skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Many still vote, though.
Ahh, if I type a specific city on the island (Makawao) it finds that. So its just ignoring the island itself.

It might be nice to define a general area. "Spain", "Maui" and not a specific city, since I plan to travel around the whole area not just a specific city.
Truckload of PlayBooks "stolen" on its way back to RIM
US spent $4 Trillion in Iraq and will tax lower class to pay it off
I think this is good from a marketing perspective. You've hit the important points:

- State the problem
- Show the solution
- Indicate the value-add
- Prompt for the desired action

Is this convincing enough? I'm not a good person to ask. I don't play minecraft. Though you juxtapose your solution against Dropbox and that only benefit I see you offering above Dropbox is a way for users to "display" their minecraft world on the web. The real question is if people want this. I'm not sure. But other than that, I think you hit the nail on the head pretty well.

I'd probably test variations of this where you indicate the hassle of the existing solutions. The goal being to further separate your solution from theirs as being the "obviously" superior answer.

Hope this helps.
I sure hope UMG loses.
I signed up for HackerBuddy a long time ago and never used it since. I'm a lot more interested in finding hackers nearby so this will give me some incentive to use the service.

Some buddies and I are organizing a hackathon and now I can use HackerBuddy to find people who would like to participate :)

edit: Just tried to update my profile but the changes aren't being saved, or if they are, they aren't being updated instantly.
I recently visited the Galapagos Islands. There are 2 things that made it possible for Darwin to work out his theory after visiting here.

1. Remoteness of location - few outside influences
2. Relatively few species!

Even though it's on the equator, the islands aren't all jungle and animals. The sheer lack of different species made it possible to see every single one of them in a single visit, and allowed Darwin to theorize without thinking he missed something.

Sometimes, simplicity helps with focus
wow. What I wrote went over your head, how did you come up with that again you have not read anything from her, why do people like you love second hand information, what can't you read for your self and then make a judgment. Read my comment above and my points and tell me how it has ANYTHING to do with communism?
Ask HN: start up and financial transparency
Question to all the cool people at HN, I am at a startup for about a year now, during this year we had a small amount of money coming in every month at about 5k, this is happening for the last 9 months. Recently, there was some talk about the money left on the account which is considerably lower than expected. I asked for a run-through of our expenses but got shutdown. I am one of the co-founders, but do not have access to any of the financial statements. Should I resign?

EDIT: during the year, there were absolutely no "financial rundowns" at all.

Also, none of the other people involved in the start up do not seem to mind.
"loads more electrical power"? "it's way cheap"?
This sounds like it was written for a college newspaper by a freshman.
A better explanation would be that YouTube gave UMG (and other 'content' companies) a kill switch that works on any video and said 'Promise you'll only use this on stuff that infringes your copyright, ok?' UMG then crossed their fingers behind their back and said 'Sure, whatever.'

The second party of your comment is correct. SOPA would give these same companies a kill switch for websites instead of YouTube videos.
On the bright side with so many people online and with different perspectives, it becomes easier to expose flaws, mediocre interpretations, etc.
Making something illegal seems evidence for it being indispensable to many people.

If there were no demand or supply, why make the law?
Isn't that why there are committees responsible for coming up with specific legislation? You shouldn't need all the members to understand all the topics.
Well, use data at large scale is the new groundbreaking theoretical framework. And it's practical too.
This is so common but people who support the free software movement always make some excuse for why you're not making sales. People expect free software to not cost a dime. The entire foundation of the FSF is built upon the belief that we are all entitled to everything free and it's even in the license. I love when Stallman says you can make money with free software. Sure, it's technically possible but not feasible in the majority of cases. I feel for you, man. The lesson is that if you want to get paid don't use a free license. Go proprietary and no one will send hate mail.

I also think its crazy that people send you hate mail. That right there exemplifies the sense of entitlement they have. Don't get me wrong, I love free software, use it, and I release code occasionally but I'm not about to starve because Stallman says I have to choose either or. Free or proprietary, you must choose one is the message out of the RMS camp.
UMG was acting in the capacity of YouTube curator in the same sense script kiddies are acting in the capacity of security leak exposure consultants, perhaps. I'd hate to have to make that argument to a judge that understood the actual situation.

