skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it's very wrong for banks to disallow money transfers to WikiLeaks, and I think Americans are often naive but "Americans are the most naive consumers of commercial news on the planet" is highly exaggerated.
If you want to edit text and no time to learn emacs its "jingle". Thats right, we have a name for this editor.

My point was not to focus on what features the editor would have, but what infrastructure it would have which would allow us to have "the one" editor that satisfies people, and companies can be built around, vs tons of diff editors each with diff modes of operations, diff apis, diff plugins often repeating eachother, etc.
Sometimes they can surprise you: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3109213/sfb.jpg

My daughter was almost 3 when she drew this. Most of her stuff doesn't come out like this, but I saved this one since it was weirdly real.
> They generally share the view that capitalism unfairly concentrates power andwealth within a small segment of society that controls capital and derives its wealth through a system ofexploitation.

Capitalism, socialism, communism, fascism, etc, all end up like this, where power and control remain with the few.

You can't force or educate out human nature. Self-interest always ramains.

But people keep playing their games. Always looking outside, trying to change the world, rather than within. And they fail, fail, fail, over and over again. Same shit, different flies.
Fox News is for partisan people who are more interested in how terrible Obama is than actual News.
Every time I hear the inebriation metaphor applied to monetary policy, it makes me want a drink.
I think the point is that msellout feels (please correct), and I'm inclined to agree, that the assumption that cars are entitled on highways but cyclists are not is wrong.

There is probably more benefit in having less cars and more cycles than the converse.
Just because you use math dose not mean its more scientific, it just looks more like science. Hayek called this sientism. It does not make sence to use math-models in economics because its a social science, you cant model human behavior the same why you can with atoms.

Hayek worked a log on this kind of stuff you should check it out. For example his nobel price lecture "The Pretence of Knowledge" http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/economics/laureates/1...
> He's not morally wrong, I'm saying the nature of what he's doing is shameless.

So...?
Socialist? As Inigo Montoya would say, "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."
This I think is why the general business people never seem to understand Apple.
That's okay Tam. Like you said, parenthood is not for everyone and I agree with that. And yes, Jeff's chart would imply only a 2% difference. But that 2% doesn't include the child's happiness and well being. When you have a child, you are doing it for you, but more importantly, you are doing it for them. You are giving them the greatest gift -- life. Almost everyone -- children of flawed parents included -- is glad to be alive.
At my last job, every developer was a Senior Engineer. I chose Software Mechanic as my title.
Video Games Getting Dumber-er
Does two wrongs make a right? Does pedestrian not using crosswalks give license for a biker to blow pass a red light?
Here's a link: http://www.nber.org/chapters/c2644.pdf

After a bit of reading, though, it seems I'm wrong. If this study is to be believed, employment rates around 1900 were quite chaotic.
I also dont like the cloud logo only becuase it would make me ignore your blog if I saw it. Ie a negative connotation.
In fact I think no logo is better a better starting point for a blog.

I dont even know what the techcrunch logo is.

In your situation I would start with "StartupDream" written in a legible but non-boring font and start working on content. People read a blog because of its content. So focus on content content content.
pg, not sure how you're taking it, but this story reflects positively on you and HN in general.
Testling is our newest product here at browserling, so we definitely know how to make tunnels work. We just wanted to get testling launched quickly is all; tunnels are coming soon.
Perhaps you can link us to all of the wonderful things you are doing for other people commensurate to everything you do for your own benefit, as you seem to have this "modesty and humility" thing figured out.
Do you know all javascript errors that happen on your site?
Catch all the errors that happen on your site and you never even come to know about them. There are about 100 different types of browsers and their versions out there.

p.s. Errorception was designed by a friend of mine.
There is an apache incubator project

http://raffaeleguidi.wordpress.com/
I mostly answered this in another reply below, but ill rephrase it here.

The product is technically very challenging. I would never say no one else could pull it off, but the reason why they initially reached out to me for the contract was because of my tech skill set. Im the creator of a few open source tools used by well over 10,000 projects and this startup directly relates to these. I sort of hinted at my skill level, but its 10+ years professionally, typically in a lead role.
> It objectifies them: in fact, it's a kind of abuse.

Really? It's abuse to praise your kids in public? Do you really feel that praising your child in public is the same as abusing them?

Regardless of whether that praise is warranted or not, you're calling it abuse?

I honestly think you are disconnected. I understand you are trying to make a point, and while I didn't necessarily agree, I could respect that opinion. But when you started to define praise in public as abuse (that whole line of thinking), I really think you lost it.

