skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Happy Birthday, Ubuntu (Seven Yrs: Then & Now)
Because they clearly don't want immigrants from the bottom of the socioeconomic status of other countries.
I'm surprised they didn't specifically seek out a receiver that implemented the rule correctly. Since it's an "and", not an "or", a proper receiver should have kicked back in by the time it reached apogee.
I think you're overstating the issue. I am in the US in an H1B visa and am in no way 'slave labor'. But I can't start my own company- the Startup Visa would finally solve that issue.
Eugene Volokh wrote about this law yesterday. He addresses whether this law is inconsistent with "legal tender", and notes that a recent district court decision ruled that a very similar law was upheld and ruled not to be.

http://volokh.com/2011/10/19/louisiana-bans-secondhand-deale...
Much like our engineers, our software is extremely opinionated. Ordasity, Scalang, and Overlock are all small, extremely focused libraries to solve a single problem in a single way. This is quite similar to the Unix philosophy and we have found it to be similarly successful. Projects like Akka take a more maximalist, all-encompassing approach that doesn't work well for the way we build and operate services.

One love,

Lil' B
You're allowed to use a password instead of a 4 digit passcode if you want.

Biometrics are evil. If someone wants what's in your phone that bad, you don't want them cutting off your thumb to get it.
People that have $500,000+ houses that they need to sell.
If they do this right, I don't think I'll even need to visit the G+ site at all. Google Reader is the interface I've always wanted for Plus.
Because I've just moved to the US :)
Awaits the "Best alternatives to Reader" post appearing on HN
The Django tutorial is pretty good. You build up a very basic polling application as you follow the tutorial and learn the basic chunks of Django.

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.3/intro/tutorial01/

Any good intro book is going to have something similar. "Python Web Development with Django" includes a number of example projects. You can either follow along in the book and type in the examples (the "Hard" way) or download the projects and see/run them at once in their finished form (the "Common" way).

http://withdjango.com/

http://withdjango.com/readers/source/
The filter by type is actually a text search. But filter by function is always more general and powerful.
Agreed. I used Sincerely Ship Library for http://Picsicle.com and it was a great experience. They are great people to work with (YC alum founder) and the library just works. They are looking to add more functionality so I would recommend them.
Sergey Brin, Tim O'Reilly at Web 2.0 Summit 2011
We have no plans to support Thrift.
Pretty much all of them. Most countries in the world have "investor visas" which let you buy your way into the country.
Are you sure that the publisher paid Samuel Clemens, or are you just assuming that? Things like that are often directed through lawyers in order to maintain the pseudonym. Writers often take pseudonyms seriously, one reason being because what you write could have consequences in your real life.
Braintree's API is a dream to work with compared to all of the other payment processors I've ever used. I try to steer all of our clients in that direction whenever possible.
he could followed the law, waited his turn and come to the US

Could you elaborate more on this wating one's turn concept? When exactly does this turn come about?
Is There Room for Solid State Disks in the Hadoop Framework?
There are some problems worth solving that take longer than 10 years to figure out. Given time, a standard for discovering and connecting to a commercial network will emerge. Cell phones already have something like this with their preferred roaming lists, and AIUI long-haul telecoms will switch call routing and pricing on the fly based on other telecoms' pricing and routing changes. It's a matter of getting the standard designed, ratified (optional step), widely adopted by commercial access point manufacturers, then deployed on end-user devices.
Solve the amount of raw collection (speaking of "next generation" energy technologies), and some leakage in the storage and delivery becomes acceptable. It remains a problem that you can peck at, over time.

For the U.S., I see a/the primary crisis that is addressable as being energy. And solving it would, directly and indirectly, re-invigorate our economy and provide an entire sector not just of jobs but of careers / career growth. And education.

That the current Administration didn't jump into this aggressively, has been of enormous disappointment to me.

That would be some leadership. Chart the course (course corrections allowed), and advocate -- including with that bully pulpit -- to make it so.

