skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Which reminds me of this fine graph:

http://www.calamitiesofnature.com/archive/?c=550

It shows the American states on a scatterplot. Color is voting preference; the X and Y axes show search frequency for "god" and "free gay porn".
He said he's working on it for 2 years and yet he has cloned Reeder exactly. http://reederapp.com/mac/ I thought that Reeder has changed its name to Caffeinated when I saw the screenshots. This is scary, indeed.
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I'm simply surprised that Google would do this, but I guess there was a foreshadow in early November when Google Ventures invested.

I don't know what they expect to come of this move, but I'm actually, all else aside, wanting for this Google+ thing to work out. I'm actually still a fan.

As for Kevin Rose, sometimes I listen to him speak and it seems like he's on the ball and has his finger on the pulse, and at other times he just sounds dumb. I was a little bit unsure if he had an in-depth understanding of what was really going on or if he was just sounding the part, but after listening to his webcam pitch and seeing the subpar Digg v4 that came of that line of thinking, I'm going to say he doesn't really understand a thing.

But maybe that doesn't matter, because knowing the Google monster he'll probably be nothing more than a pawn. Time will tell.

On another note, Google+'s problems are really really obvious to me, so I'm at a loss at to why they don't just fix things. Maybe they are trying to "stage the rollout to minimize how much they spook people," but then again what sounds reasonable and true is often reduced to nothing more than another line of politics driven BS'ing with these people.

Just get on with it already!

I have no problem with the Milk team getting an exit. I am not one to be jealous of anything like that. And all this talk about Engineer-entrepreneurs working their ass off for years and not getting anywhere doesn't make me shed a tear either. There are a few Engineers for whom things just didn't work out, but by and large if you were working on something that long and had nothing come of it, then put the hard work aside-- your product/business/positioning sucked! Get over it.
It depends on the book. Take "On the Origin of Species". The core idea can be summarized in a few sentences. So why was it written? The reason you make something like that a full book is to recount experiences, anecdotes, speculation, experiments, etc to further support your core ideas. Unlike math, many fields are based on ideas that cannot stand on their own, and once upon a time there were no journals to publish in.
Ron Paul

Not that he has a real chance at the nomination, but there you go. Most people don't actually want a small government. They want a government which fixes the problems that they perceive in society (whether that be porn, guns, abortion or health care).
figured it out eventually. bad usability though.

Anyway, level 18 is incorrect. the CHUNK does indeed start on line 23, but the line changed is the line 26
I can't quite get past level 4:
"Set up your git name and email, this is important so that your commits can be identified"

I had already set these up in my global config, but I ran the following commands anyway:
git config user.name "My Name";
git config user.email "my_name@myemail.com"

Looking at the code, it seems that the program is supposed to ask me for my name and email, but it never did.
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I see. Well, the "community standards" on 4chan for example, or even among younger generations in general today are likely to be different from the casual Internet-users.

I suppose Santorum would go by the "community standards" of his voters, no matter if they are Internet-users or not.
You're implying that Kevin Rose is like an NBA superstar, but his startup didn't earn a single penny and got shuttered. How is that anything like a basketball star who throws the ball in a hoop well?
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So here's the backstory.

Santorum has a microscopically thin but nonzero chance of winning the Republican primaries. To do so, either Romney has to all but disappear as a candidate or he has to do extremely well in the upcoming primaries. Even then, the most likely outcome is a "brokered convention", where literally anything is possible, up to and including nominating someone who isn't even running yet.

Santorum knows that he has to win the GOP base this way. And he'll never win the libertarianish part of the GOP base to begin with (they're voting for Ron Paul), nor will he win over the sane people (they're either voting for Romney or staying home in a fog of crippling depression). So his only chance is to maximize turnout from crazy, evangelical, right-wing loonies of the type rarely seen outside flyover country.

If he somehow wins the nomination, expect him to quietly forget half of these crazy promises. If he loses, his political career is over. So he has to go pretty crazy.
Regardless of whether exploiting class divisions makes good sense for increasing product adoption, I'll reiterate that it was not class divisions that killed MySpace but bad product divisions.

MySpace's ad deal with Google encouraged a site design that was anti-user. Facebook developed their own ad platform that allowed them to extract value from data that only Facebook has and that third-party networks couldn't get value from because it's so specific (like where you went to university).

But as much as the movies would have you believe Facebook won on "coolness", it won on old-fashioned better product decisions.
Sounds like unnecessary nickle-and-diming. In my experience, good devs don't cost astronomically more than their mediocre counterparts.

