skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Now to be fair, there are a couple that at least make sense.

For example, 48. "I got it for free" is a pet hate. You got it "free" not "for free". You don't get something cheap and say you got it "for cheap" do you? Mark Jones, Plymouth.

I'm guilty of this and I'll admit it, but for the most part, the people whose names appear on that list are just fucking retarded.

EDIT: As a side note, I never heard "touch base" until I moved to Canada.
I honestly never know the best combination of polite and authoritativeness to to schedule meetings over email. Are you suggesting that people should a specific time and see if it works for the other person? (i.e. "I'll give you a call at 3PM on Monday if you'd like to talk more") or that he should have just asked the person to pick the best time for them, and then he could adjust his schedule around it. I normally opt for the second when I'm dealing with someone I don't know very well.

The only thing that bothered me about the way he did it was that he capitalized the TWO. This makes it looks like he thinks the VCs are retarded. (Maybe if most VCs think other VCs are retarded, this could have helped his case :)
A winning long term strategy, to be sure.
Sadly, I suspect you are correct on all counts.

It would be nice if in cases of flagrant abuse such as this, the judge could summarily revoke the credentials of every lawyer who knowingly participated pending a full hearing, which should take... oh, I'd say about a year to complete, during which time they should be restricted in their movements and arbitrarily disparaged by the press and their profession.

Failing that, I'd settle for criminal perjury charges against all responsible, including both the Cisco execs and any lawyers who knowingly participated in the deception.
It seems to me Ronald McKinnon was one of the only sensible authorities in this entire ordeal. I can't believe someone didn't hit the reality check button earlier.

With that being said, I'm not defending him breaking into Cisco's system, and I think the entire act of doing so should lead to actions against him (but not so extreme). Rather than criminal action, I would've thought an injunction, or something to that effect, would've been more appropriate.
If there's good, visionary leadership who wants change and has the full support of the board and needs engineering and other teams to make it happen then I agree with you. But if it's just a development job that are opening up as part of a panic-induced reaction to save their business model they're already doomed. No developer can fix an industry from inside a business model that doesn't really want to change. Sure, change can come from within, but it has to be nurtured and supported from the top.
Someone has to say it: This Language Log post is taking the BBC article and itself way too seriously.
Please look forward to discovering what it feels like : These things come and go in phases. China & India will most likely have their time in the sun within the next 500 years.
Here's what happened when I tried to buy Google+ ads on Facebook
Fences were never good at keeping people out. DRM will never be good at keeping people out, either. Sure, DRM will prevent livestock from downloading MP3s, but then, what wouldn't?

Also, I like how the ranchers could let their property invade and destroy other people's, but the reverse wasn't true. If you tried to kill their livestock, they'd see you hanged.
Most of the passing-off is good news from a sustainability perspective. The most common substitute fish are pollock and farmed tilapia, catfish and basa, all highly sustainable. Here in the UK, cod prices are so high that most fish and chip shop menus just list 'fish' where they once listed cod, the generic fish invariably being farmed basa. Most popular processed fish products like fish fingers, breaded fillets and fish pies are using pollock in place of cod or haddock.

The most sustainable fish are the cheapest. If we can move past our fetish for eating apex predators, we can easily solve fish sustainability without the need for regulation.
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Now any future litigant will think twice before tackling Cisco. I'm sure they consider that part a win, even if they had to finally settle.
It might be worth contacting members of Cisco's board of directors to inquire whether they plan to do something to avoid this kind of illicit behavior in the future. A board of directors doesn't manage day-to-day affairs, but is ultimately responsible for high-level oversight. The Cisco board of directors includes a number of people with generally solid reputations (including the president of Stanford University) who ought to be shocked if a company under their watch has engaged in this sort of behavior.

Here is a list, though you'll have to search elsewhere for contact information: http://investor.cisco.com/directors.cfm

Alternatively/additionally, many of us have occasion to do business with Cisco now and then, and if you currently do, you might mention a concern to your local Cisco office/representative.
I like using years for namespaces because I like thinking long-term - in 50 years time, will that site's namespace be getting too busy? Using years means you can even completely change the rest of your URL scheme without needing to update last year's URLs.

Quickly letting users use the age of the article is a good reason too, but only for blog-style content. I don't think you should use the year trick with evergreen content (example.com/2010/terms-of-service for example).
So, before raising capital you were an ordinary founder, but now you are a "fouder". Nice job!

