skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> why doesn't he become a member of funnyjunk and post his own stuff

Not agreeing with his current plan, but keeping up with all the new sites that do this would probably be more work than trying to attack them.

> I know that if FunnyJunk disappeared, 50 other clones would pop up to take its place overnight..
International commission says war on drugs is a failure
Berklee Media is hiring RoR developers.

http://bit.ly/k4iGIe , great jobs for music lovers.
Email me dberry AT berkleemusic DOT com if you are interested.
If you are doing anything with equations, LaTeX is definitely the way to go. Unfortunately, it's a steep learning curve for regular ebooks.

The downside is it's not super HTML-friendly (there are converters, but you can't display equations easily in HTML) so converting to Mobi, ePub, etc. is not straightforward.
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That's not updated. Try searching for the toArray method[1] (new in 1.4).

[1]: http://api.jquery.com/toArray/
hum.. I don't get it:

Why just NetFlix? We all have tens of other passwords that should earn us a year in prison if shared.
Cash, delivered in person, does the same thing.
This post is very insightful.

To break down what it says, and offer my own thoughts, often, the path to doing something at first challenging is: thought -> action -> habit, belief/better life or outcome.

Achievable steps is also key. Trying to rush the process and immediately reach the endpoint results in frustration.

So, "I want to learn to swim" => Spend 15 minutes practicing => Spend 15 minutes practicing 3 times a week... and so on, gradually ramping up is likely to work, while, "I want to learn to swim" => 3 practices weekly of 1 hour is likely to fail, in my experience.
We haven't held our politicians responsible for decades. Why would we start now?
When Steve Jobs said that touch interfaces on the desktop/laptop sucked, I think that opinion was based on some thorough testing.

Looks like Microsoft are gonna go ahead and do it anyway.
It's interesting that the law seems to conspicuously exclude from its definition of "services" any services provided to businesses. So, for example, it is not a criminal offense in TN if a client stiffs me on a contract programming or webdesign gig--- that remains a mere contract dispute. I can pursue it (if I wish) by bringing a civil suit, but the public prosecutor is not going to haul DeadbeatClientCorp into criminal court for stealing my services. Not sure why a Netflix TOS violation should be treated differently.
Why Chewing People Out For Mistakes is a Bad Idea
To be fair, if enrollment is increasing and funding is flat, the effect is a decrease in funding. From what I can gather, most areas have a per-student funding model so this doesn't mean your statement is incorrect, but it's a little more complicated than being the black to the university's white.
I agree, it's the long game that Apple has been playing... when all campus graduates have pretty much used Macs, and they use Macs at home, they start clamoring for them in the office too. I'm fairly sure I saw numbers indicating Macs making headway in enterprise.

Consumer != powerless.
Steve Jobs at HP on his first gig at age 12, after calling Hewlett-Packard President Bill Hewlett: When I was 12 or 13, I wanted to build something and I needed some parts, so I picked up the phone and called Bill Hewlett—he was listed in the Palo Alto phone book. He answered the phone and he was real nice. He chatted with me for, like, 20 minutes. He didn’t know me at all, but he ended up giving me some parts and he got me a job that summer working at Hewlett- Packard on the line, assembling frequency counters. Assembling may be too strong. I was putting in screws. It didn’t matter; I was in heaven. I remember my first day, expressing my complete enthusiasm and bliss at being at Hewlett-Packard for the summer to my supervisor, a guy named Chris, telling him that my favorite thing in the whole world was electronics. I asked him what his favorite thing to do was and he looked at me and said, “To f*ck!” [Laughs] I learned a lot that summer.
Ah, I see.

I'm a member of the Kiss Army, the Skynyrd Nation, and the Bananarama Republic.
I thought Apple products cost an arm and a leg, not a kidney.
Show HN: Tweets about TV Shows
Like I just said, it isn't the competition that's the problem. If they never lost it, the problem wouldn't have appeared. It's only after the loss of competition that there's a problem.

