skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I actually agree, and would probably downvote it if I saw it at +16 and it weren't my comment!

(Actually, is there HN etiquette on that? If I think a comment is ok, but doesn't deserve to be as high up as it is, can I strategically downvote it? Or should I up/downvote comments without regard to their present score?)
The 'Anti-Java' Professor and the Jobless Programmers
You're too Wordy. You Write too Much.
There also a legal ramification:

-If OP altered his/her own site to list such things as personal address of target, phone, etc of the target before he scrape and if that altered data appeared on the non target's site with WWW access than target would have a case of misdemeanor B class suit in any state in the US.

The OP needs stop doing his own lawyering..
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IIRC, only true of private repos.
Thanks for the explanation, cookiecaper. I guess I should clarify that I agree with grellas' analysis, but that I think the larger issue is how net neutrality plays out in Congress, whether it involves an overreaching FCC or not.
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The number of times I got hired to pick up after you because your technical debt technically bankrupted the company and you got fired. My only hope is that innocent new coders reading your piece will not feel "inspired" by your little bracelet waving, but instead learn how to get good at her craft. That's the real reason it takes you 5 days of "procrastination". What you need is not to "just get it done", is to learn and gain experience before you tackle something out of your league, so that you don't leave other people picking up the pieces. Please.
Thats BS.South Africa does have a high crime rate i agree but its not as drastic as people make it out to be.
A question on the most appropriate language for a specific DB frontend
I'm a relative noob to all things programming. So I'm kind of a clean slate in some ways. I've spent the past three years developing the back end of a massive database project I've wanted to build for more than ten years. Now I'm at the point to start on the client side and I'm not sure what would be the best approach to use to create it.<p>If you were going to create a database that was insanely focused on a <i>super wide</i> range of different types of manuel data entry and eventually an equally diverse range of queries/reports etc. what route would you take?
They already have a bunch of offices and representatives in numerous countries. Albeit, those people are mostly sales force.. if they expand those localized teams with marketing and intertwine them with local centers of media power they could humanize themselves with reasonable amount of money.
Yes, it has happened to me (not that I am upset). For example, the project lead can manually apply my diffs, etc.
https://github.com/blog/181-repo-deletion-for-everyone
Well let's test it. https://github.com/jonursenbach/fork-this

Fork it, commit something to your fork and I'll delete my repo.
I'm not so sure...

When a blog post has basic grammatical/spelling errors, it means that the writer didn't bother to do any significant copy-editing. If the author can't take the time to copy-edit their post, why should we take the time to read it? The presence of obvious errors sends a signal that either the author's thoughts are disorganized, or he doesn't take them seriously enough to make sure they're expressed correctly.

Disclaimer: I'm an English major, and I mean this as constructive criticism!
I love this quote:

It focuses Google on Facebook's mission. Google's mission is to "organize the world's information." Facebook's mission is to "give people the power to share and make the world more open and connected." In a way, Page's edict tells employees: "Stop working on Google's mission and start working on Facebook's.
MySpace’s Sorry Failure in China (Or What Facebook Should Not Do)
Next big social connection website?
MIT's YouTube Pitch Contest handing out $2000 to students anywhere
"unaccountable government regulators"?

Just wondering about this. If you think a popularly elected government is "unaccountable", can you give an example of something that is accountable?
At least it's one of the best things out of 2006.
Software-company wants employees to write code naked
This must surely be a joke?
>That said, I would love for Facebook to put this snippet in their footer.

Google has an effective way to retaliate. Consider all those non-expert users who type "facebook" in the search bar to get to Facebook and who do not know the difference between the search bar and the location bar.
Wasn't that infrastructure paid for by taxes?
"But critics of net neutrality rules argue that free-market competition would prevent such abuses"

Is consumer internet really a free market? To my knowledge, most of the Bay Area only has a choice between Comcast and AT&T. If you only have 2 or 3 companies competing, it's relatively easy for them all to decide independently that traffic shaping is in their own best interest, which leaves the consumer with no real choice.
I want to use this and I can manage with the clunky interface, the small storage and I don't need too many features, but I really hate the "viral" sentences added after the message, I thought that one ended with Hotmail. People can figure out from my email address domain where to look if they want a similar account.

"http://www.fastmail.fm - Faster than the air-speed velocity of an unladen european swallow"

Seriously, I don't want to spam everyone I know with tired inside-jokes.
Well - as for people using HTTP to browse e-mail... People never used SMTP to send mail, they used software (sendmail/pine in the earliest days iirc). So this argument is invalid :)
I feel a lot of the cracks are due to misuse of the system and misallocations in the system.
I think google is heading the way of SUN, they now make many nice products that add no obvious revenue streams!

