skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I fear you're digging yourself deeper by creating multiple new accounts and threatening to sabotage the site. No, it's not great that you've wasted your time. And some of your comments were excellent: there's some good technical insight, and there was at least one pre-ban comment on music that I voted up.

On the other hand, there are a couple of your dead comments that I would have flagged had they been visible:

'And this this why the majority of people on HN (and other elitist "communities") are shortsighted, closed minded, and generally mildly retarded.'

'Don't get me wrong, brawn+brains wins over just brains (take me for example ;D) and women might even say that's what they want - but any man with experience knows that at least 90% of the time what comes out of a woman's mouth isn't entirely the truth and has a hidden agenda behind it.'

This is not a mode of discourse that is acceptable here. It may work fine for you in real life and other places you frequent on the internet, but it's not fine here. Accepting it here will change the community in a way that I don't want to see it change. This article might offer insight into this approach: http://www.modernperlbooks.com/mt/2011/04/civility-starts-wi...

Writing to Paul is a good start, but rather than presuming the system is broken, you might consider instead whether it's worth changing your behavior to fit in here, or whether somewhere else might be a better fit. Whether you agree with it or not, at least consider that the ban might be working as intended. His site, his rules, all that.
I disagree with this assertion: "my feeling is that conflict of interest in journalism is between a journalist and his employer, not between a journalist and his readership."

A lot of people view Arrington as the face of TechCrunch and I feel like his stories drive a significant amount of traffic to the portal. I, for one, know that I read stories with his name on it -- even if I'm not terribly interested in them.

But, if Arrington's showing favoritism or is holding back, simply because he's invested in a company, it makes TechCrunch less relevant -- since someone else will break the story, or it may be biased. (And, let's be fair -- nobody expects complete impartiality from an investor. They're already partial, else they wouldn't be investing.)

To quote Arrington, "There’s a period of time with any investment when I know an investment is possible or likely but it can’t be announced yet. During that time I don’t write about the startup at all, because I can’t disclose the investment. When another writer wants to break a story we may have to hold that story, or it becomes a forcing function in announcing sooner." And this is the hart of the debate.

To address your other point: I know many, many, many journalists who have incredible integrity -- just avid news consumers today are becoming disenfranchised by news media (and I'd like to point out that Wikileaks, Twitter, and blogs are none of the above) does not mean that it does not exist. Would you really rather go to the biased news source if the unbiased one was right next to it?

This is the type of decision that is an inflection point -- because Arrington's refusal to stop will allow a lot of tech journalists to begin lobbying hand grenades at any unfavorable TC press ("I sure hope that Arrington doesn't have a hand in that! hahaha.")
I hadn't thought of that before reading your post, but I agree. Mike getting into investing may actually improve TC because he now is getting involved with startups on a more fundamental level. It might open him up to reporting on startups that would have otherwise been missed because they aren't buzz companies. In any event, it will prove to be an interesting case study in journalistic integrity.
Why would you need floating point arithmetic for anything?

So let's say you have your 128-bit integer coordinates and now you want to do something useful with them. Like interpret them as a 3D vector and multiply by a typical transformation matrix.

Now you have all these intermediate terms inside the matrix gaining and losing precision. Rotation elements are going to have a range of -1 to 1. Translation elements have a similar range as your input coordinate system. Scaling elements have an almost arbitrary range.

You can't use a general purpose matrix library any more. You have to track down every little multiplication and addition and analyze it for precision loss. Many will need to be converted to least fixed point numbers.

You can do all mathematical operations with fixed point just as well.

Some things are much much better, some things are much much worse.

For something like rotation, you're multiplying by -1.0 to 1.0. You might use 64.64 fixed point numbers for this, but then you've wasted half the bits of precision you paid for.

Floating-point certainly has a lot of potential for surprising behavior. But it usually allows you to get reasonable accuracy from a naive combination of basic operations.
Learn to code and make it yourself. The only person who can really put the passion in it is you.

Regarding your next question, Stackoverflow is good for the technical questions, Sparkmuse is still small but is a good community for entrepeneurs.
"Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest you be like him yourself. Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own eyes." (Proverbs 26:4-5)
Echo chamber benefits ... if people keep hearing your name they're going to start saying it too, some will be investors, some will be users, some will be disheartened competitors who can't get a major update written about while your minor layout tweak got 300 words.
Should all brands personalize their Twitter outreach like Pretzel Crisps
Have anyone read about their outreach using twitter and personally delivering their products?
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Ask HN: is it better to partner with a designer, or hire.
i have a startup idea that i have in mind that i want to get going. but, i do need major designing and, honestly, im far from a major designer. so my question is, should i hire someone on a hourly or project-ly basis, or should i partner with them.
Ah, the binaries are unavailable at present. He's working on a new version and says it'll be up in a week or so.
I'd highly suggest paying a professional user interface designer to take a look at every screen of your app and offer suggestions and/or redesigned mockups. It looks like you're using nearly all stock UIKit widgets (default buttons, default tableviews, default split view controller, etc.) and the problem is that this type of app needs to be head and shoulders above the POS apps that waiters and restaurant works are used to which are mostly just grids of buttons. You've traded grids of buttons with rows of buttons instead of attacking the usability and user experience head on with a gorgeous, custom interface that totally blows away what's already out there.