Doesn't this obvious bad faith have any negative repercussions for UMG?
Why so cryptic... was it 26 countries?
Very funny, Google+
Are you trying to imply that by seeing an indie film, you are somehow not supporting artists and actors?
And merchant accounts - don't forget the kill switch for merchant accounts.
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it's been saying this for over 4 hours now: Hold on, we are just loading... :(
Cool, but you guys need to get SSL working immediately if you're asking people to type in passwords!

Worked on an app with the similar goal but never launched it. Hope this one succeeds - is anybody else in Berkeley, CA and down to hack/hang?
What did we, our children, and so on get for that investment? And what were the opportunity costs of the money, time, and resources?
I'm turning 30 and I've produced no amazing art.
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Since switching to dwm, I can't even remember what I used a desktop environment for (I went from KDE to Gnome to XFCE to (black|flux)box to dwm). Based on your usage, I'm surprised you'd consider leaving xmonad for something as alien as KDE4. Give me the speed and screen real estate of a tiling window manager any day.
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Don't Get Caught in a Scottsdale Auto Glass Replacement Scam
It is estimated that there are an average of 80,000 auto glass replacements in Arizona every month!

But just how much of this auto glass replacement in Scottsdale (or surrounding areas of Paradise Valley, Fountain Hills, Cave Creek and Rio Verde) was actually performed by a reputable Auto Glass Shop?

We have all been approached by persistent auto glass technicians representing Scottsdale auto glass shops at car washes. They say things like:
>> which seems to imply to me that they're allowing a lot more manipulation of the models further down the rendering pipeline than is generally recommended in MVC.

Of note, is that the inventor of MVC is also the inventor of DCI. Consequently, I think you'd agree that perhaps he didn't agree with you :)
a) this check only checked identical code so any more (or less) elegant code was still permitted.

b) we now don't check for this but "similar" code will be grouped together to make things easier to hear.
Drawing is mostly a trained skill. People highly over-estimate the actual innate talent needed. They just need to work for it to get results. Of course if you don't enjoy it, you will not most likely be able to learn. The trick is to enjoy it.

I couldn't find the link but there was this middle-aged guy who was only able to draw stick figures and then got some training and now has an art studio and is a renowned painter.
When data is easy to collect, someone will ask you to collect it and someone else will query the data and compile a report with percentages in it. Then someone else will worry about some of the percentages being less or more than some benchmark. Then your work life will become less happy.

Example 1: Some years ago, I had to sit through a meeting where a committee worried about a 2% drop in satisfaction scores on a student questionnaire. No-one checked how many replies were involved (around 400, so it worked out to about 6 people less in the second year than the first as the ratings were something like 75%).

Example 2: I recently had to add comments in a record system about students whose attendance percentage had dropped below 90%. That was 8 weeks into the course...
Another argument is this:

The (wrong) graph has been drawn with 12 cycles, based on approximately 12 lunar months per year. But the result is obviously not to scale. If you try to draw it to scale, the truth jumps out at you; it can't have this form.
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This is a very good point.

There are lots of "breakthroughs" which are genuinely incredibly useful, but not commercially viable (yet, or ever).

Until these things are viable commercially it is best not to get too giddy when hearing about them.
GitHub auth is now supported :)
I remember having owned an early digital camera, and my Canon 300 was better than it on EVERY SINGLE ASPECT

not to mention a dozen times cheaper...
The best part of a good grad school is that, when it comes time to procrastinate, you'll have a card to a very good library.

Billiards is actually easy to learn about: Pick up any book by Robert Byrne (the canonical one is Byrne's Standard Book of Pool and Billiards; it can be found all over the place) and he'll be telling you all about it by the second half of the book; he can't help himself. Hoppe got name-dropped in there somewhere.

I should emphasize that my judgement of Hoppe's stroke quality is entirely my own (though it does jibe with the anonymous editors of Wikipedia) and is based on one or two videos like this one on YouTube. It is entirely possible that Hoppe was exaggerating his sloppy-looking stroke for the cameras; this was an exhibition after all.

(I can't actually play billiards, by the way, and I'm a bad pool player. You know how there are things which are more fun to read about than actually do? Billiards turns out to be like that for me: I'm not driven to practice. So many hobbies, so little time...)
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Or Metroid! The reveal of Samus's identity at the end of that game was a little bit gender-bendy for me as a young man.
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I'm a director of a limited company (actually two) in the UK. As such I am legally required to know about the finances of the company, and accounts and projections for every month are given to me.

