skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I apologize if I gave the wrong idea, but these 4 email templates will not get you funded. It took a tremendous amount of hustle and hard work and about three months of fundraising -- you have to put in the sweat.

These templates just helped me manage the process better.
We were making a little bit of revenue.
Why Apple killed off the white MacBook
This seems as though it would change the character of WePay's business enough that it might now be considered a money transmitter.
"You have no fundamental right to enjoy the innovations produced by others without compensating them."

While I believe this is true, the other end is also true: nobody has fundamental right to enjoy the compensation from me. If they don't like it, they can keep their "methods for highliting text" to themselves.
Does anyone know what languages / technologies they used?
Looks like they'll be moving to Mountain View: http://allthingsd.com/20110721/frid-ge-acquired-by-google-to...
original posted here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2789709
... Scientific publications are some of the most outrageously expensive pieces of literature you can buy. In the past, the high access fees supported the costly mechanical reproduction of niche paper journals, but online distribution has mostly made this function obsolete.

Another reason they are so expensive might be that the reprints are almost always expenses against research grants, so there is little in the way of "market forces" working to keep the price commensurate with the true value.
There are ways you can manage this line while working from home, but having worked on-call, in both remote and non-remote settings, separating yourself is far more difficult when working from home.

Even when working on call, or doing some work from home, you can still maintain the mindset, "This is my home. I'm at home now. Work can't touch me here." I have tried to maintain that separation while working mostly from home -- by even physically removing myself from my office outside work hours -- but, over a long period of time, I can't help but feel my personal life is my work. I can never fully separate myself from where I normally work.

However, it's not fair to say that everyone will have the same experience, there are a lot of factors: work load, expected duties, office communication, and even your office layout -- I was worn down the most when I didn't have a dedicated office. Personally, I can't wait to get back to an office setting.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockholm_syndrome

Among other things.
I think a better solution is to develop a standard HTML5, CSS and JavaScript combo that researchers can use to publish articles online. The requirements are that using it should be no more difficult than writing papers in Latex, and the layout results should be equally as good.

I've thought about this for a while now. It seems terribly silly for us to spend so much time formatting our papers as pdfs when people mostly read them on a computer anyway. I've been to conferences that - smartly - don't even print the proceedings. They just hand you a USB key with all of the papers and a table of contents in HTML that has authors and titles that links to the correct file.
That seems definitely accurate. From my limited experience it certainly seems Lua has the more minimalistic approach, although that must have been a conscious decision on the part of the authors. I like how built-in functions can be 'overriden' (more like replaced) to be made more restrictive to create a sandboxed environment. I agree I can't think of any good reason for the one-based indexing, it seems to be a bit of a gimmick :)
Perhaps we should be thinking twice about buying Cisco products and rewarding such an apparently unethical company.
Yeah, and Indians always write "you" as "u" in non-SMS contexts. Drives me bleedin' batty, it does.
>If this is truly the author's goal, however, they need to stop associating with LulzSec.

In principle, I agree. The 'internet privacy' movement would be better served if the people who supported it differentiated themselves from the people who are just fucking around. I think a lot of them realize this.

The question "why don't they" has its answer in the dark catacombs of the human psyche. LulzSec and Anonymous draw a lot of their support, i.e. membership, from teenagers who want to feel like the antihero of one of today's popular bildungsroman-turned-polemic, y'know, V for Vendetta, or The Matrix, Avatar, etc. Being somewhat evil is cool, and Anonymous needs to look cool for people to want to be part of it. I'm sure the aforementioned Black Panthers lived on this for a while as well.

Some people did try to break the moral section of the movement away from the lunatic fringe; it was called Enturbulation and later WhyWeProtest, and they went after Scientology and later ACTA. Ultimately, though, WhyWeProtest slowly became irrelevant, because without a steady stream of angry people and plenty of press coverage their membership was decimated by the attrition of boredom and disillusionment. It's still around at http://whyweprotest.net/ but unlike Anonymous you've never heard of them.

