skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was really surprised to see the parent downvoted. There's useful personal experience here, as well as a valid observation about an advantage broadcast and cable have only internet-only access.
Not too surprising, the article is from last March and tested Chrome 4.
I run an letting agency (estate agency) I put the property's on my low ranking website. The content is not scraped, but re-published to several property portals, some big names.

Who'm gets penalised?
The higher ranking, more frequently indexed property portals or my local website.
Good points, but Bangladesh isn't Lybia. And if the "worry" was the case, companies/site's like bit.ly or page.ly would have a .com redundancy - like we will as well - just in case.
There is a large subset of the US population that would distrust any information from an Arabic source.

BBC, Reuters, and Al Jazeera are amazing compared to CNN/MSNBC/FOX.
It looks like a bubble, and in the human history every bubble has crushed; soon or later.

My understanding is that each bubbles require leverage (credit, margins, etc.) with imperfectly informed lenders.
You might call this as a bad investment (which I don't think - internet and mobile is finaly maturing), but it lacks definition of bubble.
Narrative Science Raises $6 Million For Human-Free Stories
After watching about 45 minutes of inane coverage of Egypt on CNN and Fox, probably because they are controlled by an offshore entity and don't offer a point of view remarkably in line with whatever Washington is putting out.
...only the smart ones will survive.

And this is a problem?
She'd only been there for 2 years. Sabbaticals in most institutions are for people with 5+ year tenures.

In a fast-growing company like Google that's still hiring, having a good performance record and keeping in touch with coworkers is practically as good as having a sabbatical, anyway. If she were to reapply to Google and her resume said "Google: 2008-2010" and her old performance reviews were good and she had good code leftover in the version history, do you think Google would turn her down? I know of a bunch of people that left Google for startups or FaceBook or other companies and then returned, and it's basically as if they never left (except that for legal reasons, Google can't preserve their old option grant and has to start fresh with stock compensation).
Hoping to have something ready for consumption this coming week.

Analytics are on the roadmap. We'll probably have some basic stuff baked in with the initial release.
If I understand this correctly you have to figure out the correct order for the dependencies to be loaded yourself.

This does not scale. A better solution for larger applications is for individual files to declare their dependencies, then determine the order to load them implicitly.

CommonJS modules are the de-facto standard for doing this on the server, and they're starting to be used in the browser as well.
Sadly, I'm more productive around after midnight.
Yes, competing would be and we do have a USP. Some parts of our services are similar with the traditional payment companies (google checkout and paypal) which will allow us to take part of their market share.
According to her bio on the Alphonso Labs team page, she graduated with a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science from Princeton University. Perhaps she meant that her education at Princeton overall had a liberal arts flavor?

http://www.alphonsolabs.com/team
A complete enclosed plexiglass arena plus some weight limits and munitions regulations should be enough to keep it safe.
What sort of screenshots would you expect to see for a bunch of libraries?

Thus isn't a release of the window manager, this is a release of the libraries which various applications use (including the window manager)

Presumably, you'll now start to see some applications written using the EFL's, which I'm sure will have a plethora of screenshots for your amusement.
> I am not sure about the use of additional attributes. Will AngularJS produce well-formed markup?

Definitely has better chances with attributes than without them.

<tr ng:repeat="…">…</tr>

This guarantees that whole element will be repeated. If there were custom tags you could easily create ill-formed markup:

{repeat}<tr>{/repeat}</tr>
There's already a gutter clearing robot.

http://store.irobot.com/family/index.jsp?ab=CMS_IRBT_100909&...

A large quadrotor to deliver this to the gutter would be very useful, though.
Upvoted because awk is pretty great. Combined with rc and sed, it's easy to make very powerful scripts.
Fortunately for those in California, any small business with two or more employees that's been around for 3-6 months (incorporate early) can get group coverage at fairly normal rates.

