skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>>Where the customer service is non-existent: Hi. Any specific problem we can help with?

In my experience, "Customer Service" can mean one or both of the following:
1. Actual help to resolve real problems
2. A human voice on the phone to walk you through resetting your computer (or otherwise generally offering moral support)

I find that most folks get nervous when #2 is not available, even if they would never use it or it would be unlikely to solve any of their actual problems.

The big G does not even pretend, and I think that is possibly to their detriment.
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EDIT: Sorry, meant to reply to w1ntermute, not tibbon.

The so-called "Constitution-Free Zone": the Constitution allows for warrantless searches at borders for the purposes of customs enforcement. But our government has conveniently decided that the "border" is now defined as any land within 100 miles of a physical border.

Guess what? 2/3 of the American population lives within that definition of a border. Guarantees against unreasonable search and seizure died long ago.

http://www.aclu.org/national-security_technology-and-liberty...
Hey, if you buy one of these domain names please let me know!
Interesting job posting and interesting site - they seem to have created a social/crowd-sourced recruitment model.
Based on what I read, I can only guess turbo tax is nicer in the US than it is in Canada.

My experience with the turbo tax french canadian equivalent from intuit (ImportRapide) was barely ok. Many times I'd see an unexpected number pop up and I'd have to spend a long time to track back where it came from.
They're talking about debit cards - I know in the UK and Germany many people do not own credit cards, certainly in the young twenties sector in the UK debit cards are the norm.
Show HN: A user powered copy editing tool (running on Ars Technica)
I blew off a bunch of "serious" side work last month and built a tiny little embeddable editing tool that I've wanted to have for Ars Technica since, well, the beginning of internet time. It lets any random user make edit suggestions for writers/editors to consider and act on. I think it's pretty cool and it's gotten some good use over the last few weeks.

Of note, it's uses a single-field signup form. Edit administration is currently email based, so all it needs is an email address to get people going.

I'm sure I'm not the only person to ever do this, but I basically just turned it on one night even though I sort of hated the state it was in. That turned out to be a good call because people started using it almost immediately, which is both flattering and educational. It's making it a little bit harder to drastically change things (since I suddenly have legacy problems), but it was totally worth it.

Check it out: https://copypasta.credibl.es
We actually didn't write the current title, we like to clearly differentiate ourselves from general Q&A services such as Quora. Unlike Quora, Yahoo Answers, etc, questions on Cloudy are structured (more comparable to a poll), asked to a specific group of friends (rather than to everybody), and are pushed out to the people you ask (either by APNS or SMS). You're quite right when you say that we have relatively little to do with Quora et al.
Airbus's distributed manufacturing is more about pork-barrel politics, it's spread around the countries that own shares in the airbus consortium

Ironically Several of the components of the 7e7 are made in europe by Airbus suppliers. The undercarriage, tail and bits of the fuselage are made in the same plants that are building them for airbus.

AFAIK the only certified engines at launch are Rolls-Royce
Business as usual (on Qt)
I'm a designer (psd/html/css) going through Python the Hard Way right now, and I'm loving it. What was your main resource for learning Django?
Frightening if true, but the story is not exactly corroborated. Fisk himself (a rather controversial, and politically active reporter) only devotes one phrase to the allegation, with no support whatsoever ("it is now clear ..."). Repetition of the same claim does not add to its veracity, and the "corroborating" source is an Iranian website that cites no source whatsoever for the claim. I'd take this claim with a grain of salt, at least until it acquires more substantive support.
It's a sad state of affairs for your company when an anonymous guy can put up a blog offering a fake plan to turn things around and get a boatload of attention and excitement. On the other hand: we're living in interesting times. A guy with an interesting idea can, overnight, capture the imagination of tens of thousands of people for very little time and money.

I guess for anyone who was holding onto hope of a non-Olop, non-Microsoft Nokia, there's only one thing left to say:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ytCEuuW2_A
Just having a monopoly is not illegal. It is only when this monopoly position is abused that it is illegal.

