skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The best thing about how big skype is is that they have to maintain backwards compatibility (hardware skype phones that can't upgrade) so you can use whatever old version you want and it has to be supported by them. Which means you can stick to the old version which works fine without having to suffer through the new and "improved" glitzy version that is popup crazy and wants to hog all your system resources for what is essentially a chat program.
I meant "how are drones different from a legal perspective?"
> You say that as though it's a moral argument independent of other factors.

No, actually it's the fruit of some thinking the structure of our ageing western societies, and the fact that the most egalitarian societies are the happiest.

> Do you really believe that to be the case?

More than ever.

> If so, why should you disregard other factors like why people got into debt in the first place or how much savers had to sacrifice in their own lives to achieve their savings?

You know, I'm part of the 0.1% richest people on this planet (and you too, I suppose). However, I don't like to comfort myself thinking that I worked hard and deserved it, because I'm perfectly conscious that I never did work that hard (like digging shit in some hole) and I didn't really deserve it because my parents, and their parents before were doing pretty well already. I was lifted with the flow and not much else.

It's pretty easy to be under the illusion that as you didn't need that much effort to be what you are, whoever is below you must be a lazy ass, or stupid as a brick. Most of the time, however, they were just less lucky (OK they may be less gifted, or less intelligent, but that shouldn't make anyone deserving a lesser part of it all).

I've heard this song before of "lazy poor" and "hard working risk taking rich", about 1 billion times, and it always comes from people who had it easy. I don't really feel like beating this old horse more.
I'm sure the front end has had a lot of work and cleverness put into it, and I'm sure that it's able to, say, correctly guess where instruction boundaries are more than 99% of the time without knowing for sure and then remove those instructions from the queue if it turns out that the guess was wrong. But that just means that 4-wide decode is only on the same order of power consumption as execution, instead of being an order of magnitude more like if you'd done thing the naive way. I'm sure that the work they do _is_ stunning, but its work that doesn't even have to be done on more regular instruction sets.

It's not a problem with being variable length or CISC, its a problem with the lack of self-synchronization. If you, say, had 8 or 16 bit blocks were first bit of each block told you whether it was the beginning of an instruction you wouldn't have this problem at all. I'd generally say that for a modern general purpose computer variable length instructions and a large number of op-codes are a good idea, though a large number of addressing modes seems to still be a disadvantage. Its probably no accident that ARM, the "CISCiest" of the RISC processors is so popular right now.
Where exactly is Eve? All I can find is this poetry database.
They could even ship a device with an ARM core in addition to the Intel core, and only activate the Intel core for games etc.
June 30th 2012 will be 1 second longer: 23:59:60
Hi internet vigilantes lets have a chat,

I know this lawyer has done something we think is both morally wrong, legally dubious, and unintelligent. However the real life harassing of this individual is not something a civil society should condone. I would hope that at least the mob of individuals who frequent this web site would be a little classier then both Matthew Inman ,and the internet at larges response.

Why does it appear the internet only has two modes, Blind Adoration and Violent Lynch Mob ?
Continuous releases for now, probably make it major releases soon

ActiveRecord, Postgresql Database

Git for version control

Deployed to heroku (easy web deployment with just "git push heroku master")
It can be tricky assigning a cost to something that's so important to a startup (customer development). In almost every startup I've been involved with, the engineers who spent the most time talking to customers ended up being the ones who created the most valuable features.
Big props for silicon prairie! Living and working out of the midwest (Lincoln, NE for me, Omaha for my co-founder) is great at times (biggest win is that it's a lot more affordable) and not so great at other times - the tech scene is quite a bit smaller than the other major tech areas of the country and obviously access to funding and such is lacking compared to other areas. Not a big problem for us because we're bootstrapped but potentially a problem for startups looking for that kind of support.
Although it does break that annoying 4,294,967,296 open tabs limit!
Looks like a cross between connect four and tetris.

Beyond calling it `blue balls` I'd suggest making up a name which has a domain available.

Or just call it Connectris.

Also reminds me of a Star Trek TNG episode (The Game iirc) which had this game that just played itself if you let it, it almost seems to be like that.
I think one of the most common problems incredibly smart hackers have is working on "businesses" with no real viable... business. They probably don't expect you to know everything there is to know about a given market, but it would be a little silly to make an investment in a group that can't think through money and evaluate how worthwhile something could be.
Listening to his description of the creation and meaning of the Lake Isle of Innisfree makes me realize that I overthink the meaning of poems.
I'd been meaning to publish this post on doing a similar thing with Backbone and Node.js. Now seems as good a time as any...

http://pirt.co.uk/post/25095198148/hybrid-sql-nosql
Great! how do you plan to price it?
People need to stop applauding the internet retaliation mobs. Flaming this lawyer's email won't have any positive effect. If you want to show your support, donate to the charity, don't engage in anti-social behaviour. Generally speaking vigilantism and mob-vigilantism are negative.

