skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bungie went from (relatively) unknown Mac-only game shop (during the Marathon days). They were then bought by MS and made the headline games for the xbox line.
I completely get your point & at the same time it's really important not to be paralyzed by the need to make "the perfect choice" and act quickly in a moment of urgency.

There needs to be balance between taking some time to make an informed decision and acting today rather than pushing it away for later!
Yes, using the OStatus protocol suite, see http://status.net/2010/03/07/understanding-ostatus
I couldn't agree more about the defining of terms. While I find the article well reasoned given his assumptions, I think it's the assumptions that need to be addressed. Terms like, "social-ethical end", "inner equilibrium", and idea of a goal of life.

I think it's these terms and the basic assumptions behind them are what need to be addressed prior to attempting to construct a social system.
Paul Graham has half a dozen good essays in answer to your question:
http://www.paulgraham.com/articles.html
To juxtapose with the IANAL that is imprinted in all our minds (just behind our reading eyeballs) to show that he does have authority on this subject.
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I wonder where all the money will go to, and whether a developed country like Japan really need help to handle the disaster in this situation, given their history with such events.

Its really hard to find where the money will go to, the swipegood site doesn't even link to world vision, I had to get there through google. The world vision site says:

"Your gift will help us rush emergency supplies like life-saving food, clean water, medical supplies, and shelter to survivors."

Your gift will help World Vision respond to this and other disasters around the world including:

A devastating drought and food crisis is threatening more than 7 million lives in the Horn of Africa. Increasing numbers of children are severely malnourished and at risk of disease in Kenya, Ethiopia, and Somalia.
Millions of displaced children and families are struggling to survive in Sudan after decades of civil unrest. The recent Referendum has brought hope for peace, but malnutrition, disease, and poverty remain at critical levels.
Heavy monsoon rains have caused widespread flooding in Sri Lanka, displacing more than 200,000 people from their homes and impacting 1.2 million.
World Vision is continuing to support earthquake survivors in Haiti, rebuilding their communities and meeting essential needs for food, clean water, and healthcare.
World Vision urgently needs your support to help children and families suffering from these and other disasters around the world.

So by donating here you're implicitly donating to other disasters too.
No, he isn't comparing the two, he's grouping them together. Watching a piano player, meeting him and getting his autograph, _even_ read a book. (roughly paraphrased).

I think he's trying to point out that besides "just reading the book" (as was given in his example with his customers) there are other ways people think they can learn and master complex skills - talking to famous, successful people, or watching how they work. While there's certainly value in doing so, his point is that that is probably not what you really need to improve.
It's a long-running Internet meme. I believe it began with IANAL (I am not a Lawyer).
Well, that email is a piece of relatively ignorant crap that I could have written when I was 17. The last time I read something like that was a Phrack interview....
The thumbnails also seem like overkill.
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Those costs are usually absorbed by the wholesaler, not the retailer.
Mental note: come up with a new site "B.E.S.T. Social Network"
Just a heads up, the website in your profile, tweethook has an expired SSL certificate.
I think this has to be the 10th time this article was posted on HN. Seems as if every college student discovers this paper and thinks they are the first one.
Why do you need rationale? I use lisp because its the language that gives me the most joy, you can spend a decade giving me rationale about how language X is better, but unless it can give me more joy i won't switch. But if you insist: common lisp is designed to write software. That is its sole purpose in existence. Its purpose is not to be object oriented, procedural, functional, declarative, low-level, high-level, big, small, pretty, cool, modern, fashionable, popular, or anything else, its common lisp, a language for people to write software in. For certain types of software and for certain types of people it is the best language, for other combinations, it is not so good.
That's hard to say. People are often really scared by things like climate change (uncertain, huge impact), and less scared of everyday disasters.

http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2009/11/fear_and_overr...

Or table here:
http://www.schneier.com/essay-170.html
Please explain why "Amazon Web Services" would be a silly answer.
There is no surprise with the aid of #dickbar. I am not going to use Twitter for any serious purpose anymore. This bottom line has violated by basic requirement of information freedom.

Just seeing this issue I really think that there is still spaces for even more Twitter clients. Last months or so there is one called littlecosm.com which is a client+game type.

It is like they simply don't want people to avoid looking at their public timeline without promoted tweets and dickbar. What a shame.
Easy, have normal accounts for personal and non profit use, anyone that is trying to either sell things or building a brand can pay for access, including all the celebrities.

I don't mind the current promoted trends/tweets/follows, I guess the only thing I would change is call the promoted trend something else, because it isn't really a trend.
This is certainly one not-terrible way of coming up with an uncontroversial design quickly.
Update: A meltdown at this point is possible, since the decay heat is pretty significant. However, as long as the core remains submerged, it shouldn't be an issue. In the worst case, you could more or less stick a hose into the primary system (one of the chief reasons that the Three Mile Island meltdown occurred is that the operators were unaware of the falling water levels in the core).