Apple does not have a monopoly over the mobile phone space, and therefore I highly doubt what they are doing is illegal.
Again thank you. I have contacted - www.hashrocket.com /
www.thoughtbot.com

To move forward with round one. Will keep you posted.
There is a cool startup on this space called findthebest.com - clearly, there is a lot of interest in making all sorts of public data available in a more "browsable" format. I'd like to know how other people feel about startups like factual or findTheBest.
Silicon Valley engineers probably feel underpaid because of the high standard of living of that area. If they made $125k in Atlanta, for instance, they would be living very comfortably.

I'm still surprised at the number of Tech startups still locating themselves in Silicon Valley. I would figure if they started up in a cheaper city like Atlanta it would be more economical for them. But I guess they want to be near the talented people.

Although I would think if you build it, the talent will follow.
Just because you can't touch or appreciate their work

I can definitely appreciate the work, as I'm a business owner. I know this kind of objectivity is a bit strange, but I have both employees and clients, so I see both sides of the table on a regular basis. I'm just calling it like I see it.
To implement such a system in C would be to re-implement Java.

Why not use clang compiling to LLVM bytecode and JIT from that?
Thanks for the feedback mayank. I'll get this fixed.
Visualizing the Influence of Egyptian Bloggers
I meant "assumption" in the sense of logic or rhetoric, because your argument hinged on that claim despite you making it explicitly.
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So basically no story can be criticized for lack of content, as soon as n people have upvoted it?
They sell Visual Studio, don't they? It's not the only toolchain for Windows, but it's likely the most popular toolchain.

It's Microsoft's OS. The reason that they got in trouble is that they unfairly used their market position to kick competitors (Lotus, Netscape, Novell) out. I doubt it would be illegal if they decided to charge everyone equally based on either units shipped or royalty.
No, my parents would be much more comfortable without files and folders. They'd also be much more comfortable with a big screen of icons instead of the start menu, having all applications be full screen all the time, and very limited multitasking.
New Flare-Up in Capitol Over 'Net Neutrality'
certain premium features, which are already in the pipeline.
Evidence that these failures are due to Apple's blindspot of being too controlling?
Nokia Plan B = hoax. Disappointing.
Sounds pretty similar to Apple's earlier attitude about 3rd party developers being parasites on 'their' platform. While (of course) they do own it, the 3rd Party developers are partners that add value, not parasites.
This looks like a great idea, but wake me when there's an Outlook extension. Most people who would want to use this are using Outlook (or possibly Lotus Notes).
This sounds great, but I'm a little wary of giving a single service (especially a small new startup) access to so much private data.

They do get points for requiring HTTPS and using OAuth instead of asking for passwords, though.

I think I'll start with the low risk accounts like Twitter and LinkedIn for now.
Ken Jennings is FUNNY.

IBM: "There's a lot of you in Watson"
Ken: "If it goes amuck and kills humanity and stuff so sorry lolz my bad!"

Chat participant: "I read your first in practically a day, I loved it."
Ken: "I'd like to thank my mom for taking part in the chat!"
I'd probably pay to use this if it had Outlook integration.
I think the point he was making is that it's well above the median purchasing power, so much so that there's no right to complain.

Moreover, so what if people in Kansas or North Dakota have less purchasing power than me? I live in a place that is cosmopolitan, diverse and has a higher average IQ -- and there's a higher cost associated with living here. This is like telling someone who drives a Mercedes that he can't complain about his engine needing service because someone, somewhere else in the world, is driving a Ford.
Well my girlfriend is a food analyst for one of SYSCO's rivals, so I tend to have a bit more knowledge than the average person, but yes I agree that a lot of local restaurants don't use local produce, but it's still better than going to basically any chain restaurant.
As in the Duran Duran song
Let me make reduce the cognitive dissonance for you: being a good hacker doesn't make you lucky, and that's the difference.

