skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.run?_id=6b3cef212d7de87581...

This is the perfect job for Pipes. It's literally the only Yahoo service I still use, but it's awesome. I wish I could write my own modules, though.
It's probably just the wording, but I wouldn't like to be an employee with a "delegated" list. It just seems too much like you're a stupid droid with no saying on your task lists. Call it "tasks" or "working on", and I'd be happy. It's probably even closer to the truth -- after the first month in any company I start creating my own tasks, and from then on the discussion with my bosses become one of prioritization more than delegation.
Can you elaborate? I'm not necessarily disagreeing with you - I just haven't followed him enough to know what you're talking about.
I'd like to keep this post around as Gruber-style "claim chowder" for the author some day. You can choose to believe this or not believe this, but only the passage of time will really prove it one way or the other.

Just because there's a lot of plumbing going on doesn't mean anything useful is happening with it. Beware architecture astronauts.

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000018.html
For those unaware: Dalton Caldwell is the creator of app.net, a direct competitor of Twitter (with a subscription fee model instead of an advertising/data model).

I think it's important to read the post with that context in mind.
I think you can also draw a distinction between deliberately targetting civilians and doing all you can to avoid hitting them.
If Toronto were launching rockets at Detroit, I think the US would strike a staging area, even if some civilians were in the way.
Lockheed's F-35 logistics system revolutionary but risky
I would assume that most negotiations of a cease fire are done when there is ongoing conflict (when a cease fire is needed).
Quite the opposite way around. Immigrants who form a small minority in their destination society assimilate within one generation, or even one decade if they're lucky. Immigrants who arrive in or into massive waves or blocs tend to form semi-self-sufficient sub-societies within the destination country.

These sub-societies have a disturbingly common tendency to become political fifth-columnists in the second generation, when a whole cohort of children grow up hearing idiotically romanticized stories about The Old Country and decide to impose its better, folksier ways on the new country by political activism.
Nodes can see which IP address sent them the transaction. Usually, this is a "supernode" connected to hundreds of others which received the transaction from someone else.

However, if you have your own supernodes and can see which node first broadcast that transaction, and you know either they sent it or are more connected to the original sender than you are.
That has to be one of the most pretentious typefaces I've ever seen. It's practically dripping with insecurity. And the funniest part is that it's instantly reminiscent of the Star Wars logo.
3 Gears Kinect Hack offers effortless 3D control.
All applications are reviewed.
In your case, YC was able to decide your company/team isn't a good fit for them just by reading your app, without needing to see a video or demo.

Why should they be forced to spend an hour on every app when they can make a decision in the first few minutes?
If it's so easy how could this BBC reporter have avoided his house being hit and his baby killed? http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2012/11/15...
1 sided view of the conflict. So are you claiming Hamas is innocent here? That they aren't attacking innoccent civilians?
It was down to the fact that I couldn't accrue future staff costs towards the event. Yes, I would've had much more power if their was multiple interested buyers but it wouldn't have changed this very real accounting problem.

Essentially, I hadn't optimized the BS pre-sale (>1 year in advance) as I should've.
Twitter Isn’t Pivoting, It’s Already A Media Company
How about putting Hamas' feet to the fire? They have been condemned by human rights groups for widespread arrests, torture, and killing of their political opponents in Gaza.

They have simply been terrible for the Palestinian people. Besides suppressing political opposition, they also purposefully try to launch attacks from heavily populated civilian areas hoping that the civilians will end up acting as human shields.
An organizational model for an SME engaged in the development of complex systems
Rev rec definitely gets more complicated, this is a good point. Everything is a tradeoff.
The Tyranny Of Modern Time
So what ?

Why would Palestinian Authorities accept any borders except the ones from 1967, which is already very generous ?
Did you care to read the comments in the associated HN thread?
Any proper anarcho-capitalist has no choice but to agree with the majority of your comment. The alternative is to endorse whatever system currently exists, decomposing it into the an-cap framework in terms of one entity, the government, owning everything. So any individual anarcho-capitalist must have a certain idea of what constitutes an unjust property distribution that should be revolted against.

The idea of the 'social contract' isn't terrible - for any sort of stability, there must be a rough consensus on what constitutes society's Schelling points. The problem comes about when the concept is taken as an immutable condition and used to nebulously justify the specifics of the current system, lulling people into believing in change from within. Any contract needs to have well specified methods of exit.
WTF? Why do people post photos of their debit cards online?!?
Why I cycled a hundred miles to meet my first customer
Civilians in the Gaza Strip do not really have a choice. The Gaza Strip is tiny by most geographical standards, roughly 9 km by 40 km[1]. And a very densely populated area. So even if the IDF tries to protect the civilian population ( and I think they do a comparatively good job), they will necessarily fail.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaza_strip
Hi, just to clarify, we don't have install data or anything from developers, only public information of what's on the app store, and what users share on Heyzap. It is the user's right to share this information if they would like to, in the same way that I can leave a review of an app without the developer's permission.
Uhm, try that "active component" in Germany. Even Walmart greeters make them nervous.

