skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That supposedly means you are either not logged in or you are in any country that is not the USA. If the latter will last indefinitely.. wow, lame.
Let's find out with this poll... http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2393374

First person to go there will see my answer :)
It was still incredibly disingenuous and dishonest. There is no way any person of reasonable IT knowledge would go to tech support for information on engineering decisions. He was fishing for confirmation and he got it - I have strong doubts about Mr. Hasan's intentions when he contacted support.
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How I Hacked Hacker News (666 days ago)
You get a red ! button if you aren't logged into your Google account.
Personally, my reservations with charging are two fold:

1) That I come from the open source community, where charging is successful and the value of your code is often personal rather than looking at the user's value. Also, much of my knowledge of coding has come from reading others' code, does this mean whatever I create is an extension of their creations, which they offered free of charge?

2) That I wasn't sure I was good enough to charge. If users started paying money and my database went down when they needed it most, how would I respond? I'm not a legal expert or even a trained business person.
chc, humans call this humor or satire.
I read somewhere that the more braincells one has, the easier it is for a person to recognize sarcasm.
It might be, but so far I see it mostly as platform re-consolidation (/protection) and branding defense, the pushback on honeycomb source release goes the other way as well.
Nanogenerators: Move, Shake, and Drop to Charge Your Gadgets
It never ceases to amaze me how companies will spend months trying to find someone with skills that take weeks to learn.
It might look just like trampled grass, to you, but it's Sorghum (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorghum) which a subsistence farmer was growing so he could feed himself, and to him it was the difference between eating and starving. It's ridiculous to glibly dismiss the farmer's worries about STARVING because you didn't see much damage in the video.

And do you really think a poor village in remote Zimbabwe is going to have the electricity (and money) to put up an electric fence around all their fields?
I guess you didn't read the article.

The core complaint is that YouTube isn't allowing search engines other than Google to access their metadata, preventing Bing from searching properly.

If Google is actually doing this, and is allowed to continue, then no search engine will be able to compete properly with them.

That's a pretty real and serious accusation.
> You are using the above as buzzwords.

I agree that my reply to you was not very articulate. I originally started explaining why your points were not relevant to the question whether his behaviour was morally acceptable, but then I realised that I would essentially be explaining the above fallacies, even though there are already better explanations available.

I may have misread your post, but to me it looked like you were trying to invalidate people's criticism of his behaviour by making (speculative) statements about their behaviour or character. I know at least one person who is angry about this and is a strict vegetarian who has done lots of humanitarian work in Africa. Anyway, if I misread your post and that was not the point you were making, I apologise.
You're too young to remember how at the height of the late 90s "dot com" tech bubble, people were not only dropping out of college to join and start companies, some were even dropping out of high school. Then the tide went out and we coined a new term for the masses of the unemployed and non-degreed: "dot bombers." The conventional wisdom at that point was, "they should have taken the long view." Now we can add your question as a new data point in comparing the current situation to the 90s bubble.

Ideas are cheap, and the future is long. Your idea will still exist in a year or two and there's plenty that can be done part-time until then. You may decide in the future to change careers, to have a kid, to go to grad school. Having a college degree will be an important foundation for wherever you decide to go. It will be much harder to come back and finish later.

Gates and Zuckerberg dropped out because success had already arrived. Just as a smart investor waits for a proof of concept before investing serious money, you should do the same with your personal capital.

One more note: College may be the last time you'll be able to pursue off-the-beaten path interests and understand more about yourself. Take an extra course in calligraphy, or advanced operating system design, or mythology, or history-- whatever passions or passing interests you have never had a chance to nurture. In addition to shoring up your tech background, you'll become a more well-rounded person, which (besides the intrinsic benefits) is something companies like to see when they hire. Give serendipity a chance to happen in the great mixing bowl and incubator that college is.

