skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are many who would classify building codes as unnecessary and burdensome regulation, and would instead prefer to let the free market figure it out. One of their arguments for example would be that building codes increase the cost of building, thus leaving fewer people able to afford it. I'm not saying that I agree with that, just pointing out the opposing view.
I've read about this project with some interest.

Seeing this presentation was remarkable. Beyond the absolutely amazing technical achievement here, I don't know why, but I found myself incredibly moved by this.

Some of the most stunning and beautiful research I've ever seen.
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It's a news non-sequitur though: Huge earthquake in Japan, structural engineers know what they're talking about.

Does anyone know if Japan has some equivalent to the Canadian Iron Ring[1]? I feel like examples like this drive home how it's even more meaningful if you live in the Ring of Fire. (Which would be an ideal name for such a ring)

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Ring
Better would be to redirect to a third party service that offers that.
Yes, Java definitely has an advantage over C# because it's multi-platform. Granted C# really has done a great job of adding nice features that I wish were in Java...

This kind of story seems to happen when committees are involved, and there is an overarching need for backwards compatibility. Closures in Java arrive in 2012. 2013 at the latest.
1976 patent for a device to control a television set
Au contraire: knowing why authors abandon novels is of some considerable interest to those of us who earn our living by writing them.

Speaking only for myself, about 90% of all novels involve a phase where my relationship with it is "this is shit, it sucks, why can't I be writing something else?" ... The only ones that don't go through this phase are written rapidly, in a driven death-march, so that I don't have time to sit back and stare at it. And on the basis of conversations with other writers I've concluded that this is pretty much normal.
Came here to post this exact same thing. Additionally, one nice part about AngelList is that they vet the angels before they can browse through ideas.

Do you do the same?
It'd be interesting to keep a list of the bots, and randomly redirect the traffic back at them. My first thought was that this would mess up people who unknowingly have a bot on their computer, but then I realized this might actually make them look into getting their computer fixed.

Am I missing something here, or is this actually a decent idea?
The idea here is to not restrict people with what sort of help they require...
Even if you want to start a small web based business looking for small investments..or it can be a request for the millions for even real estate investments etc
This is very interesting.

I am experimenting with programming language design and implementation at the moment and linear types is something I was considering - I am trying to implement the language runtime in a dataflow model anyway and I felt linear types would be a good match. I didn't do any work on it though because I'm not sure how to implement it, but perhaps this language will give me some ideas.
> If visiting another city or state is culturally awakening to you, maybe you're the one that needs to get out more.

I'll be happy to compare passports. Let's start with how many months you have lived outside the US. (I've have three months in Europe, plus trips. I also have trips to the Philippines, Fiji, Equador, and others.)

And, since you're claiming that the US is culturally uniform, where in the US have you lived? If the SF bay area, what parts of Oakland, SJ and PA have you experienced? (No, getting ribs at Everett and Jones doesn't count.)

I've lived in both EPA and black Oakland, in addition to "fly over country". I've even done farm labor (and my father did it as a migrant).

> Even then you're still speaking the same language.

Interestingly enough, I referred to places in the US where English is not the dominant language.
The way Steve vigorously came out against 7" tablets makes me suspect they'll launch one, too. His logic was rather questionable (you need to sand your finger tips to points to use apps on a 7" tablet, but not a 3.5" phone?).
Startup Quote: Sean Parker, managing partner, Founders Fund
It would have also helped them out if they had actually provided an install for the OS to people like me.

I wanted a CR-48 because I wanted something to play with, not because I wanted a free laptop.

I still wanted a CR-48 after the giveaway thing was done because I still wanted something to play with, but I couldn't find anywhere to get the install and...start playing with it.

I honestly think that they had good intentions with the CR-48 thing, but I think they mismanaged it.
Kinda similar too http://sparkmuse.com
Unfortunately, the way the 'market figures it out' involves thousands of people dying in order to get the point across to 'the market'.
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(CR48 owner here.) I would not think many of these will sell either.

The device does what it is supposed to do very well--let the user live in the cloud. However it doesn't let the user do much when they are not connected. Understandable given the purpose of the device, but outside of the geek-culture you are not going to find a lot of people where this is acceptable. I can see this as a popular cult item or niche item, but not something with mainstream appeal.
Of course, having said that, your recent article[1] on Amanda Hocking and the indie e-book revolution must tempt you to blow the dust off those first two, stick a $.99 tag on them and beam them to hungry Kindles and Nooks and Kobos.

