skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is _not_ my project. I just happened to stumble upon it.

This might be the vim config solution i'm sticking with. I tried a bunch over the last 2 years, but all of them seemed too heavy, especially janus. This solution seems to avoid all these issues by simply being a wrapper around VAM. Aside from that VAM-Bootstrapping function, it's a vanilla vimrc.

I thought you might appreciate the simple nature of this 'solution'.
That sounds like fun, until the old man in the house makes everyone sit down in front of the computer and submit their votes for the "correct" party...
Your last point is my biggest problem. The reason why I can't decide if I should hire someone to code, that he can easily take it to himself, it consist of codes and it's just a software and actually he did everything. Why should he not steal the idea and the code?! This also applies to tech-cofounders which are strangers that I know from HN willing to start the startup with me.

Your first point about showing screenshot to the potential costumers, seeing if they would buy it, remembers me Bill Gates selling his software when he even didn't start to build it :). I'll try to do it, good idea.
Normally I'd never weigh in on a discussion like this but I'll make an exception since you post a lot here and I think you need a bit of friendly advice. I'm one of the oldtimers here, so I've seen how HN has progressed over the years, I also believe My comments are valued in this community since they consistently get upvoted. You can see my average on the leaderboard. Just so you know where I'm coming from.

I'm sorry to say, but eropple is right, you have a terrible attitude. It's obvious that you're a bright guy (or gal), and reading through your comments I'd say you definitely have something to contribute to HN. But the words often seem to come out the wrong way. You should think about that and try to do something about it, primarily for your own sake. The way the world works is that if you have a positive attitude, respect other people, take their arguments to heart and don't point fingers you'll be more successful and lead a happier life.

I'm guessing you're not as old as me, so take this as friendly advice from an old man that has seen a lot of people and learnt a few things about how they work.

I'll look forward to seeing some great comments from you in the future.
to nitpick:

Everett is very controversial, for example:

Everett (2005) has claimed that the grammar of Pirahã is exceptional in displaying 'inexplicable gaps', that these gaps follow from a cultural principle restricting communication to 'immediate experience', and that this principle has 'severe' consequences for work on universal grammar. We argue against each of these claims. Relying on the available documentation and descriptions of the language, especially the rich material in Everett 1986, 1987b, we argue that many of the exceptional grammatical 'gaps' supposedly characteristic of Pirahã are misanalyzed by Everett (2005) and are neither gaps nor exceptional among the world's languages. We find no evidence, for example, that Pirahã lacks embedded clauses, and in fact find strong syntactic and semantic evidence in favor of their existence in Pirahã Likewise, we find no evidence that Pirahã lacks quantifiers, as claimed by Everett (2005). Furthermore, most of the actual properties of the Pirahã constructions discussed by Everett (for example, the ban on prenominal possessor recursion and the behavior of WH-constructions) are familiar from languages whose speakers lack the cultural restrictions attributed to the Pirahã. Finally, following mostly Gonçalves (1993, 2000, 2001), we also question some of the empirical claims about Pirahã culture advanced by Everett in primary support of the 'immediate experience' restriction. We conclude that there is no evidence from Pirahã for the particular causal relation between culture and grammatical structure suggested by Everett. -- Pirahã Exceptionality: A Reassessment, http://dash.harvard.edu/handle/1/3597237

Pirahã actually has two color terms, 'dark' and 'light', which is Stage I in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_Color_Terms:_Their_Univer..., http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_relativity_and_the_c...
Show HN: A status dashboard for the NYC power grid
In Switzerland, some states have ran internet voting trials. Recently, the state of Geneva ran one and a citizen was able to vote twice[1]. The administration then fixed the problem by removing the duplicate vote and then told everybody how e-voting was a success.

Of course, some people complained because a system that allow someone to vote twice doesn't work. The biggest problem though was that they were able to fix it by removing a vote, meaning they could identify the votes and remove it without problems.

The bottom line is : from a technical/cryptographical perspective, the system is a joke (and they don't want to give access to the code). And that's my fear with e-voting : it seems like governments agencies (and their contractors) have a tendency to screw up very badly when it comes to new technology, at least in Switzerland. And I don't want to vote through an half-assed online system using MD5 and a 64 bits RSA key.

[1] http://www.tdg.ch/high-tech/web/Un-citoyen-a-pu-voter-deux-f... (in French)
A letter from Louis CK about tonight's SNL and Sandy
NYTechResponds: Hacking Projects for Hurricane Recovery
A friend forwarded this over to me. Spread the word.
Long-time Valgrind user here, who has been using asan sporadically for a while inside Google. asan is way faster (and uses way less memory, I suspect), but is less exhaustive. Check out this page for more info: http://code.google.com/p/address-sanitizer/wiki/ComparisonOf...

