skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just to give you a picture, I get most of my vegetables from a Community Supported Agriculture farm here in the spring and summer. They give me a box of what is available. Onions, peppers, beets, potatoes, cucumbers, fennel, tomatoes, garlic and cilantro have been some of the recent arrivals. Spring had lots of lettuces and spinach, in the future there will be squash. Some are local heirlooms, they certainly aren't from gene hack labs. The jalapenos growing in my garden came from Amish farm stocks in the next county. The pork chops and sausage in my freezer grew up a few miles away.

With all that said, I could be at the white house for a state dinner in an hour if they ever asked me.

I don't know how possible it is to manage a large global society this way, but it works OK at a micro level.

http://www.localharvest.org/csa/
We have one, it's called Air Force Space Command Center.

Their budget was increased by 700 million in 2011 (http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/02/16/usa-airforce-space...)
This looks like another case of the "Streisand effect".
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If the argument you're making is "the free market is working because the paywall is driving traffic to other news vendors," keep in mind that the BBC is taxpayer-subsidized by Britain's citizens—and many of them aren't too happy about it.

(I don't know if you're making this argument or not. Just an observation.)
Any list that opens with

no: All Bottom Trawled Fish
no: All Fish caught by Longline

loses me right there. I don't know how different types of fish are caught, and I'm not going to reearch it before making each purchase.
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One things that is missing from html is a "jar" like format so that an entire document can be contained in a single file (without data: hacks).

It seems that all we need is an extension, I propose ".htz" and a mime type, say "application/x-html-bundle". Browser's would just download it and open the containing "index.html" (at the top level or inside a unique top level directory) and open other assets relative to that.
thanks. will keep that in mind.
You might be surprised that a lot of those vendors you've been passing up, and which your competitors might be using to run their business, might actually have cheaper prices than the ones that post price on their site. (That said, even that thought is incorrect, as companies with posted prices are often still negotiable: the posted price is just the initial bid... the day you find out that Amazon AWS has a business sales division you can negotiate with is the day your mind explodes.)
Music is communication, not a unit of content
When was that?

edit: down voted for asking a reasonable question? WTF? I google for "Microsoft sues Linux" and nothing reasonable came up (it's pretty much mostly the Tom Tom stuff, which wasn't about Linux). Hence, I asked what the poster was thinking of.
Boycotting Cisco.
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Or materials with different angles of refraction - which is what I always thought. (I don't actually know.)
Terrible feedback? No way, it's all good. Thanks for taking the time. It does have a bloggy vibe, which is somewhat what we were going for -- at least, our sales approach is to become a trusted source of content about villa travel, as opposed to a more in-your-face hard-sell. But perhaps the pendulum has swung too far that direction.

Regarding the call to action: agreed. Those property pages haven't yet been updated, and they're on our hit list. We've really only rolled out the home page and benefits page at this point.
Dupe http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2791115
For me, the brilliant idea behind Color, (which they did absolutely not realize in their app), is the idea of an elastic social network.

In real like, friendship isn't binary. It's a scale of how close we are, what we talk about, what we share in common, etc. If you came up with a social network that would figure out who your friends are based on how often you talked, hung out, what you talked about etc., I'd call you a genius. A social network where there's no awkward friend requests to accept or reject. A social network that shows me feed items based on how much I currently care about the person and the kind of content...
Maybe it's only my field of research, but I'd say that scientific articles ARE essentially free. If I search for an articles on Google Scholar in 95% of the cases there is a link next it that says "download pdf". When that is not the case, I simply log in my university VPN and can download it anyway (at least from my point of view). I've never paid for a scientific article in my life.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCO-Linux_controversies#Microso...
There is no single alternative to XML, and I don't want to say that all XML is bad. But it's very commonly misused, because someone, somewhere tried to solve the wrong problem and XML happened to be the "default" solution. So, really, the alternatives depend heavily on the context.

What I've seen personally often involved overly complex SOAP/WSDL services for things that could be accomplished with a simple HTTP request. Look at query prams, return the correct HTTP code and you're done.

