skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is nothing wrong with lamenting a change that takes away an easy, beneficial option. It is tacit acknowledgement that if you make the best choices easy to make, then more people will make them.

Given this basic fact, it is our responsibility to exert pressure on states and corporations to make the better options available to us.
Very good to see when happened in the last 10-12 months there. I met Ilya via LetsLunch in jan or feb when he had the first thoughts about the product.

Good luck!
Here's my criticism:

Knowing what groups are meeting in my community isn't a pain point for me at all. I'm aware of the goings-on in my community well enough already (too many for me to attend all the ones I'm interested in.) Of course, I'm just one data point, but this doesn't solve any problems for me.

Edit: Upon reflection, a related feature that would solve a pain point for me would be a service that helped provide me with videos/transcripts/minutes of the events I couldn't make it out to.
OOOooohh, when Dwolla goes international I'm so very much saying goodbye to PayPal.
I'm voting against every fucker in my district who supports it. That's the only non-violent way.
Live SOPA hearing stream (flash)
Duplicate of a comment already posted twice on blog post to ensure it will be read.
Your grandparent post took the argument farther than just saying that evolution has given men and women certain tendencies or proclivities (as an aggregate, allowing for the massive range of individual differences that are possible). You flat-out claim that men and women have brains that are hard-wired a certain way. If there's anything evolution has given us as humans, it's brains that are amazingly adaptable and plastic. Research has shown that things like basic perception differ across cultures (see, for instance, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%BCller-Lyer_illusion). You make an apparently logical assumption based on what you understand of evolution and biology (and how the human brain works) but I proffer that there's a fair amount of evidence that those assumptions might be wrong. (For instance, we have this recent study questioning the widely-held belief that men are by nature better at spatial reasoning: http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/08/women-math-science...)

> But at the same time claim that being 'girl' or 'boy' is something that you've been taught by culture??

You misunderstand the argument. The argument is that what it means to be a boy or a girl has been taught by culture. That being said, I do personally believe there's more room for inquiry into the nurture side of the equation and that the "entirely biological" argument is something that's currently politically expedient to counter the people claiming that it's entirely a personal choice. On a personal note though, my earliest memory of having a crush on another girl was in 2nd grade and my uber-religious parents certainly weren't nurturing such notions in me (nor was anything else in my environment explicitly).
I don't understand the point you're trying to make here. My point was that Χριστός has been abbreviated to "X" for thousands of years without any implication of disrespect. I don't see how the fact that writing out the Greek word implies formal respect is supposed to disagree with me.
You state these things as if they are fact. I disagree. People are born with different strengths and weaknesses. They may have particular skill in certain areas.

If brains are just "general" "maleable" "matter", then why as a man am I attracted to women and not men? I certainly didn't "learn" that. I'm attracted to women, because my brain was hard wired like that.

So you don't think people are "born gay"?
Billions worth of value created by tech startups with designer co-founders?
Ah no asterisk means nothing to replace, makes sense.

Excited for 2.6 and scripting. Has much changed on the scripting side since the 2.2-scripting branch?
Netflix and Amazon Prime Analyzed: 2011 End Year Streaming Video Comparison
"For starters, it assumes a childish, simplistic, and pedantic worldview: expensive things or those that are ascribed more value by a segment of the population are inherently "better" than other things. Obviously everyone wants and needs the more expensive thing if they have an opportunity to get it. The Mercedes really is better than the Honda."

Hold your horses - isn't the Galaxy Nexus the same price as the 32GB iPhone 4S?
How does the expensive argument come into play here?
I would like a webkit based browser that can only open local files. I want to be free of the security restrictions (as I understand them) which do not allow me (for example) to save the text I enter in a textarea to a file on my desktop. Finally, I do not want to use a local server.

I do not want to deal with local servers either
Everyone spys on everyone. We do it with drones and satellites, they do it with people.
BS. Utter BS. It is marketed to everyone.

(Speaking as a father of a daughter who has a massive Lego collection and plays with it lots).

