skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
User jacquesm has an unofficial HN FAQ:
http://www.jacquesmattheij.com/The+Unofficial+HN+FAQ

It was submitted and discussed here:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1755533

The official FAQ can be found here:
http://ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html
2000 and 5000 IU are quite common and can be bought at any US pharmacy and many grocery stores. It looks like 10000 to 50000 IU pills are easily available online: http://www.amazon.com/s/?url=index%3Dblended&keywords=vi...

For what it's worth, I supplement using the 5000 IU pills taken at about 7/week (irregularly, making up doses as necessary). I recently had my blood tested for D3 levels, and found it was close to but not exceeding the standard recommended level.
Didn't realize anyone still used SF anymore...everything seems to be on GH these days :)
Are the rich actually taxed at a higher rate? The first x dollars of income are taxed at the same rate for everyone aren't they?
With this move all small angel investors are out of biz.

What? The startups we fund almost always want to raise more than $150k. I would guess the median startup in the last YC batch raised 4 to 5 times that much.
"As readers might recall, Bill Gates’ father was the lead proponent of the measure. He was fighting Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and other technology chieftains who poured millions of dollars into defeating the measure because they said it would cost the state jobs.

“The rich guys don’t want to pay the tax,” Gates père said on 60 Minutes Sunday night. “They’re defensive. I guess you could call it greed, I suppose. Wanting to not write another check, sure.”"

- http://blogs.wsj.com/wealth/2010/11/03/why-washingtons-tax-o...
Given that a FDA trial can last years and cost a lot of money, a company can't really afford to "carry on" if it is obvious to themselves and the people they have conducting the trial that something is very different from their predicted results.

They had a belief in what the outcome should be before the trial (else you would not go through with / spend money on the trial). A deviation from the expected results really needs to be looked at and you really need to find out why all the prelim testing is not accurately predicting what is actually going on.
A lot of the entrepreneur friends I know are married to wives who have relatively stable jobs and good healthcare insurance.
I don't believe that, and I didn't say that.
"whats a sourceforge?"

... thinking the same thing. github is the new sourceforge.
No release notes, no screenshots, no videos. Way to go.

I really liked enlightenment in 2004, when they had all the latest desktop bells & whistles (transparency, 3d, shadows, etc) - in short back when they had the stuff that we take for granted nowadays.
Camlistore: a new project from Brad Fitzpatrick
This article sounded more like three reasons to go to that conference. Is there some kind of actual description of techniques that constitute Lean UX, or is it a methodology, or is it just a reason for me to pay somebody $800 for something? Because I'm not actually seeing any reasons to care. Yet. (I'm not saying they're not there; just that I'm not getting them out of this article. Sorry.)
Great submission. That's a pep talk for any startup company :)
If you look at her bio, you'll see this author already has a new job at a startup called Pulse. Somehow that dampens this act of bravery for me. For all the upvotes she's gotten, the ending I was hoping for was her decision to become a founder.
I hire writers to do things similar to what you described all the time, though I don't have them push the boundaries as much as you described. My suggestion? For every article you get an order for, write an article for your own sites. Build up a site network. You know what needs to be done. Go do it yourself and cut the dependence off.

Also, please charge at least $0.02 a word. A dollar per 450 word article is bullshit. You're a good writer. 2-3 cents a word is completely reasonable in your industry.
Shrlogs, Snuffwumps, Nozzleblurts, & more
Python is the new Java. Minus Larry Ellison.
That's a really neat project!

If you like this please have a look at this too:

http://www.homebrewcpu.com/
In Canada, at least two cable operators that I know of offer Al Jazeera as a subscription channel.
Cell Phone Coordination of Open Source Protests
You could probably get it from a "free to air" satellite broadcast.
Out of interest, can you link to sources detailing the censorship?
Projects getting canceled is the flip side of being able to try new and risky things in a small team without a heavyweight approval process. There's no way that Google would be able to bring to market every single idea that comes out of engineers heads. So they let them experiment a bit in the early stages and then pick the winners once the teams have had a chance to survey the territory.

It's probably my biggest annoyance with working at Google, but I accept it because I know the alternative is worse. If you never canceled projects, then the only things you'd be allowed to work on are Big Important Things blessed by some VP high up, things that are too big to fail. That's how many other big companies work, and they usually end up with idiotic projects where it becomes apparent to everybody (except the VP) that the project is a waste of time, and yet they keep going because some executive staked his career on it.

BTW, startups face this problem too. The equivalent to a canceled project is a failed startup - there're only so many new products that the market can bear, so consumers choose to put their dollars into the products that are most useful and let the others die. The difference between this and the Google model is:

1.) You get to decide when to quit (or the market decides for you, if you run out of money).

2.) You don't get paid for the time you spend deciding.