You just go to an insurance broker or provider, pick your plan, and you're all set up in a month or two. The employees do have to fill out medical questionnaires, but regardless of whether they are healthy 25-year-old men or they all have super-cancer, the outcome is a foregone conclusion -- "Approved, 1.10." That means your company pays the statutory maximum of 10% over the typical rates for larger groups.

Because, and of course only because, that's California law. Your company cannot be turned down even if none of your employees would ever qualify for personal coverage.

Yes, this is basically corporate welfare for the benefit of the employees. But it mostly overcomes the health insurance objection to starting a small business, so as far as I'm concerned it's fantastic.
I believe this article is from 2001. It would be nice if links had a date on them if they are not current.
He used an alias and completely falsified his resume.
Head mek book; book nuh mek head
I posted this link in a comment:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2153398

Nice to see it show up on the front page.
If you've gotten through to the interview stage then it doesn't matter what school you went to. Re-examine whether you did perform well in those interviews. :)

Recommendations from people you know and have worked with and who can vouch for how awesome you are are valuable. Recommendations from someone you spoke to once aren't.
For Linux users wanting to watching without using browser + flash, using mplayer + rtmpdump:

rtmpdump -v -r rtmp://livestfslivefs.fplive.net/livestfslive-live/ -y "aljazeera_en_veryhigh?videoId=747084146001&lineUpId=&pubId=665003303001&playerId=751182905001&affiliateId=" -W "http://admin.brightcove.com/viewer/us1.24.04.08.2011-01-14072625/federatedVideoUI/BrightcovePlayer.swf -p "http://english.aljazeera.net/watch_now/ -a "aljazeeraflashlive-live?videoId=747084146001&lineUpId=&pubId=665003303001&playerId=751182905001&affiliateId=" | mplayer -
A post from 2006? Anyway, a long time ago Delicious quietly implemented experimental support of structured tags delimited by colons. You can tag things "foo:bar" and "foo:baz" and then see all of those bookmarks by looking at "system:has:foo". An example: http://www.delicious.com/britta/system:has:via

Flickr uses colons too and calls these structured tags "machine tags": http://www.flickr.com/groups/api/discuss/72157594497877875/ - if you're interested in that kind of thing, Aaron Straup Cope is the person to read more from: http://www.aaronland.info/weblog/
Historically it's happened on a couple of community driven sites, Digg being the best example. People submit stories, people vote stories, it's a very gameable system and it's ruined other communities. I loved Digg the first 6-12 months after it launched. The quality of the stories and community plummeted pretty quickly though.

I've been reading HN for just over a year now and I think the qualities always been top notch, which is why I'm still around; but's only natural to fear HN succumbing to the same fate that other sites in a similar domain have.
Will your perl remain supported -- and what does that mean?
If someone ported Flex it would be a good start.
Me neither. It doesn't really role of the tongue so to say.
I'm sure someone has codified a law that basically says "thing is cool when I discover it, but it is uncool when the next 1000 newbies behind me discover it".

A really good example of this is this blog post: http://scobleizer.com/2010/12/22/an-industry-challenge-build...

translation: it was cool when I started going, but now that all you "little people" are coming, it sucks.
The fact is that if Eric Schmidt were fined 100% of his "net worth" he would be among the rich again within a year or two.

Suppose a professional gambler made exactly the same amount as Eric Schmidt per year. This "system" would fine them equally. But the gambler relies on his bankroll as his asset, whereas Schmidt relies on his reputation and personal network.

How can you make this fair?
This google URL redirect should let you read the original article: http://www.google.com/url?sa=D&q=http://www.nytimes.com/...
JS to load other JS never made sense to me.
While you're very likely right, if the most important thing out of this entire discussion that the OP needs to get is you cannot accept the offer as is. They seem to actually believe the offerer that they aren't going to make another. Well then, at this point then, they just really need to go 'well that's crap' and toss it in if they're unwilling to counter.

They have to get to the point of accepting that accepting it is the absolutely worse thing they could do. Ending negotiations is far far far superior to actually accepting that offer.

