skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've used both Quickbooks online and Mint and as much as I agree with you on interface, I must completely disagree on features. I wish I could use Mint but after trying it out there are several showstopper issues. Just one example, Mint lacks the ability to import or even manually enter past transactions so it's really useless if you want to get all of 2008 in there.
Interesting.

I don't think 12 is an unreasonable number. I had a pretty good understanding of sex at 12... so it would be dumb to put me in jail for having sex at that age.

OTOH, I could see how pressuring a 12 year old to consent (and not tell anyone about it) could be pretty easy... and that's not good. (FWIW, people over 18 are also pressured into sex they don't really want, so I am not sure how to deal with this.)
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Looks like it's redirecting to youtube now.

Production quality is really good, would be so nice to have something (shorter) like this for marketing and documentation (along with text versions of course).

I love at the end how the family getting a sub prime mortgage is depicted drinking and smoking.
Expecting 15 year old (horny) guys to delete nudies their female classmates sent them is... unrealistic.

Agreed. The law is being very stupid here.

I didn't see much in the way of details about the trial. Apparently one kid didn't take the plea bargain? Does anyone else know of any more information about this?

(As an aside, I wish there was a social news site where I could indicate ongoing interest in a topic, and see new articles whenever they are written. It is very hard to follow news stories, since followups are sporadic and spread around the Internet.)
You can't extrapolate historical population trends and expect them to be remotely accurate. Most current data shows population plateauing at around 10 Billion.

Most of the westernized world's population (US, Japan, Western Europe, Australia, etc) is either stagnant or decreasing - and almost every other country (China, India, Latin America) is moving towards that.

And the technology has more than made up for our population growth. Almost everyone would agree that the 7 Billion people we have today are far better off (on average) than the 1 Billion people we had 200 years ago.
Uh oh, but this is the kind of feedback we really need, so thanks a lot. The registration procedure is perhaps the most important part of all to get streamlined.

What happened was that the free plan was preselected when you entered the registration page. This means that nothing happened when you clicked it (as it was already selected). When you then clicked "register" you probably got a "Registration successful - an email has been sent to you for account confirmation" message at the top of the screen, can you have missed that? Then when you click again on "Register" you get the error message that you're already registered.

Maybe we should think about transporting the user to another page when they choose a plan/a subscription. Have less things on one and the same page. Your experience suggests that that might be a good idea I think.

User interfaces are not easy, and it is so hard to see things with objective eyes as a developer.
If it's open in an editor, click Save.
There's a simple solution, they do it in the UK. You cannot be charge for possession of child pornography if you have under a certain number of photographs due to the fact it's impossible to tell the age of someone without doing a background check on them.

The age of consent in the UK for sex is 16, but for porn it's 18. This means you can legally have sex with, but not photograph, your partner. The LibDem's in the UK are trying to fight this, saying either bring the legal age up or the consent age down, specifically to protect against the hypocrisy as they foresaw this coming.

IIRC there was a case in the UK where a 15 year old was charged with producing child pornography after taking a surprise photo of his friends in bed together (guy was 17 girl was 16) and posting it on myspace or something. I believe it got dismissed by the judge on preliminaries, as the defense lawyer pointed out that they were having consensual sex and that it's not a crime to watch but a photograph is a crime.

The stupidity is akin to charging someone for making a snuff movie and not for first degree murder.
The article states "people were rushing to delete photos and incriminating messages". I find that very untrue and the article made the ordeal bigger then it actually was. Not to mention it wasn't just twitter but also people blogging and such. Things in the past such as the news feed had a 10x larger uproar then this did. (I know I'm going to get down ranked just because you disagree with me)
That is a great site, beats all others hands down. Pop-ups suck, but still beats the other sites. I love entering the date in words.
Is the parsing algorithm for the location and date proprietary or is it based on something existing? If so, what?
You can read it through google's cache: http://74.125.77.132/search?q=cache:EP3z1pmfq1EJ:arxivblog.c... "Human eye could detect spooky action at a distance".
South Park iPhone App denied
"Pesticides increases the crop yields and increases quality."

Same with genetically modified crops which, by the way we have been doing for centuries - we just call it hybridization.
TDD is like bumper lanes at a bowling alley. If your goal is to knock down the pins, it can help prevent problems, like falling in the gutter.

Of course, if you're incredibly good, you don't need the bumpers. You might even forego bumpers to show off that you are -that good-.

Your solution is to make all the bowlers really good. Here's the issue - historically, that doesn't scale across a growing dev team.

Imagine 5+ bowlers all using the same lane. The more bowlers you have, the more you will have balls bumping into each other, getting in the way, crossing paths, and falling into the gutter.