What google really needs is to make products that make money and the re-organization need to be based around that, employee compensations and incentive should be based around how much money they make for google.

for example, unless its clear how much money the go lang will save for google, they should kill the project and just use C++ or Haskell or whatever!
challenge accepted:
https://github.com/issackelly/fork-this/file-edit/
Brain structure differs in liberals, conservatives: study
This is a good path to consider. It's not "food" if it doesn't contain the right amount of edible/digestible ingredients. It's not "octane X" if it hasn't been refined in the right method. That car isn't "safe" unless it adheres to regulatory guidelines.

It's not "Internet access" if it doesn't allow me to access resources on the Internet at my leisure and at the "broadband" speed advertised. (OK, I know that my 6Mbps connection doesn't get me 6Mbps all the way from Netflix, but you can see my point.)
Thats not the same as you pulling in the commit in some way that obscures the contribution. I've done so on quite a few repositories (and I have enough repositories that all sorts of git nonsense has been tried). The big thing I try to conserve is attribution; I am not always the author of a changeset and I like to give credit where credit is due.

That said, you can also delete a commit from the Network view by issuing the command "git push -f". So no, I can't credibly say all your commits are listed, although I would hope you don't commit that unholy sin.
The abstract for the paper is here: http://www.cell.com/current-biology/abstract/S0960-9822(11)0...
I had hoped that, too; as an avid Opera Mail (M2) user, this would've been awesome. I don't see why a browser vendor needs to run a webmail service so bad (also, it's not new; i had an @operamail.com address 6 years ago)
I'd really like someone to take politicians to task with this.

"Mr. Congresscritter, where is the free market alternative to ISP One in Somecity, seeing as ISP One bought up all its competitors?"
I agree with you; however, it's also possible that English is not the posters original language.
Liberal Arts Heading for a Crash?
> ... than [sic] target would have a case of misdemeanor B class suit in any state in the US.

What makes you think so?
Does PG expect both founders to be good speakers during the YC interview?
What if one is a Steve Jobs and one is a Steve Wozniak? (public talker vs engineer talker)
Good point, I've added a line explaining that I use affiliate links too. Thanks!
I thought Lean Startup was supposed to be fast
This sums up everything that is wrong with folks who limit themselves to a narrow focus on SEO hat tricks: "It’s easy to preach great content when you have a great subject. But no one gives a shit about non-clog toilets or pulse oximeters or single phase diode bridge rectifiers."

The missing ingredient that the author can't figure out is CREATIVITY. If you're an advertising creative you can make non-clog toilets sexy to their intended audience (who will be building contractors, architects, etc.). This is the sort of 101 problem that any average PR or advertising person tackles in a day -- how to make the product a hero.

The problem with many SEO folks is that they're so obsessed with gaming algorithms that they forget that it's really all about creating content that your audience cares about. Honestly if you can't make insurance or incontinence products sexy you're in the wrong game. Folks from David Ogilvy to copyblogger have spent years documenting how to make the mundane interesting. If you can't so it yourself, then hire someone who can...

PS Radio Shack made a solid business for years by cramming a geektastic catalog with products like a diode bridge! The key is knowing your audience and knowing how to engage them.
Thanks for taking the time to read the post. Actually I didn't link to the Amazon cable because I wanted affiliate money, I linked to it as an alternative to Monoprice's slower and more expensive shipping costs. Many people don't want to wait more than a week and pay higher prices for a couple of cables.
Looks amazing, but what about coffee? I'd buy both, even if all you changed were the name and references from tea to coffee.
Bootstrapping a simple compiler from nothing
The 5by5 studio, though small, is pretty complicated (and unfortunately kind of expensive) to setup. We record all but 1 of our shows live, and edit them all before releasing them.

I'm planning on doing either another post or perhaps a video about the setup (assuming there's interest).
Proposal Suggests Browsers Should Block Users From BitTorrent Sites
You still have to give some credit to gmail. Even without the competition new features are rolled out quite often (all the things in the 'labs').
Thomas, J.P. & Robert, H.W Jr 2004. "In Search of Excellence: Lessons from America's Best-Run Companies", Harper Paperbacks.

Ignore what the critics say about this book because I think this book's strengths is in their case studies on the company cultures and qualities that made them successful decades ago. This is more about how to treat people and direct a company, while providing examples of how these companies had dedicated passionate micro teams who were their "lean startup" champions that drove their innovation and success.
Ninite (YC W08): A Better Way to Find & Install Windows & Linux Apps
Interesting perspective. Definitely read the comments on this article.
Franchise agreements and rights of way prevent new ISPs from entering the market. If you want to deregulate, you could start there. I don't think it would help due to the incumbents' economy of scale, though.
I think we're at a point where Internet access needs to be classified as a utility, like electricity and water.

We are indeed in a situation where many companies have invested in their own infrastructure and maybe that requires consideration. I'm absolutely certain that jimktrains2 has a point: the U.S. taxpayers coughed up tremendous amounts of money to invest in infrastructure which makes those lines ours. (Sure, 'legally' AT&T et al own title and deed, but you and I still provided the money.)