Good luck!
I just watched the video, and can't figure out where the malice is. Its a relatively new build of car, and a car based on a Lotus, the chances of there being reliability issues are pretty good, this type of car isn't built for being the go to commuter car, its built to zoom around in. As far as the vastly less miles per charge claim, they were running it on a race track, take any car you want, under any form of power you want, and drive it hard like that, its not going to get best case efficiency. This sure seems like a lot of noise, about nothing surprising. I think I agree it might be for publicity or inspired by some other rationale than just libel.
Ask HN: Any Start-up Lawyers who actually Enjoy their Job?
We're looking to connect with a good Lawyer with start-up experience. We have investors lined up and ready, and need someone to work out the legal details.

We have a lawyer who handled our incorporation, but I am looking for someone who enjoys what they do and has a passion for start-ups. Ideally someone would be interested in working with us for equity as we continue to build the company.

Do you know of anyone? References welcome, or resources/links we should be looking into.

Thanks!

Benjamin Lotan
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Ah so here it is

https://madrelease.google.com/_/doodad/button?url=http://new...

https://ssl.gstatic.com/s2/oz/images/stars/po/ESAPv1/buttonS...

Ugh so now we are going to see those everywhere.

Google basically will now be able to track you across every last site, even if they don't use analytics or adsense.

One more thing for adblock I guess.
How Do Entrepreneurs Think About Problems?
ok, so who can recommend a good domain company I can transfer all my domains to?
Poll: Are you addicted to HN?
Are you in control of you Hacker News consumption or is the consumption in control of you?
>Having people on the line costs money

The only times I've had to ring support have been to get recovery disks or initiate a return or what have you. However on those occasions they always wanted to walk me through the whole script ("yes I turned it off and on again, send me the disc please, yes I checked my network cable, ... could you ..., yes I ran check disk, ..., etc., etc.").

But then at €1.70 or whatever a minute I kinda expect that.

How do you lose money when they're billing at sort of rate? How do you make more money by completing calls quickly?

Prepaid support obviously different.
Use Selenium as a Ruby Script #ruby
Wikipedia's attempts to come up with names for these classes of things that "everyone" already groups together, but which have no widely used name, because it has to give the article some sort of title, are a pretty nice feature of the encyclopedia. "Unusual software bug" has a nicely euphemistic feel to it too, sort of like "anomalous condition".
An Elephant Crackup? [NYT 2006]
It's not really about reading HN getting you fired, it's just about perception management. People walk behind my desk. I'm salaried and so free to manage my time, but some people like the CTO are kind of peep-ey. I'd rather minimize the number of times someone who might care walks by and I'm doing something non-worky.

Once a bad perception happens, it's hard to counteract it, so it's better to just work a little to manage it. If I have something I can use to kill time while I'm blocked on something, while not worrying about how it looks, I kind of appreciate it.
I think you misunderstand my point. I was trying to say that if he was concerned about the amount of good he was doing, just sending the money would have almost certainly been greater than traveling over himself. The point being, he didn't do that, he wanted to shoot an elephant and used this as an excuse.
Is this actually inaccurate though? Google has released tons of open source software, but which of them are important pieces of its back-end infrastructure? Hadoop and all its sub-projects are inspired by Google papers but aren't based on Google code, as far as I know. The projects that come to mind are Sawzall (of dubious usefulness to people outside Google), gold linker, possibly Go language (but I don't know to what extent that's used within Google), and what else? Probably a lot of contributions to open-source that it uses, like the Linux kernel, but I'm after whole projects created by Google. Python doesn't count because it was already open source before they acquired GvR.

Compare to Facebook, which has open-sourced Cassandra, Hive, HipHop, Thrift, Tornado, and others which I may be forgetting. Seems to me that Facebook is way ahead.

Edit: just remembered a Protocol Buffers, that's a good one to put under Google's column.
PHP, the COBOL of the 21st century.
Right-click -> View Page Source in Firefox
Lively discussion here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2392542
It was rhetorical, I actually saw someone answer this the other day though for one of the popular MS Windows keylogging techniques (it was probably on here?).
Gruber is an Apple fundamentalist, preaching to the choir. There is only one true way and all facts will be interpreted or ignored in favour of that way.

