skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't feel like I could keep Github running as well as most, but for the entire time I've had my personal server running, it only went down once due to a hardware failure on Linode's end. For simple stuff, a simple sysadmin will suffice. Github has thousands of users and cares about performance, I have maybe 5 and I couldn't care less if my server used 2000% more cpu than it's supposed to. Different levels of complexity, you see.
They don't ask for GPA.
Why Wine and Macbooks Don’t Mix…and How to Handle the Aftermath
Social game strategy for Indie Devs
For most developers on a budget here's some timely advice to market and expand your social app.First off especially if your just starting out focus on the biggest social platform which is Facebook and Twitter. Twitter is great if you have a contextual based social game like mafia wars and not an avatar based game like farmville.Create corresponding pages or faces as I call them for you various brands.Also Yahoo has a Developers kit which allows you to post your game to it's Game page.This is especially useful because Yahoo is in a position where it's trying to expand it's listing of social games.I've heard from sources that contacting them directly through there dev page is a great way to get some free exposure for your game.Another great site to use is orkut which is googles social platform which is really ignorned by the tech media but it boasts over 20mil members mainly in the Americas which is staggering in it's own right.You have to understand the bigger players use there muscle to dominate on Facebook so as little guys you have to use a broader strategy.Focus on getting your app on as many social platforms as possible.Another strategy to use is to expand rapidly to international markets.There are major SNS platforms in Asian countries that are looking for American branded social applications.Case in point I just got approved to port my social app to Mobage which is a Japense SNS owned by Dena.So you might be thinking why Japan,well because on average they spend about $20ptc on in game purchases while Americans spend an average of $3.00. Porting your game and game translations is quite easy to accomplish.There is another one in China called RenRen,Ive reached out to RenRen also.Please learn to be patient with these foreign companies because of logistic issues it may take up to a month for them to ge back to you.So don't be discouraged use your creativity and expand aggressively into international markets and you have a great chance of reaching the scale of your larger competitors.
Some quickie improvements to the jQuery examples:

$('body ul').append($('<li>'));

can become:

$('body ul').append('<li>');

and:

$(document.body).find('ul li:last-child').text("I'M THE OLD GUY!");

can become:

$("body").find('ul li:last-child').text("I'M THE OLD GUY!");

(We optimize for body explicitly in our selector code.) Although that last example selector is rather weird, it's equivalent to:

$("body ul li:last-child")

or even just:

$("ul li:last-child")

(When is a ul ever going to be outside of a body element?)
Worse than that: the assumption is that since free speech is a given right, whatever we've got must be the maximally free speech available.
Maybe the 'system' collapsing is a good thing. It's a modern invention.
I used to get insane amounts of spam, but seeing this graph made me look again. Based on procmail logs, it looks like about 29,000 pieces last month, which is definitely down from before.

About 90% of my incoming spam in on two email addresses.
> you're free to buy oil futures

If you think oil's near-term value is mispriced, then oil futures are a solution, yes. But oil futures basically don't trade past the 5-year contract, and contracts longer than 10 years don't even exist. So if you think oil is mispriced in the 20-year timeframe, oil futures don't do you any good.

There seems to be a persistent misbelief that futures markets are a way of hedging or speculating on long-term price movements, but they're really a way of hedging or speculating on short-term price movements, e.g. for airlines to hedge against near-term supply shocks. By far the largest volume is for less-than-a-year contracts, and there is virtually nothing out past 5 years, so they're not really useful or intended for long-term planning.
Three projects to create a government-less Internet, and why it is needed.
Given that Quora's content is collaboratively organized and in some cases edited, it seems obvious that Quora is not a service for content where the author wants his or her individual voice to be heard.
I have a complicated setup, but in essence, I have, by necessity, ended up with a catch-all on a domain. There is value to what I do, but the cost is the level of spam. It's like having hundreds of honey-pots.

I'm considering washing them of personal information and making them available.
Here is a car running on wood with a woodgas convertor:

http://www.langsdemaas.nl/hetvervoer/geefgas1.jpg

During the war years and the recovery period immediately afterwards gasoline was so scarce in Europe that this was a fairly common occurrence.
Selectors that People Actually Use
Ask HN: What's your favorite bookmarked HN thread?
I would recommend combining a) and b).
Sorry, that's just asking to be fired.
Backbone Views and standard MVC controllers are synonymous so I placed it in the Backbone View.
I don't have a technical background; to someone like me this appears somewhat reputable. It appears I've paid for my ignorance.
Zuckerberg came out at Eisenberg's home turf, I can't see this happening the other way around
Well, gasoline is gasoline…

Oops, they aren't claiming it is gasoline, either. This is a nice example of how popular journalism works, though. 'it is sort-of liquid and it burns fairly cleanly' is sufficient to gets a press that forgets to discuss:

- where to get the energy from to make the stuff.

