skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are absolutely right, and some of the things you mentioned are in our roadmap
Given a lot of the comments, it seems like the poor guy is getting a lot of crap from people who don't get why someone would write something like this. I wonder how projects grow in that community with that level of resistance at their origin.
I built a system for auto Twitter lists based on queries + filters
You seem like an individual with deluded self-aggrandizing views about his psychological insight aptitude.

Oh my god, you're totally right! On the other hand, I'm not the one battling the armies of evil with a Russian botnet.
C# is actually a fairly nice language to work with, and if it scares of the code monkey, thats a good thing.
Removing the Seatbelts: Implementing/using mmap in Go
Who is Anthony Zimmer??
Looks great, but do you have any agreements in place to keep your site up where others have been shutdown?
International Green Construction Code: Game-Changer in Sustainable Building
Dividends aren't what makes the speculative stock market fixed-sum.

Players that are getting utility out of things other than direct monetary value, say reduced risk or improved liquidity, make it a non-zero-sum game.

I am agreeing with both of you to some extent.
Website Mockup of the Week: Apollo Ideas
Remember I said this is in reference to a website/web app that
is a startup. Not as promotional material...or functioning as a loss leader.

Websites for movie trailers = promo material...not a startup.

Web sites for cars = promo material...not a startup.

An e-commerce site has to go primarily off of revenues and profits. Once they focus on revenues and profits, they can then invest in advertising (both above-the-line and below-the-line).

Amazon ran in the red for many years, because it invested heavily in the infrastructure. It raised equity financing, reinvested all revenues and profits and when it went public it raised huge debt.

Over the subsequent years, it paid down that debt slowly but surely with the profits thrown off of operations. Until the point that it has been profitable for the last few years. However, this point illustrates what I was talking about...they focussed on revenues first and then went to profitability shortly after.
But the problems with that script are primarily to do with selecting an option for mapping the binary hash value to a string that is really stupid (i.e. will generate all kinds of characters rather than a nice hex string) and then creating a SQL statement by string concatenation.

Anyone who is half sensible won't be doing either of these so I'm not sure what it proves.
To create an auto list, login, perform a query or an advanced query with the filters button, and then pull down from more actions to add the results of your query to your list. It will add maximum 50 per day.

It's written in 100% node.js - you can see the code here http://tweetbe.at/node/search.js

Code is shared between web client and the server, this is something that would have been nightmarish without node.js
I'll also rephrase and say I think the current trend of giving a concise name / label to everything is contributing to the soundbite mentality. This is the "Wikileaks of US State Dept cables". From there, you can keep referring to the "cables" for short.

I'll concede that labels makes it easier for search engines, but I am not convinced that that is a good thing.
A lot? Most of the comments seem positive or inquiring in nature. I think it's a good idea that people weigh the pros and cons, especially when it's not obvious why they should select this framework over any other.
Quickly scanning a few randomly selected search result pages revealed exactly zero links to email addresses protected by scr.im.
FTA: "[Whistle-blowing] can be ethically questionable but ultimately moral..."
and "Someone I spoke to . . . called Julian Assange . . . an “information terrorist”. I thought the terms were overwrought, but the more I think about it, the more I agree."

I stopped reading right there.
I am building mine now at the moment...so actively thinking about this stuff.

Hoping to launch in the next few weeks. We'll see though.
You might find this interesting:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flooding_%28psychology%29
I'm afraid I might have misunderstood you, but you seem to believe that having a reasonable understanding of compsci counts as premature optimization, and is therefore somewhere between "a waste of time" and "actively harmful". Is that the case? Or are you playing devil's advocate? Or what?
Which is a bit glib though; because, especially if you've got something like OTP, you do a variety of things "underneath" that have nothing to do with sending messages back and forth.
> information terrorist

right

> In the case of the war logs, we got a picture of a military operating in difficult circumstances in the most effective and humane way possible.

I think your bias is showing.

