skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Glorification of the stupid is nihilistic. Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed. So reason is required to produce the values on which human life depends.

In "The Roots of Nazi Psychology: Hitler's Utopian Barbarism", Jay Gonen described the typical Nazi mentality as being a contradictory mix of brutality and intellect. He analyzed these "brilliant morons" in Freudian terms, but according to Leonard Peikoff, in his book "The Ominous Parallels", the roots of Nazi stupidity glorification are actually to be found in the philosophy of Kant who famously attacked reason.
You're welcome! For what its worth at this point, I was able to change the checkout process. Free downloaders will now bypass the checkout page and go directly to the download page.
Tangential point, as a Stanford CS grad who did an internship at Microsoft while I was there:

>The best developers and most intelligent students all came from MIT, CMU, and Waterloo (I met no Stanford people).

Stanford people strongly prefer to work in SV, either for startups or for Google or Facebook. When I was at Microsoft, there were 12 or 13 other Stanford interns, but most of them were Indian (I'm not) and they generally socialized primarily with other Indians.

Also, now that I think about it, I only managed to meet one MIT person and one or two CMU people while there. I met a lot more people from UMich and RIT than anywhere else.
Yeah, that's the reason why. Just to be clear, Bell has been making their intentions clear for a long, long time. They were packet shaping "reseller" connectivity as long as two years ago.

There ARE DSL providers that locate hardware in Bell switching centers and don't use the Nexxia network. Primus is an example. Funny thing about Primus is that they, too, are implementing UBB, but it isn't because of Bell: It's because they don't want the ultra high throughput users that are being punted from TekSavvy from all migrating to their network.
Very nice looking map. I wish CloudMade would let you use patterns like the diagonal one you have for the water, because it would make for a very nice looking real-time traffic visualization map.
Actually it's smart to take risks. The expected value of foundig a startup is sufficiently high to make it a rational decision in most cases.
I recently read an article which stated that most successful entrepreneurs are actually highly risk averse- they only take carefully calculated risks.
CASE: a Simple Test Framework for C
Yes. On Hacker News, we discuss subjects that people who like startups and hacking find interesting. That's not solely hacking, programming, IT or startups, there are a lot of things that young, educated people like to talk about, and major political events are one of them.
What do you think about viewing the thumbnail of the full screen and using infinite scroll to paginate?
We have this in Australia.

Here at least the situation isn't too bad, because we have competitive resellers at the ISP level[1].

The ISPs compete on service, bandwidth, data limits and inclusions. For example, many (most?) ISPs arrange peering with video providers like Tivo so video streamed on their services don't count towards the data cap.

[1] There are laws to ensure that any ISP can install their equipment in the exchanges, or get access to the dominate telco's equipment at close-to-cost. Most of the time, these laws work, if slower than ideal.
Intapaper/Readability-friendly version:

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/4.02/jobs_pr.html

Discussion from last time it was here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1968611
Exactly. Thank you, but I'll stick with my ridiculously long keychain of randomly generated strings.
I get a lot of spam on facebook. The main categories are:

1. Applications unwittingly installed by naive friends that post annoying updates all the time to my wall, effectively hiding the little signal in there. Each time a friend uses a new application I get more spam until I hide it. A variant of this is the unhideable notification that a friend started using a new application; getting rid of these requires hiding the friend forever. Both these examples require an action not simpler than using gmail's "filter messages like this" function to mark them as trash.

2. I have some relatively popular friends who are often unwillingly tagged in cheap promotions, religious events (they're atheist), musical events they're not attending, etc. This effectively spams all their friends with a "this person has been tagged" notification until they decide to remove themselves from the list.

3. I have also received unsolicited facebook messages of a very dubious comercial purpose that I would report as spam in gmail.

All in all the signal-to-noise ratio in facebook ends up being so low I have a twitter account specifically for keeping up with friends, and it ironically enough makes it easier to do the low-cost maintaining people usually associate with facebook.

