skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You believe in freedom of speech right? (lets ignore things like shouting fire in crowded theater right now).

So you agree that I have the right to say that the current president is an oath-breaker, a war monger and a criminal (these opinions are biased, clearly, but they are also not completely impossible to argue)?

So you agree that I have the right to tell that to somebody who wants to hear that, right?

So I also have the right to tell that to two people who wants to hear it right?

So what about 200? What if I convince somebody else to say that to ten people, 200 people? If I convince ten people to tell 2000, and pay them what they would have earned if they had worked a job that day, then I should also be allowed to do that, right?

Remember I could have hired them to paint my fence instead, which would have been allowed.

What if instead of sending people around, I started sending letters around? And to write them fast enough brought an expensive printer? And the advice from expensive (but) great ad men from Madison? And instead of using letters I brought time on the radio or the television or on various sites online?

If you allow me to do these things (and remember I could do it if, rather than getting some particular policy past the House, I wanted to sell blue cheese) then how will it matter whether I can give money to a particular candidate or not?

You can have either free speech or banned campaign founding but not both.
Couchbase and Cloudera’s New Hadoop Connector, First for NoSQL
Oh, How I love My [InsertString: $sponsored_device]
Yes I have. Do you remember why he said more programmers is a problem? Because it increases the amount of communication. Because of this, few higher skilled programmers get more done than more less skilled programmers, largely because less communication is required.

I've witnessed this directly many times over the years.
What Startup To Build?
yes. i started GoodRx (www.goodrx.com) with 2 friends. Trying to fix the broken American health system.
You could make this O(n) with some memory trade offs...
Pakistan Imran Khan rally draws tens of thousands ~ Daily World News
India Is Ready for Boxing Day Test
Interesting results from the comments. Can someone provide a tutorial link to how I'm supposed to be using the two together?
If you have an ACM subscription, or know someone who does, they have a techpack on parallel computing. The tech packs are a collection of annotated bibliographies on a particular topic.

http://techpack.acm.org/
Sadly that is the last thing we can afford right now. It is great policy but lousy debate: don't concede anything to the enemy, we need to run not walk away from their position -- that way (and only that way)can we drag them further towards the position we want them to take.

If we come up with a reasonable proposal based on their concerns then the best we can hope for is for them to drag us closer to them.

Now if we could get Congress to propose this then we could get angry, throw some (metaphorical) chairs etc then slowly agree to it. Then, may be, we could have a compromise.

Never ever be reasonable in a debate -- it will only hurt your position -- but always appear to be, that way they can't hurt you with it.
Celebration of My Failures: 6 more interviews that I failed (Part 2 of 2)
Before Recruiting in Ivy League, Applying Some Math
That is an unfair question -- you present only two options while leaving (at least) the third -- "we have already done (at least) as much as we need to".

There is so a fourth: "the internet is too precious to destroy to get a few more CDs/books/etc.".
Sorta. Within the last month I put together http://exquisitejobs.com/ and started collecting interested emails. I aim to make it easier for quality freelancers and job seakers to find great jobs!
We just made ThinkLink (http://www.thinklink.com) available to the public. One of the advantages is that it figure out your business taxes for you (provided you keep good records). It would be great to get your feedback.
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I don't know how to respond. Tell me how they're doing better than ever.

http://www.google.com/finance?q=NYSE:GS&fstype=ii
I agree that NaCl isn't the road forward, but I definitely don't agree that support for it is an indicator of good values.

In your original comment, were you referring to the fact that Opera also runs on money from deals with search providers, yet doesn't support proposals from them if they disagree?
Publishers vs. Libraries: An E-Book Tug of War
Could The Rebellion Against Traditional Publishing Actually Work?
Here's a word cloud of the 365 HN stories (in the shape of the HN logo). http://i.imgur.com/AqmeK.png
On Windows, I recommend using ZScreen, which has annotation and Dropbox capabilities.
The lean startup methodology is a process for following either the herd (coupons!) or your instinct (something useful).
I cannot tell if I should be proud or disappointed that I remember reading the vast majority of these.
It's not your fault - back in the late 90s when I came to light side I hated iTunes too. It's clearly stockholm syndrome - I deal with it because I've grown used to the way it does things. It isn't bad, but it does take getting used to.

