skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
the definition of bourbon varies based on country, but pretty much it's anything over 50% corn based.

The difference in "Tennessee Whiskey" is the charcoal filtration. They pour the whiskey over an enormous pile of charcoal, which provides a unique flavor, independent of standard bourbon. They obtained the legal right to distinguish it this way a long time ago. To me, technically, Tennessee Whiskey could be called bourbon, but bourbon should not be called Tennessee Whiskey without this process. IE, square/rectangle relationship.

After the charcoals, it goes to the barrels, and anything that ages appropriately (usually depends on the height of the barrel in the storeroom and the strength of the winters/summers) between, I think, 3 and 7 years becomes JD black label. If it hasn't aged after 7 years, it becomes green label. Gentlemen Jack gets put through the coals twice, and single-barrel is well, single-barrel.

If you haven't been to Lynchburg, I recommend it. It's an awesome tour.
I currently do this with my entire .emacs.d directory, but it sounds like Derbasti only pulls his .emacs, and then has code to check for installed packages and get any that are missing.
Another story of keeping secrets at Apple - http://www.quora.com/Apple-Inc-2/How-does-Apple-keep-secrets...
Aw man, this is a poorly designed survey. The amount of data cleaning you'll have to do is tremendous. I would recommend spending a bit more time up front making drop-downs for units, verifying that numbers are entered, etc. You'll actually probably save a lot of time in data cleaning this way and your cleaned data will be more accurate.
I wish HN would make users confirm a "Does it matter?" alert before posting.
Qantas passengers to get iPads for in-flight entertainment
Nice, a quick permalink would be a nice addition (I know you na click the image and get what I assume is a permalink, but it wasn't immediately obvious).
By definition the problems of greece are the problems of germany because they share the same currency. As greece is unable to pay its debts, the only ways to help it are inflationary. Monetary inflation is what drives down the value of currencies, and thus the value of the currency germany uses will be driven down at the same time.

We're in the process of experiencing an economic collapse in the USA, and in Europe right now, and have been since 2008. The thing is, these things start small and people don't understand them until they are well underway... just as people didn't think there was going to be a problem in 2008 back in 2001 when the cause of the collapse started.
I would argue about frontend developers feeling anyhow inferior to Java/Android developers. It just doesn't make sense to learn entire new platform to ship some random app.

You can't be a good programmer if you are jumping from one technology to another too often. I would prefer
to use an app written in HTML/CSS/JS by experienced frontend developer than an app written in Java by someone who just read "Teach Yourself Java in 24 Hours (Covering Java 7 and Android)".
Great remark. So, what's wrong with our incentives?
It's googleplus page so it probably needs your google ID.
In the strict first amendment sense - no he isn't (with the possible exception of the Nirvana one)

The parody protection is very narrowly defined, mainly to stop the target using it to squash opposition. You can't automatically use artist X's tune/style/etc to parody politician Y. And just making your own funny version of something is definitely not
About Elio Assuncao
Could you give some examples of "blatantly CIA-created propaganda" here on HN? If it's virtually impossible to prove, how are you so sure?
It strikes me that the interesting problem to solve here is the legal liability.

Even if you're perfectly in the clear - protected by the first amendment - that doesn't stop people from attempting to sue you. So I wonder how they deal with that risk.
Any city has its pros and cons.
I am currently an intern in a tech start-up in Paris, the city has many co-working spaces / incubators. The start-up scene is bigger every day, and yes you won't speak french 70% of the day.

Anyway just saying the document seems to be a nice post card from Berlin but the same things are happening everywhere.

Last year it was Paris (Wired.com): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rt2bHumqDFs
A lot of people seem to be questioning whether we need a new programming language. Nobody needs a new anything most of the time. At least for me, I enjoy it when people create all sorts of new programming languages. It gives me a new way to try things and interesting insights into something I would have never thought about before. I think all of these languages that compile to Javascript are great.
This is really cool. It seems like this would benefit from being built around a Raspberry Pi than an Arduino -- that way you could avoid the dependency on an external PC and expensive software -- and make the whole thing portable.
The speyside was a nod to anyone out there that can pronounce Edinburgh and doesn't think that Scotland is in londonshire ;-) And yes Islay malts are wonderful.