Most notably, asan does not yet catch memory leaks, and will never be able to detect use of uninitialized values. Valgrind can tell you when you're using uninitialized values at bit-level granularity.

So Valgrind is still king in absolute capability, but it's likely that asan's speed will open it up to being used in cases where Valgrind simply isn't possible due to its speed/size overhead.
Well, I certainly didn't call society an oppressive instrument; so I'm not sure how you read that in there. Society is great, but it is not magical; and if left unattended can be taken over by all sorts of anti-social elements; which is why I stated I have an obligation to make sure it stays just in its dispensation of punishment.

"Altruism" is a cheap emotional fetter; one that very few people want to stand against for fear of being labeled an ogre and demonized by society. Keeping a low profile in an antagonistic social climate is a valid survival strategy in the short run, which only has to be as long as the social climate prevails; I shrug on how long that will be.

So back to charity, charity is not an obligation, and it is not a duty. It is a possible choice that one can use with "spare" (as an individual calculates) resources for ends that he desires to see, or for "inequities" (as he sees them) that he desires to erase. Charity is a payment for values. If I want to live in a world where I help certain people in certain situation when I want to, that's fine. If someone else doesn't want to, that's fine too.

Society exerted very little in "granting me" the life I lead. I am the beneficiary of the selfish collective action of everyone before me having worked to earn their own living, so if I owe society anything its to continue to work to earn my own living just like my ancestors did; which I consider just.
I'd really love to see how they pulled this off. I can't think of any way to do it without using a second camera at some point.
UK GOLDS GONE,GERMANY FURIOUS
The difference is that with the current system it takes a significant amount of extra effort (and avoiding monitoring and oversight) to track someone's voting preferences. Whereas with email based voting it takes a significant amount of extra effort and a lot more oversight to create systems which ensure that voting preferences aren't tracked.
Yep, The Verge is the only site I visit for gadget-related news these days. The production value on their videos is ridiculously high - just take a look at the one in this article[2]. And on top of that, they have absolutely amazing features[0], which integrate various aspects of culture as well. Finally, there's On The Verge[1], the show they record in front of a live audience - I think it matches the quality of shows broadcast on TV.

0: http://www.theverge.com/features

1: http://www.theverge.com/on-the-verge

2: http://www.theverge.com/2012/10/29/3570034/inside-android-bu...
This is a reaction to the storm, so I don't think they have all of the long term concerns thought out.
You could take the Engadget article as a defense for the iPad Mini pricing, or you could say it illustrates that it is tough to compete with companies who can sell devices at cost. I took it as the latter before reading Linus's opinion.

In case you missed the HN comments on the original article: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4737154
Tips for better sleep
Nice detective work. I'm not surprised to see both of those downvoted. The first reply to the second one you linked sums it up pretty well:

There's an unreasonable amount of emotionally charged language in your post. This is Hacker News, not "call people uninformed barely-computer literate consumers and haters because they don't share your viewpoint news". Make your arguments in a civil manner, please.

If you write with the assumption that people who disagree with you are dishonest, liars, haters, etc., it's going to leak into your writing unless you are a particularly gifted writer--your phrasing and word choice will betray it. And people don't much like it when your entire schtick involves emotionally charged accusations against them. Which is why I'm not surprised to see either of those downvoted.

People are good at tagging, and ignoring, jerks. There's a decent amount of indirect jerkdom in both of those posts. I can't be surprised they got nuked, but I doubt it'd be because he's writing in defense of Apple.
> Only the miner who discovers new bitcoins gets "rewarded" by the system

And that reward is really just compensation for keeping the whole system difficult to attack. Mining is not cheap, you need expensive hardware and electricity. I like to think of a miner as a transaction notarizer (e.g. like a notary public). Miner is definitely the wrong term, IMHO.
Radio Tanzania: A Disappearing History On Tape
Yeah, a big problem is that no one offers unsubsidized plans, so you can either pay $199 for your phone and $100 a month for three years, or $699 for your phone and $100 a month til you decide you no longer need phone service.

About the only advantage paying for your phone gives you is the opportunity to leave your carrier, but since the buyout is usually less than the subsidy on a smartphone it's usually better to use the buyout.
Engadget stopped being Engadget when everyone moved to the Verge.
> The integrity of your centralized program cannot.

Open source it. And not in the traditional sense, either. I mean setup the server to expose source code. Have a 3rd party verify security and integrity.

This is actually much easier to do than in the traditional process.
Considering the original snarky wording of their non-apology, I find it highly implausible that it's related to anything but.
On the contrary, any interesting program is going to have to do some I/O. So if you're want to do useful things with a language, I think it's a good thing to learn the basics of opening, reading and writing files.