Quicktime, well, I can't see why you'd hate it (except for maybe that it probably sucks on windows) - it's actually amazing on the mac. Lightweight, fast, everything a user needs and nothing else.
Good point, thanks. I could conjure up a few interesting stories. Also some useful hands-on (cross platform) game programming tutorials. "Learn Game Programming the Hard Way."
In starting a tech company in Australia this year, I don't feel that there were the resources (gov't) or opportunities (networking, events outside Sydney) available to those in the U.S. While there is more of a social safety net in Australia if you fail, the U.S. is where the action is (at least until decentralized startups are seen as comparable to localized ones).
If I recall from the original article, they didn't know what to put there yet, it was just undesignated space, and they jokingly labeled it "tennis courts".

http://cdespinosa.posterous.com/plan
Sorta.

Not a company but I launched a re-done version of my file sharing service: http://dropsauce.com

Plan to work on it some more in the coming few months.

Also released a jQuery calendar plugin on github: https://github.com/glad/glDatePicker/
Show HN: My holiday hack - Two pane UI for Google Reader
Ask HN:  Name my startup?
I'm making a startup that is essentially a weekly meal planner. We'll generate your weekly meal plan based on dietary preferences.

I can't think of a decent name though -

Here's ones I've considered

- Harvest
- MessHall
- Cafeteria
- Cookbook
- Apicius (the first ancient cookbook)

Any suggestions?
"Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect." -- Mark Twain
JSON Pointers - a syntax for identifying a specific value within a JSON document
There is a built-in option to disable .DS_Store creation on network and removable drives. Run the following in a terminal then log out to restart your session.

defaults write com.apple.desktopservices DSDontWriteNetworkStores true

source: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1629
Nothing fancy. Just a snapshot every 24 hours.

I'm collecting more infos that what is available at this moment, but I need to find time to implement it. In which way are you suggesting Instapaper? Do they have something like the most popular? I quickly checked their API but I couldn't not find anything for rrrewind.
That's probably true. Thank you.

Did you find it difficult?
Ramalan dan Kisah Syekh Subakir ke pulau Jawa
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لعبة المزرعة 
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Personal opinion so take what I say as such.

1. From experience, the company name often are more of personal gripes founders have than necessarily to dictate the success of the company itself (within reason). The important factors, if any, are generally more on is it short and easy to spell/pronounce than necessarily the naming of the startup. To see proof of this, you only need to look at all the ridiculous names people have come up over the years for their startup to see that naming only really goes so far. How you position the brand is far more important.

2. While I get the urge to stick to a name that represents what you do currently, I personally prefer a generic name in the event you guys decide to pivot, add new products, etc. Don't let the name end up holding you back.

3. Make sure whatever name you choose, you can easily get the .com, twitter handle, etc etc... for that name. Branding is a huge aspect.

That said, IF I had to go with the above, base on criterias I've just listed, Apicius would take my vote if for nothing else, no one would know its an ancient cookbook unless you explicitly explain so. Its vague enough that it allows good branding to be built around it and not necessarily strike me as food related. Clearly the others all stand for food for obvious reasons.

Side note, you could go with something like meekly (meal + weekly). Mashup words are common these days and can still remain vague.
2-Pane for Google Reader
Decision Architecture: Designing for Decision-Making
Indeed. Won startup weekend and have a cofounder going FT. http://zapier.com/
27 : google

15 : yc

12 : apple

10 : hn

9 : github

9 : twitter

8 : hacker

8 : jobs

8 : news

7 : steve

7 : facebook

6 : amazon

6 : gmail

6 : developers

6 : startup

5 : sopa

4 : tracking

4 : launches
Ask HN: explain to me what piracy isn't
Right off the bat: I don't support SOPA, I think it is detestable on constitutional grounds and that its existence reflects irresponsibly uninformed and one-sided decision making on the part of congress.

That said, I need some clarity on the hacker side of things. I'm a new computer science student, I love startups, and did the "I'm gonna start this awesome startup with my friend even though neither of us is technical" thing back in high school (with typical failure to move past drafting tons of "Business Models"). That said, I like to be involved with the startup culture and work to understand how hackers think.

But what I just don't get, is why piracy does not equal theft. I just don't get it. I see tons and tons of people talking about why piracy isn't theft because the object is duplicated, so it isn't taken from the owner, but I don't fully see the flow in that. Musicians have always sold copies, but piracy is taking one without paying for it. The thing that the musician lost is their revenue, or the economic costs of production which they expect to make back. That seems like theft.

And the argument that we can't prevent duplication and that the music industry needs to expect it almost sounds lazy, and seems to neglects the music industry almost as much as SOPA neglects the rights of web sites. I think that I just don't understand what solution the idea of "piracy is a reality" poses. That flow never really sat well with me either.

