skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Telecomix are working on their own system - they are taking faxes which they will then post. Unfortunately they do not have the resources to set up on the trunk in egypt like google so its an international call to germany.

http://interfax.werebuild.eu/2011/01/31/fax-to-interfax-for-...
Very interesting. I'd probably use colons anyway, but the only thing that would really bug me is the & syntax for nested selectors, as compared to just nesting the selectors in less.
Same here (on an android). It makes me less inclined to comment, which can be a real timewaster as then you are committed to the thread. Normally I touch type so I don't have the patience for the SW keyboard.
4 More Projects to Create a Government-less Internet
Clickable links:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2157281
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2158590
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2157602
It's an introductory post for a new blog. Obviously the author intends to go into much more detail in future posts.
To my knowledge it doesn't come with a censorship mechanism that prevents pro-government tweets.
Terms of Yuri Milner/SV Angel’s $150K investment into YC companies
Fructose is actually poison (not in the sense of "you die now", but in the long term alcohol sense) with almost no energy benefit. The high fructose corn syrup and sucrose (50% fructose, 50% glucose) used in most candy are remarkably inefficient sources of energy. The fructose provides practically zero and although the glucose in sucrose is good, there are better sources for it.

For source, watch "Sugar: The Bitter Truth" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBnniua6-oM) and/or look up the research it references.
As a side note, news.ycombinator.com should really have HTTPS access.

Passwords and cookies in clear HTTP are no good. Anyone here (should) knows it. Firesheep proves it. GMail and Zuckerberg suffered it.

Just buy or get a free SSL certificate, and let nginx or stunnel handles SSL and proxies HTTP to/from Arc. Total cost, being pessimistic: 150$ for the certificate verification, and 2 hours to set-up the certs & nginx.

I know, it's awesome, it's a custom Arc webserver and all, and good practices are for PHBs only, but still. For a "hacker" website, news.ycombinator.com is a shame regarding to privacy/security (see also: passwords stored as shasums (without even a salt), funny things like <img src="http://news.ycombinator.com/logout>, outdated versions of software used [http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=516122], etc.)
Both are actually pretty frequent, but with a grocery store a block or so away, the latter is more of a problem. The current instance is chicken broth, a baguette, and spinach (and I returned home this afternoon to discover that somebody had bought more spinach), which are probably just going to get used for separate dishes.
Netflix doesn't tend to use upstream bandwidth. If you look at bandwidth contention in the last mile it's all upstream. Thankfully, with SYN/ACK prioritization it's become less of an issue.
Any specific funds? We're on the cusp of that next step and the info would be great to have.
Imagine this for a moment: You just purchased a new microwave and would like to plug it in on your countertop and cook a delicious burrito, but you can't. Why can't you? Because the power company only allows you enough power to run a small coffee maker, or maybe a rice cooker, or maybe a toaster, but none of these things at the same time.
This is the internet, and it is horrible.

For this analogy to make sense, we would all have to pay a fixed amount for electricity and then be entitled to consume as we want. Last time I checked, Comcast (and all other ISPs) offer a range of plans for increasing amounts of money with increasing limits and caps. The ISPs pay gigabyte per gigabyte in their peering arrangements (and yes, some gigabytes cost them more than other gigabytes), why can't they pass that cost onto you?

And, even looking past that, I for one trust monopolistic telecoms such as AT&T, Comcast and Verizon to innovate faster and get better internet into the hands of consumers than the US Government.
Thanks - lanyard was a word I didn't know yet.
PeteSearch: Discover public data with the Data Source Handbook
Hopefully the result of the revolution gets them a better government, unlike pretty much every other revolution in history (America is a special case).
I feel just the opposite; actually proud and inspired that there are mainstream companies with the moral confidence to both take sides and act on their convictions.