</kidding>

see: "I'M A HACKER, HUSTLER AND DESIGNER. FOUDER AT TOUTAPP.
I was talking net.
Why do they get to decide what's a good tradeoff for the general population?
Cost !== Lost Potential
I've always gotten the impression that Lua has a somewhat anemic standard library and a somewhat limited set of abstractions, in contrast to the things that draw me to Python – is this still accurate? Python, Ruby, etc. have a wide range of built-in functionality, which allows them to stand on their own, whereas Lua seems to be intended for use with C programs and libraries, keeping it in the game/scripting world. Are these assumptions still accurate? (Also, indexing from one is just frustrating when almost everything else is zero-based!)
I can forgive him.. I too get 'page blindness' and miss obvious typos.
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Old. Was (and probably still is) on the first page.
When saw that Quora question on "why is Apple's stock so low" and didn't agree with a single one of the answers I moved half my parents investments into Apple. It is crazy to think that he hasn't imbued them with a lasting sense of design. I still think the company is undervalued.
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Thanks, this is a wonderful article.
Walk this way: What ancient footprints reveal
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I don't think transiants are hugely importend in that setting. I can really see how agents are useful and the could be nicly implmenteted with webworkers.
I always assumed that court rulings were cryptic and overloaded with legal jargon, so I never attempted to read them. However, the ruling provided was very easy to read and just as informative as the article.

(Link to the ruling: http://www.multiven.com/media/news/pdfs/USAvsAdekeye-BC_Cana...)
I was told that WPF could produce "swastika" layouts. Ie, something along the lines:

aaaaa bb
aaaaa bb
bb
dd bb
dd bb
dd
dd ccccc
dd ccccc

This is as tabular as "grid" from Tk. You can resize any of "a", "b", "c" or "d" widgets and everything will resize accordingly.

So I have an impression that WPF is constraint-based.
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At this point, you might be wondering why you should get a hotmail account. Hotmail email accounts are provided for free by the MSN website and search engine and an individual can get windows live messenger for instant messaging. There are also no limits as to how many accounts one can have. You also get a lot of storage space for your emails and it is also fun, fast and reliable. So how do we go about getting an account, well the steps are easy and can be followed even by a 12 year old.
From the "manifesto":

Several years ago I came into possession, through rather boring and lawful means, of a large collection of JSTOR documents.
Would you sign up for the MIT Puzzle Hunt as a team of one? To build a successful startup you will have to complete challenges that are even more diverse and difficult, so why do it alone?
Ask HN: Besides HN, Where do YOU get your daily Tech and Business News?
Besides Hacker News, where do YOU get your tech and business news fix every day? List the URLs for your tech and business news sources.

Tech News:

http://techmeme.com

http://mashable.com

http://daringfireball.net (when John Gruber is not angry at Google and Android)

My Google+ Stream

Business News

http://www.businessinsider.com

http://venturebeat.com
I've a framebreaker on my blog which means I can't use this without disabling that first. Not saying this is a huge problem just something that might not have been thought of. I guess the user would spot it pretty quickly.

Slightly off-topic, why is there a 350k image file that's dynamically resized (smaller) and only there for decoration. Slowed page load considerably for me (I'm having problems with my connection mind you). Pretty but way off optimal IMO.
You can't tell just by having caught it. If it already had a lot of children and propagated its genes it's not very eligible for winning.
so where's the torrent?
Ask HN: Companies that make startup videos?
A lot of new startup sites now have very well made informational videos. I seem to recall a thread here that had a list of them all, but it might have been a dream for all I know. Does anyone have a link to this thread if it exists? If not, does anyone know good companies that make these kinds of videos? (A good example is the weusebitcoin.com video)

Thanks
Whew. I was afraid the proper term was something like "locomotive concordry" and I'd been out of the loop all this time.
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+1. I work from home but need to go into the office once in a while. Variety being the spice, and all that.
Link to WMII, to get an impression: http://wmii.suckless.org/
I think there is room for illegal activities in the name of a free and open society. If this is truly the author's goal, however, they need to stop associating with LulzSec.

There was nothing noble about 9/10's of the crap lulzsec did, and the somewhat decent stuff they did was undercut by the whole "for the lulz" philosophy. If you really are fighting for freedom, you need to be better than DDS'ing game servers, because if you aren't the people who you are opposed to will use that shit against you. Like the FBI is doing now.

I won't shed a tear if the Lulzsec folk get put away. I will be quite upset if Lulzsec turns the public against those who would do the modern day equivalent of releasing the pentagon papers.
An intuitive way to navigate the site's content.

This assumes the user knows the correct product name and the rules you use to normalize it (ariel-atom vs arie+atom vs ariel_atom). This not the case for most URLs. I don't remember the exact title for each article in some blog. In fact, I'm more likely to remember
http://example.com/?Article.view.1
than
http://example.com/articles/2010/01/02/This_is_my_article_s_...

Please note the underscore between 'e' and 's'. Websites usually normalize their titles when putting them into URLs, and they don't just URL-encode them, because URL encoding looks bad. They use arbitrary normalization and shortening rules.

Also, why would the user navigate via URLs instead of using website's UI?

