skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not really.

I'm sorry, but I simply can't take you seriously.

you don't understand that the very definition of a tax incorporates the idea of 'force' (hint if it is optional, it isn't a tax)

you are confusiong redistribution and/or progressive tax structure with 'equal incomes'

you claim without any evidence that the 1960s represented a time when this redistribution was implemented

My comment was about the ambiguity of 'equality' without any clarification or context and about the dangers of promulgating 'equal incomes' via forced redistribution.

I do not want to live in a world where any individual effort made to raise my income above the average results in the government grabbing my wallet and giving it to someone making no effort at all.
It could be a broken test for support, or UA sniffing or something. I'll file a bug against the site.
Gruber changed the background of his site to a darker shade of grey in mourning.

Update: Used to be #4A525A and now is #222222
"Evan asks his panel if it's getting easier to create a new business in the wired world, or does a lower barrier to entry mean it's more difficult to get noticed? They also consider how good businesses are built on the back of mistakes.

"Evan is joined in the studio by Matt Brittin, managing director of Google, UK and Ireland; Lara Morgan, founder of Pacific Direct and Company Shortcuts; Luke Johnson, serial entrepreneur and chairman of Risk Capital Partners."
I don't really see why I'd take the time to learn a new language or library if it seemed dull to me.
This is the perfect kind of product, which can benefit from a meme app like threewords.me or thathigh.com. Make an app through which people can share some quotes (funny, inspirational, etc) which has a viral loop built-in. Get some buzz going and instead of showing someone else's ads, sell your own product.

You need to jazz up your homepage a bit more. Show an example book. This should be on your homepage, not hidden behind 5 clicks - https://www.thewisdomofothers.com/book-examples#/page/1.

Mine twitter for quotes and have a live feed running on your homepage.

This is a user generated content product. You need to leverage that. Make all content free and public and just sell the hardcover book.

Your pricing looks way too complicated. I'd say, have one single price so that it's an easy impulse purchase.
Reminds me of The Duck[1]

[1] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2349378/new-programming-j...
You can always close the CC account completely. Not ideal but it will work hard and fast.
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R.I.P. Steve. I respect him for that despite all the difficulties he was doing what he wanted in his life and enjoyed it. He achieved his goal - to change the world.
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First of all, if you know a little bit about Steve Jobs, you'll know he wasn't likely a big fast food eater.

Secondly, I think Steve Jobs would have been much worse off if he had stepped down as CEO.

Steve Jobs needed Apple as much as Apple needed Steve Jobs.
The Oatmeal On Steve Jobs Passing
First Stanford Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders podcast of the semester
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Do you have an idea for a new app? Suggest it and you could win cash prizes! Your idea could become the next gaming craze! Or maybe a productivity tool that could make everyone's life better.
Future-proofing Your JavaScript Apps (Compact edition)
Hateful nut church vows to picket Steve Jobs funeral
> The question is whether, when silicon runs out, something else can take over, or whether we just put our hands up and say "OK, that's it, that's about as fast as our computers are ever gonna get".

The single-core speed trend has already started to level-out, which is why we went to multi-cores.

There are some relevant slides in the talk by http://www.stanford.edu/class/ee380/Abstracts/111005.html
I'm glad Woz remembers Steve. It'd be weird if he didn't.
Six Reasons Why Steve Jobs Would Have Hated the $35 Student Tablet Computer
In Focus: Steve Jobs, 1955-2011
I never said it was a coincidence that Apple was hugely successful. But, those at Apple that made it what it is would not appreciate so many attributing so much to Jobs. I doubt it makes his family feel comfortable either.

"they just coincidentally happened to gain superpowers when he was there"

I do not believe that they gained superpowers, literally or figuratively. I do think Jobs had incredibly talented people working for him. He was a great leader. But, he didn't do it all himself.

To me this is like U.S. citizens attributing too much to the president. They think the president started an unfair war, the president is getting them universal healthcare, the president caused the economy to falter. One man does not cause these things, and although leadership and charisma are important, even critical, just as critical are all of the others who do these things, and those around them that relay their messages.
"Well, first you have your assistant assign her a serial number..."
I know. It's almost as if Apple's incredible rise post OSX/ipod/iPhone have made people totally forget all of his original contributions back in the 80s. I think the first computer I ever used was an Apple II back in elementary school.
Most European nations have database protection laws. Although limited in scope and doesn't prevent you from compiling an identical database from other sources, it has insane side-effects. In the Netherlands for instance, the zip-code database is copyright protected.
Steve Jobs was moderately disruptive at Atari, even if a lot of it was "I should get Woz to do this."

Some of Steve's pet projects at Apple were miserable bombs. It's less a quest to find the right place than it is the fact that it's impossible to do more than guess at the reception that a product will have. You can boost the probabilities, but it's still a random process.
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Is the "will not be case sensitive" just a typo or do they enforce case insensitivity?! If they do, that's horrendous.
A good start would be understanding that it is the unholy alliance of government and big business that tends to be at the heart of many problems.

