skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
this 2 fold demultiplication hits my mind regularly.

instance / class / metaclass / ()
instance / model / metamodel / () -- very redundant.
value / type / kind / ()
machine / vm / utm / ()

() denotes the closed loop where you don't need another layer.

anybody has a theory that explains this trait ?
For Safari, there is WasteNoTime extension.
My 'Everyone' feed seems to have stopped working. I've also just had a javascript alert popup with an error...

Also irritated I can't sign in with Twitter.
University of Toronto is there - I would imagine Canadian students have similar internship opportunities.
As far as I can tell the status of a comment as being dead is not apparent to the user who posted it (unless they're not logged in obviously). This is actually quite an elegant way of dealing with trolls if you think about it; instead of knowing they've been banned and trying to game their way around it they assume they are just being ignored and give up.
Another advantage of a "lab" is interaction with other bright people in the field. It's a key benefit of YC; Jobs designed the pixar building to enhance this; many great software ideas came out of Bell Labs and Xerox PARC; and I've also experienced it myself at my old compsci dept.
Milton Friedman (of all people!) had a pretty worked-out proposal for it, though he was going more for a poverty-line basic income. Basically, everyone (rich and poor) would get a refundable tax credit roughly equal to the poverty line (something like $11k), rather than having a specific cutoff or phase-out. It would implicitly phase out for richer people because a flat $11k credit just doesn't equal too much if you're making a lot of money.

At the time, at least, he argued that it could almost entirely be paid for just by rolling all our current welfare programs into it: instead of this patchwork of welfare, food stamps, section 8 housing assistance, etc., just have one refundable tax credit, thereby massively reducing both the bureaucracy and the market distortions while still providing a social safety net.
I think you're giving more credit than youth deserved. Almost all youth are exactly like that: naive.
There's always SW SOMA (11th st) which is quite different from 2nd/3rd.
I've just experienced the same, and I used to assume it was contagious because of external stimuli -- but this experience quickly disarms that hypothesis.
The problem for me is not so much the hackathon, but the commodified entrepreneur in general. The whole ecosystem of accelerators, incubators, and mansions generate innovation culture not innovation. Kind of like going to jazz school. A total oxymoron.
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That sounds like an ignorant viewpoint.

Crime of that sort in Oakland generally involves only those who consider it an "occupational hazard".
Idea: Don't use ICE for NAT traversal (it will not always work). Don't use a third party SIP server. Traverse the NAT by having your own reachable IP address running a supernode. Run your own _private_ SIP server, e.g., for just your friends and family.

Having all this stuff running in a browser is neat. But just remember that one company may end up with monopolistic control over the browser.

All this stuff can run just as well outside the browser.
No analogy is going to be apt since this is legal grey area. Ms Fong should have recognised that risk going into the situation.

Absent special laws protecting rental car companies from their drivers' actions they too would be liable for me taking my rental and ramming it into a McDonald's before fleeing the country.
Twitter confirms support for Do Not Track
For anyone wanting to experiment, http://simplynoise.com/ generates white/pink/brown noise.
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Are functional languages the future of programming?
they used to. back when p2p networks like Limewire, Kazaa, so forth were in their heyday
I just use HNSearch, coupled with a good memory for titles. I search for single words that I feel like I've recognized. In this case I just searched for "title:backdoor" :

http://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=title%3Abac...

I often then sort by date, because duplicates usually come within a span of a few days.

Side bonus, sometimes I find really cool stuff I missed.

TBH, I don't do this anything like as much as I could because of the vitriol I've received castigating me for polluting HN. I just do it occasionally when the urge is too great to resist. My profile has more about that.
Yeah, I think people keep expecting the iPad to work like a keyboard-monitor personal computer, when it's a totally different workstation, with its very particular all-in-one input device.

