skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One thing to consider: If these emails did contain evidence of fraud, the evidence would not be permitted in a court of law because the evidence was obtained (I assume) without warrant and illegally.
Twttr stories - Jack Dorsey: I build products by writing stories
It depends on what is meant by "burst". With a 250GB cap, you can use your 24Mbit UVerse "burst" speed 3.2% of the time.

I don't think it's unreasonable to look at something that is true 3% of the time and call it an unfair claim.
I think the best solution is to allow everyone to keep their anonymity if they want, and just repeat the mantra: "Don't Feed The Trolls!"

Where necessary, implement some form of community moderation, much like here, unpopular comments are greyed out, on other sites, like Reddit, they are hidden until requested.

Forced anonymity will forever be a pipe-dream anyway I think.
Anonymous web is perfect, communities are able to filter out trolls on there on. If some one wants to have a single identity they are able to do that in an anonymous web. But the reverse can't be done. Zuckerberg benefits financially from a single identity web and that is why he likes it.
http://reut.rs/eTSZoM
Erlang very purposefully has very very little syntax, it may seem unfamiliar and some people may always see it as ugly however once you figure out where the commas and semi colons go you are pretty much done learning the language.

And no I havent found anything that comes close to erlang that isnt erlang, I dont think thats an accident, erlangs primitive syntax is a distinct advantage.
This isn't just piracy, it is IP video streaming, it is roughly 1GB per hour for HD content. For somebody single, 150-250GB/month is plenty, for a house of 4 if everyone watches Netflix, Hulu, etc.. it isn't hard to use that up.

This is about revenue protection for their U-Verse TV business. They want to control the share of wallet and they'll use the tools they have available to do that. They don't want to become "just a pipe" where you go Internet only and then pay your TV content dollars to Hulu, etc...
My calculator tells me that, with my low-end DSL connection, I could eat that up in about 10 1/2 days. That's not too bad of a limit, but I do worry about what precedence it helps set. When I signed up, they were very clear about saying that it was unlimited*.
Isn't it a bit disingenuous to suppose that we don't know exactly what those 2% are doing?
In Chrome I get controls when I mouseover the video (11.0.696.3 on Mac).
Is there a problem with HN?
I have been coming here for over a year. One time there was a thread about a topic I was familiar with. I posted a comment and people down voted it. I posted links proving my point and the majority down voted it. So that left me with negative teens. I posted the truth but it was unpopular here. Once you have negative numbers it looks like its impossible to get out because your replies are hidden. So we exclude people who we don't agree with. We shut them out. This is not the America I grew up in. Its a sad commentary on USA. I see it in other systems. These are American dominated systems that exclude people unless they are like us. Some even ban foreign IP address. Maybe its a trade war. Maybe its an elitist attitude, I don't know. But it is ugly. Perhaps its the new ugly American.
check out meetup.com. I believe you said you live near chicago, just an example http://www.meetup.com/ChicagoRuby they are meeting in a few days.
Go read patio11 blog post and don't be a douche.
Ruins or makes stronger?
Not sure it's a flamewar (the flames are basically going on one direction!), but let's go with it... I'm participating in that flamewar, but agree with you 100%. That's part of where the conclusion of my series goes. :-)
Mirror:

http://www.machinesentience.com/miscvideos/amazing_video_of_...

Not sure why anyone would want to censor this sort of thing off of youtube, my guess is they are trying to Streisand Effect themselves.
I wonder what happened to the poor man trapped at the end of the video...
Just because people are downloading a ton of illegal content right now doesn't mean 5 years from now the average person won't be downloading it legally. This is how progress is made.
You can always setup a new account and start from zero. It's kinda like going bankrupt, that's the American way.
Not sure if I am fully answering your question, but I found that some of the web frameworks and demos helped me understand the basics and get working with it much better, particularly http://nitrogenproject.com/demos and http://www.chicagoboss.org/. It helped me relate existing examples to sort of pick up on the syntax a bit, still have a ways to go.
8 days To code Twitter he said!a
wonderful example of "keep it simple, stupid" principle.
You'd be surprised how much ontologies are catching on these days. Have a look at http://linkeddata.org/

Ontologies and linking different ontologies have become a key part in unlocking large data sets such as Wikipedia, from governments, et cetera.
I would say something Google isn't launching because they can't execute well enough but are still very interested in is the perfect idea to keep going with.
One huge divide between people in the tech community and those outside of it is the meaning of free. Facebook's a walled garden to people who want APIs and generously licensed (or public domain) data, but, to most of everyone else, the only cost with Facebook is creating an account -- something many people want to do anyway for the other features of the site. This is in sharp contrast to AOL, which was very expensive and only offered its data to paid subscribers.
Interactive Graphics of the Crippled Japanese Nuclear Reactors
We are having big shifts to content distribution over the internet with things like itunes, netflix, Amazon streaming movies, Apple TV, Skype, video chat, games, and software. Comcast (xfinity) and AT&T are going to do their best to cripple the internet to protect their other sources of revenue.