The worst part is, I could see what you were thinking. I just think it's so disconnected from reality. This explains why you think and feel the way you do. This could be a cultural thing (you are from France). Might also just be who you are. But I honestly think you are disconnected, and that can only hurt your opinion.
Agreed, but I wouldn't call that "process". A set of 1 or 2 rules is fine, of course.
That doesn't look or fell like advertisement. An ad would be something like "How we bootstrap our way to 7M searches per month"
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Widows_and_orphans
So tighten those thumbscrews and make sure you get an iron clad shareholders agreement including tag along clauses.
(That meme is funny but long past its shelf life, so I'm going to reply seriously.)

But the internet makes it trivial to check these things, where it was decidedly nontrivial before. And the phenomenon of catchy quotes "hopping" to famous names is ancient, and probably why the great figures of history all seem so witty and smart.

When I was in high school someone quoted Churchill to me as having said (hilariously, I thought, and still do): "The pleasures of fornication are overrated and those of defecation underrated." But the internet tells me that Churchill probably never said this, nor the classic "up with which I shall not put" either (http://public.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/churchill.html). Sad, but better to know.
Why you shouldn't use online ads in B2B
Summer 2011 YC company seeks CoffeeScript drinking engineer (Chicago)
We're an un-announced YC company that's dragging online advertising into a better and brighter future.

The company is profitable, growing fast, and solving fun problems along the way. Our current fun problem is recruiting, we need sophisticated (and classy!) engineers to help us get more done. Read on for the tech world equivalent of a personal ad:

If you love coming up with ways to make users smile and have the technical chops to put your ideas into action, we want to talk to you. You'll be most effective if you're familiar with and excited about the various levels of frontend tech, including client scripting (we use CoffeeScript) and the magic that gets things in front of users (we use Rails/Node.js). Design talent and good ideas about big data visualization (d3 is fantastic) are especially cool.

Our stack is modern, shiny, and backed by a MongoDB/Redis combo handling several million events per day. We do automated deployment because people should see features while they still smell nice.

Send us an email (ads.can.be.rad@gmail.com) and let us know what you think. Chicago is preferred, the Bay Area is a possibility.

Odds and ends: we realize the last several Hacker News job postings have been for engineers. You can't go wrong with any of those companies, honestly, but we think there are enough amazing people on HN to scoop one up for ourselves.
Thanks, upvoted. What I said still holds, but it seems they aren't too worried about the effects of your conduct so I'm not either.
100 USD is actually pretty cheap for a custom made toy.
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> And the worst part is you can't say anything, because these
> guys are living a healthy lifestyle, right?

The issue is one of stereotypes.

A lot of people have very visceral reactions to cyclists:

I saw some guy on a bike doing something dangerous, therefore
all bikes must be banned and/or all/most cyclists are evil demons.

On the other hand, I could show you numerous examples of people behaving badly in cars. Car collisions with pedestrians are more deadly than bicycle-pedestrian collisions. Should I move that we ban all cars? Or maybe we should just get rid of all roads, because if people are going to drive cars and be dangerous, we shouldn't have the government subsidizing them?

You argument in general, seems to be about cycle-pedestrian collisions/dangers. If we get rid of bicycle lanes, then we are either advocating that all cyclists use the sidewalk or the street. In this case, you'll either end up with either more pedestrians being hit by cyclists or more cyclists hit by cars. In either case, as the number of cyclists increases, this doesn't scale.
Is anyone getting 404 when clicking on donate link?

http://shop.wikileaks.org/donate
Yeah...but at least in that case, you can argue with the agency and publicize the outrageous request. I've done that in one instance where a city agency argued that it would take 40 hours and thousands of dollars to run a query to generate a simple payroll listing. After we threatened to write about how their payroll system was in such a sorry state that it takes thousands of taxpayer dollars to run queries against it, they handed over the data for a couple hundred dollars.

This avenue of inquiry does not exist if an agency is allowed to just say: "Sorry, that doesn't exist."
and why the downvotes?
LinkedIn's Daniel Tunkelang On "What Is a Data Scientist?"
In about 3 months, one of the startups I'm involved with will be operating in this space, including the availability of a white-label service tier and REST API. I can send you info if you're interested (my email is in my profile) in waiting that long.
"They plan to distribute 800,000 USB keys with LibreOffice"

What? Why? Just to waste money? CDs are cheaper, and are not going to be infected with a virus if the student passes it on.

