skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you think about it, it's no different than reporting a bug. You and your team know you should fix it, but there are always more pressing issues on your plate. You probably won't move it to the top of your list until either a large number of users complain or a one user complains very loudly.
I've found some data sources online (different ones for each sport). It's probably not totally legal but I'll post the links when I get home.

Thanks for the feedback!
Capitalizing Every Word Does Not Help With The Readability.
Wells Fargo to pay $12 million in ADA settlement
Ask HN: Should we send an e-mail for registered interest.
Hi,

I'm working on a new startup and have put up a splash page for people to leave their e-mail addresses. We have purposefully not chosen to send them an e-mail when they add their details and instead a message pops up saying thanks and we'll be in touch soon etc.

This is because there isn't a lot to say as yet, it really is very early days and we don't want to a)annoy people with email and b)give any specific details on the product.

Someone who recently registered asked 'why did I not receive an e-mail after registering?' - which got me thinking... do people expect an e-mail when they register and should we maybe send one.

What do you think?
Grow a sense of humor.
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You would have a hard time finding anyone who uses off-the-shelf cryptography so carefully that long-term resident code on their box couldn't capture all the relevant keys. Your comment seems wishful.

People do the same segregation, between long-term non-transactional accounts and short term spending accounts, with their bank accounts. But businesses still need to keep non-connected isolated quarantined machines to access the bank.

The comment you're responding to didn't argue that wallets couldn't be encrypted. He argued that in the (not unlikely) event that a malware incident on your machine was able to compromise your wallet, you'd have no recourse. And: he's right. You wouldn't.
In a previous discussion someone suggested forming a reverse patent troll organization that accepted donations of patents from open source developers and whoever, and used them to counter sue patents trolls. The obvious problems are it's expensive to file for patents and lawsuits, and it doesn't protect against "pure" trolls.

Another idea: a simple community that accepts and publishes every random software idea anyone ever comes up with in order to establish prior art.

Perhaps include mechanisms to discover patent applications linked to relevant keywords, etc.

What would it take to prove the date of submissibon to the system? Is there some type of digital notary that we could send a daily batch of documents?
This being USA, can the thief sue this guy for violating his privacy? Is the violation of privacy for those 3-4 individuals for a month less valuable than the price of Macbook in the eyes of law?
That's ridiculous and awesome. I'm glad regular expressions exist so we can make garbage/magic like that
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Please somebody let me know if I missing something here but this is what happens when a CEO is a totally incompetent. Five years later Nokia doesn't have an iPhone alternative and the best shot is to sell yourself to the enemy of your enemy which I don't really think is a enemy since Stephen Elop is a former Microsoft Executive.

I mean, I like Windows Phone, Silverlight and XNA are awesome platforms, but Symbian OS wasn't that bad...

and to do what?...

the two companies have already reached a deal to create new Windows Phone devices, a dozen of which are expected to launch next year

... a dozen phones? Don't get me wrong but if Nokia wanted to create more segmentation between it's products why don't they join Android party anyway?
Take the $23 billion dollars it takes to build the first Gerald R. Ford Carrier and invest that into various decentralized, independent, small technologies

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stealth_ship

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_212_submarine

A fleet of Sea Shadow type vessels and Air Independent Propulsion submarines combined with a good land-based air force would make life very difficult for carrier battle groups.
I am not big fan of them, but one explanation: mobile phones got decent browsers, but entering URLs still suck. QR codes solve that problem.
Also, we have foosball.
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Historical documents/analysis on who owns the Unix copyrights
I don't find this article applicable to hacking at all. Maybe running a business, but I don't follow the necessary relationship between hacking and business.
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I think they surely have a backup merchant account for such cases.
OT: What's with the recent prevalence of ginormous favicons? (In this case, 300 x 300?) Is there a context where the large size is a benefit? (Tablets?)
Huh? No it can't.
I suspect it's a perception issue... the price difference between a slim programming book and a fat one is minimal. Dropping $50-$60 on a tome feels like a better value if you have to wheel it out with a dolly, instead of slipping it in your pocket.
Big warships could accomodate bigger cannons. Bigger cannons could deliver bigger shells further, enabling your warships to hit the enemy while keeping out of their range.

In hindsight, if the ability to deliver more ordinance a longer distance was the thing, the aircraft carrier should have been a shoo-in.
Simpler: Mathematical formulas can't be patented.

Haskel is a lambda calculus implementation. Therefore implementing ANYTHING in haskel will mean that it is just a mathematical formula (have a program to transform it so we can put it to court) and therefore as long as anything is implemented in haskel at least once it proves that that something is just a unpatentable mathematical formula.

