skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your answer is vague, but I will try to be objective as much as possible.

>Well, I don't see any problem in plugging one's event in a blog post.

The problem here isn't plugging his own event in his post. The problem here is that he cites the successes of start-ups and links to it. That is un-ethical. He stands to benefit from it by falsely citing it as a valid example. Many people here on HN DO NOT know that he runs it. His intention was malicious, if not unethical.

>You want office space for free?

You are missing the bigger point - Offering office space for {insert rate here} is something that anyone can do and that doesn't make one a contributor to the start-up ecosystem, atleast not as much as to the proportions to which you blow it up.

> He hosts free events like Chennai OCC, Chennai geeks at the startup centre. Also the space is free if you want to host any free event.

I've heard of these events. One of my friends tells me about it. I've also heard horror stories about Vijayanand mocking young college guys interested in starting-up. I also heard from him that he isn't just the one behind it, there are a lot of active young minds involved.

>You know how much he charged for the office space for the period of six months? ZERO(because he wanted me to succeed and i was a recent college grad)

Your personal positive experience with him is best kept personal. Because we're talking about the rest of the Entrepreneurs from whom he collects money.

I understand your experience is so far positive with him. But, please don't try to dilute a valid argument using your individual opinion. I also understand that you have co-founded a company which you and Vijayanand have mutual interests in (like someone here commented). Please don't try to support him in public just for that reason - When someone is at wrong, it's best we let the others know about it, otherwise the purpose of such a vibrant community will be poisoned by such profit-motivated posts.

EDIT: Vijayanand has edited the link that went to his in50hrs programme. Maybe that's why you didn't notice it.
You beat me to it. While the resource to person ratio for our current population may be somewhat sustainable, that does not take into account the output of humans, such as trash, waste, unnatural pollutants, and (sorry, but it's pertinent) carbon gases.

So while humans may be fine at our current population, the earth and its other tenants are not fine. Humans are the most destructive force in nature, and the less of them there are the better, for our own survival as well as the rest of the planet.

Add the impending climate change into the mix (once again, our fault), which will most likely bring droughts and famine, and your resource-to-person ratio drops significantly, making the human population as it is now dangerously high.

I really think dropping human population is a good thing. It will mean less conflicts and resource contention in the next 300 years as deserts spread and oceans rise.
An interview with Anders Hermansen, designer at Bang & Olufsen
Does pressing a "like" button actually redirect the browser to facebook? Or is it trying to do something based on evaluating what the FB javascript does?

The best way to implement something like this would be "if facebook.com" is not in the address bar don't allow any requests to anything with a facebook IP address.

Trying to do something cleverer might be simple for FB to break by changing the like button code.
* in edit mode is what you want - http://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/htmldoc/pattern.html#star - though it's not quite the same, as it will search left and right for the word boundary.

(emacs is actually a bit unwieldy by comparison - * was one of the things I missed when I left vim. I was also used to using this same functionality in Visual Studio and Scite (it's Ctrl+F3), so it was well embedded into my workflow.)
My two kickass adult sons would find this paragraph laughable.

-- Their Mom

Though, in all fairness, I am kind of a ballbusting bitch and did not raise my sons "normally". My ex was career military, so I could afford to be a ballbusting bitch since my anachronistic family of origin and the federal government both had my back. But I imagine that a) you wouldn't be up for a meaty discussion of that sort and b) hn is probably not the place to have it.
The Rock Bat Radio
Classic rock around the clock.
http://labs.oracle.com/projects/squawk/

Used to power these nice devices,

http://www.sunspotworld.com/

Here is another one,

http://www.cacaojvm.org/
Agreed. Designers have dribbble and developers have github. doesn't seem like there's a great place for copywriters to share copy snippets and discuss them.

