skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Go get some mental help for your own sake. I'm not allergic to facts you just haven't cited any and you're still avoiding answering my original question. Why are we in Afghanistan? 9/11. Why are we flying drones? Because your governments are corrupt/inept and incapable of eliminating terrorists. Any innocents who have died are collateral damage. Your country should have done a better job of preventing terrorists like Osama Bin Laden from launching attachs at the US. Remember before 9/11 we weren't attacking you, until you killed 3,000 civilians (including American Muslims).

You only have yourselves to blame.

"Your country has killed millions in wars of aggression."

Cite this please?

This is where I stop responding since your argument is based on the fantasies/voices in your head and not on facts/reality. You clearly have made up your mind that America=evil, but you still can't even answer if America is so bad, who is any better?

And if you can't offer up any country that does more good, then just be grateful and say "thanks".

You are welcome.
Apparently the best book on unix network programming is "learn python the hard way". Take that Richard Stevens !
In case you were wondering, content is extremely graphic/disturbing.
I think the point is that they aren't just going after illegal streaming sites, but also people linking to them. To use your analogy, they're going after drug dealers and people who tell you where you can find drug dealers.
Contingency design: Google Feedback
That is unrelated to an issue that essentially amounts to adding your friends' phone numbers (phone numbers they already made available to you) to your new address book when you get a new phone.
true, You can only catch the fruit when you go out on a limb, of course, you can also fall off the tree ... I really enjoyed this article ... dogspeed mad scientists, dogspeed!
Better Ruby DSLs
three letters :P but good point.
They're trying to put everything under the 'Google+ Umbrella'.
I'm less worried about the lack of competition than the lack of government oversight on behalf of the public or consumers.
How do you differentiate between saying the project was a combined effort vs. talking about two distinct entities. eg., My wife and my projects were casualties of the war. Did the projects the two of you were working on destroyed in the war, or did you lose your wife and your projects?
Combination of VMs and various computers. Windows, Mac, Linux, all regularly used.
The "Probablistic Functional Programming" paper was really fun, and it builds on some decades-old observations in mathematics.

You can easily extend the PFP framework to handle Bayes rule. I experimented with this a few years back, and was pleasantly surprised how natural it was:

http://www.randomhacks.net/articles/2007/02/22/bayes-rule-an...

(Or, for those who love details, a PDF: http://www.randomhacks.net/darcs/probability-monads/probabil... )
I'm not sorry because we haven't done anything. You're clearly mentally unhinged and believe a bunch of anti-American propaganda. You haven't cited any facts.

So now Google/NSA are running a global wiretapping program? sigh How naive and gullible are you?
Google+ integrated into search results
" including the horizontal google-bar at the top "

I believe this would just make everything too complicated than it needs to be for the average user; besides, the likelyhood is that the user already uses Google, so there's no need for Google to try and reel users in via a search applet (that would probs make YouTube look ugly).

And, aren't Google Accounts already merged with YouTube Accounts ?
Arch Linux, both Laptop & Desktop
17" MBP, SSD, 30" external monitor. Perfect machine for my needs, portable for meetings, travel, and when I just want to work out on the deck, but plenty powerful with good screen real estate.
If edge case segfaults were fatal flaws Windows should never have shipped. I say 'edge case' because obviously there are millions of lines of Ruby code running for years on MRI/YARV/REE that have not encountered this error often enough to cause the kind of breathless panic you seem to think is appropriate.

BTW the CLR is not a good alternative runtime for Ruby, might not ever be: http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/whats-next-for-microsoft...

You did good work here -- don't hurt your credibility with overstatement.
I assume the target is people that need to build something (re: anything) to show to investors. Kind of like a brochure.

Orrrr he lives somewhere very inexpensive (not the case).

The former is actually not a bad idea.
It's tau/4 that's sitting in the fourth postulate, and tau is right there in the fifth (the sum of all four angles formed by the "straight line falling" on the side of the two straight lines' intersection).

Besides, Euclid would have been a tau advocate, as he defined circles with their radius, which is clearly superior to the diameter.