I recently moved to Seattle and had no choice but to sign up with Comcast. I wanted to have streaming video of NHK Japan coverage open while I'm doing things around the house. I'm to worried about eating into my monthly limit to do so.
Good point... I hadn't even considered IPTV and streaming services for some reason. It definitely looks like a move to protect revenue when people may be switching off services like U-Verse TV.
I think it is more correct to say that all the typhoon words derive from Greek (or at least a common source). Europeans borrowed a cognate local word (tufan) to describe the cyclones of the Indian Ocean and 'correcred' the spelling to the Greek roots.

http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?search=typhoon&searc...
Right. Dvorak is a professional troll.
I really don't see what was so special about what Apple did ... there were lines outside of pretty much every Apple store in America to get the ipad 2 ...

They opened a temporary store right next to a conference that geeks (who happen to adore them and the ipad) are going to be in attendance and its supposed to be this jedi-esque marketing move?

Please.
Bullshit. Nearly every broadband ISP in the US has had unlimited download and upload for the last 12+ years. When I got my first cable modem in 1997 and since then, its always been unlimited. While our access speeds have gone up, they haven't gone up in comparison to other nations. What AT&T and other providers are saying is that they haven't been investing in their backbone and regional connections, while increasing customer speeds. This is complete bullshit.
The Erlang syntax isn't that bad. Don't be intimidated by it. You mention the line ending punctuation as a specific cause of concern which is difficult to learn. Let me try to help:

To start, a comma goes at the end of a normal line of code. Most lines end in a comma. There are exceptions though, but easy to manage ones. A semicolon will go at the end of a case statement or an if statement. But no punctuation goes at the end of the last case or if statement in a block. The same logic holds for ending a function. A function is ended with a period, unless there is another function with the same signature. In this case, you end with a semicolon.

I answered a similar question on SO a while back:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1110601/in-erlang-when-do...

That was my answer back in '09 as I was learning Erlang. I absolutely love the language and agree that there is a learning curve, but the syntax learning curve is pretty small.
Yep. I was there, and he did say this (amongst other things) during his talk.

Good talk, all in all. 4chan is a refreshing change from VC backed, liquidation-event-directed online communities. Not that 4chan is a Facebook replacement by any means, but it's helpful to remember that an enormous part of what's interesting on the internet is open-source, non-profit, or not profit-motivated.
It's funny, that's exactly what people said about binaries on Usenet.
Research is a different beast than creating a marketable product. If you're creating a product that nobody is working on or hasn't tried to make before, you have to stop and wonder, why has nobody done this before?

Before Tylenol existed, many people had attempted to tackle the problem of pain management. Tylenol just happened to make a more efficient chemical formula with their research, but the idea of using drugs to control pain was not new. When you talk about your idea, you don't need to reveal how you do something differently, just like Tylenol can talk about their idea without revealing their formula and Google can talk about their idea without revealing their algorithm.

I was in St Louis last week for a business pitch competition, and I watched a med school PhD candidate read his dissertation paper and present his research for the elevator pitch competition. He had absolutely no business knowledge or any idea on how to market his research into a profitable product. But because he was able to talk about his idea and research without revealing anything that would allow somebody else in the room to just copy it, he was able to build contacts with several other business-oriented people in the room who liked the idea and were interested in helping him take it to market.
With the underscores, Wax looks a bit like PyObjC or RubyCocoa. Lua is a fun language, so I will certainly give it a try. I would love to see a Framework in MacRuby, as I think Ruby, as a true Object Oriented language, may be better suited to Cocoa/IOS development. But this is certainly a project to watch.
I'd suggest sticking with Erlang a little bit longer. I've only recently learned the language myself so I know what you're talking about. However, for me after a few weeks working with it off and on everything just clicked and now it seems very natural, even enjoyable.
My brand new unrooted NOOKcolor worked great
Comcast has the same thing 250GB cap and has such for 3 to 4 years. No one is blowing through 250GB watching netflix, hulu and such, which I think is the reason behind this move by AT&T.
Everyone wants to forgive and forget, but I don't think human beings in general are capable of forgiveness unless there is acceptance of what went wrong and some sense of resolution, so trust can be rebuilt.

The issue of "what went wrong" is under dispute. Dealing with that is the first step to "where to go from here".
Apple's disruptive path started with the ipod. they gained control a great supply chain , the itunes(and some basis for the app store) and it's users , a great mobile brand , and a lot of experience , which enabled them to execute well on the iphone.

In short , the path from the first mp3 , via the ipod to the iphone is a disruptive path. there's no motivation for nokia to compete , until it's too late.
This post seems to be written in the most diplomatic language possible.