Nobody admits it, but a lot of the secret of creating a sustainable business boils down to luck, not being a "great business guy". Our industry is set up to reward risk-takers disproportionately...when they succeed. It's a lottery, but we like to justify the disparity in compensation post hoc by assuming that there's corresponding disparity in skill that somehow created most of the value.
Met Niccolo and Courtland at the Heyzap office around the time of startup school and I've been hooked since.

Congrats on the launch!
We're definitely still on the "are" side of that one, unfortunately.
The surprising thing is that they managed to design and build the 747 in the 60s in record time, without access to machine learning or any CAD tools whatsoever.

Although the Dreamliner is a completely new design using new materials, I'd say the 747 was a far more impressive accomplishment at the time.
Enlightenment has gotten very ambitious in its goals:
http://trac.enlightenment.org/e/wiki/EdjeEditor
http://trac.enlightenment.org/e/wiki/Eve
huh? random letters in candidates' names?
Fascinating, but I've added up points on the fact that, you threw away a proven product and fell on an already dead-end project?
That's a great way to look at it. You're creating memories online where they didn't exist before. You're celebrating life.
Now make 360 panoramic video with your camera Any camera.
You can make 360 panoramic video with any camera you have, just hook the gopano optic on top of your camera. And use their software to unwarp the video. Its cool..!
Notorious: publicly or generally known, as for a particular trait

It's an acceptable usage, though I freely concede I overuse it when 'famous' would be more easily understood.
It's not just in response to Apple, the timing is just fortuitous, O'Reilly's Tools of Change ( a publishing industry conference ) is on in New York this week and it was probably timed to coincide with that event.
Nice integrations.... Any plans to include web search? I don't see myself adopting the behavior of having to think to go to google for web search or greplin for non-web search. Search is search. If I have to go somewhere else, I imagine I'd likely visit the actual destination (FB, Twitter)... Thoughts?
http://segaretro.org/SEGA_vs._Accolade

SEGA only wanted licensed developers to develop for the Mega Drive, so they required a piece of code in order for a game to boot. This piece of code included the SEGA trademark. The thought was that if any unlicensed games appeared, SEGA could sue for trademark violation. SEGA sued when Accolade started producing unlicensed carts for the Mega Drive. The courts ruled against SEGA saying that since the code was functional, not expressive, there was no trademark violation.
"Using the GPL means you're free to use my code ... As long as the result is under gpl too. You lose your freedom to chose a license. You lose your freedom to keep changes to yourself if you release the resulting binary (why ? because you want to). You lose your freedom to use other piece of code that are not gpl compatible."

You never had any of those freedoms because the code is not yours. Your point is correct (yes, the GPL does prevent you from stealing other people's work!), but your wording is FUD.
What registrars sell .IO domains?
The airbus style big block integration actually worked quite well - engines from RR, undercarriage from airbus and wings from Mitsubishi all worked well.

The problem was that they eg. farmed out the avionics to mega corp, who farmed out the hardware to company A and software to B. Company B farmed out bits to company C and company D. Nobody realised that company D was a single contractor shop until they were late which went all the way up the chain.

There was an article on here at the time, Boeing literally couldn't find out the name of the company doing a vital part of the avionics software.
Perfect! I'm tired of explaining my goofy email address to people. Thank you for the solution!
Watson, come here, I want you
CV using jQuery Isotope
Finally, Python may not be the best language for this real-time endpoint. Eventlet is a fantastic Python library and it allowed us to build something extremely fast that has scaled to several thousand concurrent connections without breaking a sweat on launch day, but it has its limits. There is a large body of work out there on handling a large number of open connections, using Java's NIO framework, Erlang's mochiweb, or node.js.

I wrote justin.tv's chat backend, in Python, using the Twisted network libraries. It has scaled to peaks of more than half a million concurrent chat connections, on 8 fairly modest commodity servers. Python is more than capable here, with the right networking approach. Feel free to ask me anything about it.
Outlook has this feature...
> The problem seems to be (for lack of better information) that sites are shut down pre-emptively with no warning.