Many of our ills as a society are caused or perpetuated by too many individuals and corporations remaining amoral in the public arena.
Great, simple idea ... I'm excited to see it in action.
can we get a tldr on this?
I'm trying to sign up, but it is rejecting my twitter username.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3666801/Screenshots/Screen%20shot%20...
Agreed. To simplify even further:
http://www.nyc.gov/shtml/home/home/html/simplicity/html/home...
Waterloo?

I admit I'm really sheltered from the rest of the Canadian scene from Winnipeg as the startup scene is scarce but I haven't heard much from Waterloo out here. If I had to name the top three I would have said the same in that order with the exception of Waterloo, as it wouldn't even be on my radar screen.

What am I missing for it to be first on your list?
I read this post: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2157281

While anyone who invests money and gets nothing in return has my sympathy, I don't see the relevance of a private business transaction to HN.

You will sometimes find someone plastering notices all over the city. These notices have a picture of someone and the warning not to date them because they are a lying, cheating low-life. Is this a public service intended to save other people from an unhappy fate? Or is it someone trying to get revenge by naming, blaming, and shaming someone else?

Unless the "scamming" in question is happening on HN, such as someone spamming HN with fraudulent posts, I have trouble thinking this kind of thing meets the HN guidelines.
You think its just an accident that everyone is under 35?

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9986

For sure they don't encourage older people to apply.
were you trying to taste food in a different orifice previously?
Can someone explain why this is? You would think that the developers building it would say, "hey, let's make these urls a bit more friendly..."
Just a guess, you supported Paypal, Visa, Amazon, etc. in the WikiLeaks case.

Amiright?
Read the rest of the post.

I wasn't originally talking about net-neutrality. In my opinion, the bandwidth available to people in the US (as well as the cost) is terrible. My point with the electricity analogy is that I think I should be able to watch streaming HD video in every room in my house and still have enough bandwidth left over for whatever else I can think of.

Simply: data needs to be treated like electricity. It would be absurd if the power company told me I could run a toaster, but not a toaster and a microwave.

ISPs could deliver this sort of thing[1], they just choose not to (because it might not make financial sense).

[1]Could meaning that this is technologically possible.
The Source of Intel's Cougar Point SATA Bug
Hacker News is the specific means by which this scammer is finding his victims. That, specifically, is what makes this relevant, IMO.
Well, USA can beat China by suing them. Joking...
So what you're saying is "pretty much every" current government is the worst it's ever been?

Come on.
Official Google Research Blog: Julia meets HTML 5
Speak It, Baby [my StartUp Camp idea/experience]
Five Solid Startup Lessons - Aaron Levie, Box.net [VIDEO]
If the ISPs end up losing here it'll be because their customers will decide there's no point in getting a fast connection. Every use you'd put it to is throttled, blocked, or costs too much.

At that point you shop around for the absolute minimum price connection.
"freeriding" is a ridiculous concept. How about we call what the ISPs do "middlemanning".

Why would someone pay for internet from an ISP if not to access these types of services? You think we pay $60/month just to have an IP address? Fundamentally, customers wouldn't pay for broadband if it weren't for these "bandwidth hogging" applications. So who's stealing value here?

If you don't want to peer fine, pay your upstream provider's transit rates. Or better yet cut off service to any webpage that requires more than 100kb to load. I'm sure your customers will be happy to keep paying you for nothing.
The server logs might indicate how many times the image was loaded, however they do not reveal the number of attempted downloads.
The tick lines on the graph shown are drawn in an exponentially decreasing fashion. Makes it look like we are moving really close to pre-1999 days when in fact we have a bit more room to "bubble".
I'm surprised google isn't doing speech recognition and translating these for us too.

I'd think the problem is that you're piling up two technologies known for being very approximate and the results would be likely to be pretty far off to the original meaning. Which is especially sensitive for the current situation.
Too bad!

