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The NewsWelcome page is excellent.

(http://ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html)

Meatball Wiki has many people talking about creating and controlling online communities. It's focused on wikis, but is applicable to other types of communities.

(http://meatballwiki.org/wiki/)

The Japanese origin of anonymous posting (leading into the chan culture) is interesting and is very different to the western use (where "anonymous == arsehole".)

(http://www.ojr.org/japan/internet/1061505583.php)

> Q: Why did you decide to use perfect anonymity, not even requiring a user name?

> A: Because delivering news without taking any risk is very important to us. There is a lot of information disclosure or secret news gathered on Channel 2. Few people would post that kind of information by taking a risk. Moreover, people can only truly discuss something when they don't know each other.

> If there is a user ID attached to a user, a discussion tends to become a criticizing game. On the other hand, under the anonymous system, even though your opinion/information is criticized, you don't know with whom to be upset. Also with a user ID, those who participate in the site for a long time tend to have authority, and it becomes difficult for a user to disagree with them. Under a perfectly anonymous system, you can say, "it's boring," if it is actually boring. All information is treated equally; only an accurate argument will work.
I read the first four paragraphs entirely before skimming the rest... American... Chinese... Warfare.

IMO this whole issue, the entirety of this issue, derives from Nationalism still being present with Global technology like the internet and other inter connected systems.

We have to seriously start asking ourselves whether we should continue acting like we`re any different from other human beings on this planet...

On another note, when can I join Starfleet? Seriously though, as a humanist-atheist, I'm worried about information saturation and geo-politics of the 21st century.
dave has probably used GTD far longer than I, but I have to say I think having 50-100 projects going is pretty insane. I don't know any system that would help you there (other than maybe hiring a project manager and 5 assistants..). The author even admits that his "new" system consists of focusing on only 5 "projects" at once. I don't see this as a failure of GTD at all.
Actually, it's totally legal. If you have an outlet without a ground wire, you can use a three prong GFCI and put a sticker on it that says "No Equipment Ground" and it's totally legal and to code.

You are over exaggerating how useful the ground is - a GFCI is far more effective, the ground pin hardly does anything at all.
Completely agree. It's really pretty easy. The main problem is that it's ugly in places and some things you may want to do are downright impossible (such as separating the results containers from address autocomplete from the input to create a mobile interface. You have no way to get at the results json. The only option to do that is to proxy their HTTP API through your server because JSONP is no longer an option.
Have they announced a release date target?
The hack reminds me of "How Facebook Hacked The NASDAQ Button",

http://techcrunch.com/2012/05/18/how-facebook-hacked-the-nas...
Please elaborate on what made it clear so long ago.
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I used to live in the UK, but my objection is general. I'm pro copyright in theory, but 'life of author + 70 years' is wildly excessive in my view. None of these designers would have attained their success without the ability to lift ideas from other designers.
I don't understand your point. If you're preparing for an opportunity that never comes, that preparation is wasted.
Better to find as many opportunities to succeed as you can and try to seize them when they present themselves, even if you're not 100% ready.

For example, we are currently in a fantastic economic environment to found a startup. Raising money, recruiting talent, finding partners,etc is easier than ever before(at least in startup hotspots).
People who are working on a project on the side part time and are waiting to take the leap into a startup until they're more prepared will likely miss out on the opportunity and will regret it later.
There is updated research on the issue of differing distributions of scores between the groups of people characterized as "black" and "white" in the United States. The score gap is narrowing, according to an important review article published this year by the American Psychological Association,

http://www.apa.org/pubs/journals/releases/amp-67-2-130.pdf

and investigating how the gap arose in the first place has been very illuminating about the effect of early childhood environment and formal schooling on the development of IQ. But, yes, the reason the Supreme Court ruled as it did in the 1971 Duke Power case is that there has been a difference in the distribution of IQ scores among "white" and "black" people in the United States, and also an odious legacy of efforts to deny employment opportunity to black people, so if a company has a particular hiring process, it had better make sure that the hiring process will "bear a demonstrable relationship to successful performance of the jobs for which it was used."

See the writings of James R. Flynn, particularly

http://www.apa.org/pubs/journals/releases/rev1082346.pdf

http://www.iapsych.com/iqmr/fe/LinkedDocuments/dickens2006a....

http://www.iapsych.com/iqmr/fe/LinkedDocuments/dickens2006b....

http://www.iapsych.com/iqmr/fe/LinkedDocuments/flynn2007c.pd...

and

http://www.iapsych.com/iqmr/fe/LinkedDocuments/flynn2010a.pd...

for background on the narrowing gap between "race" groups in the United States.
Seriously? "Frodo Baggins"? (Check your third link...)
AWS? Surely you just. Yes, AWS has thousands of servers ready to go at any time.
Can someone please clarify what justifies the 3.2 -> 4.0? I don't see a big change, isn't this more like a 3.2 -> 3.3?
You can try it yourself by dropping a bit of pencil lead across the prongs a slightly unplugged plug. You get a flash and it hops away, but I don't know that a piece of metal would break contact. I don't recall this ever even tripping a breaker, but be careful.
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That hasn't been true in my experience.