This type of app will live and die by demos that you give restaurant owners. It needs to blow people away at first glance, especially waiters. Because you used all stock UIKit elements, at first glance it looks like it could be anything. I really think it needs an amazing interface to stand out from the crowd and blow people away.

Edit: I'd also suggest going to some local restaurants & bars and talking to people there who'd be using this app. Get their information and tell them you'll pay them $50 for 30 minutes of their time whenever they're free. Meet up with them and ask them their gripes about current POS systems, record this audio conversation (with their consent). Have them talk about the top things that they hate and the top things they wished it would do. Ask about what they spend the majority of their time on when using POS systems and which parts of the system fail the most often or are most frequently misinterpreted by the cooks or other waiters. Now you've got a firsthand account of what your competitors suck at that you can focus efforts on.
That's what I figured. :)
So instead of just emailing him, you bashed him publicly on Twitter, then shared it with all of us here.

I'm not impressed.
Missing the forest for the trees. The problem is that the old delegate will be invalidated before it deregisters itself, because it will not deregister itself until it is invalid (during -dealloc)
If you're looking for a great place to live, Silicon Valley or San Francisco aren't it: even elsewhere in Bay Area (e.g., Sonoma County, bedroom communities in the East Bay) is far more hospitable. I was very pleasantly surprised when visiting Chicago, Seattle, Berlin, Brussels: these are world class cities where transportation is a breeze, average food quality is amazing (although, San Francisco still wins out on the "high"-end dining options). This was quite a shock from growing up in Former USSR and then moving to California (where San Francisco and Los Angeles were my example of "cities").

However, there's good reason I am here in Silicon Valley. Athens at the time of Pericles and Socrates wasn't a great place to live either, far worse than Silicon Valley. Same goes late Republican and early imperial Rome, Tang dynasty Xi'an, Florence and Venice during the Renaissance, Victorian London, etc... On the other hand, people willingly sacrificed their standard of living and prestige to live in these cities and and pursue activities they found meaningful. Being a big fish in a small, provincial ponds sucks: if you want to grow intellectually or professionally, you should be around smart and ambitious people.

To be fair, there are pockets of talent elsewhere (New York, Seattle) but they're generally rather insular: a lot of the places tend to be a combination of a revolving door for some (people joining and leaving in 18 months, very frequently moving to Silicon Valley) and a life long commitment for others (lifetime "softies" at Microsoft). While exceptional talent does exist in many place outside of Silicon Valley, the stories of people joining a company, staying long enough to make a significant impact and then applying their lessons elsewhere (e.g., the "Fairchildren", "Paypal Mafia", Xooglers) are not as common in less-fluid engineering job markets.
This is the reality. I well remember hearing Steve Blank speak when he said nine out of ten of us in the audience would fail. But he said each of you are thinking that you will be the one who succeeds and are feeling sorry for the other nine. I didn't realize it at the time but he defined what it is to be an entrepreneur for us.
There are things of varying subtlety in HN explicitly designed to favor YC companies. HN's YC bias is not hidden.
Well, there's a scale of "likelihood to be intercepted" on the left and "practicality" on the right. I'd imagine that whispering something in someone's ear with the shower running in the background would be in the far left end, and email would be the far right.

As you move to the right, I imagine that OTR for IM is a very good compromise, followed by PGP, to a lesser degree. Those two should be good enough for most communication, and then there are some encrypted VoIP solutions that I don't know about.
Sure. The method I stated would protect historical email, but it wouldn't prevent the capture of new email after an order has been made to start saving it.
Somehow beach house and programming doesn't jive to me. When I am "in the zone" the last thing I want to do is leave my desk to enjoy the beach & when I am enjoying the beach the last thing I want to do is go back to my desk.

Ps.
I talk from experience, as I am right now sitting in front of the beach ! (surfing HN!)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vKvAy8svSE
Bounded is the typeclass you want.
http://www.bustaname.com/ is also good. You provide the words but it does all the combos (even beyond two words).
For some Bliss documentation:

http://www.digiater.nl/openvms/freeware/v80/bliss-intro/

http://www.digiater.nl/openvms/freeware/v80/bliss-article/

http://www.digiater.nl/openvms/freeware/v80/bliss-article-ps...

