skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The voting mechanism is a tool. People choose to use tools in whichever way they see fit. A culture will develop and form according to the norms which are set around group usage.

On HN people I've found that many people use voting to signal whether they agree (or disagree) with something. If that wasn't the case, I'd see my karma rise - rather than rise, fall and fluctuate.

As far as I can tell, if something shouldn't be on HN, we have the ability to flag a post.

I can agree that a post shouldn't needless be hammered into negative space, just as a person's point of view shouldn't be needlessly trampled on in meat-space. But I think that down-voting in general has found a place.

We can say that it might be better to never down-vote - but many users have the ability, and it's a regular practice. Neglecting the fact is a little like ignoring the fact the emperor is wearing no clothes.
Or, Jesus, even how he died. I never saw anything about what actually killed him. A tap to the back of the head? Strangulation? The FBI is not being very smart if they actually want information from the public.
A definition may be an intention, vs an interpretation of phrase. I have not yet dicerned that the note was intended to communicate to anyone but the author, Therefore, is not required to communicate via speach.
I think he was making a joke about a submission here a day or two ago...
I have had that happen to me a few times.

They used vim and textmate. As an emacsian that didn't have any firm understanding of those editors, it was .. frustrating. Lots of times with 'oops, what did I do now?'.
Obama Addresses U.S Energy Future
I'm no "atomic troll" and radioactive contamination at Fukushima is potentially a significant problem. But the detected plutonium levels are almost insignificant compared to the detected Cs-137 contamination (whose half-life is 30 years, not months):

http://www.tepco.co.jp/en/press/corp-com/release/betu11_e/im... (Pu)
http://www.mext.go.jp/component/english/__icsFiles/afieldfil... (Cs-137)

The activity of Cs-137 is orders of magnitude greater.
As soon as I saw the release, I immediately considered what might be like moving to Kansas City, Kansas (aka KCK).

Given that a large percentage of the city will soon have access to Gigabit Broadband, I wonder if we could simply consider the entire City to be one large LAN.
Wrong, although that would be a perfect/ideal world to work and live in
I've always wondered about the difference in lifecycle between /var/lock, /var/run, and other /vars. Happy that we've decided to make things simpler and easier to understand.
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UTP
UTP stands for Unshielded Twisted Pair and as the name suggests that they are the twisted pair cables used in the telecom sector in the telephone lines. Graham Bell the inventor of a telephone used su
Well, this rules out my plan to buy a Series 9 for travel.

Hopefully the supervisor he talked to was just blowing smoke and trying to get him to go away. If this is legitimately approved by Samsung, somebody needs their head examined.

Or failing that, they should loan me their laptop after they've done some banking and online shopping on it.
I appreciate it. Using tools in ways not originally intended is a good thing. I'm curious if anything evolves from your idea.
The operative word is "premature". Optimize when it is time to optimize - the OP touches on that.

If you know a given routine will be run a lot, then some optimization right off the bat is a good idea.

Now, that "knowing" is a little more difficult, but comes with user feedback and experience.
If you think logically, why they would even do that?
What can they get out of logged data. Can you give me the answer?

I think you are exaggerating this thing too much.
I've reinstalled Windows on Dell computers for friends that didn't have the discs. I just called Dell, and they mailed me a plain Windows install disc for free. Awesome! I'm not sure if they still do that.

With HP, I wasn't even able to pay for an install disc of any sort, and since the recovery portion of the HD was gone I had to buy a copy of Windows. I'll never buy an HP computer for this reason.
I would say you will get probably the best line up of mentors you can get on the East Coast. We were one of the finalists last year (TaskPoint) and I cannot overestimate experience and publicity we got out of it
Nobody is required to move. To get value out of the program, we expect at least one founder to spend significant time in the accelerator during the summer. We aim to make it as frictionless as possible for startups to enter and win.
I'm posting this in the off chance that I can get some criticisms/suggestions about the series, design or implementation of the interpreter. This is not meant as an instruction on the right way to do it. I'd appreciate any comments if you have the time to look through this.
Portugal has had much success with decriminalizing personal use of drugs.

http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1893946,00.ht...