What data are you looking for that isn't available?

The only thing I can think of that's difficult to get is some law enforcement, military and "national security" related information, but APIs aren't going to change that.

I don't have a ton of experience with it (mostly USGS and NOAA), but the Department of Commerce and the Department of Interior both make a ton of data available.
Wow. That's kind of shady isn't it (for the new owner to write a similar article and then redirect the older one to the newer one)?
It's an old drug - it goes off patent in two years.
The site background doesn't seem to be loading in Chrome 19, works fine in FF 12 though.
It's official- Rails 4.0 is coming out:

<ruby>

Post.find_by name: 'Spartacus', rating: 4

Post.find_by "published_at < ?", 2.weeks.ago

Post.find_by! name: 'Spartacus'

</ruby>

But seriously... I don't really see any changes that just scream "come check out Rails 4!". I mean... my God, they are competing with Node now which has an ecosystem that is growing at a nuts pace. The only reason I can see so far for it is that they want to really make those still on Ralis 2.x feel like shit and want to upgrade, because now they will be two major versions behind.

Don't get me wrong. I love Rails. But WTF. Tell me what I'm missing.
"If anyone is unhappy, remember that
his unhappiness is his own fault...
Nothing else is the cause of anxiety or loss of tranquility
except our own opinion."

- Epictetus
Yah, it was discovered in 1990, and goes off patent in 2 years.
See, for example, griefers on Medal of Warfare on Xbox Live.

They've paid for the game, and they're paying for the xbox live account, and there is reputation and reporting.

That does nothing to stop people like "General Minus" from trolling the heck out of other players.

Dedicated trolls / griefers will have many alternate accounts. Team AVO (Minecraft griefers) apparently had several thousand alt accounts. Or trolls will use other means. Grawp (wikipedia troll) posts disguised links that perform a wikipedia action. Lots of people click the links.

The other problem is that customers feel entitled. SuicideGirls, a NSFW site with a set of forums, had severe problems with awful posts. They implemented "spring cleaning" to sort it out, many customers expressed unhappiness, a few people were banned and a new board was introduced and low quality posting was tolerated in the other boards. A lot of drama for a tiny increase in quality on most boards.
Any word on performance?
I just buy replacements from DealExtreme, because they're just USB hubs in the end... (but the Apple and Amazon versions have great build quality).
It's ridiculous that iOS doesn't offer an API for scheduled background tasks. The clever tricks developers use to solve this problem (geofencing, silent audio[1], etc.) shouldn't be necessary.

[1]: http://www.148apps.com/news/silence-golden-pastebot/
I think upvotes and downvotes should be harder to do.

An example of what would make a vote "harder" would be to require reason-words. When you click down-arrow a box might pop up where you must select (or better still, type out in full) at least two words justifying the vote such as "Abusive" or "Pointless". This would also help to prevent fat-fingered downvotes that I've accidentally done on my iPad because the arrows are too close together and irreversible.
I wish HN had a API which could write - the hnsearch one was only read-only when I used it. I tried writing a tool for HN (https://github.com/pbiggar/hackerite) that needed to be able to upvote stories, and although hacks existed to make it work, it wasn't a very pleasant experience.
Rails 4.0 might be out by the end of the year, but that's outside of my definition of "around the corner".
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This is great for most of the Show HN stuff that never makes the front page!
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Heidegger's essay "A Question Concerning Techology" addresses exactly this. There are free translations online of varying quality. My favorite translation is in this collection:

http://www.amazon.com/Basic-Writings-Martin-Heidegger/dp/006...

The essence of technology is a process of enframing knowledge, natural resources and labor into a technological system.

Take a look at financial systems, which are a means to an end (production, exchange, etc) but have taken on a life of their own. The system is a mix of various technologies and artifacts: contracts, currencies, presses, credit cards, databases, cash registers, stock exchanges etc. Money frees and empowers us, but also confines us.

The ordering of money holds sway over other systems, such as barter systems, which presents a different mode of enframing economic activity.

What about technologies like open source licenses or programming languages?

The license ensures the work can be redistributed and modified. Is this a means to an end? Maybe. It seems more open-ended than that. It's not simply satisfying the need of an existing system.

