skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As an Indian and somebody who studied the non violence moment of Gandhi both in South Africa and India. I can talk about the nature of political movements, I studied in quite a great detail. Even in India, the nature of non violence movement was not completely non violent- Its true that non violence came as a overwhelming force for the British. But the British did deal and perceive violent revolutionary sources as a equally big threat. There is always a big debate in India that Bhagat Singh was an equally big threat to British, as much as Gandhi. There were and continued to be pockets of violence till the Indian independence.

Secondly, violent attacks don't often serve any thing more than 'symbolism'.In this case, there is a century long history, of a persecuted community being settled on already existing nation. Now persecuted community has its reasons, but the existing people see why they are being driven out and find no acceptable reason for that. Add to this, a massive refugee problem, being forced to live densely crowded areas. No adequate supply of food, water, medicine, electricity for 50 years now. Sub human sanitation conditions. Having to endow the humiliation to stop at check points to move around in their own country, watch their land being endlessly consumed by settlers. Coupled with this the occupier has, a endless diplomatic, military and financial support of the biggest super power in human history. The oppressed can do nothing about it, because the military option isn't even an option. Diplomatic doors are closed.

If you feel these sort of people to not get frustrated, something is wrong about your understanding of human emotions.

Its in the human nature to empathize with the oppressed. And in fact this is the biggest problem with the kind of activity Anonymous has done. Israel isn't troubled because websites are going down for a couple of hours, they are troubled that there are people with some power and say in their hands, who empathize with the Palestinians. This is dangerous, and even fatal for the Israelis. Far more dangerous than the rockets themselves.
> Designers tend to have good eyes, and excellent calibrated monitors. Most people don't have such good monitors. Some people even have really cheap lousy tn panels with smudges and smears and such all over.

Here's an idea for a service: something that would simulate how given thing looks on different cheap, poorly calibrated monitors and TV screens.
Thankfully, Anonymous has painted a portrait of what an adult response looks like.
Missing something important here: He didn't intend for it to be seen by everyone, he was simply replying to a tweet from @Twitter.
Why would Twitter's communications strategy be a normative baseline? (And especially for App.net?)

Lots of successes have been marketed as a contrast to an established competitor: Avis Tries Harder, The Pepsi Challenge, MCI vs. AT&T, Mac vs. PC.
The rule of law is important. Tit-for-tat exchanges like the ones that Israel and Palestine are engaging in solve nothing. It descends into monkey hindbrain us-against-them.

Another very similar scenario recently was Northern Ireland. That didn't get solved by the UK grinding Ireland into the ground or posting inflammatory things in the news - it was solved by both sides showing restraint and good will.

Currently neither Israel or Palestine are showing anything of the sort, but as the larger, more powerful party (eg. I doubt Palestinans have bunkers), it's up to Israel to show some restraint... but they aren't, they're still posturing about how tough they are.

It's maddening to watch.
Congrats, Jason!!
> where people were denied the right to have a state to live in

You realize Hamas was voted in, right?

1. Elected government? Check.

2. Borders? Check.

They have a state. Not being formally recognized in the UN is just that ... a formality.
Sounds cool! :) And definitely not something easy to build. But why are you building this, why would someone want a web desktop? What problem are you trying to solve? <friendly and curious questions>
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Uh...because Hollywood is by far the biggest category of twitter traffic?
Don't confuse "Libertarian" with "liberal".
Exactly, but I was afraid it was too pedantic to just point it out :)
I'm a longtime twitter user. He should've checked out my account for an example of best practices - http://twitter.com/mullingitover
No sorry you don't address the point everybody else is making in this thread, which is that you seem to suggest bombing is OK as long you pre-inform the people you plan bomb couple of hours before.
The book The Science of Fear is also a great resource for learning about why people do the things they do.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0452295467/ref=as_li_ss_tl?...
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Counter example

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The problem is Ron Paul is a crazy guy. He's trying to rigorously apply principles from the 1700s to today's world. He's not willing to compromise in the face of evidence that contradicts his firmly held opinions.

I've studied Libertarianism to the point of finding out that, not unlike other extremist philosophies, it's too far-fetched to ever work. People are too "human" for Libertarianism to ever work. It's too easily corrupted to serve the interests of those with power.

Ron Paul either lives in some kind of puppies and rainbows small-town world where corporate interests never trump personal liberties, where money doesn't equate to power and relative immunity from prosecution, or he's willing to overlook all that and hold out faith that Libertarianism will somehow change how people iteract.