Thanks for the reply though.
this works out a little better if you go shopping with recipes in mind. that way, as the days/weeks go by, and you're looking at the food on the shelves, you already know at least one recipe that they can be used for.

this might be a little harder to keep working for an entire household (eg, someone doesn't get the memo that a particular ingredient is for a particular recipe), but that's perhaps something that can be solved internally
The IE Problem
...Really?
The tone of this article makes me nervous. It became clear to me why, when I got to this:

Talent selection in the hands of too few is one sort of problem, but financial engineering concentrated in the hands of too few, especially those who think of themselves as smart, is really, really dangerous.

No, it's really not dangerous. Dangerous is something that can deprive people of their life or property without them choosing to take on that risk; it's normally something the government is supposed to prevent. The markets are designed for investors to take risks, and overall, it's a great system; it's the opposite of dangerous.

(In fact, if people supposedly having knowledge about venture capital start shouting about how "dangerous" it is, that's only going to increase the amount of government regulation, which is a lose-lose for everyone involved in venture capital or startups.)

The whole article takes on sort of an end-of-the-world gloomy tone. Y Combinator just doesn't have that big of an impact. If Y Combinator were to disappear tomorrow, things would keep on going, at least just as well as they were before Y Combinator was brought into existence.
Going Rogue, Part 2: Phantom Types
We also offer REAL external referral $$fees$$, if you're curious ping joe at yammer-inc dot com.

We don't believe in cutting corners on hiring the best.
The first post was an introduction. The second was a nice overview of how to structure your trading system. It brought up points I've never thought of.

He did say more detail was coming in future posts. I'm not sure what you're expecting; this doesn't seem oriented towards developing models or trading strategies per se, but rather all the ancillary things that goes into building a HFT startup, including the execution of those strategies. Which was what the second post was about.

That is far more useful, since there is enough How-To-Be-A-Quant literature out there.
woah, i just posted http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2163688 about my startup camp experience and doing something similar but in reverse: calling you for new tweets.

doing my app with the google speech recognition API would be awesome!
Cheap interns. A ocean full of them. All hungry and desperate and more than willing to do a bang-up job for a good co-op rating.

Affordable office space right next door to Google, RIM, IBM, SyBase, etc, along with a bunch of other startups.

Being plugged directly into the artery of Canada's indisputably most prolific source of CS and engineering education.

And I'm not even in Waterloo :P
The federal government is now using taxpayer funds to buy equity in promising startup firms, on the same great terms as other early angel investors.

Isn't state ownership of the means of production called Socialism? Well don't answer really, it's a rhetorical question, the government buying ownership of new firms is socialist by definition, and this is not a "Obamer is socerlist derp derp derp" silliness, but a real concern.

This will distort and warp the investment field. Companies that qualify for federal treatment not only get VC funds instantly doubled, but they then qualify for a whole host of competitive advantages such as the listed "patent fast tracking" not available to those who don't drink from the fountain. In other words, those not participating are penalized.

VCs are individuals often with business acumen and understanding of entrepreneurship who do due diligence and keep tabs on their investments. The largest bureaucracy on earth and in history can not make the same decisions, it is not possible. But it does have infinite funds because it owns currency printing presses, and doesn't lose anything if the businesses fail, so there is no risk to them.

To understand one of the many problems here, take the word "government" out of this and replace it with "Bob Smith". Bob Smith is an investor funded with a printing press that he prints counterfeit dollars with to invest in companies. Without any concern for business plans or profits, if any VC in the world invests in a company, Bob agrees to double their investment on the same terms of ownership. Also, Bob has arranged with politicians to create many special benefits available only to firms he is invested in, such as expedited patents that aren't looked at as carefully for those in his special Bob Smith fund. Companies they are competing with don't get the same special legal privileges unless they agree to sign the contract with Bob and give him partial ownership. If the business fails, Bob prints more money. If it succeeds, he takes a slice of a real business for himself. Does this seem like a good idea?

This is not a good situation nor can it end well.
HN is not a match-making service for founders or consultants. If keeping track of the worst-of-the-worst is relevant, why not keep track of the best-of-the-best? Why don't we track business karma?

