skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> there are some great nuggets in the book.

I typically detest self-help books but a small number of ideas from the book were enough to change my life: not checking email first thing in the morning; checking email at scheduled, limited times during the day; setting critical goals for each day and prioritizing them; and setting short limits on the amount of time I set aside for particular tasks.

I don't really care what criticism anyone might want to level at 4HWW (and I'm sure there's plenty), but for me, these simple ideas increased my work enjoyment and productivity tenfold.
Socrates is generally thought to have made some contributions to philosophy despite the fact that the Socratic Method basically boils down to "ask lots of questions."
My understanding is that peering agreements are usually done on a 1:1 to a 1:2 ratio. "Peering" is considered no-charge ... both parties are "partners".

Anything else is considered transit and one party becomes a "customer".

If L3 is now 5x asymmetrical with Comcast, they should do what everyone else in the industry does and pay a fee.
hi, my mistake, i guess i only put it in the email section. adding now, but FYI it's emeka@goodtogoout.com
Shopping tool Foundem.com accuses Google of burying their results
Great work, love the app, Congrats on launching in time.
It doesn't blink for me. (In case you're wondering why you're getting downvoted -- though I didn't downvote you myself.)
Anyone tried a dating site that works more like a deal-a-day site? I've had that on my list for a while. Figured that if you give people 100+ prospective partners, they will hunt for the best (who might be out of their league) and get nowhere. If you show them one at a time, they might make a "would I go on a date with this person" choice.

HotOrNot tries throwing people at you in a sequence, but do you really make a proper decision when you know there are countless more around the corner?
My understanding from the Wikipedia article is that some spies have diplomatic passports. That doesn't mean that it goes the other way around: diplomats acting as spies.

Yes, it has happened in the past, but a diplomat is not expected to spy because, you know, it isn't very diplomatic to do so.
I didn't see a link to the FAQ anywhere. I see now it is a small link at the very bottom.

Regardless, I still don't see what the great value proposition is other than that they are friendly. My bank (a small local bank) has never charged me a overdraft fee, never had to wait more than a minute, and I can only remember one time that I paid an ATM fee. I must have just been lucky enough to get one of the non-evil banks.
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It reminds me of the Joelonsoftware community. When the forums were actually active, there seemed to be another time tracking app popping up every few weeks.
I saw "saved" in my profile. How do you save? Thanks much.
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I'm not very familiar with UK elections, but I am aware of some voting irregularities in the US in recent years. It doesn't help when our electronic voting machines are subject to less scrutiny and transparency than the electronic slots in Las Vegas.

From my limited and inexperienced viewpoint, I just feel that less transparency tends to encourage corruption and other unpleasant things. Hence my support for organizations such as wikileaks.

"Who watches the watchers?"
The actual 'report brief' is a lot better. It's at http://www.iom.edu/Reports/2010/Dietary-Reference-Intakes-fo...

The takeaway is that the maximum daily level intake they have is 4000IU for adults and their recommendation is 600IU.
Site looks great. I love the balance of the frontpage design; the alignment and weighting of the elements is relaxing on the eyes.

Quite honestly, it took me a while before I understood what the product does. I don't have a Twitter or Facebook account, and I'm coming to realize how hopelessly out of touch that makes me...

Hence the idea of paying real money every month so I could have a robot regularly broadcast canned 140-character statements on my behalf seems, well, a bit crazy. But that's my problem, not yours.
Or http://yepnopejs.com/ it comes with conditional loading, based on labjs.
The folks who set up the web-site are clearly not very saavy about building websites :-) But they seem very dedicated. They have a very impressive collection of papers set up.
I was going to mention that DMCA is typo'd in the title, but it's also mis-spelled in the article itself.
BankSimple is not a bank. Think of them as a user-friendly GUI over a group of banks. As to where money actually gets deposited, it probably depends on which bank offers the best deal at any given time.
Link: http://bufferapp.com/
give yepnope a try http://yepnopejs.com/
Agreed. It looked good until I started reading about CSS. The other stuff should be loaded asynchronously, as per their (wise) suggestion
Assange is poking at the illusion of democracy and it makes people damn uncomfortable as far as I can see. I think most people know that they are ruled by rulers and that the idea of the state as benefactor is dead, but to admit it is another thing for most. They will fight very hard to retain the comfort of the illusion. And the state will act to retain it also, by any means necessary.
I always prefer to see these things in context (how well does a naive rule-based classifier do? what's the P/R/F-score i.e. how many Apples are apples and apples are Apples? What about Apple Records?)