In your case it depends entirely on any formal or informal agreements you have. Without knowing more about it we can't advise. Are you incorporated? How are you trading?
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xterm is for text, xxxterm is for porn.
Regardless of the history behind the current situation, the fact remains that women are more free to wear "male" clothing than men are to wear "female" clothing.
Whoa! There's agreement on the internet! :)
ClearCase is certainly popular, but I don't think it ever had a feature that was a big milestone in version control history. Client side software with a view of the source is already covered in the author's point #4, and ClearCase doesn't do this better than the others (quite the contrary, in my experience).
You should figure out websites that have affiliate programs, force the requester to choose a website, and when you end the text message, include the website to add some validity. Including the well-known brand will seem like it comes from a more legitimate website than you (no offense).

For example:

"Hey Andy!Someone shopping on Zappos.com for you and wants to know your shoe size. Reply with your size (ex '9', '10.5')

Also, when you send back the sizes to the requester, you could include an affiliate link for the site they requested to help monetize.
I think your comment is much stronger if you take out the last one.
>The next Lucy's and Oprah's may already exist now and they've started their little empires on YouTube.

Just imagine all of the talent that (prior to the web,youtube blogs,fill in the blank web based distribution model of your choice here) gave up because someone in media never thought they would "sell".

Truly is a great time to be alive, both for the artist and the folks that love good content.

Viva Le Web!
How are spinning disks just an issue with NoSQL? This feels like a thinly veiled ad piece for MongoDB.
There's a few gems here, like this page that describes when certain synchronization techniques are appropriate.

http://kernelnewbies.org/SMPSynchronisation
What if I let online retailers provision their own unique number and embed the service in their website?
>One cannot blame him for putting his ethical principles in front of his professional interests.

However, one can most definitely blame him for projecting his ethical principles onto others.
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I have to play devil's advocate here because what you said is interesting.

Why do we not want corporations in control? Does using their software give them real control? How so and how much?

Now once you've answered those questions you then must ask yourself, if the creators of the software used by government agencies has the ability to control those agencies then who should be "in control"?

If only free software was used like Stallman wants then we're just shifting control from one group to another. What's to say that Stallman and the FSF can and will only do good?

Make no mistake here, even though Linux and other free software is driven by the community that doesn't mean there aren't cases where a single developer works alone and releases something as GPL. In addition, while you can always add to a free project the developer has final say of what makes it in and what to leave out. You can put out your own version but if you don't have enough clout then it's unlikely your better version gets used. If Linux was used in government then Stallman has control. If they use Red Hat then they have control. I think Red Hat is an interesting example because while they're free they can still be just as manipulative as any large corporation if they wanted to.

Doesn't it make sense that if you don't want anyone to be "in control" of government agencies through the use of certain software then those agencies would need to roll their own at every level. In the end we're all beholden to the developer whether the software is free or proprietary.
the only downside i see to this is that anybody i might use this service on would immediately know it was me, because i'd be the only one nerdy enough to use it.

worded another way: the only way i see to make this service better is to make it more popular.
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I will have to double check on the agreements that I signed, but we are incorporated, pre-seed startup.
My suggestion is stop laying and wondering and start reading. Economics and finance is a fascinating topic if you want to truly understand the history and theory of money and finance.

I don't mean boning up on company reports (though the ability to read and understand them is a good life skill) but rather truly trying to understand what money is, what it means, why so many apparent paradoxes exist.

To wit; wealth is not a zero sum game. Hard numbers like valuations come about just from an agreement at a point in time, which are just the opinions of two people at a flash in history. Even the value of a dollar in your wallet is a massively volatile thing in terms of what you can purchase with it.

A good jumping off point is Niall Fergusons 'The History of Money' (book or video). Get through that and then decide which of the sub-themes you want to delve into further.
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Edit: to clarify, I know Stallmam isn't the guy behind Linux. What I'm saying is that it would be reasonable to assume that whatever software he wants us to be using would need to have his stamp of approval and that stamp comes with a lot of opinionated, biased views. And as for being beholden to developers, free software mitigates many issues but it only works in this scenario if the agency has a team dedicated to ensuring the entire code base is up to their standards in which case why not just roll their own?
Add to that the high potential for another even more expensive war with Iran, which all the Republican candidates seem to want, except Ron Paul. Even Obama is "leaving it on the table", which is probably code word for "I want it, too, but I'm waiting to be re-elected first.".