If the laws won't change to accommodate us, we should pull out the guns (metaphorical).
Fucking hippies! :)
Blip.tv Signs Distribution Deal With Fred and Other Collective Video Producers
> I think the reason countries use missile silos and stationary bases is actually for ability to protect key installations and arms during domestic unrest and rioting, which is a statistically much more likely problem for a world power than getting hit with a first strike from another major world power...

You are very mistaken. The only reason domestic unrest is a more likely danger for a world power is because the country we are speaking of already has missile silos and stationary bases in the first place. Ownership of missile silos with nuclear warheads reduces chances of attack by a foreign power by such a huge amount that domestic unrest becomes a more realistic threat.
True, but the issue is that what defines happy is up to the individual programmer and articles that try to define it just lead to generating debate, ex. vi vs. emacs.
If this turns out to be true... well, Nokia missed its damn chance by not buying Palm when it still could. webOS would have gotten some real traction on that famous Nokia hardware quality. It would have been a real Win-Win.
We Don't Need to Abolish Software Patents
I cannot speak to the accuracy of sales vs size, but I wholeheartedly support smaller, better books. I have seen this same trend in textbooks, and it's maddening. Nobody can work through an 800-page textbook on one semester, and it's easy to get the feeling that most of these are exhaustive for their own sake.

Smaller, better books please. I have been, and will continue to, vote with my wallet.
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You probably knew this, but that statement is a bad mistranslation: "Die reale Wirtschaft darf nicht zum Monopoly-Spiel werden." = "The real economy must not become a Monopoly game." (note the capital M in Monopoly).

He isn't saying that bitcoin shouldn't monopolize the economy, he is saying that funny colored bills shouldn't be the economy. What the difference a capitalization makes...

However, can anyone point me at what a "real" economy is in the first place? Rare near-useless metal hauled from the depths of the ear = real economy? Rare near-useless bits hauled from the depths of the internet = no real economy?
Right. Now that the model/actor has been arrested by police, he can probably get out of paying the guy.
http://fightingforalostcause.net/misc/2006/compare-email-reg... is a good site that has a number of email regex variants and how well they do on various email address formats.
I'd like to try my hand at playing around with the Zarrly API. Is there documentation?
Photoshopped, I knew it!
Nokia's current market capitalization is over $25 billion.
As a user, this is my preferred way of having things work out. For SaaS, though, I can understand why a company would eventually want to purge incomplete, unconverted trials from their servers.

Perhaps a system that offered 14 free days of use could expire the account after 60 or days. That seems like a reasonable compromise to me.
Was there ever a computer as ugly as the IBM-PC?

I imagine even the Commodore 16 could reboot itself reliably.
Heh ... I'm just reading Hackers and Painters ... I think it said some of the greatest programmers subscribe to Libertarianism, and gives good reasons why. Touche!
Reminds me of how many greats expired when they stopped their "thing". Stanley Kubric died within a week of finishing post-production on Eyes Wide Shut. Charles Schultz ended Peanuts after exactly 50 years, and expired a week later.

This alongside others who quit, sometimes repeatedly, only to return. Anthony Hopkins has sworn off acting several times. Berkley Breathed can't quit Opus after ending 3+ comic strip series.

The article used the slang term "anorak" to describe Eminem - someone who is utterly focused on one activity. Attempts to engage them in any other activity (save perhaps basic family functions) fail. Eminem has rapped about often shunning the indulgences of rockstardom in favor of locking himself in a bathroom stall or dank stairwell just to scribble lyrics in a ratty notebook.

They're great because it's all they do and all they can do, and greatness is a natural consequence. Take it away, and they either fight to resume it or expire in emptiness.
Intrade CEO dies climbing Mt. Everest
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>>>I don't think you can have two competing "standards" in the same market for commodity platforms.

iOS, Android, webOS, WindowsPhone. There's four. Do you really think that rule applies here too? Of the four, I see only Android as becoming commodity quickly.
This is just a laptop but really uncool stuff goes down all the time and there is not a lot the cops can do without a plate number or pictures. My dad's place in Oakland (Well secured warehouse) has had people try to break in five times over the last year and a half. The really fun one was 3 guys on the roof and one guy holding a neighbor kid hostage in the kids van so he would not call the cops. They are looking for pot grows and it happens all the time in Oakland. (They tried to drive their truck through the rollup doors of the neighbors warehouse) Not a damn thing you or a the cops can do except put up some cameras and shoot them if they get in your house.
ZeroMQ Basics
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In the United States, you cannot lawfully be paid a salary in "bitcoins". Nor can you negotiate a contract that claims that you're a contractor and not an employee if your role is substantially that of an employee (meaning: the entity paying you controls the means, scheduling, and financing of your work over a prolonged period).