Well, you can thank the Patriot Act for that. It allows them to go after people without telling them until it happens.
Yeah, I've been following that work for quite a while, it's really impressive! I'm a big fan of Cassandra in general (in fact, I wrote an example application to help teach beginners about it: https://github.com/ericflo/twissandra).

The decision to go with PostgreSQL over Cassandra (or another distributed system like Riak or HBase) was simply because it gave us the most flexibility to change our product quickly while we operate at low scale. And if I'm honest with myself, we're operating at very low scale right now.

In the future as we scale up, Cassandra's distributed counters will be one of the first places we look.
The maybe you can clarify who these ruthless jackasses are?
This doesn't paint an accurate picture. On that note I practically beg you to listen to this podcast: http://tinyurl.com/4g4727g

Or at very least listen to the 15 minutes between 2:03 and 17:07. Yes it's a talk radio show and Yes talk radio hosts usually aren't the most informed. But this guy is (he helped rebuild Iraq, was in the first Gulf War, Bosnia, etc...)

If you don't have time the gist is that the Egyptian Army is a capitalist enterprise. They run factories, tour buses, own hotels and so on. Beyond that they have more exposure to America than most because their officers train here in the U.S. To understand the military's role in all that you have to understand those two facts and their implications

(Long story short: the Military was willing to put up with Mubarak but they weren't ever willing to kill Egyptians for him and were willing to toss him out on his a$$ once his craziness started to disrupt tourism and goods distribution)
Personally, I find GMail's inbuilt search hard to beat. Its almost perfect. But I've used Greplin for Facebook (that's the only thing that I'm using Greplin for), and I find it to be an amazing service.
There are suggestions that part of the motivation was to reduce the power of the heavily unionized workers in Seattle and allow the company to transfer to a cheaper assembly plant in the south - just as car makers had done.

If you are only doing final assembly you can move the plant every 10years or so to get the best deal from local government. It's difficult to do that if you need an army of people with a lifetime of skills.
this is cool..!
nice job. I'm surprised however that people are willing to pay for this type of service. Makes you wonder if people would be willing to pay in order to use twitter
Innovation Meets Execution: The Death Penalty 2.0
In the Whole Brain Emulation Roadmap there's a table of published guesses at computing requirements: most were in the range 10^14..10^18 FLOPS. (Plus a few outliers from people who think the brain does molecular-scale or quantum computing in microtubules.) The 500th biggest computer in the latest Top500 does around 3E13 FLOPS, while the top does 3E15 -- using GPUs, incidentally. Your link's on the high end of the range, though they're all kind of guessing.

http://www.philosophy.ox.ac.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0019/3...

http://www.top500.org/list/2010/11/100
Wait.. Microsoft bought 86-DOS from Seattle Computer Products and was written by Tim Paterson. Microsoft didn't "steal" his or anyone else's code.
That's awesome, thanks for the offer, I'll definitely take you up on it and ping you if we run into problems scaling up that live endpoint using Python.

As a side-note, this is why I love the software engineering community: everyone's always so willing to share knowledge and help each other out. Let's hope we never lose that as a community!
As best as I can tell, they are requiring everything to come from Windows Marketplace. Developers can side load up to 10 applications on their phone, but it seems Microsoft even borrowed Apple's $99 yearly developer fee model.

Developer side loading: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff769512(v=VS.92).as...

$99 Annual fee: http://create.msdn.com/en-us/home/membership
Kind of surprising to not see node+socket.io in there, but it is nice to see some python projects (Celery/Eventlet) doing the same job. I'd be curious to see if they end up swapping that out if/when scaling becomes an issue.
One is made out of a bunch of "edible food-like substances" (to quote Michael Pollan) the other is made with actual food.