For many people, this is a bargain worth making, but you should know that's the bargain when you take it. I've been on both sides - I took a pretty nice job in a financial software startup for a couple years out of college, then founded my own company, then folded it up and went to Google, and won't rule out eventually founding another company. The advantage of letting someone else make the decision of when to quit is that these people have had lots of experience picking winners, so once my head was primed with a few failures, I figured it might be a good idea to watch some folks who've actually had some successes and see what they do differently.
You have the copy your hard disk writes.
Kinda, they reach a higher tier of taxes. For example, money above $200K is taxed at a higher rate than $1 to $200K. So their first $200K is taxed just like everyone else's money up to $200k. By taxing the rich, everyone means increasing the tax rate at the highest tiers.
Ubuntu 10.04:

- Chrome Canvas 70 FPS

- Flash 45 FPS
A place to hear things about medicine that are more often than not correct:

http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/?p=8198

http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/?cat=11
Yes, it happens with other copywritten materials frequently.
Original link http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/2011/01/28/on-leadership-...
fat chance...maybe the above joke is silly, but no one has "a way of establishing the true magnitude of an individual's compensation."
Security: Power To The People
While you're re-examining, throw in Russia Today (http://rt.com/). Not quite the same calibre, but interesting to watch your thoughts while watching it.
Tell HN: Looking for a Co-founder
Hey guys, I live in San Francisco and have a few ideas that I would like to find a partner with. I am willing to pay for a programmer's work (at an agreed upon rate) as well as split equity.

I am working with a co-founder who lives on the east coast for two halfway completed projects (my ideas, his programming); the URLs are in my profile. I would like to work with someone in the city for a few neat projects; I apologize if this post isn't in the appropriate place, but I feel like payment for services in addition to equity split is an attractive offer to some in the HN community.

If you are interested and/or want to hear about my current projects, please email me.
Indeed - Virus Total can be useful for this task: http://www.virustotal.com/
Its Awesome
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Jazeera_English -- lists loads of options for watching, from online, to terrestrial, cable, to satellite, to Internet TV.
Mountain climbers think a lot about what would happen if they took a wrong step or fell down. They spend a lot of time training for it, they spend a lot of money on equipment in preparation for it, and they spend a lot of effort setting up backup systems. When a mountain climber goes out on a glacier they typically do not go alone, with minimal equipment. They go in a team, each person wearing a harness and roped together. They each have an ice ax and have trained in self-arrest on snow and ice. If one person were to fall they have been trained to arrest themselves and save the faller by means of the rope. They may have practiced this many times. If one climber were to fall into a crevasse they will arrest, set up anchors, and set up a rescue system (using pulleys and extra gear that they have brought). Meanwhile, if the climber in the crevasse is still conscious he or she will attempt to do what they can to aid in their own rescue (up to and including ascending the rope). And this is just a small part of the training and preparation that experienced mountaineers take on when they set out to climb a mountain.

It does nevertheless take a good deal of courage and determination to work your way up a glaciated mountain, but the idea that there is no safety net or that the climbers do not think what will happen if things go bad is very misleading. It is perhaps the single most pressing topic of thought for any mountaineer.
Why not put links to these on the top nav bar? It's not like there's no room up there.
There are a bunch of links at the bottom of every page, 'Lists' is one of them.
Yep, here are the frequencies and technical specifications:

http://english.aljazeera.net/watchaje/20091022172112636517.h...
Appears to need a login.
Dial-Up Provides Internet Access for Cut-Off Egypt
In Sweden equity compensation is made so prohibitively expensive it ensures that everyone gets paid more or less appropriate market salary.

Of course very rich guys have their workarounds anyway, for example I recall reading that Ingvar Kamprad pays himself avg IKEA worker salary. Still better than those ridiculous $1 salaries of SV execs.
http://bugmenot.com/view/nytimes.com
Aside from the political and journalistic implications, I think it's interesting that they're making this available under a Creative Commons license. Are there any other major news organizations that CC license any of their content? I'd be shocked if any of the major US news organizations use the CC licenses in any meaningful way.
The secret word is 'access'.
Load.js: A small script to lazily load js
For better or for worse, JavaScript is that language. (Along with all of the languages that compile to JS: https://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script/wiki/List-of-lang...)
Deepika Padukone Grace the Grazia Magazine February 2011 Issue
Google Cache ftw : http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:h7y-OFV...
Yes, it's not that the drug companies are actually running trials and random hoping for spurious correlations, but that the traditional measures of statistical significance can't be used in cases where trials might be stopped early. Even inspecting the results midway through a trial to see if the effect is being shown is problematic.

Yes, the deviation from expectation really needs to be looked at. The problem is that the financial reward for the companies might be greater to just 'move on' and never publish those unexpectedly negative results. But this means that the unexpectedly positive results for the next test are given undue weight.