I could never understand the "knocking back a drink with a grimace" type drinks though.
> Individual personal efforts of avoiding patents will be completely inconsequential.

Were every software engineer to do what I do, there would be far fewer spurious patents.

"Individual personal efforts of avoiding patents will be completely inconsequential," is the worst sort of abrogation of personal responsibility.
Nice 9gag redo.

Consider putting your images on a CDN like cloudfront. They take quite some time to load.
A loading bar on the images would be useful.
Incorporate. Pay out high salaries.
People are running out of good ideas for products.
> With potential backlash from privacy groups and customers [...]

We should be glad that this type of backlash is ready to rear it's head. The limiting factor to the revenues gathered from data sharing are public/contractual commitments to protect consumer privacy and the threat of consumer backlash. The key here is that the data sharing is only with law enforcement -- we're all lucky that they're not actively sharing with: a) each other or b) other corporate interests

I don't know how much longer that can or will last though. Ad exchanges are becoming easier and easier to integrate with each passing quarter, along with a wider variety of bidders. Depending on the evolving bid action, carriers searching for alternate growth revenue streams may (have already?) seriously consider(ed) how much this type of data sharing is worth.

The great news is that this type of exercise has a lot of hurdles (regulatory, consumer privacy, integration and billing, consumer permission, growth justification) to overcome before they graduate from sharing with just law enforcement to a wider audience.
Monopolies are not illegal under antitrust. What is illegal are certain practices designed to lead to monopoly, including using dominance in one market to try to gain power in another, unrelated market.

By bundling the browser and penalizing manufacturers who wanted to bundle a different browser in addition or instead of Microsoft's, Microsoft was using their dominance in one market (desktop operating systems for x86 PCs) to try to gain power in an unrelated market (internet browsing applications that run on Windows). Hence, they ran into antitrust problems.

In tablets and smartphones, there has not really been a separate market for internet browsing applications. The market for tablets and smartphones has been for complete internet devices (hardware, OS, and browser) from the start.
You still have to prepare the application and pay some fees. http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/ac/qs/ope/fee092611.htm

If a doubly-linked list is patentable, how many things have you built this month that are also patentable? Do you really have time to write all those bogus patent applications? In academia, it's a much better use of time to publish scientific papers, present at conferences, and put it in open source software. Industry has market-driven motivations.
Yeah, we will see how it goes. If it grows, we will definitely move to a CDN. Thanks for your comment! :)
Yeah maybe we should put a small input field or some icon indicating a permalink to the right. Thanks!
The new laws introduced for the OxxxxxxxICS are ridiculous - it's now a criminal offence to use:

..any two of the following:
Games, 2012, Two Thousand and Twelve Twenty Twelve

Or use of any one of them alongside any mention of:
gold, silver, bronze, London, medals, sponsor, sponsors

http://www.shoosmiths.co.uk/news/3983.asp
1. Get rid of the refresh button and have it auto refresh every 5 minutes.

2. Clear items that have been visited.

3. Add a clear all items item.

4. Show 25 (edit make that 30, same as HN front page) items and make it fit on a Air 11"
Lawyers almost never want to go to court. They bill you for the hours preparing the case beforehand - but it's in court that they can lose.
If a psychopath wants an assault rifle, they will go to any means to obtain one, regardless of it is legal to own one wherever they live. Meanwhile, if you have unarmed police and no armed civilians, you are likely to have killers go on even more unstoppable rampages.

Additionally, killers who can't get guns will just resort to other methods of mass destruction, like our little theater shooter who had bombs and gas grenades as well. You can build a pipe bomb in your own basement with commodity supplies. Tools of destruction are cheap and always readily available.
Heh, I've spent 95% of my life living in Oxford, I got pretty used to "excuse me, can you tell me how to get to Oxford University?"