Basically he's the Richard M. Stallman of politicians. Blinded by ideology and ultimately dragging things in the wrong direction.
Politicians lie. The more you agree with them, the closer you should be looking.
And that kills kids, and UN inspectors and civilians. And of course these rocket launchers are wrong too, needless to say their rockets kill kids and civilians too.
I'm still confused. If I'm on someone's profile, the tweet box already includes @user. So if I go ahead and tweet in that box, it will not show up in my follower's feeds? It was not a "reply".

I would agree that's totally broken but live feeds aren't even usable past 10 or 20 followees anyway so maybe it doesn't matter that much?
Agree with most of your point Chuck. However, I think most people on HN are in the startup phase. They are doing customer discovery/development to find something that is actually valuable. This post is really optimization in the execution phase. It is normal for most of the engs/devs to not understand the business side.
It's really not that difficult if you use a parser + whitelist. You don't have to care about this sort of thing if you limit people to using certain tags/attributes in WYSIWYG editors and other inputs.
-Who's your target audience?
-Why would someone want to use weeZeel?

I'm having a hard time trying to understand the benefit of something like weeZeel. It may be that I'm just not your target audience.
I went to one of those time share vacation stays and pitches a long time ago, and the pitch just bounced off. Returning to my home town just after college, one of my high school friends, now selling insurance, suggested we "have lunch." I didn't realize what was happening, but that one bounced off me, and I got a free lunch, too. When I got home, my mother was shocked and told me I should apologize to him. Live and learn... To this day, I still cringe when I see that guy at high school reunions!
I challenge you to give me one very specific example of how something is not going to work in a libertarian world and I'm going right here right now to prove you how it actually would work. (because, with all due respect, I think writing comments that basically say "it's not gonna work because it's puppies and rainbows" is not helping us find out the truth).
> Deciding that other people are too stupid to be able to do this, and thus those other people need a government mandated filter at the ISP to filter adult content is perhaps a bit authoritarian.

How is it 'authoritarian'? The motivation here is clearly to make it easy and therefore usable, rather than difficult and therefore unusable.

> I don't know what the answer to protecting people from extreme imagery is, but I do know a government filter isn't it.

How do you know that it isn't it? It seems to me that you've started from the axiom that it isn't it and come to no conclusions whatsoever.
I can not upvote this enough.
Now why didn't anybody think about this all these years. Awesome.
A logical framework is worth exactly as much as the underlying assumptions. In Ron Paul's case, the soundness of those assumptions ranges from "obviously true" to "questionable" to "provably false" to "batshit crazy".
To be fair this site has been around for years. Since 2006 according to whois.
> where corporate interests never trump personal liberties

Corporations are a construct of government. So yes, if we limit the power of government, corporate power will be limited too.
If the problems on iOS being criticized are real, I don't see a problem.

Can't you judge for yourself the content you are reading?
This isn't a new idea. Even this site has been around for years. There's also Mailinator[1], among others.

[1] http://www.mailinator.com/
"Ron Paul ideas are ideas of libertarianism and if you study them diligent enough, you'll eventually be used to thinking in this framework"

I'm trying not to violate rule #1 of the internet ("never argue with an internet libertarian"), but you're making a classic Nerd Error: if you have to say the words "you'll eventually be used to thinking in this framework", you've already lost the war.

Politics are not about logically consistent philosophical frameworks, and even if they were, there's certainly no inherent reason that "liberty" has to be your guiding value for establishing such a framework (you could just as easily chose "safety" or "health" or, for that matter, "happiness"). There are a number of practical situations where people will happily, sanely support reductions in liberty to gain other benefits. People who do not recognize this reality are doomed to marginalization.
Today, it's a customer who is so pissed off that he brought in his cell phone and went out of his way to call you over and play it for you.

Tomorrow, it's the local ABC/NBC/CBS affiliate hungry to fill their "Tonight, We Fight For You!" consumer protection segment asking you for response (five minutes before air so they can say you didn't respond when asked), because the next customer just went straight to them.

I bet he really was fired.
Ugh, I hate haggis.
> It was down to the fact that I couldn't accrue future staff costs towards the event.

You lost me: Unaccrued staff costs are quite different than unrecognized revenue, which is what you originally mentioned. In fact, such costs would be on the liability side, so a sensible buyer would love to see you put them on the balance sheet since it would lower the assets in the company. (Buyers are always trying to accrue costs in advance, sellers are trying to accrue revenue in advance.)

I'm obviously not getting what you're saying.
The one point that really did not resonate with me is that companies will take over. Currently, companies are by far the worst tweeters and are totally dominated by individuals whether thy be celebrities, experts, citizen journalists, etc. Even the good tweeters who sort of tweet under a company umbrella define themselves more than their companies. Twitter seems to me that it will remain the anti-company network since it provides so much advantage to the collection of individuals.
No, he is too socially conservative for liberals.
I don't think there is. Given the interest that was shown throughout the world, I'm sure that if any region had a surplus supply, demand from other regions would already have gobbled it up.
:). Already had a WTF moment. Thanks.