Services for vetting people in business already exist, starting with LinkedIn and going on to other sites, many of which are specifically designed for web programmers to showcase their work and show off their reputation.

The situation is unfortunate, but I still don't see it as HN business if one HN user decides to do business with another HN user and things don't work out well. HN is not responsible, we're a "common carrier" so-to-speak.

p.s. JM2C, of course, carry on, I'll be over here coding...
Restful ajax web app basics ( mimic gmail with backbone.js, SOA, TSA )
How Egyptians Can Tweet Without the Internet
Redundancy is important in simplicity discussion, they want to say.
I had this same question, thanks for asking it.
There's not much call for lawyers in a country with a very spotty rule of law. And when you don't have open elections, the skills that lawyers excel at are irrelevant.

But make no mistake. Those men are not good guys. You don't get to be a leading cadre of the Chinese Communist Party through being a superior engineer.
The developers building it just said "I work for the Government, who cares."
Hidden Behind Egypt's Uprising, Sudan Protests
that's very sad. the service still works for landline phones, which are still operational for now.
Twitter Investor Insight Venture Partners Raises a Billion Dollars
jiganti was scammed by X

jiganti was helped by mahmud

yesterday, lrm242 investigated X and turned up addresses (Chinese) etc. from DNS

lrm242 is now being libelled on complaints forums, as of yesterday

X appears to have several HN accounts: pinksoda, sinkfloat, and BrianHolt

Vaguely interestingly, Totiboti (now auto-dead - you need to turn on showdead to see his posts) was warning about the guy repeatedly: http://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=Totiboti
Real Ventures holds a big bag of money right now... http://realventures.com/

If you're ever in Montreal, let me know, I might be able to help.
Best of luck Paul.
It has not been my experience that government RFPs contain bullet points like "URLs should be non-redundant" and "In general, the software should not suck." No, instead they're like "The website shall make specific steps to be Y2K compliant as outlined in the Council of American Governors Strategy Memorandum On Y2K Compliance, edition 2.1A revised."

P.S. Find the Y2K compliance code. It doesn't work, but working is not the reason they needed Y2K compliance code in the first place -- it is just another checkbox to fill.
tl;dr: HN is being dragged into a brewing defamation case. One way or the other.
Weird. Just sign up for now with an invite code. We can update your twitter and reputation manually if need be. Welcome on board!
E-commerce is not un-Australian
You'd not be so opposed to the submission if you were a lot less cynical. I see this as a genuine warning to the community. Nothing more.
Macca, do you have any way of checking the status on applications? I applied a few months ago but never heard back either way.
do you take people from europe? Sponsor visas?

(this isn't necessarily for me, but I do know people who might take you up on your offer if you do)
What I want from Open Source Hardware
I'm sorry I can't be more help but this really sounds like you need to seek professional advice on the matter with someone in your jurisdiction. Nobody on Hacker News is going to know your situation well enough to give you anything conclusive.

As an aside, is there any particular reason why you're describing yourself as a female hacker? I'm just curious as to how your sex is relevant (from your perspective at least) to the discussion.
Hmmm ... I'm going to add a new issue category to our issue tracker that can be used when a change is needed to support a specific browser. Of the problems I remember fixing, I'd guess there are 20 IE customizations for each of the non-IE customizations. I'd love to see some solid metrics but would rather have a unified development target!
Have to register to view the article, no thanks.
Conductor turns the New York subway system into an interactive string instrument
Aren't there laws in place against what amounts to collusion for price-fixing? I thought that the laws of free market should make services cheaper over time, as infrastructure capacity and competition grows... instead, it seems like the competition is shrinking and there is a bare-faced money grab happening.
Thanks for the response.

Well, the thing is, that you shouldn't have to fear for null to creep up somewhere in the code at any time. Sure, if your language (like most, sadly) has null as an alternate value for almost any type you'll have to do that, just like in C you have to check for the bounds of the buffers into which you read strings, but that doesn't have to be the case!