You should see his previous post. :-)
8 days of coding.

So what does this say about all those people looking for a sustainable [technological] competitive advantage in a young startup?
The Elitists are Elite. Only a few of them, if you even suggest anything that is not inline with there views about HN
You get ALL of them crashing down on you. It might be a small number but it seems those people are the quickest.

It would be nice if you had to make a little comment about why you downvoted?
While this article definitely was geared more toward the individual/hobbyist/"solving a problem" reader, its great to see a broader discussion of open source economics open up.
For those individuals, which (if any) OS marketplaces do you guys prefer to use, or would you rather put something out on your own?
Transcoded to Flash video. I'll keep it up unless my host has a problem about copyright... http://deathbycomputers.co.uk/crapandstuff/1605260179420_262...
What is something legitimate that you can do with 250GB in a month (that's 83 HD movie downloads), and, when you identify it, can you also tell me why the 98% of people who pay for U-Verse should have to pay for that level of service, which they will never come close to using/

There is no such thing as a free lunch. Either the top 2% pay a noticeable premium, or everybody pays a less noticeable premium. AT&T is not a charity, it's not a public utility, and it's not a monopoly.
This really depends on why you are doing this.

The concept itself is trivial and not exactly new. It has been around for ages in a form of private areas on BBS'es (remember those?). It is implementing the concept in a way that compares to Facebook - that's where the challenge is.

Also, realistically speaking, the chances of making people switch away from Facebook are really low, even if Facebook shows an astounding lack of foresight and does not roll out a circles-like paradigm really soon. People are lazy and Facebook ties are sticky. Those who are not on Facebook are not there for privacy reasons, so they aren't likely to flock to your service either.

So it all depends what you want to get out of the project. In any case, if you can and decide to continue, it would be a great learning experience on all fronts - from technical to design to marketing - I can guarantee it :)
Art of the Day: "Help Japan"
I run Ubuntu on my 13", it's a great Linux machine. It was really tough to install without a CD drive, but finally I made it. Everything works, but waking from sleep and reconnecting the wifi takes ages compared to OS X.

That said, I too would love to be able to work on a tablet. Basically all I need is vim and Chrome. What I'm thinking is connecting the iPad to a bigger screen and using the pad as a keyboard, but nah it doesn't seem realistic.
This is simply not true.

I have met a few and know of a few other great programmers - the ones who do the work of 5-10 lesser programmers - who exactly fit this description (and some that don't). Either way, if you have one of these guys you shouldn't mind having to pay for a minder.

Guys like this are common in the games industry, but I've met a few working in other fields.

I have found that these programmers tend to be idolised and adored by the rest of the coders: good programmers tend to appreciate great craftsmanship. Plus, everyone ups their game in the hope that some of the magic will rub off. It's also easy to take a few clever risks if you have one of these guys standing behind you.
It's been my experience that the community downvotes the following fairly mercilessly:

- comments critical of Google

- comments praising the chinese government

- comments advocating a vegan lifestyle

- comments critical of Joel Spolsky

- comments that disagree with PG in the same thread and that seem not to have been well thought out.

- comments critical of the Gates Foundation

- comments advising young hackers not to attend college

- comments containing the word "bro"
As in "I'm the mad scientist and I'll write a book containing my evil phrases". For specific definitions of "mad" and "evil", of course.
It went from zero to complete chaos in about 3 minutes. That is just nuts.

Do not mess with water.
Bullshit. Nearly every broadband ISP in the US has cut you off with varying levels of warning if you use "excessive bandwidth" for years and years now. It's been a continuous stream of complaints about such things over the years. I actually give kudos to Comcast for finally putting a marker down on "excessive usage" a couple of years ago, and even more kudos now to AT&T for not only being explicit but providing an overage plan that is not terribly unreasonable for consumer internet. Despite my disinclination to give kudos to either company for anything.

There's no such thing as a truly unlimited service. I prefer that they be upfront about the limits.

Since Comcast put the 250 GB cap in place, I've had a hard time breaking 100GB, and I do several things that chew through bandwidth, like hi-def Netflix and a lot of OS updates and downloads. (Been shopping around for a Linux distro the last couple of weekends, for instance.) I have a hard time complaining.
Are you familiar with Erlant/OTP?
Real applications rarely use 'pure' message passing, but wrap everything in OTP's behaviors.
What was wrong with the term "Tidal Wave"? It looks like a huge tide rolling in.
His work is in Supply Chain/Management

Well, his research and work have been in the area of risk management -- so I find it quite plausible he has access to detailed assessments of nuclear power plant liabilities.
Anyone have any other opinions or suggestions?
Honestly I'm skeptical. The idea of auto generating groups from pre-existing data isn't particularly new and I'm confident that with enough work it can be done reasonably well.

