skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So in future, users will be prompted to install XQuartz, rather than using the rather antique version of XQuartz which currently comes with MacOS.
Oops, yes. I must learn to use pronouns more precisely...
Yeah, I realized that going in, but unfortunately it was the only way for me to track the donations while still complying with THON's collection policies.

For what it's worth, it's not as if the fraternity "wins" anything for raising the most money (and Theta Delta Chi is far from the top of fundraising organizations, anyway). The money is simply tracked so that each student organization can challenge itself to improve each year.
Some people who probably view that with antitrust concerns, even though I agree that would be a good idea.
"Yeah," I replied, "that's probably the right choice for you at this point. If you need another computer in the future, though, don't forget about us." The customer was stunned. She wanted to know why I wasn't pushing her toward the Mac. "Simple," I said, "we want you to buy an Apple because it's the best product for you, not because some pushy sales-person badgered you into a sale."

I can say that in my experience this is true in Apple stores. The last MBP I bought I had to buy in store to get a certain discount. The sales person at the store actually went through my various usage scenarios to see if there was a cheaper option for my needs. Not often that happens in a sales scenario.
Google’s new ‘Dart’ language to get a starring role in Chrome
Google patent application for searching over tables on the web
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It's not actually generally meant to be vocational training... Or, at least, if it is, it shouldn't be called 'computer science'.
Part of the reason that it has zero familiarity is that it changes so often that memorizing a "path" through Facebook to a place you like to go is totally pointless. In fact, the constant change is the whole point of Facebook. The default page when you log on is your news feed, so even when the site itself isn't changing, the content is.

It's like trying to remember how to navigate through this: http://images.funagain.com/photo1/huge/00069.jpg
AdBlock subscriptions certainly come with comprehensive lists for blocking analytics snippets. Even very obscure ones.
The story at the beginning was so depressing. It makes me really want to call my library on Monday and see if I can teach a computer class.
Ask HN: what percentage should an experienced technical co founder get?
Hi folks
This is (obviously) a throwaway account.

I am in a situation where I am trying to evaluate the share of the pie that I should get as a technical co founder.

Some background about me (without giving too much away:))
I am experienced, and successful in the corporate world and trying to make it in the startup world now (full time). I can do end to end development. Although I am a backend developer - I can do a decent UI design/work as well (mainly thanx to bootstrap). So I would consider myself an ideal technical co founder by all accounts (I also consider myself a reasonable guy but that would be a biased opinion of course).

I have a business partner with whom I have worked previously on two ideas. Suffice to say that we have not had an exit (though one of the ideas did land me some more shares of another private company who acquired our technology).

My partner is very reasonable by all accounts and I think he brings a lot of value. He is an innovative person who has a knack to come up with good ideas. He also is well connected and has been an executive on a big company before.

We started working on another idea where though he filed patents and all, I was not very convinced on the value of the idea itself. Given that both of us bring a lot on the table, what is the right split? I understand that I may have missed some other info here - so feel free to ask and I would try and respond as clearly as I can. We have no issues between us (except I recently started thinking that I am not getting a fair share)

It may be too late to make a decision on this particular startup since we have agreed on a split (mainly because I did not have any other co founder options) but I want to get some unbiased point of view from hacker news folks to see if I am being unreasonable or not.
My thinking is that we should split 50 50. Because he has filed for patents (I am not convinced the value of patents in this case), I would say that I should at least get 40% of the pie.

What do you guys think?

Thank you!
I'm trying to read this article now, but I just had to note that the background pattern is very hostile to my weary eyes.
Taint-0.3.0(A XSS codes sniffer) released
PHP taint is an extension used for detect XSS codes in your php application.
Did not know that. However do those notifications persist so you can review and dismiss them later, like with the notification center on iOS and how it is going to be on Mountain Lion? Or do you you have to notice the notification at the moment it is emitted?
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Dropping out of the news
I've been thinking about this issue for a while now. The term I like for what we are experiencing is "information obesity" (and I've written about it here: http://andrewoneverything.com/information-obesity )
Information obesity
This is related to the issue discussed in the "Did You Hear We Got Osama?" thread, which spurred me to write down various thoughts I've been having for a while.
Facebook is losing E-Commerce
I've never understood why coffee is considered such a draw-card. The local church embroidery group offers free coffee but i'm still not a regular attendee.

Give me a library that has beer on tap any day.
Probably because they don't have the budgets and time to do it. This kind of stuff requires time, money, and energy to coordinate submissions and peer review and so on. I've only seen this from the humanities side of thing, and especially the journal Post45 (http://www.post45.org if you're curious); there are a lot of hidden, niggling issues that make creating this sort of thing harder than it looks.

