skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, risk is always balanced against potential gain. And yes, the individual is the one who ultimately pays the price. So he should make the choices.

But I believe that even in a completely free market, there would be a lot of local voluntary contractual arrangements that would regulate many aspects of very small communities and building codes are certainly one thing people would consider when making such an arrangement.

As long as communities are competitive and contracts cannot be changed arbitrarily, this is not a problem. And if such contracts were not beneficial, these arrangements would lose to more sensible ones.

So, I'm not too concerned about what local governments do. Overall I think it maps to what we'd have in a free market, except where cities get too big and corruption becomes a problem.

One could easily argue that there is a worse safety/cost effectiveness tradeoff when you have to pay for corruption. Certainly when the average person is poorer than they would otherwise be, safety is harder to afford.

The important thing is competition and if you can drive 4 minutes in the opposite direction and get the community you want, competition exists.
Emilio Estevez
With all the Charlie Sheen attention going around, I was wondering what ever happened to his brother Emilio. Looking up IMDb, I was pleasantly surprised to find his personal quotes as follow:
"What's the level of compromise for making that kind of money? How far do I have to sell my soul? What's the price of that? And I don't know if I want to make those kind of compromises any more. I think I'm a different person. I think I've matured to a great extent. I think that I want different things now. That it's not about the celebrity status that you receive because you're doing the next hot movie. It's about doing good work."

Replace movie with product and the quotes are apropos to different stages of an entrepreneur.
Can anyone point to language in the revised API Terms of Service (http://dev.twitter.com/pages/api_terms) that implies "no new Twitter clients"? I'm reading it, but I can't find the smoking gun.
This is why we should be investing in thorium reactors:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorium#Thorium_as_a_nuclear_fu...

They apparently self-regulate in the event of a power loss, plus they can be used to "burn up" spent fuel from traditional reactors.
Synalyze It - new hex editor for the Mac
As much as this sounds like the beginning of the end, I do have to agree with one gripe:

> For example, some  developers display “comment”, “like”, or other terms with tweets instead of   “follow, favorite, retweet, reply” - thus changing the core functions of a  tweet.

Very true. I have accidentally tweeted by “logging in with Twitter” and then “commenting” on comments. Despicable behavior, and it should be stopped. (Alert! Previous statement is narrow in scope!)
Can't wait for Twitter to join Myspace in the slow death club. This move is certainly a step in that direction.
The galling thing in this, is that much of the innovation that happened on the client side was initiated by 3rd party developers. Applications like Tweetie, Birdhouse, Twitterific, etc. probably wouldn't have sprung up inside Twitter.
I think that's the bubbliest part of the startup bubble, a lot of cool startups could be crushed overnight if the big player who they orbit changes the free API they sprung up to use.
Could a massive CA/WA earthquake severely damage the Internet?
We know that both regions have survived earthquakes in the past. But both regions are quite vulnerable to earthquakes far more powerful than any seen in the last 100 years.<p>For the Los Angeles region, see this: http://news.discovery.com/earth/los-angeles-earthquake-overdue.html<p>For the Seattle area, see this: http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2009/04/09/seattle-earthquake-fault.html
Qtile: A full-featured, pure-Python tiling window manager
The domain name is really impressive. Did you have to buy it on the domain market, or was it available?
Just tried it on my iPad, nothing happens when I click the red dot for Boston.
Gawker's take on what's your e-mail address says about you
Considering that I personally enjoyed Twitter more when it was “just us nerds,” perhaps these services don’t absolutely need to “catch on” or “take over” to be quite valuable to us in much the same way HN is, despite being much less popular than e.g. Reddit.
Ubuntu Server? Question should be: Debian Server vs. Ubuntu Server
The deck is for ages 18+ and that the suggestions are more "personal". It isn't R-rated is it?
The blogspot account has been active since July of 2010 (last year), and has over 26 different postings (an average of more than 2 per month). Most of the articles are about a technology HNers are interested in such as Apache Cassandra.

