skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The sarcasm is unbefitting of the seriousness of the occasion. What if it's not an "off-chance" but a 90% probability. Or even a 50% probability?

The situation the way I see it is this: currently the bad guys are in power. The opposition forces are the not-so-bad guys (liberal democracy types) and the much worse guys (radical Islamists).

The Muslim Brotherhood (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muslim_Brotherhood) are, after all, not just radical Islamists -- they're pretty much the dudes who invented radical Islam. Their obtaining power would... well, it would be bad, especially for non-Muslims in Egypt. And probably anywhere else.

My opinion on whom to support? Well, I'm just thankful that it's none of my fricking business and I can't do anything to change the situation anyway, so I don't really have to make a decision. But I am uncomfortable with the level of optimism I'm seeing from some western folks who assume the good guys will necessarily triumph (or worse, that the Muslim Brotherhood aren't really bad guys after all because they say they're not in favour of violence and they only want to form a unity government with the liberal forces whom they're totally not going to kick out at the earliest opportunity).
Awww - but, all the best to you, sir. Less traffic and faster pageviews does sound good though.. :-)
As could all of ours . . . however, many of us in the enterprise space don't have much choice as to the form of data we have to consume from outside services, so the point of making good low-friction tools part of the language (with no code generation) is to let you interact with those things without going completely insane.
YouTube are now offering a live stream of Al Jazeera (scroll half-way down the page): http://www.youtube.com/aljazeeraenglish
Yes, it's the investor option to convert upon maturity into Series AA, not the company option to force conversion.
This study referenced in the article was commissioned by European ISPs, who face more competition.
In the dot.com bubble, it felt to me like the opposite was taking place: a lot of very rich people pumped a lot of money into startups, some of it in turn transferred to engineers and other employees and from that into, say, restaurant tips.

I was living in Tel Aviv at the time and you could almost taste the sudden influx of wealth into the city's economy.

A bubble isn't bad, if you're careful not to buy into it. It's a great time to launch or upgrade a career, and acquire skills, contacts and even savings that will last you a long time, especially through the inevitable bust.
> Declining quality of comments? Creeping influence of politics?

It's a fallacious argument in my book. Like comparing apples and oranges.

Say I run a bakery. What I care the most about is the quality of
my bread. So much, I spend all my time working on that and only that.
So much, I didn't ever bother to have a lock at the door. But it's
not even a big deal if someone comes in and poisons one of the bread, as long
as the overall quality is increasing!

> SSL is a giant waste of time for Hacker News

Yes, if by "giant" you mean that it takes like 2 hours to set-up, and a small payload for each
negociation. But concerning the payload, Arc is not especially fast,
so there is room for improvements there to compensate, if needed.

> modulo the fact that people might be crazy enough to use a shared password here.

Not the point, the point is HTTP sniffing.

And anyway, people could use a shared password, making it easier for them (don't overestimate
human memory), if HN used (HTTPS and) a "real" password encryption scheme (bcrypt or the like). Why put the burden on the user when you can put it on the computer?
I think the revolutionary effect you are seeing can be better attributed to the fact that these populations have access to the Internet, especially through mobile phone. These people aren't leveraging the unique features of social media (the web of interpersonal relationships) so much as they are leveraging the ability to quickly get text, pictures, and video out of the country and onto servers hosted in countries sympathetic to the protestors. It just happens that Twitter and Facebook are currently the fastest ways to get something published and seen.
I'd like to contact you directly, mind adding your email address to your profile? Or check my profile and contact me.

Thanks.
Rules for faster-loading websites
Yahoo confirmed culprit in Windows Phone data usage overages
Windows XP is the most common OS in the world and its security isn’t very good.
Not for the vast majority of OS X users. Sure, many of the tech-savvy Mac users I know use it, but none of the laymen do. And it's the laymen that Apple's primarily targeting, because they're a much bigger market and much easier to satisfy.
Perhaps it didn't stack up and perhaps that is why I am not seeing the book option anymore. It was, sadly, the only form of monetization the site had (that I am aware of).
According to Facebook, they've been testing it on their Developer and Facebook blog. I remember seeing it last week and thinking, "Oh, I've never seen that Facebook commenting system before".