Also, you should take a look at the top comment in this thread.
Odd, I have used it in solutions with dozens of project, hundreds of code files and ten's of thousands of lines of code and never experienced an issue. I will admit when you first open it in large solutions it takes a little bit for it to cache what it needs. Of course I have had problems with other products that everyone else claimed was fine so to each their own I suppose. Do you have a tool you use in place of ReSharper to solve it's niche?
1) Kick things off with sweeping generalizations of four sites spanning ten years as "haters", "fandroids", "leftists" and "fascists".

2) Spend the rest of the tangent hypocritically complaining about name-calling while demanding that someone refute your purely anecdotal evidence.

3) Triumphantly explain how I've somehow proven your point by posting this.
Launch, land, launch and land, reusable rockets. Easier to test often and early.
On the flipside, exercise increases your metabolism during the rest of the day, typically more than offsetting your math. This effect is well-correlated with exercise intensity. Also, 100 calories/mile at 6 minute/mile pace is quite efficient unless you are very light (e.g., 140 lbs).
But not, apparently, required to tell anyone who's bought it not to drink it.

This did pretty much happen in the US and was partly why the FDA was founded. Someone created a medicine which used a solvent known to be toxic to humans because they were too lazy to check, refused to tell the pharmacies they'd sold it to to withdraw it, and couldn't legally be forced to until someone spotted a technical violation of labelling law. They called it an "elixir", and legally only stuff that used alcohol as a solvent could be named that; if they'd labelled it as "medicine" instead there'd have been no way to force a recall at all and people would've just kept on taking it.
Torvalds must be on drugs or also trolling hard to be talking about an absence of carrier lock-in and Android in the same sentence - an OS rendered practically unusable should you elect not to associate your device with a Google account, and all that such entails.
Guessing they want a local number because the apartment complex doesn't want to pay for long distance calling.
The YC legal documents are drafted by YC-approved attorneys specifically for allowing them to structure the companies in the way that YC prefers.

This means that their boilerplate is geared for having seed investors with an easy ability to add on larger investors later on.

In short, their boilerplate documents fit the way that they do business, and as such, is probably not a horrible way to go if you're going to do business with YC. If you're not going to do business with YC, then there are a million other things you have to account for. Even if you ARE going to do business with YC, you still might want to change the documents in play to fit your environment best. As I understand it, there's enough experience there to be able to guide you as to whether or not their boilerplate fits your exact needs.
Private property is not real
Private property is not real, it is not legitimate, although we need it psychologically.
> I mean setup the server to expose source code

Please explain how you envision this being implemented.

(Warning: while 'remote attestation' is a valid answer for some assertions, it means that we are once again back to trusting the central signing authority. which might seem less scary, but we'd really be having the same argument at a much more technical and nitpicky level)
Have you been in berlin before? At the more famous talks you couldn't even stand at hall 1, now there shouldn't be any problems: https://twitter.com/Kjellski/status/257147441948807168

I've posted more pictures with floor plans and the accessibility for whellchairs is way better.

I really loved berlin and I hope we'll have as much fun in hamburg.
The problem with his posts is that he makes big claims and then fails to back them up with any references. For example from your second link:

>Xerox did not invent the GUI.

What?
Interesting.

With the going rate of botnets ($0.02 per computer from some quick googling?) and everyone would be voting online.... How much do you want to pay to be the president?

As if nobody would develop rootkits to fiddle with the HTTPS post (or whatever) going to the voting server...
Tl;dr Silver is an agent of disruption, and the incumbents are terrified of him.
Sometimes I help people struggling to do something, not out of the kindness of my heart, but just because watching them struggle is painful to watch.
Couldn't find any info about it, but when will it be held?
This HN discussion [1] and submission [2] which delves into the cable lacing on Curiosity might be of interest to you.

1: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4472312

2: http://igkt.net/sm/index.php?topic=4028
MRM Turbo Driven Review w/ Video
Wouldn't help if they hid a backdoor in the compiled code, and the compiler, etc. "Reflections on trusting trust" and all that.
I like Torvalds posts/articles. Most important people that blog/post/comment about stuff in their field of "expertise" (I'm assuming in this case that would be technology in general) try to do research on the topic, give advantages and disadvantages. Which isn't bad! But Linus just seems to post his own opinion on things, just the way he sees it.
Adafruit: Back to business (after sandy)
https://events.ccc.de/congress/2012/wiki/Main_Page The conference is held every year between Christmas and New Years. The dates this year are the 27th to the 30th of December.
It's like ultra-sound, takes all the fun out of guessing the sex of the baby. If he methods were less reliable or the race was closer so the result was more in doubt, he would be fine feed for the grist mill. Right now he's just a party pooper.
Ego is also one of the greatest motivators for any pursuit.
Those are very different problems.

Cell-phone carriers have formed an oligopoly due to the extremely high cost of building nationwide service and the limited amount of mobile spectrum. This will naturally lead to a situation where the industry can stagnate and overcharge with there being very little pressure from new entrants to the market that try to exploit the market failure. Carrier-lockin makes this problem even worse because they make it even more expensive to use their services unless you lock yourself in longterm in exchange for a phone subsidy that amounts to a discount.