I don't think the problem is really the science, or the publishers, or the drug companies, but the unrealistic weight placed on erroneously calculated statistics. This combined with a lot of money at stake forces the companies to "produce results" whether or not this is of long term public benefit.
This is the coolest tech video I have ever seen.
A general solution for hierarchical tagging?
Amazon rolling out Netflix-like video streaming for Prime subscribers
I actually think a lot of offices might care about misuse of company bandwidth, and the racists searches in the article require an understanding of English (which the Internet filter you will find installed in an IT department does not possess) to determine are racist.
Older discussion:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2118417
The 2011 SS deficit is expected to reverse in 2012 and does not represent a short-term crisis. It would be much more sensible to bring up dates like 2025 -- when SS is projected to start dipping into principal -- and 2037 -- when the principal would be exhausted, if no policies are changed [1]. I support long-term planning to remedy the situation, but it seems to hinder productive discussion when someone implies SS will be unable to send out checks tomorrow or in the next decade.

Medicare: Chris Christie is a state governor so has no meaningful relationship to Medicare; you are probably referring to proposals to cut Medicaid benefits for the poor/indigent. This is not very similar to issues affecting Medicare. Paul Ryan does have a legitimate proposal for limiting Medicare growth (I suspect it will increase inefficiency and decrease health outcomes overall, maybe disproportionately for the poor), but it is a legitimate approach.

But: the stimulus & healthcare reform both already contain several very serious efforts to improve Medicare efficiency long-term, especially IPAB. Its short term savings are relatively small, but this is a deeply good (Democrat-associated) proposal.

[1] http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/11/26/the-social-secu...
US states: If they were countries
I reject the premise of the entire article that "The hole is too big to plug with cost cutting or economic growth alone." The hole was created by increasing spending, it can be closed by reducing spending.
2010 VC Investment – Dead Cat Bounce or Market Rebound
That's a hell of a trip, everybody should do something like that at least once in their lives if their situation permits it.
Competing with Paypal, Google Checkout and the rest would be difficult without major funding.
You need to find a USP such as https://squareup.com or http://flattr.com/

If a USP to compete with the likes does not come to mind, then find a niche business activity that makes payments. Then design it around their and their customers requirements, I have a similar project on the drawing board.
Heck, they have Sir David Frost himself!
You'll probably get some emails, but here are a few thoughts for you:

1. You should do a better job of selling yourself. Nothing in your post screams out "this is I guy I need get get in touch with." Tell us what you bring to the table besides "a few neat ideas." Do you have a track record of success raising money, or selling something for actual money? Or some previous successful startup in your background? Have you done any customer development, market research, etc? Is there any demonstrable reason to think that your ideas are worth pursuing?

2. There are actually some red flags here that scream "warning." You're already working with somebody on two partially completed projects, and you want to jump into something else? That and the phrasing like "a few neat projects" could kinda opens the door to the perception that you're just dabbling and not terribly serious. NOTE: I'm not saying that you aren't serious, just pointing out the possible perception.

And the question of seriousness aside, there is a practical consideration of how many projects one person can be actively involved in at the same time.

3. Make it clear if you want an actual co-founder or "just a programmer." If everything is going to be "your ideas, his programming" then you aren't looking for a co-founder, you're looking for a programmer for hire. A co-founder will have his/her own ideas, and will challenge your ideas, tell you your idea sucks, or that part of it sucks, or that it's not possible, or that it's not practical; and will point out alternatives, suggest features, identify flaws and otherwise help develop the direction for the product(s).

4. Why not go ahead and share something about what you're working on? Give a tease or taste, to get people interested. I'm sure more than a few people are going to read this and think "Eh, no clue what he's doing, it's probably boring, can't be arsed emailing him." If you described your project in even general terms ("a website for buying petfood online!") then anybody who was particularly interested in that space would have their ears perked up a little, at least.
How can you predict there will be lots of wasted money? Blindly investing in a group of startups because of a high profile incubator they're participating in is a practice in publicity and, as an investment, a bet against numbers at worse.

I'm gambling that YC and Yuri are pretty smart about what they're doing. It's a branding/publicity exercise that will probably return just a few (not important) numbers for Yuri that uses these YC kids as a vehicle.
Ohio Mom In Jail For Sending Kids To The Wrong School
> some historical,

Historical?
How about just let the rich be rich and get richer, but making it very hard to pass on inheritance. So their kids would be on equal playing field with everybody else. That would make it their vested interest to improve conditions in that field for all.
As for the 'torrent' thing, IP lawyers might be arguing that Google is helping users commit infringement via Autocomplete specifically with how instant displays results

The same argument is used against guns and dangerous knives as well, as they help users commit murders. The arguments against banning of guns is that "it is not the gun that kills, it is the person" and "if they really wanted to kill, they would have found another way". (Whether these arguments are good or not is another debate...)