From this particularly cursory perusal I do not think that it raises any flags.

I do not, as a matter of order, hold a blogs name against it.
Really? That just executes a couple lines of CSS. Should that work on an iPad?

Here is the direct link to Boston: http://bos.barbird.com
I don't get it. If twitter already provides the top 5 twitter clients, and 90% of users interact with twitter through those clients, where's the fractured landscape and user confusion coming from?

And if the organic trend is towards official twitter client adoption, why are they taking the risk of coming out and bitching at developers to stop making clients? Everyone already noticed the market for these sorts of apps drying up, and has started wondering how serious twitter actually is about keeping a robust 3rd-party platform for the long haul. This just adds fuel to that fire, for no gain whatsoever.

I get what their goal is. They're positioning to make a serious push to get ads/promoted tweets/etc in users' faces, and they want everything in place to be able to shut down or prevent the 3rd party clients that pop up to filter all that out. Okay, fine. But why make the big announcement like this? Why explicitly freak out all of your developers while you're still on a trajectory of solving the problem organically? Why not wait until it's actually a problem, when you're actually seeing increased adoption of 3rd-party clients that ruin your plans?

It's always interesting to watch a company work hard to solve a problem they perceive from their perspective that's completely at odds with the problem the rest of us see from ours. See also: record/movie companies and DRM, Rupert Murdoch and Google, MS and Internet Explorer, etc, etc, etc.
I hope your friend is alright.
> I believe there indeed is an unwritten rule on the Internet

key element in your sentence is unwritten.

yes, it's annoying. but no, you have no right when you're sharecropping. and no, and it's not really clear that the @girlgeeks girl has any more right to that name than the @GIRLGEEKS organization. The larger problem here, the elephant in the room perhaps, is the notion of someone "owning" a name or word, combined with the fact that two or more people can simulateously or independently decide they both want to use that name. One party might be the first to create a Twitter account with it. Another party might be the first to create a Facebook page. Another to create a domain name. Another to write song with that title. Another to write a book or story with that title. Another to release a code project with that name. And so on. Inevitably, there will be conflicts. It sucks, but until/unless we have some central globally-unique-and-authoritative Registry of Names For Anything Anywhere with clear written rules, then, this is just going to keep on happening and happening.

Me? Old news. Knew about this flaw prob at least 25 years ago.

[note to self: there's a startup idea and/or political initiative in here somewhere]
It's loosely enforced in the sense that we don't feel obliged to watch past the 1 minute point.
Why do you prefer identi.ca to twitter? I don't use either, but I have been to both sites. Twitter looks nicer. I wish people did prefer identic.ca, it concerns me that so few popular websites are open-platforms.
With all this pirate VC money going around, I sense a pirate bubble.
"The South Korean and Russian rescue operations did not affect us,
but ... we must take revenge," Yare said. "We shall be killing Russian
and South Korean crew until their navies stop attacks against us."

Anyone want to bet on how long it will be between the time they kill a Russian or South Korean crew, and the world gets serious about stopping the pirates?
Was the video taken after the earthquake had stopped ? The camera seems to be fixed, no movement at all ?!
Ask HN: How To Use My Great Idea?
Hi HN,

Like many others, I believe I have a really good idea for a start-up. I won't go into detail, but having done some research I've seen there's noone else doing this, and I think it's a product which can be widely used.

The problem is, I don't have the skills to make it. It'd include quite a lot of features, most of which would have to be custom-made, in languages I don't speak. So I have a few options:

-Just doing it, and seeing where it ends. Problem is that I don't have much time, and I'm already trying to get more skills in another language.

-Find a more technical co-founder. I'm just afraid, wouldn't this completely sideline me? I mean, I have clear ideas about what I want and stuff, but as long as the product is being developed all I could do is ask the co-founder how it's going, and giving some of my input. I'm afraid it'd feel like it's not my thing anymore. Also, I feel unsuitable for the business-side of things. No experience, still very young, nowhere near any kind of scene.