Most of this comes from the fact that, while I mostly trust my friends, I can't trust all of them (as refusing friend requests is usually seen as very rude), and while I can (and do) hide friends, I can do nothing about the bad friends of my good friends, and those end up being a regular source of spam.
> Over an absurdly short distance from the switching station

That's sort of the whole idea ADSL is founded on.

> with perfect copper, as a tech trial sure. In the real world most ADSL users find that their experience is nowhere near that.

Actually, in the 'real world' it's doing pretty good. If there are limitations it is more often than not because of oversubscribing of pipes further down the line.

> ADSL sucks.

So you keep saying ;)

> ADSL has always sucked.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Very_high_speed_digital_subscri...

Seriously, that does not 'suck', that's a pretty impressive technological hack. To take lines that were meant to carry voice and to get them to function at bitrates that a HF transmitter would be jealous of is not all that bad.

ADSL is constantly being upgraded to supply a market demand, it is not being 'replaced because it is dead'.

There is an awful lot of copper in the ground and will remain like that for a long time, ADSL has in this sense been a great enabler in bringing broadband to the masses, the other side of that coin has been internet over the TV cable.

From that wikipedia article:

"VDSL2 deteriorates quickly from a theoretical maximum of 250 Mbit/s at source to 100 Mbit/s at 0.5 km (1,600 ft) and 50 Mbit/s at 1 km (3,300 ft), but degrades at a much slower rate from there, and still outperforms VDSL. Starting from 1.6 km (1 mi) its performance is equal to ADSL2+."

1 km is not an 'absurdely short distance' for a maximum of 50 Mbit. In practice at that distance VDSL2 (which is currently only available from a select few providers where I live) does anywhere from 20 to 40 Mbit, not all that shabby, in fact I can hardly imagine what I'd use that for and I'm a pretty big consumer. Oh, and I live about as far away as you could possibly get from the nearest POP.

> We're having this discussion because Bell, due to their ILEC status, was forced into agreements that favored some businesses that pandered to, essentially, the "problem users" who were kicked off every other network. Teksavvy didn't go to ADSL because it's such a great technology. They went to it because the CRTC cleared a sweetheart deal for them.

The bandwidth charges that Bell is trying to levy here are not based in reality, regardless of the position of Teksavvy, and I don't see any reason why people that simply use 'dropbox' or 'netflix' should be punished for that with these outrageous charges. No other developed country has such a backwards system. 'Problem Users' don't exist, that's simply people using the capacity of the bandwidth that was sold to them. If you don't want users to use a fat pipe: don't sell them one.

Anyway, this thread is becoming ridiculously indented, I'm going to let it go with this. Thanks for the exchange!
Doing something well and doing something profitably are far from the same thing. No one would deny that Microsoft had a successful, profitable stranglehold on the PC operating system market from the early 1990s to the 2000s. But few people would say that it's because they made good software.

Likewise, making meaningless "news" that gets people's attention but doesn't inform anyone may be a good way to sell ads and gain market share. But it doesn't inform people, and that's what good journalism does.
Monopsony.
> Those numbers look pitiful

Number one on that list is the 36th on the Fortune Global 500- probably not /that/ pitiful.
Anyone got a college deferment, but were drafted afterward unless they were in an essential occupation, which did not exempt doctors, lawyers, and most professions. One way to get out of ground combat was to volunteer for the Navy or Air Force. I managed to string it out for 4 years, but was finally saved only by the lottery.
Fun is good.

I just wondered if it had been built for a specific project and if so what problems it was trying to solve.

It's funny - I've spent the past few years thinking about high-level languages that would compile down to lisp. Recently I've seen a number that go the other way.
If you're referring to the US, there are laws against it in a few states, but it is not outright illegal. Even in the states where there are laws against it, many people successfully do it every year. It is the general perception though.

http://hitchwiki.org/en/United_States#Police
What you are describing is known as the "chicken-and-egg problem", and if you search HN on that phrase, you'll find a lot of previous discussions and advice.