It's depressing to see so many comments that seem to believe we're all powerless to go against marketing and advertising. YOU are the problem.

If you're a parent, BUY YOUR KIDS SOME LEGO.
But the thing is this post doesn't have anything to do about whether Android is polished or not. It's a direct attack at the general posturing of Gruber and MG. And I see nothing wrong with that as it is clearly stated, and Joshua's reviews have made it clear where the phones shine and where they do not.
Apology for accidental clicking of downvote button instead of the upvote one.
I tried watching the hearings but I couldn't stay awake through the reading of the bill. My heart goes out to the poor clerk who had to read it out!

"There ought to be a law, I think, that in order to regulate something you have to have some understanding of it."

Ne'er were truer words written. Why on earth do we allow people who have no real understanding of technology to regulate it so closely? It's a train wreck in the making, one you'll be hard pressed to avoid should this bill get approved.
Meh, seems very simple to me (after some research).

Allow me to speculate.

- American Drone was destroyed with a hack tentative

- Iran built a replica for internal advertising of nationalism and for international press

- America won't comment and say it was a replica because it needs all the uneducated "Right" to believe Iran has some "power" so there is a reason to invade.

Come on haven't you guys seeing this movie before??

(updated for format)
> They offer free transactions that are not credit-card based.

If you're referring to RyanAir (and the other low-cost airlines), then they only offer free transactions on obscure payment types. From what I've seen the 'free' transaction type changes whenever a more obscure and impractical payment system becomes available.

They do that so that they can legally advertise lower prices that they charge in practise.
Request for explanation of rampant downvoting.
Yes, everything has been broken since USSR dissolved, unfortunately
In related news:

Snobby Robbers Only Steal iPhones, Refuse To Take Droids Or Blackberries

http://www.cultofmac.com/135564/snobby-robbers-only-steal-ip...
But by then it will be too late.
Of course Gruber is dismissive; he's always dismissive. (Yet I read him every day.) He thinks he's objective because he criticizes both Apple and Google's missteps; he's wrong because he smartly and analytically criticizes Apple, while he sticks his tongue out at Google.

John Gruber will be a great blogger when he grows up.
Could be an interesting MITM attack.
>"is generally considered offensive to trans people"

Isn't that just being delusional. If I decide that I should have been born as superman, does that mean you now all have to refer to me as the Man of Steel and ignore the fact that I wasn't born with the organs (X-ray eyes, etc.) that would make it possible for me to be said person.

Except in cases of genetic sex indeterminacy a person is born either male or female regardless of what they think they should have been or currently want to be.

You're welcome to adopt your own self-vision but imposing unreality on others is beyond reasonable expectations of society.
I watched roughly 2-3 hours of the hearing. I could be wrong, but I thought in general there was actually a bi-partisan agreement that they needed experts in on the conversation. Unfortunately it didn't mean much when it came to voting on amendments (as most were shot down).

Where it got interesting is when Mel Watt came out and said "We all know that everyone in this room on both sides has enough resources to pull in experts that will aid their side of the argument equally, so we're going to get into the same mess we did when we talk about derivatives being the most evil things on earth by one party and the saving grace by another". Good point, but the difference here is that not all parties that are for SOPA have purely financial incentives as the banks did.
Sigh..

I hope it was not that insecure.
It may be accurate, but it can be spoofed.

Barely related, but VOR is freaking amazingly cool. Makes flying a lot of fun :)
Snobby Robbers Only Steal iPhones, Refuse To Take Droids Or Blackberries
PVPOnline Calls Out Cartoon Syndicates on BS, Offers to Save Them (For A Price)
RIM Delays First QNX-based BlackBerry Devices to Late 2012
Remotely deleting stuff on your user's computers reminds me of the Kindle. You just don't do that if you still want people to trust you. Instead, an automatic transition to OpenJDK should be put in place. With this, your java package at least still does java, albeit in a maybe incompatible way.
Disdainful rebuttal decrying your rampant sexism for excluding questioning of their paternal lineage.
single page?
Debian Policy. It makes for an exceptionally predictable system. A bunch of other bits and pieces which derive from this, open BTS among them.

