skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can make specific workspaces public and follow other people's workspaces, but everything is private by default.

We like the idea that sharing happens around a specific set of content and we'd like to develop the collaboration potential further. As that happens the sharing relationships should hopefully go beyond 'following' or 'followed by'.
So, Tor is only as good as the person using it.

I urge caution against amateur investigations, but it'd be interesting to see what software tools could be written to help law enforcement do a better job.

Statistical analysis of text

"social web"

etc.
I see what you're saying, but doesn't somebody, somewhere have to look at it to make sure it is CP first?
I hope this gets picked up because this lecturer is by far the best I've ever come across when it comes to electronics .. check out his lectures, i.e. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AfQxyVuLeCs
But the judge ordered "Therefore, each side and its counsel shall file a statement herein clear identifying all authors, journalists, commentators or bloggers who have reported or commented on any issues in this case and who have received money (other than normal subscription fees) from the party or its counsel during the pendency of this action" [http://www.groklaw.net/pdf3/OraGoogle-1229.pdf]. The headline also doesn't qualify "payments" with any category or purpose. So, I still think it's a misleading headline.
It is used all over the world, including Iran, when its usage is pretty high.
Oh, thank god for that. Generally I've lived without an Amazon account because they don't work outside the US. But this one, combined with the post that helped generate fake US addresses pushed me to do it.

Actually, now I'm pretty sure why Amazon would be upset when someone else copies their one-click patent. And the sneaky thing is, when you create a new account it's on by default!
But doesn't any todo list app work for that use case? I haven't thought about this space as much as you have but knowing what my wife complains about leads me to say that there's much more value tackling the problem of making her life easier.

I give suggestions but there's very low value in making it easier for me to provide suggestions. Her side of the equation is where the real work is and it's where you can do a ton of optimizations and have a loyal user.

Making her trips to the grocery store easier > the incremental value she gets from my collaboration.

Enough of the suggestions though. You've thought about this more than I and my only data point is my wife. Congrats on the launch and I'll tell my wife about the app.
Let me put on my tin foil hat for a moment: Tor being anonymous, there is no way to know whether what you saw was
a.) authentic content created (mostly) by actual child molesters
b.) excellent copy written to cause maximum outrage against tor by some entity that does not like tor
c.) somewhere in between, e.g. making sure that you actually stumble upon CP every once in a while when using onion sites

While b is not very probable, I can actually imagine that c is a pretty easy option to put many decent people off using tor.
A Critic's Case for Critics Who Are Critical (Re: "Why I hate Hacker News" post)
(http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2011/08/identifying_pe...)

Criticism:

(http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=3317)

Tips to evade:

(http://www.aaai.org/ocs/index.php/IAAI/IAAI09/paper/view/257)
Would be better to compare the fatality rate, not the failure rate. I believe Soyuz has had at least one non-fatal failure, for example, while the Shuttle's failures were both fatal. When I recall running the numbers on that, the Shuttle and Soyuz came out similar, although it's been quite a while.
Hadoop, Mongo and Node.js: from Big Data to your Browser
Reading through the archives of the Plan 9 mailing list at http://9fans.net/archive you can follow along with the progress of Linux and the web as they completely displaced and then decimated operating systems research, culminating in famous Pike's utah2000 paper. You see each casual user show up on the mailing list demanding "modern" features, arguing about the license, screeching about security "holes" they don't understand, before, ultimately, declaring that they are retreating to Linux (or, later, Mac OSX), where at least they can play Flash games and login to turbotax.com and watch Youtube videos.
People should stop piling onto you with downvotes. No apology necessary.
My toughest, most-rewarding 10 Weeks comes to a close
I went to school for chemistry and chemical engineering. This is pretty elementary environmental chemistry, no PhD required.

There are an enormous number of popular myths about the toxicity, non-toxicity, and comparative toxicity of many elements and chemicals. Understanding the actual risks are part of a chemist's job. Most people lack the chemistry education required to put claims about particular chemicals into context, so their intuitions about the relative health risks of chemicals are often wildly incorrect. Many ubiquitous household items are much more of a health risk than DU, both chemically and as a radionuclide, but no one worries about it.
What languages are supported right now? I keep forgetting and all the images are showing clojure.

Anyone know if there's any plans for haskell?
Twitter (and to a degree facebook) feels more and more like "just someone I can authenticate with" and less a platform.
As an Acme user, I most appreciate the window management. I have no trouble keeping all 20+ source files of a project open at once, each with its own spacial position I can quickly return to. It's easy to expand a buffer just a little bit so I can look at function prototypes in a .h file while coding in another window. If I want to open another file, I just right-click it in the directory listing.

The command language is powerful enough to do what I want day-to-day. It's easy to apply an editor command across every open buffer, if you need to refactor for instance. Like emacs, you can write applications which run in Acme; we have a mail client, news reader, CD player, and IRC client (among others).

