skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
incredibly insightful comment, deserves to be at the top

examples in support:
"In public discussion, Madison spoke of the rights of minorities in general, but it is quite clear that he had a particular minority in mind "the minority of the opulent.""

http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Chomsky/ConsentPOP_Chom.ht...

"Chomsky: James Madison’s position at the Constitutional Convention was that state power should be used "to protect the minority of the opulent against the majority.""
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/interview-with-noa...
What Japanese history lessons leave out
He paid it back, he said something about it in the irc channel this morning.

Still, it's an exploitable vulnerability. Very difficult to make the conditions happen, but if they happen naturally it's something that can be taken advantage of. It'll need to be addressed in one way or another.
Prismatic creates a special signup for Google reader users
Fukushima wasn't prepared for the tsunami. The Onagawa plant had a seawall more than 9m high. It successfully shut down without incident even though it was closer to the epicenter than Fukushima. In fact, families actually took refuge in the plant during the tsunami. http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/mar/30/onagawa-tsunami-...
Move over KickStarter
https://www.contribute-to-the-cause.com/
This is the most classic conversation with an India nigger.

Me, "Sorry, that's not how it works."

India nigger, "Don't be sorry."

----

They are stupid, stubborn and arrogant. Not much to like.

It's wrong to pick on the handycapped but I giggle laughing at explaining scaling working both ways. Global variables work in small scale. "This is not how you must do it. You do not understand programming." Knuth wanted 32-bit pointers on 64-bit systems. My boss Pete considered 16-bit on a 32-bit system back in 1993. This is simply not comprehensible by an India nigger.
>You sound like an industry-insider explaining why a new startup will fail. "They're too young!" "They don't have the experience" "We've devoted our LIVES to figuring this out, one kid in his basement didn't do it in a few weeks!" Etc etc No offense but we've heard the exact same thing about every successful idea.

We also heard the exact same thing about every kook, and his idea of a "perpetual motion engine", "cold fusion in my backyard" etc idea.

And that has happened far too many more times than the "successful idea" thing -- so much, that "the idea being shot down by critics" && "it being successful" case is like statistical noise.

Which is also true about your startup example. Most startups DO fail. A staggering majority of them actually.
This article gets a little bizarre at the end, until you realize she forgot to mention that she is no longer CTO.
Show HN: domain
Hey guys I've seen people selling domains. And well I think I want to sell it. How do I go about doing that. If anyone interested just email me

Domain : workzstation.com

Ruben.leija@me.com
IFTTT will let you easily do RSS to email too: ifttt.com/feed
Pentagon weapons-maker finds method for cheap, clean water (Perforene)
This uses Backbone.js on the frontend, and each time you change sites on the left sidebar, a "pushState" event is triggered, which saves the current state of the page (and the back button will cycle through those saved states)
Gotta be a code.

Two tweets from "BootmanRussel":

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5967 blogid tavern cialis inurl october phentermine griller viagra: .jcA 163069
It isn't typical bad spam, because the company has some serious clout. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acquia

I think Matt did a good job here. He didn't ignore it and dismissed it in a nice way.
Good catch! It's fixed now. Keep the feedback coming! I'm particularly interested in design pattern suggestions.
They could offer paid version. I guess lots of people will want to throw a few bucks for that kind of product. For me Google Reader is one of the few software that I use every day.
Were the country breakdowns released for those and other multi million dollar projects? I wonder whether those projects would have hit the 1M mark from just the US contributors
What should we be worried about? Responses to Edge's Annual Question
I looked into this a year ago. You're right: "dry-aged beef" is the fancy expensive stuff your yuppie butcher is selling you. "Wet-aged" is everything else -- they pretty much stick it in a plastic bag in a brine that breaks down tissue. If you don't do anything what you have is a curiously tough meat product.