> So let's ponder the implications for the rest of us. When your company's secrets – profit margins, production methods, distribution deals, and marketing plans – are no longer confidential, how will you compete?

You mean like when TC posted the Twitter files ?

> When your personal medical or financial records can be disclosed at any time, will you still enjoy the notion of “free speech”?

Free Speech is not a privacy issue, and medical and financial records being public will not limit your ability to speak out.

> Whether as private individuals or public officials, WikiLeaks will come back to haunt even those who applaud it today.

Time will tell. I think it is much too early to make that call.

> It will plunge us into a new dark age of Shakespearean whispers and plots.

The only thing that would have stopped this stuff from being juicy and interesting would have been impeccable behavior, so there are multiple solutions to this.

It speaks volumes that you would immediately assume that like any organization that can not stand 'the light of day' that diplomacy would move underground. And if it does that will tell us two things and nothing will change so in that case if it does not harm it does not hurt either.
I am waiting for a good chinese or north korean leak...
Well this is a really long propaganda. We need to know why is the US attacking random Arabian nations. And the press should really stop using the word "terrorist", because I feel that it has lost it's true meaning.
Cool. Maybe you'd like to talk about this stuff, we might be able to work together? martin [at] repustate [dot] com
I'd say that anyone who needs a tutorial to tell them how to do this in PHP probably doesn't have the skills to fix the security hole. You're setting people up to fail, which isn't very nice (although I'm sure you didn't intend it that way).

Seriously, it's worth making it a tiny bit less readable to makie it copy/paste safe!
That's such an old device that I'm actually surprised the author would resort to it, it basically says 'I made this up, and I agree with myself, you who are skeptical now should agree with me too'.
In the article, the hypothetical business wants to outsource because programming is hard for them. Ideally, they want it all: easy, fast & cheap.
Using non-standard bases
All I got from that post was that you reversed the decision to keep the site clean. How is that not the case?
No point in continuing here, just one thing: You don’t have “60 when wet” or digital traffic signs with speed limits in the US?

(I’m more than happy to accept numbers on good faith. If someone cites a number I just assume that it is well sourced, at least if it seems plausible. I just applied that assumption to myself but if you have to know my source is here: http://www.destatis.de/jetspeed/portal/cms/Sites/destatis/In...)
Sending SMS In Erlang Using Tropo
And please, please fix the SQL code. It isn't helping noobs (it's not even valid SQL), and it's an eye-sore for people who know how to insert 3 variables into the DB.
This is great, but as another comment below notes, beware the legal troubles that are headed your way. A number of wonderful guitar tab sites (starting with OLGA back in the day) have been taken down.

In fact, it seems that OLGA is still down: http://www.olga.net/
And they just put up tabs.
Pretty sure being in a bank robbery/hostage situation would be a fearful event, too.
I am looking at my apache access logs, and clicking to my site from a search query and I can't see the 'cd' / rank parameter. Does this work for other people?
hm, old? saw that first time in 2009 :)

here is a tutorial how to track these data directly in analytics:
http://yoast.com/track-seo-rankings-google-analytics/
JavaScript: the good parts
By that definition, they should add every lobby group and the senate to the same list.

That might be a good thing, actually.
I really love how the press mutated the word "terrorist", it used to mean people who cause terror, but now it simply refers to people who don't agree with the media or the government.
Yes, java on phones... what a pipedream !
You don't trade cash for the creation unit, you trade one creation unit of shares in the underlying securities. If 1 share of AMSETF is claimed to be equal to 0.5 shares in AAPL and 0.5 shares in MS, you hand 50k shares of AAPL and 50k shares of MS to the managers of AMSETF. They create 50k shares of AMSETF and hand them to you.

No cash changes hands (unless cash is one of the underlying assets of the ETF), so the ETF is never sitting on cash with the obligation to purchase shares.

In general, it's very unusual to hand cash to an ETF in return for shares (unless cash is one of the underlying assets). I'm not even sure it is legal to do so.
'Hacktivist for good' claims WikiLeaks takedown
We need government transparency one way or another. Democratic republics work better that way. Totalitarian governments work better with less. If our governments refuse to provide it, what choice do we have?