Ultimately the point is that it's time to classify access to the Internet as a utility and regulate it as such: separating ownership from operation, mandatory line sharing, various and sundry other mechanisms to make sure the consumer has choice amongst competitors. Then we can say net neutrality is not needed.
By 'hard mount' I really hope you mean attach it to a wall....
Pro Tools is good for both Windows and Mac and although I haven't used it much, Adobe Audition is great on the PC (and though it's out for Mac, I still prefer Logic).
Wozniak: Innovative projects, not tests, should determine a student's grade
Please Review My Startup 
This tool is used for Editing and highlighting a webpage
Relevant: a genome-wide analysis of liberal and conservative political attitudes, suggesting a higher degree of heritability than previously thought. Full text: http://qssi.psu.edu/files/Hatemi.et.al.Linkage.JOP.2011.pdf
Or to have the complementary skills yourself.
Perhaps better stated as not directly accountable to voters. Thanks for pointing out the overstatement (lawyers are inclined to this, especially after they start to warm up and become enamored of the sound of their own words).
It is under-appreciated how open Harvard, Yale, etc, have gotten in modern times. While tuition at Harvard might be 70% of the median annual income today, someone whose family makes $50k/year pays nothing in tuition. At Yale between $60k-$120k, tuition is held at about 10% of family income. Full tuition doesn't phase in until well over $200k.

My brother is at Yale, and his classmates are by and large the children of upper middle class professionals. Certainly kids who've gotten a good shake in life, but mostly people who got in because of good SAT scores and extracurriculars, not donations or political connections.
GameBoy Color emulator entirely in JavaScript+HTML5
When I read about the OCP the conclusion I drew was that facebook liked their designs but felt they were paying too much of a premium over true commodity components. If you release the designs and get people interested it would seem to lead to greater demand from data center customers and greater supply from OEM's that would move to fill the demand. The resulting marketplace would be substantially higher volume and served by multiple competing manufacturers. That should drive facebook's own acquisition costs down, increase the volume they can order in a short time without paying expensive tooling fees, and allow them to play one vendor off another to obtain better terms.

I didn't really pay attention to the previous discussion, so I don't know if for some reason that theory's been debunked. It sounds a lot more plausible to me than it being a ploy to recruit software engineers, though.
As a graduate we were forced to learn CLIPS, a rule-based programming language. Not only is it a very different language to master and program well in, but any sort of Google search for CLIPS results in millions of video clips with no mention of the language (at least that's how it was back in the day, I guess there's much more support now). Try learning a language without Google - someone on HN once said, "without Google I wouldn't be a programmer."
My mother tongue is not English, but such silly errors are inexcusable. It takes a second to google the correct form. In fact, "it's self" put me off completely and I never completed the article.

So, IMHO, good spelling and grammar are essential to any discussion.
It's only true of private repos, as of quite a while ago.
Excellent rebuttal. Real SEO is an act of marketing. You make a website that is genuinely useful and interesting to its intended audience, and then you make it as search-engine-friendly as possible, and cultivate links. None of that is a joke.
Erm - 1869 :)
100 Uses of RFID
This seems way more complicated than the options the author offers in the first 80% of the article. If you consider your time valuable, just use those services.
The author procures a scenario in which Google is going to collapse rather sooner than later. The last numbers I heard from Google reported an upwards trend in revenue [1] and with their recent additions like Google +1 [2] and Google Connect [3] I don't see them ‘miss the big picture’. Am I missing some serious tech scene scoop (genuine question)?

[1] http://investor.google.com/financial/tables.html

[2] http://www.google.com/+1/button/

[3] https://www.google.com/support/websearch/bin/answer.py?answe...
Startup Advice from the Greatest Advertising Genius of the 20th Century
simple fun idea
In that case, it is even more important to do some basic proofreading. Or ask some fried to do so.
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No, it doesn't mean "they don't actually invest outside that area", it means that you have to have a kick ass team and product for them to even consider taking you. You don't have a team, which is what probably killed your application from the start.

Again, this is all posted on their website. Digging around on the internet would reveal even more information. You should have done this in the first place before applying to a VC.
If you don't want to click though that advice is:

"Hire people that are smarter than you are"

The article points out that due to ego this is much harder than it sounds — and I think the point applies to geeks who tend to be brighter than most on average. However if you look at any top tech leader they always pack their companies with the smartest folks they can find — from Steve Jobs picking Paul Rand to do his logo to Google and their Phd hunts of the previous decade.
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That's a lovely project.