I'd use a site like that to test early copy iterations pretty frequently.
There is a real good german/french documentary on this subject named 'Men in danger':

"A program which looks at some of the factors which may explain why sperm production in males has dropped 50% in 50 years, and explores an important
question currently facing scientists; could chemical molecules in our environment be affecting our ability to reproduce? Aside from the huge drop in the amount of sperm production over the last five decades, scientists have also recorded a dramatic rise in the number of testicular cancers and a disturbing increase in the number of congenital malformations in male reproductive organs - two trends echoed in wildlife studies. This suggests the cause is environmental and not genetic. For Niels Skakkebaek, Danish doctor and researcher, the male reproductive and infertility problems we are currently facing are ‘as important as global warming.' (From France, in English) (Science) M CC WS"

Here is at least an english trailer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQfduzOmctI

And a review:
http://healthhighway.blogspot.de/2008/03/men-in-danger-sbs-d...

Germans:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFBbbItpdc8
I guess that does sound like a difficult crisis - so point taken. But failure of a flawed system can be a positive result. The longer we go on encouraging systems that require infinite growth, the harder it's going to be to recover from the failure.

If we didn't have a pyramid scheme underlying the basic economic system, growth wouldn't be such a determining factor in city attractiveness and population increase wouldn't be a significant fuel that drives the growth.

Okay but back to reality: I now see how population decline could lead to a crisis while things adjust (eg: some cities collapse like detroit, some flourish). Thanks for the detailed reply. This is a complicated topic and I expect some people have much more thought out alternatives to our current predicament than I would come up with here.
Yeah, you're right

but still: so I'm only as unique as any iPad users in GMT-7, not all iPad users globally. That's not information that is of any use in identifying me, but EFF insists on presenting it as though SWAT teams from adwords will be breaking down my door any day now to shove targeted marketing materials down my throat.
Codecademy, MOOCs, and Jobs
The only reason we aren't aware of the number of military conflicts taking place is because they aren't on the evening news.

That's a little unfair. They're rarely covered on submission/popularity-driven news sites, either. People tend not to care unless it figures into their usual political arguments. I notice this a lot with terrorism: people in the US seem to think it's mythical because it doesn't happen to them very often, even if it's unfortunately common globally. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_terrorist_incidents,_Ja...

By the way, there's a lovely book on the subject: http://www.amazon.com/Who-Hates-Whom-Well-Armed-Intractable/...
Seconding this; Gandi works well for me as a registrar, DNS provider, and email provider.

There are many email providers you can use with your own domain. For example, rackspace is $2 a user a month. https://www.rackspace.com/apps/email_hosting/rackspace_email... I'm not sure why people are jumping from "Google won't do this for free for me anymore" to "I must do it myself".
How Dataium Watches You
Function Space
> This means that "a search for 'The Beatles' is likely to
> trigger the Music and Video scopes, showing results that
> will contain local and online sources—with the online
> sources querying your personal cloud as well as other
> free and commercial sources like YouTube, Last.fm,
> Amazon, etc.," Canonical's Cristian Parrino wrote.

When I read that, I thought about entomologists...

This has been aired on another thread a day or so ago. Testing the 'feature' in Ubuntu 12.10 suggests that work has been done on making the response faster, and on making sure your whole query gets passed on.

I'm not sure I want all this noise when using a desktop. We shall see what it looks like when 13.04 lands.
"Personally, I see that lukeprog demonstrates an anti-intellectualism when he states, 'Another paper arguing about the definition of "knowledge"? No thanks.'"

I see how this criticizes one branch of intellectual thought within one discipline. I don't see how it is anti-intellectual. Luke runs the singularity institute, an organization dedicated to a highly specific and speculative conception of humanity's future (and a mistaken one in my opinion). You're trying to convince me this is not an intellectual activity? That he's anti-intellectual? This is rubbish, and you're just being defensive because he's attacking a specific set of ideas you value.

"Epistemology (the study of knowledge) is an important part of philosophy because philosophy is very much tied to culture as it is to history as it is to rationality and logic."

