skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I admit, that was a poor choice of words. How about second most visible, or second most prestigious?

My point was that it's an enviable position, not least of which because it's a great stepping stone to becoming president. Actual political power aside.
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>How dare those gays demand to be treated like everyone else? How very dare they?

Everyone else is treated this way. I cannot take another man and try to marry him. In the government's eyes, same-sex partners simply do not qualify for the benefits provided by marriage. It is the same as attempting to apply for welfare while making $250k/yr, or whatever; it's nothing personal or discriminatory to an unchangeable attribute of my biological makeup, the government just has not decided it is in its interest to give money out to people who make $250k/yr. Likewise, the government has not decided it is in its interest to grant privileges to permanent homosexual couples.

As I have stated elsewhere, this is fundamentally different from denying any privilege simply due to an external, unchangeable physical attribute like ethnicity; if no black people could get any welfare, that would be bad, but because it takes positive action, intent, and forethought to make $250k/yr (even if it is just in claiming the cash offered via inheritance, etc.) or to bring another person of the same sex and request a marriage license, these are valid points of "discrimination". All citizens are being treated equally; no one is allowed to qualify for a marriage license with a same sex partner, regardless of any other consideration, just as no one is allowed to qualify for welfare with a $250k/yr salary.

Any argument in favor of gay marriage must establish why it is in the the state's interest to grant privileges to permanent homosexual couples, just as any claimaint who wants to gather welfare despite his $250k/yr salary must establish why it is in the state and/or community's interest to give him that welfare.
I installed it but it doesn't seem to be working. No errors in the background html page for it either.

EDIT: nvm, I have to click on the username for the pop up thing.
Surely this will prevent people from downloading pirated copies of said software.
What's the difference between this and Droplr/CloudApp?

http://droplr.com
http://cloudapp.com
Back in the old days your comment would've been in the top spot here (despite what my profile says, I lurked for far longer so I do remember). Now, as of this writing you're at 3. You are totally right and your position in these comments can only support your view.
You do a much better job that app.net at demoing your service. I can't even see what an app.net site looks like, whereas I've seen your service and am already really excited about it.
I guess need a delivery trust component. Vendor should send only with tracked/signature required service and provide receipt as a proof of shipment.
It's more likely that the shutdown was planned to coincide with the SOPA bill. Even though SOPA was unexpectedly derailed, the raid had too much momentum and continued on regardless.
If people pursue a discipline because "the industry is hot", rather than because of genuine interest in the subject or enjoyment of learning / improving, bad things happen to them when the industry inevitably cools down.

I think about the CS majors during the times of the .dom boom, or the architecture majors during the housing/construction boom, and wonder how many students were stuck with a degree that was difficult to find a job with, and were not inherently interested about in the first place.
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> I know him in RL, and right now new HN accounts cannot be created.

They cannot be created from the login page, but a prompt is offered to create a new account when replying to a comment.
I don't think you can ctrl+V (paste) screenshots into those. This app allows you to do just that for screenshots. It's not really for file sharing.
I meant that the interaction with Siri looks basically like a chatlog (conversational).

Here's what I misunderstood - I thought Jelly Bean was the same, but he would always just tap away the last item in the video so we don't see it. Maybe there is no scrollable backlog in Jelly Bean.
I love when experts give their opinion.
I'm very happy to pay that price. It was annoying though that the pricing was hidden and I had to come to the comments here to discover the price.

I hope you ignore the people that complain and nitpick the price. They may be the most vocal, but there are plenty of us who value our time more than money and 15 bucks is a great deal.

That said, don't make me hunt down the price. It wastes my time and energy. Display the price and you'll generate goodwill with the customers that actually matter.
GE or IBM?
CloudApp: CTRL + OPTION + C

Uploads contents of clipboard.

You can also drag/drop to the icon in the menubar, as well as auto-upload after ⌘ + SHIFT + 3/4.
Having recently accepted an admission to Stanford as a grad student, I can tell you that Andrew Ng's Machine Learning online class was what inspired me to go back to school.

I was looking to enter a math-heavy CS sub-field, and his class opened my eyes to the potential for broader adoption of AI.
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...well I hoped those "portals" would let us "teleport" & stuff :(
You want to fight God?

God says...
8:14 Jesus answered and said unto them, Though I bear record of
myself, yet my record is true: for I know whence I came, and whither I
go; but ye cannot tell whence I come, and whither I go.

8:15 Ye judge after the flesh; I judge no man.

8:16 And yet if I judge, my judgment is true: for I am not alone, but
I and the Father that sent me.

8:17 It is also written in your law, that the testimony of two men is
true.

8:18 I am one that bear witness of myself, and the Father that sent me
beareth witness of me.