Example:
http://blog.facebook.com/blog.php?post=486790652130
It is interesting tech. Hacking it would be cool, but there are implications outside of how intellectually interesting a technology is. Though that is more of a commentary on the people behind this application of the tech (advertisers) than it is on the tech itself.
It seems like this could really hurt the PC market. A lot of people were holding off buying a new system, because the advice for the last 6 months was "wait for Sandy Bridge". Now all those new systems are being recalled...
Their reason for dropping him may or may not be related to the vertical -- I'm just explaining the mechanics of why his site was earning $1,000 a month.

Just as an FYI, the seedier side of Internet marketing is very well acquainted with the notion of selling a scam by calling it a scam. Pretend, for example, that you understand your business model is stealing from unsavvy customers. You know it is vastly easier to attract links to "Scam is a scam" than "Non-existed research suggests that scam might have some merits!", and hence to rank for the first article.

But do people read on the Internet? Suffice it to say that is not a universal habit! So, if you can rank for [acai berry] or even [acai berry scam] with an article that the average 10th grader can tell you concludes "Yeah, probably a scam", you can still get clicks and conversions to the acai berry offers on the same page, presumably from people who didn't or couldn't read and comprehend the page content.
As I understand it, this is the last few IPv4 blocks being handed out. This leads people to conclude that IPv6 is here? If anything, it seems to me that it's "IPv4 is gone", and we need to take steps to ensure that that wasn't the last thing we had.
Which software packages are you talking about, specifically? I seldom encounter libraries or packages that entirely do not support IPv6 (except for MySQL). At the very most it's a configuration flag or compile option to switch it on, if it's not on by default. I'm also curious as to how easy you'll find these homes with a myriad of routers either ISP supplied or third party, and the case you have to convince them that the little box they had needs to be upgraded with firmware or replaced entirely.

The other thing to note is that IPv4 won't just be left in the dust, it'll have to be transitioned - the immediate future at least won't be entirely IPv6, and the world will have a bit of time where dual stack is inevitable for parts.
Well, you were the one complaining about Americans (enthusiastically and in a carefree manner) taking sides in foreign disputes. It was pointed out that at least one of the key folks involved in this particular event is (at least by birth) an Egyptian.

While I agree with your broader point, if this particular contribution comes from an Egyptian rather than an American it does seem to have some relevance for your original comment, which I took to pertain to this particular piece of software rather than to just be a general comment.
I have never used Bump. I have a question for those who have used it: Is there any utility beyond the novelty of bumping phones together?
This. Conversation is a give-and-take. Simply declaring that the other person is wrong and that you are right makes people less open to continue talking to you, as it makes you seem combative.
RFPs are written by people you never met, were negotiated by people you barely know. Coding standards likewise. If you do something smart, the auditor or whomever will piss on your boss, who will kindly (or not so) tell you to quit making his life so difficult and knock it off. You will learn and scratch your creative itch.

I worked in that environment, but I could talk to the govt. guy in charge and his minion was a pretty good guy. So long as we followed the RFP and the law, we could tweak the implementation. I was a consultant so anytime I felt down, I picked up my bank statement and let its glow sooth me.
Add drivers to make this look like an external drive on my OS of choice and I think you have a winner. But my guess is that Google will try to swallow up some start-up (cough cough, DropBox) that can deal with the sync'ing issues that allow off-line operation.

Anyone else care to venture a guess as to where Google is heading? (oh yeah ... world domination of course).
Nope it was about academic politics: see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sayres_Law
Exactly. Take a tour of the SF and Mountain View coffee-shops which offer free wifi with a laptop to sniff traffic. Isn't there a not-negligeable chance you might recolt some HN cookies from "interesting" accounts? Once you get them, it's just a matter of imagination before causing some harm.