And APT (with policy) still blows RPM out of the water. Lack of policy is a big part. I'd like to play with Mandriva, which uses APT tools but the RPM format just for comparison, but the fact that I can pull apart archives using ar, tar, and gzip, as opposed to relying on an inconstant binary format, has proven invaluable more than once.
Just a note, doing some liberal hovering over elements might reveal additional interesting facts to you about the first 1000 deliveries.
Depressing to see people blaming advertising and marketing as if they as parents are powerless to buy their daughter a lego set unless an advert says they can.

If adverts have more of an influence on your kids than you do, then you're a terrible parent.
I for one welcome the next generation GPS satellites that the military will no doubt now put up.

Edit: It appears the first GPS III satellite will be launched in 2014.
Win Firefox builds hitting 3GB virtual address space limit, failing.
Or they could have its storage seeded with misinformation, or information that tricks those who obtain it into leaking information of their own.
For example: http://www.theverge.com/2011/11/4/2537647/darpa-fake-documen...

But it seems more likely that they really didn't intend to lose the thing in one piece like that.
Out of professional curiosity, I'd like to ask: do you work in the UK?
Does anyone have a list of where each representative is leaning on SOPA?

Edit:
some reps against sopa, for an open internet:

@RepJohnCampbell

@jasoninthehouse

@RepLloydDoggett

@USRepMikeDoyle

@RepAnnaEshoo

@RepZoeLofgren

@jaredpolis
Internet Blacklisting Bill Stalls in Committee
PushStart launches seed fund for start-ups
Sheepish apology from OP begging forgiveness with intense fear of being banned. Self-loathing.
It is -- and that book should be required reading for anyone making any comment on this subject. It's shocking how often I see posts, especially on Hacker News, that take for granted "gender differences" that have been proven not to exist! And often by self-proclaimed scientists and skeptics, no less.
Dealised acquires Hong Kong group-buying network
If you want random bricks or just don't care to spend a fortune, look for used Lego and Duplo (big Legos) and just run it through the dish washer.
On your large projects that must support Oracle, IBM, and HP's compilers, what prevents you from compiling your C++11 code with gcc and linking it in? Is it to difficult to maintain a consistent external ABI? Does gcc not support the other ABIs and/or mangling conventions?
The development of the website, which needed to be a very robust, reliable and carefully constructed website, was around $32,000.
What? Oh well, probably including traffic & hosting etc pp?
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SOPA Supporters Outed as Content Pirates on YouHaveDownloaded
I've been wondering why I would use this and I think this comment hits the nail on the head.

But why would want to pay $3? Big payments are usually pretty well-timed and don't need to be "instant."

Hmmm, not sure where Dwolla is going with this, it seems to make more sense to laser focus on those who would find the most use for their product (big ticket buyers and sellers, not people buying a t-shirt on a whim).
You have to let them know now before their vote.
Brownie points come from the Girl Scouts (aka Brownies) and are associated with the stamps received for good deeds.

As far as I know brownie points and actual cake brownies have nothing in common.
What I see is 0.5 to 1 user per $1 of funding for post 2009 consumer companies.
I don't think that was the point, I think the point was there is an immediate and obvious difference between Mercedes and Honda. Everyone can notice it, even if they aren't experts on cars or design.

> "You either see it or you don’t. If you don’t, that’s cool, enjoy your Nexus.

That doesn't happen with a Mercedes and Honda. Not noticing a difference and not wanting to pay for the difference are totally different things.
RIM: BlackBerry 10 smartphones won’t launch until late 2012
Hover over the 20 MINUTES element :)
It uses Linux kernel, but none of the userspace stuff, so none of the distro stuff.
The ISS budget for 2012 appears to be just under $3 billion. This could fund quite a few robotic missions.
A similar claim could easily be made here regarding Topolsky's post, along the lines of: "For someone who makes his living as a journalist, Topolsky should be more aware of "checking in" regarding MG's viewpoint. For example: 'It seems like your review implies that iOS fans are somehow more sophisticated than Android fans. Is that what you meant?'" This concept of "checking in" is a core component of effective human interaction that is, sadly, altogether too infrequent.
It's possible you're right, but that quote is irrelevant. That's about monopolies, specifically in the form of trade associations. Smith thought any kind of monopolies—trusts, unions, import duties—were bad, that's for sure.