Vi(m) was designed too wire your brain to a cursor via a keyboard. Patching the iPad and Vim, Emacs, etc to work on a touch screen feels like missing the point. Kudos to the people behind Swipe and LightTable, who are looking for the next interface paradigm instead.
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Mental note for a test at the office tomorrow: send an empty email entitled "video of people yawning" to folks in your line of vision.
"Do Not Track" HTTP header supported by IE, Opera, FF, Safari but not Chrome
My weekend project: anonymous, realtime message board with socket.io
This is just a simple node app on a small Joyent server!
Certainly, if it was their fault; i.e., if the plant was in a state of disrepair. If the coal plant exploded because the current operators acted in a willfully negligent manner, they should completely bear the cost.
This is interesting. I reached similar conclusions several years ago and:

-turned data off on my phone. The control provided by pull is so much more than push. (email/twitter/facebook)

-email client is not running 24/7 anymore. Same philosophy as above.

-started hacking on extended projects - spend sometime every weekend over 5 months on one more challenging project.

-stopped posting every link I found interesting on FB/Twitter.

-decreased the amount of time spent on things I knew that I knew.

-started spending more time in solitude. (resisting the impulse to pull out the phone while waiting at the doctor's office)

-actually read books. Before this, I couldn't even remember the last time I had read a book back to back; magazines don't count.

Not only does the concentration help but I found the idle state of mind keeps me much more relaxed and it encourages new ideas to pop into my head. (Idle CPU being spent on the subconscious? I don't know but it works.) The overall affect on my life is freaking amazing.

If there was ever a book called, "creativity by design", this would definitely be in there.
The fact that trajectories are being patented at all is what I took away from this. That's astounding in it's ridiculousness. I assumed that was why this was posted.

Your analogy makes no sense, the failed launch has nothing to do with the patent, the patent just stopped an attempt at saving the satellite. So more like the factory caught on fire and no firetrucks could come because a competing factory had patented the route from the firehouse.
UI/UX designer is more important than programmer
We could easily generate enough power for the world using solar, nuclear, or coal, with solar being the longest lasting. What we cannot do presently is store or transmit that power to the point of use in a way which meets current expectations. This is why oil, though rarely burned for electricity, remains one of our primary energy sources-- #1 in the US, at least.

I'm curious what part of this stretches credibility.

> But again if you have sources showing that the waste majority of envorimentalists are pro nuclear and pro thorium I would be happy to be proven wrong.

I have claimed no such thing. Decide what you're arguing about.
Ferdinand Porsche was born in modern-day Czech Republic, then Austria-Hungary, and later held Austrian and German citizenship. Morgenstern, while German-born, resided in Austria and the US. Gödel grew up in Czechoslovakia and considered himself an Austrian. He was German in the way someone from Belgium in the 1940s was German. Et cetera.

Due to changing borders, I'm not attributing Austria-Hungary's borders, but people who held Austrian citizenship after the breakup or resided in Austria proper were Austrian, regardless of where they were born. I'm ignoring the notion that Jews can't Austrian.
A moderator replacing the FB link with an accessible link would have solved the issue for me. I didn't ask for deletion.

My vote is for updating the HN guidelines to discourage submissions behind login walls.
Articles like this tend to create a risk-averse culture, causing people to be afraid of failure. An article that was more negative towards the lawyers/tort law would be much better, I think.
This sounds like Star Trek where money is abolished and everyone just simply lives. I've always wondered why anyone would want to join Starfleet? It seems like they went out into space and weren't really compensated in any manner.

I'd say the people working on robots and stuff would have no incentive to work. They would simply become part of the 'non-working' class.
Sometimes it's not about opportunism. I live in a 4 bedroom hacker house with 11 entrepreneurs/programmers. It's cramped, we have bunk beds and sleeping bags. I've personally never been happier.

Despite many of us being (second time) founders of companies, contractors, or having jobs, we hack together several times a week, work 14+ hour days (including weekends), manage CodeSF events monthly, find time to attend hackathons together, and learn + share knowledge together at our local hackerspace, Noisebridge.