The short version is that you will probably have to resort to non-scalable means of priming the pump-- basically, identifying a subset of users you can persuade (financially, if necessary) to produce enough seed content to get the ball rolling.
The world is full of smart people doing all kinds of smart things. Thats smart.

That's.
If you took 35 startups that span continents and are no more than 2 years old I think the results would be significantly different.

I've worked in close proximity and remotely - you can't beat a small team of motivated developers working where they are most comfortable - collaborating through Campfire, Google Docs and Github.
Cool, only a couple of dots around Geelong, Australia. One of them must be me.
Direct link to the actual PDF report; https://www.eff.org/files/EFF%20IOB%20Report_Final%20Version...
Design of understanding: new new media.
In 1990 the Internet was not a flicker on the radar of business.

Nowadays, it's accessible from a computer I can fit into my pocket, and it affects pretty much everyone on the planet.

I think people underestimate how much change has happened in the last 20 years.
I was initially being sarcastic but if you want to get serious on the topic, let's at least admit that there would indeed be confusion for an extraterrestrial coming to Earth for the first time

If that's the primary confusion scenario, I think I'm comfortable with the way things worked out. ;) Also, I was mostly commenting on wyclif, I got your sarcasm.
The Internet needs a do-over.
Wow. Just wow. So ... the fact that he listens to hip-hop means he can't say anything of value? I guess you think Ben Horowitz (of Andreesen Horowitz) is an idiot too: http://bhorowitz.com/

You could have posted your comment as "NourielRoubini" or "LinusTorvalds" and it'd be just as xenophobic and worthless.
I created this framework to automate tests in ccv: http://github.com/liuliu/ccv.

Now it is a very "weak" framework comparing to others. The highlight is: simple and pure C. Granted, some hacks are needed to complete this job. But I hope that these hacks are robust enough to be usable.

I am looking for a test framework for some time already and I liked the structure of CATCH (https://github.com/philsquared/Catch) a lot but the only downside is that it is C++ based (I don't want to extern "C" link to my C library). It should be understood that for a good test framework, C may not be syntactically powerful enough to support such syntax sugar. JUnit made heavily use of annotation and many C++ unit testing libraries use static object with constructor (to collect all test cases before main starts). I managed to do this with some macros and stack hacking.

I plan to have some mutation test support in the future.
Actually its more like on the server side the stacks are richer and more diverse so you can consume and easily use anything, XML, JSON, etc.... Whereas on the client you're pretty much stuck with Javascript. So the choice is obvious -- use the technology that works best with your most constrained environment.
The most efficient I have ever been was when we had 4 of us sat around a large desk, a coder doing UI, a coder doing back-end, a user/business expert and a data-migration expert. When I wanted to check what was going on, I just had to twist my monitor and point at it to ask if I was doing the right thing. Vastly superior to even working 30 feet from someone else.
Where is hitchhiking illegal?
I find myself pretty comfortable with 25/25 in rural Maryland. I could up it to 150/35 if I wanted.
The idea that metering is or will be "fair" as applied by rapacious telecoms is beyond hilarious.

You honestly think the rate will be within an order of magnitude of your guess? Pardon me while I get a hernia from laughter.
Since anyone with an .edu email gets free Prime....Amazon will probably take a lot of business from Netflix

get them hooked in college, then profit for years
I disagree. One doesn't have to be either smart or stupid. One has to be smart and know when its best to act stupid.

And yes, one can outsmart stupid, by being smart and stupid as required.
Would you say that Juno had bad writing, or anything by the Coen brothers or Joss Whedon? All of those feature the kinds of conspicuously zippy one-liners that you seem to feel constitute bad writing.
Ah! Thanks for clearing that up. I haven't gotten around to dabbling in Backbone yet.
The problem with "just pay for data" is that mobile voice calls use such a tiny amount of data that either the cost of voice would have to drop by several orders of magnitude, or the price of data would have to be so astronomical as to make web browsing unaffordable.