Bliss32 and Bliss64 compilers for VAX/VMS, Alpha, and Itanium:

http://www.digiater.nl/openvms/freeware/v80/bliss/

That includes (free) licenses. If you want to use these compilers to experiment, you can get a VAX emulator here http://simh.trailing-edge.com/ (boots and runs on Linux, Mac, Windows) and a VMS license and media are available for the cost of a CD (US$30).
Now in beta! Reposted here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2507418
We are celebrating the triumph of good over evil. The celebration would be the same regardless of death or capture.
By the way, there's something I've been wondering about for a long time.
I read somewhere that there are no antiphotons and antimatter emits light just the same as normal matter.
So, I assume that there's no way to tell whether a photon was emitted by antimatter or by matter.

Therefore, how do we know distant galaxies aren't made of antimatter ?

Maybe there's an obvious answer, but as far as I know, the only thing we can know about these galaxies, we know because of the radiation they emit.
I'm applying, but if you feel like you can work in a simpler house and sleep either on a sofa/hammock/whatever, email me. I'm in the French West Indies, with a decent internet connection. No fee at my place, but you must be a decent guest - ie no loud music/boozing up/etc.
Agreed on the UI. The standaard iOS is great for certain things, but this isn't one of them.

Navigating repeatedly through these actions is slow and makes for a bad experience. As a bartender or waiter (both of which I've been in the past) this would maker me want to quit.
rant warning...

I tried racket but just could not get namespaces to work, and the tool I was using, ometa for scheme[1] did not want to work properly without them. I spent hours, asked on the chat, read the documentation, etc. but just could not get it working. It felt like a bad omen, and ever since I've unfortunately been put off the language. The whole response I got/the documentation treated the whole thing as 'well it's obvious - foobar the fargle', where 'foobar the fargle' just made no sense to me. Maybe just not clever enough for racket...

/rant

[1]:http://www.lshift.net/blog/2008/07/01/ometa-for-scheme
Exactly. Once you have watched how the insider game is played in Silicon Valley, being an investor is the least of your conflicts. There are so many weird relationships going on, it's almost like real life. I'm friends with X, Z owes me a favor, etc. None of that stuff is disclosed, because it's just how the world works.

Don't get upset about the 5% of cases where MA has a direct conflict or interest, use your own judgment and filters 100% of the time. One of the key values of reading TC is that it offers strong opinions. If you just want to read bland press releases, I can point you elsewhere.
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My experience has been different, knock on wood. My X25-M has been going for about a year now. It has two bad sectors, but nothing catastrophic. I back up all my files every day with duplicity anyway, though.
Do you want to concentrate on your startup or take a beach vacation?

Join me in downtown Detroit if you really want to work on your startup. I guarantee you won't be tempted to leave the building for ten days and will get lots of work done.
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its interesting that this is in such an urban area. if it happened in some remote cave it is unlikely that we'd know much about his living conditions - beyond what the government chose to let us know.

since it is in a city environment such as this neighbors, post-mortems on the building and things like that will likely give us a much better idea about what was going on there.

makes you wish the troops had GoPros, doesn't it?
Love impossibility.org. Wonderful tool.

Does FinishedCode.com do anything for you? Its available, and I think it has a nicer ring to it.
Using a rotational HD does not excuse you from having solid backups. I've had rotational HDs fail in just months, it's not the norm but it does happen.
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Delhi is long way from Costa Rica or I would have applied!
Well in certain places everything is a stone throw away (VCs, angels, lawyers, mentors, labor, etc.)
Google takes top spot in reputation rankings; Apple, Intel, Amazon close behind
Why did they ruin this processor?
Downvoted because you deleted your comment and replaced it with a sentence complaining about being downvoted.
The sea burial will lead to conspiracy theories for years to come... Where's the body? Probably with Elvis and Tupac somewhere.
OK, I should have used a different word than dividend. I should have used "disbursement of funds from the profits made". The point still stands as do the other points I made.
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Heh, I've felt more out of place as a Windows Ruby developer than I have as a female Ruby developer.
He's always had "companies", i.e. Edgio.

I'm fed up of hearing peoples whiney opinions.
Is Osama bin Laden really in the same league as the Nazis?
I've wondered this myself. An explanation I have heard from a physisicist is: if there were regions of the universe where antimatter is dominant, the boundaries where they border normal matter space would be extremely bright from the annihilation reactions. Apparently even very thin interstellar gas would generate a lot of energy in matter/antimatter annihilations.
I'm the author.