Now I am not so brazen as to assume that I've got it right when a sizable community seems to believe otherwise, but I need this laid out, and I think that creating clear and understandable ideologies beyond "This is unforgivable let us do battle" can be a positive exercise for the HN community. So, somebody out there, anyone out there, please tell me why the status quo is ok, why piracy isn't theft, or why my conceptions are all backwards and wrong. I should lose all of my 22 karma within 10 minutes because my misconceptions are being laid out and taken to school. I just need this clarified so I can understand not just that the corporations and SOPA are the worst thing ever, but that we can do much better, and that there is a reasonably collective counter-ideology.

Now I've got my own ideas about what should be done and how the system could ultimately be repaired, but I didn't scream those at you, so keep the responses ideological please. And always honest.

If you want to do the most good, email me directly at dondg111@gmail.com. And If you want to do the second to most, include what you think the correct ideology pertaining to intellectual property ought to be in your comment.
Anonymous roots Stratfor Security, promises more anti-sec all week
There has been lots of cross pollination between Ruby and Perl (both 5 & 6) over the years so I'm not surprised!

And its not just an historical thing, for eg. the stabby lambda added to Ruby 1.9 has been part of the Perl6 specs for years (but called Pointy Blocks) - http://perlcabal.org/syn/S06.html#%22Pointy_blocks%22

# Ruby 1.9
x = -> a, b { a + b }
puts x.call(1,2)

# Perl6
my $x = -> $a, $b { $a + $b };
say $x(1,2);
Yeah, was poking fun
OpenSSH supports PKI-based authentication and server certificate signing as of 5.4. Very useful in big enterprises and higher-security environment.

http://blog.habets.pp.se/2011/07/OpenSSH-certificates
Does Silicon Valley not have janitors, cooks, maids, postal workers, garbage collectors, fire fighters, teachers, or any number of other jobs which are either already low wage or increasingly insecure during an economic recession? My guess is that the only bubble is the one inside Eric Schmidt's head that makes it impossible for him to acknowledge those who share common cause with Occupy Wall Street: jobs that don't pay poverty wages, housing as a right, protection from a banking system that tax payers (yes, even those making poverty wages) had to bail out while their schools get sold out, and a government that is actually responsible to the majority rather than the minority which increasingly controls the wealth of this world. The growth of Silicon Valley, or any city for that matter, should not be taken as meaning that we have escaped poverty or unemployment. Far more likely is that the cities that boom have been attractive to business specifically because they have a surplus of low wage workers (again it takes more than engineers to make Silicon Valley run), government subsidized land, adequate transportation built with tax payer money, etc. The high unemployment rate in Santa Clara quoted in the article should give Eric pause but he'd likely just consider that of minor concern because of the fraction of residents that are not hurting (who he wants to continue attracting to the area).
Hey, what tool did you use to do that? I kinda want to do the same for my site but I am in a bad terms with photoshop. Maybe you can send me the psd file, please?
nice. would like to find out all the new stuff in some blog/books before I had to read the standard itself, plus the status of toolchain supports of them(gcc seems only support part of the new standard)
I think there's some sickness here.
Sure did - http://gun.io launched in late September, with the idea of making it easier to find freelancers for microtasks, and to channel more money to open source projects.

I'm a single founder, and it's a boostrapped project, but I'm counting it here anyway. Things are going well.. I think, at least.
New Freeware MKV/AVI/WMV slideshow creator software for Windows
شاهد الفيديو الكامل لغادة كمال اثناء ضربها ونزع ملابسها من قبل بعض جنود الجيش
Can you elaborate a little bit on "got out?"
Poll: Did you shutter a startup in 2011?
To balance the poll: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3390727

Reasons why, lessons learned in the comments would be appreciated.
Opera is funded by search deals, but I think I read that they make most of their money from carriers in return for installing Opera Mobile on phones. Not 100% sure though.

In any case, Opera has always been one of the biggest supporters of the open web, through working on standards, opposing things that are bad for the web, etc.
Why you need web designing?
E-Books from NASA
Apple has plans to use hydrogen in batteries allowing iPhones and iPods
Looks like a very good service. I've already found better deals for a couple of the medications that I am taking, and one where a 90 day supply is little more than a 30 day supply. You have been bookmarked. Thanks.
No lie: it was tough at first.
I liked meekly! fits in exactly with the idea of the app!
Musicians have not always sold copies of anything. Recordings that can be sold are a relatively new technology (20th century). Musicians and artists worked on commissions or got paid for their performances. In fact today very few musicians make much money from selling recordings (talk to any jazz musician about it).