Yes, there are opportunists in the world who want to make a quick buck.

There are also a lot of people who are genuinely enthused (obsessed) with computer science and who devote their lives to knowledge... Who learn how to implement JK flip flops on a breadboard, build languages entirely from lambda calculus, and study convex optimization in their free time. More importantly, they do so because they love hacking, not because they love being a hacker (though I admit hacker culture and community is something I value).

At this stage in my life, getting married and having a family would rob me of my youth more-so than any weekend hackathon -- but I'm sure this mindset will change sooner or later.

There are plenty of great hacker meetups and hackathons (Super Happy Dev House SHDH, for instance) and SF hackerspaces (Noisebridge, Hacker Dojo) which provide non-opportunistic methods for furthering your hacker-foo.

Ryan, I am not sure how many hackathons you've attended or possibly even hosted at "Treehouse Mansion", but it seems like you, especially, would understand the importance of hacker meetups and how to host one effectively. It's also possible you hire great engineers and not hackers, which is fine too.

Here is the _real_ problem:
More people want to be hackers than are hackers. Many people only want the stigmas that comes along with being a 'hacker', a term whose meaning has been diluted and whose definition perpetually misrepresented and obfuscated by media.

In San Francisco, for instance, the terms entrepreneur and hacker have been squished uncomfortably close for my liking, partly as a result of media like Hacker News (who I'd argue contributes to the conflation of the term 'hacker' by catering primarily to a general technical startup audience).

I enjoy hacker news, admire Paul Graham and the rest of YC, and believe that anyone can launch a successful startup, with enough hard work and dedication. One problem is, great hackers are not always great entrepreneurs. Great entrepreneurs understand where there's demand for a hack, where many hackers simply want to work on the most exciting and technically challenging problems. Sometimes these two overlap beautifully (I think Stripe is a good example).

The bottom line is, movies like, "Social Network", and media like TechCrunch have spotlighted mergers and acquisitions, high valuations, and a party life style as hacker/entrepreneurial culture. From my experience, this has impacted hackathons in that judges favor high impact web 2.0 viable products over "righteous hacks".
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Unemployment rates for blue-collar workers are pretty high too, so I'm not sure that's a good solution---or necessarily a good career bet, unless you carefully target a subset of blue-collar work that you're pretty sure will continue to be in high demand.

Construction jobs, for example, are pretty much none to be had at the moment, and wages have been significantly falling in real terms for some decades. My grandfather made a middle-class wage as a carpenter working on house construction in the 1950s, but the crew that built my parents' recent-ish suburban home were all making minimum wage assembling factory-cut materials (and there's oversubscribed demand even for those jobs). Auto mechanic is not a particularly good job market at the moment, either. Skilled welding is indeed in demand, but it takes a substantial amount of time to build up the level of skill that's currently in demand (with the prevalence of machine welds, there's no longer a smooth on-the-job skills progression).

I'm not sure it's actually a better bet than getting an English BA and looking for an office job, though. Both have high unemployment rates currently, but blue-collar-worker unemployment rates are even higher than English-major unemployment rates.
AFAIK, they kind of do. If you are in default and not paying big credit card bill for significant time, for example, there are chances they'd agree to close it for much less than payment in full. Maybe not cents on dollar, but significantly less than 100%. I wouldn't recommend this as a way to get rich though :)
It slightly terrifies me that all the most popular groups are variants of "No fap"
A better analogy would be, your child was killed by a motorist who couldn't stop quickly enough because the car manufacturer was unable to license patented anti-lock braking technology. (hypothetically assuming anti-lock braking technology was not mandatory by safety standards and was one of several safer stopping methods.)
I don't think we need a word for Backpfeifengesicht. We can just say that's a face needing fist. "face needing fist" is actually one character shorter than Backpfeifengesicht.