Given that we don't have such leadership (which would be unusual, admittedly), it will have to be bottom up. I just hope that's enough.
When I started learning Django, the first thing I did was work through the tutorial in the official documentation.

I cannot stress enough how useful the official documentation is. Not only is it chock full of useful code examples, but the fact that it is a living document means that it is always up-to-date (unlike Django books or blog posts).

I can not really think of any useful Django applications on Github or Bitbucket that are simple enough for someone who is learning the framework to replicate, but if pushed I would suggest:

- the source code for the framework itself

- applications made by core developers (like django-registration or django-taggit)

- applications with a significant following in the community (like south or django-sentry)
The Game Innovator's Dilemma
We used it for our new product and it enabled us to write a usable layout with good looking elements really quickly.

We're likely to move away from it in the future but it was really helpful as we were starting out.
This is a common and interesting situation, so here are my thoughts.

1) If he wants to be bought out in cash & wants to stay on as an advisor (won't be doing product updates, coding tweaks, etc.), I'd look at sales trajectory of the app he worked on overtime. If it's trending down, it's okay to make an assumption that it will continue to do so, at some reasonable rate, an calculate the present value of projected future earnings / 2, assuming that you won't make any product changes. There is nothing wrong with keeping him on -on a rev share basis, but be sure you know what you are getting.

If he doesn't want a cash up-front buyout and just wants nothing to do with the app anymore, just keep his 50% share alive up until a max of the agreed upon future earnings of the app, as is.

However, if you are planning on keeping the app going, any agreement has to codify the terms of your relationship, contingent on accepting the buyout (consult an attorney). Who knows where things will go in the future and who else you will be bringing on-board.

If you are on good terms, coming up with a number shouldn't be a big deal. Especially, if he has a specific need for the money. If not, this might be the time to incorporate your venture, issue him some stock for contributions thus far and let him participate in whatever upside there may be.

Good luck,
Make money from the Internet
Make easy money from the internet by viewing advertisements. It takes few minutes a day and can be done by anyone.
I suppose a next step would be to perform a brain scan before someone starts using Facebook, then several over the course of their subsequent use. The researchers would obviously need to do their best to control for confounding factors, but it seems like a reasonably interesting first study could be done this way.
What is the license behind the script ? Apache ? MIT ? Other?
Without some sort of "public circles" option on Google+, people won't be able to subscribe to my "techstuff" feed--I'd need to manually "subscribe" them. Pretty icky.
TechStars is an absolutely amazing program, and we had a fantastic experience. I could not be more complementary of the program itself. My post was only commenting on the TV show, and trying to clear up some events that were portrayed by Bloomberg.
I disagree, google automatically created and logged me into a youtube account just because I was logged into gmail. It cannot be deleted, and it told me:

"While you're logged in, YouTube will keep track of your viewing history, and use videos you’ve watched, videos you’ve liked, and your subscriptions to recommend other videos for you to enjoy. With 48 hours of video uploaded every minute, we’re sure to find you at least a couple more videos worth watching!"

Coercion isn't limited to the targets decisions, it can also be applied to their acts. Coercion isn't limited to physical coercion. I consider the persistent pestering for a phone number in gmail to be coercive. I consider repeatedly asking G+ users for government ID to be coercive.
A realtime powered Charity Thermometer for GiveCamp UK Hack Weekend
The interesting thing is how they are cutting some features to "improve" it. I suspect that when it's done, it will be impossible to send items to Twitter or Facebook from it (you'll have to send things to Google+ instead).