-Just throw the idea out there for anyone who wants to use it, and move on to something which suits better. I'd feel like I throw away a great idea, and not only that, it's my idea.

Any idea what I should or shouldn't do?
I doubt that's true, as he didn't participate in most of the hijackings. If he keeps that up, at worst he'll lose money, and the only risk is getting at the wrong end of a gun in a dispute over money.
Hire an outsourced coding team to make the product. Now, its going to be really crappy , but then you will have the prototype built and can hire on a co-founder or take it in a different direction.

If you think the idea is really that great, don't throw it away, find a way to make it work :)

Just my 2cents.
I was about to upvote you until you used the word Gruberism to describe a phrase that is probably older than he is.
Good idea re: Arrows, and we can go all out as long as we're using them. :-)

rle = group >>> map (length &&& head)
I am a non-academic.

"We need these to manage the complicated management of prestige in the academic fields, e.g. senior members, fellows, etc and arrange conferences and similar gatherings."

Can I ask why? There are lots of well-organized conferences and gatherings in the non-academic software world -- is there something peculiar to academia that makes organizing harder? Ditto prestige management -- what would go wrong if there weren't a body handing out status awards?
Some countries have special forces operating in Somalia hunting these guys down. Parading and bragging about how much money he's earned makes him a target.
Isn't it generally expected that skyscrapers will be pretty well-engineered? Are there any examples of skyscrapers being significantly damaged by an earthquake?
People you don't want on your team
If you let all the barriers down, multinational teams win. These teams will have engineers from the US, EU, China, Japan, India, and other parts of the world, with many design and fab facilities in different regions and investors from many regions.
It's neat idea because people are worried about leaving digital trace behind. However, your video hardly tells about the product though-- how does it work? The video is nice (I liked the colors, logo etc), but the messaging is not strong enough to make me sign up.
The brain consumes more sugar when it's thinking harder. Before functional MRIs were invented, brain imaging required injecting irradiated glucose and scanning for radioactivity in the brain. Tasks requiring attention and self-discipline deplete glucose, and people demonstrably have higher vigilance for repetitive attention-heavy tasks when they've been injected with sugar.

This has been known to science for at least a century. The slightest glimpse at Wikipedia would have sufficed.
Mainly because it's open, but also because it seems to be more stable than twitter and because I find the twitter web UI horrible (not that the identi.ca web UI is nice, but it's still better).

Generally I almost only use free software, and prefer open-platforms whenever possible. I actually can't remember the last time I used non-free software.
Change in perspective: check, fundamentally even

Insight from weak associations: check, from more sources than I can easily count

Tight mental framework: getting there as fast as I can

Hardware and software in the brain: check, dots have been connected

Thoughts are things: vision, check; reality, in progress

Path to genius: check for eureka moment from plug and play

Genius?: TBD
Can you run C# on FreeBSD?
And why did I post this thing. dated today? Well it is a mildly interesting as a discussion of the suppression of free speech in England. Of more interest is Charlie's goal: if Godwin is going to suppres the fact that he is a banker, Charlie is going to make him the top Google result for wanker.