Whether or not the target in this reddit / 4chan / whatever pile-on deserves it, taking part isn't good internet citizenry.
But don't ARM/Marvell/Qualcomm/Nvidia have a lot of smart people working on making an efficient fast front-end?

Overcoming an obstacle is great, but I feel like companies who don't have to overcome that obstacle can focus their energy on other aspects of the product.
Wow, raganwald is 50?!

I still remember when he stood up at the first YC Startup School to respond to pg's assertion that startups are for young people with no obligations to say, What better example to set for your kids, than to do something meaningful? This was in 2005; I thought he was in his mid thirties.

(At the time I had two kids of my own; now I have four and a company. And for what it's worth, I think my oldest is proud of his dad.)
Hybrid SQL / NoSQL with PostgreSQL and Backbone.js
Google Closure and require.js take care of this I believe.
MacBook Pro with Retina is an Absolute Disappointment...
Just unpacked it. It is incapable of making micro-brews!
I imaging that whole sites could be designed using only your proposed lawyer icon, possibly with some additional icon representing political correctness.
Now I AM scared ....

- off to hide under the bed!
Yeah you should try the HTML version of Gmail, it sucks.
by minipc i think it's trying to be a portable PC? 2GB NAND might be too limited for any PC, thus the storage. If it's for a IP STB, you still need storage for media files.
without a wireless keyboard/mouse, how can I use it as a consumer electronic device?
The rest are actually good example, i wish it exposes more IO pins for robotic and industrial usage, but meanwhile the chip needs to be industrial-qualified, not all tablet/cellphone chips can be used in industrial, if at all
> Ultimately he's just doing the job he was hired to do.

Being paid for doing evil is not an excuse.
Ask HN: Anyone Here Interested in Taking Classes in Design/UI/UX?
I am looking to teach engineers design principles and how to use tools like photoshop. The courses will be face to face in the bay area. My goal will be within a month to make you an awesome designer.

Email me for details fffsee@gmail.com.

Thanks and have a great day.
Debian 6.0.5 installed without any additional packages also, it was a straight replace.

edit: amd64
I've done it myself by using a very simple JSONField class, but I'm looking into using PostgreSQL HStore for a next iteration, as it allows me to search the models by attributes, something the JSON field doesn't.
Have you tried the actual packages?

The download page is confusing. I believe it should read "Fedora X or later". Previous package was for Fedora 10 I think, and I've been using it since Fedora 12.

EDIT: typo
You said you added 10% to the real figures. And you admit it's bullshit. You also admit that you weren't doing this for the money... but the investors are. You sound a disaster all round. Also, borderline lying to potential investors is morally wrong.
And then it gets returned to us as lost property a few weeks later, Star Trek style.
To begin with, we'll roll it out for all our customers with restrictions on the number of clickthroughs for each of our plans - http://webengage.com/pricing .. later, we plan to roll out each of our products separately with their own pricing as well. The basic paid version of Notifications will be priced in the range of $10/mo.
In order to launch something so far out you have to "slingshot" off the other planets. A launch window like that only comes once every so often.

"For example the Voyager missions which started in the late 1970s were made possible by the "Grand Tour" alignment of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. A similar alignment will not occur again until the middle of the 22nd century."

source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravitational_slingshot#Limits_...
Yes, I don't think instant loading is as high a priority for soundcloud as it is for twitter. Twitter shouldn't be a SPA I don't think, or at least not initially.
This makes no sense. They are adding more CPU cores to newer models. Are you saying that isn't useful?
This was the important part for me:

What I’d really like to leave you with here is the essence of how last night made us feel: the industry is shifting – not only its medium, not only its focus, but with it – and most significantly for theatres like us – it’s shifting the element of control. We’re in relationship with you, our audience, but it seems to me as though someone is trying to break us up.

So much of the problem with DRM, and the weirdness of copyright-based business models, is not logistic ("I want to watch the Matrix in HD now!") but aesthetic, artistic, moral: it feels wrong on a basic human level to thread your engagement with the culture through a maze of technical, legal, bureaucratic obeisance.

I've decided, personally, to do my best not to violate IP laws, because I don't want the moral hazard of arguing against a law while financially benefiting from violating it. I want my vision clear. But I can say with clear vision that there's something inhuman and anti-human about the scenario described in the article, and I hope we find a better way.
Ok, not sure of the point of this. Is there somewhere to see it in action or look at code, or is this purely a description of a concept?
Alert System Texts You When Your Dog Feels Threatened
That's a similar technique to what I'm doing; I use language-agnostic templates (mustache) so that I can do a full server side render, and then my Backbone app initializes with bootstrapped data. This way, we can progressively enhance the site and have a quick page load and at the same time build a single page Backbone app.
he's an asshole, so he's a potential rapist. he doesn't respect his daughter and wife, so a potential rapist. he is bothering me, so a potential rapist. i don't want him to make me uncomfortable, so let's make him publicly and nationally uncomfortable. great logic. i wish this world was filled with more awesome people like you.
Money Orgies: Investors Who Love Them, and Entrepreneurs Who Don't
Ask HN: How to hire a developer? 
I need to hire a developer soon.

