skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This reminds me of And the Rock Cried Out, a short story by Ray Bradbury. The story revolves around two American tourists who are in South America when the US and much of Europe is wiped out by nuclear attacks during the Cold War. With the US in rubble, everyone is out to get the tourists as payback for all of the terrible things America has done in the past.

Anyway, they eventually meet a man named Garcia who offers them help. They're shocked, since everyone else wants them dead. Garcia explains:

Do you read the papers? Of course, you do. But do you read them as I read them? I rather doubt that you have come upon my system. No, it was not exactly myself that came upon it; the system was forced upon me. But now I know what a clever thing it has turned out to be. I always get the newspapers a week late, from the Capital. And this circumstance makes for a man being a clear-thinking man. You are very careful with your thinking when you pick up a week-old paper.

That always stuck with me for some reason.
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This makes sense, thanks for explaining the semantics. So basically, you're confirming that you'd need 33 "bits" of information, which doesn't necessarily mean you can use 33 pieces of information because a bit is a lot more specific than a one-off piece of information.
Assuming that the actually followed the DMCA, they would have recourse in tort law primarily for interference in contract, and malicious prosecution. There are other torts, none of which they would be likely to succeed in pursuing.

In such case, the government would pay (but not the individual prosecutors, as they are acting merely as agents of the government). Damages would be based on economic harm actually proved, i.e., lost business from cancelled customer contracts, lost ad revenue, etc. Future growth potential is not taken into account for damages purposes.

However, note that MegaUpload did not follow the DMCA. Its entire business plan was based on committing illegal activities, and was designed from the outset to maximize the revenue generated by such activities over the revenue generated by the potential legitimate uses of its services.

If you want a role model to follow in the media distribution market, look to BitTorrent.
> and they usually have a lot more to loose from violating it than what they could gain from cheating like this.

No they don't. That's the problem.

Apparently there are not a lot of folks here who have spent time on the other side of the acquisition table: They're confusing a gentlemenly game where people play by the rules with a streetfight.
yeah, i agree totally, but even better are no icons at all.

i don't have exact figures by hand, but one sites (which used sprits very very heavily) we managed to save about 250ms in DOM rendering - on some slow, crappy, ugly plattforms (not talking about IE6 here, but IE7 and 8 aren't much better in that regard).

i recommend using chrome speed tracer extensively for DOM rendering optimization. what is just a little bit slow in chrome is unbelievable slow on IE.
Programming via laptop is fine, as long as the source (or build artifacts) aren't stored on the local HDD. Some engineers use VNC/NX remote sessions, some use SSH+emacs/VIM, some use sshfs or NFS and run Eclipse or whatever locally.
+1. I would love to develop some customizations on top of GMail, but haven't seen a good explanation of how to do it (yet). Maybe I just haven't looked closely enough...but is this something Google actively encourages or something you have to mangle with a plugin like greasemonkey?
But they don't share anything of worth to my mind. I like most HN links that make the front page but I've yet to find a 37 Signals post that's really anything but smoke and mirrors designed to indirectly praise themselves. Someone made that same smoke and mirrors criticism of PG's essays a while back and I think that's false, he puts work into his "blog" and it's interesting. More than that he gets other people to read it and give feedback before he publishes. The quality of the 37 Signals stuff is just incredibly low and it only makes the font page for "hip" reasons.
Sounds like a great setup and interesting project, but if your'e applying from outside the US, you can't get past the address field unless you lie about being in the United States.
Sir, I will have you know that I may program in .Net or Java from time to time, and I may not have any style, but I am most certainly not a dork!
we're mostly focused on large enterprise customers where speed is actually quantifiable in dollars.
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They should import cats. Thats how they got rid from enormous rat population after Leningrad (current St.Petersburg, Russia) blockade during the WW2. That would be a natural way of annihilating rat population(passive killing).
Not sure what's going on in the background, but it's impossible to scroll the right column on the iPhone. Very laggy.
There is a French expression for this:
"Tourner sept fois sa langue dans sa bouche" or "Turn your tongue in your mouth seven times before speaking."

http://french.about.com/od/vocabulary/a/7foissalangue.htm
YES. This is exactly what I've been planning in my head since IRCCloud doesn't seem to be handing out invites. Too bad this is in node/mongo otherwise I would love to contribute.
>> I just don't see that this is what we are currently approaching with automation, etc, but rather huge poor masses and an middle class in decline.