HN is not the small and unfamous news site it was 2 years ago anymore.
The linked Gosu JVM programming language (http://gosu-lang.org/) is not to be confused with Gosu (http://code.google.com/p/gosu/), a cross-platform 2D game development library for Ruby and C.
They could simply follow the law and fulfill their contracts, could they not?
Carbon is hiring a remote front-end web developer.
http://jobs.37signals.com/jobs/7990
The end of IPv4: 39/8 and 106/8 allocated to APNIC
Create a Custom Piece of Blown Glass
The going out of business part wil be quiet interesting, from the first post it does sound like the business conditions have changed. Would it still be possible to get something like this off the ground today or was he fortunate enough to get in before HFT got such players employing the best of the best?
OK, so in practice, what happens if the company can't raise a round? Do they just return what they can to the fund and close up the doors?
Gosh, and you're supposed to be a "security guy". Not a surprise that Matasano website got hacked back then.
How long does it take to add a column to that table with 300MM rows? Does Clustrix require schema modifications?
I honestly don't. The question arose as to the identity of the author. It is only a $ whois mta.me away. I saved other the trouble, just like the sister post linked to his blog. If this offends you, I apologize.
The trick with such questions is finding an interpretation which is neither over nor underspecified and for which the answer is not obvious.

The question only supposes that 144 is a digit in the base.

We might also write the fibonacci sequence in whatever base is chosen, i.e. the fibonnaci sequence is no longer

1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, ....

but may be

31, 31, 32, 33, 39, ....

To keep the problem simple, let's suppose that our digits are represented by glyphs which just happen to be composed of ordered sequences of decimal digits and that the glyph m corresponds to a lesser digit than the glyph n only if m < n when considered as decimal numbers. Thus we could have 37 < 144 but not 144 < 37 for glyphs 37 and 144.

This already places some hard restrictions, e.g. as 144 is a digit, 1 and 4 cannot both be digits.

Now I think the problem is neither trivial, nor overspecified (though I didn't actually check the latter). I certainly agree it was underspecified.
Complaining about the Homer Simpson photo in the article seems a bit of a stretch. That picture wasn't presented as an image of the genes that were discovered or anything. It was just a 'medical science-y' looking image to stick in a 'medical science-y' article.
I'm not sure where I stand on this, however, I'd like to provide one data point, one that I expect many HNers share. I'm primarily a web developer, though I do frequently work on Android projects or random hacking on some python projects ( sage anyone? ). For web development, I find spaces essential. I have several api docs open at any given time, eclipse for android stuff, Aquamacs ( emacs in cocoa ), potentially an Android emulator, a preview image from our designer, several browser tabs for email, roadmap, and backlog tasks and a team chat window.

I, too, thought that most people wouldn't really care much for spaces, however I have noticed several of my non-technical friends using and began wondering. The conclusion that I came to is that, if you replace my IDE with something like MS Word and my text editor with something else, perhaps Photoshop or Illustrator, you'd get roughly the same workflow that I have, just without the code.

Now, I'm not saying that Spaces is essential, but I this is one case where something we think is nerdy, is actually pretty main stream.

Since were on the topic of application visibility and switching. I'm wondering if there is a better way than spaces. It's obvious that full-screen mode with easy switching isn't it. I find that context switch to complicated though I'm not quite sure why - way back when I was on windows, that was the way I did things. Perhaps expose is underused?
We're actually in Ottawa right now, but we're anticipating a move to Montreal real soon! Whats the best way to contact you?
I started using OSX after using XMonad for the better part of a year, and it doesn't even come close. Like vault_ stated, its simply to clunky. It takes almost a second to switch between workspaces, with a shiny and pointless animation. The shortcuts are hard to get right too, I still don't have a good one to send windows between workspaces (which I used to use extensively for keeping things organized and staying sane.)