I dislike going to places where people work on commissions unless I'm really sure about what I'm getting; information asymmetry combined with a party out to get you for all they can is a bad combo. So those guys at the back of the mall store ignoring me is perfectly fine!
or you just get the PPA https://launchpad.net/~webupd8team/+archive/sublime-text-2
good info! thx!
Ron Paul wants to define life as starting at conception (http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c110:H.R.2597:), build a fence along the US-Mexico border (http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2006/roll446.xml), prevent the Supreme Court from hearing cases on the Establishment Clause or the right to privacy, permitting the return of sodomy laws and the like (a bill which he has repeatedly re-introduced) (http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c110:H.R.300:), pull out of the UN (http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c110:H.R.1146:), disband NATO (http://www.house.gov/paul/congrec/congrec2004/cr033004.htm), end birthright citizenship (http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c110:H.J.RES.46:), deny federal funding to any organisation which "which presents male or female homosexuality as an acceptable alternative life style or which suggest that it can be an acceptable life style" along with destroying public education and social security (http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d096:h.r.7955:), and abolish the Federal Reserve (http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c110:H.R.2755:) in order to put America back on the gold standard (http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLBB0868C74B4AA3FA). He was also the sole vote against divesting US federal government investments in corporations doing business with the genocidal government of the Sudan. (http://www.govtrack.us/congress/vote.xpd?vote=h2007-764)

Oh, and he believes that the Left is waging a war on religion and Christmas (http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul148.html), he's against gay marriage (http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul197.html), is against the popular vote (http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul214.html), opposes the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul188.html), wants the estate tax repealed (http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul328.html), is STILL making racist remarks (http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2007/06/02/ron_paul/), believes that the Panama Canal should be the property of the United States (http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d106:h.con.res.231:), and believes in New World Order conspiracy theories (http://www.infowars.com/articles/nwo/ron_paul_first_bush_was...), not to mention his belief that the International Baccalaureate program is UN mind control. (http://www.congress.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?r109:E14AP5-0007:)
Funny comparison. Let me try mine :

If Canada was no country but a territory where people were denied the right to have a state to live in, and if they were launching rockets at the US, I think the US would colonize Toronto and declare the city part of the US. Wait no, I don't.
> Some great stuff in there, I just wish it was about half its length. Would tighten up the points a lot.

If the "John Galt speech" is your baseline, that was brief for a libertarian/objectivist.
A Pattern for Odd Prime Numbers
Noticed a pattern for odd prime numbers:

For 2n + 1, if n equals:

2xy + x + y

then,

2n + 1 is an odd composite.

For 2n + 1, if n equals:

6
(7 + 6x) + 1
(7 + 6x) + 2
5, 5+6, 5+6+7, 5+6+7+8, etc.

then,

2n + 1 is an odd prime.
Twitter is pushing people into using their service in particular ways (eg, by restricting clients), and by the sounds of what is to come - the advertising will gradually get more aggressive.

Dalton understands what makes social media work - and you can see it in how he advertises App.net. If you ask "what is App.net" and look for Dalton's answer somewhere - he never explicitly states. He is deliberately vague about what it is - because it isn't anything until its users have defined what it is.

That's how twitter became successful in the first place - the service was defined by its users to become what it is now. Not just twitter, but every major social network grew the same way, and the ones that failed are those that didn't understand this.

So Twitter, Inc. need to be careful not to piss off it's content creators with aggressive advertising or constraining how they interact with it. What Twitter, Inc want their service to be is ultimately not their decision - it's up to the users.
> This does nothing to help heal the open wound that is the conflict between Israel and Palestine.

And neither will anything else.
They accept textmate formatted schemes so there are many out there already that you can use.
http://snorpey.github.com/color-scheme-builder/
Thanks for the info. I've used Knockout but not Angular yet. I've found Knockout to be excellent in not getting in my way and being easily fitted into my existing code. One thing I don't feel comfortable with Ember & Backbone is that they come as a whole framework and require me retrofitting my app to their framework.
Of course Hamas could always stop intentionally putting rocket launchers by playgrounds. But that wouldn't suit their agenda.
In my experience, if you send a proforma invoice, a W9, a federal tax id, and a soul sourcing statement, at the end of the signup form, many times a check will just show up in the mail. It is possible to do invoice payment without having a high touch sales process. You just have to preemptively provide all the stuff the AP department needs.