> Can you support claim with some facts?*

Well, but how about just looking around you? Because arguing for obvious facts gets tiresome after a while.

http://www.dailyfinance.com/2010/10/17/disturbing-statistics...

http://finance.yahoo.com/tech-ticker/the-u.s.-middle-class-i...

http://www.businessinsider.com/22-statistics-that-prove-the-...

http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/30-statistics-th...

Yes, this is the game played by most people who complain about the "middle class in decline" or "increasing poverty". They increase the definition of "middle class" more rapidly than the living standards of the middle class actually increased, and then whine when reality hasn't met their artificial benchmark.

It's not a game --it's how society works. Definitions change according to the social reality. Would you consider YOURSELF middle class if you only had access to what a '50's middle class family had? A 1920's one?
Oh man, I'm like having a dejà vu.

This realization occured to me about a year ago, and when it came to me, everything was so clear. I had been an asshole in too many meetings because of wanting to speak first. My manager, on the other hand, was a very quiet, enigmatic guy, and he seemed wise.

While the engineers discussed some ideas, he listened. By listening, he was able to detect who was full of B.S. and who was has the best ideas. In the end, when he finally broke his silence, he was usually right.

Silence is very, very powerful, and it's never too late to learn to shut up
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If you want to be very precise, you need evidence which causes at least a 33 bit reduction in entropy between your prior and posterior estimates of the probability of each person in the world being the one you're looking for.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entropy_(information_theory)

As the stuff posted on 33bits regularly demonstrates, it is surprisingly easy to get this much information for a whole lot of people.
100% correct. And, anyone who works with space technology is forced to sit through briefings about all the bad things, including civil and criminal prosecution to individuals, and civil penalties to institutions, that may happen if you violate ITAR laws.
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When a company wants to grow faster than current revenue will let them, they take outside money. Maybe with this new money they will increase their burn to take on more employees and increase revenue and customer base more quickly? Maybe their is some strategic position taken with the current round.

There are many reasons why a company would raise money when they could be profitable right now. And we don't even know that they are, or are in a position to be.
In general, most programmers would probably just use an IDE to refactor that for them.
What you seem to be talking about are infringement suits where the judge throws out consideration of large numbers of patents and claims. That's about whittling down a problem of mind-boggling complexity to a group of questions that can be understood and answered in a reasonable amount of time. Those patents and claims aren't being struck down or ruled 'bogus'. They're just being ruled irrelevant to the meat of the case, to simplify the proceedings.

And most claims are thrown out of consideration simply because most patents only include a few independent claims. And as a practical matter if you can rule out infringement of an independent claim you've ruled out any possibility of infringement of its dependent claims.
"Si tacuisses, philosophus mansisses" - Boethius

(If you had kept your silence, you would have stayed a philosopher)
Looks like Oneiric and Precise have > 3.0 kernels.
Amazing work guys. Played with it a bit and looks really intuitive and easy to use!
They are all around you. My business. Gravity Forms. Campaign Monitor. Harvest. Peepcode. Marc-André Cournoyer. WooThemes. Tick. Envato. Beanstalk & Postmark. And on and on and on. These are just some of the folks I know personally, in our space. I could name so many more in other industries. There are so many more, everywhere. You're soaking in it.

Most of these people are too busy making bank to blog about it (or they simply don't care to be recognized as business experts).

Why do you equate headcount with riches? As one of the richest people to ever write a business book, Felix Dennis says "Overhead walks on two legs." It was an important enough statement for him to include it at least 3 times in one little book. That should tell us something.

Employing people isn't a correlation to riches. Employees cost a lot of money.

As for "tech businesses"… Harvest has been virtually the same for years and years. So has my "competitor" to Harvest, Freckle. It doesn't matter. Your model of "tech biz obsolescence" is dependent on a winner-take-all scenario. Real business -- what you call "lifestyle business" -- doesn't operate that way.
What tech stack would you use, if you built a client like this?
Here's our solution that was recently open-sourced:

http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2012/02/cauliflower-ve...
Hehe, looks like a lot of us have built interfaces for HN threads.

I built one last month for the Freelancing thread: http://hnfreelancer.zacharytong.com/
Interesting read. My point was that a 'pure' consumer, who consumes at least as much as they produce, is at best worthless in economic terms. Nevertheless, I agree there is prosperity in the application of even humble means.
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We're currently a team of 4, but looking to grow the team over the next year. Some of the technologies we use every day include Python, PostgreSQL, Javascript, Git, Bash, and Linux; experience in any of these is great, but we also like generalists that can pick up new things quickly. Big data, machine learning, and analytics experience is encouraged.