- what we will do with whatever is left over after burning the hydrogen in these hydrides (If I google 'hydride' I get the strong impression they aren't made from pure hydrogen atoms.)

- whether that other stuff is rare or abundant, cheap or expensive.
This is a recent talk by him about scalable programming language analysis. And yes, he's still at google.

http://vimeo.com/16069687
Changing company culture is incredibly hard in the best of places. In your case, it sounds impossible. Don't even try, it'll eat your soul.

Instead, do the best job your can, while accepting that you can't turn this company around. Be humble: don't tell others they're wrong all the time (even if they are). Be helpful.

At the same time, look hard for another job.
Yes, it's a surreal thought really. When I was in my late teens, I was certainly not capable of dealing with that kind of decisions. Must be very hard.
A kid's PC for $25 to encourage programming
Journalism is not about satisfying consumer demands; it's about getting the truth out.

Or at least that's what I like to think.
There have been so many articles about innovations in the energy sector that went absolutely nowhere in practice but that were announced with great fanfare and media coverage that for me the bar has been raised to the point where I'll literally believe it when I can buy it and not a day before.

Solar cells with fantastic properties and prices, windmills that produce more power than there is in the wind using configurations that have been tried long ago and discarded for very good reasons, magical conversion processes taking 'ordinary household substances' (to lift a phrase from FightClub) and turning them in to gasoline at lower-than-current-pump prices and on and on. Cars can be made to run on just about anything, almost anything containing carbon can be converted in to petroleum and by extension to its derivatives. That does not mean the process is either efficient, cheap, non-polluting, safe or even feasible in bulk.

These announcements happen with a frequency of about one per month (what was one of the hypes last year again? Solar Cells from human hair ???) never to be heard from again.

You can safely put this right next to the 'cure for cancer', 'a cure for aids', 'free unlimited energy' and a whole bunch of other things that humanity would very much like to have. If it's really that good and applicable it'll be on the shelves and someone will be raking in money hand over fist, they won't be talking about, they'll be selling it.
See also here:
http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2011-01/20/raspberry-pi-...
My Interview w/Joe Migliaccio,Innovative Programs MTI,Maine
Back in the heady days of secession, the mayor of New York suggested that it could become an independent state, along the lines of the old Hanseatic cities. That didn't work out, and eventually he decided he was a uniter, not a divider, and helped created the 5-borough city of today.

(edit: spelling)
I wouldn't trade the experience of watching Big 8 football from the student section for all the ivy in the world.

I've said it before - too many young people are being pushed through life. It's a tragic waste of enthusiasm.
Just so you know, aj jazeera is still broadcasting live from cairo. The egyptian authorities have revoked their license, but they are still carrying on regardless just as they have in previous days.

I think the title should be changed, they have not in any real sense been "shut down."
I think it would be better to not conflate language and runtime issues. For example, one can improve language misfeatures such as semicolon insertion, lack of built-in name pacing, etc. Even when you improved this, you would still want to improve the (browser + DOM) architecture/runtime, but in many cases these are orthogonal concerns.
I guess he's referring to the fact that there are no actual speed limits on "Autobahnen" in Germany, there's a recommendation of ~80mph (130km/h), but itn't a rarity to see people going over 120mph...
To sum up: people drive faster here.
And from what I've heard, it's way harder to get a driving license in Germany (and Europe in general) than in the US.
Common scripting tasks in various programming languages (after scores)
Book:Inkscape Essentials for Web Designers
I just finished reading this excellent book on InkScape and I think it is an excellent resource for those who want to design graphics for their web application using InkScape and don't have access to commercial tools like Adobe Illustrator.

Link : http://www.amazon.com/Inkscape-0-48-Essentials-Web-Designers/dp/184951268X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1296398005&sr=8-1
"The most convincing form of disagreement is refutation... The most powerful form of disagreement is to refute someone's central point." This is a subjective statement, presented without evidence [DH6, DH5]. In any particular discussion, the most convincing forms of argument depends on the situation, the information both parties have available and their cognitive styles [DH4]. For example [DH3], sometimes highlighting a person's stake in the issue is often very effective. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2156623

As an analytical thinker, Paul seems to be projecting his own preferences to others [DH1] -- and he's left out some techniques that are extremely effective such as appealing to the emotions.
Yeah, I totally agree. I'm in the UK, I think if I had to look seriously for that sort of backup I'd go with Sweden or Switzerland (due to strong personal freedom there) - pretty certain we fall under the same satellite coverage as them.
Speaking as someone who's automating a large-ish business right now: 300k will buy you a lot of contracting. It might be possible to do what you want for less, which would expand your options.