What sort of thing are you talking about with the "knocking back.."? For most people the first time you drink any whisky is like that, for many so is the first time you drink beer.
Looks like a cool service!
And how does not having code names for products ruin the great story more when the product is known? It wasn't about secrecy, remember...
"Software patents are bad, but they are legal and everybody is doing it, so I have to do it, too."

grellas, I respect your opinions and appreciate your contributions here on HN, but this is wrong.

There are countless profitable and legal but unethical actions you could substitute in your analysis that make "perfect sense for a rational economic actor."
I agree, but people don't want to hear that. Something must be done, think of the children. Political positions must be advanced, panicked news segments must be filmed, panel discussions must be held, Bill Maher has to run his mouth about conservatives, Rush Limbaugh has to run his mouth about liberals, opportunists must seize the moment, narratives must be created. Shit, man, there's too much gold in this tragedy to just throw it away!

Nobody likes hearing that the universe is uncaring and unpredictable. That's just a fucking bummer.
I'm upvoting entirely because of the absolutely genius name.

Feedback: on the upload page the title field isn't limited on length even though it has a limit so I can type >64 characters. Also I'm getting "We're sorry, but something went wrong." on uploading.
=== How To Be A Paranoid Conspiracy Theorist And Make It Impossible For Others To Criticize You ===

1) Make a list of all the methods people use to criticize you. Such as demanding evidence, questioning your motives, calling you a conspiracy theorist.

2) Rename the list, "How to Control an Internet Forum, Rules of Disinformation, Techniques for Truth Suppression"

3) Mix in some legitimate methods so your agenda doesn't seem too obvious.

4) Publish list on the internet under the disguise of looking like you just want to help forum owners foresee and prevent trolling problems.

5) Watch as unknowing innocent people submit and upvote your propaganda thinking they're helping the community.

Read between the lines and you'll see it. And it was written in such a way that you can't criticize him in any way without breaking one his "Rules for Truth Suppression" or "Disinformation". Cleverly written in such a way that doesn't allow you to criticize obvious things or demand evidence. Thus making the author win no matter what. I live with a conspiracy theorist father who uses some of these himself. Not to mention I was a religious fanatic myself and am well trained in spotting the same bullshit I used to spread. Sorry man, nice try, pretty clever though.
Great idea. I definitely like the use of apple/ios design elements with the tabs/cells.

For me, personally, I'm afraid this kind of thing might go the way of the twitter app. At first really handy, then mostly distracting. =-/ If only I had more will power.

We'll see how long I can keep it up there!
But at what point is the significant increase in speed returning only a marginal increase in customer satisfaction? If the experience is the same in terms of usable speed, then it will come down to what is cheaper and easier (which will probably be whichever is more open).
public sector vs private sector metaphors are mostly nonsense. It's nice to say 'public sector' or 'publicly owned', but in reality the words and definitions are a creation of orwellian-style double speak. It's propaganda.

Institutions like NASA or any other government institution is owned and controlled just as much as IBM or Microsoft. They are all a for-profit institution simply because the people working and running them are in it for themselves.

Democracy seems like it would allow another means of control for the 'public' over the 'public institutions', but was easily nullified by the bi-partisan system. Effectively this country is controlled through two major political dynasties since just about the beginning. And these political dynasties are not driven by ideological differences, they exist for using political means to provide economic benefit for themselves. Democracy can only work on small scales; in city-states were they cannot control population movement. At the small scale governments are easily controlled by their tax base. On a large scale they cannot.

That is to say nobody works for free. Everybody works for profit, otherwise there is no point in working and no point in participating in the institutions in the first place. And a organization is nothing but a body of participating individuals.

The major difference is that government institutions are able to use the political means, that is violence, to get the funding and resources they desire. Where as a 'private' corporation either has to go through the government to get access to the political means or obtain what they want through economic means in the market place.