Once they accept that, then they can counter, confident they're not losing anything. Even if this truly is the last offer, that's a better result than acceptance.
I think the current Hacker News UI balance with regards to karma points is about right. Exposing top ten lists etc too prominently on the site will inevitably encourage people to game the system, which will damage the quality of discussion.
> And in 2010 Clojure has something unique among other Lisps - it's core data structures are built on proper abstractions. They are extensible and you can even swap in your own implementations.

To the extent this makes sense, it's equally true of Common Lisp.
Scheme's Metacircular Evaluator ported to CoffeeScript
After using my readability bookmarklet to turn this site into something I could actually read, I determined that this is just an advertisement for some conference or possibly buzzword.
But I don’t want Paul to be one of a small group of people who decides which companies get funding—not because he isn’t smart (he is) or a great guy (he is). When it comes to innovation, central decision-making is bad, no matter how good the decision-makers are.

I don't get this POV. It's not like YC is the only place to find companies that are worth funding by angels. Getting "pushed out" of the "YC ecosystem" is not the same thing as getting "pushed out" of the "startup ecosystem" as a whole. If you find that you can't invest in the YC companies anymore, find another incubator to work with, or deal with startups on an individual basis.
Robert Scoble:  I will miss the old Y Combinator
I am not sure if the moderation/flagging system can cope with a 10-fold increase in the number of noise posts.
"The irony is that the DST/YC deal didn’t have to cause problems for independent angel investors. If DST simply committed to providing $150K to every YC company, at whatever terms were determined by the lead investor in the syndicate, DST wouldn’t be pricing the angels out of the ecosystem."

I don't really see how this is pricing angels out of the ecosystem. SV/Yuri isn't taking the whole funding round for themselves (though they might in some cases, who knows?). Nothing is stopping other angels from continuing with the same terms they have been giving. Start ups raising a typical angel round (400k-1 mill) will still need more than 150k. With the 150k blanket investment it just means YC startups can wait longer to ask for it. Which is similar to what the original YC investment meant. This simply seems like an extension of their philosophy. I'm sure they did not lock themselves into anything and if this turns out to not be a good move (and they have lots of data to figure it out) they will iterate.
As far as I know, all current prominent leaders in the Egyptian MB support nonviolence, which the group officially adopted in the 1970s--- that led to the more radical factions leaving to form groups like Egyptian Islamic Jihad and the Islamic Group.

There's a range of politics within that, though, from religious-conservative types who'd like a more traditionalist Islamic republic, to almost-secular moderates who focus on the movement's social institutions and see Islam's role as mainly spiritual/charitable. Since it's been operating semi-underground, I'm not sure anyone is 100% sure which leaders would end up dominating if it were to operate in the open and have some degree of power. The hope among western analysts is that its strength over the past ~20 years in universities and social services means that it's picked up enough educated moderates so that they would dominate a legalized version of the organization.
I've been following his blog for 6 months or a year, but I'm finding myself skipping over more and more of his posts, and am considering taking it out of my reader. Your question spurred me to look at what made me subscribe in the first page and what's changed.

I remember watching and really enjoying this interview with Cloudera CEO Mike Olson: http://scobleizer.com/2010/03/05/do-we-need-a-new-tech-liter... I found Olson to be smart and interesting, and Scoble asked good questions. I was excited to learn more about what people were doing with big data and industrial NoSQL, and that interview was a great primer.

I also remember reading an essay of his on curation (http://scobleizer.com/2010/03/27/the-seven-needs-of-real-tim...) that I thought was really insightful... after all, curation is something he's an expert on.

That's around when I subscribed to him. If you go back to March/April/May of last year (http://scobleizer.com/404) he was writing lots of great, smart, important essays.

Lately, I feel like it's more like startup diarrhea. A flood of interviews and links and startups and random crap that he's testing out. I guess that's what you have to do when you're focused on "breaking" news. But at some point I just don't have the patience to wade through all of it for the good stuff.

Ironic reason for unfollowing an expert in curation!
Doesn't seem to work.
> Cut all discretionary and defense spending to 0, and we would still be running a deficit due to entitlements.

