skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have multiple responses to multiple comments on this thread, so I'm going to continue here.

For full disclosure, I'm a young entrepreneur (<25), run a company that was started a few months after curebit (my cofounder applied and interviewed for the same YC class with a different idea), have raised pretty close to what curebit has raised, and am also a 500startups-funded company.

I'd just like to take a minute to hope that a couple of screw ups by others won't put companies like ours at a disadvantage. It makes me sad to think that "how old are you guys" is one of the first questions someone would ask, since I'm not sure physical age has anything to do with how people react to different situations. I'd sure like to think that if I screwed up people would chalk it up to me being me and not my generation.

I also hope people realize the big mouth investor with no taste (especially in what he wears ;) isn't the only person vetting 500startup companies. He has a whole investment team. Yes, Dave does pick a lot of the 500s companies himself (he was our biggest advocate), but the entire 500s team has a say. I also think you're overlooking the fact that curebit was also supported by YCombinator (and Dave has a lot of respect for PG's team and the companies they accept).

I don't condone what curebit did (far from it). I am close to positive someone at YC would have at least helped hash out ideas for design (and 500s' mantra is design, data, distribution), and, Dave has always said: running lean doesn't mean running cheap. But I hope that what one company does doesn't ruin it for the rest of us.
You should put (2006) in the title.
ps, hosted at stanford? yes. stanford's program? no.
An interesting data point - Storm On Demand (http://www.stormondemand.com/) use AdWords a lot, and I'm always seeing their ads (clearly Google has designated me their target market - correctly).

Some of their MPU adverts had QR codes in them, and I called this out on Twitter telling them it was moronic to think that anyone would want to scan the QR code off an advert rather than just click it. Their response was that in their testing of many different adverts, the ones with QR codes were getting the best CTRs. They didn't know the reason for this, and neither do I - but it's interesting none-the-less.
Your claim about temperatures not rising over the last 10 years is not true. [1]

[1] http://www.climateinstitute.org.au/index.php?option=com_cont...
Those terms can be searched, and there's additional refinement which can be added to them, in part. This seems to be under flux, and I've been spending less time in G+ over the past month or two.

That said: for content discovery, sparks are far superior to circles.
So when someone makes the same mistake 3 times, you call them a moron and that fixes it?
Interactive Business Model Canvas
I don't think anyone has a final answer, but really _how close_ do designs have to be so as to lack integrity?

(assuming that they hadn't straight up lifted the CSS, images, button etc... which they did, which is clearly wrong.)

Ex: DHH says http://elance.com is inspiration, not theft. Ok.

Ex 2: A more difficult edge is http://coursekit.com I instantly recalled their design after seeing this scandal, although I'd initially taken note of it for its effectiveness. Their similarity to basecamp is on the front page only, and no assets stolen. (full disclosure: competitor, vaguely, for a hackathon-started education product I'm working on.)

Like, we can think up a MILLION edge cases. That's not the point. I'm really, really curious to hear what you guys think the difference IS.

and please, please, PLEASE don't respond to this with vitriol on other side. if you think there are problems happening here in the way we treat design, and how ppl react, just DON'T add to it in that way. reposted here b/c my q was downvote buried.
It's only gray from your system. There are other systems that people live (and think) in, regardless of what the law (and "common sense") says.

If you consider that (a) the act of ctrl-c/ctrl-v is fine for any material, (b) hosting content on your domain does not imply that you pass off the inspiration of the work as your own, (c) everybody already copies under the radar for profit to some extent, then (d) becomes an issue of perspective, like I said.

If you accept that copyright law may be morally or economically inferior to other systems, this should be gray to you.

If you accept that you want to copy your peers' works for your own profit, and you can accept that your peers have the same rights to your productions, then you are a Kopimi, and there's nothing wrong with that either from what I can tell, (except that society will burn you down in today's day & age. Think of it as a modern day witch hunt.)
Lyx is great for creating beautiful TeX documents.
http://www.lyx.org/
Thank you very much! I love the fact that the code is on GitHub. Do you plan adding features or should I make a fork for things like:

# hours browsed per day history

Anyway, thanks again!
Great work! I'm going to use some on my site. Thanks!
And it's a pure coincidence that a company called "curebit" chooses the exact same logo stock-art as one called "launchbit"
The editorial is confusing. On one had, it seems to be suggesting that while human-caused global warming is happening, it is not necessary to panic and in fact it would be better to divert resources away from global warming mitigation and back to regular ole projects.

But then it also makes a number of suggestions that global warming is not happening or that if it is, it is not human-driven.