I just love how the media seems to think that it's perfectly normal to want another war - it's the "crazy" ones who don't want it.
By "organic" they most likely mean carbon based, which leads me to believe that it is most likely petroleum based.
Reddit is really a horrible medium to do an AMA. Just trying to read through that thread is incredibly inefficient and annoying. I wish better alternatives like AnyAsq would catch on.
It makes me wonder, what is next? What new astonishing thing will happen in version control?

I think what's needed is an intelligent (as in AI) merge mechanism. Right now, if two people are adding two different features to a set of files, then merging those changes is error-prone and requires a lot of manual work.

If this ever gets perfected and automated, it will be a huge milestone.
This is an article about politics and as such it would probably best were it posted elsewhere.
To me, the most shocking about SOPA has been the way it is portrayed in the media. Imagine reading this passage if you weren't "in-the-know" (as many of us would like to think we are):

"But most of the major players in the technology industry, including Google and Facebook, are strongly opposed to the legislation because they say they would be forced to police their websites for possibly illegal content. Google, which owns YouTube, says the language is so broad that videos of teenagers dancing would be banned because of the copyrighted music playing in the background. And that would stifle innovation, they say."

The media is minimizing the issue to corporate laziness, and thats really not okay. I sense snarkiness, especially in the last line, and I think an outlet like CBS has an obligation to do better than that.
I am all against conspiracy theories, but realize that the media are often owned by the very same companies that push the SOPA, or, at least, are very close.

For example, Paramount is a subsidiary of Viacom and a part of MPAA, while CBS is a Viacom spin-off.
Microsoft and Apple would never even make it even a non default option (not for fear of breaking a law, just general fear) and I doubt they'd even like something so p2p, so uncontrolled. Without them you'd struggle to get anywhere near 1%. Saving us few who know to install this alternative dns is good, but the DNS system we have is good, better to keep that if we can.
Historically, he's posted a timelapse version on YouTube, but you can't really see anything specific he's doing.

justin.tv, and by extension TwitchTV, which he's using to stream, archives everything, so you should be able to view it from this same link once he's done.
The Hollywood/NYC advertising machine spent a lot of dollars to cause his name recognition.

What does this mean specifically? He has a few standup specials, has been on the talk shows, and he has a TV show but the guy hasn't really been in any huge titles: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0127373/
Ask HN: Things I don't understand about SOPA...
There are things I don't understand about SOPA. It's hard to get a clear picture of what the internet would look like if it actually passed. I have some questions I'm hoping people here can answer?

* Does SOPA only allow them to blacklist DNS entries? Or does it go further toward walling off American users from actual IP addresses abroad?

* Does it attempt to filter traffic to end-users, or block certain searches as is required in China?

* Does it include any provisions for penalizing the (willing or unwilling) recipient of copyrighted materials, and if so, what kinds of penalties would apply to someone who accidentally witnessed copyrighted data?

* Does it force ISPs to block actual IP ranges of violators, or does it all work through DNS changes? Are ISPs required to check if people are trying and/or keep lists of who tried to access certain servers?

* Does it have any legal sledgehammer to use against people who access the same info over a VPN or TOR, or is that just way over their heads?

Finally: What's to stop someone from putting out a daily/constantly updated and diffed hosts file, that people can automatically download, to let them easily access any site they want to?

[edited for readability]
I am not a scholar of this sort of thing but here is my list:

Positives in the short term: job sustenance at war companies; rayethon, boeing, northrup, et. al. sympathetic(possibly) government in Iraq that will continue to supply oil at roughly current prices.

Negatives: 4 trillion dollars that could have been spent on sustainable energy research and implementation. Human lives gone both on our side and theirs. Ideological aggression from factions in the Middle East countries due to our aggressive actions. Our actions may spark neutral countries to back our enemies.

There are definitely more that I can't think of off the top of my head. Might be wrong on some of these and I would like to hear other people's opinions.
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If I read the article correctly it seems that his improvement in experimental conditions is about 42% which is still very impressive.
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Do you use XMonad as KDE's window manager or by itself? I've been considering trying XMonad with KDE, but I'm a college student so I actually like the silly effect :)
Who will lobby for it? No company cares anywhere near as much as Disney, the music labels and so on. Even if a clever, up to date congressman did get a sensible bill written, it'd be completely weakened by the time the others were done with it, before it was law.
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Indeed, Kernel Newbies and LWN both provide very good summaries of the user-visible changes in each new kernel release.