Defense spending is an entitlement program for weapons makers.
The BBC charter, the documents that detail the BBC's legal obligations as recipients of the license fee, includes extensive rules on political impartiality in broadcasting.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/guidelines/editorialguidelines/page/gui...

However, these are simply the BBC's own internal guidelines which complement the legal codes of "due impartiality" which apply to all television in the united kingdom

http://stakeholders.ofcom.org.uk/broadcasting/broadcast-code...

Observers sometimes construe this as state censorship. In fact it is only applied in response to mass citizen complaint against blatantly objectionable programming, and in to my memory works more often against the government than in their favor.
Consumption taxes can be regressive. Ideas like the Fair Tax (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FairTax) generally include provisions to reduce the disproportionate effects on people making less money (and proportionally spending more to survive).

Taxing consumption also encourages people to save and invest. In my opinion, this is a much better base for a society than encouraging spending and not saving. Most western countries tax income less and consumption more than the US.

Disguise? There are no exemptions. A significant focus of the idea is to remove the politics, special cases, and loopholes around the tax system.

The 10th largest economy in the world functions on property and sales taxes alone. We call it Texas.
The joy of function chaining and callbacks with jQuery and underscore.js
Sips - Mac OS X CLI image manipulation
Over speeding leads to road mishap at Lohia in Lucknow
If the plan provides for everyone to earn 90k regardless of what they actually do, there is no incentive to be productive at all, (much less to be productive enough to account for those who produce very little). Having my name on a list as the X most productive person is not incentive. Being able to spend the money I earn, is.
Yes. Health insurance is not a big deal if health problems are not absurdly expensive (c.f. health care cost increase in the US).
Run Scala code on your GPU
It follows that whenever you see someone in driving a car you couldn't afford or eating in a restaurant that you would consider too expensive, don't think "ahole", think "thanks for distributing your wealth".
John Doerr & Fred Wilson- Finance "The Great VC Smackdown" (podcast)
Mother Jailed For Trying to Put Children Into Better School
> Traffic was reduced for a few years but now it's just as bad as ever.

Has the population changed?
Direct link to the source (which is nicely commented): http://dmitrysoshnikov.com/coffee-lisp-eval/eval.coffee
How is the London "congestion charge" not a tax?
does Reuters have their own TV channel?
I use awk almost every day for one-liners that massage data and log files. In fact, my progression in scripting started with O'Reilly's sed and awk book, followed by the vi book, then with the llama and camel books (back in the perl 4 days). A classic tool that hasn't lost its usefulness after all these years.
At the opposite end, the stuff I write for my websites is personal, meaningful,...yadda yadda....and doesn't pay. Still trying to master that part of it. :-/

There has to be a way to do both: Something meaningful that pays. I'm just not there yet. (And I'm aware a big issue is that I just don't post regularly/frequently enough.)
One: right. The employee pays 7.65%. The employer pays the other half.

Two: right (the rate is actually 1.45% on wages over $106,800 in 2010) - the idea being that you shouldn't have to pay in infinitely given that the benefits are capped.

Three: it is ironic that you mention bankruptcy... that is what tends to happen when the people making spending decisions face no direct consequences.

Let me give you a scenario for the sake of discussion. Suppose everyone paid a 10% federal income tax rate. Now suppose the government said, "We are considering a trillion dollar war, a trillion dollar bailout, and a trillion dollar stimulus package. You, taxpayer, can have all of the wonderful benefits of these things for the low cost of changing your federal income tax rate to 30% for the next 10 years. How about it?" You might have more people questioning these decisions.
Clips from Russia Today seem to end up on Reason.TV's podcast feed a lot.
That sounds like a pretty silly drawback.

A much cleaner solution would be using window.onload to load all javascript and then only starting execution on document.ready.