I support the EFF and Wikileaks much more readily than I support Anonymous, but at the same time I figure no social change movement has succeeded without a lunatic fringe -- there were plenty of violent people fighting for India's independence, the breakup of the Soviet Union started with a coup, there were multiple violent civil rights activists in the '60s, etc.
"Your threats to arrest us are meaningless to
us as you cannot arrest an idea."
Jeez, I got goosebumps reading that. Straight out from V for Vendetta.
Is this necessarily to do with giving information to the uneducated public?

Most of the public will not do anything with this information, but I will tell you who will respond: their shareholders and more dangerously their competitors.

That is where you should apply pressure.
The reason I ask for three blocks of time is because the Investor is WAY BUSIER than I am. SO, in this scenario, I'm giving him the option to basically PICK what time works for him and I will 99% of the time go with the first one.

I also ask for TWO more so that we reduce on email back and forth.

Its all about 1) less emails and 2) accommodating the investor. If he or she is already looking at the calendar for ONE time that works, sureley TWO more is not that bad and it increases the chances of getting a mutual time that works.
Chart: Apple shoots past Nokia in smartphone shipments
I've never really followed Cisco before, but this story has really tainted my view of them. I'll think twice next time I see the Cisco logo on something.
Must as I love ars, given that techPresident is an established brand (strike that: the established brand) for this kind of thing, I'm trying to imagine the oversight that led to the same phrase being used for their coverage.

http://techpresident.com/
Even if Lulzsec gets some of your data, they aren't going to create a huge database of it.

The FBI on the other hand...
Tout will do that for you, automatically.
Working fine here. BBNL Bangalore.
You forgot to mention that we should leave voting to the politicians :P
I think Reliance might be the most eager to implement this ban as they have interest in entertainment business thru BIG cinemas and AdLabs.
But still what a bunch of idiots this govt is. Trying to show its stupidity to the whole world. Rather than trying to do something useful like bringing billions of dollars of black money stashed abroad they are wasting their time on these useless things.
Breakthrough in quantum computing: Resisting 'quantum bug'
Who has planned for a career before college?
I have seen many companies offer entry positions in Telecom Network Engineer, Software Engineer, etc. Their education requirement is usually just BS in CS or Computer or Electrical Engineering. But with requirements like knowing stuff that ain't taught in school.
Even some basic stuff like TCP/IP programming is never taught in a formal course. Why would knowledge to maintain SONNET, or MPLS ethernet backbones, or administrating Oracle DB are considered to be essential? Maybe just my university is not teaching them?
two words: your guy's

as in, "see you at your guy's house".

Or is that just an Indiana thing?
Robin Hood is less about class, and more about power.

(Of course in it's setting, class was defined by power)
Rich Hickey's ClojureScript slides
This is why I love co-working spaces.
Please don't include passive grubbing for upvotes as a preface to your comments. If you have something to say, even if it's controversial, have the courage to say it plainly without projecting anxiety about karma (of all things).

It's insulting by implication to the community here that expressing a contrary but constructive and well-written opinion would get you "massively down voted." For the most part, other readers can differentiate between constructive comments they disagree with and spammers, griefers, trolls, crapflooders, and trivial one-liners.
The Social Media Hassle
I think you're overestimating how hard this is, modulo how they implement firmware updates.

EFI is an almost completely open spec, and it's easy to write code that runs within the EFI environment. Combine that with something like the approach taken in Stoned Bootkit and you have a viable option for persisting malware across reinstalls.

In traditional PCs, BIOS reflash does not require any special signing key, or suchlike, and its trivial in a very small amount of code to splice an option ROM (code that executes automatically during power-on) into the BIOS of the running machine, and reflash it (slightly harder to do reliably). As far as I know current generation Macbooks don't perform any kind of signature check either.