I think URLs should be reasonably short and have no junk, but I also think that the whole "put-words-into-urls" movement is driven mostly by SEO considerations that have nothing to do with user experience.
I had considered releasing this collection anonymously, but others pointed
out that the obviously overzealous prosecutors of Aaron Swartz would
probably accuse him of it and add it to their growing list of ridiculous
charges. This didn't sit well with my conscience, and I generally believe
that anything worth doing is worth attaching your name to.

I'm interested in hearing about any enjoyable discoveries or even useful
applications which come of this archive.

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Greg Maxwell - July 20th 2011
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Hey buddy! In Mountain View check out hackerdojo (http://wiki.hackerdojo.com/w/page/25437/FrontPage) and in SF hit up (http://www.parisoma.com/).
They don't, which is why they are often arrested.

They are given permission by society retroactively after the events have transpired and the ends justify the means.

And when they are not given permission because they could not justify the actions, they are further punished just as any unlawful person would be.
When did Steve Jobs announce he was going to retire? I can't find any evidence of that.
Sound like something a Dutchman speaking English would say.
If those phrases truly bother a person, then I would caution that person not to travel or go into a profession with its own lingo. People have different phrases and even words in different places. Yes, looking under the bonnet has a totally different meaning here.

I grew up on a reservation in the US and some of the phrases that stuck with me have their origin in the local language.
Too bad Anthony comes off as a jerk in his comments.. e.g in the article about left aligned search buttons.
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The World of Seven Billion
Fridge? Never heard before
ClojureScript is a fantastic piece of engineering. I'm the author of ClojureJS, one of the few Clojure libraries that implemented Clojure to JavaScript translation (with predictable scoping semantics). After having looked over the ClojureScript sources, I'm convinced this is a far more sophisticated compiler with a sound namespace strategy.

The namespace and compile time checks alone are worth the price of admission. Plus macros, which was the biggest motivator for building ClojureJS.

Suffice to say, if ClojureScript (in its current form) had existed 7 months ago, I'd never have considered building anything on my own. That's not to say I'm not proud of ClojureJS. It was born out of a real need that I had, and has been enhanced by some very valuable contributions by people who also shared my excitement for writing browser clients in Clojure.

I still need to understand the Google Closure integration impact, but from what Rich said at the ClojureNYC talk, it sounds worthy of study and adoption.

Kudos to Rich, and the Clojure.Core team.
Does the Apple Way Keep Thunderbolt at Bay?
I fail to see how forcing Sony to raise their prices or take less in profits doesn't achieve their goals? It isn't like you're forced to buy only Sony's already over-priced and poorly-built shit.
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Man, I was really disappointed to click this link and find that it was not a news story about William "Refrigerator" Perry from the Chicago Bears joining the Google+ team.
I view them as more akin to the anti-war and anti-establishment groups formed in the 60s and 70s. The difference these days is that you don't need to blow anything up to get people's attention. There aren't proxy targets.

You can directly target the org that you disagree, crack their db/site, release, or even just sit on, their info, and get epic press attention.
That would be as easy if there is some ORM-like library for the nosql database: you change value in a js object, and it gets persisted automatically. But how easy is it to set it up and tune?
When doing market research its about both the number and quality. I agree that our polling audience may not match Guy's key demographic but we do get the numbers for a very cheap price. More to the point of the article, if you didn't like the Daisy design that's fine, I just think its a bit foolish to not poll an audience of more than 1.

Obviously using Guy's name and polls as an example will draw more readers, so yes it helps with publicity. I don't see the issue. It happened, I wrote about it.
I think it's a great time to be a founder but at the same time I'm also worried about the exuberance that the current market place is showing when a sole founder can raise $350k by sending out a ~10 line email.
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Gamification done right
Another gem from Eric. This is a must-read!
What if the election mechanism has been (psychologically) engineered in a way to make real change as difficult as possible and where the only possible changes are pre-scripted like a video game to the benefit of whoever is at the top at the moment?

Your "intelligent" vote is worthless if only a small, insignificant number of people are intellectually able to vote intelligently. The hurdles for making change should be low enough to be not only theoretically, but also practically possible.
Except we aren't the sheriff in this scenario. We are the people Robin Hood is trying to help. And I say petty thuggery and vandalism aren't helping.
Actually, I do say "for cheap", as well as "for free".
This is absolutely ridiculous.

I don't agree with a lot of the things that various government organizations are allegedly doing either. However, I also understand that I probably don't have all the facts. I also know that even if I had all the facts, I would probably not commit much time to analyzing all of them, in order to make a sound decision on the best course of action. Why don't other people realize this?

We leave the economics to the economists, the physics to the physicists, and the medicine to the doctors. There are people--incompetent or not--who spend their entire lives dealing with government/country related issues. Yes, some of them might be corrupt, but are we naive enough to believe that an entire country is corrupt? Who are we to judge corruption, and what sources of information do we really have?