There are languages that made away with null in general, such as Haskell (yes, I know, I know), where if you have operations that require some null-equivalent, you declare it so by using the Maybe monad, and the compiler will ensure that the null gnomes won't throw a wrench at the rest of your code :)

On not trusting the output of other layers/code: it's a great policy, but I do think that we should strive to be able to take more and more things for granted in our code, or at least reasonably for granted, like we usually trust that random bits won't change in our integers because of cosmic rays. And for that the language designers can give us tools in some form or another, if they do their homework. It will only make it easier to live with our limitations.
Intel's Sandy Bridge chipset SATA ports may gradually "degrade over time"
Don't you think that posting that is a bit rude? Yeah, you could look my address up in the phone book, but I generally don't go signing my posts on reddit with it.
Frank Chimero's "Shape of Design" book, kickstarted in one day
>"Do you really believe he should cover Microsoft and Apple equally?"

Of course not. But he's not a beat reporter. He editorializes his reporting to promote Apple as he did in this case - which is what makes it typical Siegler. How is one to hold your position to be genuine when despite your saying that this article is an exception to his typical bias towards Apple, you have defended the objectivity of every other piece of Siegler's writing mentioned?
No, you get it with digital as well. They tried it at 30 and people complained that it didn't look "like film", so they put it back to 24. Everything I watch flickers now, to a greater or lesser extent. TV is usually fine but if you're watching a movie or something on a larger screen, pay attention to the corners with your peripheral vision. You don't notice it where you're focusing, but everything around it flickers.
Uncommon to see "bit rot" affecting the chipset itself.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bit_rot
An up-vote is supposed to be enough, but that link to the jQuery source is very cool.
Interstellar Marines: AAA FPS funded by community support
Jacques has been a tremendously valuable member of this community and a true friend to me. Asking nothing in return he has always been there to help.

I remember one day a couple months ago everything that could have possibly gone wrong with my business/life... did. It was one of those moments they always warn you about in the startup literature, and I was not expecting it at all. I didn't even realize what was happening - that this was one of "those" moments - I really, really was ready to quit.

Jacques talked me through it. I was ready to throw in the towel and he was there talking to me on IRC and email and cheering me on.

It was one of those things that you just don't forget. I never forget people who are there for me when I really need them.

Jacques is a friend and the entire community is for the worse from his departure. The plus side is that since Hacker News is now slightly worse, hopefully the downward trend will continue and he will come back again, restoring equilibrium.
Please upvote so we can maybe get some decent answers here.
I'm not the OP, but I can see his point. Foreigners (not just Americans) taking sides in political disputes which they don't really understand might wind up helping the wrong side. Even if we just define "the wrong side" as "not the side they would have supported if they'd known more about the situation".

Alternatively, even if they pick "the right side", they might wind up inadvertently helping the wrong side, since the right side can then say "Hey look, our enemies are being propped up by foreign interests!"

Does this mean that foreigners can't take sides in political battles going on in other countries? No, but they should certainly be circumspect about it and do their research and not jump on a bandwagon just because it happens to smell nice.
My guess is that "html" really means "folder full of static stuff," and each project needs to be in it's own subdirectory called "home." Confusingly, Apache or whatever might be config'ed to read directories indexes from home.shtml.

The first html is the generic static assets folder, and the second is the local projects' folder full of assets.

Poor developers never had a chance.

www.nyc.gov/html/housinginfo/html/home/home.shtml

www.nyc.gov/html/dob/html/home/home.shtml

www.nyc.gov/html/planyc2030/html/home/home.shtml

etc.
take a look at the names of authors of the blog post:

Posted by Ujjwal Singh, CoFounder of SayNow and AbdelKarim Mardini, Product Manager, Middle East & North Africa
Like modern Twitter the date seems to be the permalink:

http://www.quora.com/What-s-wrong-with-OpenID/answer/Yishan-...