8:19 Then said they unto him, Where is thy Father? Jesus answered, Ye
neither know me, nor my Father: if ye had known me, ye should have
known my Father also.
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Bubble. No way are all those kids going to be real programmers.
It took years for anyone to take responsibility for allowing him to continue to practice and abuse the system, and he was famous for trolling the legal system. That tells me the bar needs some serious reform.
Curiously, Microsoft's most exciting project outside of the general SV/HN community, Xbox, is absent.
It depends on the jurisdiction and circumstances. In Federal Court, there are sanctions as a penalty (to deter more frivolous action) and damages (to compensate the other side). See http://www.law.cornell.edu/rules/frcp/rule_11#rule_11_c

A court may:
- Order one side pay for the other side's attorney's fees
- Order one side to pay for the court's wasted time
- Dismiss the case
- Issue a public reprimand

Also, an attorney may violate professional responsibility laws which could have other penalties, such as being disbarred.
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Yeah-if I recall correctly, Welch's point was not that the system was perfect, but that it was a massive improvement over what they had.

It's worth noting that Welch himself almost got fired from GE early in his career-so he knows that performance evaluations aren't 100 just!
I think in many ways, CS is a very cerebral job. You really need to like it to be good at it.
that being said, I know several people who were not "nerds" but completely love CS. (actually, they might have become nerds on their path to CS...hmmm...)
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The point is that we can all relate to the average homeowner buying a handgun for protection

Can we? Where I live, buying a pistol or an assault rifle for self-defence would get you viewed the same by your neighbours. I'd actually be more concerned if I heard someone on the street brag about their pistol because it's much easier to carry about secretely than a rifle.

This reminds me of the term 'security theatre', which is why I think the analogy is a bad analogy.
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There's also the whole problem where there is no love for maintenance work, and you have to create massive new systems to get anywhere. This biases things towards creation, deployment, and then flying the coop. The zombie projects which follow are inevitable.

The whole thing about "the one which is deprecated and the one which isn't ready yet" is rooted in reality.
I'll just point out that some people rely on the crowd at HN to help them find good and interesting news that gets lost in the crowds. If one does this long enough, one decides not to spend as much time at other sites, finding deep and enjoyable conversation among folks here.

For those folks, it's possible they won't hear much about this story elsewhere, and certainly not the interesting opinions of the HN folks.

The reddit point is appropriate, but still, I'm actually interested in the spin HN folks put on these types of non-startuppy stories.
"Cancer Research" and "Energy Crisis" seem to be pretty good sources of funding these days. A lot of labs have small projects/applications in these two fields since it often greatly helps them get funding.
From your post "Update 17 Jan 2012: Of the top 100 sites most visited on the internet, 71 of them have content specifically designed for mobile devices."
-- I feel like websites with extremely large budgets (top 100) would currently be best served by mobile specific sites because they don't have to worry as much about the costs of updating/testing multiple different sites that most others do.

That being said, as the number of different mobiles devices quickly rises it will soon become near impossible to maintain a mobile site specific to every device.
Zonal Marking is a fantastic site for tactical minded football fans. Highly recommended. Not overly surprised that its referenced 2 or 3 times on HN.
Switzerland is the closest example of Chelsea/Inter in the case of Spain. Switzerland shut down the midfield pretty effectively, however Spain were particularly awful in that game, and Spain did remedy that situation later on.

In watching Euro2012, I have found it amusing about Spain being called boring by plenty of authors. The only way teams have found to stop Spain has been to park the bus, and let Spain have the ball for long periods. The negativity of opposing teams was reason for the lack of activity in the final third of the field. The result Italy in the final was a great example of what happens when a team tries to attack Spain. They get beaten soundly.
It is very much satire of the batches of "a Day in the Life" posts from people involved in startups that have been posted lately, along with startup stereotypes as a whole. Please don't take it literally.
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This graph could just as easily be explained as people with high incomes (Mac users generally do) are more insulated from economic downturn than the people buying $300 laptops.

Not if you look at the labels on the horizontal axis and you know when the downturn actually began.
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There is a much smaller quantity of seats that need to be acquired to scalp the market and push out competition. The spread is much higher if you know there is a relatively high demand that cannot be justifiably spent elsewhere.
A better comparison might be made with Jack Thompson, the lawyer who first appeared on the scene as an upstanding moral crusader against the evils of video game violence, and eventually ended up disbarred for abusive and erratic behavior.

This isn't the last we'll hear of Mr. Carreon, rest assured. He hasn't hit bottom yet.
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Browser war upcoming. Facebook recently added Chrome to their list of unsupported browsers (http://www.zurb.com/article/991/facebooks-unsupported-browse...) and this is obviously a counter-attack from Google. Google seem to be pretty sure that Facebook will in fact buy Opera.
Everything is amazing, but I especially liked a screenshot of the New Wallet. Metro app done right!
It's a parody.