At one point or another, this argument for civil liberties gets repetitive and overblown. No one I know has ever felt like their freedoms were at stake, and the few government mistakes that the media captures should not be precedence to act against them. I make mistakes, you make mistakes - everyone makes mistakes. Hacking into their servers, getting people fired (and therefore replacing them with less experienced people), and leaking sensitive information so the uneducated public can get their opinions in, is -NOT- going to solve anything. At all. Ever.

Edit: Edited out a preface - wasn't aware. Sorry.
Funny how the startup scene changes.
Years ago, Paul Graham wrote essays like 'You weren't meant to have a boss'. Nowadays talent aquisitions are seen as huge successes while (money aside) we are celebrating that some former founders found jobs at big companies.
(I am also more pragmatic in this question than years ago, so I am not criticizing anyone.)
Personally I've never damaged a disc. I've a few that have the foil flaked off (they're about 10 years old but have been kept out of sunlight and were brand name ones too).

However a certain child damaged one of my GameCube Zelda discs recently ... scratched to hell in 15s. It's not like I can run cdparanoia on it either ...
Most interesting that signups increased despite the only route to sign-up being 'below the fold' - users didn't mind scrolling through the whole thing to see the call-to-action.

Some gaze plots on Nielsen's site show people only allocate 20% of their attention 'below the fold'* http://www.useit.com/alertbox/scrolling-attention.html

* yes, I hate typing that phrase!
A shame they are not migrating the content into Google+, in some form, for customers who want it. But then I suppose fridge was a group thing, so getting consent could be tricky.
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But shouldn't some credit be attributed to the top boss for getting the hurdles out of the way and letting people make decisions? Probably that is something he could have paved the way for to launch G+ in style.
Not only that, the only interesting thing from ANKOS was plagiarized by Wolfram from one of his research assistants: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Cook#Work_with_Stephen_...
I don't know which companies specialize in these videos, but I know a chap who does an excellent job with this kind of stuff. He will be doing our startup walkthrough in a few days. Here is his portfolio on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/user/DZPrimetime
The Internet is Not a Pipe and Bandwidth is Bad
Yup. I've taken the opportunity to review my HN usage, and I get significantly less out of it now than I used to, and it just sucks my time to nearly no benefit.

I may keep posting links - the bookmarklet makes it easy - but the discussions here now seem to add very little, so I'm not bothering any more.
People aren't allowed to do whatever they want.

Unless the person is a corporation. In which case it becomes a cost-benefit analysis.
If WePay is really taking on PayPal directly then how is it going to differentiate itself? For all of the woes I've heard about PayPal, there's more legitimate woes about who can disrupt this industry without spending a ridiculous amount in fraud prevention costs and government regulations.
Points from the crowd > points from the system. That's the beauty of the TurnTable scoring. You try to outdo your fellow DJs. If points were somehow based on # of logins or # of songs played, etc. they wouldn't be nearly as meaningful or interesting.
Why "Robin Hoods"? Why not Minutemen? I don't know the complete story of Robin Hood, but I always feel a tinge of class warfare from people who invoke his name.

This has nothing to do with class. It has to do with unwarranted and unprovoked aggression by political elites. I don't condone what these hackers did, but there's little to disagree with in that letter. Our behemoth government and its fascist relationship with big business spits in the face of our founding principles: life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Something will need to change, or (pardon the cliché) we're gonna end up like Greece.
Baïdu launch a web browser (looks like Chrome)
Kind of unfair to lump Lulzsec and Wikileaks together.
Whoa, I think calling people after only 10 mins after I've sent the mail is pretty obtrusive. Surely I would give them enough time to read the mail, think about it and give me a reply whenever they're able to (within a reasonable amount of time, say 2 hours).
Just for the record, fish consumption is linked to increased IQ in children because of the presence of Omega-3 Fatty Acids.

Did you know though that both Flaxseed and Walnuts are both better, cheaper, and less environmentally damaging sources of Omega 3s than fish? Soybeans and Tofu are also pretty good sources.

I'm cool with people consuming less, not merely abstaining from eating fish. But for those out there who are willing to (and there are many such people in the tech community), it really is the best option.
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To reframe the situation, we have, presumably, a single person making a decision and a number of other people, who could see what was going on, deciding to play along. A counter argument is that they're just doing what they need to to keep their jobs. One could argue that the person in charge was doing exactly the same. It's irrational to punish just one person for this when so many more were involved.

EDIT: What, exactly, do you all disagree with?
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> "At this point, I'm not sure which one I find more scary."

There will always be scofflaws and pranksters. Indeed for our way of life to be assured, they must be able to exist.

The ever-growing reach of the military-espionage-industrial complex is the only real threat.
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