The language emphasizes logics and techniques. Are formal languages a means to an end, or a mode of revealing and expressing logical structure?
Fun is what gets me out of bed in the morning. Every day at work is a joy and brings new challenges. A project getting big is an awesome problem to have. The ideal project in my mind is one that is fun for you and solves a real need for someone else. You'll be able to figure out the legal and admin stuff as it pops up. So don't let that discourage you.

My contact info is in my profile. If you have questions about the admin stuff with setting up a company, I (or I'm sure many other HNers) would be happy to help.
Several of the most esteemed commenters here on Hacker News have advised, when I have brought up the issue of what's on topic here, that posts or comments that are strictly about politics should be ruthlessly discouraged here. There are other places for political discussion (for example, my Facebook profile for my Facebook friends, who have a great diversity of political opinions and live in various countries).

To sum up, we shouldn't be bringing up political topics here on HN, even if the political views expressed agree with my own [smile].

For your specific question about how a foreign resident of a country should behave in regard to that country's politics, I used to do that as an American living abroad--that is, decide how to respond to the policies of another country, which was a dictatorship the first time I lived there and occasionally engaged in political assassination by government agents. I kept my American habit of speaking freely over there. I would never give up that habit of freely speaking my political opinion for anything. Here on HN, I try not to practice that habit out of respect for what is on topic here.
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It's very difficult to read or focus on anything in particular, or to skim through everything in general.
I've never seen one of these things, not even at Home Depot.
I've read a couple of times that iOS is an example of a platform with good accessibility tech baked in. Although I'm sure app developers still need to expend some effort.
Oh! That was posted here very recently. It's going into production with a few small changes.

(http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4033328)
I am a very strong supporter of copyright, but I do have to ask- what works will be created with this new term that would not have been created under the old term?

My belief is that the answer is: Exactly none.

So where is the benefit to society?
Right, just like they charge a fraction of the price outside the USA vs pumping insurance for all it's worth in the USA.

After all, the cancer market is so small, only one third of the entire population has cancer at any given time, it might take them more than a year to start making net profit.

Please stop defending and apologizing for billionaires.
I remember there are two reasons for the third prong, and neither is mentioned in the article.

The first reason is the one you have outlined - the larger the current, the bigger the differential between the actual ground via and the neutral wire in the appliance.

The second reason is that if you're using a transformer to change the voltage, the output of the transformer is not connected to the input, and thus can have arbitrary large voltage differential with the ground due to charge accumulation, and so it needs to be grounded. Now I'm getting fuzzy here, but I think there is a reason why you can't connect one of the transformers inputs to one of it outputs (the neutral one) to provide the "grounding" this way, so the third wire is used. I've noticed that devices which do not need to provide voltage conversion usually lack the ground prong, e.g. heaters.
Nothing here as well (Chrome on Windows)
I'm forced to write bad code. How do I save my life?
He has a point. But clearly Epictetus did not have party-all-night upstairs neighbors with bad taste in music.

Just sayin'.
I think that's going in the right direction, but arbitrary rules on replies will always fail for some situation.

For instance if someone wrongly states "There are five lights." my reply would probably only contain the correction "There are FOUR lights!"; anything beyond that would be artificial inflation.
Part of it could be PATCH replacing PUT.
I think the point of the original article was missed, but you still make a great point about the empowering/inspiring side of the process.

As someone who has advised hundreds of small business owners, the gritty, hard reality is exactly what most of them need to be educated about.

Most startups fail because founders are unprepared, underfunded, and have a tremendous optimism about what they can accomplish. They fail because they're 'super inspired' and 'totally passionate' and 'serial entrepreneurs'. They fail because they're not losing sleep over how well they execute their sales funnel.

Don't get me wrong, my favorite line in startups is that 'optimism builds companies, pessimism keeps them operating'. You need both to make it long term.

I didn't sense an ounce of complaining, martyrdom, or bitching in the article, just a welcome glimpse into a world that most observers glorify as a real life version of 'the social network'. More people need to see it, especially as we're in the era of celebrating entrepreneurs.

The ones that succeed are the one's fighting for every inch, every customer, and every success. If you're not, someone smarter, hungrier, and better funded is coming for your customers.

Finding a zen and a calm perspective is what the best leaders do to combat the anxiety and stress of solving big problems in global markets.

Once again I totally appreciate your take, I think it's bang on, just as the other is. You need both to make it....
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Fair enough, but a statement like "compiled output shouldn't be relying on an error-correction feature" is only (self-evidently) true if we're using the informal, taking-it-personally connotations of "error correction".
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If you rent servers, you are in the cloud.
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The reason that post has so many upvotes is because what he is describing is real, mental suffering and fatigue that most (not all, I guess) startup founders accrue. The end result of doing a startup is personal learning, growth, having had the opportunity to work with smart people, etc., but during the process you will forget those things because there are other things on your mind - at least I do.