Earlier discussion at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2498438, but I felt it as appropriate to post it again now that the book is actually available.

The plan is for the book to be in beta for a couple of weeks, then go into print in mid-June. So if you buy the beta now, you can still influence the final book.

Questions?
Get the right person for a job. No reason to hire a MIT graduate to architect your MySQL DB for 1,000 customers a month.
I didn't read the piece by Andrew Sullivan that's being quoted, so I don't know what his point really is. It was taken out of context in the post above.

It reads to me like he's taking a person's foreign sounding family-given name as a proxy for something which he claims is deeply meaningful. To me, that's the very definition of 'superficial'.

When it's done with skin color it's called 'racism'.
What width to use in LaTeX - \textwidth, \linewidth, \hsize or \columnwidth
Asking where's the body is not a conspiracy theory. It's a basic reasonable question.
I have added a new feature to my new service (http://copyto.co) which lets you have discussions on your public clipped pages. I just wanted to have your opinion about this functionality and whether you think if it would be useful. Thanks!
I'd be in for that
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I'm sorry, But were any of you guys there? How do we know he resisted.
Assuming it was really him they killed and tossed in the water with in a couple hours. Where is the report and photos?

He's resisting shoot him. You saw that right?
he resisted. Yup.

Cops do it all the time what makes you think the NAVY Seals are any different.

History is written by the winners, Correct?

This is fishy and really good timing.

Around 2 min mark
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnychOXj9Tg

He was a CIA asset.
I really don't know what to believe any more.

I'd really like to know if the guy who tweeted the whole thing knew he was there. Someone should interview him.
Yes. I know a bit (not much) around the principle of distributed soc nets. I have a diaspora account, but not much is happening there, partly because they are very few features (no chats, no photo app...).

This system is interesting, but maybe an alternative solution would be needed? Frenzy is the kind of idea I'm thinking about... It has flows, but it seems much more doable - builds on another network, but could possibly be platform agnostic (what about a Frenzy working on Ubuntu cloud or even directly on AWS?). Something with few features, but exciting like Twitter.

Maybe I am wrong... It seems to me that the biggest problem here isn't to have a minimalist app running, but rather getting the critical mass joining. Feel free to comment :)
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A few related links:
http://www.quora.com/Brendan-Baker/Anatomy-of-Seed-An-Inside...
http://www.quora.com/How-long-does-it-typically-take-to-clos...
http://www.quora.com/For-a-seed-angel-round-how-long-does-it...
And the basic reasonable answer is: at sea.
Two things: 1) I think this is really cool, especially the guarantee that your script is executed with the same atomicity as an internal command. That gives you a lot of freedom to write simple stuff in a simple way without too much worrying about concurrency (the INCREX sample on the linked page is a good example of what I mean - the data doesn't change between the "exists" and the "incr" call).

and 2) this opens a whole new playground for NoSQL injections: I don't know a lot (well. anything) about lua embedding, but I could imagine that these lua scripts somehow could get access to the file system. This means that you have to be really, really careful not to expose redis to the outside world and not to have it execute injected commands.
Done and done. European castle sounds great. I'll be looking for announcements.
I have this simple json formatting alias defined:

alias json='python -mjson.tool'

I'm not much of a vi/vim/macvim user, but I bet you could pipe an open json document through that command pretty easily right in the editor.
Author has probably never tried to optimize an algorithm on SSE2 or higher.

Doubles are awesome and often used in science. 128 bit numbers aren't quite so awesome.

http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E19963-01/html/821-1608/e...
Cargo cult, you can't conscionably reproduce this chain of events in a way that lets you say this is how it actually works.

Still neat though.
Only time will tell, and startups or established business es that will suffer it or not, will let us all know. I dont agree with the letter, and even the analogy with PG. You can still build and launch. and be successful not depending on MA or PG. Let them do what they do, because they do it amazing. Again, time will tell if MA is doing it all wrong. I dont think so.
Or you can make features be plug-ins that then become add-ons to the general user who may or may not want them.
Just noticed this, it uses compatriots in the negative context I mentioned: http://www.slate.com/id/2292724/
We know two things about dark matter:
- It doesn't interact electromagnetically.
- It does interact gravitationally and produces extra gravitational attraction beyond the electromagnetically interacting matter we know about.
- It is dispersed throughout galaxies.

The first property rules out baryonic antimatter as dark matter, since that would interact electromagnetically. The last two properties rule out anything that has a repulsive gravitational interaction as dark matter.
Good read. There is way to many native mobile apps out there that could have been mobile web apps.