It's important to note that legalization doesn't mean there isn't regulation, or that users are resolved of all responsibility while under the influence.
You could try this emoticon: (ﾟдﾟ)
Have you tried asking for a written addition to the contract saying work you do on your own time, unrelated in subject to what you do for the company, belongs to you? Contracts aren't always necessarily one-size-fits-all, and if that's the only thing keeping you from a good job it might be an option worth exploring.
These Columbian cocaine runners are entrepreneurs and damn good ones at that.

They are innovative with their marketplace and have many barriers to overcome. I'm not saying that their product is a good product. I'm saying that if more startups ran with the intensity of cocaine smugglers, never giving up even when the competition is more advance and instead developing innovative, fast and simple methods to beat the competition, that many of the tech startups today would succeed instead of failing at the first large hurdle.

Maybe we can learn from these cocaine smugglers.
You absolutely must use an escrow service. I can vouch for Escrow.com. I've used it for multiple significant transactions and they're quite good.
With endorsements entry fee can be waved, we paid nothing to enter last year because of endorsements. If you think you have a good idea write to me at ib [at] taskpoint.com and I will give you diamond endorsements 8 points and $50 off application fee.
And just to be clear, it's Kansas City, KANSAS not Kansas City, Missouri. Interesting small town pick!
I plead ignorance. Why does a nuclear power station need an external power source? Obviously there is a good reason, but my sleep deprived brain can't fathom it.
Quite nice to see that different distros cooperate to keep certain thing coherent between the systems.
The only reason iTunes seems to be essential is because there is almost no competition on OSX. Its a fairly horrible music player / media organizer compared to most Windows based software.

I only use Skype to video chat with my daughters and it could be easily swapped over to Google chat + Video.
I would like to focus on doing Mobile development.
I was told by a previous post to try doing Eloquent Java, HTML5, and then DOM scripting (In that order)

My goal is to build an application similar to TripIt(travel advisor), but tailored towards education.
Don't worry about the registration fee. It serves to eliminate people who are not serious about participating/developing their startup plans. You should register (with $199), and if you are serious about your plans you'll have many, many opportunities to get your full $199 back from MassChallenge. They make it easy to get reimbursed (e.g. give an informal pitch in one of the early pitch practice sessions, etc.). Last year we got our registration fee back very quickly (we could have gotten back even several times that).
Olivier Boss, Energesis Pharmaceuticals (a MassChallenge 2010 award winner)
Could you list one of the larger banks or boutique firms that allow this?
Because when it's shut down, it's not making power anymore...

(It needs power even when operating, but that's for regulatory reasons to maintain redundancy, if I understand correctly.)
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Patrick is talking about his life as a Japanese salaryman, where 12 (14?) hour workdays are the daily norm at his company, and, if I recall correctly, there are no weekends. He is not talking about Bingo Card Creator.
Navigating Blogs
I've never found a reliable way to find quality blogs. The only ones I check regularly were referred to me by a friend. I would love to spend a few days really digging to build an RSS feed of specific blogs tailored to my interests but I'm still not really sure where to start.

I have got a few specific topics I'm looking for. One is on intelligent underground hip hop. I'm talking about people who aren't signed, haven't released an album, but have a few mp3s up on the internet. I'm always digging through the internet to find and meet these artists but I can not find a reliable blog that does this. If I can't find one I will make one, but I would be shocked if nobody is doing this.

I would also be interested in other blogs about discovering books and movies. The more I think about it I'm interested in people who are "culture diggers," focused on finding and sharing hidden gems rather than commenting on already popular culture.