If you had read Pearl, you would understand that it is foremost, an epistemological theory. Luke is not rejecting the study of knowledge as a whole, he is bemoaning that only computer scientists and statisticians are learning a theory of knowledge that he believes supersedes the majority of historical philosophical thought on the matter. I strongly agree with him on that point. I think there's still value in teaching Aristotle et all, but that exactly as you say above, the perspective should be historical.

I agree that Luke is being a bit hyperbolic in the language of his post, but the vast majority of people responding here do not understand what he is advocating because they simply HAVE NOT READ THE BOOKS HE IS SUGGESTING YOU READ. And so they attempt to argue against his suggestion, not even knowing what motivates it or its merits.
Please do not use Feedburner service
Hacker news needs categories.
Here's a Chrono Trigger TAS that uses similar types of hacks as this Pokemon one:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OgVVcnGm0eM&sns=em
Not the parents, but RSS feeds are awesome. Twitter is ephemeral, but a feed can be batched and consumed at any time.

Looks like you're using Rails. Something like http://railscasts.com/episodes/87-generating-rss-feeds-revis... should be fairly straightforward.
(Disclaimer: I'm the article's author.) Quorn isn't an artificial meat. It's a meat substitute or imitation meat. There are a lot of these on the market right now like Beyond Meat. In-vitro meat actually seeks to grow animal muscle cells. Think cloning steaks :)
Isn't it a little like forcing a shell or repl out of a running program?
FastMail costs $40 a year to use your own domain.

https://www.fastmail.fm/signup/personal.html
I think the adoption of open source for national and local governments worldwide is still very much into single digits - low single digits, at best. Until we get like at least 30%-40% of world's institutions to switch to open source, I think this is still very much news, and it encourages others to think about it, too.

And 10 years ago this probably wasn't even "news" because nobody cared about this. This is what's great about an economic crisis, too. When times are "good" people don't really care about switching to something else, if the status quo "works", but when it's an economic crisis, the adoption of cheaper disruptive technologies accelerates, and that's one of the "benefits" of an economic crisis - trimming down the fat, increasing efficiency, and switching from the incumbent technology to the disruptive one at the time.
AWS re:Invent interview with FreeBSD Developer Colin Percival
html5 compliant :)
this site is just something I work on in my spare time, what do you think?
I agree with the centered-ness. Either the copy needs to be really well formatted to work with all of the centered text, (and even then what happens on mobile) or you should drop the center (you can keep it in key spots if necessary) because it makes things hard to read.
> it's funny how the anti-GMO people seem unconcerned with the much worse stuff we spray in terms of pesticides

You are seriously suggesting that anti-GMO advocates are in favor of pesticides? Even though you disagree with the concept of organic food, it's an outrageous suggestion that people are "unconcerned".

The linked articles also contain many examples of how GMO's attempts to reduce pesticide use tend to backfire - but also, their position is, as practiced by multinational corporations like Monsanto.

Remember, the only point here is, "anti-GMO" is not "pseudoscience". There is real, expert analysis based on peer-reviewed studies behind this position.
Vegans have their own social circles and social media groups. In vitro meat is one of the biggest discussion topics of contemporary vegan politics and philosophy. Yes, I have discussed in vitro meat with all of my vegan friends, as many of them have with their other friends. I would say vegans are overwhelmingly supportive of it -- anyone who says the contrary instantly discredits himself/herself and will only get an eye roll from someone who knows this community.

Can I ask you a favor? If you do truly care about "responsibility" of "improving the world," please stop using exclusively strawman arguments against vegans, a group which adapts their entire lifestyle and existential place in the universe toward positive change. This is far more than most meat eaters. You have a really patronizing tone and make little, subtle suggestions that vegans are just idiots. This crosses the line.
iOS Chrome has private browsing. There are also s number of dedicated apps for private web surfing.
I feel the same way about error handling, but I think it is more of a design issue than a language issue. Ideally, an application has a barrier that deals with anything from the outside world that can cause an error. Past that barrier, code can concentrate on the main goal, not errors.