I assume XMonad is a similar experience to Awesome--I never tried to understand Awesome too much. Spaces cannot compare.
Carl Sagan and His Fully Armed Spaceship of Imagination
What I don't understand is why ISPs are giving their content providing customers fixed rate access. From the article: "In both cases these charges are generally flat fees, not linked with usage..."

This doesn't sound like double dipping at all. Why should Netflix not be charged more based on how many resources are used? I do at Linode and DreamHost.

I guess the real question is what about other ISPs that Netflix's ISPs connect to? How do they get reimbursed by traffic over their lines, when one of their customers access Netflix? Do peering agreements not accurately work that out?
Imagine this for a moment: companies producing electricity charge for actual usage.
If cable-companies can figure-out how to transition users from their analog cable boxes to the digital ones, I'm sure ISPs can figure out how to transition their customers to IPv6-capable routers. It should be dead-simple for the ISP-leased routers, but for people with their own routers, it's still an ISP-level issue. They just need to tell their new customers that they need an IPv6 capable router, and to figure out a way to transition existing customers that own their routers.
Okay. Maybe if there were 15 YCombinators spread around the world then?

Either way, startups vs. subprime mortgages.. Think about it.
I'm actually really surprised that they haven't swallowed up DropBox. It seems like they see how close they are coming to just providing the "GDrive" but they want to provide access to it only through their existing products. Really it is a smart business move.
StackMob duct tapes typical add-ons onto mobile apps until Apple & Google do it
Well, hard to compare as it isn't really an easy process for a Canadian to just decide to go work in the USA instead of Canada to avoid the tax.

If you're a founder you're likely minimizing your "income" to almost zero to avoid as much tax as you can anyway.
Not Getting Enough Traffic? Here's Why...
I like it. You should also add checks for ipv6 glue records. I advertise ipv6 dns servers but I do not yet have glue, so you still need to connect to my dns servers over ipv4. According to your tool I just have to convince google to add AAAA records to their MX targets and I'm set, but I'm not :)
The note stays outstanding. Generally speaking, there's no good reason for the investor to want to convert into equity, as debt is better in a bankruptcy situation.

Some companies might return money to investors before shutting down.
Not necessarily true or they would have stopped shipping things like the terminal.app a long time ago (or including python, ruby, etc.). Even apps like Automator are probably out of the scope of 'laymen'.
Not even eventual consistency
SSL is a giant waste of time for Hacker News,

Waste of time in what sense? The time it takes to set up SSL?
Stop Adding Features. Make New Products.
This needs a better headline, given the gravity of the announcement. IPv6 is by no means here, and really has nothing to do with this news item. To me, "IPv6 is here" says absolutely nothing about the real news here - APNIC having received two /8s (and one forthcoming), making them the recipient of three out of seven of the remaining /8s.

The gravity of this announcement is that we are now in the Exhaustion Phase of the ICANN policy on IPv4 depletion: http://www.icann.org/en/general/allocation-remaining-ipv4-sp...

If anything, it means we need to boogie on IPv6 now, but that's not new (and is only tangentially related to the announcement).
Ray Kurzweil's stunning tech prophecies & close inspection
I was responsible for downvoting that comment as I disagreed with the content. What bothered me was the following phrase:

I urge you to reconsider being influenced by a minority who
aren't using the voting feature with the spirit intended.

As this was clearly directed to people like me, I feel the need to justify my intentions. Saying that I am part of the minority and am using the voting feature incorrectly is a bold statement that is coming without justification or evidence. Both of you should go back and read the HN Guidelines again in order to be reminded of what determines if a comment is of good quality or bad quality. I use the voting featured based off the HN Guidelines, which I would say is the spirit intended. It's that simple.
You are so close to 1000, just write a few smart comments and you'll be part of the elite :-)
Ask HN: How valuable are opinions? 
Hi, we all have opinions, but do you think they matter?
with Quora, there are many valuable information and opinions, but they are subjective. Do you think they are valuable?
http://www.lifelitup.com is just the landing page, while we get the alpha up to date. Basically it's like Steam Achievements, but real-life. Mix that with tourism, and boom.