Sure, there are lots of concerns about Google having lots of information about you. But at least you have choices, and at least you don't have to pay Google $100/month and pay them more if you want to leave.
Having attended 28C3 last December I'm really disappointed I'll not be able to make it this year. These events are always incredibly interesting and packed with great people and ideas.
He's talking about the new Nexus 4 which is $299 unlocked with no contract; hence no carrier lock-in.
Virality (referrals) is overrated. Unless you're fb or eventbrite.
HAML Improvement
Is there anything that prevents this from being a phone app and sell it in one of the app stores?

You could abstract away all the web and phone (press '9') stuff and just have a button "Open the door? Yes/No" if someone activates the buzzer.

Maybe add some easy management for pins that:

- always open (roommates/family/friends)

- open only one time (deliveries, not-so-close-friends)

- open only under certain conditions (time of day, day of
month, etc)

Make it possible to easily share those pin numbers via SMS,
Facebook, email, etc.

I think you have a product that's great for access management. You should highlight the additional benefits in your marketing, e.g.:

- easy to invite friends over for dinner

- easy to share apartment without the need for new keys

- easy to revoke access

- easy to let cleaning staff in during certain times of day

Another thought: Market it as a helpful add-on for AirBnB customers. You don't have to give someone a key to your apartment, just a PIN that only works for the time they rent the apartment (this is also useful for sub-leases). You can revoke access at any time, no matter where you are (big problem with keys).

Short version: I think you'd have a better chance packaging your product as a mobile app, abstracting away all the web/phone stuff and sell it as "entry management" instead of "automated buzzer".
Sorry, I must be missing something -- isn't AAPL, the company furthest away from selling anything at cost, the most valuable company in history and making more money in a week than most of these other companies make all quarter?
What? It's perfectly feasible to have an Android phone and never sign up for a Google account. There are third party app stores (Amazon, GetJar, etc). If you don't feel like using a third party app store you can just install apks directly from the web.
In what way is an Android device "rendered practically unusable" when not associated with a Google account? Having run an Android tablet without one for a while, it was pretty much exactly as usable as with a Google account.
Cool idea, but you can get a local phone number from Magic Jack or its ilk for $10/year, I have a hard time seeing how you charge much more than that.
If you're in the US, the Nexus 4 doesn't support CDMA, which rules out Sprint and Verizon. AT&T doesn't give a discount for bringing your own phone, so you'd be losing money if you don't take a device for them but buy a data plan. So you're effectively locked into Tmobile.
I'm pretty sure they subsidize their content network (or run it at razor margin) in order to drive hardware sales.
The entire "cell phone thing" in Vietnam (and I am sure other Asian countries) is far superior to the USA (in my opinion). I can go to practically any corner and get a SIM card for 5 USD and put it in a phone. I don't have to give my name or an ID or join some plan. I just give them the phone, they put a sim in and it works.

I can get a cell phone within a few blocks of basically anywhere I am.

The carriers make money selling calls and data: not phones.

And while I'm talking about this kind of thing... I can go anywhere and get "free" wifi: even at Circle K. Ya. They have free wi-fi at the Circle K. I can sit at a coffee shop, get a 3 dollar coffee, and work all day. Restaurants are the same.

Admittedly, the internet speeds to the USA are not that great. However, internal to Vietnam, they are really good.
I chose to use it because I'm not a very good backend developer (my bad) and needed something up and running quickly. But I agree that it's probably not a good longterm solution.
PyPy py3k status update
Dotcom pledges to resurrect international cable project
Anytime someone starts carrying a gun around and acting like a cop without being trained or uniformed as a cop, there's going to be problems.
Maybe a better quote or platitude in this case is "don't take out a weapon unless you plan on using it". I always took that to mean, wrt guns, if you take it out, be prepared to shoot to kill.

Apple certainly seems to have done that here. I don't know why though. Ianal, but anyone should be able to look at the date of filing for ifone and compare that to Apple's product launch. Apple lost right there.

Why they went in guns blazing thinking they are going to scare a telco is crazy. And a Mexican telco, which I would bet may behave a little different than US telcos.

I think Apple should have simply kept their mouths shut. I understand you have to protect your trademark, but ones a product, the other a service.

Apple seems to have jumped into a small pool of sharks with the iPhone name. Didn't Cisco have an IP phone called iPhone long before Apple? And as far as I know, Apple made no negotiations with them prior to launch.

I guess when you have enough money in the bank in cash to buy pretty much any competitor, it changes they term competitor in ones mind a bit. I certainly wish they would buy up AT&T and run the company right. 120.00 or more a month for a phone is pushing your luck.