skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm a bit surprised by some of the reactions here, starting with Jason's quoted in the article update ("Wasn’t worth the techrunch headache"). It seems that there are a lot of people who either a) don't take Securities laws seriously, b) don't see the point of Securities laws, or c) think that Twitter is somehow different than other forms of publication.

To take these points in order:

First, selling shares in a company, even a privately held one, has legal implications, and shouldn't be done without consultation with a lawyer. (I'm a bit concerned that's not obvious to Jason.) If you're going to play the game, take the time to learn the rules.

Second: I really don't see how the Securities Act can be viewed to be creating unreasonable barriers to entry for startups, or stifle innovation. The regulations are fairly straightforward, and the intent is clear. Again, anyone seriously doubting this ought to talk to their attorney about the matter. And yes, you'll need an attorney if you are serious about a start-up.

Finally, for the purposes of the law, why should posting a message to the world on Twitter be considered any different than taking out an ad in a newspaper? I don't see how Jason's message could be viewed as "innocuous"-- this isn't casual, private conversation. It's publication, and Twitter users should remember that.
isn't there any 'report' or 'mark as spam' link? :-(
Well I like CRUD because it reminds of the word Crude, something simple primitive, something in its basice form, just like a primitive CRUD web application, a very basic one!
Regarding b): shouldn't we be concerned that the original 4 functions apply to a single record at a time, when the new addition of "browse" seems to apply to a collection of records?
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He does no such thing, he basically just argues it's not as valuable or useful as Google is. Big surprise there.
it's not 250 euros a plate, it's 250 euros for a complete menu with wines and about 15 courses. Compared to other this class restaurants it's dirt cheap.
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This isn't new, but was in beta for a while right? Is this now out of beta for use by us layfolk?
CO2Stats is growing on me. After speaking with the founders for a few minutes today, I'm starting to understand better what they're doing; they seem genuinely passionate about helping the environment.
Moral of the Story : Don't Complicate simple things.
I wonder how and when is it going to bite? I can see some issues with error reporting and a convoluted stack trace. But other than that I really see no big deals.
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Having just completed a course in which this was one of the major topics of discussion I feel I can perhaps help to clear a few things up. Generally we consider the mark test to signify self awareness. What's important in the test is that in order to past the animal must realize that the creature is them. Human's have trouble seeing what a jump this is since it's very easy for us.

The example of robots, while probably more interesting to the members of this board is different in that these robots were instructed how to recognize themselves by humans that know they exist. They didn't have to make the jump of the concept of self by themselves. Unfortunately as is characteristic of softer sciences I really can't make this distinction any harder so take it or leave it.

An the other hand 5 magpies is a pretty pathetic sample size. Even picture perfect results have a 1/32 chance of occurring with random behaviour. I think we can rest assured that the next article on this topic will not include Magpies in its list of previous successes.
Key quote:

'There was one thing Maximin said to us that has always stayed with me. Someone asked him, what is creativity? And he replied, "Creativity is not copying". So simple and so obvious, I suppose, yet that was a key moment for me. Because until then I had always copied, but from that moment on everything changed. I understood something I had never understood before. I passed from being a technician to a creator.'
I think it's good that JustHackIt made Techcrunch.

That's cool, I just don't see the value to Hacker news readers to have the TC story submitted when it has very little commentary and generally leads to having 2 stories on the same thing on the Hacker news frontpage. I know I've upmodded TC stories only to see the actual site link a minute later.
Using profanity is the ultimate form of cultural myopia. Words suitable for use in America are not suitable for use in most other parts of the english speaking world. And if your product or service is aimed at a global audience, then you have to express your cleverness through some other class of words.
That would not be guaranteed to be correct since you don't know the precise time required for the dbs to be consistent.
Then I might just have been unlucky with the game theory talks that I've heard. Most dealt with endless variants of the prisoners dilemma: in space, non-absolute, stochastic, with and without memory.

All seemed a bit too abstract for what we would actually encounter irl
been waiting for this. Woo boy, EC2 just got shiny again!
My interpretation:

Either make a great oven, or make a specialty cake-baking device. Don't straddle the middle ground of generality, the place filled with myriad edge cases and awkward attempts at abstraction.
Yeah and they bounce and rebound. Impressive stuff.