Government has taught big business that if they donate money to re-election campaigns, wine-and-dine legislators, and even ghostwrite legislation or regulations then the business is rewarded. Incentives like this only encourage more of the same.

Pointing at businesses and saying that they are greedy for grabbing at the billions that Congress and state legislatures dangle in front of them is missing the point.
This looks interesting - we've been pretty happy with crossbrowsertesting.com until now, which is also worth a look.

Here's what I'd love next - we'd write a bunch of QUnit javascript tests, put them behind a private url on our staging server, and then be able to run those tests from the command-line on multiple browsers (through BrowserStack, say), and spit back the output in a form that Jenkins understands. I'd certainly pay $20/month for that, and maybe more if it was great.
Organizing Your Backbone.js Application With Modules
> the Apple II simply had no "user experience" in the sense we understand today

Of course there is an user experience element on an Apple II. You just have to put the II in the context of the microcomputers if its time. It came in a plastic box, you could hook up your TV and you could display color and make music and sound effects in the speaker. You turned it on and you got a BASIC language interpreter instantly. You could connect a cassette recorder (an 8-track would do) and save your programs.

Compare that with the average computer of 1977:

http://www.old-computers.com/museum/year.asp?st=1&y=1977

and you'll see the "user experience" of an Apple II was miles ahead what most of the competition could offer (monochrome text on a screen, fan noise, metal cases, serial terminals, no BASIC...) at much higher prices.

People often compare the II to other 8-bit micros like the Atari 400/800 and the VIC family, but forget they were launched 2 and 3 years after the II respectively.
The parade of whiny self-righteousness just never ends.

If you don't want to read about Steve Jobs then don't do it.
Compared to other forms of pancreatic cancer perhaps, but none of the 10-year survival rates for any of the pancreatic cancer variants I am familiar with is "excellent" no matter how you look at it. Given that Jobs lasted at least eight years after initial diagnosis it seems he was already on the upper end of the survival curve. Claiming, as Dunning did, that were it not for actions taken during the first months after diagnosis Steve Jobs would be alive today is a claim that Dunning is woefully unqualified to make.
When a non-customer does you the courtesy of pointing out serious flaws in your system, you do not ask them to detail it publicly via twitter.

Nor is it a good idea to make them jump through hoops. You know what method of disclosure doesn't have hoops? Posting an email to the Full Disclosure mailing list.

Look. I'm all for giving the company a chance but if you put up arbitrary hoops up for me to jump through... Why shouldn't I take the path of least resistance again?
Daily Mobile Minute: Are you building a feature of someone else's product
Steve Jobs meant something different to each of us, and for the vast majority it's just fantasy. I think this blog was a tad touching, and a tad overwrought, but not sour.
Because smart people act on their ideas.
The article mentions an analysis by Nyteknik, a Swedish science periodical. That analysis (in English) is at http://www.nyteknik.se/nyheter/energi_miljo/energi/article32... . It's easy to see that it was not a detailed analysis, and it concludes "Ny Teknik's conclusions disclose no hard scientific evidence, but should be viewed as a summary of our preliminary observations."

The comment by "popeye" shows how incomplete the analysis is.

Even more information is available from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_Catalyzer
True, but who else votes with their dollars every day? American citizens. Perhaps some should pay more attention to what they are voting for with their wallets.
Nice idea, but lacks some additional control, that would allow switching videos in less random fashion. Floating infobox (obviously hideable one) would help here a bit too.

Infobox could have also a real-time generated schedule, i.e. tv guide, queuing some shows and showing estimated time required to watch them (and recalcing it on forced change).
How does anyone become a better coder? You code.

Pair programming is a great scenario for this because it tightens the loop - you feel more free to attempt things which you're not certain of and it's much easier to find out what you did wrong.
I've actually been wanting to find more programming talks I'm interested in lately... Unfortunately, by hacker, you didn't mean programmer. :(

Still, nice idea. I could wish for a way to choose what to watch other than hitting 'next' and hoping, though.
Apparently I got facts wrong. I just wonder which ones…
Can someone from the company give an explanation as to why there is no pricing information available on the front page?

Was there A/B testing done on whether to provide it? I'm asking, because the simple sign-up popup requires me to agree to the Refund Policy, which definitely hints that me paying money is part of the equation at some point.
I assume it means that case insensitivity is a "feature" of the password system.
Would rather have the original teamfortress, it was a lot more fun and would allow me to indulge nostalgia more easily
Greece buys 500 M1A1 from the US
Hard to believe where the money is from - ahh, a credit from the US. Is it the same Greece that has a problem with its credits? And the US, don`t they have a problem with their deficit? Sorry, i forgot, WEAPONS!
A letter from an unknown Indian fan to Steve Jobs
Sequoia Capital's homage to Steve Jobs
Dataflow Programming: Handling Huge Data Loads Without Adding Complexity
Love the idea of curating some good hacker (or programming) talks.