For L’esprit de l’escalier, the phrase "jerk store" would probably be sufficient to convey that sentiment for anyone familiar with the Seinfeld TV series.
Why Rest days make THE difference to overall performance.
This is just on a small Joyent server, running one process. I started it Friday night so there's still a few holes.
Requires javascript. Yells at me that I need to enable javascript if I go there. Doesn't explain why I might want to enable javascript, or hint at what their doubtless valuable javascript-mediated experience might be, or even show me an ad or a press release. Does try to load javascript libraries from other domains, so that even if I create an exception for so.cl I get the same error message.

Is this really a constructive way to build custom in this day and age?
Congrats Zuck and Priscilla!

I don't understand some of the materialistic comments (prenups etc.) on this thread. Zuck marrying his long time love is a beautiful blessing. PG, I'd met Zuck after you had invited him to your startup school 2007 and since then have interacted with him. He also kept his word on followups he'd announced during his talk then. He is such a humble person despite all his successes. I'm so happy for him.
You can't anticipate anything though. Perhaps someday we will have a bucolic utopian society, but we can't make current decisions based on those assumptions.
Good call. Michael Ellsberg wrote a book with that same premise. Here's a review: http://www.pchristensen.com/blog/articles/education-of-milli... (there's also a link to a related Mixergy interview there)

The book doesn't say how to provide jobs for everyone, for someone who needs a nudge in the right direction it could be very helpful, likely the same sort that would create a site like "IWillMopItUp.com".
GPLv3 (the license used here) applies for web services as well AFAIK and imposes the same requirements for distribution.
I lived in the Palo Alto hacker house for a time. It wasn't "rah-rah entrepeneurs!!!" - though it had some - it was just a comfortable place to talk with people on similar wavelengths.
Bpython is a fancy interface to the Python interpreter
For films and the like it might be easy to get around this - the release teams could sign their releases. It might be theoretically difficult for them to get their public keys out into the ecosystem, but it would be pretty easy in practical terms.

For arbitrary data you could possibly have a rating/tagging system. I guess the content industries could fudge the votes, but if the votes were tied to identity/pseudonyms they'd have to be clever to beat any kind of data analysis.

The effectiveness would probably depend on how many garbage alternatives you provided, and how sophisticated/varied their uploading is. Too many bad files and voting and signing might not be practicable, and you'd have to resort to some kind of automated spam-detection. White-listed sources are workable in the worst case, but I'm sure there would be other, better ideas around.
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What I can't understand is how some well-educated supposedly rational lawyer literally typed the figure "$75 Trillion" into a legal document with a straight face.
Living in a hacker mansion right now, I can guarantee you that isn't the case.

Our hacker mansion is filled with people working on different companies, at different stages (some funded, some not, some with customers, some without, etc.), and all of whom add something interesting and different to the diversity of the house. I take _at least_ 1 day a week off, often two. But frankly, sometimes others have to tell me to, since I love what I'm doing.

In short, hacker mansions can work out great if the people there are vetted, smart, passionate, and okay with having social lives. If you get together a group of people who are only going to work 24/7, guess what, they'll work together and burn out together. That's not the house we built.

Furthermore, I get to hang out with deer and wild turkeys while I relax in an enormous house with killer amenities; I wouldn't have the money to pay for that myself. I code and run my business mostly from our shared office space in Palo Alto.

(Full disclosure: this is a separate and entirely different hacker house from the one ryancarson is talking about, but a hacker house nonetheless.)
You mean making charging interest illegal at all - so nobody can buy anything on credit and nobody does any lending? I think it makes sense except for a small thing where it would kill all modern economy, all retal sales, all manufacturing and pretty much all business which runs on credit everywhere. But as long as you're fine with trading wampums and playing with couple of sticks and a pinecone instead of your new shiny iPhone, it looks like a good suggestion.