I can't help people chose the poorer constant for so long; I can only hope to help correct them.
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Scammers inject bogus news to BBC web site
Yeah, if I could get the Air with 8 GB of RAM it would be REALLY tempting... (Oracle + Eclipse + JBoss etc... eats a lot of RAM).
I don't even quite know what to say. I knew Len from back in the mid-90s and had sporadic occasion to correspond with him for the many years after (always via PGP- of course). All I can do is reflect back to tell you that, indeed, he was valued.

- Black Unicorn
Archlinux on a mac.. not sure if I should say Linux or Mac laptop. My guess would be "linux" since you can't really have a windows or "other UNIX" laptop..
But you don't have a problem with them sharing your information with anyone as long as it's a technology provider? Even if that technology provider has a fundamental interest in abusing that access and using your data for purposes far beyond than what you or your friend ever intended?
This is Hacker News, not End User News.
Just because the US has historically had jurisdiction doesn't mean they always should forever. ICE has taken actions recently that proves conclusively they don't deserve this authority.
So this means it's of utmost importance that you stay alive for the next 25-50 years so you don't die before this technology comes out.

And when it does come out, chances are it'll be uber expensive initially, so it's also critical you start a multi-million dollar startup in your lifetime.

Hmm.. finally some motivation for me to exercise regularly and not be lazy hacking at my side business =)
Ageist statement for sure. Better to argue for term limits and the abolition of gerrymandering. That would probably help with your problem.
Good point on the top bar. I still have a YouTube account that I'm almost positive wouldn't log me in to anything besides YouTube, maybe that's not true or maybe its just because I'm grandfathered in.
Lest all the Mac people tilt this playing field, I'll weigh in and say I have a Windows laptop and desktop. I run a VM on each for Ubuntu when I can, and use Cygwin when I can't (I'm looking at you, Oracle, and shaming you for your USB device support under VirtualBox).
I'd run Linux all the time if the driver support was there for my POS laptop, but it's not and I doubt it ever will be: I simply need the optimized Windows drivers for the display and battery.
You can get A LOT of mileage out of Cygwin and the ilk - plenty for my needs. As a desktop/web developer, bash/vim/make/python, etc. are but a click away.
I'd only get a Mac for iOS development, and even then I would hate my life under XCode.
Lisp doesn't take any more time to get productive in it, than any other modern language. It takes a bit longer to really get it though. There are a lot of things in Common Lisp that take some time to sink in, because you rarely see them in other languages, like macros, generic functions, conditions, etc. But you don't need to know these things to start using lisp right away.
I will definitely be using this. Great job. My only advice would be to add features slowly. It's great right now because it is simple.
iMac 21"(with second monitor) and MacBook 13"
Twitter Said To Be Raising More Money At $7 Billion Valuation
I think the danger in this approach is that you're moving towards just being a regular consultant which sort of defeats the purpose of what I think he's trying to do. I think this illustrates why consulting is really what lots of people are after even though they like the idea of fixing costs. You can't have it both ways.
Inspired by Fabrice's browser PC: an HTML5 Apple 2 emulator (w/ WebGL graphics)
15" i7 mbp, ssd, 20" external. my one and only machine. I expect it to last at least two more years with a 8gb ram upgrade.
I want to say my MBP since I can also get a VM of Windows, Linux, and FreeBSD. But since I spend most of my day at work, that unfortunately means Windows Desktop.
Weak brands dilute the core brand in saturated markets.

Perfect branding lies in the sweet spot between unique and recognizable (or self-explanatory for domains, see my post on this http://t.co/ecbsWcp), but it depends on mindshare.

"GMail" is in the sweet spot between the faceless title "Google Mail" and the unrecognisable "Jabberwocky". YouTube won the mindshare landrush for consumer video and became a household brand name. Rebranding it would be dumb.

Picasa, on the other hand, is similar to "Google Reader" in that it solves a smaller problem in a highly crowded market. Smaller brands with multiple competitors strengthen the core "Google" brand by living under the umbrella as "GPhoto", "Google Brush" or "Google Reader", for example.