Being an American, I didnt know what a "wanker" was, so I went to Wikipedia. Would you believe it, the article referenced his blog post. Does this mean we have moved past the singularity and I didnt even notice it?
Yep, pretty much. I like that it downloads all articles for viewing offline which makes it faster to go through them - even when you have an internet connection. It also has good integration with other services like Instapaper, Pinboard, Delicious etc allowing you to save the article in any of those services easily.
Thanks! I really wrote it because I felt woefully under-skilled in the area, and wanted to document what I was teaching myself.
I know this thread sorta died already, but I'm always looking for part-timers to help with web development projects on the side. My gigs vary widely, so shoot me an email at ben@benradler.com with a portfolio or resume and we'll talk (:
HomeAway files for $230 million initial stock offering
This saddens me deeply. Two reactors damaged, the officials stating they have lost control of the pressure. I hope the Japanese people find a way to secure the site, but I'm afraid the world must be getting ready for another Chernobyl.
(Shameless Plug) We are working on a service that might interest you: http://costjar.com
Same thing with Trillian, which I use. I won't be using a standalone Twitter client for windows, so I guess it just means I won't be using Twitter if they remove the API access for them.
That has been the consensus of a lot of developers for about a year now. No Apple support hurts. However, the real reason is that the modern browsers lessen the need for Flash. Chrome, IE9, and Firefox all competing are going to cause rapid improvements in the traditional experience. All have great releases this month, for example. I'm sure Flash will be around for a few more years. How quickly it goes depends on the mobile market, IMHO. If Android phones and tablets run Flash well, it will survive a bit longer.
Advice on company-building from Brian Biles, Co-Founder of DataDomain
i like it. you guys are definitely one to watch out for on #StartupBus.
Bloomberg Game Changers: Twitter
I'm actually involved with some of the last installments of the game.
It's hard to find 'organic' in a lot of things. As soon as there is money to be made, someone will figure out how to exploit that 'organic'. Ask Google with their search results. It's the basis of advertising--he with the most money gets his product in front of the most eyeballs.

That said, I would love some organic in the App Store as well, but every scenario I can imagine to accomplish it, I can also imagine how to exploit.
When to Buy or Sell? Don’t Trust Your Instincts
I mostly do web & server-side development so I'm not sure my opinion is going to be terribly valuable there. However, I think many people use GTK# because it's the most mature.
Do not answer a fool according to his folly, or you will be like him yourself.

Answer a fool according to his folly, or he will be wise in his own eyes.

I guess Quora suffers fools gladly.
KDE 4 was released in January 2008.
Thank you, this makes sense, and is appreciated.
This link is actually part of my ycombinator application idea. It has some "stealth" features that I haven't yet implemented. I also applied last funding session and have continued to work on this. Anybody got any feedback?
Watch the tsunami propagate (NOAA graphics and animation)
good site there, good luck

seems the secret its to fake the traffic at the begging, let me know if you find out how ;)
Unity is a plugin for the compiz window manager.

https://lwn.net/Articles/430686/
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Unity
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Unity?action=AttachFile&do=get&#...
Tried to register but got this http://pastie.org/1661494.
You've got nothing right now, treat it as such. Details are good and people will be willing to give you feedback on your thoughts if you give them. I've had a million ideas and most of them seem great until you start talking about them. Have you asked a potential customer, another entrepreneur, or a partner for feedback? If not, that is the first thing you should be doing.

The next thing you can do is to run some tests to validate your target market. There are a plethora of ways to do this from interacting with potential customers to adwords'ing a custom landing page. It really just depends on the idea you want to test.

The way you mention finding a technical cofounder sounds an awful lot like finding someone to do all the work for you. That is a fool's errand. If you don't have time to invest in it yourself, you're not going to own any part of it. Developing an app, and more specifically, a business, takes a HUGE time investment. You've got to be committed.
i think they slide more than tilt, but still, very cool
Text-to-Donate for Japan Earthquake and Pacific Tsunami Relief Efforts
Corporation Louis Vuitton sues artist. Anonymous strikes back.
Como conseguir dinero y experiencia ilimitada en Dragon Age II
I realize Excel is fairly ubiquitous and can get certain jobs done but I can't help but cringe at some of those IF statements and the maintenance that must go into some of these sheets.

If you find you've reached the Excel Ninja level you might want to start checking out some other tools. I'd suggest Python.

Either way nice write up. I'm sure people will find it very useful.
كلاش امي
It sounds like they use the eye tracker to move the pixels relative to the lenticular array (actually on further reading, they use an active lenticular array, but it's still a relative movement). That's kind of a nifty idea. A long time ago philips had a prototype that worked by just having a lot (7 IIRC) fields under each lenticule so that it worked from a wider angle.
Deploying a Group Messaging app in 48 hours w/ Heroku+Twilio+Resque... on a Bus
i wouldn't be optimistic here. 3 weeks ago there were killed 4 Americans. Nobody would care about crew of 8-10 Russians or Koreans ... even Russians and, i would venture to guess, Koreans as well.