It's also a big question as to what you can do to save your starred items moving forward. Anyone wants to build a starred items to delicious exporter?
Changing behavior based on user agent is antithetical to the goals of having a semantic web. The ideal is to allow the user to use whatever software they want to connect to the network and access information.
I don't know who your advisers were, but there's an alarming trend in tech/startups right now where anyone associated with a startup becomes classified as a mentor. Some of the accelerator programs sprouting up have some very speculative names as "mentors" -- people who just seem to have a few years of experience, perhaps mid-level experience, who haven't built their own company, haven't led their own go-to-market strategy, and whose advice on product is no better than you'd get on any forum.
You make an offer, he can either take it OR he can pay you that price and buy you out of the business. Sign an agreement to that effect before you make the offer.

Thus, you will offer enough that if he decides to buy you out, you'll be satisfied with the amount. This is the fair price. You cut the cake, he gets to choose which half to take.
David Pogue is a great tech journalist and I don't see him taking money from Dropbox to write something positive.

I like this piece - Dropbox deserves all of the great PR it's getting. My favorite Dropbox quote is Michael Wolfe's answer to this Quora question - http://www.quora.com/Dropbox/Why-is-Dropbox-more-popular-tha...

Also, just one note to David Pogue - be careful about giving the impression that Dropbox solves "version hell." It's not a version control system - the user still has to have their own version control system, like his editor did by adding her initials to the file name.
This kind of arrogance has no future.
The Anatomy of A New Born Tech Startup
That illustrates the hazards of speaking off the cuff. If he integrated that into the earlier sentences it would have sounded a lot better, e.g.: "Larry and Sergey have fostered a culture that allows open debate, not a culture where people get fired for things like this."
reading on an an LCD really is a love it or hate it sort of thing; I love it, many people I know, who are more attached to paper books, hate it.
This is great, I know it's applicable for game graphics, but I've been toiling away with Photoshop, learning painfully all it's powerful features for ages! It's good to learn about some other tools (free no less!)that may simplify art creation.
Much appreciated. Good idea re. pricing. It's actually in my to-do list to talk about that, as well as SEO/SEM (and what I've learned by plowing through nearly $1,000 on Facebook/Microsoft/Google Ads).
I'm a physics grad student doing work in quantum decoherence, so I'm aware of all this. When discussing free will, "determinism" really is shorthand for the idea that the cause of all events can be traced back to previous events in known physics, including fundamental probabilistic events. The key claim is that there is no "soul" (or any other causal source which cannot in-principle be explained by known physics) producing choices.

(Yes, you bundle up all the probabilistic quantum events which occur in your brain and identify that as "free will", but I don't think most people would find that compelling. Not the least of which because then it seems like a plutonium atom has just as much right to the term "free will" as you do.)
Apple Launches iOS 5 Tech Talk World Tour 2011
It's Beautiful, But is it Sustainable?
> How on earth does this fly at google?

Given the ridiculousness of it, I'd assume it's a joke. A failed one, apparently, but a joke none the less.
What is your counter-proposal?
So, one thing I don't quite understand: If I have jQuery on my page (which I imagine now at least 50% of websites do, though that's just a guess) why would I want to add another script that redefines a bunch of jQuery functions? If you had a jQuery compliant version, wouldn't it be smaller, faster, better?
I think you could, but I think there would be some risk involved. The customer would rightfully own the item before you received payment, and if he walked off with it without paying he would not be stealing, but rather defaulting on a debt. To collect, you would then be subject to all of the relevant laws surrounding debt collection etc. rather than having a simple stolen property claim.
Getting Selenium to play video games has been kind of an inside joke between the project developers for the last year. It started with Google's Pac-Man doodle. I'll add Fruit Ninja to the list. :-)
This is great advice for some people, but terrible advice for others. It seriously depends on context -- who is to say someone's maximum pleasure doesn't come from running their own coffeeshop? It's not incorrect, but it's nearly impossible to make these statements without projecting one's own biases into the conversation.

The most startling thing was the Levchin quote:
"You you can't be in love with a particular idea or business. You have to be in love with the idea of running a business."

