skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interjections like 'bullshit' are not convincing. Your fondness for derogatory labels ('idiots', 'morons', 'crazies') and personalizing hyperbolic allegations (like "you purge your party of anyone who says anything remotely conciliatory or logical/moderate") suggest you have strong, fixed, partisan, emotional feelings about this which make further discussion unproductive.
Your comment seems a little obtuse. My argument didn't make that assumption. A lottery is random; ideally providing a diverse selection of people across all skill, education and economic levels
Well bend my foot on the way through door. I suppose I aught to have sympathy. I will pluck every silver haired thread from any dollhouse I'm given and I'll find the last stomped mouse on my way to work and I'll eat any shithead that thinks his men are more qualified to pre-suppose a pho-castrophe. I find men who think they're qualified to lead because they're matched with rough women. well. I find it amusing. I am rough women.
PRWeb getting too much blame for Google-ICOA fiasco
The covenant is that you offer something before consulting God. That means holding-up your end of the conversation or something more formal like an offering of writing a hymn. You get out of it what you put into it.

Any random technique will work, but I don't recommend pseudo random sequences. Talking to the digits of pi creeps me out. God can control what you are indexing into, though.

Just randomly crack-open a book after doing an offering. If you do a good offering, he talks, else you suck and try something else.

http://www.sparrowos.com/Wb/Apps/AfterEgypt/AENotes.html

God says...
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nerous hearts; but up to
the present I have not heard of any defamatory verse against the Lady
Angelica, who turned the world upside down."

"Strange," said the curate; but at this moment they heard the housekeeper
and the niece, who had previously withdrawn from the conversation,
exclaiming aloud in the courtyard, and at the noise they all ran out.

CHAPTER II.

WHICH TREATS OF THE NOTABLE ALTERCATION WHICH SANCHO PANZA HAD WITH DON
QUIXOTE'S NIECE, AND HOUSEKEEPER, TOGETHER WITH OTHER DR

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india niggers yoga and superego

Pray out loud so God doesn't have to read your mind. You think He's got time for that sphegetti? Just because He's omnipotent doesn't make all work equally tedious. Love God!! Jesus said asking for stuff was as annoying as a neighbor in the night waking you up for something.

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You will be getting a letter from our lawyers shortly. Our stealth startup has been quietly developing a product for the personal productivity blog post space for the last 2 years. Some of the guys who invested in Facebook invested in us at a $999,999 valuation. We've yet to make a profit, but I'm sure we will one day! Did I mention it's also a responsive desktop/mobile hybrid app built using Meteor, Haskell and the Go programming language?

You are out of luck. Now if you'll excuse me I've got some Ruby on Rails code to write and a blog post hating on PHP and applauding Node.JS and NoSQL.
"Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." - a certain statue's impossibly brutal attack on sanity
I love posts like this having spent a decent bit of time designing a music queuing UI myself. I think number 4 is really interesting if you could get the recommendations right. And you could do it in addition to play strength.
* Showtime does not exist to make shows you want to buy on iTunes; it makes shows you want to watch in order to get you to buy a subcription to Showtime. *

Since when does the creator's motivation get taken into account? I make those socks you want to wear in order to get you to buy my cheese! You filthy pirate for not buying my cheese!

McArdle's arguments are essentially mercantilist and protectionist in nature.
In general starting from zero you'll find some customers somehow, even just randomly and then you have to be awesome for them and build from there. The level of churn and flux at the low end of hosting is actually pretty high. You could put up little more than an unbounce page and probably get signups with credit cards at a trickle volume.

For us at Slicehost, we had an amazingly fortuitous start, due in equal parts to strategy and luck. We saw pretty clearly that rails was picking up steam really quickly and the hosting options were pretty shitty (shared hosting at the time didn't support the versions of ruby and rails people needed not to mention the memory hungriness of the framework and dedicated was still fairly pricey with 100-200/month being dirt cheap).

So we picked a really ripe initial niche market to spend time making ourselves visible in, which we did in forums, chat rooms, etc. The luck came in that we got some pretty vocal early customers who all had a great experience and evangelized us. That was lucky because either of those factors could have easily gone the other way. They could have been quiet customers or we could have had early blips in service (we had plenty of later blips, we just had a nice patch of initial smooth sailing).
I changed it to $9.99, I feel like I'm being a bit greedy but I'll give it a week to see what the results are!
The same could be said of any payment processor.

The only way to verify would be to fill in your credit card details on a domain belonging to the processor.
Rather, your brain is telling you that you had zero apples in your hand five minutes ago. Given that any measuring tool (including a brain) is a physical system, isn't it also subject to fundamental uncertainty?