While it's true that you don't need to re-implement MongoDB in Clojure to create a successful product, it's not like product quality doesn't matter. Unreliable performance could certainly cost you clients - especially in the enterprise world. Why risk it just to save a few $k?
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There are plenty of exhibitionists who would mass-produce it for free.
I don't mean to be rude but is this news? Is this unexpected?

"Police report that shooting criminals dead cuts down on recidivism."

I got a huge exposure to Chinese culture at Google when there was a huge blow up over whether or not the phrase 'free Tibet' was offensive or not. A lot of participation in that discussion came from Google China where engineers who lived and worked in China got to share their point of view on how we in the US perceive the way of things.

My take away from that experience was that there are people living in China who believe that their benevolent rulers maintain order in a country that has been operating peacefully for thousands of years and this system is much better and more durable than any sort of populace driven government. Further, those folks believe it is a small minority of trouble makers who "just don't get it" when it comes why this is such a great system.

I don't doubt for a moment these same people are so glad that Sino Weibo will demand real names so that those trouble makers will either shut up or get arrested and put some place where they can stop interfering in the harmonious existence of the country.

In short, I learned that two people who had been educated in the science of critical thinking, could look at the same data and come away with two very different conclusions about what that data meant.
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Perhaps not an argument for finishing all books, but I personally will read quite deep into books I am not enjoying in a bid to not miss something good. For as many books I have hated the entire way through (or put down partway through), I have read at least twice as many that I came to love as late as 1/3 of the way through.
> here are still no new patch level version of 0.7.67 available for Debian Squeeze[2] or Ubutu 10.4 LTS' 0.7.65 version[3].

As a side note, there's an official Debian/Ubuntu repository maintained by nginx.org http://wiki.nginx.org/Install#Official_Debian.2FUbuntu_packa...
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Sounds ripe for disruption.

Any takers? ;-)
I think a lot of people think the same way, which is why these location/social startups haven't caught on more. It seems like the big question is whether their problems are inherent or are actually just software problems. I can imagine a program being eventually developed that's as good or better at making successful introductions than the best salonnière who ever lived. At that point it would be worth the added artificiality (at least to me).
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nope. ie can go to hell. I hope every future version of ie has less and less market share, and I wish it a painful, but fast death.

if you're a frontend developer, you've got to have that 'ie moment' curse engraved into your brain.

the moment where everything gets developed smoothly in other browsers, and it fails in ie.

the moment that everything looks beautiful in other browsers, and it sucks in ie, and because the majority of the visitors use ie, you have to kill that beautiful feature.

the moment that everything runs fast (or fast enough when it comes to firefox, the new ie), and it's so fucking slow in ie you can hear your cpu fan dying too fly.

remember those moments? now integrate them over time, start from since you were young. when you're done, integrate it in another dimension over all developers all around the world. you will get a big number. a very big number, which is the number of hours that we have suffered, for free, so that fucking microsoft can sell more.

nope. ie can go to hell. and it can stay there.

I will make sure it will stay there.
The point is that yes, they are overpriced for farmers and migrant workers in these countries, but they are definitely not overpriced for the middle class. The middle class in China is already 200 million people, think a similar number for India. These are huge markets for Apple, and they are doing just fine.

In fact, I think Apple is a bit cheaper in China compared to the luxury alternatives. Apple is very aggressive in China, and their markup is probably just totally due to taxes. This is compared to Samsung or even Lenovo, whose markup is much higher. Apple is actually cheaper than the alternatives, which is why the Chinese are buying their products up.
That phrase struck me too, and I couldn't agree more with the geographical tradeoffs that usually hold true.

I guess quitting the 9-5 to work on startups might qualify - there's always sacrifices though :)
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What bizzaro world have we woken up in where Facebook is leading the charge for server openness?

"At Google we believe that open systems win. They lead to more innovation, value, and freedom of choice for consumers, and a vibrant, profitable, and competitive ecosystem for businesses...

We need to lay out our definition of open in clear terms that we can all understand and support...

There are two components to our definition of open: open technology and open information. Open technology includes open source, meaning we release and actively support code that helps grow the Internet, and open standards, meaning we adhere to accepted standards and, if none exist, work to create standards that improve the entire Internet (and not just benefit Google). Open information means that when we have information about users we use it to provide something that is valuable to them, we are transparent about what information we have about them, and we give them ultimate control over their information."

