skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tokyo Meet Up: Tech, Start up, expanding network in Japan
Proposing a very casual meet up event around the subjects of "hackers and start-ups" and to introduce a gentleman from the UK, from 'Viidea' (see url) visiting Japan, who would like to meet Tech and start up folks.<p>The above just subjects to meet around - after that it'd pretty much be casual networkin', eatin' & drinkin' ;-)<p>Reply here or @goodpeoplejapan (T) perhaps.
This is about enhancing privacy but not providing anonymity. You could always mute/block/report people.
Cropping photos I could possibly believe to be a creative act, but I would find it absurd to consider selecting only the in-focus photos to be a "creative" act. I would put that decision on par with alphabetizing the phone book.
"Architecture, API, OAuth, Fraud work." - http://www.linkedin.com/in/rlerdorf

Anybody knows the truth on "Fraud work"?

Edit: "Fraud work" at WePay (YC)
Well don't I feel like a drongo. :)
What was the company he talked about that IPO'ed ?
Occasional job alert emails for elite engineers
How long do you think they can hold the "don't be evil" attitude listening to users' feedback on a project so huge and at the same time so "personal" for everyone?
Live bitcoin feed for Blogger
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GoogleVoice now offers Global SPAM filtering
In a previous life I was a law student. If you're in a "code" jurisdiction, criminal law is about as straightforward as it gets. Pretty much the opposite end from torts.
Cloud Computing - Is this a revolution or just an evolution?
Three months ago I started this LinkedIn discussion and I keep getting comments about it. People might say that it is just a defiant question for marketing purposes. I say that this question raises many thoughts and opinions that helps marking the strategy of an IT organization. I invite you to read the following comments that can bring you to think a bit more about your current On-Demand strategy and approach.

What do you think ?
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Google+ User Data Liberation may Awake Users on Facebook
But by that argument someone who carried out a sustained stalking campaign against someone might actually be guilty of just standing in places. I don't think it's necessarily the mundane details of what they actually did that should be the only determinant of the severity of their punishment. Of course this doesn't mean that an injured party should be able to claim emotional distress from any	old thing.
Well....

A600, A1200 and A4000 all had internal IDE interfaces. The A3000 had a SCSI interface. All other Amiga models had to use add-on HDD interfaces, which started SCSI because that was the dominant platform and shifted more to IDE over time.

So, I'm not sure I'd agree that SCSI was more popular on Amigas over time.
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Of course, you'll work with incredibly smart engineers and hopefully have a great experience. Believe me when I say the grass is not always greener on the other side. On HN you'll hear about everyone saying you should work at a startup but believe me 9 out of 10 startups suck to work at. Low pay, working with less than good practices ( compared to google ) , over worked, more than likely the startup will fail, and you won't even have Google on your resume for the future. I would suggest taking the job, build some experience , learn as much as possible, and if you still have the startup itch after a few years go for it.
I also, often, externally display a different emotion to what I am experiencing. For example, I often seem angry when I am actually happy as a pig in mud. I've done a polygraph before in university and the results were mixed (lots of false-positives and false-negatives). I'm an outlying variable but it is important to remember there are plenty of other outlying variables who will throw a wrench into every system or maxim.
Knoppix 6.4: can you spot the difference?
Ehm, a scam with good intentions? Come on, are you a Nigerian prince?
And, as sad as it is, Java and C# which are heavyweights of pretty much anything corporate-produced.
Although it's a pretty important single person, and may bring much greater awareness of the "westerner" ruby community among core developers.
The 'Zen of Joe' follow-up

http://erlang.org/pipermail/erlang-questions/2011-July/05999...

"Zen development - no tools - just your brain -
all we are doing in making pleasing patterns of
zeros and ones that follow the way of programming.
If we follow the way the programs will please us."

Mik
The time served might be much less then the sentence.
Fuck Hacker News.

Yours truly,
CiteSeer & Google Scholar
OT: (FUD) All HN users will move to G+?
That resembles what I, as a colorblind person, feel about colors. For me "yellow" or "green" are just definitions that other people make up, and they change the definition all the time. I cannot see any relation between an object and its "color" property.
Where to hack education and where to stack it
Thank you for the feedback. I forget about this.
Ok - so i posted 2 questions:

1) Can @memsql scale writes ?

2) Is @memsql ACID compliant ?

Your answering on sharding indiciates that @memsql scales writes in exactly the same way as MYSQL - sharding

Re. ACID complaince. I'm guessing you are ?
Where I work, the original post is actually blocked by websense; and I believe that says a lot about the firm. And not just that, there is also a strict auditing of browsing habits. They have already incorporated edw519's suggestion of monitoring logs for accessing HN/proggit etc. More than a hundred hits per day and I need to get an approval from four levels above.(SO was completely websensed and I had to fight for 10 days to get it off the blacklist).