Email me, and I'd be happy to discuss your situation and provide pointers where I can. (address is in profile)
The term was in casually used in the US at the time.
This is What 100 Feet of Snow Looks Like
"By now you probably are guessing that the way I'd like the world to be (simple, happy and loving, etc.) isn't the way the world is, and that's very much the reason I don't want to be here."

Maybe the reason the world isn't more like the one you want it to be is that not enough people like you are sticking around to try to make it better.

Another thing you might want to consider is dedicating your life to helping others. If you feel you have no use for your own life, at least you could use it to help others.

And this may help your own particular dilemma in another way. I've heard and read over and over again about how many people who were suicidal felt their lives had turned around once they switched to being self-focused to being other-focused.
'Egypt' won't happen in the US because the US is not Egypt, does not have Egypts standard of life for a very large portion of the population, does not have Egypts unique elements of history and does not have a repressive dictatorship propped up by foreign funds.

Having the internet shut down for the local population? I don't see it happening though as I wrote in an earlier thread I think it would be trivial and I'm sure they have a playbook on exactly how to do it that gets kept up-to-date, 'just in case'. But I think even the government does not have a clue as to what circumstances would prompt them to trigger this based on the current state of affairs. I just think that they find it hard to live with the idea that if TSHTF that they have something that might potentially be hard to control. Think of it as a control issue, not something with immediate applicability. A kill switch is a pretty blunt instrument of control, I'm sure the powers that be can come up with more subtle ways of dealing with issues like that.

Americans are no longer capable of revolution, this goes for any country in the world where the standard of living is high enough and people are for the most part happy with their lives including Western Europe and Australia. There simply isn't enough reason to do it, not enough people with nothing left to lose. There are simply no issues important enough to people any more to get out of their comfy chairs and go on to the streets. Witness what happened in France with the civil unrest there a few years ago, it was the kids with nothing left to lose that vented their anger, but they were (and continue to be) only a small fraction of the total population.

If a dictator should come to power (which you can never really rule out, even in a democracy) then that may change but it won't change overnight. It took 30 years for Egypt to get to that stage, it took more than 40 years in the former East Block countries.

Revolutions happen when the pot boils over, it has to be on the fire for a long long time gathering pressure and heat before that happens.

Ironically, if a kill switch were implemented and triggered the masses no longer having access to facebook and entertainment might be just enough reason for them to get out on the streets.
It appears like I was unclear. Mahmud had nothing to do with this, and in fact was the one who gave me unconditional help in the early stages. I apologize for the misunderstanding.
I was surprised to see this downvoted. I don't agree with the first paragraph, but I didn't think it subtracted from the conversation. And I thought the second paragraph was a valid point. What were people reacting to?
On the one hand this is a good thing because it indicates a growing mass awareness of the urgency of the situation. On the other hand humanity can't help but respond to urgency with a generous helping of charlatanism so yes I suspect this trend will only grow.
The problem for me arises when you start taxing 'the rich' more heavily than others.

And having a tax rate above 50% for anyone is morally indefensible IMHO.
It looks like he took the sites down.
I believe this sentiment was common. My father was in graduate school for the first 11 years of my life. At some point during that time, I learned this joke no kid should really know at that age:

Q:Why did Lincoln free the slaves?

A:Because he knew there would always be grad students.
Very interesting project. Brad, are there any similarities with your previous work on brackup? Perhaps with how the files are tracked?
An Arab revolution fueled by methods of the West
The Guardian is not a tabloid newspaper. The Telegraph is a broadsheet.

The Guardian is also not as far left as the Mail is right, although that is objective and could be debated all day.
Sorry about this. It looks like I can't edit it anymore. Mahmud helped me in the early stages, but was not the person I partnered with and has nothing to do with the issues. At this time I don't know how much information my alleged partner has about me so I am going to refrain from outing any information on him. It looks like my best bet is to just walk away at this point.
Hey, have you guys seen the Jaguar C-X75? It's only a concept car, but it's a (apparently) fully functional one. http://www.caradvice.com.au/96384/jaguar-c-x75-preview/

It's all electric (581kW (780hp) and 1600Nm) but can charge via twin turbines - yes, of the jet engine variety! Ove advantage of them is that (again, apparently) they can run on just about any fuel out there; it it burns they'll run on it.

Normally Jaguar isn't really my thing, but this, well, this is different :)
Where's the reverse donation button?
> Maybe for a few months. When you run a server for 2 or 3 years the distro goes out of support, software upgrades are getting behind, before you know it you are compiling patches from source, ...

You can get 5 years security updates support with Ubuntu Server LTS and you can set up safe unattended updates[1] with email notification if anything ever requires your attention. If you set your backups right as well, you can get away even with catastrophic hardware failures.

Remember, this is not some gigantic scale, it shouldn't be that difficult.