The very same internal pressures exist whether or not competition exists or not. This isn't about them at all.
What are you basing your opinion off of? Almost every law textbook would disagree with you.

There are three states where LLCs are commonly formed: Delaware, Nevada, and Florida. VCs, accountants, and lawyers are all familiar with the laws in these states, which are well-established and friendly to small businesses. This means that any disputes are likely to be resolved faster and cheaper in court should they ever arise.

The only downside is that you might have to register the out of state LLC in your state, and depending on the state, you may have to pay some extra taxes. But the benefit of filing a well-known LLC is far worth the hassle.
My friend Mike recently created this app and would love feedback:

http://tvchatapp.com/mobile/

It's a way to connect with people who have common viewing interests with you and view Twitter chatter about those TV shows.
Makes sense really. I mean, artists have representatives who certainly look for appropriate buyers and largely have a better idea of market rates, not to mention more experience negotiating.
Mike Moritz and Warren Hellman square off on San Francisco's benefits mess
I see your point but I think that's a bit different, mozilla and webkit do that as a way of providing css features that should eventually make their way into standard CSS ... Microsoft has this bad habit of doing things totally different and trying to force them on everybody.

The html5/javascript thing sounds really exciting though. Lets see what happens.
let's take a guess who and why.. follow the money
10 years at software
Former Threadless CTO Harper Reed to Work for Obama 2012
I think there's a lot to be said for learning best practices the hard way. In my experience at a large company, these things can become a cargo cult, especially for less experienced people.
I am actually up for a free market for organs, because of the precise reasons that you cite, provided that there are some safeguards. The hospitals should provide services that talk about the health risks involved and psychological counseling. I bet, if this kid got a 30 minute talk about the relative importance of the iPad2 vs the kidney, he would have changed his decision. Then again, some are so poor that they do need the money for their families, so these should get the maximum rate.

This are a lot of ethical, economical, and operational questions related to this. Doesn't mean that it should be banned, though.
how ironic that you would read 2 erlang books concurrently.
I'm guessing sometime around when everyone is legally required to have a camera and microphone attached to their head which note everything they see and hear and automatically charge them for any content that they view.

Of course, you would still have to buy movie tickets, DVDs, music, and so forth, despite then being charged every time you view them.
That is incorrect. I purchased IDA Pro as an individual this year, and I am a simply a student interested in reverse engineering. (I believe what you are saying may be true for the "advanced" version, but from what I can tell anyone can purchase IDA Pro Standard.)
Thank you both for the info
It's horrifying because a young boy, with many years left in his life, in all likelihood gave one of his organs to someone who's probably got 10-15 years left tops.
Skype superiority will finish when IPV6 be fully adopted. When this will happen? Never?
Only speaking for myself...
It's hard trying to learn stuff at a startup (in depth) and get sh*t done. A startup will consume most of your waking life. What you will learn will most likely be related to what you have to get done at the moment and it's a smattering of things. There are some very useful things you can learn in depth at school that you can't learn while at a job. Like cmpt theory/math theory. You can't efficiently learn that stuff while trying to crank out ruby code/javascript for something that must be done YESTERDAY. School is a less-stressful, structured environment for thinking deeply about stuff. Yes, you can learn stuff on your own but it's better to have access to mentors/coaches/peers available for guiding you in your studies. A school is the easiest way to get access to such a community. If you're learning Lisp at school you'll have 20 peers and a mentor to talk to.
They're still accepting pinecones, confederate dollars and unicorn horns though, right?
> Nokia tried negotiating with Google and Google was arrogant.

I can't help but suspect Microsoft needed Nokia more than Google (read: was willing to pay more for the deal), which was what caused the partnership.
Rock Health, Health Startup Incubator, Names its First Class
Many of your comments are accurate, but it doesn't mean they are not being worked on.

I would be surprised if we don't see new/better bundled applications (particularly for photo/music management, as their other platforms do this better), a different application install paradigm (more akin to OS X or iOS installs), the ribbon was not shown...