I really think 37 signals is leaving quite a bit of money on the table by not offering PO payments. I understand they don't want to do a whole bunch of customer hand holding, but it is possible to accept POs without ever talking to a customer.
I guess my point was that Israel's actions are inflaming "the open wound" and Anonymous' reaction is part of that.
The word "tweet" to refer to a post. A bird as the logo! Twitter started as barely more than a faceless service, and most of what is "Twitter" as a brand came from its users and developers.

Not that there isn't precedent for their model. I remember being fascinated to read that the Big Mac and Ronald McDonald both came from local franchise restaurants, not corporate HQ. It's just a frustrating position to take. It feels short sighted.

A really cool fried who suddenly shows up for lunch in a suit, then eventually stops calling you. Your mom reads about them in a magazine and excitedly tells you what they're up to for a few years, then you stop hearing about them.
It's a large-scale armed conflict. Civilians are going to get caught in the crossfire.

Alas, it's a strange sort of conflict in which one side deliberately targets civilians, while the other does everything humanly possible to avoid them.
If you poop on your arm, do you rinse it off under a drinking fountain? That is pretty much what a bidet does...

Anyway, why does that quote compare washing with soap and water? do bidets do this?
Thanks! jsTimezoneDetect is something I've been looking for.
Still they are rather humane compared to their enemy who is actively targeting civilians. And have been doing that so for years.

What is your solution to this conflict that doesn't include wiping the only national state for the Israeli people, created by UN, off the map? Hamas has been quite clear there will be no lasting peace until that has happened as far as I know. (Full disclosure: I don't read arabic so I'm have to trust the translations but they seem to agree.)
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I like that twitter forces you to be concise.
We made some changes. What do you think?
Interesting and encouraging to see that most of the discussion here on HN is about rockets and bombing, casualties and fear, and not so much about the action.

The anonymous statement however, seems primarily concerned with internet disconnection?! I don't try to underestimate the importance of freedom of speech, and the internet being an essential source of free information. But aren't other freedoms - or human rights (like the right to Life -- not living in terror or fear) even more important to defend?

> And today’s insane attack and threatened invasion of Gaza was more of the same.

> But when the government of Israel publicly threatened to sever all Internet and other telecommunications into and out of Gaza they crossed a line in the sand.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights#Substantive_right...
If they've planned for that, then sure. Great!

...many projects don't seem to have any idea how scale works though.

All I'm advocating is that creating a project requires you to submit a budget detailing how you'll spend the funds.

Spreadsheets are easy to parse; it'd be trivial for them to automate checking the sheet for stupid values (cost of manufacture: 0, cost of shipping: 0, profit: 100%) or people who have no idea (100% of funding -> making the game (that's not a budget doofus)) or people trying to exploit the system (excessive total units shipped) and give them some idea of what projects need closer scrutiny before being approved.
No, this is pretty much the regular kind of conflict. Looks like apartheid, smells like ethnic cleansing, and ends up with plenty of bodies on both sides.
Its called marketing. App.net is still small. It needs to be constantly looking for ways to be in the spotlight. I do understand your point, and can sense that you are just tired of how it seems to get too much attention. Maybe its time that App.net got the attention of hackers by writing technical posts or maybe releasing some code? It is always refreshing when companies forget about pure marketing for a moment and focus on creating interesting things.
Anonymous better hope they are just that. The Israelis play by their own rules when it comes to self defense and retaliation.
Tip I figured out accidentally: command + 1 through x changes to the 1 through xth tab in the current window.
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Anonymous has never had a particularly sophisticated political stance.
Congrats to Jason and team!
It's not pedantic. That one character has a huge influence over how many people will see the tweet. This wasn't some minor style screwup that only nerds will even care about, it was a technical screwup that strongly affected the distribution of the message.
Interesting, but it's reading an awful lot into a single tweet.
I think you may both be misunderstanding who "Anonymous" is.
Real books are not ugly. But they are more than text on a dead tree. Books age; books gather a patina of use. As the glue and the paper and the binding and the spine age together, the smell of them changes. Real, physical, well-made books are pieces of art onto themselves -- something we've lost in reading these things on a flat, lifeless screen.

Digital books can be more than simply text on a screen as well; I noticed in a recent Amazon title that passages which were frequently highlighted by other users were set differently (I think it was a highlight as well; I can't remember the title I saw it in). Never mind the privacy concerns; it's the morphing of a medium.

On the other hand, applying the skeuomorphs of such a thing cheapens it. It's a mask, trying to hide its nature. For me, it's almost an uncanny valley feel. And I think the best design is that which unleashes full intuitiveness: if I had never seen a book, why would I expect this animation to be there when reading an e-book? It's superfluous to the nature of the media.

