skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, wikipedia has references in this section:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methanol#Toxicity

Specifically, anything with a strong ethanol content will help, as the damage caused by drinking methanol results from the byproducts of you body processing the poison. The biological pathways that process methanol have a greater affinity for ethanol, so drinking whisky (or everclear or 151) or any other strong alcohol will keep you alive until your body has a chance to eject the methanol as a waste product.
"The American businesses that are victimized on a daily basis by global Internet thieves are among the most innovative industries in this nation and we welcome the Administration's support of these American businesses."

Right... the film and music industries are among the least innovative industries, as Fred Wilson reminds us http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2012/01/scarcity-is-a-shitty-busines...
I'd much rather use Google than the "medical" alternatives that were available a hundred years ago or are still widely used in developing countries. These can result in increased pain, suffering and deaths because of poor diagnosis or idiotic ineffectual traditional cures.

I'd pick Google over a witch doctor, religious medicine or herbal doctor every time!!
Trigger Raises $1M From SV, Paul Graham etc For Cross-Platform Mobile Dev
Yes, the WorldIPv6Day.org site is currently down but they're working on bringing it back up: https://twitter.com/#!/WorldIPv6Launch/status/15932845731310...
Missing detail: A fixie is actually borderline-practical in Manhattan because there aren't many hills. If you live in Brooklyn, you've gotta ride over some really steep bridges to get to Manhattan. So the hipsters ride single-speeds, or retro-bikes, which are actually more hipster than a fixie these days.

Get with it, grandpa!
AngelList, the comic strip
12 Hours Dark: Internet Archive vs. Censorship
Thanks for all feedback. Fixing link now.
yep, they're working on it: https://twitter.com/#!/WorldIPv6Launch/status/15932845731310...
If true, it is bad news. The non-public markets are by and large only open to 'qualified investors', which in practice means those that are quite wealthy.

The single best investment strategy ever devised is diversification. The more of the economy closed to the general public, the less they can diversify, and the worse their risk adjusted returns.
May be this is a dumb question, cant the universities participate in blackout?
Or at least change the logo to all black...
Please keep the current scaling of the charts, but label it with the actual per-capita values instead of 0 - 100. (I agree with sequoia's comment.)
Make a local backup of Wikipedia before the SOPA/PIPA blackout
"Agile" has kind of been losing popularity as a term to "software craftsmanship" lately which seems a bit more holistic and less prescriptive than agile/scrum.

Basically it says, "take the parts that make sense from these processes and implement them." Don't do anything without thinking it out fully.

see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_craftsmanship
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We love well-designed experiences, we have a rapidly growing community that loves us back (and loves telling us so), and we're building a marketplace for everyone who's ever needed to get somewhere.

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We have a tight-knit team and we're looking for people who we can develop a deep mutual trust with. Our engineers did go to Stanford, Berkeley, and MIT, but this isn't code for "the same as us"; we want to build a team that's more diverse than your typical startup. We understand that a great company and a great culture depends on far more than technical aptitude.

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It really doesn't matter who you seek out; it matters who you encounter and that you are open-minded enough to accept or welcome their differences.

Anecdote: my wife and I are about as different as people can be and still stay together. Like j_baker said, it's a "high-challenge, high-reward" situation. Life would be much easier if we were alike, but also much more boring.
Airbnb mobile app expands to android.
Lipstick Kisses Printed Sandwich Bags
My apologies - this site is indeed a masterpiece. The usability is much better than most HTML websites, no need to mention Flash.

But in the sense in which HTML5 is going to replace Flash, I am pessimistic that many websites will go to the same lengths. And where there is more code, there are more possibilities to break in the future.

To be nitpicky about usability of newfangled stuff: Using web fonts disables the built-in dictionary on OS X, both in Safari and in Chrome. (I am so happy that this is one thing Facebook has not yet embraced.)
Tenuous link (was mentioned in the article)

I find it more astonishing that Rupert Murdoch would have the gall to say on twitter: "So Obama has thrown in his lot with. Silicon Valley paymasters who threaten all software creators with piracy, plain thievery. -"
For the people using OracleJDK, what are the advantages it has over OpenJDK? Are the differences less in JDK7 vs JDK6?
Paul Allen Backed Audience Files for $75 M IPO
The Wolf From Pulp Fiction is the Ideal Startup Founder
Have you read the Agile manifesto? What about the Software Craftsmanship manifesto?
I might come too !
Google would likely face wrath from investors, as well as breaking agreements with partners. Their legal department would need therapy.
Samsung's not going to buy RIM (not now, anyway)
A non-rooted phone is "useless for those that want to go beyond what is allowed by the default non-root install".