I'm hoping to get some feedback from this community on how best to recruit a developer...

A few questions for developers:

- What specific information do you want from someone you're considering working with?

- If I am not sure which programming language the project will require what is the best way to communicate the scope and details of the project?

- What incentives do you look for in a project?

- What should I avoid in the recruiting process?

- Any other words of advice?

Answers to any or all of these questions is appreciated.

Thanks -
90% media in 6 corporations
why?
I put this at the end of my ~/.profile:

REALSHELLS="/usr/local/bin/zsh /usr/bin/zsh"
for REALSHELL in $REALSHELLS; do
if [ -e $REALSHELL ]; then
if ! $REALSHELL -l; then
echo "$REALSHELL exit $?"
fi
echo "$SHELL exit in 1s, Ctrl-C to abort"
sleep 1 && exit
fi
done
echo "No shells in [$REALSHELLS] found, falling back to $SHELL"
What isn't being done with integrity? What I've seen sofar is the government got New Zeland authorities to arrest people of MU who they believe are responsible for illegal activities in the US. A huge portion of MU's business physically resides in Virginia, so this seems legit to me.
The legal system is probably not even involved at this point. The lawyer simply asked for $20K under the threat of a further lawsuit.
I've toyed with the idea of marketing a police-forensics version, but honestly, direct mail never came to mind. Is there a specific reason you suggest direct mail for advertising to police departments?
Not just developers, but anybody who can contribute to a team, other than the person who is leading, is a resource. Includes designers, etc.

I mean, maybe they could have found a better all-encompassing word, but they apparently mean no disrespect to developers.
It sounds like the DoJ is waffling while they try to find charges that will stick and thereby justify their seizure. You can say they're like bank robbers all day, but at the end of that day, if you don't have something concrete to charge them with, it's a pointless waste of time, effort and money.
Show HN: sweepstakes + Twitter = TweetStakes
A friend of mine and I were talking a while back and we realized that it would be cool to run some sweepstakes on Twitter.
We put up a sign up page for a while to collect some emails and we got 200 sign ups.

Once we received some sign ups we got together about 2 weekends ago and we put together a web application that lets people create sweepstakes on Twitter by counting the mentions and picking winners etc.

I want to get your opinion on the site before we let those 200 people know that we are ready for beta. I would very much appreciate your feedback. Thanks in advance.

The url is: http://www.tweetstak.es
>Because we learned a lot about writing more robust and maintainable software since the 1970s.

Plan 9 wasn't written in the 70s. OpenBSD is another example, probably a better example given that their sshd is far more important, and running on far more machines than anything you've ever written. So it seems rather disingenuous to suggest that the authors of such software are wrong for writing simple, concise, effective code instead of your bizarre vision of C.
Wow, that is very good. I am total beginner in coding so there is nothing much I could say but I am just saying from a total beginners perspective. What would be your suggestion for me if I am planning to build some social application? Learn C first to gain some fundamental knowledge? And because it is still the most widely used language, if I don't know it I wouldn't be able to find a work in the future?
Wayland, Linux X11 replacement, successfully running X11 applications
CSS border-image changes and unprefixing
The people on the internet have more modes than that, but only the people who fall into one of those modes bother to write email.
My next startup's business plan, using £5000 of seed money to make £1B:

£2500 to bribe a young woman at a high-profile company to accuse their upper management of sexual harassment.

£2500 to bribe the cop for access to all of the company's data.

Sell to interested parties.

Repeat.
It's great seeing the Scottish startup scene represented on HN :) Well done for getting the interview, even if you didn't get in.
Old ones. Almost 2 generations old. They can barely get half of the performance of any other current high-end chip, and Mali T604 and Adreno 320 should be out in a few months with another 2-3x increase in performance.
If anyone is looking for more Midwest startup opportunities, Detroit is worth a glance. I'll copy a comment I made around a month ago [3]:

My opinion would point more towards something like Detroit. A city not well known for tech (and well known for not being an economic powerhouse). But with Dan Gilbert's "Webward Avenue" and Dan Izzo's "Bizdom U" startup accelerator (founded when YCombinator was still a baby), new tech is starting to trickle into Detroit. See also: Detroit Venture Partners, M@dison.

There's a backing of billionaires willing to put as much as they can into Detroit to make it a tech haven, and so far it's showing some progress. I don't live in or even near Detroit, but it's a pretty promising sign for a city (and state) suffering the full brunt of technology's impact on unskilled labor.