Hint to world: Problem's trickier than it looks at first glance.
Oh, I thought this was going to be about Kickstarter.
The chart indicates that one can avoid the startup graveyard by raising prices. Is that okay?
YOU ARE AN IGNORANT TROLL! STUPID PEOPLE TEND TO BE MORE CONFIDENT BECAUSE THEY LACK KNOWLEDGE.
my personal favorite is the 45minute offset: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chatham_Islands#Chathams_Time
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The internet as an institution is far more democratic than the current US election system.

Anyone can exchange ideas online, and better yet, most people do!
Ok, we're moving somewhere. If the F-16s didn't exist, the rockets would still kill all those children. But if the rockets didn't exist, the F-16s wouldn't kill any children! I think we just figured out the solution to the conflict!
I'm building exactly that (it's on postgres now, but I'm considering moving to RethinkDB when it's more stable). It's good to know you have my back.

By the way, for the benefit of the commenters here, I checked RethinkDB two days ago for http://www.instahero.com (the analytics app I'm building), and I ran into a bug where RethinkDB's count() would only return half my data.

The team was very responsive and fixed the bug in a few hours (and pushed the fix so I could test it), so I'm very impressed by the response time. I can't hold the bug against them, because they do say it's not production-ready.

Also, I pointed out that the DB listening to interfaces other than localhost by default was a potential security risk and that, too, was fixed in around a day. Kudos.
I think this article is using the term "nerd" in high regard. "smart" as opposed to "glasses and giant backpack". The article paints these people as colorful characters and rock stars. If anything, I thought it was a little too fawning.

The Social Network. Nate Silver. TED. Nerds are actually doing pretty well in the popular culture right now. I don't mind seeing the word "nerd" in the title of an article. It's usually not a bad thing, and at least I know they're talking about me.
Reposting from another thread:

I think pretty much all teams are great. Perhaps there isn't a very specific reason for rejection once you get past by the alumni (biased) filters and is evaluated by PG himself.

...

I dare YC to choose 10% of teams at random next time, not even reading their application. I bet the results will be the same, if not, better than the average.
The reason would be the message would be communicated better. I got lost in a few places down the page. This length might be better as the first few chapters of a book.
> use ROCKET on F-16
Welcome to half a decade ago!
> I've heard even choosing "Go off the record" in Gtalk, doesn't really protect you

Go off the record[1] in your client instead and enjoy all the important protections, which include: encryption, authentication, perfect forward secrecy and deniability of the kind that you can keep denying everything even when presented with a word for word printout of the conversation.

Why even give Google a chance to fail you? Sure, it can still be known whom you're contacting and when but otherwise, you're covered.

[1] http://www.cypherpunks.ca/otr/
I agree. Sadly the IDF doesn't.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4333982.stm

http://www.haaretz.com/news/idf-to-ask-high-court-to-review-...

http://www.hrw.org/reports/2002/israel3/israel0502-06.htm

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2007/mar/09/israel

http://www.denverpost.com/headlines/ci_5644167

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6554487.stm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8151336.stm

http://www.haaretz.com/news/two-idf-soldiers-charged-with-us...

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/04/11/world/main2674604....
we used python, ruby and php. a bit of java and what not sprinkled around for fun.
Personal stewardship of nuclear weapons.

Please don't "prove to me how it actually would work". Just think about it a while for yourself, and learn to accept that there's limits to the philosophy. Libertarianism is ultimately a heuristic, and you do it no favors by handwavingly claiming that you can prove desirable large scale behaviors based on a small set of axioms.

Signed - a libertarian.
Pricing is complex in general, but for SaaS companies even more so. Enterprise SaaS companies spend a lot of resources to acquire customers. Annual billing to a large extent helps offset these costs. However a question remains:
How does a new unfunded SaaS company acquire customers, when annual billing can be a big obstacle for sign ups?
I recognize very well that politics is not about logic. This is why I'm very pessimistic about prospects of libertarianism and especially anarcho-capitalism. Because especially the latter has nothing to do with politics at all.

Generally, I think the idea that the majority of people can vote for something and restrict freedoms of other people who opposed the idea is something completely crazy and it's so sad that a lot of people will, I'm sure, continue thinking that is the way to go.

Update: also, let me ask you, cos I'm not sure, why do you think it's a bad idea to argue with a libertarian?
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Those sleazebags.
Correct, this looks like a less capable Popcorn.js
I know quite a bit of people and common thing between all of them is that they are quite influential. They have been irritated by things like this.