Granted that the probability is negligibly small for uncertainty causing two measuring devices (such as my brain and yours) to return different answers for how many apples were in your hand five minutes ago, but is it truly zero?

Also granted that in practical terms it's not worth arguing over, and I don't propose that such possibilities should be taken into account in everyday life.
Paralyzed Dogs Walk After Transplant Of Cells Taken From Their Noses
"Want longer lasting life? try new LifeExtend from Bayer Pharmaceuticals coming soon to a pharmacy near you"
"...aging is not currently regarded as a disease, but researchers tend increasingly to view it as the common origin of conditions like insulin resistance or cardiovascular disease, whose incidence rises with age. In treating cell aging, we could prevent these diseases."

Preventing disease by preventing age could be an unending justification for prolonging life. Are there other benefits associated with this treatment? The above explanation of the research doesn't sit well with me.
Deeply parse? Really? Just say you didn't read it.
No Violent Crimes Reported In New York On Monday, First Time ever
> high-tech spies and digital combatants seek to gain
> a brass-knuckle advantage in the global economy

Digital combatants? Does enlistment in the PRC army now include light cycle[1] training?

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tron_(franchise)#Light_cycles
I would daresay more important than, for example, another social networking mobile app. Not that there's anything wrong with another app, but I'd rather eat.
Groonga CloudSearch (open source Amazon CloudSearch implementation) 1.4.0 is out
I hire people who would be considered "STEM," but as mentioned below, this will drive down the wage my employees can get. I oppose this bill for other reasons too – but since my startup is too small, so I can't apply for H1B visa workers, I can't recruit outside the US anyway.

I care about my employees and at this stage I can afford to pay them above market rates. I don't have any trouble holding on to them, though occasionally life interferes – one employee moved for personal reasons.

These big companies that donated to the Obama campaign – "Apple, Microsoft, and Adobe" are called out in the article – if they are having trouble hiring highly educated employees while their profits are measured in billions, would they please consider offering a raise to their current employees?

I'd be surprised if they could demonstrate they raised their salary by 50% and were still unable to fill their open positions. Yes, I know that many companies consider salary one of their biggest cost centers, but I believe that misses the essential feature of hiring an employee: they become part of the company. Employees are compensated with cash; stockholders are compensated other ways. Especially in a large, profitable software company, it isn't _actually_ hard to pay your employees above average rates.
You could take some of the money you saved with AppEngine and pay someone to port in our code to AWS/OpenStack.
Using CoffeeScript with Meteor.js
Couldn't that be accomplished using BPM? Various tools will determine BPM for you.
You appear to be confusing (understandably) WindowsRT and Windows 8. WindowsRT is the OS that runs on devices intended to compete with the iPad (using ARM processors), the only one of which I have actual knowledge of is the Surface.

Windows 8 (which is what runs on the convertibles) is the desktop OS. I personally don't expect a full fledged laptop (especially one costing a mere $500) to get 8 hours of battery life.

If you can get hands on a Surface (WindowsRT) device for a day or two I highly recommend trying it out. It's quite impressive, and for my uses a better device than the iPad. YMMV.
Six Strikes Anti-Piracy Plan Delayed Till 2013
It's never too late to become an entrepreneur
This will become a big trend in next 5-10 years amongst "Baby Boomers"<p>The growing interest in entrepreneurship and age is reflected in a study by the Kauffman Foundation that found that more people ages 55 to 64 are creating their own businesses than those ages 20 to 34.<p>As a percentage of total entrepreneurs, the 55 to 64 age group has grown the most. For example, in 1996 14.3 percent of all entrepreneurs were ages 55 to 64; in 2011, that grew to 20.9 percent. The percentage of entrepreneurs that declined most sharply were those in the 20 to 34 age range.
I was thinking of service packs, of which a few seem to come out every year.
1) It's not a whole lot different than H1-B and those haven't led to wage collapse.

2) Engineers who come into the US tend to start an insignificant number of new businesses, which, in turn, employ other engineers.

3) Countries that severely limit work visas have not turned into meccas of software development.

4) Companies will only increase pay up to a certain ceiling. At some point either the product economics don't make sense, or finding a dedicated development team in Romania/Poland/Ukraine is worth it even with communication overhead.
But it shows that Anil sees Facebook as almost necessary infrastructure. Not using Facebook is not a realistic possibility.