Bertrand Meyer once said that exceptions are for cases where you can't tell whether an operation will succeed or not before trying it. Generally, that happens in I/O, system calls and input validation. The problem with a lot of error handling is that it moves beyond that realm and mixes with the logic of the system.
Thank you so much for your response Kimberly! I've sent a reply via email to you at your coldstream.ca address with some more information about myself and how I look at things.

Thanks once again for the opportunity!
Tracking doesn't start at "pressing Like", but the Like button is actually loaded from an HTTP call to Facebook's server with the referer of the site you're on ... so they know could (claim: don't) track every site you visit with any original cookie you set on Facebook's site.
The Hyperlink: A Microtransaction of Trust
What is the potential cost of this?
I seriously doubt the CO2 emissions of shipping an iPhone are remotely significant. In fact, I'd bet at even odds that driving a car to the Apple store emits more CO2 than shipping the iPhone from China.
> Isn't the current period the most peaceful in known history?

Relevant TED lecture by Steven Pinker:

http://www.ted.com/talks/steven_pinker_on_the_myth_of_violen...
What is the potential profit for whoever is contracted to make the boxes?
Insurances agencies are going to love this one, they might even want to fund this whole idea, if they can get the black box data, they might save billions on not fixing your car as much because you drove like a primate would, breaking all traffic laws and showing signs of intoxication or extreme carelessness.

If it can be shown that the party who is technically guilty of causing an accident has a perfect black box record, while the one who didn't has a terrible black box record, does it change who is at fault?
I'm on keto too. But people do have valid, non-health reasons for avoiding meat, including ethical and sustainability concerns. Keto is great for your own personal health, but in some ways people who choose to incorporate large amounts of meat into their diets (like you and I) are basically choosing these personal benefits over the greater good for everyone else.
I Love your spirit David. Hope you will share some of this in building the local community as well, someday (with your real name ofcourse).

Now shall we leave the personal attacks to rest and attend to the topic at hand? - if you do have something to contribute, that is, so that we dont take much of the time of folks from this community.

Thanks in advance.

PS: Am just another guy building a startup. Cant say any more credits beyond that. FYI.

PPS: Thanks for the follow.
I have nothing but admiration for people that do this.

Wow!
"It's basically impossible for people outside the scientific community related to a specific field to independently test or verify extremely progressive science in that field..."

That's not necessarily true. For example, a statistician may not know anything about biology or medicine, but she could prove that a paper in a biomedical research journal was worthless by showing that the authors didn't get statistically significant results or made errors in their statistical computations.

Or someone with no knowledge of the field at all could notice that a paper that was cited as a supporting reference for a claim had been later withdrawn by its authors after being busted for scientific misconduct.
By that reasoning, a world where there are only a thousand people, divided into two tribes constantly engaged in horrific war, is vastly better.
Never played UO, but I saw this material given as a talk at GDC.

When they set their designs on a closed-loop material economy, they didn't account for extravagant hoarding behavior such as building houses from stacks of leather boots. Occasionally, they couldn't spawn new monsters because the world had ran out of the raw materials the monsters were supposed to drop as loot! They had to inflate the economy several times while trying to find yet another policy fix.
Would you be willing to share this tool?
How many points for this in the Crackpot index?http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/crackpot.html
As an operator of a large web site, I was once pitched a product like this. Basically it used various sources to gather as much personally identifying information as possible from your visitors, right down to name, email address, address and phone number (where possible.

Super creepy, chewed the sales person out and told them to go away. But this is a thing.
The phosphate doesn't actually get used up. It winds up back in the ocean from whence it came (most phosphate rock is limestone formed from krill and the like).