Ironically our governments are asking for the power to snoop in our personal communications and records without a warrant or a valid reason. This is a taste of their own medicine.
Allow me to draw your attention to this astounding diagram my friend showed me:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:All.png

"The colour of each pixel indicates whether either pendulum of a double pendulum flips within 10 (green), within 100 (red), 1000 (purple) or 10000 (blue). Those that don't flip within 10000 are plotted white. The angle that the upper pendulum makes with the vertical initially ranges from -3 at the left-hand side of the plot to +3 at the right-hand side. The angle that the lower pendulum initial makes with the vertical ranges from -3 at the top to +3 at the bottom."

Mathematics people: Does this image represent the landscape this robot walks in any way?
Is that really a concern, though? People ignoring warnings like the one at the bottom of the post are probably going to write insecure code anyway. From a purely selfish standpoint, there is no advantage to me from not posting insecure code examples. In fact, the more people copy-paste such bad code and make sites that get hacked, the more opportunities I have for work when they get fired.
I'm 28, and I don't want to end up like Liz Lemon ("well I have $12,000 in checking"). What's a good primer on investing? I don't have a ton of money but I'd like to get into it.
Which is why they will do almost anything to keep it on.
Tell HN: November App Launch - Previous Look
Hi fellow hackers, here's my app for the November App Launching event. Please take a look and I appreciate any feedback.

The app url is http://www.previouslook.com. The app makes it easy to look back at the snapshots of popular web pages over time.

It is inspired by Reddit Snapshot and Hacker Slide. When I saw those, I thought they are very cool in presenting time-based data. I wish they can do more. They would help a lot for the newest submission section of HN or Reddit by making it easy to quickly browse the content over time. Since there's an November App event, I decided to do a generalized version in November that can snapshot different websites and different pages.

Some sample HN pages:
http://www.previouslook.com/hnews,
http://www.previouslook.com/hnews/new,
http://www.previouslook.com/hnews/ask
Once IE 9 comes out, the majority of browsers will support inline SVG. Only Opera is currently an unknown:

http://caniuse.com/#cats=SVG,Summary&statuses=rec,pr,cr,...
It's a fun experiment but unfortunately totally impractical. Who wants to carry and recharge a heavy battery just to have their bike become a prime target for vandalism and police?
Unless you've been very vocal about it, I've seen this book recommended about 15 times over the past few weeks.
Clickable links:

http://www.previouslook.com

http://www.previouslook.com/hnews

http://www.previouslook.com/hnews/new

http://www.previouslook.com/hnews/ask
Richard Dawkins reads hate mail in front of a fire
But if none of them hit the target, what then? How are some chosen to be more fit than the others? Flying longer? Covering more ground? These are useless fitness functions.

As I say, I'd love to know what he's actually using. I've done quite a lot of work in genetic, ballistic, swarm and annealing optimisation systems, and I can't work it out.
Sorry, I didn't want to sound that way.

What I wanted to convey is that Wikileaks is interesting for people outside the U.S. that are not necessarily enemies of the U.S.

I don't know which organization should provide some oversight, I guess the United Nations would be the closest (despite it being a bloated bureaucracy, it does manage some useful activities sometimes)
This is really cool. Hope you can deal with the legal issues, because I would use this for sure.
The reason is to get money, the means is to threaten people with death. Robbing a bank: the goal is to get the money, the robber uses the threat of violence or death to compel the employees to give him money.

I'm not quite sure what point you're arguing; what I was saying that the GP defined terrorism as something that requires a motive of instilling fear; i.e. a goal of the acts that the terrorists is to make people afraid. That's one definition but the INA defines it differently, which is just another definition.

If you define all acts of highjacking as terrorism, you explicitly do away with the requirement of fear. And for good reason, because otherwise one would have to start proving state of mind, which is a legal snake pit.