Stopping such a massive piracy (i.e. decimating it to rare occurrences) is easy. But like with simple plastic credit cards vs. complicated microchip, etc... - the current losses is less than the cost of changing the situation.

In case of piracy there is also additional issue of separation of who is paying or to pay - piracy losses are carried by private business, where is any action against the piracy would involve weapons - thus it is to be carried and paid by the government(s).
Updated: NHK now says evacuation zone expanded to 10km after all. http://www3.nhk.or.jp/daily/english/12_25.html

Your guess is as good as mine.
This link sparked one hell of a conversation in #startups @ freenode. We mainly talked about prevention, and it turns out that Xe (formerly Blackwater) has tried a Honey Pot tactic. Anyway, the guys in the channel basically came t the conclusion that there aren't strong enough economic incentives for mercenaries to deal with the pirates.
In my neck of the woods, the common word for making something out of wood is "carving." "Whittling" generally means destruction of a piece of wood with a knife.
Make sure to open the relevant port on your firewall before you do this!!
This is interesting. Key Robinson says that we are born with more creativity, but modern education systems are killing it:

http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/ken_robinson_says_schools_...
this is great... But the link to the SO user profile is broken, at least for me... Methinks a SO username is not enough to construct a link to the profile

Great work!
Free software have always been as much about drama as about making stuff. Emacs, XFree86 and NetBSD are just a few earlier examples.
The way you mention finding a technical cofounder sounds an awful lot like finding someone to do all the work for you.

That's exactly what I'm afraid of: I don't want to have someone doing all the work for me. It's my idea, I want to take ownership of it.

How would I go about talking to people about it? There are few people whom I personally know which would be relevant to talk to. I'd rather not post the whole idea on HN, as there are probably loads of people who can make this in a fraction of the time it would take me. Should I just email random people who I come across on the net who could give me useful advice? Doesn't feel like a great idea either.
From an economic standpoint, what modern building codes allow is the stable commercial insurance market necessary for a great deal of economic activity. In the US, many current construction requirements are based standards developed by the insurance industry, e.g. UL (Underwrither's Laboratories) and FM (Factory Mutual). And although it is now one of the foremost authorities regarding life-safety in the world, the NFPA (National Fire Protection Association) was originally a creation of the insurance industry as well.

Modern building codes underpin property the property insurance which makes real-estate lending practical. They underpin much of the general liability insurance required for contemporary commercial transactions - not to mention making construction loans practical.
Thanks for the report! We're actively coding now at SXSW :)

Bug should be fixed now :)
That's actually an idea I wouldn't have thought of myself at all. Thanks!
You're asking for specific answerers to many complex questions. I'm not going to try to put them in a few words here. If you are honest about your desire to understand libertarian ideas read "Healing our World in an Age of Aggression" by Dr. Mary Ruwart. http://www.amazon.com/Healing-Our-World-Age-Aggression/dp/09...

I will say this, government has become so big and so complex I can't imagine ever unraveling it. The best I hope for is that someday we will actually shrink the government a bit instead of constant growth. The current government growth is unsustainable so it might be a forgone conclusion anyway. I am a libertarian (small l) because it is the only political philosophy which honestly wants to reduce the size of the government. I also want to bring awareness to people that the use of the law is the use of violence and that we should be aware that when make new laws, we understand that we are advocating violence against those who don't comply. For example, do we really want to arrest and lock someone in jail when they refuse to wear a seat belt and don't pay the fine or when they smoke a cigarette in a bar? Is that what we've become? If so, what's next? I do believe in the rule of law, but we've made the rule of law trivial and arbitrary... anyway, off the soapbox.
Yokoso news is Ueno Katz, open source curator and web programmer, BTW.

http://en.katzueno.com/about/
W00T! Thanks! That's a feel good!

Now did you remove your completed job req or do we need to? ;-)