skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
how is that copyleft? they aren't asking for any rights to be preserved. there is no mention of that at all, just a little 'i would like if...' not any requirement to do so.

if you state that you have released your rights into the public domain and use those words, it was very specific legal ramifications-- as in, you have released your work into the public domain.
NAT? Who doesn't have IPv6 these days?

If I want to share my node app with someone, I just tell them to visit http://snowball2.jrock.us:4545/ and there we are.

(Really? -2? I am actually surprised that this is a problem. I have to share web apps with my friends, in both directions, regularly. It's never been a problem. Everyone has a publicly-routeable address these days.)
GitHits (Github Rankings) now supports organization rankings by region
No, it's not just you. I despise this crap. I particularly hate the way /. always became "nothing but AFD jokes" on April 1, and I really, really hope the HN crowd never jumps on that particular bandwagon.
It's 100% legal and quite common. It's their network, (usually) their computers, their time. Mostly organizations doing that are looking for threats to the business and not employee behavior though, of course YMMV.
Show HN: Create a simple SMS to-do list for your music. (alpha)
Think about what those things actually are. We're a post-industrial economy, since we don't make anything anymore, your "big 3" are the American equivalent of Bread & Circuses in Rome.

Defense. Job program for millions of workers.

Social Security. Welfare 2.0 -- after the Clinton welfare reform, you get bumped out of welfare after a few years. So people get declared "disabled" instead. Also, checks for grandma and checks for people with chronic disabilities.

Medicare. Healthcare for grandma. Welfare for big hospitals and doctors. Ever notice hospitals are always under construction? Medicare is what pays for it.

Medicaid. Healthcare for the indigent, and tool to make red state more appealing to business. (Protip: Compare Medicaid benefits in South Carolina to New York or Michigan.)
Eric Zhang (NowJS guy) has been extremely active over the past few weeks. Kudos!
Tara Hunt: The Unclear Path of Entrepreneurs
This is a good point, but actually most of the federal government is set to lose funding and shut down next week unless something happens in Congress.
“What’s new in htty v1.3.4: Rails view emulation — PUT and DELETE are sent as POST requests with form data of ‘_method=put’ or ‘_method=delete’.”

http://twitter.com/get_htty/status/53649180652093440
Thank you very much for sharing this!!!
I've always thought McGonigal completely misses the point. She's sort of right and sort of wrong about a lot of things at once:

1) People in general definitely are bored. The industrial revolution led to the death of a lot of artisanship and concentrated a lot of thinking power into the upper class. I'm not sure the answer to that is video games though: that's escapism. Now she uses other values of gaming, but those arguments don't make sense for the "people need to feel epic" facet of her general thesis.

2) She confuses gaming with design. This is my real issue: what's she's ultimately saying is if we use games to help guide people into solving problems we will be better off. The parts of this that are true can be attributed to good design in general: industrial, graphic, yes game and other types too. But gaming is just one small part of this.
That analogy only works if the husband is also printing money in the basement.

As long as you need dollars to buy oil, we'll continue with nonsensical debate like this.
It's fairly easy to find the low-hanging SQLi vulns on a site automatically, but automatically exploiting them is tough. How do you know where you are in the query, what table/fields to modify/insert into, etc? I'd love to take this apart and figure out how it works.
"real-time web apps"? C'mon, don't abuse the lingo man.
BMW to Invest in Smartphone App Start-Up Firms
No. I can build whatever is on version control. They didn't release Honeycomb as open-source yet, just like they don't release beta software - mind you, there is no such thing as an Android daily build. The only thing new is that you can buy a device with pre-release Honeycomb software.

I am not overly enthusiastic about that.
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Johnson & Johnson Hires a Babysitter
I dont mind the downvotes but I could like the education on what people who believe in gun rights believe in.

I don't currently own any guns, and am clumsy enough to be a threat to everybody within 1/4 mile if I did, but I do believe that the right to self-defense is a fundamental human right, perhaps the most fundamental of all.

Historically, most deaths due to misuse of guns have occurred in times and places where the state has maintained a monopoly on the use of violence. It would be very hard to convince me that a disarmed populace is a net positive for society, over the long run.
A few years ago, a friend and I wrote a script that would crawl through the user pages of my space and scrape the "last login" to determine this for Myspace.

We did a varying sample based on the UID and though I dont recall the numbers, there was something like 30% that hadnt logged in for over a year.

This information about twitter is directly linked with their monetization issues. They have to think of ways to engage users better.

One of the things they should have done was build an ad delivery API that the development communities could incorporate into their clients and then share revenue with the developers.

Instead, they moved out of fear and closed off the system to outside clients. Had they embraced the developers - and brought them closer to the flock, they could have had their help in working on the issue.
I had a lot more respect for this before I realized it was an April Fools joke. Why limit such creativity to one day in April that's just awash in the inane?
Google.com has 100. Facebook has a 99.