The main concern at this point is definitely the steam pressure.
yeah... Since the service is now in violation of Twitter API TOS (tweet data resyndication, now only samctioned through Gnip), I've decided to shut it down shortly... no need to renew cert I'm afraid.
Step #2 involves learning LISP. As I embark to learn elisp, am I then to re-install Linux and emacs and SLIME? Then make my way to step 2 again...
The problem is for a migration to happen, it can't just be a little better than Twitter. It has to be a LOT better than Twitter.
No, I'm talking about wikipedia
For someone who has lived through a massive earthquake (as I did in Taiwan in 1989), the disturbing thing, even for someone who has lived in earthquake zones for years, is the aftershocks. They build up to a doubt about whether the earth can ever be counted on to lie still. Now after more than a decade of living somewhere where earthquakes are unknown, I largely am back to counting on the earth beneath my feet to lie still. (The danger here, and it is a considerable danger, is slipping and falling on ice. That paralyzed my dad for the last six years of his life.) The earthquake news from Japan brings back a lot of memories from the Ring of Fire. Many people there will be wondering over the next few weeks if the term "solid ground" has any meaning at all.
> people demonstrably have higher vigilance for repetitive attention-heavy tasks when they've been injected with sugar

That's not at all the same as saying that more difficult tasks actually consume more sugar, any more than programming must consume caffeine because coffee makes some people more focused on it.
"The US government, still trying to secure final passage for the drafted-in-secret Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA)" and "Once again, the chapter was drafted in secret and has been classified for at least four years after negotiations end."

Like a secret law? I thought supposedly classically liberal and democratic countries weren't supposed to have those.

The whole DMCA thing disgusts me. Once I buy something, then I should be held in good faith not to infringe on copyright rights. If I do, then I could see issues, but not before. I suppose the problem is that we've redefined 'infringe' to mean making possible for anyone to infringe, no matter what my intentions were.

This is as if we were to hold gun manufacturers responsible for all gun injury, or auto manufacturers responsible for all car accidents, or construction workers responsible for earthquake damage, or office suppliers responsible for eyes poked out by thrown pencils, or &c., &c., &c., the inane list goes on and on...

Not a lawyer, but required to say so by lawyers.
Ask HN: Which Developers Are Looking For A Startup Job
I know HN usually have people posting hiring posts where startups would list any available positions they have openings for but I figure why not the opposite. So I was curious which developers are looking to join other startups and what skill sets do you have?
Please, re-read the comment you replied to, and check whether I said something about that.
No, Python's not a magical language.

It's just that, for various reasons, when good programmers are given their choice of language for a project they tend to choose Python and not PHP, or Java, or BASIC. And that's just my experience, but I don't think I'm the only one who's observed that.

Speaking of sweeping assumptions though: I've been a PHP developer since version 3 and have deployed many WordPress sites, themes and extensions, going back to version 2.1. I'm quite familiar with its internals, and while not to the same extent, I am also experienced with Drupal.

I can say with certainty that if you are the kind of web developer who likes a cleanly enforced separation of logic from presentation, or who enjoys being able to predict with high accuracy the flow of control, you will be frustrated with WordPress and Drupal -- and PHP apps in general. On the other hand, if you like writing hook functions and embedding business logic in your templates, you're in luck because the APIs of both do a very good job of making this the default mode for development.

If we continue down this thread, we're going to have a language war; my main intent was to disabuse you of the notion that people who criticize PHP speak from ignorance, as I have been paid very well for a long time to perform all sorts of PHP-related mental gymnastics. I absolutely refuse to use it for personal projects and have scaled back the extent to which I use it at work, by finding a job where I have more freedom with my projects.

I could go on about the nastiness of PHP, but if you don't believe that this is the state of PHP CMS development -- perhaps you think that it's not bad to write code this way, or perhaps you think all the hoops that one has to jump through to do things The Right Way are not actually burdensome -- then we simply disagree on what it means to have a good programming environment.

If you feel that way, I'd recommend a couple of PG's essays to you:

http://paulgraham.com/avg.html
http://www.paulgraham.com/pypar.html

EDIT: Another thing occurs to me: there are a ton of environments and frameworks where a 5 minute screencast is plenty convincing to someone looking to try it out. You can show off some great concepts and capabilities in 5 minutes. So yeah, 20 minutes of trying to do something trivial in WordPress is enough to get the gist of things -- if you can't find at least one great, if minor, experience in 20 minutes of using a tool, it's probably a good indication of things to come.
Would you run away if I told you to? Probably not.

Would you run away if I told you there was an impending explosion? Probably.