It's still fun to remember how quick and easy something like this is though. Any interest in similar articles on named entity recognition, sentiment/topic classification and spam filtering? I've been meaning to do a few for a while, but you know how it is.
As a citizen I like to remain ignorant to the dealings done on my behalf. I think it's sinful for Julian, or anyone else to seek information that isn't blessed by the State - and anyone seeking knowledge that is not sanctified by my Representatives is unacceptable. Now I'm going to stick my head in the sand because I hate learning about facts.
Ask a lawyer/accountant you trust. I realize that this can present a bootstrapping problem.

EDIT: OK, that's a bit snarky. I've found that word of mouth is by far the best method to use; if you don't know anybody in the field, ask your friends/peers (I just happen to have friends who are lawyers, which helps streamline things). It's highly likely that you can get introduced to someone who can help you get a referral this way.
It's a soft distinction, one of implication. I think we have discussions here. I think of "comments" as shouting in the ether, and that's usually not what we do.

I disagree that the series of questions will necessarily result in a better understanding. Any meaningful set of questions will involve two-way communication for clarification, which quickly becomes what I call a discussion. Debate and interview are different, but I think HN comment threads are neither.

I frequently see questions in HN threads. I sometimes ask them.
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Doesn't mean that GUI doesn't have control of your financial interactions, moving your financial accounts between underlying banks, or being involved in any of the interchanges (ACH/Debit/Credit Rails, etc)
It's probably a mix. Some people might be using Low Orbit Ion Canon or a similar tool, some other people might be DoSing with their botnets, etc.

I'd bet there are some Governments involved as well as individuals who dislike Wikileaks.

Since the DoS attack comes from so many places, it's very difficult to trace.
Yes, it's called affiliate banking. It's how a lot of prepaid debit card companies operate.
Why? Because Comcast can make them. Comcast invested in infrastructure which brought subscribers to Netflix. When these subscribers have no alternative (which is apparently the case in many parts of the US) Comcast gets to do all the usual monopoly tricks. "How much is this subscriber worth to you?" Enough to pay, clearly.

For comparison, there was a little discussion recently in the UK re: net neutrality. It is unlikely to go anywhere because of the ease of switching ISPs, and the fact that the BBC - probably the biggest bandwidth sucker nationwide - is 'highly unlikely' to pay ISPs for access. If the biggest player won't pay, who will?

Business is about extracting value, not recouping costs. Amoral, not benevolent.
It can happen in a classroom setting, where a class clown asks or makes a comment intended for a laugh. Good teachers can flip them around and use them as segues into meaningful discussion.
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IANASL, but according to Wikipedia, this case would be heard by a bench of judges:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judicial_system_of_Sweden#Lay_j...
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Poll: Do You Want to Use Chrome OS?
Things missing in the report brief:

What form of Vitamin D? D-3?

How does this play into the fact that an adult body in direct summer sunlight produces several thousand units within a half hour?
Why not just write it into Federal law that a site can act as its own registered DMCA Takedown Agent, instead of having everyone go through additional red tape and pay a $105 fee to run a blog.

In a way it seems like the fee to register is a freedom of speech issue. Pay an inconsequential tiny fee to run a blog, or potentially suffer huge financial losses. Kind of like the old Poll Tax from years ago.

It seems like being proactive as builders and maintainers of the internet, and getting a new field added to the WHOIS data for a DMCA takedown email addresses would make the process easier to administer for the complaintants, and more in keeping with Freedom of Speech that the United States is founded on.
I kept bumming myself out reading the article by automatically going on and reading the answer to the problems.
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I've tried a few niche dating sites. I think a new dating site can work. However, you will always have the problem in the beginning of not having enough profiles.

For a dating site to be successful, you need to have lots of startup capital for marketing.
CHDK is great, but Canon's point&shoot cameras are so hackable because Canon made it so (you just have to put something on SD, no need for permanent firmware change), presumably for their own internal reasons (easier debugging?).

This is a question that bothers me a great deal - with all the flourishing of Open Source, are our systems on average getting more Open?
Don't forget about 'better' ebays. I've seen serious money wasted on people thinking they could out-do ebay 7 or 8 years ago. Usually by companies already in the auction space who thought they could bring their experience and contacts to the game and win.

Nowadays nobody bothers, but the online auction space was very attractive for a lot of people.

ebay still has a lot of flaws but the name is a verb for selling something online. You don't see many people trying to take them on anymore.
You can make the same argument without detracting from it by adding unnecessary sarcasm. Your original comments says less than you imagine it did and is easily dismissed without consideration on the part of the reader.
> As someone who has spent a considerable amount of time studying NLP

I'm quite interested in how will you approach this problem ?
It's important to note that this is not "Pure Django", it recommends django-nonrel, which is actually a fork of Django.
I screwed that up, so let me restate: why are you making a general assessment of the state of the social contract and then taking action which effects me because of your analysis?

I happen to agree with you that things suck. But I disagree with leaks of State Dept and tactical military intelligence. Others think things are great but don't mind the leaks. Still others are apathetic and encourage the leaks. Out of a dozen people, you'll find a dozen different opinions.