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Deploying TileStream to Heroku
Thus far I've found that life is never too fast for silence, but often mistaken to be too fast for patience.

Every worthwhile thing requires a substantial time investment.
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The obvious thing google flights misses over ITA is the month-long search option, which I use a lot. For the power users, ITA has a very useful regex-like syntax for specifiying flight queries, but that is understandably not of as much interest to the vast majority of people
I think mental laziness on the part of the prospective "business" partner has a lot to do with it (speaking from that side of the equation). I've held off actively searching for a tech co-founder until I've run with the idea as far as humanly possible: customer validation, half-assed web mockups, etc. Sure, your results may not be as robust as if you had built a v1.0 product and put it out there for iterative development, but since that isn't an option, stop whining and get creative!
Ask HN: Best CMS Twitter Bootstrap 2 support?
I've being testing a number of modules/themes for using Twitter Bootstrap 2 in CMSs like Drupal and Wordpress but I feel they were unstable for putting them on production (i.e: installation errors, lack of minimum support)

Do you have any recommendation?

The worst case will be an adhoc featureless solution using basic templates but I want to hear the experience of the HN community.
To those sending me resumes, thanks, but I'm looking for work as well.
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It has less to do with technical reasons and more that node (and javascript in general) rubs me the wrong way. If the tech works for you then roll with it. Personally I think go works where node is often used, but fits my style of development better.

Not to throw more feature work on you guys, but I always thought it would be neat to have an IRC client email you if someone mentions you while you were away...
Square is definitely in use in some cabs in Chicago already. In the past month, I have paid for two trips using Square. Both taxis seemed to have working credit card terminals, but the drivers instructed me to not use them. So evidently Square is preferable in at least some way. As a customer I certainly appreciate being able to receive an electronic receipt.
Yeah, i dont know a bunch about how funding works...but i used to love playing "Transport tycoon" as a kid. Borrowing from the bank was how we got funding back then, which meant eventually you had to pay it back...i guess i just have a bit to learn?
I have to remember this with co-workers as well, but from the opposite perspective. It's a variation of the idea that "the confused mind always says no." I've learned that when people take the time to process the idea they will be able to give a more reasonable response, so I'm now more patient with the initial "no" response.

In fact, I have one colleague who immediately says "no" to every one of my ideas before almost exactly one month later saying yes emphatically (and then going on to claim it as his own idea all along). It's uncanny - I have worked with him so long now that I can almost time it to the day when he will agree with my idea and claim it as his own idea all along. It used to really bother me, but not anymore - as long we get things done I don't care who "owns" the idea.
Why not http://qwebirc.org/ ?
I suspect, though, that most folks never even think of the option to take a mode of transportation other than airplane or driving. I've talked to a lot of people who seem genuinely surprised to hear that there's a train from Chicago to $city.

Figuring out buses can also be difficult. At least in the Midwest, there's very frequently a regional carrier that's a better choice than Greyhound. But they all have these vintage 1998 sites that are confusing to use, though of course before you can deal with that you have to first discover that the company exists in the first place.
ITA developed the airline reservation's business logic in Common Lisp. They were using Clozure Common Lisp for that.
I've been trying to manage customers with emails for a while. What a nightmare. This looks like a great product. But, I'm not sure I'm willing to share all my emails.

I think a good work around would be to create a gmail account specifically for handling client stuff. Or you guys could offer email address which are already gmail integrated.

Just some notes. Great product, props from Canada :D
Downloading it or distributing the file is considered illegal activity. It doesn't matter if you own legit copies of the same file.
Interesting. I read this as saying "have some respect for those brave enough to present a novel idea for consideration" which I think we would all agree with. How we do that is always a function of our personalities and consequently of our personality disorders of which we should be mindful. However, good ideas need to be tested and must therefore survive robust discussion.

I'm an ENTP/ENFP on Myers-Briggs personality tests and thus I do tend to get very enthusiastic about ideas, bombard people with questions and point out any issues I observe. This is just how I learn but can be annoying for people unless they know me so I try temper my behaviour. I'm from England where the workplace can still be a little more reserved.
Interesting.
So it constitutes only acceptable risks to health. Of course "acceptable" being judged by whatever officials are there at the Health Protection Agency. I'd be curious to know how many exposures did they take into account.... what if you're flying every day? Or say 3 times a week?
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Main advantages are:

1. Accessible to those who don't have expertise or interest in setting up their own IRC bouncer
2. Usable from any web browser
3. More friendly UI
4. Usable by sites that want a chat room for their users (look at twit.tv -- embedded IRC client front and center).