What they're showing here is intent. That's all. They've shown their intent to do something different. That might well mean they have intent to start changing things under the hood, which was not spoken about at all in that video. It's too early to judge anything but the intent.
University isn't worthless, merely wasted on the young. The most obvious example (to old people) is teaching history to 18 year olds who haven't experienced anything. I didn't really understand how the Vietnam War was possible until I saw the Iraq War happen.

Wouldn't all of these be better career tracks:

- Soldier in the army, then military academy, then military command.

- Work at an alderman's office, then get a degree in political science, then run for office.

- PHP developer for a marketing firm, then CS degree, then technical cofounder at a startup.

The only programs I know that capitalize on this is are some MBA programs that are geared toward middle-management types trying to get into upper management.
"basic human decency" is so 20th century (at least here in U.S.).

...not that 99.9% of people cannot be relied on to be such - but that when you expose yourself (as the internet does) to the other 0.1% you are exposing yourself to thousands of less-than-decent folks.
Introducing Pulse.me - an easy way to save stories across devices
> As they should be, given that populations increase.

Is the U.S. Population increasing like this? [1] That's what the U.S. monetary supply looks like.

More correctly, fiat money supply should ideally match total economic output, not population. But the GDP graph also doesn't look anything like that monetary supply graph.

Given this, the BitCoin phenomenon is understandable: savers are looking for a currency that's not subject to manipulation and is most of all predictable in terms of supply. Whether or not it succeeds, I'm glad there's the pressure of a competing, not-centrally-manipulated currency.

[1] http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/graph/?s%5B1%5D%5Bid%5D...
It is like saying that it is a waste of money to hire an electrician to rewire your house. There is enough free information on the internet.

Is there? Sure. But your lack of experience and knowledge on the topic could still lead you to electrocuting yourself. Similarly, so could hiring a bad electrician. But the safer bet is with the man whose trade is in working with electric and wiring.

And when financial liability, your livelihood, and matters of the law are on the line, the safer bet is with the man whose trade is in the law.
I'm the Founder of One Day, One Job. Not sure I'd consider it a competitor here, but it's at least tangentially related.
What tptacek said: get everything you sign reviewed.

I re-read the OP; the overall point there was to be financially prudent, e.g. don't waste money. Don't pay an attorney for work he/she doesn't need to be doing.

The counterpoint is to pay them for the work that they _need_ to be doing; but without legal knowledge it's hard to know what that threshold is. I'd encourage people to err on the side of caution and if there's any doubt at all, engage legal counsel.
I think spending some time in a big company after graduation is very worth while. Preferably not a software company. At least you'll learn the culture, the way they work, their problems. With this knowledge under your belt you will be in a better position to sell into these companies in the future.
You should open source it. You lose nothing by creating a repository on GitHub and storing it there. And someone might find it useful.

That said, chances of it being useful to anyone would increase if the project had at least some introductory documentation. So, while there's no point in documenting and cleaning up everything, if you don't want to waste time on it, having a tutorial or "start here" documentation would probably help.

It takes a bit of courage to put up your "ugly" code out there, but then again, to paraphrase, if you're not ashamed of it, you waited too long :-) Maybe in the future you (or someone for whom the code is useful) will clean it up a bit, or add stuff to it. You never know.
It's not true of "Advanced" either (all "Advanced" does is give you x86-64 and a bunch of exotic architectures; "Advanced" is a price segregation scheme, not a community safeguard).
Interesting. My whole take was completely the opposite.

Browsers tend to have very little problem rendering invalid markup, and the savings costs associated with invalid markup (bandwidth, time, etc.) are very easily enumerated. So I would pose you this question:

What's wrong with invalid HTML, besides lack of some enigmatic adherence to idealism?
The scenarios you're describing seem a lot more like libraries loaning out physical copies of books, each of which can only be used by one person at a time. I think loaning out your NetFlix password is more akin to cable theft than to loaning out physical objects. If you're giving out your password to all of your friends, you're basically acting as a content distributor.