Wet aging is cheaper because you raise the water content (and thus the weight) a little, whereas in dry aging you lose a bunch of moisture, and because it only takes a week or so.
Can somebody explain without the technical jargon?
Fashion is never finished.
This is a disaster for Google. Elites are mobile. The empire collapses after they leave.
Stripe's New Open Source Javascript Library For A/B Testing
It is true that some of the criticism of CISPA is off the mark. So was some of the criticism of SOPA. It does not necessarily follow that _all_ of the criticism of CISPA is uninformed, and in fact much of it is perfectly accurate. Rebutting uninformed criticism may be an entertaining hobby, but it leaves the informed criticism unrebutted.

I have yet to hear a good argument for why we need CISPA to override all federal and state privacy laws, including laws restricting what companies can turn over to the government in the absence of legal process. In programmerese, CISPA is a wildcard approach -- an "rm -rf *" -- when you haven't done an "ls" to see what's in the directory first. Perhaps one or two need to be overriden for good reason, but why not specify them instead of using a wildcard?

Here are some details:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-31921_3-57422693-281/
What sparked significant privacy worries is the section of CISPA that says "notwithstanding any other provision of law," companies may share information "with any other entity, including the federal government." It doesn't, however, require them to do so.
By including the word "notwithstanding," House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Rogers (R-Mich.) and ranking member Dutch Ruppersberger (D-Md.) intended to make CISPA trump all existing federal and state civil and criminal laws. (It's so broad that the non-partisan Congressional Research Service once warned (PDF) that using the term in legislation may "have unforeseen consequences for both existing and future laws.")
"Notwithstanding" would trump wiretap laws, Web companies' privacy policies, gun laws, educational record laws, census data, medical records, and other statutes that protect information, warns the ACLU's Richardson: "For cybersecurity purposes, all of those entities can turn over that information to the federal government."
I wonder if the posters are going to be individually signed, or printed that way.

7,000 signatures is a lot of signatures. The cast will probably be spending every free moment writing their names.
And no link to the project referenced? Perhaps that's contributing to the lack of funding. You'll quickly arrive at the point where you're going to have to talk about yourself perpetually at this stage otherwise nobody else will either.
Very nice idea. Good stuff! Should todolist.js be in a folder called Collections?
Your comment wasn't directed at me, but see the fourth Q&A pair here, and my response above: http://news.cnet.com/8301-31921_3-57422693-281/
Prismatic has been my favorite "rss reader replacement" for awhile now, great marketing idea to try to capitalize on this.
This article has some good history: http://lucumr.pocoo.org/2012/6/22/hate-hate-hate-everywhere/
Then when he used the dude's name... Well, I'll just say for that guy's sake I hope he changed it for the purposes of the story.
Right, I'm aware, but that still requires uranium mining to have fueled the original reactors to make the waste, so it's not a solution to either proliferation or supply, at least long-term.
Ask HN: Is there an honest Hosting Review Site?
I know I can scour the forums and HN for host recommendations but that just seems ridiculous. Is there a website out there that is 100% fair for hosting reviews?

I've decided that if there isn't one. I'm going to make it.
NewsBlur may have a solution for end users but there seems to be no recourse for the huge impact this has to the dev community.

With Google Reader as an API devs had a way to get historical data on practically any RSS feed going back many years. That ability will be lost/gone forever. Even if Google sunsets the reader app, I wish they'd keep this data source open. Its hugely valuable and I don't think there is any alternative to it.

I think that having cached all this data on their server over the years of their own free will, they've put themselves to be in a position where they have a somewhat fiduciary responsibility of keeping this data alive and open.
Thanks for coming forward, I will let you know soon, I was using Wordpress for a client project for a Mobile Website builder as a full-fledged CMS some time back, and it kept breaking plugins and functionality on the site with each update. Also the $page and $paged is not documented well. It took me hours and hours of googling to find out about it..
Seeing the world is well possible without airplanes if you take out the 5 day trip length! Going for short trips every now and then is very wasteful.

But yes, cutting down on flying will have downsides. As will many other compromises we must do to get CO2 down.
Does it even make any sense for a good engineer to remain an engineer even in startups?