This is the problem that telcos have been struggling with in terms of mobile data for years - they don't want to give up their fat margins on voice, but the actual bytes used by voice calls is trivial.
More interestingly, is the VC market inherently inefficient because of the accredited investor rules? Is there a reasonable proxy for "startups and venture capital investments" in the open market which would allow one to parlay insight into cold hard cash?
Congrats for a great startup weekend.

I love the idea. A couple of months ago I created gistcube[1], It was a weekend project to learn a bit about Mongodb and Sinatra. Gistcube is a way to discover interesting gist in github. You can vote up, add to favorites, tag gists, and alos sign up to interesting/tags gist using rss.

[1] http://gistcube.com
Looking for Hackers in Orlando, FL
We are building a start-up team here in Downtown Orlando, we have an incubator off of Magnolia and Jefferson called WorkUrbn. We are searching for a developer to join the team on a few start-up projects. If anyone's out there near by let me know, or send us a message on our workurbn Facebook page.
cool, it would be interesting to mine that raw data and look for correlations with other geo-related data. ideas?
Please take care of the wikipedia scrapping trolls?

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Live_mirrors

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Mirrors_and_forks

http://openfacts.berlios.de/index-en.phtml?title=Copies_of_W...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Websites_which_use_Wik...
Ok, two things that I've never found answers to:

1. How do people do the really small font size? It's not in the formatting document.
2. Assuming you've been upvoted some, how can you tell you've been downvoted? Do people keep such close tabs on their karma that they just...know? I haven't seen a UI element for "you've been downvoted".
Egyptian Router Outage Monitor
I would venture to say it does.

You can't really fault Github for individual teams not opting to host their code in more than one spot online, even if Github doesn't offer the capability for users to use their own domain name for seamless switching of git hosts.

Does Github encourage keeping everything centered at Github? Perhaps implicitly. But they certainly don't lock anyone's data in, so blaming them for their customers opting to NOT put their code anywhere besides Github seems unfair.
> Reincarnation, in Tibet, is not seen as some religious belief but as a fact of life. This is to the point that payments can be arranged between lifetimes.

I just have to know how that works. How are you supposed to find the guy's reincarnation to get paid? Or do they pay your reincarnation?
"Bad guess. My first startup had a successful exit; I'm not at liberty to discuss the numbers, but let's just say that it was for a satisfying amount with the appropriate number of zeroes."

ok. So why say "we all aren't in it for the money", when that is obviously not the case for you.

"I'm not purely in it for the money; I'm in it for the quality of life."

So you are interested in running a lifestyle business (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lifestyle_business). You also cashed out early. However, what about the people that want to run long-term businesses to help the quality of life for others (by hiring employees and paying them a wage)?

"After a certain point, each additional dollar/kroner fails to significantly impact the quality of life."

Is this because of taxes? Even if it's not, you can't make that blanket statement for everyone. As a late 20s single guy, I would need a lot less than someone with a wife and kids. You can always use more money for something to improve the quality of your life. Your kids futures, relatives, non-profit organizations, retirement...the list goes on. I don't feel like the government should put limits on my potential success. If it's all sucked away by taxes and other government fees, your choice is gone.
Not really sure what this is/does. Can someone summarize? Is it search/social thing built on github?
It seems that the commenter was saying that the most impressive students were from those three schools, not that most (or even many) of the interns at Microsoft were from those three schools.
I was suggesting that A government less internet already exists, it's called Packet Radio AKA AX25 is not really true.
Aw come on, Norway has oil and it is small, but was social-democratic long before any oil, and both Denmark and Sweden have built successful welfare safety nets without relying so much on a natural-resources windfall.
I believe it is not popular because of perceived thinness in the markets. If all carpoolers advertised that they car pool through a bumper sticker, then over time, people might dip their toes in.
You're right, but I think it speaks less to client side and more to current trends in server side technologies. The #1 feature of JSON is that it maps directly into the dictionary and array built-in types of all the popular "scripting" languages (Perl, Python, Ruby, Javascript, PHP). This makes it absolutely trivial to work with in both the browser and the server unlike XML which demands either DOM traversal to extract data (yuck!), or XPath (cleaner, but yet another thing to learn).