It's presented as an either/or dichotomy. I'm pretty sure Steve Jobs, Larry Page, Mark Zuckerberg, etc. didn't succeed because they were focused solely on resource management. Lack of passion in one's product is certainly just as important (some would say more so.)
Faceted Search JavaScript Library
The problem with housing is that it is too expensive for the common man. Propping up prices artificially is not a solution.
Text input in horizontal mode is pretty comfortable, IMO, but then the screen you are inputting into usually isnt visible. I'd like to see a phone with a popup screen for horizontal mode. :P

edit: oh yeah, they make slide out keyboards for this exact reason. totally forgot about those.
Instead, they should automatically offer work visas to college graduates. It is such a pain to have to get a work visa after you graduate if you were on an F1 before then. And most people that come all the way to the US to go to college are top notch professionals by the time they graduate.
Two pages - first page talks about general rules then says to visit the second page for the list of devices. Second page points to XDA-developers and says to look on there. Basically a link to XDA-developers could have replaced 90+% of the article...
They're just trying to increase the 1%...
Like Pinterest for classified ads? I think it would work well.
Fork-only might be more appropriate, since you're quite free to write to your copy.
How the iPhone got Tail Fins - Part 2
Recording cash transactions seems like maybe not too much.
Making them impossible/illegal certainly seems to be too much.
Of course, predicting the future with 100% certainty is impossible. But that doesn't mean that making predictions is a mug's game. Predicting the future, with appropriate levels of uncertainty, is a very sensible thing to do with your time. I, for instance, predict that if I wander down to Cheeseboard in twenty minutes I'll find that they're selling delicious pizza. And I predict that if I eat that pizza, then it won't poison me. These are all useful predictions, which may be wrong, but are useful nonetheless.

It's only when you start sticking inappropriate error bars on your predictions that it becomes a problem. Kurzweil predicts things which are unlikely or perhaps impossible as having probabilities near 100%.
There aren't many places where it's considered reasonable that your employer can fire you for no reason and have you and your family thrown out of the country aswell.
Does Github have a "ban" feature? (or: how not to ask for things on Github)
Yes, he is, he's the trojan horse MS sent inside Nokia so they could "control" a large phone manufacturer.
I just find it to be mean. If he said, "this rant is dumb", that would be fine. But all he said is "if you want to say something, make it shorter".

Maybe good advice, but you look like an idiot when everyone who reads social news site made it through Yegge's rant, but your couldn't bother reading your own employee's letter.
Does it matter whether there is a case for moral justification of piracy?
I wonder, should a law exist that makes most people criminals?
Flagged, title is misleading. Nowhere does it say anything about quotas. The person claims to have been in the US legally for 18 years, but if you read the lawsuit, it's far from being clear, on the contrary. He has filed appeal after appeal, maybe timely, maybe not.
Do they realize that there is a sizable number of US citizens living in the country that would like to buy a home and can afford one but due to the still artificially inflated prices in some areas of the country that can be attributed to low rates and the backlog of REO homes are choosing not to buy yet?
I believe that Libyans are by and large a civilized, reasonable people (just like Iranians, Iraqis etc) but if anyone in the West thinks that the rebel army is made up of regular, work-a-day Libyan lawyers, doctors, teachers and other civilians... then the media did a great job at spinning this one.
"Then we protect the container from any outside disturbances while the people attempt to bring the problem to a solution."

imo, this is why Scrum often falls apart in teams, because many teams aren't protected. This devolves into them saying that they are using Agile methodology, when in fact they really are using WTF methodology.
Agile and CMMI: Tips from the Trenches
I wish the same people who supported the occupation of wall street supported the rights of software developers and musicians.

More money is demanded from the protesters, yet when developers and musicians have a problem with people downloading their hard work without any compensation, the answer is: "you aren't guaranteed a profit".

Well occupiers, now it's my turn to say the same thing when you tell me you have a $50,000 student loan debt and you can't find a job or when you want a government-sanctioned wage increase for not doing anything more.