Unlike with traditional PCs, Apple has a relatively small number of hardware revisions, making this kind of attack even easier to implement.
> We leave the economics to the economists, the physics to the physicists, and the medicine to the doctors.

But we don't really. Are economists deciding if the U.S. will default in less than two weeks?

They can't even come to a conclusion on climate change.
Six best practices for designing news sites.
This renders very well on my android phone. Thanks.
Scheme has Scheme2JS (http://www-sop.inria.fr/indes/scheme2js/) and HOP (http://hop.inria.fr/), which uses Scheme2JS for some interesting RMI stuff.

Parenscript doesn't have a runtime beyond what the JS implementation provides, so it's not really a Common Lisp running on JS, more like a way to compile Common Lisp-based DSLs to JavaScript. Red Daly's PSOS (https://github.com/gonzojive/paren-psos) library provides most of the runtime stuff, and I guess counts as a sort of implementation of CL. I've been toying with the idea of extending PSOS to a full CL in JavaScript.
So what percentage is that? Is a "page" still the 2k standard these days?

per wikipedia as of November 2, 2010, the database contained 1,289 journal titles in 20 collections representing 53 disciplines, and 303,294 individual journal issues, totaling over 38 million pages of text
Nokia reports loss of €368m
I have to find myself agreeing with this, the fact that these individuals (FBI members, govt agencies in general.) are funded beyond the means of normal individuals and given resources that money can't buy. (well I'm sure enough of it can.) Gives them an edge that many people can't fight against. They can do whatever they want with impunity. Now I can't say that opening up a server and releasing all it's users passwords is right, or fair, but there comes a time in war where there must be casualties. In this war of Anon VS govt/corp, Anonymous must use unfair tactics, if only to level out the playing field.

That all said, this all reeks of a cold civil war, maybe something will come out of it, maybe nothing will. I'll just keep doing what I do, solving issues of non-freedom the way I can, one person at a time. A lot could be done if people just acted better towards each other. But I think right now that's too much to ask of us(humans).
I know that's meant to be satirical, but it kind of derides the examples. Economists vote mostly based on their economic views, stem-cell researchers on stem-cell related views, and low-income families on social security. I just mean, leave specialized tasks to the specialists.
"The Secret World" a world of Myths, Legends and Conspiracy Theories- LAG
That's what I like about America - not only do we not have this type of discussion, it doesn't even make sense here. (If you're tempted to reply "the US isn't America" you're proving my point!)

One area, though, where we have a similar rift is between "African American Vernacular English" and standard usage. There's unfortunately a large percentage, maybe a majority, that think there's something fundamentally wrong with AAVE.
Harvard President Larry Summers calls the Winklevoss twins "assholes"
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Very little. The indictment against aaronsw claims that he got over 4 million documents, and this archive only has 18,500. And I'm not even sure what percentage of the total aaronsw got.
The economic reason to be a nation of laws instead of powerful men is that the more predictable the system is, the less deadweight losses go into making sure you don't run afoul of it. I worry that as the judicial system becomes more and more capricious and exploitable by moneyed interests, new market entrants without the funds for a huge battery of lawyers will not be new market entrants for long.
Wasn't the intention. Edited out.
Wow. That one article (http://uxmovement.com/forms/left-search-buttons-perform-fast...), along with his dogmatic replies there, made me delete the bookmark I just created for his site. It's one thing to come off as a jerk on the internet, but another thing altogether to be so completely misguided on the layout of a simple search form.
Sure. FLAC is great, and it's on our roadmap.

We're in a funny place right now where both higher bitrate and lower bitrate video/audio are becoming increasingly important. Low bitrate because of mobile video and adaptive bitrate streaming, and high bitrate because bandwidth is getting cheaper.
You can read the whole thread on one page here:

http://twitter.theinfo.org/93969411270123520

Considering he's technology editor, he just let himself get trolled HARD.
Earnest urged a lawsuit and even raised the idea of criminal charges against Bosack. He e-mailed colleagues: "The fundamental problem is: how do you negotiate an equitable agreement with crooks?"