That way you pretty successfully get around the issue of ordered dependancies because at execution time everything is already loaded. If load.js doesn't do it this way I am profoundly interested as to what the reasoning behind this might be ... perhaps all browser don't differ between window.load and document.ready? (or maybe I'm being stupid in some way or another)
Dossier CEM et acouphènes (champs électromagnétiques)
Me too! What's up with that? My gf always complains if I stay up late to code, I wish I could be productive as an elf whenever, y'know?
Cr-48 Tracker App Back in Business
CNN isn't generated by an algorithm? I thought they were just scraping twitter.
I think I've noticed three things. It's hard to say for sure, but I think these three are true -

1. Raw nastyness has gone up. Profanity, insults, and sarcasm in disagreement. HN was super civil 2-3 years ago. Now it's still far more civil than anywhere else, but gently declining.

2. Stupid arguments that agreed with the dominant view of a thread used to be left alone or even get downvoted. Now I see sometimes where a reasoned critique is at 1 point, but a response going, "How could you even think that? Everyone knows that isn't true" - proof by assertion type stuff - get voted up.

3. Also, very lately there's been a marked increase in the class warfare/social justice/inequality vibe filtering in. Whether you think that's a good thing or a bad thing depends on your views, but it was less like that a few years ago.
Funny, that was the post that originally brought me to HN and I've been here ever since. :)

I think Gruber must have linked to the TC post or something, because I don't read TC myself.
>>There is a large subset of the US population that would distrust any information from an Arabic source.

There are reasons for that.

For example, the state controlled/censored media in the muslim world are infamous for antisemitic hate mongering. (State sanctioned racism... what does that remind you of?)

A second problem is that I have no idea about the spin in Al Jazeera (except for their host country). Does anyone? I can make good guesses on what to not trust in e.g. my local media and NY Times (mainly big advertisers).

Note: I'm not arguing that all (or even most) media in the US are more dependable than e.g. Bild zeitung.

Edit: I thought I should add a reference about antisemitic content in Arab media, so I checked Wikipedia and found a reference -- to Al Jazeera! (That isn't that heavily censored by any state. But fun enough that I added a separate comment with the quote.)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam_and_antisemitism#Yusuf_al...
Having first class functions does not classify as "one more feature", it fundamentally changes the nature of the language. Lisp does not have more features than Java, yet it is fundamentally a different language. If somebody put up a "Java vs. Lisp comparison" page people would laugh at it, they aren't really comparable languages at that level.

All Turing complete languages are essentially equally "powerful", but not all languages are equally expressive. It takes less work to write code in Java than in assembly, and for some tasks it takes less work to write code in C# than in Java. Generally that's considered a good thing, with fewer lines of code and more readable code programmers can get more work done while having a higher confidence their code doesn't have glaring defects.
Ask PG: Will the Yuri Milner deal affect which startups YC accepts?
One thing that hasn't been mentioned much is that, after making such a significant financial commitment, Yuri Milner/DST will probably have some say in who gets picked for YC. Does this mean that the next batch of YC startups will be more closely aligned with those investors' goals? For example, DST has pledged to invest heavily in social media. Does that lead to more social startups in the next batch? Would YC still fund, say, a hardware or enterprise software startup?
The poster is assuming that once a YC startup is funded with a convertible note with no cap and no discount, that all other notes in the round will be at similar terms (and thus small angels won't be able to afford to participate in the deal). Maybe he doesn't realize that you can raise an angel round with different terms for different investors.

Personally, I don't think many YC companies in the batch will be able to raise an entire round with no cap, no discount. However, the $150K investment from SV Angel/Yuri will help companies negotiate better deal terms than they would have otherwise obtained.
Talk about linkbait - assuming there are 100 YC companies funded each year - that is $15 million.

Oooh scary ... I am sure that everyone in SV is checking the Help Wanted section due to their imminent layoffs..
What's up with that?

For one thing, it's usually quieter. And people are less likely to be interrupting you.
This title and article is nothing more than a LINKBAIT. Two thumbs way down!
Ahh I remember people discussing on whether or not that post will degrade the quality of discussion.. :)

Also, feeling a bit nostalgic seeing nickb post in that screenshot..