We all -- each citizen -- have a unique relationship with our government. Who are you or anybody else to make a decision like that that effects billions of dollars spent and tens of thousands of lives? I didn't elect Assange. He doesn't represent me. And I have no recourse to remove him from his post if I feel he is acting maliciously or incompetently.

You see, it's not enough to make the argument that things suck so much that anything would be better. It doesn't work that way. That's just waving your arms around in anger and exasperation. I also believe we need to get rid of 99.99% of the secrecy we have. But there is still a role for government and secrecy. Some random person doesn't have the right to "fix" what he thinks is broken -- because if he can do that, then we all can. And at that point we might as well just go out in the streets with guns to get our way.

This is insanity. Well thought-out, for a good cause, well-intentioned, but fundamentally broken. This is like the dozenth time groups of people have been down this road. It doesn't end well -- even if the state is "fixed".

It's critically important to separate your opinion of the state of things from the reasons and rules that each individual can take to make a difference.

Take the Declaration of Independence. In it, Jefferson doesn't make the case that monarchical rule is broken and therefore we must act militarily -- far from it. He respects the previous state of things but then makes a detailed argument as to how the king broke the social contract with the colonies, thereby releasing governance of the states back to the "natural legislature" of the people. It's a very long list of things we did to try to make things work and how they didn't work out. If you want a revolution, that's the place to go to start understanding what arguments work and what arguments don't work. Move from there to "Letters from a Birmingham Jail". But don't go down the Marx route where you do this huge amount of clever reasoning and then wreak havoc on the rest of us because of what you've proven. That's not so good.
Web Store, the Most Important New Feature in Chrome 8
The keyboard nav isn't really an easter egg.

HINT: The site does have two easter eggs. I'll spoil one; try clicking in the far top left of the guilloche background. Didn't you wonder how we got the page to load so fast with such a huge image?
I had no idea that there was 'Space Law' and that there is even a Journal... http://www.spacelaw.olemiss.edu/JSL.html
While this woman's claim to own the sun seems quite dubious, I do think it's a shame that we haven't yet come up for a system for private entities to claim private property on the moon and other rocky bodies. If the first company to launch and maintain a private moon base were entitled to, say, all the land (and subsurface minerals) within a 500 km radius of their landing site, we might see some more action in private space exploration.
-Should be able to click on the scrolling pics which takes to product.
-Perhaps a stronger tilt toward product vs. store feel; is this about the product or the company?
-I feel green.
-More application pics of product might help; arranged/presented appropriately.
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Perhaps appending a "How" or "Why" to your title might have made your intention clearer.

And in answer to your question: meh, Pascal and C are pretty much the same damn language with a couple of minor changes, and C++ mostly just adds a bunch of junk which is useless for small projects.
"To what extent may a good and proper government of the People keep secrets from its People"

The government may keep secrets to the extent that doing so does not erode its net good and properness. There can definitely be such a thing as too much transparency, which Jeffrey Rosen makes a good argument against in his book The Unwanted Gaze. But with Obama personally going out of his way to block scientific research from taking place I don't think we're anywhere near that point yet.[1]

[1] C.f. the controversy around Obama nominating Michele Leonhart for DEA administrator even after she defied a judicial recommendation to let UMass Amherst grow marijuana for MAPS research.
It's also an overly simple view of things. The 40% that vote for the loser aren't expressing dissent, only a much smaller percentage of them are expressing dissent. It's not a binary problem. That simplifies everything way too much.

The candidates are too similar for it to be dissent. You have to go to the fringe topics to really make them disagree in the first place, you have to bring up abortion or which stem cell lines the federal dollars go to, or gay marriage or crap like that to even get them to start to disagree. Politics is competitive, the best politicians will hire the best analysts to study the polls of the masses and come up with platforms that appeal to the broadest set of people possible so that they can win the election. Likewise, the elections will continue to be "close" because of that.
I think one of the lessons of the contemporary internet is that outsiders often have some really helpful, valuable ways to improve institutional products + services.

It is true that when the stakes are high it's a little nerve-wracking. But really there couldn't be a better moment in time for outsiders w/out finance cred to take a crack at this. so many people are like, "ok, we let the "experts" manage finance. this doesn't work out so well all of the time..."

SO many people are chomping at the bit for anything better. i read comments on twitter every day from folks who are totally frustrated with their banks not just from incompetence, but because the services don't fit their lifestyles/ ways of managing money. maybe banksimple's initial customers will just be nomadic alpha geeks, start-up folks, and high frequency money movers. that's OK. alpha geeks were amazon's first customers, too.
Ask HN: With all the talk of alternate DNS; How does IP resolving work?
How is it fundamentally different to block an IP (or subnet, etc) from "the internet" as opposed to a domain name?

edit: I should add, the wiki's for Internet Protocol Suite, and Internet Protocol do not address the issue.