Dissension is not allowed in his church, if you disagree with what he says then do so elsewhere.

If you need an analysis of what Apple is doing, or where they are going then he might be good at that (I don't know, I don't care) but you absolutely cannot rely on him for unbalanced coverage on anything else.

Arguing about whether google marketing is deceptive is a waste of time. ALL marketing is deceptive. Go watch an Apple keynote for example.

Arguing about whether android is "open" is also a waste of time. Open is not a bool, it's a float. If Linux is 100% and Windows is 0% then Android is maybe 60% and ios is somewhere in the single digits.

In the past 14 months, I have used WM6.5, ios, Android and Win Phone 7. The only reason I could use Android is that it is open enough that it could be installed on my HD2, a WM6.5 phone.
A few years ago we used CD Baby to distribute records right about the same time that they began offering digital distribution to the iTunes store. It was an awesome tool for us as an independent label. It sure beat consignment agreements with record stores.

Artist have a pain, record label greed and shady business practices. Amazon, Apple, etc. have a pain, record label greed and shady business practices. The question I have is how do people discover new music now? There was a time when radio airplay and MTV was a major contributor to a record's success but what ways are most effective today?

I wouldn't be surprised if those kinds of questions weren't Apple's reasoning behind Ping.
What in the world does Enron have to do with a publicity stunt? They committed fraud and went bankrupt. How is that like shooting an elephant and putting it on youtube?

And Lohan, she's still making movies. Where's the problem?
DR is correct.

The actual accusation is that YouTube only allows Google to properly index their videos, giving Google Search an unfair advantage.

Consumers won't switch to a search engine that can't index everything they want, and Bing can't index YouTube properly if Google won't let them.
>Edit: And how is a IO keynote 'an entire marketing campaign' ?

How is the text on http://source.android.com/ not?
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Here's my perspective as a user:

Openness for developers/users and openness for vendors are, as it turns out, almost mutually exclusive.

Google's taking my side. Finally.
Dup: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2393081
Hey all! jQuery 1.5.2 was just a quick bug fix release that we wanted to get out while we work on jQuery 1.6 (first beta due out in a couple weeks).

If you're curious to see what's happening to make the upcoming release possible you can see our progress in the meeting notes of our weekly (public!) core dev meetings:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1MrLFvoxW7GMlH9KK-bwypn77...

Also, if you want to see all the features/changes that were submitted for possible acceptance into jQuery 1.6 you can see them in our massive spreadsheet:

https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AuWerG7Xqt-8dDcwNUl...

To overview our process: We collected feature/change proposals from the community at large for a few weeks in a Google Doc form. The jQuery core team and jQuery bug triage team (and some members of the jQuery UI team) each added their personal opinion on the features to the spreadsheet (linked above). We used that to form a rough consensus, ironed out the final details in a meeting (see the notes from the March 14th meeting). We're now pushing ahead on those nominated features and you can track our progress in the weekly status updates or, if you want to live on the edge, in #jquery-dev on irc.freenode.net.

It's actually a great time to get involved in contributing to the project - I highly recommend it!

http://docs.jquery.com/Getting_Involved
Pretty cool - it definitely helps to read things better, although it actually resulted in me removing more characters from my transcription! After seeing them more clearly, I was less confident to make a judgment on which letter they may be.