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/12/meaning-of-open.html#...
Anyone had a chance to run it in a VM and watch the traffic?
Extreme social conservatives.

You can be extremely conservative in regards to individual freedom without having all the completely counter-conservative opinions of the evangelical enforcement agency.

Not trolling just a semantic that bothers me.

PS The internet would be different in court in the same way that I don't get sued for leaving my newspaper on the restaurant table for someone else after I am done with it, where if I leave a copy of a movie on the internet for others I potential get extradited. Only half joking. It would be the same insane confuse the jury trials we have now.
You're painting pretty broadly with that stereotype brush. Books influence people but are not the only influence on people. You have no idea which books _why appreciates or the extent to which they have influenced his personality, so stop guessing.

I hate words like "Randroid", "Republitard", "Democrap", etc. regardless of whether I agree or disagree with their connotation. They are the adult, but no more mature, equivalent of the childhood poopypants slur - you are other so you are bad.
Seems like you'd be better off cutting off the approaches to the feeder. But the project is super cool. For more power, I'd use a power washer. :)
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What is a pull request if not an ordered list of SHA1 hashes and comments?
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Sure, great products are crafted by imagination and passion, but the decision to create the product at all is usually based on analysis. Making some of that analysis automated isn't really such a bad thing, is it?
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As he wrote this, PG asked me if I remembered the chronology of certain things and it was very hard. So much is blurred together in my mind. But I remember the night we decided to start YC and this photo.

It wasn't just happiness that I was quitting my job. I was also so excited about this idea and the opportunity to work on something that could make a difference in the world.
fuck the hype.

grow the fuck up people.
Most obscenity laws are state laws. Meaning that the definition changes state to state. Some of which are very very specific.
Took the words out of my mouth.

On the flip side, now that MobileWorks is here, pg, jl and the YC community have a welcome place to hang out when they're in Berkeley. Thursday nights at the MobileWorks offices are starting to have a YC vibe to them.
I did this back in the '90s.

I was working for a software company in the north bay. I spent most of my awake time at work and most of my weekends in the mountains or visiting my girlfriend in LA.

I realized I was spending a large sum of rent money for an apartment I was never in, except to sleep.

So I got a storage unit to hold my few belongings, got a service I could drop my laundry at (I hate laundromats) and started sleeping in my car. Work had a shower so that wasn't a problem.

Most nights I parked my car on the street near an apartment complex not far from the Golden Gate bridge. In six months I only got hassled by the police once and I just told 'em I worked at said software company in Sausalito and had drank too much that night and didn't feel it was safe to drive home (giving the address of a co-worker who lived further north I had an agreement with for this situation). They said fine and suggested parking somewhere else.

Eventually I got a new girlfriend and being homeless just wasn't practical so I ended up renting a room from a friend. I sured saved a lot of money during those 6 months, though.
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Patents were a brutal business weapon seven years ago. Indeed they have been for more than a century. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elisha_Gray_and_Alexander_Bell_...]

However, the claim that they have recently become an existential threat is dubious, in my opinion.

Yes, there are lots of stories in the techpress about industry titans battering each with patents and partisan ranting which often accompanies it. What there aren't is stories on HN about startups forced to shutter because of patent claims.

But more importantly, funding for startups is accelerating not slowing as would be expected if software patents were a serious threat on the scale your post implies.

The problem with software patents for an investor such as YC is that they are hard to quantify as a risk and thus create uncertainty. What I see is that YC's initial approach to software patents was naive from an investment standpoint, i.e. that the risks of uncertainty turned out to be significantly greater than the potential gains from patent licensing.

I don't think YC's change was do to wholesale adoption of a FOSS ideology or conversion to Stallmanism. The day patents become a true existential threat, YC will not be funding software startups.
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So just running with your analogy, you're saying that _why is like the victim of a shocking, horrible crime. One that thrust him unfairly in the public eye. And that evildoer was who? Apparently it was _why: he's the one who chose to create a very public persona.

It really dumbfounds me when people make idiotic rape analogies. Rape is a violent crime that can leave victims emotionally scarred (and sometimes physically scarred) for life. And it's incredibly common; odds are that some woman in your not-too-distant family was raped.

Please put your rape analogies on the same shelf with Hitler analogies. Rape victims, like holocaust victims, deserve more respect than being used as part of your polemical point-scoring.
> Since porn is on the internet, it is NOT easily accessible to minors.