The real question of mine is not whether you can point me to some relevant blogs (if you can I'll still take them, haha!) but rather how should I go about searching for such specific blog topics. I've found a few blog aggregation sites but they're usually sorted by depressingly irrelevant metrics. Searching for "Hip Hop blog" on Google is laughable, and as "underground" has become a rap buzzword it doesn't help either. Poking through places like www.reddit.com/r/hiphopheads sometimes points me in the right direction, but not often.

Help me sail the seas of blog!
You can get through even with 0 votes from general public and 0 endorsements BUT if you cannot sell you idea to people to make them vote for it on the web site chances are that you would not be able to sell it for money, think about entry form as kind of MVP for your startup.
Chris Anderson from Couchbase on the merger and Couchbase Mobile
As near as I can tell it only gives you free storage for MP3s purchased and explicitly downloaded to Cloud Drive /when purchased/. So there might not even be need for smart de-duping - their originals are probably stored in S3 as well.
I have a few questions and their website is spare on details:

1. What is the typical size of the check? I paused the video (http://www.masschallenge.org/) at the end to note that most checks were $50k and one was $100k. Are there smaller/larger amounts?

2. Getting votes and endorsements: They want startups to get votes from general people to improve their chances of getting selected. This is a bad idea. It is crowd-sourcing herd mentality. I think that is a waste of time for the startup. I saw a post (http://www.masschallenge.org/blog/how-make-it-masschallenge-...) about the things a company did to get those points and I would rather spend that time on the business. So if we get a 0 on each of those is there a chance that we will get through?

Thanks. I think that what they are doing is fantastic barring [2].
> If you're a bit paranoid or don't trust the manufacturer (with good reason, apparently) it makes perfect sense to run a scan on a fresh system after initial setup.

That's what I mean. If he had reason to not trust them, then he should share his reasoning. It would help us to understand why he was conducting a post-installation scan in the first place. It is not normal behavior otherwise.

> Eh, not really. We just need to run the same scans (using lots of different software) on other Samsung laptops, both the same and different models, and see if it detects the logger.

Very true. I meant that it would help us to maximize our success with duplicating his method, which would translate into a higher detection rate if the logger actually exists. If one isn't found, it would help us figure out why he might be seeing what he sees.
By that argument, why is the government in the security business competing with the private sector to protect citizens against crime?

Well, that's the argument for anarchy, isn't it? (I am not being sarcastic).

But, as you know, "why is the government doing X" is a question which doesn't have much or anything to do with "ought we have the government do X".
A meta point: Cringely is one of those bloggers who, previously, I have slated here on HN - I find his insights into technology poor, badly thought out or both. To make a bad joke; he makes me cringe.

So I've been (pleasantly) surprised to find his insights into Japan of actual interest and use. His tone is still a little breathy, and he tends to over-react to some items, but there is some real understanding of the culture/technology involved (I guess a fortunate meet up of having worked heavily in the nuclear industry and Japan).

Which goes to show; never completely dismiss commentators, one day they might be useful reading.
Or, better yet, you just taught me a new term called DMA which I can now google and get to understand better. Are there other terms I could be googling to find this solution?
I think I might vaguely remember seeing that once, but I haven't seen it in forever. Just went through a few threads too.
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I am skeptical this is true. Some phone tech support guy overseas is not official confirmation of official policy. I would like to see more widespread confirmation ('happened to me too!') before people start dumping on Samsung.

Also missing, evidence it was turned installed and running at bootup, evidence it was sending information anywhere. It should be fairly easy to use the laptop, connect to the internet, and see what data is sent to what server, owned by whom. THAT is evidence. These are just random unimportant files in some random directory until then.
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Thanks for your feedback. The app will be targeted at tech savvy people. Just bought it :) www.getgrooveapp.com. Product Name : Groove
Interesting that the Google provides several offerings for Sprint and then the fiber project picks KCK which is a stone's throw from Sprint headquarters.

