skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
favorite quote from Mike Shaver (in context) from http://john.jubjubs.net/2011/09/15/mike-shaver-thanks/

"And [Shaver] affected my framing of the problem deeply – I remember one day a couple of years back when we were talking about some market share point, thinking about how incredibly, insanely competitive the browser technology landscape was – and he said to me: 'Look, this is the world we wanted. And this is the world we made.' Wow. Exactly right. He taught me so much about how enormous an impact a group of dedicated people can make."
I was expecting the page title to animate as well :)
You know, it seems like you could use MacRuby to write the web bits and possibly also to talk to the Obj-c libs you would need. Then you get the already made nice Ruby things like Sinatra for writing your HTTP services, and still use Obj-c for specific libs or things you would need to use.
Thanks for this recommendation. I still value tips on using cURL because it is practically ubiquitous which is helpful when you are logged into some random server, but HTTPie definitely has a very common sense usage and I think it will be very useful as a testing tool for my local machine.
I've heard the US a great country to live in if you have plenty of money. It's so-so if you don't.
Ask HN: Should I incorporate v2 (more details)
My original question is here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4754248 but I left out a lot of details. There were many good details.

Here is the situation:

I work full time and pursuing this at nights and weekends. I have apps on the side that I sell at the App Store. It is only generating small revenue so I never bothered, but now I am pursuing something that if there is a market demand for it, can take off and become a startup.

I am outsourcing the development to US coders via guru and elance. I'm a developer but not in this expertise. I figured someone else can do it faster and better. With regards to freelancers, I want them to build the components and I integrate them.

I am looking for a technical cofounder(s) right now. I'm living in my parents house but they are out of the country (1 year) so I can offer free rooms and we can share food/etc. I can offer some money for fun and allowances. I intend to keep working because I have a great job that allows me to keep doing this at night and pay for expenses. When there is potential, I intend to move to it full time. I'm not doing this to limit risks to myself and put all the risk to cofounders/employees. I get paid quite a bit and have a very flexible schedule. We can minimize cost by working out of the house and I can keep the venture running with my salary. I'm flexible. Let me know your thoughts on this.

In the future, I want to pursue patents even though they are evil. In the future, I want funding and move to wherever makes the venture most conducive to success.

Thanks for all the help and advices! I hope this can help others as well.
People are biased towards pre-installed setup. This might not be huge in Linux but in general they tend to use what's provided. Also it gets more attention and more finishing touch by developers.
Show HN: my first attempt to build a personal website
That makes a lot of sense, thanks. I think that is something sort of like what AirBNB does. We were planning to let them log in with social networks and grab their avatar but creating a profile and showing more of the real person behind it would be even better.
vaguely stated moral principles.
The difference between threats and hate speech is that hate speech is intended to oppress an already marginalized group, as a group. That is, there are two criminal acts (1) threatening the individual (2) oppressing the group, happening as a result of one act of speech. This justifies a special treatment for it in law, differing from mere threats.
I couldn't find a decent grad role in Bristol so I ended up in London, where I've since settled. I'm a dev after graduating in 2004 with a Computing and Information Systems degree. Since I graduated I realise that a few my UWE lecturers were really good. I didn't see the point in being asked to read Kent Beck and Martin Fowler or what I'd learn from substituting Slackware Linux's ls for my own shoddy implementation, but now I see that those visiting lecturers from Rolls Royce and Airbus knew what I'd need to know in the real world. Doing a Sandwich course and spending a year writing production code for Pfizer was beneficial too. You?

http://ejb.name
Not sure what this post is about. The only news is that RadioShack is going to sell a "micro" version of the "nano."

I bought my Arduino Nano earlier this year from gravitech.us and they're still shipping them as of 2012-11-09 09:32am (CST).

http://www.gravitech.us/arna30wiatp.html

I have no affiliation with gravitech. For the record, I bought the breadboard it's mounted on from RS. Plugs in tight. I use the avr-gcc tool chain -- and it works.
Ha! Nice try Dave9K. No, if it sounds like a Duck, walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, guess what? You are a racist. To call me a racist because I ask for restitution is laughable and shows your true colors. Affirmative Action is nothing compared to the restitution that blacks deserve.

So you talk about Jewish People. Here is Germany paying reparations to the jewish people.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reparations_Agreement_between_I...

And you know what? They are specifically getting some restitution for slave labor. You know what, lets abolish Afirmative Action and instead give each black descendant of slaves 1 million dollars. This way the poor white man who wants to get into an ivy league college won't be discriminated against. Everybody wins, what do you say? If you still don't think this is fair then shut the f..ck up.