It's not that people just quit bad managers. Many a times, they quit firms with ridiculous policies and rules, even though their immediate managers/peers are good enough.
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I can't either. It's stuck on "Anyone on the web".

EDIT: "Starting later this week"
I'd like to see a more developed "What is Thoughtback" page. Currently I'm just left wondering, piecing together information from HN.
As someone who has just pushed the reset button on his life, this was an amazing story. Good luck and may you continue inspiring people.
How Many Jobs Do High Growth Startups Create?
Neither evil, nor genius, just business.

And let's not pretend that Google were trying to do any different. They didn't bid $3 billion with Intel for shits and giggles, they did it for exactly the same reasons Apple, Microsoft et al did they just lost.
(slightly off-topic)
Just out of curiosity. Is there a web framework in any language that can compete with Perl's Mojolicious?
http://mojolicio.us/

I know Mojo offer more but I would like to know whether there is another language with a framework where you have a complete box that is easy to deploy on any platform, comes with built in templates, comes with tools for testing, the ability to seamlessly grow Sinatra-style application into well structured Rail like stuff, a good plugin interface, a WWW library to directly get JSON or DOM elements from a remote location in one command, logs, interfaces for cgi, fastcgi, etc., production and development server with helpful exception handling inside the browser.

I know you can have all of this when you use libraries, but it makes applications harder to deploy and maintain. Besides that it's way easier to write and read stuff when it's an all in one solution. I looked for something like that in Node.js and Ruby, but couldn't find anything.
Have a look at our time tracker Paymo (http://www.paymo.biz).

We just released a new beta desktop app that tracks what's going on your computer and than you can assign that time to projects and tasks at the end of the day. You can also use the traditional way to track time via a stopwatch.
As the writer of the story, I guess I should answer this.

I think the acronym "SEO" feels a bit outdated. The problems and strategies involved in SEO are far more involved than it often gets credit for. There are a number of people who do the name a disservice and do bad SEO.

But the type of work I do at Distilled is working on incredibly creative projects.

It might include projects like managing domain consolidation across 3 domains comprising of pages in the millions without allowing for a massive drop in traffic. To solving speed optimization issues, to account for crawl budgets that limit indexation. Or determining IA on large scale sites. Or helping optimize a site running on a 16 year old CMS that won’t switch.

And in the same day, I may switch gears to brainstorm some of the most popular viral content on the internet. Then I'll work with a client on their customer service center problems, because it's leading to reputation issues online.

Then later that week, I'll be on the phone with the CEO of a cool startup talking through strategic business ideas.

I get to help work on strategies that fall well outside the acronym of "SEO" that help lead to the success of some great brands.

As an ex engineering, math, and science fanatic - I love the problems that force me to just sit in front of a whiteboard for 2 days straight until I come out with a solution I think will work best for a client.

I love the complexity of the problems. However, in the industry, I'm more known for "building links" which is the aspect that allows me to be creative. Also, my "hustle" has made me successful at getting my clients coverage. But in link building, you get to work on projects like data mining and analysis on client data to create interesting content. Then I get to take that same content and pitch it to publications. It's such a dynamic process for one content piece to cover everything from brainstorming concepts, to data analysis, to outreach.

So yeah, I love SEO.
Turkish chat software hits record download number
Why challenges offer disproportionate rewards
"Selecting those with most artistic potential" were the exact words I used. The fundamental question is whether "found art" is copyrightable.
> Google+ Is Built Using Tools You Can Use Too: [...] BigTable, Colossus

Right.
I have the same impression about SEO and also about a lot of other things. While I was in college, I thought web development was easy and for people who couldn't program in C/C++. I was dumb. Now i know otherwise. It can be the same with SEO. And that's beside the point, the story is about determination and hard work. What he chose to do is a sidenote.
All my customers come from random Google searches.
The war on crapware
Closure is used in basically every Google product. There's no comparison - in terms of pageviews, edge cases, and general real-world exposure, Closure is more widely used than probably every other JS library.

I actually think they fill very different niches. JQuery is for sites that are primarily HTML but require some additional interactivity layered on via progressive enhancement. Closure is meant for JavaScript apps, where the whole client is basically written in JavaScript. Closure provides a lot of services that JQuery doesn't - there's a very full-featured widget library, and a JS compiler to minify your code, and a whole module system with on-demand code loading that's critical when your app becomes large.