Another common pathology is problem over-solving. Instead of writing a library to solve some problem and providing a sensible API, people write the library, hide it, then write an XML "driver" that consumes a custom-designed language encoded via XML tags. The alternative in this case is simply providing the original API.
Wow, this is pretty sweet - especially the part where they are still using real seeds! I doubt the majority of farmers are doing this here.
Only on HN can one expect a genuinely insightful reply to a comment like that :) I never really read about the laws surrounding rape, but that sounds pretty unexpected :)
"Visualization" is a big part of what I personally try to pour into the vision of Kanbanpad. We have some cool things coming in to help visualize some more things. Stay tuned!
Absolutely, I think this is exactly the BIG idea that the VCs saw that others didn't really get. I would add that I don't even think it's about "friends" in your elastic social network, it is that the social network exists based on the context (where you are, who you're with, what you're doing) regardless of whether the other person knows/friends you or not. There is a shared thread that is tied together by a shared experience and Color was trying to capture that.
How tall are my toolbars?
I honestly have no idea how it works. I thought that the Mail app would login once, and store some sort of 30-day auth token.
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I'm implying that Facebook's organization is superior.

More to the point: The idea is that if you're a company working with a high-scale website, don't bog yourself down with PHP if (a) you don't have to and (b) it doesn't fit your organization.

If you're planning on working with PHP at scale, you have to be hacking the codebase extensively. Yahoo used PHP back in the 90s, but they had so many C extensions that the PHP was effectively thin glue.
No, just not stupid enough to write the oppositions briefs for them.

But really, you don't need to be a genius to obtain large collections of scientific papers. Many people have them— its a prerequisite for doing meta-analysis for example. The distinction here is making them available to the general public.
How exactly is the release of someone's banking information stipulated when applying for a job?
Yeah, as long as you are not obviously threatening their ability to make money off our backs, they will probably not come after us. I think the publishers rather not face the negative publicity they would get if they would actively persecute researchers who make their work available on their personal website.
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If your servers can't ever be rebooted, I think you have problems.
I don't doubt the value of a space program, but I seriously doubt having NASA be the steward of such a program from this point on. I cannot help but think what would have happened if the Air Force's program had been funded and advanced past the X-15 stage. The forcing of Air Force concerns on the shuttle and NASA's own obsession with winning a race to the moon instead of establishing a permanent presence in space have done in our space program.

At this point, I just hope that multiple avenues are tried and regulatory agencies are made to get out of the way of private flight.
Tons of cute animated photos and virtual gifts.
Technically yes but if I'm reading it right that's only because in an outdated chart they hadn't been assigned yet. Unless there's a pattern of disallowing symbols but I'd have to question the motivation behind that.

Edit: Nevermind, the rules used to create the chart are designed to disallow symbols. It gives an explanation of the rule but not the reason it was set.

These rules identify characters commonly used in mnemonics and often
informally described as "language characters". In general, only code
points assigned to this category are suitable for use in IDN.
I think that's just the thing: it's telling, but not of any valuable information. And that's the last thing our political dialog needs right now: we've got a million times too much as it is.
Thanks for the honest feedback -- definitely appreciated. Text treatments can indeed be reined in, as might several of the extraneous elements for the reasons you've pointed out. Always good to get fresh eyes and concrete criticism. Thanks again.
You're still downloading the whole history. That can be very painful on very large projects.
My first reaction is that you'd basically be able to do what a webpage with javascript could do.

On further thought, I realize that having tools like this lowers the learning curve for publishing interactive or formula-based documents. Hopefully this should lead to people producing documents that convey knowledge better.

The main roadblock I see to this becoming more popular is how aggressive they are about keeping the format and viewer(s) proprietary.
I'm not well-versed in cryptography, but how do I know that I'm talking to a "trustworthy telex"? What's to prevent the bad guy from poisoning the network with his "telex" router?
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We tend to assume that the real world is not switched left-right, because when we're in that position, we don't feel switched left-right.
HTTP Keep-Alive explained
231MB for Linux. This is 7 times larger than my browser.
"Why are you working at that soup kitchen?"

"Excuse me?"

"Well, it just seems that there are millions of starving people in Africa. Isn't that a bigger hunger problem to solve than the 2000 homeless people in the city?"

"... Are you serious?"

"Why don't all of you guys in this kitchen just go to Africa, set up soup kitchens there on a bigger scale, and feed millions instead of hundreds? Surely that'd be a better use of your time!"