Even China and Korea are trying to get restitution from Japan. I could continue citing lots of other examples but why waste my time with a racist like you. You are probably the same as Holocaust deniers.

So why is it racist for Blacks to try to get some restitution for hundreds of years of slavery? No, you are the racists. Is OK when your race is conducting racism but if anybody demands that you pay up for hundreds of years of slavery you cry foul and claim that you are being discrimated against. You disgust me. A poor example for a human.
Which means you're probably not the kind of person who gets into this kind of debt.
Didn't work in 15.0.1(Win7), updated, works in 16.0.2
I fear it's far more likely that you have other issues and the alcohol simply helps you focus. Lots of people are able to 'forget about themselves' during work and simply focus on the job. This becomes a lot more difficult when you don't actually need to be doing anything, and your mind is freed up to do what it does best: wander.

Alcohol may simply be allowing you to forget about some other distraction in your mind. Don't fall into the trap of thinking that it's the alcohol making you a better programmer: if you can't get through the night without a drink - then you could have a problem. Next time you reach for a drink, stop yourself - and ask yourself what your motivation is. 'Focus' implies that you are currently unable to focus, which implies distraction. Find the distraction.
The Todo app would be good for an introduction tutorial, but for my book, I want the user to understand the whole cycle of a production ready web site, which means I need more advanced features to explore, to take them step by step, from 0 to deploy.

Simulating a mail client would be good too, except that it is more suited for people wanting to build web apps. My book is for people who want to build web sites.

Thanks for the ideas.
Can the US military fight a war with Twitter?
I was prepared to think the same way when I read the headline. But it's pretty hard to separate the personality from the issue in this case. There's nothing stopping Crockford from doing the right thing here except for his personality.
I just tried to write my personal website from scratch.
It is written in PHP and I tried to make it as responsive as possibile.

I still have to work a lot on the contents, but since it is never too early to ship I liked the idea to go online and ask for feedbacks as soon as possible.

If you want to have a look at the code, it is on github. Feel free to fork it, use it for your website and to collaborate with me in the development.
https://github.com/mariosangiorgio/personal-website
There are only 2 people of Red Hat on the GNOME release team (team is 9 at the moment). But yeah, due to the sheer amount of manpower that Red Hat spends on maintaining various software projects, their influence of course is pretty great.

But they still have to convince the other GNOME developer community. Decisions are pretty often made in consensus, so they don't override things.

Note that the blog you are linking to gets some things wrong. You have to see some things in context. E.g. a designer is of course going to have a bit of limited view.

The Red Hat people on the release team sometimes "block" a decision made by other Red Hat people; seems like normal commity behaviour to me. Though of course if they all work together, their idea of the best way forward is going to be similar.
The solution for the anti-joke contingent is to organize a mass flood of exemption requests for Crockford to deal with.
PayPal and Square are user facing companies. Stripe is currently strictly a developer facing company (I mean look at their home page, they have code samples!).

Stripe provides hooks that allow you to easily send your own invoices--that's a developer friendly feature that maintains flexibility (everyone will want invoices to work differently).
/"one of the big lessons of my life has been that being intelligent has no intrinsic value. If you are unable to manifest your intelligence in a way that can substantially (disproportionate to your effort) improve your life or the lives of others, then your mind doesn't matter."/

It saddens me the number of intellectually bright people I work with who don't grok basics like sound engineering principles. Your code is off little value if it's unmaintainable, or impossible to prove it works, regardless of how clever the implementation may be.
Their funds are finite and the increased cost of a football would take away funds for other goods and services which they deliver. They need to prioritize their the current needs and demands, not just optimize for the long term cost of a football.
Aaaaand this is why the "evil" clause is problematic.
Politicians and citizens alike were pounding on the banks to lower their standards before the crash. Everywhere there was rhetoric about home ownership being a right, and that the evil banks were standing in the way. It's not like this was an evil scheme that the banks cooked up.
> the worst webapp

The first and foremost reason for me to consult HN is because it is fast. I am in China, and usualy send time on the web only on my phone, with 3g connection.

HN speed beats all other link agregators, blogs, news site, and even goolgle search, and -- most interesting: even fast Chinese sites.

I don't know why it is so fast (except when it is dead, obviously), maybe because of this flat-file architecture, which could just make sense. (Git is very fast too, right?)

