same thing -- so war is good for the economy, right? And maybe it is -- but at least granite countertop makers presumably pay taxes (unlike our favorite govt contractors), and the money comes from consumer discretionary spending.
While on this general subject, here's what I use to do the equivalent X copy and paste thing on Linux:

# 'pbcopy'
xsel -b -i

# 'pbpaste'
xsel -b -o
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Clickety: http://blog.mathgladiator.com/2010/11/customer-1-without-lau...
Although these are both turns off for someone using the API, I don't think it's the empty forums or the flex platform that are deterring people. It's the expensive pricing.
14/19 How the hell did I get perl from larry wall? Never heard about those the creaters of php, Groovy or basic.
19/19, but I struggled a bit with the Basic one.
Read the comments, interesting what people had to say about FB back then.
Washing the dishes can be done for its own sake. Vacuuming can be done for its own sake. All things that are considered work can be done for their own sake and with the same amount of attentiveness and respect as things considered enjoyable hobbies.
Google to be investigated by EU
This is not my experience. After a couple you won't be able to lift anymore, but you won't really be exhausted either. At least I can't lift any more just because my muscles fail. I don't regularly lift weights though, so perhaps if you're more experienced you can. That said, you don't need experience to get exhausted running (but the tendency of many people is to stop long before that point).
Just read the article today, which really had nothing to do with language wars, and everything to do with some really smart kids. I commend all the participants in these contests, and am a bit jealous of their skills.

I also really didn't like Kolstad's comment about "will he die a virgin." It reeked of extremely petty jealousy, and was just crass.
They purchase them to "benefit their life" at the detriment of others (perpetuating a status arms race). They are almost as pure an example of a Veblen good as is possible to find--right up there with wedding rings, only (possibly) more labor intensive.

I believe some Veblen goods can be major net positives just from the incentive to work that they provide, but certainly not labor (or energy) intensive ones. If everyone works to produce Veblen goods so that they can in turn buy Veblen goods, the nature of Veblen goods will mean everyone (collectively) is wasting their time.
The amount of time it takes him to put this into Excel is miniscule compared to just having a conversation with a single woman. What's really driving his success is his persistence (it's a numbers game).

The problem with "bringing pick up artist techniques to the masses" is the same as the guy/girl ratio notification tools. We're very poor in making comparisons based on absolute factors, so we make our decisions based on relative comparisons. This includes the decision of who, if anyone, to sleep with.

It's a zero-sum game. Anyone who realizes this realizes that it's in his best interest not to tell everyone about his pick-up technique or the large number of girls in the bar he's at, and anyone who doesn't probably doesn't have the social intelligence to sleep with those girls anyway (that's where the absolute factors come into play).

But I hear Mystery is a multi-millionaire, so there's probably a market for such a tool.
Ah okay, I think I see your point. The currying example was intentionally Lisp-inspired. I didn't mention this, but I've also just started to program in Clojure--though not for work.

As I say, I wouldn't use that last technique in my actual code. It just shows how powerful the language actually is. I think my normal code falls in line with the standard Ruby paradigms, but with a functional twist.

And yes, list comprehensions are fantastic. :)
I've used LABjs and it worked great. It's also the most "focused" loader in the sense that it only does javascript loading. RequireJS also includes a module system and some optimization tools. headjs unnecessarily includes CSS feature detection and screen resolution.

If you want feature detection, nothing is better than Modernizer: http://www.modernizr.com/
I detect a bit of arrogance on Linus' part here. The conclusions follow directly from the notion that whatever Linus does is right and others should accommodate to that.

In my experience and observation the correct solution to this problem is as you've said, keep the trunk branch stable to as high a standard as you can. That way the cost of stability is pushed to the people making unstable changes, rather than onto every developer.
Subterranean Salt Mines
NYT article-page easter egg: graf-level links
Lots of people talk shit, very few people do shit.
"There is no reason why someone who is really good at it would work for anyone else."

That's really just a false statement, in my opinion. That's like stating why would any good programmer ever work for anyone else?

Honestly, there are a ton of reasons.

For example, a programmer may wish to work at Facebook so their code is put in front of 500 million users. If they hack something on their own, that's likely not going to be the case.

If a marketer wants to test his/her conversion theories against a large volume of traffic, they either need to spend LARGE amounts of their own money for paid traffic, or build up a large audience of their own. Again, an unlikely scenario.

Whether you're a marketer, or a programmer, or whatever else, working at a company/startup can provide you with opportunities that do not exist on your own.

Those are some of the prime reasons people work for others, no matter their trade...
Microsoft Exec Says Google is 'Failing' in the Enterprise
The first step is for the majority to recognize the dysfunction of our democracy. People have to realize that self-censorship and self-imposed oppression is keeping them down.

As long as the large majority are drinking the kool-aid they will just end up being manipulated powerful elites and they will vote against their own interests.