When it comes time to compile, I can execute a "mk" command from within Acme by simply typing "mk" anywhere and executing it with the middle mouse button--this isn't just for mk, you can do that with any command. It'll put the output in a new buffer, and if there are compilation errors, you just right-click on the filename:line-number (foo.c:42) and Acme instantly jumps you to that line of the file.

There are more cool things about Acme, but I can't sit here and type all day! It's basically what you get when you take the Unix concept "It's all just text" and make an editor out of it: text is content, text acts as commands, text is for searching.
Thought this article was incredibly apropos considering the popular "Why I now, unfortunately, hate Hacker News.." (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4396747) post.

My paraphrase from article: "The sad truth about the world is that it doesn’t need more yes-saying and certainly no more yes-saying critics. We are drowning in them. What we need more of, are excellent and authoritative and punishing critics — perceptive enough to single out the voices that matter for legitimate praise, abusive enough to remind us that not everyone gets, or deserves, a gold star."
Realtime sharing is particularly valuable for grocery shopping. It's not at all rare for me to pick something up on the way home while Erin is at Whole Foods buying stuff, or vice versa.
Ebay bans magic potions, curses, spells.
No, it isn't limited that way. It's 0% under 250k, and reverts to the regular 2.75% if you process above those limits.
props! no facebook account here so can't use but the site looks great :)
I believe the first supported languages will be Clojure and Javascript, followed by Python.
Yes, but they have an incentive not to be a dick to me if I trip and fall and land on my ass. Other patrons have no such restraint.
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Friction, mechanical losses and drag aren't concepts covered by physics theory?

Guess I must have been asleep during my Dynamics classes...
It was the most awesome thing in my talk at HOPE Number 9 about using browser tools to figure out what sites are doing. I compared it with the scene in Jurassic Park where the girl "knows Unix".
>But seriously, ditch the real time sharing stuff. I don't know why so many todo lists focus on that.

I think what you're missing here is THE TRACTION. They have 10s of thousands of users already, and they are using the app, as explained in the article. I would imagine the team has enough analytics in there to know what features people are using, and talks to their customers to understand the analytics better.

What's the reason for your suggestion? What you envision? Or what people actually do with an app based on thousands of users? I would guess the Anylist guys use the latter.
Massacre at IBM (story on customer development)
Because government is slow at producing laws? (unless, of course, it benefits major political contributors)
Don't want AT&T's shared data plan? Then you can't use FaceTime over 3G.
Thanks for the positive words! To answer your questions:

Yes, the Freelancer plan only allows up to 10 clients at any given time. That means if you've entered 10 clients, and want to add another, you'll either need to upgrade, or delete a client. The pricing being based on the # of clients is just 1 option we considered. Might another metric be more useful to you? We'd love feedback in regard to that: support-at-timepanel.net.

As to whether there is a way to record historical results, can you clarify? Perhaps you're asking how to import past clients, projects, or invoices? If so, we're working on an import tool right now; it's a big priority (i.e. others are asking about this as well) and we're hoping to get that out in the next week or two.

Does that help?
I think I know who you're talking about; we have people who get way too excited about Plan 9. Oddly enough, the people who get the most frothy about it often don't run it themselves (the guy you saw, for instance, if I'm guessing correctly).
The ini file format was first introduced in Microsoft Windows. The API's that are available in WIN/WIN32 are probably considered the most official and it does not support # as a comment delimiter...
The next big hurdle is to how to develop a household DNA sequence reader under $50 that will read your storage. I mean if I want to store my data onto a DNA strand, then one day I'd be in need of reading that data at my home with the help of a sequence reader.Right?
Yeah, that's my take, basically. Business, as well as casual social rejections are (important) data points to be processed. But in most cases, just not worth taking personally.
It's not hard to learn to code.

Start with Scheme as your language and SICP and/or The Little Schemer as your instruction books.

A smart person can become a competent coder if there is as little friction as possible between him and "holy shit, this actually works, aren't I awesome?"

When you're ready to try more practical stuff, then it's time to dip your toes into Python.
It'd be nice to be able fork or even comment the API docs as a developer using the API. Tooo many times I googled for an answer that the API docs neglect and found the answer instead on StackOverflow. If I had a facebook credit for every time I found the answer I was looking for with facebook's API docs, I'd be pretty poor :-p
haha -59% is a horrible rate of return. not an investment i'll be making any time soon.
JavaScript Objects, Prototypes and a Tweet
Although I want to agree with you, I'm highly skeptical on the super-downvote feature. In my relatively short time here, I've seen comments by certain top contributors being argued viciously(is that the word, English is not my first language sorry). People made good points and even attacked the top commenters points, quite a lot of which I felt was valid. Now on a purely egotistical basis if he/she wanted to superdownvote the entire thread nobody could possibly do anything to prevent it. Basically what I'm saying is that even they are humans.