I feel like people that are successful are being attacked here. I've seen it time and time again with the protesters. They try to silence anyone that even has a hint of success.
Foundation: HTML/CSS boilerplate that responds to changing screen dimensions
The article says "in addition to Google+, you'll still be able to share to almost any service using Send To". Also, I'm not sure what you mean about starred items, they're not going anywhere.
I feel smarter having watched this talk: it gives you tools to think about thinking as you come up with new designs.
Also love how Rich manages to find the right metaphors to illustrate abstractions, he's a great communicator.
But many of those graduates will be in law or medicine so having more of them in the country will lower the wages in those professions

And many of the others are scientists and engineers - people who often believe in evolution.
yes. sorry
Show HN: Is It Old? Simple link-age checker
Weekend project, simple thing that uses tweetmeme's API to check link age. So check here before you post stuff on Hacker News!
This law will only result in lost tax revenue as dealers keep cash transactions off of the books. Checks are worthless and there are no free electronic transfers in the States like in the EU.

Punishing the innocent by offloading law enforcement duties is not a good way to run a society, it just erodes respect for the law.
Each time a prompt for an alternative news reader appears, this one seems to get some attention: http://www.newsblur.com/

I personally just use the newsreader built into Opera now. Just good enough for my needs.
I use TrueCrypt on my Dropbox volume, but it really would be nice to have an integrated solution. Many non-technical users may not realize they care about this, but they do.
I don't understand your example at all. Are you saying that Apple's business model is not sustainable or that Apple doesn't make good things?
The visual presentation of code is one of its most important attributes. Code that looks visually appealing is code that is maintainable. I'm not sure you can be a good programmer without artistic ability because of that.

If you give any consideration at all to bracket placement, use of whitespace, grouping of code, etc. then I am certain you are much more artistic than you give yourself credit for. The rest comes down to practice with different mediums.
Thanks Peter :)
They are defending the broken status quo. Early in the article: "benefits that societies can no longer afford". Society can afford a hell of a lot if managed correctly. Unfortunately, the foxes are managing the henhouse.
DEAD? http://www.isitold.com/results?url=http%3A%2F%2Fgoogle.com%2...
However it's a great advertisement for Clojure, since the set of things he highlights as enabling simplicity is pretty much a subset of Clojure (or included libraries, like core.logic).

I'd be interested in seeing someone present a different and convincing set of concepts. At this point, I think Rich has put together a very good toolset.
There's a few starter apps w/ source code at http://www.coderbuddy.com/ and you can start editing and testing them using the site.

(You can also upload and expand zip files of other projs/code you may find, as well as copy public projects into new projects of your own.)

Hope this helps...
How Open Source Hardware is Kick-Starting Kickstarter
I don't know Jacques, but based on his name I'd guess that he's not even from the English-speaking world anyway.

It's no secret, though, that English speakers have had an influence on history far out of proportion to their numbers. The world didn't have to work out that way, it's just that it did.
What it takes to get into Stanford
Regulation that will get rid of financial WMDs and legislation to counteract tax dodging by corporations, for a start.
Is execution easier than opportunity?
I think you've been caught up by the current mass hysteria, and forgotten to look for the reality:

enforcing consumer protection laws

See FTC's web site for news [1] like yesterday's "FTC Stops Nationwide Federal Jobs Scam".

strong oversight of large businesses

How about the DOJ suing to stop AT&T from acquiring T-Mobile? How about the absurd suit against Boeing for wanting to build a factory in a state where they don't have to worry about unions?

progressive taxes

The tax rates vary from 10% up to 35%, as you go up the income scale [2]. So, there are your progressive taxes.

[1] http://www.ftc.gov/opa/index.shtml

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Income_tax_in_the_United_States...
Seriously? Do you have a reference for this? I don't mean to doubt you, I just would not have guessed this to be legitimate.
Berkeley Physicist Confirms Global Warming