Well that's a fine tautology.
Facebook Pages Shouldn’t Post More Than 1x Every 3 hours
(Do you agree that "Having Google's DNS blacked out because Google linked to a copyrighted sitcom transcript" a possible outcome if SOPA passes?)

My comment was that you need to calculate the expected loss on both sides: if you do something and if you do not do it.

I wasn't even claiming that Google _does, in fact, save lives_; I was claiming that if you say "X will be lost if Y is done", you need to also say ", which is better than the expected Z loss if Y is not done".

Please do not insert your assumptions into my comment.
The Brooklyn vs. Manhattan result shouldn't be surprising considering that Brooklyn is really REALLY big, and much poorer than Manhattan. I would bet that if you were to whittle down Brooklyn to Williamsburg, or if you were to control for income, the results would look significantly different.
Theater, music, and literature tend to appeal to a "higher" class of people than film, comedy, and speaches. This higher class might care more and be more knowledgable about the subtelties of attribution.
From being on a few agile projects at Fortune 100s, I can attest to this. I once worked in parallel with another agile team that was doing a separate but integrated portion of an entire solution (it was a bunch of apps under one umbrella/initiative). At the risk of tooting my own horn, the other team was disbanded after three months without progress.

The inherent problem that I saw was how those companies treat developers. I'm a consultant, so I was able to do the projects and move on, but it's clear that the companies look at developers as commodities and cannot fathom why somebody who says they can write code is not equal to another person who can write code. After all, aren't all accountants the same? (They're really not.)

Regardless of whatever process you throw at these large companies, if you have a mediocre staff, expect mediocre results.
I thought the the claim that people seek out similarity was very well supported in the article.

The claim that different people make better friends was interesting, but in my opinion not nearly as well supported. I would genuinely love to see more hard data behind that claim.
Reply to untog: yes it's a plug for my site, deal with it. With all the meta-discussion lately about this site and how it's gone downhill, maybe I feel it's time to try and create a new one that lives a bit more up to the name Hacker.

No, the average user won't be a sysadmin, but what about their kids? (Oh god, did I just do a think of the children?)
Wow that was an absolutely disgusting read. I don't like piracy, but the make the logical leap from piracy (which they see as a problem of enforcement of laws rather than a matter of distribution) to a loss of jobs that is particularly bizarre.

Also I have no idea what they mean when they say they are innovative. This is a mish mash of 'jobs' and 'thieves' and
'innovation' all over the place, tastelessly.

I guess I just get annoyed when institutions or industries make arguments for their relevance through legislation. They mention the status quo, but entertainment wants to hold onto a status quo where entertainment is a highly profitable industry, and they're willing to try and do it by creating legislation. Good artists are always going to prevail, but shitty business models don't need to be protected.
That's exactly what I'm getting at, and why SOPA and it's ilk are so pernicious.

(I'm not actually in Ireland at all any more, so it's not blocked for me either.)
something more original: Google should put their background black and leave the text black,so people would have to highlight the text to be able to see. It would be like trying to find candles in a real blackout!
Right, and "wait several months for it to become available" seems rather incompatible with the claim of "dead simple".

IIRC there's still no jailbreak for the iPad 2, even though it's been out for nearly a year now.
Looks like those tech illiterate Senators brought a knife to gun fight.

Actually it is more like they are duelling with their ammo supplier and then are surprised when the don't have any bullets.
They could also replace the search bar with a prompt, reminding the user that the quality and breadth of search results currently available to them will suffer if the legislation passes. Once they click "Ok" they can go on searching, but at least throw out a warning that things will change for everyone if SOPA/PIPA makes it through.
(We're not YC funded, but we did get into Startup Chile. Just wanted to share some options for people.)

Here's the choices our startup has made:

EMAIL:
After much investigation, we decided to host our email in Iceland. This is due to the strong privacy laws in Iceland, and wanting a hosted solution outside the USA (and which had technical support, unlike google)

We chose: http://1984hosting.com/
Pretty happy with them, though occasionally their site will give us a response in icelandic when trying to admin stuff, keeps things exciting! (they're helpful though and do support via email in english.)

HOSTING:
We're planning to go fully dedicated with Hetzner:
http://www.hetzner.de/en/hosting/produktmatrix/rootserver-pr...

Since our product will require a fair number of nodes and significant processing, the price and performance advantage of Hetzner vs. something like Amazon is very dramatic. (I haven't used Hetzner yet, but from my investigations they get positive remarks)

DOMAINS:
For years all of our domains have been handled thru Moniker. If you're going to go with a US registrar, don't use Go Daddy or any other consumer registrar. Moniker is set up for domain portfolios and they have very strong security policies and no BS.