I'd love to something more along the lines of:

Watch talks from hacker conferences like a DVR
I'm curious, if notifying them instead of exploiting the bug doesn't qualify as 'kind', then what do you call it?

As far as im concerned that's being bloody gracious and generous.
Steve Jobs: The Link Between Machines And Humans
The court order in this case is extremely specific in both what should be blocked and the method of blocking to be applied. It even notes that the blocking is circumventable, but that "it should be assumed the average internet-user will not attempt to find alternative ways to access the site".

Basically, the loopholes the size of a truck are explicitly included in the court order.

IANAL, but I don't think other courts think highly of court orders that intentionally assume the people are idiots.
My tribute. http://moeedm.com
Also, I think OP missed that they charge $30 for tethering: http://www.tuaw.com/2011/09/22/sprint-caps-mobile-tethering-...
Seems to counter itself with a statement like:
"Parents still report feeling a greater sense of purpose and meaning in their lives than those who've never had kids."

Obviously if one equates happiness to lower amounts of worries and responsibilities than sure.. But that seems kind of.... superficial?

Note: I am not in anyway saying that those who choose to not have kids are superficial, it is their choice -- just as it was mine to have a kid.
We had pricing information show before the signup page, but we saw a 30-40% drop in our funnel. We'll probably add back the pricing page, but have it tucked away in case someone wants to find out without signing up.
Android on TouchPad: A different approach to getting Android up and running
instead of asking for handouts they should fix their situation by putting in effort, taking responsibility and standing up for themselves and each other.

Isn't that exactly what they're doing?

Taking responsibility can take many different forms. No, those people are not taking an individualist entrepreneur route that most here on this particular forum are probably more comfortable with. However, the individualist approach cannot solve every problem. Sometimes, a different route is needed.

The Occupy Wall Street protests are exactly the kind of process by which people are taking responsibility. Ideas are fermenting there, people are activated, becoming involved at whichever level (political or otherwise). This is not a uniform process - certainly, many people will just be there out of rage, not really becoming activated, but at the same time, many people undergo transformations, gaining knowledge, forming goals, talking about and then attempting concrete steps to get what they want.

This is hard to believe if you've never actually been in touch with a movement like this, mostly because it is impossible to see such developments from the outside. I've been personally involved in similar things when I was younger (though at a smaller, local scale), and even I can't see what's going on as an outsider. But believe me, if you think those people are all shouting for somebody else to fix everything for them, you have absolutely no clue what you're talking about.
(IANAL)

more than likely, yes. see US vs. auernheimer for a recent example. the complaint is here:
http://i.cdn.turner.com/dr/teg/tsg/release/sites/default/fil...

The complaint indicates that AT&T's publicly accessible endpoint is a protected computer under Title 18, United States Code, Section 1030(e)(2). a protected computer is basically any computer used for interstate or foreign commerce in the US, or outside the US if it affects the commerce thereof.

the issue hinges on intent - if you know that you're exceeding authorized access to obtain something of value. 18 USC 1030 was created in 1986 by the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act and is often panned for being incredibly broad.

See this wikipedia page for more info:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Fraud_and_Abuse_Act

(IANAL)
I understand the copyright issue. It could be freely licensed though, and in fact generate goodwill rather than friction and lawyer fees.
"Steve Jobs was not a visionary. He put the dots together and saw where they led."

That's what being a visionary/genius is -- seeing things and making associations or "connecting the dots" before others do. It's having a rare and valuable perspective on the world.
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>> He was normal, maybe just a little better.

I think that is hugely underrating. If he was a "normal" guy for you, I'd hate to know what you think of people like me.

There are plenty of places with talented people. Having talented people doesn't guarantee success. Steve had that quality about him and he always gave credit to the people working at Apple.
Steve Jobs's Cancer Response Should Also Be Part of Legacy
I HATED this list. A few rebuttals to point out why...

Steve Jobs did not create products he created an organization. No. He was partially responsible for the creation. He sat in on design meetings and offered input and feedback. Plus he vetoed bad idea (just as important)

Steve Jobs did not wrest market share from competitors he created new markets: Tell that to Creative Labs and Microsoft. Creative labs had an MP3 player and Microsoft had tablets before apple came along. Apple just did things better.

Steve Jobs did not design anything he gave others freedom to think: Not really. He certainly encouraged people to think for themselves but anyone whose studied Jobs will tell you he stuck to his own vision. Your only way to design a product at Apple under Jobs was to make your case to him and change his vision.

Steve Jobs did not develop new management theories he showed by example: Well how do you think management theory is born? Good management theory comes from people who practiced what they preached.