[1]http://www.mlive.com/news/detroit/index.ssf/2011/06/transfor...

[2]http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dan-izzo/go-midwest-young-entr...

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3923825
I agree. At the end of the day you still have to be pragmatic and intellectually honest to yourself. But if the critique is coming from someone who only heard your concept for the first time or that he/she has no domain expertise in the industry you're trying to get into then you should not accept it too easily. There is always a fine line between being stubborn and having dogged determination.....
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Similar situation here in Madison (is there a name for us?). We are not looking for funding but if you do, you face a lot of investors who don't understand software products, and the terms are much worse for the entrepreneur. This will just take time to change.

One big win other companies here have noted is finding great employees that stick around is easier here. There is a great university in Madison (that frankly sources many great developers for the valley) and it's just a matter of making people realize you can do cool stuff from anywhere, as long as you have an internet connection.

I love the west coast, but right now I'd rather just travel there periodically and focus on my product here.
We weren’t really arguing, just making two important but somewhat orthogonal points about the same subject :-)

First, when you’re young and childless IS the best time to start a business, you have less to lose and a greater chance of success.

Second, just because you aren’t young or aren’t childless is no reason not to start a business. (Caveat: It may be a reason you will not succeed financially!)

You could simplify this by saying, today is a better day to start following your dream than tomorrow, for any value of today.
We had gone through our business case and it was solid. We based our numbers on what we had achieved in the first two months of launch (with 0 marketing budget). We had been approached and offered investment as well as a global IT company asking for an exclusivity deal.

However, I think the numbers that the Valley works on is on a different scale and that's what we are trying to convey in the blog post (not bulshitting without basis).
Potentially less than 50/50. The "entrepreneur" gets $1k, the rest of the resources have to split the other $1k. Doesn't seem that fair to me
Well if thats how its going to be perhaps I'll register a bail of hay and a bunch scrap metal I have laying around as a resource.

On another note its amazes me that the term resource in business speak hasn't become obsolete. Your job as an entrepreneur/manager/etc by enlarge is to motivate people to do work - objectifying those people doesn't help.
Seems to me that the argument you cite is made out of hopelessness rather than hope. I may be pragmatic, and even wise, but I don't like it. I at least like to think that we can reign in the government and compel it to live by certain moral standards.
They're not. That's why we're talking about passing a law that makes them different.
Completely agreed about a difference in scale between US (your comment said UK, typo?) and rest of world. We knew we could make money but it seems like YC is after more consumer-oriented startups that can scale to huge numbers. So if you're like us from the UK, where the culture is much more conservative, what choice do you have? We spoke to groups that were telling us they could make upwards up $20M in 2-3 years! How can you justify that when you've just launched 2 months ago and have made 0 so far.
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> Spamming is one thing, and obnoxious. But I find it a tad hypocritical to accept A/B testing colours on a button to squeeze another buck from someone, but reject someone A/B testing content to find out what combination of words in the title creates the most page views. It's the same business.

Oh come on. It's clearly not the changing of the URL in and of itself that I was objecting to. It's the doing it for the express purpose of submitting it twice to a site which has a filter set up in order to prevent that behavior.

I can't believe you didn't understand that from the get go, so I can only conclude that you are being deliberately obtuse which is annoying.
THIS.

I'm not clear what business the OP thinks that YC is in that they'd be interested in companies that don't have a story about how they could get huge. This doesn't have to be bullshit if your idea is a beachhead for something bigger. Not all startup ideas can have a story-- but I think most can if the founders are ambitious/imaginative enough. Example: If you had a hot social site for a single college in 2004, do you think you could spin a credible story on how it could be big? And, once it was big, how it might make money? Or if you sold books on the web in 1994, could you craft a story about how that get huge?
Headline "HN User Mindcrime labels Startup Hackathon 'Fuck You'"

Seriously, WTF? I am not a bloody resource, I am a human being. Anybody who talks about people as "resources" is scum as far as I'm concerned.
Thanks! Were you at TechMeetup in Edinburgh last night by any chance?
Catchfree acquires Kissinsights
Why not just append all of the views in TableView render, and then have TableRowView set its own ID in its initialize or render method?

I think that would be more concise and straightforward.
Do you think they heard my comment yesterday (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4107759)? Thanks for finally deciding to provide me with new Linux software. I'm also super excited about seeing more meaningless ads ... but where were you when I needed you?

I'm actually a bit surprised that you're even trying this since it seems to be a well-proven fact that Microsoft can't make money on search or ads. And if you needed additional revenue, did you ever consider asking people to pay you for your service?

As an interesting aside, Skype's move to using super-nodes that are controlled by them is also useful for the change to an advertisement supported business. Can you imagine how hard it would be to share ad revenue with regular users whose computers had been promoted to super-nodes simply because of bandwidth capacity and their up-time numbers?