I was talking about fabricated demand, which I don't have a quote for because I don't have my notes or copies of Wealth of Nations or Theory of Moral Sentiments with me at the moment. But my basic argument, even if he didn't explicitly treat the subject, would be that fabricated demand is an accumulation of capital, thereby increasing national opulence, which Smith holds as the highest good.
Except that's not true at all. http://www.peeron.com/inv/sets/4504-1 is the brick list for the Millienium Falcon set. The minifigures are clearly specific to the Star Wars franchise, but aside from the minifig accessories and maybe half a dozen pieces that have decorative patterns, everything else is quite generic. I remember hearing that there's even an official Lego policy against introducing new pieces unless they have 3 different sets to put them in.
Let's suppose "Country A" is a country that is subject to first world problems, and that many of Country A's angry citizens are in suburbs and semi-rural areas within driving distance of ideal protest zones, but they want to express their anger in person.
You know one of Maos big ideas in the great leap forward was for villagers to make steel - it did not turn out well.
Since this is a licensing issue, Ubuntu isn't the only distribution dealing with this. Here is the announcement from Debian Project News:

The release of Java update 29 from Oracle marks not only security updates, but a change to the licensing, removing Debian's ability to distribute the non-free JVM. The clause in the Java license under which we were able to distribute Java, the DLJ, has been removed. As a result, the sun-java6 package is no longer suitable for the archive, and has been removed, as documented in Debian Bug #646524 [2]. Sylvestre Ledru suggests [3] that sun-java6 installs be migrated to openjdk, the open-source alternative, using the following command: "apt-get --purge remove sun-java6-jre && apt-get install openjdk-7-jre" Kai WasserbÃ¤ch has also been pointed out elsewhere [4] that this upgrade path might not be suitable for all Java programs, and special attention should be paid to re-testing installed Java applications on OpenJDK.

2 : http://bugs.debian.org/646524
3 : http://sylvestre.ledru.info/blog/sylvestre/2011/10/25/removal_of_sun_java6_from_debian
4 : http://www.carbon-project.org/Removal_of_sun_java6_and_ElsterOnline.html
Outrage that anything posted by a long-time HN participant gets upvotes no matter how hard it is trolling off-topic!
Inappropriate comparison with a pinch of personal criticism containing a hidden insult involving a fivehead.
Here are some of my suggestions (i've been consulting for many years for large and small clients alike).

First to get it out of the way: Consultant != Contractor. Some people think they mean the same thing. They don't. Contractors vs employees is just a hiring logistic. Consultants are usually contractors, but the scope of work is usually more specific and specialized.

I'd define a consultant as a subject matter expert who helps clients with a problem domain for a fixed interval.

"Being a consultant" to me means usually helping a company with a problem or role that they can't help themselves in. That means you have to be not only good at what you do, but confident in your decisions and suggestions. You are the authority in their point of view - or at least close to one so you'd probably want to find that area of expertise where you feel that level of confidence.

Having said that, reading books might be a good start, but that's definitely not enough to become a highly paid consultant who gets great referal gigs. "Been there, done that" is a good expression to describe where your experience would best come from. Obviously, you'll get better as you consult more, but it would be wise not to improve your skills on the behalf of others checkbooks in a consulting role.

So assuming you're ready to go that route, you need to fill your calender with enough work to keep yourself busy (paid) and your clients happy. I personally don't have a secret formula for that, i just try to do the best work i can. Leaving a good impression tends to make it easy for people to recommend you to others which brings you more opportunities.