And, why not? There could be a (willing, paying) audience that you are neglecting to see because of your prejudice against those orphaned novels. And, hey, gets your name out to the relatively nascent ebook buying crowd, who heretofore may have never even read books.

[1]http://jseliger.com/2011/03/10/why-publishers-are-scared-of-...
Why You Should Never Defend, Explain or Justify
Foursquare partners with AmEx, earns $0 from the deal: desperate or genius?
You use iptables to route port 22 on the external interface to a high port on localhost
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You have got to be willing to be poor as an entrepreneur.

- Sean Parker

http://startupquote.com/post/3786986653
FTA: As an entrepreneur you get to experience lots of major milestones, some more important than others. Coming up with the idea, finding the right partner, incorporating the business, launching the web site, getting that first paying customer or client.

I guess I'm going about this in the wrong order-- first I found my first paying customer or client, then I incorporate, then I hired employees, then I launched the website, then I came up with the idea, now I'm considering a partner. Go figure. Anyone else take a similar approach?
If you keep history, I've found Firefox's AwesomeBar is incredibly useful for finding stuff if you can remember a fragment of the page title or url.
Being "able to make those libraries" is a function of two things: (i) knowing LISP, and (ii) knowing the problem domain that the libraries cover.

The average programmer with the mission to write urlencode/urldecode functions will probably get a subtle detail wrong. It takes real experience with how the web really works to get this sort of thing right. Many people using languages like LISP use ideas, such as continuation-based webapps, that sound really nice but that will have reliability and scalability problems if you try to use them in production.

When it comes to XML parsing, it's a very difficult problem and you might notice that every major revision of a platform often comes with new XML infrastructure, because the infrastructure on the last one sucked. Microsoft finally has something that's halfway decent in Linq-to-XML, but it's only been through trial and error in the style of Thomas Edison.
It means to say that no such article will exist, so you can't read it.
You make very important points. Upvoted.

> 1. You can't afford the talent required to pull off a bespoke CMS.

> 2. You can't afford the cost of lifecycle maintenance on a bespoke CMS.

Us at The Texas Tribune or potential Armstrong users? We're doing pretty fine with our CMS. Armstrong users won't have to pay to maintain an entire CMS since community maintenance should take care of most of their needs. They'll have to pay to maintain their templates and additions to the CMS, but they're already paying for those with their current CMS. I think Armstrong will end up saving many news organizations money over going with a proprietary solution.

> 3. Newspaper editors make horrible PM's on software development projects.

Is this in regard to the Armstrong project itself or implementations of it? There's little editorial interaction with Armstrong. We know what the two newsrooms involved need, and we've already built a CMS that satisfies those needs. Now we're abstracting out our unique needs and trying to anticipate the places where other implementors will need to make customizations. I think it'll work out fine.

Now that we've estabished your efforts are (at best) doomed to mediocrity drop what you're doing immediately and go check out Pressflow.

No thanks. I and many other developers are more productive in Python than in PHP. If there's a barrier between your CMS and the news applications you want to integrate with it, you will be even less productive, and many possible projects will be written off from the get go. (We could do everything in PHP/Drupal, but no.) For more on that, see Matt Waite's recent article: http://www.niemanlab.org/2011/03/matt-waite-to-build-a-digit...

No developer in a news organization wants to be faced with an "All these worlds are yours, except the CMS. Attempt no landings there" type of situation. A news CMS built using the tools that developers want to build news applications with is a huge win.
It's pretty standard in the group of sysadmins I hang out with on irc.
The pilot isn't directly generating any revenue for Foursquare, cofounder and CEO Dennis Crowley tells us. But he hopes that it'll be successful, and that it could lead to future deals that could generate revenue for the startup.

If you were Foursquare, would you charge American Express for this luxury, or not?
That's less than 3 cents per day; not a huge cost, especially if you're using it for work. How many other things can you rent for less than $1/month?
Do you know of any microcontrollers that you can program ON? (Without needing to flash with a computer?)

I've played around with machine code monitors on C64 emulators, and I'd love to have something like this on a microcontroller today. (Perhaps a machine code monitor on a calculator?) I don't know of anything like this.
Ask HN: We ripped off Crush Notifier, now we need advice.
I liked the idea of Crush Notifier, but as a grown man out of elementary school, I wanted a little bit more. So my brother and I stole Dan’s idea and came up with the “Friends-with-Benefits” Facebook app (http://friends-with-benefits.me).

Currently the game play is similar to Crush Notifier’s:
1. Each user picks the friends they want as “Friends with Benefits”
2. If their friends pick them back, we will send them both a notification email so that they can take their relationship to the next level; otherwise, the picks are kept secret.