I'd prefer to have this part of our business be offshore, however, given the propensity in recent years for US judges to rule domains be handed over without just cause. However, I've not found a good international Registrar.
More White People on Food Stamps than Blacks
The 1600s :-)
What if the user claims that they made a typo? It is a lot better than the dropdowns though. Everyone born on Jan 1 :D
I've been aware of the removal, but I think this is the first time I've seen the actual reason for this. Thanks for sharing this link.
DreamIt Ventures Launches First Israel-U.S. Accelerator
Orange County is a county, with a 3,000,000 population twice that of Manhattan (a borough.)

Orange, CA is a city, with a population of 150,000

Why is Orange County listed in the chart when all other entrants seem to be cities (or boroughs).
Everything you're asking for (and much more) is handled by Mailgun (full disclaimer - I work there):

http://blog.mailgun.net/day/2011/11/07

Moreover, our incoming mail parsing doesn't stop at simple MIME parsing, we're dig deeper into the meaning of those characters and extract user signatures, quoted parts, etc.

Moreover, we retry inbound POST, allow you to filter incoming traffic on the server and (very important) we're the only incoming mail API processor that generates proper bounces for 3rd party servers (spammers) trying to hammer you with non-existent addresses.
Thank you so much for your insights, your guidance, and your candor. It was great working with you as a founder. I can't wait to have you involved in PIE as a mentor.
Aviary Launches Major Upgrade To SDK, Now Powering 10M Photo Edits/Month
Your comment sounds like TeXShop only uses XeTeX, which is not true. TeXShop certainly has the option to use XeTeX, along with plain TeX, LaTeX, ConTeXt, and other variants. :-)
Not really no. In-house counsel are hired pretty much exclusively from the ranks of associates at firms with several years experience. I guess most big companies don't like to pay and build out the capacity to to develop in-house legal talent when they can just let the law firms do it.

The legal hiring model is like the opposite of a "let the talent rise" kinda system. It's pretty depressing. If you don't get tracked with a good job early on, good luck with decent-paying private sector work.
Will there be a clickthrough to 'continue to Wikipedia' during the real blackout?

If not, it's too bad the blackout can't link to the relevant articles to explain things.

Of course the interests pushing the worst parts of SOPA/PIPA will keep trying to sneak it through in different forms, but that doesn't mean they'll succeed.

I'm reminded of the copyright industry's pro-DRM legislation from a decade ago:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consumer_Broadband_and_Digital_...

When first proposed in 2001, it looked like a steamroller destined to expand the worst (anti-circumvention) parts of the DMCA. But tech backlash, plus the distraction of the 9/11 wars, meant by mid-2002 it was shelved, and the same idea hasn't returned as a credible legislative threat.

Surely it will, and will need to be fought again, but it shows territory can be won for years/decades, rather than just months, and the battle-lines can shift over time in net-freedom's favor, just as well as against it.
Individuals Don't Build Great Companies, Teams Do
So how do I do this?
Bionic Panda's Android Social Gaming Business, Raises Funding
This is how I work.

As an "army of one" you can be almost as fast as a small team, and you can execute with much higher conceptual coherence. I.e., you can aim better.

It is important to filter out ideas you're not interested in running, even if they could make money.

And once you start getting traction, it's important to focus hard on exploiting it.

Making $1000 per month is harder than scaling that to $100,000 per month (if the market size is large enough).
Send me an email, my info is in my profile. I have a need for someone with your skills. Location doesn't matter, but I'd like to see what you've done before and if you're interested in what I have to offer. Thanks.
LinkGrammar is not really a toolkit and it is not written in Python. It is written in C.
Fixies in Portland are OVER!
It's all about the abomination mutant cycles.
It will be interesting to see the difference, in terms of impact, between a blackout of the very nascent web of 1996 and of the very powerful web of 2012.
Google+ Adds Auto-Complete for Hashtags
They need to shut the hell up and work on improving their content distribution model. Learn something from Gabe Newell already. Sheesh.
Why Publishers Are About to Go Data Crazy
I am one of the lucky Hacker School alumni, and I can't say enough good things about it. For those of you afraid it is just a recruiting tool, fear not, only if you want it to be. The word was mentioned only in the beginning and end of the experience. This is not what the experience is motivated by. It is motivated by curiosity and learning.

If you are thinking of joining, you might be interested in a blog post I wrote about my journey to Hacker School and what it meant to me: http://sethmurphy.com/my_programming_reboot
I bet a lot of them do. I know people who still have Yahoo! as their homepage.