Did you notice the letter 'r' leaves a trail when you throw it R-L ? A blue trail and the intensity of the line differs too.
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A mashup between "Architecture Astronauts" and "Execution in the Kingdom of Nouns", two good reads.
Wait... you're suggesting a planned collapse of your own site just to get more press?? It's not cynical, it's non-sensical. This kind of thinking is poison IMO. Just focus on your product and make it perfect and scalable.
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Studying robotics, one learns an effective combination of engineering and computer science theory. So I'd have given the same answer as the computer scientist, but in ASM, low level C and Verilog.
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Also learned from this: Startup news is an anagram for Putter Swans

...and swat punters... or pun swatters... and "we rust pants"
And "A Twerp's Nuts"
This is the final piece of the puzzle, following on from persistent IP addresses, in terms of using EC2 as a web server platform.

Time to get tinkering!

A shame Amazon dont have a data centre in Europe for European firms, in terms of reducing latency...
Mainly in and around video games on PC/PS2/XBox/PS1. C/C++/ASM for the runtime (sometimes with python for scripting) and Python for level editing and build processes.

I'm not discounting python inadequacies esp when churning vast amounts of data. Video game levels are large and python was too slow to process collision maps, shadow maps etc but we added C modules to do the heavy work and it wasn't a lot of code to write in C (it was a pita to debug them though).

PS I don't work in video games any more so I've not experienced the delights of the PS3/XBox2 first hand. I do websites now... it's a lot easier :)
Encouraging abstinence
Except for the fact that the real definition is actually more like:

#ifdef __cplusplus
#define __DARWIN_NULL __null
#else /* ! __cplusplus */
#define __DARWIN_NULL ((void *)0)
#endif /* __cplusplus */

So the code you mentioned works just fine in C++.
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You can always define your own HTTP methods and use other verbs.

Apache Script directive:
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_actions.html#script

Depending on browser and javascript framework support (guh, as always), you can then use whatever method you want in Ajax calls (first argument to XMLHttpRequest.open, or jquery's $.ajax.type).
Silly title. If he cooked for a living, and refused to charge anywhere near the profit maximizing price, then he'd lose money ... completely by his own choice.
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And meanwhile on Cracker News we have...

"GREETZ FROM Z0MBEE"
re: plato

If you intend to teach critical thinking, I can think of 10 subjects off the top of my head that don't involve bronze-age concepts.

re: soul

I think you missed my meaning. I meant all thinking is a physical process that ends at death, same as the individual tree's cells stop working when you burn them. I dislike discussing it; this is so blindingly obvious (today) that it makes more sense to look at why they've made no progress in 2000 years.
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Worth a thousand words, etc
This is something you probably should have reported to pg (unless it was already fixed, of course. it seems to be now)

This kind of vulnerability makes it trivial to hijack someone's session. Of course you probably don't have any sensitive data on news.yc, but still...
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Digital products become easy prey
The latest digital technology solutions have paved the way for many of the modern facilities we enjoy today. Thanks to technology we can accomplish so many things today without having to leave the comfort of our homes. And, thanks to the help of digital tools, many trivial tasks are automated, and the communication cycle too is becoming ever faster thanks to emerging tools and technologies.
At that time it was called Startup News.
Presumably if there was a major failure at the primarily data center they could quickly switch over the secondary one to be the master.

But yes, I suppose it wouldn't be considered true multi-homing.
Another funny one in a similar vein, taken from a real story (supposedly), is "the complicator's gloves".
Of course, he asked the wrong question - if he asked the engineer to design the whole toaster, and without constraints, it would be made of carbon-fiber, generate heat equivalent to an arc-welder, and fold up into a wallet-sized package. And cost $9000.
Yeah I was surprised at how simple their solution sounds.

But then I realized I was imagining a single MySQL DB at each datacenter. In reality they must have pretty big clusters at each.
It's not that bad a joke, is it?
I like the concept of Gyminee. I know this is the wrong place to post this, but the techstars batch this time seems more useful than the YC batch. This last YC batch was a bit like features, but the techcrunch stuff is actually useful.