The flip side is that coding to Closure conventions is very verbose. It feels like Java, a lot of the time. If your app is going to have hundreds of thousands of lines and dozens of developers, this is the right move. If it's just you trying to bang out an interactive website in a couple weeks, JQuery will let you get the basics done in much less code.
Can someone objectively describe Wolfram's main scientific accomplishments?
Whether the extra money is worth it depends on the kind of business that you're running.

Also, for the same price you can (at least here in the netherlands) have a second, mobile internet connection. Which both provides the needed redundancy and can be used on the road.
It happened to me too. Try http://gamesbyemail.com.nyud.net:8090/WoodTape/Default.htm or http://gamesbyemail.com.nyud.net/WoodTape/Default.htm
Most websites work either fine or better with JavaScript disabled. On the sites that require it to function, it's easy to turn it on.

I don't see how this is an inferior option to allowing all sites to execute local and cross-domain JavaScript.
Limited company in uk for developers
Experience about setting up a company to work as a contractor in London. How easy it is with the use of crunch services.
Well they have the Ring dude for clojure so...
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This is sick bro
I love it when I don't even have to promote my site myself in these discussions, thanks:-)
That depends on whether they can hold you indefinitely for contempt of court. It has been my understanding that in some jurisdictions, they can.
Generally, yes, unless your work contract says something else. There are many companies who only have such work contracts, but there are counter examples.
OK maybe not 'take a stand against idiots', but 'take a stand against bullies'. Harassing people is not somebody just being an idiot; it's not like we should ignore people who put a dog turd in somebody's mailbox every day.

People standing in the middle of the street holding signs about how Jezus saves, or posting online about being abducted by aliens: idiots, ignore; people picketing funerals with 'god hates fags' signs: bullies, punish. (not in the lynch mob sense, but in the 'recourse society takes against deviant subjects').
Argentina vs Venezuela Live in Kolkata 2-Sep-2011
After CWG, ICC World Cup 2011 and the most awaited Indian Grand Prix. It's time for the Indian Soccer Fans to celebrate as they can watch Lionel Messi showing his football skills in Kolkata India this september. Argentina Football team leaded by Lionel Messi will face Venezuela in a FIFA-sanctioned international friendly at the Salt Lake Stadium, at Kolkata (India) on 2 September 2011.This news has been officially announced and confirmed by by Celebrity Management Group (CMG).
He just got his Hogwarts letter.
um, random? why not spaced repetition? something like Anki would be nice in a browser though.
Metallica to play in India in October
Metallica's Bassist Robert Trujillo says, “Also, we are going to play India in October, That should be interesting, playing a place we never thought in our wildest dreams we'd (go) to play. He added, It's an honor for all of us that we get to be a part of that whole music scene as a metal band sharing our music with fans in India at this incredible concert!.”
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I'm from Europe and 18 years seems fair. His intention was to falsely brand somebody else a paedophile for life, have them imprisoned, lose their job, their reputation, and likely their family.

The guy is scum, and deserves to be locked away for a lot longer than the 3 years you think would be hard.
I'm pretty sure this guy will be able to single handedly rebuild human civilization after the apocalypse(1).

I love his current quest for a 3d printer that's open source and can run on his solar panels.

(1)With his kid strapped to him, wisecracking the whole time.
If the monkeys have the copyright, then (in current legislation) no one may reproduce the photos, unless he somehow gets the monkeys to convincingly understand copyright and convincingly express their will to license him.

I think that this is absurd.
I believe it was Computer Mathematics which originally developed SMP (Symbolic Manipulation Program). SMP was one of the first commercial products designed to solve abstract mathematical problems, and is generally considered the forerunner to Mathematica. My father used it extensively while working for the DoD back in the 80's and 90's and was a huge fan.
Really inspiring.

I don't have kids yet but when I think about parenting, this is what I always dream of. However, when I tell my "non-hacker" friends, they don't seem to get excited about it. I don't know why. For me, parenting is all about playing a supporting role in the kids journey to understand the world and learn to hack it for the better.
Same for me. I still use floppies with some of my synths (D-20, MV-30 -- no alternative, really), and the newest floppies (post 2000) are of terrible quality, while the old floppies (up to 23 years old) work perfectly and never failed me.
If you're interested in open source 3D printers, then you'll like these:

http://www.reddit.com/r/reprap

http://reprap.org/wiki/Main_Page

http://openfarmtech.org/wiki/Main_Page (Not quite 3D printer, but on the 'rebuild human cilization' level)
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Sure! I just wrote up a lengthy explanation of the idea: http://wesleytansey.com/elaborating-on-the-global-rydex-idea...
Startups and the law: tips for building a startup with hazy legal parameters?
I am building a product in the stock market / predictive markets / stock simulation space and find myself continually unsure of what is totally legal.

