skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For the planet.

Funnily enough my little lad asked me randomly "can we have cod". I'm conscious that we should only eat tuna once a week (line caught seems hot at the moment) but don't eat much fish and hadn't thought about mercury/environmental chemicals for other catches.
I'm afraid that was my first impression as well: this is a person who likes to give instructions to other people and thinks they should all consider it a privilege to work with his start-up.

Clarity and conciseness are good, but the tone here came across as complacent/arrogant to me. Maybe it's a cultural thing; I'm a Brit, and often find US business people way too in-your-face to create a good impression and fit in well over here.

Probably no harm done in this case, because any successful investor surely cares more about the facts than the tone anyway.
I have never played this game so please help me out on the model works - once I buy the virtual currency, can I "cash out" (back to physical dollars)? Are there different exchange rates for buying & selling the virtual currency for real money?
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Yes, Windows does have sandboxing APIs of sorts, but they are not used nearly as much, either by the system or by third-party apps, as Lion sandboxing. This is probably in part because the relevant Windows APIs are extremely course-grained and therefore very hard to use.
UK english is a minefield of shibboleths which we use to pigeonhole each other with startling efficiency.

Classic example from my FB newsfeed: http://i.imgur.com/MWOjQ.png
i don't see any great advantage that outweighs the cost of switching from python. the language is not that different, but i already know python, my co-workers know python, and python has more libraries and wider support.

i am not criticising lua in any way - from what i know of it, it is exemplary (there's a good paper on its implementation that i enjoyed). but languages don't succeed on intrinsic qualities alone.
"it's entirely unacceptable to break into websites and commit unlawful acts"

This is quite the hypocritical statement coming from the FBI. As far as I can tell, the only difference between Anonymous, Lulzsec, and the FBI is that the FBI act by executive fiat. I don't support Internet vigilanteism, but I also don't support the concept of the FBI as an untouchable force who are no longer held accountable by the public they are theoretically serving.

At this point, I'm not sure which one I find more scary.
This is part of a pretty disturbing general trend of large corporations using the criminal justice system as if it were an extension of themselves. I honestly don't see how anyone at Cisco who signed off on this sleeps at night.
I'm no expert here but I think Node gives you the ability to convey command-line args to JavaScript out of the box. From the brief research I have done, it appears that you need to write a C wrapper to do this with V8. If the JavaScript does not require command-line args, it will run just fine with V8.
What's a troll? Definitions vary, but they all agree that it includes not innovating, just purchasing and asserting patents.

All I was saying is that this definition doesn't really fit.
I'm guessing that a civil action against Cisco will be pending. This guy has already shown that he was willing to take them on in court. And given how thoroughly the Canadian judge rebuked the US attorney in the case, I doubt the US will be much help to Cisco in the matter.

Playing hardball is one thing, but this is way over the line.
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How to Choose the Right Startup to Join
no, please don't.
Very interesting. I really like the concept of draggable digits. They are more compact than sliders, easier to make changes to and give better feedback. Now I wish this was a standard UI element / HTML input type.
What I don't understand is why people complain about valuations being too high/out of line with what they want, and just complain (or try to pick only "cheap" deals), vs. increasing the value they add to transactions.

YC adds huge value to transactions, and gets deal terms which, from any non-value-add investor, would be extortionate.

C and D list VCs add no value (and may actively destroy it), and a lot of them aren't even allowed into top deals. For other deals, they sometimes get to fill out a round ("fill out" a round where you've raised $800k on a goal of "raising $1mm round" but actually wanted to and end up raising $2mm").

If I were investing, I'd rather either build my personal network (and thus get into deals earlier and on more favorable terms; a few months early on a seed round might mean you actually do get to invest in the next PayPal or Google), or get really well known in a niche (Big Data, online payments, etc.) to concentrate value-add. Then, you get access to the hottest deals in that space, where the valuation is less critical, AND you might get in earlier (and thus get better terms). Or, if you believe the seed/A valuations are too close, you might get to invest $50-100k right before the A round, thus not having much risk.