Could be completely unrelated, but could be hinting at further alignments.
If I only read 5 stories a day, I would probably go crazy. I normally check HN and other various sites 6-8 times a day on average. Cool concept though.
I would certainly hope not.
The application process is designed to make you do things that you need to do anyway, i.e. having an executive summary, networking, etc.

We (Architexa) were finalists last year and did not find the application process complicated.

As for the experience: I found it really helpful.

Especially talking to the other startups and working with them day-in day-out. We did not apply for the office space, but it definitely was very useful working right next to the the other teams.

Beyond the above, the MassChallenge team works very hard in connecting the startups to the right people in the industry - we got great feedback and made progress because of that.
Most people have no idea what domains are worth and there's really no good way to get a real appraisal. If someone is emailing you to buy your domain (and you want to sell it) you probably should just try an auction on Sedo.com
If Google is taking a pragmatic engineering approach with this, then why did they even bother asking communities if they wanted this? According to http://www.google.com/appserve/fiberrfi/public/list#KS Kansas City didn't even bother responding.
You'll learn a lot. The mentors are top notch. Upside is being part of the great MassChallenge eco system for a year (it's that long if you are a winner.) I was with one of last year's winners, RelayRides. It was all upside. And winning this helped us raise our $4.5 million Series A.
Myspace markets local bands to improve artist discovery
Why can't cities build and maintain the lines and lease them out to ISPs? Then TW, Cox, Comcast can compete on add-ons and how much markup they have.
Okay ill ask him at the end if we have time :)
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I've written some very high scale .NET socket/server code and this article left me scratching my head. In particular, the section on Blocking IO is confusing at best. I'm especially surprised to not see any mention of IOCPs and how they work in .NET since they're so core to any high scale server code.
Dell, HP execs lash out at Apple's iOS successes
I dunno. It looks like Allen's contributions as a co-founder back in the DOS days were very significant. I think he deserved at least a face-to-face, open and honest discussion.
Since day 1, I've been reading things like "Unless something catastrophic and unexpected happens, things are ok."

The problem is, catastrophic and unexpected things keep happening. I find the whole thing really depressing, as I think long-term, nuclear power is the best source of energy. But how do you implement it properly? That I don't know.
This disaster has caused me to revisit my concerns regarding nuclear energy.

# One of the most challenging technologies ever developed, is under the control of politicians and bankers. A recipe in itself for technical disaster.

# Public concerns, under this regime, end up being counter-productive. "No new nukes" means extending the life of the oldest, most vulnerable technology.

# Human society has demonstrated no stability, sociologically, technologically, nor otherwise, approaching even vaguely the time frames required to safely utilize this technology. It is a huge bet, and burden, on future society -- on the entire planet, actually.

# Nuclear resources on this planet are limited, and unique in their performance profile. There may come a time when we need them for better uses, e.g. early space travel. Forgoing e.g. renewable energy resources for the sake of this "quick fix" is, in the long term, squandering an irreplaceable resource. (Call me when someone finally gets fusion to work.)
Here is some trivia for you, seeing as how your blog name is bsdpunk:

"shutdown -r" on FreeBSD runs the rc.shutdown script{s}, whereas "reboot" does not.

See this thread:

http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2010-Decem...
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Of course :) On the other hand, security is about putting as many deterrents as practically possible - nothing can be 100% secure. So to that extent it is still better to have measures like on screen keyboard than not. And then even if you somehow perfected the on-screen keyboard to not give out screenshots - there is always browser based malware that can send your session or creds to the attacker without bothering about keylogging!
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Thanks very much. You raise some interesting points to ponder and investigate.
The idea here is that the tend of thousands your library is paying now could be used to offset your costs to go the "Gold OA" route. With this discussion of fees, I have to point out that the majority of OA journals don't charge any fees at all, and of those that do their fees are generally comparable to the page charges you'd be paying at a non-OA journal.