Whether to put it on Kickstarter depends, I think, on what you're exactly trying to get from your funding, but I could see your bookshelf doing well. And is there a downside to trying with Kickstarter? Biggest one I can see is that your project doesn't get produce en masse, or, perhaps, that someone else sees it and copies it. But you can't live in fear of either of those. I'd say go for it.
"Politics" plays a role in pretty much every social interaction. Even though I'm just an introverted programmer, I find myself in dozens of situations every month where following the basic observations he makes have helped me succeed.
It should be noted that unlike so many of his tech peers that Woz spent some time as an actual teacher after he achieved his fame and fortune.
I'd contribute to this project :)
Is there anything more reinvented than the wheel?

This line is brilliant. How often does one run across such a definitive reply to a shibboleth?
I also would love to know the answer to this. If it were 255 or 512, I'd instantly 'get it', but 333 seems to be based on something, and I'm extremely curious to know what.
Thanks for the tips. As always, Mark Twain's words are golden.
There's a big difference between what you're critiquing (marketing messaging) and what blackhats are focused on manipulating (links).

Your diagnosis, "if you can't make insurance or incontinence products sexy you're in the wrong game," would be correct if Google had a function called getSexiness(URI uri, TargetAudience audience, String strKeyword). But they don't. Google uses citations/links instead.

I think what Kris is saying is that it's harder to drive "earned" LINKS for insurance or incontinence products than it is to astroturf your way there with blackhat techniques.
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I love sausage, I'm going to go have some right now at a picnic.

The point of a sausage factory is to make sausage, disgusting or not. "sausage factory" is a reference to how it is made, independent of if it's delicious or not. See Upton Sinclair's The Jungle. I apologize if I offended sausage. Sausage, and the people who make it and eat it, will have to come to terms with the fact that it is not filet mignon.

Do government workers and public servants, who have a view from the inside, think that it looks like a functioning government? Because from the outside, according to the past entries on this thread, it doesn't.
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I wouldn't say that the politics of the early 20th century exactly got us to very good places. We got a Depression and then a massive War.
How Badoo built a billion-pound social network... on sex
Cool idea, I don't like the design. I think if the design was better I'd actually be a be to find a colorscheme I enjoyed. I'd like an easy way to select a color rather than typing hex.
Go ahead and reinvent the wheel if you think you can do a tremendously better job of it. Generally speaking if you don't have confidence that you can sell your wheel to the public at large on its own merits then you probably shouldn't reinvent it.
Ask HN: How do you manage your contacts, a social CRM for hackers?
I've become overwhelmed with contacts and networks from conferences, happy hours, etc. What do other hackers use to manage this and work relationships?
I've got a Facebook fan page, How do I get more people to join it?
Hi all,

I've created a fan page for a small family business my family and I run (we have a small music studio).
As the relatively 'technical' person in the family (I know just enough html to color the background of page) I got the job of running our facebook fan page.

I started reading all those "10 tips for the best…" tutorials out there on the web, but from some reason I am pretty skeptic. I keep feeling people are trying to sell me their services.

What I'd like to hear is some good advice from people who perhaps succeeded themselves in building a good facebook fan page. Also, I would like to unfold the mystery behind the real figures. I understand that everyone these days must have a faceook fan page, but how much money \ how many customers can I really expect to gain from this?

Thank you,
It is a bit complicated, but I think the author's writing style may make it sound more complicated than it is. Yes, it'll take a little time upfront to get it going, but this, to me, seems like a solution that would require very little monitoring/tweaking/maintenance after it's been setup.
well said, if we didn't reinvent the wheel, we will be having just one type of wheel!
Ask HN: What do you need VC money for?
I'm at a point now where I think our prototype could raise at least a small seed round. I know right now is "smart" to raise as much money as you can... but I don't exactly need the money (have a good amount of savings).

So I ask HN: If you raised VC money, what would you use it for?
Sometimes, reinventing the wheel works. Literal Example: the Dyson ball.
How is heroku doing these days:
Recently acquired by Salesforce and expanding their add-on range means that they will be around for a long time and it is promising that they are catering to a larger variety of developers.

Reliability:
They run off Amazon web services which are continually expanding their regions. So they are highly reliable (especially after the EC2 outage in 2010).

Cost:
In my experience, heroku has saved me a lot of time and my clients a lot of money. Yes, I can setup and manage my own servers and it can be for as little at $10/month. heroku on the other hand costs up to $100/month for my production servers. Why am I willing to pay this much? Because I put a higher price on my time than $100/month. I don't have to worry about infrastructure or redundancy issues. Furthermore, my clients can afford these hosting costs as I explain to them that $100/month is cheaper than my hourly rate if I have to troubleshoot network/server issues and also perform server maintenance... which none of these I have to do on heroku.

Limitations & hiccups:
I've found that I've needed to employ alternative ways of doing things due to some minor heroku limitations. Overall, everything is achievable with some resourcefulness and some extra money.

Overall, heroku is easy to get started with, especially if you've got sys admin experience! Hope this helps and good luck with your job interview!