"1985-88 Back at Stanford as associate chair of Computer Science and also involved in parallel processing research, I discovered that the founder of Cisco Systems, who I was supervising, was selling Stanford technology. I prepared for legal action and induced him to resign but later discovered that the Stanford administration avoids suing corporations whenever possible, thinking of them as potential donors. After a couple of years, during which Cisco illicitly made millions, Stanford gave them a sweetheart licensing deal. A few years later I ran across an endowed chair at Stanford in the name of the chief crook and funded by Cisco. There was additional dirt beneath the surface of these transactions but that story will have to wait till later." -- http://www.stanford.edu/~learnest/net.htm

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Hewlett-Packa...
Correct, i didn't notice, one more thing that show how the article's accusations are baseless.

(Downvotes? uh?)
The Spiral Pump: A High Lift, Slow Turning Pump
Well, you can go back farther to Alan Kay's Dynabook (1968) to predict the iPhone. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynabook)

Even Jobs has wanted to make a Dynabook from the early days (http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Pirate_Flag.txt).

There was also the crew from UIUC that won Apple's "Design the Computer of the Year 2000" back in 1987. Their design? A tablet.
Cisco at least had a vested interest in getting a result. So the Cisco decision maker was unethical, but perhaps not committing a criminal act by normal standards. (Although I'm sure an aggressive prosecutor could find a charge.)

I'm more disgusted by whomever at the US Department of Justice allowed this farce to go on. As a citizen, I think the my government should act in a certain way that reflects well on our nation. In this case, the Canadian judge found that the US government basically bamboozled the Canadian government, and did so by manipulating facts in way that can be fairly categorized as disingenuous.

That's no way to treat a friend, neighbor and ally. That's just sad.
I think it's easier to explain than you think (and, for once, not at all due to the class system at all).

Britain has been under relentless cultural assault from the US for decades. It is no secret, and no surprise, that it was Friends that introduced "can I get a" to the UK. This trend has accelerated with the Internet, where all English speakers tend to move towards the ubiquitous American English.

Even something like programming acts as a vehicle for this. Try colouring something grey, for example.

Language is a very tangible, day-to-day way of asserting cultural independence. See how France used to sing Eurovision in French every year. Sadly, even they now sing songs in English.

This taps into a deep-seated concern in some of the British population that it will become a cultural 51st state. Certainly we identify more with the US than any of continental Europe. This is not necessarily unwarranted, but I think it unlikely. Even something as uniquely American as hip-hop was taken, adopted by young disadvantaged Londoners and transformed into grime instead. Britain's identity is formed by more than the media it consumes and it creates, but by the people who inhabit it.

FWIW, I really do hate "could care less" as it's literally the opposite of what meaning is trying to be conveyed. I've personally picked up "bathroom" over "toilet". I think it's a great euphemism, which is, in itself, a traditionally British thing to do.
"Fail" is a verb, not a noun. Could we stop with this stupid internet meme already?
Why not http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_by_ext... ?
x86 emulation is the wrong solution to this problem because of the difficulty of interop. Compiling to bytecode at least lets you treat JS functions as FFI calls. The first project to do this was Clue in 2008 (http://cluecc.sourceforge.net/), now all the hype is about emscripten (https://github.com/kripken/emscripten) LLVM bytecode to JS compiler.