And I think it is interesting that the "make it fast" is a leitmotiv that has been forgotten by so many people, Google firstly, but is still a reason for some (me, at least) to pick this site over that sire.
The great thing about soccer is that even having an actual soccer ball is not a necessity. Empty cans, ragged tennis balls, anything will do. This used to be perfectly fine in the first world country I grew up in, so although this is a great product, it doubt it will make as much of a difference as the author suggest. Kids will play soccer and enjoy it no matter what.
Arguably the same can be said for people that feel the urge to do so, doubly so for calling it "evil".
He did make his case - 395 racist tweets out of 120 million voters is practically background noise. You should expect all manner of extreme behavior on a sample size that large.
Duck Typing Assert in Python
The BSD licence is not GPL-incompatible. It is the original BSD licence which is GPL-incompatible, because it has an advertising clause requiring all advertising material for a product to include a note for each contributor under that license.
If you're interested in how language can shape the way you think, I highly recommend watching Lera Boroditsky's talk here:

http://fora.tv/2010/10/26/Lera_Boroditsky_How_Language_Shape...

It's VERY good. But skip the first 3 minutes of boring intro.
Disclaimer: I have read http://lesswrong.com/lw/r5/the_quantum_physics_sequence/ cover to cover.

Let's see with an example. A half sievered mirror, a photon going through (or bouncing), and 2 detectors. You say there is no hidden variable that would allow us to predict which detector we will see go off.

I agree.

It doesn't mean however that the laws of physics have true randomness in them. Under the Everett interpretation, two "worlds" (blobs of amplitude) are created: one in which detector 1 goes off, and one in which detector 2 goes off. from the outside, this is purely deterministic. The only randomness lies in our subjective experience. The only question remaining is why do we experience the Born statistics (based on square moduli), rather than something else (like, based on moduli)?

We would have true randomness at the fundamental level if some form of the Copenhagen interpretation where true. But believing the blob of amplitude we don't see would mysteriously disappear, violating the equations in the process? That's just nuts. If this idea appeared after the Everett interpretation, it would have been ridiculed.
The title here is misleading. The articles notes that 1 of the SEALs receiving punishment was a member of the bin Laden raid (and leaves unclear what his role had been), the other 6 are members of that SEAL Team but were not involved in that raid.

It does say 4 other former members of that Team are still under investigation without mentioning if they were involved in the raid or not.

So a better title might be the obvious: "7 Navy SEALs disciplined for role with video game".
I would be interested in knowing the financials behind this. Video is expensive to serve and store: these costs become more noticeable if they get a lot of growth of Video uploads.As much as I love HTML5 Video , it drives up your storage and transcoding costs by two to three times if decide to support WEBM, OGG and MP4(though I see they are not doing MP4). If they are transcoding the video ,then that would add to CPU costs. Of course, I am basing my assumptions of AWS, Zencoder etc. I would love to hear how to plan to contain costs.
95% of whites don't vote for Romney. Not even close.
Those two things are not equivalent. That's not a symmetrical situation. But I like your straw man.

Also, I named a situation when voting for Obama because he is black is ok and not racist.
An updated bleak vision of the future can be found in the 2nd episode of the British series "Black Mirror": in a world where the only currency is a Facebook virtual currency you can use to buy extra items for your avatars, skipping commercial costs money and the omnipresent screens/cameras emitting a screeching sound if you close your eyes during the commercials.

"Black Mirror" is a rare type of near-future sci-fi with a strong societal criticism.

The third episode, "Entire History of You", is also great: what will happen a decade from now where technology like Google Glass is omnipresent?
There's no reports of rampant drug use and rape at tea party rallies.
Great, TI's catching up to 1970.
Always helpful to know a super rich guy whom you can have lunch with and propose business ideas to. Funding aside, I'm sure it helped to have Sting's backing when this guy was approaching material producers and manufacturers and other corporations for sponsorship. I'm happy that it did get done, but how far would an average hacker get without those kind of connections? I suspect the startup cost would have been larger.
Hong Kong stock exchange Hacker sentenced for 9 Months Jail
My favorite anecdote from his Popular Science write up:
“Tay, it’s time for supper.”
“I think I’m going to have to clean this up first.”
“That’s not the stuff you said would kill us if it broke open, is it?”
“I don’t think so,” he said. “Not instantly.”

http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2012-02/boy-who-played...
Gnome-Shell Search Github Repositories
And I will continue to pitch our curlish instead which does not replace curl but amends it: http://packages.python.org/curlish/

It just wraps curl and adds some nicer options, cookie handling, oauth and colorizing to it. Same command line you are already used to but with some extras that simplify live and make it more enjoyable.
The point is not so much to get kids playing soccer: they do that on their own. The point is safety: if the ball holds up, they won't resort to making their own from unsafe materials.
I hope tomorrow I'll see an even more useful article on sending email from the command line! Wow. /sarcasm
That is a terrible terrible front (only?) page
I thought it was an angry birds for the command-line. Even though it is beautiful, I feel a bit disappointed... :)
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not impressed. doesn't even work in opera :(
Fantastic, there's also a grand tool called httpie that's a bit nicer than curl https://github.com/jkbr/httpie
This Kinect Patent Is Terrifying
Trivial but handy little database tips
You can use GPL software to distribute proprietary software. Google does it all day long.