But if you restrict yourself to people with the intention to cause fear to discern a terrorist, you can't call anyone that hijacks an airplane a terrorist, because your definition requires a different criterion, namely the objective of the highjacking.

To conclude, "it's still safe to call anyone that hijacks an airplane a terrorist." is meaningless because it's said in a vacuum, without a definition of who is a terrorist. This whole discussion is about the distinction between to definitions, and that under one definition some people are terrorists and under another they aren't.

(I'm not taking a position, I don't know and I don't care, definition problems are boring; the fact that the OP failed to recognize this nuance, and effectively turned his argument into a straw man, is what bothers me.)
Mh, probably it's more complicated in english. It's quite clear for me. In german the gender is either male or female, that's the definition and there is now question of "self expression". If someone wants to stand out and express something special, why not use another text field?
I think it's just "childish" to use the gender field to "express myself" and enter "Ada Lovelace". What purpose does that have? Or to fill in "yes" in the gender field? It's just stupid and doesn't belong there.
First two pages of results:

http://scr.im/yuri

http://scr.im/john

http://scr.im/stevie

http://scr.im/palmynthteu

http://scr.im/mrintech

http://scr.im/jffcrmr
Just to clarify, I am not the author, I just came across the opinion piece and thought it was an interesting perspective. I also don't know if the author has an account on HN, but he probably does not.
I also decided to hand over the day to day management, which I think is by far the larger decision.
Why do people keep on calling lisp-1's scheme? This doesn't even have call/cc ... its basically scheme in name only.
> "Terrorism" implies that a group exists to cause fear.

It used to mean that, but now it's just a buzzword that refers to people who don't agree with you.

It works like "racist":

- you belong to an ethnic group

- you go to a job interview

- you get rejected

- you will call the employers racist and blame your rejection on racism to blur that fact that it was your flaw

In our context a terrorist is a person who does something that is embarrassing to the media or the government.
This unions vs. education meme seems to mostly a US phenomenon as far as I can tell. As a non-USian I read a great comment here the last time it came up, pointing out that teaching unions gained strength in the US because teachers used to get fired for such crimes as interracial dating, being seen in town after dark and basically anything else that offended the puritanical. I found that an eye-opening insight.
When Dick Cheney/Karl Rove/Scooter Libby "outed" Valerie Plame, they gave away a dummy corporation used by the CIA for agents like Valerie who (mostly) did not operate under a cover identity but gathered intelligence. It is estimated that by blowing her cover, over 70 other intelligence-friendly agents or sources were captured, imprisoned, or killed.
I'd say somewhere between 50 and 90% by the US government's "standards".
FYI - The page has been stuck loading for me for several minutes.
So Google's Buying Your Startup. Now What?
Which decision in particular ? (there are several)
And more importantly, why ?

Since you ask, and only since you ask: given the choice between "porn" and "huge revenue hit" (and laying off employees, service closure, or whatever else that entails), I would not hesitate to pick door #2. I could talk about why at length but it would be off-topic for this forum.
The FP Top 100 Global Thinkers
U.S. Officials Seize 82 Websites, Allege Counterfeit-Good Sales
What is really the saddest thing, is that wikileaks is absolutely the only oversight/resistance that we have towards abusive American foreign policy, or abusive policy in general around the globe.

The average citizen has absolutely no say in anything.
I'm sure it's possible. I'll look into it.
All Nuclear Testing 1945 - 1998 (video)
Sorry, the article referenced doesn't mention startups at all. It just says the web development community should ignore pageviews and only look at monthly revenue numbers.
Instead of just whining at WikiLeaks, the USG should have claimed that included in the cables were a large number of fakes, so that if they were ever leaked, they'd be able to track down the person who leaked it.

When the leaks happens, point to a few cables and claim that they were fakes.

By insisting that these cables will cause "immeasurable harm" and put "countless lives at risk", the USG is granting credibility to these cables and hurting themselves. Instead, fight information with disinformation.

Anyway: that would be my advice.
That really is pretty selfish.