That seems to be entirely beside Santorum's point. His particular brand of politics is largely against any kind of sexual freedom. Gay rights, abortion, even contraception is something they would like the government to legislate against. To them, porn is not bad because kids might see it; porn is bad, full stop.
It shows and I wasn't intending to trivialize what I know was a complex decision. [edit] There's nothing quite like the person one loves confirming that it truly is for better or worse.[/edit]

Congratulations on a job well done.
Despite your quoted facts, there is still ENORMOUS room for disruption in the music scene. At least in my opinion, but my biggest problem is broadcast radio, and the fact that there are SEVEN BILLION people in the world, there is no way only five of them are making music I want to hear. I think broadcast and internet radio need to blend together somehow. (yeah yeah, mobile phones, data, pandora, it's happening) But I digress...
I like seeing sites getting launched, way to go to make things happen. But sign up with FB, and pollute my FB wall, Imma pass on this app. I think plenty of others don't have my mindset though, so you may gain some traction.
What I was trying to get at is that, at a more abstract level, this process should not be a BASIS for innovation or creation.
Yes the product worked, but perhaps the product didn't fit the market?
Cloud Atlas was awful IMHO, just as a counterpoint
As with any currency, if we expect blizzard to create tons of items (inflation) then their price will be devalued appropriately. Unexpected inflation could benefit them initially, but it would also turn people away from the game.
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GitHub pull requests are tracked by a base and a head commit. Usually, base is master, and head is some feature branch. This allows the pull request on GitHub to pull in new changes to the commit as a discussion forms around it.

So in that sense, he is correct. There's no way to ensure that clicking the merge button is indeed merging what I think it's merging. Now that I type that, we could easily just include the latest SHA in the form and check that. Problem solved!

Alternatives to this are:

* Merge manually from the command line. This is typically what we do at GitHub.
* Request that people file pull requests with a SHA as the pull request head. This makes it impossible to update the pull request with future commits.
* Don't use pull requests.
If there is 1 fluorescent light strip (~20W) over every 2 rack cabinets (~10kW), that's only 0.2% of the power consumption dedicated to lighting. Saving this, is far from being "hugely more energy-saving".
Google: It's important X does not see our super secret servers, how best may we attain that, team?

Team: We suggest we co-locate with X and then turn the lights off - that way they can't see our super secret servers.

Google: Awesome idea!

Some time latter:

Co-Facility: Here come the gogglers with their head lamps, quick turn the lights off.

Co-Facility: They are gone, don't they look great with their LED lights, make a cool movie huh?

Co-Facility: Crikey, here come the X's, quick turn the lights on, oh man it's such a shame they don't have LED head lamps, they would look so cool if they did.
50 pages into a rather short novel may be substantial enough; 50 pages of War and Peace only scratch the surface. I wasn't hooked in the first 50 pages of W&P, but I came to enjoy the book immensely in a few hundred.

I'm already saving plenty of time by picking what I read carefully.
A programmer lamenting lack of interpersonal interactions... there's hope for the world, or at least for you. The addiction isn't the screen, it's the stimulation of being a voyeur on the actions of others. This is not a new phenomenon, just that the screen opens a window that would, in the past, have required a lot more physical travel, time, cost, etc. Now they can be lazy voyeurs essentially for free. Whether or not this is progress is a good question.
Thank you for sharing. It's nice knowing someone else was has successfully done this over an extended period of time.
Ugh, I think this site really gives credence to the top poster's concerns: it's whiz-bang cool at the expense of actual usability.

Chrome/Win7/Quad-Core i7 3.4GHz + 8GB DDR3 RAM

and the whole thing chugs, to the point where the website is difficult to navigate and parse.
Well sure, but its not really about that, its about the process, figuring out how to do this stuff and then doing it is extremely enjoyable and really cool, as is doing a talk for others who think the same thing.
I think evangelicals have caught on to the fact that they have been pandered to and then ignored by mainstream Republicans, and they're sick of it; in Santorum, they see someone who holds their beliefs unambiguously. While I would expect that he would go quiet over these issues in a general election, I have no doubt that he would attempt to implement bible-based policy in the unlikely event that he is elected.
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Strictly speaking, you could probably even revoke copyright protection for porn entirely. The relevant clause of the constitution reads, "To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries." IANAL, but it seems like you could take an originalist interpretation and say porn is in no way a useful art, and that even if it were, while congress has the power to do so, it can probably choose not to exercise that power provide protection to some suitably broad class of works.