Its one thing to tell people to do things. Its another to explain to them the benefits of doing so. Seemed like common sense...
i) You're correct in that venting the steam won't solve the cooling issues. Venting the steam is being considered in order to reduce the steam pressure in the primary system. If the pressure gets too high, then the primary system could rupture, resulting in an uncontrolled release of radiation.

ii) I falsely conflated uncontrolled fission with meltdown in my explanation. Meltdown is when the core reaches a temperature at which the control rod cladding (which is probably stainless steel, though I can't confirm that) melts. Uncontrolled fission will result in a spectacular meltdown, as happened at Chernobyl. So, being shutdown is not a guarantee against melting down. However, as long as the core stays submerged, then it should stay cool enough to avoid melting down. I haven't read any reports that the operators are concerned about water level in the core, so a meltdown is unlikely. Worst case, you could open up a valve on the primary and stick a hose in it.
>Like a secret law? I thought supposedly classically liberal and democratic countries weren't supposed to have those.

This is the US we're talking about though, so I don't get your point.
You seem to be sincere, so thank you.
I am operating on about 5 hours of very broken up sleep and am generally fried. But this is exactly what I want to do: Create "predictive" biological models with a real world, specific (teaching) purpose. But what I have been thinking recently is that there is a "space" between the basic physiological "rules" of the body and the world around us and that "space" is found in the mind -- that we make countless small choices based on enormous amounts of data/models/whatnot in our heads which bias us towards recreating the outcomes we expect (for example: the entire CF community is routinely told by doctors "people like you don't get well" and "it's the normal progression of CF, there is nothing you can really do about it" and the like --and then they repeat these memes to each other, further reinforcing it and further discouraging people from making any real effort to defy those expectations).

So I have been pondering how one would lay that out as a model, because it is not as simple as "my body has X nutritional deficiency so I crave foods high in X, I eat said foods and then get somewhat better". It is more like "my body has X nutritional deficiency so I crave foods high in X, I run those cravings through my mental filter and in many cases I decide there is something inherently bad about craving them and then I go to great lengths to defeat this built-in self-guiding system, thus not allowing myself to get better, which leads to more cravings and more guilt and more stringent attempts to 'exercise self control'...and round and round we go".

Anyway, it is likely of no use to the forum for me to attempt to think out loud on the topic (especially while fried). But I think it is of use to me.

Peace.
Also, you missed the login form (both in the header and on http://profile.io/login). Its echoing the username directly, e.g., "Username <script>alert(1)</script> was not found"
I'm going to use Javascript and Redis. I'm working on a few little projects to learn both systems a little bit better.
It was a trap set to catch people with no sense of humour.
"We control the user experience" has become the slogan of monopolists everywhere!
LOL I don't think you could get Steve Jobs to leave Apple even if you offered $10T much less $10B but I kid.

On a more serious note, I agree a large part is due to how much you're willing to pay. But even then, and don't get me wrong, there are lots of applicants. The problem isn't finding people willing to go for the job or paying out market rate. It's finding people that are a fit. As they say, good talent almost never look for a job. And that's where the issue comes in...
You just did! Time to send it off to the developers. Your work here is done.
Generally for IE6/7/8 I add Dean Edwards excellent IE7.js, and it takes care of a lot of stuff for me automatically!
When people talk about the America's crumbling infrastructure, it isn't just potholes folks.
Man, I didn't realize being an Idea Guy was so easy! I might have to consider a career change…
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I was under the impression that both ACTA and TPP were primarily written by the US. In any case, the US is involved, and supporting secret laws is pretty bad for a country that keeps going on about how they support democracy everywhere.

Edit:

This *is* the US we're talking about though, so I don't get your point.

Did this say 'is' when I first replied? I replied as if it said 'isn't.' It is possible I managed to misread, but I'm fairly sure...
El Cuando Me Enamoro Capitulo 179
How the fate of the kidnapped by Gonzalo Renato (René Casados)? ... This scene occurs in Cuando Me Enamoro Capitulo 178, at which time Renata and Hannibalis on the way to get an attack, even Hannibal (Eleazar Gómez) were injured in the Valle de Guadalupe. All this happened to Roberta and Agustin plan. And Cuando Me Enamoro Capitulo 179 back will tell you about Roberta and Agustin who tried to get rid of Renata.
Itouch 2 SOLD AS 3 can't upgrade to ios 4.3 (relevant old thread)
> I would love to be able to have political discussions about these issues

I'll bite.

> socialism is defined

From each according to his ability, to each according to his need. Socialism is the way. Communism is the unreachable goal.

> If socialism is public control, this does not equal totalitarianism. Social democracy is a form of democratic public control of resources.

You can discuss things ad nauseum and it will mean nothing. The human mind is too primitive to account for all the facets of reality. There is an almost infinite number of factors that play into the reality of the state.

In the end, the only way to know if something works is to try it.