If he really thinks that, he needs to take a serious step back. This is just ridiculous.
My own 2 cents- my native language being french, I found that I "understood" english much better after learning danish - especially what I previously classified as "weird" (old?) english words like ale (øle), hound (hund) etc.
TBH I used to take these warnings very seriously, but after the ominous "RIP good times" not only did everything keep going as usual but there were even more wantrepreneurs getting funded and valuations got even frothier.

As many have said before the beginning and the end of easy funding are low interest rates. The moment rates go up most VC funds will go dry and startups in general will have a hard time getting any funding.
The rate at which therapies effective in mice translate to humans is surprisingly low.

We've also cured cancer in mice around 200 times already.
24% more time spent being experimented on before your cancer ridden or organ failing demise !
Are you against preventing aging? (Just wanting to clarify what you meant by "doesn't sit well with me")
Building a Component/System Module for Playcraft
Interfering with telomere activity is a critical step for cancer progression (see the halmarks of cancer, limitless reproductive potential), so this procedure essentially makes every cell in your body pre-cancerous.

In my opinion, the most amazing part about this is that the way in which telomerase is delivered is via a retrovirus, typically a relative of HIV.
Eddy Cue: Apple's Rising Mr. Fix-It
"If the returns on the seed side start to dip. What would stop stop seed investors to graduate & become (smaller) VCs."

The math doesn't work. Early-stage investments are risky, by nature, and so investors take a scattershot approach to allocation -- it's safer to invest $10k in 100 startups than to drop $1M on one, because one of those 100 startups will probably more than offset the losses from the other 99. Thus, it's a conceivable thing for a moderately rich individual to do. But there are comparatively few people who can afford to invest $1M+ in a single company. The risks are too high.

The whole pyramid won't just "shift down" a level because at some point (the point we're calling "series A"), the investments have had some time to prove themselves in the marketplace. Investors get a lot pickier, because they have a lot more information.
35 years & 11.4 billions later Voyager I is close to leaving the solar system.
Scientists say the Voyager I spacecraft will soon pass through the magnetic field that surrounds the solar system and then will be exposed to radiation and particulars that travel through Interstellar space. Remember V'Ger from Star Trek: Original Series?
If more web services supported CORS, pure client side apps would be way easier to do and less kludgy than via proxy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-origin_resource_sharing
Google reduces prices with 20%... Amazon with 25%. Game on!
+1 because I want to know the answer to this as well.

I know that After Effects was used to make one of the best animated videos out there: http://www.girleffect.org/
> Billions of dollars could be raised by turning these into entrepreneur visas or charging per visa (it's not like the US doesn't already do this, but the price is way too low)

Every year a number of EB-5 visas go unclaimed (which cost around $550K per family).
Nice job! Are there plans to support mobile browsers? Works great on iPad, but not iPhone at the moment.
It seems like it was via an attachment in a phishing email that one of the employees clicked on...

"Milburn contacted Matthew Thomlinson, a Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) threat expert for help. Thomlinson found the malware had downloaded software that burrowed into the company’s Microsoft operating system, automatically uploading more tools the hackers could use to control the network remotely."
> The telomeres are one of the cell's natural defenses against cancer. Telomerase makes it easier for a cell to divide uncontrollably, and most cancers have activated telomerases.

These juxtaposed sentences come across as a bit contradictory. If telomeres are one of the cell's defenses against cancer, then telomerase activation should defend against cancer.

Most cancers do activate telomerase, but telomerase is not an oncogene.[1]

1 = http://www.nature.com/onc/journal/v21/n4/abs/1205076a.html
Alternative compilation method for regular expressions
My main complain about App Engine is the almost complete lack of support (and care) for both free and paying customers. Maybe it's only my experience, but Google has never been good at dealing with customers (and I'm not referring here to their free services).
Opening that fat pussy is easy. Lets get to a financial agreement we can all live with. -Son of Baby Momma

I suppose that's kind of staid. If I send a message back on the tyson rocket it would be, "beat your children now! While there's still time!"
Script kiddies or not who cares - the effect on the small business was still effective. Like you say, its another wake up call to us all to have a better knowledge of security.
It would be wise to exercise much caution before pursuing this kind of treatment in a human, even as part of a clinical trial. I doubt an ethics committee would approve it as part of a clinical trial of a human anti-aging treatment.
I don't see the point of these shenanigans. If they want to on TV and lie about their opponents, they can do that. Do they need the phony bill titles for plausibility? The voting public is nowhere near smart enough to soft through the distinctions.
Your requirement that they follow a rocket flight path is arbitrary. They'll use the best profile for the technology.