I'll include my transcription below. I've marked questionable characters with an asterisk, and the circled sections are enclosed in square brackets:

Document 1 - P1

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PRSE NM*SE *PREHLD WLDNCBE(TFXL* TCXL NCBE)
AL-*RPPIT XLYPPIY NCBE M*KSEWCD RCBR NSE PRSE
WLDRCBRNSE NT **NE*T*SE-CRSLE-CITRSE WLDNCBE
ALWCPNCBETSME LRSE RLSE UR GLSNE AS N WLDNCBE
(NOPFSE NLSRE NCBE) NTE GDDMNSENCURERCBRNE
(TENE TFRNE NCBRTSENCBE 1NC)

(FLRSE PRSE ONDE 71 NCBE)
(CDNSE PRSE ONS*E 74 NCBE)
(PR+SE PRSE ONREDE 75 NCBE)

(TF N*CMSP SOLE MRDE LUSE TOTE WLD*WLDNCBE)
(194 WLD'S NCBE)(TRFXL)

Document 2 - NOTES

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KLSE-LRSTE-TR SE-TRSE-M*SE *-MRSE
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35 SLE CLGSE *UNUT*E *KRSE PSESHLE
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99.84.5 *UNEPLSE NCRSE AO*TSE N S*SE N* SE
N5REONSE PVTSE WLD NCBE (JXOR*) ]

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I found it somewhat ironic that the villagers standing around cutting meat off the elephant seemed to do more damage by trampling the crops than the elephants did. Look at the last part of the video... between the elephants, hunters, and the entire village fighting over the meat, the poor farmers crops don't stand a chance.
Sarcasm is awesome!
"owner of your own company" and "a freelancer" are really the same for many people.
To mentors
My objection is that the use of merit to justify rewards typically seen as an objective measure.

We should carefully identify the reasons for measuring and rewarding a thing - like "we reward excellent code with commit rights", rather than that we "reward people based on merit". The word itself is fraught, as is the philosophy of meritocracy. It's used as a broad brush for many different meanings.

We should just be specific, and say what it is that we are rewarding.
Half of the world's rockhopper penguins threatened by oil spill
We're supposed to believe one hubpages articles that doesn't cite any sources other than this guy who claims to work at the national park? Sorry, I need better sources than this to be convinced.
Wil Shipley sold his Elise SC (supercharged - about 250 HP in a ~2100 pound package) because the Tesla roadster was faster around an autocross track.
http://wilshipley.com/blog/2008/09/tesla-v-supercharged-lotu...
Sorry about that. I was originally referring to MassChallenge's program in my comment and trying to point out that $50k free and clear doesn't make it better (as in better than YC taking an equity position).
"The page Google got an overall Page Speed Score of 100 (out of 100)." ... so they eat their own dog food, or was the homepage the pinnacle of excellence for the building this tool?
"Most people would sooner die than think. And most of them do." -- G.B.Shaw.

That's actually from Bertrand Russell.
Apple, Facebook, and Google – When to Launch Platform Payments
As far as I know, C only has one; perhaps you are thinking of C++?
Three comments:
1) The Register is to 'news' as the New York Post is to the New York Times, which is to say its amusing at times and sometimes a good lead into something that is actually important, but rarely the definitive source for any story.

2) The entrepreneurial take away is that Web 2.0 has been racing ahead of hardware, its been able to do that because computers got better faster and iterating has proven more valuable that polishing.

There are opportunities to be found by taking a good long look at where the technologies used can benefit from abstraction/compilation love. Remember that in 2005 putting together a 8,000 'node' cluster was really on the fringe, today that is 500 boxes with a dual Core i7 motherboard in them.

3) In case you haven't noticed this reads like a Facebook Fanboi insulting a Google Fanboi. Apparently it was modestly successful in this regard if you measure success by vitriol in the comments on the article.
StarStreet, Snow Bowls, and Sports Stock Markets: Lessons from a Young Startup
There's an update at the bottom of the post saying Google took it down...
Great comment on hours / day.

Since so much of our business is referral based, often it's AFTER we've already been introduced to a specific client that somebody actually looks at the website - totally different conversion funnel.

The unmentioned part of the blog post that you nailed w/that question is that this was as much about hitting those three points (messaging, professionalism, easy to iterate) as it is about actually A/B testing our funnel . . .
Don't drop out. You're statistically much more likely to be succesful having completed your bachelor's degree than not.