I'd rather have a system where instead of simple up/down vote you have an elaborate system of 'Offtopic', 'Poor taste', 'Incorrect' as mentioned in a comment somewhere above. But also, I'd like to add positive halfs of these such as 'Insightful', and maybe one or two other labels. The idea being that they can select only one out of the total, and each label should secretly have different values. So maybe flagging a comment as Incorrect isn't as penalizing as putting one as Off-topic or Poor taste. Insightful may have different positive value as compared to maybe something labelled as 'Excellent advice' or something.

With a lot of options, I don't think newbies would actually click randomly on any button without knowing the meaning and context of each button. Anyway, the buttons need not have full names, simple short letters like P/OT/I/EA/X may be enough. Of course, this automatically requires to have a way to retrieve your vote, if you accidently click on the wrong button, but it should still allow only one option to be used.
The article goes a bit odd at the end, since America leads the world in charitable giving and foreign aid. It could have contrasted voluntary donations with state welfare.
For instance, many people think Plan 9 development hasn't progressed since 2002, because that's the date of the 4th edition release on Wikipedia. The truth is that following the 4th edition, development switched to a rolling model in which patches are integrated and a new ISO is built daily.

Another is that there are no "decent" editors. For many people, the definition of "decent" means the executable must be named "vim". As I've said elsewhere, Plan 9 actually has a port of Vim, but if you skip our excellent native editors to use Vim, it's like visiting a foreign country and eating only McDonalds because the local cuisine is unfamiliar.
And SMS/Whatsapp/iMessage/etc isn't good enough for that?

My guess is that it is and I have anecdotal evidence to support it! :)
I've seen the same thing happen everywhere from Usenet to Slashdot to Reddit. It's just how things go online, especially when people are allowed to be anonymous or just don't care about looking bad.
I don't see why you couldn't use this to create an HTML email template?
Drizzle is not a drop-in replacement for MySQL. The only real option if you want to replace MySQL without having to change your application code is MariaDB. Drizzle is fine for new projects, but you'd have to massively alter an existing site to get it to work with Drizzle.
> Since then, the chef estimates that 40% to 50% of customers have opted in and ditched their phones.

Less than half. So most of their customers are willing to pay 4-5% more in order to keep their phones during the meal. Amazing.
When the DU shell explodes upon impact or fired through a barrel, it oxidizes and if inhaled can pose a severe health risk. There's lots of news articles on illnesses caused by DU.
Jesus that's scary. Thanks for posting this. Good lessons to keep in mind.
"My main criticism of it is that you have to be a pixel-perfect mouse acrobat to use it efficiently."

That was my major complaint about Plan 9 in general. As far as I could tell, it really wanted me to run with a one-handed keyboard and mouse.

...that plus the fact that Bell Labs invented "Not Invented Here" Syndrome.
If Groupon is a failure, I'd like to have several of those...
Most of my time has been spent in Windows 7, although I've always dabbled in Ubuntu. Recently, inexplicable errors, winrot, etc. are pushing me to use Ubuntu more often.

In my experience, technical Windows forums hardly ever manage to fix tough problems, although, to be fair, I've never yet experienced any such problems on Ubuntu.
Though I should add, I'm not sure if I agree 100% with the article myself.
I always take what founders (including myself) say about traction with a grain of salt.

I can only make suggestions based on my experiences and the problems I see. If they have data to prove otherwise then by all means discard my suggestions ... I don't take it personally :).
I couldn't have said it better myself. Although I haven't been member that long, I've been lurking much longer, for a while I was afraid to really comment on any story as the attitude of some of the users on this site is to put it bluntly: elitist. It's these kinds of attitudes that causes arguments and the deterioration of a community. I rarely see people posting up new startups or web ideas they've come up with out of fear of ridicule any more.

To be honest I can come across as a cynical jerk, but unlike a lot of the people I see chastising other people in the comments, I'm at times cynical but never intentionally rude. There is a big difference between cynical and just plain rude. Pick any story on the homepage at any given time and people are nitpicking at peoples grammar and arguing something isn't right instead of contributing to the discussion.

Case in point all of this recent discussion about App.net. There appear to be two sides of the fence, one of those sides is hopeful that App.net will be successful and wishing Dalton Caldwell the best and the other side are making assumptions that it's going to fail and that people won't pay to use it, blah blah blah. This is the exact attitude the poster is talking about and I think all of the App.net submissions and comments are a great example of this ridiculous behaviour.