It seems like the smaller angels are much more focused on the cost to get into deals, whereas the best investors are more focused on making sure they get access to the top 1% of deals. Paying 50% more on every investment you make is still better than missing the 1-5% of investments which make all your money.
Earvin ‘Magic’ Johnson Joins Detroit Venture Partners
Ask HN: any reader of HN in Hessen in Germany?
It would be nice to organize a HN meet up also here in Hessen.
I didn't say stop at jquery. But I do think its the easiest introduction to the language for someone with no functional background. If they stop there, that's they're fault. Once they learn an easy subset, its much easier to transition into the intermediate to advanced parts of the language. Regardless of programming language, if someone stops learning as soon as they can write a functional script, they're a bad dev.
And Photobooth… Everything is so grey almost to the point of hurting usability (I still miss the coloured Finder folder icons) and out of nowhere you have the cartoonish apps such as iCal, AB and Photobooth. WTFmate indeed.
jjm - I tried to do a plus/minus on each piece of the framework. I think I agree w/ you in spirit. I'm even using bits of backbone in my finished project, just not all of it. With backbone seemingly getting the lions share of the press lately, I wanted to show that there are other frameworks, and while incomplete, they excel in some areas that backbone does not.
I'm sure whoever signed off on it probably assuages themself with money, hookers, and blow.
The amount of cash in your bank account has nothing to do with the amount of debt you have. In many cases the more debt you have the more cash you have because when you raise that debt through a bond issuance corporations receive the cash before spending it. It isn't like it is in the consumer world where you typically only acquire debt as loan for an asset (car, home, etc).
#startups on irc.freenode.net is HN's irc channel, for one.
The thought that anyone should need to save a business model is mind-boggling to me. If it works, it'll make money. If it doesn't make money, people don't want it enough.

It's not like there are only a few newspapers in this country and that they could go extinct while people still want to buy them.
> EDIT: There is a simple unstated question that this thread brings out, though: are you an enemy of my country?

Why are you putting this on some kind of George W. Bush paradigm? The government and the country are not the same thing.

> They feel the system is so corrupt that they have made it their enemy.

I believe that the system is corrupt but that doesn't mean I've made it my "enemy." This line of thinking leads to any criticism of the government as being "unpatriotic." That's not a good road for the country to start going down.
It's going to take some getting used to the low contrast for me. Window titles and source list items are much more subtle now, for better and worse. Overall I think I like it. The focus on content should be a good thing.

Right now I have a separate Lion partition so I'm switching back and forth. Once I go 100% Lion it'll be much easier to get used to it.
Aside from the fact that Gandhi and MLK both broke the law which has already been pointed out, there isn't much reason to have any faith in even the highest levels of American government. If all avenues of redress have been removed or obstructed by corrupt officials, what would you propose anybody do? Let's forget for a moment that what they're up to is actually non-violent civil disobedience for a moment and pretend it is something more: so what? "Violence is never the answer" is just a ridiculous platitude. It isn't true.
Google has a brand beta program. Perhaps Mashable applied and was accepted, and ABC either did not apply, or was not accepted?

Leo Laporte wrote about this, explaining why the TWiT brand is not on Google+ yet: https://plus.google.com/101261243957067319422/posts/UYLdVpRq...
Mobile startup challenges 2011
Hey Kootol! Can you say "Declaratory Judgment?"
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chuyên sửa chữa nhà, cải tạo nhà, xây mới nhà, xử lý sự cố nhà ở, chung cư.
I'm not at all advocating Cisco's behavior (it's very unethical and likely criminal as well) but I think suggesting someone murder a Cisco exec over this is, um, a tad harsh.
So I can go get a job at a failing business, try my best to fight through bureaucracy and get people to rethink how they've done things, for, I don't know, a century, and have my work not understood or appreciated? Awesome!
The Sheriff of Nottingham surely thought Robin Hood was a hoodlum too.
When I don't see a price where there should be a price, I call it "price too obscene for the internet" - though usually it's in the context of end user goods advertised with "Call now for special pricing!".
Agreed with all the posts here so far - I would only add that if you're selling to a larger organization, you'll likely go through some sort of vendor qualification by a centralized group - and it is unlikely that you'd ever get by without quoting a price.

The author also seems to forget that most companies have budgets for software - so you might be quoting a great ROI, but if the price is outside of my budget, it's a no-go.

An ROI analysis, at the end of the day, is a good add-on to a proposal in my opinion, but can't replace a pricing schedule.
>Good grief, did we learn nothing from Ghandi or MLK Jr.? There's a perfectly legitimate and effective way to denounce injustice.

You forgot to mention the French and American revolutions and that Ghandi and MLK had militant parallels (without which change likely would not have happened).

>But I hate even more people taking it on themselves to administer justice in this fashion.

You must also hate nearly every other successful social movement in history.

>If you make me pick, I'm going with broken security state over anarchists every time -- and there are hundreds of millions of folks just like me.

Yet you benefit from the social gains fought for by "anarchists" like the suffragettes and the labor movement.
I don't have a lot of experience with Python, is it as easy to call out from and into c code as with Lua? (I am now just guessing as to why a game programmer would choose Lua over Python).
Thiet ke web, Thiet ke website, Thiết kế web, Thiết kế website
Làm thế nào để website đạt hiệu quả cao nhất cho công việc kinh doanh, website
là một kênh bán hàng, tiếp thị sản phẩm dịch vụ hữu hiệu nhất?
Instead of an invisible tracking image make it part of your signature, like a company logo or something similar.
>That's not what MLK is saying at all. You don't get to break any law simply because one of them is unjust.