Because once we poison the well, only then can we have a fruitful discussion about this. Let's not drop this to the level of throwing about "frankenfood" type labels; those convince for entirely bogus reasons.

And I have had some absolutely asininely terrible food from local restaurants that would make a chain look worthy of Michelin stars by comparison. I'd argue that is what you lose more of with chains; you don't get the variance that allows for the highs, but you are also somewhat covered from that same variance giving you some really dismal lows. Sometimes, predictable but mediocre is more desirable than variable and possibly outstanding or complete crap.

Wal-Mart also pays so little that many of its workers rely on state healthcare subsidies, food stamps, housing vouchers and other public aid.

FWIW, I think the subsidies given to Wal-Mart are a bunch of crap. If you dislike those, talk to your government; don't damn the recipient for taking what they've been given.

But Wal-Mart isn't entirely to be damned for the rest of this either. The presumption under all of this is that the people who are employed by Wal-Mart have no other options. Is this true? Yes, I know; of course it's true. But, is it true?

Either way, things are rather bleak. Either people aren't exercising their options to their own advantage, or they are trapped in a position with absolutely no bargaining power.

But we won't solve this by killing Wal-Mart; these problems are merely exposed by a big box store forcing the economics we've been ignoring for a long time for the sake of social harmony and idealism. Products were sold at marked up prices to support marked up sales staff, and we look back and argue all of that was to preserve a milieu that is considered an unquestionably good thing.

The same thing in the past has happened to a ton of other professions. In every case, we moved on. In a way, all of these subsidies prevent us from doing so.

I wonder if the reality is much more mundane and non-idealistic; we didn't care much either way, but didn't know until Wal-Mart and the like came along that it could be done cheaper.

As a footnote, I'm not pro-Wal-Mart. I'm just someone who is alternatively interested in and confused by people's reactions to economic forces.
True, but I'm not using it because it's not very slick. I also think the viral nature of this extension could be huge.
I have known that from this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Rake%27s_Progress
In only spins on the x-axis in my version of chrome... 9.0.597.98

Is it supposed to rotate on the z-axis?
http://www.nic.io/new.html
A better return than nil isn't hard, though...
As they say, the thing about common sense is that it's often neither common nor particularly sensible.

Why does physical proximity equal morality in purchasing decisions? I can understand your argument from a perspective of _greed_ (as in "I believe that if I spend my money locally it is more likely to enrich the people in my community and therefore me.) But it doesn't make any sense to intentionally _mis-allocate_ resources by making spending decisions on a non-economic basis, then justify that decision on moral grounds.

From a moral standpoint, it seems to me that you should allocate your spending to the group that is producing value most efficiently, since that improves everyone's situation. If guys in China can make a product more efficiently / cheaply than your local maker, shouldn't they get that business? Why is an American more deserving of your purchase than someone in Indonesia? Essentially, you're saying that one human is more valuable than other due to their proximity to you.

If $0.50 of pay makes a bigger difference to the quality of life of a worker in China than $1.00 does for your neighbor, isn't the moral thing to do really buying the product from China? It results in a larger net improvement in quality of life.

(Note that I'm not advocating buying foreign. I'm just taking issue with the idea that buying local is necessarily more "moral" because it benefits people near you.) It's like those who argue you should block immigration because people already in the country have a moral right to those jobs.
Ask HN: I need a co-founder Where do i start?
I am 18 years old and a student in university. I have built 3 web apps in the past and allowed them to die because of school work. I build web apps because i love coding (hobby). I recently built poplytics.com and still working on it but i don't want it to die off. I have no idea how to market it and do customer development. I have had a bad run with bloggers when trying to get them to review my service.

How do i get a cofounder who would focus on marketing? Advice pls..
Ah, interesting. Does it also have a GC or some own custom allocation implementation?

Because if it really would use something like malloc, I don't really see how it should be faster than the C version.
Ended up here: http://three.io/three_letter_words?page=3, and got an error. Might want to check your rails' production log :P