As you increase the number of developers, the more likely it is that tools like TDD and Source Control can help mitigate issues that inevitably arise on a larger team. They aren't silver bullets to great programming, and they aren't a bandaid to cover up bad programming. They are time-tested, proven ways to get people going the right direction.
David and Gooliath: How a Philly Startup took on Google and lived to tell about it.
Why I hate Facebook
Bill proposes ISPs, Wi-Fi keep logs for police for 2 years
Plinky: The Cure for Blank Slate Syndrome
Can you do it in a bunch of iframes on one long page?
I lost my job, but am using this opportunity to do my second startup. My first one was profitable, so I'm hoping I can do it again.
Youtube tests Download and Creative Commons Licensing
Wealth is not created when I pay you $10 for something that you made for $5 -- wealth is created when you use labor to add value to natural resources.

To this end, capitalism is very much a zero-sum game. There are only so many resources to exploit, and once they're gone (or otherwise locked up), that's it for growth.
I have to disagree with you both (although both statements are well put) ... Reality is what is, based on our current understanding. Many realities have changed over time, as our society progresses and evolves into a higher understanding.
Well, I think there's a distinction. He's saying people a bad apples are people who are skeptics, unmotivated, etc. but do not suggest anything better.

If they're skeptical of your idea or whatever, they should add constructive input instead of dragging on everyones spirits.
Orbitz, et. al don't actually do their own search. They outsource all the real work to ITA Software in Cambridge, MA - who actually run all the searches on a large cluster of servers running Common Lisp.
"The true quality of a community is ... how easily it can adapt to change."

Very true.

"The fact that the plan for 'moving forward' [is] to pull in another framework wholesale, does not bode well for the Rails community."

Very untrue. In fact, very contradictory to what you first said. The fact that the the Rails community is so willing to adapt to the change that is Merb bodes very well for the community as a whole.

+1 for "the Ruby community != the Rails community." That's a statement worth echoing many times over.
That's our somewhat restrictive security features that notice some object being loaded as part of your webpage, an object that other sites also use. For example, many sites load urchin.js from google-analytics.com. This means that the daily load our system allows itself to subject google-analytics.com to will quickly be reached. Anyone trying to start a new test for a webpage that loads urchin.js will then be denied to run their test.

We have a list of URLS/sites that are exempted from these checks, but this list needs to be populated. So far we only have a few entries on it (like google-analytics). It seems your site loads things from googleapis.com so I added an exception for that address now. Try again and see if it works.

We probably need to work on the information to users whenever a test is denied also. If you know what the offending URL is, you can remove it from your load script and run the test without it.
What NYT Writers Can't Do
As a simple check, the average person (in the world) today is better off than the average person 50, 100, or 1,000 years ago. Even though are population has increased significantly, our wealth has increased even more.

I will have to do a research on this. It's a very interesting claim and you didn't provide any sources. I'm not convinced. I think we've been heavily "borrowing from the future" i.e. even current rates of consumption/household growth are not sustainable, again - I got these conclusions and trends from Diamond.

Also forget for a second about words like "wealth" and "dollars" and look at basic resources instead: fish, meat, oil, wood and minerals. Currently we're consuming them at the rate faster than they can regenerate, I hope we can agree here. To me, that's an indication that technology isn't keeping up. Look up the rising numbers of meat and fish consumption in China and compare them to agricultural output of the world (all these facts are googlable).
Clicked the link and got this: "We're sorry, the Ultramercial advertisement did not start correctly."

Fail. Flagged for removal.
Previously submitted:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=482717

It's unfortunate that The Economist, a source of many good articles, has those articles living under so many different URLs that duplicate submissions to HN are very likely, even if the submitters take care to check for duplicates.
Here's the test on Google.com:

http://loadimpact.com/result/google.com-398c66a059f3ab3c096b...
I think teaching kids from an early age that sex is okay and being pressured to have sex isn't would solve your latter problem.

In the UK there's a close-in-age exception for anyone under 16 (the legal age is 16). Canada just last year changed their age of consent to match, moving the AoC up to 16 from 14.

This is just a simple equation I use in my head to figure out if a relationship is creepy-weird when dating and it's quite simple. Here's my example, (21 - 13) / 2 = 4, so in this instance a 21 year old can date a 17 year old or a 25 year old without the age difference being weird. It seems to hold up for most 'accepted' relationships, including the like 80 year olds married to the 50 year olds, but not the 80 year olds married to the 20 year olds that people find disgusting.