Still, I see no reason why this needs to be a law. NetFlix terms of service should cover it.
Looks cool, but there's no search box, you've got to have this, i.e. I want to see the tweets for True Blood. Also, when I click on a show, the Cats&Crew overlay doesn't display anything and cannot be closed (Firefox 3.6)
SEO Alignment Chart
Tyler Cowen argued this quite lucidly at http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2011/04/jer... .
Which has an obvious disadvantage over bitcoins: it has to be delivered in person.
Public education isn't even that expensive. Did you read the guy's letter? 7k/head/year, that's including everything. Society definitely gets a huge return on that investment. It should be a no-brainer.

Michigan is A) hard hit and B) elected a fundamentalist lunatic for a governor. The guy's been in office less than 6 months and everyone hates him already, he has an ideological beef with the idea of public education in general and teacher's unions in particular, so he's slashing those budgets even more than necessary to prove his point.
* - He didn't work to earn money (poor education, not enough opportunities) *

Is unskilled/semiskilled labor paid that badly?

Also, what value is an iPad 2? It is a simple gadget compared to an 'unlocked' computer. Like you, I might understand if he sold kidney for education.... an iPad2 will be worthless in 8 years.
But Facebook said it had copies of the two-page contract examined by Frank Romano, a professor emeritus at the Rochester Institute of Technology and an expert in document authentication. Professor Romano found “significant inconsistencies” in type sizes, spacing, margins and other details between pages 1 and 2. He concluded that Page 1 and Page 2 were printed at different times on different printers and that Page 1, which includes references to The Facebook Book, is an “amateurish forgery,” according to the motion.

Facebook said it also had Mr. Zuckerberg’s e-mail account at Harvard examined by a digital forensic expert and found that the e-mails Mr. Ceglia provided do not exist. The expert also found 175 other e-mails between the two men that never mentioned The Facebook, the company wrote in the motion.

Sounds pretty convincing to me. By all means, let Ceglia's team have at that if they want, but I'm pretty inclined at this point to believe that he's a scammer, coming way late to the "no really I own facebook" party with some forgeries.
"If you live in the U.S., you can't really understand their power," says Paul Jacobs, CEO of chipmaker Qualcomm

Very well said ... i guess north-american critics sometime have difficulty in understanding emerging markets and the brands that are popular there - the power of those brands and the market itself is greater than the rest of the world combined ... whoever wins these markets (emerging and yet-to-emerge) will be the ultimate winner (in long term of course).
They're a currency accepted by almost no one as payment

Just a point of interest -- the list of sites that accept Bitcoin (http://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Trade) is actually pretty long. I read it as a pretty good coverage of everyday commodities, actually. You can't pay for food, rent, or doctor bills with it, but you can buy a lot of other stuff.

I guess you could characterize that as almost no one, but you'd have to mean an insignificant fraction of the larger economy. If you mean useless for buying actual stuff with--and you seem to--you're demonstrably wrong.
My wife and I have a one disc plan and have streamed two videos simultaneously.
My Dad donated a kidney a few years back, and the hospital (UNC) made him undergo nearly a year of psych evals before they would do the surgery. At the time it seemed excessive, today I'm thankful for their caution.
Not much similar, but still useful: http://pyth0n.org/
How the Library of Congress is Building the Twitter Archive
I started the article just so I'd have notes for myself. When I finally got it done, I was surprised at the complexity.

I don't remember past installs of the bleeding edge being as tricky. Maybe just my selective memory.

On the other hand, we've now got better tools for maintaining a working environment and troubleshooting dependencies.
NYPD leaves a wallet on the ground. Someone picks it up with the intent to find the owner and return it, but the NYPD swoops in as soon as it's in hand and charges the person with theft. This has actually taken place in NYC. Law enforcement does do entrapment.
Slicehost uses XenSource.

Rackspace uses XenServer which is not quite the same thing.

Rackspace is migrating all slicehost customers to their XenServer based services and doing away with their XenSource product.
No, but it does rely on GNU.
I'm not seeing where services delivered to businesses are exempted.