I'm hoping to have an alpha by the end of this week, but I'm never sure when it's "alpha-ready" :(
Last Status Update Of Mohamed Bouazizi, Starting The Tunisian Revolution
I keep zooming in, but it's just more of the same...
And not just interesting like a high-profile person, but interesting like a YC founder who is a moderator. It's possible that PG has instructed mods not to log in over public connections, but I bet they occasionally do it.
Care to elaborate further?
If you don't hear back within an hour or two assume they're writing another riveting non-piece on Quora. Eg,

Question On Quora More Important Than Other Startups
Totally.

Unfortunately, many people often have to consume both, and the Gosu typeloaders make that as painless as I've seen it.

There's another project working on a YAML schema typeloader (I'm totally unfamiliar with that) and you could write a YAML structural type loader as well, depending on tastes.
They play real volleyball though.
Are you seriously trying to tell me that a company with a thousand users requiring 100kb/day versus a company with a thousand users requiring 10GB/day has exactly the same costs apart from just the upstream bandwidth?

That the latter company somehow gets 'cheaper' overalleven though it requires newer network equipment to handle the load?

That the light internet users cause as much support issues as the heavy internet users?

Of course they don't - for the same number of users, heavy internet use increases backend costs. Those 100k users aren't causing congestion with torrents or video, for example. And just like in-ground copper, exchanges, datacentres and the like aren't cheap to install or maintain. Sure they get a bit 'cheaper' with scale, but they're still not 'cheap' - especially if you've got to keep upgrading your equipment to handle load.

Costs in a business rise in things other than directly-related items. Take an example: I've spent the morning doing an emergency repair on an RMA'd item that the service boys don't have the time to do. This has meant that the other critical tasks I've had to do have been pushed back. Sure, you can say that the repair of the RMA'd item is just my wages + spare parts, but you'd be wrong. It's had knock-on costs elsewhere in the system.
Do your pitch here instead! :)
I just use Cmd-H and Cmd-Tab. I tried Spaces when Leopard came out and found it to be more trouble than it was worth.
TechCrunch's audience isn't all-encompassing.

If they didn't respond and you have a stellar product, just contact their chief competitors. I'm sure they'd love to profile you.

GigaOM, TheNextWeb, Mashable, ReadWriteWeb, etc. Tech news isn't all about TechCrunch.

That said, I think the best feedback loop is just a simple "Show HN: Here's my project." I'd say that not only are we super friendly, but we'll actually give you back feedback, suggestions, complaints, and advise like no other.
lkruber, I think that you are missing the point. What you have written obviously comes after great time and thought, but I'm essentially going to ignore it as I disagree with what you say in the first paragraph.

If the downvoting was aimed at remarks that were attempting
to sabotage Hacker News, then you might have some ground to
stand on. But the posts I'm thinking of involve material that
I think should be allowed on Hacker News.

I'm going to keep this short.

First of all, you imply that intentions matter (by using the word "attempting). The truth is that they shouldn't matter. If someone comes to HN trying to contribute with good quality but fails, they should be treated the same as those who come looking to make trouble and end up making content of the same bad quality. In essence, we shouldn't look at people's intentions because they are impossible to judge and because it is something that isn't done in the real world.

Secondly, you mention that you think the posts you're thinking of should be allowed on HN. But the truth is that philwelch and I don't. The whole point of this argument is exactly that. You then ignore this argument and go onto to tackle bigger and unrelated problems. Rather, you should have just stayed with the same issue we have been discussing the past few comments.
Stylus: Expressive, robust, feature-rich CSS language built for Node.js
That's it. Darn my faulty memory.

I thought the idea was ridiculous at the time...but now I look at my phones and realize how close it is to being realized.
You're exactly right though ;-)

As a 40+ engineer I would have considered REST urls but facebook would never have occurred to me.
Sure, done, thanks.
Those are some good ideas, thanks. Again, a lot is my comfort level. Will definitely look into it; maybe there are some that I am fine with, and the margins could be quite good.