It seems that power (and stock and money) gravitates to executives who don't code. Why not be a CTO who 'doesn't code at work' anymore? Why spend your time working late nights and burning out on fulfilling someone else's dream?

(there are good answers to these questions, especially if you think in terms of economics, but it behooves a good engineer to think about them and find her own answer)

From the article, after the author stopped coding,

"I still was technical. I often wrote code on the weekends. Although the type of work I did is what I call tinkering. I would want to know about a new language or technology, and so I would build little sample applications (typically analogous to a slightly more advanced “Hello, World!”) – just to learn enough to form an opinion. And I read a lot of articles, source code, and documentation on things that struck my fancy."

sounds like a plan.

I particularly like the "I was still technical" sentence.
Does "transition" just mean the feeds will be copied? What about old content? Starred content?
I've actually thought about putting some play money in Bitcoin, but these stories prevent me from doing so.

This guy is (apparently?) unhappy, and he's knowledgable enough about bitcoin to know to inspect forks and vins and OKPAY transactions -- and then to make two double (?) spend transactions.

If this guy is getting screwed, I'd surely manage to lose twice my investment somehow.
Happy Birthday Einstein
Git Learns Pre-push Hook - New in 1.8.2
Makeuseof always have impartial reviews. Check it http://makeuseof.com
Guide about SWF to Any Video Conversion
It is a guide helps in converting swf to MP4, MOV, 3GP, FLV, YouTube video, iPad video, PSP video, MP3 and etc. If you want convert swf files, this guide will help you a lot.
I didn't try the app, but I would say its not because its a lot of work to be asking of people. Filling out a profile is incredibly tedious. On top of that, if a person's friend were to write something unflattering or something that wasn't agreeable, I imagine the person would ask their friend to change. So basically you would get the same response as if the person had to the time to fill out the profile themselves.
Mandated warning labels would be a better idea. Banning things is rarely necessary to achieve policy goals.
I'm going to try https://ifttt.com. It has a few recipes for RSS: RSS -> Instapaper, Readability, email and so on.
Bitcoin's security is based on the idea of a "block chain", which is sort of a mutually agreed-upon list of transactions. As long as all participants in the Bitcoin economy are using the same block chain, then double-spending money is (for all practical purposes) impossible.

It was recently discovered that a change in Bitcoin 0.8 caused an entry in the block chain that old versions can't process. The old versions, unable to verify the 0.8 block chain, automatically started their own block chain based on the last block they could deal with.

0.8-readable block chain continues
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---> |
| | <- 0.7-readable block chain splits off
| /
|/
* <- block that old versions can't process
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(history)

For technical reasons, it was decided that the 0.8 block chain would be abandoned, and all clients should switch to the "forked" block chain that was accidentally created by old clients.

dead | <- 0.7-readable block chain is now "official"
| |
---> _ |
| |
| /
|/
* <- block that old versions can't process
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(history)

This causes a problem, because until that switch happens, a person could issue a transaction to a 0.8 client that would be accepted only by clients running the "bad" 0.8 blockchain.

The OP states that he has done this successfully. He submitted a transaction to a BTC<->USD service running 0.8. The service, checking the bad block chain, thought it had received Bitcoins and therefore sent him USD. But his transaction was never sent to the "official" block chain, so according to the rest of the Bitcoin world, he still has his original Bitcoins.

This is significant because prevention of double-spending is a fundamental feature of Bitcoin. If it can be bypassed, then the entire Bitcoin economy is endangered.
Hmm, you do have a point. What this world needs most is billions of people eating a pound each of fresh leafy green vegetables every day.
You give EFF too much credit. The ACLU, the American Library Association, the Center for Democracy and Technology, the Competitive Enterprise Institute and the Liberty Coalition (both libertarian/conservative groups -- the latter includes Bob Barr and Grover Norquist's Americans for Tax Reform), Reporters Without Borders, etc. sent a letter yesterday to Congress opposing CISPA.