I do think scientists questioning aspects of the global warming debate should be able to have their say but they need to make sure their arguments are sound and fact-based.
Harvard Starts Experiment Fund
hmmm...

Well, this isn't an attack against you personally, or a tit-for-tat sort of comment, but...

> We have to work among the group of people for which this behavior is standard procedure.

You ARE saying that this is acceptable, since "we have to" work among them, and I just don't agree :)
Missing from this article: you have something worthwhile to say. Honestly, I don't think I have anything to justify a book length treatment at this time. Okay, I'm not an entrepreneur, just an engineer at a startup, but I don't see the founders having all that much time to be sitting around writing books either.
"No envy or ideas ever flow the other way."

I think that is a misread of the slides. I see why you thought that, but in the talk itself it was more clear.
This is at least the third time this has been submitted. The one with the most comments is http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3517830 .
It's based om Mer Core: http://merproject.org
They're scrappy guys still hustling like they launched yesterday.

I don't think DHH has had a need to hustle in a while. He could have easily embarrassed cluebit with a witty remark, rather than embarrassing himself at the same time by the choice of language.
Estimations are regulary off cause they are just estimations, not futurology. And even if they are accurate is hard to know if that's due to a good estimate or because of Parkinson's law.

I'd like to hear some thoughts on how to improve those estimations rather that explaining why it is hard as Brooks did on MMM.
Are you saying that they weren't fucking scumbags?
Modern humans appeared 100.000 / 200.000 years ago. We probably won't evolve into a new specie in the next 1.000 years.
Why this this story on the front-page of HN? This provides very little quality content and discussion. This just seems to be propaganda. Yes, Curebit was in the wrong, admit it, move on. I'm sure there are more interesting things in the world of technology and startups than this. To quote PG: "I think HN's initial population of smart, mostly apolitical nerds has been diluted by the arrival of a lot of new users who are not as smart, and are thus more excited by shallow controversies."

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3105036
How does Zynga get a free pass? People rip into them all the time for stealing, copying, ripping off, etc. other people's games, ideas, and mechanics.

There have even been lawsuits, some of which Zynga lost.

They make so much money they don't care, and they made that money long before they were public.
Jessica Alba's garage startup introducing video
Classifying my expenses w/ UnitedNations scheme COICOP,charting inkblot with R
Check out HR to see if there is a business conduct guideline or blogging/social media policy. As an IBMer I can't disclose too much information on my blogs, either. But it does still leave me with plenty of disclosable information to blog about.
"If someone won't tell me their comp requirements to start, there is no possibility I make an offer."

Don't you think it's possible it can work the other way as well? An engineer could just as easily say to himself, and using the same reasoning, "If a company won't tell me what the position pays to start, there is no possibility I can interview there."

We could have a standoff with both sides adopting this philosophy. We could have transparency where both sides state their requirements. Or we could have a power hierarchy in which one person is required to disclose his hand and the other one gets to keep their position secret.
Good aesthetics has been on my mind too. I started one on a Wordpress site and after a few posts, my interest fizzled because I wanted to make better looking posts. When I spend all day trying to make some pages look good at work, I don't really want to do the same thing at home.

I've been trying to think of ways around this, and one might just be to embrace minimalism more. Keep it simple so as to keep creating content. That is what's of value, right?

Going further down the timeline, I want to try to improve that minimalist site, but this desire can't eclipse the desire to keep recording the meaningful thoughts I've had.
We need to distinguish between primary storage, syncing, backup, distribution, and other cases. I wouldn't even call MegaUpload "cloud storage"; I would call it more of a CDN. If Akamai went down, people wouldn't complain about losing data, because Akamai isn't used as primary storage.

Likewise, the US DOJ makes a distinction between uploader-pays and downloader-pays business models, so we must also.
Anyone has a friendly link to a summary of what happened?
A nice guide on setting up a dedicated FoldingHome box with Ubuntu
Animated, colored bubbles aside, history supports my claim. Gapminder's data is flawed because it mixes Whites with unwhites. For example, when Whites arrived in South Africa, there were so few blacks that the place was pretty much empty. Whites proceeded to create a first world country, resulting in the best economy in sub-Saharan Africa. This drew a large number of blacks, from other countries, despite apartheid. Segregation was just fine with them because their lives were otherwise much better in SA. This led to a rampant increase in breeding, which continued in post-apartheid SA due to the momentum imparted by foreign aid (which wasn't necessary when Whites were in control). Now, the total population of SA is more than 50M, with Whites accounting for less than 5M.