Doing compilation GWT/Clojurescript style is going to reduce integration overhead. So far I haven't seen anything that integrates as well as Parenscript.
And for people interested in how many bitcoins donations flow his way:

http://blockexplorer.com/address/14csFEJHk3SYbkBmajyJ3ktpsd2...
With the old spaces you could move windows by clicking them, and then switching to the space using your keyboard.
Yeah, I could imagine that a lot of charitable organizations have a rough time operating. Perhaps refining their business model would be a great startup idea? I'd love to see a startup that focused on building charitable organizations. Perhaps a kickstarter for charity? Something where people can offer up a small recurring donation every month. Might actually exist already. If not, though, that would be killer and a great way to help circumvent some of the issues you mention.
I've been a teleworker since 1989. Then, I had a phone, micro-Vax and a UUCP connection. Sounds primitive, but I and a few others were the proving grounds for today's remote and mobile work force. Not everyone can work well at home. It's hard to separate home from work; especially because my company has a global presence, my work "day" begins when I rise and ends when I retire. Make certain that you take breaks, make time for family and personal interests. Get a dog! My dog and office mate is actually a big help. His bio and exercise needs keep me from working inappropriately or harmfully long stretches without breaks; in fact, he brags that he's the reason I don't have repetitive motion, back or neck injuries.
Nowdays talent acquisitions are seen as huge successes

Citation needed.
Donald Norman wrote a great deal about that subject (psychological and emotional aspects of user experience), albeit not specifically about web dev.
In my/the ideal world, clang would have some plugin feature where it knows that it must pass that string to some external DLL for validation. Ideally, that DLL should be able to generate code (just as the C preprocessor), but I fear that would require quite some interface between plug-ins and clang.

I think it already would be a big win if that DLL only could use the compiler state to issue error messages.

Open problem is how clang would know that a string needs external validation. I think a variant on the @"string" format might work:

id myConstraint = @layout"[button]-[textField]";

id myRegex = @regex"^[a-z]+$";

(I say might because the C++ grammar has some corners that may deliver surprises here; with (im)proper function overloading, the compiler might find a way to interpret @layout as taking the address of layout)

The link between prefix and DLL should be a command-line argument to clang. Problem, of course, is that you give up compatibility with other compilers. Also, this is more clunky than it needs to be; in a 'proper language' like Lisp the integration would be seamless.
... suggesting someone murder a Cisco exec over this is, um, a tad harsh.

No. A coalition of execs conducted a violent kidnapping in broad daylight to make a political statement. It would not be out of line to whack one of them in front of their family. Tit-for-tat ain't just for game theory papers. Illegality isn't much of an argument, since by corrupting the process of law they have placed themselves outside it.

We can reasonably consider even more than that. The execs corrupted many levels of government, but were so inept that the government itself caught them at it. The Feds don't quite use Roman penalties for corruption (crucifixion), but they are harsh and unforgiving. Even a $100 bribe can get you sent to prison for years.
The excuses people come up with to justify pirating make me smile.
Some HNer are registered here: http://www.hackernewsers.com/pages/map.html
Thanks! Some nice gems in there:

"This seems to be the start of a series of misadventures that could only be the subject of a Joseph Heller novel"

and

"I accept, as well, that not only was the issuing judge and the bail judge misled, but Canada as well"
Leaving medicine to doctors is not the same as leaving politics to politicians. One has far stricter requirements than the other. Not everybody can become a doctor. But almost anybody, from teachers to movie stars, can run for politics. There's also the issue of transparency and size of influence. A malpracticing doctor affects his patients and can be sent to prison. A corrupt government affects the entire country, but it's considerably harder to send people that make laws to prison.

Getting incompetent people fired may replace them with a less experienced, but more competent person. I'd value competency over experience.

Leaking information is the only way to justify hacking into the servers. There's no point of hacking in if you're not going to allow the public to see if the government is doing any underhanded actions.
I thought the name looked familiar. I downloaded a copy of "The Design of Everyday Things" not too long ago. Guess I'll have to crack it open?

For those that are also interested: http://www.amazon.com/Design-Everyday-Things-Donald-Norman/d...
I guess that's the anthropic answer to the "in principle I support them, but there are better ways to do what they're doing" argument: There are people out there trying all the other ways, but the lulzsec way is the one that's getting attention and results right now.