I signed up for Gyminee, because it's a good idea and it's time for me to gain some muscle.
Exceptional circumstances do not invalidate codes of conduct.

Two big problems with that statement:

1) Exceptional circumstances are by definition exceptional, and hence validate or invalidate whatever behaviour is appropriate. I never want to drink piss. You might say it's a clear, permanent principle in my life. But if I'm dying of thirst in the desert, I may well do. That's an exceptional circumstance.

2) A "code of conduct", however you care to define it, is a load of crap, and you'll be a better person if you come to terms with that. The world is varied and changing. You should behave in the way that's best given the situation you're faced with, not based on some sort of code that you defined some time ago. You can have principles to guide your behaviour, but even those have to be up for review when faced with circumstances that they don't fit.

It's your choice whether you swear or not, but don't think of yourself as superior in any way (e.g. "My momma raised me right") just because you've made this one of your core principles. Your momma didn't raise you right. She raised you differently.
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Does anyone still trust Verisign?
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Wonderful. A copy of this should be sent to every legislator. However I think he misuses the word 'right'. Privacy is not a human right - evidently so because there is no general agreement as to how it's defined and respected. A right is nothing unless it's accepted (with due regulation) by all reasonable people. Governments have shown increasingly that they, the elite, wish to determine absolutely the limits of the privacy we naturally seek.
Too much junk about 'pursuing your passion', and "Rich Dad" Robert K is always a warning sign, too.
Awesome and very inspiring. And this is priceless:

But it wasn't an overnight eureka, and it wasn't intentional. I didn't just walk out of high school, pick up a Ruby book,
meet Tom and PJ, then launch the site GitHub.
Before GitHub came, in chronological order, Spyc, Ozimodo, my ozmm.org tumblelog, ftpd.rb,
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I think he's absolutely right to call privacy a basic need, much more so than property. Being exposed can be humiliating. I think it's a very fundamental psychological need to draw your own lines and open up selectively towards people you trust. Being in control of your private matters is necessary in order to feel safe and safety is a recognised basic psychological need. I'd rather someone take away my bike than make me feel vulnerable, helpless and exposed to people I may not trust.
"One aim of Philosophy is to align our abstractions with our intuitions"

I don't understand this sentence. I guess it means "philosophy is subjective"?

If your understanding of those subjects is so great, then please elaborate.

Also, I was referring to chapter 23, which seems to be purely about economic decisions. So clearly maths and economics are much better suited for treating the issue.
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As a London based hacker this chimes with me. There are groups such as the BCS that are supposedly there to nurture IT networking, but their events schedule looks a bit dry.

I've found some of the entrepreneurial networking events (OpenCoffee and Geektails) to be interesting, but you don't get much of a chance to talk about the technical challenges at those.

I'm looking forward to coming along on the 4th anyway. But update the "news" section on the Facebook group with the details please!
How is a language without garbage collection ahead of any other platform? It feels more like a plunge back into the stone age.
Just curious, are there really many companies hiring iPhone developers? Because it seems to me the iPhone would not be a good target for enterprise applications, because of the distribution model. If I model a business process on the iPhone and make my company depend on it, I don't want Steve Jobs to be able to pull the plug on it any time he fancies.
hacker news:

neck washer, warn cheeks, swan hecker or knee rash wc?
Yes, as probably becomes evident from my other posts, I am just disappointed by the shallowness of most philosophy out there. In the sense that I consider mathematics to be philosophy, of course I accept it. I just don't like that almost all non-mathematical philosophy texts I have encountered start from invalid assumptions.
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What happens if you have that, and then enter a new field?

How do you learn the basics without copying, and losing your identity as a creator?
It has nothing to do with race. East Africans are of the same 'race' as West Africans. Your concept of 'race' has nothing to do with reality - you can't just take the color of peoples skin and group them all together. It's very superficial, and is totally unrelated to any biological reality.
It's also really trivial to get past adblockplus, and show users adverts that they cannot block, or even better, offer people using adblockplus a degraded experience - for example refuse any support requests from adblockplus users, or just refuse entry to the site.
Why should we invoke imagery of feces or corpulation to make a point?