Tennessee Code 39-14-127 (a)(2) is pretty explicit about being stiffed for services.
Nice, I just hope it stays up to date and the creators can turn their energy towards long term maintenance unlike http://visualjquery.com/.

Visual jQuery used to be my go to resource for years, until it became woefully out of date.
"It definitely makes sense on a traditional laptop."

If you have a keyboard, a mouse (or trackpad), and a big screen in front of you, or if the laptop weighs much more than 1.5 lbs, "touch" really adds limited functionality and might actually be tiring to use for a lot of common tasks (requiring much more movement unless your work area is perfectly calibrated). I returned an iPad 1 because I thought it was a little too heavy to be enjoyably used. I can't imagine using touch software on a 5 lb laptop or my work desktop for any length of time. So again, as impressive as Win8 looks, I don't think it does much to position Microsoft against the iPad and Android unless unless we see some outrageous hardware breakthroughs from Microsoft's partners.
Then there's a startup idea? One that maintains your content across a bunch of sites?
So is Microsoft abandoning .NET? I really don't see how HTML and Javascript are preferable to that.
GettyImages does this, or something very similar. They buy the rights to photos on Flickr, and they have a crawler out looking for instances of those photos. The order in which they do these things is unknown to me.
tl;dr -> Confronting the vast vastness of everything you don’t know and can never hope to understand will leave you a better man (or woman).

It gives you better frameworks for thinking.

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Right on the Money!

I love my education not because of the specifics of what I learned but because it taught me HOW to learn difficult things quickly (computer/electrical Engineering major) ... it gave me the confidence that I could also learn anything as long as I had good plan for how to go about it.

I can never put a price on that.
I'm torn between liking stories that shine a skeptical light on the bitcoin fad and being appalled at how much coverage bitcoin gets on HN. The "hiring" thread for June was pushed off the front page in less than a day, but we've had, what, 5 bitcoin stories hit the front page in the same time period?

I think it's time for some REPL intervention.
How to make an internship great
like respectfully handing over large sums of money?
Sorta like mortgages -- click 'we claim ownership' and call it done <g>.
Ugh. It is unusable in my iPad, which I very often use for browsing documentation when working on my laptop. The keyboard pops up every time a menu is selected because they menu events automatically selects the search box.

I tried to leave feedback, but e User Voice overlay is also horridly broken on the iPad.
I think that the correct ordering of documentation differs by how your brain functions.

I am very visual and my favorite JQuery documentation is http://visualjquery.com/

For the same reason I was best able to learn about using jQuery by using the sites here: http://www.readwriteweb.com/hack/2010/11/learning-javascript...
Uh, how about we just abolish last-in-first-out? That solves all of your problems without privatizing the whole school system.
I agree that your comment should have been more clear.
> Raise the stakes by putting a CC BY license (or CC BY-NC) on the comics.

This lowers the stakes. His work is automatically under copyright, and FunnyJunk has zero rights (outside of exceptions like fair use, which clearly isn't the case here) to the content by default.
AngelList Reversed: VCs/Angels - Entrepreneurs
Paul Graham has his Request for Startups. It's quite often that I hear that VCs/angels have great ideas that they would like entrepreneurs to work on but can't find people to work on them.

Is there currently a service that fits this need?

I imagine if you had a service like AngelList, but reversed, it would be quite popular. For example, entrepreneurs who are interested in this could sign up indicate their areas of interest and specialty.

Angels could then sign up, create an RFS, and push it to people they think are best suited to execute on such ideas. The service could help angels find the best matches for their ideas and get the conversation started.

It would be great for both parties. For entrepreneurs, they know they'd be working on an idea that at least someone is very interested in funding. For angels, they can have people pursue what they think are great ideas and create that initial relationship with the entrepreneurs.

Perhaps this is a feature that could be folded into AngelList.
The End is nigh for freewheeling social web?
Thanks. The search box is a good idea (can't believe I forgot to add it). As for other channels/shows I will be adding more, I just wanted to get it out there and start getting feedback