I have not really done that much research on the gun debate, but couldn't those arguments be applied to this case as well?
Interesting tidbit I discovered when developing LazyReadr: nytimes doesn't ask for login if you say you're not a browser. You don't have to say you're a search engine crawler either. Just no user-agent header is enough.
Seems to work fine for me. Have you checked the speed of your network connection?
When's it going to be ready? I've already had three people sign up using my link, lol.

Great idea, are you planning to run any sort of analytics off of the sign ups?
Is Yuri Milner A Threat To Silicon Valley?
The individual insurance market is not quite so bleak for _everyone_ in the US. Some US states, such as New York, New Jersey and Massachusetts, have "community rating" or "guaranteed issue" laws on the books.

See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community_rating

It's complicated, of course. There are varying degrees of community rating, and these laws (particularly without a mandate for everyone to buy insurance) sometimes cause insurers to drop out of the market.
... and a thousand geeks cry "Noooo!" in unison.

Why do so many people think that HN will be ruined if a few more people join? I've been reading HN a lot longer than my account's age implies and I don't think the quality has changed.

The only real problem if you ask me, is that with more people submitting stories, things will not stay long on the /newest page.

In my opinion it's better to have 100 stories with 20 comments each, rather than 10 stories with 200 comments and the usual huge thread under the top comment.
New Taco Bell Ad: "Thank You For Suing Us."
One of the problems with drugs studies is that the very point is to develop a drug and that intent is generally commercial in nature. At no point does anyone seem to stop and wonder what might be the best solution. In addressing my health issues, I have had to infer a lot of things based on drug studies because there is a dearth of good studies on other topics (at least specific to my medical condition). Yet the general consensus is that diet and lifestyle play a major role in every major deadly medical condition. Encouraging people to live right just doesn't have the splash and dash and isn't generally as a lucrative.

It also gets a lot of resistance from the intended audience: An awful lot of folks don't want to do the hard work of changing their lives. In many cases, they just want a new drug, one that won't make them sick...etc (I'm sure someone can quote song lyrics better than I can).
Buying domains supports terrorism, so does paying Tax's http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_and_state_terrori...

If it was such a wide spread problem, an issue to fight for, the US government disallow any payments to Libya from US banks.
die die die.
Oh wow, you just compromised his database password. Also, it's a terrible and easily-guessable password.

To the original poster, consider changing your database library so that it's much less likely that a stack trace would expose your password like this. (And obviously, get a new, better password, and fix the SQL injection vulnerabilities.)
GAH! I check HN quite a bit, and missed this. Any chance the coupon could be extended? I'd rather buy straight from No Starch than Amazon, if it made sense.
> I'm not sure how this protects users? SF was already compromised.

The passwords were potentially compromised. Changing the passwords for their users means the user accounts won't work with the (potentially) compromised passwords any more.

> If someone gained access to the passwords in their database, they're already out in the wild. Changing your password now has zero benefit to the user outside of protecting access to SF itself.

If the user is using one password for all websites that's a separate problem. This move is to protect SF users' accounts.
On the history of development and disaster relief
The rich are taxed a lot? They're taxed at a lower level than any other time in the past twenty years -- that's not a lot. The richest people around today -- Gates, Jobs, Ellison, Buffett -- made a significant portion of their money during a time (the '90s) when the top marginal rate was higher than today's. Clearly, that didn't stop them!
Not exactly. I tried setting up a really complicated system with Eclipse running as a server in a VM and my local Vim serving as the head to it, but haven't gotten that working yet.

I prefer Vim as the frontend, but was hoping to add Eclipse's code correction and refactoring to it. But that's also the most complicated of the three options, and least well supported right now.
Oh my apologies then. :)
What are some legal ways for an individual to be compensated that wouldn't appear in the tax documentation of either the individual or the company in question?

"Legal" is used here to mean "would stand up in a court of law in the relevant jurisdiction."
She left heated toilet seats? Must be a wacko.
I'm not a ham, but I'm sure this thingie http://www.iritel.com/iritel/latinica/proizvodi/radio%2520ko...

will cover very sizable area without a problem.
In all seriousness, they could generate the news on CNN with an algorithm and it would be immensely better than what they pump out now.
-1 to this article. Google isn't blocking anything. No censorship, they're just not helping you get to presumably illegal sites anymore. Oooh, they're forcing you to press enter to get to hacked content! EVAAL! Seriously..
A Science Based Technique for Seasoning Cast Iron
There's a big difference between "sufficiently grovelling" and "go away".
You might want to go read Atlas Shrugged.
Does anyone have a direct link to a feed that can be loaded up in mplayer or vlc?
Except if some people think science is not objective, they conclude that religion is just as valid, and that, therefore, Creationism (er, Creation 'Science') needs to be taught in schools alongside the 'fact' that gays and liberals are evil, diseased beings. After all, if it's all subjective, everything is equally valid!