And they may convince others to join App.net. Granted that many people will avoid App.net just because you have to pay for it and common internet guy will never realize what Twitter is doing. Still, if even top 10-20% of people who I follow go to App.net, I will follow!
Traffic generation and product development could have progressed in parallel. We approached it in a serial manner and wasted valuable time.
Totally agree. You should go ahead with the lobby group.
My thoughts, yet expressed more eloquently than I ever could.

Would you happen to have an opinion on which of your books I should read first?
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> I believe a person owns the data traces of their life, not twitter, not facebook, not any financial institution or ad network.

And any given person may write their own client, and use one single token for their twitter account.
Agreed, these posts (have been far too many lately) are annoying for three reasons.

1) There are better apps to build with Twitter's api than boring twitter clients.

2) There are plenty other clients to build for other web services if that's your thing.

3) As repeated by many people before, if you use someone's API they have control of how you use it. No point in whining, it's not like there is anything hidden or hard to understand here.
As far as the racist background, the Ron Paul newsletters certainly have explicit racism (and sexism, and homophobia) in them (as opposed to implied racism, such as opposing the civil rights legislation of the 60s). Most Ron Paul fans argue that it was actually Lew Rockwell who wrote most of that, under Ron Paul's name, and Ron Paul never read or approved of them.

Take that for what it's worth--I personally suspect it's somewhere between "Ron Paul wrote all the virulently racist stuff in his newsletter" and "Ron Paul had no idea of anything going on in his newsletter."
You should, somehow, integrate development tools there, like cloud9
WTF #2.
Agreed, but if you're the founder, even if you're just one guy and an idea, you need to be able to evaluate your options.

Example, founder says "We launched and got 100K users in the first weekend!" That is fabulous, shows that they have really connected with their target market, but do they know how much money each user has to generate to pay for their expected burn rate? They should. You can say "We're build X for Y, and we're looking to monetize the landing pages with advertising." So what "CPM" do you need? (clicks per thousand) What RPM (revenue per thousand) do you need to make that work? Are there other businesses that have similar CPM/RPM numbers?

We're fortunate that a lot of folks can and do share their numbers with this community. I'm just encouraging founders to keep the whole equation in their thoughts between costs + engagement + revenue so they can think about ways to test against their models.

The three questions every founder has to wonder; Can we build it? Will people use it? Can we convince them to pay enough for it to sustain it?
Most people seem to have good intentions but good intentions don't always lead to good results.

The intentions of laws with compulsory fees (taxation) and compulsory who marries who are based on good intentions (in the minds of those who create them).

In both cases, these good intentions are based on theft of basic rights. But, in the long term, how can you make society better off when your core beliefs are based on theft? ("Unlike both parties' ideologies, which are, indeed, crafted out of many different unrelated parts serving special interests.")

The "batshit crazy" ideals of libertarians is to base your good intentions on non-aggression: not theft.
> why do you think it's a bad idea to argue with a libertarian?

Every time I argue with a libertarian, it's an endless series of "No True Scotsman" arguments.
If so, it's a pretty internet-noob way of stating it.
Can they control what goes through those borders? Can they control what happens in the airspace above their territory? Do they have a seat at the UN?

The answer is no to all 3.

Question: if I want to fly into Gaza, whose permission do I need? Hamas' permission is clearly insufficient: the IDF will shoot down any plane landing there. So they're not at all an independent state.
"I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it." - George Bernard Shaw

(...let's be clear that I'm not calling libertarians pigs. The point is that you can't change a dedicated person's mind via argument, and neither I nor Shaw found the effort enjoyable or productive.)
I'm so relieved that this is the top comment. Design patents only protect the ornamental characteristics embodied in an article of manufacture. This NYT blogger seems to conflate design patents and utility patents, but the distinction is that utility patents protect how an article of manufacture works, whereas a design patent protects how an article of manufacture appears. In fact, Apple could have filed an application for a utility patent on "page turning," which the USPTO would summarily reject on the basis of "page turning" being anticipated by technologies like...the book. At any rate, this is the kind of sensationalized blog spam that I'd expect to see on reddit, rather than HN.

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If Mozilla succeed then there will be a common standard for all developers to code to, there will no longer be any worry about an app not working on Linux/MacOS because the targeted environment is the browser.

The browser becomes a VM, in fact it's already one but they want to make it far, far more powerful. This is a very good thing.
I don't think they are being barbaric, though. They are launching pinpoint strikes, and doing all they can to avoid civilian casualties. Hamas is deliberately hiding amongst their own civilians to generate casualties.
Ask HN: Success stories of meeting co-founders at HN?
If u met your co-founder at HN, please share your story. I see several people looking for co-founders or key team members directly or indirectly. So curious to see how many members have directly benefited.
At worst, this is a clever way to generate pageviews.