You can of course enter into an arrangement with a company, do work for the company, receive "bitcoins" from the company, and both go on your merry way. But the company "paying" you has exposed itself to extreme liability with the IRS; it is probably on the hook not only for the employers half of dollar-denominated self-employment tax, but for the employee's half as well, plus penalties, interest, and legal fees.
IANAL
There is a law on the books about privacy. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privacy_laws_of_the_United_Stat...
Good luck trying to convince a Judge or a court that you should have privacy when you have stolen something...
The so called "lobby organization" says on their website "we are the web" - a statement which usually pretty much disqualifies one from speaking for anyone but themselves.
They would probably just use a highly reputable bitcoin bank. It could stay anonymous because there could be "cash for bitcoin" like sites around cities and a transfer could be made into the bitcoin bank without anyone ever knowing.

If you assume a world where everyone is using something like bitcoin these banks are extremely tempting hacker targets. If Bank of America gets hacked and someone discovers that a hacker/rouge employee/software bug/whatever transferred money from account A to account B they can reverse it.

One thing that hackers have taught me is that the only secure computer is one that's unplugged. The C compiler backdoor is a good place to start thinking about this: http://scienceblogs.com/goodmath/2007/04/strange_loops_denni...

What if you woke up one morning and on the news the president was telling the country that overnight all of the savings in Citibank had been transferred to an unknown individual/entity by a group of disgruntled employees… They're in jail now but we don't know who now has the 2 trillion dollars that was transferred. Keep using bitcoin.

Even if the wealth is gained legally, it leads to a system with no accountability. Everything is under the table.

What happened to geeks valuing transparency in government/corporate governance? I think geeks see this as freedom but it will do nothing more than might makes right. The system benefits geeks today and thugs with guns tomorrow. It's the perfect system for secretly applying your will onto the world without accountability. Who's good at that today? The mafia, gangs, corrupt politicians, dictators…

Gah, I have to collect my thoughts on this. I'm getting off into crazyville but I feel like this is where it leads.

I worry… I worry…
How the ‘Thumbs Up/Like’ Button is Dumbing Us Down
I'm still waiting for a clone of Darklands.
>Masters in CS? MBA? Business in CS? Law + CS?

Make up your mind first, then u will know.

>What opportunities would each offer?

Endless opportunities..as far as you can see or imagine.
But i would be biased towards CS because you can make a product and be off to the market very easily...if you know what you are doing...

>Employment opportunities before and after. How is it affected?

Help lower unemployment stats......think of creating jobs instead.
Ask HN: Do you know any web application template starter kit?
Most of the web applications these days have some standard components such as user registration, login, signout, updating profile etc. If you add saas into the mix, that would include billing, membership tiers etc. It would be nice if these are available as part of a starter kit, so a developer can focus on the core app. This helps a lot in developing prototypes fast and a bit more complete.

So, do you know any good web application starter kit that includes some of the above features? It could be in any language.
Unfortunately those of you who really deserve patents will not be able to make them rise above the noise of this lunacy. We're eventually going to have to go with "no software patents at all" to fix this. As a society, we just haven't outgrown the greedy thuggery that could allow us to respect each others work without gaming the system into tragedy of the commons territory.

A classic case of "see, this is why we can't have nice things".
There's a reason the media always mentions the alleged in conjunction with a claimed crime. You know, the whole presumption of innocence thing that some consider important in a free society.
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It will surely drop below $19B when they start making only WP7 phones ;-)

Elop has barely arrived. Give the man some time.
I have the Java book -- tome -- he talks about, and completely agree. I purchased it years ago when I was first learning the language, and after attempting to slough through it I wound up giving up.

It has been my experience that the books I get the most out of are the more concise ones. There appears to be a negative correlation between the size of a programming book and its actual usefulness.
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Some missing facts:

1. Profit warning came about from two trends:
-China CDMA, Nokia still does not have devices
-Low cost android phones eating Nokia Series 40 market

MS buying Nokia or Nokia licensing MS Phone does nothing to alleviate those two trends...I get the impression that the
division that got their vote on Nokia acquiring mobile service firms stomped their feet as Nokia licensing Ms Phone only protects the Nokia mobile services assets/market.
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You could also lose $81,000 in cash by setting it on fire.

Care should be taken with any large currency transaction, digital or otherwise. Though the delicacy of data (from a consumer storage standpoint) is definitely a hit against the concept.
Programming Perl is definitely guilty of this.
Any proof he is actually arrested?
What is the law that prohibits payment in bitcoins? Is payment in euros also illegal?

(Might you be conflating payment in bitcoins with payment off the books?)
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Adding a couple of ? at the end and re-submitting a story that is still on the first page (#17 right now) is not cool.

I understand that there is an update on the story, but is re-submitting the only way to convey that to HN? Not quite sure.