And that's ignoring the already-established reputational effects that current journals have.
I couldn't have learned necessary hands-on chemistry and biology from a library. Good technique can't be read about; it must simply be learned in the laboratory from repeated mistakes. After the hand-holding freshman year, half of the chem/bio curriculum is dedicated to working independently, in the lab, under time constraints and pressure.

Theory can be learned from a book, but it's not necessarily easy for everyone. Only highly-motivated self-learners can teach themselves a subject, and then they must take on the additional work required to cut through "information space" to find exactly the texts they need. I don't think even a quarter of university students today have the capacity to learn in this manner, completely detached from the university system.

CS students are very lucky. We have mailing lists, IRC, HN/proggit, stackoverflow, good tools, documentation and tutorials freely accessible. These resources aren't as plentiful or accessible for other STEM majors. Outside of a few IRC channels, they don't even exist for chem/bio. (You can't cite databases--they are too complicated for new learners.)

If we want a more autodidactic society, a lot of changes have to be made to early childhood education. Additionally, we have to provide a lot of tools (guided curriculum to keep learners on track, etc.) to support this manner of learning.
Split it 50/50 and stop thinking about it. Get back to building stuff!
They could promote their products at the same time. That gives them an individual incentive to do it over any particular group.
Just because VC #1 invested in the established entrepreneur, do not forget about VC#2, 3, 4, 5 etc. that are also trying to invest a dollar in that space. Use the famous person as a proof that there is a market to be had, and then work on your pitch that you are hungrier and more determined to succeed.
tl;dr - reinventing the wheel is the only way to build a better wheel :)

Seriously though - I have used some of these in the past (settling however on Mint, which is not open-source in its common sense), none were perfect. I am a programmer, not a sysadmin, and it is more interesting for me to write something than to mess with package dependencies, default installation paths and what not. Digging through someone else's code and trying to bend it to my needs is not the best pastime either. On the other hand, writing analytics from scratch gives a chance to build exactly what I need, especially when it comes to the reporting function and the UI. In fact, in the UI/UX department I am pretty sure I can do better than existing O/S packages.
On OS X: MPlayerX - On Windows: MPC and/or KMPlayer

Until VLC becomes more "native" on OS X and improves its interface, I don't think I'll be using it. In any case, I've downloaded it on my PC, so I'm keeping an open mind towards it.
I'll definitely check out Policenauts, thanks! (also I think Portal, Half-Life, and RE are reasonable, if not amazing).
They say it wasn't too bad about 30 year ago, either.
Here's essentially the thought process behind the downvotes:

You: "the market organises to elevate the best and raise standards for all others"

Everybody else: "And I'm the Queen of England."

"The market" is not some intelligent, charitable entity. It's an abstraction employed to talk about how participating entities allocate their resources. It categorically does not help everyone. In fact, in many cases it can hurt everyone (the most famous example is the tragedy of the commons, but that's hardly the only way markets can go bad). Read the OP: What is the market going to do for that guy with no money?

From your comments so far, it seems like you believe he should just curl up and die in the cold. And most people don't believe that's a good answer at all.
awesome language but the manual need some works in user-friendliness
Hate to break the news to you, but school is not about teaching you every concept past, present or future.
School is teaching you how to learn, dissect and digest concepts on your own. The principles are there and you have learned them, it is up to you to take those skills and apply them to your domain.

I went to undergrad in the same time frame and credit my schooling for the fundamentals. Now go build your house on that foundation and never stop building!
To be perfectly clear, I'd love to cut military spending, bailouts, drug war spending, etc. This article was about a state funding issue, but I'm fine leaving that aside, since ultimately it's all government spending.

In the first place, libraries are a great repository of knowledge. But knowledge does not equal production, and whether you or I or anyone else here wants to admit it, a tremendous amount of stuff has been invented, either totally, or almost totally, as a component of university research.

I don't mind admitting some useful things have come out of universities. But this doesn't mean we need to continue propping up the university system as it exists today. You admit it has many flaws. There are plenty of ways to bring smart people together to learn and do research. They could be nonprofit; they could be separate from teaching or integrated with it. You could even call them "universities" if you like. But there's no reason they have to resemble the current monster.

True, most research in universities is either pointless or close to pointless, but that's the Zipf curve. The ideas that are big are really, really big.

Sure, but the university system isn't sold that way. We're meant to believe the research done in universities is all useful.

People come from all over the world to study here, and when they do, they sometimes stay here. Do people come to America to study at libraries?