But real HackNY, for me personally, is hack at work for 9-10 hours, then hack with fellows on personal projects for 2 hours or go to a talk with an established person in the tech industry, rinse and repeat.

If you want an factual diary of the day, I can write one for you, but as it's a lot of coding and networking, you would probably find it dry.
Please consider adding Android as well as Mac apps. I'd sign up for an unlimited account today if you handled Mac apps.
And how many of them "reach the end"? How many of them are women?
see also wkhtmltoimage: http://code.google.com/p/wkhtmltopdf/
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Great to hear! Definitely coming soon - if you have signed up for a free account, you'll be the first to know when we add it.
Thanks for that. Will look at ways we can improve the experience.
I hack on my mechanical keyboard, with my keyboard driven window manager, using my television as a monitor, because I don't pay for cable while I browse the interwebs using emacs or maybe elinks (with TABS on but JAVASCRIPT OFF) unless I have to use a graphical terminal for something like flash or java in which case I use firefox with noscript and allow scripts as needed until things work.

But, I recently shaved my neckbeard. So there's that going for my class!
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I think most of us took it literally...
I don't think Bryan is being lax with history at all. In fact, he completely nailed it. The only points in your comment that I found persuasive, on the other hand, are that Windows is indeed becoming irrelevant, SQL Server probably has an edge over MySQL in some ways, and Exchange needs to die a quick death. The rest just doesn't fly.

Hatred for Microsoft doesn't exist any longer? Says who? I believe it runs much deeper and stronger than you realize. I haven't purchased a Microsoft product in well over a decade, and that "purchase" was a PC preloaded with an OEM license of Windows that I had no way of not buying. My loathing for Microsoft was sown over decades of the most user-hostile, winner-take-all, I-will-rip-off-your-head-and-shit-down-your-neck corporate culture I've ever witnessed. Bryan calling Microsoft "predatory" is being kind.

I'm not sure what "OS field that has been gaining serious traction for the last 3 or 4 years" refers to, but if you're talking about desktop computing, they are doing exactly the opposite of gaining traction: http://twitpic.com/a31jis They aren't just becoming irrelevant to the elite; Microsoft is rapidly becoming just plain irrelevant.

How does C#'s popularity debunk Bryan's entire argument? A lot of companies still use Windows (for now), which means a lot of people use C# to develop applications for those computers. I don't see how this debunks much of anything.

SQL Server is good. Is it better than MySQL in some ways? Sure. What are the chances I'd select SQL Server instead of PostgreSQL? Zero percent. So that's a false equivalence right there, but that's besides the point. The reason people use MySQL or PostgreSQL instead of SQL Server is that you don't need Windows. Why tie yourself to a user-hostile company that's only going to charge you ad infinitum upgrades for a malware-ridden operating system? Even if SQL Server were heads-and-shoulders above MySQL/PostgreSQL, people would avoid it because you can't get it without Windows.

As I said, Bryan really nailed this: you're either burned so badly by Microsoft that "hatred" doesn't even begin to describe your feelings, or you're apathetic because the world has moved on and Microsoft continues to pretend like they live in the 1990s. With Ballmer at the helm, steering Microsoft towards seemingly inevitable obsolescence, Microsoft appears destined to eventually join Wang, Sun, RIM, Nokia, and the other dead or soon-to-be-dead. It didn't have to end that way, but reaping what you sow is generally the way the world works.
Thats a great point, but I don't think you can quite capture the full breadth of current emotion under the term 'future'.

The issues you mentioned about the current age are primarily focused on society/civilization, and I'd say people certainly fear the depersonalization of society and the break down of current civilization.

The branding on the other hand isn't really focused on the human aspect of the future, its an idealized vision of new possibilities that future scientific progress holds. IMO, Scientific progress as a whole has positive connotations with the public and is still seen as the "way out of here" that you mentioned.

I like your idea about selling the American dream though. That seems like an easier strategy for Microsoft to transition to compared to this futuristic idea, and I think it would capture the non tech-savvy consumer market (which is the huge majority) more effectively than current marketing techniques.
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I can recall a case where Govt interference killed off an entire startup scene - datacasting. When Australia announced its move to a digital spectrum back around 2000 there were a bunch of us that started developing product for it, when the Gov't finally announced what content could be broadcast (childrens programmes) we closed up shop the next day. So we lasted 12 months, had major backing from the Ten Network and had working product demos.
I think to a large degree the Govt at the time adopted Kerry Packers stance to keep the status quo.
This is all reflected in what we have today, slightly better resolution and an EPG? Absolutely zero innovation is happening in this space as a result of the Govt.
A lot of ppl have the drive, and have made sacrifices. I was temporarily homeless for a few months and slept out of the company's office. One of my friends is living rent free in an investor's living room, and I've heard of others doing this.