We give our users 2 free “Picks”, and if they want more Picks, they can purchase them using Facebook Credits equivalent to US$1.00/Pick. But we are trying to come up with another way of approaching this:

Instead of charging for each Pick they use, we will let them pick an unlimited number of friends. When a match occurs, they can choose to pay US$5.00 if they want us to reveal the match. Our goal is to attract more users to use our app with the free Picks while also optimizing our revenues.

Please let us know what you guys think, any positive and/or negative comments are much appreciated.
Does this mean that if you prefer to not use compositing effects, that Wayland is much ado about nothing?
I addressed this issue in this comment: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2314146
I'm SURE she'll report that on her 2011 taxes, right?!
Do you suppose that the government anticipated the need for building codes before anybody ever died?
One day after we launch a new social bookmarking and community news site - http://www.rinnku.com - and Yahoo calls it quits!

The cowards... :)
While I agree with what you're saying, there's an exception to every rule. Normally I'd be one of the first to point out something is off topic. I've done so in the past.

However, the strongest earthquake to hit Japan in three centuries, causing loss of who knows how many lives and how much damage?

This is news worth looking beyond the "hacker" moniker for.
Doesn't that initial $300-400 include a WinXP (albeit crippled?) install? I think especially at this price range, that could be a significant differentiator.
N900 and iPhones (both 3GS and 4) run on basically the same GPU - PowerVR SGX 530 and 535 respectively. Original and 3G were lower spec (PowerVR MBX Lite).

It easily handles games like NFS in fullscreen with pretty nice shading. Fullscreen movie playback is also good.
From the article: "unlike Southeast Asians, many of whom died in the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami because they lingered near the coast despite clear warnings to flee"

Interesting way to put it (implying that the issue was behavioral/cultural rather than one of engineering)
It is insightful, but still, she's only addressing a small part of the problem. The larger issue here is that Twitter facilitate this kind of activity. It should have been resolved between the two parties.

She should never have contacted Twitter to commandeer a @username. Saying you did it on "[advice] by legal councel" is _not_ an excuse. She can't hide behind that. Everybody makes sacrifices in life for their causes. That is not an excuse. Lots of people are passionate and genuine. That is not an excuse.

I'm glad she apologised. If she genuinely wishes to resolve this, I've got a suggestion. Return the username.
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I wish I had a mentor for both technology and entrepreneurship. The technology side is not so bad, since I've got Google. But, it takes much longer to figure stuff out on the business side.

I hope my employees and former understudies think I've been a good technical mentor to them.
There are really two issues here. One is SSH and the other is HTTP.

SSH is easy. Get a static ip or figure out the ip range for your ISP. Drop any connection not in that IP range using iptables on that port. Done.

HTTP requires more creativity. It really depends on how you have things set up. I have a honeypot default vhost on Apache. If you enter just the IP address for the server, you get the honeypot. That's what most of these bots will hit. The 404 errors caused are very annoying and mess up the logs. On the honeypot, I have a RewriteRule that rewrites anything that would cause a 404 to index.html which is a blank page.
First, I agree 100% with what you just wrote. To the letter, at least.

Now it doesn't mean we shouldn't be weary of sentences like "right tool for the job", "every tools has qualities". While they are correct generalities, they are often used to justify not to change habits: "We'll use C++. Don't say that, every tools have qualities. Besides, this is a big project. Languages are just tools, and you better use one that fits the job".

You could try to go against this trend: "But, because it's big doesn't mean we have to use C++. It doesn't mean you have to use only one language. It doesn't mean you have to squeeze every cycle out of your CPU. What about C + Lua? Simplicity by default, and speed where you need it".

But if you have to overcome fear of changing one's habits, this won't be enough.

Also, you seem to think that no tool dominates another. With that I disagree. Let's start with a contrived example: Lisp vs Blub, where Blub is Lisp without macros. I think it's reasonable to say that Lisp dominates Blub. A similar reasoning led me to think that ML dominates Java and C#[1] (at least if I pretend libraries don't exist and programmers know ML).

Sure, it hurts feelings to say to someone that his favourite tool is strictly worse than some other tool. But it doesn't make it wrong.

[1]: http://www.loup-vaillant.fr/articles/classes-suck
Yes, but already in 2007 his position had changed quite a bit. From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_OpenGL_and_Direct...:

In January 2007, John Carmack said that "…DX9 is really quite a good API level. Even with the D3D side of things, where I know I have a long history of people thinking I'm antagonistic against it. Microsoft has done a very, very good job of sensibly evolving it at each step—they're not worried about breaking backwards compatibility—and it's a pretty clean API. I especially like the work I'm doing on the 360, and it's probably the best graphics API as far as a sensibly designed thing that I've worked with."
Japan Declares Emergency at Nuclear Plant
I'm not sure I understand the point here. Is it that strict government regulation saves lives?