But they really couldn't just do electronic delivery? The students are going to take the USB key, erase it and "free usb key" courtesy of the gov.

Anyone who would actually install it would also do it from a paper flyer with a url of where to download it.
That is actually the way "rational agent" is used in much of philosophy and has been taken up by AI researchers - a rational agent is one that seeks to obtain its goals within the scope of its beliefs about the world.
Wouldn't the GC still need to check for references from permspace objects? (It's probably still a noticeable performance boost.)
Cross-browser testing platform
I thought banks are only concerned with profit. Since when did they start defending the nation?
TCU Alum Launches Swagtag, A Daily Twitter Contest Site
I'm not a doctor and don't have evidence, but my direct observations seem to suggest that it is in fact true.

Let me clarify: I'm not saying that kids are similar to their parents in the outcomes (a parent may like going on bike rides while a child doesn't, for instance), rather I find that the way they process information can be very similar: if a parent tends to react emotionally, then logically to certain cues, the child will emulate, although not to the same particular cues.

This gets stronger as the parent molds the child, in that I've found this is more likely the case in "older" children than babies.

It's been my experience that once you've identified the key drivers pushing this response, the response between adult and child is almost identical. I'm somewhat ashamed to also confirm that this works even when the parent is yourself.
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Hello Reginald, my name is Martin. I believe that society should promote a meritocracy where a person's success is highly correlated with their work ethic and abilities and that people should reap the rewards/losses of their risks. I used to think that made me some kind of right-wing type, but according to the current political climate, I'm actually a socialist too. Go figure...
My sister in-law declared, "one is a hobby, you're not parenting until you have two!"

(I have one.)
Sheep on Meth is my kind of kernel.
Dey, chill!

why are getting worked up about nothing? that too when the comment was not meant for you?
> I’m not saying capitalism doesn’t work, just that as practiced today it’s a mixed bag.

Like democracy. It kind of sucks, and produces people like Silvio Berlusconi. But it still beats the alternatives.
> Since you want to be reckless and ignore safety
> rules, others would have less regard for your safety.

Does that mean that I can treat people that ignore safety in cars the same way? Or does this 'if you even step an inch over the line, I will run you over' attitude only extend to bikers?
It's like WordPress for your photos.
That's a rich person's problem, along the same lines as "You might get a headache from all the expensive tequila you sip as you relax on the beach with millions of dollars in the bank." I'm not sure it's actually profitable to worry about this even in the long run, and certainly not before you even launch. As long as "getX.com" works for marketing purposes, it's better than choosing something weird and unpronounceable.
The issue with free markets is that they tend not to stay free for very long. Efficiencies of scale cause monopolies and before you know it self-organizing cooperatives, open source software and anything else you can think of that doesn't directly benefit what few winners have resulted from unfettered capitalism cease to exist.

Like you, I'm a Capitalist with a big C. However, I do see it takes some rigorous government intervention to keep free (ish) markets free (ish). If you want to call that government intervention "socialism" then, sure, go ahead, but I'm pretty damn sure evidence points to big C capitalism never having worked as well as it did between 1950 and 1980 in the "western world" where every government, including the US, did its damnedest to keep the capitalists in check to make sure the market would stay as free as possible.

Marx was right. The free market is inherently self-destructive. But it the 100 years since the communist manifesto smart people have figured out ways around that.
Economics in One Lesson taught me "see" economics the way an painter sees a landscape or a programmer sees a program. The painter and programmer see their subjects with more understanding than the layman.

Intuitively, it seems obvious that interference with people's free economic choices hurts the economy. Hazlitt helped me see why. The secret is to imagine what the economy would be like without interference. What the interference displaces.

After laying out the basic approach in the first chapter, Hazlitt spends the rest of the book applying the principle to the various ways politicians tend to interfere with economic freedom. He explains clearly, in basic English anyone can understand, what each kind of interference changes what would otherwise have happened.

So for example, Hazlitt starts with the broken window fallacy: that the ruffian who breaks a shopkeeper's front window is really a public benefactor because he gives employment to the glazier. Hazlitt explains that while the glazier is benefited by the broken window, the overall economy is not, because, had the window not been broken, then shopkeeper would have, not just his window, but a new suit that he would have purchased but for having to pay for the window. In short: When the window is broken, the shopkeeper ends up with a new window and glazier ends up with some money. Had the window not been broken, the shopkeeper still has his window but also has a new suit, and the tailor has some money.