But once you've done that, then every time I post a status update (or tweet, or whatever you end up calling it I'll be forced to consider which circles(s) I want to share with. This significantly raises the cognitive burden of an update.

Unless you've got a really clever solution to this problem. In which case you've got something very interesting indeed and you should definitely keep going.
interesting...!
That particular thread sounds like it fell apart, but I hope you contribute to other discussions anyway (though maybe a new account is required). Losing points happens occasionally, but it isn't the trend.

Keep in mind that although some comments don't really deserve to be negative, most of them really do. It's reasonable for the site to set a standard for quality and save readers' time by graying out things that are probably not worth the time to read. It won't be perfect.

There are also different shades of gray in comments. A comment at -3 is still a "readable" gray, and I've been known to bump comments back up if they contribute usefully to the discussion. But that's just one vote, putting it back to -2, which will still be below many people's thresholds. Sometimes not enough people bother to join in to "rescue" a reasonable comment; it happens, it's unfortunate, but that's how it goes.

Really the only way to fix these things is to post in "Feature Requests" at the bottom of the page with your ideas for what would make a better critique system. For instance, maybe it should become harder to downvote and require a reason, e.g. flame/inaccurate/whatever.
Erlang is easier if you know a little Prolog. Perhaps you could download SWI-Prolog[1] and spend a little time doing simple logic programming[2]?

1- http://www.swi-prolog.org/

2- https://sites.google.com/site/prologsite/prolog-problems
They are nothing to do with tides.

Tsunami means harbor wave which is a good description - at sea they are almost unnoticeable - it'sonly when the water is concentrated on a shore - or in a harbor that they have such an effect
Reminds me a little of this from 2004, where the photographer and his gf or wife just seem to make it out alive:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gbq412haY1c

Scary, scary stuff.
Where's etherpad development now? Well, it seems to have stopped.

Another former etherpad employee here. I just wanted to point out that contrary to the comment above, there's a fair bit of active open-source development on etherpad these days, though the folks there could always use more help. Head over to https://github.com/ether/pad and pitch in!
OpenSUSE 11.4 Review
Bitcoin is a fascinating entrepreneurial space. Legal issues, disruption... topics worthy of discussion.
Legal issue: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/html/uscode18/usc_sec_18_0... Bitcoin is a P2P currency. There is no good way to enforce such code. Edited
>We are definitely exploring this option but it will have to wait until after we ramp up because we have to do it in such a hurry.

yeah, that's the big advantage of outsourcing. I was just pointing out that you should make sure you are aware of and okay with the premium you are paying if you keep the outsourced stuff around for more than a few months.
CYCU
Are you sure it isn't the functional paradigm of the language that is frustrating you? That is usually the hurdle for people and not the syntax in my experience - I luckily had quite a bit of experience with Scheme and Haskell so recursion and pattern matching weren't alien to me at all - the idea of taking the car of a list (or head in Erlang) and recursing on the cdr (or tail in Erlang) can be pretty mind boggling for new comers.

The syntax is actually pretty friendly IMHO - it's specifically meant to be as side-effect free as possible.

Keep plugging at it (like many things) and it will grow on you.
If you set up a bayesian filter to classify the status update as you type, that would be pretty rad. Then you'd just have to make sure it's classified correctly before you hit submit.

Or just have different sections/tabs for each of the detected cliques (detecting cliques is a (edit: somewhat) solved problem: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clique_(graph_theory) ). It'd be the onus of the user to name the cliques, with a suggested default of what others in the clique have named it.
If you view the comma and semicolon as separators instead of terminators it works much better. It is also what they really are.

A semicolon separates two clauses, either two if/case/receive clauses or two function clauses and means or. Either choose the first clause or the clause following the semicolon. An if/case/receive is terminated with an 'end' while a function is terminated with a dot.

Fred Hebert, the author of Learn You Some Erlang, wrote this on syntax: http://ferd.ca/on-erlang-s-syntax.html
Reia:

Reia is a Ruby-like scripting language for the Erlang virtual machine. Reia brings you the best of both worlds between Ruby's friendly syntax, reflection, metaprogramming, and the amazing power of blocks, and Erlang's immense abilities for concurrency, distribution, hot code swapping, and fault tolerance.

http://reia-lang.org/

Lisp Flavored Erlang:

LFE, Lisp Flavoured Erlang, is a lisp syntax front-end to the Erlang compiler. Code produced with it is compatible with "normal" Erlang code. An LFE evaluator and shell is also included.

https://github.com/rvirding/lfe

As far as I know, both languages are still a work in progress (I'm not very familiar with either, though). Even if you try either of these options, I really recommend also sticking with Erlang until you "get" it. It will click eventually.
How about Reia?

http://reia-lang.org/