If so, yes I suppose that could be true. Fewer people would die in traffic accidents if we had a stoplight on every corner, we had to drive Sherman Tanks, and the speed limit was 20MPH. The problem is we'd be way less productive and we'd be much poorer.

If China had Japan's strict building codes from 1980 to present, China's economic growth would have been far slower, but in an earthquake, more people may die in China. Is that a good thing or bad thing? Over the last 20 years, strong economic growth in China has likely saved far more lives than strict building codes may have saved. But that is too complex to get into here.

Also note Japan's poor economic growth during over the last 10-20 years.

Are some people in Japan better off because of strict building codes? Yes, no doubt. Is everyone in Japan better off due to strict building code? much harder to say.
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Sheesh. You'd think New Yorkers would get that.

I feel compelled to point out that not all journalists from the New York Times necessarily reside in New York. Based on his past articles and Wikipedia entry, Norimitsu Onishi seems to have been the NYT's Tokyo bureau chief at one point in time.
Tsunami news on Twitter
Haters are gonna hate! Keep pushing forward!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QePjIIBI-sI
In the netbook market, I believe Microsoft started paying manufactures to install Windows. There was a fast - and from Microsoft's position, scary - rise in Linux netbooks, and to counter that I'm pretty sure that OEMs were paid to install Windows, not the other way around.
I would think it was part engineering as they probably did not have, and do not seem to have now, any sort of alarming system in place. (at least not at the coastal places I visited)
It probably doesn't.

# accept traffic to the normal ssh port
iptables -A INPUT -i eth0 -p tcp --dport 22 -j ACCEPT
# accept traffic on the port kippo is listening on
iptables -A INPUT -i eth0 -p tcp --dport 2222 -j ACCEPT
# direct traffic inbound on port 22 to port 2222
iptables -A PREROUTING -t nat -i eth0 -p tcp --dport 22 -j REDIRECT --to-port 2222

Make sure also to add an ACCEPT rule for traffic to whatever port sshd is actually bound to.
Japan disaster: How you can help (running list of aid organizations)
This and changing the port to something non standard is what keeps me sleeping like a baby at night.
Wouldn't it be better if both China and the US stop all the protectionist and control measures and let the best ideas, products, and employees compete among say Intel, Longsoon, AMD, Motorola etc.?
Going to ask these two questions here:

1. Is it not possible to show column position indicators on the toolbar anymore?

2. What happened to the Quick Look plugin (was in XCode 3.2) that shows colour syntax highlighting on previewed files in Snow Leopard? Any way to get this plugin back?
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I'm not sure that this article has much of a point beyond what is on the surface, or that it is necessarily making an argument for or against regulation based on economic principles.

The article's sole goal seems to be to help explain how a country with a large history of Earthquake experience has learned from it's history, and how the lessons and how they applied to their building structure helps explain how they might be able to deal with an 8.9 magnitude earthquake much better and with greater loss of life than if this earthquake had struck somewhere else.

I don't think there is a secret meaning in every New York Times article.
That is a concept that I have been toying with. However, all interactions with payment processing servers would have to be done via your smart phone's internet connection; which isn't a terrible thing despite possible slow connections.
As much as I often tend toward arguments for freer markets, it's pretty conclusively known that people are terrible at judging long-term risk.

Even with hedging of risks and liabilities involved in shoddy construction, even with information brokers in place to help people make informed decisions, even assuming ample construction of houses across the spectrum for all kinds of buyers, it definitely seems like without some kind of guiding hand that failure to consider long-term risks will lead to a lot of deaths.

What's worse is that a lot of the codes are in place to protect neighbors as well. Electrical wiring codes, for instance, are there to prevent fires. The hypothetical You might say that this turns into insurance and liability, but accurately judging the long-term risk and correlative damages sounds exactly like a government imposing regulations.
If I had the money I would trademark unprotected twitter accounts just to have them (temporarily) assigned to me and make more noise about this outrage.
Quick note: The logo makes me think of the health industry, not finding a FWB.

I think your second model would encourage more engagement and help you get through the problem of "Why should I pay $1 per pick if this app hasn't reached critical mass?"

If people can pick a bunch of their friends, and everyone can do it free, you'll reach critical mass easier.
Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean script kiddies aren't trying to root your box.
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