The best I've gotten to (on a real site) is a 98, but I'm quite pleased that I've got a few sites faster than pagespeed.googlelabs.com (95)
It's similar to eBay - they give you the necessary information to make an informed decision... but don't tell novice users how to use this information.

For eBay, how important is a seller's rating? What should I weigh more heavily, raw points or percentage? Does the Power Seller badge really mean anything? What if the guy sells $5 trinkets normally but is trying to rip me off with a $5000 item? The list goes on, there's no education, only trial by fire.

It seems like AirBnb is falling into the same trap. AirBnb needs to come up with its own measurement of reliability/sketchiness and show this to the user, either explicitly or in search ordering. Users/postings that drop below a certain bar (or just plain unproven users) need to be marked for novice users so that they know to tread more carefully.
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Google can do wrong and, if they are doing something wrong, they should be restricted from doing so.

And so should Microsoft. If these claims end up being frivolous and this whole thing just a stunt to produce lots of headlines with "Google", "Monopoly" and "Antitrust" in them, Microsoft should also be on the receiving end of a probe about anti-competitive practices.

Hopefully, one that can do what the previous ones couldn't.
UTC+13, even. We're still on daylight savings time in NZ
Any chance of publishing the Xresources version (or at least hex codes in that file) for the "white" version?
Definitely work on telling your story. I think thats the most crucial part in creating an imagery of who your consumer audience is.

Also, have you been valued at a price yet? I would be slightly weary of negotiations over equity if you are in your micro stages. Just because it's easier to be valued higher over time. (I.e. you're easier to go from a value of 0 to 10 million then from 1 million to a 10 million valuation) If you're in your infant stages...I would stall it out for awhile, but that's just my 2 cents. =) hope that helps?
I think I've been using the Google PageSpeed Plugin (Firefox only though) to minify JS, CSS and shrink PNGs.
Australian follow up, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fACJ22ixzhg
You're correct, but I think the article's statement is misleading.
When control of congress is split, you routinely see wacky legislation coming out of the house. Why? The House is designed to be the "rabble", Congressmen have two year terms and their re-election campaigns start about 5 minutes after they are elected.

So what's happening now is that the Republicans are pumping out legislation that slashes and burns any discretionary spending that won't blow back and piss off their constituency. So farm subsidies are ok, but Obama initiatives whose constituency consists completely of left-wing "sunlight" groups are easy pickings.

It seems bizarre, but it really isn't worth getting too excited about. Lots of legislation is born in the House, but most legislation dies in the Senate. In fact, the strategic purpose of doing this is to get you excited and frantically calling your democratic Senator about your pet project.

It appears that the Republican intent is to shut down the government, or come real close to doing so. Why they want to do this is questionable, since Bill Clinton was able to use the shutdown in his era to neutralize the republican "revolution" in the Congress in the 90s. I figure the republicans are betting that Obama's crew will bungle their response, since they seem to lack competence and cohesion.
What language could you possibly be using here? The first line looks like C, but then in C on most systems, open returns an int (a file descriptor). Maybe you wrote open() but you meant fopen()? An easy mistake, but then how are we to interpret the syntax in the 3rd line? f.read(...)? What is this I don't even.

> I don't know how many people's code I've optimized...

I'm gonna venture a guess of 0 on this one.
From 2006...
We're pretty much there. Probably 60% of the average family's spending is on housing, fuel and food. All of which are heavily subsidized.
Deal. Are you in sf?
I don't know about obscene, but it certainly is weird.
I turned Hacker Newsletter (http://www.hackernewsletter.com) upside down for the day and started offering a new faxed edition for a small fee.
Ask HN: What's best way to show YC Your Idea Is Worth Funding?
What's best way to show YC your idea is worth funding? You ever read a news article that totally proves your idea is worth funding? If so, how do you properly convey that to YCombinator?

While I'm thinking about it, I have a suggestion for a revision to the YCombinator application. Add a field asking "Have you read any technical news that proves your industry is headed in this direction? If so, please paste the url's to the articles in the box below."
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Facebook Purchases TabTrick
The posts targets users not familiar with nix systems as well. Often times, it's not as simple as ./configure && make. There are dependencies that need to be satisfied and PATHs that need to be configured (depending on your distro). That was a huge headache for us when we first setup production servers on EC2.

I understand that it may seem silly to setup an EC2 account when the accustomed nix user can install Node much more easily, but hey, who doesn't like a year of free dedicated hosting thanks to Amazon?
‘Have a simple idea that’s hard to implement’
I agree, with phlux, if you're contributing to some of the IP. Then you deserve a lot more or at least partial ownership to the IP.
What's a post-industrial economy? Is it like an industrial economy that got tired, and needed a little sit-down while it's credit rating was still good?
Thanks for the port Tomas - been enjoying it for several years. Always leaves a 'mark' when people see it for the first time.
Start-up knowledge, experience and advice comes from entrepreneurs, not VCs. Read their bios, they are financial and marketing professionals. Nothing wrong with that, but they are not the kind of people who started companies from nothing and now are VCs (like PG for example).