Would like to hear counter-points.
15" Early 2011 MBP, 8GB Ram, SSD, 27" Apple LED. I also have an 8-core Mac Pro, but find myself rarely using since getting the latest MBP (which is crazy fast, and with the SSD, feels faster than the Mac Pro in daily use)
Unless, in certain cases one law overrules another even thought the two are completely separate. Case in point: https://www.facebook.com/topic.php?uid=139484910828&topi...

Note: I am not concerned with immigration, but de-facto denial of basic rights and discrimination on the basis of nationality in cases where those rights are basic human rights, and not privileges granted by the state.
I think it'd be really cool if I could see popular searches. Despite the fact that the title of the page is "...for any topic", I had no idea whether it was programming or what, though that may have been because my random book was K&R
UML- Useless Meaningless Lousy?
> The meaning does not depend on the definition of a circle but on the properties of the exponential function

Actually, you can go backwards and say that its circular properties define the exponential function. Euler's formula describes the rotation of the unit vector through the imaginary plane.

> As for sin(x)...specific values of arc length do not enter the definition

It's not about the definition, it's about the meaning. Sin(x) is the height of the circle at x radians. And it's super awesome with tau: one tau is full circle, and one period.
One of the guys working on this said "Please tell your friends using Google Apps that we're working to make Google+ available to them. Sorry for the delay - we need to do it right!" Teams from across the company have been working very, very hard to make sure all the consumer apps are available to Google Apps account users:
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/11/ten-times-more-applic...
Especially with one of those crazy little power docks - that thing has a GPU that can power a pair of additional monitors = 4 in total on Sony's laptop!
I've been looking to add chat/support/knowledge base to one of my consumer facing sites now for a month or two, and out of everything I've looked at/tested, I'm most excited for this. I tested out assist.ly, and while powerful, it just seemed like overkill. Olark was a bit expensive in my opinion and missed the support features, and there were a ton of other ones which were all in the gaps.

LOVE the iPhone app side of it, can't wait to test that (I'm assuming you know the link on the main page doesn't go to the app store, but my search didn't list it either, so I presume it isn't published yet)

Looks like it has some great potential, congrats. The only thing I can say negative is when I type groove in the url it will auto bring me to grooveshark, so I'll be forced to type out the whole url ;-)
>tau is right there in the fifth (the sum of all four angles formed by the "straight line falling" on the side of the two straight lines' intersection).

...yes, but that makes the postulate meaningless! You have to look at one side of the line in order for the postulate to have any relevance.

>Euclid would have been a tau advocate

Oh yeah? Well.. well... Ramanujan would have been a pi advocate! Ha!

>which is clearly superior to the diameter.

It is expedient in the process of mathematical argumentation. Looking at expedience, though, we see that using a constant 2pi introduces an untoward amount of fractions into just about every mathematical calculation -- see for example here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basel_problem#A_rigorous_proof_...

Irrespective of the definition of constants, which is long since forgotten at this point (how much of a pain is it to define a circle, starting from ZFC?), it is kind of disappointing to see you refusing to read the proofs which you claim to be clarifying -- most of them get uglier moving to tau, on a cursory examination of the seminal work Proofs from THE BOOK. Go on, mentally replace every instance of "2pi" with "tau" and "pi" with "tau/2" in, say, this paper:

http://www.maths.tcd.ie/pub/HistMath/People/Riemann/Zeta/EZe...
5+ year old hardware generally is, unless you have modest requirements.

Going forward can probably run OpenIndiana or OpenBSD on it, as Solaris 11 doesn't support non-T or -M class Sparc hardware.
Congrats guys. Well deserved.
Well, I chose "Windows Laptop", since I primarily use a Win 7 laptop physically. My actual development, however, happens inside a VNC window on a remote Linux box.
The History of Mathematical Symbols
"What our community wants in wireless phone and Internet service is exactly what Americans in general want: more access, faster service, and competitive pricing. On all three counts, we believe that the facts strongly favor the merger."