Personally I'd say it's okay for 12-13 year olds to have sex with 12-13 year olds because as a culture we seem to be subconsciously pushing for it. 14 and over I'd say the close-in-age exceptions apply well, a 14 year old can have sex with someone within 5 years of their own age without it being a crime and over 16 you have the right to choose who and how you do it, although I wouldn't disagree with a law making a bigger close-in-age for 16-18 of like 10-15 years. It's socially accepted that a couple are usually within a 10-15 year age difference of each other.
modoc, that's a really good point - I'm sorry I didn't put it on there! Lesson learned.
Research showing that group X is generally best at doing task Y will not be as helpful to society as a DNA test for identifying individual talent for task Y regardless of group.

Of course, knowing which genes will help with task Y may tell you which group is best at task Y. But the reverse is not true and will likely cause discrimination and suboptimal outcomes.
If there's a 13 year old using FrontPage to build his startup in this day and age, I definitely want to meet him.
A conversation with Marc Andreessen on PBS's Charlie Rose
Not all information wants to be free
Yeah we have a restriction on number of started tests to the same hostname address, but it is actually more or less redundant as we have also several checks per IP address.

I might as well explain how it works as people seem to mention these things a lot here: when we know what URLs we have to load in order to load a web page (i.e. when we have generated a load script for the test) we find out all unique host addresses involved, then resolve the IP addresses to all these hosts, then we check how many times the last 24 hours we have performed tests where these IPs have been involved, how many bytes we have transferred from and to each of these IPs the last 24 hours, and how many transactions we have subjected these IPs to the last 24 hours. If any of these values exceed certain predefined tresholds, we deny the test.
ha! I just tried to find a flight from Frankfurt to Moscow and also wasn't successful because of your software insisting on 'Frankfurt/Hahn(HHN)'. Please fix this fast! I also tried 'From Frankfurt/Main' and 'From FRA' but wasn't understood:-( Apart from that, I like the 'command line approach to finding flights a lot.
Suggestion: Why not open the third party travel sites (Orbitz etc.) in a Javascript-Window (instead of a new browser window).

Then I tried to report the airport issue to you by clicking on the feedback button on the right. After entering my feedback, upon clicking on 'Submit', the feedback window showed me something like 'there was a problem sending your message...' I tried again, to no avail - sadly, the feedback form didn't tell me what went wrong or what to do next, it only offered me to add a 'sad' emotion to my message. Which wasn't of much use, because the 'problem sending the message' prevented me from showing you my sadness (Ironically, the third party company that makes your feedback system has named itself 'getsatisfaction'). Well, I closed the feedback window and found another way to post my feedback:
http://getsatisfaction.com/wundrbar/topics/i_didnt_want_to_p...

I only had to create an account, submit a fake email address, enter a new password (twice) make up a new username and enter a captcha. After that, I had to enter the password again (twice), because it has to be at least 6 characters long. And, of course, enter the captcha again. After that, I was allowed to post my comment!

:-)
Strange, 50 simulated clients don't seem to stress Google much :-)
this is about as speculative as the evidence and Collin Powell used to claim to the UN there was clear evidence of WMD in Iraq. I hear there are other reasons to build hangers. You know, like planes. Seems entirely possible some sheik would want to park a Cessna at the new air strip. Maybe a Taliban sheik from Quetta.
Let me express my surprise: being downmodded for offering UCLA professor's anti-globalist claims for open discussion on HN isn't terribly encouraging.

You don't have to agree with me but why shut the conversation down? Am I offending anyone or posting fart jokes?

Meanwhile a lot of folks are debating either "technology and globalization" approach will work, and some of them aren't stupid. At least you downmodders could try to use some curiosity and open up a little to what they have to say.

That's a pity: while reading the book I was actually thinking about bringing this topic up for discussion on HN.
Good luck TapInko!
The recession hasn't affected me at all. I was lucky enough to land a well-paying job at a well-funded startup just before the economy exploded. This allows me to work on my own startup in my spare time without having to worry.
Exactly. Without the ability to enter in other transactions (for example for cash), Mint is just read only. It's a great and useful read only view of your finances, but there's little other functionality.
I agree. I actually resigned from my full time job at a big corporation to work full time on my start-up because of the opportunity to come out with a new cost-saving product
Question: When is $0 &gt; $1,000,000?
I have another formula that works very well, and takes into consideration that the older you get the wider the age gap can be.

your age > (her age / 2) + 7

So:

if you're 16 she should be at least 14

if you're 20 she should be at least 17

if you're 30 she should be at least 22

if you're 50 she should be at least 32

These all seem to fit nicely into the acceptable ranges. Doesn't work too well if you're under 14 though :-)
Avoid Unnecessary VC Bashing
Nice site, but how is this different from siege?