As for me, I have hardly visited the Google homepage since modern browsers introduced the search bar.
Google to Join SOPA Protest
SOPA Protest Song
Google to enable IPV6 permanently next IPv6 Day
Show HN: Verelo.com
We were going to launch our new product into beta tomorrow (http://www.verelo.com - web monitoring) however, it just so happens to be the same day of the SOPA protests. We're going to black out in support. Feel free to take a peek before we do black out, we'd love feedback on our web design.

http://verelo.com
Right. Because "Barbara Ann" was a key moment in the American reconsideration of the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution and the Civil War. "Barbara Ann" and "I Have A Dream" are equally important to an understanding of equality in America.

Got it.
I've put done close to $300 to help fund a programmable espresso machine. Funding closes this Friday. Get in quick if it might be your sort of thing:

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/zpmespresso/pid-controll...

Just yesterday they posted a very good update letting people know where they stand. Notably that the shipping times are already longer than originally stated, and that now is the time to ask them questions (before the money is taken). They also specifically state that they're not a storefront, and that setbacks in the schedule are possible:

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/zpmespresso/pid-controll...

Seems like a sensible way to set expectations upfront.

(I discovered this project as I was close to spending $700 on a machine that is (on paper) lower spec'ed (but, to be fair, available now). I'm willing to wait the few months and risk some cash to give some guys a chance at producing something new/different.)
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The kinds of people that go to Google.com are also the kinds of people who don't fully understand the repercussions of a law like SOPA. Google not working would drive home the message to them.
They could learn about SOPA from an informational page like the one Wikipedia is going to put up during the blackout.
It was just and hypothetical example, being honest: right now the only thing i could find is this link in Spanish:

http://www.bio-nica.info/Biblioteca/Gutierrez-Intoxicacion-M...

The theory is this: The consumption of ethyl alcohol (whisky/vodka) can prevent the conversion of methanol to formaldehyde and formic acid plus it extracts the toxic substance and neutralizes its metabolic effects.
Who works full time at their own startup?
Would love to hear about fellow Hacker News users who work full time at a startup that they founded.

Are you able to do it because you make enough money or perhaps because you got funding?
Wow... what a blast from the past! I remember that time period well when we were all concerned about the CDA (and also the proposed Clipper Chip mandatory encryption). Thanks for posting this link to the past...
Not to mention that the quality of the majority of content produced by these industries sucks.
Is that $20,000 for the cost from the earth to the moon?

Because I would guess you could escape moon gravity and fall towards earth for a lot less than $20,000 per liter.

And large chunks of ice, hurled from the moon, would just melt in our atmosphere. Which is OK if you don't care to deliver water to anyone in particular and just want more of it on earth. You know, in case global warming doesn't raise sea levels enough.

Just send solar powered robots at in initial cost of $20,000 per kilo to mine the ice, and have them hurl it at earth for a lot less than $20,000 per liter.
You go to LA and you will see. :)
An easy way to show solidarity with SOPA protesters is whenever the main Google page is loaded (not when a query is already passed to Google) is to have it load black with some text saying how this is Internet might look like if SOPA is passed, followed by it fading into the normal google page, with maybe some text below the bar to contact legislators within the local area.
Amazing to me how highly Spokane ranks on all of these.
After Prescient Pivot, Aviary Tools Now Seeing 10 Million Photos A Month
JStor Moves Toward Open Access
The MPAA/RIAA argument amounts to: We would like to do business on the Internet but existing Internet architecture isn't satisfactory for our business model. Let's make a law to change the architecture.
We're just looking at a sample of the data so the actual per capital figures aren't meaningful. Would have loved to have showed that, but instead we just normalized the data to 100.
How to travel around the world for a year.
IMHO the headline should be changed to something like "openjdk packages are favoured over sun-java-* packages, which will be removed ...".
Maybe they tried to enable AAAA lookups?
Do you agree that "Having Google's DNS blacked out because Google linked to a copyrighted sitcom transcript" a possible outcome if SOPA passes?

No. Absolutely not.
Matrix Multiplication in Clojure vs Numpy
Did they really draw a different conclusion?

Facebook found the same effect as described in this article. People are friends with those who are similar to them.

Information is widely shared between friends. It is only because people have so many acquaintances that information is spread into clusters of close friends. However, that information flow from acquaintances isn't increasing the diversity of beliefs within a cluster of friends. If it was, then you would see clusters of friends with diverse beliefs which has previously been demonstrated to not be the case.
Isn't this a sign that "agile" as he is defining it simply isn't working?

More importantly, why is this a bad thing? We don't really think that this process was "the" process that would stick for the next hundred years, did we?
Why Airlines Are Bankrupt
How is Chicago not in the index at all! Majority of bikes I see in the city are fixed gear, including my own. The flat land makes it ideal.
Single-speed are also lighter if you have a walk up apartment.
And he was saying Z = 0. Calm down.