Socialism was tried. Repeatedly. It always led to a totalitarian state.

Democracy is tyranny by the majority. When protections of the individual are removed for the sake of "social justice" or socialism or for any other reason, the majority is free to abuse the minority for its gain. And they do. Very quickly. This escalates over and over, until a totalitarian state is born.
It is inspiring to see a lot of young and super excited people super passionate about providing a social twist to the world.
I like how the second paragraph of the quote ends
"...ensure a high bar is maintained."

I am taking it out of context but it seems like a good pun for the dickbar.
Hm, so with the example given, rather than pay cash to the elderly hobbyist farmer at the farmer's market for his tomatoes and apples, we can cut in some big financial conglomerate for a slice of the action. And this is being promoted by said financiers as an improvement over cash.
Constitutional method to fix this is "letters of marque and reprisal" - as used against the Barbary Pirates.
What are you talking about? It is a critical part of Layer 3 of the OSI Model!!
> 32-byte push token unique to a given device/app pair. It is likely based on the device's global id (UDID) and the application's appid and certificates.

This isn't quite correct, the device token is not unique per app, it's unique per device. (Technically, a device will have two tokens, one for the APNS sandbox, and the second for production.)

The device token can't be derived by mere mortals, it is a cryptographic identifier returned from APNS to the device.
There's this...it wasn't an earthquake but it does represent the other end of the spectrum for building codes for large buildings.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/5685963...
I set up a WePay donation page, but this is way better if you've got any sort of traffic. Let's help these people out.
I experienced the 7.2 earthquake on Easter of 2010 in Southern California (San Diego area) and the thing I remember the most is that I felt at least one aftershock per day for at least the next 30-45 days. Nothing serious, they were always in the 4.5-5 scale region.
I'm pretty sure with 600+ million users, he's in the majority. Heck, he's in the majority of people on the Internet that don't have a Facebook account.
Wow, I really see what PG meant about scripted videos now. After a few takes I unintentionally created a script in my head. I had to walk away from it for a couple days and ended up doing my video on my next take.

Finally, it sounded like me instead of a robot.
Anyone can think of a good idea but not many of them can turn it into a successful business. To create a successful business the idea/product should be the last thing you need to worry about because idea changes all the time during stages of a startup. There are many other factors that are more important than your idea i.e ( financing, marketing,legal, team). Many entrepreneurs have the same ideas but why are some more successful than others? For example Gowalla vs Foursquare. An idea is worthless without an execution plan. You can begin by researching your market and form a team who believes in your idea and vision. I give you props for your youth entrepreneur's spirit. Don't wait too long to start because you will mistakes. Just learn how to fix them along the way. Just remember Nike's Slogan "Just Do It". Good Luck
I am 10 year software developer in Dallas, TX. I have experience building enterprise software systems for financial and airline industry leaders. Most recently I worked as an indie contractor on southwest.com and travelocity.com. My day time job is enterprise Java/SOA but I hack Python, Php and Javascript at night.
One of the most practical articles I've seen in a while, thanks. What are your thoughts on using UI frameworks like jqueryUI or YUI grid?
Requiring an IDE specific to your language should be the exception, not the rule. Why the hell should you have to learn a completely different editor just to try out a new language? Is the language really so verbose and inexpressive that you can't even maintain it by hand?
Ask HN: What are your favorite sites to advertise/sponsor when launching?
What are your favorite startup/tech sites to advertise on or sponsor for building your pre-launch list? Launching?

I wonder if a list of sites sorted by audience x ad rates is out there..or be created ;)

Many thanks!
This type of lazy thinking in generalizations amazes me. Inefficient at what? If you mean it's inefficient for rapid decision making, I wholeheartedly agree. If you mean inefficient at allowing people to express themselves, I disagree.
H.264 was never without licensing fees and I don't think it can be considered a bait-and-switch. The catch is right there in the licensing terms.
Socialism was tried. Repeatedly. It always led to a totalitarian state.

Marxist-Leninism is what you're referring to, and yes, that has led to totalitarianism. However, socialism predated Marx, and there are non-Marxist (and anti-Marxist) socialist philosophies.

"From each according..." is not a tenet shared by all socialists.
That's awesome, although it'd be cooler if the information appeared on a separate screen rather than obscuring the text editor.
I slightly disagree. Many people have minted quite a bit of coin off these "cute things" and some started real companies that grew a brand name because of them.

Its fine to rely on them, but you need an exit plan.
No hobbyist needs to pay for Xcode 4. You can use Xcode 3 for free, or you can pay $5 and use Xcode 4 without having to wait for and buy Lion, or you can just wait and get it free with Lion.
I feel like anyone on HN has a basic idea of how to go about learning a programming language. If you sub in appropriate $books and $IDEs, there's nothing language-specific in the post. And to be honest, nothing all that new or all that notable.