Even the page turning itself is superfluous to the media. Its purpose is to add pauses to the interaction. You lose part of that experience when there is no longer a physical page.
The client side of SOA
Yes. Anyone and everyone is, has been and can be "Anonymous"
Service-oriented Songkick
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I wish I had some strong belief about how one side or the other was right, some plan to fix everything. But I don't. All I have is sadness.
You make all these points as if it's self-evident ("to all right-thinking peoples", "no one here but us...") that he's dead wrong about them. That's not very helpful.

Of course human life begins at conception--what is the combined human egg & sperm, a fish?

And what's so great about NATO? The US should bear the brunt of the cost of defending Europe against whom now, exactly?

The Federal Reserve came into being the same year as the income tax, and the US dollar has lost 99% of its value since then. Coincidence? There are a lot of great arguments against the Fed. Have you seriously investigated, or just assumed that the Fed is great because it exists? Read some Austrian economics, which argue persuasively that centralized money control will always result in endless bust/boom cycles.

And the Left isn't waging a war on religion? C'mon.

What's so great about estate taxes? To decide that death is an event where someone needs to have a large chunk of his wealth taken by the state is a fairly controversial assumption.

Etc, etc.
Sorry, that's not very compelling. Would you call the thousands of other TechCrunch posts that are auto-submitted to HN "pandering to Reddit"?

I regret to inform you that my nerdy Ron Paul advocacy will continue unabated. Reddit has nothing to do with it.
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Nassim Taleb: Learning to Love Volatility
Hopefully the Republicans let the libertarians take over the party by the next election, as that would probably be the only thing to make the Republican look good again. Otherwise, good riddance for the Republican party.
Show HN: Recieve an email alert as soon the Nexus 4 is available.
[iOS] Intro to MapKit API and Add an Annotation on Map
Bought the same exact stuff from the same guy at the same mall.

Actually works really well. But damn do they have the tactics down.
Was there an edit in the GP? Your quoted phrases do not seem to appear in any of the parent comments.
Maybe he's saying Ron Paul was pandering to Reddit. I really can't tell.
Yes. People fuck up all the time. My employer has been in the eCommerce for almost 12 years and we still have feature launches that destroy our website. I'd say I work with some of the brightest people I've ever had the chance to work with, but we're still just human and we sometimes underestimate demand and over estimate our hardware. Just because Google is Google doesn't mean they are infallible, they are perhaps overly arrogant due to their culture.
> it's really not that complicated anymore

Depends on your use-case. I wasn't at the talk (and haven't watched the video, yet), but apparently there was a bit of a 'heated' debate during the question portion of the talk. Apparently some people from the scientific Python community have given up waiting for their issues to be addressed and are working on their own packaging solution to meet their needs.

If most of your modules are pure-Python or maybe a little bit of C, then you might not be running into the warts that the current packaging systems have.

Also, running 'pip install package' hides what kind of lengths that developers/package maintainers have to go through to get things working correctly. That's also part of the discussion when talking about a decent packaging system.

> I often miss the virtualenv + pip approach

Perl's "perlbrew + cpanm" approach is more fully featured. I miss having a 'requirements.txt' type capability, but perlbrew downloads/compiles Perl, so each environment can have a different version of Perl, which is a little more complex with virtualenv.
Do you have evidence that any form of libertarianism has a meaningful amount of support? And can it contend with the stigma developed by the insane and vocal form most people have seen?
Slick stuff. They clearly invest a lot of time/energy into each listing. Good photos, good detail on each building.

We want to move to a bigger space in downtown NY but we need to break our five-year lease. So we either moving within the building (no broker) or find a replacement for our space (broker simultaneously places us and fills our space). Hard to imagine 42floors helping us this time 'round.
There's no need to use such bad/hateful sources. Here are some better ones:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/series/gaza-war-crimes-inves...
http://www.hrw.org/publications/reports?topic=All&region...
http://www2.ohchr.org/english/bodies/hrcouncil/specialsessio...
To be fair to them, cutting the internet could be considered a pretty big deal, if in your perspective doing so would hinder the dissemination of information about atrocities being committed.

Is that where the line should be drawn? I personally don't think so, but I can certainly understand the concern over something that might, in other contexts, be just the removal of a nice luxury.
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https://github.com/hayksaakian/canibuyit
I'm with you -- I wish I had some unique insight into their conflict; but the more I read, the more confused I get
Well, bombing the Gaza Strip is clearly working. The conflict is all but over. Oh wait...
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Cute idea. But does it take into account the country from which I sign up? It's not available in this country (The Netherlands) at all atm. Does your site only check US availability?
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I have no specific opinion on Israel attacking Gaza since I don't know the whole story. But if civilian websites are going to be taken down, then what security do we have that our websites will not be affected in future!!! We can't control the decisions our governments make!!