I'm thinking there are two sides to this, the first is that just like you added the 'don't use this' as an after thought the majority of the people that find your code will cut and paste it without actually reading the article, the second is that if this is your 'first approach' to keep it readable you probably have at least a few instances where you forgot to update to more solid code at a later stage because you thought 'x' or 'y' is not facing the web at the moment. And then one day someone bridges two systems and bang, security hole.
Startup Tools Review: Gandi.net Easily Beats GoDaddy.com
That sounds like a good solution, i'd prefer that..
Katrina Kaif in Sheela Ki Jawani Item video Song
Katrina Kaif's item number Sheela Ki Jawani which is making waves has the stunner in six different sexy looks. Sheela Ki Jawani with Katrina Kaif in bold avatar in Tees Maar Khan has hit the audience very high.
Fanuc: The Secretive Giant Eating an Industry's Profits
The Twitter button is being mega slow, just press stop and the page should load :) I'll look into getting loading those after the rest of the page is done!
2 Node.js Apps That Showed Me The Light
Er, where’s the content? All I see is a link to the current version of the in-development spec (http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/WD-webmessaging-20101118/).
Why Web Publishers Better Hope Google Doesn’t Acquire Groupon
You're certainly confident at your own pop psychological analyses. Perhaps you should seek professional mental help. See? We can all play this game.
"The key to success will be sales..."

"Nothing that hasn't been done before..."

"I imagine an experienced hacker..."

"So there's little technical challenge..."

FWIW, these are exactly the kind of statements that would raise red flags for me as a developer. They practically scream, "I will undervalue your work." If these statements are true, you don't need a technical cofounder, you just need to do some homework to see how many of the pieces you can put in place yourself. If that's too hard, be prepared to admit that the task will be a technical challenge.
I suspect that some aspect of Groupon is a Ponzi scheme, and that if Google buys them, it will work out about as well as Yahoo's acquisition of broadcast.com.
Wikileaks. The truth is out there.
If you want to share files, an EC2 instance is overkill. Instead you should use S3. It even comes with built in automatic free bittorrent to spread your load.
It looks like a big linear motor like in the video is probably $1000 to $2000 dollars. Angle sensors are pretty cheap (just a few bucks). Then you'd need an A/D-D/A board to control it with ($500 to $1000).
Using S3 torrents wouldn't help you seed, since you'd have to use the same tracker (original) as everyone else.
>Free Speech is not a privacy issue, and medical and financial records being public will not limit your ability to speak out.

If one cannot communicate private information without worrying about its release to the public, one may be pressured internally NOT to speak as one would wish.
Iomart Announces Profits From Cloud Networks | Cloud Business Review
Ok, I agree with you in fact. The thing is that Charles and Jan have ideas about how to structure the site in such a way that I can live with it and I'm willing to believe them, so I've given them 90 days to prove that this can be done.

If that's not possible I will probably have to step out of it completely. I'm not going to make a moralistic judgment on what end users of a service can or can not do if the service is to survive or not, after all that will affect everybody, the good guys and girls included but I will not want to be associated with the service if the center of gravity shifts further in a direction that I'm not comfortable with.
School of One a Test Bed For Online Learning - The Answer For Eduation?
Same in my city of Chicago ... but in this example it's just more marked and apparent that you'll get a fine (i.e. directly in the middle of the intersection showing your speed). If there was already a speed camera installed, it probably would be indicated by some average looking sign a mile back.
The utopianism of Julian Assange
Hey, Ankesh. I just pinged you via email, but I thought I'd post this here as well.

I run the Hackers and Founders meetup[1] in Silicon Valley, and I usually make it a point to try and connect with other HN meetup organizers around the globe.

I also try to maintain a current list of Hacker News meetups around the globe as well. We'd love it if you added your group if you think this might be a regular event.

If there's anything that we can do for you guys, let us know.

ref:

[1] http://www.hackersandfounders.com

[2] https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AmQExXr67OcTdDBZZl9...