The relief people feel today by swearing is because it defies political correctness and hypocritical holiness which are issues most people share right now in our culture. If there was no perceived repression associated with particular words they wouldn't have any effect and invoking them in unrelated discussion wouldn't make any sense.

In other words, swearing is a contemporary cultural statement akin to "stick it to The Man". I think it is fair to say that it is a pretty cheap oratory trick, since it is just an appeal to a common cause rather than an argument or viewpoint that can stand on its own merit.

That's not to say it is not funny or effectfull, it's just orthogonal to substance. It is the web 2.0 glossy UI of modern language.
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They do have an S3 datacenter in Europe. Source: aws.amazon.com/s3

Could be mighty useful as a CDN.
i met the disqus guys at boston demo day. i prefer boston demo day to sf demo day. but that's probably the east coast superiority complex coming out in me
totally agree with your picks. and i was there and met the teams
I see your Carlin and raise you Jerry Seinfeld.

In ten years of making probably the funniest TV ever I think he said 'hell' a couple of times and that's about it.
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"I/O requests cost $0.10 per million" :)
I wonder what is the amount MySql generates? Any data?

Edit, as I found this (http://blog.rightscale.com/2008/08/20/amazon-ebs-explained/):
"As a point of reference, our main database server is pretty busy and chugs along at an average of 17 transactions per second, which should total to around $4.40 per month. But our monitoring servers, prior to some recent optimizations, hammered the disks as fast as they would go at over 1000 random writes per second sustained 24×7. That would end up costing over $250 per month! As far as I can tell, for most situations the EBS transaction costs will be in the noise, but you can make it expensive if you’re not careful."
"Rich Dad" is a good book and does illustrate why you should 'pursue your passion'.
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What proportion of ads you see are for things you already use? It doesn't balance out. I guess most things are not used by more than 50% of the ad's audience.
I like it

It's a nice personalization.

Sure -- check for it on comments, but on the user's page? Kind of neat.
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Interesting. I took away:

Always maintain a hunger for learning and good things happen to those who do, not talk.
I've been planning to make it out to one of the London meetups, but it becomes a little problematic that by the time the meetups are announced all of the cheap plane tickets are already snapped up.

I've been kicking around getting the same thing going here in Berlin and have talked to a couple of the locals. We've got a couple of good business oriented meetups, but not one with a real hacking atmosphere. I'm always the weirdo that can't keep his laptop closed for the whole time. ;-)

If you see this and are based in or around Berlin drop me a line (and aren't already tracking one of my various feeds), and if we get something going we'll be sure to get you on the invite.
In this sense, I'd call privacy part of the social level in Maslow's heirarchy of needs. It's a more abstracted need than food or shelter, which is why people will historically give up social needs for the physical fundamentals--but it's only less important than food and shelter in the sense that layers 4-7 of the OSI model are less important than layers 1-3.
Pity the other lesson - don't simplify inherently complicated things - isn't as popular.
I think Amazon was calling it a private "alpha" rather than a "beta"; but aside from that, yes on both points.
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The reasons there is a ton of talk about scaling here: a) everybody wants to start their own Facebook someday so they think they need to know this stuff AND b) scalability is actually kinda neat to study. Reorder them as you like but I think they are both factors.

That being said we are rapidly moving towards a world with more and more data being stored and queried. Scalability will therefore be something you increasingly need to know about in order to build a significant application -- regardless of your entrepreneurial ambitions.
Given enough time the two disciplines will probably become closer, some university departments have aready combined them both (Southampton I believe does this).

I dread to think what sort of toasters we'll get when this happens!
I have too many side projects, and not enough projects that make money:-/

Still though, I really identify with his style, and liked the talk.
Sure, but it'd be trivial to modify the script to

* Submit stuff or comments under your account

* Modify your profile

* reset your password and take over the account

So probably best fixed if it's not already ;)
Yep. When they say "you've got nothing to hide" I ask them if they close their curtains at night. Or if they lock their door. Or ask them for their exact salary, how they spent it, and why they chose to spend their money that way.

I think many people don't realize how much they value their own privacy and so I try to give them examples to force them value it on their own.
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