I'm not sure why you think the very smart lawyers and legislative counsel at the ACLU, the ALA, etc. are incapable of reaching their own conclusions about the relative merits of legislation.

I hope you're right that CISPA isn't about spying on Americans. The problem is that, as written, it allows precisely that, with the cooperation of the same companies that have opened their networks to the FedGov in the past. If the wildcard language trumping all state and federal privacy laws were deleted, I think a lot of the (informed) opposition would vanish.

BTW, there were "lots of lawyers involved in the process" of creating SOPA. Look how that turned out. I'd be far more comforted if there we had fewer lawyers and more technologists involved. :)

More: http://news.cnet.com/8301-31921_3-57422693-281/ and http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-57574196-38/
For the Mac, the free Bean word processor (http://www.bean-osx.com/) works for me!
Maybe, I like to pretend it's a flask app and lump anything that models an api resource in the same folder. After all, a Collection is just an array of Models.

What do you think?

Probably should be named TodoCollection.js either way.
OT: Sc2 made me a way faster programmer, no joke! Some people think they are fast bc they use keyboard shortcuts when they code, but playing sc2 will teach you what having a high apm is really all about.
It's not ridiculous because it was the result of the study done by the authors of the book. The fact of the matter is that the typical millionaire--i.e., person with a net worth of at least one million dollars--does not buy tons of shiny new toys. Yes, some millionaires do, typically the ones who are worth 10-100 million rather than 1 million. But the typical one does not.

If you know some millionaires who do, all this means is they are actually not the "typical millionaire," no matter what you might think. You also need to take into account the fact that a lot of people you might think are millionaires actually aren't, because they've spent their money on assets that depreciate rapidly. This means you could have a salary of 1+ million a year and still not be a millionaire if you spend it almost as fast as you make it. Look at many of the sports stars who go broke within two years of retiring--yes, it happens very frequently. They were never millionaires despite what everyone thinks.

Example: my uncle is a marketing executive, lives in a very nice house in an extremely affluent area, only stays in the nicest hotels, etc. Except his family probably has a net worth of maybe $100k at most. They're not even close to being millionaires. Why? Because they spend most of the money they make. If he were to lose his job, their entire lifestyle would grind to an incredible halt and they'd be forced to change everything they do just to not burn through their savings. If a millionaire loses his job, it's not a problem.

You're under the very misconception that the book seeks to correct. In any case, your anecdotes really aren't sufficient to destroy the results of a pretty solid study.
OP, do you think you're unique? There are thousands of stories like yours. You're not risking life and limb. You can always get another job if you fail (your post implies that you are a software developer in the US). Sure, your ego may be bruised. Deal with it.
Their site is getting crushed right now. I can't even login.
There was a visible fork of the blockchain - a clearly exceptional condition showing that the network did not work correctly at that moment. All merchants should stop accepting payments for duration of that - this can easily be automated.
Agreed with this, most notable example of this for me was when they took away recommendations within Google Reader. That was a great place to go to see what blog posts my friends like.

Now it's all multiplexed into their G+ timelines and I happen to catch about a third of it in between their useless updates about being in a park with their kids or a new funny meme.
Someone, please explain.
Because of Visual Studio?
Sails.js: Realtime MVC framework for Node.js
What "regulations" are those that weren't addressed by the president's executive order last month? Can you provide a cite to an actual federal law that says this?
I have, but I don't feel comfortable with this: "The Old Reader is requesting permission to: View and manage your Google Contacts"
Yet the price keeps rising...
Already previously posted and very heavily discussed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5124476
Isn't travel (specially foreign and not migration) one of the high marks of consumerism? I.e. it's an expression of disposable time/income. It also entails lots of resource allocation. What's more consumerist, 1,000 bucks worth of travel or 1,000 bucks of stuff off of Amazon?
Speaking as a professional game developer of 14 years, Windows is preferred because of two things:

1. PC Games
2. Visual Studio

Quake was developed using NEXT station (first version of QuakeEd was written in Objective-C and running on it), but since then the tools were transfered to Windows along with the game distribution. Modders could add new levels, change existing assets all on their own machines.