Etiquette aside, don't get me started on the submission quality. It feels like the homepage of HN is part interesting and beneficial submissions and the other half is comprised of articles; "Hating on X programming language", a blog post written by a Svbtle author (mostly Dustin Curtis), a Daring Fireball blog post, TechCrunch news article or submission of a Github repository for something built on-top of a programming language that I don't even know.
I used a grocery list app a while ago (I actually forget the name now) and the sharing feature was definitely useful for my wife and I. When one of us would run out of something, we'd add it to a shared list, so when we went grocery shopping the next time we'd remember.
Are you involved in nix?
>If you can lay out all the major screens and the design then that’s worth its weight in gold. Design is also just about as hard to find as programming.

I am going to put myself out there by honestly saying that, as a programmer, I have never understood why people believe the above statement, and I disagree. Please don't take this as a negative comment (I know people will, which is why most people would not write a comment like this). I am just trying to understand.

I'm sorry, but I don't believe its worth its weight in gold. Here is the starting point for my perspective:

1. An analyst, customer, boss, or someone who is not a programmer, describes in words what they want the software to do. I take that description and spend a couple of days building a prototype web application. I don't create the screens in Photoshop first because A) it will take longer and B) I'm not trying to create the ultimate user experience, I am trying to build functional software that we can start getting feedback and iterating on.

2. Analyst, customer, boss, designer, or someone who is not a programmer, looks at the prototype, may or may not acknowledge that the software now has the primary functionality requested, and starts criticizing the appearance or user experience. Its actually easy for him to find flaws: its not very attractive (there was no time invested in making it attractive) and some use cases could involve fewer clicks.

2A. Here is the issue I have: it really seems to me that a significant portion of people believe at that point that the programmer was unable to conceive of an attractive design or shortcuts that would improve the user experience, and that is the context and justification for the entire field of design.

Anyway here is my experience: if you can't code, then you probably cannot actually create a better user experience than me. If I am given time to work on a design, then I will optimize the user experience as much as possible given the features of the software platform and budget. If there really aren't budget or time constraints then I can disregard the inner workings of the platform to some degree because I know I will have time to code whatever interface I can conceive of.

Maybe some designers can help me understand.
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Typing and sending an SMS every time you buy something sounds like a good substitute for a grocery list that just works?
para 2: I don't understand the issue. Surely the prosecutor should throw everything s/he's got and the judge and jury, who are charged with protecting the interests of the community, decide what sticks? For the prosecutor to be involved in that decision seems a conflict of interest/incentive to corruption (this is the point you are making about private prosecutions, but I would argue that even a public prosecutor is rewarded for convictions).

para 1: yes, I want to eliminate the ability for defendants to negotiate lesser sentences. Like many practices we like to despise governments for tolerating (bribery, corruption, torture), it's convenient, practical and even successful in many cases, but it's totally unjust.
i only use that website to create no follow backlinks for seo diversity lol
I do the same for pretty much the same reason - comfort. And it'll only get worse as smartphones keep growing.

But when my phone is on the table, it is always face down, muted, and off to the side somewhere. Mostly to show whoever I'm with that I'm not watching it, reading messages, or otherwise fiddling with it. I'd have no issue with getting the mentioned discount.
I don't think it's fair to say MariaDB is the only real option. The CTO of the company I work at seems to be a pretty firm advocate for Percona.
Sure you can catch some by that, but what then? The remainder will be resistant, and very used to how to phrase things, and also noticing attempts to play them into giving something away. We're also talking about people who exchange tips on how to get at actual children, remember, and you can do that fine without giving anything away. It's like open source, no strings attached, works fine with dead mailboxes.

Unless an actual law enforcement person involved with this confirms it's usually that easy, I file all of this under rationalizations... understandable ones, but still. Because yeah, this stuff can mess you up, and we always seek to return to normality.

It's very easy to say all this until you visited those places. I wouldn't want to, I remember trying to talk with pedophiles in a public, above-board forum, (where they were of course always beating around the bush, it was all about "simply loving children", who have a right to be loved blah blah), and I couldn't even take that for more than one post, I read the replies and thought fuck this, fuck you people, I don't need this in my brain. But that was harmless - the dark, uninhibited underbelly of that? WHOA. I wouldn't have the nerve to read an hour of that - just talking about text here, that's enough for me kthxbye :/ - but I take it seriously, because I think I can kinda imagine how it might be. I know just ranting about it also pointless, but I also disagree with hand-waving it away.
> It'd be nice to be able fork or even comment the API docs as a developer using the API

You want to comment on the API docs using the API itself? The goal is to let you fork the specs and issue a pull request on GitHub.

> Tooo many times I googled for an answer that the API docs neglect and found the answer instead on StackOverflow.

Are you referring to the API docs for Balanced or API docs in general?
They should launch in Europe earlier, we spend a lot more money on cars here, have shorter daily routes (guessing!) and care a little more about fuel costs (more expensive here).