It's only a rare few, like these guys, Nature Publishing, and a few others that charge so much. PLoS charges about half that.
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IIRC, isn't it also, chemically, extremely toxic?
I wish they would add a -1 button
There might be some lawsuits, but I doubt there will be any significant legal problems. Google would have a market cap several times larger than any potential plaintiff. So they definitely have resources for any legal battle.
I got a few downvotes last week saying google needed exactly this to fend off Facebook constructing a search engine based on it's like button data.

This goes a long way but the problem I see here is that I want to be able to +1 on the page itself, not have to click back to the search results, find the result again, and then press +1.
Amazon's new 'Cloud Drive': Better than iTunes?
Photos, locations and iPhone ID seem pretty personal to me.

The interesting point is, end users don't give a damn for "social graphs". They just want to be able to connect to their friends, and maybe a friend of a friend in the very odd edge case.

The only people who get excited about social graphs those who see it as a data mine.
Hadn't heard of Clicky before; it looks really interesting.

I might have to use that + Analytics/Gaug.es instead of what I've been doing (which is not much).
Anecdotally, at what point this is true also seems to depend on the host OS. Windows 7's pmap was beneficial at a lower n than Mac OS X's for a simple O(n) function. I have always wondered why this is.

A beautiful deck, may I add!
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As a Topeka, KS native, ... what? KCK is not a "small town", and for all intents and purposes it's just part of "Kansas City".
From reading the article it sounds like SE decided they did not want to pay for services rendered then tried to hide behind an obviously modified contract to limit cash outflow 20 < 200 referrals per day.

So I think the headline of this post is a little misleading.

Its is widely accepted that affiliate marketers can borderline on sleazy but my experience with e-cigarette dealers makes them look like saints in comparison.
If this gets traction, how long until Amazon blocks your referral account? I hope they don't, but isn't this the most recent precedent?
My problem with buzz is that it uses my Email address as my social network. Am I alone or is it common that there's a pretty big barrier between personal email and social account?
The harm is that the voting system is designed as a step towards hiding (or at least not highlighting) posts which get downvoted. So downvoting prevents the experience which you yourself agree is desirable, that of seeing both popular and unpopular ideas represented.

That being said, I strongly believe that if a system is being misused, it is the system not the users which are at fault. In this case, my first suggestion (doubtless in need of refinement) is that there should be prominent agree/disagree buttons on every post to allow everyone to express their opinion, and then a separate "flag" link for people to mark spam or useless comments.
Hard to think that Apple won't outdo this in the next few months...
And easier for you is better than easier for 49 people?
they do: "block all example.com results" or whatever. it's just not shared (yet?)
That's completely fair. I agree with that. But, we don't know if this was a discussion between the two (Gates and Ballmer) with the intent of discussing it with him afterward.
NC10 here, nothing crazy on mine.
One can get Skype 2.8 from Skype.com if you're worried about getting malware or problems from other sources as mentioned earlier. Took some digging.

http://www.skype.com/intl/en/get-skype/on-your-computer/maco...
It is not really comparable, yet, I will post Arthur Whitney's Sudoku solver (in the K language) , in its entirety here:

p,:3/:_(p:9\:!81)%3
s:{*(,x)(,/{@[x;y;:;]'&21=x[&|/p[;y]=p]?!10}')/&~x}

( can be found with a test case in http://nsl.com/k/sudoku/aw3.k )

The Norvig code is smarter - it always tries to fill the square with the least options. The Whitney code is dumb - it just recursively tries everything that's not blocked by peers in order. Both backtrack on failure.

The codes are equally general - both work off a data driven peer list (peers, p). The K code runs much faster for most boards, but there are boards in which the Norvig heuristic makes a x100 difference.

Personally, I prefer the K version, although I'm aware I am in the minority.
All nuclear plants should switch to Thorium to be honest. Much safer and there's so much available, it's crazy. Shame that it didn't get researched that much since it's not so good for making nukes.