There is no proprietary backend; the whole client, and the library powering it (node-irc), are open source.
In Australia, there are about three monopolies left, one is the taxi payment system, Cabcharge. It takes a 10% commission from all transactions. They have been fined over $15 million for breaching of their market powers.

A large number of taxi owners / drivers are trying to offer better services through modern tech such as guaranteed books via phone apps and different payment systems. Due to regulatory capture the owners and drivers are been hassled.

Currently, if you install non-cabcharge payment facilities you have trouble with your insurance. Yes, the same people control the booking system, insurance and most other 'operational' aspects of the Sydney taxi industry.
Thanks! That means a lot!
Would you consider remote workers?
There's probably still a net increase in welfare, although of course that's quite hard to measure.
"first world problems" do matter. As someone from a third world country, I have a keen sense of how much is conveyed and how much is learned from "silly" tv shows. You may not notice it yourself, but they define a large part of culture. Understanding that culture is extremely important to success in a variety of fields.
Coderwall (YC W12) is hiring in SF.

We have one mission, build something developers love and want to use everyday. We are a very small team looking for talented full-stack engineers #1 and #2. You'll have the opportunity to significantly influence the future of the product and company culture. If you enjoy taking high level goals and objectives and shaping them on your own into meaningful software, you'll like it here. We use ruby, redis, nodejs, mongodb, and whatever other tools are appropriate for the problem.

We are offering a significant equity stake to find someone that is invested in the product and vision of making life better for developers. If you want to learn more about what we have planned, email me at mdeiters@coderwall.com
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I think a lot of the replies to my post are missing the point: "harm" isn't as obvious as you think it is, and pain can be inflicted by creating demand that must go unfulfilled.
I agree with you, and that they should really just let pocket knives on planes since they are an equivalent threat to a toothbrush and 5 minutes of modification.
I've tried deployment on Nodester, which is running node 0.4.9. It had issues, though not caused by node-irc, as far as I could tell. Best to run it on 0.6 in any event; that's what we're using in development.
It depends on how and why you watch tv. If I didn't watch tv, I probably wouldn't have gotten into Stanford.
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He was saying the Zune is better than the iPod but the iPhone is better than the Zune.
related: http://www.cgl.uwaterloo.ca/~csk/projects/
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We use it internally as a multi-user support tool but have a ton of new support related features coming.
Another alternative: lots of small, independent governments.

For some reason, the big government schools and the big company media never talk about that one.
Is there something I'm missing here?

Granted, there are more and more trolls these days. RSI is a real concern. You'll want a light weapon without a lot of recoil. And it should probably take an extended clip, to minimize reloading. Not to sound like a fanboy, but the Glock 17 seems perfect to me. All firearms can jam, so do bring a spare...

Seriously: why would anyone think seriously about how to fix this system? Why would anyone imagine it can be fixed? The only relevant question is how to kill it. Glock or no Glock, everything on God's green earth can be killed.
Bet they get more rides, too.

I'm much more willing to catch a cab in NYC than I am in Chicago or Milwaukee, because I usually don't carry enough cash for a ride and I'm usually not in the mood to squabble with the driver. I swear, I can usually walk to my destination in the time it takes to watch a Chicago cabbie pantomime with the card reader in an effort to convince me it's broken.
No, but you can write nonsense claims (stuff that's obviously way too broad, and already in common use, or just plain silly) and publicize it if they are accepted.
>and Federal Reserve that has as much to do with "Federal" as "Federal Express"

This is a patent falsehood. Federal Express (now FedEx) is a private shipping company.

The Federal Reserve System is a "private" bank created by an Act of Congress and managed by a Board of Governors, all of whom are placed by the President and confirmed by Senate. Additionally, the Chairman is chosen by the President from the Governors.

The list of checks and balances between Government and our central bank is long, but it misses the biggest point: What the Congress creates, the Congress can take away. Congress could end the Fed tomorrow or dramatically change its oversight and decision making capability.

To imply that the Federal Reserve is private in the same way as FedEx is about as disingenuous as you could possibly be.

I'm going to have to assume here that you are simply woefully misinformed and not actively trying to spread disinformation...
Actually, my work on web-irc started originally as an attempt to improve qwebirc. I found the code difficult to reason about, and thought we could do better with a clean start and socket.io-based messaging. So I started my own thing.

See the discussion that spawned the whole thing here: https://github.com/paulirish/lazyweb-requests/issues/31