I do believe that someone can write a grand satire of this whole circus. "The Marriage of T-Mobile." Do I smell a Tony?
https://hackernewspoll.appspot.com/2731321
I'm always really surprised to see the large representation of Macs in the hacker community.

Apple seems to be loved by consumers, which no doubt makes people want to target things like the iPhone. But I admit I haven't bought anything from them because from my perspective their policies seem to be generally hostile to developers, and they seem to advocate the most-walled garden that they can get away with.

I'm guessing though that my views are perhaps either way off kilter, or people just don't mind as much as I do about these sort of things?
Minimum Convex Decomposition Algorithm
That is a PHP to C compiler, is it not?
Your assumptions are invalid.

The radius is not the smallest amount of information which determines a circle. The radius and origin can determine a circle. So can the diameter and origin, or the circumference and origin, or the area and origin. Don't forget your geometry.
The top three most important features:
1.SSD
2.SSD
3.SSD

It's amazing. If you're contemplating getting a new machine, you can probably get by with adding an SSD. They're incredible.
Linux desktop day job, Mac laptop at home for thesis hacking.
As Draegtun says, the (very welcome) Camel update is coming this October.

http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596004927
Ask HN: What's the best way to find (paid) startup work as a web team?
Hi Guys,

We are a team of two web developers and a designer (experienced Rails developers but by no means exclusive).

We're currently on consulting contracts (hence the throwaway account, apologies). We could continue to find similar contracts - at big or boring companies - in order to pay rent. But we'd like not to.

We'd like to work with a start up or a small business. We've got our own side projects too, and so we think we could really help out and make a difference, as opposed to sitting back and chilling out at a larger company.

Unfortunately, every start up (or potential startup) we reach out to has the same idea - "Oh, just work for equity" (the landlord doesn't take equity), or they want us only as full-time employees (won't work due to aforementioned side projects).

Are we just asking for too much?

How do people running startups/small businesses feel about hiring experienced contractors?

Would you prefer a less experienced employee to a more experienced contractor, all else being equal?
I had difficulty understanding namecoin. Do you simply pay for DNS registration with namecoins or is the DNS itself hosted in a decentralized and anonymous fashion?
Have you tried disabling Unity? http://www.mysensetechnology.com/2011/04/ubuntu-1104-how-to-...
This class of subtle bugs exists whether or not your GC is accurate as soon as you take the red pill and leave the VM environment. If you forget to add your C pointer to the accurate GC's root set, you're just as dead. Related story: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=217189
Fexl now supports eager evaluation
Lacking the privilege to obscure, hide or restrict access to information is not a violation of free speech. Similarly "I'm not allowed to shut people up!" doesn't mean you are persecuted.
Thinkpad X201, Archlinux, xmonad, luks full root encryption.
The default config for server engineers @ foursquare:

15" MBP, 2.2GHz quad-core i7, 8GB ram, 256GB SSD, external 24" dell flatscreen, external mouse and/or keyboard to taste.
Nice job thinking of the little guy!
Fedora XFCE desktop. Also Fedora on laptop, netbook and servers. Non-tech wife: Fedora desktop too.
The point of people using OS X is that it works out of the box with things like power management, has great software design, runs a legitimate unix CLI, and has solid commercial apps like MS Office and Adobe CS.

In the portable realm other OS's fail on at least some/all of these points, hence all the Mac laptop users.
I have to agree that the retirement of Blogger is saddening. And Picasa is such a snappy name!
I'm pretty sure you are wrong, and the original author is correct. The subject of this sentence is "one teen", so the verb should be singular, so "is" is correct.
Actually, UTC isn't enough for storing a date, at least not a date in the future. If I schedule a single event for 3pm on October 1 (currently in the future), I expect it to stay at 3pm. Even if my city hosts the Olympics: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/257178

Note also that not all governments are in the habit of giving sufficiently advance notice of daylight saving changes.
>>The applications just aren't even close to being where I'd need them to be

I am a Mac/Linux user. My application problem is the opposite -- apt on Ubuntu is much less pain than port on the Mac.
We talk of 10x, but the truth is we are rarely confronted with it in our daily lives. Maybe 1.5x, but not 10x. When we do meet 10x, the order of magnitude is so staggering that we attempt to explain it away.