In seeking professional advice, I get differing opinions.
Has anyone else had any experience in building startup in which they were unsure about its legality? I feel constrained; it is affecting my creative process - my ability to innovate. Does anyone have any tips as to how to overcome this?

I feel as though I need a lawyer who's aware of what I am trying to accomplish and who is willing to help me push the boundaries / manoeuvre around existing legal structures, but I have yet to find one. I am not in a position currently to pay one either. My concern with most lawyers is that they seem inclined towards conservative interpretations of the law.

I'd really appreciate some advice.
Kindly,
R
Markov chains: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markov_chain

Imagine picking letters with the right frequencies. Now, instead of doing that, pick pairs of letters, with the right frequency, so that each pair "chains" with the previous. If you have good pair frequency data, you can do longer than pairs and get even closer to English.
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Ask HN: is there a place where one could get help with programming in chat form?
I have been using stackoverflow to get help when I get stuck on a problem, but I was wondering if I could get (even paid) help but immediately, rather than waiting an hour or two on to get some answers.
I wonder if the Closure library (and related tools) will gain more traction now that it has been used for Google+. Any reason why more companies/projects use them?
I imagine that the law would be interpreted to say that monkeys are not legally allowed to hold copyright, and the works in questions therefore have no copyright.
Sometimes I feel like the people on HN are monkeys reading tech blogs...
you are right. I got that back to front didn't I?
I have a bunch of late-20th century CD-Rs; and actually the cheapest ones are those that still work; all the gold-plated, branded CD-Rs (Kodak, etc) are mostly unreadable.
In case the founder managed to hire you, I would say the founder is much smarter because he could hire the smartest which makes the founder the smartest in the room.
As a student at school, (coincidentally, the University of Tennessee) trying to figure out where I really want to be and what I am doing with my life, this is absolutely inspirational.
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Why would he quote the words if it wasn't sarcasm? You're digging for something to criticise.
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They shut down Pandemic, but Bioware has been doing pretty well. Mass Effect and Dragon Age have been very successful, and if Star Wars: The Old Republic finds an audience it will probably justify the investment several times over. EA wasn't going to get those properties for free.
> If the monkeys have the copyright, then (in current legislation) no one may reproduce the photos

This is overstating things: You can reproduce the photos if you are using them to comment on them, to parody them, as part of a news piece, or as part of scholarly research, among other things.

You might have to convince a court that what you did was fair use but my point is there are exceptions to the absolute you stated.
I have a 55 inch Samsung and it was considerably affordable. And even a 42 inch full HD can keep up with a 20 foot screen when you factor in the different distance you will be sitting from it. And 5.1 speakers or sound-bars do not cost a fortune anymore either. Neither do full HD beamers.
Freenode IRC network has several language discussion channels and people are quite helpful in them.
Love it. I would like to be able to easily send thoughts to it from random places and devices, though. How about via email and/or SMS? I doubt you'll make an app for my Nokia anytime soon, but having to start up a mobile browser just for logging a thought will probably be a blocker.
You may find these helpful, the formatting options for HN:

http://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc
I've been meaning to create something like this as a side-project. Well done! The first thought I captured was: "If you're in front of the computer right now, get away from it and use your notebook (i.e. pen and paper) for a while instead."

Questions: When will it send me things back? You might want to make it configurable since not everyone is in the same timezone. I'd also like to be sure I get messages tagged as #work or #inspiration in the middle of the working day.

Bug report: A thought that was just created is listed as created 2 hours ago.
Pyramid 1.1b2 got released
hmm, it's like twitter with only your future selves as followers. nice!
> I would prefer to have the aggressive device, personally.

So, by basic game theory, everyone implements 'asshole mode' in their devices. What happens on a technical level when every device behaves like that?
The slides to Zadeck's keynote at the Static Single-Assignment Form Seminar, 2009, are worth reading for the history:

http://www.cdl.uni-saarland.de/ssasem/
The idea of that site is great, thanks! I just started using it. I plan on writing a few sentences as well as a #hashtag containing my general mood for the day. After a few months, I plan on plotting this and seeing what moods were more common when and why.
Why would somebody writing articles for developers ignore his core market? We aren't soccer moms...
Hey, this is the most egoless post that I've ever seen Wolfram make. Give him a break.
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Thanks for the insight, sounds very interesting. I will have to put this on the to read list.
I don't think this is true at our office (running a Cisco DHCP server). We get conflicts when putting a device with a static IP in the dhcp range, and I'm almost sure that they respond to ping.
New MacBook Air set to have backlit keyboard