The broken window fallacy is still in use today by economists and politicians who can sometimes be heard explaining that war, natural disasters, and other calamities are good for the economy.

Hazlitt goes on from there to address the minimum wage, price controls, rent control, government subsidies to various industries, etc. For each, Hazlitt helped me see beyond the visible "winner", that such policies are designed to help, to the unseen "losers": the workers who aren't employed and the projects and industries that fail to develop as a result.

As a result of reading the book, I find it much easier to explain why certain government programs are harmful.
Your business centers more around people/teams/collaboration than services. Clouds imply service-provider/hosting, which leaves #8 - people in the shape of a star - as the only sensible logo here.
It's widely claimed (and IMO, correctly pointed out) that Fox News lacks journalistic integrity and is highly partisan, sometimes resorting to outright falsities to further an agenda.

Generally speaking, we prefer our news sources to be more objective, or if subjective, make their subjectivity more honest (i.e., by not painting it as an objective news program).
Most of these "hacks" involve working around how slow it is to store persistent data on GAE. However, other than the protobuf one, they all seem to rely on undocumented or uncertain semantics.

For example, one very common performance optimization in web applications is batching writes. Why not send the very compact results of a few A/B tests to the database/store once every ten requests, rather than once every request?

However, GAE doesn't really provide a way to do this. You could just store the results in local memory and then persist to the datastore every 10 requests, but there is no guarantee your instance won't get shut down. You could also store to memcache, and do what the author suggests, persisting from memcache to the datastore periodically. But my understanding is that there aren't any guarantees as to what the memcache size or revocation policy is, so it's not really possible to guarantee that all data gets persisted. (Losing random data intended to be persisted may be fine for A/B testing, but probably not for many other things.)

Likewise, it would be nice to delay datastore puts as the author does, or put them in a task queue, but both of those seem to take as long as doing a datastore put in the first place.

Is this analysis wrong? Does Google's memcache implementation provide some guarantees that mean that your data won't get removed as a result of your or someone else's actions without you knowing? Is there some reasonable pattern for storing persistent data on GAE but not having to force the user to wait?
What are the biggest factors that increase the time suck? Amount of money you are raising, inexperience?

Conversely, what consistently decreases the amount of time spent closing a round?
I am a biker that is angry at drivers doing 65 in a 60.

I'm not sure what your anger has to do with doing 65 in a 60 -- it seems like you might be angry at drivers, full stop. :)
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> 1) Exposing corrupt politicians.

Were there any cables discussing how big a bribe should one bring?

> 2) Stop politicians from screwing millions of people over and
over again.

Common content of the diplomatic cables, for sure.
I heard disclosing those cables let us know who do politicians nickname each other. I guess I can do without that info.

The thing is — if there is anything worth knowin in those cables it will become visible through the actions of the officials sooner or later. If it will not — I don't care.
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if Gabriel had so much trouble, I can just imagine how tough the process is for everyone else.
In the general case:

It is a rather big needle that goes into you, but you're under anesthetics, so it'd not that big of a deal. Risks are minimal, and include unwanted damages to bone, muscle and nerves, plus any regular anesthetic-related effects. Realize that with any operation, these things are unavoidable and it is not unique to bone marrow donations.

Generally (quoted from Dal med school), there is about a 1% chance of adverse effects in the donor, and the 1% is almost entirely anesthetic related.

You will be sore for about two weeks. The amount taken, however, is very small, and it shouldn't really affect you all that much. All in all, it's worth saving his life--any life in general, really.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Soul_of_a_New_Machine
Very impressive! I love it.
Thank you for sharing
I'll say this as a father: Too many people feel like you do and have kids anyway. This is a huge mistake.

If you can never picture yourself with children of your own, or more importantly, don't want to, then don't have them.

You're not "incomplete". Having children changes you, but it is not a measure of completeness. This statement comes from any major learning period, which I think is what having a child essentially is. However, it's meaningless to say that "learning to play piano completed me", outside of your own context. Not everyone wants to play piano, and some of us don't even like music.
Come on, complaining about TechCrunch is a hacker tradition. Even Mike Arrington complains about TechCrunch... He complained that the fun was all out of it about 20% of the way through his involvement in it.
So true! From the networker's perspective, it's called persistence, and it does work as advertised :-). The only thing you need to remember is to actually fit in, otherwise you'll become infamous as opposed to known and respected (although infamy is still better than being unknown I suppose, especially since opinions can be turned around).
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Thank you! Yep, got to add it there.

Edit: added! http://stackvm.com