Also, I found this shortly after submitting: www.3com.com/other/pdfs/infra/corpinfo/en_US/501302.pdf which says it's "Everything you ever wanted to know about IP addressing"
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In the meanwhile, I've been very happy with Charles Schwab's checking account. Free as in beer, you're allowed to overdraft with no overdraft fees, free ATM fees at all ATMs (including international!)
Indian constitution is a mess.

Few notes:

The Indian Penal Code, framed by the British in colonial times, contains a number of laws that make giving offence a crime, and throttle free speech. For example, there’s Section 295 (a), which makes it a non-bailable offence to “outrage religious feelings or any class by insulting its religion or religious beliefs.” There’s Section 153 (a), which seeks to punish “any act which is prejudicial to the maintenance of harmony between different religious, racial, language or regional groups or castes or communities”. There’s Section 124 (a), which prescribes life imprisonment for anyone who “by words or expression of any kind brings or attempts to bring or provoke a feeling of hatred, contempt or disaffection towards government”—something that any critic of any government could be accused of.

The constitution, framed not by the British but by the freedom fighters who got us independence, cops out when it comes to free speech. While Article 19 (1) (a) pays lip service to it, Article 19 (2) lays out “reasonable restrictions” such as when it applies to matters such as “public order” and “decency or morality”, matters which are, of course, open to interpretation. I’d love it if we had something like the First Amendment of the US Constitution, which contains no such caveats—but sadly, we don’t.

From: http://indiauncut.com/iublog/article/such-a-wrong-journey/
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Hi. I'm Josh, the CEO. You can read more about our growing team on the /team/ page, but in summary, I have an MBA in Finance and Accounting, and worked with a multi-billion dollar investment portfolio. Shamir, our CFO (aka 'account manager'), spent the last few years doing banking and payments consulting for McKinsey.

In addition to our core team, we have multiple payments systems consultants, banking lawyers and former regulators working with and advising us. We are also actively growing our compliance and regulatory teams. The jobs aren't posted on the site, because that's not the best way to hire for those roles.

Not that any of that is really worth much. Innovation comes from the outside. A lot of the pain in banking stems from atrocious technology, so we're making better tech to drive a better experience.
You mean like foo.bar@mail.com? Mine does too (most gmail addys do), and it worked. It did say my email address was invalid, but focusing and unfocusing the textbox fixed it. I don't think it's an issue with the email format, just the form is buggy.
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Has been said before but: if it was available in the UK, I'd sign up in an instant.
You should post aggregate values in a few days as well.

I hope you're also storing timestamps with the submissions. Just guessing, but I'd bet any predictions made on 04/30 will correlate much better than those made today.
With respect to the potential for popular opposition to government policy, I think he drastically overestimates the impact of exposure and drastically underestimates a "conspiracy"'s need for secrecy. Perhaps if he paid more attention to domestic U.S. politics, he would see that the standard response to revelations like this is boredom and disinterest. Did Abu Ghraib morally discredit the Iraq war with U.S. voters? No, the ones who still supported the war found it easy to shrug off an isolated incident caused by bad apples. Did it shock any Iraq War supporters to discover that the guys who pushed the Iraq War in 2002 and 2003 had already been looking for ways to sell another war against Saddam Hussein for almost a decade before to 9/11, and that their motivations had nothing to do with terrorism? No, people who had listened to the arguments and made up their minds to support the war did not care about the motivations of the obscure policy wonks advising politicians in Washington.

Anyone expecting the public to be shocked and outraged by a revelation ought to temper their hopes by reminding themselves how much publicly available information they find extremely shocking, and how different the typical voter's response to that information is.
Nice, thanks for the feedback. I agree that we need more application pics. We'll get on that. Thanks!
> - A drag and drop interface that lets you make any program you want...totally code-free

Many electronic music artists create enormously complex applications with visual drag and drop languages, doing everything from sound synthesis to video processing to interfacing with microelectronics, with complex user interfaces recently moving to multitouch.

The main two languages are Reaktor and Max/MSP
I've always liked "Boots and Pants", personally.
Congrats Joel! Looks awesome!
Thanks.

Yep, it's certainly targeted at a niche. I'm quite glad to get polarising feedback so far, some people really love it and others don't see the point. Better than indifference :)
The stock market is already a crowdsourcing platform. As is the options market.
This is actually an interesting one, because I think it falls into its own specific category: workflow-specific startups. The reason no one is ever happy with project management software is because everyone works slightly differently, and every nerd will occasionally have the urge to write one that matches the way they work.

It's likely there are other startups that fall into this category. Time management and to-do lists seem like fairly obvious ones.