http://www.linuxhaxor.net/2007/12/06/siege-an-httphttps-stre...
wow... I love the "here... here... here..." part
Even then, the DNA test is never going to be as effective as, well, a normal test. If you're looking for people who can run fast, line them up and run a race. No need to take DNA samples...
OpenCoffee (weekly, Wednesday mornings): Startup discussion - http://www.meetup.com/OpenCoffee-Cambridge-Meetup/

BarCampBoston4 (April 25th & 26th): Geek unconference - http://www.barcampboston.org/

Information Superhighway(monthly): Geek party - http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/1502742/ / http://twitter.com/infosuperhiway

Refresh Boston(monthly?): New media designers / developers - http://refreshboston.org/

For everything else, check out http://marksguide.com/
Of course I do, but I was able to find it right away and report it, instead of going over my entire month's transactions and identifying which were mine and which weren't. Mint was a tool of convenience to me.
TPB guys have been very careful from the beginning of the site to ensure that they have crossed every t and dotted every i in following the law.
Speaking of running fast...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/4314209.stm
the title isn't really correct, they didn't take on Google, they just sat on the sidelines while Google tried and failed.

Tapinko didn't really succeed yet, they just hope to win where Google failed.
The markers simply prove that race is, indeed, a definable category. This makes the question "is group A different from group B in way X?" meaningful.

It proves nothing about the answer, nor is it intended to.

For comparison, a less meaningful question is "are biologically NY people smarter than biologically NJ people?" The question doesn't even make sense since you can't differentiate between NY and NJ people biologically.

As for whether the markers are likely or not to be correlated with interesting phenotypes, I'll wait to see data before guessing about what is likely.
no, i'm sorry. the whole point of load testing is that i am (for example) looking at my vmstat output etc DURING the test...thats a whole lot easier if i just fire up siege or httperf or ab at my console. i'm sorry hackers, you need to know how to do this yourself. just hearing someone tell you your site is slow is useless unless you know WHY. knowing WHY means looking at your system in detail as well as your site design and achitecture. there is no "for dummies" route here. just giving me pretty graphs saying my site is slow is pointless.

its so trivial to run siege...why would you pay someone to do this? is their load tool even as good as siege? how can they possibly match the pummeling i can deliver on the LAN. load testing is best done locally. i won't be downmodded by anyone who does load testing as part of their actual job
Anonymous Data Collection: Lessons from the A-Rod Affair
I agree with both of these thoughts, but where is tripeedo when kayak partners with all of these?

i recently went to hong kong and searched all of these engines and got discouraging prices. I did one search on Cathay Pacific's website and saved close to 40%. I'm almost positive you won't see this with domestic flights (for now.)
Tales of a Ninth-Grade Fund Manager
What Should Obama's CTO Do With Public Data? Now You Can Vote On It
It would be brilliant if Intuit is planning on buying mint...
I didn't say the intersection was virtually zero, just that NYT articles are a fraction of the most interesting stuff that appears online on any given day. If I had to guess I'd say the intersection is on the order of 5%, based on what appears on the HN frontpage.

I think the context was a remark about Reddit. I was saying that the frontpage of a good aggregator would always be more interesting than the frontpage of the NYT, because the aggregator could have a list of all the most interesting stuff that day, whereas the NYT was limited to the subset written by people employed by the NYT.
Or just run an OS that's designed not to allow random things on the internet to automatically install themselves and steal all of your data, and then not only do you not have to tiptoe through the internet hoping not to catch the muck, but you also don't have to travail an onerous and time-consuming restore process every second month after your computer-illiterate family members visit and trample all over the pristine Windows install with four new IE toolbars, infected Miley Cyrus MP3s obtained through [also installed] Limewire, and "that cute program that lets you send smiley faces through e-mail".
YC isn't in that business really. But as the source is open, we could do it ourselves...
yes, you can. and this is better than copying.
Google Ocean: Has Atlantis been found off Africa?
whoops, sorry, on crack. You can't after it's been deleted.
Does he have a link to the old page? I can't sleep without that music.
The original inspiration for this post is that there is simply SO MUCH to be learned in the modern era, and that as we grow older and more educated, we have access to more and understand more, and this gradually compounds upon itself and becomes overwhelming.

I feel there are 4-5 closely related topics that I touched upon but didn't dare delve into, because each one would be a blog post unto itself. The "survival" lifestyle is one of them. Living with learning as an end is another.

Ultimately, I feel that learning as an end is the theme of this post, without regard to an eventual monetary gain. The paradox being, of course, that true devotion (or should I say "pure" devotion) is only possible with monetary gain as a an end, thereby eliminating the joy of pure learning.
What git is not
Another online service is http://www.soasta.com which is $1k/hour (cloud-buzzword heavy but slick UI)