Windows is easy to get, easier to administer, or to say properly - not administer at all, and in the pre-internet years it was not a big deal.

Also all proper graphics cards, drivers were available first on Windows, and Microsoft somehow nailed it with D3D.
Diego, I realize you've done this before. But it doesn't matter if a million others have the same story. The stress, uncertainty, doubt and a bunch of other emotions are very real.

For some it's ego, for others there's a lot more on the line.

Obviously it's not as if we're risking our lives, but you don't have to put your life on the line for something to be incredibly difficult.
Technical problems resulting in people losing money happen all the time outside of the Bitcoin economy. In fact, the way these recent events were handled by Bitcoin developers and the community are way more encouraging than, say, actions taken by Visa after someone supposedly stolen a million credit card numbers.

So, philosophically speaking, Bitcoin encourages people to start thinking about being more responsible about their money safety (which they anyway have to do, regardless of what they use, Bitcoin or a bank), at the same time providing a much better way to perform transactions and save for the future.
^^This.

Any new application starts in a state of tabula rasa -- all history, prior to some point in 2013 (or late 2012) will not be accessible, considering that a typical site/blog feed contains only 10 to a few dozen most recent items. Presently, in Google Reader, I can click on a feed and flip through items all the way back to 2005 (for those sites with that long of a history).

I know that Google Reader search has been flaky as the product has languished, but it still the most powerful way to search a select group you sites you care about (incidentally, the Google Labs custom search engine product is on life support too, if not set to sunset soon) and search for a topical phrase of interest and get a set of results with that matching text.
This is a skill which is learned...often too late.
Can I put individual feeds into prismatic and be shwb every post?
The problem is the historical data of all the feeds they've archived, not the interface.
Google, a large number of almost-evil moves eventually adds up to evil.
I love Reader and hate that it's going away. A pox on Plus I say.
Try https://www.blueshieldca.com instead of COBRA. Plans start just under $100 a month and will cover your ass in the case that you break your leg. (Well... bring a $100k bill down to $10k)

Good luck!
There's a difference between risk and desperation. OPs post reads like desperation. Successful entrepreneurship requires calculated and intelligent risk taking. Not hail mary desperation because you're out of a job.
Depends on how much RAM you have. If your machine swaps everything out to disk before it hits the process limit, then you're pretty screwed anyway.
Come on Microsoft, this is a good opportunity for you - Bing Reader. Make it happen.
This was only possible because of an obscure bug in a database library used by the reference client, which the developers are in the process of migrating away from. The latest 0.8-beta release inadvertently caused a size restriction on some part of the block structure to be loosened. Since the majority of the network's mining power had upgraded, older clients wouldn't accept these blocks, and the blockchain diverged, with 0.7 and 0.8 each on a different fork, seeing an inconsistent view of recent transactions. Miners were quickly contacted and asked to downgrade to 0.7, and once the 0.7 chain caught up with the 0.8 chain, the network resolved the problem and the view of transactions became consistent again.

One of his transactions was on the 0.8 chain (during its short life, and the other was on the 0.7 chain. So it's better to think of it as a transaction being invalidated rather than double-spent, because in the end there were no outputs that didn't come from an input.

This was only possible to to extraordinary circumstances, and as long as the majority of the network is running software that plays by the same rules, this kind of thing isn't possible.
Knowing that other XXX,XXX people are in the same situation doesn't make things easier. Your bills are still there. Your wife is still asking you if you'll able to pay for your kids insurance.
Google Kills Google Reader
Steve Jobs observed very strict diets which he believed would keep him super healthy. Result: dead at 56 despite essentially unlimited resources.
Are you suggesting that the President's EO gave the federal government a blanket authority to publish threat information to the private sector?
This is just a small example, but I know that Vitamin C inhibits calcium absorption. That's pretty well known among athletes.