"... Get out."
The best way to fund science is to cut taxes on capital and to cut tax rates on the wealthy.
Er, no. IMAP requires you to send password (encrypted or no) every time you connect.
Awesome. Did you see the URL?
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This is a case where existing laws were not followed properly. You're proposing to add a new law, namely, that those guilty of offense X should be killed. What makes you think your law will be followed properly?
Around the time I wrote this post on the death of Flip: http://jseliger.com/2011/05/08/will-we-ever-find-out-what-ha... , I post John Chambers' business address on the Save Flip Facebook Group's wall. If you'd like it for more serious purposes now:

John Chambers
Building 10
300 E Tasman Drive
San Jose, California 95134
Non-profit does not mena that they do not make a profit, it just means that any profits are put back into the organization instead of it's leadership or shareholders.
Because only governments and big corporations do bad things, of course.
Also I should add, you might want to take pictures of yourself or your friends in the foreground. That's what personalizes a photo for MOST people. imho.
I don't understand why people choose to have so many things competing for their time, and then talk about "burnout". Of course you will be burned out.

I could be trying to go to college, work full-time, have 6 kids, train to be an olympic athlete, learn to be a master of 26 different musical instruments, write 16 novels in parallel, and then say: "I'm feeling burnt out".

The real problem isn't being burned out. The real problem is why you think you can do all of that and NOT be burned out. Why take on so many things?

I think it comes down to greed. You want it all. But basic economics says that you cannot have it all. If you don't find too many people trying to help you while you're trying to have everything all at once, it's probably because nobody really likes people who are that greedy.

If I was in your situation, I would get rid of my full-time job, get a divorce, make sure the kid goes to the mother with the divorce, stop exercising, get rid of friends who arn't related to my start-up, and forget about sanity. Sanity is for conformers.

It's kind of like a hoarder collecting so much junk that he can't let go of, that the junk weighs him down. You have to prioritize, and live with the necessities. Which is more important to you: your family or your start-up? And can't say both. It would be like saying I want to keep my $20,000 AND get that new Car. Well of course, everyone WANTS both, but that's not how the world works. Nobody WANTS to make sacrifices.

But you have to make sacrifices. Nature will sacrifice something in the end for you, if you don't want to decide. Your health will deteriorate, or your family will be troubled, or the start-up will fail. If you don't choose, something will be chosen at random for you and you probably won't like the result.

I'm not really making any suggestions to you, as your situation has many details I don't know about. But I ask you to at least consider whether or not you are simply desiring too many things and being stubborn about seeing reality.

The most important adjustment to make is to set expectations that allow you to do less.
It could be a 10-20-30-40 vesting schedule with aggressive earnout.
Thanks Nat0, you're reinforcing some themes emerging from this discussion. Awesome.

The logo's a challenge to work with, though we're trying not to change it -- at least, not right now -- due to some brand recognition in the villa rental industry.
That's surprising: I thought YouTube's unit of granularity was the country. I'm in the US too and can see the video. I guess this means it's available in some parts of the country and not others. Hurray for being in Boston, then.
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once you start taking a closer look at academic publishing practices quite a lot of it ranges from "silly" to "morally questionable".

and not just in publishing.

there's particularly one practice that I find particularly distasteful, and that is the practice of putting the names of people who had nothing to do with the publicaion on papers. either to market the paper itself ("ooh, look, I have a famous professor's name next to mine!") or to boost the publication list of some tenured has-been.

a few years ago there was a scandal here in Norway. a doctor got caught fabricating research results. as the shitstorm hit the media his "co-authors" (none of which seemed to have done any of the work or the writing, and some of which denied even knowing about the paper) ran for cover. oh and how they ran.

I must say that I found it somewhat questionable that they didn't get thrown out of academia for having put their name on a piece of fraudulent bullshit. if the paper was good enough to put their name on it should be good enough to stand by.

it ought to be a mandatory practice to mark these frauds in publication lists and databases as such: frauds.

most I have talked to who are still in academia defend the practice. and when they run out of sensible arguments in its favor, which they inevitably do, they go with the old "well, it is how it is done. so we shouldn't rock the boat".

quite a few of these people have a change of heart after leaving academia. or after having a re-think about ethics and honesty and why it really, really matters if you are to call what you are doing "science".
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A possible contribution to the decrease that was not mentioned is that they may be linked to less often because of the pay wall. For general news, a blogger might instead link to some other, more reliably visitable site. When the Montreal Gazette introduced their pay wall at least one blog I follow avoided linking there when there was another source.
How to avoid "perfect time" syndrome
You could try with a human head turned sideways.
So you support the News of the World phone hacking? The only difference between them and anonymous/wikileaks/etc. is that NOTW is using it to support politics you don't like, while the others are using it to support politics you do.
LOL that's the best point of criticism so far. Unless I misunderstand what you're referring to, those "artifacts" are in fact decorative elements intended to echo the rather flowery logo. Some people love 'em -- but others find them like motes of sand in their eye or itches they can't scratch.
If you don't like the application specific passwords, then don't create any. The only problem is that all your applications will need to support Google's two factor authentication natively.