Finishing college is important precisely because it gives you some idea of what it's like to finish something difficult (or boring).

You will likely become just as disenchanted with your idea, or your startup, or your company, or whatever, as you are with academia once the going gets tough. And it will.

Looking back of it, you'll stop believing it was a waste of time, and in the scheme of things, a few more years is nothing. Stick it out.
The whole 'more open' thing leads straight to Godwin's law.
Look for Living Planets Near Dying Stars
No, Java is the COBOL of the 21st century. There's not a whole lot of business logic being done with PHP. There's a ton done with Java, though.
I'll paraphrase Justice Stewart: "I may never be able to intelligibly explain human cruelty, but I'll know it when I see it". Looking forward to seeing him on the news circuit dancing around like a, uhm..., wounded elephant.
> I know at least one person who is angry about this and is a strict vegetarian who has done lots of humanitarian work in Africa.

Agreed. There are people like this in the world.

But they are few, and certainly not the majority.

My issue is not with what is moral, but with how easily people blame and demonize others.
Google's behavior is consistent with their past behavior, but not consistent with what their words. That's pretty much the definition of hypocrisy.
Can you explain what might go wrong? The worst thing that I can think of is that the posting script might fail one month, which is easily fixable. If there's any abuse, the moderators can put a stop to it.
Software Engineer at Opzi (YC S10)
So if you truly believe you have what it takes to disrupt the mobile-photo-sharing space why did you decide to join Google?
I am surprised it doesn't catch or say anything about Flash
Take a look at the Simon Singh vs British Chiropractic case for a good idea of how bad it is.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Singh#Chiropractic_lawsui...
This is a bit snarky, but I think it does represent a valid way of looking at things.
"Google Scale" is not really all that big of a problem as long as competent people are involved. Google's approach is to basically accept that everything is O(N) and simply through enough hardware at the problem that it's not an issue. RDBMS's often let you do things as O(log N) but they risk O(N^2) or even O(N^N) so your developers need to know what they are doing.

PS: The median developer at any large company is practically incompetent, so it's probably a vary good trade off once you have data centers of that size. However, for comparison Slashdot ran on 4 fairly cheap machines for a long time.
Totally right. I intend to add much more benchmarks and concrete examples in days to come. At first, I wanted to use Slickspeed but Slickspeed is very much "selectors" oriented. It was useful to have those selectors tests 3 years ago when each framework had to implement its own selector methods. But today, no matter which framework, under the hood it's the same "querySelectorAll" method. So comparing frameworks according to their selectors like slickspeed is a bit like comparing the performances of 2 PCs with the same hardware. In fact, the real difference between JS frameworks comes from the way they handle their HTMLElement wrappers, how those are created, how fast they access and modify the DOM. Keep you updated on the benchmarks!
I would guess Private Eye rather than the BBC.
You've created a circular argument - if someone doesn't currently have free time or knowledge, how could they ever write good code?

re: free time - I didn't suggest any particular solutions, because the point of this exercise isn't for me to give everyone easy solutions to problems. But I'll offer you one:

More companies could offer time to their employees to work on open source projects. That's something the project itself can help lobby for, and can keep in mind when soliciting help.

That's not a new idea. Many others have said it, and many companies implement it.
"We wanted to make sure that there was no central point of failure, so that no industry player can restrict or control the innovations of any other. That's why we created Android, and made its source code open."

How is Google not restricting or controlling* the innovations of other industry players?

http://source.android.com/
The page Hacker News got an overall Page Speed Score of 86 (out of 100).
Thanks for the clarification. I agree with the OP though that the name is still ridiculous. Why not just refer to it by its real name.
We've been tossing some ideas around about more statistics in general at GitHub, but I'd like to point out a lot of these things — number of forks, followers, issues, commits, and so on — are available through the API today. It sounds like it'd be an awesome hack day project for someone to work on, if one were so inclined. :)