I'd start simply by working for someone else (i.e. a consulting firm). They'll make some dollars off your work, but you'll start to get a feel of the process and build a client base.

I hope that is at least a bit helpful.
Doesn't mean it's right. In fact it's fucking wrong. The CIA should be abolished. And this saber-rattling against a country that poses no risk to us is disgusting and wrong. The US is the most dangerous country in the world and must be stopped.
I am not sure if you see the same ads as I've seen on TV lately from SOPA sponsors but it's pretty darn obvious that the only reason this bill exists is that the lobbyists simply paid for it to be created.

Like the "Patriot" Act they have no clue what exactly they are voting on, and I don't think they care, they are doing what they are bribed to do. The hearing is just theater, it's meaningless, they've already decided to get in on the take.
I've been watching all of this for the last 3-4 hours.

I am amazed at how most of the committee do not want to hear from experts, and ignore the facts with a quick dismissal like "Oh, I'm not a nerd, I don't understand, but what I do know is that piracy is theft and we must stop it.".

How can they not listen to the experts?

EDIT: Here's a livestream http://www.justin.tv/unearthed365#/w/2249527504
Because they are not as rigorous as Google's. At Google every commit is read and reviewed before it lands in source control. And they have an entire team dedicated to building the testing infrastructure, so they can do things like testing Flash against every possible input to see if there are any security holes. (There were.) Google is all about being super careful about every line of code. I don't know for a fact that Mozilla isn't, but the quality of the code that I've read in each browser makes me think Google has a better process. But I could be wrong.
Additionally, you could also boycott all the products of SOPA backers such as the MPAA or RIAA.

Unfortunately, every time I try to explain to my friends that I don't want to see a Pixar movie and would rather see a movie at an indie theater instead, no one seems to really understand what the problem with Pixar or Disney or Sony or UMG is.

It turns out, almost no one cares about the DMCA or SOPA or Protect-IP or anything that requires more than 30 seconds to explain. It is quite depressing...
You’re probably going to downvote this reply spamming HN with links to the author’s own blog:

http://raganwald.posterous.com/youre-probably-going-to-downv...
> If you stay at a company, they will give you some fixed pay increase, perhaps tied to your annual review. After a few years, your pay could get seriously out of whack with the market.

This. In my experience, especially applies to H1-B employees or any employees who are perceived to be unlikely to leave. One downside is that, lowering the average salary of all employees makes hiring new employees (at current market rates) difficult. Thus begins (or continues) the downward spiral.
It's my last line of defense when someone brings out the quotes and asks me to define good and evil. It doesn't take that much imagination to at least understand the idea that some people consider some huge corporations evil.
It's weird, it seems like there's an amendment suggested, with lots of reason behind it, but fuck it we're going to say no anyway. WTF.
>'The reality is that the biological differences are negligible in most regards, at least mentally -- claiming "girls naturally prefer pink" is just as absurd as insisting that blacks are genetically predisposed to like playing basketball. It denies the vastly greater importance of societal and cultural effects, dumps blame for problems -- such as gender bias in STEMS -- on biology instead of humans, and is pretty much flat-out sexist.'

Perhaps instead of picking strawmen then we could address something closer to the real questions being asked: whether girls prefer to mimic nurturing behaviour or act out creativity in their play (and the converse, that boys prefer aggressive or constructive play) and that blacks are genetically predisposed to excel at sports similar to basketball (I'd have probably picked East Africans and long distance running).

Surely biologically speaking females should prefer play that mimics nurturing behaviour? (No, not exclusively, nor indeed every female, but generally as a population compared with young males). If males carried the developing human in utero I'd expect it to be different.
Ego Depletion - We may have an exhaustible amount of self-control, concentration
actually, if you have good credit, that's not a problem. I don't have any cards with an annual fee. in fact, they pay me, on average about 1.9% cash back per year.

on the late fee, you're right. but the answer there is to pay in time. not really an issue.
Pointless reply driven by secret fetish for deep threads and textual indentation. Confesses that this is the true reason writing code.