Universities have special privileges when it comes to fostering immigration. If America had world-class research centers with the same privileges, people would still love to come here and they'd be able to do so.

The last thing I wanted to point out is that the fact that libraries are a useful repository of knowledge does not mean that it will make people productive. Universities are not good at this either, but the consistent usership of public libraries is pitifully small. The fact that they exist does not mean that people will use them.

As you point out, universities aren't very good at this. Maybe a lot of people won't use libraries, and many who do won't be very productive. But as you suggested in one of your other points, the instances that pay off really pay off. And libraries do this much more efficiently than universities, in terms of money spent. There are a lot of university students burning tens of thousands of dollars without learning very much.
It's been reported that a key factor in the rising end-user cost of State college tuition is that states are already deeply cutting this funding.
As a teenager, I helped create a photo sharing site. I am just as guilty as Saeed Malekpour. Software engineers don't deserve to be killed just because of the ways in which people use their software. Technology, by itself, is not good or evil.
On the flip side, my last experience with the Apple Store and it's sales staff left me hating the entire experience. Suffice it to say, you can't walk and buy something knowing what you want. You are forced to wait for some sales person. More than a half hour into the experience, we simply left. My brother-in-law was sitting there, ready to buy. He knew exactly what he wanted. We left, and he never made the purchase.

So, when I read things like this, all I see is a sales person who just wasted another customers time. Sure, it's policies, and you are spending that time with a potential customer, and treating them well. The point, however, is I've had better experiences buying Apple products from places like FutureShop, where I can walk in, explain what I want, pay, and walk out in less than 5 minutes.

Don't get me wrong, I'm sure for the majority of people this is... fine (I guess). I mean, making an appointment to buy something is natural.

But yeah, I avoid the Apple store now. Between that, and numerous other things, it's at best a frustrating experience.
I'm surprised, when I do go to the page, just how many people actually do like their mop of cheese grater.

Tropicana has had "like us on fb" on their cartons for years now, they currently have 185K fans: http://www.facebook.com/Tropicana
I'm not saying it's good or acceptable, just that I view the war on user tracking to go about as well as the current war on piracy has.
This is common practice if the queries appear to be originating from worms like Conficker, etc. Others have reported that this behavior of Chrome's can set off false IDS alarms for the same reason.
You're at least wrong about the prohibition thing. Prohibition was enacted via amendment because it occurred before Wickard v Filburn, which held that Congress has powers to regulate intrastate commercial activity as part of a program of interstate commerce. This extends to drugs (obvious example: Gonzales v Raich)

Now you're going to say that Wickard is unconstitutional, but that constitutes a libertarian-fundamentalist rewriting of how American jurisprudence works. Maybe you think it ought to be unconstitutional, but when you say it "is" unconstitutional you're not telling the truth, you're telling us what you think and pretending it's the truth.

There's a whole bunch else about your post that's plainly wrong or misleading (the stuff about the gold coins for instance) but I omit them for the sake of brevity. In general your post is a rant. I see you posting a lot about libertarianism when it's off-topic, uncalled for, or perhaps called for but you're wrong anyway. Finally I think the tolerance and celebration of these views--hardcore, far-out, and relatively uninformed--in the tech community is a discrediting force when it comes to actually fighting the content industry.
Building analytics from access logs is massively unreliable. I have a few domains that answer for http traffic but only serve "Welcome to nginx". When I tail the access logs I see thousands of requests from obvious bots, but also that traffic seems to be pretending to be other forms of traffic also.

There are some bots that pretend to be phones browsing around, IE, firefox.

Just remember that relying purely on access log analytics isn't something that will return accurate results.
I'm curious as to why you chose to stick code into your web application to explicitly insert log entries into a database rather than using the built in logs that the server provides.

After all, the web logs that Apache spits out match your schema almost identically. They're perfectly parseable and have the advantage of being parseable at intervals (possibly from a different server) rather than forcing an insert from every page load.

By doing things this way, you essentially remove the ability to scale the application that's being logged. You're doing at least one database insert per page load, thus destroying any gains you might have seen from caching the content you're displaying. And of course, you can't actually cache anyway, since you need to actually run the PHP script for the page in question so that it will fire the database insert to register a hit.

So yeah, I'd suggest dropping that step and just having a worker swing by every once in a while, pull up the logfile, see what's new and bulk insert it into your database. Preferably, with said database and said worker all living on another machine so that they don't bog your production box.
Come and learn how to pitch to investors
Basing policies on the assumption that nobody will exploit obvious inefficiencies since people aren't entirely rational is the economic equivalent of using "drowssap" as your password.
Wow I didnt even know facebook had stores.
I completely agree, but there is quite a practical difference between a .com registered through godaddy and hosted there and the many safer alternatives.