Given that most people want to work with existing applications and infrastructure, it's an application specific password is a reasonable compromise. Google aren't in a position to be able to do any better. At least we're getting an incremental improvement.

One thing Google could do is to lock down a particular password to a specific service on first use, and as the author says to be able to revoke a 30-day authentication.
Why is Adobe blameless for not testing in Lion and providing a working copy? I don't see how the blame lies squarely with Apple on this one. Adobe has just as much developer pre access as anyone else.

I realize everyone wants to blame Apple for anything wrong with Adobe on their platform, but this seems really towards the conspiracy theory side of the spectrum trying to say Apple is "aggressively trying to kill or stifle the Flash technology".

Bugs happen, but I really have no sympathy for Adobe not getting off their asses yet again for a non-windows platform change.
For whatever the resaon might be, Microsoft also does this :
http://www.itproportal.com/2011/07/18/microsoft-contribution...
ok, now i get it. still it bothers me why anyone would think that a mirror switches left/right when everybody who looks into a mirror can clearly see that this is not the case. i never thought of myself as an empericist, but it seems i am.
I was expecting an actual "massive security hole". Not a short article saying "I don't really like how this works".

Doesn't seem to be any security hole if you manage your passwords properly. And if you're using two-factor authentication, chances are you don't leave your gmail password on some post-it note somewhere. Silly article.
The trouble is that Pidgin (in your example) still has access to the password, which means that malware also has access and could copy it out and transmit it elsewhere.

It is still a massive improvement over what was available before though.
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the time? Pretty sure they'd still be quite happy to do that.
They already said November is when Mac apps will be required to have sandboxing setup. Its not much stretch to see the lines in the sand shifting.
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Hello!

I am reaching out for the kiwis hanging out here.

As a recent graduate in CS looking for a job abroad to see more of the world and discover new cultures, I am very interested by New Zealand — English speaking, high standard of living, immigration-friendly, and unbelievable landscapes and hiking trails.

As a lot of HN readers, I'd much rather work for a small company creating interesting stuff than for a corporate behemoth, so I wanted to know: What's the start-up scene like in New Zealand? And the programming job market in general?

Any information (from tips about NZ in general to names of hiring startups) would be greatly appreciated.
It's that last line that bugs me, you've made a sweeping statement about what you want being right. You've decided what everyone should want and how their relationship should work. You speak authoritively for yourself.
I have this problem all the time! I even shave by touch and then check in the mirror whether I've missed a spot rather than shave while looking in the mirror because I can't avoid being confused about this. I can, while looking at the mirror, reason about which way I need to move my hand to get at a certain spot on my face's reflection, but it's much faster to stop looking at the mirror and let (correct) instincts kick in.
sadly slate.com is not readable on the ipad due to some swipe/touch/die scumware.....
I thought of that as well, but surprisingly, I only got about half a dozen requests to take pictures with people out of the ~hundred total. Going by what I saw of other people being photographed, this was probably typical.
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The heartless bastards that down voted you obviously haven't spoken to young children and heard their charming, clever and totally wrong explanations for things. If they had, they would probably agree it's an interesting question to ask them.
You don't see a problem because you actually have a subscription to these journals -- via your university. During the school year most of the time I have the same experience -- all articles are freely available when I sit in a library or in my room in students' dormitory. Then the summer holidays come, and bam, my head hits the paywall. It annoys me like hell.

The prices are so ridiculously high because they're not aimed at the single consumers -- they're aimed at the universities, which are (barely but still) able afford that.
It was was a couple thousand dollars up front (billed hourly, because we didn't know how long it would take), and he also gets a % revenue split. I assume the risk, he still makes out well in the end. :)
I love going to gigs, but.. I prefer to remember my experience of what happened, which is not something that can be caught on camera.

(note 1; I know I'm not the target audience for any social network)

(note 2; I really dislike the fact that the audiences to gigs are just filled with people holding up their mobile. Instead of trying to get a pic to put on FB, why don't you try enjoy actually being there?!)
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=6628661

Haven't got it working in firefox yet, but can see in Character Selector.
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That's actually the message the BBC video says.
This needs a better title, I thought it was another silly tau vs pi post.