[1] https://help.ubuntu.com/10.04/serverguide/C/automatic-update...
I very much doubt the U.S. would turn off the internet, as doing so would cannibalize the economy.

It seems far more likely that the government would mandate an I.D. system to track everything we do online than simply turn everything off.
Since this old presentation of mine has resurfaced (first on Reddit and now here), here's the comment I made on Reddit:

A good companion to this presentation is Douglas
Crockford's presentation on JavaScript security:
http://javascript.crockford.com/security.ppt (Warning:
PowerPoint).

He makes similar points about the security of JavaScript
and comes up with a different solution. He proposes doing
away with most of JavaScript and allowing only a
safe-subset of the language to be used."

As a follow-up I had proposed signing of <SCRIPT> tags: http://blog.jgc.org/2009/09/solving-xss-problem-by-signing-t...
Apple have been using 1-click purchasing since the beginning of the iTunes store. They license the patent from Amazon.
> That was a claim of facts.

In case it is not clear, that was my opinion. I appreciate that using "definitely" might have confused the issue - but I was only trying to imply the strength of my opinion (rather than as fact).

And also; as I keep saying - I have no opinion on the Arabic version, it is my understanding the two are very separate channels.

All my comments refer to English AJ, period.

I think you really have no experience of AJ - either English or AJ, and possibly (though I hate to suggest this, and apologise if it is not the case) little knowledge of the region. And you've come to this conversation assuming a) I am the same and b) I am misguided. It would have been nice to have a proper discussion (indeed you have raised points I will be looking into for myself)

Bottom line is; the middle east is a passion of mine (hence, rusty Arabic :)). And AJ, I find them a great general news source; their agenda is the same as any news agency (or, rather, they have slight agenda's and bias like all news agencies). But on comparison it is my opinion that AJ are better than most.

I think that clears up the points I wanted to get straight..

> Either you're drunk or trolling.

This was just uncalled for and, in light of it, I'm not interested in continuing our discussion, sorry.
He proposes doing away with most of JavaScript and allowing only a safe-subset of the language to be used.

If only there was such a thing. :-)
How did the Egyptian government turn off the Internet?
Two things:

* There are countless examples of people who felt there was nothing more (to live for), but luckily lived on to see they were wrong. I've seen examples even here at HN.

* Visiting a doctor for mental illnesses should be equally obvious as visiting a doctor for other illnesses. Mental illnesses can be equally, possibly even more painful than other ilnessses, but I guess one of the problems is that they somehow feel right.

As with all my advice, if it helps, use it. If not, leave it. It might not be the best tought out piece of advice you'll get, but I once lost a good friend once because I didn't react in time, and now I think it's better to do what I cant rather than waiting for an inspired answer.
I very nearly fell for that.
Getting the truth is what being a journalist is about. Unfortunately, journalists are rarely in charge of news organizations.
'Sputnik moment'? A report card for US cities
Ask HN: 99designs or crowdspring for large-format illustration work?
I'm working on an MVP, and have an idea for a large illustration to surround the site's introduction and a survey that will help to complement the message. However, I'm a decent web designer with fair sense of color, proportion, &c, but have zero illustration skills.

This seems like the perfect place for 99designs or crowdspring. From browsing the contests on each site now, it seems like 99designs has more high-quality stuff in their "other" category vs. crowdspring's "illustration" category, but that might be a transient situation.

I'd love to hear any words of advice as to which site I should use for a project like this, which seems like it's not quite in the mainstream of "crowdsourcing" projects. Alternatively, maybe there's another similar site that I'm not aware of that is more appropriate for illustration work, rather than e.g. logos, web design, etc. FWIW, my budget is probably going to land in the $500 area.
Canadians Just Became World's Biggest Internet Losers.
Yet another "5 year plan" http://xkcd.com/678/
Statements like this are a result of our innate desire for everything to be black and white. Unfortunately, that's not the way things work. While the news networks are indeed in the business of providing what people want, they also have a hand in shaping their audience's desires.

To lay the blame of crappy news solely at the feet of the audience is about as short sighted as the conspiracy notion IMHO.
Haha. Too funny. Touche!
I really enjoy listening to pretty much anything the folks at Full Cast Audio have done; http://www.fullcastaudio.com/

Other than their work i've recently listened to Bill Bryson reading his autobiography, "The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid", as well as Malcolm Gladwell reading his book, "Outliers".

I usually listen to the previews in the iTunes music store to get a feel for the narrator.
A bit off topic: this is another great example of how open source works well. In this case Google can release Simian, perhaps get back good software contributions, and sharing does no harm to their business. A win, all around.
While it's no comparison for the global recognition that like Harvard, Oxbridge, et. al enjoy, within certain fields the Scottish Unis are quite well known. For example, Edinburgh is widely regarded to be the worldwide leader in AI Research, and St. Andrews has a renowned International Relations division.