Or maybe you mean only banning charging "excessive" rates - when the real rates that are not excessive but proper are set by the Central Committee? As we all know how well do all the Central Committees in managing economic matters, you can imagine what that would lead to.
This incident also sheds a different light on another tidbit on talk show history.
In one of the earlier episodes of the 5by5 version Dan and John were talking about how Dan's recommendation of "Silent Running" to John basically ended the first run of the talk show. At the time I thought that was just a joke. But after this I'm really wondering if that supposed friendship between the two wasn't all that strong after all.
how about a a patent for parallel parking
"Obviously he doesn't believe that Ron Paul will win the Republican nomination."

Let's be honest, Ron Paul won't be around for much longer. If you are really trying to make any real difference, you need someone younger and who's got a better chance of doing something. That would be Rand Paul and not Ron.

Ron Paul had his run and it's over. To put money into him now is a losers bet. There's no real political future for Ron Paul while there is a hell of an upside for Rand Paul.
Founder drops out, amasses nearly unimaginable legitimate wealth comparable to Gates' theft, then marries for love to an accomplished and attractive partner. His story so far should inspire any nerd going through the Startup Pit of Despair.
I agree about the filth. I've recently been in NYC and Seattle and both times I was shocked by how clean everything seemed compared to SOMA.
Emeryville is a small employment hub, per http://www.census.gov/hhes/commuting/data/daytimepop.html

Employment/residence ratios

Emeryville 4.36
San Francisco 1.40
Oakland 1.06

and a few others FWIW

Berkeley 1.30
Dublin 1.05
Mountain View 1.47
Palo Alto 2.54
San Jose 0.88 (qualifying it as largest suburb in the US, IMO)
Upper middle class people have never aspired towards such jobs, that is not "becoming less common". That's practically what it means to be upper middle class.

It's also nonsense that unemployment would be lower if more people went to trade schools. That may be a solid choice for an individual to make, but if an extra 30,000 Americans a year chose to become licensed plumbers it would completely wash out the market. Unemployment is high in the US at the moment for demand side reasons.

Finally, trades jobs are cyclical with the construction industry and many tradespeople have spent the last 4-5 years underemployed because of the very sluggish construction industry.
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> If paying $9.99 becomes the easiest way, then a lot of casual pirates will just buy it.

That's half the story. Piracy is a hard habit to break - even when it does get easy to get content cheaply, some people take a while to come around.
Idea: Do not use ICE for NAT traversal (it will not always work). Do not use a public SIP server controlled by a third party (ever heard of spam?). Traverse NAT by getting a reachable IP address and running a supernode on it. Run your own _private_ SIP server (e.g. for just friends and family).

It's neat that this can all be made to run in the browser. But keep in mind that one company may end up with monopolistic control over the browser. It's certainly looking like this could happen. Again.

All this stuff runs just fine outside the browser. Supernode and SIP server can run as daemons.
RE you contending that simply because something has artistic intent it is, by definition 'art'?
I can hear it now "Of course not, why would an ad company sabotage itself?".

Wikipedia says Chrome is set to support the header by the end of this year (2012).

Wikipedia's source: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405297020396080457723...
Most car owners also don't have a few million dollars in cash lying around, so they are equally "judgement proof". The way we have solved that problem is to legally require driver's insurance. It seems to me that that's a sufficient solution: as long as drivers are required to have insurance, there should be no problem with only holding drivers (not car owners) liable?
Okay, I did it. :-) I'm not sure how useful/readable the result is, but check it out and let me know what you think.

https://github.com/jamesshore/Autocommit
well, whenever MS makes a product that everyone thinks is inferior and will never make it, I like to recall msn messenger, and of course ie

messenger competed vs icq which had more features, large user base, icq was the facebook of the time, yet somehow mysteriously msn messenger took over

give it time, facebook is becoming icq, ppl who are complaining about the interface are only increasing and its very possible that could switch

a note about G+ i believe a big reason why it didnt catch up and where MS may have got it better, is the branding SOCL is not windowsLive+ or hotmail+ its a completely new brand with its easy to find url ... G+ is harder to find because its integrated into the google brand