On the other hand, in US most people still have access to the voting booth, and to alternative media channels via the internet.

Aside from being added to various shadow 'watchlists' most American can (still!) join an activist group or can try to contant their elected official without a fear of imprisonment, torture and death.

But in more general terms, I was referring mostly to the propaganda domain, in which we project ourself to be a beacon of democracy. I was offering a potential contra-propaganda point that citizens of such self-professed democracies should be held accountable for the actions of their government. Whether we are an actual functioning democracy is another story (I don't think we are ...).
I've wanted something exactly like this for a while now. Looking forward to trying this in a few projects over this next week.
If you'd prefer to not need to do any code changes at all, head on over to my site and sign up for our private beta: http://www.djangy.com -- we're inviting more people every day :-)
Impedance mismatch with CouchDB
Meh, these are more like ideas that nearly every person has, and then wants a developer 'nerd' to implement (for free mind you, for x% of future profits).
A little more info on Ada (which I missed):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_Lovelace
Talking about it and writing it up are very different things. The reason has to do with later deniability (sometimes things are better forgotten; a lot of women feel that way about their ex-boyfriends). There's a reason why the few girls that keep them are very protective of their diaries.
Apple Is Getting Desperate in the Mobile Arena (?)
I think another name for what you're looking for is Growth Hacker
http://startup-marketing.com/where-are-all-the-growth-hacker...

I spend a fair amount of my time doing this - but really another side of this is analytics and testing / experimentation systems. It isn't all about the campaigns.

I should also mention that my current role wasn't the result of a post but just something everyone agreed I should do.
As someone else pointed out in a sub-comment, ssh user@host 'command' | pbcopy; seems a lot simpler. No open ports, no firewall config... no setup at all. It doesn't give you the access to the pasteboard in your current session, but Command+C has you covered.

Seems like overkill.
16/19, missed Javascript, COBOL, and Groovy.
And they should just use a normal job title, like 'VP of Biz Dev'
Excellent analysis of Assange's Wikileaks motivations (from the horse's mouth)
Best of luck to all involved.
> This method uses the Google

:-)
Wow, thanks a ton for that, Luke! Your feeling that this is the final piece to being able to produce a complete website is exactly why I'm exploring this topic. So much friction can be reduced in the development process if a single person is self-sufficient.

I don't know if I'll be able to provide "hacks," but your observation on it requiring a lot of practice is right on. My goal at this point is to change the way you see things, so when you see a good design, you understand what about it is making it great.
Good job on this one.

A few points. Some which have been hit already by prior posts, but I'd like to reiterate. Right now you're in marketing mode. So:

1. The website really needs the focus right now. My first point of confusion was the image. Naturally, our eyes are going to navigate to that, but it doesn't tell me anything. I'm confused looking at it. What is this? Do I really have to read the blocks below it to figure out what it is? I've skimmed the titles, but I'm not interested in reading all that right now... (That's my train of thought)

I would throw in a simple script to cycle through some images. Include some text explaining some of the core features.

2. What does this do that the other browsers don't? Some of this will be explained once point 1 is resolved. Past that, I would add more images + text below it.

Don't just tell me, show me. I might not have the time to read through a block of text. If you can describe epic in a picture, do it.

3. The Icon. There are people who will simply refuse to buy an app because of the icon. Sad, but true. This is how people discover you. They will see a list of icons in their search and find the prettiest one to tap.

You need something simple, slick and polished. Right now I feel like it belongs on a childrens e-book.

4. "You must be at least 17 years old" -- Really?

5. Consistancy. Pet-peeve of mine, but why is your skin different between the iPhone/iPad version? The iPad skin is solid. I'd subclass those iPhone components and give it the same look-and-feel.

6. I would definitely milk the social networking bit. I can't count how many times I've shared links and images from a page.

7. 'firmware 3.2' should just probably be 'iOS 3.2 or later.'

All opinions of course. Take what you will. All in all, great work. I'm not sold primarily because the core browser does a good enough job, but I can be convinced.
All the programmers are working on other web-based stuff. We need more volunteers, how about YOU konad?
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Minimizing Boolean Functions (Quine–McCluskey)
I was thinking more of "Why should I stop? I like it."
What can sed do that awk cannot?
Terrorism is just guerrilla warfare against civilians and infrastructure. The goal is to get the most bang for the buck from cheap attacks.
This could work: http://www.cs.cornell.edu/People/egs/beehive/codons.php
Wonder how Apache feels about not being apart of the Java community.
I used it for this purpose about a year ago and found it to be useful. It was definitely worth the time to do so.

http://mikevallotton.wordpress.com/2009/07/25/are-you-a-comp...
Tangentially related but interesting nonetheless:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abuse_of_notation
I know I'm a bit late, but this is what I'll be presenting next week at LeWeb: http://www.coldwaterswimming.com