That wasn't what I was saying at all, either: I was responding specifically to the sentence I quoted, and I explicitly clarified this: "if you want to argue that some of Anon's actions are unethical [...]". Ancestor had seemed to support a legalist position, which is, in my opinion, a disappointingly popular ethos.

>There is a simple unstated question that this thread brings out, though: are you an enemy of my country?

The question inherent in this question: who and what, precisely, defines "my country"? I'll bet at most a tiny minority considers themself an enemy of the food system. I'm quite a fan, though there is a serious need for reform in many aspects.
Thousands of scientific papers uploaded to The Pirate Bay
Great reminder that the "inability to start starting" is often caused by indecision and the anxiety of picking the right path, i.e. Fear, Uncertainty, and Dread. Great post.
Photo Booth is a wacky and fun app and it’s tastefully done. It’s also an app people like to play with, it’s not something that’s used to get work done. I see no problem with it.

I absolutely do not believe that every app has to look the same. It’s ok for them to look different. It just (1) should be well done, (2) standard UI elements should be immediately recognizable and the look shouldn’t (3) create wrong expectations or (4) limit the UI in some way.

I personally don’t like the look of iCal and Address Book, I don’t know how others feel. (1) is certainly a very subjective point that can be endlessly argued about. It’s all about fashion.

iCal, Address Book and Photo Booth do very well on (2), but I think that iCal and Address Book do very poorly on (3) and (4).
I think this is a fantastic idea. I was curious though what you think about this leading to the work week getting overly short? Isnt this a step in the direction of making the work week shorter. But nonetheless I really like this well thoughtout comment!
Wow, congratulations! I'm really impressed by how successful Google+ has been so far, and I'm sure you guys will help make it even better.

It will be interesting if you can post in a year or so about what it was like going to work for Google as a talent acquisition in a related space to your own startup (i.e. what was better and what was different). I'm sure the food will be an improvement, but it will be interesting to hear how it was learning to use the google internal deployment environment (in general, non-NDA terms).

Also, thank you so much for extending data availability on frid.ge until the end of the summer!
Hardware-wise, yeah, all of the components were easily predictable.

But I'd wager the vast majority of people would have still expected a new device using those components to have software full of "computery" things such as scroll bars (probably operated via a stylus) and a task manager instead of the iPhone OS's fluid, natural, free-of-computer-administrative-debris interface.

That's what made the iPhone appeal to people who would have never even considered any other smartphone that was available before it and that's what seemed to come out of nowhere.
As someone who works in newspapers, I cannot tell you how accurate this is.
And these days, if you go on the streets, biometrics will have you pegged in minutes.

EDIT: Downvoters: Just what do you think police are doing with all their cameras, at recent protests? And now there is -- I'm not kidding -- an iPhone device and app that connects to a privately created database of biometric information. Pricing is, per the public radio interview I heard just the other day, currently set at circa US$3000 / device. Pricy, but affordable.

FURTHER EDIT: http://onpoint.wbur.org/2011/07/20/biometrics
> Let’s compare Apple’s cash hoard against countries’ cash hoards rather than their GDP.

Agreed. The comparison doesn't make sense as the numbers don't have the same units. $ vs $/year.
Not on the list (yet), but DocumentCloud is also hiring news-conscious hackers to help work on reader annotations, visualizations, text analysis -- for the documents behind the news -- and then open-source it all.

http://www.niemanlab.org/2011/07/with-its-newest-round-of-kn...

https://www.documentcloud.org/opensource

What documents, you may be asking ... well, current events like:

http://documents.latimes.com/usa-v-aaron-swartz/

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/interactive/2011/jul/15/rebe...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/phone-hacking/8634372...

If you're interested, you can reach me at jeremy at documentcloud . org.
Visor becomes TotalTerminal (with Lion support)
Nice Hack to Quickly Expel Hot Air from Your Oven-Like Car
I don't know that it would be a Cisco exec, but someone has seriously tarnished the reputation of two nations, one of which is already on pretty shaky ground, and ruined a man's life. Honestly, only losing a year I think he got off light. And just to be clear, I wouldn't say this if I thought there was a reason to have any faith in the justice system of the US. I compare it to some local political boss in China getting the death penalty after pushing things a bit too far and embarrassing his superiors in the party such that they had to send him to his death in order to save face. Live by the sword and all that.
>If the local sheriff is corrupt? I don't break into his house and publish his papers in the newspaper.