It should be the other way around: They should be buying lunches for entrepreneurs. Scouting deals is their job after all.
It's not a trap -- there is no way EBay can provide all of the necessary information that would stop people from getting scammed since someone would simply try a new trick that wasn't listed in the documentation. It isn't simply "trial by fire," but suspicious until proven otherwise, a general tact that works well on the internet and among strangers that want your money.

Anyways, most of this is common sense. Examine the number of positive reviews in the past six months. Examine the ratio of positive to negative. Examine the nature of negative reviews. If buying something expensive, verify some other items sold were also expensive. Buy via paypal or something else that includes buyer protection.

People will have to learn the same sort of way to navigate airbnb.
Yes. You don't give away a million 5GB cloud "drives" for free without some plan to leverage it beyond mere paying for more storage. The model may work for Dropbox, but Amazon has bigger plans.
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Most people don't have 2 50Mbps providers like Matt does, so most of us don't need fancy hardware to do this. You can install OpenWRT on pretty much any cheap router to do this. (The Linksys WRT54GL is the canonical example).

I haven't tried it myself.

http://www.guideband.com/datasheets/EQ-NR-041-guide.pdf
I AM the man. :-)
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April Fools used to be "Slashdot Vacation Day" until I stopped visiting them entirely.
I doubt that a few dozen pounds is significant relative to the weight of the aircraft.
>The point is that commercial big game hunting remains a very problematic issue, in that it fuels a man vs. beast mythos that gives trophies a value which encourages more hunting in areas where populations remain truly endangered

This is not a commercial big game hunt.

>It comes down to this: there are some areas where profit seeking tendencies are toxic

This was not profit seeking. Last I checked the guy who shot the elephant left with nothing.

>Even if the necessity to cull does return in certain areas, it's critically important to handle this without reviving the specter of the Great White Hunter. And it's just as important to ensure that any consumption remains entirely local

So the fact he took video of it then means he's making a spectacle of himself? He's just trying to record something good he was doing.

>Letting commodities like ivory and hides slip out may bring short term gains, but only by serving markets that represent the antithesis of conservationism.

Neither of these commodities went anywhere except with the surrounding villagers.

>The arguments you cite don't do nearly enough to acknowledge this aspect of the problem.

Because it's not a problem, nothing was taken.

>Separately, what you allow to offend you is your business. Personally, I don't mind lightly-salted language and a well deserved jab.

You were objectively being an unprofessional, emotional twat.

>Where I take offense is in seeing a demonstrably mindless response that veers wildly off-topic before landing in a thicket of unwarranted slurs getting upvoted to the degree that c2's did. And I hope I'm not alone.

Mindless to who? You. Your entire rant that i've read is 100% mindless to me. Your opinion of what's mindless is just that - opinion, and it's subjective. Since you hate mindless responses I'll assume you think your response is mindful. I find this interesting seeing as how the majority of your post is about "jabbing" people and speaking emotionally.
Is this a pivot for grubwith.us? I know the founders original idea was to connect people via family-style restaurant meals. But I've signed up for 3 meals now, and all were because I wanted to meet someone specific (Harj, other YC founders, Robert Scoble). It's a brilliant marketing idea, and a great example of why YC backs founders, not ideas. I could see these mini-fundraiser dinners being a huge market.
Man, I have the same issue. However, I've decided to stay in school for the time being.

(20 years old, like the other person)

Reasons for not dropping:

1) YOU have a HUGE MARKET. Who know's other college students better then you or myself? Market your product to your peers and use them as your test pilot. VALIDATE your ideas.

2)Also, if you've come up with various ideas and keep coming up with them then you won't miss out on anything. Sure things may change, but also ideas grow and you create new ones.

3) If you're in Washington, DC contact me.
What's wrong with being employed? My employer is both super-interesting and reasonable; I can learn a lot from him.
Did you notice that the herd of villagers did more damage to the crops than the elephant?
haha, I just realized this... I meant C, but I think I've been screwing around in python so much lately that I kind of did that naturally on accident.
National Geographic did a piece some time ago about the average servings at McDonald's and other fast-foods 40 years ago compared to now, but I can't find it, and I fail to Google it (if it is available online, that is).

I can tell you, the portions were significantly smaller in all cases.
Yes, but what is the marginal difference in fuel costs based on people's weight? I'm guessing it's dwarfed by the subsidization of empty seats.
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hahaha I agree with dropping facebook.

Cheers to you from Georgetown Univ!