As far as lost revenue. When I drive a fuel efficient car that uses less gas, am I stealing? After all I am depriving the oil companies of revenues.
"no chance to capitalize on it. No one believes nor cares."

Um, when Doom came out, I didn't even know who Carmack was. I just liked the game. Just create something kickass with your skills...
I've heard similar descriptions of LISP, actually.

Actually, Paul Graham said something similar about Lisp.

"...In Lisp, you don't just write your program down toward the language, you also build the language up toward your program..."

http://www.paulgraham.com/progbot.html
> I now have a skillset roughly equivalent to Carmack's

That's a very, very bold claim.
Damn. Got to this link from an HN twitter bot. Didn't notice I was reading a Sebastian Marshall page until halfway through.
Ask PG: 2012 Startup ideas you'd like to fund?
There's a list of 30 startups you'd like to fund but it's from 2008. http://ycombinator.com/ideas.html

What startups would you like to fund in 2012?
That does not address his problem. He is suggesting that a fair tax would have everyone taxed to the same marginal value, that is, where the last dollar the government taxes is worth the same amount to each person.

There is nothing inherently fair about a flat tax any more than there is something magical about round numbers. It just appeals to our irrational love for symmetry.
Those are just random markup class names I'm using to demonstrate how to use the system. Any variables are in the SASS file and start with $

The demo SASS in the second half of the file is all you need, on my opinion. This is literally the entire grid system and meant for people familiar with 960.gs already
Lack of a succession plan is plaguing many industries. I am in the category of grey hair, no hair, written a book. When I die, the code dies with me
"I don't agree that it should be on me ..."

Oh, not at all. It just reminded me of the many immigrant families I've known, especially how the middle generation acts as a bridge between old and new.

"Take care and happy holidays."

The same.
What about a refurbished macbook and iphone, or ipod touch and dumbphone?
Work In Progress. http://faces.my/. Going full speed next year.
What we need is a platform where teachers can upload their videos and the ones that are the best can be featured and those teachers can achieve some Khan-like fame. Instead Khan has a monopoly as the one man show.

I do like this, because while one teacher may excel at math teaching their format may not work so well for other academic studies. A system of user ranking and teacher submissions could be pretty cool. If it where me I would build it so their is a strict topic, such as addition or real numbers and then people can submit videos for that detailed topic. Then an entire math curriculum can be built out of the top rated videos with all the other videos available by rank from best to worst. This would allow for someone that just does not get the recommended teachers style or format to work down the recommended videos until they find one that can convey the format in a manner that they understand. We seem to keep looking for the one pinnacle of teaching formats, which is a silver bullet, it does not exist, they is not one style that can convey every concept to every person. We need to stop believing that their is, and I think the author, in the text I highlighted is very close to understanding that problem.
Yep. I quit my job to start my own venture. It was scary but it was long overdue. For a while I had been doing the "working on the side project after work" but then I realized that if I do want to do this, there is no half-assing it. It's time to go big or go home.
please post your suggestions related to the program here. I am looking for any feedback for our new project. Thanks!
Is this guy for real? Or does he transcend our limited notions of "reality"?
I may write an updated version, but not today. (It's Christmas.)
Haskell's type system is really not at all comparable to the ones found in c and Java. Not only is the Haskell type system Turing-complete, I'd be willing to argue that it's more expressive (and I mean the type system itself, not the whole language...) than a lot of mainstream languages. Basically, it's a whole different animal from the things most programmers call type systems.

For example, the type system doesn't just handle values, doing actions is also managed by the type system. The type of main is IO (), which roughly means "do something with side-effects". If I write a function that reads in a file and returns a string, it's type is not String, it's IO String, or, "do an action, which causes a String to be returned". I can shuffle this around at will, and use the IO monad to handle running the program in correct order. And IO is just a single way of managing order -- continuation passing is just another monad in the type system, that didn't even need any additional code in the compiler to implement.

But what really makes the difference from Java or C++ imho is the type inference. Basically, if you never write a type declaration, the only time the type system bothers you is when there really is a bug in the code. Psychologically, this is a big deal. In Java, the type system is a chore that makes me type unnecessary things. In Haskell, the type system is a compile-time check that catches a lot of real errors.
Traffic sources: Forget what you think about tech PR
Really Washington? Do you see what is happening to Boeing?

You are missing the point it is not about software company or manufacturing company sooner or later we all will get affected. It is about the path of self destruction Democrats are taking us on with their ideological thinking and and selfish behavior to remain in power.
Self publishing maybe the future but it's going to take a while to happen.
This article on the other hand is pure marketing.