There's no reason we couldn't use krill directly. It would be more expensive, but also 100% renewable.
I agree this is true for small companies. However Dropbox is not a small company by most measures. Also pg's remarks about how you couldn't acquire Dropbox or Airbnb for (some large dollar amount I forget) lead me to believe Google won't be acquiring them.

I'd imagine Google wants to acquire them. However I doubt Drew Houston would go that route.
Perhaps the key to a productive software industry is - paradoxically - to de-industrialize. Model the organization and communications patterns on a guild of independent workshops, each workshop comprising one artisan developer with one or two apprentice developers, with each workshop supplying hyper-specialized services based around a library of existing, re-deployable functionality.
"Meat (or rather, animals) also consume a lot more resources to produce the same amount of available-nutrient output."

Depends on how it's raised. Grain-fed meat, sure. Grass-fed meat, not so much. People can't digest grass.
Insurance companies already offer this to clients. The understanding is that it won't raise your rate, but it can lower your rate.

That being said, if someone is "breaking all traffic laws and showing signs of intoxication or extreme carelessness," I'd hope they are paying more for insurance than I do. Sort of common sense.
This is pretty scary. Is there a web page I could go to that would identify what information they have about me?
Apple has to build a product around it, and that's tough. Google just builds it because it's cool.
> But it confuses/scares the average user,

Rightly so, because it "is a bad thing" and websites shouldn't be putting users in that position.
Just go to system settings and look for privacy or something similar. There is an actual control.

You can also remove the software that provides the Amazon search.
Probably nothing. I just find it interesting that an organization like Google with practically unlimited resources can't keep someone (who can probably get anything they want in terms of perks) around.
That kinda makes me feel better and worse about it at the same time. It's more reliable but less accessible to the average user.
In my experience, a fair percentage of ethivegs are either luddites and technophobes, and vanishingly few of the technology embracing ethivegs are generally interested in science. Absolutely no ethivegs that I have met has been aware of in vitro meat research.

Possibly it's a US/UK thing - but that's pretty much 100% the opposite of my experience.
Such an application would need to use search terms drawn from the collected works of Richard Stallman, and the Free Software Foundation of course.

The application would also need to be available from the Software Centre...

PS: I use Gnome Ubuntu Remix 12.10 and I have donated to Ubuntu
I think this is a great idea, though I would have loved for the article to be more in depth and actually had some quotes from one of the 5 teams that have been greenlighted. Autonomy at work can be so very precious.
Potentially nice idea ... but nothing to see really: just an email harvester for now.
I was hoping it would show some information about the ancestry of the various browsers, but it's still interesting.
Radio Shack catalog from 1983
Open Sourcing Hack Weekends Using Github
Does this have karma style points for users?
The parent thread was probably trolling, or not aware of some details about these rituals of passage (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sambia_people)

Gender role development is a touchy but very important subject (although i m not sure it's related to sperm count). Related: http://www.theatlantic.com/sexes/archive/2012/12/you-can-giv...
Next up is a peronal rifd card for ALL forms of public transport, eg the bus, metro, train... A card that can be loaded with dollars using your credit/debit card only. Think it won't happen? It already did in the Netherlands. They're trying to add Black boxes to cars here as well. Oh, did I mention the other privacy-nightmares? How about a mandated centralized database for health-related issues? Run by the insurance companies. We have licenceplate scanning CCTV camera's at all major roads as well as all borders.
Everybody drives like a primate would, because barring robocars and Toonces the Driving Cat, every driver is a primate.

I think you mean lower primate?
In the United States accessibility can not be ignored because the enables only a small portion of the public (see: The Americans with Disabilities Act). I agree that the guidelines could do a better job of explaining which technologies to support so as to enable accessibility. But I worry that some people would be led to think that disabled populations, who are in a minority, can be ignored if the site owner desires. This is rightly illegal.
If you're on static IP it's not really anonymous. It wouldn't take too much time to associate the IP and the user.