-Almost went to Babson... =) Let me know if you're ever in DC, I don't have tech background (currently learning). However, if interested in bouncing ideas... I have PLENTY.
http://notes.envato.com/news/the-future-of-envato-is-here%E2...

Envato unveils 3DOcean - The world's first stereoscopic anaglyph online marketplace.
New and very slick bar-bot from Evil Mad Scientist Labs
Except the 55 mile number was just straight made up, the two cars they had to test weren't even reduced by 25% capacity.
While I love the idea, I think that the shift is too subtle and somewhat causes the page to look out of focus and amateurish. Sorry - just pointing out how it looks to me with the effect on.

(Edit: After a few refreshes I see the more skewed pages and that makes more sense - I guess if the degrees is just slightly off 0 it doesn't look right)
Yeah, well somebody definitely made the editing decision to include that nice shiny, well-framed shot of the guy wearing a GoDaddy hat. So whether the decision came before or after, they seem to be happy about it...
IPv6 is a perfectly fine protocol.

Supporting IPv6 is absolutely nothing like "ripping out your spinal cord and putting a new one in". It's largely trivial if you aren't doing anything tricky--and, notably, it requires nothing that an IPv4.1 wouldn't require. The Berkeley socket API was designed with support for multiple protocols from the start, so you shouldn't have to touch much beside your address structures and name resolution code.

And I say this from the standpoint of someone who added DHCPv6 support to a DHCPv4 server, which actually is tricky, since DHCPv6 is an entirely different protocol from DHCPv4 and substantially more complicated to boot. It still wasn't all that bad.

Most importantly, IPv6 is done. It's been done for years now. The router support is there. The OS support is there, with the exception of some laggards who really should get around to implementing DHCPv6. It's in active use. (Do you have a DOCSIS 3.0 cable modem? Congratulations, you're using IPv6!) The biggest obstacle to deploying IPv6 is just doing it, and again that's not going to be any easier with an IPv4.1.
data analysis, i.e. reading in large files, but overall it's pretty fast anyways. Furthermore, you don't read the whole file into memory so your program only uses a small amount of memory while running. I'd work with grad students reading in 1-2GB of data to analyze it and allocating that all to a process, and they'd wonder why their system would slow down.

The best thing about it is that the OS does the caching. So, say I analyze a file, I run a program with 4 arguments that maps a file to memory. Next time it runs, the file is still in memory so it doesn't bother re-reading the original file. (Try doing a recursive grep on directory, then try it again right after)
Pragmatically, the answer is: we don't have to convince PG to have a "whoshiring" account automatically post a thread every month, but we do have to convince PG to change how the jobs tab works.
Exactly. An interesting feature of electric motors is that they use very little electricity at high RPMs. Thus, the only energy spent would be that lost to mechanical friction, and that used to overcome air/tire resistance (which gets significant at higher speeds). So, whereas a Bugatti Veyron could be emptied in 15 minutes at full throttle, the fastest way to empty the charge on an electric vehicle is rapid and extreme changes in velocity (like those seen on a track), where juice-hungry torque is in high demand.

For a more familiar example, a cordless drill will die far faster by driving screws into hardwood than by drilling holes in softwood at high speed. The same is not true of internal combustion engines.
Just watched the kickstarter video but with my headphones pluggeded into 'The Prodigy: Fighter Beat' by accident. It made their video very cool. Sorry for the lack of value - I just wanted to share.
Debian, Gentoo, Grml, openSUSE and Arch Linux merge into the Canterbury distro
They did say 'calculation' which may cover what was simply a made up statement. As far as the breaks dying, Tesla said the power breaks stopped working because of a fuse with one of the two cars they gave them to test. They said this doesn't prevent the car from being drivable at all (since it has to pass breaks standards with the power breaks and without) and at no point did the car have to be pushed into a garage for any reason. Telsa also said neither car was reduced beyond 75% power. I think the show was dishonest with how they represented the test and considering Tesla was a new company struggling to do something different and do it well it was a nasty thing to do.
I use EC2 for development (I commute via bike so I don't usually work offline) and it's the best environment I've ever coded in.

In fact, I can even code and fix things from my iPad, your iPad, anyones computer, my phone, a library kiosk or an airplane cockpit.

If I want to try something experimental (aka dist upgrade etc), I just clone the AMI, make my modifications, and if I like it, I keep it.

My emacs looks exactly the same, where ever I am. If I need to get to a different computer, I still log in through my EC2 instance, where all servers I need are accessible via convenient shortcuts and the appropriate port forwarding is configured already. And, again, I can do this from wherever I am.

How is that backwards?
But I'd really like the T-shirt. Please?
oh... that wasn't serious? Guess I missed the April 1 date on it.
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Oh geez. You just brought back memories of the "OMG Ponies!" theme from years ago. That was completely ridiculous.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Slashdot_omgponies.png