Here's another 10x, who happened to go to my high school: http://mathoverflow.net/questions/37825/what-are-jacob-lurie...
Developing FOR the Apple garden is different than developing WITHIN the Apple garden.

Simply put, the Mac is probably the best development platform for a number of reasons. The hardware is generally top notch, the platform is, despite a lot of add-ons, nix-based (which means you have Vim, access to perl, python, ruby, Bash shell), can be dual-booted into Windows for access to Windows-only tools (Visual Studio, for example) and IS the only acceptable development platform for Mac tools.

In short, if I want to do Mac development, I have to have a Mac; and there's little that the Mac can't do for any other platforms.
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Pot calling the kettle black, much? Please stop the anti-American trolling. I've noticed you consistently go from thread to thread spreading anti-American propaganda without citing any facts and insulting others: Africa like how you stood by and watched Rwanda butcher itself, quibbling over using the word 'genocide' to avoid hurting your allies, and own, historical images.

Or how WW2 the USA waited out much of the war while its allies were getting pummeled. Joining the war only when the USA was attacked. As spoils the USA has military bases in Germany, Italy, Japan, etc, and joint political control of much oil-rich and strategically important territory: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2729132
> This is no different than anyone being paid to advertise.

Really? I find that hard to believe. They are using (abusing) their position as a respected non-profit to further the goals of their benefactors. Now, there might be nothing illegal about this, but I posit that if we live in a society that largely accepts this as par for the course, then the FCC should be largely disregarding whatever these groups are saying, rather than taking them into account.

Personally, I find this to be a form of fraud. They were being paid to have a particular opinion, while obfuscating the fact that they didn't reach that opinion on their own and without coercion in the form of money donations (or the real/perceived threat of receiving no future donations). Let's face it, their 'opinion' would be much less effective had they disclosed that they were being paid to have it.
The design of the site looks really good, and I think there's definitely a need for this. Right now I don't think there are many good (and affordable) tools to manage different support channels. I have tried other options like Hootsuite or Assistly before, and they just didn't work that well. There's an opportunity for something that is fast, functional, and isn't a nightmare to set up.

The biggest question in my mind is "how much does it cost?!" This is really the most important part. Why sign up to try something out if you don't know if you can afford it in the first place? I hate it when companies hide the pricing info behind a wall.

Also, it would be really great if you could have a working demo that people can play with, because the descriptions look great and all, but it's hard to tell how well it actually works without something to play with.
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Writing & Publishing are Important
Google to launch flight search service soon
Thanks for the links.

I do think it's relevant that a corporation that has that kind of clout with the government is something you should be just as afraid of as branches of the government themselves, but I still feel like the potential for abuse by Facebook and the Chinese government is not even close.
Agreed; deleted.
> I think the point with software patents is that the majority of cases tend towards the "wrong" result

That's the claim, but there hasn't been much supporting evidence other than "that doesn't deserve a patent". The vast majoritiy of the "that was obvious" claims are pure hindsight. (Yes, some software patents have been overturned because of prior art, just as happens in other fields.)

I particularly like the "that's just math" (which is often claimed wrt RSA). You never hear someone says "that's just chemistry" wrt chemical application patents. (You can't patent chemistry any more than you can patent math.)
I've found FF5 to be far worse on memory than FF4 and FF3. At the end of a <8 hour browser session on my 16GB work PC, it had exceed 3GB of RAM.

Hopefully this will change it.
I can't convince you, but that doesn't make anything you've said above correct.
In that sentence, "one" is the subject and "in four teens" is a prepositional phrase. When choosing the verb form, we look at the subject, which is this case is singular. So, "is" is in fact the correct form to use.

A more detailed explanation can be found here:
http://www.chompchomp.com/terms/prepositionalphrase.htm
> What would it take to declare the domain of the internet as its own sovereign entity?

An army.