Increase income per person in the third world as much as you want, but there will be no permanent, negative effect on population growth for as long as the population is mostly unwhite because income has nothing to do with character, culture, IQ, and all of the other factors at play.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Africa
What can Canadians learn from their American cousins to stop this bill?
The words "settled" and "incontrovertible" have little place in science.
Really interesting. I use Notational Velocity to keep track of text snippets, but it doesn't have the "see also" feature. I imagine it could be very useful.
"if it were real programming code i would be angry " -> the work of "programmers" is worth plenty, but the work of designers is worth zilch. To be fair, this is also the attitude taken by Curebit.
Ask HN: How To Prepare a Site For Hacker News?
Some weeks ago I submitted a link to an article I wrote (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3442640) and I got a lot of views from Hacker News, which made me restart my server several times.

It's hosted at Rackspace Cloud Servers.
there's more at channel 9 (also recommend Erik Meijer and Don Syme's, and those of Wadler adn Ralf Lämmel.

http://channel9.msdn.com/search?term=peyton+jones
I meant that it isn't a gray area, that it isn't a moral dilemma for me, but something that is overwhelmingly slanted one way. I don't consider it a moral absolute, and it's easy to imagine a society superior to ours where copying is considered OK.

I think this is completely different from the Kopimi philosophy, which argues that the rights of others to enjoy existing work (e.g. music, movies, art) outweigh the right of the IP holder to deny others the right to enjoy the work in question.

As for (b) I think that when you put something on your site you're implicitly claiming the work is your own, and it's your responsibility to give credit where due. They didn't.

Your argument against (c) - everybody else does it -, I find completely unpersuasive.
Are people talking to your brother? If they are talking to you, you should take it personally.

But how you process the information is up to. Endless looping about some trivial thing a customer says in an impatient mood, is not something you should base your life on.

I think what you try to explain has nothing to do with personal versus impersonal but assessing peoples input correctly and balancing the value of it on some rational criteria.

A lot of times this can mean that you can filter a lot of noise so you can focus on valuable input instead.
SWIG can be easier than many cases of using ctypes. One of the examples when SWIG first came out was to wrap the entire OpenGL interface, in a few lines of code. This was possible because the SWIG processor could understand the OpenGL header files and generate interface code with the right number of parameters and type conversion.

With ctypes it's still a mostly manual operation. For example, if you want to call libc's "cos" then you'll need to declare the return type, as otherwise it assumes an integer.

There are additional advantages to using ctypes. For one, it's portable to Jython, pypy, and IronPython.

Also, cython can be easier than ctypes if you need access to any compile-time values, like #define values and other macros.
I found the question at the end an interesting one (paraphrased): "would you be happy if people wrote websites to sell dog food in haskell?"

I was a little disappointed in SPJ's response, actually.

What would make it a bad language for such an application? What would make it a good language? Would the answer change if you instead wanted to create a framework for building thousands of web-store applications that were all similar but a little different?
While there is little envy of Java in Haskell land (is there much Java envy anywhere?), there is actually a healthy flow of ideas to and from .NET, particularly C# and (naturally) F#. (Simon Peyton-Jones works at Microsoft Research, after all.)

For example, I have heard talk of extending Haskell's already nice list comprehensions with some LINQ features like orderBy.

So while the slides--which are just a backdrop for the talk rather than its entirety--may imply Haskell is insular like that, the reality is that Haskell is always happy to take features from other languages.

Finally, I think the idea isn't that everybody wants to use functional programming languages, but rather that everybody should want to use functional programming languages ;).
Hah! I also used to do crap fits to curves like that when my data didn't work. You can only fit a line to the graph like that if you assume temperatures are going to rise quickly in the future. This is a joke, right?
Did you bother to read my entire post? The first part was correcting his statement. The second part denounced the insult in this case.
Bookmarked for future use. Nice work.

Side note: IE5?!
As I understood the question, it wasn't really about Haskell's fitness for that particular purpose but rather a bit of a jab at its theoretical, researchy nature. I thought it basically meant "How would you feel about your baby being used in a completely quotidian manner?".
He's also joked about making strict/eager (non-lazy) eval the default. I think the heart of the joke is that learning haskell (and all the GHC extensions) involves a lot of staring at error messages, type signatures and the rest of hte code and trying to make associations.
Speakout at http://www.ccer.ca/speakout/

Send a letter to your representative at Ottawa.
Occupiers in Seattle and Oakland have broken into homes. There is also a post by a Seattle Occupy organiser who boasts about running around disrupting traffic:

"Get the music blaring and then march aimlessly, blocking traffic the whole way, for hours" *

I support the NYC Occupiers (I live in NYC) because they voice their cause while trying to minimize collateral disruption. If the NYC Occupiers were causing random destruction I would find it difficult to continue empathising.