Ultimately when you say 'public sector' versus 'private sector' you are saying 'people that work for profit that you are required to pay by law' versus 'people that work for profit that can only obtain funding through the market'.

Unfortunately the government is intertwined very very deeply into the economic system of this country. When you get to the large corporations the distinction between government and private corporations is _very_ blurred.
I hope the Tech Evangelists (shills) don't get a hold of this document. Give this a read, the good stuff starts at Page 3.
http://techrights.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/comes-3096....
I'm not so sure about this whole "tell a great story" shabang. Sure, it's a part of the whole picture, but I am definately sure that Apple has a lot more to gain to keep things under the lid as long as possible, then to just "tell a great story". Means to an end, so to speak.
For the vast majority of Apple's customers the first glimpse of a new product will be through a news item or television advert.

And the vast majority of people writing those news items will frame their descriptions of the product based on the anchoring that Steve Jobs employed during the keynote.
To kill software patents, don't abstain from patenting software. Do the opposite. Flood the patent office with so many ridiculous and obvious software patents and clog up their system so bad, they'll be forced to deny all of them or just let applications sit pending for decades.
How is this different form http://boards.4chan.org/wsg/ (WS)
Very cool. Good luck with this! Wish I could join you guys.
This.

I really like it so far, but this would make it "insanely great"!

edit: The fonts look a bit off compared to the real fonts used in iOS on the iPad for the same menu, but thats a minor thing.
That seems really unlikely. Doesn't the FCC limit the range at which consumer radio products can transmit from their source? So, part of it is a technological limitation of WiFi, but also legal. And long-distance WiFi already exists, isn't that what WiMax was?

I don't think the telecom companies are going to be displaced very soon because the simplicity of never having to choose a network to connect to is just how people think. Continguous and unibiquitous mobile broadband is probably not on the horizon from someone who isn't a large telecom.

The move to unlocked phones though, I think is spot on.
You are a genius for putting blocked NSFW images just far down enough to get someone to log in.
This seems interesting, but I have one question: what about taxes?

Any tax breaks for tech startups? what about employee/healthcare costs?
There are both deterministic and non-deterministic interpretations of quantum mechanics. The "Many Worlds" interpretation is deterministic, as all possible outcomes end up happening, albeit in different parallels worlds. Bohm's interpretation is also deterministic, and is experimentally indistinguishable from the Many Worlds interpretation, but only one of the worlds is real. Which one is real is deterministically determined from initial conditions that are impossible to inspect. And even if you could inspect them, the result is chaotic.

Other interpretations rely on probabilistic collapse of a "probability wave", but this amounts to nothing more than the cosmos rolling dice. It's hard to fathom how one is supposed to arrive at a mystical "free will" via the rolling of dice.
I would add the "why" to the front page. When I read the top paragraph, first reaction was - "I can do that with Dropbox itself already". I'd add something about easily sharing.
I wrote a javascript file that does exactly what you mention, from Launchbar. You can take a screenshot, give it a file type, compression rate, etc and it auto gets the url and stores the image in a intelligent manner.

ie.

Key functionality: it uploads screenshot, files and stores them on ~/Dropbox/Public/screenshots/year/month/timestamp.jpg for screenshots and ~/Dropbox/Public/files/year/filename.ext for files.

However, what you propose seems interesting. I think I'll implement a variation of that for my script.

Cheers.
Thanks for your feedback! Uploading should work again as well as the maxlength for the title field!
I now.. :(
In my defense, I did not imagine so many people answering it.
'Sparrow for Windows' was never official, not 'weeks away'
Not to mention the 91% top income tax bracket.
Look up "straw man argument" or maybe "slippery slope." Then, make a better argument.
The author simply observes some negative tendencies in online communities that can easily explained by simple social dynamics and asserts that sinister cabal is responsible. That is his whole point, and he doesn't argue very good. For the love of god, look at the first point! FORUM SLIDING my ass. To make that work, you'd have to fake a dozen threads to drown a real one. And you'd have fake them convincingly, or they would simply be ignored.