You're also underestimating how hard rockets work while still in the atmosphere. For example, the shuttles SRB work entirely within the troposphere and stratosphere. They're about a million pounds of propellant each, and together they make up 70% of the shuttles lift off weight. If you eliminated the need for the oxidizer in the SRBs, you'd save nearly half the entire weight of the shuttle. Because of the non-linearity of the rocket equation, saving weight produces compounding advantage, so this would be huge.
How big is Amazon's Mechanical Turk?
"Assuming that the Mechanical Turk division generates some earnings in the $1M to $5M range, the valuation of Mechanical Turk is somewhere between $2 billion to $10 billion dollars! Not shabby for a 7-year old startup "
Everything you said is spot on, but your particular situation was not unique to FB. If your relationship was a very sensitive issue, then it was bound to be revealed unexpectedly if it was a profile photo...there's no FB setting that will keep your friend, or a friend of a friend, from passing that photo along to someone who you don't want to see it. I don't mean that you can't block friends of friends from seeing it on FB...rather, I mean that you can't block a friend passing it along rough email or in careless bar chatter.

I'm not victim blaming here...but pointing out that the Internet as a whole makes unwanted sharing much more frictionless...and the enemies of our privacy will not always be corporation or high tech blunders.
Four Things I Would Change About Path
Gaining Confidence in Confidence Intervals
Specifically I meant what many would regard as one of the telomeres' fundamental characteristics: their limited nature.
stripe could hoste a page that lists your site as a client, display your loge, and you could link to that page
Banned By Google
I linked to it in my chart, but it might be hard to use for someone with no experience.
For object-oriented languages, long line lengths are signs that you are violating the Law of Demeter: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_Demeter
Ask HN: Review Parallel Proxy
Parallel Proxy allows you to send the same requests to a production and test server. Only the production responses are sent back to clients and both sets of responses are logged for analysis. The analysis tools provided easily allow you to find and classify differences in the responses of the servers, allowing you to identify and fix problems with your test server before it is deployed in your production environment.

Parallel Proxy runs as a virtual server in Amazon EC2.

http://www.parallelproxy.com
Marketability should not be the only metric for valuing skills. How do you select the immigrant whose child will be the next Michael Phelps, or the next Einstein, or the next Pele?
For non-celebrities, it very much is a new problem. Facebook, cheap digital cameras and widespread internet use have turned average people into paparazzi. You can be a regular Joe Schmoe, go to a party, and have everyone you know looking at pics the next day (or the same night). That didn't happen 10 years ago if you weren't famous.
I didn't know this was coming. Thank god. iTunes is one of the most bloated programs I have on my computer. I hope they've trimmed out the fat (Ping?) and focused on performance optimizations rather than features.

And if it removes the requirement for running half a dozen services just to connect to an MP3 player, even better.
Are custom domains supported ? .Like github?
They do it because it's effective.

Max Cleland lost his Senate race to Saxby Chambliss in 2002 partially on the back of attack ads that showed images of Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein while claiming Cleland didn't support President Bush's "vital security measures."

In reality, the votes in question involved things like Cleland voting against a Republican and for a Democratic version of a proposal, or larger bills that contained poison pills.

It was downright shameful -- and John McCain called it exactly that -- but it was effective.
It's not sensational to claim that English is Scandinavian. German and English are both descended from Norse, so they are both Scandinavian if you go back 1500 years.

What this linguist is saying is that modern English is more Scandinavian than Old English. But Old English was never spoken throughout the island, back then many British inhabitants spoke Norse! So I am not surprised that over time, they standardized on a language halfway between Old English and Norse.

Middle English developed around 1100. Take a look at this map of languages circa 900:

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Old_norse,_ca_900.PNG
Though you have to admit that a lot of the conversation in SV sounds like a lot like armchair quarterbacking, and is about as relevant...
Its to create tools for users who might not be using Git, but do have Google drive/docs.
Mr. China Comes to America
I'm not sure it was a good idea to oppose this. It's essentially the republicans saying "We don't want to let any more people in the country, but of the people we are letting in, we prefer the highly educated". In a time when countries like China are graduating 50k engineers a year, you'd think being choosy about who you let into the country would make sense. And I don't see how signing this hurts the Democrats' long term plan for immigration reform. I assume that involves bringing more people into the country, so ok, bring more in later when the economy recovers. Not compromising on this bill setting a bad precedence for any compromise that may happen in the future.
I actually just bought this for a month, it's awesome so far! http://goanimate.com/?utm_source=inviteshare&refuser=0dh...
This quote: "Say you have an idea for—anything. (For me, the list would start with silent leaf blowers, which I’d give to all my neighbors as gifts)" reminds me of the recent discussion of "The Quiet Ones": http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4802118.