I was more annoyed by this part of the parent: "...won't keep this from happening again nor will it make it harder or less pleasant for them to do"
Startups that want to practice their pitch to investors with Startup Monthly mentors should send information to team@startupmonthly.org
I ve worked in IT companies like this in Berlin and people coming from the Samwer school. They have very high ideals, which their skills and resources cannot meet, and their goals can be met early as they are clones piggy backing of the original american company.

When they hit a point like i assume now, where they cannot freeload of the original, and real problems that need real new solutions emerge, that can be solved only with brains, and not brutish force, they implode.

Using the old Platonic concepts of the IDEAL " A copy cannot ever be as good as its original". The Samwers exploited that most of the innovative work could be cloned from Groupon hard early but risky phase, and in Berlin you can hire very cheaply and there is a lophole in the German Intern law.

Dont forget most operations are done in Berlin, this is vital for the whole company.

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Having lived in various "more protected locations", I'd rather live in New Zealand than some place like Burkina Faso!

He probably assumed at most he was at risk for civil penalties -- it's not like he was running drugs or supporting jihad. The company was based in HK, and the obvious legal target; his personal residence in another country should have protected him from civil issues related to the company in HK.

However, once criminal charges and an international task force get involved, doomed. Maybe he could have had better intelligence or lobbyists to figure out criminal charges were brewing, but I don't think his behavior was that unreasonable given the ambiguity of what criminal laws megaupload may or may not have been breaking.
I agree hands-on learning in a lab is important. I'm not suggesting everyone should stop this and only read books instead. But learning in a lab doesn't need to be tied to a $100,000-$200,000 four-year university degree program. As a society, we should be able to make this much more accessible. (I don't mean we have to literally put labs in libraries. I mean everyone should be able to learn this way cheaply, in the same spirit that a library makes information accessible for free.)

CS students are very lucky. We have mailing lists, IRC, HN/proggit, stackoverflow, good tools, documentation and tutorials freely accessible. These resources aren't as plentiful or accessible for other STEM majors.

You're right, and we should fix that. People interested in other STEM fields shouldn't be forced to spend tens of thousands of dollars and four years to gain access to this knowledge.
I don't know, I just want a video player that plays anything with minimal hassle. Therefore, VLC gets installed on every new machine first thing.

I love it to bits, keep up the good work! Haters are a reeeeally small minority.
Yeah, higher tuition is exactly what I wanted. There's a reason state schools are so much cheaper than private: state funding.

As much as I love libraries, I hardly visit one thanks to the thousands (millions?) of public domain books I can get free straight to my Kindle. The only thing I would want to visit a library for would be books like O'Reilly books, but my college pays a subscription to Safari Books that allows students access to literally thousands of such books completely free; O'Reilly, Apress, etc. so my thirst is quenched for now. The beauty is that as soon as a new book is published, it's on the site. And there aren't HTML3 books from the 90's still wasting (virtual) shelf space like my library.

Random thought, but that could be the future of the library. What if a little bit of tax money went toward an online directory like Safari Books instead of a huge expensive library building? Always updated, easy access, and a much wider selection? I'd go for it. I guess baby boomers wouldn't though.
Fiat isn't saving on transaction costs. It's basically just failure to do due diligence (enough to persuade people to participate voluntarily) and therefore acceptance of high risk.

I don't consider proposing emigration as a reasonable response to proposed reforms of our country.

I have no particular ideas about changes for dealing with contagious diseases. It's low priority and I haven't thought about it. If you'd like several examples (but not that one), I suggest the book The Machinery of Freedom, now free: http://daviddfriedman.com/The_Machinery_of_Freedom_.pdf

> how do we make everyone who benefits from an educated populace pay a fair price towards the education of the next generation

I don't understand the necessity of making everyone who benefits pay. The real problems, as I see them, are getting stuff to happen and be paid for in such a way that everyone directly involved mutually benefits. If someone else benefits to, that isn't hurting anyone and is not a problem.

What actual problem do you want to solve? Having schools and having them paid for? I don't see that as terribly hard. We already have schools, public and private, people already pay for them (both types), it works. I don't see any fundamental difficulty in getting the Government out of the education equation unless your goal is redistribution of wealth (for educational purposes) to poor people or other groups, and you want to redistribute more than voluntary charity will do (in other words: you want to redistribute wealth from people who think it's best used on X, for purpose Y, against their best judgment).

If you want to do that redistribution you need Government because it has the special power of using force against innocent people who disagree with you. But vouchers are still adequate.