I don't want to get overly confrontational, but your lament about reddit's decline goes into the same direction. That community has grown by a thousandfold. It's self image of a salon for educated and cultivated discourse is a sick joke. You don't need a conspiracy to explain how those pictures show up on the front page. They carry a simple, emotional message. Reddit's user base likes them, as they like rage comics, pictures of cute animals, stupid memes and rape jokes.
Reliance Communications Server Compromised
Here are some automated results:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewanalytics?formkey=dE...
Ask HN: I want to start my own web development agency
By my early teens I'd scored my first client, made my first website outside of personal projects and filed my first invoice. I've been involved with several startups over the years and wanted to use my entrepreneurial experience to create my own agency.

I wanted to post here to see if anyone has done this before or has any advice that they think I'd find useful. I want to develop a USP and a memorable aesthetic. My first steps will be to find 2-3 likeminded individuals who have talents that compliment my own.

If you have any questions, feel free to ask!
- Better Interface
- No need to click the post to view the animated image
- Social Features

Thanks for your feedback!
http://fresh.amazon.com/
https://www.skype.com/

:P
As I understand it, most American whiskeys don't fare all that well after long aging; 8-12 years is a kind of sweet spot, isn't it?

Dave Wondrich, by the way, is a total bad-ass. His book _Imbibe_ is a supremely readable history and guide to cocktails. Those Esquire cocktail articles are uniformly fantastic.
2, 3, and 4 weren't problems back then
App.net 3rd-party revshare proposal
Surely charcoal filtration not coal?
Some way to add image credit/source would be nice.

Edit: Sorry, didn't realize there was an option, none of the gifs I looked at had a source.
And this is where we disagree: I think software is becoming a more mature industry, and the upgrade-train model we've had for the last few decades is coming to an end.

I might be wrong.
At the time I needed a new laptop, but didn't want to spend the many hours previously necessary to get all the devices working properly, and I didn't want to take the risk of device incompatibility. So my theory was that I was paying them to do all the fucking around. Or, alternately, to have the same sort of out-of-the-box experience I would with, say, a Mac or the same laptop running Windows. Except with my OS of choice.

Emperor Linux is one of the companies that offers pre-installed Linux laptops and guarantees compatibility and offers support. The box was indeed compatible (even the touch-screen), but their support was poor.
I'm starting part-time study for a joint honors degree in philosophy/math at the university where I work as a full-time web dev this September, ten days before my 30th birthday. I'm glad to hear that other people have been there, done that, and got through it.
Building Better Olympic Athletes
Step 1: Flurry of fearmongering articles that appeal to the prejudices of the target audience with logical hole large enough to drive a freight train through (usually correlation=causation/post-hoc reasoning or statistical silliness.)

Step 2: sell tons of papers, products, and ads to the credulous.

Step 3: point out logical flaw.

Step 4: sell tons of papers and ads to the incredulous.

Step 5: profiles of the people who were influenced by the original story, painting them as crazies (or are they visionaries? You, the reader, decide!)

Step 6: sell tons of papers and ads to the gawkers.

Final disposition: People get stupider as a result of reading the paper than they would have been by completely avoiding it, and they completely dismiss everything they read, relying instead on their prejudices and what they heard from a guy once.

edit: I've noticed the successful garbage health panics seem to be structured like sympathetic magic (like-with-like, metaphors, symbolic connections.) For example, "Study Finds Depression Causes Death in Close Relatives" won't work, but "Study Finds Depression Causes Heart Disease" does. I think of this one as "Study Finds Standing Up Prevents Lying Down."
For the specific examples you're asking about, I'd suggest the Web Application Architecture book.(http://www.amazon.com/Web-Application-Architecture-Principle...)
For 'how much down time do you get' I assumed (actually, wrote) 'per day' but I think it would be worth clarifying that (unless you did and I missed it :-)