The police should be gentler in their force escalation by issuing plenty of warnings and then gently arresting for short detainment (as a cool-down). But as another comment mentions, sometimes their hands are forced, e.g. SF and Seattle protesters hurling bricks. I would prefer an early crackdown than let the dynamic spiral beyond legitimacy as it did in London.

Temporary fix to the press problem may be the press wearing clearly identifying clothing. That dampens the police's excuse that they blend in with the hooligans (every protest, regardless of how legitimate, will attract its unfair share of these).

*http://www.portlandoccupier.org/2011/12/15/occupy-portland-o...
Anyone who has seen the wrath poured out on people who dislike (or disagree with) the oatmeal on its facebook page has to laugh a bit when the creator -- I forget his name -- is held up as a model of level-headed behavior.
It would be awesome if HN kept track of new comments on a post. While I can tell which articles I've read on HN because of the a:visited color, I can't tell which comments I've read.

As a solution, I'm imagining updating a timestamp each time I view an article I voted up (to limit the scope of this feature). Then, when I re-visit the comments for that article, any comments with timestamps more recent than my recorded one are emphasized in some way.
That's not DHH way. He is fast with everything.
That's why the "accident" explanation is somewhat plausible, imo.
Show HN: My first iPhone app - Posing App
Your suggestions for the second version?
Is this True?
Nice list! But I feel you may have overlooked some other great google web fonts.

For example, Open Sans and Arimo are two good Sans fonts created by the awesome Steve Matteson. I am currently using Arimo for my new project, and it s a nice replacement for the vanilla Arial/Helvetica [Neue].
Am I the only one whose eyes are really hurt by the brightness of the colors chosen here? (Seriously, I may be the only one - they do seem a little unnecessarily bright, but I've also been feeling tired today.)
They're not in increasing badness.

I don't think copying other people's work (a) is particularly wrong, unless you do so for profit (c). Otherwise it falls under the banner of "fair use".

Taking credit for other people's work (b), even in a not-for-profit context is something I consider wrong. In combination with (c) only more-so.

I think (d) is also a real issue, because it signals a certain sense of oblivious righteousness. It's an attitude that, regardless of the specifics of the situation, I consider really harmful. When people criticize one's actions -- whatever the reason may be -- you got to take a step back and reflect for a moment. Try to understand the other point of view. Failing to do so is, I think, a moral failure.
Adobe InDesign is pretty solid for any kind of desktop publishing.
I stumble upon stolen graphics so much time, when a company is not able to create an original landing page, how one can expect that company to create something more complex. This is not to say curebit won't succeed, but as one said "we are in a hard world" and people are looking where you succeed but also where you fail. I hope this mistake will be the last one until the go bigger otherwise i'm afraid the won't be forgiven one more time.
"Is it wrong for me to ask him not to hire my employees?"

Yes.
Upvoted (back to 1) for being able to give an example, but though there have been a few violent incidents associated with Occupy, for the most part they've been remarkably restrained - more so than I would have guessed. To the extent that police violence is justified by what Occupiers do we should ignore it[1], but was a single one of those 25 incidents of violence against reporters justified? Certainly few if any.

[1] e.g. if you surround a group of police and tell them you aren't going to let them leave until they release their prisoners, I'm not going to cry over you getting tear-gassed.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhPdH3wE0_Y
Is there a better source of analysis on this bill? The summary posted here does not seem to be nearly as bad as this blog is making it out to be:

http://www.parl.gc.ca/Content/LOP/LegislativeSummaries/41/1/...

For example, phone unlocking is explicitly permitted, according to that summary and contrary to the blog.

The linked Michael Geist post says that lobby groups are pushing for scarier things, but not that they are already in the bill.
It's quite possible that the dangers of climate change are alarmist and overstated. But to think that aren't serious side effects to over a century of industrialization is to be short-sighted and willfully ignorant. There's a reason that geologists now refer to the current era as the "Anthropocene".
Awesome work, congratulations! I'll definitely going to test this out. :)

After I try it for a week I'll make a fork on GitHub and try to help improve it.
No problem. I'm currently busy with another project, but if you do add additional functionality, submit a pull request! I'd love to see what people come up with.
Source code: https://github.com/dskang/webtimer
Gemfury A/B testing their landing page