Steve Jobs was not a futurist he built the future one piece at a time: WHAT?!? You don't build the future one piece at a time unless you have a vision of what it will be like as a whole.

Steve Jobs was not charismatic he spoke from the heart: WHAT?!? What do you think "being Charismatic" means?

Steve Jobs was not a gifted orator he spoke plainly: A gifted orator is someone who is engaging to watch speak. Jobs was engaging.
Please show me where in these documents it recommends ignoring other treatments and I will upmod your post.

The idea that "diet" is alternative is ludicrous. What's alternative is "curing cancer" with diet. The science of how diets affect cancer—and the resulting medical advice that falls out—is an open and somewhat understood topic and a good part of a whole spectrum of treatment; one that all indications suggested were ignored in this case.

I always think it's funny that naturopaths say they're treating the "whole patient" but almost inevitably they focus on ONE THING that CURES EVERYTHING, whereas doctors come at the problem with a whole spectrum of tools ranging from diet and lifestyle to chemical interventions.
And it would have been integrated in browsers directly, and we could have run valgrind on it and fixed all the bugs.
SourceTree is a desktop client for DVCSs in general, not a webapp, so I'm not sure of the comparison. It's a pretty sweet piece of kit regardless.

It's also a side-project of Steve Streeting, the founder of OGRE3D: http://www.ogre3d.org/about/team
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Michael Spindler and Gil Amelio also had incredibly talented people working for them — many of the same incredibly talented people who worked for Jobs — but they didn't manage to take the company anywhere but down.

And I don't how how many people at Apple you know, but all the ones I've heard from are just as superlative about Steve's contribution to the company. I haven't yet heard a one take umbrage at the recognition he gets (this was true even before he died, so it's not simply "don't speak ill of the dead").

I'm not trying to downplay the contributions of everyone else — certainly, Steve could never have done it without them — but I don't think you're giving him the credit that his accomplishments deserve, simply because he didn't have the precise role in the process that you personally respect.
Show HN: (first iPhone App) Picsicle - Customized Photo Postcards
Local? Just local?
I'd be as noisy about it as I could, and I would have informed the people who's info had been compromised as to just what the bank said when you offered them a list of compromised accounts.

Wouldn't you want to be informed if your bank was intentionally leaving your personal info and financial well-being at risk?
Stopping YoZuck
Check out the site now, it looks like this has been fixed. At the very least, not bad response time on their part once they got wind of it.
Make something with it.
Not great timing... you heard that Apple is doing the exact same thing, with the built in "Cards" app in IOS5?
Where is EFF now?
Where did the source code of the engine come from?
Show HN: My table of tools for startups [Google Docs]
I started this a long time ago but it quickly grew too tedious and unwieldy for me to complete. I'd like to open it for editing so anyone can include their own tool or fill in details, but I'm afraid it might become overwhelmed by bad info or completely messed up. So if you would like to contribute or add your own info, please shoot me an email and I'll add you to the edit list.

djclljx [at] gmail

Hopefully it proves useful to someone!
Ask HN: Is it wrong to want at least one story other than Jobs is dead?
I am wondering what the view of the community is here... all I see for first 2 pages of HN is "steve is dead" yes I know I get it, its a tragedy, but can we have an umbrella post with links to all sort of interesting stories regarding his death, followed by our regularly scheduled programming?

Is it wrong to ask this?
InDinero does a great job of getting PR. It seems like I come across an article about them at least once a month (if not more). It's a strategy a lot of entrepreneurs could learn from. I'd love to hear what they're doing from a PR strategy standpoint.
Simon & Schuster moves up publication of Steve Jobs biography to Oct. 24
I'll translate that into something a bit more correct: "Hydrogen gas is not an abundant energy source. While there are some (rare) natural sources of hydrogen, it's usually made artificially, which takes energy. The energy cost in production is therefore more than the gain in burning it."

That is, however, moot, since hydrogen fusion turns hydrogen into helium. (Note that there was nothing in the article showing a detectable trace of helium trace; that being a key data point in the Fleischmann and Pons paper which was eventually tracked down to coming from another lab in the same building.)

Fusion consumes hydrogen, and gives off a lot more energy than needed to disassociate hydrogen from water. This hydrogen can then be used as feed for the fusion step.
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I think Horace's point is that the potential is in all of us. He's taken each of the things we all think about Steve Jobs and presented a different perspective. I don't agree with the absolute manner in which they're stated, but that's sometimes the nature of writing. No one likes to read writing that is as firm as pudding. It's boring and doesn't challenge the reader.

If you didn't walk away from that list wondering whether you could do things Steve Jobs did, then Horace failed in his intention, which was, I think, to inspire.
Interesting, http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2555349 does not show up on the over=1000 either, but has 1770 points as of now.