Substituting "office" for "house," maybe you should (break in and publish his papers). Does a corrupt LEO have the "right to privacy" while e.g. putting innocent people in jail, extorting businesses, tampering with evidence, etc.? I think that the rights of those whose lives are affected by a corrupt official like this trump the rights of the official to "privacy."

tl;dr: Don't abuse your power to clandestinely fuck up other people's lives then complain about your "right to privacy" when you're exposed.
Taking on PayPal directly? For all PayPal's faults, at least I can use them for when based in the UK or in Poland.
Two things:

First, Gandhi and MLK both benefitted from the fact that there were people prepared to be violent behind them, and they were representing a peaceful way forward as opposed to a mess and then having to give in anyways.

Second -- regarding your edit, everytime you try to break it down to a silly jingoistic binary sentiment like that, you're turning your brain off. Anonymous isn't against your country but they're very much against you being enabled to do that.
So do they need more staff or were they buying out the competitor who did "circles" before they did?
This is a one-line script I use every day to open a text task list, so I've ended up with a directory of well named text files documenting every day I have worked:

$ vim ~/Dropbox/tasks/`date -v-${1-0}d "+%Y%m%d%a"`.txt
Never said it wouldn't be a challenge. And I don't agree about the work not being appreciated. Sometimes it isn't understood, yes, but tell me how many insurance salespeople understand how the complex web forms they're filling out work?

And part of the disruption of the news industry can come from within. You can probably always find regular work as a web developer/technologist somewhere. But you won't often find a place that gives you more exposure and a louder voice.
There was a short story written in 1968 that I read when I was a kid, and even though the world described in it was utterly alien, its details stuck in my memory. As time went on, whenever a new technology was introduced into every day life, I would get the strangest sense of recognition. In any case, this discussion has triggered my memory, and I was able to find the original story online. Rereading it 20 years since, I recognize the underlying premise as pretty naive and laughable, but I still marvel at how many details the author was able to get right writing this piece 45 years ago:

http://www.univeros.com/usenet/cache/alt.binaries.ebooks/10....
You know what? I was going to go back, find the URLs, compare them, offer a summary as to why they are different, list which ones have content and which ones don't, characterize their differences, and basically do all the homework. This, in addition to having taken the time to find the duplicates to start with.

Then I thought - why? Had enough, don't care, can't be bothered, and won't waste the time. I'll just let the front page full up with half a dozen or more duplicates, and not bother that it waters down the value of HN. It won't last.

So screw it. Thanks for the heads up - I'm deleting them all, and I really, really won't bother again.

ADDED IN EDIT: I was also going to defend pointers to duplicates, even in the instances when there is not yet substantial discussion, but I just don't care any more.
lua is easier to embed, is smaller, and has better performance. it's also a slightly cleaner language (all other things being equal, i think it is slightly better than python: the handling of tables is more regular; it has better support for continuations; it has tco; and correct scoping). on the downside, the "maps as arrays" approach is a bit clumsy.
“Spaghetti programmer” uses bot to warn of Google+ spam
This and the News Corp. situation seem like real-life examples of what goes on in the show Damages.
Jason Scott of textfiles.com has the whole archive downloaded here, if you want to browse the metadata before downloading the files. http://cdmirror.textfiles.com/JSTOR_01_PhilTrans/
I thought I did, and now I'm not so sure.
Why Making Something Customers Want Isn’t Enough
Two great examples of where graphs fail compared to a simple table of data.
Human depravity at its best.
You're supposed ter say Michael Caine station.
Just to be clear, these are apparently unrelated to the Aaronsw case, right?
This is actually the only thing I keep the webdev tools addon around for now, everything else I used to use it for is either in firebug or I've found other implementations for (eg W3C checks I use unicorn first which I have a saved search "key" for).
Actually the appropriate response would be to have the Secretary of State in the appropriate US state or Canadian province, yank the corporate charter of Cisco; thereby denying them the ability to operate at all, in that jurisdiction.

Given Cisco's reliance on support contracts this would mean a huge hit to their profits, as well as giving competitors a lowered barrier to entry for government and midsize to large business in that state.
Actually, whenever anyone does something I don't like, it would probably be best if that person were killed.

/s
>"How can you advocate breaking some laws and obeying others?" The answer lies in the fact that there are two types of laws: just and unjust. I would be the first to advocate obeying just laws. One has not only a legal but a moral responsibility to obey just laws.

The problem with that line of thinking is that there is no universally accepted, objective standard of what defines a just and unjust law. Do we make those decisions based on Natural Law? How about on the teachings of Mohammed? Jesus? etc.

Making statements about the moral justice of a government's laws has to appeal to some higher moral standard and there doesn't seem to be a whole lot of unity in that realm of the discussion. So what you consider to be a "just law" another might believe to be unjust, because their moral presuppositions are completely different.
Didn't know what fridge was so I watched the video on their website, funny thing is at some point the speaker goes like: "share whatever you want without worrying of other people or google seeing it!" that made me smile
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I'm thinking he was talking about compiling with html as a target, not coding html with some {{ whatever }} or <?php echo 'blah'; ?> tags thrown in.