I don't think any founder would take their role for granted or change their position with anyone else - but when you are in the hot seat and you feel the weight of so many people on your shoulders to do well by them and for them, there are days where you wonder if you should just go work for someone else and let them make the decisions for you.

I would venture that the worst feeling in the world is one of being trapped and not knowing what to do. When you are a startup founder, you are trapped all the time, and constantly between rocks and hard places. You need to learn everything but you don't know what exactly. You need to improve growth, improve product, improve retention, improve revenue, improve profitability, but you don't know how sometimes and you don't know who to ask, and a lot of the time you don't even know how to measure success when it does happen until well after the fact. Being a founder is not like anything else in the world, because it's the one societal role where up until you actually accomplish and build something of value and sustain it for a long period of time, there's nobody but your parents to say how proud they are of you.
Not sure if it's me, but the different width sizes makes it messy and cumbersome to read. I think it would be a lot more organizes if there was some more order to this. Also, not quite sure what the orange bordered stories means.
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This is a great idea. I think you should also give a little better description of what will be included in the box. I probably would have bought it if I knew what brands were being delivered to me. For example I have been wanting to try Syntha-6, which I see is in your photo, but I have no idea if that is what I would be getting. This may be part of your business model.
They are working on it :)

http://reprap.org/wiki/RepRap
Seconded - selector gadget is one of the best scraping tools around. You've saved me many a frustrated evenings.
The phrase "proper compiler-design principles" really gets on my nerves for some reason. It instantly makes me doubt the ability of the person saying it. It seems to say "I've heard of Lex/Yacc and once glanced at the Dragon Book".

Anyway, I gather the OP is a coffeescript core contributor, so my default opinion is probably wrong in this case, hopefully.
My Python answer http://stackoverflow.com/questions/746082/how-to-find-list-o... runs in 200ms on my laptop. It probably isn't actually within a factor of 2 of this C code, since I don't know what input board it was tested with to get 100ms, and it matters how much of the dictionary gets pruned while loading. I just stuck in a random 5x5 board and got 412ms real time, still pretty tolerable.

Edit: The next Python answer there uses a trie and takes 16.7 seconds on the 4x4 board. I like tries because they're elegant, but I hardly ever use them because the built-in collections are well-engineered even for problems you'd think are made for a trie.
You say he's had some experience, which doesn't seem to convey something that can be applied to a job. Ruby programmers are high in demand, and some companies even offer bootcamps. I recommend he check those out.
When visiting the site, I get "Array".
Because when you're guarding against events that are literally one in a billion, it defeats the whole purpose if your setup allows corrupt employees to sneak contraband through screening.
My bad...missed that it was YC companies.
That seemed to be the consensus, so I just gave them all the same width. Better?

Idk how to make it obvious, but grey is visited links, orange is unvisited.
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The intro doesn't show case the product enough for me. A video would be much better.
It's significantly more difficult to scale a traditional relational database (although not impossible!), than to scale the web/app layer that sits in front of it. Snapshot + clone + some kind of sync middleware (like pgpool for postgres) can probably get you 80-90% of the way there. Rearchitecting so that your db server is not the bottleneck should help there as well.

Maybe you need to have a master/slave setup, and on huge load, flip the slave instance over to be a instance type with quadruple the RAM and CPUs for a few hours, then back to a single-core, low-memory instance to keep the data-sycn flowing. There's a million ways to skin this cat.

If your database itself is the bottleneck, then, yeah, on the fly flexibility might be difficult to achieve.

In his case, a relational database probably isn't the bottleneck at all, and scaling out caches, web front ends, etc. is all fairly straight forward. There are huge numbers of folks taking advantage of this kind of flexibility.

Hell, Amazon has a whole API you can integrate with that handles it for you (even has $ references, so you don't accidentally spend yourself bankrupt because of a TC story).
I see parents lobbying to remove playground equipment that causes occasional scrapes, I see a proliferation of ridiculous warning signs, I see people freak out deeply and in large number over a heavily trafficked "dangerous intersection" that's seen one crash, non-fatal, in years.

People don't seem to like the TSA in general, but they like it more than not having it.
> There are many problems with clinical trials. Read Ben Goldacre for examples

Yes, and the statisticians in the FDA and the drug companies have a lot of experience in this.

I think they started looking at ways to end trials early back in the ADT (anti-HIV drug) days. It was partly due to popular pressure - people with AIDS didn't want to wait for the clinical trials. Lots of big angry protests.

And the cat and mouse game between regulators and big pharma cooking the books is also pretty mature.

There's problems with the system, but bad statistics is one of the smaller ones. The real problem is marginally effective drugs being used instead of better patent-expired ones, because the less effective (but not truly bad - they beat placebo) ones have bigger marketing budgets.