I think this points to Ruby/Python/Perl/Javascript becoming more and more popular on the server side, even for "serious" apps.
I think you can see the difference in their appeal, however. NPR and PBS need to attract enough viewers to keep their programs going, which are made fairly cheaply. The BBC and CBC are government-funded, and have never really operated with an eye towards profitability. You can argue that they aren't objective news sources, but the quality of the news they provide is still much better than on the big US networks.
such that if a customer decides to attack you on the internet, a manager can jump in, offer concessions, and make it all better.

You can still 'jump in' and try to 'make it all better' as a solo founder or a larger startup without call centers and 'roboscripts.' The updates to the linked article show that this didn't occur in the short-term here, despite the publicity.
It's not supposed to be a slight at the French. It's a "polite fiction" - the user of the phrase is pretending that the swear word was a (non-offensive) word in another language, and the other party is pretending to believe this (since of course they are so pure that they have never heard the word in question before). Both parties of course know exactly what is going on, but the device allows the first person to apologise without implying that the second person is so uncouth as to know the word in question.
Yogi Berra and Complexity Theory
India is working on solid-fuel Thorium reactors. Very different.
I spent a couple days there during my last vacation ;-)

Would have been delighted if I met some fellow hackers, but schedule was very tight.
Social is a little misleading. It's more about connecting developers to projects. For contributors, it's about finding projects that would be of interest to them. For maintainers, it's about finding developers to fill the needs of their projects.
The guilty don't want google to know what they are doing <grin>.

Keep up the good work squelching the trolls!
Another question: Would it be unfair for Google to redirect to a page where it's making money (via affiliate link)?
Could you let me know if I'm thinking about this correctly? My understanding is that...

1. Most battery technologies use hydrogen as the fundamental energy storer. The low energy state is Xx H_N, where Xx is some vehicle molecule, and the high energy state is Xx H_(N-n) + n H. Energy is stored in the battery by converting from the former to the latter, and it is released by doing the opposite.

2. One of the primary challenges of making a feasible battery is that the n hydrogen molecules form into hydrogen gas, which is bulky. To fit the hydrogen into a reasonable volume, it must be either compressed to very high temperature, cooled to very low temperature, or attached to a carrier molecule.

3. This technology seeks to solve the problem by putting the hydrogen in molecules of ammonia borane, H_3 N B H_3.

Is any of that right? What is the purpose of the plastic encapsulation?
Windows port of sam text editor
1st one just screams Genetic Algo. Maybe thats just a case of "When you have a hammer..." though. I don't see any CPU/time limit though so maybe there is a proper solution.
I co-founded crowdSPRING. Illustration projects are perfectly appropriate crowdsourcing projects (we've done many for startups, big Brands and some of the world's best agencies). Let me offer a few suggestions that should help you get a good result regardless of where you post your project:

1. Be sensitive to your budget if the illustration is complex. Many people forget that illustrations can be rather complex - and you're talking about a large illustration (which might have many components and may need to interface with other on-page elements). You'll attract better illustrators if you can stretch your budget a bit (depending on complexity, of course).

2. Limit initial scope. If you ultimately need a full page illustration, you might initially ask for an illustration of a portion and then narrow your selections and ask a few people to show you more complete illustrations. Asking everyone to do full page illustrations - especially if your budget is modest - might limit the number of participants.

3. Identify styles you like. Even more important than sketching your idea is a reference for the types of illustrations you like. Many illustrators have a particular style and if you can be clear at the beginning, you'll help them focus on showing examples of work that you're more likely to like - rather than just take stabs in the dark submitting random illustration styles.

I hope these are helpful and wish you luck with the illustration (and your MVP!)

Ross