Don't get me wrong. The vast majority of people probably wouldn't be willing to make these kinds of sacrifices. I'm also not putting down Kurt's drive, but sacrifice is probably not a big enough limiting factor to auto get into YC.
I'm really sorry to hear that. We had some people read it and they enjoyed it, but they were from the area and already knew what HackNY was.
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Like many online communities, HN has some productive and informed individuals, but it has a much larger peanut gallery of haters and naysayers. HN is a great place to get insights and inspiration sometimes, but nobody should stop, or not start, a project based on a fear of HN's reaction. Peanut galleries don't matter.

For the most part, generative people give constructive and positive feedback anyway. Unless you are doing somethig horrible, those people are supportive. That's been my experience at least.
Simply brilliant, what's everyone bellow and above's me problem lol, can't someone work just be appreciated. Sheesh
iGoogle was like the first thing in a long time they did that I actually liked and used. Today is a sad day, at least for my homepage.
No way, DDG results are great. Only about 1 in 10 times do I end up searching again on other engines.
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The database is not the model but the db operations are usually in the model, right?

My point though is in essentially shimming functionality. In my example, for example, here is how it would work.

1) User requests "save this invoice", which activates a controller script which automates the model elements for "invoice" instantiates an invoice (since this is a stateless web app) and saves it.

2) The model saves the invoice by writing it to the db.

3) Saving to the db fires a trigger which checks ROP vs on-hand and where ROP is greater saves a record in a queue table and issues an asynchronous notification, which doesn't have any immediate effect.

4) Controller commits the db transaction. The DB sends out the notification and makes the rows in the queue table visible.

5) Controller for application b wakes up (let's say every 15 min) and polls for notifications. Ok, we got one. Look up the queue table, prepare the email (model stuff) runt he template (view stuff) and sent it out (model stuff again).

So what I am getting at here is a way to have model events have side effects which are outside the scope of Application A, but are at least triggered by model operations. This is not an anti-pattern really because application A is not relying on those side-effects for operation. However if you look at application A as the primary one and application B as contained within it, then application B can only be described as contained within the model of application A, from application A's perspective, because all of its functionality is abstracted behind the model. From application B's perspective, there is a model, a view, and a controller, and it doesn't care as to where notifications and queue table data is coming from. From it's perspective it is a loosely coupled app in its own right.

But as always what I am suggesting is that common sense usually determines the best place for a given piece of logic. LedgerSMB is very model-centric but there are cases where we have a fair bit of logic in the controller.* I think that anything which is inherent in the model belongs in the model. So back to the vehicle analogy, a bike object should support a $bike->turn('l') and a $bike->turn('r'). However telling the bike when to turn left is the controller's job.

* for example in contact and employee management, the controller has to coordinate a lot of different model operations, leading to unusually long/complex model code in the system.
The fact that you claimed that I had made assumptions that I had not in fact made demonstrates your level of understanding.

Can we dismiss the snide remarks?

I freely admit that I have never gone to burning man, nor could I possibly fit something like that into my life for many years. However that said, a better understanding of money and economics would ironically enable burning man to better set things up to create a space that is free from monetary concerns.

With the strategy that I proposed, they would be in a better position to make the event as big as it could possibly be at exactly the lowest price that breaks even. And to do it in a way that limits the ability of scalpers to take money from people who want to be at burning man, while providing freedom for people who need to change their minds to actually change their minds. (It also provides the ability to buy tickets with the purpose of gifting them to others, without having to worry about who those others might be.)

Think of it as a piece of economic judo, using economics to best produce a non-economic outcome. In some sense it is not entirely dissimilar to how a copyleft license uses copyright law to achieve a purpose that is diametrically opposite to what that law was originally intended for.
Ah ok, it appears then ScreenBin differentiates from CloudApp because it doesn't require any installing/downloading of an app to utilize. It's completely in browser.
actually, I know exactly what hackNY is. I read the article and was like "woah! hackNY isn't as cool as I thought it was..."

I'm glad to know it's a parody, maybe I'm just a little dense.
Agreed. <2000 is pretty common.
Nuke, Smoke, Houdini, Maya, rv.

Wrong on second point regarding video.
Hahah touche, -4 on that post. My bad. HN is so mysterious
The funny thing is most of those kids probably just want to learn how to make iphone apps and pretty websites but before they realize it they're stuck figuring out sorting algorithms and regex theory.
Luckily, many people can major CS but only the competent can pass...given its a respectable program.