Don't write "use" when you mean something else entirely.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgin_Charter

Virgin Group tried this. Can you do better?
This title is a bit misleading. I was assuming that I'd be reading about how to use something that wasn't curl?
Car Dealers Sue Tesla, Citing State Franchise Laws
Charlie Stross - 2512
Looks terrific so far -- I've experienced the -exact- same problem countless times and it's great that you guys are tackling it.

A related problem - and perhaps harder to solve - is going a step further: I get those glowing testimonials sitting in my inbox, and then I reply back and say "thanks! Would you mind sharing those thoughts on Yelp/Google/etc.?" 99% of the time, that's the end of the interaction :( Customer either doesn't reply, or replies and says "Sure! I'll go post a review right away." And then they don't.
Seriously, has anyone made the argument that a death threat is ok?

Arguments made by omission can be just as powerful as those made by commission.

This is the typical response of "look the other side does it to!".

That's entirely my point. That "typical response" is not logically unfounded. It's a rationale for behavior based upon the correct perception of hypocrisy.

This is why intellectual integrity is IMPORTANT. Intellectual integrity eliminates such justifications. Hypocritical approaches to racism will prevent us from ever really putting it in a context that will make it unarguably immoral.
You accidentally repeated parent's mistake.

There is nothing restrictive in BSD at all. Proprietary shops love BSD.
Google Patents Guilt-By-Association - Slashdot
Japanese has noticeably fewer phonemes than most languages (IIRC something like 21 compared to a "normal" 24-28) so it makes sense that there are more homophones. One interesting effect is that puns and innuendo are easier in Japanese. Of course it's easy enough to disambiguate in normal conversation.
It got changed, sorry. Original title was "9 uses for cURL everyone should know". Perhaps a bit assumptive.
I think that they're making a very valid point. While there is a lot of innovation and really interesting research taking place in labs, I don't know how much of it is being translated into the marketplace. Most of the investments being made in tech these days seem to be in web 2.0 companies claiming to be 'Uber for ballroom dancers' or 'Instagram for nurses' or something of the sort. Not that such investments are a bad thing, they produce a lot of cool products.

But barring a few companies like General Fusion and SpaceX, I haven't heard much about startups trying to tackle truly crazy and massive problems - most companies you read about in the tech press tend to be much more 'cool idea' than 'grand idea'. If anybody has more examples of startups trying to tackle paradigm-changing problems, can you share them here?
Not evil deed.
MS has patent to charge more for movies if Kinect finds too many people present
Wikipedia currently holds a huge amount of storage and data, while it will be a lot of work for them to support videos, I assume they thought of the costs before hand.

Also, the true cost of videos isn't storing them in two formats, it's the various qualities, such as if I upload a 1080p and it gets converted to 480, 720, and 1080 for streaming.
And this is why a piece of card-stock paper sits over the lens of my Kinect camera except for when we're actually using it to play a game.
Real-life CSI: When one identical twin is accused of killing the other
Crockford's heirs could sue. There is long established precedent of greedy heirs harassing the beneficiaries of their ancestors' largesse.
"In May, Chevrolet, the General Motors division, agreed to buy 1.5 million One World Futbols over the next three years and donate them to needy children. "

"At the end of September, the factory in Taiwan that produces the balls has been working two shifts a day to meet its target of 45,000 balls a month."

Do we have a production problem? Maybe I missed it but it seems so. If Chevrolet is buying 1.5m balls in three years, that's 500,000 balls per year. If production is ideally reaching 45,000 balls per month, that's leaving very few for defects and other buyers.

The other thing I thought of is that, if the ball is virtually indestructible, at some point there are enough balls deployed/in-place and we can stop production all together, right? At 500,000+ balls per year, how many years will it take before everyone who wants one has one? I know there are a lot of poor areas but surely there's a number at which point critical mass has been reached.
Getting all sorts of text artifacts remaining smeared across my browser. Not this site's fault, and is something I've experienced before. It does make me wonder where the blame lies, though: Linux, Firefox or my graphics card?
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The Delpan Incident